Except worms don't clear the underbrush. Traffic from slammer, blaster, and other worms can STILL be seen today. Those machines are still compromised. They will probably remain compromised until the machine dies.
EVERY vulnerability is a race between the people trying to fix it and the people tring to exploit it. It is NOT possible to "win" every race; the best you can do is set the rules in such a way that winning is much more likely for the good guys than the bad guys.
I don't care what metric you try to use, the above is true. No matter how badly you think things are screwed up now, it can only get worse by leveling the playing field -- not better.
"Let's fast-forward to Xbox 360. We're quickly moving from thought leadership to market leadership. And tonight I'm pleased to announce that Xbox 360 achieved an unprecedented global launch for the world of videogame consoles. In the first 90 days we will have launched Xbox 360 in nearly 30 countries, and Xbox 360 is on track to ship between 4.5 and 5.5 million consoles by the end of June."
Microsoft has been targeting 4.5 to 5.5 million units by the end of their fiscal year since the console was launched. Hell, you can find articles with those numbers in it before their launch; this one was published Nov 8th: * http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9968123/from/RL.5/
This article combines a bunch of random quotes out of context, and strings them together with some out of context source information in an attempt to make it look like company officials are acknowleging missing theirs sales targets.
This doesn't mean that the sales targets have been hit or missed, just that the article is a piece of made up trash.
The same thing was said when DVD's first came out. People ripping the video off of these discs can simply choose to reduce the size of the image, encode it at a lower bitrate, and eliminate unused streams.
Ah, gotta love it. "Our format is far superiour to HD-DVD; please ignore the fact that we're using a 12 year old video codec..." (well, *I* find it to be amusing:))
While you can compress mpeg2 video off of a dvd with divx so that it will fit on 2 cd's, the "quality" of the encoded video does not match the quality of the original mpeg2 video on the DVD.
The compression codecs being used in the next gen formats are roughly 3-4x more efficient than mpeg2 at the same quality level, which is still a substantial improvement.
Your size estimate for a typical movie is also on the low side -- most 480p DVD's I've ripped encode video at about 6mpbs, which puts us at around 6gigs per movie (accounting for things like audio) and 3 hours of space available on a dual layer dvd. The TV show I'm ripping right how is at 1.9gb for a 41 minute episode.
That would translate to 9 to 12 hours of space on a traditional DVD with the new codecs, and approximately 27 to 37.5 hours of space on a single layer bluray disc.
You should definately be able to fit a full season of sd content on a blu-ray disc; the question is, does the format permit storing content at sd resolutions?
I don't disagree with you -- the book does have its merits. However, the vast majority of people in the US would be offended by the implication that they would enjoy reading a book extolling the virtues of communism.
I'm not saying that these documents should not be read. I am saying that the context in which people would consider a recommendation to be non-offensive is very small.
Yes, people would be offended. Your example, however, doesn't relate to this situation.
In this example, people are drawing the conclusion that the recommendations infer that MLK is an ape.
In your example, there is no "surface" conclusion that can be drawn. Mahmoud Darwish's "The Shahid" (aka: martre, or suicide bomber) would be considered offensive if recommended with ANY "item" in this country, in much the same way most people would consider a recommendation to read Marx's Communist Manefesto to be offensive.
How on Earth do you arrive to that conclusion? To me it reads "How the heck did they implement it using only 6 buttons, and why didn't we figure out how to do that first?"
Actually, there was a media center extender package available for the original Xbox.
You're assuming that it makes sense to roll game + pvr functionality all into a single device. I don't agree with that.
Instead of 4 random things shot at a screen, I see two sets of two things, each an evolution of the previous. Where each set of items can complement each other, they do (ex: built in media center extender in the 360, extender available for the original xbox). Where they do not complement each other, they don't (ex: lack of PVR functionality in a game console).
There is a giant flaw in your argument. A keyboard and mouse are *optional* peripherals for a PS2. The game still has to function with just a standard controller (and this IS the expected user experience on a console).
A microwave is an appliance. Mine has 25 buttons on it. I absolutely love the way it works.
These include: * 6 shortcuts for commonly cooking tasks (my favorite being the popcorn button; perfect bag 'o popcorn every time) * 10 numerical buttons * a set clock button * a cooking timer button * a power level button * a start button * a cancel/clear button * an add 30 seconds button * an options button * a set of add/subtract 10 seconds buttons
My oven is an appliance. It has 17 buttons on it, plus an additional 4 knobs for the burners. I hate the way it works; you constantly have to reach over a hot stove and repeatedly press buttons to change temperatures and times (it despirately needs dials that control a digital readout).
