1. Apply microphone to side of PC's case
2. Allow "Tin Foil" program to analyze the frequencies coming from your computer while it performs multiple encryption/decryption sessions.
3. Tin Foil program will then emit random combinations of those frequencies matching the CPU's frequencies through the PC's speakers, thus making any audial system compromise impossible.
Even if the FBI/NSA can't manage to decode your data, the fact remains if they get to look at your HD via a warrent and they discover 20 GB of encrypted data rather than anything readable, they know you're hiding something from their view.
That discovery encrypted data can still be used as evidence in justifying further warrants... while discovering 20 GB of Britney Spears music in readable form would most likely cause the investigation to give up on worrying about the contents of that hard drive.
This is soon to become the exception. Mac OS X already has the ability to encrypt your ENTIRE home directory. Longhorn will have plenty of encryption as well. And paranoid people are increasing encrypting everything they can get their hands on.
What's the "inconvenience" that RFID is trying to solve here? Why can't some company concentrate on making it faster for Ms. Soccer Mom to write her $300 check at the grocery store, when she's one of 4 Ms. Soccer Moms in line in front of me?
Due to unwarranted disclosure of information of how the FBI has investigated this case, you are ALL under surveillance now, and labeled as potential terrorists until proven by the FBI. Thank you and have a nice day.
Spammers! Now, when the police come banging on their door, their spam server can run one way and the spammer can run the other. Then they can meet up at the rendesvous point. And, if the boxen are running OS X they will automatically detect the rendesvous point too!
Actually, I would prefer...
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A 17" PowerBook for unixy needs (i.e. Mac OS X and Linux). That 1.5ghz is roughly equivalent to a P4 running at 2.5 ghz. I can dual-boot Mac OS X and Yellow-Dog Linux (which is kind of like RedHat/Mandrake, with excellent hardware support for my existing Powerbook 15" 667). That alongside with IBM's Thinkpad 3.0ghz, for only $1400 (yes, I prefer to use several machines simultaneously - or rather, while the other one is compiling, I'm a programmer). Now that's some SERIOUS horsepower for very cheap!
GIMP, The command line does all my image editing for me. UI's are for wimps.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Gimp \Gimp\, n. [OF. guimpe, guimple, a nun's wimple, F. guimpe,
OHG. wimpal a veil G. wimpel pennon, pendant. See {Wimple},
n.]
A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often
with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running
through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Gimp \Gimp\, v. t.
To notch; to indent; to jag.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Gimp \Gimp\, a. [W. gwymp fair, neat, comely.]
Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
WordNet (r) 2.0:
gimp
n : disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
[syn: {lameness}, {limping}, {gimpiness}, {gameness}, {claudication}]
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002):
GIMP
General / GNU Image Manipulation Program (Linux, Graphik, GNU)
Dang, I used to make more money than that an hour for shareware. The $1 billion rule is, always learn the most valuable technology in the process of creating the most valuable software. When you finish, sell the software (unless of course you've signed a contract which prevents you from doing this, in which case I hope they're paying you REALLY well (that goes for you especially, Apple)). That way you're getting paid for your time and your on the process to starting your own company. Then you can pay yourself anything you want.
I have a pretty normal sound card which doesn't work with Windows, but works with Linux just fine. And I'll bet that if I were to install all the other versions of Windows, they wouldn't work with it either.
It's no record moment; it is (as-ever) a wake up call to the slashdot croud who perpetually fool themselves as to how good linux is. As this article highlights, failing to interact with such basic hardware as a sound card makes it unviable for mom & pop situations! How can you possibly expect people to have to try 9 different distros just for them to get the music working?
Man, are you ever fooling yourself. This is such a silly debate. Just because a cheap sound card doesn't work on Linux doesn't mean that Linux has failed. Rather, that neither you nor Fred Langa understand computing. He could have gone out and bought a system with Linux pre-installed and had his sound, graphics, modem, lan work just fine. He could have looked at Mandrake's list of supported hardware before making his purchase. He could have asked around. He could have looked at the stickers on the outside of the box. He could have bought a Linux PC from WalMart. For crying out loud, he could have even asked a knowledgeable salesman. But obviously he only cared about running Linux with his sound card AFTER he bought it. Does this make sense to you? It sure doesn't to me. This is like going to the game store and just grabbing a box without seeing what it runs on. This is rather, like buying a video-game for someone without asking them what kind of console they have, and then declaring, "WHAT!?!? GameCube games don't run on your Playstation 2!?!? The PlayStation 2 must be a failure!!!" When I bought a modem card for my PC and it didn't work with Linux, I TOOK IT BACK. And got one that DID work with Linux. End of story. The hardware vendors who were Linux-friendly made the money. The ones who weren't lost out. And that's what's going to happen increasingly in the future. You want your sound card to sell, make sure you've released the right specs/docs to the open source community, help write the drivers for Linux, provide them from your web-site, burn them on a CD and put your Linux sticker on the box. The Mac has always had little market-share but that never stopped hardware vendors from writing drivers for it. Why? Capitalism, pure and simple.
