Morality doesn't change with government. You know precious little about history if you think that.
And yes, we hold those things to be self-evident. That doesn't mean others have to as well, does it? Is there a place for diversity in your world of freedom and pursuit of happiness? Or can I only be free and pursue my happiness as long as I follow your code of ethics?
Thailand isn't "medieval" when it comes to morality - it is thai. Why do you think it is proper to judge a foreign country in terms of our history? They have a different morale, yeah. Now lets hear your objective definition of what makes "better" morales.
According to Thai standards, that dress is considerably worse than that superbowl nipple flash you americans got. And if you read the page you linked to, you'd have seen that the punishment wasn't a hundred million bucks, but reading to blind children for a few days. For me, I consider that a lot more enlightened than a few millions because the chiiiildren will be soooo damaged by seing a picture of something they sucked on a few years ago.
Any people that would beat or kill you for insulting someone are not enlightened, cultural superiors. So judging other people living in another culture according to your local moral standards is "enlightened, cultural superior[...]" ?
Can there be diversity in your definition of freedom, or am I only free to live what you define as free?
So, how much respect for other cultures do you have? How much freedom do you grant others - to define their own morality?
I've been to Thailand. It's a great place where the king is held in very high esteem. This isn't a tyranny cracking down on opposition, almost all Thais would be very shocked to see a spray-painted picture of the king. Try a stunt like that and you'll be lucky if the police gets you before the enraged mob does.
Now let's wait for the trolls to swarm in and claim that any culture that doesn't share their own values of "First Amendment" and "Freedom of Expression" must be evil and bad. Newsflash: The "total freedom or none at all" attitude only applies to western culture. Asian cultures have more than a thousand years of experience in moderation and non-binary thinking.
so far all the 'killer apps' on the Wii are made by Nintendo. Which just might be because Nintendo had access to dev systems long before any 3rd party did?
Not to mention that you ignore the fact that the only killer app for the original Xbox when it was released was Halo - published by MS. They're not that different, you see?
Typical case of "not invented here". Look at this:
We're yet to see a really good game on Wii that really says 'OK that control kicked ass'." Did he play Wii Sports just once? Everyone I know instantly loved the controls of Tennis or Bowling, including everything from hardcore gamers to my dad who hates computers.
But hey, put your head back into the sand, for all I care you can miss the train - again...
Is it PowerPoint's fault, or the fault of the Powerpoint creator? Microsoft is at fault for making people with no training in presentation whatsoever think that thanks to Powerpoint, they can make one. They explicitly market the crap that way, and the thing does nothing at all to enforce good slide design.
You assume that these protections stay. They won't. Like all other protections before, they'll be broken, they just aren't at this time.
Once you have one hole into the kernel that allows you to run arbitrary code on the kernel level, it's game over. Not only in Vista, same is true for Linux, OSX, heck even Linux with SELinux enabled.
Given Vista's complexity, and MS track record, I wouldn't bet a dime on the kernel staying unbreached for very long.
Nintendo is still sitting at less than half the market share of the 360. Half, yes. Sitting, no. The 360 has been out for what, four times the time the Wii has been around? Getting half the market share of a competitor who's been around four times as long isn't exactly "sitting", it's more an "in the process of overtaking".
Give it another 4, maybe 5 months and the Wii will be the best-selling next-gen console.
All businesses should have contingency plans for all disasters. When it comes to IT security, the most popular contingency plan is "pretend it didn't happen".
More often than not, applied internally as well as externally.
Disclaimer: I've actually written the security policy in place at my company, and I used to be the guy responsible for security before my last career move.
My advise to sysadmins who notice a breach is this: Take your hands off the damn keyboard. Don't do anything unless you are 150% certain that you can see all possible consequences of your action. Call the IRT if you have one. If there's nobody to call and you have to act right now, pull the power plug on the machine, then call the experts. Don't power the machine up again under any circumstances. If you want to look at the harddrive, make a copy first and mount it read-only in a different machine.
Why? Because back in the days when I was, err... looking around inside machines not my own, one of the things everyone I knew did was put in some scripts, tools, something, that'd wipe the logs or even the machine if my shell gets killed or the machine shut down or rebooted.
TFA assumes that you learn of the incident long after it has happened. Many incidents in real life are being noticed while they are going on, no matter if it's a remote access or your machine running an FTP server that wasn't there last month. That FTP server is almost certainly patched, and one of the things it might do is destroy evidence if you kill it. There might be an invisible process watching it to wipe evidence if you kill -9 it. Heck,/sbin/kill could've been replaced by a trojan and not do what you expect it to do. Even/sbin/init is suspect. Your kernel, boot record, on some machines even your BIOS has possibly been manipulated.
Interesting. Are these features requirements for DX10, or just of the way it is currently written? Nobody said it would work the same, but I still don't see why the API and features couldn't be available on XP, even though under the hood things might be set up differently.
