Situation is even more sad on OS X game scene. On OS X, idea of "Installing game" is generally dragging and dropping a 4.7 GB folder from DVD to a local drive. You do it and after a while, you want to run the game, it demands the DVD to be inserted.
On Windows, game install isn't that transparent (mysterious MSI etc). You may think "so it reads some movies from game DVD" as a non tech user. On OS X, you actually see there is nothing left to read on DVD at first place! You copied the entire freaking thing to HD.
Also people buying original games shouldn't care/know about crack sites. As they go and search for "no CD" patch, they learn those sites and always see the "easy way" like they could download whole dvd from some pirate site instead of paying for developers/artists work. It is just like copy protected Audio CDs forced original music listeners to pirate apps.
For sites demanding such info, check the tip from Agile Networks, makers of 1Password. It can be done via other solutions, free or paid too.
(of course, I can't find the tip on their blog)
The idea was, if site demands that question to be filled, you auto fill it with a random password generator. You can make the question to be auto generated password too.
For example: Secret question: zal3ed2od6ja Secret answer: yad5uth4yot4
So that stupid potential security breach becomes some sort of challenge/response additional security. Obviously you will need a form filler/extension or it could become major hassle if you lose it.
If a machine will only do one thing and it won't be connected to Internet, my choices would be Windows 2000 with WHQL drivers installed old but very stable/non overheating card or Mac OS X 10.2.8 , yes the one from 2003.
XP isn't conservative enough, really.
Of course note: They shouldn't be connected to Internet, even Modem should be disabled via hardware settings or people may see something else than BSOD;)
IMHO , It also perfectly explains why IBM decided to get rid of tiny computers and CPUs running tiny computers (except consoles). I think they got sick of them, really.
These guys manufacture mainframes which theoretically run forever. Imagine you see that screen in that company culture while a bank calls for a CPU upgrade of a mainframe which runs for 10 years non stop which will be still done without turning it off:)
Well, if you don't get backup service from third party companies who are actually away from you and owned by neutral countries, you don't keep a low bandwidth satellite connection "just in case" even if it idles all the time, this (if true) happens.
"Single point of failure" isn't meant to be Internet. It is a huge residential DSL line and a webserver hosted on that machine. Hope I could express myself.
Of course on the other hand, they are the ones declared war to Russia while having only 12 jets.
Well, this completely stupid war serves only 1 good purpose. You see the cold war isn't over at all and there are still companies in IT media who doesn't have basic clue about "verify via neutral source" rule of news making.
Can't they at least download Mirc and join some chatroom?!
Please people, give an example of a SINGLE commercial, end user oriented application from a commercial company that runs on Linux thanks to Mono. Your framework is a failure, Icaza is a puppet who is controlled by Microsoft via his weak personality, Novell is Microsoft's trojan in OSS and you ignore a multi billion console and incoming mobile 3d market if you code in direct3d.
Now this is a good flamebait. Not the post you replied to.
If I know MS, they should have taken every step to tie DirectX to Windows in deepest level.
Even if you code it with their own help, with ridiculous patents forced to users? Well, there is an example. Open source.NET implementation is at Version 1.x level while Windows.NET is at 3.x level. All commercial developers ship.NET 3.x code now. So what was the point?
Wine lives its full glory at wrong place. Except truly high end games which even PowerPC G5 won't be able to handle, all "Macintosh, Intel only" games you see are Windows games on OS X scene. Yes, Apple switched to Intel , they got some amazing marketshare (for Apple), they solved the endian problem, Altivec problem (!), i386 ASM will work too... What happened? MS Puppet EA games happily ships expensive Windows games masquerading as OS X.apps.
It is basic. MS puppets who has no plans (or coding quality?) to code multi platform in age of PS3/ Wii/iPhone/OpenGL ES will keep DirectX. True game developers who sees the real market will code OpenGL.
Java (J2ME) and Symbian and I believe Windows Mobile has solved the security and privacy issue YEARS ago.
