Your argument is weak in the sense that when Japan developed it's industry, 100+ years ago, it was betting on the emerging technology and economy. India is also making a bet on what the emerging technology and economy will be. I think there is actually some similarity to Japan's strategy. Also, given India's population, they need a big win. Space based technology and industry could provide that big win, competing with China over who is going to be the low cost industrial manufacturer would not be a big win.
WRONG... episodic releases are exclusive. The game will be released for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 on October 16th, 2007. The Xbox version will have "episodic releases" via Xbox Live.
CORRECT: Game will be an XBox360 exclusive, at least until the PS3 ships.
Note October above and November below:
"The full version of the PlayStation 3 will be priced at US$600 in North America and 600 (US$763) in Europe. It will first go on sale in Japan on Nov. 11, followed by North America, Europe and Australasia on Nov. 17." http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/09/playstatio n/index.php
Without Gore we would not be able to discuss this. He not only "invented" the ratings system.... He "invented" the "INTERNET" too...
There were electronic discussion before the internet. All that would be different is that Zonk would have posted this article to the BBS being run from his bedroom.
"I'm pretty sure you're referencing the DMCA. This was a product not of the Bush administration, but the Clinton administration."
No, I'm pretty sure he refers to the P.A.T.R.I.O.T act.
So what, all but one Democratic Senator voted to pass the Patriot Act.
In case you are unfamiliar with the how laws are enacted in the United States, assuming you are a citizen of another country or a graduate of the US educational system:), the president does not create laws. He signs Bills into law *after* the House of Representatives *and* the Senate pass a Bill and send it to the president.
Others have mentioned that Clinton passed the DMCA.
I'll add that Gore was behind a morality crusade to restrict music, forcing the record industry to start a rating system. This system expanded to video games eventually. So technically, Gore has a greater responsibility for this ratings fiasco than Bush.
As for "via" and "based", the difference is that it's going to take a much longer time for a strike to come "via" Cuba.
That's not a problem. In coordinated attacks aircraft often launch from different locations, those with a longer flight launch earlier. Flying routine missions down the coast to Cuba year after years helps with this.
"Via" Cuba does not mean they can't land, refuel, get some sleep, etc. "Via" is trying to differentiate from "based" in that Cuba is not the home base of these aircraft. Note that landing in Cuba and getting fuel and rest gives these aircraft the shortest flight time.
I was thinking of nukes again, and a second strike on Miami the day after the SAC has dropped its bombs on Moscow doesn't sound like it would really be a priority mission. Maybe all this seems obvious to you, but not everyone is a scholar of Cold War military shadow-boxing.
Actually this sort of scenario would be part of the first strike. The planes coming over the pole and attacking from the north would be penetrating air defense at about the same time as planes coming from the south, and submarine launched missles coming from the east and west. Actually the subs would probably launch first, the bombers would be mop up.
Regrettably, this is not entirely ancient history. While the number of nukes is smaller, and we're not actively aiming missles at each other, it doesn't take long to program in coordinates and the delivery capabilities still exist in "sufficient" numbers.
"It was mentioned earlier that Soviet bombers were occasionally intercepted"
Yes, and I mentioned these were not, as far asd I can determine, STRATEGIC bombers, but anti-submarine bombers. Still, the US would want to track and eliminate them in wartime.
Well I only corrected your most glaring error, the fixation on being *based* in Cuba. Again, they don't need to be based in Cuba to attack via Cuba.
If you really want your other errors pointed out as well I suppose we could move on to the fact that the anti-sub aircraft you refer to was one of many variants of a common design. Other variants were strategic bombers. Many different variants shadowed the US coastline, this sort of thing went on for decades, literally.
Theo openly admit his project regularly needs to take from Linux, maybe he should be paying all those Linux coders developing device drivers?
And linux devs openly admit that OpenBSD often identifies and patches security holes that also affect linux. So bug and security fixes cancels out drivers, Theo's OpenSSH point is left standing.:)
"They don't have to be based in Cuba to attack via Cuba."
