Even though it is a little dated, I had windows95 running on a 386 DX 20 with 8mb of ram. It took half an hour to bootup.
No surprise - I had a win2k running on an old 486 (I believe it was with some kind of upgrade, the overdrive perhaps??) Compaq server of some kind that we stumbled upon when my dad's old office was cleaning house. It had no hard disk when we found it, but we put a seagate SCSI in there and installed Win2k and ran WAMP(HP) on it with no problem. Only 24 mb RAM, but with XP running on less, wow, someone will really be able to do nothing with that!
Everyone forgets that earlier Linux distros made use of MS's bsod.c and, of course, Linux wouldn't be as secure as it is today without the code stolen from earlier Windows security implementations (duh!) - and I need I remind you of all of that IE code cleverly stashed away in KHTML???
I really think that this isn't about "quietly testing the pay-as-you-go software model," I think its more about MS quietly trying to tie users in to yearly contracts and subscriptions. As Dell and others roll out desktops with Linux and with Linux gaining more of a "Hey, its not only not Windows but it actually is user friendly" kind of attitude from the general public (just turned my non-techie room mate on to Linux from XP and within minutes Linux had won her over), it looks like MS might be getting a little scared of losing users in the coming years, especially if Vista turns out to be a sore-spot for long-time XP users who were very comfortable, but now see themselves scared and naked in a world of Aero graphics and ridiculous hardware requirements.
If I were MS, I'd want to hold on to some kind of user-base, and why rip people off $300 at a time if I can charge $15/month for a two-year lease, thus even if they don't want to use my software it doesn't effect me as I get paid whether they use it or not. And what about the stranglehold they'll have selling subscriptions to businesses and institutions? What? You need 500 copies of Office? Well, we can work this out = $$$$ for me, for years, guaranteed.
The only thing striking me as 'news' to this is that MS didn't do it sooner.
No sane developer likes the idea of coding to a browser (I hope). When making web-based applications, the goal should be global accessibility and saying Browser A can't access a site while Browser B can is a terrible programming practice - of course, these are Wal-Mart programmers who probably aren't receiving benefits, let alone decent pay for what they're doing, and if I were them I wouldn't mind being the one to help pull the trigger that shoots the foot.
you might pay $50 for only to get maybe $10 worth of new content.
I think you're quite mistaken - I would consider myself something short of a GH "enthusiast," and I would have to say that most people who play the game find themselves considerably 'hooked' as the game brings some very fascinating aspects into the rhythm game market. Given it's addictive quality, they could re-release the original Guitar Hero songs on the GH2 engine (as they plan to do for the 360) and I would gladly pay full price, even though I own GH and GH2, simply because I think the rewards of the revamped ho/po system and the addition of rhythm/bass tracks and Co-Op/Pro Face-off would be completely worth the $50 - I can't even imagine playing Texas Flood with the reworked hammer-on's and pull-offs, not to mention Get Ready 2 Rokk, but I bet it would be awesome.
DDR was fun, but it also had two big humps to get over - 1) you have to dance like an idiot in front of your friends and 2) you had to dance like an idiot in front of your friends. Guitar Hero is different, and even though we're going to see some different songs on different platforms, the quality of the gameplay will be more universal than with the different DDR versions, mainly because (I would hope) they're going to keep the same basic principles of the GH engine, you just get slightly different song lists. And for those not wanting to shell out the money for a 360 (like me, I really don't want to), the Wii version brings hope - I'd much rather spend money to get a Wii to put along side my PS2 as long as I know that there will be a Wii GH, because one can only assume that the Wii version - like the 360 version - will include excellent downloadable content (not to mention, I would love to watch my Mii rocking out and lighting his guitar on fire!).
Wait, I paused my iPod - why am I getting fined? I got a call and I want to look on the outside display and see who it is - $100? This is nothing more than ridiculous FUD. Vote it down and move along.
we have a study in TFA that claims people are prone to discuss music when meeting each other, but on Slashdot the discussion about TFA is minimally good, at best, and yet most of it is about music./. isn't quite the place to be making the point that Fallout Boy sucks.
