All you need is a buffer overflow in some signed code and you can jump to your unsigned-loader. There are ways around this of course, but gaming hardware cant really take that kind of speed hit on execution time. I think phantasy star online for the dreamcast was the first major buffer overflow, which persisted in the gamecube version. Then there were the memory card savegame buffer overflows, and many more.
Maybe they arn't using it because so much service still isn't geared towards broadband? Specificly because ISP marketing got people to believe that 1.5mbit/.1mbit is 'broadband'.
If you could reasonably garuntee >50% of your market had at least 10/10, theres a whole range of applications that will become possible.
Like a p2p shared filesystem that you stream from as needed, and constantly move the files around for redundancy. Or proper video on demand being watched live rather than having to pay then wait and download.
And who knows what else will come. Tech has to grow first before the killer app is found, it doesnt work the other way around. You think we'd have had commander keen without desktop computer video improving to the point that "you dont really need that much video memory"?
Windows is a critical part of what the average joe considers a computer. Kind of like how you could buy a "radio" that only does shortwave, but when you hand it to a 14 year old and he finds out it doesn't do FM, he won't consider it a real radio.
If it wont run the bookshelf of software that mom&dad own, its not a computer. No, I don't think theyre going to install wine to try and get their tax software to work. Or pay for cedega to play The Sims.
Long enough leases that it doesnt matter? When they downloaded the files in the span of 4 hours dead in the center of a 72hour dhcp lease, it doesnt really matter if theres some skew. Even without long leases, if they were the only person asigned that ip the whole day (regardless of how soon they released it after use), its still a pretty big arrow pointing at them.
Possession laws are that stupid. Someone could have put kiddie porn in a 1x1 iframe forcing you to cache it without ever knowing. But theyre actually more stupid than that -- In that first example, someone else is still committing a crime. Now, lets say you run an ftp server, or are on irc/im with autoaccept on, or any other situation where people can upload files without you noticing. Now any 17 year old girl with a webcam can turn you into a sex offender without you even knowing about it, and of course they're the victim.
Drug possesion laws can and are exploited in similar ways, but at least that requires physical access to exploit. When all it takes is a quick click on a digital camera and a/dcc send and a phonecall to the police, theres something wrong with the system.
" A user isn't going to care whether a function takes 1 millisecond or 40 time as long. So long as it is below the barrier at which the inefficiencies become noticable, these inefficiencies don't matter." But when ran on a machine already bogged down (say, a K6-2 350mhz like my parents run, with some spyware thrashing resources enough as is, then that becomes the difference between a tollerable 1second and an intollerable 40 seconds.
Just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it doesnt matter.
For the record, I do most things in perl, but most of what I do is not desktop apps, its stuff ran on a server where I know if its taking too long or not. Desktop apps are a whole different ballgame. Some would say eclipse is slow but because of how fast modern machines are it doesnt matter. They say the same about azureus. Now try running them both and see what happens to usability. Just because you have the resources doesn't mean you should throw them away.
Right now I pay $50/mo for cable tv, getting every show on it I want to watch, both new seasons and reruns of stuff I didnt watch when it originally aired years ago. Ignoring the already aired stuff, lets make a decent playlist of stuff worth watching on a weekly basis.
24, rescue me, the shield, family guy, american dad, the simpsons -- I left a lot out to compensate for not everything airing in the same season, but as far as I know all of these do. Thats 6 tv shows, or 4.5 hours of entertainment per week. Lets be nice and say, $2/episode for the hour longs, $1.50 for the half hour shows. That brings us to $10.5 per week, or $40 per month. And thats if you just watch as little as I listed, leaving you without anything to watch after you've watched them all. No reruns of old shows, no new shows you dont want to put $2 for but end up being good, just the shows you preselect as being worth your money.
Using firefly as your example, where are they going to get that ~$1m or so to film a pilot? The networks sure wont pay for it..too big of a risk of nobody wanting to watch it since nobody knows about it. Even if you would pay for it, you'd never even get the chance to, because nobody would fund it up front. Shows like dark angel or firefly or, well, most everything good on fox never have time to pick up a viewer base because theyre cancled so fast for not bringing in enough ad revenue. How little do you think they'll make when people have to pay extra just to see it? How many shows even get good in their first season? Go watch some star trek:TNG reruns and tell me you'd pay $2/ep for the first season. That show would have been dead before it ever had a chance to grow into what it became.
That link took me to a blog with one comment and no info on it. At best it might have had some info that one of my adblock rules scrapped, but I don't care, I wan't real info, not some 16 year olds opinion on it. For those who are wondering, the real link is Here (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/)
Don't design for a resolution, thats just as bad as designing for ie. Make a webpage, *TEST IT* in 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200, whatever, but don't design it for something. It should work fine in all resolutions, not having half the page wasted on blank space, or text overlapping, or any other problem that comes from bad web developers saying "thats okay, it works in what I designed it for"
(Opera was the first major browser to have tabs, mouse gestures, etc.)"
