Least I know that they're following protocol. The guy did exactly what he was supposed to do
I think that is the main problem. As you said, all software has bugs. That is why humans should not work like a robot following protocols, without using their brains (this way you are using the brain of the guy who designed the protocol, who may not forecast all possibilities). I'll bet the next big strike against US will be done by someone who will find a glitch on a security protocol and will exploit it, the same way as software bugs are exploited today.
I bet for b) and c). I think sellers will want to promote "what is hot", so I don't see them selling XP even if it is better for a given hardware. MS licence allows to sell an older version (up to 2 back versions), but this will be used only for very specific needs. Since I predict there will be apps that won't get together well with Vista, maybe the sellers will sell both systems for a time.
I think they should just add a service where people could deliver or snail mail dual layer dvds or tapes with data, with a set of new dvds or tapes for results. One can overnight it with Fedex. Then, they run the program on the grid, load up the result on another set of dvds or tapes and overnight them back to you.
If you change "DVD" and "tapes" for "punch card" in your sentence, you are describing computing as it was known 30 years ago.
Lets forget for a minute that MS is the bad guy in this movie and think on this:
1- In poor countries, a lot of people have cellphones. In Argentina, even the dogs has one (just kidding!, but people w/o landlines has cellphones, using pre-paid cards you can use it for less than u$4/month). So there is no need to buy anything (OK, a new cellphone, but is mostly subsidized by the telco). 2- Cellphone CPUs are powerful than old "HOME computers", they even run JAVA. 3- Due to power and TV requirement, this won't be useful for lost villages in Africa, but there is poverty (and lot of it) in industrialized areas surrounding big cities in latin america, where a computer cost 4 times the average monthly family income, due to exchange and tax factors (including customs, agriculture countries tend to heavenly tax industrialized goods to "protect" their non-existent local manufacture industries), and they DO have TV and cellphone (but their income is about u$300/month).
Here several computer stores sells Commodore branded PC. With WinXP as any other computer in the market. Now they are selling some with Linux (a local version, based on Xandros) just to pull the prices down. Check this link.
I didn't RTFA yet, but I think this is the same complain as HTML frames (no back button, no printing, no bookmark correctly...). (there is even a no frames campaign, looks as a 1997 web page!) I think that if you are looking a web page as just a "page", yes, the author is right, AJAX suck. But if you see it as a web app, you should evaluate it as an app, not as a web page. In a typical app, you use provided buttons, print with provided menu (like Gmail) and so on.
Add to the list: Agro research companies. Where I work (a plant biotech company), plants are being photographed almost every day. They use it to follow a trait called "stay green". Also for ilustrate some internal reports. We also have a server with a directory full of mp3 files, and people add their own using their pendrives (new additions on the mp3 server are announced in the internal billboard).
I 2002 I bought a Yahoo! branded mouse (grey color, USB) with a light at the back for email notification. It should work with the provided driver, but never tried it since the mouse worked without external drivers, both in Windows and Linux (but without the back light)
It is strange that nobody post it before, but there is a website where you can find such a team. Rent a Coder (shameless aff. link). You can post your proyect and then lots of developers bid for it. You could also choose a set of developers first and then submit your proyect to them and start a private bidding.
You might have to put warnings on compliers like do not code if you have no clue what you are doing, etc but requiring a license won't ever happen
In Argentina, in some provinces, you must be "licensed" to program, or even to call yourself "computer consultant". Hard to believe? Read it here or here or here an opinion agains it (sorry, all in Spanish).
from one of the links, (my own translation):
"[professional license] assure that professional exercise is made exclusively by the people who certify corresponding academic formation as well as ethical integrity in their performance, as a minimum guarantee of the quality..."
I have Google Adsense, and I have the new REFERENCE tab. But there should be 2 subtabs according to the Google email announcing the service. But I only have one subtab (Adsense) and no "Firefox plus Toolbar". Anyone else with the same problem? Maybe as I am in Argentina I am not qualify for this promotion (it depends of the location?, according to other post). I already emailed Google customer sevice about it.
