I believe you're entirely missing the point that humans are trained to behave like humans.
The use of money is acquired during enculturation during youth - it's not built in.
So what if they trained a monkey to do it - you train your children to do it too. It's natural for neither, and both are able to do it once taught to.
If anything, that these capuchin can budget for things they prefer, it's an indication that they're probably better qualified to handle money than the average Joe Suburb who is thousands of dollars in debt because they wanted their $4000 rims and their $3000 television so they're constantly late on rent.
I administer a network of 50 systems and the only thing protecting those machines is that I don't allow users to execute downloaded software.
Any program which issued those malformed instructions while claiming to allow the users to punch the monkey or something could install the first OS X backdoor worms, installing them with root privileges then effectively hiding themselves.
This flaw allows exactly the same attack as the P2P "hot_teen_action.mpg.exe" trojan scams on OS X - which is supposed to be secure against that kind of attack because it requires an administrator password to obtain higher than user-level access to the machine.
Telling users that this is serious and dangerous is certainly not spreading FUD, it's just getting them to stop ignoring the Jack Russel Terrier update icon.
Just to play the devil's advocate, there are no scientifically confirmed cases of something being made from strings either, but that doesn't mean that string theory isn't worth investigating.
This obviously behind-the-times organization needs to be brought up to modern standards of monetary wastefulness.
It's managing to be utterly unsuccessful at achieving its mission - and doing so in a budget of under $200,000 a year? Most departments are doing this at budgets of $10-20 million a year.
The EULA for OS X says that it grants you a legal license to use the purchased software as long as it is installed only on an Apple-branded machine.
Violating that term invalidates your license, and therefore, you'd be operating the software without being legally allowed to.
Equivalent to you renting a car under the condition that you wouldn't drive it to Canada, then driving directly to Canada. Even if you paid for it, what you just did was in direct breach of contract and invalidates your contractual agreement with them.
Then in theory, you're driving a stolen car which you paid for the privilege of using.
Also, Apple doesn't sell operating systems, just computers which have their operating system on it. You can't buy a standalone OS X.
I think I should be able to install OS X on any old p3 I've got laying around, but unfortunately, that's how they chose to work their license.
In the long run you can throw a billion dollars into a mismanaged charity to completely fail to feed the starving (because all the food is stolen by warlords), or you can possibly secure a future for the human race as a whole.
And just look how much good savinghumanity from war has done in the past.
I say it's bad news because the standard model is freaking boring.
I still hope to see real interstellar travel before I die (not sticking a bunch of corpsicles in a solar sail powered coffin and sending them out into deep space for a million years), and considering I'm 30 now, I hardly find that likely if the standard model turns out to be right.
Honestly, for those of us who want to see the human race EVER reach the stars (before we succeed in creating another Dark Ages or get smashed by a meteor), the worst news we could possibly get is that the standard model is spot on.
From what I've seen, hardware manufacturers don't want people to move to Vista or upgrade their computers so they can run Vista.
The lack of properly programmed drivers for this hardware will only result in people who are running Vista thinking that their new hardware is cheap crap.
These NVIDA Windows Vista drivers are under development. These versions are not fully optimized for full 3D performance and may not include all available features available on different operating systems
ATI seems to have an offering up for Vista, at least.
Linksys seems to have no drivers at all available for Vista.
If these hardware manufacturers were pushing people to upgrade, one would think it would behoove them to actually make the hardware work with Vista so they don't have to perform millions of RMAs on perfectly working hardware.
Imagine taking a video, figuring out its proximity to individual frames within a collection of other videos, then substituting those frames into a third.
Then you'd have something which is fooling your eye into seeing something happen which is totally other than what is actually occurring, provided the frame rate was high enough.
Obviously you'd need a massive corpus of high quality video to draw frames from, but the end result would be like an incredibly low fidelity moving photocollage.
There's a big difference between "seeing" and "believing."
Television warps only the perceptions of those who lack a frame of reference - in other words, somebody whose only contact with the subject matter is via sensationalized television.
