Remember the 'Deep Impact'? Yes, it has been on slashdot. But what do you feel if you reading hourly coverage of the position of the probe towards the comet? Yes, technically these are not dupes, as the spatial position of the probe changes. But I really want to see if there is one day slashdot is full of something like hourly coverage of the same things.
Maybe someone want the test the strength of google servers and bandwidth?
Yes. we should not use something (VG or drugs) as scapegoat to the social ills. And it is too simple-minded by just blaming GTA for making more cops killed.
But just imagine, if we have kids, and we have to put them into either one of two schools - one is full of violent and in the other one, all students performs well (Yes, it is over simplfied, non-realistic example) Which one will we choose?
We just give our best to our kids.
Telling our kids, and ourselves, not to blame somethings for a bigger problem is one thing. Giving our kids, and ourselves, a better world to live on, is another thing. And, I think, we can have both.
Maybe I am not use to the game play of GTA (shooting cops and....). I just hope the industry can give us more fun and innovative products, instead of some FPS like 'Grand Serial Killer 2010' or 'Plane Hijack'.
By saying that, I am not just sitting on my sofa and waiting. Sure, there are alot to do on watching and taking care of kids. We all know that.
What happen if the media (TV / paper / zine / radio / internet / VG / whatever) are full of porn and violence? What would you recommend those poor parent? putting their children into a communist country (not China, as China is NOT), or getting united, standing up and starting fight? Both are not good ways. But we should not force them, or us, to make the choice.
While banning/blaming GTA and/or any other game is silly, helpless parents need help too. VG vendors, it may be a cash cow here.
Really the problem, in my opinion, is that parents don't like they way their children behave and need a scapegoat. This isn't terribly surprising. The same thing happened in the 60s and 70s, but then the scapegoat was drugs.
I bet if you do not have kids or you are just a kid.
I am not sure your view on drug is, but I really do not want my life being dragged by drug. And I dont want my kids, too. Yes, drugs can give you excitment. But life is much bigger than this.
Like drug, I dont want my kids have aggressive character.
Do you know how much resources are lost due to drug starting from 60s? I'm sure that those wanted drug at 60s could say out loud that there was not a big deal. Yes. it is REALLY a big deal when the ill effect of drug on health and society after > 30s years. AND it will go on.
I am sure that there are not sufficient study on physiological impact of violence video game. But, would it be too late if we can finally proof it with a deeply ruined society?
By saying that, I dont mean VG is bad. I am a gamer since 80's. Those games are good. Full of variety, fun, imagination and innovation. You call FPS innovative? how many FPS title out there?
Kids are the best learner in the world. If you want to build a better world, give better stuff to them.
hmm... seems FOSS and MS are roughly the same here.
Seamless 3rd Party platform transition
well.. should i really need to add comments here?
Application Architecture
hmm... MS has no edge here. As the title said, It is in the APPLICATION! not the platform. You cannot say apps easier to design/develop/maintain simply because they are written on Win32 and interoperate well.
Legacy Application Support
hey! how about non win32 app? MS seems not to have adv here too.
And grandparent, what is the advantage of MS on 'Seamless platform transition ability for business users'? From Win98 to W2K to WinXP? how's that difficult for Linux from 1.0 to 2.1 to 2.6? or OO 0.7 to 1.1 or KDE?
For point 4, I think MS is doing good in entering console and gaming market. MS can work harder on this and gain more market/mind share.
For point 5, I agree another slashdoter, who point out that all MS need to do is stick with open stands. They dont need to open source their code. It IS REALLY ANNOYING that even their own products cannot be compatible with each other. This just turns users away in a long run. If MS embraces open standards, MS can get some clever developers (they have alot of them) and even build killer apps that can out place big names in open source space and people will still be happy (of course, dont put high price tag on it). MS can have more growth if it can pull his resource from 'embrace, extend and destory' stuff to truely innovating things.
I am not talking to the release date of Longhorn. I am talking on the performance of applications on Longhorn.
I am working on a computational intensive problem. With linux I can install ONLY the functions I need. I can even stop and uninstall all server to free memory and diskspace and make my program run faster.
I really dont want to wait for my program fighting for getting more resources against some funny kernel extension like web access and RSS, which cannot be stopped.
