New PCs are what isn't selling, and that has nothing to do with Windows 8, no matter what the Slashdrones like to believe. That has to do with Moore's Law finally outpacing the needs of software, the change to near universal consumption on computers.
Hardware vendors need to make upgrading hardware compelling. Microsoft can't do that -- they're selling plenty of upgrades, as it is.
That was supposed to be what Microsoft added to the equation - Intel provides Ghz and MSFT gives you powerful (enough) software to churn it. In the case of Windows8, what MSFT provided pales in comparison even to what they used to provide - they've regressed, users get lost functionality, difficult to learn UI, and loss of muscle memory for existing tasks.
Apple couldn't make money off the iPhones if people were able to install just anything from anywhere, without the App Store taking a cut.
This is false. Apple makes the insanely large bulk of it's money on hardware sales (yes, combined with it's impressive OS and apps - but those are features of the hardware in Apple's eyes). If Apple truly thought they could make an extra 10% sales of hardware by opening up their App Store limitations, they would - that's far more than the App Store makes in comparison.
And therein lies Microsoft's problem - it's a software company, that makes the vast majority of it's money from selling software. To become more like Apple, Microsoft needs to dive into hardware and, like Apple, live or die by it - this is not going to happen any time soon.
Everyone is so damned beholden to copyright that it more or less constrains how you do anything.
This is not just a failure of copyright, this is an institutional failure where the "publisher" gets to control the entire scientific debate and profit on all ingress and egress of data. Copyright is just the weapon the publisher is brandishing to force even more people to pay them.
How is this even tenable long-term? What curation do these journals provide? Why are they regarded as anything more than leeches?
Any time you plug your iOS device into another computer, this trusted pairing relationship gets automatically created within seconds. The only time this doesn’t occur is if the device is locked with a PIN – and I mean really locked; if you have anything other than “Require Passcode: Immediately” set, then it will remain unlocked for a while even after you shut off the screen.
So if you're in unknown territory, set a passcode and put it on immediate expiration, and you can be a bit more cavalier. It's too bad Apple doesn't allow you iOS to into "turtle mode" so that you can force this behavior at will, while keeping a more pragmatic stance (say 5m lock timeout).
This iris scan device is expensive, ineffective and excessive.
But there are money for the contractors, bribe for the school administrators. Everyone is happy, right?
This just sounds like theft of public resources. Almost as bad as having a vice squad wrongly bust an autistic high school student for drugs (the school administrators were in on that one too) [1]. Or that case about the school admins who used software to take pictures of their students in their rooms with school laptops [2].
In all these cases, it's these un-impeachable un-elected school administrators who work with seedy police or corporations and are never punished. Instead, the public pays for unnecessary services, or they pay for unneeded lawsuits.
What will it take to get these folks fired and put in jail for reckless negligence and/or corruption?
If I'm taking a trip in an electric car and getting hungry, you can bet I'll choose the stop that lets me charge the car at the same time.
Why choose? Superchargers could be the EV equivalent of the desert oasis - build it, and lease out the nearby highly valuable land to franchises and such. Given a 30m+ average stopover, that's a hell of a captive audience (and high-income to boot) - why not put a whole high-end strip mall there? 30m is just about right timing for a meal, haircut, or shopping stroll + coffee.
However, it would be nice if ultimately, the entire petroleum fuel delivery system (ie, gas stations) were to go hybrid. Of course, that wouldn't be in Tesla's or big auto/big oil's immediate interest, or it would be happening already, but it would be the most convenient for consumers and let the EV revolution happen (or not).
I though this issue was solved years ago with... and I'm not joking... towing a gas/diesel generator.
Put a hitch on the Telsa and tow a gas generator with fuel to extend your range. When you're using the car locally or once you reach your destination you unhitch and park the generator. There was even a prototype that looked like a tiny trailer.
Is this not an option anymore?
Were you confused with the AC Propulsion T-Zero from a decade or so ago? Here's a pic of the tzero+trailer [1]
* Anti-Microsoft sentiment from Windows spills over onto the XBox.
Really, if so, it's just lazyness on the part of the complainer. There's plenty of annoyances/stupidity that Microsoft has done directly with Xbox that deserves scorn. Examples: RROD, requiring Xbox live subscription to use Netflix, requiring stupid "points" to buy stuff, etc.