Pornography has a similar problem in that everybody has these fixed attributes, the whole thing is ritualized to an unreal extent. Pornographers give people what they expect to see, not even necessarily what they want to see - not only because it sells, but because it's easy.
The people who believe that pornography OR television resembles reality in anything more than a superficial sense are as isolated from reality as the bible-camp shut-in who never experiences either.
I actually had no problem getting Daggerfall running in Windows 2k Professional, and have since run it successfully without any system patching or third party junk in XP.
In fact, the first time I ever played the game was in 2001, and it was good.
Wait, you are a Slashdot reader and you'd prefer not to be a glorified computer case?
Shit, half the people here would mod their skull to have a mini-ATX mediacenter, a beer tap, and a glow in the dark USB R2D2 jammed in there if they thought they had better than average odds of survival.
I'm all for replacing my shortcomings with hardware - hell, I do it already.
That's certainly your choice, if you feel your personality is worth preserving at the expense of your usefulness.
Me, I'll take the blue pill and be able to pay attention to my friends when they're talking to me, listen to my boss when he's explaining what he wants me to do, and remember what I was just typing...
Might I just ask why in hell you would need to encrypt your activities on a Nintendo DS?
Are you afraid that the CIA mind-moles will steal information about how bad you suck at Warioware?
If you're running Linux or something on a DS, software encryption on both ends of the wireless connection should be sufficient to address any weaknesses in WEP.
Why should it be necessary for you to filter the world based on your moral views? Rose tinted glasses doesn't make the real world any nicer, and they don't prepare you for the shock of being exposed in real life to the full spectrum the world has to offer.
I've met several people through church who had the most outlandish and twisted beliefs about other human beings caused by the fact that they'd been sheltered from getting an objective view of reality and had been told all sorts of nonsense about people. I'm talking about people that actually believe the hateful folderol that individuals like Jack Chick (Google it, I won't link to that guy) spew.
Being exposed to pornography won't make you hate Jesus, and it won't turn you into a sex addict. Seeing "bad" words on a page won't make you foul mouthed; one of my best friends won't say anything stronger than "crap" (ever) and his parents swear like sailors.
All a moral person requires to be moral is to have a sense of right and wrong - however you choose to define that - imprinted at an early age through a mix of doctrine (don't do that, only bad people do that) and example (being a decent human being yourself, and making your kids admire or appreciate you).
No amount of television shows, songs, pornographic images, dirty jokes or videogames are going to corrupt people.
Peer pressure might - and education and life experience might cause them to stray from what you consider to be "good" - but what influences an adult or child more than anything is their environment during their formative years and the activities they choose during their rebellious years.
Sheltering someone only warps their understanding of reality, it doesn't automagically make them a better person.
Actually, people continued producing games for the Apple][ long after the Macintosh came out (in 1984, one might note) although they were largely educational titles.
You may find MobyGames enlightening on the subject.
Over a hundred games were produced for the Apple][ after 1987.
The only problem was that the *good* games at the time were either being produced for the major game consoles (for the superior interface and faster load times), arcade machines (greatly enhanced power and graphics), or the PC (far greater home market saturation.)
So in short, your point on video games is completely off-base.
Finally, there's no way in hell that net piracy could at any time in the near future make it unprofitable to sell video - even if it were legalized - for the simple reason that the downloads are nonpermanent (even if you burn them), not easily loaned to friends, prohibitively slow (hours to download a movie, faster to get to the video rental store), and nontechnical people can't do it easily (and we've seen that most nontechnical people don't like doing ANYTHING that isn't easy - including voting.)
Please remember that "working to the satisfaction of your users" and "working properly in a way which doesn't cost the company money" are not always in perfect harmony.
In this particular instance, the features were related to ad-reps exploiting holes in the original deadlines and scheduling code and as a result short-changing the company and giving clients hundreds of dollars in free advertising (without realizing it) because circumventing the deadlines helped them meet quota.
