Um... Ultima Underground 1 and 2, System Shock 1 and 2, Theif 1 and 2 and 3(?), Deus Ex.
This guy has deserved his reputation and by no means did his games suck. Hell, im not even sure he was involved in the Wing Commander games, that was Chris Roberts.
God I wish I had to MOD points to mod you stupid right now, but sadly I dont. Instead im going to have to take the hit to my Karma. Oh well, well worth the cost to insult someone who is so mindlessly a Microsoft basher as to not take time to make a logical argument.
Oh... I suppose I should back up what ive said... um ok.
First off, the GPU in the Xbox 360 would probrably cost about the same retail as the PS3 GPU would, infact probrably more due to that 12MB of static, highly expensive framebuffer memory and the silicon that goes into almost free post pixel effects ( like 4x AA ).
As to money losing business, read Microsofts latest quarterly earnings statement... they expect to be cash positive on the 360 business within a year or so. I cant imagine Sony is anywhere close to that number this generation.
As to a huge leap over the Xbox 360, then why is it gaming media is pretty much united in slaming the PS3 right now for not showing any great superiority. Infact, any game they have shown as playable as been pretty much acknowledged as being doable on the 360.
Point blank, Sony stumbled and fell at E3 this year ( like microsoft did last year ). The only people that dont seem to notice that are Microsoft, er Micro$oft bashers and Sony fanboys. Which of the two are you? Maybe both?
Dont say that!!!! This is slashdot... dont you know? Phone carriers are a right bunch of bastards... you see, they want to make money off their infrastructure investments. DAMN THEM! DAMN THEM TO HELL!
Ah... thats simple to explain. Microsoft has to hype Vista all the way to hell and back, simply because who is their biggest competition? Its not linux... its not Mac OS X, its Windows Xp/2000. They need to convince people to buy the new product and thus keep their purse lined with gold, or their business model fails.
In the embeded market there is no such presure. For the most part, people dont "upgrade" devices like the do computers. Point blank Microsoft needs to convince millions of people with the mindset of "Xp is good enough" that XP isnt good enough, while at the same time convincing them that the alternatives arent any better. Not a place I would like to be personally... but then they did it with 2K users going to XP, so dont be shocked if they do it again.
You make it sound like one division at Microsoft gains because another division loses. This is just a silly way to view things. Its not like Microsoft is delaying Vista because they have over allocated resources to the CE group.
How about this for a reality check view of things. First of, Microsoft has 90%+ of the desktop OS market, but maybe 1/3 of the portable market, with 1/3 stretching things huge. Where would you allocate your resources to? Secondly, which do you think would be easier to make... a consumer OS for an unlimited variety of hardware and 20 years of legacy to support? Or, an embedded OS with very little legacy support and a much lower level of hardware requirements?
The thing im wondering is how much does CE 6 have to do with Microsofts push to having gaming across all platforms. Is CE6 purely CE5 with better gaming/.Net support?
Actually, nothing has been quoted on price from Nintendo yet. They could easily launch at 299$ which would put them in the same price range as the 360 Core unit. The 199$ value being thrown around was by fans/internet forums only so put no stock in it.
As to Sony/Microsoft bringing nothing new to the table, I will give you that with Sony, but im guessing your just being jaded against Microsoft. Live is a pretty amazing service if you have ever actually used it. On top of that Live Arcade has been brilliant and with the slew of new games ( yay Lumines! I can now sell my PSP, POS that it was!!! ) coming to Arcade, its looking even better.
So far as a "normal" non disruptive console goes, the 360 has brought alot to the table. Lose your blind M$ hatred and you will come to see that. Hell even the standard definition/high definition all in one cable is pretty brilliant, as is the media center-esque functionality thats built into it. I frankly never thought I would use it ( I never used my PS2 or XBox as a DVD player after all ), I find myself streaming my MP3 collection to my 360 all the time, either as a game soundtrack or just to interface with my stereo. Also, pluggin my iPod into the system and streaming it out to the soundtrack is pretty damned neat too.
You think maybe, just maybe, its exactly because "Nintendo doesnt care about your opinion" that gamers are annoyed that they called the console Wii? It means existing Nintendo customers are no longer the core audience of the company they supported.