Anti-Sony sentiment from ongoing IP-related arguments spills over onto the PS3.
Is the rootkit on cd an "IP-related argument"? How about Sony losing their customer records?
A company putting out a decent product that makes missteps or show character issues like the above examples still deserves scorn and criticism. Haters who kick a dead horse repeatedly should be hellbanned.
Even on my desktop, with my 20" monitor, I always run anything maximized
You do. Others don't, and they have good reasons. One of them is that switching between maximized windows of multiple applications involved in a given task is slower than switching with your eyes.
This is scratching the surface. Basic windowing concepts like "cut/paste" and "drag/drop" are severely hamstrung when you have a UI that forces all apps to be fullscreen - clearly in the case of a size-constrained phone, this is a reasonable tradeoff (and even the original iphone had drag/drop to rearrange icons and such).
For a desktop/workstation, mandatory full-screen-only mode is beyond useless. It's a downgrade, and robs the user of a major portion of the utility of a modern PC... with no reasonable justification nor trade-off in other features or cost.
Google seems to have an aversion to them. First, Google substituted LABELS for folders. Now they're substituting TABS for folders.
This is one area where Outlook Client (desktop client) wins: FOLDERS. In OUTLOOK, I can easily set up rules to put emails into folders to reduce clutter and increase organization. AND IT WORKS.
This again? Folders mean hierarchy. Tags/Labels avoid the problem of when you want to put something in two folders at the same time. Absent a "shortcut/symlink" option in combination with folders (all we got for filesystems), this is the best way to solve the "multiple inheritance" problem inherent to hierarchies.
Also, GMail (and even Yahoo!Mail) have supported filters since like, forever. And Google's IMAP Folder support is pretty good - if you use labels like a hierarchy they'll behave like one in IMAP. I have no idea why you think Outlook is some work of genius. From my (dated) experience, Outlook 2007 doesn't even support "OR" logic in the rules you specify for your filters - Google and Yahoo have, since 2004.
As long as that continues to exist. If Google is happy with apps like Sparrow and their own proprietary protocol, they might do away with IMAP, just like they did away with CalDav support.
If it's supported on Google devices, iOS devices (maybe Blackberry because they're harmless), and most browsers - why should they care about any other ways to access their service (hey, at the worst you can always use the mobile web interface, eh)?
Mark my words - CalDav removal is a sign of things to come from Page's Google.
First, UAV is a mighty broad brush. An inexpensive electric glider with a motor on it and big battery can fly for literally hours -- without even using thermals or other lift, and they can increase it further -- and the battery will be just fine when you land, just recharge it.
Now, this is a multicopter -- far less efficient. Still, with good batteries, keeping the weight down as much as possible, and just sitting there (using as little power as possible) -- 50 minutes doesn't surprise me at all.
So this device will play the "Protoss" interceptor to the larger UAV's Carrier role? Imagine a large UAV that can launch these on demand, and then imagine if these can come back into the mothership to recharge... [shudder]
One of the things Megaupload did was it ran some sort of a hash on uploaded files, and if they already had the file they just created a new symbolic link to the same file.
Dropbox certainly does this - you think that 2 or 5 GB you have allocated is actually physically consumed/set aside? It was also one of the big privacy concerns for using Dropbox a couple of years ago. Not sure if any of this has changed.
I have heard the term then yet unreleased but what does then yet released mean? Is this something like flammable and inflammable meaning the same thing?
Probably "yet to be released iPhone", but truncated because what's a couple of words here and there?
But rather than inventing a new series with fresh ideas, Cosmos II is just an attempt to reanimate dead flesh. It's a frankensteinian monster pieced together from someone else's long dead body of work. Magic can't be cloned,
Fox is not PBS. Tyson is not Sagan. Cosmos should be allowed to rest in peace.
So let me guess - you've seen the show already? You must be connected. I'll give it a watch and see what they create - it could be the next best thing. I'm pretty sure they won't go into Sagan's spaceship (if they do, I'll admit you're right and GG).
Apple's first foray into cell phones was the ROKR made in conjunction with Motorola. It was just a rebadged Motorola E398 with the Apple iTunes music store accessible directly from the phone via licensed Apple software. It launched in September 2005.
