Taking a look at the image, it's obviously a signal from some alien civilization. Now if we could only decode it. Oh, wait that's what all the coders are about..:)
'co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service'
What did Sergey Brin say when he was contacted by the NY Post. Did he confirm that he was 'rattled'? Did he deny he has 'assembled a team of top engineers' in response to Bing? Where and when exactly did this meeting take place. Who exactly attended?
'While Bing is presented differently from Google -- with a colorful home page and easy-to-navigate search categories compared with Google's stark white page and search box -- there is little difference between the two when it comes to searching for simple terms'
I can't for the life of me see how he describes Google as lacking easy-to-navigate search categories and Bing not having a search box. Across the top of Google.com I see Web, Images, Video, Maps, News, Shopping, Mail and more.
As compared to BINGs.. Web, Images, Videos, Shopping, News, Maps and More. Apart from the layout, I can see little difference. What must have happened is that Sergey invented time travel and went forward in time and stole Bings innovation..:)
-- slashdot, you have disgraced yourselves yet again
'The dry, technical language of Microsoft's October update did not indicate anything particularly untoward. A security flaw in a port that Windows-based PCs use to send and receive network signals, it said, might be used to create a "wormable exploit"'
Don't they mean a BUG in the Operating System and defects in the Memory Management unit lead to the worst virus/worm infestation in years.
'One major implication from the Conficker B and C variants, as well as other now recently emerging malware families, is the sophistication with which they are able to terminate, disable, reconfigure, or blackhole native operating system (OS) and third-party security services'
'No longer do developers need to build desktop WPF apps based loosely on corresponding Silverlight RIAs, as Silverlight 3 adds the ability to install Silverlight apps on the desktop, update them in place, detect Net connectivity state changes, and store data locally and securely'
I don't have admin rights on this computer and how does installing some remote app make this computer more not less secure?
The water company advertised spring water filtered through volcanic rock from water frozen in glaciers milena ago. We called them and told them about the 'rotten egg odor'. They then offer to license a charcoal filter to us for $50.00 a year, to be fitter on premises at another $40.00. If we used any other charcoal filter, they advised us that we might be violating some other company's patents. They reassure us that if we buy their charcoal filter they will give us patent protection against getting sued by this other company. The water company hold a financial interest in the other company. They don't ever offer to indemnify us against getting sued for getting sulfur in our water. Even though they are the only water company that sells sulfurous water. The media invariable refer to 'sulfurous water', instead of $company sulfured water ?
"I think that analogy is broken. Very few malware use the holes in MS software these days. Most of the viruses spread by user error, email, IM, flaws in Flash/Acrobat etc"
Defects in application or 'user error' shouldn't lead to the OS being compromised or the consumers having to pay the sellers more money to fix their defective product.
What it actually says is that browsing functionality will be disabled in Windows 7. Remember the help system still requires the core HTML rendering engine. As does any web applets, like embedded search in the applications, such as Microsoft Office.
"we must keep releasing stuff and get things moving... and maybe one day, they will see us as a serious contender for a professional OS. good job, Red Hat"
Yea, KDE 4.2.3 will never be as polished as the commercial Vis, er Windows 7 1/2 Operating System..
"I work for an embedded systems manufacturer that switched to Windows Embedded as a result of Wind River's horrible support"
What was the name of the company and thank you for that free advert for 'Windows Embedded', the OS that brought viruses to the embedded sector.
"Wind River knew that lots of USB flash devices didn't work on their OS, and they wanted to charge for the development time to fix their bug AND then the OS upgrade once it was fixed"
I don't suppose you could produce any actual citations here, apart from some personal anecdotes.
Basically what the 'Quants' have done is borrowed some terms from matematics and reapplyed it to the financial world. It's validity being lent a quasi-autthority, as it's based on mathematic tools used in physics, and what could be more scientific than that.
Trouble is, the financial world can't be modeled or predicted the same way the phisical world can. It works more like the utterances of a shaman. If the shaman predicts the stock is going to go up, and people believe him, and buy, then the stock does indeed go up. If people lose faith in the shamans utterances, then in olden days he would be flung into a volcano, or in our culture, he resigns and joins an international think thank. So what Paul Wilmott really means is how to restore investors faith in the high priests of finance, the Quants.
Of course the trick is in not actually predicting anything. That's where the Black-Scholes model comes in. By slicing and dicing the base equity into packages (I hereby name quantums), it becomes impossible to actually value or quantify the real and actual value of your particular pile of quantums. The only thing you get to rely on is 'a standard normal cumulative distribution function', which no-one really understands, or the word of the Quant. And if you complain you lost money, the Quant replies, you didn't read the numbers properly. You might as well slaughter a chicken and try and read the entrails.
