Good design will minimize the liability from imperfect code, but unfortunately, MS hasn't gotten to the point of admitting their design is the problem yet. When they do, this interview will mean something.
(Oh, and I'm sorry for the ridiculously lame subject line, but I'm finished summarizing for today. [grin])
Judgement Day is pretty good. If a game sucks, they tell you, man, WITH BELLS ON. No shame here, nosirree. Icons is cool, especially when they do old-school stuff like the history of Activision. Cheat would be more fun if I had some of the games they cover, and Filter's fun, even if the number one choice is always wrong. Mostly, G4 impresses me with its even-handedness. This is a network that has every reason to just be fanboy infomercials 24/7 and it isn't. If they neglect anything, it's PC gaming, and even then, they're just spending more time on the markets that pay.
Now, having said that, TechTV has really gone into the toilet over the last year. XPlay is still watchable, but Microsoft is running infomercials in the middle of prime-time, Unscrewed is a vulgar disaster, and don't even bring up that abominable sex technology show whose name I cannot remember. Generally they just seem to be angling toward purient and vulgar lately, which is NOT good tech.
Where the hell are the shows explaining SMTP mail server maintenance? Where is the infrastructure lecture series about firewalls, routing and network design? Where is the "Slashdot TV Open Source Report" daily newscast about what's going on in open source software? So much opportunity squandered by so little effort.
Not only that, but if you just Google for the text of the quote -- AND WE SHOULD ALL KNOW HOW TO DO THAT -- it's all over the place. Definitely a sig. Nothing to see here. Move along... move along...
Have you looked at Partition Image? The NTFS support is still 'experimental', but it can load images over a network from a server. I don't know if it can boot them or not, but it's open-source, so I'm sure you can get some kind of help from the developers toward adding that sort of capability yourself. Then, you'd just need to make a set of bootable CDs that run the partimage client and automatically rewrite the hard drive with the correct image. Shoot -- if you put 2GB of RAM in them, would it be possible to go diskless and load everything onto a RAM Drive? That way, the PC rewipes itself every reboot and you might even get a kick in performance if the disk accesses don't clog the memory bus too badly.
Now, this probably doesn't help because you are looking for a Windows setup, but if you needed Linux, what about rolling your own customized version of Knoppix?
IIRC, the latest versions support network booting from hosted images, and severalothershavetaken
Knoppix and tweaked it with various different hardware support and software changes (Overclockix, for example, adds stuff like support for NVidia's NForce2 chipset using NVidia's Linux drivers, which Knoppix won't include because of the licensing terms.)
...though, on second thought. I suppose if you were willing to go through all that trouble, you might just be willing to host the/usr tree read-only from your server -- that would do about the same thing.
Apple has far more exclusive music than its competitors. It's the only legal service, for instance, to offer most songs by the Eagles and the Grateful Dead.
Legal? What the...? I though The Dead were all about sharing the bootlegs, at least of their concert performances!
As the proud owner of an HP28S from my undergrad days, I have to say that if I were going into school now, I'd just get a basic Palm for $80 and be done with it. Not only is it a standard platform with many games, utilites and useful apps, but several nifty programmable RPN graphing and solving calculator programs are available for free. You can probably even get an HP28 or HP15 emulator for it.
About the only advantage I still see with the HP Calc is the keyboard. That, and I'm certain the palm would be banned from exams because of the potential for cheating, but so would the HP, no? I mean, 2MB will store a ton of cheat sheets! I packed a boatload of notes into the 32K of my 28S back in '89!
OK, you're right that the copy-bit system relies on the TV itself honoring the copy-bit policy, but doesn't this rule force hardware manufacturers to comply by adding support? If you buy a non-compliant TV or modify your TV to circumvent such copy protection, my guess is that you will end up in court procecuted under the circumvention sections of the DMCA. My guess is *that's* the real goal here, not securing the signal, but fulfilling a legal requirement of the DMCA by establishing a copy protection device in law under FCC rules.
Ugh! It's like I need a live-in attorney at home to advise me when opening mail, surfing the net, answering the phone and watching TV!
They're gonna make a hell of a lot of money with no viewers.
This doesn't bother me - it's right in character for Sci-Fi, considering the audience they are going after. What's gonna cheese me off is when I see this in a documentary on The Discovery Channel, or (God forbid) THE HISTORY NETWORK. (shudder).
Funny, when I look back, I seem to remember time being as ubiquitous and free as air. Now that I am (ahem) MARRIED, I don't know what to do with the 30 attoseconds of free time per day I am alotted. Why, it's almost enough to pos[**QUOTA EXCEEDED**]
Urban legend, this fact may be, but I was told in the late 80's by one of my professors that the only factor research could correlate to success was height.
Ummm, Bezos started the organization to shill for Amazon's patent position? Did anyone honestly expect otherwise? What else have they been doing for the past 3 years? They sound like Microsoft: soooooo cogniscent of "IP issues" when handing 10 million over to SCOX to thump Linux, but willing to change the way their browser works and force their customers to rewrite millions of web pages to avoid a 500 million fine for infringing on Eolas' plug-in patents.
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BG is right, to a point... almost.
Good design will minimize the liability from imperfect code, but unfortunately, MS hasn't gotten to the point of admitting their design is the problem yet. When they do, this interview will mean something.
(Oh, and I'm sorry for the ridiculously lame subject line, but I'm finished summarizing for today. [grin])
Uhhh, with a gushing background piece like that, did anyone else notice that GamesRadar is an MSN-UK hosted site?
Just thought I'd ask.
Yup, you guessed it. Michael Powell wants Gator^H^H^H^H^HClaria.
Glider's cool, but isn't this a more better expression of ESR's intentions?
It's '1337' expressed in columns like the binary desk clock @ thinkgeek.