Also, im seeing a cubic assload of stupidity in these Slashdot posts. People are claiming in one sentence that Wii is a brilliant name because of how much press it is getting. Then in the second sentence they say Nintendo isnt going for the hardcore crowd, but the casual gamer market... anyone else see the stupidity here? The press they are getting is *IN* the hardcore crowd. The mainstream world doesnt know nor care jackshit about Wii sofar. The only non-gamer conversations I have had about the name started by me ( they hadnt heard of Wii ), and the response was either that the name was juvenille or asked me how the hell you say it. Funny thing is, the Xbox 360 is also getting a huge amount of press on slashdot, most of it negative. So, does the "all press is good press" therefore think that the XBox 360's marketing strategy is brilliant too?
Neither is a good reaction. Point blank, on almost every level, Wii is a bad name. Its a shame too as from the clean look of the prototype I thought Nintendo was finally shedding its "toy" image. Then they turn around and give it a name that you would figure was aimed exlcusively at the under 10 crowd, which is exactly what I thought they were trying *NOT* to do.
Frankly though, I was hesitant to even bother posting this to slashdot. Lately anything but glowing praise for Nintendo, gets you labeled as a Sony or MS er... I mean $ony or M$ fanboy.
Well, to be blunt thats become game magazines are one giant clusterfuckathon.
Really in many ways, these people are the lowest of the low. Almost every article I have read in a game magazine for a game in development had almost a deific praise of game developers. Hard to expect anything good to come from this group, neh?
Sorry... hit on a weak point for me. But gaming "journalists" are pathetic
Your stance here is a little insane. Lets flip the situation around a bit and see how it looks. Lets say the PS3 had already been out for 8 months, but both the Revolution and 360 were being enveiled at E3 there isnt much Sony could do. Point blank they would be overshadowed by the two other consoles. Even video of the next Final Fantasy or Gran Tourismo would have an extremely hard time getting any press coverage.
Frankly, Microsoft doesnt have many cards to play because its already launched. Plus, the show stealers at E3 tend to be either marquis games like Halo, Final Fantasy, Zelda but more often its new titles that really WOW the press. The gaming press spend page after page talking about how wonderful these newly announced games are going to be. Think back to last year and one of the show stealers was the newly announced Gears of War. That game got alot of print space.
So really all Microsoft can do to really get the attention of the media is reveal a boatload of new games nobody has ever heard off. Plus, if the rumoured 100$ HDDVD player ends up being true, that would get alot of attention aswell. The only remaining card I can see them playing is either to announce some amazing new ability to Live ( say VOIP phone calls, but I doubt that ) or to announce that Live is now free. That last one wouldnt shock me at all.
Good luck getting Windows updates. It will simply require you to install it all over again. Not to mention more and more add-ons ( like the Media Center fix for Vista ) are requiring Genuine Advantage too.
So frankly all you are doing is removing the ability of your computer to assert that it is infact genuine. Thus for any future checks it will automatically fail. Your arent accomplishing much.
Considering that Windows firewall today is a simple matter of clicking yes/no on a popup dialog. Go into Windows XP SP2 with firewall turned on, open ftp and connect to a site. Instantly a message pops up along the lines of "You are attempting to make an outgoing connection on Port 21, by application FTP. Would you like to allow outgoing communications on this yes? Yes/Once/No/Never"
Thats not exactly brain surgery imho. Also, I tried an earlier CTP for Vista, and Windows Firewall was basically identical to the XP version, so dont expect many changes. Plus, given the fact they are saying "from corporate requests" I imagine home editions will have much different default values.
I see this reference everytime mention of selling a console at a loss is mentioned. Hey, I love the Gord. I wasted many many many days at work reading the Gords awesome website.
That said, when the hell did some guy that owns a video game stores commentary become "the truth".
The Gord said it, thus it is true! And you know what... some guy at EBGames once told me that EA fired all its programmers and replaced them with monkeys. I thought this was insane at first, then it dawned on me, he works at a game store, it must be true!
The only broken promise that comes immediatly to mind was the WinFS. Basically a SQL based file system. I know it was yanked from Vista but is still ( or atleast was ) being offered down the road. Frankly though, if the do a good enough job indexing files and reading/creating attributes for those files, and provide a nice Mac like search function, I dont think the end consumer will care me.
