I imagine that this announcement means that Google will no longer be "interested in providing updates" to the open-source Chromium Browser that preserve compatibility with Windows Vista. Which "Open source alternatives" did you have in mind?
Which would bloat download sizes by a factor of ten compared to lossily compressed textures where appropriate. Or are you recommending that developers implement texture decompression through a polyfill in JavaScript?
Drop WebM/MP4 containers, and all video codecs except for hardware supported h.265/h.264 + AAC/FLAC.
Which would require each web developer to purchase a license from MPEG-LA in order to encode background music and cut scenes. Or are you recommending that developers implement royalty-free video codec decompression through a polyfill in JavaScript?
Drop the development console.
Then how would a programmer at a game studio go about debugging her work?
What is this "ONE security fix for IE" without losing the use of other applications on Windows Vista? It used to be switching to Chrome, but that will cease to be the case soon per the featured article. Has Mozilla stated one way or another whether Firefox will continue to work on Windows Vista until April 2017? Or are you referring to buying a newer version of Windows to replace Windows Vista?
And how do they stop it if they don't have Internet access to download the latest patches?
Devices not yet cleared for Internet access would have access to hosts other than the ones used for update services blocked. Better yet, the ISP could run a mirror of Apple Software Update, Windows Update, and Ubuntu trusty-security and wily-security.
What if there are no patches?
If patches do not exist because the operating system has reached its date of end of support, it is the subscriber's responsibility to purchase an upgrade to customer-provided equipment. If patches do not exist because the defect is still 0-day, I don't know. If patches exist but the ISP is not aware of a particular brand of operating system, I don't know.
Well if the infected system was mine, I wouldn't need a patch, I'd just wipe the systems clean and rebuild from scratch
How would you download the image with which to "rebuild from scratch" and download patches released since the image was created without Internet access?
you could do something like require any routers that border to a non-signatory nation have the known botnet IP addresses blocked for one week
Isn't that what the widely hated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECTIP) bills threatened to do?
A number of colleges and universities already enact such policies as it is. The one I went to actually had a mandatory malware scan before you were allowed on their dorm network
Is this malware scan available for OS X and major GNU/Linux distributions? Or does it work correctly in Wine? Or are students required to buy a copy of Genuine Windows® for each Mac or Linux laptop, reboot into Windows in order to connect to the Internet, replace iPad and Android tablets with Surface tablets, and leave the phones on cellular data?
This will leave Windows Vista users without security fixes for Google Chrome, while security fixes for Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Vista continue until April 11, 2017, according to Microsoft's life cycle fact sheet.
I personally refuse to endorse the litany of infringement excuses commonly repeated on Slashdot by "information wants to be free" types. But one I will endorse is when the copyright owner either A. cannot be located and contacted or B. refuses to offer a license at a royalty close to the royalty for comparable uses of comparable works. The law at least ought to make statutory damages unavailable in those cases, allowing a reuser to put a reasonable royalty into a trust with which to settle with the copyright owner for actual damages later.
Example of A: mccalli's situation and other situations listed in Orphan works Example of B: Song of the South, where comparable works include the same studio's Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks Another example of B: The detailed rules of Tetris or any other video game whose publisher wants to promote it as an e-sport, where comparable works include the rules of tennis
I have an iPhone, and when I go looking for games (or any app) I don't look at Google Play. I have a Mac, and I don't search for Windows software either.
Yet Windows and Android software keeps popping up in search results when you use a generic web search engine, such as DuckDuckGo or Bing, to search for reviews of apps in a particular category.
You could always make/play point-and-click games instead of trying to shoehorn directional-control mechanics onto a positional platform. Point-and-click worked for ICOM (MacVenture series), Activision (Return to Zork), Cyan (Myst), Sierra (King's Quest; Leisure Suit Larry), LucasArts (old Monkey Island), and Telltale (modern Monkey Island). Shoot-em-ups such as AirAttack HD also tend to work well, with the touch screen acting like a laptop's trackpad to move the player's vehicle.
Ideally, gamers would be able to buy a MOGA gamepad and clip it onto a phone. But last time I checked these gamepad manufacturers weren't releasing sales figures to let game studios determine the size of the market for phones with buttons.
Have you tried reporting the pirate links to the application's developer so that the developer can forward a Notice of Claimed Infringement to the pirate site or to the pirate site's ISP?
If you want to reach more than a few Mac users you need to write for Windows.
Unless your game studio is established enough to qualify for the PlayStation partner program. If so, you can reach users across all PlayStation platforms.
The short report claims that username exposure and login page exposure are vulnerabilities. But if you don't expose usernames, how do readers track to whom each comment in the comment section belongs? And if you don't expose a login page, how do posters track which of their comments have been replied to, and how do users manage their subscriptions to various newsletters?
very HQ recordings that nobody will ever want to see
You appear to underestimate the demand for videos of gameplay on retro consoles. Not only do people like to watch classic games, but also new games are being developed for the old platforms, and people want to watch the first level before buying the cartridge.