Dude, it needs to be in TEXT MODE.
(...and you call yourself a h@XoR!)
You can have my crates when you pry them from my cold dead hands.
(Miss you, OMM!)
Hmmmmm.... I think I might know where all that 'new data' came from.
I hereby award thee 50 geek points for this amazing and unbelievably faithful reproduction. Knowing how it works just makes it more incredible.
When is Defender coming out?
Judgement Day is pretty good. If a game sucks, they tell you, man, WITH BELLS ON. No shame here, nosirree. Icons is cool, especially when they do old-school stuff like the history of Activision. Cheat would be more fun if I had some of the games they cover, and Filter's fun, even if the number one choice is always wrong. Mostly, G4 impresses me with its even-handedness. This is a network that has every reason to just be fanboy infomercials 24/7 and it isn't. If they neglect anything, it's PC gaming, and even then, they're just spending more time on the markets that pay.
Now, having said that, TechTV has really gone into the toilet over the last year. XPlay is still watchable, but Microsoft is running infomercials in the middle of prime-time, Unscrewed is a vulgar disaster, and don't even bring up that abominable sex technology show whose name I cannot remember. Generally they just seem to be angling toward purient and vulgar lately, which is NOT good tech.
Where the hell are the shows explaining SMTP mail server maintenance? Where is the infrastructure lecture series about firewalls, routing and network design? Where is the "Slashdot TV Open Source Report" daily newscast about what's going on in open source software? So much opportunity squandered by so little effort.
Not only that, but if you just Google for the text of the quote -- AND WE SHOULD ALL KNOW HOW TO DO THAT -- it's all over the place. Definitely a sig. Nothing to see here. Move along... move along...
Your post reminds me of this classic:
"Your honor, I object to this testimony on the grounds that it makes my client look guilty."
-Yep, it's offtopic; no, I don't know where it originated (Saturday Night Live?); but I chuckle every time it runs through my head.
Have you looked at Partition Image? The NTFS support is still 'experimental', but it can load images over a network from a server. I don't know if it can boot them or not, but it's open-source, so I'm sure you can get some kind of help from the developers toward adding that sort of capability yourself. Then, you'd just need to make a set of bootable CDs that run the partimage client and automatically rewrite the hard drive with the correct image. Shoot -- if you put 2GB of RAM in them, would it be possible to go diskless and load everything onto a RAM Drive? That way, the PC rewipes itself every reboot and you might even get a kick in performance if the disk accesses don't clog the memory bus too badly.
Now, this probably doesn't help because you are looking for a Windows setup, but if you needed Linux, what about rolling your own customized version of Knoppix?
IIRC, the latest versions support network booting from hosted images, and several others have taken Knoppix and tweaked it with various different hardware support and software changes (Overclockix, for example, adds stuff like support for NVidia's NForce2 chipset using NVidia's Linux drivers, which Knoppix won't include because of the licensing terms.)
Why doesn't the right of first sale prevent the manufacturer from doing some of this?
Apple has far more exclusive music than its competitors. It's the only legal service, for instance, to offer most songs by the Eagles and the Grateful Dead.
Legal? What the...? I though The Dead were all about sharing the bootlegs, at least of their concert performances!
As the proud owner of an HP28S from my undergrad days, I have to say that if I were going into school now, I'd just get a basic Palm for $80 and be done with it. Not only is it a standard platform with many games, utilites and useful apps, but several nifty programmable RPN graphing and solving calculator programs are available for free. You can probably even get an HP28 or HP15 emulator for it.
About the only advantage I still see with the HP Calc is the keyboard. That, and I'm certain the palm would be banned from exams because of the potential for cheating, but so would the HP, no? I mean, 2MB will store a ton of cheat sheets! I packed a boatload of notes into the 32K of my 28S back in '89!
OK, you're right that the copy-bit system relies on the TV itself honoring the copy-bit policy, but doesn't this rule force hardware manufacturers to comply by adding support? If you buy a non-compliant TV or modify your TV to circumvent such copy protection, my guess is that you will end up in court procecuted under the circumvention sections of the DMCA. My guess is *that's* the real goal here, not securing the signal, but fulfilling a legal requirement of the DMCA by establishing a copy protection device in law under FCC rules.
Ugh! It's like I need a live-in attorney at home to advise me when opening mail, surfing the net, answering the phone and watching TV!
They're gonna make a hell of a lot of money with no viewers.
This doesn't bother me - it's right in character for Sci-Fi, considering the audience they are going after. What's gonna cheese me off is when I see this in a documentary on The Discovery Channel, or (God forbid) THE HISTORY NETWORK. (shudder).
Funny, when I look back, I seem to remember time being as ubiquitous and free as air. Now that I am (ahem) MARRIED, I don't know what to do with the 30 attoseconds of free time per day I am alotted. Why, it's almost enough to pos[**QUOTA EXCEEDED**]
Yes, and addicts even run a whole Beowulf cluster of them!
It's about ABUNDANCE. There just isn't enough of anything heavier than Helium for astronomers to be concerned about.
It's not a conspiracy if *everyone* *knows* about it!
The astronomer's periodic table:
1 Hydrogen
2 Helium
Metals
Urban legend, this fact may be, but I was told in the late 80's by one of my professors that the only factor research could correlate to success was height.
Ummm, Bezos started the organization to shill for Amazon's patent position? Did anyone honestly expect otherwise? What else have they been doing for the past 3 years? They sound like Microsoft: soooooo cogniscent of "IP issues" when handing 10 million over to SCOX to thump Linux, but willing to change the way their browser works and force their customers to rewrite millions of web pages to avoid a 500 million fine for infringing on Eolas' plug-in patents.
wouldn't patch time depend on the bugs involved?