And therein lies the problem - albeit in a very in-elloquent manner, you've highlighted perfectly how linux dev's and advocats simply don't appreciate the problem - and arguablly won't for a few more years to come.
Actually, YOU are the problem. You make up the masses of ignorant anti-Linux people who stereotype and assume. For example, you have no idea that the anonymous coward(s) you are talking to are actually Linux advocates or not. Not to mention, you don't seem to know what Linux is really good for, or what it takes to get Linux running well for you. For that matter, I can't guarantee that you know a single thing about Linux, but are just parroting articles that you've read before ("See, you don't care about Grandma can run Linux - your attitude is the problem!").
Now when my children get dirty, just stick them in the human washing machine! They especially like the spin cycle, but if they throw up, you have to start the whole thing over.
One of the reasons that the Xbox was so easily turned into an amazing home entertainment center/emulation station, was that it was basically a PC.
Actually, it wasn't so easy. Still to this day the Linux/XBox project isn't finished; you still need a modchip.
Everyone in the world uses PCs, and the software was easily ported, and the hardware easily understood. Microsoft will _not_ make the same mistake again.
Wrong again. Microsoft tried a new Xbox release with a tougher hardware configuration to break, and, lo and behold, it was immediately broken by the Linux on Xbox team.
You have to remember that the PPC only has about 1% of the global computing marketshare.
Man, can you get ANY of your facts straight? The current marketshare for Macs is 3% worldwide. However, since Mac users hang onto their expensive hardware longer, the real number of Mac users is very likely to be a couple of percentage points higher.
It is a platform that is always the _last_ to get any homebrew apps, like ports of utilities to transfer or unpack xbox isos for instance.
Yeah, that's definitely the software I had in mind as the standard of a homebrew app which everyone wants. Name ONE technology and/or application which is really useful or necessary, and I will show you a Mac implementation of it. Oracle? Oracle9i exists for the Mac. A good music player? How about iTunes. Linux software? I can run it all on the Mac thanks to X11 and the FINK project. Games? More than enough, although I will venture to say that if it's lots of games you want, get a Playstation II. Rapid development of apps with distributed compiling? Try xcode and CodeWarrior. Web Browsers? Safari beats the pants off of Internet Explorer in speed, stability, tabbed browsing, googling, and many other features. Email? Apple Mail far outdoes Outlook, but you can also run Outlook on the Mac (hint: they named it Entourage). Office? It exists on the Mac, along with all of the open source competitors OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc. Firewall? Built-in. Stability? I reboot my Mac every three months. Web,FTP, and Windows file server? Built-in. VNC and VPN? Also there.
There just arent enough people on Mac. If you take the 1-2% of the global computer base, then take the fraction of a percent of that which are people capable of writing programs, and then the fraction of them who have time to make a mac app to interface a game console etc.. I think you're left with 3 people, and from what I'm told, they live in Sweden.
Hmmm, since there are over 20,000 applications written by Mac developers since I checked last year, those 3 Swedish guys must be exhausted!
As if switching to a virtually unknown hardware platform wasn't enough...
Perhaps it is unknown to you... I think you failed to notice that the Linux on Xbox team is moving their work to the GameCube, most notably because it also runs on PPC. This wasn't an easy task since the Gamecube has such limited options for transferring data. If Microsoft really wants to keep the XBOX2 from being appealing to modders, they will learn from Nintendo, which did an excellent job at keeping the modders away.
It's an ugly ugly situation. Where I work, we are to this very day struggling with coming up with a design for our next project (one of several) that will satisfy these myriad goals. Everyone is so incredibly smart and dedicated, but it seems to me that we're very fast approaching some sort of upper-bound on complexity.
I don't know where it is going to end, but at the moment, you can be damn sure that the days of the garage-developer are over. Technology has accelerated too fast.
My, but you HAVE been living in a cave. In the meantime, much less experienced, slow and laid-back (but wiser) programmers have switched jobs to other fields of programming (such as Enterprise, to name a broad market which is very lucrative from all ends) and retired early with several hundred million. Believe me, I know, they live right down the street. Sorry to have to tell you this, but all of your hard work doesn't pay as well as the rest of the industry. That's perhaps because too many programmers just want to work on "fun" projects, like, say, games.