Indeed, there is an explicit disclaimer of warranty in the GPL and other OSS licenses.
Which doesn't do you much good if your code is available in a country where a disclaimer of an legally recognized implied warranty is considered unconscionable and therefore null, void, and of no force or effect.
Companies tend to forget which businesses they are _not_ in. Selling software is not sustainable, but selling experience (games) and experience (professional expertese) are.
So how would one sell "experience" (games) without "selling software"? For one thing, video game console developer contracts are known to forbid inclusion of copylefted code in a product. For another, are you referring to combining a free engine with non-free assets (scripts, meshes, textures, maps, and audio)? And if so, how should a studio adopting such a business model deter casual infringement of a game's assets?
Why wouldn't you just switch to recording on DVD/flash drive?
Because not all reviews of DVD/flash drive recorders specify compatibility with video sources, and I don't have the money to buy one of each just to review it the way one Google engineer is doing with USB C cables.
Consumer recorders can record an NTSC signal with standard timing (227.5 color burst cycles per line by 262.5 lines per field) fine. But a lot of classic video game consoles output a nonstandard 240p video signal for memory cost reasons. The last flash recorder I tried (an Aiptek) recorded 480i TV and 480i GameCube video but puked on the 240p sources I fed into it. I have a Philips DVD recorder that records NES (227.333x262) and Sega Genesis (228x262) well, such that I can recover the original 240p from the recorded 480i signal with either AviSynth or FFmpeg. But for some reason, it records my Super NES (also 227.333x262) in black and white, sometimes with colored bars flickering in and out. My conjecture is that it confuses the nonstandard video signal of a 1/1/1 Super NES with certain analog copy protection schemes that the DMCA requires consumer recording equipment to respond to.
Furthermore, I was lucky to find a DVD recorder that had an NTSC/ATSC tuner when I could. Most current DVD recorders that I've seen in stores are line-in only, which doesn't work for RF-only sources such as OTA TV, low-end "Digital Transport Adapter" cable boxes, Atari 2600, original Famicom, or revised NES. So one would need to buy an external tuner as well.
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I imagine that this announcement means that Google will no longer be "interested in providing updates" to the open-source Chromium Browser that preserve compatibility with Windows Vista. Which "Open source alternatives" did you have in mind?
1) Drop PDF, JPEG, GIF, WEBP, leaving only PNG.
Which would bloat download sizes by a factor of ten compared to lossily compressed textures where appropriate. Or are you recommending that developers implement texture decompression through a polyfill in JavaScript?
Drop WebM/MP4 containers, and all video codecs except for hardware supported h.265/h.264 + AAC/FLAC.
Which would require each web developer to purchase a license from MPEG-LA in order to encode background music and cut scenes. Or are you recommending that developers implement royalty-free video codec decompression through a polyfill in JavaScript?
Drop the development console.
Then how would a programmer at a game studio go about debugging her work?
What is this "ONE security fix for IE" without losing the use of other applications on Windows Vista? It used to be switching to Chrome, but that will cease to be the case soon per the featured article. Has Mozilla stated one way or another whether Firefox will continue to work on Windows Vista until April 2017? Or are you referring to buying a newer version of Windows to replace Windows Vista?
And how do they stop it if they don't have Internet access to download the latest patches?
Devices not yet cleared for Internet access would have access to hosts other than the ones used for update services blocked. Better yet, the ISP could run a mirror of Apple Software Update, Windows Update, and Ubuntu trusty-security and wily-security.
What if there are no patches?
If patches do not exist because the operating system has reached its date of end of support, it is the subscriber's responsibility to purchase an upgrade to customer-provided equipment. If patches do not exist because the defect is still 0-day, I don't know. If patches exist but the ISP is not aware of a particular brand of operating system, I don't know.
Well if the infected system was mine, I wouldn't need a patch, I'd just wipe the systems clean and rebuild from scratch
How would you download the image with which to "rebuild from scratch" and download patches released since the image was created without Internet access?
you could do something like require any routers that border to a non-signatory nation have the known botnet IP addresses blocked for one week
Isn't that what the widely hated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECTIP) bills threatened to do?
A number of colleges and universities already enact such policies as it is. The one I went to actually had a mandatory malware scan before you were allowed on their dorm network
Is this malware scan available for OS X and major GNU/Linux distributions? Or does it work correctly in Wine? Or are students required to buy a copy of Genuine Windows® for each Mac or Linux laptop, reboot into Windows in order to connect to the Internet, replace iPad and Android tablets with Surface tablets, and leave the phones on cellular data?
This will leave Windows Vista users without security fixes for Google Chrome, while security fixes for Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Vista continue until April 11, 2017, according to Microsoft's life cycle fact sheet.
