I guess the fact that I use my laptop as a portable recording studio isn't a reasonable justification? Even the top of the line 17" 1.33 Ghz can't always keep up with my realtime processing needs.
Good points... as you use yours for a recording studio, i use my 17" as a intensive dev environment, with Metroworks Codewarrior, Dreamweaver, Office X, and photoshop all w/ stuff open (and compiling) at the same time -- when you're a shareware dev, you wear a lot of hats, and having that power and instant access to those apps is key. In fact, i just dropped in a 512MB module last week.
The guys does have a point about marketing depts wanting us to think we need to spend all-out for *the* latest hardware in a laptop. Granted, doing hard core recording studio stuff (ie, make-or-break/critical real-time processing) in a laptop would be a good reason for a portable G5, but now we're talking a real minority of users.
Separetly, the heat problem is an interesting one. My 17" already burns a hole in my lap when the CPU is maxed out, so the engineers have their work cut out for them for the heat load of a maxed out G5. whew.
But what about mailing lists and whatnot operated by small organizations?
Good point. Possible solution: perhaps there would be a mechanism such that to subscribe to such a list, you, the subscriber have to pay your.01 cent. I wouldn't mind and I think most people wouldn't either. Such an pay system would already have an authentication/signature system, so adding such a "reverse" mechanism would be a non-issue.
When it comes right down to it, heuristics and Bayesian filters and challenge/response systems do improve things from the point of view of the recipient, but not from the point of view of the IT group that has to support all this overhead. Ultimately, e-postage is probably the right way to go, but the costs (implementing the micropayment overhead, plus protocol changes, plus the human frustration) are prohibitive in the short run. Don't look for this in the next couple of years. Besides, people just hate the idea of paying for their e-mail.
A questionable set of assumptions. If you charged.01 cents an email, I don't think anyone would mind paying a cent for a hundred emails we sent out (if it meant no spam). To a spammer, such a cost suddenly makes bulk emailing not an option and they'd be screwed. I wouldn't mind an electronic analog of "junk" email in the way we get junk snail mail. It's not something I love, but legitimate companies do have legitimate goods and services. This is to say, I'd have no problems if "junk" email was 2-5 emails a day from medium/large legit companies containing various sales info.
DeBeers has announced their official entry into the X-prize competition...
In other news... De Beers made a press release shortly ago annoucing full support and funding for the Bush administration's push to the moon as well as "additional" space exploration.
As one of the "later roommates", I can wholeheartedly testify to this amazing tale! This guy was amazing!!
I could be playing games till 3, getting up at 5 AM every other day (long story), or chatting w/ people in our room w/ all the lights on--this guy wouldn't budge!
However, I will say that this guy--we'll call him "steveo" for the purposes of this post--would talk in his sleep....in German, in fact! It started the semester "steveo" took German.
Thanks for all the good times, "steveo"--I miss ya, man!!
It started w/ Pixar, "led" and represented by Jobs, negotiated w/ Disney (I forget the head guys that were at the semi-famous meeting) made a three picture deal, a 50/50 split on revs, but Disney got main branding. Take a look at the Toy Story movie sleeve--Pixar is just in tiny text. I say "led" in quotes because up to this point, Jobs was putting crazy amts of cash into Pixar while all his time, energy, and passion was going into Next--and the Pixar people liked this relationship (the fact that he was 2 hours away and rarely visited).
_Toy Story_ was a new class of film, did super well (as we all know), and put Pixar on the map. Right around there, before _A Bug's Life_, the two companies met again. Jobs knew that this technology was on the rise and would only become more capable while traditional animation would only be static at best. Meanwhile, senior Disney management was entrenched in by-hand/man-intensive traditional animation techniques. One of the three major credits Jobs is given for leading Pixar is what went down in this deal. In some what was regarded as very impressive and ballsy negotiating (and some bluffing as the story goes), he walked out of the deal with equal branding of Pixar w/ Disney, a lot more leverage and PR/merch stuff (I can't recall more), only at the cost of extending their movie commitments to something like 5 films. It was at this same meeting, the faction of Disney senior leadership that thought CGI was the future voiced separate opinion (and would split to form Dreamworks, which is why DW has a lot of the look and feel of traditional animation). FYI, Jobs' two other Pixar credits are considered to be him continuing to pour cash into Pixar for the many many years (before _Toy Story_ was ever conceived, while Pixar pioneered its technology) and taking Pixar public). Take a look at the sleeve for _A Bug's Life_ --notice the equal branding and recall the big nifty Pixar logo-intro w/ the lamp at the start of it.
