Just give them about a month or two after they made it into the update. A bug is marked as "Fixed" as soon as the patch makes it into the trunk. Then it needs to be backported to release branch, added to update and sent out through update mechanisms. And leave people some time to download the update and patch their installs. Otherwise it will be a race between black hats and admins, who gets to exploit/update first, and there -will- be victims.
Oh, and damn me if I'm going to walk over to your store and pick the disk, then fumble through 60 disks to find the song I want, if I can sit in front of my computer at home and just download it (legally or not) without moving my lazy ass off the chair, then quickly find it on a nicely sorted list on my harddrive. And add it to the playlist of 40 favourite of given mood instead of swapping 35 disks filled mostly with crap to get to hear the 40 songs I want.
What kind of idiot buys 1h of music on a disk, when they can get, legally or not, 16, without need to swap the disks? If you were selling vinyl records, you'd be just in the same situation. Compressionless music is in decline. Same as horse coaches replaced by trains. Piracy may have its hand in it but not as much as a source of -free- music but as a source of -music as mp3-. Damn me if I'm going to waste 60 megabytes of data storage space for one 3-minute song.
Now you can do one thing more. Unless the court has ordered otherwise, you can reveal the names of the plaintiffs (ok, I'm not interested in YOUR name) so that we could send our love to said company, or make sure to take proper attitude in business contacts with them. Don't hold it, tell us!
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Exception: PATRIOT act. Say a senator is corrupted. Present proof. Since you're damaging the reputation of the government, you're acting against the Country and should be arrested on charges of terrorism.
Most (all?) antivirus companies have extremely harsh policy against employees writing viruses or other malicious code the software is to protect from.
What is there to stop Microsoft from putting a bug here, a hole there, purposedly, and "discover" it half a year later just to prove how essential the subscription service is to security of a company?
Everything NEW. But anything actually BETTER? I mean: Faster, Smaller, More stable, Easier to write apps for? Vista has enormous hardware requirements, even without the new heavyweight UI. What (and how) was improved (as opposed to just replaced with bigger, slower and harder to maintain) in Vista?
If I'm not up to "read" 40 pages of screenshots, what, besides gfx of the UI (which has been already backported to XP as "skins") has changed in Windows? Oh, Vista-only apps. Yay. Now why won't they work in XP? Some essential feature of XP missing? Or just to boost Vista sales? Want new game? Buy new Windows. And of course a new computer, because even if your current hardware could handle the gfx of the game if it was running under XP, it won't handle compound load of the game and Vista.
Surely more trusted than ones that finance their party with weapon trade and invading random countries. Or by making up laws that prevent any competition to those who fund their activity.
Nothing wrong with Intellectual Property rights of that. The fact you'd have to wear a paper bag on your head forever after releasing it is a completely different matter.
> Maybe some of the content was illegal, but what Pirate Bay did was not - at least by Swedish law (IANASwedeL).
It was not illegal, and that's pretty sure, because some of TPB crew are lawyers. That's what allowed them to operate despite all these threats for so long, and that's why they knew they could do all they were doing. Now I'd say the Police is ears deep in shit:)
Given Swedish law and the way this thing was processed, plus the tone and a fact that some of TPB crew is actually lawyers, expect a huge boost in TBP funding when they get a huge compensation from the Police for unlawful disruption of operation:D
The idea of language translators is as old as mountains. Translating from Fortran to Pascal, from C to Assembly, from C++ or Perl to C, from Csh to Bash, from Awk to Perl. What's so new about Java to Javascript translator? The fact that the guys wrote another "to javascript" translator?
This thing will enforce the power of urban legends, myths and other false but popular memes, people opposing them will be a minority.
"What is more secure, Windows or Linux"? And you get 1000 votes for "Windows" from 10% of Windows users of the service who bother to answer so, and 100 votes for "Linux" from nearly 70% of Linux users who will take time to answer plus another 2% of Windows users who know better.
