Easy, you design everything to spin at 10k-15k RPM because you're buying the parts in bulk anyways, slap a SCSI interface on one and sell it for $500, throw an IDE controller on the other and label it for $150.
And guess what? PEOPLE WILL PAY! Why change a winning formula?
Well, this problem is going to come up again and again as hardware and operating systems become obsolete and games that depend on them stop working. It'd be nice to have a virtual machine that worked for everything since reprogramming the engine takes much more work if you have to do it on a game-by-game basis.
Take a look at even older DirectX based games. One of the best auto-combat games, Interstate '76, won't work on 2000/XP. It DOES work in Wine, however, but it gets hung up on a continue button when you're in the salvage screen. Too bad, because otherwise it works perfectly.
The problem is that all of your examples involve harming someone else. That doesn't happen when you just decide to watch your *legally purchased* DVD under Linux instead of Windows.
When nobody else is hurt, I see no problem with disobeying this ridiculous law.
This is what I find truly disgusting about the law and how it favours large/wealthy companies. They can essentially continue to launch lawsuits against individuals or lesser companies until they get a state/judge/jury/whatever that will rule in their favour.
In civil cases such as this, you should only get one shot. None of this "we'll just try you in a different state" bullshit.
Yeah, because we all know that NONE of these driver programmers are capable of running through the competitor's binary code with a debugger or disassembler to find out what's going on, right?
The only people you hurt by closing the source are the Linux/BSD/alternative OS crowd.
Lingua Reseaux? The Paketto Keiretsu? What's this guy been smoking? I'm not sure what's worse, pretentious techno-Latin babble, or "lol, k thx bye" MSN-speak.
Agreed! These people that defend this protocol have probably never had the displeasure of being forced to use it. It's sole purpose seems to be to allow phone companies to micromanage the DSL connections a little more.
The PPPoE software (client AND server side) is terrible for the most part, and it took YEARS to get them even as stable as their are now.
For a broadband connection, it's horrible. Originally, everyone used DHCP to assign you the necessary info, but now it's all done through PPP. It's just like dial-up again, even the connection procedures! Add to that the fact that most ISPs use dynamic IP addressing and you'll get a new IP *every* time you connect (not so bad in itself, but coupled with the frequent disconnections, see terrible software above..) It's a nightmare for the end user.
Protocols are supposed to be TRANSPARENT to the end user. PPPoE is anything but. There's a reason there's a ton of support sites to help people with it's bizarre configuration. It's a failure.
Exactly. There was no need for the cloak and dagger takedown here. The ISP simply should have shut down their account and called them up saying, "Hey, you're stealing service and we're suspending the account, you still owe us for this month's service as well. Pay up."
I wholeheartedly disagree with the whole "making an example" stance that courts (and in this case a company) do. It's a perversion of justice. Under the same circumstances, one guy gets a sentence twice as harsh as the next guy, just because some cowboy judge "wants to set an example"?? The law should see everyone as equal and handle every case based on the law, not public perception.
"Yeah kid, we know you only jaywalked, but there's a lot of scofflaws like you out there, and dammit, we're gonna make an example outta you! 20 YEARS!"
I'd reason that Macs "last longer" (meaning people keep them longer than they would a PC) is due to three main factors:
1) Apple doesn't develop hardware as fast as the x86 crew does. You hear about new and faster CPUs and motherboards for PC platform every two weeks (or so it seems). And people always seem want something faster, whether they need it or not.
2) The gaming industry pushes obsolesence more than any other. Since PCs are the primary platform for games, people are always upgrading their PCs to take advantage of the newest UT2010, Quake 5, and the like.
3) It's cheaper to upgrade a PC (do you consider it 'keeping the computer' if you replaced the MB and CPU?)
As far as resale value goes, if an object has a higher initial price, it almost goes without saying that it's resale value will be higher as well. Especially given point #1 above. A year down the road, that 1GHz Mac still isn't that much slower than the latest Mac available. But with a PC, one year means a LOT of progress in the hardware market.