It would be rather a detour to go to the USA from Russia via Cuba. Why would they do that? Did they even have the fuel capacity to make such a trip?
It was mentioned earlier that Soviet bombers were occasionally intercepted and escorted as they flew down the US coast to Cuba.
An attack via Cuba has the advantage of either (a) attacking the more lightly defended southern border or (b) the potential of that attack forces the US to allocate assets to defend the southern border thereby weakening the defense of the northern border.
Bombers attacking via Cuba could pick up a fighter escort.
if he were being trained for combat, he would have been trained on the appropriate plane. he was a man who was not slated for combat. his air guard unit was a dumping ground for those who could wangle a way out of real combat. that was the whole point of being in the texas air guard.
Apologies if reality is intruding on your political RDF but...
At the time there was this thing called the Cold War, it was actually a bigger deal than Vietnam to the Pentagon. The Cold War was due to a period of time in history where there was more than one super power and they were regularly probing each other's airspace. The combat mission that Bush Jr. was trained for was to intercept Soviet bombers approaching the coast of the US. Go find an aerial chart that covers the US coast. You'll find a line label ADIZ, that is Air Defense Identification Zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identific ation_Zone. When an "unknown" aircraft get's near the ADIZ interceptors may be scrambled and they may be Regular Air Force or Air National Guard. The Texas Air National Guard has a rather large area of responsibility and interception was considered an important role due to the possiblity of Soviet bombers coming to the US via Cuba. You might recall that the US and the Soviets had narrowly missed having a nuclear war over Cuba.
Is it reasonable to be afraid of this. To exploit this, in a way to allow running of arbitary code, you would need a buffer overflow
I think you are misunderstanding the nature of the problem. This is not data corruption as in buffer overflow, this is data corruption as in the calculation comes up with an incorrect answer. For some people that is not acceptible.
Of the kids who I have seen drop out of CS, most go into something "easier": liberal arts, advertising, MBA.
You are correct that many kids get weeded out at an early point in their CS program and move to something easier, liberal arts, yes, MBA, no. I have BS and MS degrees in CS and I'm now working on an MBA. I am tempted to say the MBA program is more difficult but I am probably biased since I am in the midst of its heavy workload. I understand your impression, I used to have it. I took lots of history classes for fun, getting an A or B+ took nearly no effort. I expected topics like marketing would be just as easy. However I am now in a marketing class and using more advanced math than in nearly all my CS classes. I studied CS in the University of California system, the MBA is also at a UC campus so I think I the CS / MBA comparison is fair.
In any case, useability is still the champ.
Yes, in sprint, RMS is running marathon however.
If RMS started the FSF because he couldn't get driver source, and today that is still a big issue then he is getting nowhere, he's on a treadmill.:)
Useability has been winning for millenia, it was winning before the marathon existed. RMS may have a good idea, it may be a benevelent idea, but many such ideas fail in the long run or fall far short of their goal. The verdict of history is a long way off, well for RMS' ideas, history has spoken on usability and said "winner" over and over and over again.
"Free Software is great for some things, but occasionally the FSF has to recognize that some proprietary elements are unavoidable."
You could have used this exact sentence in 1990 to claim that GNU Emacs and GCC were pretty neat but we'd always have to use a proprietary kernel.
1990 called again, it said please stop making stuff up about it. In 1990 we had a free and open Unix implementation. Free software existed before Linux.
RMS eventually founded the FSF because he couldn't get the source code to a broken printer driver. Learn your history or be doomed to repeat it.
History doesn't change facts, it helps explain them. In this case the fact is RMS is still *not* getting the driver, I guess that makes the FSF a failure.:-)
I'm a linux noob, but i'm not clear why you'd WANT to boot Linux in this case, other than maybe if you are a multi-OS admin.
