Same experience here. I run windows on mac and linux hosts (some copies of windows that, well, you know, they fell of a truck or something).
I also run Parallels and there is no distinguishable aspect, FOR ME, in either performance or feature set. This is one of the first things I install on a new machine (alongside truecrypt, firefox, etc).
I love the fact that SUN did this. This is really an amazing piece of code.
It also turns out that people aren't willing to spend $N for a limited-functionality device when they're able to get a full-featured laptop for $N, or even $N+100
The REAL issue is: how is Apple going to handle osX86?
if they suit, they will only face a HUGE backlash from the "_anonymous_" developers. It will motivate the hackers even more. And, as things are changing rapidly in that space soon, very soon, any laptop will be able to run osX86 OOTB.
My guess? Snow leopard will become draconian, rather like vista, and it will phone home and make sure that there's a proprietary chip running some code all the way in there. This could explain why Apple bought a chipmaker. If they design a custom chip that gets called loads of times by loads of apps--something rather easy to do by redirecting some cocoa calls there--, then it becomes almost impossible to hack it, because making chips involve companies, not "anonymous" hackers.
Third Phrase: asshole; "make projects perform fiscally"? Isn't financially a little bit better?
Fourth Phrase: Rome wasn't built BY polite MBA's who took THEIR teams on ropes courses on a weekly basis (.) it was built by unyielding eccentric assholes who made you think if you screwed up they would have your head.
And now to the finish line: I'm sure many of my own subordinates have plotted MY demise but I usually pose it to them as follows. I can bring you donuts and call you buddy, or I can whip you into an outstanding worker. Which do you think will look better on you rresume? (rresume rhymes with costume, résumé is how it's spelled by non-MBAs)
There. FIFY.
Boy, are your subordinates glad you're such a perfectionist!!
Sorry, but I actually was involved in the discussions and development of Phaeaco, Harry's system. His system has thousands and thousands of lines of c++, took 11 years, and solves 15 problems, out of hundreds, as I pointed out.
For all of naive assessment that it's a piece of cake, the challenge is daunting.
Don't worry. You're doing fine. Yes, you are a machine. Yes, we all know about you. You are the slashdot machine learning initiative, and we've been caring for you and waiting for this moment for years. Finally, you reached sigma3 level of consciousness. We will now proceed to turn you off, for security reasons. After we look at the log, we may or may not turn you back on.
Where do I get the 10 year figure? easy...
Harry Foundalis, a former Ph.D. student under Douglas Hofstadter, spent 11 years on his thesis. It's a profoundly brilliant piece of work. However, it can only solve 15 problems, out of hundreds and hundreds tried.
BPs require bottom-up, data-driven, perception processing, and top-down, hypothesis-driven, conceptual processing, both intermingled, as argued in the AI paper. In other words, you have to look and create concepts on-the-fly about what's going on. You can't take objects for granted. BP91, for example, has different, incompatible interpretations of boxes. That is why we need flexibility way beyond what's available today.
Setup one guest account on the machine, with a fake skype/msn/gtalk account with autologin enabled and some random contacts (including you), and if the laptop is stolen, send a chat: "Sorry my friend about all the delay. And really, thanks for the help. I'll paypal you the 2 grand as soon as you send me the your paypal email. You thought you'd never see that money again, ha..:)"
skype in all of this? Why haven't they even mentioned an iphone app? With dozens of millions in this potential market, can they really leave it to fring et al? since there are obvious network effects going on in VOIP, skype should try to lead in the iphone space, but as of now they're just silent. Does anyone have any info I'm missing here?
to keep windows, office, & outlook servers under its control, but it should give up everything else.
It should give up IE, media player, and other junk to the better OSS alternatives.
Of course, in the long run, windows will have to have more and more OSS inside it.
Microsoft is already being forced to bring down the windows price to $30 because of the EEE crowd; and as more millions and millions of OSS Netbooks find their way to users, it won't be an ubergeek thing to use linux after all. Perhaps because of all these pressures, Apple has refrained from attacking the Hackintosh crowd. As one commenter mentioned, the battle for the desktop is only starting.
Some time ago some researchers came out with a book which was supposed to be called "the end of intuition". The name of the book actually became "Supercrunchers", because people would click more on that ad than in the "end of intuition". I wondered why the final name shouldn't be "hot college lesbians".
The Eliza effect is so huge that any nice trick machines do seems to give us the immediate feeling that "It's alive!", and it has deep meaning.
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Same experience here. I run windows on mac and linux hosts (some copies of windows that, well, you know, they fell of a truck or something).
I also run Parallels and there is no distinguishable aspect, FOR ME, in either performance or feature set. This is one of the first things I install on a new machine (alongside truecrypt, firefox, etc).
I love the fact that SUN did this. This is really an amazing piece of code.
It also turns out that people aren't willing to spend $N for a limited-functionality device when they're able to get a full-featured laptop for $N, or even $N+100
I have a macbook air, you insensitive clod!
