Except Nintendo's, which was supposedly never sold at a loss, despite coming out at $250 USD. There's a reason it's considerably less powerful than either of its main competitors... but people bought it anyway.
Contrast this with Sony's PS3, which initially sold for $500 or $600 and was a loss leader.
But lets say something needs port 11234 open in both directions to work*, a sys admin that knows about the flaw(before the fix is out) can make some attempts to limit his exposure to the flaw. Without that info in the wild he things he's safe and all is well while he gets back doored.... Some of these flaws have way to limit or remove exposure to them while the vendor is producing a fix. You may be able to disable a feature, firewall off the machines that need o run it, block all connection attempts on a port with a payload that matches "foobar". Making sure people know that helps lessen the problem while the fix is getting out. Also it does apply pressure on the vendor to fix it fast as all of the people with support contracts are bugging them for a fix for "the foobar bug" There have been few bugs that can't be band-aided recently discovered, so the harm is really only to the people that don't follow security in the first place(home users that put their birthday pin and mothers maiden name into any form they see on the internet.).
*Bad example i know as all ports not known to be doing something useful should be blocked in both directions, but you get the idea.
er... you don't see a difference between telling people "You should block port 11234 on your Firewall because of a potential exploit in X." and "X is vulnerable, doing Y on port 11234 allows you run arbitrary commands through it."?
Your ISP will have your phone number and maybe he will have a DPI running on your internet connection to scan for the latest worms and maybe he has some cooperation deal with Microsoft for the cleanup. Real? No. Completely plausible in theory, absolutely.
Wouldn't an ISP be the one to deal with this, and their typical response would be to cut off your Internet service and force you to call them?
I would try it, but I don't seem to be getting Direct2D rendering... their SVG rotation test page is still really SLOW when I make an image full screen.
Weird thing is, all my addons show up as disabled.
I tried these canvas-based apps on Windows 7 in various browsers.
The ones I tried work in Firefox 3.6.6, Opera 10.60, and Chrome 5.0.375.99.
On Firefox 3.6.6, they're all horrifically slow.
Opera 10.60 worked a little better than Firefox did, but not by much.
Chrome 5.0.375.99 worked about the same as Opera 10.60 did.
Note: My nVidia drivers are from back in November last year, due to a bug in newer nVidia drivers with the game Shattered Horizons. Not sure if that would affect rendering speeds or not.
Er... I'm pretty sure that MS said they would support the video tag back when IE9 was announced. A few months back, they said which format it would support (H.264), although just a week or two ago MS said they would also support WebM if the codec was installed.
Yeah... who's more important to the computer industry? Apple or Intel? Apple or ARM?
Intel, then ARM, then Apple.
Lets face it, as useful as ARM processors are, ARM themselves are fairly useless. They simply license designs that other manufacturers then modify for use in their own devices.
On the other hand, Intel processors are used in the majority of Desktop computers, Notebook computers, and NetBooks.
And which of these companies is more self-righteous about their existence?
Apple, hands down.
You have to face it sooner or later... Apple makes its money by being a lifestyle brand, like Levi or American Apparel or Gucci. That's why it has pathetic enterprise support and tries to lock out competition for it's platform. That's why it's a walled garden filled mostly with petty video games. It's an appliance for people who don't like the open endedness of computers. Just like a Starbucks customer that loves lattes but would never take the ten minutes to learn how to make one for themselves, Apple users skim on the surface of computing. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
This is unfortunate, but true.
My father bought a MacBook two years ago. I couldn't convince him back then it was a bad idea; he has a LOT of Windows apps and games. To this day (2 years later), he uses his slowly dying 8-year old Dell notebook more than his MacBook because he has apps on the Dell that don't run under OSX, and he doesn't want to use Bootcamp, Parallels, or VMWare Fusion to run Windows on his MacBook.
Now, both my father and mother are looking at the iPad. I managed to keep my mother from buying my father an iPad for his birthday, but only on the argument that first-generation Apple products generally suck. Neither her or my father understand why the App Store controlling access to the apps you can put on it is bad. I swear that the only thing that's selling my mom on it is the Maps application... and for that, she's willing to shell out (at least) $499?