Maybe Microsoft have no interest on scientific arena, but, as the OS getting more bulky and inflexable, I serious doubt if Windows platform can survive apart from desktop and gamming.
I wounder if there is a device with similar function for TV, will I use it? Hmm... That's depends.
While most of the TV commericals annoying, some of them have high quality. Remember once a TV commericals stating Paris Hilton jammed the hosting site?
And what would you think if there is punching monkey commericals showing on TV for 30 seconds? TV set sales surges as people keep smashing TV once the ad popped out.
....Looks like MS will not support IE9 on Windows Longhorn, leased in 2009. 'It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE9 for Windows Longhorn... Some of the security work in IE9 relies on operating system functionality in MSP4 (Monopole Service Pack 4, which is essential security update for Windows Monopole, released in 2015) that is non-trivial to port back to Windows Longhorn.' While security fixes will still be available until 2018, the only browsers with for Longhorn will be Opera and Firefox.
It was reported that MSP4 caused some of application fail. 'Users who installed MSP4 may not be able to open a doc file in Word 2015. It is highly recommended for all the user to upgrade to Office 2018, as it already contains all the features of MSP4', the spokeperson of Microsoft said. The spokeperson also confirm that MSP5 is on the way 'for giving more user friendly experience on security and operation stability'
...There are free speech and press in China with exception to a few "forbidden" topics. For example, "taiwan independence", "fa-xx-gong" and "tibet".
Hey, what do you mean free speech if there are 'few' forbidden topic that cannot be discussed in public? And what is your understanding on 'few'? Are you not free enough even to mention 'Fa Lun Kung'?
...Otherwise it is complete free to write, to shout, whatever you want.
That's depends on who you are and where you live. If you were a member of PLA, or living in big and famous city, like shanghai and beijing, fine. But if you were a sufferer of state committed corruption, or if you just want to tell the heavily and uglily covered fact, which is vital to general public, then you will have a very different story.
...In general there is not much deriviation of view between people, society, "Party" and government. Possibly because many citizens are also members of the Party since their primary school age.
And if you have different view, say allowing more political party in the government, you are standing out of the crowd, and your ending place may be jails or being 'hospitalized' to another country.
...Speaking of a grey area is about corruption. Even public channel and press are criticizing so the topic is generally allowed to express and discussed publicly as free as possible, if not too extreme
...There are monitoring and sensorship of internet. This is done by licensing of ISP and ICP.
And there is also a great firewall of china too.
I am not against censorship. In fact, all those child porn stuff should be removed forever. However, do you know that ISP and ICP are all affiliated with the government? Do you know that the government is trying to make a law that you cannot built you own website if you are not affiliated with the government?
And thank for the statistics and the link. Forgive me once I said "China and blogging are oxymoron"
...How much do you know China? From what channel? Personally as a Hong Kong citizen I think US media are highly political influenced. Seeing yourself to believe.
I know quite a lot as
I am a Chinese
I born in HK
I read local newspaper. and I dont read US media except slashdot, and other news solely on IT.
If you know much more about China - my nation, perhaps you can tell me why there are people travelling thousands miles from village to Beijing, hoping the senior officals to handle a unbearable corruption committed by the officals in the village, and being beaten badly of the police with no single offical to handle the corruption case.
But I think blogging is far more putting personal sexual experience on the web. It was popular just because it was all about sex. It just like another porn site to the readers.
Can you think of any popular blog in China, which contains personal views and ideas on social affairs, culture, political environment ?
I can alway remember there is a doctor being locked for months, with the charge of disclosing national secured information, by reporting the fact of the hospital he was working to the local media during the early stage of SARS outbreak.
"... Who knows, maybe the fall of Chinese totalitarian rule will be overthrown through public blogging."
As far as I know, the Chinese totalitarian rule overthrowns public blogging, public speech, religious freedom.... whenever there is a single spark.
"You are too simple, too naive"
I did not listen to the speech. However, I found that the EPIC 2014 has more insight on the google and the future. http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
For those who dont want to see the flash movie, here goes the text: (some content is omitted near the end, so I would recommend to see the flash movie)
* * * *
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland, invents the World Wide Web.
