Isn't this just a hyped up version of what we've already heard about? Aren't they just developing these systems for use in usability testing? There was something on/. just a short while back about it - although I'm too lazy to look it up. Maybe the editors have Alzheimer's...
Yeah... but in my case it was a lot cheaper to buy two 750 GB drives and put them in a machine I already own than to buy an entirely new box. I have a feeling the same is true for a lot of other/. types.
This was the first thing I thought of. Subscriptions suck. I don't buy subscription software, or music, why would I want hardware? That's even worse! If I'm paying for it, I should own it. I should be able to pick up my old copy of Counter-Strike, dust it off, install it, and play it, without having to pay some crazy fee. I already bought it years ago. Do you want to have to pay a fee when you fire up that old machine and decide to set it up as a server? no, that's ridiculous, you already own it. All it should cost is a little electricity.
I agree with number 2, number 3 will take more than just a team of PR types, number 1 is the problem though... You can't "fix" oil prices. Oil prices are high because globally we're running out of oil and demand is increasing. Prices are going to go up. period. Nothing you can do. (You know, except stop using oil). No, I'm not an environmentalist, but betting on fixing oil is just bad business. America needs to proactively switch to something else if we don't want to be slaves to a foreign, oil holding, power.
Anyway, back to the housing stuff. The housing slump is largely the result of (borderline) criminal activity. It hasn't been very well publicized but basically shady mortgage brokers forged lending documents and got people into homes they never should have had with mortgages that would screw them in a few short years. They got their commission regardless of whether the home was ultimately foreclosed on. Given the changes in the lending market, many people's credit, and the financial institutions' ability and willingness to give credit, I'd say time is the main factor here. People need time to rebuild their credit and dig themselves back out of their holes - the same is true for the lenders. No magic wands necessary! The only changes that I see as being necessary are improvements in the way brokers are held accountable. Obviously this situation benefited neither the lender nor the debtor; surely there's a way we can at least prevent this from happening again.
RTFA. I've researched this issue a lot as an owner of a WHS box. From Microsoft's KB -
You can still use the Windows Home Server home computer backup to back up and restore files from and to your home computers.
It doesn't corrupt your backups. Those are fine. The issue only occurs when the machine is under a high load and you save a file to a shared folder on the WHS using one of a handful of applications. It's easy to avoid and they're working on a fix - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946676/en-us?spid=12624.
But you know, feel free to ignore the facts and resume your mindless fear mongering. You should run for President!
Say what you like about Microsoft, but they appear to have finally made a decent product here. You can buy an OEM copy through Newegg for $169. Then slap it on any machine you like. It's got built in support for automatically backing up all of your files. If you have multiple HDD's in your server you can specify at the folder level which folders should be copied onto multiple drives (for redundancy should one of your HD's fail). It's also got nifty support for managing it from outside your home and streaming music, videos and photos to other machines inside / outside of your home. Take a look at it - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
Yes, but using your same analogy... a plane is just a little bit bigger than a car. A Boeing 747 has a wingspan of 211 feet. Cars vary but 6 - 7 feet is a reasonable average in America. Now, 10' is about 5% of the width of a 747 but 10" is about 14% of the width of a car. If you use 5% for the car, then 5% of 6 feet would be 3.6". That's good enough to keep you going down the highway. I doubt your average driver can guess the position of their vehicle any better than that.
Is there some way we can get RIAA mad at them? Register a bunch of domains using the names of songs, artists, lyrics, etc? I think if we could get a NSI vs RIAA fight going the sheer awesomeness of it would be brain melting.
I've been waiting, and a lot of the HDTV owners I know have been too. I and a few of my friends are generally early adopters but it was obvious from the start of this battle that picking a side too soon would suck. Those HD-DVD movies are going to be useless now unless you either keep your HD-DVD player just for the 20 movies you have on HD-DVD or unless you get a dual format player. There won't be *that* many dual format players because no one wants to pay extra for a format that's been deprecated.
I've been intentionally waiting to buy movies for the last year or so because what's the point of owning a DVD if I just buy a Blu-ray or HD player in another year or two? It's like when all the VHS tapes were crazy cheap at the rental stores because they were going DVD - why would you buy them? Just get the DVD. I understand that there are a few old movies worth watching that haven't been brought over to DVD but chances are that if you like them, you already own them.