Apple severely cut motorola off at the knees by soon announcing the iPhone and discontinuing support of the ROKR in September 2006, with the iTunes software being set up and configured to work with the as yet undisclosed iPhone hardware. So even Apple had a mis-step with Motorola on its first time out on the cell-phone dance floor. Why shouldn't Facebook make a misstep or two? (Not that I condone facebook's existence, the utility of facebook pages, or even any point to checking up on facebook at all. I just have an opinion about 1st generation hardware attempts! ! !)
It's also like the Zune phone. Just when MS started its advertising blitz with ?uestLove a.k.a. Questlove, the stores started discounting and discontinuing the damn useless phone and music player.
Your timeline is off - the ROKR was born and died before the iPhone was even announced (which happened in Jan 2007). I think both Moto and Apple knew the ROKR was doomed to failure before it even arrived but kept up for different reasons: Apple was desperate to break into the mobile industry (some say ROKR was Apple's stalking horse), while Moto was feeling the heat from RIMM and PALM feeling their RAZR hit was fading.
My AppleTV is connected to a computer-only LCD panel (it only has VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs, no built-in tuner).
I thought computer-only LCD panels tended to lack audio output. Did you have Apple TV in mind before you bought your computer-only LCD panel to make sure it had an audio output?
My TV has shite speakers, and so I have a real sound system including a receiver. The HDMI inputs route through the receiver from the AppleTV (and cable box, and playstation) and push sound out to the speakers and video to the TV.
Does no one else do this? I've been doing this for years (though if there was a good bluetooth/airplay speaker solution that worked with a TV, I'd prefer that - no wires, better balancing capabilities, etc).
Let's be clear: Canonical's vision doesn't involve "phone apps." They want the same apps running on your phone and on your desktop.
Have they by chance been hiring Microsoft employees of late?
And what's with this OS unification frenzy that ignores how touch and pointers behave differently. I even hate it in OSX Lion with the "natural" scroll (though OSX is much less tablet-zombified than Win8). Scroll on a touchscreen is "natural" direction as your fingers track the object 1:1 in real time (hopefully). Scroll on a perpendicular surface separated from the screen (trackpad), and sensitivity could be greater than 1:1 - it's NOT natural to join the directions (it's somewhat workable for the laptop trackpad as you see your fingers and the screen in the same frame, but a magic trackpad just feels weird - I always "reverse" the scroll setting).
>> Clearly the "fake cred" would never be a flag in the users table (or even in the same database/system). For example, it could be a process that scans your logfiles and alerts based on username.
That's my point. If you're already doing this, you don't need to inject fake credentials into your databases to detect unusually accurate snooping.
We're not on the same page.
How would you know if a login using a valid credential set is legitmate or from a stolen password? Answer: you don't. However, if you have fake users in your system that *no one* would ever login with, then you can know your system credentials have been compromised.
And this is to detect if your password db has been stolen, not "snooping". Using this method to uncover snooping would never find your fake credentials unless you constantly test those fakes.
To do that, you need to set a "fake" flag on the credentials, and bad guys can use that to filter out the fake creds from the store.
Clearly the "fake cred" would never be a flag in the users table (or even in the same database/system). For example, it could be a process that scans your logfiles and alerts based on username.
If someone has pwnd your system and can rewrite logs you have a *much* bigger problem than stolen passwords.
When you use one of the fake ID and passwords to try to log in. That will set off an alarm in the system that someone has stolen the database. Think about it - it's really quite clever.
Isn't this kind of like ISP-based spam detection - when you create a list of honeypot email addresses that no one would ever email on purpose - anyone who sends to those email addresses are likely a spammer, and should be added to the spam sender blacklist.
Windows 8 never saw the light of the day... yet since it came preloaded, it still counts as a sale for Microsoft.
Exactly. It's not like they don't know how many are being activated - they know full well - all part of Microsoft Genuine Advantage. Numbers "sold" (ie, shipped) doesn't mean diddly squat.
I doubt it'll spur competition, because everyone will just stick with CS6.
I'm not a multi media production expert, but CS6 seems to be pretty feature complete, and if you ever wanted to go further than that, there is always Processing or max/msp, and third party plugins for After Effects, Premeire, and Photoshop.