IF anyone wants an inside look at the world of the Quants and dicing-and-slicing, then check out Liars Porker, by Michael Lewis
Lastly, some time ago someone did a test. They created two sets of investors and compared results over a period. One was a respected finance house, the other was a monkey, the monkey won:]
A totally squandered opportunity. Just when broadband is becoming relatively cheap and ubiquitous and we are moving into the era of rich online content, pay-for-view media, online gaming etc. Where is the AOL version of the iPlayer. Where are the AOL set-top boxes, with the pay for view content. They had the content, they had the network infrastructure, and what did they do with it, nothing !
'!PulseAudio is a next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of "ear-candy" possible: from dynamically changing the volume of individual applications to hot-plugging support for many different devices'
"This is equivalent to putting "recommended books" near other similar, popular books in a book store"
This is like going into the store and asking to see a range of Nintendo games consoles and the staffer slipping in a PlayStation on top, cause the company slipped him some notes:)
"We purchased a 25K euros firewall last month with which we had some issues"
What for, all you needed was a redundant PC and SmoothWall, not that a firewall is much good in this day-and-age of RPC over HTTP and various apps allowed to open most any high port. Firewall were only really useful when the original nix system only allowed 'root' to open low ports for sending, so any packets received (nix-to-nix) from one of these ports was deemed semi-validated. Whatever, read what an expert has to say on Firewalls and security.
"using firefox to type adresses in the search bar, nothing was responding"
Why not have a heartbeat applet running on the firewall that SMSed your phone in the event of an outage. That way you don't have to set up camp in the server room, clicking on things..
Instead of 'all your data in the cloud ', how about all your data on a portable device that you plug into a rom type device that provide basic screen, mouse, keyboard and Internet functionality. The only thing out there 'in the cloud' would be a set of servers providing identity and virtual location information. As in Skype where the server keeps a telephone directory but the communication is end-to-end. That means if one service fails I can fall back to the others.
Slashdot Mirror
Taking a look at the image, it's obviously a signal from some alien civilization. Now if we could only decode it. Oh, wait that's what all the coders are about .. :)
'co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service'
.. Web, Images, Videos, Shopping, News, Maps and More. Apart from the layout, I can see little difference. What must have happened is that Sergey invented time travel and went forward in time and stole Bings innovation .. :)
What did Sergey Brin say when he was contacted by the NY Post. Did he confirm that he was 'rattled'? Did he deny he has 'assembled a team of top engineers' in response to Bing? Where and when exactly did this meeting take place. Who exactly attended?
'While Bing is presented differently from Google -- with a colorful home page and easy-to-navigate search categories compared with Google's stark white page and search box -- there is little difference between the two when it comes to searching for simple terms'
I can't for the life of me see how he describes Google as lacking easy-to-navigate search categories and Bing not having a search box. Across the top of Google.com I see Web, Images, Video, Maps, News, Shopping, Mail and more.
As compared to BINGs
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slashdot, you have disgraced yourselves yet again
Fingerprints are for nothing. Fingerprints are a byproduct of the processes necessary for the production of new cell growth.
'The dry, technical language of Microsoft's October update did not indicate anything particularly untoward. A security flaw in a port that Windows-based PCs use to send and receive network signals, it said, might be used to create a "wormable exploit"'
Don't they mean a BUG in the Operating System and defects in the Memory Management unit lead to the worst virus/worm infestation in years.
'One major implication from the Conficker B and C variants, as well as other now recently emerging malware families, is the sophistication with which they are able to terminate, disable, reconfigure, or blackhole native operating system (OS) and third-party security services'
'No longer do developers need to build desktop WPF apps based loosely on corresponding Silverlight RIAs, as Silverlight 3 adds the ability to install Silverlight apps on the desktop, update them in place, detect Net connectivity state changes, and store data locally and securely'
I don't have admin rights on this computer and how does installing some remote app make this computer more not less secure?
The water company advertised spring water filtered through volcanic rock from water frozen in glaciers milena ago. We called them and told them about the 'rotten egg odor'. They then offer to license a charcoal filter to us for $50.00 a year, to be fitter on premises at another $40.00. If we used any other charcoal filter, they advised us that we might be violating some other company's patents. They reassure us that if we buy their charcoal filter they will give us patent protection against getting sued by this other company. The water company hold a financial interest in the other company. They don't ever offer to indemnify us against getting sued for getting sulfur in our water. Even though they are the only water company that sells sulfurous water. The media invariable refer to 'sulfurous water', instead of $company sulfured water ?
"I think that analogy is broken. Very few malware use the holes in MS software these days. Most of the viruses spread by user error, email, IM, flaws in Flash/Acrobat etc"
Defects in application or 'user error' shouldn't lead to the OS being compromised or the consumers having to pay the sellers more money to fix their defective product.
What it actually says is that browsing functionality will be disabled in Windows 7. Remember the help system still requires the core HTML rendering engine. As does any web applets, like embedded search in the applications, such as Microsoft Office.