The problem is that Apple does not want standards, it wants control. It does not want everyone to create art, it wants everyone to buy Final Cut and use it on a Mac Pro to create art. Inherent in it's culture is a fundamental undermining of it's own principles. There is nothing magical or revolutionary about selling vendor lock-in, but I'll give them that their marketing department does a much better job of disguising that than Microsoft did.
And this is why, despite the other 4* browser vendors pledging support for WebM, it still won't become the standard web <video> format; Apple will still refuse to support it.
*In an interview, the Director of IE product management, Roger Capriotti, said IE9 would play WebM video if the WebM codec is installed on the system.
A cloud is supposed to be a set of servers. This is set up like any large web application, where you have a number of application and database servers with identical contents, so it doesn't matter which app server the customer is talking to.
However, the important bit that makes cloud computing different is that the servers are usually located in different geographic locations, and customers are routed to the one closest to them.
So, no, "an application running on the Internet" is not necessarily part of cloud computing.
So assuming the ports don't crash, contain rootkits or brick your handset, Sony weren't planning to release for those platforms, and we're in a jurisdiction without punitive damages, what would Sony's damages be?
I'm not saying I think Sony's in the wrong, however I do want to know what their actual losses are.
Their losses are the money you didn't have to spend on a PSP or PS3 to buy the versions they do currently publish.
Please recall the Windows vs Lindows case. Microsoft lost it, because Windows is a common word. Except it lost only in the US and it would lose it only in english-speaking countries because "Windows" is not a common word in other languages. So Lindows was renamed to Linspire, to be able to continue everywhere - but only after that matter was settled, and it didn't have to pay a penny to Microsoft for "using a similar name".
Actually, it's more because "Windows" is a common term in the category it was registered in (computer software). As far as I'm aware, Microsoft was never granted a trademark on "Windows", only on "Microsoft Windows".
I'd really love to watch someone try to prove that "Lemmings" is a common term in the computer software/video games category without referring to the game series itself.
the question is then, can I? if my billing address is still in the USA, will it work, or will it block me due to the fact that i'll be connecting through a foreign ISP?
Given that they currently block you based on ISP, I'm going to say yes.
Maybe this comes up every time a copyright treaty is passed, but...
I'm not a constitutional scholar, but entering into a treaty about copyrights, patents, or trademarks brings up an interesting point:
Article I, Section 8 gives congress the power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Article II, Section 2 gives the president the "Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;"
Article VI of the Constitution also says "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
A copyright treaty, thanks to Article VI, would cause Articles I and II to conflict. Simply put, checks and balances mean copyright can not be enforced by a treaty because copyright law is a legislative power, not an executive power.
Until you get MITMed and suddenly the default HTTP connection starts working. Will you notice?
I'm assuming you mean the generic "you" rather than me specifically. Joe on the street probably won't, but I also watch for the certificate's green section in Firefox's address bar.
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I think I'll copy this and paste it into any vaguely appropriate thread. ;)
Except Nintendo's, which was supposedly never sold at a loss, despite coming out at $250 USD. There's a reason it's considerably less powerful than either of its main competitors... but people bought it anyway.
Contrast this with Sony's PS3, which initially sold for $500 or $600 and was a loss leader.
My boss may be attractive, but I'm sure she doesn't think of me that way.
er... you don't see a difference between telling people "You should block port 11234 on your Firewall because of a potential exploit in X." and "X is vulnerable, doing Y on port 11234 allows you run arbitrary commands through it."?
Wouldn't an ISP be the one to deal with this, and their typical response would be to cut off your Internet service and force you to call them?
...now I wonder how you'd react to a woman named Lisa Apple.
Even Apple doesn't seem to consider them PCs.
Stop me if this sounds familiar to you:
"Hi, I'm a Mac."
"And I'm a PC."
*stops*
I could be mistaken, but isn't Visio Microsoft's diagramming program for creating flowcharts, UML diagrams, etc...?
If you really needed to do vector drawing, Visio was probably the wrong tool for the job to begin with.
I should note that this is after I set the font directwrite mode to true and font rendering mode to 6.
I would try it, but I don't seem to be getting Direct2D rendering... their SVG rotation test page is still really SLOW when I make an image full screen.
Weird thing is, all my addons show up as disabled.