The results of this study though aren't terribly surprising - as mentioned above, one of the first (and most important things) I talk about when meeting someone new is music. And it makes sense that its such a great topic of discussion - music is everywhere in our lives: on TV, movies, in the car, on the bus, football games, malls, convience stores - hell, I got pulled by a cop once who was listening to a local country station in his cruiser.
All throughout childhood, riding in the car on long trips or even just sitting at home with my parents, there would always be some kind of music playing. Oldies, jazz, the Eagles, etc., and all of that exposure has molded my ideas about music and when I meet someone new, comparing musical tastes is great because it allows you to connect to someone else almost instantly - I don't know your name, but you're a Fugazi fan, so lets talk about Fugazi to break the ice...it works better than the traditional icebreakers - I mean, imagine meeting someone and having them say "OK, you just cross your arms and fall backwards and I'll catch you - oh, and hi, I'm John."
Mod me offtopic, troll, whatever, but I've had it. Slashdot needs editors for it's editors!
, but he claims to be currently looking into the details of safely releasing his details about this at the moment though.
First off, redundancy - details of safely releasing his details - not really incorrect, but poorly worded anyways. I'm more concerned with
releasing his details about this at the moment though. What the fuck?
The webmaster just became the Network Administrator.
Honestly, in today's world, if you are assuming the role of webmaster, chances are you're familiar with setting up some kind of server environment, or at least knowing how to use it.
Plus, 'Network Administrator' looks way better on a business card;)
Not that I have anything against J-Pop or any other Japanese music, but is it all really "Insanely Great" or is someone up there in/. just trying to sensationalize things and spread a little FUD here? You might not find Japanese music in iTunes, but you probably won't find your local jam/metal/hip-hop/alt rock/indie artist in iTunes either - in fact, I doubt that many of us will ever hear these bands on the radio, let alone see them releasing content on iTunes.
If you want to worry about foreign rock, thats cool, I'm sure there is a lot of good stuff out there, but don't hype it in to seeming like Apple is trying to rip anyone off or hide anything. As mentioned before, your local record store doesn't have a "Japanese Artists" section the size of a Japanese record store - if any Japanese section at all - so why expect iTunes to have it?
can't quite figure out why they haven't done any as of yet.
For the same reason they haven't done any 1) Tool, 2) My Morning Jacket, or 3) Pink Floyd - they just can't rock those killer licks & riffs (and they just don't know great guitar-work.
Aside from problems mentioned above concerning the fact that this 'hack' involves mostly hardware removal and replacement (come on, you don't know that there isn't just some monkey handing you bills when you put your card in an ATM, do you???</sarcasm>), do no other/. readers check Hack A Day's RSS feed?
The relevance of this article to security is kind of vague, and its at least 5 days old - whats going on/.? Mod me for flaimbait, but I saw this last week and didn't consider my bank account in jeopardy, not even when the repo depo was hauling large, colored L-shapes and squares out of my living room...
...demonstrating that devices are neither tamper-resistant nor tamper-evident, and that even students with a spare weekend can take control of them. The banks are claiming that tnhis can be reproduced only "in the laboratory"...
Tamper-evident??? I'm sure that students with a spare weekend might include kids who can open plastic casings and then repaint and re-model them so that exterior evidence of tamper is minimal or nil, and then what happens when you replace the hardware? Surely you wouldn't write software for it that says "Hey! Some kids with a spare weekend have opened this terminal, replaced the hardware and are draining your bank account right now!"
This is FUD, aside from the point about having to use your PIN at a public terminal. And if a shopkeeper doesn't want you to know that he's tampered with the hardware, he doesn't have to. A security camera at the right angle and focus could capture PIN pad sequences, and if you know your regulars like most convenience store workers (which is where I use PIN pads the most, and yes places like WAL-MART have many more customers but fraud from 10 people is plenty, no need to wring out 1000s of WALLY WORLD idots with PIN pad scams, especially when you're already screwing them and your employees), then you can know whose PIN you have so one day they come in and "Oh, sorry, our card scaner is broken - I'll have to input the # by hand" and there you go - have good memory for 16 digits?