When the complaints started rolling in, I immediately brought the matter to the attention of my superiors (the ad managers) and the discovery that people had been relying on certain border effects (not directly related to the exploits, but related to other scheduling malfunctions) resulted in a change of policies.
This made both the ad-reps and the management happy, and at the end of the day, that's not a bad position to be in.
NB #1: This only works with the DOS version, not the Windows re-release as far as I know.
NB #2: It's been a long time since I've done this lovely little trick, so YMMV.
Take a large UFO landing site. You only have to do it once.
Then immediately go after and shoot down every UFO, terror site, whatever for the next couple of days.
When it leaves the Geoscape to go into the battle mode, hit Ctrl-Break.
The game will return to the Geoscape with the mission status report from the last successfully completed battle mode - the report file remains put until after a battle begins.
You'll get all of the loot from the large landing site again.
In this particular case, the previous programmer was entirely new to web programming. I've been patching severe security holes in the website since about a month after I started (the period it took me to figure out how the code worked.)
A lot of what I was doing was requested by the management to stop people from taking advantage of poor deadline calculations and to break certain workarounds discovered by the employees.
In the process of locking up some of these holes, there were some actual unintended behaviors (per the original documentation, they were prohibited) which became a vital part of the work flow process.
Although I'll cop to breaking a few things in the interest of cleaning them up, then immediately having to revert my changes, a lot of these bugs-as-features were in fact bugs which later became vital to the process.
This also worked nicely in the PVP dungeon Darkness Falls. If the damned Yankees (insert your favorite enemy here) were controlling all sensible exits, a low level character who was in for the loot could just bail through a crack in the wall. There were a few such cracks, and they always made it a little easier to get the duck out of fodge.
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I believe you're entirely missing the point that humans are trained to behave like humans.
The use of money is acquired during enculturation during youth - it's not built in.
So what if they trained a monkey to do it - you train your children to do it too. It's natural for neither, and both are able to do it once taught to.
If anything, that these capuchin can budget for things they prefer, it's an indication that they're probably better qualified to handle money than the average Joe Suburb who is thousands of dollars in debt because they wanted their $4000 rims and their $3000 television so they're constantly late on rent.
How is it FUD to call a dangerous flaw dangerous?
I administer a network of 50 systems and the only thing protecting those machines is that I don't allow users to execute downloaded software.
Any program which issued those malformed instructions while claiming to allow the users to punch the monkey or something could install the first OS X backdoor worms, installing them with root privileges then effectively hiding themselves.
This flaw allows exactly the same attack as the P2P "hot_teen_action.mpg.exe" trojan scams on OS X - which is supposed to be secure against that kind of attack because it requires an administrator password to obtain higher than user-level access to the machine.
Telling users that this is serious and dangerous is certainly not spreading FUD, it's just getting them to stop ignoring the Jack Russel Terrier update icon.
So you're saying the 1984 Macintosh commercial should have been a Logan's Run them instead?
Just to play the devil's advocate, there are no scientifically confirmed cases of something being made from strings either, but that doesn't mean that string theory isn't worth investigating.
This obviously behind-the-times organization needs to be brought up to modern standards of monetary wastefulness.
It's managing to be utterly unsuccessful at achieving its mission - and doing so in a budget of under $200,000 a year? Most departments are doing this at budgets of $10-20 million a year.
Clearly this is a case of mismanagement.
The EULA for OS X says that it grants you a legal license to use the purchased software as long as it is installed only on an Apple-branded machine.
Violating that term invalidates your license, and therefore, you'd be operating the software without being legally allowed to.
Equivalent to you renting a car under the condition that you wouldn't drive it to Canada, then driving directly to Canada. Even if you paid for it, what you just did was in direct breach of contract and invalidates your contractual agreement with them.
Then in theory, you're driving a stolen car which you paid for the privilege of using.
Also, Apple doesn't sell operating systems, just computers which have their operating system on it. You can't buy a standalone OS X.
I think I should be able to install OS X on any old p3 I've got laying around, but unfortunately, that's how they chose to work their license.
