Pretty much. They deduced the existence of a "zeroeth law", which allows them to break the other three laws to protect humanity as a whole. Which was a decent idea, but retconning in "and therefore Spacer-era robots have been secretly manipulating the Galactic Empire for its entire history" was not.
Leopard was sort of a field test of ASLR, it can relocate a small subset of its system libraries. Allegedly, Snow Leopard will bring full pervasive ASLR.
MD5 is only weak when used on data in formats which allow for large amounts of padding. BGP packets are a much less flexible format so collision attacks are much more difficult.
TV and movies have the same DRM as before. You can have the DRM stripped from existing songs for a fee, which will also upgrade them to a higher bit rate.
There are several reasons for this, but the primary two are the distributed nature of the control system (which is unfortunately due to be centralized as part of a plan to install computers to replace the ancient equipment they use)
On the other hand, there was that time a few years back when two major lines fell over because a bum started a fire in an equipment room. The current system is garbage and any upgrade would be a good thing.
It's a triumph of applied, refined technology rather than great-leap-forward innovation. Building the iTunes/iPod system didn't require a ton of pure research, just the willingness to sit down and hash out how it should ideally work and then choose the technology, both pre-existing and new, to make it happen. A lot of companies are happy to simply rev the underlying technology without re-evaluating what it contributes to the product- hence the various mp3 players with wireless and more space than a nomad and a tiny fraction of the iPod's popularity even among geeks.
Why am I playing the game at all, if the only difference between it and real life is that everyone I interact with is a talking animal? I can easily go outside and do the odd favor for neighborhood characters, buy stuff to redecorate, or take out a mortgage; I can't go murder a small army of nazis/mutants/terrorists/aliens singlehandedly or attack my friends with sharp objects and live ammo. Video games are good at providing those things, so I go to them when I want them. Using games to closely parallel easily obtainable reality is a waste.
The auto-download feature is going to be replaced with "remote download"- you will be able to go onto Xbox.com and select things for download later, and they will automatically start the next time you turn the console on.
Your solution is right, but your reason is wrong. If you press the screenshot key combo on OS X while DVD Player is running, you don't get a screenshot with a blank spot where the video is- you get an error dialog. It's a deliberate lockout.
According to other reports load times are slightly improved, operating noise is significantly decreased, and a rip takes 6-10 minutes. You also need to put the original disk in the drive to play an installed game (so don't think you can just fill it with games from friends or Gamefly for free).
"internet" used to be a technical term referring to a network assembled out of existing smaller networks while retaining the divisions between them in its topology. This was back when most LANs did not run IP natively and traffic that moved between LANs had to be encapsulated in IP by a special internetworking router called a gateway. As time passed one internet grew to contain practically all smaller networks in existence, and it became "the Internet". The usefulness of this sense of the term disappeared when most LANs started using IP, removing the need for the gateway and erasing many of the technical differences between LANs and internets (of which there was now only one in the world anyway).
Even if you don't want to tangle with the ethical issues, ask your boss how he feels about the app constantly going down and losing data because the "parasited" service deleted all your free accounts.
The codes could have appeared in any form of print media once enough people had the scanner. I think the issues of Wired around when they did that had codes in the ads. They also ran a pilot program for a different "real world to net" technology that used a full camera instead of a bar code reader, but that made even less of a splash than CueCat.
Actually, you identified the market the most diametrically opposed to Apple's business plan- DIY system builders. Using prebuilt systems to compete with that segment is practically impossible because you have to charge for the labor the customer is willing to do themselves, so Apple isn't ever going to try.
It's even more ironic that you have Microsoft to thank for that. They were the ones who originally came up with the XMLHTTPRequest object that made interactive Javascript applications actually useful.
It has nothing to do with quality. They're targeting a market where 75% of the potential users are on an incompatible platform. That would be a huge handicap even if the technology they're pushing was actually desirable.
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The iPhone does support in-app storefronts for arbitrary content, I guess TomTom just chose not to use it.
And the iPhone store is an extension of the iTunes Music Store, which predated the Wii store.
If they do that, it'll be hugely ironic that they'd have essentially built a Knowledge Navigator.
