Good objection, but airlines are a little different from space travel for several reasons:
- First, even though there have been a lot of airlines accidents, the numbers are pretty low compared to the number of flights per day. Notice also that the first accident was on 1922, 8 years after the first commercial flight. I think that space travel has a much higher accident/flight ratio. (I admit i don't have numbers to prove it : Wikipedia says that about 4% of people who went to space died inflight, but that includes early flights so it's not exactly the same thing.)
- Second, plane flights were useful to people from the beginning : you could get from point A to point B in much less time than train or boat. Space travel has no such thing : it's a leisure activity. You won't miss a business opportunity if you don't try it.
Space flights have often lead to mid-air explosions, even with successful, well-known launchers.
Although i hope theses companies will succeed (for the progress of science), I wonder if it is really ready for commercial flights. The first flight which ends up with the death of a customer will scare away all potential customers and stop investment for 10 years...
I m a big fan of the trilogy (actually i m a big fan of the author), but it's kind of weird to think that chess-boxing is now real, given that in the book it is mainly used to show the violence of the distopian world.
There is also a hockey game in the first book which ends with something like 3 goals and 5 kills for each team.
BTW : In the book, the chess-boxing match ends with the main protagonist (possessed by a god) killing his opponent with some kind of laser shot from his eyes during a chess round.
In addition, Storm is self-propagating -- once infected, computers send out massive amounts of Storm spam to keep recruiting new nodes
No way ! It can do this ? That's unbelievable
For those who need a little reminder about what is a worm (such as the guy who wrote the article), here is the definition of a worm by Wikipedia:
A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computer terminals on the network) and it may do so without any user intervention.
There is a current experiment by a guy from Microsoft Labs. He wears a camera around his neck which automatically takes pictures every minute so that he can label and save them later in a database
I saw that in Spectrum (IEEE magazine) but here is a link from a quick google search :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,167 4359,00.html
Creating a hit video game, which combines strong characters, a compelling story, and top-notch production values
Compelling story ? Strong characters ? We re not talking about MMO games here...MMO aims to the "lowest common denominator" between players to attract as much people as they can. WOW did it so well that they managed to attract people who hardly ever played video games before...and that's also why hardcore gamers tend not to play WOW.
I ve seen multiple tests (they are in French so no point in giving you a link) where the free version of AVG failed badly (not sure about the professional one). Its the poorest free AV. You should use Antivir or Avast.
The problem is not "getting my song on iTunes". The problem is "getting my song on iTunes WITHOUT DRM".
iTunes is the world biggest online music store, so of course you want your song on it. You expect that, in doing so, more people will buy it.
However, right now, if you dont like DRM and dont want your customer to be locked to his iPod, there is no way to be on iTunes. Some artists dont want their listeners to be restricted in their use of their music. Putting their song on another website wont solve the problem because iTunes probably wont make a link to another website and the customer wont buy the same song twice.
You completly missed the point : The point is not that buying a new iPod will be hard for this guy but that he will never use a non-Apple MP3 player because he would be stuck with 29500$ worth of music he cant listen anymore. Hence he is locked in : he will always buy a new iPod when his own fails.
M$ completely changed the way sound is processed on Vista. On Vista, the default system is the shared mode. Every sound of the system will be processed by a single software layer. This allows developers to play sounds regardless of the underlying hardware. However, this also prevents DirectSound and DirectSound3D from accessing the hardware. It also remove EAX.
There is a solution to that : the exclusive mode. Sound cards makers can create a driver, which will get total control of the sound system. This would allows them to make EAX works again, but right now, Creative (which we can say is the biggest sound card maker for gamers) is lazy and released drivers without support for EAX,Dolby Digital,DTS,6.1 sound...(btw they also said most of their webcam wont get drivers for Vista)
So it is more of a "lazy sound card maker" problem than a Vista problem (NVidia and ATI did make drivers for their card didn t they ?)
"More companies are forgoing desktop and LAPTOP computers for dumb terminals"
Everybody welcome the "dumb laptop", a keyboard and a screen that automatically connects to your company main server no matter where you are in the world.
Joke aside, i fail to see how a dumb terminal could replace a laptop for a commercial/engineer who needs to travel frequently. And theses are the computers that are most likely to be lost/stolen so this is the kind of computer where you should improve security (disk encryption,...)
