Good luck getting Windows to run on 2560k, which is the memory the biggest of those things have.
I also have seen Windows for x86, x86_64, Itanium and in the NT4 days for Alpha processors. Never for, say, 315T-2 DP processors.
The most likely attack vector here would not be a network to the device itself, it would be something that infects the windows (or still DOS in some cases) notebook that is carried around the plant and plugged in the serial port for software updates and maintenance.
That's why most applications should NOT massively "Cache data from the disk" themselves.
The Application should just tell the OS "gimme that file/block". The OS can then decide, when enough ram is available, to cache that file in the file cache in RAM. When RAM gets more sparse the OS can decide to delete files in the cache that have not been accessed the longest.
Sony probably don't have money and manpower left to protect their customers data from hackers, because they spent all their money and manpower trying to invent new ways to protect their content from being accessed by their customers.
Exactly. Just the same way that you are allowed to sell commercial applications that run on Linux, you can sell commercial applications that run on Cygwin.
You can even sell a commercial application that call GPL programs in the background. Just like, for example, most install programs for commercial apps for Linux rely on tar/bash/perl/gcc/.. to do their stuff, you can for example call scripts from your non-GPL software that do stuff like call ImageMagick to do something.
As a user, developer and administrator myself I feel like I want to punch everybody talking about a "richer experience".
Then again, my job is in a sector that needs software to just get fracking things done without having to re-educate users that react with panic to every minor change. So far Firefox was nice in that regard, but recently they are blowing it.
I don't have time to tweak new versions every six month to fit into existing workflows.
Exactly. I also still remember soundcard "arms race" where they trumped each other with the midi channels and sample quality every few months. That also has reached a "good enough" level so that nobody really cares about that any more. The same thing is or will be happening to graphics.
How my Online banking now work. ( The next step up from the "hard coded" TAN system: )
1) I have to log in with a password 2) I enter the transaction I want to do 3) Then there is a flashing bar code type thing displayed on the screen. I then have to hold a "cheap" gadget from my bank up to it, with my Banking Card in it. That gadget is synchronized to only that one account and only that card, and reads the flashing bar-code. 4) The gadget then displays the destination bank account and the amount, which I have to confirm. 5) The gadget generates a one-time TAN ased on cryptography in combination with my banking card that I have to enter to authorize that transaction.
The advantage I see here:
This little gadget does NOTHING else. It's never actually "connected" electronically to the PC, there are no "apps" or anything that anyone can install on it that might contain back doors. Which I would actually see as the major disadvantage of using a smartphone to do it. And if I lose the device, my bank will just issue me another one. You of course one also needs the gadget AND the bank card. Usually the gadget is at home, and I have my banking card with me so there is little chance of both of them being stolen.
I also think there is a difference that a "pure religion" is open about what it teaches, and publishes all their "preachings" in an open way, so that everybody that reads that material knows it is the teachings of that religion, and people can make up their mind about whether they like that idea or not.
A "cult" on the other hand also tries to secretly inject his ideas into publications and material where it is not clear that those ideas originated from that cult, and so tries to trick people.
Which is a line the creationist are repeatedly crossing.
I am a Christian myself, in a country where there are religious classes in public school. For most of the time we had an older pastor as teacher, who taught us a lot about ethics and morals, and also a lot about critical thinking, on how religions can go "bad" and try to manipulate people. If he saw those creationist he would probably go raving mad.
Definitely. As a programmer myself, I can switch *language* pretty quick. There are even some pretty easy to use GUI tools out there where "normal non-programmers" can implement something.
The problem is that very few people seem to be able to LOGICALLY solve a problem, that is define what should happen when certain conditions are met. Basically the definition of "what should the program do exactly?". Getting THAT defined is 90% of the "programming" problem. And that can't really be solved by different languages or different tools.
Anecdotal evidence if that would have been the company I work for:
1) Some department gets interns, the IT department gets a call the day they arrive that they "need a PC now!!!". 2) No clear classification ever on what they need the PC for.