Seriously, Ray Ozzie ( of Lotus fame ) has serious power at Microsoft. He is definatly a man of vision, the question is, do you agree with his vision. My understanding is the work he was doing at Groove was quite impressive, plus Microsoft basically bought groove to get this guy on board.
Of all the people listed, I would rather have him running the show.
See... thats the problem. Everyone is misquoting this guy and by proxy my response. He isnt saying, nor am I, that the controller should not influence the game. Re-read exactly what he said "have that much influence"
He isnt saying the games shouldnt be influenced or take advantage of the controller, he is saying the controller shouldnt be the focus of the game. That I agree with greatly. I think if Nintendo keeps putting so much focus on the controller, game devs are going to come at it the wrong way. Instead of saying "We have this great game idea, how can we make it more fun using this controller" you end up with " We have this great controller, how can be build a great game around it". The second mindset imho, is very bad for the industry, the first is very good.
A lot of the games that are released are cookie cutter games that are slaves to the limitations of the hardware. I welcome a new kind of controller. In fact, I would be tempted to say that you're narrow minded if you're not ready to try a completely new kind of controller.
You realize you are saying this about the author of Katamari? The poster child for innovation out of this generation of games?
I sincerely hope this was taken out of context or misquoted otherwise I would mod this article as flamebait.
It's new. It obviously has new capabilities. How about you use your imagination instead of your tongue?
Do you read what he *actually* said??? He isnt slamming the Revolution in the slightest. He said
I don't think a controller should have that much influence on the enjoyment of games.
Bold added by me. His point I actually agree with 100%. A game should NOT be built around the controller. A game should be built around the core game concept and make the best use of resources available. Its sorta like programming. Do you go wow, I just learned how to use objects now what should I build with them?. Of course not, well unless youre a shitty programmer ( its all part of the whole when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail mindset ). I think he is basically saying the same thing about the revolution. Putting too much focus on the controller is a bad idea. This I tend to agree with.
Plus, I remember just how bad the power glove was.
We didn't bend over to have DVD protection inserted, and now Linux is a better platform for DVD than Windows.
First off... you remember what Linux went through to get DVD playback to even work? You know, the whole process of reverse engineering and cracking the protection algorithm. Or the court case against the author, followed by the legal battle funded by the EFF? No, Linux didnt bend over getting DVD support, but they sure as hell didnt have an easy go at it.
As to being a better platform for DVDs, what??!!? Dvd.. insert... play movie. On modern hardware Linux and Windows basically render the same quality output, both have basically the same functional specs. What exactly makes linux the better ( or worse ) platform for DVDs here?
The arrival of Blu-Ray, HD-DVD and secure Cable/HDTV is nothing but bad news for linux. Many times the barrier may be as simple as the fee required to get your hardware deviced signed. Beyond that, the laws today make reverse engineering, even whiteroom a very difficult (legal) prospect. Keeping support for the newest media storage schemes and hardware is going to be a hell of alot harder for the linux crowd then it will be for Microsoft.
Well, one difference I can think of is ease of use... or ease of abuse. With POST/GET, especially POST you have a fair bit more work. You need to setup a fake POST form that circumvents whatever security they might have in place, whatever.
With AJAX though, you can just view source of this existing page, then in the URL bar, start trying various combinations out, such as javascript://SomeAjaxFunction(someVar); enter. Repeat and rinse. Hell, you could do an inline breakpoint, and use your favorite client side js debugger to try new exploits.
In the end, not a big difference, except in the ajax way, you already inhereited an client side security tokens or whatever else that the page may be using for security. You are pretty much injecting your code on the fly into whatever the origonal author wrote. Whereas in POST manipulation, you are basically trying to emulate a client request from beginning to end.
Wow, can't believe you got hit as Flamebait for that posting. I mean, the joke was a little predictable, but it wasnt that bad! I at least giggled... not school girl giggled. Normally it would need to solicite a groan to get moded flamebait by me.
Guess I wont make my joke that the Blue Screen of Death is actually just Microsofts clever built in fire prevention scheme... I would get moded into oblivion today...