My dish washer is an appliance. It has 10 buttons. I generally only hit the start button; I get clean dishes 2 hours later.
Clearly, the number of buttons (functions at a fingertip) isn't the sole metric which determines how easy or difficult a device is to use. It is merely a factor in the user experience.
Being able to pull up a user guide and find the channel you want is great. That's a great user experience when you don't know what you want. Being forced to pull up a guide and find the channel you want to change to in a large list isn't great. It is a tedious process that results in a poor user experience.
No, it won't. This isn't an application redistributable. No application installs it, and no application registers it. It is installed and registered with the OS.
And what has Google done that is so amazing? All they've implemented is a glorified "edit->find". There was that email thing that... has more storage than their compeditors. Hmmm... well, there was that map thing... that is like all the other mapping services. Froogle? Wait, that is pretty much like pricewatch.com... Google news? Nope, just another news aggregation website.
I wonder if Google will ever do something that doesn't involve sticking a search engine on top of some existing technology./sarcasm off
The stuff is amazing because it is mind boggling hard, not because it is a gigantic leap. The easy problems in computer science are done. You aren't going to see fantastic leaps like you did when the industry was still in its infancy.
Microsoft hasn't released exact numbers of xbox live subscribers, but every now and then they issue a press release when they hit a milestone. I believe the last one was 2 million subscribers back in January, though I'm not incredibly certain about the date.
Same here. If you look in the directory holding the files, they're all listed as zero byte. Wonder how long it will take them to figure out they foobared the upload...
If you're working for a boss that doesn't see the need for defect tracking and versioining, you're working for a boss that doesn't understand the basics of software development. Find a new job. Now. Before stuff starts falling apart and the finger of blame points at you.
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Except worms don't clear the underbrush. Traffic from slammer, blaster, and other worms can STILL be seen today. Those machines are still compromised. They will probably remain compromised until the machine dies.
EVERY vulnerability is a race between the people trying to fix it and the people tring to exploit it. It is NOT possible to "win" every race; the best you can do is set the rules in such a way that winning is much more likely for the good guys than the bad guys.
I don't care what metric you try to use, the above is true. No matter how badly you think things are screwed up now, it can only get worse by leveling the playing field -- not better.
That's like asking why the car wasn't invented sooner.
The lack of a harddrive with the core system is irrelevent. You still have to support the set of users who do not have a broadband connection.
No, they haven't. The article didn't even get that right.
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http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2006/
"Let's fast-forward to Xbox 360. We're quickly moving from thought leadership to market leadership. And tonight I'm pleased to announce that Xbox 360 achieved an unprecedented global launch for the world of videogame consoles. In the first 90 days we will have launched Xbox 360 in nearly 30 countries, and Xbox 360 is on track to ship between 4.5 and 5.5 million consoles by the end of June."
Microsoft has been targeting 4.5 to 5.5 million units by the end of their fiscal year since the console was launched. Hell, you can find articles with those numbers in it before their launch; this one was published Nov 8th:
* http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9968123/from/RL.5/
This article combines a bunch of random quotes out of context, and strings them together with some out of context source information in an attempt to make it look like company officials are acknowleging missing theirs sales targets.
This doesn't mean that the sales targets have been hit or missed, just that the article is a piece of made up trash.
The same thing was said when DVD's first came out. People ripping the video off of these discs can simply choose to reduce the size of the image, encode it at a lower bitrate, and eliminate unused streams.
Ah, gotta love it. "Our format is far superiour to HD-DVD; please ignore the fact that we're using a 12 year old video codec ..." (well, *I* find it to be amusing :))
While you can compress mpeg2 video off of a dvd with divx so that it will fit on 2 cd's, the "quality" of the encoded video does not match the quality of the original mpeg2 video on the DVD.
The compression codecs being used in the next gen formats are roughly 3-4x more efficient than mpeg2 at the same quality level, which is still a substantial improvement.
Your size estimate for a typical movie is also on the low side -- most 480p DVD's I've ripped encode video at about 6mpbs, which puts us at around 6gigs per movie (accounting for things like audio) and 3 hours of space available on a dual layer dvd. The TV show I'm ripping right how is at 1.9gb for a 41 minute episode.
That would translate to 9 to 12 hours of space on a traditional DVD with the new codecs, and approximately 27 to 37.5 hours of space on a single layer bluray disc.
You should definately be able to fit a full season of sd content on a blu-ray disc; the question is, does the format permit storing content at sd resolutions?