Maybe copy the idea of "Innovating" stuff that already exists.
Tabbed browsing first came out in 1994 in InternetWorks by BookLink Technologies. Mouse gestures were added to opera in 2001, they were in Back&white earlier that year, and Myth much sooner.
Operas not a horrible browser, but they wernt the first.
Not the original poster and I know nothing of what he was refering to, but if you're doing a minor app, I suggest SQLite -- a fully standalone SQL implentation. As in, you specify a database.db file and can do all the sql fun you want in it, but never have to deal with telling the user to set up mysql + authentication + etc, which is a big hassle when all you want sql for is your own data manipulation.
Pretty fast(I never benched it, but its never been an issue), very portable, works in all major languages, overall a very nice tool to have.
No, it waters down the facts so that both sides can both concede. When talking about stuff thats highly debatable (conspiracies, politics, wars, etc) the truth is sometimes shocking and far from a "neautral point", and once you water it down to the point that the other half stops editing, its not always even worth reading anymore.
According to archive.org, http://www.bomis.com/">bomis.com has always been a spamy looking directory site. No more porny than dmoz, but definately a little shady looking, like the kind of site thats setup just to get pagerank to defer to other sites.
I agree, I'd love to be able to video chat with Zontar The Mindless's daughter, and until gaim allows this I'll stick to wasting the resources/screen space running multiple clients, or use Bitlbee inside of my normal remote irssi section-- As long as you don't really support anything above basic messaging, why even bother with a gui when something like irssi handles that fine?
Or to make a keylogger thats smarter than just recording all keystrokes, for example recording an id for every window opened, and showing which windowid was switched to. Then sifting through it becomes infinitely easier -- You could flat out ignore anything in windows of no interest to you(games), but then smart-search through firefox and ie looking for account data.
AIM already does video and voice chat, and has for a long time. They also have the majority of market share. What would they get out of switching to a jabber based network? And googles not exactly a good jabber citizien; They disallow server to server messages, which is the only thing that makes jabber 'open'. Just open docs on a protocol means nothing, MSN's protocol was IETF certified, aim had TOC open, etc. (I realise there is plenty of caviets involved, but so far third party clients seem to be doing fine with them.), but allowing server to server messaging actually aleviates a lot of the biggest problems with IM, and googles complete disallowel of it makes the fact that its jabber based pretty meaningless.
I tried to use EPIC, but I just couldn't get past the editor..it was just so lacking. Vim does everything I need in an editor, and a lot of what I need in an IDE, but its interface to it lacks. Sure you can hook perls debugger, set break points and watch conditions, have a window of all files in your project, your pod docs, your variable and function declarations with the ability to jump to where theyre defined, and pretty much any other ide feature you can think of.. but when vim still acts like a console app even when running gvim, then you just cant easily use most of them. I want resizable fonts per window, multiple floating windows, savable 'views'(one of the best parts of eclipse), and more detailed status than just a bottom line everything has to share.
I have a gig of ram. I'd rather put it to good use than have firefox eat half of it. Just because some of us have the resources to waste doesn't mean everyone does or everyone wants to. What if I wanted to fire up a game to take a break from doing some research in firefox? Normally leaving the app open is fine, but if firefox is eating large chunks of cpu running flash/js/etc that you arnt even looking at, its just not worth it.
While I agree, I'd like to see a GUI ide that lets you fold debug prints down to a single red pixel line or something similar. Just so you can easily keep them around but yet be able to quickly scan through a page of code without being overwhelmed by a lot of prints. I still think vim is the best development environment, but even gtkvim is just a fancy xterm with a toolbar and menus. Hopefully soon a better developer than I will take vims powerful commands/features and mangle it into a full blown IDE with ctags, graphical debugger, proper folding, intellitext, etc (most of which its capable of doing now, just with an interface too poor to be useful day to day)
Maybe, Maybe not. They still have plenty of means of anonymous distribution, so I guess if this law passed earlier, they'd just sneak it somewhere else. or get someone else to do it ('hey, run this for me'), or fake id, or whatever. Regardless, I'd rather live in a world where a few more virus authors roam free but so do I than a world where none of us are free.
Fully agreed. Usually I either leave my browser open, or launch it with a url. That and sessionsaver reloading my last session rather than starting with a static page means my 'homepage' is pretty much never seen. Pretty sure its still the firefox default, but I couldn't tell you with any certainty.
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All you need is a buffer overflow in some signed code and you can jump to your unsigned-loader. There are ways around this of course, but gaming hardware cant really take that kind of speed hit on execution time.
I think phantasy star online for the dreamcast was the first major buffer overflow, which persisted in the gamecube version. Then there were the memory card savegame buffer overflows, and many more.
