i disagree. i may have agreed with you if SCO's letter to him didnt end with a threat in caps to the effect of 'if you dont cooperate WE WILL SIC OUR LAWYERS ON YOUR ASS'
sure it may be standard in circumstances where copyright infringement is 'supposed' to have occured, but if the sco guy hadn't ended his letter with a lawsuit threat then maybe the guy may have worded his letter differently.
until some corporation buys the patents or rights to commercially manufacture it, and charges 20 times what its really worth for it, and then this awesome technology will fade into obscurity because no-one can afford it
As someone who just bought a digital video camera, i have to agree with you... altho i dont have a kid yet, my fiancee has a 6 year old cousin who provides hours of entertainment... one of the reasons for getting the camera was to tape her and show the stuff to her kids in 30 years. I'm thinking i'm going to get a dedicated 3rd hard drive just for video editing, and then a dvd writer to store it... if only i could afford something like this:)
I guess one of the things to consider is that if a burger flipper at McD's is 5 mins late, then all the orders are 5 mins late, whereas someone with a desk job can come in 5 mins late, leave 5 mins late, and not affect the running of the business much.
Also, the burger flipper is most likely paid by the hour, and when you're a huge multinational corporation with thousands of branches and many more employees, those minutes add up... I doubt someone's going to be fired for being a few minutes late every couple of days, but at the end of the week, his boss should have the right to say 'Hey dude, you were 6 mins late every morning this week, and you left 6 mins early every evening, so you're getting paid for 39 hours instead of 40'.
It's probably alot less to do with security than it has to do with accounting - they've probably weighed the cost of installing the systems against the savings in wages, and decided it was worth it
I think the best thing to do is sell all the flash memory unformatted. Then, you format it in whichever device (camera/pda/etc) you want to use it in. If your camera manufacturer decides to use ext2 in their cameras, then the camera will format the card as ext2. The camera manufacturer can then provide software/drivers to communicate with the camera under Windows if they choose (although choosing not to would be shooting themselves in the foot).
WRT plug-n-play functionality - I dont see how any PnP functionality will be lost - you insert the unformatted memory stick into your usb drive, Windows says 'Hey, you've got an unformatted disk! Do you want to format it now?' and you click Ok. That way Windows is applying the filesystem, and not the card manufacturer.
Unformatted memory cards are the way to go... and device manufacturers who use these cards can decide whether to support FAT or any other FS of their choice
I've got a 19" monitor on my Geforce4MX AGP and a 14" monitor on a TNT2 PCI. I suppose there may be compatibility problems if you're mixing an nVidia with an ATI for example, but my setup works beautifully:)
Also, since I have 2 nVidia cards, I just need to install the detonators, and both cards software is updated at once.
Not all of us windows users use the mouse for *everything*
If there's a keyboard shortcut, I'll probably use it - its less effort for me to make a few extra keystrokes than move my hand over to the mouse and back to the keyboard.
us in south africa generally complain about the pathetic state of our country, government, and crime rate, but i'm sure one thing we're glad about is that we dont have the ridiculous judicial system that you guys in the states have.
having the ability to sue someone just because you were a fucking idiot and caused yourself harm, even if you were breaking the law (as is suggested in the parent post) makes me wonder how much faith one should be able to place in the courts of the USA.
stupidity should not be rewarded, no matter how 'politically correct' it may be to do so
i could post a screenshot of my network connection status dialog if you like... i hope you dont think i'd waste time doctoring that - this really doesnt mean enough to me to go to all that effort. if you still think me a liar... well, thats your opinion
regarding security... i do install patches henever the little icon thing in the system tray tells me to... now that you mention it, i havent seen that thing in a while... i guess i'll manually check for updates tomorrow when i get back to work. the IT dept at work is highly jacked up when it comes to isolating our internal network from the outside world, so i have some protection from them. i know thats no reason not to update my own machine, and, like i said before, i always do whenever i see the icon... it seems that the icon's on vacation at the moment, so i'll call it up manually tomorrow.
this is not a server, locked up in some dark room somewhere, with no gui to make it crash, with no techies too scared to touch it because typing 'startx' may take down the whole network. it is my work machine. i currently have 3 instances of visual studio 6 open, one which is running a service in debug mode, another which runs a test app to the service thats running in debug mode, and the third is for working on another project i'm assigned to - up until recently it was also running another service in debugmode, for over 3 weeks if i recall correctly. i run distributed.net, irc, msn messenger, sql server constantly as well. query analyser is constantly open, as is outlook, opera, internet explorer, terminal services, and many in-house applications. i've also got cisco IP softphone running continuously, because of some dumbo IT decision to have software phones instead of normal phones.
im not the greatest programmer by anyones standards - heck, i'd guess i'm only slightly above average. this means that my code breaks(in all 3 instances of visual studio)... often(in all 3 instances of visual studio)... before it gets fixed. strange that my dodgy code, and my "crappy" OS is able to still remain running without any hassles?
so how have i managed to not reboot in over a month?