If Disney wants to, they could make Finding Nemo II all by themselves.
I'm not sure what film number their on per their contract w/ Disney, but yes, it's right about now--that's another reason Disney can be considered to be SOL and in need of new senior leadership to innovate their image and filmmaking.
Finally, Livio takes a shot at the idea that mathematics is a universal concept across the entire universe.
This seems like a tall, tall order. I've been into math/geometry/visual related software for years now and am now transitioning into making my living off it. However, the fact that there are still many fundamental mysteries in mathematics always raises doubt on the things like our origins, God, and the universe. Pi is the best example of that. It's no puzzle to me why countless minds have tried to be the hero (or the mathematician version of one), to unlock pi's mystery, but no one has yet to really break through. The film Pi is an excellent and enjoyable film, and considers the magnitude (as well as the price) of unlocking pi's mystery.
I'd like to day I'm open minded, but whew. Perhaps such things are more considerable when you start to consider all the various matter/energy theories floating around out there. There's still gigantic mysteries still out there for cosmology and physics (dark matter, open universe, dark energy, unification of gravity into the standard model), so I suppose we should never be too hasty to close the door on counterintuitive or far-fetched theories. I'd love to hear anyone who can paraphrase the thrust of this person's arguments, etc.
grr... Not true This is not a OS flaw issue. Sure, this flaw may not *happen* to make their mac os x build vulnerable, but that's only a coincidence when the flaw is in their source code (that causes a buf overflow).
Before you tout your OS as the man, you should know what it deserves credit for and what it doesn't. For the record. My machine is a 17" G4 that I swear by, and I'd fight to the death before using OS as my daily driver.
Based on the info available, it's a "lazy programmer" flaw (to borrow a previous poster's words). This is to say that a buf overflow (or something of the like) happens such that you can place an arbitrary sequence of bytes on the stack. When those bytes are executed, however, they'd of course have to be native instructions for the given CPU, meaning that the attacker would have had to create he executable sequence for a specific platform.
So, in nature, the flaws like these are cross-platform (ie, Mac OS X would be vulnerable), but at the end of the day it's super super unlikely to see someone exploit this flaw on a platform other than windows (on an x86). Otherwise, it would require a guy to be malicious, motivated, have a lot of time on his hands, *and* know the ppc instruction set and mac os x runtime architecture like the back of his hand.
For Microsoft, these hard choices are the price of not working with the same partners. Any sane observer knows that Microsoft will do what it must to please its current Xbox consumers.
Fluff. M$ is just doing what it only knows how to do: adjust parameters in the big equations of profits, leverage, and market penetration in order to ensure a beefy bottom line. Articles that add a dramatic aspect to this process are a waste of time.
On optinbig's site [optinbig.com], they list a phone number to call to set up an appointment.
I'm older now and out of touch with go-to resources of a certain nature, but I'd be nice to see someone do some DOS via phone (the nice thing about a phone is that you don't even need a distributed DOS to get the job done).
The original HL is incredible work--nobody will deny that. The net play was nothing short of impressive across the board and it only got more enjoyable as follow-on additions came out.
So, like any sequel, it's to be determined if they're riding on the value earned by the original half-life name. This, to me, raises the repeated issue of the nature of first-person gaming improvements. For me (and prolly for most ppl here), the fun of HL1 was in plot solo-play elements, well-done net play, and a decent 3D experience Note I said "decent", not outstanding--we enjoy games ultimately because of non-graphical related quality. We've all played Zelda in the original Nintendo--it was incredibly done. How much "better" would HL1 or Zelda be with twice the graphical quality? I'd argue not much. The real innovations are in anything but graphics. How about Starcraft? Anyone here thing WC3 is a major leap over Starcraft (other than basic visual/GUI/resolution improvements)?
