Our product (code-named "Chandler" after the great master of Information Retreival, Chandler Bing) is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) intended for use in everyday information and communication tasks
Scott Culp, from the Microsoft Security Response Center wrote them in October 2000... The first three really jump out in the context of La Grande and NGSCB:
Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore
Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it's not your computer anymore
Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore
You see, "bad guy" is a value judgement - there is no moral lodestone that classifies intentions here.
More to the point - These statements are JUST AS TRUE if you substitute the words "good guy".
Or "Microsoft", or "Sun Microsystems", or "The Department of the Interior", or "your mommy"...
This technology is an enabler for an elite who see themselves as the "good guy", and are doing all of this for what is believed to be our protection.
You can't win this - in the long run, anymore than you will be able vote on paper in the U.S. Say goodbye to your clever toys.
It was about the opening of the cold war, and the very bleak present of the time Orwell wrote. He swapped digits in the year "1948".
The 'future prediction' aspect just allowed him to cast a sharp relief onto the suble qualities of propaganda and oppression in that time and this one. It's worse now - not better!
btw: Ociania has always been at war with East Asia.
Keynote and Powerpoint make people dumber. I'm too lazy to look up the coresponding Slashdot article.
Perhaps so. These are philosophical and sociological considerations, and outside the arguments over any relative technical and human-interface merit of the software in question.
As an aside of my own - I often need "flashy' presentations to compensate for the lacking attention span of those with the fat wallets, not the lacking of my content.
Am I mistaken, or is the use of still cameras in a series or an array the next logical extension of the still camera arrays used by PDI - made famous with the circular shots in The Matrix?
USB is a "Hub and Spoke" technology designed by Intel to keep a PC at the "hub". There is no equivalency to the Firewire/iLink/IEEE1394 negotiation between peer devices.
What does this mean?
Well, if you want to dump Photos from a USB camera, the HD must be attached to a whole PC and OS! A battery-powered device that manages to maintain a USB root hub, and have an HD attached is a pretty nifty trick, and offers many (not all) of the Firewire advantages. It is certainly compact and lightweight, and I doubt you wait for it to boot...
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i.e.: Will they pay for Dennis Ritchie's cardiac medication?
Everything on earth (or on screen) is just a little OpenGL canvas. What ever resolution you want, inside the canvas area.
Tilt the canvas, twist the canvas, paint it around a cube and spin it... Heck, even run it corner-to-corner, full-screen!
But you could probably dance to the [click] - [cli-click] - [hNnph]
Repeating over and over, again!
Anybody interested in some beautiful aluminium siding?
What's not to like?
Also, executable content in arbitrary locations is a security nightmare...
BTW: Great job, guys.
Actually, you cannot attribute to incompetence the criminal motivations revealed by Sibel Edmonds and others.
Who killed Harry Lyme?
I think it was Harry Palmer...
Expensive pen.
So he did!
MMmmmm! USB drive-chain.
Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore
Law #2: If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it's not your computer anymore
Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore
You see, "bad guy" is a value judgement - there is no moral lodestone that classifies intentions here.
More to the point - These statements are JUST AS TRUE if you substitute the words "good guy".
Or "Microsoft", or "Sun Microsystems", or "The Department of the Interior", or "your mommy"...
This technology is an enabler for an elite who see themselves as the "good guy", and are doing all of this for what is believed to be our protection.
You can't win this - in the long run, anymore than you will be able vote on paper in the U.S. Say goodbye to your clever toys.
It was about the opening of the cold war, and the very bleak present of the time Orwell wrote. He swapped digits in the year "1948".
The 'future prediction' aspect just allowed him to cast a sharp relief onto the suble qualities of propaganda and oppression in that time and this one. It's worse now - not better!
btw: Ociania has always been at war with East Asia.
Perhaps so. These are philosophical and sociological considerations, and outside the arguments over any relative technical and human-interface merit of the software in question.
As an aside of my own - I often need "flashy' presentations to compensate for the lacking attention span of those with the fat wallets, not the lacking of my content.
If they can produce Word and Excel equivalents to the level that Keynote demolishes PowerPoint...
People will be begging them for Windows ports.
Why can't we get these images from Fallujah?
Now even geeks can get a little tail!
Pssst! Wanna buy some aluminium siding?
Now they are CMOS, instead of plate cameras...
Ahhhh... Are you asking for someone to POSIX_ME_HARDER?
Coool! Now they do it. Of course, the device you have at any time may - or may not - support the extension...
What does this mean?
Well, if you want to dump Photos from a USB camera, the HD must be attached to a whole PC and OS! A battery-powered device that manages to maintain a USB root hub, and have an HD attached is a pretty nifty trick, and offers many (not all) of the Firewire advantages. It is certainly compact and lightweight, and I doubt you wait for it to boot...
Sure. I agree! I just don't think that the mania described in the Apple story is even in the same league!