So of course, we have to pull some junker out from somewhere so that they can have one "now", because it is a very bad idea to have new PCs lying around and getting outdated before someone actually request to have one.
When it becomes evident (perhaps through an e-mail to the person responsible for the intern, CCed to us (IT)) that that person actually needs better hardware to do their job, then that person usually gets it, because having people waste time with not adequate hardware usually costs way more than an upgrade.
Then what is the buzzword/motto for that market model?
Communism: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" Capitalism: "Expand or die" Optimal Free Market: "Let's make an acceptable product for an acceptable price for acceptable wages" Mobile Apps: "Let's screw those dolts!!!"
Well, I have found that there are quite some good *American* movies around. I found Winters Bone brilliant, The Way Back was also fantastic.
I don't really see most of Hollywood as "American", its more one of the "International" movie sweatshops. The problem with the big studios there is in my opinion that the want, or seem to think they need to, make movies that will sell to every person on the planet. (well, at least everyone that has cash to spare)
So after all the tinkering and sanding and polishing off of anything that might make a specific group *not* like the movie, what's left is so washed out and faded that the best they can hope for is a "Meh. pretty OK on a rainy afternoon". And to try to alleviate the washed out appearance they spend all the money on CGI and shiny effects.
Japan had some 1080i analogue programmes since the 1980s.
And I remember there were some pretty pissed people around the turn of the millennium here in Germany, when it became clear that their analogue TVs which had been basically ready for 1080p couldn't do it, because the RGB signal they would have needed was artificially limited to normal resolution because the industry decided to block that analogue hole and go HDMI only for HD.
Well, you know, these days in corporate environments everything is a "FAILURE!!!" when it doesn't give world marked domination and 2425% quarterly profit increases seven weeks after it was introduced.
I predict an SSD will *never* be as cheap as a "pressed" BluRay media.
There are *a lot* less production steps to create a BluRay. Also on the "disposable" angle it is a lot easier to recycle a BluRay than a SSD, since there are a lot less materials involved.
Another angle is that, any SSD has some sort of controller with some sort of firmware, which is some sort of software. Which brings us to DRM. If I can rip a BluRay today, I can be pretty much 100% sure I can rip that BluRay again in a year. Once there is any sort of software from the publisher in the thing, I can't be sure they put in some sort of kill switch that can be triggered somehow to fry the data.
The optimal solution of course would be non-physical DRM free format, but that will not happen with the current main stream media companies. So we have to wait for them to finally go belly up or come to their senses in a few generations or so. As long as that hasn't happened a purely mechanical/optical medium without the possibility of some back doors or hidden DRM sounds a lot better to me when I decide to buy something. So I stick with DVD or BluRay, until I can download 1080p files from Amazon or wherever in an open and DRM free format perhaps a few years or decades and put them on whatever storage I have then.
1) Pretty OK picture and convenient. 2) AWESOME picture and inconvenient.
Most people choose 1)
I have chosen to buy a BluRay Player only because my DVD player broke (after ~10 years, so that was pretty OK) and the Player was not much more expensive than a DVD player.
The media I buy is pretty much 90% DVD and only 10% BluRay. Because most of the (older) stuff I'm interested in only comes out on DVD, if at all. If it is available on BluRay, though, I get it on BluRay. But I only started buying BluRays after I knew I was able to rip them and and have a "Movie Only" copy without all the stuff they put on that only gets in the way.
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You get relevant targeted advertisements from consumer electronics companies right after you stereo gets stolen.
Good luck getting Windows to run on 2560k, which is the memory the biggest of those things have.
I also have seen Windows for x86, x86_64, Itanium and in the NT4 days for Alpha processors. Never for, say, 315T-2 DP processors.
The most likely attack vector here would not be a network to the device itself, it would be something that infects the windows (or still DOS in some cases) notebook that is carried around the plant and plugged in the serial port for software updates and maintenance.
That's why most applications should NOT massively "Cache data from the disk" themselves.
The Application should just tell the OS "gimme that file/block". The OS can then decide, when enough ram is available, to cache that file in the file cache in RAM. When RAM gets more sparse the OS can decide to delete files in the cache that have not been accessed the longest.