But I'm ready to be convinced. Device drivers aren't really my area and windos device drivers even less so, I've only ever hacked a bit on Linux drivers.
Those goggles already exist. Unfortunately, those with acceptable resolution are still very expensive. But you can buy 800x600 ones for about a thousand bucks.
After all, anyone not buying Vista would still buy XP, so what motivates spending $5bn? Especially for something that does what, exactly, that XP does not? DirectX10 is artificially restricted to vista, there's no technical reason it couldn't be backported to XP, is there? And DirectX10 is the only thing so far that's an advantage of vista over XP that exists outside the dreamworld of PR spins.
'95 was a somewhat risky move, but there was enough of a lock-in to guarantee that it would not fail, at least not in the market.
'98 and XP were as safe as you can get with a "new" product. Only a license to print money could've been a more secure investment.
Vista, on the other hand, is squarely in the "too little, too late" category. While Linux has lost some of its steam, it is quietly being rolled out in hundreds of large companies and many parts of the governments around the world. Apple is moving ahead strongly. For every freak who wants Vista, there are 10 who want OSX (and can't afford to buy a new machine right now, but their next one will be a Mac).
Right now, video games is what keeps home power-users on the windos platform. But the "next-gen" gaming consoles might change that, they have the power. The xbox might be MS secret "exit strategy".
A lot of the people I know who simply want their computer to work for them (not vice vista, er versa) are currently aiming for a combo like Mac+Wii or Mac+xbox/PS3. The more power-userish, anti-MS types probably Linux+PS3.
Don't get me wrong, there's still a huge gaming market for windos. There are games that don't play well on consoles, or even in the living room at all. There's a huge library of old games that many people still like. There's the MMORPGs.
But think 5-6 years down the road - the rough lifecycle time of a windos release. A lot will have to happen for the next windos to be a safe bet. With what vista looks like right now, I see many people looking for alternatives. Roughly everyone who expected vista to be revolutionary or even just a considerable step ahead, instead of XP SP3 + fancy GUI.
You're right. The selection is still surprisingly small. Aside from Wii Sports (came with the console) and Wii Play (came with the 2nd controller), I own only three games (Zelda, Rampage and Rayman). There's 2-3 on my watchlist which I'll buy when they arrive. But that's about it. It's a bit sad.
I know for a fact that my Wii has people hooked who are no gamers. From my wife to my neighbour, everyone who's tried it loved it, and yes it's the controllers, the fun-factor, the "fuck the graphics, let's try to make an actual game instead of a tech demo for our graphics engine" attitude.
The size of the actual computer is of absolutely no importance whatsoever. What matters is the size of the input and output components. These are the interfaces to humans and must exist on a human size scale, i.e. large enough to handle. So as long as you need a keyboard, the keys must be large enough to press, and the entire keyboard must be large enough to comfortably hold. But if you think virtual keyboards, i.e. one projected into the air, on a HUD, or on a table (the later exists as a Palm Pilot accessory), then the size of the actual hardware again is irrelevant, the size of the virtual "keys" is what matters.
despite all this, people are NOT turning to alternatives. But they are. The most popular alternative is bittorrent.
The system itself is broken - there is no free market where you could choose another vendor - so what we're seing is a big civil disobedience movement. Mostly unconcious, but that's what it is.
Why is this so hard for certain people to understand? Because for some people, especially on the low end of the evolutionary scale, the only way they can survive with them being down there and others being up there is to assume a world-view that those on top are there because they are right. MS is on top right now, so they must be right.
If the EU said, "OK Microsoft, no more sales in Europe for you!" Don't be stupid. The EU is a government. It doesn't tell you what to do. It tells you what not to do and if you still do it, they'll take away your cookies. Half a billion at a time when you're the size of MS.
And believe it or not, if it actually were game over for MS in the EU, all that precious windos-only software would be ported to OSX, Linux, etc. in record time. The EU market is huge, larger than the US market. Any company producing software would make sure it's available in that market, windos or no windos.
But I would like to see what would happen if Microsoft just said "We're not changing our practices, so we won't sell our products in Europe." Immediate recall of the entire board of directors by MS shareholders.
You US trolls still don't get it that the EU is the largest common market, bigger than the US market, do you? Walking away from a market that size is a suicide move for a company that relies on monopoly and lock-in for survival.
One fairly successful strategy is the "bluff". If you want to create the impression that you have more money than you actually do have, spending money as if you had lots works like a charm.
Plus, first impressions count for more than second and third impressions.
When it comes to emotions (and social status is more a matter of feeling than of understanding), rationality doesn't always apply.
