Not very likely. Xbox games are often statically linked to their libraries for performance. If the emulator doesn't model the hardware at a very low level, most games won't run.
[Not that it's clear that the IIS bug is really a remote access bug (see above where it's explained as a DOS bug) but there have been plenty of remote access IIS bugs (see Code Red).]
The X bug only crashes your machine if you browse to a malicious web site. The malicious person can't do anything to your machine if they can't induce you to go to their web site, and the effect on your machine of visiting the web site is immediately obvious (X and possibly your whole box crashes) so you can learn not to visit that web site again. The malicious user doesn't really gain anything other than the jollies of knowing they crashed some machine.
A remote access bug allows someone to take over your machine surreptitiously, which is much, much worse than just crashing your machine. It means your machine's data can be inspected and changed without your knowledge, and also that your machine can be used as a staging point for other illegal activities. Particularly if your data is sensitive, this provides a great deal more incentive to a malicious user.
In my experience the Capability Maturity Model is of more value to managers justifying their existence than a guide to creating a successful software development process. I understand that this may just reflect my personal bias.
Has anyone here participated in successful software development organizations with a high CMM? Has any widely used software been developed by such an organization (I know Microsoft must score a 1, which isn't necessarily an argument against the CMM)?
You can't specify the position of a particle to greater precision than its wavelength, so the number of distinguishable positions a particle can have is finite and depends on its energy.
In defense of XML, if (1) and (2) are separated organizationally or by a span of time, XML can come in handy. (2) parsing the fixed format or delimited file (1) generates with his 1-hour developed program can break for any number of reasons. If XML is used properly, the file generated by (1) will still be understandable by (2) even if (1)'s output or (2)'s expectations change, provided that there isn't a change to the semantics that would break everything. At least that's been my experience. It may seem overengineered after a week, but after a couple of years it may seem like a godsend.
which makes you a voice crying in the wilderness here.
If only it were true that the same money available for things like cloning research could be made available to things like habitat preservation instead. But the interests that come up with the money are different enough that I don't think money could be transferred from one to the other.
Nor was it survival. Tasmanian livestock farming could have done fine had the tiger not been intentionally hunted to extinction. However, the farms were slightly more profitable with the tiger gone. This economic motivation led to the tiger's extinction.
I'd also like to see Stellar's[sp?] sea cow, a whale-sized manatee, which was hunted to extinction within about 60 years of its discovery in the 17th century.
As best as I can tell, this would break all UDP-based apps, since there is never a connection set up and the ISP could not tell which is a client and which a server. Although I suppose if such a draconian step were taken, breaking all UDP apps (I think games generate the most UDP traffic) might be a small consideration.
Your comment would make sense if computers were free. Most people today don't have computers as powerful as the XBox. To buy a computer powerful enough to play games similar to those available on the XBox would cost at least 3 times as much as the XBox (twice as much if you build it yourself, which is not an option for most people).
Gaming bandwidth demands, even with voice interaction, are quite modest since most games are designed to be 56k compatible. MS will probably insure that even new games that appear on its network do not demand too much bandwidth, so that it can maintain a high level of service.
The parent scenario is much, much more likely. The XBox includes strong encryption designed to insure that only Microsoft software will ever run on it. A hardware hack around the encryption may be possible, but it will break compatibility with all XBox software and will be illegal to market, to boot.
AWT with the browser-supplied VM was a very bad idea, but I suppose it was necessary to get Java off the ground.
Using Swing with the Java plug-in works quite well multi-platform. If you can get your users to install the plug-in (it's easy for Windows users, but others have to be motivated) it's a great thin-client platform.
When you look at things 5 or 10 billion light years away, you see them as they were 5 or 10 billion years ago. So, the depths of time.
The deep field images confirm what the Big Bang theory predicts: the universe was quite different 10 billion years ago. It had lots of little hydrogen rich galaxies packed close together, instead of the fewer, larger, and more spread out galaxies we see around here now.
Hubble, even with its previous camera, was able to take quite nice pictures of solar system objects. However, they still don't--and even with the new optics, won't--measure up to what we get when we actually send spacecraft there, so the telescope is not used for that very much. The only planet we haven't at least flown by with a spacecraft is Pluto, and even the upgraded Hubble won't be able to show us much (just the very largest features, if there are any) there.
The "new" galaxies we are seeing don't change our ideas of the density of the universe at all*, since we are seeing more galaxies by looking at a larger volume of space, farther away than what we've seen before.
There are implications for dark matter theory, however, because a lot of the explanations for the formation of stars and galaxies so soon after the big bang rely on dark matter "seeding" the process.
*not strictly true, but close enough for the purposes of this pose
This particular camera actually does allow for prettier pictures, since its 16 million pixels of resolution looks nice even when printed poster size, and each pixel has great dynamic range and also responds to a nice wide range of wavelengths, allowing good "color" pictures to be taken.
They put up some other new instruments as well when they upgraded the Hubble, but the ACS, in addition to all the good science stuff it can do, is an excellent pretty-picture camera.
If you are going to say that it doesn't matter what language features are supported by a platform, than the Java VM is just as language-independent as the CLR. Multiple languages target it--and the Python implementation is in widespread use.
In reality, both the CLR and the Java VM favor particular styles of languages--and have limitations that make standards-conforming implementations of other languages quite difficult. Calling them language independent, is, to that extent, a myth.
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Actually, this has nothing to do with 3d. The only innovation here is that it is a penetrable 2d display.
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I meant to mod this one up.
The thought that Microsoft "voted" for or against any legislation at all is kind of unnerving. I thought that's what we had legislators for.