FireFox is definitely marketed as being more secure. However, there are certain things that people just shouldn't do. Taking the time to read and respond to all the spam they get, for example. Following links to trusted sites is another one. Do you download gobs of awesome free screen savers and clocks and smiley face making programs? no. Why? because you know they're full of crapware. Same thing.
I said that it should be patched in my original post, but my point was that this is just a way to do a phishing scam. It's not like there's a bug in FireFox that lets anyone just sniff your password when you're entering it into a legitimate site.
Ugh, This is basically just another form of phishing. Who follows links to websites that require a username / password anymore anwyay? If I want to go to gmail, my bank, whatever, I'm definitely not going to follow a link from some random website or e-mail. I'm going to type in the URL and login. Don't get me wrong, it'll be good to see this patched - But basically this vulnerability only matters if you're the same kind of person that falls for phishing.
Your average slashdotter doesn't have the opportunity - the responsibility (according to some) - to taze, beat, shoot, and otherwise injure or subdue citizens. Additionally, most employees are monitored by their boss because their boss works in close proximity to them. This isn't the case with police officers. They travel all over the city, county, state, etc, on their own. As taxpayers and citizens within their jurisdiction we are collectively "their bosses". It's our responsibility to speak up when things aren't being handled correctly. *That* is why you should have the right to record what they do on their job.
When they go home they can do whatever they like. I have no desire to watch them eat, sleep, whatever. But when they have a gun on their hip, I don't think it's unreasonable to hold them responsible for their actions. When you lose the ability to audit your government and the forces it uses to control its citizens you will quickly find your freedoms taken away.
Umm, in those situations the only way you can possibly "win" the argument is to forfeit. Proving that you're right doesn't work with girlfriends, wives, etc. Unfortunately, this is usually only learned through painful personal experience. Ex:
Guy: Look, see, Wikipedia proves I'm right!
Girl: I don't care, I can't believe you didn't trust me.
Guy: but I knew I was right.
Girl: You never listen.
Guy: Yeah, I d...
Girl: *cry*
Guy: *crap*
It seems that nearly everyone has assumed you're writing a "windows" application (or linux or mac or whatever OS you
For example - a windows based internal data entry application or a web based customer portal for looking at reports. If you're going to read a book you have to make sure that it applies to what you're actually going to be writing, otherwise you're wasting your time.
I think that three things determine what guidelines you should be looking at-
Platform - Obviously different OSes call for different designs, but even a web application has different rules than a web page. (One is generally for performing a task while the other is about gather information or reading content)
Target Audience - #1 rule is always that your customer doesn't know your audience - and neither do you. You have to do usability tests. It's the only way to know if what you're doing is "right".
Purpose of the software - This will determine what you optimize your application for. Speed, ease of use, appearance, etc. Although not necessarily mutually exclusive you usually have to make some sacrifices in order to achieve your primary objective. Ex - An internal data entry application will probably be optimized for speed first and ease of use second.
Good luck! Personally, I think UI design is a blast.
Maybe I'm confused. I thought the little motto up top said "News for Nerds. Stuff that MATTERS." Who cares about this? This is garbage. The article is just like a recap of a bad network teen drama + expletives. Can we get some real news back on the front page please? thanks!
Not trolling, just asking people to stop putting this kind of junk up front. It's a waste of everyone's time.
I think that the argument for continual innovation and improvement is the most logical. As a society it doesn't make sense to continue to reward people that did great things in the past while preventing people from doing great things now. I do feel that 5 years is a little short. I think 10 years would be a good compromise - not just for music, but for books, software, etc. Many people have brought up the software aspect and although there are ancient systems running old OS's I think that 10 years is plenty of time for most software makers to get paid. Think about it, would you really want to go back and use Windows 95 - even if it were free to use now?
Additionally, as some have pointed out, it will at least do a little more to encourage companies to improve on their own without the threat of other companies being necessary. (Read: Microsoft vs Mozilla, Intel vs AMD, etc)
Anyone know how this would affect the artists? I mean, I know that most of them make their money off of merch and concerts anyway - but I'm just trying to understand who this would really end up hurting. Obviously older bands that still have reasonably good record sales (Led Zeppelin) aren't going on a lot of tours. I'm all for giving RIAA a good gut punch, I just don't want to screw over the musicians I love in the process. I'm no IP / copyright lawyer so I'm looking for some insight here!