It gets better, even. I'm very sure Adobe realizes very well that a) lots of students copy Photoshop b) many of them will buy it later because they're used to it
Looking around, there's a lot of software that is strong in its segment and one of the reasons is that it is pirated so often. Photoshop, 3D Max, Windos... if there were absolutely no way to get windos without paying for it, OSX and Linux would at least double their market shares within the week.
No, it's a story about a business model failing due to evolution taking over.
I don't buy many games anymore. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of being hyped up for a year by some paid-for ads-cloaked-as-previews and then sitting down to play the game for all of 2 or 3 hours before it starts to suck because it was launched early, is full of bugs and the gameplay was never quite finished. It isn't worth the 50 or so uros they charge these days.
On the other hand, I have bought great games after playing the pirated copy halfway through. I've bought the entire DVD series of Hellsing after having seen them all in ripped-from-TV downloads. A few years ago, I watched most new movies in my home theatre courtesy of bittorrent, mostly because I enjoy original versions over (often) crappy localisations, and the originals launched 3-6 months earlier in the US than the localised versions showed here. Nowadays, with simultaneous worldwide launches, I find myself going to the cinema again quite often.
Quality still sells. Listening to market demands still sells. Crap doesn't sell as well anymore.
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Morality doesn't change with government. You know precious little about history if you think that.
And yes, we hold those things to be self-evident. That doesn't mean others have to as well, does it? Is there a place for diversity in your world of freedom and pursuit of happiness? Or can I only be free and pursue my happiness as long as I follow your code of ethics?
Thailand isn't "medieval" when it comes to morality - it is thai. Why do you think it is proper to judge a foreign country in terms of our history? They have a different morale, yeah. Now lets hear your objective definition of what makes "better" morales.
According to Thai standards, that dress is considerably worse than that superbowl nipple flash you americans got. And if you read the page you linked to, you'd have seen that the punishment wasn't a hundred million bucks, but reading to blind children for a few days. For me, I consider that a lot more enlightened than a few millions because the chiiiildren will be soooo damaged by seing a picture of something they sucked on a few years ago.
Can there be diversity in your definition of freedom, or am I only free to live what you define as free?
So, how much respect for other cultures do you have? How much freedom do you grant others - to define their own morality?
I've been to Thailand. It's a great place where the king is held in very high esteem. This isn't a tyranny cracking down on opposition, almost all Thais would be very shocked to see a spray-painted picture of the king. Try a stunt like that and you'll be lucky if the police gets you before the enraged mob does.
Now let's wait for the trolls to swarm in and claim that any culture that doesn't share their own values of "First Amendment" and "Freedom of Expression" must be evil and bad. Newsflash: The "total freedom or none at all" attitude only applies to western culture. Asian cultures have more than a thousand years of experience in moderation and non-binary thinking.
Not to mention that you ignore the fact that the only killer app for the original Xbox when it was released was Halo - published by MS. They're not that different, you see?
But hey, put your head back into the sand, for all I care you can miss the train - again...
You assume that these protections stay. They won't. Like all other protections before, they'll be broken, they just aren't at this time.
Once you have one hole into the kernel that allows you to run arbitrary code on the kernel level, it's game over. Not only in Vista, same is true for Linux, OSX, heck even Linux with SELinux enabled.
Given Vista's complexity, and MS track record, I wouldn't bet a dime on the kernel staying unbreached for very long.
Give it another 4, maybe 5 months and the Wii will be the best-selling next-gen console.
More often than not, applied internally as well as externally.
Disclaimer: I've actually written the security policy in place at my company, and I used to be the guy responsible for security before my last career move.
/sbin/kill could've been replaced by a trojan and not do what you expect it to do. Even /sbin/init is suspect. Your kernel, boot record, on some machines even your BIOS has possibly been manipulated.
My advise to sysadmins who notice a breach is this:
Take your hands off the damn keyboard. Don't do anything unless you are 150% certain that you can see all possible consequences of your action. Call the IRT if you have one.
If there's nobody to call and you have to act right now, pull the power plug on the machine, then call the experts. Don't power the machine up again under any circumstances. If you want to look at the harddrive, make a copy first and mount it read-only in a different machine.
Why? Because back in the days when I was, err... looking around inside machines not my own, one of the things everyone I knew did was put in some scripts, tools, something, that'd wipe the logs or even the machine if my shell gets killed or the machine shut down or rebooted.
TFA assumes that you learn of the incident long after it has happened. Many incidents in real life are being noticed while they are going on, no matter if it's a remote access or your machine running an FTP server that wasn't there last month. That FTP server is almost certainly patched, and one of the things it might do is destroy evidence if you kill it. There might be an invisible process watching it to wipe evidence if you kill -9 it. Heck,
Interesting. Are these features requirements for DX10, or just of the way it is currently written? Nobody said it would work the same, but I still don't see why the API and features couldn't be available on XP, even though under the hood things might be set up differently.