So game developers (the companies) are moaning that there isn't enough knowledge in the industry of all the ways to use every concept, fragment of code or method, and yet the easiest way to get people more knowledgable would be to open source all of the older games so others can learn from your past experiences.
Actually, a good deal of popular games have had their source opened to the public: Descent I and II, Tribes (go to garagegames.com), Marathon (resembles doom), and Abuse just to name a few.
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As long as I get to wear a mickey-mouse costume to work. "Hey, Mickey Mouse sure works hard!"
Sorry, but there aren't any musicians or painters anymore who do this. Bad example!
Assembly is for amateurs! Reel programmers program in AppleScript!
NASA's finances disarray YOU!
Now I can plaster fake numbers on my plates when I go speeding. And random citizens can get ticketed!
1. Apply microphone to side of PC's case 2. Allow "Tin Foil" program to analyze the frequencies coming from your computer while it performs multiple encryption/decryption sessions. 3. Tin Foil program will then emit random combinations of those frequencies matching the CPU's frequencies through the PC's speakers, thus making any audial system compromise impossible.
This is soon to become the exception. Mac OS X already has the ability to encrypt your ENTIRE home directory. Longhorn will have plenty of encryption as well. And paranoid people are increasing encrypting everything they can get their hands on.
Make him work for Microsoft... Oh, WAIT a minute... :)
Er, that's MRS. Soccer Mom to you, buddy.
Due to unwarranted disclosure of information of how the FBI has investigated this case, you are ALL under surveillance now, and labeled as potential terrorists until proven by the FBI. Thank you and have a nice day.
running in my, I mean, running Linux on my running shoes while I'm running Linux, er. you know.
Spammers! Now, when the police come banging on their door, their spam server can run one way and the spammer can run the other. Then they can meet up at the rendesvous point. And, if the boxen are running OS X they will automatically detect the rendesvous point too!
A 17" PowerBook for unixy needs (i.e. Mac OS X and Linux). That 1.5ghz is roughly equivalent to a P4 running at 2.5 ghz. I can dual-boot Mac OS X and Yellow-Dog Linux (which is kind of like RedHat/Mandrake, with excellent hardware support for my existing Powerbook 15" 667). That alongside with IBM's Thinkpad 3.0ghz, for only $1400 (yes, I prefer to use several machines simultaneously - or rather, while the other one is compiling, I'm a programmer). Now that's some SERIOUS horsepower for very cheap!
GIMP, The command line does all my image editing for me. UI's are for wimps. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Gimp \Gimp\, n. [OF. guimpe, guimple, a nun's wimple, F. guimpe, OHG. wimpal a veil G. wimpel pennon, pendant. See {Wimple}, n.] A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc. Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Gimp \Gimp\, v. t. To notch; to indent; to jag. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Gimp \Gimp\, a. [W. gwymp fair, neat, comely.] Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] WordNet (r) 2.0: gimp n : disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet [syn: {lameness}, {limping}, {gimpiness}, {gameness}, {claudication}] Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002): GIMP General / GNU Image Manipulation Program (Linux, Graphik, GNU)
Dang, I used to make more money than that an hour for shareware. The $1 billion rule is, always learn the most valuable technology in the process of creating the most valuable software. When you finish, sell the software (unless of course you've signed a contract which prevents you from doing this, in which case I hope they're paying you REALLY well (that goes for you especially, Apple)). That way you're getting paid for your time and your on the process to starting your own company. Then you can pay yourself anything you want.
By powering up my coffee machine, making some coffee and throwing it at my laptop.
I have a pretty normal sound card which doesn't work with Windows, but works with Linux just fine. And I'll bet that if I were to install all the other versions of Windows, they wouldn't work with it either.
Man, are you ever fooling yourself. This is such a silly debate. Just because a cheap sound card doesn't work on Linux doesn't mean that Linux has failed. Rather, that neither you nor Fred Langa understand computing. He could have gone out and bought a system with Linux pre-installed and had his sound, graphics, modem, lan work just fine. He could have looked at Mandrake's list of supported hardware before making his purchase. He could have asked around. He could have looked at the stickers on the outside of the box. He could have bought a Linux PC from WalMart. For crying out loud, he could have even asked a knowledgeable salesman. But obviously he only cared about running Linux with his sound card AFTER he bought it. Does this make sense to you? It sure doesn't to me. This is like going to the game store and just grabbing a box without seeing what it runs on. This is rather, like buying a video-game for someone without asking them what kind of console they have, and then declaring, "WHAT!?!? GameCube games don't run on your Playstation 2!?!? The PlayStation 2 must be a failure!!!" When I bought a modem card for my PC and it didn't work with Linux, I TOOK IT BACK. And got one that DID work with Linux. End of story. The hardware vendors who were Linux-friendly made the money. The ones who weren't lost out. And that's what's going to happen increasingly in the future. You want your sound card to sell, make sure you've released the right specs/docs to the open source community, help write the drivers for Linux, provide them from your web-site, burn them on a CD and put your Linux sticker on the box. The Mac has always had little market-share but that never stopped hardware vendors from writing drivers for it. Why? Capitalism, pure and simple.