99% of the population isn't on slashdot. My mom doesn't even know what a hard drive is, but then, she isn't the kind of person using this site either. If you're here - it's because you're a geek / nerd / techie / whatever. You are, therefore, expected to know a little about what's happening in tech.
Ummm cave dweller much? We've already got 100 GB+ solid state drives. This one is obviously crazy expensive but you can get 32GB models for a more reasonable price - around $400 I think.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't this just a hyped up version of what we've already heard about? Aren't they just developing these systems for use in usability testing? There was something on /. just a short while back about it - although I'm too lazy to look it up. Maybe the editors have Alzheimer's...
Yeah... but in my case it was a lot cheaper to buy two 750 GB drives and put them in a machine I already own than to buy an entirely new box. I have a feeling the same is true for a lot of other /. types.
This was the first thing I thought of. Subscriptions suck. I don't buy subscription software, or music, why would I want hardware? That's even worse! If I'm paying for it, I should own it. I should be able to pick up my old copy of Counter-Strike, dust it off, install it, and play it, without having to pay some crazy fee. I already bought it years ago. Do you want to have to pay a fee when you fire up that old machine and decide to set it up as a server? no, that's ridiculous, you already own it. All it should cost is a little electricity.
I agree with number 2, number 3 will take more than just a team of PR types, number 1 is the problem though... You can't "fix" oil prices. Oil prices are high because globally we're running out of oil and demand is increasing. Prices are going to go up. period. Nothing you can do. (You know, except stop using oil). No, I'm not an environmentalist, but betting on fixing oil is just bad business. America needs to proactively switch to something else if we don't want to be slaves to a foreign, oil holding, power.
Anyway, back to the housing stuff. The housing slump is largely the result of (borderline) criminal activity. It hasn't been very well publicized but basically shady mortgage brokers forged lending documents and got people into homes they never should have had with mortgages that would screw them in a few short years. They got their commission regardless of whether the home was ultimately foreclosed on. Given the changes in the lending market, many people's credit, and the financial institutions' ability and willingness to give credit, I'd say time is the main factor here. People need time to rebuild their credit and dig themselves back out of their holes - the same is true for the lenders. No magic wands necessary! The only changes that I see as being necessary are improvements in the way brokers are held accountable. Obviously this situation benefited neither the lender nor the debtor; surely there's a way we can at least prevent this from happening again.
Ugh. Windows Home Server is basically Windows Server 2003... not XP.
But you know, feel free to ignore the facts and resume your mindless fear mongering. You should run for President!
Say what you like about Microsoft, but they appear to have finally made a decent product here. You can buy an OEM copy through Newegg for $169. Then slap it on any machine you like. It's got built in support for automatically backing up all of your files. If you have multiple HDD's in your server you can specify at the folder level which folders should be copied onto multiple drives (for redundancy should one of your HD's fail). It's also got nifty support for managing it from outside your home and streaming music, videos and photos to other machines inside / outside of your home. Take a look at it - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
It's an old article, but if you really want to know about Alzheimer's research, look into what they've been able to do using the Pittsburgh Compound.
Yeah, cell phones are the work of the devil! I'll take a soup can and a string over that any day. That way I know for sure who I'm talking to!
Yes, but using your same analogy... a plane is just a little bit bigger than a car. A Boeing 747 has a wingspan of 211 feet. Cars vary but 6 - 7 feet is a reasonable average in America. Now, 10' is about 5% of the width of a 747 but 10" is about 14% of the width of a car. If you use 5% for the car, then 5% of 6 feet would be 3.6". That's good enough to keep you going down the highway. I doubt your average driver can guess the position of their vehicle any better than that.
Is there some way we can get RIAA mad at them? Register a bunch of domains using the names of songs, artists, lyrics, etc? I think if we could get a NSI vs RIAA fight going the sheer awesomeness of it would be brain melting.