Another thing I have been dreaming about is a system where you need, say, 2/3 of the votes to create a law, but only 1/3 of the votes to repeal a law.
Sony probably don't have money and manpower left to protect their customers data from hackers, because they spent all their money and manpower trying to invent new ways to protect their content from being accessed by their customers.
The "heavy" is probably all worn out from the old "what's heavier, a ton of flerovium or a ton of moscovium?" joke and needed a day off.
So don't worry about this, worry about EHEC in vegetables instead. Haw-Haw!
Exactly. Just the same way that you are allowed to sell commercial applications that run on Linux, you can sell commercial applications that run on Cygwin.
You can even sell a commercial application that call GPL programs in the background. Just like, for example, most install programs for commercial apps for Linux rely on tar/bash/perl/gcc/.. to do their stuff, you can for example call scripts from your non-GPL software that do stuff like call ImageMagick to do something.
Then the tread had been been already lost, because the "It only took 'em 2,000 years" doesn't fit into that premise either. ;-P
>It only took 'em 2,000 years. I guess they're slow learners.
Really? Gosh, I didn't know Darwin published "The Origin of Species" while Jesus was still a teenager.
As a user, developer and administrator myself I feel like I want to punch everybody talking about a "richer experience".
Then again, my job is in a sector that needs software to just get fracking things done without having to re-educate users that react with panic to every minor change. So far Firefox was nice in that regard, but recently they are blowing it.
I don't have time to tweak new versions every six month to fit into existing workflows.
Exactly. I also still remember soundcard "arms race" where they trumped each other with the midi channels and sample quality every few months. That also has reached a "good enough" level so that nobody really cares about that any more. The same thing is or will be happening to graphics.
How my Online banking now work. ( The next step up from the "hard coded" TAN system: )
1) I have to log in with a password
2) I enter the transaction I want to do
3) Then there is a flashing bar code type thing displayed on the screen. I then have to hold a "cheap" gadget from my bank up to it, with my Banking Card in it. That gadget is synchronized to only that one account and only that card, and reads the flashing bar-code.
4) The gadget then displays the destination bank account and the amount, which I have to confirm.
5) The gadget generates a one-time TAN ased on cryptography in combination with my banking card that I have to enter to authorize that transaction.
The advantage I see here:
This little gadget does NOTHING else. It's never actually "connected" electronically to the PC, there are no "apps" or anything that anyone can install on it that might contain back doors. Which I would actually see as the major disadvantage of using a smartphone to do it. And if I lose the device, my bank will just issue me another one. You of course one also needs the gadget AND the bank card. Usually the gadget is at home, and I have my banking card with me so there is little chance of both of them being stolen.
You could also speed up the transfer time of sneakernet by using avian carriers.
In some countries that might be 25 times faster than their Internet connection.
I also think there is a difference that a "pure religion" is open about what it teaches, and publishes all their "preachings" in an open way, so that everybody that reads that material knows it is the teachings of that religion, and people can make up their mind about whether they like that idea or not.
A "cult" on the other hand also tries to secretly inject his ideas into publications and material where it is not clear that those ideas originated from that cult, and so tries to trick people.
Which is a line the creationist are repeatedly crossing.
I am a Christian myself, in a country where there are religious classes in public school. For most of the time we had an older pastor as teacher, who taught us a lot about ethics and morals, and also a lot about critical thinking, on how religions can go "bad" and try to manipulate people. If he saw those creationist he would probably go raving mad.
Definitely. As a programmer myself, I can switch *language* pretty quick. There are even some pretty easy to use GUI tools out there where "normal non-programmers" can implement something.
The problem is that very few people seem to be able to LOGICALLY solve a problem, that is define what should happen when certain conditions are met. Basically the definition of "what should the program do exactly?". Getting THAT defined is 90% of the "programming" problem. And that can't really be solved by different languages or different tools.
Anecdotal evidence if that would have been the company I work for:
1) Some department gets interns, the IT department gets a call the day they arrive that they "need a PC now!!!".
2) No clear classification ever on what they need the PC for.