Symbian Signed, J2ME's own sandbox and kind of "privacy firewall" built into smart devices and even J2ME "dumb" handsets.
I think Apple trusts to the fact that both technologies aren't so popular in USA so their community will act exactly like you.
There is no way you can make a Location aware program on Symbian or Java (J2ME). Handset will first ask "Allow Application to get location data?" with a "Privacy Warning" and lets say the guy said "yes", you have to send data right? It will alert user second time "Do you want Application to send data to network?". Are you afraid of "click happy" users? Well, they will get exact same warning over and over since J2ME/Symbian will never let user to do things like "Remember this decision" on unsigned applications. The point is: No blacklists involved. No breach of user privacy using security as excuse is involved.
What Apple needs to do is, hire a corporate investigator to find if there is anything malicious behind the amazing stupidity of accepting $10K application to store and if he finds nothing, fire the guy without any payment.
Of course they are way clever to abuse their own fault.
If they have researched well, they could figure Symbian devices having motion sensor (yes, they exist) already have gesture based control via 3rd party Application.
Funny and sad thing is, the biggest player of market gets such an interesting application but only place you will hear about it is Symbian news sites.
Also I think Android isn't getting some real feedback from IT sites since they are afraid from Google. Lack of negative feedback will really hurt it. I still don't get the point after a)Java is GPL/J2ME soon (obvious) b) Symbian goes opensource. I can understand regular american users have never seen the true power of J2ME/Symbian because of telecom dictatorship but it is Google, they should know what is possible already.
NVidia chipsets and their software drivers created such a complex problem that it took hours for a mega advanced low level hacker like Mark Russinovich to solve.
That is the only chipset competition Intel/AMD now have after VIA exit. A company which definitely have no clue about chipsets and what users/manufacturers expect from a chipset. It is basic: Stability and Performance, zero installation except well maintained, WHQL certified drivers. Not a firewall in NAT age!
Doesn't AMD's move to get into mainboard chipset business and being abandoned by VIA, an independent manufacturer sound like 3dfx to you too?
It sounds like it to me especially considering there are some special "troubleshooting" sections on websites about Nvidia chipset related problems along with their software. 3dfx was a great company and loved by partners until they decided to manufacture their own cards.
Hope their decisions after Nvidia acquisition won't kill AMD since it will totally crash the already barely existing competition on x86.
On hacked iPhone. Not official iPhone. A big difference. You should see how convenient it is to install on a Nokia or any phone which doesn't have such foolish restrictions. One click from browser,that is all.
They have such a client, guys already got certified by Symbian and yet they only put "Gizmo" to download menu. Now they advertise that junk which they wasted for years without any change in policy. That was my point.
"It certainly worked for Apple. Why else would people pay huge premiums for their products?"
because they "love" the company? That company was even loved in their darkest days by their rivals themselves. It represents much more than a IT company, it represents a philosophy. That is one thing you can't buy with money or billion dollar advertising campaigns since people aren't _that_ stupid.
Did you use Maeomo to install apps/themes? If they won't change how theme works on Symbian or freely get those Apps signed, I am not installing anything unless I buy a full feature Symbian antivirus like Kaspersky. It made me really really paranoid here. It is also because a "theme" comes with a sis/sisx installer in Symbian scene. Not like.thm which is simply a tar.gz file on Sony Ericsson scene. How the hell I am supposed to know if that.sisx doesn't include some "extras" ?
Everything is either unsigned, self signed or plain "expired certificate". We should be also trusting to MCafee I think, they have some logo there.. Like MCafee has any expertise or prestige in handheld market like F-Secure or Kaspersky does.
I wouldn't be really surprised if T-Mobile does same mistakes.
Nokia started a weird campaign promoting its "Download!" making even die-hard Symbian blogs mad. Why? Because it is not really timely co-ordinated campaign and we (Nokia users) still see 10-15 never updated, never changed stuff in "Download!" menu in our phones.
Nokia sits there, look for some great open source/free applications shipped for Symbian, doesn't freely sign them or cover their signing costs, donate to authors, help them, at least put the s60.com apps to the menu.