This is one for the overclockers who couldn't care less about stability, methinks...
Or, maybe, its for those of us who can't afford the hugely expensive 'multiprocessor' chips, but would still like to be able to run a dual-processor system.
As a programmer, it's always a good idea to have access to a dual-processor system, because there are all sorts of lockups that just wont happen on a single-processor system, but will lock your program up on a multi-processor one. Having a hugely expensive system just to debug an application isn't feasible - if you're able to fool a 'single processor' chip into thinking it's a 'multiprocessor' one, then you've got an essential debugging machine at a fraction of the price
If a company has a system which contains personal and financial information of their clients, and that system has a bug, and the company chooses not to fix the bug, simply because they are focusing on new products, and not on fixing security flaws in their older products, which would end up having a potentially huge financial impact on the innocent users who are affected by that bug, then I would not trust that company with my personal information. I.e., I would deem that company to be untrustworthy.
A trustworthy system is one which the users trust. Trustworthiness and security go hand-in-hand. The fact that they ignored the bug-finder's 10 emails informing them of the vulnerability makes the public lose their trust in the company. Microsoft cannot claim to be trustworthy if their customer-/user-base does not trust them with their information.
So does that mean they can get away with ignoring bugs in software that can expose personal details and credit card numbers to anyone?
I think that if they were aware of the problem (and they were, apparently the finder mailed them 10 times), chose not to fix it, and some poor person had their credit card number exposed and abused, I think that Microsoft should be taken to the cleaners. Online security is something that must constantly be looked at, and maintained and updated. Its for their own good, really - if they don't fix it, they'll end up the dumbasses, cos people will lose their trust in the Passport system, and use other means for online transactions.
Seriously, apart from the bragging rights to say "We put the first man on Mars", what benefit is there to having the US, Russia, ESA and Britain all working independently towards sending probes/manned trips to Mars? If a team made up of the best minds from each of those agencies were to work together, they'd not only be ready to land on Mars sooner, but they'd save billions in the process.
Maybe I am missing the point, but isn't that why standard API's like DirectX and OpenGL are there for?
Tell DirectX to draw some shit and it tells the driver "Hey, draw this shit." Then the driver tells the card "Draw this shit" and shit gets drawn.
The driver (provided by the card maker) is what actually talks to the card. Sure you have NVidia-only features and ATI-only features, but those would be mostly the exceptions rather than the rules.
I always thought it would be the task of the card manufacturer to implement support for a particular standard in its drivers and hardware, then you, as a game developer, pick a standard, like DirectX or OpenGL, and stick with it.
I think all those people, who posted replys telling everyone else off for not reading the legislation correctly, are missing the point. The point is, that the South African government has no business charging licensing, registration or any other fees for internet or crypto products. Why should they? It's got absolutely nothing to do with them. When I first heard of the government wanting to have a hand in the assigning of.za domain names, the first thing I thought of was "These guys just want to be in it so they'll be able to slap a tax or something on domains, just so they can get something out of it" - same thing here - they're going to charge people more than R2000 for absolutely nothing. There's currently a national strike of a whole lot of trade unions, striking against governments privatisation policies - If government is so into privatisation, why are they trying to take stuff that doesn't concern them and make them government issues? In short: The South African govenrment is made up of a bunch of complete moronic idiots - I know this for a fact, because I have to live with their ineptitude and total lack of intelligence every single day
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i disagree. i may have agreed with you if SCO's letter to him didnt end with a threat in caps to the effect of 'if you dont cooperate WE WILL SIC OUR LAWYERS ON YOUR ASS'
sure it may be standard in circumstances where copyright infringement is 'supposed' to have occured, but if the sco guy hadn't ended his letter with a lawsuit threat then maybe the guy may have worded his letter differently.
you get what you give
until some corporation buys the patents or rights to commercially manufacture it, and charges 20 times what its really worth for it, and then this awesome technology will fade into obscurity because no-one can afford it
A guy gets bitten by a radioactive spider and is suddenly able to shoot webs out of his wrists is believable?