No, im not at all shocked Tivo hasnt turned a profit. Actually its one of those companies that came out of the dot com boom, but somehow didnt die. It started with great technology and no viable business plan. However with billions in venture capital backing it, it followed the grow big quick strategy. Downside being, they were taking a pretty serious hit for each unit sold.
So now that Tivo is an established brand they needed to retool there strategy from growth, to making money. Sadly sofar, they havent faired that well in the transition. Not to mention the number of competitors they have now they didnt (really) have then, Media Center, Myth TV, OnDemand Cable, etc...
I wouldnt be suprised to hear that Tivo REALLY needs to win this lawsuit, just for the funds it could bring in. Which is a shame as tech wise, tivo is a nice product. Just as a business plan... I wouldnt have touched it with a ten foot pole. Had they gone the Sceintific Atlanta (sp?) route and been a direct hardware provider to the major providers I could see them being a much more viable company today. But they fought tooth and nail to keep their own branding instead of being rebadged as a providers product and that decision is coming to bite them in the ass.
Depnds on the type of trust you mean. Blocking outside access to possible security risks because you dont trust your users technical abilities is defensible. Would you give each user administrative rights? No of course not. This is much the same action on a much smaller scale. In all honesty, I dont really see it affecting employee morale. There arent many reasons not to put such restrictions in place if you have the IT resources to do so.
Now, we dont trust you, applied to things like... cant surf normal HTML pages as they dont trust the employee not to waste company time. Or, doing random audits on the contents of an employees email. These things will make a knowledge worker feel oppressed and will affect morale. Putting these kinds of things in place though is a much harder decision. There is a direct correlation between employee happiness and employee freedoms. That said, alot of employees fuck the dog pretty bad. The big difference is, the earlier actions tend to be an IT initative, whereas the later tends to come down from the top.
What I want to know is who the hell thought "making it easier for end users to create web content" was a good idea in the first place?!?!
Did we learn nothing for the last decades Geocities and AngelFire do it yourself websites? The end user that has difficulty with the technology of today probrably has nothing of any interest to say!
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Um... Ultima Underground 1 and 2, System Shock 1 and 2, Theif 1 and 2 and 3(?), Deus Ex.
This guy has deserved his reputation and by no means did his games suck. Hell, im not even sure he was involved in the Wing Commander games, that was Chris Roberts.
God I wish I had to MOD points to mod you stupid right now, but sadly I dont. Instead im going to have to take the hit to my Karma. Oh well, well worth the cost to insult someone who is so mindlessly a Microsoft basher as to not take time to make a logical argument.
Oh... I suppose I should back up what ive said... um ok.
First off, the GPU in the Xbox 360 would probrably cost about the same retail as the PS3 GPU would, infact probrably more due to that 12MB of static, highly expensive framebuffer memory and the silicon that goes into almost free post pixel effects ( like 4x AA ).
As to money losing business, read Microsofts latest quarterly earnings statement... they expect to be cash positive on the 360 business within a year or so. I cant imagine Sony is anywhere close to that number this generation.
As to a huge leap over the Xbox 360, then why is it gaming media is pretty much united in slaming the PS3 right now for not showing any great superiority. Infact, any game they have shown as playable as been pretty much acknowledged as being doable on the 360.
Point blank, Sony stumbled and fell at E3 this year ( like microsoft did last year ). The only people that dont seem to notice that are Microsoft, er Micro$oft bashers and Sony fanboys. Which of the two are you? Maybe both?
Fuckit, who needs karma.
Dont say that!!!! This is slashdot... dont you know? Phone carriers are a right bunch of bastards... you see, they want to make money off their infrastructure investments. DAMN THEM! DAMN THEM TO HELL!
Ah... thats simple to explain. Microsoft has to hype Vista all the way to hell and back, simply because who is their biggest competition? Its not linux... its not Mac OS X, its Windows Xp/2000. They need to convince people to buy the new product and thus keep their purse lined with gold, or their business model fails.
In the embeded market there is no such presure. For the most part, people dont "upgrade" devices like the do computers. Point blank Microsoft needs to convince millions of people with the mindset of "Xp is good enough" that XP isnt good enough, while at the same time convincing them that the alternatives arent any better. Not a place I would like to be personally... but then they did it with 2K users going to XP, so dont be shocked if they do it again.