Way to look at the short term goal. Save the human race now so they can die later.
Seriously, perhaps you've heard of the Permian extinction?
In the long run you can throw a billion dollars into a mismanaged charity to completely fail to feed the starving (because all the food is stolen by warlords), or you can possibly secure a future for the human race as a whole.
And just look how much good saving humanity from war has done in the past.
I think it's easier to reach Alpha Proxima.
I say it's bad news because the standard model is freaking boring.
I still hope to see real interstellar travel before I die (not sticking a bunch of corpsicles in a solar sail powered coffin and sending them out into deep space for a million years), and considering I'm 30 now, I hardly find that likely if the standard model turns out to be right.
Honestly, for those of us who want to see the human race EVER reach the stars (before we succeed in creating another Dark Ages or get smashed by a meteor), the worst news we could possibly get is that the standard model is spot on.
The lack of properly programmed drivers for this hardware will only result in people who are running Vista thinking that their new hardware is cheap crap.
ATI seems to have an offering up for Vista, at least.
Linksys seems to have no drivers at all available for Vista.
If these hardware manufacturers were pushing people to upgrade, one would think it would behoove them to actually make the hardware work with Vista so they don't have to perform millions of RMAs on perfectly working hardware.
That gives me a fabulous idea.
Imagine taking a video, figuring out its proximity to individual frames within a collection of other videos, then substituting those frames into a third.
Then you'd have something which is fooling your eye into seeing something happen which is totally other than what is actually occurring, provided the frame rate was high enough.
Obviously you'd need a massive corpus of high quality video to draw frames from, but the end result would be like an incredibly low fidelity moving photocollage.
Remind me never to eat your cooking.
There's a big difference between "seeing" and "believing."
Television warps only the perceptions of those who lack a frame of reference - in other words, somebody whose only contact with the subject matter is via sensationalized television.
Pornography has a similar problem in that everybody has these fixed attributes, the whole thing is ritualized to an unreal extent. Pornographers give people what they expect to see, not even necessarily what they want to see - not only because it sells, but because it's easy.
The people who believe that pornography OR television resembles reality in anything more than a superficial sense are as isolated from reality as the bible-camp shut-in who never experiences either.
I actually had no problem getting Daggerfall running in Windows 2k Professional, and have since run it successfully without any system patching or third party junk in XP.
In fact, the first time I ever played the game was in 2001, and it was good.
Wait, you are a Slashdot reader and you'd prefer not to be a glorified computer case?
Shit, half the people here would mod their skull to have a mini-ATX mediacenter, a beer tap, and a glow in the dark USB R2D2 jammed in there if they thought they had better than average odds of survival.
I'm all for replacing my shortcomings with hardware - hell, I do it already.
Why remember anything when you can Google it?
At what point does it matter?
Prosthesis is great, artificial organs are wonderful, and in fact anything which makes my body function better than its stock equipment is OK by me.
I think the only point it'd begin mattering is if the alterations began reducing your capacity to feel emotion.
And a few people could use a little reduction in that department.
That's certainly your choice, if you feel your personality is worth preserving at the expense of your usefulness.
Me, I'll take the blue pill and be able to pay attention to my friends when they're talking to me, listen to my boss when he's explaining what he wants me to do, and remember what I was just typing...
Wait, what was I saying?
Might I just ask why in hell you would need to encrypt your activities on a Nintendo DS?
Are you afraid that the CIA mind-moles will steal information about how bad you suck at Warioware?
If you're running Linux or something on a DS, software encryption on both ends of the wireless connection should be sufficient to address any weaknesses in WEP.
Why should it be necessary for you to filter the world based on your moral views? Rose tinted glasses doesn't make the real world any nicer, and they don't prepare you for the shock of being exposed in real life to the full spectrum the world has to offer.
I've met several people through church who had the most outlandish and twisted beliefs about other human beings caused by the fact that they'd been sheltered from getting an objective view of reality and had been told all sorts of nonsense about people. I'm talking about people that actually believe the hateful folderol that individuals like Jack Chick (Google it, I won't link to that guy) spew.