And this will favour positive answers for questions with bias on your interests.
Say, you're an emo. You have your disk full of emo mp3s and dark poetry. And like every emo, you ponder suicide. So just to make the final decision, you type "Should I commit suicide?" and your question goes out to different people. But the most answers come from people who too have lots of emo mp3s and dark poetry on disks, simply, other emos. And you can guess the answers, "If I had enough guts, I would do it." "Yes, darkness, finally", "End your life, I'll envy you." Normal non-emo people don't keep that kind of crap on their disks and their advices to just drop that dark shit and get a life will get dropped by the system as not matching your interests...
If the benchmarks showed the amount of time to get the data to the GPU and especially the time to get the result back to a place where a program could actually use it
Why the hell do you assume AGP? We live in PCI-X era and it doesn't suffer from thin back-pipe anymore. Add to that DMA, meaning almost total bypassing the CPU at retrieving and writing the data and you get really lightning-fast communication.
And of course nothing stops you from using the CPU to do the FFT just together with the GPU, this kind of task is usually nicely paralellizable. Install 8 PCI-X gfx cards in 8 slots, add a task to perform it in the CPU in spare time between managing data and you have 33x the power of just the CPU alone, in one PC:)
I really regret there's no easy tool to transform pics to FT version and back in gfx images. Transfer, cut out vertical compound of some low frequency and get rid of these stripes of cardboard the original was drawn on. I had a proggy to play with that would apply given mask to FFT version of image before transferring it back and it could do some nice miracles.
And last but not least, (yes, that's not FFT but cosine transform, but not far...) I really want a hand-tuning JPEG tool, where you can pick each 8x8px block and set/clear its bits, to fill empty field with uniform color, clearing out noises, improve important edges, while using very high compression just for some interesting background effect, and get best quality with really extreme compression out of the ol'good Jpeg supported by everything.
(JPEG creates the compression loss by zero'ing certain "insignificant" values-frequencies in the 8x8px fields, thus making further lossless compression more efficient. It should be perfectly possible to hand-pick which values are cleared instead of leaving the decision to the program by just setting amount of fields to clear as the "quality" slider.)
The stupid assumption: If I didn't pirate it, I'd pay for it. No. If I didn't pirate it, I wouldn't use it.
I have about a dozen or so of good original games. The rest of my games is pirated, and you can be sure I wouldn't spend money on them. Legal? No. Fair? Maybe yes, maybe not. Harming economy? Total bullshit. The worst harm to the economy comes from me playing these games instead of working. If I didn't pirate them, the authors wouldn't see a single penny from me just the same. I just wouldn't play them.
The situation about utility software is even more twisted - same "not pirated=never used" often applies here too. Except pirated means using the software for profit and eventually purchasing originals when you can afford them (earning money on the pirated version first). Means the authors WILL eventually get their fair share. If I'm too afraid of get busted for pirating the software to use it though, they won't see a penny from me.
Last but not least, Postorder. Opposite of preorder. Preorder is when you pay now, get program later. Postorder is when you download the program now, pay later, at your leisure. Don't worry, Bethesda! I will pay for that copy of Oblivion I got... eventually!:)
...Screw the arrest, the scam, the kiddies... Where's the exploit code?! (I'd really laugh if the exploit "leaked" now, costing MySpace much more than $150,000 in downtime, lost data and lost crediblity.)
Somehow the Chineese manage to export $5 walkman-alikes and $2 fake christmas trees to Poland China and still make money on them. $60+ difference between US and Europe as transport cost is pure bullshit.
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Just give them about a month or two after they made it into the update.
A bug is marked as "Fixed" as soon as the patch makes it into the trunk. Then it needs to be backported to release branch, added to update and sent out through update mechanisms. And leave people some time to download the update and patch their installs. Otherwise it will be a race between black hats and admins, who gets to exploit/update first, and there -will- be victims.