Side note:
I installed the IE9 Preview just to see what they would run like in there... they run quite fast.
Then again, MS provided demos aren't exactly the best way to test this.
I tried these canvas-based apps on Windows 7 in various browsers.
The ones I tried work in Firefox 3.6.6, Opera 10.60, and Chrome 5.0.375.99.
On Firefox 3.6.6, they're all horrifically slow.
Opera 10.60 worked a little better than Firefox did, but not by much.
Chrome 5.0.375.99 worked about the same as Opera 10.60 did.
Note: My nVidia drivers are from back in November last year, due to a bug in newer nVidia drivers with the game Shattered Horizons. Not sure if that would affect rendering speeds or not.
Er... I'm pretty sure that MS said they would support the video tag back when IE9 was announced. A few months back, they said which format it would support (H.264), although just a week or two ago MS said they would also support WebM if the codec was installed.
Intel, then ARM, then Apple.
Lets face it, as useful as ARM processors are, ARM themselves are fairly useless. They simply license designs that other manufacturers then modify for use in their own devices.
On the other hand, Intel processors are used in the majority of Desktop computers, Notebook computers, and NetBooks.
Apple, hands down.
This is unfortunate, but true.
My father bought a MacBook two years ago. I couldn't convince him back then it was a bad idea; he has a LOT of Windows apps and games. To this day (2 years later), he uses his slowly dying 8-year old Dell notebook more than his MacBook because he has apps on the Dell that don't run under OSX, and he doesn't want to use Bootcamp, Parallels, or VMWare Fusion to run Windows on his MacBook.
Now, both my father and mother are looking at the iPad. I managed to keep my mother from buying my father an iPad for his birthday, but only on the argument that first-generation Apple products generally suck. Neither her or my father understand why the App Store controlling access to the apps you can put on it is bad. I swear that the only thing that's selling my mom on it is the Maps application... and for that, she's willing to shell out (at least) $499?
And this is why, despite the other 4* browser vendors pledging support for WebM, it still won't become the standard web <video> format; Apple will still refuse to support it.
*In an interview, the Director of IE product management, Roger Capriotti, said IE9 would play WebM video if the WebM codec is installed on the system.
A cloud is supposed to be a set of servers. This is set up like any large web application, where you have a number of application and database servers with identical contents, so it doesn't matter which app server the customer is talking to.
However, the important bit that makes cloud computing different is that the servers are usually located in different geographic locations, and customers are routed to the one closest to them.
So, no, "an application running on the Internet" is not necessarily part of cloud computing.
They used their mp3 player to make phone calls instead! DUH!
Their losses are the money you didn't have to spend on a PSP or PS3 to buy the versions they do currently publish.
There's are versions of Lemmings for the PSP and PS3 on the PSN app store right now.
In other words, they do publish it, but only for their own consoles.
New versions of Lemmings became a system exclusive title as soon as Sony bought Psygnosis.
Actually, it's more because "Windows" is a common term in the category it was registered in (computer software). As far as I'm aware, Microsoft was never granted a trademark on "Windows", only on "Microsoft Windows".
I'd really love to watch someone try to prove that "Lemmings" is a common term in the computer software/video games category without referring to the game series itself.
Sony doesn't want you to buy it on the iPhone. They want you to have to buy a PSP if you want a mobile copy.
In case you missed it, SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) is the European branch of Sony's PlayStation division.
Given that they currently block you based on ISP, I'm going to say yes.
Who said anything about meals? I assumed he was talking about popcorn.
Maybe this comes up every time a copyright treaty is passed, but...
I'm not a constitutional scholar, but entering into a treaty about copyrights, patents, or trademarks brings up an interesting point:
Article I, Section 8 gives congress the power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Article II, Section 2 gives the president the "Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;"
Article VI of the Constitution also says "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
A copyright treaty, thanks to Article VI, would cause Articles I and II to conflict. Simply put, checks and balances mean copyright can not be enforced by a treaty because copyright law is a legislative power, not an executive power.
I'm assuming you mean the generic "you" rather than me specifically. Joe on the street probably won't, but I also watch for the certificate's green section in Firefox's address bar.
It starts airing next week on CW as a new "summer" series.