I'd just be happy with them updating the DOS drivers on the original ISA Catweasel to handle WRITING to the disks. These drivers have been ignored ever since they were developed.
The only writing you'll get with the PC version is under Linux for Amiga, MSDOS, and TRS-80 formats.
And "real" being defined by what? Photoshop? Cause that's pretty much the only "real" work being done on Macs these days.
The REAL work is done on Windows and Unix machines. Last I checked, Altera didn't make a Mac version of Max+Plus II or any of their other tools. Same goes for other high end software like that from Synopsys, Ansoft, Maplesoft (although you CAN get Mathematica and MatLAB for Mac) and others.
In the high-end scientific/mathematics world, Macs don't cut it yet. Maybe now that OSX is out, they'll port their Unix software over, but who knows..
Diablo II used an earlier version of SecuROM and wouldn't play on my DVD-ROM (Creative 5x) because the drive won't read subcodes in data mode. I actually had to download an unprotected copy of the game exe to get it to run, WITH THE ORIGINAL DISC!
The olympics have been pointless for many, many years now, but not for that reason. It's all about money, marketing, product placement, and hype. Lately, the IOC has been the main driving force for the debacle that is the olympics.
Whether it's issues with drug tests, corrupt judges, payola being passed around regarding location decisions, the olympics are a disgrace and yes, pointless.
I'd say that this event is really just a challenge for AI programmers. When you program a game that's designed to compete against human players, it's always fun to improve it and make it stronger. Who better to have it compete against than the best of the best so you can find the weaknesses in the code?
You obviously don't know anything about reverse engineering. The only people who would be interested in "stealing" their designs would be rival video chipset makers. You honestly think these people need nicely formatted source code in order to determine what's going on?
Just run the binaries through a nice disassembler like IDA, ponder over it for a few weeks and you'll learn all you need to know.
If you know your assembly, you ALWAYS have the source code!
So just keep using an older version of XFree86 that supports the older chipset that you have. It's not like that card could really take advantage of many new features anyways.
Yes it does. It's such a hideous imbalance in the economic system and I don't believe it can continue like this forever. You simply can't keep moving all the wealth in the world to a select few and expect everything to work out all right.
And why does an individual NEED that much money?! Honestly, once you have a nice place to live, food to last you the rest of your life, a car (not even mandatory depending on where you live or what your lifestyle is), and a few luxuries (I'm not talking about billion dollar boats here either), what good is another billion dollars going to do you?
Personally if I had that much dough, I'd give most of it, like maybe $950 million, away. The rest would take care of me and my entire extended family for the rest of our lives.
The important thing is that Mozilla is cross-platform so this gives almost everyone FREE access to an email client that can do all the encryption/decryption nearly transparently.
Not only that, but there seems to be a little barb at the end of MANY summaries. Frankly, I agree, many times it's either uncalled for, unexplained, or vague to the point of misinterpretation.
What are you talking about? The latest version of Apache 1 doesn't have any CodeRed-type bugs in it, so it's not like there's a heavy incentive to upgrade to 2.x right now.
Why must people always attempt to find hypocrisy where there is none? Do they think it makes them look insightful?
Why believe some snooty, know-it-all "audiophile"'s opinion on it? Do you really need to wait for someone else's thoughts on the subject before you can take action? Get a backbone, and TRY IT FOR YOURSELF.
If you don't, it's only your loss, not anybody else's.
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Easy, you design everything to spin at 10k-15k RPM because you're buying the parts in bulk anyways, slap a SCSI interface on one and sell it for $500, throw an IDE controller on the other and label it for $150.
And guess what? PEOPLE WILL PAY! Why change a winning formula?
I'll be waiting for Turn-Key Linux DRM next :)
Well, this problem is going to come up again and again as hardware and operating systems become obsolete and games that depend on them stop working. It'd be nice to have a virtual machine that worked for everything since reprogramming the engine takes much more work if you have to do it on a game-by-game basis.