You make it sound like one division at Microsoft gains because another division loses. This is just a silly way to view things. Its not like Microsoft is delaying Vista because they have over allocated resources to the CE group.
How about this for a reality check view of things. First of, Microsoft has 90%+ of the desktop OS market, but maybe 1/3 of the portable market, with 1/3 stretching things huge. Where would you allocate your resources to? Secondly, which do you think would be easier to make... a consumer OS for an unlimited variety of hardware and 20 years of legacy to support? Or, an embedded OS with very little legacy support and a much lower level of hardware requirements?
The thing im wondering is how much does CE 6 have to do with Microsofts push to having gaming across all platforms. Is CE6 purely CE5 with better gaming/.Net support?
Actually, nothing has been quoted on price from Nintendo yet. They could easily launch at 299$ which would put them in the same price range as the 360 Core unit. The 199$ value being thrown around was by fans/internet forums only so put no stock in it.
As to Sony/Microsoft bringing nothing new to the table, I will give you that with Sony, but im guessing your just being jaded against Microsoft. Live is a pretty amazing service if you have ever actually used it. On top of that Live Arcade has been brilliant and with the slew of new games ( yay Lumines! I can now sell my PSP, POS that it was!!! ) coming to Arcade, its looking even better.
So far as a "normal" non disruptive console goes, the 360 has brought alot to the table. Lose your blind M$ hatred and you will come to see that. Hell even the standard definition/high definition all in one cable is pretty brilliant, as is the media center-esque functionality thats built into it. I frankly never thought I would use it ( I never used my PS2 or XBox as a DVD player after all ), I find myself streaming my MP3 collection to my 360 all the time, either as a game soundtrack or just to interface with my stereo. Also, pluggin my iPod into the system and streaming it out to the soundtrack is pretty damned neat too.
You think maybe, just maybe, its exactly because "Nintendo doesnt care about your opinion" that gamers are annoyed that they called the console Wii? It means existing Nintendo customers are no longer the core audience of the company they supported.
Also, im seeing a cubic assload of stupidity in these Slashdot posts. People are claiming in one sentence that Wii is a brilliant name because of how much press it is getting. Then in the second sentence they say Nintendo isnt going for the hardcore crowd, but the casual gamer market... anyone else see the stupidity here? The press they are getting is *IN* the hardcore crowd. The mainstream world doesnt know nor care jackshit about Wii sofar. The only non-gamer conversations I have had about the name started by me ( they hadnt heard of Wii ), and the response was either that the name was juvenille or asked me how the hell you say it. Funny thing is, the Xbox 360 is also getting a huge amount of press on slashdot, most of it negative. So, does the "all press is good press" therefore think that the XBox 360's marketing strategy is brilliant too?
Neither is a good reaction. Point blank, on almost every level, Wii is a bad name. Its a shame too as from the clean look of the prototype I thought Nintendo was finally shedding its "toy" image. Then they turn around and give it a name that you would figure was aimed exlcusively at the under 10 crowd, which is exactly what I thought they were trying *NOT* to do.
Frankly though, I was hesitant to even bother posting this to slashdot. Lately anything but glowing praise for Nintendo, gets you labeled as a Sony or MS er... I mean $ony or M$ fanboy.
... or maybe the problem is you type your resume in that font.
Well, to be blunt thats become game magazines are one giant clusterfuckathon.
Really in many ways, these people are the lowest of the low. Almost every article I have read in a game magazine for a game in development had almost a deific praise of game developers. Hard to expect anything good to come from this group, neh?
Sorry... hit on a weak point for me. But gaming "journalists" are pathetic
Your stance here is a little insane. Lets flip the situation around a bit and see how it looks. Lets say the PS3 had already been out for 8 months, but both the Revolution and 360 were being enveiled at E3 there isnt much Sony could do. Point blank they would be overshadowed by the two other consoles. Even video of the next Final Fantasy or Gran Tourismo would have an extremely hard time getting any press coverage.
Frankly, Microsoft doesnt have many cards to play because its already launched. Plus, the show stealers at E3 tend to be either marquis games like Halo, Final Fantasy, Zelda but more often its new titles that really WOW the press. The gaming press spend page after page talking about how wonderful these newly announced games are going to be. Think back to last year and one of the show stealers was the newly announced Gears of War. That game got alot of print space.
