True, but the limited resolution makes it easier to develop for, not harder. You may be able to do less with that resolution, but damnit, you know what that resolution is going to be and you don't have to worry about someone who wants to run at 2048x1440 and someone who wants to run at 640x480! Anyway, that is passing with HDTVs becoming more common. Many PS2/XBox games have support for progressive scan (e.g. 480p/720p).
So much for a identical systems, eh? Now developers have to start deciding whether or not to support higher resolutions, and if they do, what to sacrifice for the increase in calculations required at those higher resolutions. Just like their PC developing brethren... of course I do realize that this is only one of the many issue PC developers have to worry about.
Athlon XP "1800+" (ie. 1.53GHz), GF4 Ti4200 w/128 MB RAM. Bought well over a year ago for about 120 Euros. Runs Halo perfectly fine at 800 by 600, and fairly decent at 1024 by 786. No long load times or freezes either, of course those depend on HD and RAM rather than the graphics card.
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Heh, beats me.:) From what I've seen toying around with my gf's iBook (900 Mhz, bought last Christmas for cheap 1200 Euros since it's a G3) OS X is really nice, and I wouldn't want to run Linux on it, either. Terra Soft have some sort of reasoning why you'd want to, but it's, well, very spiritual.
It does pick up after that. I played it through a week or so ago, and it was a perfectly enjoyable experience - in fact, the most fun shooter I played in a long while. Great story, for a shooter at least. Marathon I and II (two of Bungie's earlier FPS) were way better though - I think of all FPS I played so far, Marathon 2 and System Shock 2 had the best/most engaging story lines.
Are you meaning to imply that MS does not dominate the Office Software market? Because, rest assured, they do, to at least the same degree as they dominate the OS market. That's not to say there are no alternatives in either case, obviously there are!
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Have you tried buying an Apple without an OS? You can't, but no-one ever moans about Apple tax...
Terra Soft, an Apple Authorized OEM VAR (Value Added Reseller) has been granted a unique license to install Yellow Dog Linux on Apple computers and maintain full Apple hardware warranty for home, commercial, education, and government customers.
You're still right, though - while they sell YDL pre-installed, apparently Mac OS is also still installed and you can dual-boot.
Funny imagining that even Micheal Dell gets calls by friends to fix their computers... I mean, you'd have thought he'd just refer them to his account on the Dell customer support line. Then again, maybe he wants to keep them as friends.:P
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I don't know about Real Alternative, but I imagine it works similar to MPC in that it uses the original DLLs provided by Real Inc. to display the media content. So if there's a bug/security flaw in those DLLs, it might well translate to a vulnerability in MPC and other programs utilising the Real codecs.
Public transportation. Not that the German railway semi-monopolist cared overly for punctuality, but I make it a point that if I'm waiting it's their fault, not mine.;)
Opera 7.23 does not credit Mosaic anymore, but it does credit a large number of third parties (see here in case you're using Opera), including the OpenSSL project and the University of California (BSD). The whole credit string is a total of 1370 bytes, more than half of which is made up by one huge "limited warranty" style disclaimer for one particular set of libraries (number-to-string/string-to-number) by Lucent.
I don't, either, and it's not particularly dangerous if you're mildly tech-savyy. Avoid Internet Explorer and Outlook, don't open attached documents and applications unless they've got a reason to exist, etc. I never find a virus when I do scan using House Call once in a blue moon.
I wonder, actually... I think I had originally written 4th, but then another Slashdottee came along and convinced me it was the 5th. Hmm... hard drives come with a cache of their own (8 MB nowadays), figure that in and it works. =)
Oh and just to be clear, like the guy I replied to said, this all refers to SuSE's previous EAL2 certification - I don't know, but assume that it's similar with the current EAL3.
No, not all software was tested. Page 15f of the PDF you linked to contains a list of packages that were installed - I can't copy/paste due to the stupid Acrobat Reader security. Let's just say the list isn't very long and does not contain either Sendmail or Apache. There's a guide available which seems to endetail how to set up the evaluated environment on your own server FWIW. (Note: IBM sponsored the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server = SLES evaluation.)
There most certainly are "authoritative" versions in most networks, although I assume it depends on user sophistication to get the ones which are. Typically, the authoritative releases are those inherited from the original warez scene - which makes sense considering you also get high quality assurance alongside. Network specific "release hubs" such as Sharereactor for the eMule and suprnova/IRC for the bittorrent networks further boost concentration on single files.
And in fact, those two P2P networks - which I'd consider to be the most prominent among people who have left the larvae-like state of using the horribly disfunctional Kazaa - both constantly use hashes and checksums to verify the downloaded material: eDonkey/eMule links contain a hash string in their URL, while the bittorrent ".torrent"-files contain multiple hashes for the various parts of the file, AFAIK.
