Please go and destroy some other market, Mr. State. You already wiped out the Linux native games market with your stolen technology (when exactly are you going to give back to Wine as promised?) - I sincerely request you don't do the same to the Mac market.
Besides, people have fallen for you once. I doubt they'll do it a second time. Your scam is over, no pick up your toys and get the hell out of here.
Let's face it: Without easy and cheap (i.e. a spare floppy disc) access to games early in our lives, none of us who are in our 20s, 30s today and actually have the money to buy games, would have been introduced to the hobby.
People are drawn to, and continue to use Macs because of the way the userspace functions.
Amen to that. I speak as someone who has just switched from Linux to OSX. I love Linux, and I still have a bunch of servers and a couple desktops running it, but my main machine at home is now an MBP running OSX and I was astonished at the amount of perfection that went into making sure everything works with everything.
OSX isn't just an OS or a desktop system like Linux and KDE/Gnome. It conveys the impression of one seamless whole. On Linux, Firefox and Thunderbird are clearly two different applications doing two different things. On OSX, Mail and Safari work very close together. Stuff in your addressbook is available in your mail, in your calender, everywhere you need it as if it belongs there. Drag&Drop works, and I mean absolutely everywhere with everything. Things just work. And that's what sets Apple apart from both Linux and windos, where you, the user, have to work first in order to get things to work.
However, I must admit that Linux is making more progress in closing the gap than windos does. The future will be OSX and Linux. 10 years from now, windos will be roadkill.
Something like that would actually be useful. A library you can link to that allows your Mac or Linux game to make DirectX calls and have them translated to the native OpenGL.
As a support for developers, it could raise the number of games that get ported and make porting easier, because developers don't have to rewrite the graphics from DirectX to OpenGL (or, god forbid, think about such issues before commiting to a proprietary single-platform graphics API).
But a "Cedega for Macs" is something that I - as both a Linux and a Mac user - want to shoot someone for. You've already killed native games on Linux, you transgays, don't do the same to the Mac!
Not really, I can run most of the new titles on vanilla Wine (yes, the free thing -- Even more work on that than on Cedega). If that's 'dead as it gets', that's quite impressive.
Yes, that is dead. It's not Linux gaming. It's windos-games-running-in-emulation (and yes, I know Wine-Is-Not-an-Emulator).
Linux gaming is native ports. We had them for a while, you know? I happen to own most of the big-name games that were ported to Linux. Many of them worked better on Linux than they did on windos. Among other things, almost all of them had multi-user support (your own preferences, save games, etc. seperate from the people you share the machine with).
I'm the proud owner of a MBP since about a week. Aside from the psychological pain of inflicting something as ugly as windos on something as slick as the MBP, there are a lot of practical concerns.
The two most important ones are the constant rebooting - on a machine I would otherwise pretty much never switch off, but only send to hibernate by closing the lid - and, probably worse, partitioning.
On a notebook, you get 100 GB or so. Games take a _lot_ of space. If you do anything else that takes space, music or digital photography or anything, then partitioning a 100 GB drive in such a way that you feel even remotely confident that it'll be enough for both systems for the forseable future is anything but easy.
Add the fears that some crazy windos virus does something bad to the harddisk that's bad enough to wipe out the OSX partition.
No, Sir. It matters a whole lot whether or not there will be Mac games in the future. And quite frankly, Linux gaming is as dead as it gets, and I'm not sure if transmeta and WineX/Cedega don't have a part in that.
One should probably mention that they exploited 3rd party drivers and not the ones that the MacBook actually uses.
And I was joking about this on a security mailing list yesterday. I mean, come on: 3rd party drivers that nobody is using anyways because the ones you get with the system are perfectly ok? What's next? Writing the exploitable drivers yourself?
Yet the article on Lutheranism is still shorter than the article on Truthiness. The Lutheran movement had a much larger impact on world history than the word 'truthiness'.
How does length of description correlate to impact on world history? If you look in any random paperbound encyclopedia, you'll find that many entries about unimportant things are quite long, too - simply because you need some space to describe them.
Absolutely correct! You need to verify that yes->weak->run is a valid function pointer before you call it, otherwise debugging will be hell. b.helloWorld(), on the other hand, should work fine even if it's not, provided you use the proper compiler.
Not only that, but the rest of the world is watching and drawing its own conclusions.