Not admins, you can admin Linux boxes from BSD or Windows systems. Balmer offers the non because-it-is-there answer: developers, developers, developers. The Linux and BSD APIs differ enough that you really need to build and test your software on both platforms on a pretty regular basis. This is less of a problem on more traditional BSD systems since Linux emulation is generally offered during installation. I'm pretty sure Linux emulation is not a standard feature of Mac OS X or part of the developer tools installation. Someone else will have to comment on how easy it would be to add yourself.
With Apple now shipping x86 computers people are starting to realize that yea Apple hardware really is higher than average PC quality.
Actually that is a misperception due to the fact that Apple hardware + Apple software has fewer problems. With a limitted number of video, audio, ethernet, etc chipsets to support it is far easier to offer a more reliable system. The overall reliability colors the perception of the hardware. When you pop open a Dell you find a rather well designed and assembled system, comparable to what I find inside Mac towers. I've seen/owned enough Apple lemons over the years, seen/had enough bad components in Macs, and see Apple currently shipping some poorly designed but stylish components right now. Would I hesitate to buy yet another Mac? Nope. Neither would I hesitate to buy yet another Dell. Now a local whitebox PC, I'll pass, I would rather by best-of-breed components myself and do a homebuilt system. I wouldn't really save money or get better quality, but I would have a little fun and have made absolutely no compromises with respect to components.
If you would like to say Apple hardware is more stylish then I would agree.
But before the DMCA, you were within your rights to brew your own solution to their inadequacies. Now if you try that, you get thrown in jail (see ElcomSoft).
Not if you are a researcher, as the EFF falsely suggested, which is the topic here.
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Your argument is weak in the sense that when Japan developed it's industry, 100+ years ago, it was betting on the emerging technology and economy. India is also making a bet on what the emerging technology and economy will be. I think there is actually some similarity to Japan's strategy. Also, given India's population, they need a big win. Space based technology and industry could provide that big win, competing with China over who is going to be the low cost industrial manufacturer would not be a big win.
WRONG... episodic releases are exclusive. The game will be released for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 on October 16th, 2007. The Xbox version will have "episodic releases" via Xbox Live.
o n/index.php
CORRECT: Game will be an XBox360 exclusive, at least until the PS3 ships.
Note October above and November below:
"The full version of the PlayStation 3 will be priced at US$600 in North America and 600 (US$763) in Europe. It will first go on sale in Japan on Nov. 11, followed by North America, Europe and Australasia on Nov. 17."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/09/playstati
Without Gore we would not be able to discuss this. He not only "invented" the ratings system.... He "invented" the "INTERNET" too...
There were electronic discussion before the internet. All that would be different is that Zonk would have posted this article to the BBS being run from his bedroom.
"I'm pretty sure you're referencing the DMCA. This was a product not of the Bush administration, but the Clinton administration."
:), the president does not create laws. He signs Bills into law *after* the House of Representatives *and* the Senate pass a Bill and send it to the president.
No, I'm pretty sure he refers to the P.A.T.R.I.O.T act.
So what, all but one Democratic Senator voted to pass the Patriot Act.
In case you are unfamiliar with the how laws are enacted in the United States, assuming you are a citizen of another country or a graduate of the US educational system
I didn't want to combine a serious post with a joke, so here is a separate post.
Gore "invented" the ratings system.
Others have mentioned that Clinton passed the DMCA.
I'll add that Gore was behind a morality crusade to restrict music, forcing the record industry to start a rating system. This system expanded to video games eventually. So technically, Gore has a greater responsibility for this ratings fiasco than Bush.
Who are you people, and what have you done with the real slashdot?
;-)
Slashdot was started by the French, but some kids came by and took it away from them.
Sorry, I couldn't resist, your question was just begging for that response given your overall theme.
As for "via" and "based", the difference is that it's going to take a much longer time for a strike to come "via" Cuba.
That's not a problem. In coordinated attacks aircraft often launch from different locations, those with a longer flight launch earlier. Flying routine missions down the coast to Cuba year after years helps with this.
