Somebody might find out, for example, that if you subject a window to a specific frequency of sound, the window will shatter. So what! Don't do that! But...if burglars start going around with a device that emits this frequency, then it's time to come up with an antidote.
Except that the resonant frequency of the windows in your example is dependant upon their volume and mounting frames - thus making it different from window to window. Being able to crash all sorts of Java programs by throwing a certain number at them is a little more repeatable.
Bug ID 4399272 trumps the one mentioned in the article and was logged 08-Dec-2000.
As with 4421492 it's no longer available on the Sun site, but it's still in Google's cache.
You are deluded if you think you can play the victim here, and adding your tragic story to the Wikipedia article on the Tetris Company doesn't make your case stronger.
It is kinda sad, isn't it? Oh well, it didn't even last a day.
Do you realise that English isn't the primary language for everybody in the world? For a German I thought he did pretty well, certainly better than some/. regulars.
Hanvon B10. A very crappy Windows 7 tablet, and sooo slow. The touch screen is alleged to be capacitive but is not sensitive enough to type on without pressing hard (seems resistive to me) and you can't even drag the cursor within about 8mm of the top of the screen.
Telstra Tab. Yuck. *shivers* It's Telstra and it shows. Need I say more?
Samsung Galaxy Tab. This was actually pretty good. Fast, responsive and sensitive screen. But you could tell the apps were designed for a smaller screen and just stretched onto this larger one.
Apple iPad. It's just a big iPhone really, just a little faster. At least the majority of apps I played with were different to their iPhone counterparts in ways that made more sense for the larger screen. The browsing experience was much better. On the gaming front, Infinity Blade worked better than on the iPhone simply because it had a larger area with which to work out gestures (the iPhone version misses a lot and gets a lot wrong). Osmos on the iPad is truly awesome to behold.
I don't own a tablet and probably won't for a number of years: there's very little at all impressive on them yet. Based on what I've played with so far the iPad seems to be the best of the bunch, but I wouldn't want the Apple lock-in (and I'm probably not inclined to jailbreak one). Think I'll wait to see how Honeycomb turns out.
The problem is that you don't need "high power" laser pointers, such as the 500W CO2 lasers in laser cutters, to dazzle somebody. You can dazzle somebody with a 10mW AAA-powered handheld unit - same as you'd use for laser pointing in presentations.
Unfortunately the dickheads in society have fucked things up for everybody else - which is really how all laws come to be in the first place, right?
Have you ever tried the Quit option? No, really. It quits Skype.
My issue with Skype are the spammers - even though all my preferences are set so that only people in my Contacts can actually message or call me, I still get these annoying "Wanna be my friend?" messages pop up occasionally. In short, "No, fuck off", block, and curse my employer for making me install it - we use it for inter-office messaging and calling.
The 2007 Office system supports the ECMA-376 Office Open XML Formats standard, which was later submitted to ISO/IEC and was published in late 2008 as the ISO/IEC 29500 Office Open XML Formats standard.
And on Office 2010:
Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.
My gut feeling is that this is just idiocy in government and someone without a clue wrote this particular requirement. If Microsoft was behind this then surely they wouldn't have asked for ECMA-376 because their current version of Office can't even write it.
Stephen Christian, a computer expert at Oxymap ehf, told the Grapevine that... "Information written to disk can be recovered by experts even after being overwritten several times unless you let the computer run for a few hours constantly 'covering up' its information. Computer hackers know this."
They were doing automated road trains on the autobahn in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Was covered in a program called Beyond 2000. Like yourself, though, I haven't been able to find a video on it.
I'm going to agree with GP, though... in a society where people think it's ok to sue the pants off of somebody because they ran out of chicken mcnuggets, no sane manufacturer is going to start mass producing self-driving vehicles of any form.
You really should visit and talk to some companies that are living this experience. There is no way to file a legal law suit in every instance someone is stealing my D'Addario Strings trademark. We are family owned business in the USA with sales of $150 million. Sounds big, and rich and all that!!! However last year we spent $750,000 on legal battles and got nowhere. We would be bankrupt trying to protect the 1000 jobs that we provide here in the USA. We are not General Motors, IBM or NIke. The scale is not there.
If we were allowed legitimate access to the Chinese market and the Chinese were not counterfeiting our product we would be able to create 200 to 500 more jobs in the USA.