The toolbar allow Google to track where site do you visit, the they improve the pagerank. This is stated up front at the installation and Google allow you to opt-out of this BEFORE installing, here is from the privacy information:
Google may collect information about web pages that you view when you use advanced features such as PageRank, SpellCheck, AutoLink, and WordTranslator. However, these advanced features can be easily disabled or re-enabled at any time by selecting
In my office WAP, when I turn on WEP encryption, things slow down and even there are connexion problems, so the PHB asked for encryption removal, and I did. Anyway, we are in the middle of nowhere.
Maybe the DRDOS is "embeded" in an application. For example, Partition Magic or some other commercial clone of this partition tool, used DRDOS on the emergency disk. Another use could be some driver that should be installed without booting into Windows (like some BIOS drivers). [dr|free]DOS could be used for such low level software installation, so they (for Dell) don't need to announce that they are using or selling it.
I know this is a real virus, not a computer one. I DID the comparation NOT BETWEEN the viri, but between the way general media companies (like BBC and CNN) show specific information. Here in Slashdot, most people can understand when CNN gets wrong in computer security. What I wanted to say, is that the same WAY the news is missunderstood by big media about computer security, it happends with other fields, like emerging diseases. Regarding the page I submit it as good source, I forgot to tell, but what matter most are the linksm like these:
* ProMED-mail Archives
* Medscape: Requires prior registration (free)
* WHO Outbreak News
The ProMED mailing list is a UP TO THE MINUTE news about outbreaks, and is even better that ANY medium because is not under any gov't suppervision and high queality information flows without censure (some countries wont happily release information that could affect them by several millons of lost of exports)
Do you remember when CNN alerted about the super-computer virus that seems to be the end of the world? This could be the same, I suggest to follow specific sources instead of general news-media. With computer security, you now AV companies, Secunia, CERT and so on. For this, my bet is: http://www.fas.org/promed/
Slashdot Mirror
I think that is the main problem. As you said, all software has bugs. That is why humans should not work like a robot following protocols, without using their brains (this way you are using the brain of the guy who designed the protocol, who may not forecast all possibilities). I'll bet the next big strike against US will be done by someone who will find a glitch on a security protocol and will exploit it, the same way as software bugs are exploited today.
Oracle plays in a different niche than Ubuntu. Oracle should buy RH or Novell if they want to reach enterprise users.
I understand that those request were made from registrars, not from end domain owners.
I bet for b) and c). I think sellers will want to promote "what is hot", so I don't see them selling XP even if it is better for a given hardware. MS licence allows to sell an older version (up to 2 back versions), but this will be used only for very specific needs. Since I predict there will be apps that won't get together well with Vista, maybe the sellers will sell both systems for a time.
Same regust for my, from Argentina. Most likely that the site did it in order to dogde the /. effect.
If you change "DVD" and "tapes" for "punch card" in your sentence, you are describing computing as it was known 30 years ago.
Where do you get $150 appliances?
Lets forget for a minute that MS is the bad guy in this movie and think on this:
1- In poor countries, a lot of people have cellphones. In Argentina, even the dogs has one (just kidding!, but people w/o landlines has cellphones, using pre-paid cards you can use it for less than u$4/month). So there is no need to buy anything (OK, a new cellphone, but is mostly subsidized by the telco).
2- Cellphone CPUs are powerful than old "HOME computers", they even run JAVA.
3- Due to power and TV requirement, this won't be useful for lost villages in Africa, but there is poverty (and lot of it) in industrialized areas surrounding big cities in latin america, where a computer cost 4 times the average monthly family income, due to exchange and tax factors (including customs, agriculture countries tend to heavenly tax industrialized goods to "protect" their non-existent local manufacture industries), and they DO have TV and cellphone (but their income is about u$300/month).
Here several computer stores sells Commodore branded PC. With WinXP as any other computer in the market. Now they are selling some with Linux (a local version, based on Xandros) just to pull the prices down.
