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GenuineAdvantage:

--- Quote from: Pathos ---my brother's a graphic artist in training and he got a large Wacom Intuos and loves it.
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That's what I have but I don't love it. Sure it's ok but I'd trade it for the other thing in a heartbeat.

Pathos:

--- Quote from: GenuineAdvantage ---That's what I have but I don't love it. Sure it's ok but I'd trade it for the other thing in a heartbeat.
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it depends how you use

My brother finds he can naturally draw with it as good as pencil and paper without the drawbacks.



One of the problems today is that although there are great improvements in computational capacity, the software department are finding ways of counter-acting that.

Software people are being taught to be lazy (in some aspects).

Why ? Because in order to be lazy you find the simplest method of implementing the desired functionality ?

Why ? Simplicity means less code, less bugs, less maintainance, less documentation, less time to develop.

Of course there are things you won't get away with but generally this is the case.

Optimisation is dangerous, often algorithims that are a order of magnitude more complex are required. If there is a performance requirement then of course they have to be accomplished but generally only a small amount of code is spent being processed most of the execution time and that code should be the focus for optimisation.

In the long run it saves the company a lot of money, the consumer gets a less buggy functional product and as long as they have hardware for the job everyones happy.

This is reason for Java and .NET, both are very popular for inhouse software because of the savings in an application that will not directly make any money.

pofnlice:
Here we go again...

vnu net


--- Quote ---Hacker publicly cracks Windows Vista

Microsoft left red faced after live hacking demonstration

Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 07 Aug 2006

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A security researcher at the Black Hat security conference has demonstrated several ways to circumvent security features that are built into Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

According to media reports, researcher Joanna Rutkowska with Coseinc demonstrated two ways to attack a Windows Vista system during a session at the conference. The exposed flaws would potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Windows Vista requires that all device drivers are 'signed' to prevent malicious code from posing as a legitimate driver. The researcher however demonstrated a way to load unsigned drivers.

The researcher in the second case used the virtualisation technology in a system's AMD processor to inject code into the Vista kernel. The technology would allow an attacker to create a new hypervisor that could control the operating sytem. It would remain undetected from the user and would be at the attacker's disposal.

Although she only demonstrated the attack on an AMD processor, Rutkowska said that it would also work on PCs running Intel chips.

Both attacks relied on documented features in Windows Vista and should not be considered bugs, she added.

"The fact that this mechanism was bypassed doesn't mean Vista is insecure. It just means it's just not as secure as advertised," said Rutkowska, according to Internet News.

Earlier at the annual Las Vegas security event, Microsoft had challenged hackers to test the operating system's security features. It has distributed copies of the software's latest beta to about 3,000 security researchers.

Rutkowska is not the first security researcher to hack into a Windows Vista system, but is the first do so in a live demonstration at a public event.

As reported last week, security vendor Symantec has demonstrated several ways to circumvent the operating system's user account protections. Although Microsoft has since repaired the bugs Symantec had identified, it illustrates that the software still has weaknesses and that additional bugs are likely in the future.
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hmmm...she is woman, hear her roar!

worker201:

--- Quote ---Both attacks relied on documented features in Windows Vista and should not be considered bugs
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WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL SURPRISED BY THIS SHIT?  WINDOWS IS A SHITTY OPERATING SYSTEM - GET OVER IT AND MOVE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!

Orethrius:
May I quote the party line?
"It's a feature, not a bug."

What a CROCK.

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