Being exposed to pornography won't make you hate Jesus, and it won't turn you into a sex addict. Seeing "bad" words on a page won't make you foul mouthed; one of my best friends won't say anything stronger than "crap" (ever) and his parents swear like sailors.
All a moral person requires to be moral is to have a sense of right and wrong - however you choose to define that - imprinted at an early age through a mix of doctrine (don't do that, only bad people do that) and example (being a decent human being yourself, and making your kids admire or appreciate you).
No amount of television shows, songs, pornographic images, dirty jokes or videogames are going to corrupt people.
Peer pressure might - and education and life experience might cause them to stray from what you consider to be "good" - but what influences an adult or child more than anything is their environment during their formative years and the activities they choose during their rebellious years.
Sheltering someone only warps their understanding of reality, it doesn't automagically make them a better person.
A female bonobo was arrested in Sao Paolo yesterday for prostitution and lewd behavior in public.
Actually, people continued producing games for the Apple][ long after the Macintosh came out (in 1984, one might note) although they were largely educational titles.
You may find MobyGames enlightening on the subject.
Over a hundred games were produced for the Apple][ after 1987.
The only problem was that the *good* games at the time were either being produced for the major game consoles (for the superior interface and faster load times), arcade machines (greatly enhanced power and graphics), or the PC (far greater home market saturation.)
So in short, your point on video games is completely off-base.
Finally, there's no way in hell that net piracy could at any time in the near future make it unprofitable to sell video - even if it were legalized - for the simple reason that the downloads are nonpermanent (even if you burn them), not easily loaned to friends, prohibitively slow (hours to download a movie, faster to get to the video rental store), and nontechnical people can't do it easily (and we've seen that most nontechnical people don't like doing ANYTHING that isn't easy - including voting.)
Please remember that "working to the satisfaction of your users" and "working properly in a way which doesn't cost the company money" are not always in perfect harmony.
In this particular instance, the features were related to ad-reps exploiting holes in the original deadlines and scheduling code and as a result short-changing the company and giving clients hundreds of dollars in free advertising (without realizing it) because circumventing the deadlines helped them meet quota.
When the complaints started rolling in, I immediately brought the matter to the attention of my superiors (the ad managers) and the discovery that people had been relying on certain border effects (not directly related to the exploits, but related to other scheduling malfunctions) resulted in a change of policies.
This made both the ad-reps and the management happy, and at the end of the day, that's not a bad position to be in.
NB #1: This only works with the DOS version, not the Windows re-release as far as I know.
NB #2: It's been a long time since I've done this lovely little trick, so YMMV.
Take a large UFO landing site.
You only have to do it once.
Then immediately go after and shoot down every UFO, terror site, whatever for the next couple of days.
When it leaves the Geoscape to go into the battle mode, hit Ctrl-Break.
The game will return to the Geoscape with the mission status report from the last successfully completed battle mode - the report file remains put until after a battle begins.
You'll get all of the loot from the large landing site again.
In this particular case, the previous programmer was entirely new to web programming. I've been patching severe security holes in the website since about a month after I started (the period it took me to figure out how the code worked.)
A lot of what I was doing was requested by the management to stop people from taking advantage of poor deadline calculations and to break certain workarounds discovered by the employees.
In the process of locking up some of these holes, there were some actual unintended behaviors (per the original documentation, they were prohibited) which became a vital part of the work flow process.
Although I'll cop to breaking a few things in the interest of cleaning them up, then immediately having to revert my changes, a lot of these bugs-as-features were in fact bugs which later became vital to the process.
This also worked nicely in the PVP dungeon Darkness Falls. If the damned Yankees (insert your favorite enemy here) were controlling all sensible exits, a low level character who was in for the loot could just bail through a crack in the wall. There were a few such cracks, and they always made it a little easier to get the duck out of fodge.
Don't just hope for bunnies - make them happen.