I dont care if Vista's DRM are down. However i m worried that he managed to go through Patchguard. I was hoping that Vista would be somewhat safer for non-savvy users thanks to Patchguard, and it s already down.:/
One has to ask the question: if Transmeta had not sued Intel, would Intel have sued Transmeta?
Of course not.
Intel doesnt waste time suing little unknown companies. This is just a way to force Transmeta to accept a settlement instead of going in front of the judge for an endless trial...
I dont agree, i remember a French blog during the vote for the European Constitution. The webmaster was absolutely unknown before this. However, he found and posted a lot of documentations about the Constitution, some personnal thoughts about them, and managed to attract others people who wanted to discuss about this. Soon, the blog became really popular, and got some attention by news websites and newspapers.
Many people felt that the vote for the Constitution was fishy, because they knew nothing about the Constitution they were supposed to vote for. The blog was an answer to that problem, so people liked it.
This proves that if you can bring something new and interesting to your readers, they will follow you, no matter who you are. You dont get credibility by working in a well-known newspaper, you get credibility by writing interesting/insightful articles.
So a NEW system outperforms an OLD system. I fail to see how this is a news.
If they had compared a NEW mainframe with the NEW grid, then we would have been able to draw some conclusions about which one is better. But saying "We bought a new system, its better than the old one" proves nothing.
First Wanadoo doesnt exist anymore.
Second Orange has never been part of Wanadoo.
Wanadoo was the ISP branch of France Telecom (the main phone company in France), who bought the British mobile phone company Orange. Then they decided to merge all their mobile phones/ISP services in Europe (including Wanadoo and Orange, but also many others) into one single company called Orange.
Third, before saying some company is spam friendly, you should get some reliable source.
I think the main problem in this question is that there is not one but TWO answers depending on who you re speaking to.
- On one hand there is the teenager. He has a lot of spare time but not much money. When he buys a game he wont buy another one for months because he just doesn t have the money for that. So he wants a game which will still be interesting in 2 months. A game like "Beyond Good and Evil" is not good for him...With his spare time, he will finish it in 2 days. And then, the game has no mechanism that allows the teenager to still have fun with the game after he finished it. So the game he bought with all the money he got in 6 months is worthless after 2 days of playing. What the teenager is looking for is GTA : A game that is really long to finish, and is still fun to play once you finished it
- On the other hand, there is the adult. He has a lot of money, but he doesn t have much time. He will really enjoy beyond good and evil, because it will took him 2 or 3 weeks to finish it. He will be really glad once he finished it, because it took him quite a long time. And after that, he will be able to buy another game with his "endless" stream of money : He will aim for another short game, because a long game would take 1 year of his spare time to finish, which will make him bored.
I m a student and hopefully, i m gonna graduate this year. So i m between theses 2 categories and i really think that it is two different way of seeing video games.
You are confusing 2 words : "game" and "simulation".
A game is something you can play it to have some fun.
A simulation is an attempt to simulate the real world by including real physics and real world constraints.
A simulation might be a game if you can play it. But a game isn t always a simulation.
For example Need for Speed is a racing game which isn t a simulation. You can drive at insane speed and even if you crash into a wall your car wont notice it (not real world physics). Moreover even if you re the most dangerous guy on the road, its easy to get rid of the police (not real world constraints).
On the other hand, TOCA Touring car is a racing game which is also a simulation. If you go too fast you go out of the track at the first turn. And if you run into your opponents, you will receive some damages (real world physics), and might get disqualified (real world constraints.
Since she isnt gonna install applications but only browse the Internet, she doesnt need to understand how her OS works. So i would say go for a Ubuntu with icons to the few programs she will use on the desktop (Browser, Mail client, Text editor).
Once this is done, you re safe from every threat except phising. As someone else said before you will have to teach her about the danger of links in e-mail, and that they shouldn t trust their email.
How can they come so late to the game and even get near what redhat and Debian have done?
Just a friendly reminder to show you how wrong you are:
What is the n1 linux distribution right now ? Ubuntu
When was Ubuntu launched ? October 20, 2004 (although we can say it really started to get some audience after v4 in 2005)
So Ubuntu is fairly new, yet it achieved a great popularity. They did so by adding something new to a common Linux distribution (Debian). So if Oracle manages to add something new (or offer the same service for a cheaper price since we re talking about Linux for companies) they are likely to be successful and might be able to sink Red Hat. Dont get me wrong : I m not saying they will do it, i m just saying its a possibility. The fact that Oracle is a successful and rich software company will also help.