It'd be trivial to modify the clients to check the hash of the currently requested file against some sort of centralised database or a set of "forbidden" hashes released alongside or independently from the program. I assume it would also be technically feasible to have some sort of 3rd party software running perhabs in the host OS or even on the ISP server analyse the P2P traffic, generate hashes for the transmitted files and detect whether the hashes match known, well-spread pirated versions. However I think that'd require an enormous amount of infrastructure to do that, if it is in fact doable at all. On a sidenote, even if an ISP detected an "illegal" hash, that hash could still belong to an altogether different file and only match by pure chance. It's not bloody likely, especially not for another meaningful file, but still.
None of this matters, of course, since even if it were feasible at all, it wouldn't take a lot of work to counteract it by not relying on hashes but rather falsifying them on purpose as others have suggested; not a lot of work at all from a community ("criminal organisation") that has shown it is willing to put in a lot of work to go on sharing files be they copyrighted or not.
It's considered an option here in Germany, although DSL is now widely available and seemingly has basically killed demand for BPL. However take note that if I recall correctly it was considered a means to connect the "last mile" not in rural but in urban areas. Power lines suspended in the air are virtually unheard of in German cities as far as I know. The maximum length of data carrying wire was less than a few kilometres - I assume it ended at the nearest node in the electricity grid, similar to the way DSL does.
Well, you've said it yourself, existing trains already run on electricity. And as a poster above has pointed out, existing high speed trains are already fast enough to be more convenient than airplanes on many of the short to medium routes (which are the vast majority).
On a side note, hydrogen fuel cells are batteries, not a way to create electrical energy. You still have to refuel them, either with "mined" hydrogen, or with hydrogen created by the use of electricity. Furthermore, while there are technologies on the horizon that may help us generate electricity without polluting the environment as much as we do now, they're still just that on the horizon. Where they have been, and remained, for years now.
But I agree, central CD-key protection is both fairly easy to set up, fairly consumer friendly and the only vaguely effective copy protection. Of course it only works for multiplayer online games. It does that fairly well, though: although pirates can play the game, their community must be split from the "legal" community which plays on authenticating servers.
Heh, that's a good point. Suppose that'll take all the fun out of port-scanning whole subnets.;) However, if you limit yourself to semi-random pinging in certain IPv6 address ranges, then your chances could be a lot better. I'm fairly certain reachable addresses will be clustered in some way. Or not?
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120 Euros convert to about $US135. Idiot.
True, but the limited resolution makes it easier to develop for, not harder. You may be able to do less with that resolution, but damnit, you know what that resolution is going to be and you don't have to worry about someone who wants to run at 2048x1440 and someone who wants to run at 640x480! Anyway, that is passing with HDTVs becoming more common. Many PS2/XBox games have support for progressive scan (e.g. 480p/720p).
... of course I do realize that this is only one of the many issue PC developers have to worry about.
So much for a identical systems, eh? Now developers have to start deciding whether or not to support higher resolutions, and if they do, what to sacrifice for the increase in calculations required at those higher resolutions. Just like their PC developing brethren
Athlon XP "1800+" (ie. 1.53GHz), GF4 Ti4200 w/128 MB RAM. Bought well over a year ago for about 120 Euros. Runs Halo perfectly fine at 800 by 600, and fairly decent at 1024 by 786. No long load times or freezes either, of course those depend on HD and RAM rather than the graphics card.
Heh, beats me. :) From what I've seen toying around with my gf's iBook (900 Mhz, bought last Christmas for cheap 1200 Euros since it's a G3) OS X is really nice, and I wouldn't want to run Linux on it, either. Terra Soft have some sort of reasoning why you'd want to, but it's, well, very spiritual.
It does pick up after that. I played it through a week or so ago, and it was a perfectly enjoyable experience - in fact, the most fun shooter I played in a long while. Great story, for a shooter at least. Marathon I and II (two of Bungie's earlier FPS) were way better though - I think of all FPS I played so far, Marathon 2 and System Shock 2 had the best/most engaging story lines.
Are you meaning to imply that MS does not dominate the Office Software market? Because, rest assured, they do, to at least the same degree as they dominate the OS market. That's not to say there are no alternatives in either case, obviously there are!
You're still right, though - while they sell YDL pre-installed, apparently Mac OS is also still installed and you can dual-boot.
Funny imagining that even Micheal Dell gets calls by friends to fix their computers... I mean, you'd have thought he'd just refer them to his account on the Dell customer support line. Then again, maybe he wants to keep them as friends. :P
It appeared in the current issue of NTK, for one.
I don't know about Real Alternative, but I imagine it works similar to MPC in that it uses the original DLLs provided by Real Inc. to display the media content. So if there's a bug/security flaw in those DLLs, it might well translate to a vulnerability in MPC and other programs utilising the Real codecs.