Not very likely. Xbox games are often statically linked to their libraries for performance. If the emulator doesn't model the hardware at a very low level, most games won't run.
http://freenetproject.org or something like it.
[Not that it's clear that the IIS bug is really a remote access bug (see above where it's explained as a DOS bug) but there have been plenty of remote access IIS bugs (see Code Red).]
The X bug only crashes your machine if you browse to a malicious web site. The malicious person can't do anything to your machine if they can't induce you to go to their web site, and the effect on your machine of visiting the web site is immediately obvious (X and possibly your whole box crashes) so you can learn not to visit that web site again. The malicious user doesn't really gain anything other than the jollies of knowing they crashed some machine.
A remote access bug allows someone to take over your machine surreptitiously, which is much, much worse than just crashing your machine. It means your machine's data can be inspected and changed without your knowledge, and also that your machine can be used as a staging point for other illegal activities. Particularly if your data is sensitive, this provides a great deal more incentive to a malicious user.
Are you a 3 if you have a documented model in place but it is irrelevant to what actually goes on when you develop software?
In my experience with Microsoft developers, they were at most a 2 on the CMM scale. But that was several years ago and they may have changed.
In my experience the Capability Maturity Model is of more value to managers justifying their existence than a guide to creating a successful software development process. I understand that this may just reflect my personal bias. Has anyone here participated in successful software development organizations with a high CMM? Has any widely used software been developed by such an organization (I know Microsoft must score a 1, which isn't necessarily an argument against the CMM)?
You can't specify the position of a particle to greater precision than its wavelength, so the number of distinguishable positions a particle can have is finite and depends on its energy.
In defense of XML, if (1) and (2) are separated organizationally or by a span of time, XML can come in handy. (2) parsing the fixed format or delimited file (1) generates with his 1-hour developed program can break for any number of reasons. If XML is used properly, the file generated by (1) will still be understandable by (2) even if (1)'s output or (2)'s expectations change, provided that there isn't a change to the semantics that would break everything. At least that's been my experience. It may seem overengineered after a week, but after a couple of years it may seem like a godsend.
which makes you a voice crying in the wilderness here.
If only it were true that the same money available for things like cloning research could be made available to things like habitat preservation instead. But the interests that come up with the money are different enough that I don't think money could be transferred from one to the other.
Nor was it survival. Tasmanian livestock farming could have done fine had the tiger not been intentionally hunted to extinction. However, the farms were slightly more profitable with the tiger gone. This economic motivation led to the tiger's extinction.
I'd also like to see Stellar's[sp?] sea cow, a whale-sized manatee, which was hunted to extinction within about 60 years of its discovery in the 17th century.
As best as I can tell, this would break all UDP-based apps, since there is never a connection set up and the ISP could not tell which is a client and which a server. Although I suppose if such a draconian step were taken, breaking all UDP apps (I think games generate the most UDP traffic) might be a small consideration.
Your comment would make sense if computers were free. Most people today don't have computers as powerful as the XBox. To buy a computer powerful enough to play games similar to those available on the XBox would cost at least 3 times as much as the XBox (twice as much if you build it yourself, which is not an option for most people).
Gaming bandwidth demands, even with voice interaction, are quite modest since most games are designed to be 56k compatible. MS will probably insure that even new games that appear on its network do not demand too much bandwidth, so that it can maintain a high level of service.
The parent scenario is much, much more likely. The XBox includes strong encryption designed to insure that only Microsoft software will ever run on it. A hardware hack around the encryption may be possible, but it will break compatibility with all XBox software and will be illegal to market, to boot.
AWT with the browser-supplied VM was a very bad idea, but I suppose it was necessary to get Java off the ground. Using Swing with the Java plug-in works quite well multi-platform. If you can get your users to install the plug-in (it's easy for Windows users, but others have to be motivated) it's a great thin-client platform.
When you look at things 5 or 10 billion light years away, you see them as they were 5 or 10 billion years ago. So, the depths of time. The deep field images confirm what the Big Bang theory predicts: the universe was quite different 10 billion years ago. It had lots of little hydrogen rich galaxies packed close together, instead of the fewer, larger, and more spread out galaxies we see around here now.
Hubble, even with its previous camera, was able to take quite nice pictures of solar system objects. However, they still don't--and even with the new optics, won't--measure up to what we get when we actually send spacecraft there, so the telescope is not used for that very much. The only planet we haven't at least flown by with a spacecraft is Pluto, and even the upgraded Hubble won't be able to show us much (just the very largest features, if there are any) there.
The "new" galaxies we are seeing don't change our ideas of the density of the universe at all*, since we are seeing more galaxies by looking at a larger volume of space, farther away than what we've seen before.
There are implications for dark matter theory, however, because a lot of the explanations for the formation of stars and galaxies so soon after the big bang rely on dark matter "seeding" the process.
*not strictly true, but close enough for the purposes of this pose
This particular camera actually does allow for prettier pictures, since its 16 million pixels of resolution looks nice even when printed poster size, and each pixel has great dynamic range and also responds to a nice wide range of wavelengths, allowing good "color" pictures to be taken.
They put up some other new instruments as well when they upgraded the Hubble, but the ACS, in addition to all the good science stuff it can do, is an excellent pretty-picture camera.
If you are going to say that it doesn't matter what language features are supported by a platform, than the Java VM is just as language-independent as the CLR. Multiple languages target it--and the Python implementation is in widespread use.
In reality, both the CLR and the Java VM favor particular styles of languages--and have limitations that make standards-conforming implementations of other languages quite difficult. Calling them language independent, is, to that extent, a myth.