Reminds me of a review of the Mini I read when it first came out, from a PC user who'd heard that MS Office ran on Macs, inserted his PC-version CD install disk, and had it fail. As he had (or utilized) no other resource than his assumptions, he wrote (and published) that the claim of Office running on Mac's was false. That's hilarious!
Yours is not journalism, but anecdote, and not well-informed for the weight of the conclusions it posits. QFT.
The author of this article is wrong on many points in the article and displays a lot of ignorance that any experienced Mac user can identify.
One won't get far using a Macintosh from day-to-day without a word processor, for example, and the effective choices are limited to the iWork and Microsoft Office suites. Only the latter has features that professionals find themselves using with regularity (like edit tracking).
So we all need edit tracking?! How many of us really need the feature-creep of Office 2007? There are some, and there are some who really are doing DTP with a word processor, but the vast majority of people do not. Most of us would be well suited with TextEdit.
While AbiWord and NeoOffice are both available through X11, neither had the full functionality that we needed, not to mention that we had a hell of a time getting them to work at all.
AbiWord works like a charm and does not use X11, nor, IIRC, does NeoOffice. What functionality does this author 'need' that exists in Word for Mac but not AbiWord or NeoOffice? The Microsoft logo?
From time to time, there are small, niche apps that cost you - like the DVD shrinking software or the WMV converter - which have a freeware equivalent on both Windows XP and Linux.
How about HandBrake? While I've always been annoyed at the 30 dollar QuickTime fee, the same libraries for conversion, etc, are freely available on Mac so many free alternatives exist. Which WMV convertor for Linux are we talking about? If VLC, it also exists on Mac.
Not everyone needs BlueTooth and WiFi - and I would have rather had a computer I could use.
What is this doing in the article?
Dual-booting on a Mac brings the Mac platform an ability to play the games that were once the sole province of Windows. This should have been a net bonus for Mac but the limited and underpowered graphics solutions coupled with the inability to upgrade them negate that advantage.
So he tested on a Mac Mini and found that it couldn't play games well since they didn't cram an 8800 into the fat sandwich case. Great. Now, try the brand new MacBook Pro's video card or the iMac or the Mac Pro and see how that goes. And, the Mac Pro is upgradeable.
Furthermore, though people complain about DRM in Vista, the DRM of an Apple computer puts it to shame. There is no technical reason why Mac OS X can't run on other hardware, and even where technical compatibility is a problem, no one is asking that Apple have any sort of support for third-party hardware. Third-party drivers can take care of that, but we want to be able to have a user-friendly, stable OS to use on any hardware that we want without Apple actively preventing it.
Vista and OSX DRM issues are quite different. Apple has an understandable rationale for not wanting OS X to run on any hardware. If you don't agree with it, it is not at all impossible to subvert as a quick peek at Pirate Bay will show.
It is also expensive. The OS is sadly chained to the anchor that is Apple hardware, and I am less enthusiastic about that. It means that to use Mac OS X, you need to spend at least $600 on a new computer, and more for a computer that actually runs well. It also means that unless you go for the absolutely top-of-the-line Mac Pro line, you will need to replace your entire system when it starts to become outdated, rather than gradually solving bottlenecks by upgrading components.
600 dollars. Tragic, isn't it? If that is a problem, buy a used Mac. One of the effects of Macs being excellent, consistent 'package' computers is that they are very loved in the resale market, both for buyers and sellers. If only they would let me but this 600 dollar graphics card in the Mac Mini though...
Furthermore, the lack of freeware requires either resorting to illegal activity or resorting to paying out the nose for commercial software. Don't get me wrong, comme
That sample size being predictive is purely based on what level of effect they want to observe, and how many hypothesis they are correcting for[??]....So, if they say the difference is significant, then it must not be too small. You have omitted that the sample size also is directly indicative of the confidence we should have in the prediction. 74 students showing a "small but significant" difference on something that has dozens of known factors is quite a leap considering that "significant" is a subjective term and, at this sample size, any "small" difference is scarcely evidence for anything.
...74 boys and girls aged 6 and 7....These differences are small but significant... That sample is not even close to large enough to take seriously. The test should have been done on adults, all of one gender and in a much larger pool with information on the genetic and racial history of the subjects. But even the starting premise that we're going to pin complex things like "depression, left-handedness, musical ability, and homosexuality" on slight differences in finger length ratio makes me hope that this psychologist doesn't have a lot of patients.
I know, remember when Gates was on Jon Stewart, and the moment the interview was over he sprang up out of his chair and booked the hell out of there? Totally unlike every other interviewee on the history of the show? You and the parent poster are right about his social akwardness, though a review of the video I think reveals a much more comfortable Bill Gates. He does a lot of public speaking and, while not (IMO) charismatic, can communicate clearly. He looked much more like he was sweating bullets in the interview with Steve Jobs and this wouldn't be very surprising given the history of those two.
if they don't get it right, Microsoft and WPF/.NET/XPF/Expression will simply throw them out of business Having went the route of using WPF/Expression/XAML to make a NET 3.0 application, I think it's safe to claim that this will not happen. The WPF declarative/imperative hybrid model is a pain as soon as you want to do anything besides the simple animations/bindings that it allows.
