Well if hacking gives you personal satisfaction, go for it by all means.
But a bounty to help improve the geek factor of a M$ product? I say it's time Microsoft and many other acknowledge that there is a percentage of consumers that don't like artificially limited hardware. Else xbox hackers are just providing people the functionality they should have gotten from Microsoft itself for a little bounty.
Not being busy with some of the latest projects is not relevant, if you think about it.
Who knows how much time does Woz spend looking at new tech? He surely has more time than the average programmer to roam the web or conventions looking for some interesting tech. What we don't know is how much time does he devote to that activity.
OSX vs Linux performance on powerpc is a delicate matter. The desktop seems indeed better on OSX (unless you compare the shells) but overall Linux is faster, in my own experience. But, google for some benchmarks.
...some small agreement must be made between the People of a society to establish an organization for their mutal protection from the worst elements of themselves, who would come forth and enslave if they didn't. We call that government.
The "worst elements" then infiltrate the government and use it for their own purposes.
They should be sued if they ever mention being an "ISP" after pulling this one. TCP/IP doesn't mention different quality of service options based on sponsorship, after all...
Quick, someone patent the "lovely bit". Just like the evil bit but reserved for sponsored traffic.:)
It may also be ignorance. Let's say a company whose workforce is accostumed to windows does tech support for some hardware products. One of their clients phone, they have a problem. During the phonecall the client mentions he has linux installed on a partition. Bingo, the tech support guy genuinely think that the problem is an interference or a misconfiguration because of the presence of "that other os".
Once I offered to backup an old win98 machine with a linux livecd and an usb stick because the system was clogged, and I didn't trust myself to install more drivers on it. People instead were thinking the opposite, with running linux as the risky choice. D'oh!
Sometimes it works the other way. I phoned my ISP cause "my internet was broken":) Tech support starts talking about configuration, on windows. I cut short: "I am using linux and tested both my installations and one of OSX. My ethernet hub blinking lights says that my network card works, too". "So it's the modem or the line" (both their business, and of course it was a line problem).
Look at the parent comment moderation. Yesterday it was +4 with already the reasonable flamebait score. Today modded down all by overrated. Nothing wrong in getting modded overrated, but it's quite a strange distribution, all favorable and "responsibly negative" ratings first, all cowardly unfavorable later.
So what, you say?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of a microsoft astroturfers' fake slashdot accounts.
No need to know how to solve a cube or even try a single move before spotting a problem.
The central squares on each face of the cube cannot be moved, only rotated. So, for example, if two of them are same color, the cube has been tampered with.
Anyway the surest way is to look at those "opposing" colors. IIRC most cubes had the green face opposed to the blue one, white face to yellow, orange to dark red... anyway one can just look at the cube's central squares and see what the opposite colors should be if the cube were not tampered with.
Spotting lateral or angular little cubes which have opposing colors on their faces means the cube has been tampered with. Easier to spot on angular little cubes.
That's because most people think that the more they mess with the colors the more they will confuse you. Instead, switching only two couples of stickers will be enough and quite more difficult to spot.
I had learned a simple way to solve the cube, with 3 main sequences, average time 3 and a half minutes without fretting too much.
By the way in 2001 the situation was like this: On macs the beta quality OSX 10.0 (the feature starved 10.1 late that year) On windows the crap quality Windows ME (the kinda stable but insecure xp late that year)
On Linux kernel 2.4 which was quite compatible with 2.2, stable on my mac, great for server software, with some desktop apps too. Blue hair indeed:P
Ok, but IMHO the best way to keep piracy to a reasonable amount was to keep using different architectures than x86. And have the added bonus of calling yourself free as in "no TCPA inside".
The article author should point out that this is in Great Britain (United Kingdom) and is an effort by the government (The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management) to get a broad range of opinion, unlike George W. Bush's White House in the USA, which is just fine with it's own set of selective facts and could care less what polls say.
Could be worse: Italy recently restored an electoral method that an overwhelming majority of people had voted to get rid of, back in 92: so we have three kind of governments, UK that asks people about their opinion, USA that ignores em, Italia that does the exact opposite of what people wanted. But did anybody ask the people before going to war in Iraq in any of the three "democracies"?
... getting to Vista and coming from FOSS or *nix. Apple demostrated that incorporating free software has lots of advantages without hurting sales much, if at all.
And Microsoft, with its stance on patents vs copyright in software, already demonstrated it can do shameless 180 degree turns.
Microsoft: how much can you trust us today?:) Gates on patents
I will concede the point about OSX even if i don't agree with it, as making an unix environment friendly for the desktop user is a first. Not to mention convincing the GUI-worshipping macOS users to get down on an unix shell.