It is. I know a fairly good number of highly technically skilled people - including myself - who are staying away from the USA and are turning down invitations to speak at conferences, coach upper-level management and other opportunities. My current policy is that if my skills are so valuable that you want the entire board of directors to attend for two full days, then you can fly them somewhere outside USA borders as well. Canada would do, or a nice place in the carribean. I'm not going to enter the USA for the forseable future, and neither are many of my friends.
Those examples are isolated cases of badness in an overall good, or at least perceived as good, country.
Right now, the USA is perceived as a bad country by most of the rest of the world. In fact, the vast majority of europeans laugh out loud when you call other countries "axis of evil" or "rogue nations", because that fits yourself so much.
Right now, there are isolated cases of goodness in an overall evil country. It's not a case of "bouncing back". You've destroyed about 50 years of reputation building in 5 years of Bush. You can't bounce back, you'll have to take the long way around and start from scratch. It'll be decades before the rest of the world trusts you again.
You don't seem to have much evidence for your assertion that ISPs are reluctant to deal with bots.
Maybe grandparent doesn't, but I do. I work for an ISP, and my company is - unfortunately - extremely lazy when it comes to bots. As the resident security guru I'm working on changing that, but it's an uphill battle.
How do you identify a bot infected computer?
Traffic analysis, if you want to be sure. But there are other signs that are obvious, such as low but constant IRC traffic at all hours of day. In the case of spam-bots, however, it's really trivial - a constant stream of outgoing SMTP traffic, and/or the abuse complaints you get back.
It is trivial to identify the spamming machines in your network, it just is a bit of work.
What do you do to a customer with a bot infected computer that he is probably not aware of?
You block him and redirect all his HTTP requests to a page explaining the problem and what he can do to be unblocked.
What preventative steps can you take that will not interfere with legitimate customer traffic?
The usual - you apply care and apologize if you made a mistake.
We're talking end-user machines here. Private surfing and mail, online gaming, bittorrent. This ain't hospitals or emergency services. They'll survive being blocked for an hour, even if in error.
I'm not sure why they divide by country. Are they implying that the laws and regulations of these companies should be stricter? Is this some sort of international contest to see who can restrict the rights of its internet users the fastest?
"Follow the money":-) This is a press release of an AV company. It's essentially advertisement and says "buy more of our stuff, you need it!".
Furthermore, these percentages don't appear to be normalized in any way
Correct. However, the numbers once again allow me to smile and laugh at anyone who posts his scripts here on how to filter out all traffic from China and reply that filtering out all traffic from the USA would be twice as effective.;-)
Enough has been made of the suspicion (has anything been proved?) that terrorists raise funds this way.
Far from being proved, I'd argue that I have yet to even see a convincing argument.
Terrorists usually work fairly low-tech, they try to not leave paper trails, and all the major terror organisations already have funding - either from wealthy arab families (Bin Laden is comfortably in the "never-have-to-work" category), from donations (Hisbollah, who are very popular with the people because they also build schools and hospitals) or from good old crime (RAF in Germany worked that way).
Most importantly, however, you simply don't need much money to be a terrorist. The budget for 9/11 was almost certainly less than $100,000 and most terrorist attacks in Israel or Iraq probably cost $100 or so.
Getting ANY of their stuff working under Linux is painful.
Not much better for windos, btw. - you have to manually patch their driver releases before they support many mobile versions of their cards. I'm not talking about binary patches to the core drivers - just the installer so that it freaking copies some files.
Buying a notebook with ATI graphics? Worst mistake, ever.
Good point. I see there are actually three options, and I amend my estimate as follows:
40% say Bush bends the law and stays in power 40% say you'll have another forged election, with the Republicans having landslide victories in all states where lots of Diebold voting machines are used 20% that you get an honest election. 19.9% of that say you don't get much of a choice because both candidates are the worst kind of scum.
I support congress impeaching a president for lying.
Then why hasn't Bush been impeached for lying about the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq? As it stands, not only have none been ever found, the search has long been abandoned as well.
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Please go and destroy some other market, Mr. State. You already wiped out the Linux native games market with your stolen technology (when exactly are you going to give back to Wine as promised?) - I sincerely request you don't do the same to the Mac market.
Besides, people have fallen for you once. I doubt they'll do it a second time. Your scam is over, no pick up your toys and get the hell out of here.
No, piracy has created the PC gaming industry.
Let's face it: Without easy and cheap (i.e. a spare floppy disc) access to games early in our lives, none of us who are in our 20s, 30s today and actually have the money to buy games, would have been introduced to the hobby.