Respectfully perhaps, but I didn't perceive any genuine warmth between the two. Their body language clearly indicated that they were uncomfortable, especially Bill Gates. It also seemed like there was a lot of unspoken (or merely hinted at) anger from Steve Jobs towards Gates and, given the history of the two companies, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case. They were both nervous, but Gates seemed scared and embarrassed at several points. This whole interview would make an excellent study for a psychology or communications student.;)
Between the office's ribbon interface and the actual launch of Vista, you'd think that now would be the most important time to have a developers conference. With all the new challenges and the conference still several months away, wouldn't it be wiser to schedule the time now and make sure that critical issues are dealt with early? I totally agree. This is exactly when they should be promoting development on Vista including things like how to get the most out of Windows Presentation Framework with XAML, handle porting issues, the new security features, etc! A peek at how Apple hypes 10.5 to developers should illuminate the strategy.
Today I got my first gold farm spam mail as did several other people in Bree town (from IMs on the public channels.) What steps is Turbine taking or going to take to prevent or minimize annoyances caused by gold farmers, spammers, etc?
We have rules of law and enforcers precisely because the natural tendency of people is to do bad things....Most people need a cosmic daddy to tell them what's right and wrong, and what the consequences are because they are incapable or unwilling to do the difficult thinking for themselves.... If they know they can get away with something, they'll do it. I'm sorry, but that cynical, pessimistic view (which I don't blame you for) of human nature is very much what's wrong with modern society. Believe it or not, humans are not 'naturally' evil and treating them like they are creates dysfunction.
Pain is nature's teacher, and using pain to discipline children is entirely natural. 'Teaching' kids through punishment ignores the real reason why they should do good and makes it about avoiding the wrath of whover has more power. It's a 'might makes right' lesson that's dehumanizing and disrespectful to a child (or any human being.) A culture of punishment is a culture of oppression that favors cowards and bullies.
...wouldn't abandoning copyright law entirely ultimately have greater good than what we have now? There are abundant examples that creativity and innovation are not absent where there is not a motive of profit. If I had a machine that could copy food endlessly with no more work than bringing a bowl to it, would I not be acting immorally to demand as much payment as I could for it and restrict the creation of such a machine by anyone else? The 'right' to property, including ideas and other intangibles as 'property', has been the root of so much human suffering but continues to be excused. Instead, they punish Prometheus.
As pointed by many, the thing you showed isn't remotely exploitable. You need another mean of access to the machine, with freagin write access, to put code in a folder where it has script execute permission. Basically, you need a freagin account on the box. Not quite it. So then a poorly designed ASP upload page that is exploitable (as many upload forms are) would or would not then allow wider access to the box?
If this had hit one of our servers, it wouldn't have worked because the "classic" ASP ISAPI handler is disabled by default, and that's how we leave it. And even if that were not true, you'd end up with the same privileges as the NETWORK SERVICE account, which on 2003 is basically useless. AND you still would need to have configured the root of your website to allow for authenticated uploads. So on a shared host that supports ASP, if one shared account does this exploit, would they not get access to all of the others?
I don't consider a DOS an exploit. Like the article, we're talking about being able access the system. As it still stands per the article definition, there are no remote exploits for IIS6.0. Does this look like a DoS to you?
Can the same be said about apache? This is not about httpd versus IIS 6. The statement was that there were no remote exploits for IIS 6 and it appears that there is evidence to the contrary.
I'm not going to claim to be any kind of expert on the subject, but I did bother to look at some of those exploits that turned up and I think you should double check your claim. For example, here's one posted by Microsoft. Are you claiming all of the exploits don't work and if so, why? Do you think IIS 6 is invulnerable?
Considering that creating exploits and/or publishing them is considered a criminal offense in some jurisdictions, I wonder how many submissions they'll get. Especially when a good unknown exploit could be worth far more than 16,000.
The US lags in speed, availability, and value, said Markey, compared to a country like Japan, where most residents can pay $30 a month for 50Mbps fiber connections to the Internet For years I've paid 35-70 dollars a month for internet speeds that rarely exceed 3Mbps. How long until the next generation of bandwidth is commonly available? And, I really don't agree with folks who say consumers don't need that bandwidth; people have been saying the same thing about nearly every computer performance benchmark for decades and proven wrong again and again. So, are there any large scale infrastructure projects in the works right now to provide great bandwidth in the States?
Idiots like that photographer should be banned I'm glad people can't be banned from the net. The internet should be considered in the commons, like the air waves supposedly are.;)
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All from the viewpoint of web development, but applicable to any software: RDBMS Alternatives for Web Developers
When there are so many good alternatives! Check it out.
One won't get far using a Macintosh from day-to-day without a word processor, for example, and the effective choices are limited to the iWork and Microsoft Office suites. Only the latter has features that professionals find themselves using with regularity (like edit tracking).