As someone who just bought a digital video camera, i have to agree with you... altho i dont have a kid yet, my fiancee has a 6 year old cousin who provides hours of entertainment... one of the reasons for getting the camera was to tape her and show the stuff to her kids in 30 years. I'm thinking i'm going to get a dedicated 3rd hard drive just for video editing, and then a dvd writer to store it... if only i could afford something like this :)
I guess one of the things to consider is that if a burger flipper at McD's is 5 mins late, then all the orders are 5 mins late, whereas someone with a desk job can come in 5 mins late, leave 5 mins late, and not affect the running of the business much.
Also, the burger flipper is most likely paid by the hour, and when you're a huge multinational corporation with thousands of branches and many more employees, those minutes add up... I doubt someone's going to be fired for being a few minutes late every couple of days, but at the end of the week, his boss should have the right to say 'Hey dude, you were 6 mins late every morning this week, and you left 6 mins early every evening, so you're getting paid for 39 hours instead of 40'.
It's probably alot less to do with security than it has to do with accounting - they've probably weighed the cost of installing the systems against the savings in wages, and decided it was worth it
Exactly! South africa is region 2, and Oz is only available in region 1 :(
and HTCTU? :(
I think the best thing to do is sell all the flash memory unformatted. Then, you format it in whichever device (camera/pda/etc) you want to use it in. If your camera manufacturer decides to use ext2 in their cameras, then the camera will format the card as ext2. The camera manufacturer can then provide software/drivers to communicate with the camera under Windows if they choose (although choosing not to would be shooting themselves in the foot).
WRT plug-n-play functionality - I dont see how any PnP functionality will be lost - you insert the unformatted memory stick into your usb drive, Windows says 'Hey, you've got an unformatted disk! Do you want to format it now?' and you click Ok. That way Windows is applying the filesystem, and not the card manufacturer.
Unformatted memory cards are the way to go... and device manufacturers who use these cards can decide whether to support FAT or any other FS of their choice
of course!
1. Post pictures of your company on blog
2. Get fired for said pictures
3. Request donations while unemployed via blog
4. ?????
5. Profit!!!
Most definitely!
:)
I've got a 19" monitor on my Geforce4MX AGP and a 14" monitor on a TNT2 PCI. I suppose there may be compatibility problems if you're mixing an nVidia with an ATI for example, but my setup works beautifully
Also, since I have 2 nVidia cards, I just need to install the detonators, and both cards software is updated at once.
Not all of us windows users use the mouse for *everything*
If there's a keyboard shortcut, I'll probably use it - its less effort for me to make a few extra keystrokes than move my hand over to the mouse and back to the keyboard.
us in south africa generally complain about the pathetic state of our country, government, and crime rate, but i'm sure one thing we're glad about is that we dont have the ridiculous judicial system that you guys in the states have.
having the ability to sue someone just because you were a fucking idiot and caused yourself harm, even if you were breaking the law (as is suggested in the parent post) makes me wonder how much faith one should be able to place in the courts of the USA.
stupidity should not be rewarded, no matter how 'politically correct' it may be to do so
i could post a screenshot of my network connection status dialog if you like... i hope you dont think i'd waste time doctoring that - this really doesnt mean enough to me to go to all that effort. if you still think me a liar... well, thats your opinion
regarding security... i do install patches henever the little icon thing in the system tray tells me to... now that you mention it, i havent seen that thing in a while... i guess i'll manually check for updates tomorrow when i get back to work. the IT dept at work is highly jacked up when it comes to isolating our internal network from the outside world, so i have some protection from them. i know thats no reason not to update my own machine, and, like i said before, i always do whenever i see the icon... it seems that the icon's on vacation at the moment, so i'll call it up manually tomorrow.
tired of rebooting?
