Damn it's tough to code in C these days, keeping track of all the stuff that one needs to to be reasonably secure.
Not to mention the added overhead of making the system secure from semantic errors. Yeesh, it's a good think I get paid a lot for my C work.
But that's all okay, becuase (finally) technology, like Java, C# (okay this one sucks but whatever), etc that will help out and provide a truly _secure_ development platform.
I jsut hope they still pay me as much when this stuff finally gets easy, like it should be.
Damn, doesn't MTV remember the past? They've tried this sort of thing before, and where did it get them. I think it was in 95 or 96, they considered releasing a similarly themed "Media Box" that was part laser disc, part cd player, part tape deck, part vcr, etc, etc
Needless to say it failed (You don't see any around anymore, do you?). During it's short lifespan (Remember those annoying commercials with the flashing colors and slow, loud beat?), a friend of mine picked one up.
I've never seen a worse piece of consumer grade electronics in my life. The laser for the cd must have been loose or something, because it would skip on just about every damn cd. And the tech support? It was a nightmare.
Basically my friend was told to bugger off because they had stopped production. In the warrenty it covered against this, so he was SOL.
And now they want to try this sort of thing again? God I hope they do a better job.
My firm went through this sort of thing just two years ago. The PHB at the time decided, for some reason, that our 300,000 lines of semi-poorly written C code, and 50,000 associated lines of Java (Dont' ask).
Anyway, it took 7 of us over 2 months to get even halfway done. The pressure the boss was putting on us was awful, and he didn't really even understand what we were doing, even though he was the one demanding it. I think she read it in a trade mag somewhere. God I'd do a lot more work if she didn't read that shit.
Anyway, about halfway through the "Great Leap Forward" (as we [appropriatly] named it) the boss quit, and the next boss, who so far has been fairly clueful. He didn't think the whole deal was needed, but he was pressured by the former bosses husband (the CTO) to get it done. Seriously.
Hope yours goes better than ours. From what we did, heres some tips I can give you.
1. Be consistant through the whole thing.
2. Make sure everything is planned before you start. This was the one part we got right.
3. The team you have should have worked together before, because this sort of task requires previous knowledge of eachother.
Other than that, my condolences. Or maybe it will work better for you.
I guess none of us should be surprised at this. After all, we know how the big distribution houses like to do things, and how we (the consumers) really have no choice.
Well, I hope this gets people angry, because it's really such an obvious ploy to line Sony's pockets with our money. I really don't see how these companies can keep this sort of thing up without any sort of outcry from those of us that own the products that we can't do what we want to with.
I mean, geez, if Sony doesn't want me hacking up it's boxes, why did it _sell_ them to me? Come on Sony, ligthen up!
Damn, it's really shocking to read the crap those agents pulled on the warez groups. Even ignoring the obvious immorality/illegality of it, it seems to me like they put a lot of time into the raids.
What the hell are they wasting their time for (and our money) on little stuff like this? It's like the federal government has no capability to distinguish between minor crimes and major ones.
If we don't watch out, the next war (after terrorism) will be on software. Damn, imagine if the BSA ever got to use guns. *shudder*
That's not a good thought. Sigh, I'd better stop posting to/. and go get the papers ready for my companies upcoming audit.
It's really a shame then, that this damage happened now. Far too often these days we see science fall before profit, and I really think that down the road the effects of this short sighted thinking will become evident.
I'm now pondering evident in what way, and I realize then that it will not be obvious, but far more insidious. The world will simply be worse off, and we'll know in no certain terms by how much.
So you're trying to censor him? Let the guy give it a shot. If they vote him in, that's apprently what they wanted.
A agree though, that his call for censorship is pretty lame, but he still has a right to promote his ideals as he sees fit, so long as he doesn't screw with us.
I think Steeler's Wheel said it best when they sung "Stuck In The Middle With You"... as, in a way, we're stuck in the middle with Sun.
Microsoft and Congress are surrounding us, working either with monopoly power or governmental force, and, though nothing truly bad bas happened yet, it's only a matter of time.
This strange coalition isn't good for everyone though, and Sun is aware of that. At this point we (the Open Source People) should indeed be cautious of Sun, but not overly so. They have good reason to be with us on this, and we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss them
Not that we should worship them either... once we beat down Passport they'll probably come up with their own worse version.