So of course, we have to pull some junker out from somewhere so that they can have one "now", because it is a very bad idea to have new PCs lying around and getting outdated before someone actually request to have one.
When it becomes evident (perhaps through an e-mail to the person responsible for the intern, CCed to us (IT)) that that person actually needs better hardware to do their job, then that person usually gets it, because having people waste time with not adequate hardware usually costs way more than an upgrade.
Then what is the buzzword/motto for that market model?
Communism: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"
Capitalism: "Expand or die"
Optimal Free Market: "Let's make an acceptable product for an acceptable price for acceptable wages"
Mobile Apps: "Let's screw those dolts!!!"
Because the "Bread and Circuses" ploy is already missing the bread for a lot of people, and things might blow if they lose the circuses, too.
Well, I have found that there are quite some good *American* movies around. I found Winters Bone brilliant, The Way Back was also fantastic.
I don't really see most of Hollywood as "American", its more one of the "International" movie sweatshops. The problem with the big studios there is in my opinion that the want, or seem to think they need to, make movies that will sell to every person on the planet. (well, at least everyone that has cash to spare)
So after all the tinkering and sanding and polishing off of anything that might make a specific group *not* like the movie, what's left is so washed out and faded that the best they can hope for is a "Meh. pretty OK on a rainy afternoon". And to try to alleviate the washed out appearance they spend all the money on CGI and shiny effects.
Japan had some 1080i analogue programmes since the 1980s.
And I remember there were some pretty pissed people around the turn of the millennium here in Germany, when it became clear that their analogue TVs which had been basically ready for 1080p couldn't do it, because the RGB signal they would have needed was artificially limited to normal resolution because the industry decided to block that analogue hole and go HDMI only for HD.
Well, you know, these days in corporate environments everything is a "FAILURE!!!" when it doesn't give world marked domination and 2425% quarterly profit increases seven weeks after it was introduced.
BluRay "4x" speed is 4*36Mbit/s = 144Mbit/s
DVD "8x" speed is 8*10.56MBit (1.32 MB/s) = 84.48Mbit
DVD "16x" speed is 16*10.56MBit = 168.96Mbit
I would wish they would just get rid of the "Xx" declaration and use something more comparable.
At the moment I use 8x DVD-( or +)R and 4x BD-R, so for me BD-R is faster. Of course I mainly use them for stuff that doesn't fit on a DVD.
I predict an SSD will *never* be as cheap as a "pressed" BluRay media.
There are *a lot* less production steps to create a BluRay. Also on the "disposable" angle it is a lot easier to recycle a BluRay than a SSD, since there are a lot less materials involved.
Another angle is that, any SSD has some sort of controller with some sort of firmware, which is some sort of software. Which brings us to DRM. If I can rip a BluRay today, I can be pretty much 100% sure I can rip that BluRay again in a year. Once there is any sort of software from the publisher in the thing, I can't be sure they put in some sort of kill switch that can be triggered somehow to fry the data.
The optimal solution of course would be non-physical DRM free format, but that will not happen with the current main stream media companies. So we have to wait for them to finally go belly up or come to their senses in a few generations or so. As long as that hasn't happened a purely mechanical/optical medium without the possibility of some back doors or hidden DRM sounds a lot better to me when I decide to buy something. So I stick with DVD or BluRay, until I can download 1080p files from Amazon or wherever in an open and DRM free format perhaps a few years or decades and put them on whatever storage I have then.
Yeah, and that is the problem. Choose:
1) Pretty OK picture and convenient.
2) AWESOME picture and inconvenient.
Most people choose 1)
I have chosen to buy a BluRay Player only because my DVD player broke (after ~10 years, so that was pretty OK) and the Player was not much more expensive than a DVD player.
The media I buy is pretty much 90% DVD and only 10% BluRay. Because most of the (older) stuff I'm interested in only comes out on DVD, if at all. If it is available on BluRay, though, I get it on BluRay. But I only started buying BluRays after I knew I was able to rip them and and have a "Movie Only" copy without all the stuff they put on that only gets in the way.