But, what about the newton? what about the laser printer and desktop publishing? Things that came almost out of nowhere and were pioneered by Apple.
1) Release an implementation of an interesting concept as shared source. 2) Wait for free software hackers to implement a similar solution. 3) Come up with a submarine patent on the idea and a lawsuit for the hackers who "stole the code", SCO style. 4) Profit!!!
... State sponsored construction projects are never completed in time. IF they ever get completed. The Guinness book of records editors should't hold their breath.
Also, an enormous amount of public money has been dumped for decades into the southern regions, ("Cassa per il Mezzogiorno") to improve its economic situation, ending up to serve the interests of the mafia controlled building firms.
As reported here and as most Italians recall, a couple years ago a guy called Pietro Lunardi said that things like the mafia will always exist and we must live with them and they cannot stop us from spending money on public projects.
This guy was, and still is, the Italian Minister of Infrastructures and Transport.
Not a FPS, but Gottlieb's Q*bert arcade game is abstract. Joust and Marble madness were less strange, but ok. Asteroids Pong and Qix were the most stylized ones.
Pacman? the guy eats up pills, starts seeing ghosts, and when he eats the bigger pill he thinks he is invincible and eats them. It's not abstract but a junkie's nightmare all right.
I was only pointing out that the Amiga came out after 2 years but was as mature as the initial Lisa/Mac environment much later (if evar:-) ).
You're aware that a large amount of Amiga software (primarily games and graphics-oriented software) bypassed the OS, and "hit the hardware" directly?
Are you aware that, even if it were justifiable by the circumstances, this is not considered to be good design?:-)
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Well if hacking gives you personal satisfaction, go for it by all means. But a bounty to help improve the geek factor of a M$ product? I say it's time Microsoft and many other acknowledge that there is a percentage of consumers that don't like artificially limited hardware. Else xbox hackers are just providing people the functionality they should have gotten from Microsoft itself for a little bounty.
Magnetic field reversals coincide with mass surface life extinctions
Well then it must be coming. A mass extinction is happening right now.
Not being busy with some of the latest projects is not relevant, if you think about it.
Who knows how much time does Woz spend looking at new tech? He surely has more time than the average programmer to roam the web or conventions looking for some interesting tech. What we don't know is how much time does he devote to that activity.
OSX vs Linux performance on powerpc is a delicate matter. The desktop seems indeed better on OSX (unless you compare the shells) but overall Linux is faster, in my own experience. But, google for some benchmarks.
yes $1080 for a $895 dollar workstation, what a deal sign me up! I was born yesterday
Don't forget the tech support contract. It's a deal. How great it is, I'm not able to tell.
...some small agreement must be made between the People of a society to establish an organization for their mutal protection from the worst elements of themselves, who would come forth and enslave if they didn't. We call that government.
The "worst elements" then infiltrate the government and use it for their own purposes.
History of the world in one paragraph. Not bad.
But we already have a perfect language for such acrostic thingies:
perl.
Oh, and maybe whitespace
They should be sued if they ever mention being an "ISP" after pulling this one. TCP/IP doesn't mention different quality of service options based on sponsorship, after all...
:)
Quick, someone patent the "lovely bit". Just like the evil bit but reserved for sponsored traffic.
Maybe RSA uses LibTomCrypt. ;)
It may also be ignorance. Let's say a company whose workforce is accostumed to windows does tech support for some hardware products. One of their clients phone, they have a problem. During the phonecall the client mentions he has linux installed on a partition. Bingo, the tech support guy genuinely think that the problem is an interference or a misconfiguration because of the presence of "that other os".
:)
Once I offered to backup an old win98 machine with a linux livecd and an usb stick because the system was clogged, and I didn't trust myself to install more drivers on it. People instead were thinking the opposite, with running linux as the risky choice. D'oh!
Sometimes it works the other way. I phoned my ISP cause "my internet was broken"
Tech support starts talking about configuration, on windows. I cut short: "I am using linux and tested both my installations and one of OSX. My ethernet hub blinking lights says that my network card works, too".
"So it's the modem or the line" (both their business, and of course it was a line problem).
Look at the parent comment moderation. Yesterday it was +4 with already the reasonable flamebait score. Today modded down all by overrated. Nothing wrong in getting modded overrated, but it's quite a strange distribution, all favorable and "responsibly negative" ratings first, all cowardly unfavorable later. So what, you say? Imagine a beowulf cluster of a microsoft astroturfers' fake slashdot accounts.