Maybe they arn't using it because so much service still isn't geared towards broadband? Specificly because ISP marketing got people to believe that 1.5mbit/.1mbit is 'broadband'.
If you could reasonably garuntee >50% of your market had at least 10/10, theres a whole range of applications that will become possible.
Like a p2p shared filesystem that you stream from as needed, and constantly move the files around for redundancy.
Or proper video on demand being watched live rather than having to pay then wait and download.
And who knows what else will come. Tech has to grow first before the killer app is found, it doesnt work the other way around. You think we'd have had commander keen without desktop computer video improving to the point that "you dont really need that much video memory"?
"Surely you're kidding? Or drunk? Or trolling?"
yes, yes, AND yes. we have a winner!
Windows is a critical part of what the average joe considers a computer. Kind of like how you could buy a "radio" that only does shortwave, but when you hand it to a 14 year old and he finds out it doesn't do FM, he won't consider it a real radio.
If it wont run the bookshelf of software that mom&dad own, its not a computer. No, I don't think theyre going to install wine to try and get their tax software to work. Or pay for cedega to play The Sims.
Long enough leases that it doesnt matter? When they downloaded the files in the span of 4 hours dead in the center of a 72hour dhcp lease, it doesnt really matter if theres some skew. Even without long leases, if they were the only person asigned that ip the whole day (regardless of how soon they released it after use), its still a pretty big arrow pointing at them.
Possession laws are that stupid. Someone could have put kiddie porn in a 1x1 iframe forcing you to cache it without ever knowing. But theyre actually more stupid than that -- In that first example, someone else is still committing a crime. Now, lets say you run an ftp server, or are on irc/im with autoaccept on, or any other situation where people can upload files without you noticing. Now any 17 year old girl with a webcam can turn you into a sex offender without you even knowing about it, and of course they're the victim.
/dcc send and a phonecall to the police, theres something wrong with the system.
Drug possesion laws can and are exploited in similar ways, but at least that requires physical access to exploit. When all it takes is a quick click on a digital camera and a
" A user isn't going to care whether a function takes 1 millisecond or 40 time as long. So long as it is below the barrier at which the inefficiencies become noticable, these inefficiencies don't matter."
But when ran on a machine already bogged down (say, a K6-2 350mhz like my parents run, with some spyware thrashing resources enough as is, then that becomes the difference between a tollerable 1second and an intollerable 40 seconds.
Just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it doesnt matter.
For the record, I do most things in perl, but most of what I do is not desktop apps, its stuff ran on a server where I know if its taking too long or not. Desktop apps are a whole different ballgame. Some would say eclipse is slow but because of how fast modern machines are it doesnt matter. They say the same about azureus. Now try running them both and see what happens to usability. Just because you have the resources doesn't mean you should throw them away.
Right now I pay $50/mo for cable tv, getting every show on it I want to watch, both new seasons and reruns of stuff I didnt watch when it originally aired years ago. Ignoring the already aired stuff, lets make a decent playlist of stuff worth watching on a weekly basis.
24, rescue me, the shield, family guy, american dad, the simpsons -- I left a lot out to compensate for not everything airing in the same season, but as far as I know all of these do. Thats 6 tv shows, or 4.5 hours of entertainment per week. Lets be nice and say, $2/episode for the hour longs, $1.50 for the half hour shows. That brings us to $10.5 per week, or $40 per month. And thats if you just watch as little as I listed, leaving you without anything to watch after you've watched them all. No reruns of old shows, no new shows you dont want to put $2 for but end up being good, just the shows you preselect as being worth your money.
Using firefly as your example, where are they going to get that ~$1m or so to film a pilot? The networks sure wont pay for it..too big of a risk of nobody wanting to watch it since nobody knows about it. Even if you would pay for it, you'd never even get the chance to, because nobody would fund it up front. Shows like dark angel or firefly or, well, most everything good on fox never have time to pick up a viewer base because theyre cancled so fast for not bringing in enough ad revenue. How little do you think they'll make when people have to pay extra just to see it? How many shows even get good in their first season? Go watch some star trek:TNG reruns and tell me you'd pay $2/ep for the first season. That show would have been dead before it ever had a chance to grow into what it became.
That link took me to a blog with one comment and no info on it. At best it might have had some info that one of my adblock rules scrapped, but I don't care, I wan't real info, not some 16 year olds opinion on it. For those who are wondering, the real link is Here (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/)
Don't design for a resolution, thats just as bad as designing for ie. Make a webpage, *TEST IT* in 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200, whatever, but don't design it for something. It should work fine in all resolutions, not having half the page wasted on blank space, or text overlapping, or any other problem that comes from bad web developers saying "thats okay, it works in what I designed it for"
"...if they did, who would they copy ideas from?