"Via" Cuba does not mean they can't land, refuel, get some sleep, etc. "Via" is trying to differentiate from "based" in that Cuba is not the home base of these aircraft. Note that landing in Cuba and getting fuel and rest gives these aircraft the shortest flight time.
I was thinking of nukes again, and a second strike on Miami the day after the SAC has dropped its bombs on Moscow doesn't sound like it would really be a priority mission. Maybe all this seems obvious to you, but not everyone is a scholar of Cold War military shadow-boxing.
Actually this sort of scenario would be part of the first strike. The planes coming over the pole and attacking from the north would be penetrating air defense at about the same time as planes coming from the south, and submarine launched missles coming from the east and west. Actually the subs would probably launch first, the bombers would be mop up.
Regrettably, this is not entirely ancient history. While the number of nukes is smaller, and we're not actively aiming missles at each other, it doesn't take long to program in coordinates and the delivery capabilities still exist in "sufficient" numbers.
"It was mentioned earlier that Soviet bombers were occasionally intercepted"
Yes, and I mentioned these were not, as far asd I can determine, STRATEGIC bombers, but anti-submarine bombers. Still, the US would want to track and eliminate them in wartime.
Well I only corrected your most glaring error, the fixation on being *based* in Cuba. Again, they don't need to be based in Cuba to attack via Cuba.
If you really want your other errors pointed out as well I suppose we could move on to the fact that the anti-sub aircraft you refer to was one of many variants of a common design. Other variants were strategic bombers. Many different variants shadowed the US coastline, this sort of thing went on for decades, literally.
Theo openly admit his project regularly needs to take from Linux, maybe he should be paying all those Linux coders developing device drivers?
:)
And linux devs openly admit that OpenBSD often identifies and patches security holes that also affect linux. So bug and security fixes cancels out drivers, Theo's OpenSSH point is left standing.
... it helps when you are the only show in town ...
Well that is further evidence of a successful launch and good planning and execution.
"They don't have to be based in Cuba to attack via Cuba."
It would be rather a detour to go to the USA from Russia via Cuba. Why would they do that? Did they even have the fuel capacity to make such a trip?
It was mentioned earlier that Soviet bombers were occasionally intercepted and escorted as they flew down the US coast to Cuba.
An attack via Cuba has the advantage of either (a) attacking the more lightly defended southern border or (b) the potential of that attack forces the US to allocate assets to defend the southern border thereby weakening the defense of the northern border.
Bombers attacking via Cuba could pick up a fighter escort.
I asked if any were based in Cuba.
They don't have to be based in Cuba to attack via Cuba.
if he were being trained for combat, he would have been trained on the appropriate plane. he was a man who was not slated for combat. his air guard unit was a dumping ground for those who could wangle a way out of real combat. that was the whole point of being in the texas air guard.
...
c ation_Zone. When an "unknown" aircraft get's near the ADIZ interceptors may be scrambled and they may be Regular Air Force or Air National Guard. The Texas Air National Guard has a rather large area of responsibility and interception was considered an important role due to the possiblity of Soviet bombers coming to the US via Cuba. You might recall that the US and the Soviets had narrowly missed having a nuclear war over Cuba.
Apologies if reality is intruding on your political RDF but
At the time there was this thing called the Cold War, it was actually a bigger deal than Vietnam to the Pentagon. The Cold War was due to a period of time in history where there was more than one super power and they were regularly probing each other's airspace. The combat mission that Bush Jr. was trained for was to intercept Soviet bombers approaching the coast of the US. Go find an aerial chart that covers the US coast. You'll find a line label ADIZ, that is Air Defense Identification Zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identifi
Is it reasonable to be afraid of this. To exploit this, in a way to allow running of arbitary code, you would need a buffer overflow
I think you are misunderstanding the nature of the problem. This is not data corruption as in buffer overflow, this is data corruption as in the calculation comes up with an incorrect answer. For some people that is not acceptible.
AMD says that from now on, chips that have this problem will be rerated to lower clock speeds..