'The E versions of Windows 7 will include all the features and functionality of Windows 7 in the rest of the world, other than browsing with Internet Explorer'
Fedora 11 Screenshot Tour
:)
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I like it except it doesn't have X feeture
"we must keep releasing stuff and get things moving... and maybe one day, they will see us as a serious contender for a professional OS. good job, Red Hat"
..
Yea, KDE 4.2.3 will never be as polished as the commercial Vis, er Windows 7 1/2 Operating System
KDE 4.2.3 KDE 4.3 Beta Gnome 2.26.1
How difficulty is it to get a computer to count up in increments of one?
++count;
MS lost the search wars some time ago. Meanwhile Google is moving on with things like Chrome and Wave wave.google.com ..
"I work for an embedded systems manufacturer that switched to Windows Embedded as a result of Wind River's horrible support"
What was the name of the company and thank you for that free advert for 'Windows Embedded', the OS that brought viruses to the embedded sector.
"Wind River knew that lots of USB flash devices didn't work on their OS, and they wanted to charge for the development time to fix their bug AND then the OS upgrade once it was fixed"
I don't suppose you could produce any actual citations here, apart from some personal anecdotes.
It would do seeing as it's on every PC sold with a Windows Operating System.
Basically what the 'Quants' have done is borrowed some terms from matematics and reapplyed it to the financial world. It's validity being lent a quasi-autthority, as it's based on mathematic tools used in physics, and what could be more scientific than that.
:]
Trouble is, the financial world can't be modeled or predicted the same way the phisical world can. It works more like the utterances of a shaman. If the shaman predicts the stock is going to go up, and people believe him, and buy, then the stock does indeed go up. If people lose faith in the shamans utterances, then in olden days he would be flung into a volcano, or in our culture, he resigns and joins an international think thank. So what Paul Wilmott really means is how to restore investors faith in the high priests of finance, the Quants.
Of course the trick is in not actually predicting anything. That's where the Black-Scholes model comes in. By slicing and dicing the base equity into packages (I hereby name quantums), it becomes impossible to actually value or quantify the real and actual value of your particular pile of quantums. The only thing you get to rely on is 'a standard normal cumulative distribution function', which no-one really understands, or the word of the Quant. And if you complain you lost money, the Quant replies, you didn't read the numbers properly. You might as well slaughter a chicken and try and read the entrails.
IF anyone wants an inside look at the world of the Quants and dicing-and-slicing, then check out Liars Porker, by Michael Lewis
Lastly, some time ago someone did a test. They created two sets of investors and compared results over a period. One was a respected finance house, the other was a monkey, the monkey won
A totally squandered opportunity. Just when broadband is becoming relatively cheap and ubiquitous and we are moving into the era of rich online content, pay-for-view media, online gaming etc. Where is the AOL version of the iPlayer. Where are the AOL set-top boxes, with the pay for view content. They had the content, they had the network infrastructure, and what did they do with it, nothing !
'No reliable sound system, no reliable unified software audio mixing '
'!PulseAudio is a next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of "ear-candy" possible: from dynamically changing the volume of individual applications to hot-plugging support for many different devices'
LinuxMCE 0707 Demo
3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux!
Compiz-Quinn(now Compiz-Fusion)for linux
Windows Vista Aero vs Linux Ubuntu Beryl
Linux Ubuntu vs. MS Vista
How about advising them to skip Windows 7 and migrating to Apple - Mac OS X Leopard or a Linux Desktop, or isn't anyone paying them to say that?
"This is equivalent to putting "recommended books" near other similar, popular books in a book store"
:)
This is like going into the store and asking to see a range of Nintendo games consoles and the staffer slipping in a PlayStation on top, cause the company slipped him some notes
What do they think it will happen if they win?
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FirePond will get back control of their own trademarked name
"When Audrey Spangenberg typed the name of her small software company into Google and saw the ads of competitors .. she was furious"
I just typed it in and got no sponsored links. imnal but I do think your competitors hijacking your own trademarked name should be banned.
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imnal == I Am Not a Lawyer
"We purchased a 25K euros firewall last month with which we had some issues"
..
What for, all you needed was a redundant PC and SmoothWall, not that a firewall is much good in this day-and-age of RPC over HTTP and various apps allowed to open most any high port. Firewall were only really useful when the original nix system only allowed 'root' to open low ports for sending, so any packets received (nix-to-nix) from one of these ports was deemed semi-validated. Whatever, read what an expert has to say on Firewalls and security.
"using firefox to type adresses in the search bar, nothing was responding"
Why not have a heartbeat applet running on the firewall that SMSed your phone in the event of an outage. That way you don't have to set up camp in the server room, clicking on things
Instead of 'all your data in the cloud ', how about all your data on a portable device that you plug into a rom type device that provide basic screen, mouse, keyboard and Internet functionality. The only thing out there 'in the cloud' would be a set of servers providing identity and virtual location information. As in Skype where the server keeps a telephone directory but the communication is end-to-end. That means if one service fails I can fall back to the others.
"You can't foolproof a public facing system..."