Is Open Source too Complex?
Is this from the company that already admits it can't document its own products because they're too complicated? (see EU case)
People are drawn to, and continue to use Macs because of the way the userspace functions.
Amen to that. I speak as someone who has just switched from Linux to OSX. I love Linux, and I still have a bunch of servers and a couple desktops running it, but my main machine at home is now an MBP running OSX and I was astonished at the amount of perfection that went into making sure everything works with everything.
OSX isn't just an OS or a desktop system like Linux and KDE/Gnome. It conveys the impression of one seamless whole. On Linux, Firefox and Thunderbird are clearly two different applications doing two different things. On OSX, Mail and Safari work very close together. Stuff in your addressbook is available in your mail, in your calender, everywhere you need it as if it belongs there. Drag&Drop works, and I mean absolutely everywhere with everything. Things just work. And that's what sets Apple apart from both Linux and windos, where you, the user, have to work first in order to get things to work.
However, I must admit that Linux is making more progress in closing the gap than windos does. The future will be OSX and Linux. 10 years from now, windos will be roadkill.
Mod parent up.
I've got Chandler on my watchlist, but it's process is glacial. Which is quite sad, really.
Something like that would actually be useful. A library you can link to that allows your Mac or Linux game to make DirectX calls and have them translated to the native OpenGL.
As a support for developers, it could raise the number of games that get ported and make porting easier, because developers don't have to rewrite the graphics from DirectX to OpenGL (or, god forbid, think about such issues before commiting to a proprietary single-platform graphics API).
But a "Cedega for Macs" is something that I - as both a Linux and a Mac user - want to shoot someone for. You've already killed native games on Linux, you transgays, don't do the same to the Mac!
Not really, I can run most of the new titles on vanilla Wine (yes, the free thing -- Even more work on that than on Cedega). If that's 'dead as it gets', that's quite impressive.
Yes, that is dead. It's not Linux gaming. It's windos-games-running-in-emulation (and yes, I know Wine-Is-Not-an-Emulator).
Linux gaming is native ports. We had them for a while, you know? I happen to own most of the big-name games that were ported to Linux. Many of them worked better on Linux than they did on windos. Among other things, almost all of them had multi-user support (your own preferences, save games, etc. seperate from the people you share the machine with).
Yes, and it'll be called "Vista".
Except that you have to pay for it in addition.
It matters, and a whole lot.
I'm the proud owner of a MBP since about a week. Aside from the psychological pain of inflicting something as ugly as windos on something as slick as the MBP, there are a lot of practical concerns.
The two most important ones are the constant rebooting - on a machine I would otherwise pretty much never switch off, but only send to hibernate by closing the lid - and, probably worse, partitioning.
On a notebook, you get 100 GB or so. Games take a _lot_ of space. If you do anything else that takes space, music or digital photography or anything, then partitioning a 100 GB drive in such a way that you feel even remotely confident that it'll be enough for both systems for the forseable future is anything but easy.
Add the fears that some crazy windos virus does something bad to the harddisk that's bad enough to wipe out the OSX partition.
No, Sir. It matters a whole lot whether or not there will be Mac games in the future. And quite frankly, Linux gaming is as dead as it gets, and I'm not sure if transmeta and WineX/Cedega don't have a part in that.
One should probably mention that they exploited 3rd party drivers and not the ones that the MacBook actually uses.
And I was joking about this on a security mailing list yesterday. I mean, come on: 3rd party drivers that nobody is using anyways because the ones you get with the system are perfectly ok? What's next? Writing the exploitable drivers yourself?
Yet the article on Lutheranism is still shorter than the article on Truthiness. The Lutheran movement had a much larger impact on world history than the word 'truthiness'.
How does length of description correlate to impact on world history? If you look in any random paperbound encyclopedia, you'll find that many entries about unimportant things are quite long, too - simply because you need some space to describe them.
Why shouldn't it? All the consoles do have networking support.
Tried and tested method: First, remove teeth from animal. Second, set it free...
Absolutely correct! You need to verify that yes->weak->run is a valid function pointer before you call it, otherwise debugging will be hell. b.helloWorld(), on the other hand, should work fine even if it's not, provided you use the proper compiler.
Not only that, but the rest of the world is watching and drawing its own conclusions.