1994 sees the founding of Amazon.com. Its young creator dreams of a store that sells everything. Amazon's model, which would come to set the standard for Internet sales, is built on automated personalized recommendations - a store that can make suggestions.
In 1998, two Stanford programmers create Google. Their algorithm echoes the language of Amazon, it treats links as recommendations, and from that foundation powers the world's most effective search engine.
In 1999, TiVo transforms television by unshackling it from the constraints of time - and commercials. Almost no one who tries it ever goes back.
That year, a dot-com start-up named Pyra Labs unveils Blogger, a personal publishing tool.
Friendster launches in 2002 and hundreds of thousands of young people rush to populate it with an incredibly detailed map of their lives, their interests and their social networks. Also in 2002, Google launches GoogleNews, a news portal. News organizations cry foul. GoogleNews is edited entirely by computers.
In 2003, Google buys Blogger. Google's plans are a mystery, but their interest in Blogger is not unreasonable.
2003 is the Year of the Blog.
2004 would be remembered as the year that everything began.
Reason Magazine sends subscribers an issue with a satellite photo of their houses on the cover and information custom-tailored to each subscriber inside.
Sony and Philips unveil the world's first mass-produced electronic paper.
Google unveils GMail, with a gigabyte of free space for every user.
Microsoft unveils Newsbot, a social news filter.
Amazon unveils A9, a search engine built on Google's technology that also incorporates Amazon's trademark recommendations.
And then, Google goes public.
Awash in new capital, the company makes a major acquisition. Google buys TiVo.
2005 - In response to Google's recent moves, Microsoft buys Friendster.
2006 - Google combines all of its services - TiVo, Blogger, GMail, GoogleNews and all of its searches into the Google Grid, a universal platform that provides a functionally limitless amount of storage space and bandwidth to store and share media of all kinds. Always online, accessible from anywhere. Each user selects her own level of privacy. She can store her content securely on the Google Grid, or publish it for all to see. It has never been easier for anyone, everyone to create as well as consume media.
2007 - Microsoft responds to Google's mounting challenge with Newsbotster, a social news network and participatory journalism platform. Newsbotster ranks and sorts news, based on what each user's friends and colleagues are reading and viewing and it allows everyone to comment on what they see.
Sony's ePaper is cheaper than real paper this year. It's the medium of choice for Newsbotster.
2008 sees the alliance that will challenge Microsoft's ambitions. Google and Amazon join forces to form Googlezon. Google supplies the Google Grid and unparalled search technology. Amazon supplies the social recommendation engine and its huge commercial infrastructure. Together, they use their detailed knowledge of every user's social network, demographics, consumption habits and interests to provide total customization of content - and advertising.
The News Wars of 2010 are notable for the fact that no actual news organizations take part.
well... I dont mind reading the Dell's decision on AMD again and again. this can give me more about the corporate culture of Dell.
It would be nice, if there is a single post containing a list of all Dell's decision (just url will be fine) over the last few years, and we simply add entries to the list and post it all again. That would be interesting.
hmm.... I wounder if, combined with transparent alumina, we can build a large piece of glass full of transitors. And imagine what will happen if we use the glasses as the external walls of a commercial building and turn it to, let say, a 386 or 8086.....
what about connecting buildings together and form a huge cluster that run linux?
Slashdot Mirror
Is Opera a company controlled Chinese government? If Yes, Thanks, I don't think I need that.
If you are using Chrome, have you tried OneTab?
Opera is a company controlled by some Chinese now. How about Vivaldi ? OneTab works on that, too.
Hmm.... I think you should read this first, in case you didn't. http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel .3.219431.12
I dont know....
Remember the 'Deep Impact'? Yes, it has been on slashdot. But what do you feel if you reading hourly coverage of the position of the probe towards the comet? Yes, technically these are not dupes, as the spatial position of the probe changes. But I really want to see if there is one day slashdot is full of something like hourly coverage of the same things.
Maybe someone want the test the strength of google servers and bandwidth?
I should mod you insightful.
Yes. we should not use something (VG or drugs) as scapegoat to the social ills. And it is too simple-minded by just blaming GTA for making more cops killed.
But just imagine, if we have kids, and we have to put them into either one of two schools - one is full of violent and in the other one, all students performs well (Yes, it is over simplfied, non-realistic example) Which one will we choose?
