We already get filtered, snooped, tracked and wiretapped.
So there is little worse than this but shutting the network down!
Freedom is an illusion.
Real freedom double so!
That market won't take off because gaming is the wrong application for cell phones.
Phones are mainly aimed to personal mobile communication. Even the camera and the limited PIM features are used very rarely and usually only if there's no other option.
We all hope that manufacturer will focus on better communication features, capabilities and performances instead of wondering about stupid questions!
Mobile gaming can be accomplished with, say, a PSP. And if you need multi plyer gaming, link it to your mobile phone!
So, finally, "incremental downloads" should actually be binary patches, as seen long long ago with Quartedeck's QEMM-386.
Under opensource environment this is really hard to do because of the large number of choices users have to build their own binaries.
How is the binary patcher supposed to identify the correct place in my binary to insert the patch?
Or is The MF willing to provide their own binary distribution?
I fear that the "incremental download" feature is doomed to die soon!
I've not found any technical details about the "incremental update" mechanism.
One would wonder how can this be accomplished with binary distributions (like DEB and RPM.) DLLs?
For the sources it means that the original complete source code is already available!
Maybe it is just a download manager a-la Acrobat Reader (for Windows).
Why should an insitution (not just banks) ask me for details they are supposed to already know?
No security technology or technique is strong enough to defy stupidity!
And phishing exploits stupidity!
What about the comparison of the price against the quality of the sound?
Is it comparable to CD (44.1 KHz, 16 bits samples for 2 channels)?
If a physical CD costs, say, USD 15.- USD with 15 songs, each downloadable song should cost USD 1.
Much less if you think about the money they save by not printing the medium and not shipping the boxes all around the world.
Let's say USD 0.75 could be right. It's right if the song is CD quality, of course.
If it's a compressed format song, it should cost less because quality is worse.
Let's say USD 0.50 is a fair price.
Almost all legal downloads are above this price. With no real reason! So I'd say that prices are too high when compared to quality.
And Maybe they are too high in any case.
In some ways, Windows Vista actually will exceed Mac OS X and Linux, but not to the depth we were promised.
Which ways? If you are talking about user interface (or experience as they like to buzz) I'd say "Maybe". But if you are talking about real OS features that can be exploited by a number of different software (not just yours) I'd say "Show me the meat!".
The (poor) cryptography used by Bernardo Provenzano (more accurate infos in the Italian page) was meant to be used only by himself to avoid possible sneakes by his waiters. That was enough. The important point is that he managed to stay at large, not as a fugitive, in the neighbourhood of Corleoni (Sicily, Italy) for almost 43 years without being noticed or identified and while still heading at full steam the Cosa Nostra!
So, as far as security and privacy is concerned, a good design can make poor technology rock!
Good enough that Apple chose to put it in the iMac
Flies like shit a lot. This doesn't mean that we should do the same! Core Duo actually seems to be a good architecture. Let's challenge it before any opinion!
The good move would be to go the opensource way also for hardware. Something like OpenCores.
Of course this move would be quite long and hard to go. But we all can bet that the emerging product would be by far better than the closed one.
Just like it is happening for *BSD systems against the notorious "Unix Sys V" or, better, Linux against Microsoft.
Reverse engineering can be tough as well, but a good disassembler would do the magics: once you know how they do it, you can guess why they do it that way and then you can do better than them! Or at least as good as they do.
Hey guy! We are talking about the PS3, not the GameBoy!
I can bet that a mere 0.1% of the total CPU resources can be "wasted" for a real real-time operating system!
This's my opinion, of course!
That would mean that any feature (like Internet connectivity) is to be implemented by each game on its own! All of them actually replicating the same code, features and bugs.
With all that horse power in the box I would spend a mere 0.1% of it for a real operating system.
I'm lucky I'm not a video game developer or engineer!
Sony is planning to have an Operating System running constantly in the background.
I would wonder if Sony did it the other way!
It would be really hard to write and debug every single game (or application) with all the needed run time support in it.
I'd say that trivially a (kind of) operating system is to be present into that hardware marvel. The real question is: which operating system will Sony choose?
One already existing or a fresh new one?
It seems that Gene Roddenberry's precognition, as weel as his later fellows', made another strike!
Maybe we could do research in a different way: first attend to the whole Star Trek series taking notes, then go to the labs and try them out!
The point is that if the SMTP implementation you're using is correct and the DNS MX record smartly defined, then you'd need just one email server up and running!
There is an increasing number of industry leaders talking against free services.
Namely VoIP, free internet TV and the likes.
The real fear is for users (of course) because someday some smart guy could be able to have internet traffic filtered out (or hindered) in order to block those protocols/applications.
Some alre already doing this against VoIP!
I hope that those soldiers were using strong encryption for file systems.
I hope that those soldiers were not storing sensible data on those drives.
I hope that those soldiers were not storing weird photos involving prisoners...
Real world tends to be different from hopes!
If that license comes for free, it is ok, no question on this.
If it is not, everyone should be able to claim money back from that license! (This one is an old battle)
Of the two I'd prefer the first one, because 80% of the people would like to be able to turn on the PC and start using it without any further delay.
The issues come only for the remaining 20% people that would like to install a different OS, not necessairly by a different manufacturer!
In any case my own dictionary call this as "freedom constraint", which can be normal in China, but should not in the USA or Europe.
I would instead say that they were not counscious at all!
Even if they were stone age people, none would consciously go to a dentist using flint drills!