But I'm ready to be convinced. Device drivers aren't really my area and windos device drivers even less so, I've only ever hacked a bit on Linux drivers.
Those goggles already exist. Unfortunately, those with acceptable resolution are still very expensive. But you can buy 800x600 ones for about a thousand bucks.
Not so sure.
'95 was a somewhat risky move, but there was enough of a lock-in to guarantee that it would not fail, at least not in the market.
'98 and XP were as safe as you can get with a "new" product. Only a license to print money could've been a more secure investment.
Vista, on the other hand, is squarely in the "too little, too late" category. While Linux has lost some of its steam, it is quietly being rolled out in hundreds of large companies and many parts of the governments around the world. Apple is moving ahead strongly. For every freak who wants Vista, there are 10 who want OSX (and can't afford to buy a new machine right now, but their next one will be a Mac).
Right now, video games is what keeps home power-users on the windos platform. But the "next-gen" gaming consoles might change that, they have the power. The xbox might be MS secret "exit strategy".
A lot of the people I know who simply want their computer to work for them (not vice vista, er versa) are currently aiming for a combo like Mac+Wii or Mac+xbox/PS3. The more power-userish, anti-MS types probably Linux+PS3.
Don't get me wrong, there's still a huge gaming market for windos. There are games that don't play well on consoles, or even in the living room at all. There's a huge library of old games that many people still like. There's the MMORPGs.
But think 5-6 years down the road - the rough lifecycle time of a windos release. A lot will have to happen for the next windos to be a safe bet. With what vista looks like right now, I see many people looking for alternatives. Roughly everyone who expected vista to be revolutionary or even just a considerable step ahead, instead of XP SP3 + fancy GUI.
You're right. The selection is still surprisingly small. Aside from Wii Sports (came with the console) and Wii Play (came with the 2nd controller), I own only three games (Zelda, Rampage and Rayman). There's 2-3 on my watchlist which I'll buy when they arrive. But that's about it. It's a bit sad.
I know for a fact that my Wii has people hooked who are no gamers. From my wife to my neighbour, everyone who's tried it loved it, and yes it's the controllers, the fun-factor, the "fuck the graphics, let's try to make an actual game instead of a tech demo for our graphics engine" attitude.
The size of the actual computer is of absolutely no importance whatsoever. What matters is the size of the input and output components. These are the interfaces to humans and must exist on a human size scale, i.e. large enough to handle.
So as long as you need a keyboard, the keys must be large enough to press, and the entire keyboard must be large enough to comfortably hold. But if you think virtual keyboards, i.e. one projected into the air, on a HUD, or on a table (the later exists as a Palm Pilot accessory), then the size of the actual hardware again is irrelevant, the size of the virtual "keys" is what matters.
The system itself is broken - there is no free market where you could choose another vendor - so what we're seing is a big civil disobedience movement. Mostly unconcious, but that's what it is.
And believe it or not, if it actually were game over for MS in the EU, all that precious windos-only software would be ported to OSX, Linux, etc. in record time. The EU market is huge, larger than the US market. Any company producing software would make sure it's available in that market, windos or no windos.
You US trolls still don't get it that the EU is the largest common market, bigger than the US market, do you? Walking away from a market that size is a suicide move for a company that relies on monopoly and lock-in for survival.
One fairly successful strategy is the "bluff". If you want to create the impression that you have more money than you actually do have, spending money as if you had lots works like a charm.
Plus, first impressions count for more than second and third impressions.
When it comes to emotions (and social status is more a matter of feeling than of understanding), rationality doesn't always apply.
mod parent up, please.
It gets better, even. I'm very sure Adobe realizes very well that
a) lots of students copy Photoshop
b) many of them will buy it later because they're used to it
Looking around, there's a lot of software that is strong in its segment and one of the reasons is that it is pirated so often. Photoshop, 3D Max, Windos... if there were absolutely no way to get windos without paying for it, OSX and Linux would at least double their market shares within the week.
No, it's a story about a business model failing due to evolution taking over.
I don't buy many games anymore. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of being hyped up for a year by some paid-for ads-cloaked-as-previews and then sitting down to play the game for all of 2 or 3 hours before it starts to suck because it was launched early, is full of bugs and the gameplay was never quite finished.
It isn't worth the 50 or so uros they charge these days.
On the other hand, I have bought great games after playing the pirated copy halfway through. I've bought the entire DVD series of Hellsing after having seen them all in ripped-from-TV downloads. A few years ago, I watched most new movies in my home theatre courtesy of bittorrent, mostly because I enjoy original versions over (often) crappy localisations, and the originals launched 3-6 months earlier in the US than the localised versions showed here. Nowadays, with simultaneous worldwide launches, I find myself going to the cinema again quite often.
Quality still sells. Listening to market demands still sells. Crap doesn't sell as well anymore.