Don't paint everyone with a broad stroke of the brush. Telling the companies on the list to work harder is an insult. We work as hard as we possibly can already (its 5:30 AM where i am right now and dont stop working until 6:30 PM.
I have personally visited stores in four Chinese cities to see 7 out of 10 sets of my brand of strings are fake. The packaging is perfect, right down to the American flat and the words "Printed and Made in USA". The strings are shxt.
I wonder how that would make you feel if you started a brand name from nothing in 1974 and built it to the largest in the world only to watch people completely rip it off.
So your suggestioin to me is to work harder and sue everyone? I may as well close up or cash out and watch the 1000 jobs evaporate. Or better, maybe i should move the factory to China and destroy another 1000 US jobs?
Go on Alibaba.com and witness the hundreds of thousands of fake product listings. There is nothing on the site that is real or legitimate. At some point the government has to take some kind of police action. This is not just a civil matter, there are criminal (grand larceny) implications here.
I agree there should be due process before a site is shut down. I dont know what that process should be, but when threre is clear evidence submitted to a government agency that a site is selling fake merchandise the government should have some authority to put a URL on hold until they can defend themselves. Let the theives absorb the burden of defending themselves, don't expect the legitimate folks to foot the bill.
How is possible for the public to ask the legitimate manufacturers to bear the role of the government and police every instance of fraud with a law suit? It would be tens of millions of $$$ a year.
Learn more before developing such strong views and 'black listing' good people.
Funny open standard, which only MS can read/produce.
Plenty of apps and utils can read OOXML, including Open Office. The point is that aside from MS Office, the only thing that can currently write OOXML is LibreOffice.
And all it takes is for the lead driver to goof up and you have a massive pile up.
The Beyond 2000 television program (circa 1980's/1990's) demonstrated a train of cars automatically driving themselves down a high-speed lane on the Autobahn. I think they used sensors embedded in the road for guidance. Can't find a video link.
What % of desktops are Linux? 2%? It's not worth the development effort for a mainstream consumer product, especially given that a fair number of that 2% aren't gamers anyway (if they were, they'd be on Windows!).
Since a significant number of Windows desktops (I'm inclined to say "majority", but I can't back that up) are running in corporate or government environments they shouldn't be classified as "consumer" targets.
If you look at the recent Humble Bundle game sales, around 60% of sales were to Windows users and about 20% each to Linux and Mac (OSX). Interestingly the Linux users also paid the most per sale, then OSX users, with the Windows users bringing the average down.
This is a decision each individual company will make based on potential sales. I'm not so sure it's worth investing in Linux in this respect and the Mac ships with NVIDIA card, doesn't it (I don't own one), which may explain why their support for GL is much better than ATI's.
I take it that you've not seen the results of the Humble Bundle sales? For the 232,854 purchases made the average purchase was $7.84. Windows users paid $6.68 (85%), OSX $9.27 (118%) and Linux $13.78 (175%). Linux users, the supposed "sponging" FOSS OS users, paid the most per sale.
If you don't want to make a buck out of Linux users, sure, ignore them. But given the lack of competition for Great Games on Linux and their apparent willingness to pay good money for them, it sounds like a foolish move to me.
The problem is not that OpenGL is a difficult API to use, it's that the Linux drivers suck.
I take it you only read the first half of the article. You missed the closing paragraph:
By the way, Direct3D appears to be the saving grace for Windows here, as Zbarsky notes in another comment. "Sadly enough, GL drivers on Windows aren't that great either," he notes, "This is why WebGL is done via Direct3D on Windows now... But that mostly a matter of performance issues."
OpenGL drivers suck on both Linux and Windows, and that's mainly because the majority of games are still targeting DirectX on Windows. I for one am hoping that changes in the future, especially with OpenGL ES becoming more common on mobile devices now and with people wanting their games "on the go."
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Somebody might find out, for example, that if you subject a window to a specific frequency of sound, the window will shatter. So what! Don't do that! But...if burglars start going around with a device that emits this frequency, then it's time to come up with an antidote.
Except that the resonant frequency of the windows in your example is dependant upon their volume and mounting frames - thus making it different from window to window. Being able to crash all sorts of Java programs by throwing a certain number at them is a little more repeatable.
