Yeah, he probably means Wolfenstein 3D, which did come out right before Myst, and was the only other game at the time with a first-person view.
As for TFA's premise "Why didn't Myst have a larger impact?" Are you kidding? First person view, real 3D (granted, pre-rendered real 3D), maps that are playable out-of-order and you can return to many times, using the fricken mouse (which most games were happy to leave alone until after Windows 95), using sound to create atmosphere, multiple endings based on the player's moral choices, the idea that PC games could be art instead of bad copies of arcade quarter-suckers, we're so surrounded by the trees of things Myst did first or did right first that you're missing the forest.
SHA-512, obviously. That 1 in 2^128 chance that your file has been randomly corrupted in a way that hashes to the same MD5 sum may be acceptable for a disc of bootleg mp3s, but it's just way too high for professional audio work.
TFA is pretty short on technical details, but this sounds like it's end-to-end between Google datacenters, not customers. So when the NSA comes a-knocking with the inevitable secret court order to hand over keys, they'll be right back to capturing everything and filtering on the NSA side.
Pick any numbers you want, they were all declining before Elop came on board in 2010. Hell, look at a stock chart, NOK vs. the S&P or Dow: the indices started recovering in early 2009, Nokia kept declining all the way to today. That's why they were desperate enough to hire him and follow his all-in on Windows Phone strategy.
Cozy vendor deals with monopoly networks in portions of the US don't mean shit when compared with global sales.
That's what Symbian fans have always said, turns out they were wrong.
Number one in every sub-segment of the phone market in Europe. By the time Elop arrived, Nokia had already had enough of technologically backward US phone networks and put North America on the back burner. That left openings for Blackberry, then iPhones, then Android to take Symbian's smartphone niche, and for Motorola and Samsung to take their premium feature-phone niche.
The rest, as they say, is history. And now so is Nokia.
Is it still going to cost as much as a 10" Android tablet AND a low-end laptop, while offering neither the portability of the first nor the big screen and hard drive of the second?
Yeah, I think I hear another billion dollar write-off coming...
I remember when I was in middle school and high school, the schools were using "integrated math." Which is to say we didn't have algebra, geometry or trig, we had all of them at once and we would start over again the next year.
It's even better when you have to move to a different school district halfway through that program. Having half of a geometry or trig course under your belt is not going to make being dropped into the middle of advanced algebra suck any less.
The only thing that would make it better is if he were to bring in some superstars like Carly Fiorina and every Yahoo CEO from Jerry Yang onward to fill out the executive team...
The kicker is that neither side is allowed to know who the other side is. The FCCX is intended to be an anonymizer-like service to completely disassociate the public information from the federal systems.
At least that's what they say in the non-classified meetings...
They also forgot "Get there at the right time: not too early with a half-baked OS and underpowered hardware, or so late the other players are already entrenched in their market segments"
As well, the TPM module in most motherboards cannot be disabled.
The TPM in most motherboards cannot be disabled because it was never installed in the first place. If you built the machine yourself, read the fine print on your motherboard box, there's about a 99.9% chance you have "TPM support" in the form of an unpopulated header, not an actual TPM.
If it's coming from the manufacturer of the tablet I'm holding, why would it be on a partition on the SD card instead of included in the ROM? There's no reason to do that unless you want to swap SD cards (and associated filesystem driver binaries) across different devices with subtly different OS versions, which strikes me as a spectacularly bad idea.
"Would rate ZERO STARS if that was an option! App works, but pesters constantly about koala communist chippies or something. Super SUPER duper annoying. Use SomeOtherApp+ Free instead."
Possibly, but it better have a snappy marketing name that conveys both it's hardcore POWER roots, and it's friendly personal computer approachability, and it needs to have a short acronym that can fit into the same column width as "x86" and "ARM" on benchmark charts.
Maybe they could call it "PowerPC", or "PPC" for short...
The problem (as always) is with people. People are going to unpack their new router, pull out the card marked "STOP! IMPORTANT! DO NOT THROW AWAY THIS CARD!" with the secure random passwords on it, join all their devices to the network, then put the card in a pile with all the other very important cards marked "STOP! IMPORTANT! DO NOT THROW AWAY THIS CARD!" like the warranty registration form and the certificate of compliance from the Icelandic telecom ministry.
Six months later, they'll "clean up" the office and throw all those cards in the recycling bin.
A year after that, they'll buy a new smartphone and want to join it to the network, but the password card is missing. So they'll call tech support and plead for help.
If the password is derived from the router's MAC address or SSID or serial number, then the manufacturer can provide a tool for phone support to recover passwords. If you have a truly secure random password and WPA key, the only possible answer is "Well, then it's fucked. Buy a new one."
Wait, we're talking about digital movie projection, as in machines that will be used to show "Transformers 7: Incomprehensible Jump-Cut Explosiongasm!" and you're worried about it being commercial failure because too many people are above average?
The password dictionaries are already out there for anyone to download, with hashes and cracked passwords from the LinkedIn, PSN, etc. web site exploits over the last few years. Better than any list of words Google searches might reveal.
...and you're going to transport the contents of that locker to/from the store in a... ?
Right, a bag. Or possibly a loose bundle of laundry, which might duck the letter of the bag-check policy but would be capable of concealing an iPod and probably end up being searched anyway.
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Yeah, he probably means Wolfenstein 3D, which did come out right before Myst, and was the only other game at the time with a first-person view.
As for TFA's premise "Why didn't Myst have a larger impact?" Are you kidding? First person view, real 3D (granted, pre-rendered real 3D), maps that are playable out-of-order and you can return to many times, using the fricken mouse (which most games were happy to leave alone until after Windows 95), using sound to create atmosphere, multiple endings based on the player's moral choices, the idea that PC games could be art instead of bad copies of arcade quarter-suckers, we're so surrounded by the trees of things Myst did first or did right first that you're missing the forest.