But for now... hell... they're anti-passport, and right now that's all that matters...
I've had the oppurtunity to meet this man, and I must say he's even more impressive in person. We had a long talk about technology and schools and the future, and for the first time I walked away from talking with a politician feeling *good* about the future.
A lot of/.'ers are probably going to question the reasoning behind giving middle schoolers laptops, and to them I can only say that just _having_ the laptops will increase they're technological awareness. It's espically important up here in Maine, where there is almost no high-tech industry.
It makes me smile to know that now he's finally getting the recognition I've always thought he's deserved. Definatly an honor to say I voted for him.
A buddy of mine is interning in Japan, and has told me stories about these things.
Aparently in his city (Kyoto, iirc) these things are around in a few places. He had the oppurtunity to play around with one, and the pictures were pretty good. He sent a few to me, and I could definatly tell they were low quality, but they were definatly useable for anything you'd use a disposable
I personally can't wait until these get to America. Should be fun to hack. Aparently he opened one up and it looks like there is a removable chip in it, that he thinks is the memory. He's working on figuring out how to access it. He has a website about it that I'll post when I get back home to my bookmarks.
I remember my first expierance with mod_perl. I was working for a small development company. That's not the key part
The key part is that I was in charge of the perl backend, and it was really lagging. Loaded mod_perl up and *bam*, we had a fast enough system. I never did a serious benchmark, but it was like 100% improvment
Thus all I can say is good job guys! This doesn't surprise me at all, and it's good to see recognition get passed around in the correct quantity for once:)
Senator: I will no longer be accepting snail mail.
Flunky: Yes sir, I'll check the email account right away.
25 minutes later...
Flunky: Sir, all the email seems to take the form: "W1nd0wz SUX0R! 1inuX ROOLZ! 3nCryp71on ROOLZ! R1AA SuXor!"
Senator: Well then, I suppose my constituants have spoken. Let it thus be proclaimed: From this day forth, Windows sucks, and Linux rules. Let's make it a constitutional amendment!
Flunky: Yes sir. Also, we recieved and offer to buy a 100" TV for only 10 dollars. I think we shouldn't pass something like that up. There is also something about cheap diplomas. Might be good to bribe young voters. I was also thinking of getting your penis enlarged through natural means, to make you more appealing to the women voters
Senator: Right! Do it all! Which reminds me, did we ever find those pictures of "BRITNEY RIDING HARD C*CK!!!!!" yet?
I've always been a little wary of Ximian... they seemed mostly talk and not enough action. Sure they had _some_ stuff, but it was never really up my alley.
I have to say though, this time I think I might just start to like them. They seem, from reading the link, like they really care about what we have to say (even if it's not so nice some times;) and are willing to listen.
I guess this is YABOOS (Yet Another Benefit Of Open Source): The corporations that help out are by default less evil.
The private sector is not even interested in carrying letters.
Weird. I better catch that UPS guy real quick, cause he obviously won't deliever my letter.
the highways and roads that the government builds and maintains help companies deliver the goods you ordered.
I think you're misrepresenting the previous poster idea. He said "Gov't is a necessary evil, and should be no larger than necessary." Obviously roads are vital, and are part of the small realm of things a government should do.
Ha! You got gyped dude. I got two college diplomas, $1,000,000 in a month, nude pix of britney spears absolutely free, a X10 wireless camera, a fake id, and passwords to all the best XXX sites!
A buddy of mine built one of these things, or something similar to them. I don't know about all these people saying the quality sucks, but it was crystal clear for him. And oh god is Quake 3 gorgoues on it...
The difference is he started with a bigger TV (32"), and used a really high quality lense. I forget what he calls it, but he had in machine made espcially for this purpose. Cost about $700 to have done, but when you consider how expensive a reall 100" would be, it's not that bad
The thing is, you just can't skimp out like they say you can... Don't use a bedsheet, just a real projection screen, for instance.
This is totally valid technology, as long as you don't cheap out.
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Damn it's tough to code in C these days, keeping track of all the stuff that one needs to to be reasonably secure.
Not to mention the added overhead of making the system secure from semantic errors. Yeesh, it's a good think I get paid a lot for my C work.