In the immediate term, sure. But longer term, is paying hundreds of dollars a year going to be worth it? The pricing policy Adobe has listed seems like it's designed to extract the maximum cash from it's userbase, instead of incenting them to going cloud (and charging more for other services/offerings/features as they appear). This is rent-seeking behavior, not profit-seeking.
That sort of attitude doesn't play well with the userbase. In fact, as soon as a decent enough competitor with a sane pricing policy appears, they will likely start gaining significant marketshare. Adobe continues to make $$, but then all of a sudden it's revenue will crater as it's userbase flees for the "acceptably good enough competitor" that hasn't gougued it's userbase.
First it only shows programs installed, and then "Settings". Often I'm using it to find windows components like Device Manager, and it requires additional mouse clicks and movements to get there.
This was one of Apple's biggest coups when they released Spotlight in 10.4 Tiger, I could type "mouse" and go to the settings very quickly - a huge boon to those of us who have to support our parents' computers via phone/email. It was something I hadn't seen before
I was really glad Win7 (or was it Vista) got that feature, and it's pretty nonsense that it is lost in Win8. It's like they think "search" is a nasty word (because of Google?) or something. Incredibly obtuse and head-in-the-sand view.
just imagine the execs eyeing getting thirty percent from every CS installation.
This is likely why Adobe went this route - they can sell users a service that has feet in all ecosystems, even walled gardens.
By not charging for the software, but the service, Adobe neatly sidesteps the 30% problem. They can also now play in the OSX fenced (gatekeeper is default on) and iOS walled gardens now too.
Apple tried to prevent this with their draconian pricing/link policy a few years back, and lost, but this seems the end result - if Microsoft's Win8 marketplace was successfully entrenched, Adobe's profit would suffer greatly with a healthy 30% cut being taken out. That MS has yet to succeed gives Adobe time, but I'm betting Adobe doesn't want to be caught off guard when Win9/8blue/etc has a successful uptake of the MS app store concept.
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Windows 8 is selling extremely well.
New PCs are what isn't selling, and that has nothing to do with Windows 8, no matter what the Slashdrones like to believe. That has to do with Moore's Law finally outpacing the needs of software, the change to near universal consumption on computers.
Hardware vendors need to make upgrading hardware compelling. Microsoft can't do that -- they're selling plenty of upgrades, as it is.
That was supposed to be what Microsoft added to the equation - Intel provides Ghz and MSFT gives you powerful (enough) software to churn it. In the case of Windows8, what MSFT provided pales in comparison even to what they used to provide - they've regressed, users get lost functionality, difficult to learn UI, and loss of muscle memory for existing tasks.
Apple couldn't make money off the iPhones if people were able to install just anything from anywhere, without the App Store taking a cut.
This is false. Apple makes the insanely large bulk of it's money on hardware sales (yes, combined with it's impressive OS and apps - but those are features of the hardware in Apple's eyes). If Apple truly thought they could make an extra 10% sales of hardware by opening up their App Store limitations, they would - that's far more than the App Store makes in comparison.
And therein lies Microsoft's problem - it's a software company, that makes the vast majority of it's money from selling software. To become more like Apple, Microsoft needs to dive into hardware and, like Apple, live or die by it - this is not going to happen any time soon.
Everyone is so damned beholden to copyright that it more or less constrains how you do anything.
This is not just a failure of copyright, this is an institutional failure where the "publisher" gets to control the entire scientific debate and profit on all ingress and egress of data. Copyright is just the weapon the publisher is brandishing to force even more people to pay them.
How is this even tenable long-term? What curation do these journals provide? Why are they regarded as anything more than leeches?
Any time you plug your iOS device into another computer, this trusted pairing relationship gets automatically created within seconds. The only time this doesn’t occur is if the device is locked with a PIN – and I mean really locked; if you have anything other than “Require Passcode: Immediately” set, then it will remain unlocked for a while even after you shut off the screen.
So if you're in unknown territory, set a passcode and put it on immediate expiration, and you can be a bit more cavalier. It's too bad Apple doesn't allow you iOS to into "turtle mode" so that you can force this behavior at will, while keeping a more pragmatic stance (say 5m lock timeout).
This iris scan device is expensive, ineffective and excessive.