So really all Microsoft can do to really get the attention of the media is reveal a boatload of new games nobody has ever heard off. Plus, if the rumoured 100$ HDDVD player ends up being true, that would get alot of attention aswell. The only remaining card I can see them playing is either to announce some amazing new ability to Live ( say VOIP phone calls, but I doubt that ) or to announce that Live is now free. That last one wouldnt shock me at all.
Good luck getting Windows updates. It will simply require you to install it all over again. Not to mention more and more add-ons ( like the Media Center fix for Vista ) are requiring Genuine Advantage too.
So frankly all you are doing is removing the ability of your computer to assert that it is infact genuine. Thus for any future checks it will automatically fail. Your arent accomplishing much.
Considering that Windows firewall today is a simple matter of clicking yes/no on a popup dialog. Go into Windows XP SP2 with firewall turned on, open ftp and connect to a site. Instantly a message pops up along the lines of "You are attempting to make an outgoing connection on Port 21, by application FTP. Would you like to allow outgoing communications on this yes? Yes/Once/No/Never"
Thats not exactly brain surgery imho. Also, I tried an earlier CTP for Vista, and Windows Firewall was basically identical to the XP version, so dont expect many changes. Plus, given the fact they are saying "from corporate requests" I imagine home editions will have much different default values.
ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I see this reference everytime mention of selling a console at a loss is mentioned. Hey, I love the Gord. I wasted many many many days at work reading the Gords awesome website.
That said, when the hell did some guy that owns a video game stores commentary become "the truth".
The Gord said it, thus it is true! And you know what... some guy at EBGames once told me that EA fired all its programmers and replaced them with monkeys. I thought this was insane at first, then it dawned on me, he works at a game store, it must be true!
The only broken promise that comes immediatly to mind was the WinFS. Basically a SQL based file system. I know it was yanked from Vista but is still ( or atleast was ) being offered down the road. Frankly though, if the do a good enough job indexing files and reading/creating attributes for those files, and provide a nice Mac like search function, I dont think the end consumer will care me.
Seriously, Ray Ozzie ( of Lotus fame ) has serious power at Microsoft. He is definatly a man of vision, the question is, do you agree with his vision. My understanding is the work he was doing at Groove was quite impressive, plus Microsoft basically bought groove to get this guy on board.
Of all the people listed, I would rather have him running the show.
See... thats the problem. Everyone is misquoting this guy and by proxy my response. He isnt saying, nor am I, that the controller should not influence the game. Re-read exactly what he said "have that much influence"
He isnt saying the games shouldnt be influenced or take advantage of the controller, he is saying the controller shouldnt be the focus of the game. That I agree with greatly. I think if Nintendo keeps putting so much focus on the controller, game devs are going to come at it the wrong way. Instead of saying "We have this great game idea, how can we make it more fun using this controller" you end up with " We have this great controller, how can be build a great game around it". The second mindset imho, is very bad for the industry, the first is very good.
A lot of the games that are released are cookie cutter games that are slaves to the limitations of the hardware. I welcome a new kind of controller. In fact, I would be tempted to say that you're narrow minded if you're not ready to try a completely new kind of controller.
You realize you are saying this about the author of Katamari? The poster child for innovation out of this generation of games?
I sincerely hope this was taken out of context or misquoted otherwise I would mod this article as flamebait.
It's new. It obviously has new capabilities. How about you use your imagination instead of your tongue?
Do you read what he *actually* said??? He isnt slamming the Revolution in the slightest. He said I don't think a controller should have that much influence on the enjoyment of games.
Bold added by me. His point I actually agree with 100%. A game should NOT be built around the controller. A game should be built around the core game concept and make the best use of resources available. Its sorta like programming. Do you go wow, I just learned how to use objects now what should I build with them?. Of course not, well unless youre a shitty programmer ( its all part of the whole when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail mindset ). I think he is basically saying the same thing about the revolution. Putting too much focus on the controller is a bad idea. This I tend to agree with.
Plus, I remember just how bad the power glove was.
We didn't bend over to have DVD protection inserted, and now Linux is a better platform for DVD than Windows.