Bug ID 4399272 trumps the one mentioned in the article and was logged 08-Dec-2000. As with 4421492 it's no longer available on the Sun site, but it's still in Google's cache.
You are deluded if you think you can play the victim here, and adding your tragic story to the Wikipedia article on the Tetris Company doesn't make your case stronger.
It is kinda sad, isn't it? Oh well, it didn't even last a day.
Do you realise that English isn't the primary language for everybody in the world? For a German I thought he did pretty well, certainly better than some /. regulars.
I don't own a tablet and probably won't for a number of years: there's very little at all impressive on them yet. Based on what I've played with so far the iPad seems to be the best of the bunch, but I wouldn't want the Apple lock-in (and I'm probably not inclined to jailbreak one). Think I'll wait to see how Honeycomb turns out.
...our insistence on seeing the likes of Facebook and Twitter as the path toward freedom for all people...
Ha ha, he made a funny.
They must be slipping. Dupes are normally in the same week.
Databases which take one wrong query will spew all of your data out like a teenager who drank too much rum and I will own whatever is there.
If you have web servers writing their own queries to run on your database servers then you deserve all the pain you're inevitably going to get.
Fish and Game Officials Hopeful Wolf Attacks Will Soon Stop
Wolves attack joggers' dogs on Fort Rich
Bold Anchorage wolves attack dogs, circle joggers
Woman, dogs attacked by Alaskan wolves
Teacher killed by wolves in Alaska, police say
Awww man, you only asked for one.
The problem is that you don't need "high power" laser pointers, such as the 500W CO2 lasers in laser cutters, to dazzle somebody. You can dazzle somebody with a 10mW AAA-powered handheld unit - same as you'd use for laser pointing in presentations.
Unfortunately the dickheads in society have fucked things up for everybody else - which is really how all laws come to be in the first place, right?
You must be new here.
You are correct. There were a whole bunch of slashdotters who couldn't make the distinction in the article from a month ago as well.
Have you ever tried the Quit option? No, really. It quits Skype.
My issue with Skype are the spammers - even though all my preferences are set so that only people in my Contacts can actually message or call me, I still get these annoying "Wanna be my friend?" messages pop up occasionally. In short, "No, fuck off", block, and curse my employer for making me install it - we use it for inter-office messaging and calling.
Sony, for its part, hasn't confirmed or denied the rumours - but it will certainly have to do something to get the genie back in the bottle.
Like maybe release a new PS4 console. They have been milking the PS3 for five years now. Let it die.
Ok, how do you explain this then?
On Office 2007:
The 2007 Office system supports the ECMA-376 Office Open XML Formats standard, which was later submitted to ISO/IEC and was published in late 2008 as the ISO/IEC 29500 Office Open XML Formats standard.
And on Office 2010:
Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.
My gut feeling is that this is just idiocy in government and someone without a clue wrote this particular requirement. If Microsoft was behind this then surely they wouldn't have asked for ECMA-376 because their current version of Office can't even write it.
Stephen Christian, a computer expert at Oxymap ehf, told the Grapevine that ... "Information written to disk can be recovered by experts even after being overwritten several times unless you let the computer run for a few hours constantly 'covering up' its information. Computer hackers know this."
I laugh whenever I see comments like this. Lest we forget that nobody ever accepted The Great Zero Challenge, let alone beat it.
They were doing automated road trains on the autobahn in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Was covered in a program called Beyond 2000. Like yourself, though, I haven't been able to find a video on it.
I'm going to agree with GP, though... in a society where people think it's ok to sue the pants off of somebody because they ran out of chicken mcnuggets, no sane manufacturer is going to start mass producing self-driving vehicles of any form.
Nike can jam it, AFAIC, but if you read the comments attached to TFA you might have seen this comment from Jim D'Addario...
Jim D'Addario, Jan 19th, 2011 @ 6:10am
You really should visit and talk to some companies that are living this experience. There is no way to file a legal law suit in every instance someone is stealing my D'Addario Strings trademark. We are family owned business in the USA with sales of $150 million. Sounds big, and rich and all that!!! However last year we spent $750,000 on legal battles and got nowhere. We would be bankrupt trying to protect the 1000 jobs that we provide here in the USA. We are not General Motors, IBM or NIke. The scale is not there.