But there are money for the contractors, bribe for the school administrators. Everyone is happy, right?
This just sounds like theft of public resources. Almost as bad as having a vice squad wrongly bust an autistic high school student for drugs (the school administrators were in on that one too) [1]. Or that case about the school admins who used software to take pictures of their students in their rooms with school laptops [2].
In all these cases, it's these un-impeachable un-elected school administrators who work with seedy police or corporations and are never punished. Instead, the public pays for unnecessary services, or they pay for unneeded lawsuits.
What will it take to get these folks fired and put in jail for reckless negligence and/or corruption?
[1] http://temecula.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/autistic-tvusd-student-wrongly-accused-in-massive-dru6a5c988a16
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/11/lower-merion-school-distr_n_758882.html
If I'm taking a trip in an electric car and getting hungry, you can bet I'll choose the stop that lets me charge the car at the same time.
Why choose? Superchargers could be the EV equivalent of the desert oasis - build it, and lease out the nearby highly valuable land to franchises and such. Given a 30m+ average stopover, that's a hell of a captive audience (and high-income to boot) - why not put a whole high-end strip mall there? 30m is just about right timing for a meal, haircut, or shopping stroll + coffee.
However, it would be nice if ultimately, the entire petroleum fuel delivery system (ie, gas stations) were to go hybrid. Of course, that wouldn't be in Tesla's or big auto/big oil's immediate interest, or it would be happening already, but it would be the most convenient for consumers and let the EV revolution happen (or not).
I though this issue was solved years ago with... and I'm not joking... towing a gas/diesel generator.
Put a hitch on the Telsa and tow a gas generator with fuel to extend your range. When you're using the car locally or once you reach your destination you unhitch and park the generator. There was even a prototype that looked like a tiny trailer.
Is this not an option anymore?
Were you confused with the AC Propulsion T-Zero from a decade or so ago? Here's a pic of the tzero+trailer [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Acp_tzero_DSC00467.jpg
* Anti-Microsoft sentiment from Windows spills over onto the XBox.
Really, if so, it's just lazyness on the part of the complainer. There's plenty of annoyances/stupidity that Microsoft has done directly with Xbox that deserves scorn. Examples: RROD, requiring Xbox live subscription to use Netflix, requiring stupid "points" to buy stuff, etc.
Anti-Sony sentiment from ongoing IP-related arguments spills over onto the PS3.
Is the rootkit on cd an "IP-related argument"? How about Sony losing their customer records?
A company putting out a decent product that makes missteps or show character issues like the above examples still deserves scorn and criticism. Haters who kick a dead horse repeatedly should be hellbanned.
Even on my desktop, with my 20" monitor, I always run anything maximized
You do. Others don't, and they have good reasons. One of them is that switching between maximized windows of multiple applications involved in a given task is slower than switching with your eyes.
This is scratching the surface. Basic windowing concepts like "cut/paste" and "drag/drop" are severely hamstrung when you have a UI that forces all apps to be fullscreen - clearly in the case of a size-constrained phone, this is a reasonable tradeoff (and even the original iphone had drag/drop to rearrange icons and such).
For a desktop/workstation, mandatory full-screen-only mode is beyond useless. It's a downgrade, and robs the user of a major portion of the utility of a modern PC... with no reasonable justification nor trade-off in other features or cost.
Google seems to have an aversion to them. First, Google substituted LABELS for folders. Now they're substituting TABS for folders.
This is one area where Outlook Client (desktop client) wins: FOLDERS. In OUTLOOK, I can easily set up rules to put emails into folders to reduce clutter and increase organization. AND IT WORKS.
This again? Folders mean hierarchy. Tags/Labels avoid the problem of when you want to put something in two folders at the same time. Absent a "shortcut/symlink" option in combination with folders (all we got for filesystems), this is the best way to solve the "multiple inheritance" problem inherent to hierarchies.
Also, GMail (and even Yahoo!Mail) have supported filters since like, forever. And Google's IMAP Folder support is pretty good - if you use labels like a hierarchy they'll behave like one in IMAP. I have no idea why you think Outlook is some work of genius. From my (dated) experience, Outlook 2007 doesn't even support "OR" logic in the rules you specify for your filters - Google and Yahoo have, since 2004.