So what is the likely-hood that this will open a floodgate of spray-ads? Sure,
Valve took some action when the subway ad fiasco went down, but whats going to
happen when users start seeing Valve's ads in-game? Once they start doing it,
users may feel 'more justified' in spraying ads. The question is: would spamming
via spray be worth it? Could enough ad revenue be brought in to afford another
Steam account when your first spamming account finally gets deleted? Once players
start getting used to Valve's ads, would they be more prone to pay attention to
other, non-Valve spray ads?
Oh, and I can't wait to see maps like de_goldbond and fy_chex_mix_bold surface : D
Why? Because Flash is now considered less proprietary than Windows Media?
I'm not trying to argue about which is "less proprietary," the YouTube link is just something I wanted to provide as an alternative, as I've always had rather bad luck with Windows Media, I figured others might have too and why not make a link so that everyone possible can enjoy this great segment on 'truthiness.'
Didn't this happen on Futurama once and it all went horribly wrong? Did robots fart? itsatrap, for sure - don't let that Nobel Prize mislead you...they can be deadly (reference: Simpsons episode "Bart Gets Famous" where Lisa impales Bart on her Nobel Prize but I couldn't find a screencap *do'h*)
Along with DRM, the article gives us some new terminology:
TPM - Trusted Platform Module OPM - Output Protection Management PVP - Protected Video Path DOM - Directions On Microsoft --oops, W3C may have some problems with that one...
Slashdot Mirror
Even though it is a little dated, I had windows95 running on a 386 DX 20 with 8mb of ram. It took half an hour to bootup.
No surprise - I had a win2k running on an old 486 (I believe it was with some kind of upgrade, the overdrive perhaps??) Compaq server of some kind that we stumbled upon when my dad's old office was cleaning house. It had no hard disk when we found it, but we put a seagate SCSI in there and installed Win2k and ran WAMP(HP) on it with no problem. Only 24 mb RAM, but with XP running on less, wow, someone will really be able to do nothing with that!
Everyone forgets that earlier Linux distros made use of MS's bsod.c and, of course, Linux wouldn't be as secure as it is today without the code stolen from earlier Windows security implementations (duh!) - and I need I remind you of all of that IE code cleverly stashed away in KHTML???
I really think that this isn't about "quietly testing the pay-as-you-go software model," I think its more about MS quietly trying to tie users in to yearly contracts and subscriptions. As Dell and others roll out desktops with Linux and with Linux gaining more of a "Hey, its not only not Windows but it actually is user friendly" kind of attitude from the general public (just turned my non-techie room mate on to Linux from XP and within minutes Linux had won her over), it looks like MS might be getting a little scared of losing users in the coming years, especially if Vista turns out to be a sore-spot for long-time XP users who were very comfortable, but now see themselves scared and naked in a world of Aero graphics and ridiculous hardware requirements.
If I were MS, I'd want to hold on to some kind of user-base, and why rip people off $300 at a time if I can charge $15/month for a two-year lease, thus even if they don't want to use my software it doesn't effect me as I get paid whether they use it or not. And what about the stranglehold they'll have selling subscriptions to businesses and institutions? What? You need 500 copies of Office? Well, we can work this out = $$$$ for me, for years, guaranteed.
The only thing striking me as 'news' to this is that MS didn't do it sooner.
Three cheers for this inanimate, carbon rod!
Whats Vivaldis puns?
:D
Woo - craptacular
Will Sun also be rolling out energy drinks for server admins?
I've never liked the idea of coding to a browser
No sane developer likes the idea of coding to a browser (I hope). When making web-based applications, the goal should be global accessibility and saying Browser A can't access a site while Browser B can is a terrible programming practice - of course, these are Wal-Mart programmers who probably aren't receiving benefits, let alone decent pay for what they're doing, and if I were them I wouldn't mind being the one to help pull the trigger that shoots the foot.
