Well, I for one LOVE my Tablet -- I have a Motion Computing M1200. It's a slate tablet at only 3 lbs, and the battery lasts for 3.5 to 4 hours. MUCH longer than my wife's heavier and bulkier laptop. It's perfect for research, reading, surfing and jotting down notes. I use it for what it shines at and I love it (I use it a few hours everyday). It has never crashed either... So I don't know which one your friends had that "constantly crashed" or had "bad battery life"...
Wow, I wish I had mod points to slam you down. Talk about going off without thinking. I understood what the poster was trying to say (of course, I've worked at more "secure" facilities) and you seemed to miss the point entirely going off on your "nobody understands game development" rant. You need two networks -- physically and completely seperate. Put your development machines on a seperate net along with the source control servers and content servers. The only problem this generates is for artists to bring source material from internet sources onto the game production network. However you can easily create some pipeline to do the work, e.g. have the artist burn the images to cd and then hand carry them over and installed via a special machine (which does a good job of virus checking on the material). If the artist is only using the material for drawing reference then it doesn't even need to be transferred over to the secure network.
If the code/art isn't connected to an external network it can't be stolen...
This also means no working remotely, however, for a large chunk of us in this industry we can't anyway (you need your consoles devkits to develop and you don't have those at home).
If you must allow remote development then you can have a much less secure solution using good vpn security (with physical devices -- e.g. RSA's SecureID solution), and no other network aware stuff on the secure network (i.e. no email, no file transfer -- just a tight firewall that only allows the VPN and only through one gateway machine with tight access control). This isn't a good solution because then your code and content is on a lot of external uncontrollable machines... At that point you might want to not use the VPN and go for laptops that you make unable to hook to any network but yours (how you do that, I leave as an exercise to the reader).
It seems to me that two spinning mirror cylinders set at right angles could scan out a sqare area on the wall much more effectively than jiggling a static mirror all over the place. You could add more sides to the cylinders to reduce the rotational velocity (or to increase the scan rate). Thus you have two parts moving in nice simple to control ways and intertia is working for you (once they've spun up).
Also, don't forget that led's have capacitance. In order to scan with an ultra-bright led, you need to be able to change it's brightness faster than your scan rate or bright sections will smear into dimmer sections and vice versa, i.e. blur.
We're all missing a huge opportunity here...
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Ok, here's a new opportunity for the DOJ to get Micro$oft (or any software company for that matter).
First, I have just come up with a revolutionary new technical copyright protection scheme for text documents and an associated text document viewer that enforces that protection scheme. The scheme consists of adding the word "PROTECT" just before the EOF of any text file. My program will refuse to copy or display any text file that doesn't have this protection enabled. I also have a Rights Enabler program that I will send to any licensee so that they can protect their works under my scheme. I have decided to charge a license fee of 1 cent for an individual (or corporation) to utilize my protection on any number of works they choose to.
OK, now that I have a completely valid and reasonable protection scheme, I have to worry about those subversive elements out there trying to circumvent my protection. Well, Microsoft makes a program called "notepad" which allows users to remove my protection scheme. And, they are distributing this program in the US!!!
Now with a well placed call to the FBI I should be able to have Bill Gates arrested along with everyone working at Microsoft. I mean after all they "developed and provided tools to others which would allow them to access a technologically protected work" DMCA (section 1201(a)(2))
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Well, I for one LOVE my Tablet -- I have a Motion Computing M1200. It's a slate tablet at only 3 lbs, and the battery lasts for 3.5 to 4 hours. MUCH longer than my wife's heavier and bulkier laptop. It's perfect for research, reading, surfing and jotting down notes. I use it for what it shines at and I love it (I use it a few hours everyday). It has never crashed either... So I don't know which one your friends had that "constantly crashed" or had "bad battery life"...
Wow, I wish I had mod points to slam you down. Talk about going off without thinking. I understood what the poster was trying to say (of course, I've worked at more "secure" facilities) and you seemed to miss the point entirely going off on your "nobody understands game development" rant. You need two networks -- physically and completely seperate. Put your development machines on a seperate net along with the source control servers and content servers. The only problem this generates is for artists to bring source material from internet sources onto the game production network. However you can easily create some pipeline to do the work, e.g. have the artist burn the images to cd and then hand carry them over and installed via a special machine (which does a good job of virus checking on the material). If the artist is only using the material for drawing reference then it doesn't even need to be transferred over to the secure network.
If the code/art isn't connected to an external network it can't be stolen...
This also means no working remotely, however, for a large chunk of us in this industry we can't anyway (you need your consoles devkits to develop and you don't have those at home).
If you must allow remote development then you can have a much less secure solution using good vpn security (with physical devices -- e.g. RSA's SecureID solution), and no other network aware stuff on the secure network (i.e. no email, no file transfer -- just a tight firewall that only allows the VPN and only through one gateway machine with tight access control). This isn't a good solution because then your code and content is on a lot of external uncontrollable machines... At that point you might want to not use the VPN and go for laptops that you make unable to hook to any network but yours (how you do that, I leave as an exercise to the reader).
make sense now?
Or just use cygwin. www.cygwin.com 90% of the *nix tools you want working under win32... Great for at the office where I must use win2k.
It seems to me that two spinning mirror cylinders set at right angles could scan out a sqare area on the wall much more effectively than jiggling a static mirror all over the place. You could add more sides to the cylinders to reduce the rotational velocity (or to increase the scan rate). Thus you have two parts moving in nice simple to control ways and intertia is working for you (once they've spun up).
Also, don't forget that led's have capacitance. In order to scan with an ultra-bright led, you need to be able to change it's brightness faster than your scan rate or bright sections will smear into dimmer sections and vice versa, i.e. blur.
Ok, here's a new opportunity for the DOJ to get Micro$oft (or any software company for that matter).
First, I have just come up with a revolutionary new technical copyright protection scheme for text documents and an associated text document viewer that enforces that protection scheme. The scheme consists of adding the word "PROTECT" just before the EOF of any text file. My program will refuse to copy or display any text file that doesn't have this protection enabled. I also have a Rights Enabler program that I will send to any licensee so that they can protect their works under my scheme. I have decided to charge a license fee of 1 cent for an individual (or corporation) to utilize my protection on any number of works they choose to.
OK, now that I have a completely valid and reasonable protection scheme, I have to worry about those subversive elements out there trying to circumvent my protection. Well, Microsoft makes a program called "notepad" which allows users to remove my protection scheme. And, they are distributing this program in the US!!!
Now with a well placed call to the FBI I should be able to have Bill Gates arrested along with everyone working at Microsoft. I mean after all they "developed and provided tools to others which would allow them to access a technologically protected work" DMCA (section 1201(a)(2))
So, DOJ get to work and put them all in jail!!!