I guess I'm just saying that in the realm of professional games, non-graphical innovations are what make the game. These modern game companies have a real challenge ahead of them.
This will give the new Xbox "more computing power than most personal computers." A graphics chip designed by ATI Technologies that will clock in with speeds faster than the upcoming R400.
...this leak failed to include the part about bundling MS Office for free IAW Euro settlements to "give" back to the public. I hear they may even provide hardware acceleration for this. Whew. With hardware acceleration, MS Word could open in less than a second!
Microsoft and its ilk don't do developer tools because the potential revenue is so exciting. Rather, they play in these markets because doing so is strategic support for their platform.
Which is why I've always found Win32 example code, docs, and the like mediocre at best. In contast, Apple always has incredible and astoundly impressive dev docs, support, and communication. Whenever I'm trying to find stuff on msdn, it feels like the days when your searching for something using Hotbot. At Apple, I'm reading the right resources typically within 20 secs of arriving at the site. I'd comment about other dev communities, but I have little to no xp and/or exposure there.
In cultures with greater hierarchies, group members assume an authority will decide and they are only to enact the decision." Some stereotypes and some common sense, but I recognized myself in the descriptions of the 'typical American'."
Agreed. This is consistent the projection that not-so mind/cognative-intensive software work will continue to go overseas while the R&D/high-cognative software related work stays here.
I personally don't feel much pity for the M$ visual basic ppl (ie, mega-corp software cogs) who whine about their job going overseas (let alone the gov't interfereing legistation to support that ideal).
Ok, so this guy "invented" it, but anyone know any mroe history on it? I mean, is there a story beind? Why those keys? Was there a precursor? (no punn intended).
Slashdot Mirror
I guess the fact that I use my laptop as a portable recording studio isn't a reasonable justification? Even the top of the line 17" 1.33 Ghz can't always keep up with my realtime processing needs.
Good points... as you use yours for a recording studio, i use my 17" as a intensive dev environment, with Metroworks Codewarrior, Dreamweaver, Office X, and photoshop all w/ stuff open (and compiling) at the same time -- when you're a shareware dev, you wear a lot of hats, and having that power and instant access to those apps is key. In fact, i just dropped in a 512MB module last week.
The guys does have a point about marketing depts wanting us to think we need to spend all-out for *the* latest hardware in a laptop. Granted, doing hard core recording studio stuff (ie, make-or-break/critical real-time processing) in a laptop would be a good reason for a portable G5, but now we're talking a real minority of users.
Separetly, the heat problem is an interesting one. My 17" already burns a hole in my lap when the CPU is maxed out, so the engineers have their work cut out for them for the heat load of a maxed out G5. whew.
(David Spade voice) I think I saw that when Reagan called it "Star Wars" in the 80's
But what about mailing lists and whatnot operated by small organizations?
.01 cent. I wouldn't mind and I think most people wouldn't either. Such an pay system would already have an authentication/signature system, so adding such a "reverse" mechanism would be a non-issue.
Good point. Possible solution: perhaps there would be a mechanism such that to subscribe to such a list, you, the subscriber have to pay your
When it comes right down to it, heuristics and Bayesian filters and challenge/response systems do improve things from the point of view of the recipient, but not from the point of view of the IT group that has to support all this overhead. Ultimately, e-postage is probably the right way to go, but the costs (implementing the micropayment overhead, plus protocol changes, plus the human frustration) are prohibitive in the short run. Don't look for this in the next couple of years. Besides, people just hate the idea of paying for their e-mail.
.01 cents an email, I don't think anyone would mind paying a cent for a hundred emails we sent out (if it meant no spam). To a spammer, such a cost suddenly makes bulk emailing not an option and they'd be screwed. I wouldn't mind an electronic analog of "junk" email in the way we get junk snail mail. It's not something I love, but legitimate companies do have legitimate goods and services. This is to say, I'd have no problems if "junk" email was 2-5 emails a day from medium/large legit companies containing various sales info.
A questionable set of assumptions. If you charged
DeBeers has announced their official entry into the X-prize competition...