Public transportation. Not that the German railway semi-monopolist cared overly for punctuality, but I make it a point that if I'm waiting it's their fault, not mine. ;)
Opera 7.23 does not credit Mosaic anymore, but it does credit a large number of third parties (see here in case you're using Opera), including the OpenSSL project and the University of California (BSD). The whole credit string is a total of 1370 bytes, more than half of which is made up by one huge "limited warranty" style disclaimer for one particular set of libraries (number-to-string/string-to-number) by Lucent.
I don't, either, and it's not particularly dangerous if you're mildly tech-savyy. Avoid Internet Explorer and Outlook, don't open attached documents and applications unless they've got a reason to exist, etc. I never find a virus when I do scan using House Call once in a blue moon.
Sure, but then again, that most certainly is also true for the CPU first and second level caches!
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(My apologies for continuing this wildly off-topic discussion.
I wonder, actually... I think I had originally written 4th, but then another Slashdottee came along and convinced me it was the 5th. Hmm... hard drives come with a cache of their own (8 MB nowadays), figure that in and it works. =)
Oh and just to be clear, like the guy I replied to said, this all refers to SuSE's previous EAL2 certification - I don't know, but assume that it's similar with the current EAL3.
No, not all software was tested. Page 15f of the PDF you linked to contains a list of packages that were installed - I can't copy/paste due to the stupid Acrobat Reader security. Let's just say the list isn't very long and does not contain either Sendmail or Apache. There's a guide available which seems to endetail how to set up the evaluated environment on your own server FWIW. (Note: IBM sponsored the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server = SLES evaluation.)
There most certainly are "authoritative" versions in most networks, although I assume it depends on user sophistication to get the ones which are. Typically, the authoritative releases are those inherited from the original warez scene - which makes sense considering you also get high quality assurance alongside. Network specific "release hubs" such as Sharereactor for the eMule and suprnova/IRC for the bittorrent networks further boost concentration on single files.
And in fact, those two P2P networks - which I'd consider to be the most prominent among people who have left the larvae-like state of using the horribly disfunctional Kazaa - both constantly use hashes and checksums to verify the downloaded material: eDonkey/eMule links contain a hash string in their URL, while the bittorrent ".torrent"-files contain multiple hashes for the various parts of the file, AFAIK.
It'd be trivial to modify the clients to check the hash of the currently requested file against some sort of centralised database or a set of "forbidden" hashes released alongside or independently from the program. I assume it would also be technically feasible to have some sort of 3rd party software running perhabs in the host OS or even on the ISP server analyse the P2P traffic, generate hashes for the transmitted files and detect whether the hashes match known, well-spread pirated versions. However I think that'd require an enormous amount of infrastructure to do that, if it is in fact doable at all. On a sidenote, even if an ISP detected an "illegal" hash, that hash could still belong to an altogether different file and only match by pure chance. It's not bloody likely, especially not for another meaningful file, but still.
None of this matters, of course, since even if it were feasible at all, it wouldn't take a lot of work to counteract it by not relying on hashes but rather falsifying them on purpose as others have suggested; not a lot of work at all from a community ("criminal organisation") that has shown it is willing to put in a lot of work to go on sharing files be they copyrighted or not.
It's considered an option here in Germany, although DSL is now widely available and seemingly has basically killed demand for BPL. However take note that if I recall correctly it was considered a means to connect the "last mile" not in rural but in urban areas. Power lines suspended in the air are virtually unheard of in German cities as far as I know. The maximum length of data carrying wire was less than a few kilometres - I assume it ended at the nearest node in the electricity grid, similar to the way DSL does.
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Well, you've said it yourself, existing trains already run on electricity. And as a poster above has pointed out, existing high speed trains are already fast enough to be more convenient than airplanes on many of the short to medium routes (which are the vast majority).
On a side note, hydrogen fuel cells are batteries, not a way to create electrical energy. You still have to refuel them, either with "mined" hydrogen, or with hydrogen created by the use of electricity. Furthermore, while there are technologies on the horizon that may help us generate electricity without polluting the environment as much as we do now, they're still just that on the horizon. Where they have been, and remained, for years now.
Cracked servers to the rescue.
But I agree, central CD-key protection is both fairly easy to set up, fairly consumer friendly and the only vaguely effective copy protection. Of course it only works for multiplayer online games. It does that fairly well, though: although pirates can play the game, their community must be split from the "legal" community which plays on authenticating servers.
Fortunately, very few companies bother to release patches and updates 2 years after a game retailed.
Heh, that's a good point. Suppose that'll take all the fun out of port-scanning whole subnets. ;)
However, if you limit yourself to semi-random pinging in certain IPv6 address ranges, then your chances could be a lot better. I'm fairly certain reachable addresses will be clustered in some way. Or not?