Actually, YOU are the problem. You make up the masses of ignorant anti-Linux people who stereotype and assume. For example, you have no idea that the anonymous coward(s) you are talking to are actually Linux advocates or not. Not to mention, you don't seem to know what Linux is really good for, or what it takes to get Linux running well for you. For that matter, I can't guarantee that you know a single thing about Linux, but are just parroting articles that you've read before ("See, you don't care about Grandma can run Linux - your attitude is the problem!").
Yeah, but now you can have Macs and go swimming too! Yahoo!
Now when my children get dirty, just stick them in the human washing machine! They especially like the spin cycle, but if they throw up, you have to start the whole thing over.
for 16 pounds, it needs to have at LEAST four processors, an 18" screen, subwoofers, and 20 hours of battery life. I'll wait.
Actually, it wasn't so easy. Still to this day the Linux/XBox project isn't finished; you still need a modchip.
Everyone in the world uses PCs, and the software was easily ported, and the hardware easily understood. Microsoft will _not_ make the same mistake again.
Wrong again. Microsoft tried a new Xbox release with a tougher hardware configuration to break, and, lo and behold, it was immediately broken by the Linux on Xbox team.
You have to remember that the PPC only has about 1% of the global computing marketshare.
Man, can you get ANY of your facts straight? The current marketshare for Macs is 3% worldwide. However, since Mac users hang onto their expensive hardware longer, the real number of Mac users is very likely to be a couple of percentage points higher.
It is a platform that is always the _last_ to get any homebrew apps, like ports of utilities to transfer or unpack xbox isos for instance.
Yeah, that's definitely the software I had in mind as the standard of a homebrew app which everyone wants. Name ONE technology and/or application which is really useful or necessary, and I will show you a Mac implementation of it. Oracle? Oracle9i exists for the Mac. A good music player? How about iTunes. Linux software? I can run it all on the Mac thanks to X11 and the FINK project. Games? More than enough, although I will venture to say that if it's lots of games you want, get a Playstation II. Rapid development of apps with distributed compiling? Try xcode and CodeWarrior. Web Browsers? Safari beats the pants off of Internet Explorer in speed, stability, tabbed browsing, googling, and many other features. Email? Apple Mail far outdoes Outlook, but you can also run Outlook on the Mac (hint: they named it Entourage). Office? It exists on the Mac, along with all of the open source competitors OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc. Firewall? Built-in. Stability? I reboot my Mac every three months. Web,FTP, and Windows file server? Built-in. VNC and VPN? Also there.
There just arent enough people on Mac. If you take the 1-2% of the global computer base, then take the fraction of a percent of that which are people capable of writing programs, and then the fraction of them who have time to make a mac app to interface a game console etc.. I think you're left with 3 people, and from what I'm told, they live in Sweden.
Hmmm, since there are over 20,000 applications written by Mac developers since I checked last year, those 3 Swedish guys must be exhausted!
As if switching to a virtually unknown hardware platform wasn't enough...
Perhaps it is unknown to you... I think you failed to notice that the Linux on Xbox team is moving their work to the GameCube, most notably because it also runs on PPC. This wasn't an easy task since the Gamecube has such limited options for transferring data. If Microsoft really wants to keep the XBOX2 from being appealing to modders, they will learn from Nintendo, which did an excellent job at keeping the modders away.
My, but you HAVE been living in a cave. In the meantime, much less experienced, slow and laid-back (but wiser) programmers have switched jobs to other fields of programming (such as Enterprise, to name a broad market which is very lucrative from all ends) and retired early with several hundred million. Believe me, I know, they live right down the street. Sorry to have to tell you this, but all of your hard work doesn't pay as well as the rest of the industry. That's perhaps because too many programmers just want to work on "fun" projects, like, say, games.
Actually, a good deal of popular games have had their source opened to the public: Descent I and II, Tribes (go to garagegames.com), Marathon (resembles doom), and Abuse just to name a few.