Nope, with all this BluRay, Piratebay down and so on, Grand Theft of AutoCAD won't be available for PS3.
Yeah, finally gonna get rid of that damned noisy PC. As soon as I put my hands on a copy of AutoCAD for PS3.
Oh, and damn me if I'm going to walk over to your store and pick the disk, then fumble through 60 disks to find the song I want, if I can sit in front of my computer at home and just download it (legally or not) without moving my lazy ass off the chair, then quickly find it on a nicely sorted list on my harddrive. And add it to the playlist of 40 favourite of given mood instead of swapping 35 disks filled mostly with crap to get to hear the 40 songs I want.
What kind of idiot buys 1h of music on a disk, when they can get, legally or not, 16, without need to swap the disks? If you were selling vinyl records, you'd be just in the same situation. Compressionless music is in decline. Same as horse coaches replaced by trains. Piracy may have its hand in it but not as much as a source of -free- music but as a source of -music as mp3-.
Damn me if I'm going to waste 60 megabytes of data storage space for one 3-minute song.
Now you can do one thing more. Unless the court has ordered otherwise, you can reveal the names of the plaintiffs (ok, I'm not interested in YOUR name) so that we could send our love to said company, or make sure to take proper attitude in business contacts with them. Don't hold it, tell us!
Exception: PATRIOT act. Say a senator is corrupted. Present proof. Since you're damaging the reputation of the government, you're acting against the Country and should be arrested on charges of terrorism.
The worst that can happen is that you'll still be able to say "I had a bad feeling about it, but nooo, you insisted on VB and now you see?"
Pay us and we will protect you from ourselves?
Most (all?) antivirus companies have extremely harsh policy against employees writing viruses or other malicious code the software is to protect from.
What is there to stop Microsoft from putting a bug here, a hole there, purposedly, and "discover" it half a year later just to prove how essential the subscription service is to security of a company?
Everything NEW. But anything actually BETTER?
I mean: Faster, Smaller, More stable, Easier to write apps for?
Vista has enormous hardware requirements, even without the new heavyweight UI. What (and how) was improved (as opposed to just replaced with bigger, slower and harder to maintain) in Vista?
If I'm not up to "read" 40 pages of screenshots, what, besides gfx of the UI (which has been already backported to XP as "skins") has changed in Windows?
Oh, Vista-only apps. Yay. Now why won't they work in XP? Some essential feature of XP missing? Or just to boost Vista sales? Want new game? Buy new Windows. And of course a new computer, because even if your current hardware could handle the gfx of the game if it was running under XP, it won't handle compound load of the game and Vista.
Surely more trusted than ones that finance their party with weapon trade and invading random countries. Or by making up laws that prevent any competition to those who fund their activity.
Nothing wrong with Intellectual Property rights of that. The fact you'd have to wear a paper bag on your head forever after releasing it is a completely different matter.
> Maybe some of the content was illegal, but what Pirate Bay did was not - at least by Swedish law (IANASwedeL).
:)
It was not illegal, and that's pretty sure, because some of TPB crew are lawyers. That's what allowed them to operate despite all these threats for so long, and that's why they knew they could do all they were doing. Now I'd say the Police is ears deep in shit
Given Swedish law and the way this thing was processed, plus the tone and a fact that some of TPB crew is actually lawyers, expect a huge boost in TBP funding when they get a huge compensation from the Police for unlawful disruption of operation :D
The idea of language translators is as old as mountains. Translating from Fortran to Pascal, from C to Assembly, from C++ or Perl to C, from Csh to Bash, from Awk to Perl. What's so new about Java to Javascript translator? The fact that the guys wrote another "to javascript" translator?
Mod parent up.
This thing will enforce the power of urban legends, myths and other false but popular memes, people opposing them will be a minority.
"What is more secure, Windows or Linux"?