Check this link.
I didn't RTFA yet, but I think this is the same complain as HTML frames (no back button, no printing, no bookmark correctly...). (there is even a no frames campaign, looks as a 1997 web page!) I think that if you are looking a web page as just a "page", yes, the author is right, AJAX suck. But if you see it as a web app, you should evaluate it as an app, not as a web page. In a typical app, you use provided buttons, print with provided menu (like Gmail) and so on.
Add to the list: Agro research companies. Where I work (a plant biotech company), plants are being photographed almost every day. They use it to follow a trait called "stay green". Also for ilustrate some internal reports. We also have a server with a directory full of mp3 files, and people add their own using their pendrives (new additions on the mp3 server are announced in the internal billboard).
Here.
It may not work since it is under construction, it is made by the same guy who makes http://www.demonoid.com./
I 2002 I bought a Yahoo! branded mouse (grey color, USB) with a light at the back for email notification. It should work with the provided driver, but never tried it since the mouse worked without external drivers, both in Windows and Linux (but without the back light)
It is strange that nobody post it before, but there is a website where you can find such a team. Rent a Coder (shameless aff. link). You can post your proyect and then lots of developers bid for it. You could also choose a set of developers first and then submit your proyect to them and start a private bidding.
In Argentina, in some provinces, you must be "licensed" to program, or even to call yourself "computer consultant". Hard to believe? Read it here or here or here an opinion agains it (sorry, all in Spanish).
from one of the links, (my own translation):
"[professional license] assure that professional exercise is made exclusively by the people who certify corresponding academic formation as well as ethical integrity in their performance, as a minimum guarantee of the quality..."
Thank you, I didn't see it, now I will follow that blog.
I have Google Adsense, and I have the new REFERENCE tab. But there should be 2 subtabs according to the Google email announcing the service. But I only have one subtab (Adsense) and no "Firefox plus Toolbar". Anyone else with the same problem? Maybe as I am in Argentina I am not qualify for this promotion (it depends of the location?, according to other post).
I already emailed Google customer sevice about it.
Google may collect information about web pages that you view when you use advanced features such as PageRank, SpellCheck, AutoLink, and WordTranslator. However, these advanced features can be easily disabled or re-enabled at any time by selecting
In my office WAP, when I turn on WEP encryption, things slow down and even there are connexion problems, so the PHB asked for encryption removal, and I did. Anyway, we are in the middle of nowhere.
Could you please tell me how do you turn off ia32 emu? It is a BIOS setting or at software level?
Maybe the DRDOS is "embeded" in an application. For example, Partition Magic or some other commercial clone of this partition tool, used DRDOS on the emergency disk. Another use could be some driver that should be installed without booting into Windows (like some BIOS drivers). [dr|free]DOS could be used for such low level software installation, so they (for Dell) don't need to announce that they are using or selling it.
I know this is a real virus, not a computer one. I DID the comparation NOT BETWEEN the viri, but between the way general media companies (like BBC and CNN) show specific information. Here in Slashdot, most people can understand when CNN gets wrong in computer security. What I wanted to say, is that the same WAY the news is missunderstood by big media about computer security, it happends with other fields, like emerging diseases.
Regarding the page I submit it as good source, I forgot to tell, but what matter most are the linksm like these:
* ProMED-mail Archives
* Medscape: Requires prior registration (free)
* WHO Outbreak News
The ProMED mailing list is a UP TO THE MINUTE news about outbreaks, and is even better that ANY medium because is not under any gov't suppervision and high queality information flows without censure (some countries wont happily release information that could affect them by several millons of lost of exports)
Do you remember when CNN alerted about the super-computer virus that seems to be the end of the world?
This could be the same, I suggest to follow specific sources instead of general news-media. With computer security, you now AV companies, Secunia, CERT and so on.
For this, my bet is: http://www.fas.org/promed/
Linspire people said they also were centrino certified, the even sell laptops with Linspire on in.
Maybe the where shopping at Linspire CNR