Of course we can...look at all the great inventions we made during the 2 World Wars...Medicine, Aviation, Rocket Science, Nuclear Science,Industrial processes (both military and civil...We all know that good military inventions become good civil inventions after the war ends)... We own theses 2 wars so much.
War has always been a good way to promote scientific research...When you ve got 1 million wounded soldiers to try a new drug/new surgery, 1 million valid soldiers to try your new shields, 1 million ennemies to "try" your new weapons, and 1 million prisoners to try whatever you want, you make a lot of progress pretty fast.
But now it seems people prefer horrible experiments on rats. That's disgusting. I agree with you, we should stop theses horrors and start a third WW right now, so that scientists can make their experiments without harming theses poor little creatures.
Ok i stop being ironic here to make my point : You always need something/someone to try your prototype. If your product affect living organisms only (which is the case for a drug but not a bomb) you need a living being. So you dont have the choice...You need to pick one. It might be a rat/a bunny/a dog/a cat or a human. Since no living being is willing to give his life for nothing, you have to take someone against his will. The problem is we ve got quite a lot of law forbidding torture/killing of a human. So you only have animals left. Or start a war, people tends to forget the laws during wars...
Come on, you dont do the same kind of applications with a script language like Python and a lower level, general purpose language such as C, C++ or Java.
Script languages are good for small applications but when it comes to big and/or commercial software you need something else. Java is probably one of the most used language (with C and C++) in commercial applications. So yes it is important.
One : You let a politician write the law with words and vague ideas everyone can understand, including politicians and judges. It doesn t satisfy experts, but at least politicians understand what are they voting for. Once the vague law is voted, judges can make their own decision by referring to the spirit of the law rather than the word of the law.
Second : You let experts write the law, only people with a lot of knowledge in the field will understand what it means, but that will still be up to the politicians to vote them. How do you expect them to vote well if they have no idea what is this all about ? How do you expect judges to use a law they dont understand ?
Moreover, how do you choose your expert for let's say... a law about DRM ? Do you ask a guy from the RIAA/the majors (i m sure they ve got a bunch of qualified engineers and scientists working on DRM) or Richard Stallman to write it ?
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Good objection, but airlines are a little different from space travel for several reasons :
- First, even though there have been a lot of airlines accidents, the numbers are pretty low compared to the number of flights per day. Notice also that the first accident was on 1922, 8 years after the first commercial flight. I think that space travel has a much higher accident/flight ratio. (I admit i don't have numbers to prove it : Wikipedia says that about 4% of people who went to space died inflight, but that includes early flights so it's not exactly the same thing.)
- Second, plane flights were useful to people from the beginning : you could get from point A to point B in much less time than train or boat. Space travel has no such thing : it's a leisure activity. You won't miss a business opportunity if you don't try it.
Space flights have often lead to mid-air explosions, even with successful, well-known launchers.
Although i hope theses companies will succeed (for the progress of science), I wonder if it is really ready for commercial flights. The first flight which ends up with the death of a customer will scare away all potential customers and stop investment for 10 years...
I don't know about WorldForge, but there is another open-source MMORPG which is slowly growing : Planeshift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaneShift
I m a big fan of the trilogy (actually i m a big fan of the author), but it's kind of weird to think that chess-boxing is now real, given that in the book it is mainly used to show the violence of the distopian world.
There is also a hockey game in the first book which ends with something like 3 goals and 5 kills for each team.
BTW : In the book, the chess-boxing match ends with the main protagonist (possessed by a god) killing his opponent with some kind of laser shot from his eyes during a chess round.
No way ! It can do this ? That's unbelievable
For those who need a little reminder about what is a worm (such as the guy who wrote the article), here is the definition of a worm by Wikipedia
A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computer terminals on the network) and it may do so without any user intervention.
There is a current experiment by a guy from Microsoft Labs. He wears a camera around his neck which automatically takes pictures every minute so that he can label and save them later in a database I saw that in Spectrum (IEEE magazine) but here is a link from a quick google search : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,167 4359,00.html
Compelling story ? Strong characters ? We re not talking about MMO games here...MMO aims to the "lowest common denominator" between players to attract as much people as they can. WOW did it so well that they managed to attract people who hardly ever played video games before...and that's also why hardcore gamers tend not to play WOW.