So we all need edit tracking?! How many of us really need the feature-creep of Office 2007? There are some, and there are some who really are doing DTP with a word processor, but the vast majority of people do not. Most of us would be well suited with TextEdit.
While AbiWord and NeoOffice are both available through X11, neither had the full functionality that we needed, not to mention that we had a hell of a time getting them to work at all.
AbiWord works like a charm and does not use X11, nor, IIRC, does NeoOffice. What functionality does this author 'need' that exists in Word for Mac but not AbiWord or NeoOffice? The Microsoft logo?
From time to time, there are small, niche apps that cost you - like the DVD shrinking software or the WMV converter - which have a freeware equivalent on both Windows XP and Linux.
How about HandBrake? While I've always been annoyed at the 30 dollar QuickTime fee, the same libraries for conversion, etc, are freely available on Mac so many free alternatives exist. Which WMV convertor for Linux are we talking about? If VLC, it also exists on Mac.
Not everyone needs BlueTooth and WiFi - and I would have rather had a computer I could use.
What is this doing in the article?
Dual-booting on a Mac brings the Mac platform an ability to play the games that were once the sole province of Windows. This should have been a net bonus for Mac but the limited and underpowered graphics solutions coupled with the inability to upgrade them negate that advantage.
So he tested on a Mac Mini and found that it couldn't play games well since they didn't cram an 8800 into the fat sandwich case. Great. Now, try the brand new MacBook Pro's video card or the iMac or the Mac Pro and see how that goes. And, the Mac Pro is upgradeable.
Furthermore, though people complain about DRM in Vista, the DRM of an Apple computer puts it to shame. There is no technical reason why Mac OS X can't run on other hardware, and even where technical compatibility is a problem, no one is asking that Apple have any sort of support for third-party hardware. Third-party drivers can take care of that, but we want to be able to have a user-friendly, stable OS to use on any hardware that we want without Apple actively preventing it.
Vista and OSX DRM issues are quite different. Apple has an understandable rationale for not wanting OS X to run on any hardware. If you don't agree with it, it is not at all impossible to subvert as a quick peek at Pirate Bay will show.
It is also expensive. The OS is sadly chained to the anchor that is Apple hardware, and I am less enthusiastic about that. It means that to use Mac OS X, you need to spend at least $600 on a new computer, and more for a computer that actually runs well. It also means that unless you go for the absolutely top-of-the-line Mac Pro line, you will need to replace your entire system when it starts to become outdated, rather than gradually solving bottlenecks by upgrading components.
600 dollars. Tragic, isn't it? If that is a problem, buy a used Mac. One of the effects of Macs being excellent, consistent 'package' computers is that they are very loved in the resale market, both for buyers and sellers. If only they would let me but this 600 dollar graphics card in the Mac Mini though...
Furthermore, the lack of freeware requires either resorting to illegal activity or resorting to paying out the nose for commercial software. Don't get me wrong, comme
...74 boys and girls aged 6 and 7....These differences are small but significant... That sample is not even close to large enough to take seriously. The test should have been done on adults, all of one gender and in a much larger pool with information on the genetic and racial history of the subjects. But even the starting premise that we're going to pin complex things like "depression, left-handedness, musical ability, and homosexuality" on slight differences in finger length ratio makes me hope that this psychologist doesn't have a lot of patients.Respectfully perhaps, but I didn't perceive any genuine warmth between the two. Their body language clearly indicated that they were uncomfortable, especially Bill Gates. It also seemed like there was a lot of unspoken (or merely hinted at) anger from Steve Jobs towards Gates and, given the history of the two companies, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case. They were both nervous, but Gates seemed scared and embarrassed at several points. This whole interview would make an excellent study for a psychology or communications student. ;)
Today I got my first gold farm spam mail as did several other people in Bree town (from IMs on the public channels.) What steps is Turbine taking or going to take to prevent or minimize annoyances caused by gold farmers, spammers, etc?
...wouldn't abandoning copyright law entirely ultimately have greater good than what we have now? There are abundant examples that creativity and innovation are not absent where there is not a motive of profit. If I had a machine that could copy food endlessly with no more work than bringing a bowl to it, would I not be acting immorally to demand as much payment as I could for it and restrict the creation of such a machine by anyone else? The 'right' to property, including ideas and other intangibles as 'property', has been the root of so much human suffering but continues to be excused. Instead, they punish Prometheus.
I'm not going to claim to be any kind of expert on the subject, but I did bother to look at some of those exploits that turned up and I think you should double check your claim. For example, here's one posted by Microsoft. Are you claiming all of the exploits don't work and if so, why? Do you think IIS 6 is invulnerable?
Considering that creating exploits and/or publishing them is considered a criminal offense in some jurisdictions, I wonder how many submissions they'll get. Especially when a good unknown exploit could be worth far more than 16,000.
Thank you greatly for that various interesting possible explaination. It even made me want to hack around old colleges. :)
For many years, Google has shown snippets of a website's likely copyrighted text. Is this really any different from a legal standpoint?