But that's all okay, becuase (finally) technology, like Java, C# (okay this one sucks but whatever), etc that will help out and provide a truly _secure_ development platform.
I jsut hope they still pay me as much when this stuff finally gets easy, like it should be.
Damn, doesn't MTV remember the past? They've tried this sort of thing before, and where did it get them. I think it was in 95 or 96, they considered releasing a similarly themed "Media Box" that was part laser disc, part cd player, part tape deck, part vcr, etc, etc
Needless to say it failed (You don't see any around anymore, do you?). During it's short lifespan (Remember those annoying commercials with the flashing colors and slow, loud beat?), a friend of mine picked one up.
I've never seen a worse piece of consumer grade electronics in my life. The laser for the cd must have been loose or something, because it would skip on just about every damn cd. And the tech support? It was a nightmare.
Basically my friend was told to bugger off because they had stopped production. In the warrenty it covered against this, so he was SOL.
And now they want to try this sort of thing again? God I hope they do a better job.
My firm went through this sort of thing just two years ago. The PHB at the time decided, for some reason, that our 300,000 lines of semi-poorly written C code, and 50,000 associated lines of Java (Dont' ask).
Anyway, it took 7 of us over 2 months to get even halfway done. The pressure the boss was putting on us was awful, and he didn't really even understand what we were doing, even though he was the one demanding it. I think she read it in a trade mag somewhere. God I'd do a lot more work if she didn't read that shit.
Anyway, about halfway through the "Great Leap Forward" (as we [appropriatly] named it) the boss quit, and the next boss, who so far has been fairly clueful. He didn't think the whole deal was needed, but he was pressured by the former bosses husband (the CTO) to get it done. Seriously.
Hope yours goes better than ours. From what we did, heres some tips I can give you.
1. Be consistant through the whole thing.
2. Make sure everything is planned before you start. This was the one part we got right.
3. The team you have should have worked together before, because this sort of task requires previous knowledge of eachother.
Other than that, my condolences. Or maybe it will work better for you.
Good luck!
I guess none of us should be surprised at this. After all, we know how the big distribution houses like to do things, and how we (the consumers) really have no choice.
Well, I hope this gets people angry, because it's really such an obvious ploy to line Sony's pockets with our money. I really don't see how these companies can keep this sort of thing up without any sort of outcry from those of us that own the products that we can't do what we want to with.
I mean, geez, if Sony doesn't want me hacking up it's boxes, why did it _sell_ them to me? Come on Sony, ligthen up!
Damn, it's really shocking to read the crap those agents pulled on the warez groups. Even ignoring the obvious immorality/illegality of it, it seems to me like they put a lot of time into the raids.
/. and go get the papers ready for my companies upcoming audit.
What the hell are they wasting their time for (and our money) on little stuff like this? It's like the federal government has no capability to distinguish between minor crimes and major ones.
If we don't watch out, the next war (after terrorism) will be on software. Damn, imagine if the BSA ever got to use guns. *shudder*
That's not a good thought. Sigh, I'd better stop posting to
It's really a shame then, that this damage happened now. Far too often these days we see science fall before profit, and I really think that down the road the effects of this short sighted thinking will become evident.
I'm now pondering evident in what way, and I realize then that it will not be obvious, but far more insidious. The world will simply be worse off, and we'll know in no certain terms by how much.
How truly terrible indeed...
So you're trying to censor him? Let the guy give it a shot. If they vote him in, that's apprently what they wanted.
A agree though, that his call for censorship is pretty lame, but he still has a right to promote his ideals as he sees fit, so long as he doesn't screw with us.
Dude. Unless you're a niesen house, voting with your remote is a waste of time. They'll never know.
Nope... keep it another year! UNIX is not over 30, so it's safe.
But in a year... well... then we'll talk.
Like I said, we definatly still have to be careful.
But we _do_ need support of other major players to get passport knocked down. First things first, I always say.
It does suck all around though, I agree. It's a tough spot...
I think Steeler's Wheel said it best when they sung "Stuck In The Middle With You"... as, in a way, we're stuck in the middle with Sun.
Microsoft and Congress are surrounding us, working either with monopoly power or governmental force, and, though nothing truly bad bas happened yet, it's only a matter of time.