Toy makers, however, are pushing back
Now now, children, play nicely or I swear I will pull this car over and we will NOT go to McDonald's.
you might pay $50 for only to get maybe $10 worth of new content.
I think you're quite mistaken - I would consider myself something short of a GH "enthusiast," and I would have to say that most people who play the game find themselves considerably 'hooked' as the game brings some very fascinating aspects into the rhythm game market. Given it's addictive quality, they could re-release the original Guitar Hero songs on the GH2 engine (as they plan to do for the 360) and I would gladly pay full price, even though I own GH and GH2, simply because I think the rewards of the revamped ho/po system and the addition of rhythm/bass tracks and Co-Op/Pro Face-off would be completely worth the $50 - I can't even imagine playing Texas Flood with the reworked hammer-on's and pull-offs, not to mention Get Ready 2 Rokk, but I bet it would be awesome.
DDR was fun, but it also had two big humps to get over - 1) you have to dance like an idiot in front of your friends and 2) you had to dance like an idiot in front of your friends. Guitar Hero is different, and even though we're going to see some different songs on different platforms, the quality of the gameplay will be more universal than with the different DDR versions, mainly because (I would hope) they're going to keep the same basic principles of the GH engine, you just get slightly different song lists. And for those not wanting to shell out the money for a 360 (like me, I really don't want to), the Wii version brings hope - I'd much rather spend money to get a Wii to put along side my PS2 as long as I know that there will be a Wii GH, because one can only assume that the Wii version - like the 360 version - will include excellent downloadable content (not to mention, I would love to watch my Mii rocking out and lighting his guitar on fire!).
Or, if you just move things aroun a little...BTSpay! Remember to spay or neuter your tracker!
Wait, I paused my iPod - why am I getting fined? I got a call and I want to look on the outside display and see who it is - $100? This is nothing more than ridiculous FUD. Vote it down and move along.
we have a study in TFA that claims people are prone to discuss music when meeting each other, but on Slashdot the discussion about TFA is minimally good, at best, and yet most of it is about music. /. isn't quite the place to be making the point that Fallout Boy sucks.
The results of this study though aren't terribly surprising - as mentioned above, one of the first (and most important things) I talk about when meeting someone new is music. And it makes sense that its such a great topic of discussion - music is everywhere in our lives: on TV, movies, in the car, on the bus, football games, malls, convience stores - hell, I got pulled by a cop once who was listening to a local country station in his cruiser.
All throughout childhood, riding in the car on long trips or even just sitting at home with my parents, there would always be some kind of music playing. Oldies, jazz, the Eagles, etc., and all of that exposure has molded my ideas about music and when I meet someone new, comparing musical tastes is great because it allows you to connect to someone else almost instantly - I don't know your name, but you're a Fugazi fan, so lets talk about Fugazi to break the ice...it works better than the traditional icebreakers - I mean, imagine meeting someone and having them say "OK, you just cross your arms and fall backwards and I'll catch you - oh, and hi, I'm John."
I didn't know the Boy Scouts of America worked for MS, doesn't surprise me though...
Mod me offtopic, troll, whatever, but I've had it. Slashdot needs editors for it's editors!
, but he claims to be currently looking into the details of safely releasing his details about this at the moment though.
First off, redundancy - details of safely releasing his details - not really incorrect, but poorly worded anyways. I'm more concerned with releasing his details about this at the moment though. What the fuck?
The webmaster just became the Network Administrator.
;)
Honestly, in today's world, if you are assuming the role of webmaster, chances are you're familiar with setting up some kind of server environment, or at least knowing how to use it.
Plus, 'Network Administrator' looks way better on a business card
Not that I have anything against J-Pop or any other Japanese music, but is it all really "Insanely Great" or is someone up there in /. just trying to sensationalize things and spread a little FUD here? You might not find Japanese music in iTunes, but you probably won't find your local jam/metal/hip-hop/alt rock/indie artist in iTunes either - in fact, I doubt that many of us will ever hear these bands on the radio, let alone see them releasing content on iTunes.