Use an IMAP client of your choice than.
As long as that continues to exist. If Google is happy with apps like Sparrow and their own proprietary protocol, they might do away with IMAP, just like they did away with CalDav support.
If it's supported on Google devices, iOS devices (maybe Blackberry because they're harmless), and most browsers - why should they care about any other ways to access their service (hey, at the worst you can always use the mobile web interface, eh)?
Mark my words - CalDav removal is a sign of things to come from Page's Google.
First, UAV is a mighty broad brush. An inexpensive electric glider with a motor on it and big battery can fly for literally hours -- without even using thermals or other lift, and they can increase it further -- and the battery will be just fine when you land, just recharge it.
Now, this is a multicopter -- far less efficient. Still, with good batteries, keeping the weight down as much as possible, and just sitting there (using as little power as possible) -- 50 minutes doesn't surprise me at all.
So this device will play the "Protoss" interceptor to the larger UAV's Carrier role? Imagine a large UAV that can launch these on demand, and then imagine if these can come back into the mothership to recharge ... [shudder]
One of the things Megaupload did was it ran some sort of a hash on uploaded files, and if they already had the file they just created a new symbolic link to the same file.
Dropbox certainly does this - you think that 2 or 5 GB you have allocated is actually physically consumed/set aside? It was also one of the big privacy concerns for using Dropbox a couple of years ago. Not sure if any of this has changed.
chip for the then yet released iPhone
I have heard the term then yet unreleased but what does then yet released mean? Is this something like flammable and inflammable meaning the same thing?
Probably "yet to be released iPhone", but truncated because what's a couple of words here and there?
But rather than inventing a new series with fresh ideas, Cosmos II is just an attempt to reanimate dead flesh. It's a frankensteinian monster pieced together from someone else's long dead body of work. Magic can't be cloned,
Fox is not PBS. Tyson is not Sagan. Cosmos should be allowed to rest in peace.
So let me guess - you've seen the show already? You must be connected. I'll give it a watch and see what they create - it could be the next best thing. I'm pretty sure they won't go into Sagan's spaceship (if they do, I'll admit you're right and GG).
Apple's first foray into cell phones was the ROKR made in conjunction with Motorola. It was just a rebadged Motorola E398 with the Apple iTunes music store accessible directly from the phone via licensed Apple software. It launched in September 2005.
Apple severely cut motorola off at the knees by soon announcing the iPhone and discontinuing support of the ROKR in September 2006, with the iTunes software being set up and configured to work with the as yet undisclosed iPhone hardware. So even Apple had a mis-step with Motorola on its first time out on the cell-phone dance floor. Why shouldn't Facebook make a misstep or two? (Not that I condone facebook's existence, the utility of facebook pages, or even any point to checking up on facebook at all. I just have an opinion about 1st generation hardware attempts! ! !)
It's also like the Zune phone. Just when MS started its advertising blitz with ?uestLove a.k.a. Questlove, the stores started discounting and discontinuing the damn useless phone and music player.
Your timeline is off - the ROKR was born and died before the iPhone was even announced (which happened in Jan 2007). I think both Moto and Apple knew the ROKR was doomed to failure before it even arrived but kept up for different reasons: Apple was desperate to break into the mobile industry (some say ROKR was Apple's stalking horse), while Moto was feeling the heat from RIMM and PALM feeling their RAZR hit was fading.
My AppleTV is connected to a computer-only LCD panel (it only has VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs, no built-in tuner).
I thought computer-only LCD panels tended to lack audio output. Did you have Apple TV in mind before you bought your computer-only LCD panel to make sure it had an audio output?
My TV has shite speakers, and so I have a real sound system including a receiver. The HDMI inputs route through the receiver from the AppleTV (and cable box, and playstation) and push sound out to the speakers and video to the TV.
Does no one else do this? I've been doing this for years (though if there was a good bluetooth/airplay speaker solution that worked with a TV, I'd prefer that - no wires, better balancing capabilities, etc).
Let's be clear: Canonical's vision doesn't involve "phone apps." They want the same apps running on your phone and on your desktop.
Have they by chance been hiring Microsoft employees of late?