We just give our best to our kids.
Telling our kids, and ourselves, not to blame somethings for a bigger problem is one thing. Giving our kids, and ourselves, a better world to live on, is another thing. And, I think, we can have both.
Maybe I am not use to the game play of GTA (shooting cops and....). I just hope the industry can give us more fun and innovative products, instead of some FPS like 'Grand Serial Killer 2010' or 'Plane Hijack'.
By saying that, I am not just sitting on my sofa and waiting. Sure, there are alot to do on watching and taking care of kids. We all know that.
What happen if the media (TV / paper / zine / radio / internet / VG / whatever) are full of porn and violence? What would you recommend those poor parent? putting their children into a communist country (not China, as China is NOT), or getting united, standing up and starting fight? Both are not good ways. But we should not force them, or us, to make the choice.
While banning/blaming GTA and/or any other game is silly, helpless parents need help too. VG vendors, it may be a cash cow here.
I bet if you do not have kids or you are just a kid.
I am not sure your view on drug is, but I really do not want my life being dragged by drug. And I dont want my kids, too. Yes, drugs can give you excitment. But life is much bigger than this.
Like drug, I dont want my kids have aggressive character.
Do you know how much resources are lost due to drug starting from 60s? I'm sure that those wanted drug at 60s could say out loud that there was not a big deal. Yes. it is REALLY a big deal when the ill effect of drug on health and society after > 30s years. AND it will go on.
I am sure that there are not sufficient study on physiological impact of violence video game. But, would it be too late if we can finally proof it with a deeply ruined society?
By saying that, I dont mean VG is bad. I am a gamer since 80's. Those games are good. Full of variety, fun, imagination and innovation. You call FPS innovative? how many FPS title out there?
Kids are the best learner in the world. If you want to build a better world, give better stuff to them.
Good points!
I heard that there is alternative of Access in OSS but I've lost the name. Can someone help me here?
Now, how about a phase-swapping-point-generating game?
Legacy Hardware Support?
hmm... windows is not looking good here.
Legacy Desktop Office Application Interoperability?
hmm... MS is not looking good here too.
Seamless 3rd Party platform Interoperability?
hmm... MS is not looking good here too.
3rd Party Application Interoperability
hmm... seems FOSS and MS are roughly the same here.
Seamless 3rd Party platform transition
well.. should i really need to add comments here?
Application Architecture
hmm... MS has no edge here. As the title said, It is in the APPLICATION! not the platform. You cannot say apps easier to design/develop/maintain simply because they are written on Win32 and interoperate well.
Legacy Application Support
hey! how about non win32 app? MS seems not to have adv here too.
And grandparent, what is the advantage of MS on 'Seamless platform transition ability for business users'? From Win98 to W2K to WinXP? how's that difficult for Linux from 1.0 to 2.1 to 2.6? or OO 0.7 to 1.1 or KDE?
Good points!
For point 4, I think MS is doing good in entering console and gaming market. MS can work harder on this and gain more market/mind share.
For point 5, I agree another slashdoter, who point out that all MS need to do is stick with open stands. They dont need to open source their code. It IS REALLY ANNOYING that even their own products cannot be compatible with each other. This just turns users away in a long run. If MS embraces open standards, MS can get some clever developers (they have alot of them) and even build killer apps that can out place big names in open source space and people will still be happy (of course, dont put high price tag on it). MS can have more growth if it can pull his resource from 'embrace, extend and destory' stuff to truely innovating things.
I am not talking to the release date of Longhorn. I am talking on the performance of applications on Longhorn.
I am working on a computational intensive problem. With linux I can install ONLY the functions I need. I can even stop and uninstall all server to free memory and diskspace and make my program run faster.
I really dont want to wait for my program fighting for getting more resources against some funny kernel extension like web access and RSS, which cannot be stopped.
Maybe Microsoft have no interest on scientific arena, but, as the OS getting
more bulky and inflexable, I serious doubt if Windows platform can survive apart from desktop and gamming.
Maybe someone want to /. ZDnet instead of Secunia 1st?
Like most others here, I use ad block.
I wounder if there is a device with similar function for TV, will I use it? Hmm... That's depends.