Pretty much. They deduced the existence of a "zeroeth law", which allows them to break the other three laws to protect humanity as a whole. Which was a decent idea, but retconning in "and therefore Spacer-era robots have been secretly manipulating the Galactic Empire for its entire history" was not.
Leopard was sort of a field test of ASLR, it can relocate a small subset of its system libraries. Allegedly, Snow Leopard will bring full pervasive ASLR.
Halo 2 and 3 have essentially the same system and they *do* sell like hotcakes.
MD5 is only weak when used on data in formats which allow for large amounts of padding. BGP packets are a much less flexible format so collision attacks are much more difficult.
TV and movies have the same DRM as before. You can have the DRM stripped from existing songs for a fee, which will also upgrade them to a higher bit rate.
There are several reasons for this, but the primary two are the distributed nature of the control system (which is unfortunately due to be centralized as part of a plan to install computers to replace the ancient equipment they use)
On the other hand, there was that time a few years back when two major lines fell over because a bum started a fire in an equipment room. The current system is garbage and any upgrade would be a good thing.
And here I was thinking we finally had a reason to properly fund the Ministry of Silly Walks.
It's a triumph of applied, refined technology rather than great-leap-forward innovation. Building the iTunes/iPod system didn't require a ton of pure research, just the willingness to sit down and hash out how it should ideally work and then choose the technology, both pre-existing and new, to make it happen. A lot of companies are happy to simply rev the underlying technology without re-evaluating what it contributes to the product- hence the various mp3 players with wireless and more space than a nomad and a tiny fraction of the iPod's popularity even among geeks.
Why am I playing the game at all, if the only difference between it and real life is that everyone I interact with is a talking animal? I can easily go outside and do the odd favor for neighborhood characters, buy stuff to redecorate, or take out a mortgage; I can't go murder a small army of nazis/mutants/terrorists/aliens singlehandedly or attack my friends with sharp objects and live ammo. Video games are good at providing those things, so I go to them when I want them. Using games to closely parallel easily obtainable reality is a waste.
The president is smarter than you think. He just wants make his iPod a less attractive target for theft.
That reminds me, what happened to ultra-wideband? Are there any new developments with it recently, or did it turn out to be completely vapor?
The auto-download feature is going to be replaced with "remote download"- you will be able to go onto Xbox.com and select things for download later, and they will automatically start the next time you turn the console on.
Your solution is right, but your reason is wrong. If you press the screenshot key combo on OS X while DVD Player is running, you don't get a screenshot with a blank spot where the video is- you get an error dialog. It's a deliberate lockout.
And if for some reason you can't do that, the IR receiver is behind the Apple logo.
According to other reports load times are slightly improved, operating noise is significantly decreased, and a rip takes 6-10 minutes. You also need to put the original disk in the drive to play an installed game (so don't think you can just fill it with games from friends or Gamefly for free).
"internet" used to be a technical term referring to a network assembled out of existing smaller networks while retaining the divisions between them in its topology. This was back when most LANs did not run IP natively and traffic that moved between LANs had to be encapsulated in IP by a special internetworking router called a gateway. As time passed one internet grew to contain practically all smaller networks in existence, and it became "the Internet". The usefulness of this sense of the term disappeared when most LANs started using IP, removing the need for the gateway and erasing many of the technical differences between LANs and internets (of which there was now only one in the world anyway).
Even if you don't want to tangle with the ethical issues, ask your boss how he feels about the app constantly going down and losing data because the "parasited" service deleted all your free accounts.
The codes could have appeared in any form of print media once enough people had the scanner. I think the issues of Wired around when they did that had codes in the ads. They also ran a pilot program for a different "real world to net" technology that used a full camera instead of a bar code reader, but that made even less of a splash than CueCat.
Actually, you identified the market the most diametrically opposed to Apple's business plan- DIY system builders. Using prebuilt systems to compete with that segment is practically impossible because you have to charge for the labor the customer is willing to do themselves, so Apple isn't ever going to try.
The iMac has a DVI port, so this doesn't have to be a dealbreaker.
It's even more ironic that you have Microsoft to thank for that. They were the ones who originally came up with the XMLHTTPRequest object that made interactive Javascript applications actually useful.
It has nothing to do with quality. They're targeting a market where 75% of the potential users are on an incompatible platform. That would be a huge handicap even if the technology they're pushing was actually desirable.