Take a look at even older DirectX based games. One of the best auto-combat games, Interstate '76, won't work on 2000/XP. It DOES work in Wine, however, but it gets hung up on a continue button when you're in the salvage screen. Too bad, because otherwise it works perfectly.
"How is some organization implementing a Linux firewall/proxy server earth shattering news?"
Hmm, I thought this site was described as "News for nerds" and not "Earth shattering news for nerds"..
Don't like the news? Move on to the next article.
Warcraft 3 uses SecuROM protection. This is one of the additional quirks that the pay-only verion will handle.
Of course, you can run it with the CVS version if you replace the main game executable with one that isn't infected with SecuROM..
Get yourself a disassembler, learn assembly, and then EVERY progam you get comes with source code!
The problem is that all of your examples involve harming someone else. That doesn't happen when you just decide to watch your *legally purchased* DVD under Linux instead of Windows.
When nobody else is hurt, I see no problem with disobeying this ridiculous law.
This is what I find truly disgusting about the law and how it favours large/wealthy companies. They can essentially continue to launch lawsuits against individuals or lesser companies until they get a state/judge/jury/whatever that will rule in their favour.
In civil cases such as this, you should only get one shot. None of this "we'll just try you in a different state" bullshit.
Yeah, because we all know that NONE of these driver programmers are capable of running through the competitor's binary code with a debugger or disassembler to find out what's going on, right?
The only people you hurt by closing the source are the Linux/BSD/alternative OS crowd.
Lingua Reseaux? The Paketto Keiretsu? What's this guy been smoking? I'm not sure what's worse, pretentious techno-Latin babble, or "lol, k thx bye" MSN-speak.
Agreed! These people that defend this protocol have probably never had the displeasure of being forced to use it. It's sole purpose seems to be to allow phone companies to micromanage the DSL connections a little more.
The PPPoE software (client AND server side) is terrible for the most part, and it took YEARS to get them even as stable as their are now.
For a broadband connection, it's horrible. Originally, everyone used DHCP to assign you the necessary info, but now it's all done through PPP. It's just like dial-up again, even the connection procedures! Add to that the fact that most ISPs use dynamic IP addressing and you'll get a new IP *every* time you connect (not so bad in itself, but coupled with the frequent disconnections, see terrible software above..) It's a nightmare for the end user.
Protocols are supposed to be TRANSPARENT to the end user. PPPoE is anything but. There's a reason there's a ton of support sites to help people with it's bizarre configuration. It's a failure.
Exactly. There was no need for the cloak and dagger takedown here. The ISP simply should have shut down their account and called them up saying, "Hey, you're stealing service and we're suspending the account, you still owe us for this month's service as well. Pay up."
I wholeheartedly disagree with the whole "making an example" stance that courts (and in this case a company) do. It's a perversion of justice. Under the same circumstances, one guy gets a sentence twice as harsh as the next guy, just because some cowboy judge "wants to set an example"?? The law should see everyone as equal and handle every case based on the law, not public perception.
"Yeah kid, we know you only jaywalked, but there's a lot of scofflaws like you out there, and dammit, we're gonna make an example outta you! 20 YEARS!"
I'd reason that Macs "last longer" (meaning people keep them longer than they would a PC) is due to three main factors:
1) Apple doesn't develop hardware as fast as the x86 crew does. You hear about new and faster CPUs and motherboards for PC platform every two weeks (or so it seems). And people always seem want something faster, whether they need it or not.
2) The gaming industry pushes obsolesence more than any other. Since PCs are the primary platform for games, people are always upgrading their PCs to take advantage of the newest UT2010, Quake 5, and the like.
3) It's cheaper to upgrade a PC (do you consider it 'keeping the computer' if you replaced the MB and CPU?)