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We already get filtered, snooped, tracked and wiretapped.
So there is little worse than this but shutting the network down!
Freedom is an illusion.
Real freedom double so!
That market won't take off because gaming is the wrong application for cell phones.
Phones are mainly aimed to personal mobile communication.
Even the camera and the limited PIM features are used very rarely and usually only if there's no other option.
We all hope that manufacturer will focus on better communication features, capabilities and performances instead of wondering about stupid questions!
Mobile gaming can be accomplished with, say, a PSP. And if you need multi plyer gaming, link it to your mobile phone!
So, finally, "incremental downloads" should actually be binary patches, as seen long long ago with Quartedeck's QEMM-386.
Under opensource environment this is really hard to do because of the large number of choices users have to build their own binaries.
How is the binary patcher supposed to identify the correct place in my binary to insert the patch?
Or is The MF willing to provide their own binary distribution?
I fear that the "incremental download" feature is doomed to die soon!
I've not found any technical details about the "incremental update" mechanism.
One would wonder how can this be accomplished with binary distributions (like DEB and RPM.) DLLs?
For the sources it means that the original complete source code is already available!
Maybe it is just a download manager a-la Acrobat Reader (for Windows).
You can bet Sun will open source Java! ... 3.11!
They are just waiting for Microsoft to open source Windows
Why should an insitution (not just banks) ask me for details they are supposed to already know?
No security technology or technique is strong enough to defy stupidity!
And phishing exploits stupidity!
What about the comparison of the price against the quality of the sound?
Is it comparable to CD (44.1 KHz, 16 bits samples for 2 channels)?
If a physical CD costs, say, USD 15.- USD with 15 songs, each downloadable song should cost USD 1.
Much less if you think about the money they save by not printing the medium and not shipping the boxes all around the world.
Let's say USD 0.75 could be right. It's right if the song is CD quality, of course.
If it's a compressed format song, it should cost less because quality is worse. Let's say USD 0.50 is a fair price.
Almost all legal downloads are above this price. With no real reason!
So I'd say that prices are too high when compared to quality.
And Maybe they are too high in any case.
Well, if Longhorn is a kind of cow, then they should kill it and show us the beef!
If you are talking about user interface (or experience as they like to buzz) I'd say "Maybe".
But if you are talking about real OS features that can be exploited by a number of different software (not just yours) I'd say "Show me the meat!".
That's a good cryptography example. Quite astonishing!
The (poor) cryptography used by Bernardo Provenzano (more accurate infos in the Italian page) was meant to be used only by himself to avoid possible sneakes by his waiters. That was enough.
The important point is that he managed to stay at large, not as a fugitive, in the neighbourhood of Corleoni (Sicily, Italy) for almost 43 years without being noticed or identified and while still heading at full steam the Cosa Nostra!
So, as far as security and privacy is concerned, a good design can make poor technology rock!
Core Duo actually seems to be a good architecture. Let's challenge it before any opinion!
The third option applies.
The good move would be to go the opensource way also for hardware. Something like OpenCores.
Of course this move would be quite long and hard to go. But we all can bet that the emerging product would be by far better than the closed one.
Just like it is happening for *BSD systems against the notorious "Unix Sys V" or, better, Linux against Microsoft.
Reverse engineering can be tough as well, but a good disassembler would do the magics: once you know how they do it, you can guess why they do it that way and then you can do better than them! Or at least as good as they do.
Hey guy! We are talking about the PS3, not the GameBoy!
I can bet that a mere 0.1% of the total CPU resources can be "wasted" for a real real-time operating system!
This's my opinion, of course!
That would mean that any feature (like Internet connectivity) is to be implemented by each game on its own! All of them actually replicating the same code, features and bugs.
With all that horse power in the box I would spend a mere 0.1% of it for a real operating system.
I'm lucky I'm not a video game developer or engineer!
I would wonder if Sony did it the other way!
It would be really hard to write and debug every single game (or application) with all the needed run time support in it.
I'd say that trivially a (kind of) operating system is to be present into that hardware marvel.
The real question is: which operating system will Sony choose?
One already existing or a fresh new one?
It seems that Gene Roddenberry's precognition, as weel as his later fellows', made another strike!
Maybe we could do research in a different way: first attend to the whole Star Trek series taking notes, then go to the labs and try them out!
The point is that if the SMTP implementation you're using is correct and the DNS MX record smartly defined, then you'd need just one email server up and running!
There is an increasing number of industry leaders talking against free services.
Namely VoIP, free internet TV and the likes.
The real fear is for users (of course) because someday some smart guy could be able to have internet traffic filtered out (or hindered) in order to block those protocols/applications.
Some alre already doing this against VoIP!
I hope that those soldiers were using strong encryption for file systems. ...
I hope that those soldiers were not storing sensible data on those drives.
I hope that those soldiers were not storing weird photos involving prisoners
Real world tends to be different from hopes!
If that license comes for free, it is ok, no question on this.
If it is not, everyone should be able to claim money back from that license! (This one is an old battle)
Of the two I'd prefer the first one, because 80% of the people would like to be able to turn on the PC and start using it without any further delay.
The issues come only for the remaining 20% people that would like to install a different OS, not necessairly by a different manufacturer!
In any case my own dictionary call this as "freedom constraint", which can be normal in China, but should not in the USA or Europe.
I would instead say that they were not counscious at all!
Even if they were stone age people, none would consciously go to a dentist using flint drills!