If you want to worry about foreign rock, thats cool, I'm sure there is a lot of good stuff out there, but don't hype it in to seeming like Apple is trying to rip anyone off or hide anything. As mentioned before, your local record store doesn't have a "Japanese Artists" section the size of a Japanese record store - if any Japanese section at all - so why expect iTunes to have it?
can't quite figure out why they haven't done any as of yet.
For the same reason they haven't done any 1) Tool, 2) My Morning Jacket, or 3) Pink Floyd - they just can't rock those killer licks & riffs (and they just don't know great guitar-work.
FLOSS and get out all of that grimy, proprietary software - wait, I think you still have some M$ in your teeth!
Aside from problems mentioned above concerning the fact that this 'hack' involves mostly hardware removal and replacement (come on, you don't know that there isn't just some monkey handing you bills when you put your card in an ATM, do you???</sarcasm>), do no other /. readers check Hack A Day's RSS feed?
/.? Mod me for flaimbait, but I saw this last week and didn't consider my bank account in jeopardy, not even when the repo depo was hauling large, colored L-shapes and squares out of my living room...
...demonstrating that devices are neither tamper-resistant nor tamper-evident, and that even students with a spare weekend can take control of them. The banks are claiming that tnhis can be reproduced only "in the laboratory"...
The relevance of this article to security is kind of vague, and its at least 5 days old - whats going on
Tamper-evident??? I'm sure that students with a spare weekend might include kids who can open plastic casings and then repaint and re-model them so that exterior evidence of tamper is minimal or nil, and then what happens when you replace the hardware? Surely you wouldn't write software for it that says "Hey! Some kids with a spare weekend have opened this terminal, replaced the hardware and are draining your bank account right now!"
This is FUD, aside from the point about having to use your PIN at a public terminal. And if a shopkeeper doesn't want you to know that he's tampered with the hardware, he doesn't have to. A security camera at the right angle and focus could capture PIN pad sequences, and if you know your regulars like most convenience store workers (which is where I use PIN pads the most, and yes places like WAL-MART have many more customers but fraud from 10 people is plenty, no need to wring out 1000s of WALLY WORLD idots with PIN pad scams, especially when you're already screwing them and your employees), then you can know whose PIN you have so one day they come in and "Oh, sorry, our card scaner is broken - I'll have to input the # by hand" and there you go - have good memory for 16 digits?
So what is the likely-hood that this will open a floodgate of spray-ads? Sure,
Valve took some action when the subway ad fiasco went down, but whats going to
happen when users start seeing Valve's ads in-game? Once they start doing it,
users may feel 'more justified' in spraying ads. The question is: would spamming
via spray be worth it? Could enough ad revenue be brought in to afford another
Steam account when your first spamming account finally gets deleted? Once players
start getting used to Valve's ads, would they be more prone to pay attention to
other, non-Valve spray ads?
Oh, and I can't wait to see maps like de_goldbond and fy_chex_mix_bold surface : D
Why? Because Flash is now considered less proprietary than Windows Media?
I'm not trying to argue about which is "less proprietary," the YouTube link is just something I wanted to provide as an alternative, as I've always had rather bad luck with Windows Media, I figured others might have too and why not make a link so that everyone possible can enjoy this great segment on 'truthiness.'
The word, first introduced [Windows media]...
Try:
The word, first introduced...
...has been following this already, and they have some excellent commentary on the matter
The Colbert Nation and like-minded crusaders for all that is truthy won this one on their own
Didn't this happen on Futurama once and it all went horribly wrong? Did robots fart? itsatrap, for sure - don't let that Nobel Prize mislead you...they can be deadly (reference: Simpsons episode "Bart Gets Famous" where Lisa impales Bart on her Nobel Prize but I couldn't find a screencap *do'h*)
Along with DRM, the article gives us some new terminology:
TPM - Trusted Platform Module
OPM - Output Protection Management
PVP - Protected Video Path
DOM - Directions On Microsoft --oops, W3C may have some problems with that one...