This strange coalition isn't good for everyone though, and Sun is aware of that. At this point we (the Open Source People) should indeed be cautious of Sun, but not overly so. They have good reason to be with us on this, and we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss them
Not that we should worship them either... once we beat down Passport they'll probably come up with their own worse version.
But for now... hell... they're anti-passport, and right now that's all that matters...
I've had the oppurtunity to meet this man, and I must say he's even more impressive in person. We had a long talk about technology and schools and the future, and for the first time I walked away from talking with a politician feeling *good* about the future.
/.'ers are probably going to question the reasoning behind giving middle schoolers laptops, and to them I can only say that just _having_ the laptops will increase they're technological awareness. It's espically important up here in Maine, where there is almost no high-tech industry.
A lot of
It makes me smile to know that now he's finally getting the recognition I've always thought he's deserved. Definatly an honor to say I voted for him.
A buddy of mine is interning in Japan, and has told me stories about these things.
Aparently in his city (Kyoto, iirc) these things are around in a few places. He had the oppurtunity to play around with one, and the pictures were pretty good. He sent a few to me, and I could definatly tell they were low quality, but they were definatly useable for anything you'd use a disposable
I personally can't wait until these get to America. Should be fun to hack. Aparently he opened one up and it looks like there is a removable chip in it, that he thinks is the memory. He's working on figuring out how to access it. He has a website about it that I'll post when I get back home to my bookmarks.
I remember my first expierance with mod_perl. I was working for a small development company. That's not the key part
:)
The key part is that I was in charge of the perl backend, and it was really lagging. Loaded mod_perl up and *bam*, we had a fast enough system. I never did a serious benchmark, but it was like 100% improvment
Thus all I can say is good job guys! This doesn't surprise me at all, and it's good to see recognition get passed around in the correct quantity for once
Senator: I will no longer be accepting snail mail.
Flunky: Yes sir, I'll check the email account right away.
25 minutes later...
Flunky: Sir, all the email seems to take the form: "W1nd0wz SUX0R! 1inuX ROOLZ! 3nCryp71on ROOLZ! R1AA SuXor!"
Senator: Well then, I suppose my constituants have spoken. Let it thus be proclaimed: From this day forth, Windows sucks, and Linux rules. Let's make it a constitutional amendment!
Flunky: Yes sir. Also, we recieved and offer to buy a 100" TV for only 10 dollars. I think we shouldn't pass something like that up. There is also something about cheap diplomas. Might be good to bribe young voters. I was also thinking of getting your penis enlarged through natural means, to make you more appealing to the women voters
Senator: Right! Do it all! Which reminds me, did we ever find those pictures of "BRITNEY RIDING HARD C*CK!!!!!" yet?
I've always been a little wary of Ximian... they seemed mostly talk and not enough action. Sure they had _some_ stuff, but it was never really up my alley.
;) and are willing to listen.
I have to say though, this time I think I might just start to like them. They seem, from reading the link, like they really care about what we have to say (even if it's not so nice some times
I guess this is YABOOS (Yet Another Benefit Of Open Source): The corporations that help out are by default less evil.
The private sector is not even interested in carrying letters.
Weird. I better catch that UPS guy real quick, cause he obviously won't deliever my letter.
the highways and roads that the government builds and maintains help companies deliver the goods you ordered.
I think you're misrepresenting the previous poster idea. He said "Gov't is a necessary evil, and should be no larger than necessary." Obviously roads are vital, and are part of the small realm of things a government should do.
Ha! You got gyped dude. I got two college diplomas, $1,000,000 in a month, nude pix of britney spears absolutely free, a X10 wireless camera, a fake id, and passwords to all the best XXX sites!
;)
Looks like you have more work to do
A buddy of mine built one of these things, or something similar to them. I don't know about all these people saying the quality sucks, but it was crystal clear for him. And oh god is Quake 3 gorgoues on it...
The difference is he started with a bigger TV (32"), and used a really high quality lense. I forget what he calls it, but he had in machine made espcially for this purpose. Cost about $700 to have done, but when you consider how expensive a reall 100" would be, it's not that bad
The thing is, you just can't skimp out like they say you can... Don't use a bedsheet, just a real projection screen, for instance.
This is totally valid technology, as long as you don't cheap out.