In other news... De Beers made a press release shortly ago annoucing full support and funding for the Bush administration's push to the moon as well as "additional" space exploration.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
Windows source code posted!!
This is OT, but as a 2001 fan, i noticed that your sig should just be "My..." (ie, no "Oh").
As one of the "later roommates", I can wholeheartedly testify to this amazing tale! This guy was amazing!!
...in German, in fact! It started the semester "steveo" took German.
I could be playing games till 3, getting up at 5 AM every other day (long story), or chatting w/ people in our room w/ all the lights on--this guy wouldn't budge!
However, I will say that this guy--we'll call him "steveo" for the purposes of this post--would talk in his sleep.
Thanks for all the good times, "steveo"--I miss ya, man!!
I, for one, welcome our new photon overlords.
to add...
It started w/ Pixar, "led" and represented by Jobs, negotiated w/ Disney (I forget the head guys that were at the semi-famous meeting) made a three picture deal, a 50/50 split on revs, but Disney got main branding. Take a look at the Toy Story movie sleeve--Pixar is just in tiny text. I say "led" in quotes because up to this point, Jobs was putting crazy amts of cash into Pixar while all his time, energy, and passion was going into Next--and the Pixar people liked this relationship (the fact that he was 2 hours away and rarely visited).
_Toy Story_ was a new class of film, did super well (as we all know), and put Pixar on the map. Right around there, before _A Bug's Life_, the two companies met again. Jobs knew that this technology was on the rise and would only become more capable while traditional animation would only be static at best. Meanwhile, senior Disney management was entrenched in by-hand/man-intensive traditional animation techniques. One of the three major credits Jobs is given for leading Pixar is what went down in this deal. In some what was regarded as very impressive and ballsy negotiating (and some bluffing as the story goes), he walked out of the deal with equal branding of Pixar w/ Disney, a lot more leverage and PR/merch stuff (I can't recall more), only at the cost of extending their movie commitments to something like 5 films. It was at this same meeting, the faction of Disney senior leadership that thought CGI was the future voiced separate opinion (and would split to form Dreamworks, which is why DW has a lot of the look and feel of traditional animation). FYI, Jobs' two other Pixar credits are considered to be him continuing to pour cash into Pixar for the many many years (before _Toy Story_ was ever conceived, while Pixar pioneered its technology) and taking Pixar public). Take a look at the sleeve for _A Bug's Life_ --notice the equal branding and recall the big nifty Pixar logo-intro w/ the lamp at the start of it.
If Disney wants to, they could make Finding Nemo II all by themselves.
I'm not sure what film number their on per their contract w/ Disney, but yes, it's right about now--that's another reason Disney can be considered to be SOL and in need of new senior leadership to innovate their image and filmmaking.
Finally, Livio takes a shot at the idea that mathematics is a universal concept across the entire universe.
This seems like a tall, tall order. I've been into math/geometry/visual related software for years now and am now transitioning into making my living off it. However, the fact that there are still many fundamental mysteries in mathematics always raises doubt on the things like our origins, God, and the universe. Pi is the best example of that. It's no puzzle to me why countless minds have tried to be the hero (or the mathematician version of one), to unlock pi's mystery, but no one has yet to really break through. The film Pi is an excellent and enjoyable film, and considers the magnitude (as well as the price) of unlocking pi's mystery.
I'd like to day I'm open minded, but whew. Perhaps such things are more considerable when you start to consider all the various matter/energy theories floating around out there. There's still gigantic mysteries still out there for cosmology and physics (dark matter, open universe, dark energy, unification of gravity into the standard model), so I suppose we should never be too hasty to close the door on counterintuitive or far-fetched theories. I'd love to hear anyone who can paraphrase the thrust of this person's arguments, etc.
grr... Not true This is not a OS flaw issue. Sure, this flaw may not *happen* to make their mac os x build vulnerable, but that's only a coincidence when the flaw is in their source code (that causes a buf overflow).
Before you tout your OS as the man, you should know what it deserves credit for and what it doesn't. For the record. My machine is a 17" G4 that I swear by, and I'd fight to the death before using OS as my daily driver.