I've been intentionally waiting to buy movies for the last year or so because what's the point of owning a DVD if I just buy a Blu-ray or HD player in another year or two? It's like when all the VHS tapes were crazy cheap at the rental stores because they were going DVD - why would you buy them? Just get the DVD. I understand that there are a few old movies worth watching that haven't been brought over to DVD but chances are that if you like them, you already own them.
FireFox is definitely marketed as being more secure. However, there are certain things that people just shouldn't do. Taking the time to read and respond to all the spam they get, for example. Following links to trusted sites is another one. Do you download gobs of awesome free screen savers and clocks and smiley face making programs? no. Why? because you know they're full of crapware. Same thing.
I said that it should be patched in my original post, but my point was that this is just a way to do a phishing scam. It's not like there's a bug in FireFox that lets anyone just sniff your password when you're entering it into a legitimate site.
Oh curse you AC! You are indeed right. that's what I get for trying to be close to having the first post. :)
Ugh, This is basically just another form of phishing. Who follows links to websites that require a username / password anymore anwyay? If I want to go to gmail, my bank, whatever, I'm definitely not going to follow a link from some random website or e-mail. I'm going to type in the URL and login. Don't get me wrong, it'll be good to see this patched - But basically this vulnerability only matters if you're the same kind of person that falls for phishing.
Your average slashdotter doesn't have the opportunity - the responsibility (according to some) - to taze, beat, shoot, and otherwise injure or subdue citizens. Additionally, most employees are monitored by their boss because their boss works in close proximity to them. This isn't the case with police officers. They travel all over the city, county, state, etc, on their own. As taxpayers and citizens within their jurisdiction we are collectively "their bosses". It's our responsibility to speak up when things aren't being handled correctly. *That* is why you should have the right to record what they do on their job.
When they go home they can do whatever they like. I have no desire to watch them eat, sleep, whatever. But when they have a gun on their hip, I don't think it's unreasonable to hold them responsible for their actions. When you lose the ability to audit your government and the forces it uses to control its citizens you will quickly find your freedoms taken away.
Umm, in those situations the only way you can possibly "win" the argument is to forfeit. Proving that you're right doesn't work with girlfriends, wives, etc. Unfortunately, this is usually only learned through painful personal experience. Ex:
Guy: Look, see, Wikipedia proves I'm right!
Girl: I don't care, I can't believe you didn't trust me.
Guy: but I knew I was right.
Girl: You never listen.
Guy: Yeah, I d...
Girl: *cry*
Guy: *crap*
Well that's a bunch of crap! (waits for mod points from the mods that disagree with parent)
I think that three things determine what guidelines you should be looking at-
Platform - Obviously different OSes call for different designs, but even a web application has different rules than a web page. (One is generally for performing a task while the other is about gather information or reading content)
Target Audience - #1 rule is always that your customer doesn't know your audience - and neither do you. You have to do usability tests. It's the only way to know if what you're doing is "right".
Purpose of the software - This will determine what you optimize your application for. Speed, ease of use, appearance, etc. Although not necessarily mutually exclusive you usually have to make some sacrifices in order to achieve your primary objective. Ex - An internal data entry application will probably be optimized for speed first and ease of use second.
Good luck! Personally, I think UI design is a blast.
Not trolling, just asking people to stop putting this kind of junk up front. It's a waste of everyone's time.
Additionally, as some have pointed out, it will at least do a little more to encourage companies to improve on their own without the threat of other companies being necessary. (Read: Microsoft vs Mozilla, Intel vs AMD, etc)
Anyone know how this would affect the artists? I mean, I know that most of them make their money off of merch and concerts anyway - but I'm just trying to understand who this would really end up hurting. Obviously older bands that still have reasonably good record sales (Led Zeppelin) aren't going on a lot of tours. I'm all for giving RIAA a good gut punch, I just don't want to screw over the musicians I love in the process. I'm no IP / copyright lawyer so I'm looking for some insight here!
http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_captkirk.png - pretty much sums it up.
99% of the population isn't on slashdot. My mom doesn't even know what a hard drive is, but then, she isn't the kind of person using this site either. If you're here - it's because you're a geek / nerd / techie / whatever. You are, therefore, expected to know a little about what's happening in tech.
Ummm cave dweller much? We've already got 100 GB+ solid state drives. This one is obviously crazy expensive but you can get 32GB models for a more reasonable price - around $400 I think.