If we were allowed legitimate access to the Chinese market and the Chinese were not counterfeiting our product we would be able to create 200 to 500 more jobs in the USA.
Don't paint everyone with a broad stroke of the brush. Telling the companies on the list to work harder is an insult. We work as hard as we possibly can already (its 5:30 AM where i am right now and dont stop working until 6:30 PM.
I have personally visited stores in four Chinese cities to see 7 out of 10 sets of my brand of strings are fake. The packaging is perfect, right down to the American flat and the words "Printed and Made in USA". The strings are shxt.
I wonder how that would make you feel if you started a brand name from nothing in 1974 and built it to the largest in the world only to watch people completely rip it off.
So your suggestioin to me is to work harder and sue everyone? I may as well close up or cash out and watch the 1000 jobs evaporate. Or better, maybe i should move the factory to China and destroy another 1000 US jobs?
Go on Alibaba.com and witness the hundreds of thousands of fake product listings. There is nothing on the site that is real or legitimate. At some point the government has to take some kind of police action. This is not just a civil matter, there are criminal (grand larceny) implications here.
I agree there should be due process before a site is shut down. I dont know what that process should be, but when threre is clear evidence submitted to a government agency that a site is selling fake merchandise the government should have some authority to put a URL on hold until they can defend themselves. Let the theives absorb the burden of defending themselves, don't expect the legitimate folks to foot the bill.
How is possible for the public to ask the legitimate manufacturers to bear the role of the government and police every instance of fraud with a law suit? It would be tens of millions of $$$ a year.
Learn more before developing such strong views and 'black listing' good people.
Jim D'Addario - CEO D'Addario and Company
Reading the "think of the employees" garbage made me think of Nike, too. Funny that.
Funny open standard, which only MS can read/produce.
Plenty of apps and utils can read OOXML, including Open Office. The point is that aside from MS Office, the only thing that can currently write OOXML is LibreOffice.
Lack of details, you mean. Sounds like BrightSide tech to me (i.e.: a multi-zone LED backlight through normal LCD panel).
And all it takes is for the lead driver to goof up and you have a massive pile up.
The Beyond 2000 television program (circa 1980's/1990's) demonstrated a train of cars automatically driving themselves down a high-speed lane on the Autobahn. I think they used sensors embedded in the road for guidance. Can't find a video link.
For a bit more excitement, you can watch the BMW 330i self-driving around the Top Gear test track (starts at about 1m20s).
What % of desktops are Linux? 2%? It's not worth the development effort for a mainstream consumer product, especially given that a fair number of that 2% aren't gamers anyway (if they were, they'd be on Windows!).
Since a significant number of Windows desktops (I'm inclined to say "majority", but I can't back that up) are running in corporate or government environments they shouldn't be classified as "consumer" targets.
If you look at the recent Humble Bundle game sales, around 60% of sales were to Windows users and about 20% each to Linux and Mac (OSX). Interestingly the Linux users also paid the most per sale, then OSX users, with the Windows users bringing the average down.
This is a decision each individual company will make based on potential sales. I'm not so sure it's worth investing in Linux in this respect and the Mac ships with NVIDIA card, doesn't it (I don't own one), which may explain why their support for GL is much better than ATI's.
I take it that you've not seen the results of the Humble Bundle sales? For the 232,854 purchases made the average purchase was $7.84. Windows users paid $6.68 (85%), OSX $9.27 (118%) and Linux $13.78 (175%). Linux users, the supposed "sponging" FOSS OS users, paid the most per sale.
If you don't want to make a buck out of Linux users, sure, ignore them. But given the lack of competition for Great Games on Linux and their apparent willingness to pay good money for them, it sounds like a foolish move to me.
The problem is not that OpenGL is a difficult API to use, it's that the Linux drivers suck.
I take it you only read the first half of the article. You missed the closing paragraph:
By the way, Direct3D appears to be the saving grace for Windows here, as Zbarsky notes in another comment. "Sadly enough, GL drivers on Windows aren't that great either," he notes, "This is why WebGL is done via Direct3D on Windows now... But that mostly a matter of performance issues."
OpenGL drivers suck on both Linux and Windows, and that's mainly because the majority of games are still targeting DirectX on Windows. I for one am hoping that changes in the future, especially with OpenGL ES becoming more common on mobile devices now and with people wanting their games "on the go."