As far as resale value goes, if an object has a higher initial price, it almost goes without saying that it's resale value will be higher as well. Especially given point #1 above. A year down the road, that 1GHz Mac still isn't that much slower than the latest Mac available. But with a PC, one year means a LOT of progress in the hardware market.
I'd just be happy with them updating the DOS drivers on the original ISA Catweasel to handle WRITING to the disks. These drivers have been ignored ever since they were developed.
The only writing you'll get with the PC version is under Linux for Amiga, MSDOS, and TRS-80 formats.
And "real" being defined by what? Photoshop? Cause that's pretty much the only "real" work being done on Macs these days.
The REAL work is done on Windows and Unix machines. Last I checked, Altera didn't make a Mac version of Max+Plus II or any of their other tools. Same goes for other high end software like that from Synopsys, Ansoft, Maplesoft (although you CAN get Mathematica and MatLAB for Mac) and others.
In the high-end scientific/mathematics world, Macs don't cut it yet. Maybe now that OSX is out, they'll port their Unix software over, but who knows..
Diablo II used an earlier version of SecuROM and wouldn't play on my DVD-ROM (Creative 5x) because the drive won't read subcodes in data mode. I actually had to download an unprotected copy of the game exe to get it to run, WITH THE ORIGINAL DISC!
"Are the Olympics now somehow pointless?"
The olympics have been pointless for many, many years now, but not for that reason. It's all about money, marketing, product placement, and hype. Lately, the IOC has been the main driving force for the debacle that is the olympics.
Whether it's issues with drug tests, corrupt judges, payola being passed around regarding location decisions, the olympics are a disgrace and yes, pointless.
I'd say that this event is really just a challenge for AI programmers. When you program a game that's designed to compete against human players, it's always fun to improve it and make it stronger. Who better to have it compete against than the best of the best so you can find the weaknesses in the code?
Here in Canada, MCSE stands for Microsoft Certified Systems Expert. As I understand, the Engineer title is reserved for actual engineers.
I imagine CNE is the same.
You obviously don't know anything about reverse engineering. The only people who would be interested in "stealing" their designs would be rival video chipset makers. You honestly think these people need nicely formatted source code in order to determine what's going on?
Just run the binaries through a nice disassembler like IDA, ponder over it for a few weeks and you'll learn all you need to know.
If you know your assembly, you ALWAYS have the source code!
So just keep using an older version of XFree86 that supports the older chipset that you have. It's not like that card could really take advantage of many new features anyways.
Yes it does. It's such a hideous imbalance in the economic system and I don't believe it can continue like this forever. You simply can't keep moving all the wealth in the world to a select few and expect everything to work out all right.
And why does an individual NEED that much money?! Honestly, once you have a nice place to live, food to last you the rest of your life, a car (not even mandatory depending on where you live or what your lifestyle is), and a few luxuries (I'm not talking about billion dollar boats here either), what good is another billion dollars going to do you?
Personally if I had that much dough, I'd give most of it, like maybe $950 million, away. The rest would take care of me and my entire extended family for the rest of our lives.
The important thing is that Mozilla is cross-platform so this gives almost everyone FREE access to an email client that can do all the encryption/decryption nearly transparently.
I'd say that is indeed a big step forward.
Not only that, but there seems to be a little barb at the end of MANY summaries. Frankly, I agree, many times it's either uncalled for, unexplained, or vague to the point of misinterpretation.
I know it's a small issue, but it bugs me too!
What are you talking about? The latest version of Apache 1 doesn't have any CodeRed-type bugs in it, so it's not like there's a heavy incentive to upgrade to 2.x right now.
Why must people always attempt to find hypocrisy where there is none? Do they think it makes them look insightful?
Why believe some snooty, know-it-all "audiophile"'s opinion on it? Do you really need to wait for someone else's thoughts on the subject before you can take action? Get a backbone, and TRY IT FOR YOURSELF.
If you don't, it's only your loss, not anybody else's.