All they do is some good graphics wallpaper and application. Yea, race with Apple this way... They don't even put "Opera" and "Fring" to "Internet" category, 2 apps which will never ship for Apple iPhone (with this SDK/EULA) for God's sake.
Not just that. Look at air quality there and some big time human rights issues. What kind of a Olympics committee would give it to them? They tried to fix air quality, city quality (by kicking poor out) but this time, Climate kicked in:) It is supposed to be humid as hell and stormy in Hong Kong.
Even for online, if you are using Linux, you won't be watching it already since the company dealt with Microsoft to push Silverlight to users and (naturally) punish non Windows users.
It can be dirtier than any junk reality show if you think about it. At least reality shows doesn't claim World peace etc.
Already stolen but the data is already known to be stolen. A big difference.
A good way to let FBI come to your house in 10 minutes is using a documented/stolen credit card on a major online site.;)
Law abiding citizens should use a browser/extension which alerts when they visit phishing site, cough $10 or free opt-in for a "pseudo-random password generator" which will totally make the entire concept of stealing passwords useless. Please check that http://www.phishtank.com/ , people spares their free time to verify and submit phishes for free. Look at those amazingly stupid URLs.
That is a professional oriented site and even technical users keep telling the law abiding citizens above, for thousand times. The problem is, they don't listen. So I think guy didn't bother.
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You seem like buying only original games like me.
Situation is even more sad on OS X game scene. On OS X, idea of "Installing game" is generally dragging and dropping a 4.7 GB folder from DVD to a local drive. You do it and after a while, you want to run the game, it demands the DVD to be inserted.
On Windows, game install isn't that transparent (mysterious MSI etc). You may think "so it reads some movies from game DVD" as a non tech user. On OS X, you actually see there is nothing left to read on DVD at first place! You copied the entire freaking thing to HD.
Also people buying original games shouldn't care/know about crack sites. As they go and search for "no CD" patch, they learn those sites and always see the "easy way" like they could download whole dvd from some pirate site instead of paying for developers/artists work. It is just like copy protected Audio CDs forced original music listeners to pirate apps.
What makes me afraid is, perhaps there is a new "hobby" of him to make Nintendo pro actively issue such a ridiculous rule?
For sites demanding such info, check the tip from Agile Networks, makers of 1Password. It can be done via other solutions, free or paid too.
(of course, I can't find the tip on their blog)
The idea was, if site demands that question to be filled, you auto fill it with a random password generator. You can make the question to be auto generated password too.
For example:
Secret question: zal3ed2od6ja
Secret answer: yad5uth4yot4
So that stupid potential security breach becomes some sort of challenge/response additional security. Obviously you will need a form filler/extension or it could become major hassle if you lose it.
I am sure you didn't see the Crash report of new Leopard OS X from Apple. I bet Adobe hates it. ;)
"Application Safari crashed, it may have been caused by Flash Player plugin"
No kidding.
Why doesn't China use their "own" OS anyway? Oh, Microsoft is the sponsor eh? Funny World really.
If a machine will only do one thing and it won't be connected to Internet, my choices would be Windows 2000 with WHQL drivers installed old but very stable/non overheating card or Mac OS X 10.2.8 , yes the one from 2003.
XP isn't conservative enough, really.
Of course note: They shouldn't be connected to Internet, even Modem should be disabled via hardware settings or people may see something else than BSOD ;)
IMHO , It also perfectly explains why IBM decided to get rid of tiny computers and CPUs running tiny computers (except consoles). I think they got sick of them, really.
These guys manufacture mainframes which theoretically run forever. Imagine you see that screen in that company culture while a bank calls for a CPU upgrade of a mainframe which runs for 10 years non stop which will be still done without turning it off :)
Some claim that some high ranking official from a large, very large country said to Saddam "Invade Kuwait, who will care?" in diplomatic language.
This thing really sounds similar to me, if you understand what I mean.