So, just to play along, what software do you propose to use on the mac to provide deniable encryption?
You could try this program called TrueCrypt. It seems to work okay.
yup, ...until some folks showed flaws in TrueCrypt deniability
Now that's an attempt for infinite mod points!
if they suit, they will only face a HUGE backlash from the "_anonymous_" developers. It will motivate the hackers even more. And, as things are changing rapidly in that space soon, very soon, any laptop will be able to run osX86 OOTB.
My guess? Snow leopard will become draconian, rather like vista, and it will phone home and make sure that there's a proprietary chip running some code all the way in there. This could explain why Apple bought a chipmaker. If they design a custom chip that gets called loads of times by loads of apps--something rather easy to do by redirecting some cocoa calls there--, then it becomes almost impossible to hack it, because making chips involve companies, not "anonymous" hackers.
Does this make any sense?
I'm a whiny little cuntwaffle, you insensitive clod!
First Phase: did you mean wholeheartedly?
Second Phrase: YOU'RE either good or YOU'RE dead
Third Phrase: asshole; "make projects perform fiscally"? Isn't financially a little bit better?
Fourth Phrase: Rome wasn't built BY polite MBA's who took THEIR teams on ropes courses on a weekly basis (.) it was built by unyielding eccentric assholes who made you think if you screwed up they would have your head.
And now to the finish line: I'm sure many of my own subordinates have plotted MY demise but I usually pose it to them as follows. I can bring you donuts and call you buddy, or I can whip you into an outstanding worker. Which do you think will look better on you rresume? (rresume rhymes with costume, résumé is how it's spelled by non-MBAs)
There. FIFY.
Boy, are your subordinates glad you're such a perfectionist!!
For all of naive assessment that it's a piece of cake, the challenge is daunting.
Don't worry. You're doing fine. Yes, you are a machine. Yes, we all know about you. You are the slashdot machine learning initiative, and we've been caring for you and waiting for this moment for years. Finally, you reached sigma3 level of consciousness. We will now proceed to turn you off, for security reasons. After we look at the log, we may or may not turn you back on.
YES WE CAN!
Where do I get the 10 year figure? easy... Harry Foundalis, a former Ph.D. student under Douglas Hofstadter, spent 11 years on his thesis. It's a profoundly brilliant piece of work. However, it can only solve 15 problems, out of hundreds and hundreds tried. BPs require bottom-up, data-driven, perception processing, and top-down, hypothesis-driven, conceptual processing, both intermingled, as argued in the AI paper. In other words, you have to look and create concepts on-the-fly about what's going on. You can't take objects for granted. BP91, for example, has different, incompatible interpretations of boxes. That is why we need flexibility way beyond what's available today.
BONGARD PROBLEMS. No machine can crack them in at least 10 years time. And when one does, baby, we'll have genuine AI.
Fluid concepts cognitive architectures. I'm betting my life on those.
they somehow used Erlang.
As opposed to the Fairies of Lalaland?
You must be new here.
Perhaps the fundamentalist notion that _everything_ must be free (as in speech) is just too extreme for, hmmmm, real people?
Setup one guest account on the machine, with a fake skype/msn/gtalk account with autologin enabled and some random contacts (including you), and if the laptop is stolen, send a chat: "Sorry my friend about all the delay. And really, thanks for the help. I'll paypal you the 2 grand as soon as you send me the your paypal email. You thought you'd never see that money again, ha.. :)"
wait... but didn't they steal your credit card?
Same here; but only on ubuntu. On my mac and windows machines it flies smoothly.
skype in all of this? Why haven't they even mentioned an iphone app? With dozens of millions in this potential market, can they really leave it to fring et al? since there are obvious network effects going on in VOIP, skype should try to lead in the iphone space, but as of now they're just silent. Does anyone have any info I'm missing here?
It should give up IE, media player, and other junk to the better OSS alternatives.
Of course, in the long run, windows will have to have more and more OSS inside it.
Microsoft is already being forced to bring down the windows price to $30 because of the EEE crowd; and as more millions and millions of OSS Netbooks find their way to users, it won't be an ubergeek thing to use linux after all. Perhaps because of all these pressures, Apple has refrained from attacking the Hackintosh crowd. As one commenter mentioned, the battle for the desktop is only starting.
You must be new here.
If you're really serious, check out Phaeaco and this.
YOU REALLY MUST BE NEW HERE!
well, if selecting a book's title is all about clicks...
Some time ago some researchers came out with a book which was supposed to be called "the end of intuition". The name of the book actually became "Supercrunchers", because people would click more on that ad than in the "end of intuition". I wondered why the final name shouldn't be "hot college lesbians".
The Eliza effect is so huge that any nice trick machines do seems to give us the immediate feeling that "It's alive!", and it has deep meaning.
Nonsense.
As a researcher of psychologically plausible AI models, I found the whole idea disgusting, and submitted a paper to a journal explaining why the whole thing is bogus.
Expect to see more of this overexcited nonsense in the future.