*checks win2k uptime*
35 days, 20 hours, 6 minutes and 7 seconds
this is not a server, locked up in some dark room somewhere, with no gui to make it crash, with no techies too scared to touch it because typing 'startx' may take down the whole network. it is my work machine. i currently have 3 instances of visual studio 6 open, one which is running a service in debug mode, another which runs a test app to the service thats running in debug mode, and the third is for working on another project i'm assigned to - up until recently it was also running another service in debugmode, for over 3 weeks if i recall correctly. i run distributed.net, irc, msn messenger, sql server constantly as well. query analyser is constantly open, as is outlook, opera, internet explorer, terminal services, and many in-house applications. i've also got cisco IP softphone running continuously, because of some dumbo IT decision to have software phones instead of normal phones.
im not the greatest programmer by anyones standards - heck, i'd guess i'm only slightly above average. this means that my code breaks(in all 3 instances of visual studio)... often(in all 3 instances of visual studio)... before it gets fixed. strange that my dodgy code, and my "crappy" OS is able to still remain running without any hassles?
so how have i managed to not reboot in over a month?
and who puts food on the table of the free software developers?
not all software can be free.
Or, maybe, its for those of us who can't afford the hugely expensive 'multiprocessor' chips, but would still like to be able to run a dual-processor system.
As a programmer, it's always a good idea to have access to a dual-processor system, because there are all sorts of lockups that just wont happen on a single-processor system, but will lock your program up on a multi-processor one. Having a hugely expensive system just to debug an application isn't feasible - if you're able to fool a 'single processor' chip into thinking it's a 'multiprocessor' one, then you've got an essential debugging machine at a fraction of the price
If a company has a system which contains personal and financial information of their clients, and that system has a bug, and the company chooses not to fix the bug, simply because they are focusing on new products, and not on fixing security flaws in their older products, which would end up having a potentially huge financial impact on the innocent users who are affected by that bug, then I would not trust that company with my personal information. I.e., I would deem that company to be untrustworthy.
A trustworthy system is one which the users trust. Trustworthiness and security go hand-in-hand. The fact that they ignored the bug-finder's 10 emails informing them of the vulnerability makes the public lose their trust in the company. Microsoft cannot claim to be trustworthy if their customer-/user-base does not trust them with their information.
So does that mean they can get away with ignoring bugs in software that can expose personal details and credit card numbers to anyone?
I think that if they were aware of the problem (and they were, apparently the finder mailed them 10 times), chose not to fix it, and some poor person had their credit card number exposed and abused, I think that Microsoft should be taken to the cleaners. Online security is something that must constantly be looked at, and maintained and updated. Its for their own good, really - if they don't fix it, they'll end up the dumbasses, cos people will lose their trust in the Passport system, and use other means for online transactions.
Seriously, apart from the bragging rights to say "We put the first man on Mars", what benefit is there to having the US, Russia, ESA and Britain all working independently towards sending probes/manned trips to Mars? If a team made up of the best minds from each of those agencies were to work together, they'd not only be ready to land on Mars sooner, but they'd save billions in the process.
Maybe I am missing the point, but isn't that why standard API's like DirectX and OpenGL are there for? Tell DirectX to draw some shit and it tells the driver "Hey, draw this shit." Then the driver tells the card "Draw this shit" and shit gets drawn. The driver (provided by the card maker) is what actually talks to the card. Sure you have NVidia-only features and ATI-only features, but those would be mostly the exceptions rather than the rules. I always thought it would be the task of the card manufacturer to implement support for a particular standard in its drivers and hardware, then you, as a game developer, pick a standard, like DirectX or OpenGL, and stick with it.
Actually, no.
Google's success (in my books at least) is because it's results are more relevant than any of the other search engines I've used in the past.
The fact that my search and results pages aren't filled with loads of crap is an added bonus
I think all those people, who posted replys telling everyone else off for not reading the legislation correctly, are missing the point. .za domain names, the first thing I thought of was "These guys just want to be in it so they'll be able to slap a tax or something on domains, just so they can get something out of it" - same thing here - they're going to charge people more than R2000 for absolutely nothing.
The point is, that the South African government has no business charging licensing, registration or any other fees for internet or crypto products. Why should they? It's got absolutely nothing to do with them. When I first heard of the government wanting to have a hand in the assigning of
There's currently a national strike of a whole lot of trade unions, striking against governments privatisation policies - If government is so into privatisation, why are they trying to take stuff that doesn't concern them and make them government issues?
In short: The South African govenrment is made up of a bunch of complete moronic idiots - I know this for a fact, because I have to live with their ineptitude and total lack of intelligence every single day