Well, if you don't get backup service from third party companies who are actually away from you and owned by neutral countries, you don't keep a low bandwidth satellite connection "just in case" even if it idles all the time, this (if true) happens.
"Single point of failure" isn't meant to be Internet. It is a huge residential DSL line and a webserver hosted on that machine. Hope I could express myself.
Of course on the other hand, they are the ones declared war to Russia while having only 12 jets.
Well, this completely stupid war serves only 1 good purpose. You see the cold war isn't over at all and there are still companies in IT media who doesn't have basic clue about "verify via neutral source" rule of news making.
Can't they at least download Mirc and join some chatroom?!
Please people, give an example of a SINGLE commercial, end user oriented application from a commercial company that runs on Linux thanks to Mono. Your framework is a failure, Icaza is a puppet who is controlled by Microsoft via his weak personality, Novell is Microsoft's trojan in OSS and you ignore a multi billion console and incoming mobile 3d market if you code in direct3d.
Now this is a good flamebait. Not the post you replied to.
If I know MS, they should have taken every step to tie DirectX to Windows in deepest level.
Even if you code it with their own help, with ridiculous patents forced to users? Well, there is an example. Open source .NET implementation is at Version 1.x level while Windows .NET is at 3.x level. All commercial developers ship .NET 3.x code now. So what was the point?
Wine lives its full glory at wrong place. Except truly high end games which even PowerPC G5 won't be able to handle, all "Macintosh, Intel only" games you see are Windows games on OS X scene. Yes, Apple switched to Intel , they got some amazing marketshare (for Apple), they solved the endian problem, Altivec problem (!), i386 ASM will work too... What happened? MS Puppet EA games happily ships expensive Windows games masquerading as OS X .apps.
It is basic. MS puppets who has no plans (or coding quality?) to code multi platform in age of PS3/ Wii/iPhone/OpenGL ES will keep DirectX. True game developers who sees the real market will code OpenGL.
Java (J2ME) and Symbian and I believe Windows Mobile has solved the security and privacy issue YEARS ago.
Symbian Signed, J2ME's own sandbox and kind of "privacy firewall" built into smart devices and even J2ME "dumb" handsets.
I think Apple trusts to the fact that both technologies aren't so popular in USA so their community will act exactly like you.
There is no way you can make a Location aware program on Symbian or Java (J2ME). Handset will first ask "Allow Application to get location data?" with a "Privacy Warning" and lets say the guy said "yes", you have to send data right? It will alert user second time "Do you want Application to send data to network?". Are you afraid of "click happy" users? Well, they will get exact same warning over and over since J2ME/Symbian will never let user to do things like "Remember this decision" on unsigned applications. The point is: No blacklists involved. No breach of user privacy using security as excuse is involved.
What Apple needs to do is, hire a corporate investigator to find if there is anything malicious behind the amazing stupidity of accepting $10K application to store and if he finds nothing, fire the guy without any payment.
Of course they are way clever to abuse their own fault.
If they have researched well, they could figure Symbian devices having motion sensor (yes, they exist) already have gesture based control via 3rd party Application.
Funny and sad thing is, the biggest player of market gets such an interesting application but only place you will hear about it is Symbian news sites.
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/008/05/hi_n_bye_gesture_controll_for_your_phone_is_out.htm
Also I think Android isn't getting some real feedback from IT sites since they are afraid from Google. Lack of negative feedback will really hurt it. I still don't get the point after a)Java is GPL/J2ME soon (obvious) b) Symbian goes opensource. I can understand regular american users have never seen the true power of J2ME/Symbian because of telecom dictatorship but it is Google, they should know what is possible already.
NVidia chipsets and their software drivers created such a complex problem that it took hours for a mega advanced low level hacker like Mark Russinovich to solve.
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/06/02/3065065.aspx
That is the only chipset competition Intel/AMD now have after VIA exit. A company which definitely have no clue about chipsets and what users/manufacturers expect from a chipset. It is basic: Stability and Performance, zero installation except well maintained, WHQL certified drivers. Not a firewall in NAT age!