On a huge pile of money!
SHA-512, obviously. That 1 in 2^128 chance that your file has been randomly corrupted in a way that hashes to the same MD5 sum may be acceptable for a disc of bootleg mp3s, but it's just way too high for professional audio work.
TFA is pretty short on technical details, but this sounds like it's end-to-end between Google datacenters, not customers. So when the NSA comes a-knocking with the inevitable secret court order to hand over keys, they'll be right back to capturing everything and filtering on the NSA side.
Pick any numbers you want, they were all declining before Elop came on board in 2010. Hell, look at a stock chart, NOK vs. the S&P or Dow: the indices started recovering in early 2009, Nokia kept declining all the way to today. That's why they were desperate enough to hire him and follow his all-in on Windows Phone strategy.
Cozy vendor deals with monopoly networks in portions of the US don't mean shit when compared with global sales.
That's what Symbian fans have always said, turns out they were wrong.
Number one in every sub-segment of the phone market in Europe. By the time Elop arrived, Nokia had already had enough of technologically backward US phone networks and put North America on the back burner. That left openings for Blackberry, then iPhones, then Android to take Symbian's smartphone niche, and for Motorola and Samsung to take their premium feature-phone niche.
The rest, as they say, is history. And now so is Nokia.
Is it still going to cost as much as a 10" Android tablet AND a low-end laptop, while offering neither the portability of the first nor the big screen and hard drive of the second?
Yeah, I think I hear another billion dollar write-off coming...
I remember when I was in middle school and high school, the schools were using "integrated math." Which is to say we didn't have algebra, geometry or trig, we had all of them at once and we would start over again the next year.
It's even better when you have to move to a different school district halfway through that program. Having half of a geometry or trig course under your belt is not going to make being dropped into the middle of advanced algebra suck any less.
The only thing that would make it better is if he were to bring in some superstars like Carly Fiorina and every Yahoo CEO from Jerry Yang onward to fill out the executive team...
The kicker is that neither side is allowed to know who the other side is. The FCCX is intended to be an anonymizer-like service to completely disassociate the public information from the federal systems.
At least that's what they say in the non-classified meetings...
Well ... sort of.
They also forgot "Get there at the right time: not too early with a half-baked OS and underpowered hardware, or so late the other players are already entrenched in their market segments"
It's on AMC (cable-only) in the US. Would you count the entire series as having never been released here?
As well, the TPM module in most motherboards cannot be disabled.
The TPM in most motherboards cannot be disabled because it was never installed in the first place. If you built the machine yourself, read the fine print on your motherboard box, there's about a 99.9% chance you have "TPM support" in the form of an unpopulated header, not an actual TPM.
If it's coming from the manufacturer of the tablet I'm holding, why would it be on a partition on the SD card instead of included in the ROM? There's no reason to do that unless you want to swap SD cards (and associated filesystem driver binaries) across different devices with subtly different OS versions, which strikes me as a spectacularly bad idea.
if formatted by the phone, stick 2 partitions on it, the first a normal FAT that's tiny (or even dos), and stick FS drivers on it.
Just say "no" to loading kernel-mode code from someone else's SD card. The potential for malware and potentially phone-bricking bugs is just too high.
"Would rate ZERO STARS if that was an option! App works, but pesters constantly about koala communist chippies or something. Super SUPER duper annoying. Use SomeOtherApp+ Free instead."
If they think running a firewall is going to help in the slightest with malware, they're probably already infected.
Possibly, but it better have a snappy marketing name that conveys both it's hardcore POWER roots, and it's friendly personal computer approachability, and it needs to have a short acronym that can fit into the same column width as "x86" and "ARM" on benchmark charts.
Maybe they could call it "PowerPC", or "PPC" for short...
The problem (as always) is with people. People are going to unpack their new router, pull out the card marked "STOP! IMPORTANT! DO NOT THROW AWAY THIS CARD!" with the secure random passwords on it, join all their devices to the network, then put the card in a pile with all the other very important cards marked "STOP! IMPORTANT! DO NOT THROW AWAY THIS CARD!" like the warranty registration form and the certificate of compliance from the Icelandic telecom ministry.
Six months later, they'll "clean up" the office and throw all those cards in the recycling bin.
A year after that, they'll buy a new smartphone and want to join it to the network, but the password card is missing. So they'll call tech support and plead for help.
If the password is derived from the router's MAC address or SSID or serial number, then the manufacturer can provide a tool for phone support to recover passwords. If you have a truly secure random password and WPA key, the only possible answer is "Well, then it's fucked. Buy a new one."
Wait, we're talking about digital movie projection, as in machines that will be used to show "Transformers 7: Incomprehensible Jump-Cut Explosiongasm!" and you're worried about it being commercial failure because too many people are above average?
(Oh god, when did I get so old?)
The password dictionaries are already out there for anyone to download, with hashes and cracked passwords from the LinkedIn, PSN, etc. web site exploits over the last few years. Better than any list of words Google searches might reveal.
Newsflash. Apple do exactly the same thing, as does every other manufacturer.
by Anonymous Coward on 7:15 31 July 2013
So yeah, they're already here and they were mentioning Apple 20 minutes before TimHunter..
...and you're going to transport the contents of that locker to/from the store in a... ?
Right, a bag. Or possibly a loose bundle of laundry, which might duck the letter of the bag-check policy but would be capable of concealing an iPod and probably end up being searched anyway.
I think we're saying the internet ought not evolve bug mandibles and a third arm growing out of its forehead. Arbitrary TLDs are just bad design.