Based on the info available, it's a "lazy programmer" flaw (to borrow a previous poster's words). This is to say that a buf overflow (or something of the like) happens such that you can place an arbitrary sequence of bytes on the stack. When those bytes are executed, however, they'd of course have to be native instructions for the given CPU, meaning that the attacker would have had to create he executable sequence for a specific platform.
So, in nature, the flaws like these are cross-platform (ie, Mac OS X would be vulnerable), but at the end of the day it's super super unlikely to see someone exploit this flaw on a platform other than windows (on an x86). Otherwise, it would require a guy to be malicious, motivated, have a lot of time on his hands, *and* know the ppc instruction set and mac os x runtime architecture like the back of his hand.
For Microsoft, these hard choices are the price of not working with the same partners. Any sane observer knows that Microsoft will do what it must to please its current Xbox consumers.
Fluff. M$ is just doing what it only knows how to do: adjust parameters in the big equations of profits, leverage, and market penetration in order to ensure a beefy bottom line. Articles that add a dramatic aspect to this process are a waste of time.
That calc needs to have an add'l button:
Slashdotter (Pressing it causes OVERFLOW)
On optinbig's site [optinbig.com], they list a phone number to call to set up an appointment.
I'm older now and out of touch with go-to resources of a certain nature, but I'd be nice to see someone do some DOS via phone (the nice thing about a phone is that you don't even need a distributed DOS to get the job done).
Call me old fashioned.
bravo.
The original HL is incredible work--nobody will deny that. The net play was nothing short of impressive across the board and it only got more enjoyable as follow-on additions came out.
So, like any sequel, it's to be determined if they're riding on the value earned by the original half-life name. This, to me, raises the repeated issue of the nature of first-person gaming improvements. For me (and prolly for most ppl here), the fun of HL1 was in plot solo-play elements, well-done net play, and a decent 3D experience Note I said "decent", not outstanding--we enjoy games ultimately because of non-graphical related quality. We've all played Zelda in the original Nintendo--it was incredibly done. How much "better" would HL1 or Zelda be with twice the graphical quality? I'd argue not much. The real innovations are in anything but graphics. How about Starcraft? Anyone here thing WC3 is a major leap over Starcraft (other than basic visual/GUI/resolution improvements)?
I guess I'm just saying that in the realm of professional games, non-graphical innovations are what make the game. These modern game companies have a real challenge ahead of them.
This will give the new Xbox "more computing power than most personal computers." A graphics chip designed by ATI Technologies that will clock in with speeds faster than the upcoming R400.
...this leak failed to include the part about bundling MS Office for free IAW Euro settlements to "give" back to the public. I hear they may even provide hardware acceleration for this. Whew. With hardware acceleration, MS Word could open in less than a second!
lol... i don't think many folks here caught your joke reference, but i dig.
Microsoft and its ilk don't do developer tools because the potential revenue is so exciting. Rather, they play in these markets because doing so is strategic support for their platform.
Which is why I've always found Win32 example code, docs, and the like mediocre at best. In contast, Apple always has incredible and astoundly impressive dev docs, support, and communication. Whenever I'm trying to find stuff on msdn, it feels like the days when your searching for something using Hotbot. At Apple, I'm reading the right resources typically within 20 secs of arriving at the site. I'd comment about other dev communities, but I have little to no xp and/or exposure there.
In cultures with greater hierarchies, group members assume an authority will decide and they are only to enact the decision." Some stereotypes and some common sense, but I recognized myself in the descriptions of the 'typical American'."
Agreed. This is consistent the projection that not-so mind/cognative-intensive software work will continue to go overseas while the R&D/high-cognative software related work stays here.
I personally don't feel much pity for the M$ visual basic ppl (ie, mega-corp software cogs) who whine about their job going overseas (let alone the gov't interfereing legistation to support that ideal).
Ok, so this guy "invented" it, but anyone know any mroe history on it? I mean, is there a story beind? Why those keys? Was there a precursor? (no punn intended).
Andy
That "bastards" search on google is hilarious. I've posted a screenshot at http://musicalcortex.com/google-bastards.png