While most of the TV commericals annoying, some of them have high quality. Remember once a TV commericals stating Paris Hilton jammed the hosting site?
And what would you think if there is punching monkey commericals showing on TV for 30 seconds? TV set sales surges as people keep smashing TV once the ad popped out.
Advertisters, Innovation, pls
How about this ?
"Rivals of Microsoft Windows platform are far more secure by design."
I dont understand.
Yes. but MS only has his hours (9-5, maybe) and mostly oss developement are on the free time.
If Daniel still want to be a participant in oss developement, he still can be and MS cannot stop him by giving pay cheque/stock/NDA.....
How's that bad? Am I missing something?
....Looks like MS will not support IE9 on Windows Longhorn, leased in 2009. 'It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE9 for Windows Longhorn... Some of the security work in IE9 relies on operating system functionality in MSP4 (Monopole Service Pack 4, which is essential security update for Windows Monopole, released in 2015) that is non-trivial to port back to Windows Longhorn.' While security fixes will still be available until 2018, the only browsers with for Longhorn will be Opera and Firefox.
It was reported that MSP4 caused some of application fail. 'Users who installed MSP4 may not be able to open a doc file in Word 2015. It is highly recommended for all the user to upgrade to Office 2018, as it already contains all the features of MSP4', the spokeperson of Microsoft said. The spokeperson also confirm that MSP5 is on the way 'for giving more user friendly experience on security and operation stability'
Nothing to see here, move along?
Hey, what do you mean free speech if there are 'few' forbidden topic that cannot be discussed in public? And what is your understanding on 'few'? Are you not free enough even to mention 'Fa Lun Kung'?
That's depends on who you are and where you live. If you were a member of PLA, or living in big and famous city, like shanghai and beijing, fine. But if you were a sufferer of state committed corruption, or if you just want to tell the heavily and uglily covered fact, which is vital to general public, then you will have a very different story.
And if you have different view, say allowing more political party in the government, you are standing out of the crowd, and your ending place may be jails or being 'hospitalized' to another country.
Speaking of DARK area of corruption, a lot of people had spoken once on 1989. They all wanted the government to put more effort on anti-corruption. The following link can help us to remind the rest of the story.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E
And there is also a great firewall of china too.
I am not against censorship. In fact, all those child porn stuff should be removed forever. However, do you know that ISP and ICP are all affiliated with the government? Do you know that the government is trying to make a law that you cannot built you own website if you are not affiliated with the government?
And thank for the statistics and the link. Forgive me once I said "China and blogging are oxymoron"
I know quite a lot as
If you know much more about China - my nation, perhaps you can tell me why there are people travelling thousands miles from village to Beijing, hoping the senior officals to handle a unbearable corruption committed by the officals in the village, and being beaten badly of the police with no single offical to handle the corruption case.
yes. I knew there was such a 'blog' before.
But I think blogging is far more putting personal sexual experience on the web. It was popular just because it was all about sex. It just like another porn site to the readers.
Can you think of any popular blog in China, which contains personal views and ideas on social affairs, culture, political environment ?
I can alway remember there is a doctor being locked for months, with the charge of disclosing national secured information, by reporting the fact of the hospital he was working to the local media during the early stage of SARS outbreak.
China and blogging are oxymoron
Next version of Windows might be release without any reschedule.
Microsoft might getting more concern about the security of its products
Microsoft might not use the famous FUD tactic again.
You might mod me insightful.
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
For those who dont want to see the flash movie, here goes the text: (some content is omitted near the end, so I would recommend to see the flash movie)
* * * *
well... I dont mind reading the Dell's decision on AMD again and again. this can give me more about the corporate culture of Dell.
It would be nice, if there is a single post containing a list of all Dell's decision (just url will be fine) over the last few years, and we simply add entries to the list and post it all again. That would be interesting.
And google also knows what is 'internet exploder' !
In the pic, http://www.computersforart.org/create/blue/big/san dy_smith_07.jpg, how about if all screens got BSOD? It'll surely give me nightmares.
hmm.... I wounder if, combined with transparent alumina, we can build a large piece of glass full of transitors. And imagine what will happen if we use the glasses as the external walls of a commercial building and turn it to, let say, a 386 or 8086.....
what about connecting buildings together and form a huge cluster that run linux?