First off... you remember what Linux went through to get DVD playback to even work? You know, the whole process of reverse engineering and cracking the protection algorithm. Or the court case against the author, followed by the legal battle funded by the EFF? No, Linux didnt bend over getting DVD support, but they sure as hell didnt have an easy go at it.
As to being a better platform for DVDs, what??!!? Dvd.. insert... play movie. On modern hardware Linux and Windows basically render the same quality output, both have basically the same functional specs. What exactly makes linux the better ( or worse ) platform for DVDs here?
The arrival of Blu-Ray, HD-DVD and secure Cable/HDTV is nothing but bad news for linux. Many times the barrier may be as simple as the fee required to get your hardware deviced signed. Beyond that, the laws today make reverse engineering, even whiteroom a very difficult (legal) prospect. Keeping support for the newest media storage schemes and hardware is going to be a hell of alot harder for the linux crowd then it will be for Microsoft.
Well, one difference I can think of is ease of use... or ease of abuse. With POST/GET, especially POST you have a fair bit more work. You need to setup a fake POST form that circumvents whatever security they might have in place, whatever.
With AJAX though, you can just view source of this existing page, then in the URL bar, start trying various combinations out, such as javascript://SomeAjaxFunction(someVar); enter. Repeat and rinse. Hell, you could do an inline breakpoint, and use your favorite client side js debugger to try new exploits.
In the end, not a big difference, except in the ajax way, you already inhereited an client side security tokens or whatever else that the page may be using for security. You are pretty much injecting your code on the fly into whatever the origonal author wrote. Whereas in POST manipulation, you are basically trying to emulate a client request from beginning to end.
Wow, can't believe you got hit as Flamebait for that posting. I mean, the joke was a little predictable, but it wasnt that bad! I at least giggled... not school girl giggled. Normally it would need to solicite a groan to get moded flamebait by me.
Guess I wont make my joke that the Blue Screen of Death is actually just Microsofts clever built in fire prevention scheme... I would get moded into oblivion today...
Nope, the smoke inhalation affected the posters short term brain activity. Atleast, I hope only the short term...
No, im not at all shocked Tivo hasnt turned a profit. Actually its one of those companies that came out of the dot com boom, but somehow didnt die. It started with great technology and no viable business plan. However with billions in venture capital backing it, it followed the grow big quick strategy. Downside being, they were taking a pretty serious hit for each unit sold.
So now that Tivo is an established brand they needed to retool there strategy from growth, to making money. Sadly sofar, they havent faired that well in the transition. Not to mention the number of competitors they have now they didnt (really) have then, Media Center, Myth TV, OnDemand Cable, etc...
I wouldnt be suprised to hear that Tivo REALLY needs to win this lawsuit, just for the funds it could bring in. Which is a shame as tech wise, tivo is a nice product. Just as a business plan... I wouldnt have touched it with a ten foot pole. Had they gone the Sceintific Atlanta (sp?) route and been a direct hardware provider to the major providers I could see them being a much more viable company today. But they fought tooth and nail to keep their own branding instead of being rebadged as a providers product and that decision is coming to bite them in the ass.
Depnds on the type of trust you mean. Blocking outside access to possible security risks because you dont trust your users technical abilities is defensible. Would you give each user administrative rights? No of course not. This is much the same action on a much smaller scale. In all honesty, I dont really see it affecting employee morale. There arent many reasons not to put such restrictions in place if you have the IT resources to do so.
Now, we dont trust you, applied to things like... cant surf normal HTML pages as they dont trust the employee not to waste company time. Or, doing random audits on the contents of an employees email. These things will make a knowledge worker feel oppressed and will affect morale. Putting these kinds of things in place though is a much harder decision. There is a direct correlation between employee happiness and employee freedoms. That said, alot of employees fuck the dog pretty bad. The big difference is, the earlier actions tend to be an IT initative, whereas the later tends to come down from the top.
No, its a pretty standard strategy on hardening your security. Everything is unsafe until proven safe.
Sometimes it can be overkill, but it is definatly a smart way to approach things if your security conscious.
What I want to know is who the hell thought "making it easier for end users to create web content" was a good idea in the first place?!?!
Did we learn nothing for the last decades Geocities and AngelFire do it yourself websites? The end user that has difficulty with the technology of today probrably has nothing of any interest to say!