And what's with this OS unification frenzy that ignores how touch and pointers behave differently. I even hate it in OSX Lion with the "natural" scroll (though OSX is much less tablet-zombified than Win8). Scroll on a touchscreen is "natural" direction as your fingers track the object 1:1 in real time (hopefully). Scroll on a perpendicular surface separated from the screen (trackpad), and sensitivity could be greater than 1:1 - it's NOT natural to join the directions (it's somewhat workable for the laptop trackpad as you see your fingers and the screen in the same frame, but a magic trackpad just feels weird - I always "reverse" the scroll setting).
>> Clearly the "fake cred" would never be a flag in the users table (or even in the same database/system). For example, it could be a process that scans your logfiles and alerts based on username.
That's my point. If you're already doing this, you don't need to inject fake credentials into your databases to detect unusually accurate snooping.
We're not on the same page.
How would you know if a login using a valid credential set is legitmate or from a stolen password? Answer: you don't. However, if you have fake users in your system that *no one* would ever login with, then you can know your system credentials have been compromised.
And this is to detect if your password db has been stolen, not "snooping". Using this method to uncover snooping would never find your fake credentials unless you constantly test those fakes.
To do that, you need to set a "fake" flag on the credentials, and bad guys can use that to filter out the fake creds from the store.
Clearly the "fake cred" would never be a flag in the users table (or even in the same database/system). For example, it could be a process that scans your logfiles and alerts based on username.
If someone has pwnd your system and can rewrite logs you have a *much* bigger problem than stolen passwords.
When you use one of the fake ID and passwords to try to log in. That will set off an alarm in the system that someone has stolen the database. Think about it - it's really quite clever.
Isn't this kind of like ISP-based spam detection - when you create a list of honeypot email addresses that no one would ever email on purpose - anyone who sends to those email addresses are likely a spammer, and should be added to the spam sender blacklist.
Windows 8 never saw the light of the day... yet since it came preloaded, it still counts as a sale for Microsoft.
Exactly. It's not like they don't know how many are being activated - they know full well - all part of Microsoft Genuine Advantage. Numbers "sold" (ie, shipped) doesn't mean diddly squat.
I doubt it'll spur competition, because everyone will just stick with CS6.
I'm not a multi media production expert, but CS6 seems to be pretty feature complete, and if you ever wanted to go further than that, there is always Processing or max/msp, and third party plugins for After Effects, Premeire, and Photoshop.
In the immediate term, sure. But longer term, is paying hundreds of dollars a year going to be worth it? The pricing policy Adobe has listed seems like it's designed to extract the maximum cash from it's userbase, instead of incenting them to going cloud (and charging more for other services/offerings/features as they appear). This is rent-seeking behavior, not profit-seeking.
That sort of attitude doesn't play well with the userbase. In fact, as soon as a decent enough competitor with a sane pricing policy appears, they will likely start gaining significant marketshare. Adobe continues to make $$, but then all of a sudden it's revenue will crater as it's userbase flees for the "acceptably good enough competitor" that hasn't gougued it's userbase.
First it only shows programs installed, and then "Settings". Often I'm using it to find windows components like Device Manager, and it requires additional mouse clicks and movements to get there.
This was one of Apple's biggest coups when they released Spotlight in 10.4 Tiger, I could type "mouse" and go to the settings very quickly - a huge boon to those of us who have to support our parents' computers via phone/email. It was something I hadn't seen before
I was really glad Win7 (or was it Vista) got that feature, and it's pretty nonsense that it is lost in Win8. It's like they think "search" is a nasty word (because of Google?) or something. Incredibly obtuse and head-in-the-sand view.
just imagine the execs eyeing getting thirty percent from every CS installation.
This is likely why Adobe went this route - they can sell users a service that has feet in all ecosystems, even walled gardens.
By not charging for the software, but the service, Adobe neatly sidesteps the 30% problem. They can also now play in the OSX fenced (gatekeeper is default on) and iOS walled gardens now too.
Apple tried to prevent this with their draconian pricing/link policy a few years back, and lost, but this seems the end result - if Microsoft's Win8 marketplace was successfully entrenched, Adobe's profit would suffer greatly with a healthy 30% cut being taken out. That MS has yet to succeed gives Adobe time, but I'm betting Adobe doesn't want to be caught off guard when Win9/8blue/etc has a successful uptake of the MS app store concept.