I ve seen multiple tests (they are in French so no point in giving you a link) where the free version of AVG failed badly (not sure about the professional one). Its the poorest free AV. You should use Antivir or Avast.
The problem is not "getting my song on iTunes". The problem is "getting my song on iTunes WITHOUT DRM".
iTunes is the world biggest online music store, so of course you want your song on it. You expect that, in doing so, more people will buy it.
However, right now, if you dont like DRM and dont want your customer to be locked to his iPod, there is no way to be on iTunes. Some artists dont want their listeners to be restricted in their use of their music. Putting their song on another website wont solve the problem because iTunes probably wont make a link to another website and the customer wont buy the same song twice.
You completly missed the point : The point is not that buying a new iPod will be hard for this guy but that he will never use a non-Apple MP3 player because he would be stuck with 29500$ worth of music he cant listen anymore. Hence he is locked in : he will always buy a new iPod when his own fails.
M$ completely changed the way sound is processed on Vista. On Vista, the default system is the shared mode. Every sound of the system will be processed by a single software layer. This allows developers to play sounds regardless of the underlying hardware. However, this also prevents DirectSound and DirectSound3D from accessing the hardware. It also remove EAX.
There is a solution to that : the exclusive mode. Sound cards makers can create a driver, which will get total control of the sound system. This would allows them to make EAX works again, but right now, Creative (which we can say is the biggest sound card maker for gamers) is lazy and released drivers without support for EAX,Dolby Digital,DTS,6.1 sound...(btw they also said most of their webcam wont get drivers for Vista)
So it is more of a "lazy sound card maker" problem than a Vista problem (NVidia and ATI did make drivers for their card didn t they ?)
Everybody welcome the "dumb laptop", a keyboard and a screen that automatically connects to your company main server no matter where you are in the world.
Joke aside, i fail to see how a dumb terminal could replace a laptop for a commercial/engineer who needs to travel frequently. And theses are the computers that are most likely to be lost/stolen so this is the kind of computer where you should improve security (disk encryption,
I dont care if Vista's DRM are down. However i m worried that he managed to go through Patchguard. I was hoping that Vista would be somewhat safer for non-savvy users thanks to Patchguard, and it s already down. :/
Of course not.
Intel doesnt waste time suing little unknown companies. This is just a way to force Transmeta to accept a settlement instead of going in front of the judge for an endless trial...
I dont agree, i remember a French blog during the vote for the European Constitution. The webmaster was absolutely unknown before this. However, he found and posted a lot of documentations about the Constitution, some personnal thoughts about them, and managed to attract others people who wanted to discuss about this. Soon, the blog became really popular, and got some attention by news websites and newspapers.
Many people felt that the vote for the Constitution was fishy, because they knew nothing about the Constitution they were supposed to vote for. The blog was an answer to that problem, so people liked it.
This proves that if you can bring something new and interesting to your readers, they will follow you, no matter who you are. You dont get credibility by working in a well-known newspaper, you get credibility by writing interesting/insightful articles.
So a NEW system outperforms an OLD system. I fail to see how this is a news.
If they had compared a NEW mainframe with the NEW grid, then we would have been able to draw some conclusions about which one is better. But saying "We bought a new system, its better than the old one" proves nothing.
First Wanadoo doesnt exist anymore. Second Orange has never been part of Wanadoo. Wanadoo was the ISP branch of France Telecom (the main phone company in France), who bought the British mobile phone company Orange. Then they decided to merge all their mobile phones/ISP services in Europe (including Wanadoo and Orange, but also many others) into one single company called Orange. Third, before saying some company is spam friendly, you should get some reliable source.
I think the main problem in this question is that there is not one but TWO answers depending on who you re speaking to.
- On one hand there is the teenager. He has a lot of spare time but not much money. When he buys a game he wont buy another one for months because he just doesn t have the money for that. So he wants a game which will still be interesting in 2 months. A game like "Beyond Good and Evil" is not good for him...With his spare time, he will finish it in 2 days. And then, the game has no mechanism that allows the teenager to still have fun with the game after he finished it. So the game he bought with all the money he got in 6 months is worthless after 2 days of playing. What the teenager is looking for is GTA : A game that is really long to finish, and is still fun to play once you finished it
- On the other hand, there is the adult. He has a lot of money, but he doesn t have much time. He will really enjoy beyond good and evil, because it will took him 2 or 3 weeks to finish it. He will be really glad once he finished it, because it took him quite a long time. And after that, he will be able to buy another game with his "endless" stream of money : He will aim for another short game, because a long game would take 1 year of his spare time to finish, which will make him bored.