France surrenders!
No need to know how to solve a cube or even try a single move before spotting a problem.
The central squares on each face of the cube cannot be moved, only rotated. So, for example, if two of them are same color, the cube has been tampered with.
Anyway the surest way is to look at those "opposing" colors. IIRC most cubes had the green face opposed to the blue one, white face to yellow, orange to dark red...
anyway one can just look at the cube's central squares and see what the opposite colors should be if the cube were not tampered with.
Spotting lateral or angular little cubes which have opposing colors on their faces means the cube has been tampered with. Easier to spot on angular little cubes.
That's because most people think that the more they mess with the colors the more they will confuse you. Instead, switching only two couples of stickers will be enough and quite more difficult to spot.
I had learned a simple way to solve the cube, with 3 main sequences, average time 3 and a half minutes without fretting too much.
By the way in 2001 the situation was like this:
:P
On macs the beta quality OSX 10.0 (the feature starved 10.1 late that year)
On windows the crap quality Windows ME (the kinda stable but insecure xp late that year)
On Linux kernel 2.4 which was quite compatible with 2.2, stable on my mac, great for server software, with some desktop apps too.
Blue hair indeed
Ok, but IMHO the best way to keep piracy to a reasonable amount was to keep using different architectures than x86. And have the added bonus of calling yourself free as in "no TCPA inside".
He would learn about trusted computing and the trend towards pervasive computing, make the connection, and regret he hadn't patented Big Brother.
BTW, some say TCPA was indeed a factor in the Apple switch to Intel.
You kinda wasted the joke, that way... let's see:
"In Korea only old people don't understand the superstring theory"
or
"Imagine a beowulf classroom of these!"
You insensitive clod.
The article author should point out that this is in Great Britain (United Kingdom) and is an effort by the government (The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management) to get a broad range of opinion, unlike George W. Bush's White House in the USA, which is just fine with it's own set of selective facts and could care less what polls say.
Could be worse: Italy recently restored an electoral method that an overwhelming majority of people had voted to get rid of, back in 92: so we have three kind of governments, UK that asks people about their opinion, USA that ignores em, Italia that does the exact opposite of what people wanted.
But did anybody ask the people before going to war in Iraq in any of the three "democracies"?
... getting to Vista and coming from FOSS or *nix. Apple demostrated that incorporating free software has lots of advantages without hurting sales much, if at all. :)
And Microsoft, with its stance on patents vs copyright in software, already demonstrated it can do shameless 180 degree turns.
Microsoft: how much can you trust us today?
Gates on patents
I will concede the point about OSX even if i don't agree with it, as making an unix environment friendly for the desktop user is a first. Not to mention convincing the GUI-worshipping macOS users to get down on an unix shell.
But, what about the newton? what about the laser printer and desktop publishing? Things that came almost out of nowhere and were pioneered by Apple.
Maybe it's still our good ol' Microsoft.
1) Release an implementation of an interesting concept as shared source.
2) Wait for free software hackers to implement a similar solution.
3) Come up with a submarine patent on the idea and a lawsuit for the hackers who "stole the code", SCO style.
4) Profit!!!
... State sponsored construction projects are never completed in time. IF they ever get completed. The Guinness book of records editors should't hold their breath.
Also, an enormous amount of public money has been dumped for decades into the southern regions, ("Cassa per il Mezzogiorno") to improve its economic situation, ending up to serve the interests of the mafia controlled building firms.
As reported here and as most Italians recall, a couple years ago a guy called Pietro Lunardi said that things like the mafia will always exist and we must live with them and they cannot stop us from spending money on public projects.
This guy was, and still is, the Italian Minister of Infrastructures and Transport.
If you are like most developers, you think about security when you program controllers and views.
... indeed, but it doesn't take long to realize that the ModelSecurity approach is the cleanest one. I'll have my apps using it soon.
Not a FPS, but Gottlieb's Q*bert arcade game is abstract.
Joust and Marble madness were less strange, but ok.
Asteroids Pong and Qix were the most stylized ones.
Pacman? the guy eats up pills, starts seeing ghosts, and when he eats the bigger pill he thinks he is invincible and eats them. It's not abstract but a junkie's nightmare all right.
I was only pointing out that the Amiga came out after 2 years but was as mature as the initial Lisa/Mac environment much later (if evar :-) ).
:-)
You're aware that a large amount of Amiga software (primarily games and graphics-oriented software) bypassed the OS, and "hit the hardware" directly?
Are you aware that, even if it were justifiable by the circumstances, this is not considered to be good design?