Doesn't AMD's move to get into mainboard chipset business and being abandoned by VIA, an independent manufacturer sound like 3dfx to you too?
It sounds like it to me especially considering there are some special "troubleshooting" sections on websites about Nvidia chipset related problems along with their software. 3dfx was a great company and loved by partners until they decided to manufacture their own cards.
Hope their decisions after Nvidia acquisition won't kill AMD since it will totally crash the already barely existing competition on x86.
Not just Berlusconi, look at the mayor of Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Alemanno
On hacked iPhone. Not official iPhone. A big difference. You should see how convenient it is to install on a Nokia or any phone which doesn't have such foolish restrictions. One click from browser,that is all.
They have such a client, guys already got certified by Symbian and yet they only put "Gizmo" to download menu. Now they advertise that junk which they wasted for years without any change in policy. That was my point.
"It certainly worked for Apple. Why else would people pay huge premiums for their products?"
because they "love" the company? That company was even loved in their darkest days by their rivals themselves. It represents much more than a IT company, it represents a philosophy. That is one thing you can't buy with money or billion dollar advertising campaigns since people aren't _that_ stupid.
If it exports .CSV properly, competitor Apps will happily open and edit them.
That is how MS mind works. Wonder why I hated .NET/its clone/silverlight/its clone from first day? They have never surprised me.
Did you use Maeomo to install apps/themes? If they won't change how theme works on Symbian or freely get those Apps signed, I am not installing anything unless I buy a full feature Symbian antivirus like Kaspersky. It made me really really paranoid here. It is also because a "theme" comes with a sis/sisx installer in Symbian scene. Not like .thm which is simply a tar.gz file on Sony Ericsson scene. How the hell I am supposed to know if that .sisx doesn't include some "extras" ?
Everything is either unsigned, self signed or plain "expired certificate". We should be also trusting to MCafee I think, they have some logo there.. Like MCafee has any expertise or prestige in handheld market like F-Secure or Kaspersky does.
I wouldn't be really surprised if T-Mobile does same mistakes.
Nokia started a weird campaign promoting its "Download!" making even die-hard Symbian blogs mad. Why? Because it is not really timely co-ordinated campaign and we (Nokia users) still see 10-15 never updated, never changed stuff in "Download!" menu in our phones.
Check news about it: http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/7743_Secret_really_is_a_secret.php
Nokia sits there, look for some great open source/free applications shipped for Symbian, doesn't freely sign them or cover their signing costs, donate to authors, help them, at least put the s60.com apps to the menu.
All they do is some good graphics wallpaper and application. Yea, race with Apple this way... They don't even put "Opera" and "Fring" to "Internet" category, 2 apps which will never ship for Apple iPhone (with this SDK/EULA) for God's sake.
I am coming here more and more and in fact, take Slashdot more seriously because of Digg. It showed people what would unlimited karma mean.
abuse.
Not just that. Look at air quality there and some big time human rights issues. What kind of a Olympics committee would give it to them? They tried to fix air quality, city quality (by kicking poor out) but this time, Climate kicked in :) It is supposed to be humid as hell and stormy in Hong Kong.
Even for online, if you are using Linux, you won't be watching it already since the company dealt with Microsoft to push Silverlight to users and (naturally) punish non Windows users.
It can be dirtier than any junk reality show if you think about it. At least reality shows doesn't claim World peace etc.
Already stolen but the data is already known to be stolen. A big difference.
A good way to let FBI come to your house in 10 minutes is using a documented/stolen credit card on a major online site. ;)
Law abiding citizens should use a browser/extension which alerts when they visit phishing site, cough $10 or free opt-in for a "pseudo-random password generator" which will totally make the entire concept of stealing passwords useless. Please check that http://www.phishtank.com/ , people spares their free time to verify and submit phishes for free. Look at those amazingly stupid URLs.
That is a professional oriented site and even technical users keep telling the law abiding citizens above, for thousand times. The problem is, they don't listen. So I think guy didn't bother.