I m a student and hopefully, i m gonna graduate this year. So i m between theses 2 categories and i really think that it is two different way of seeing video games.
What the devs working for the majors on DRM or for spammers on new bots/worms/adware think about their jobs ?
Are they all people who only care about the money ?
I will probably never know the answer about this question, but still it bothers me.
You are confusing 2 words : "game" and "simulation".
A game is something you can play it to have some fun.
A simulation is an attempt to simulate the real world by including real physics and real world constraints.
A simulation might be a game if you can play it. But a game isn t always a simulation.
For example Need for Speed is a racing game which isn t a simulation. You can drive at insane speed and even if you crash into a wall your car wont notice it (not real world physics). Moreover even if you re the most dangerous guy on the road, its easy to get rid of the police (not real world constraints).
On the other hand, TOCA Touring car is a racing game which is also a simulation. If you go too fast you go out of the track at the first turn. And if you run into your opponents, you will receive some damages (real world physics), and might get disqualified (real world constraints.
Since she isnt gonna install applications but only browse the Internet, she doesnt need to understand how her OS works. So i would say go for a Ubuntu with icons to the few programs she will use on the desktop (Browser, Mail client, Text editor). Once this is done, you re safe from every threat except phising. As someone else said before you will have to teach her about the danger of links in e-mail, and that they shouldn t trust their email.
What is the n1 linux distribution right now ? Ubuntu
When was Ubuntu launched ? October 20, 2004 (although we can say it really started to get some audience after v4 in 2005)
So Ubuntu is fairly new, yet it achieved a great popularity. They did so by adding something new to a common Linux distribution (Debian). So if Oracle manages to add something new (or offer the same service for a cheaper price since we re talking about Linux for companies) they are likely to be successful and might be able to sink Red Hat. Dont get me wrong : I m not saying they will do it, i m just saying its a possibility. The fact that Oracle is a successful and rich software company will also help.
Of course we can...look at all the great inventions we made during the 2 World Wars...Medicine, Aviation, Rocket Science, Nuclear Science,Industrial processes (both military and civil...We all know that good military inventions become good civil inventions after the war ends)... We own theses 2 wars so much.
War has always been a good way to promote scientific research...When you ve got 1 million wounded soldiers to try a new drug/new surgery, 1 million valid soldiers to try your new shields, 1 million ennemies to "try" your new weapons, and 1 million prisoners to try whatever you want, you make a lot of progress pretty fast.
But now it seems people prefer horrible experiments on rats. That's disgusting. I agree with you, we should stop theses horrors and start a third WW right now, so that scientists can make their experiments without harming theses poor little creatures.
Ok i stop being ironic here to make my point : You always need something/someone to try your prototype. If your product affect living organisms only (which is the case for a drug but not a bomb) you need a living being. So you dont have the choice...You need to pick one. It might be a rat/a bunny/a dog/a cat or a human. Since no living being is willing to give his life for nothing, you have to take someone against his will. The problem is we ve got quite a lot of law forbidding torture/killing of a human. So you only have animals left. Or start a war, people tends to forget the laws during wars...
Come on, you dont do the same kind of applications with a script language like Python and a lower level, general purpose language such as C, C++ or Java.
Script languages are good for small applications but when it comes to big and/or commercial software you need something else. Java is probably one of the most used language (with C and C++) in commercial applications. So yes it is important.
Well you ve got 2 possibilities...
One : You let a politician write the law with words and vague ideas everyone can understand, including politicians and judges. It doesn t satisfy experts, but at least politicians understand what are they voting for. Once the vague law is voted, judges can make their own decision by referring to the spirit of the law rather than the word of the law.
Second : You let experts write the law, only people with a lot of knowledge in the field will understand what it means, but that will still be up to the politicians to vote them. How do you expect them to vote well if they have no idea what is this all about ? How do you expect judges to use a law they dont understand ?
Moreover, how do you choose your expert for let's say... a law about DRM ? Do you ask a guy from the RIAA/the majors (i m sure they ve got a bunch of qualified engineers and scientists working on DRM) or Richard Stallman to write it ?