I personally refuse to endorse the litany of infringement excuses commonly repeated on Slashdot by "information wants to be free" types. But one I will endorse is when the copyright owner either A. cannot be located and contacted or B. refuses to offer a license at a royalty close to the royalty for comparable uses of comparable works. The law at least ought to make statutory damages unavailable in those cases, allowing a reuser to put a reasonable royalty into a trust with which to settle with the copyright owner for actual damages later.
Example of A: mccalli's situation and other situations listed in Orphan works
Example of B: Song of the South, where comparable works include the same studio's Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Another example of B: The detailed rules of Tetris or any other video game whose publisher wants to promote it as an e-sport, where comparable works include the rules of tennis
What percentage of Android devices even uses ART by default, rather than Dalvik?
I have an iPhone, and when I go looking for games (or any app) I don't look at Google Play. I have a Mac, and I don't search for Windows software either.
Yet Windows and Android software keeps popping up in search results when you use a generic web search engine, such as DuckDuckGo or Bing, to search for reviews of apps in a particular category.
Then perhaps you need to get more aggressive at suing cloners like Tetris is.
You could always make/play point-and-click games instead of trying to shoehorn directional-control mechanics onto a positional platform. Point-and-click worked for ICOM (MacVenture series), Activision (Return to Zork), Cyan (Myst), Sierra (King's Quest; Leisure Suit Larry), LucasArts (old Monkey Island), and Telltale (modern Monkey Island). Shoot-em-ups such as AirAttack HD also tend to work well, with the touch screen acting like a laptop's trackpad to move the player's vehicle.
Ideally, gamers would be able to buy a MOGA gamepad and clip it onto a phone. But last time I checked these gamepad manufacturers weren't releasing sales figures to let game studios determine the size of the market for phones with buttons.
Have you tried reporting the pirate links to the application's developer so that the developer can forward a Notice of Claimed Infringement to the pirate site or to the pirate site's ISP?
If you want to reach more than a few Mac users you need to write for Windows.
Unless your game studio is established enough to qualify for the PlayStation partner program. If so, you can reach users across all PlayStation platforms.
But then who will have any money to buy things made by robots?
ObManna
HMAC-SHA1 is probably what's considered "obsolete".
The short report claims that username exposure and login page exposure are vulnerabilities. But if you don't expose usernames, how do readers track to whom each comment in the comment section belongs? And if you don't expose a login page, how do posters track which of their comments have been replied to, and how do users manage their subscriptions to various newsletters?
The idea is that anyone could take this program, disable the warnings, and combine it with some exploit package to create ransomware.
very HQ recordings that nobody will ever want to see
You appear to underestimate the demand for videos of gameplay on retro consoles. Not only do people like to watch classic games, but also new games are being developed for the old platforms, and people want to watch the first level before buying the cartridge.
None of which has anything to do with sex life.
I don't know much about the specifics of attorney-client privilege in various jurisdictions, but this article pertaining to England and Wales may help.
Windows has the capability to run programs under different accounts.
That's a start. Bundling a GUI to create accounts for individual desktop applications would be even better.
Indeed, there is an explicit disclaimer of warranty in the GPL and other OSS licenses.
Which doesn't do you much good if your code is available in a country where a disclaimer of an legally recognized implied warranty is considered unconscionable and therefore null, void, and of no force or effect.
Companies tend to forget which businesses they are _not_ in. Selling software is not sustainable, but selling experience (games) and experience (professional expertese) are.
So how would one sell "experience" (games) without "selling software"? For one thing, video game console developer contracts are known to forbid inclusion of copylefted code in a product. For another, are you referring to combining a free engine with non-free assets (scripts, meshes, textures, maps, and audio)? And if so, how should a studio adopting such a business model deter casual infringement of a game's assets?
Why wouldn't you just switch to recording on DVD/flash drive?
Because not all reviews of DVD/flash drive recorders specify compatibility with video sources, and I don't have the money to buy one of each just to review it the way one Google engineer is doing with USB C cables.
Consumer recorders can record an NTSC signal with standard timing (227.5 color burst cycles per line by 262.5 lines per field) fine. But a lot of classic video game consoles output a nonstandard 240p video signal for memory cost reasons. The last flash recorder I tried (an Aiptek) recorded 480i TV and 480i GameCube video but puked on the 240p sources I fed into it. I have a Philips DVD recorder that records NES (227.333x262) and Sega Genesis (228x262) well, such that I can recover the original 240p from the recorded 480i signal with either AviSynth or FFmpeg. But for some reason, it records my Super NES (also 227.333x262) in black and white, sometimes with colored bars flickering in and out. My conjecture is that it confuses the nonstandard video signal of a 1/1/1 Super NES with certain analog copy protection schemes that the DMCA requires consumer recording equipment to respond to.
Furthermore, I was lucky to find a DVD recorder that had an NTSC/ATSC tuner when I could. Most current DVD recorders that I've seen in stores are line-in only, which doesn't work for RF-only sources such as OTA TV, low-end "Digital Transport Adapter" cable boxes, Atari 2600, original Famicom, or revised NES. So one would need to buy an external tuner as well.