It is. I know a fairly good number of highly technically skilled people - including myself - who are staying away from the USA and are turning down invitations to speak at conferences, coach upper-level management and other opportunities.
My current policy is that if my skills are so valuable that you want the entire board of directors to attend for two full days, then you can fly them somewhere outside USA borders as well. Canada would do, or a nice place in the carribean.
I'm not going to enter the USA for the forseable future, and neither are many of my friends.
Massive difference there, IMHO.
Those examples are isolated cases of badness in an overall good, or at least perceived as good, country.
Right now, the USA is perceived as a bad country by most of the rest of the world. In fact, the vast majority of europeans laugh out loud when you call other countries "axis of evil" or "rogue nations", because that fits yourself so much.
Right now, there are isolated cases of goodness in an overall evil country. It's not a case of "bouncing back". You've destroyed about 50 years of reputation building in 5 years of Bush. You can't bounce back, you'll have to take the long way around and start from scratch. It'll be decades before the rest of the world trusts you again.
You don't seem to have much evidence for your assertion that ISPs are reluctant to deal with bots.
Maybe grandparent doesn't, but I do. I work for an ISP, and my company is - unfortunately - extremely lazy when it comes to bots. As the resident security guru I'm working on changing that, but it's an uphill battle.
How do you identify a bot infected computer?
Traffic analysis, if you want to be sure. But there are other signs that are obvious, such as low but constant IRC traffic at all hours of day. In the case of spam-bots, however, it's really trivial - a constant stream of outgoing SMTP traffic, and/or the abuse complaints you get back.
It is trivial to identify the spamming machines in your network, it just is a bit of work.
What do you do to a customer with a bot infected computer that he is probably not aware of?
You block him and redirect all his HTTP requests to a page explaining the problem and what he can do to be unblocked.
What preventative steps can you take that will not interfere with legitimate customer traffic?
The usual - you apply care and apologize if you made a mistake.
We're talking end-user machines here. Private surfing and mail, online gaming, bittorrent. This ain't hospitals or emergency services. They'll survive being blocked for an hour, even if in error.
I'm not sure why they divide by country. Are they implying that the laws and regulations of these companies should be stricter? Is this some sort of international contest to see who can restrict the rights of its internet users the fastest?
:-)
;-)
"Follow the money"
This is a press release of an AV company. It's essentially advertisement and says "buy more of our stuff, you need it!".
Furthermore, these percentages don't appear to be normalized in any way
Correct. However, the numbers once again allow me to smile and laugh at anyone who posts his scripts here on how to filter out all traffic from China and reply that filtering out all traffic from the USA would be twice as effective.
Enough has been made of the suspicion (has anything been proved?) that terrorists raise funds this way.
Far from being proved, I'd argue that I have yet to even see a convincing argument.
Terrorists usually work fairly low-tech, they try to not leave paper trails, and all the major terror organisations already have funding - either from wealthy arab families (Bin Laden is comfortably in the "never-have-to-work" category), from donations (Hisbollah, who are very popular with the people because they also build schools and hospitals) or from good old crime (RAF in Germany worked that way).
Most importantly, however, you simply don't need much money to be a terrorist. The budget for 9/11 was almost certainly less than $100,000 and most terrorist attacks in Israel or Iraq probably cost $100 or so.
You want to google for "teergrubing" or "teergrube".
Why are posters so fond of the anti-open source hardware vendor NVidia?
Because they've supported Linux with binary drivers for a long time, and their drivers work.
ATI is months behind, and half of the time the drivers are too buggy to actually use.
Philosophy of openness aside, that's an important difference.
Getting ANY of their stuff working under Linux is painful.
Not much better for windos, btw. - you have to manually patch their driver releases before they support many mobile versions of their cards. I'm not talking about binary patches to the core drivers - just the installer so that it freaking copies some files.
Buying a notebook with ATI graphics? Worst mistake, ever.
Why bother when the electronic voting machines make it so much easier to change the vote count to anything they want?
The public smear campaign will make the faked vote results believable.
Good point. I see there are actually three options, and I amend my estimate as follows:
40% say Bush bends the law and stays in power
40% say you'll have another forged election, with the Republicans having landslide victories in all states where lots of Diebold voting machines are used
20% that you get an honest election. 19.9% of that say you don't get much of a choice because both candidates are the worst kind of scum.
I support congress impeaching a president for lying.
Then why hasn't Bush been impeached for lying about the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq? As it stands, not only have none been ever found, the search has long been abandoned as well.