I don't disagree with you -- the book does have its merits. However, the vast majority of people in the US would be offended by the implication that they would enjoy reading a book extolling the virtues of communism.
I'm not saying that these documents should not be read. I am saying that the context in which people would consider a recommendation to be non-offensive is very small.
Yes, people would be offended. Your example, however, doesn't relate to this situation.
In this example, people are drawing the conclusion that the recommendations infer that MLK is an ape.
In your example, there is no "surface" conclusion that can be drawn. Mahmoud Darwish's "The Shahid" (aka: martre, or suicide bomber) would be considered offensive if recommended with ANY "item" in this country, in much the same way most people would consider a recommendation to read Marx's Communist Manefesto to be offensive.
How on Earth do you arrive to that conclusion? To me it reads "How the heck did they implement it using only 6 buttons, and why didn't we figure out how to do that first?"
Actually, there was a media center extender package available for the original Xbox.
You're assuming that it makes sense to roll game + pvr functionality all into a single device. I don't agree with that.
Instead of 4 random things shot at a screen, I see two sets of two things, each an evolution of the previous. Where each set of items can complement each other, they do (ex: built in media center extender in the 360, extender available for the original xbox). Where they do not complement each other, they don't (ex: lack of PVR functionality in a game console).
There is a giant flaw in your argument. A keyboard and mouse are *optional* peripherals for a PS2. The game still has to function with just a standard controller (and this IS the expected user experience on a console).
If it didn't occur to Gates, then why did he send an email in the first place?
No, CES just started. Maybe you've heard of it?
The two would not get along well, unless you like the thought of your favorite tv show not getting recorded because you were playing a game ...
It also DOES lack some of the hardware necessary to act as a PVR. Specifically, the piece that allows it to actually record VIDEO.
A microwave is an appliance. Mine has 25 buttons on it. I absolutely love the way it works.
These include:
* 6 shortcuts for commonly cooking tasks (my favorite being the popcorn button; perfect bag 'o popcorn every time)
* 10 numerical buttons
* a set clock button
* a cooking timer button
* a power level button
* a start button
* a cancel/clear button
* an add 30 seconds button
* an options button
* a set of add/subtract 10 seconds buttons
My oven is an appliance. It has 17 buttons on it, plus an additional 4 knobs for the burners. I hate the way it works; you constantly have to reach over a hot stove and repeatedly press buttons to change temperatures and times (it despirately needs dials that control a digital readout).
My dish washer is an appliance. It has 10 buttons. I generally only hit the start button; I get clean dishes 2 hours later.
Clearly, the number of buttons (functions at a fingertip) isn't the sole metric which determines how easy or difficult a device is to use. It is merely a factor in the user experience.
Being able to pull up a user guide and find the channel you want is great. That's a great user experience when you don't know what you want. Being forced to pull up a guide and find the channel you want to change to in a large list isn't great. It is a tedious process that results in a poor user experience.
It's the difference between being forced to use the GUI for nearly every operation, or having keyboard shortcuts available.
No, it won't. This isn't an application redistributable. No application installs it, and no application registers it. It is installed and registered with the OS.
If an exploit is re-registering it, your box is already 0wn3d.
And what has Google done that is so amazing? All they've implemented is a glorified "edit->find". There was that email thing that ... has more storage than their compeditors. Hmmm ... well, there was that map thing ... that is like all the other mapping services. Froogle? Wait, that is pretty much like pricewatch.com ... Google news? Nope, just another news aggregation website.
/sarcasm off
I wonder if Google will ever do something that doesn't involve sticking a search engine on top of some existing technology.
The stuff is amazing because it is mind boggling hard, not because it is a gigantic leap. The easy problems in computer science are done. You aren't going to see fantastic leaps like you did when the industry was still in its infancy.
Game sessions are p2p, but that isn't the only thing live does.
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Read through this:
* http://engadget.com/2005/12/12/touring-the-micros
Note that you're looking at their TEST RIG in these pictures.
Microsoft hasn't released exact numbers of xbox live subscribers, but every now and then they issue a press release when they hit a milestone. I believe the last one was 2 million subscribers back in January, though I'm not incredibly certain about the date.
Same here. If you look in the directory holding the files, they're all listed as zero byte. Wonder how long it will take them to figure out they foobared the upload...
If you're working for a boss that doesn't see the need for defect tracking and versioining, you're working for a boss that doesn't understand the basics of software development. Find a new job. Now. Before stuff starts falling apart and the finger of blame points at you.