(Opera was the first major browser to have tabs, mouse gestures, etc.)"
Maybe copy the idea of "Innovating" stuff that already exists.
Tabbed browsing first came out in 1994 in InternetWorks by BookLink Technologies.
Mouse gestures were added to opera in 2001, they were in Back&white earlier that year, and Myth much sooner.
Operas not a horrible browser, but they wernt the first.
Not the original poster and I know nothing of what he was refering to, but if you're doing a minor app, I suggest SQLite -- a fully standalone SQL implentation. As in, you specify a database.db file and can do all the sql fun you want in it, but never have to deal with telling the user to set up mysql + authentication + etc, which is a big hassle when all you want sql for is your own data manipulation.
Pretty fast(I never benched it, but its never been an issue), very portable, works in all major languages, overall a very nice tool to have.
No, it waters down the facts so that both sides can both concede. When talking about stuff thats highly debatable (conspiracies, politics, wars, etc) the truth is sometimes shocking and far from a "neautral point", and once you water it down to the point that the other half stops editing, its not always even worth reading anymore.
"If you can not see/hear this, please email an admin for assistance".
Then when you get a request, manually assist them assuming they send a nice enough email. Get 500 email requests? mass delete.
Don't forget captchas are to prevent repetitive automated signups, not just a single signup.
"He sets the rules and the policy"
Its wikipedia, cant someone just edit the guidelines before breaking what used to be against them?
(note: joking)
According to archive.org, http://www.bomis.com/">bomis.com has always been a spamy looking directory site. No more porny than dmoz, but definately a little shady looking, like the kind of site thats setup just to get pagerank to defer to other sites.
I agree, I'd love to be able to video chat with Zontar The Mindless's daughter, and until gaim allows this I'll stick to wasting the resources/screen space running multiple clients, or use Bitlbee inside of my normal remote irssi section-- As long as you don't really support anything above basic messaging, why even bother with a gui when something like irssi handles that fine?
Or to make a keylogger thats smarter than just recording all keystrokes, for example recording an id for every window opened, and showing which windowid was switched to. Then sifting through it becomes infinitely easier -- You could flat out ignore anything in windows of no interest to you(games), but then smart-search through firefox and ie looking for account data.
AIM already does video and voice chat, and has for a long time. They also have the majority of market share. What would they get out of switching to a jabber based network? And googles not exactly a good jabber citizien; They disallow server to server messages, which is the only thing that makes jabber 'open'. Just open docs on a protocol means nothing, MSN's protocol was IETF certified, aim had TOC open, etc. (I realise there is plenty of caviets involved, but so far third party clients seem to be doing fine with them.), but allowing server to server messaging actually aleviates a lot of the biggest problems with IM, and googles complete disallowel of it makes the fact that its jabber based pretty meaningless.
I tried to use EPIC, but I just couldn't get past the editor..it was just so lacking. Vim does everything I need in an editor, and a lot of what I need in an IDE, but its interface to it lacks. Sure you can hook perls debugger, set break points and watch conditions, have a window of all files in your project, your pod docs, your variable and function declarations with the ability to jump to where theyre defined, and pretty much any other ide feature you can think of.. but when vim still acts like a console app even when running gvim, then you just cant easily use most of them. I want resizable fonts per window, multiple floating windows, savable 'views'(one of the best parts of eclipse), and more detailed status than just a bottom line everything has to share.
I have a gig of ram. I'd rather put it to good use than have firefox eat half of it. Just because some of us have the resources to waste doesn't mean everyone does or everyone wants to. What if I wanted to fire up a game to take a break from doing some research in firefox? Normally leaving the app open is fine, but if firefox is eating large chunks of cpu running flash/js/etc that you arnt even looking at, its just not worth it.
Why spoof just one?
While I agree, I'd like to see a GUI ide that lets you fold debug prints down to a single red pixel line or something similar. Just so you can easily keep them around but yet be able to quickly scan through a page of code without being overwhelmed by a lot of prints.
I still think vim is the best development environment, but even gtkvim is just a fancy xterm with a toolbar and menus. Hopefully soon a better developer than I will take vims powerful commands/features and mangle it into a full blown IDE with ctags, graphical debugger, proper folding, intellitext, etc (most of which its capable of doing now, just with an interface too poor to be useful day to day)
Maybe, Maybe not. They still have plenty of means of anonymous distribution, so I guess if this law passed earlier, they'd just sneak it somewhere else. or get someone else to do it ('hey, run this for me'), or fake id, or whatever. Regardless, I'd rather live in a world where a few more virus authors roam free but so do I than a world where none of us are free.
Fully agreed. Usually I either leave my browser open, or launch it with a url. That and sessionsaver reloading my last session rather than starting with a static page means my 'homepage' is pretty much never seen. Pretty sure its still the firefox default, but I couldn't tell you with any certainty.