And you get 1000 votes for "Windows" from 10% of Windows users of the service who bother to answer so, and 100 votes for "Linux" from nearly 70% of Linux users who will take time to answer plus another 2% of Windows users who know better.
And this will favour positive answers for questions with bias on your interests.
Say, you're an emo. You have your disk full of emo mp3s and dark poetry. And like every emo, you ponder suicide. So just to make the final decision, you type "Should I commit suicide?" and your question goes out to different people. But the most answers come from people who too have lots of emo mp3s and dark poetry on disks, simply, other emos. And you can guess the answers, "If I had enough guts, I would do it." "Yes, darkness, finally", "End your life, I'll envy you." Normal non-emo people don't keep that kind of crap on their disks and their advices to just drop that dark shit and get a life will get dropped by the system as not matching your interests...
Prime number crunching, blah. You use C64 disk drive to decompress data from the floppies to RAM!
If the benchmarks showed the amount of time to get the data to the GPU and especially the time to get the result back to a place where a program could actually use it
:)
Why the hell do you assume AGP? We live in PCI-X era and it doesn't suffer from thin back-pipe anymore. Add to that DMA, meaning almost total bypassing the CPU at retrieving and writing the data and you get really lightning-fast communication.
And of course nothing stops you from using the CPU to do the FFT just together with the GPU, this kind of task is usually nicely paralellizable. Install 8 PCI-X gfx cards in 8 slots, add a task to perform it in the CPU in spare time between managing data and you have 33x the power of just the CPU alone, in one PC
Oh, but FFT is cool!
I really regret there's no easy tool to transform pics to FT version and back in gfx images. Transfer, cut out vertical compound of some low frequency and get rid of these stripes of cardboard the original was drawn on. I had a proggy to play with that would apply given mask to FFT version of image before transferring it back and it could do some nice miracles.
And last but not least, (yes, that's not FFT but cosine transform, but not far...) I really want a hand-tuning JPEG tool, where you can pick each 8x8px block and set/clear its bits, to fill empty field with uniform color, clearing out noises, improve important edges, while using very high compression just for some interesting background effect, and get best quality with really extreme compression out of the ol'good Jpeg supported by everything.
(JPEG creates the compression loss by zero'ing certain "insignificant" values-frequencies in the 8x8px fields, thus making further lossless compression more efficient. It should be perfectly possible to hand-pick which values are cleared instead of leaving the decision to the program by just setting amount of fields to clear as the "quality" slider.)
The stupid assumption: If I didn't pirate it, I'd pay for it. No. If I didn't pirate it, I wouldn't use it.
:)
I have about a dozen or so of good original games. The rest of my games is pirated, and you can be sure I wouldn't spend money on them. Legal? No. Fair? Maybe yes, maybe not. Harming economy? Total bullshit. The worst harm to the economy comes from me playing these games instead of working. If I didn't pirate them, the authors wouldn't see a single penny from me just the same. I just wouldn't play them.
The situation about utility software is even more twisted - same "not pirated=never used" often applies here too. Except pirated means using the software for profit and eventually purchasing originals when you can afford them (earning money on the pirated version first). Means the authors WILL eventually get their fair share. If I'm too afraid of get busted for pirating the software to use it though, they won't see a penny from me.
Last but not least, Postorder. Opposite of preorder. Preorder is when you pay now, get program later. Postorder is when you download the program now, pay later, at your leisure. Don't worry, Bethesda! I will pay for that copy of Oblivion I got... eventually!
...Screw the arrest, the scam, the kiddies... Where's the exploit code?!
(I'd really laugh if the exploit "leaked" now, costing MySpace much more than $150,000 in downtime, lost data and lost crediblity.)
Yep...
Most of these gadgets feel like this elektronik-supersonik to me.
Somehow the Chineese manage to export $5 walkman-alikes and $2 fake christmas trees to Poland China and still make money on them. $60+ difference between US and Europe as transport cost is pure bullshit.
...which is perfectly logical, but doesn't make it suck any less.