...
And then end users will overclock these CPU
Of the kids who I have seen drop out of CS, most go into something "easier": liberal arts, advertising, MBA.
You are correct that many kids get weeded out at an early point in their CS program and move to something easier, liberal arts, yes, MBA, no. I have BS and MS degrees in CS and I'm now working on an MBA. I am tempted to say the MBA program is more difficult but I am probably biased since I am in the midst of its heavy workload. I understand your impression, I used to have it. I took lots of history classes for fun, getting an A or B+ took nearly no effort. I expected topics like marketing would be just as easy. However I am now in a marketing class and using more advanced math than in nearly all my CS classes. I studied CS in the University of California system, the MBA is also at a UC campus so I think I the CS / MBA comparison is fair.
RMS has all the free software and drivers he needs -- he is a hacker, not a gamer or 3D graphics enthusiast -- as a direct result of his run...
;-)
So his needs are few so the subsistence software diet works, good for him.
In any case, useability is still the champ. Yes, in sprint, RMS is running marathon however.
:)
If RMS started the FSF because he couldn't get driver source, and today that is still a big issue then he is getting nowhere, he's on a treadmill.
Useability has been winning for millenia, it was winning before the marathon existed. RMS may have a good idea, it may be a benevelent idea, but many such ideas fail in the long run or fall far short of their goal. The verdict of history is a long way off, well for RMS' ideas, history has spoken on usability and said "winner" over and over and over again.
I'm waiting for the M1911, it should perform much better in FPS games. ;-)
"Free Software is great for some things, but occasionally the FSF has to recognize that some proprietary elements are unavoidable."
You could have used this exact sentence in 1990 to claim that GNU Emacs and GCC were pretty neat but we'd always have to use a proprietary kernel.
1990 called again, it said please stop making stuff up about it. In 1990 we had a free and open Unix implementation. Free software existed before Linux.
"Useability beats ideology."
:-)
RMS eventually founded the FSF because he couldn't get the source code to a broken printer driver. Learn your history or be doomed to repeat it.
History doesn't change facts, it helps explain them. In this case the fact is RMS is still *not* getting the driver, I guess that makes the FSF a failure.
In any case, useability is still the champ.
I'm a linux noob, but i'm not clear why you'd WANT to boot Linux in this case, other than maybe if you are a multi-OS admin.
Not admins, you can admin Linux boxes from BSD or Windows systems. Balmer offers the non because-it-is-there answer: developers, developers, developers. The Linux and BSD APIs differ enough that you really need to build and test your software on both platforms on a pretty regular basis. This is less of a problem on more traditional BSD systems since Linux emulation is generally offered during installation. I'm pretty sure Linux emulation is not a standard feature of Mac OS X or part of the developer tools installation. Someone else will have to comment on how easy it would be to add yourself.
With Apple now shipping x86 computers people are starting to realize that yea Apple hardware really is higher than average PC quality.
Actually that is a misperception due to the fact that Apple hardware + Apple software has fewer problems. With a limitted number of video, audio, ethernet, etc chipsets to support it is far easier to offer a more reliable system. The overall reliability colors the perception of the hardware. When you pop open a Dell you find a rather well designed and assembled system, comparable to what I find inside Mac towers. I've seen/owned enough Apple lemons over the years, seen/had enough bad components in Macs, and see Apple currently shipping some poorly designed but stylish components right now. Would I hesitate to buy yet another Mac? Nope. Neither would I hesitate to buy yet another Dell. Now a local whitebox PC, I'll pass, I would rather by best-of-breed components myself and do a homebuilt system. I wouldn't really save money or get better quality, but I would have a little fun and have made absolutely no compromises with respect to components.
If you would like to say Apple hardware is more stylish then I would agree.
But before the DMCA, you were within your rights to brew your own solution to their inadequacies. Now if you try that, you get thrown in jail (see ElcomSoft).
Not if you are a researcher, as the EFF falsely suggested, which is the topic here.