Using a longer wavelength (violet vs. red) will I'm betting enhance the viewing experience, as the increased bandwidth may give more opportunity for additional features, and perhaps giving other companies a turn at the helm will result in more innovation and less restriction.
Although, on the other hand, the better standard lost last time around, so maybe it's better to choose the same as you think everybody else will?
"First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win."
This, Avalon, and WinFS are all jokeworthy now, but at least one of these if not all of them will see decent implementation in GNU/Linux three to five years after they're being used in Longhorn, at which point Microsoft will have the replacement ready for release.
It might even have a better interface than Apple, spawning a whole new series of Longhorn themes for X-Windows.
During a brief sojourn to Japan a couple of years back, there was a music store that had a robotics theme.
Very little stock was on hand, but you would select the music you wanted on one of the robots. It'd burn the audio CD, print up the liner, and assemble a shrink-wrapped product for a couple of yen more than one you'd get off the shelf, then dance around the room playing the biggest hit off the album.
The experience would only have been cooler if it could talk with you, although the sushi-dispensing robots did have a few stock phrases and voice recognition (you had to shout for them to hear you however).
I didn't get the impression from Applied Cryptography or his newsletter that he wants to shitcan imperfect technology; indeed, he talked about the concept of trading off security for feasibility in a not entirely unfavorable way.
What he is doing here is putting the concept of two factor authentication in its place. He has expressed dissatisfaction in the past with "snake oil" cryptography and if he seems preoccupied with the shortcomings of security approaches it is IMHO because the benefits are usually much more obvious than the flaws. This is beneficial because it provides a more complete picture to those that care about adequately implementing security and can balance the features of various algorithms to create a solution, but is irrelevant (or even irritating) to those who just want to implement a fancy gimmick; in other words, it's a matter of precision.
As I see it, two-factor authentication may work fairly well for local installations, but for remote access it falls short of the security mark because it is still susceptible to trojan horses/virii on the user's system or to middleman attack between the client and server.
Most security professionals agree that authentication should involve something you have rather than something you remember -- such as a fingerprint, smart card or optical scan instead of a password or PIN number. Soon we will use smart cards that use public key encryption to communicate with servers for authentication as they do not require security on the local system or network to retain their potential.
The first two were a far bigger tragedy than the third will ever be. Eclipsed only by all those people waiting in line for months every time a new Star Wars is churned out.
And for Office users in general. Microsoft appears to be taking seriously the concept of the remote office, and seems to be pushing NetMeeting more vigorously -- Groove would fit into this scheme quite nicely, and permit a level of interoperability with other groupware vendors Microsoft has lacked to this point.
Conversely, Groove gets to present its unique approach to a larger audience than ever before, as well as having better access to improve and extend its compatibility with Microsoft products.
It's an exciting time for laptop warriors, that's for sure! Never before has this level of versatility been offered.
I don't mind a healthy debate on the issues, but I think ad homonem attacks on the character of the Linux community might be taking things a little far.
Future viability in question?
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Most people I talk to who use Linux have expressed a strong preference for KDE over GNOME. I don't know if this is because they get KDE with X-Windows on there system or if they switched in disgust, but they usually say that they think it's crisper and the look is more consistent across applications.
I suppose it's another example of form over function, but there you go. Hopefully Enlightenment comes out soon.
Apparently though if you're on a page with a word larger than seven characters, apparently you get the famous screen-widening effect.
I just wish they'd distribute Firefox instead of Mozilla -- it makes a noticable difference on the desktop, and I'd imagine an even more sizeable one on a cellphone. Although I just recently saw a DivX movie on a friend's system, so maybe they're powerful enough to tolerate a little bloat.
Expect seamless integration of these features, as well as the best support options, to be available in Longhorn.
We had Internet, 32-bit color, and multitasking in Windows 3.1, but no one seemed to complain about the jump to Windows 95 (especially because they didn't have to tinker with CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT to get games working.) Similarly, while new advanced technologies may be available in XP for developers and power users to preview or even use it is no substitute for the successful integration and exploitation of these features at all levels of the operating system.
It's good to see chessboard mechanics being applied to mesh routing. It's a problem that is worth the effort put into the solution, as to properly exploit over-the-air transmission there needs to be a system to take into account bandwidth scarcity and proximity considerations.
Granted, a lot can be done with increased selectivity in transceivers and protocols designed specifically not to walk on each other's signals, but having a system that can measure and dynamically employ the relative signal strength of nearby equipment to form an optimal network under suboptimal conditions is what it's all about.
There is a possibility, albeit a small one, that an overload of the phase coupling relay reaction in a solar furnace (star) could trigger a non-catastrophic split.
If a star is smaller than the conditions necessary for supernovae, and is struck with a star of the same size, you will end up with quadrupoles flying off in different directions. Needless to say this is rare, which makes this quite an exciting find!
Perhaps in your lonely and cold little crevice under the bridge somebody might even disallow all images on web pages, that way there can be no question about the source of information.
You'll be wanting to set your web browser to allow images from the originating server only if you've seen some of the abuses of <IMG SRC...> I have. Unless you don't mind a malicious individual building some "interesting" web browsing history for you when you visit a public forum that lets anyone post images as part of their messages.
Companies are so quick to doll up their e-mails with the latest HTML -- images, links, and tables -- that their customers are getting used to using e-mail as a portal to company sites.
It should be a text-only medium, period. No attachments, no graphics, no opportunity to get someone to click before they think.
About how much space we've mapped and yet... no life appears to be out there. The odds would have you thinking otherwise (given an infinite universe) but nothing found.
Maybe we're just in a particularly lucky section of the Big Bang spew. Or maybe we can't observe light that far away because of gravitational effects on photons. Kind of makes you wonder if it's by design.
From the article: Internet providers in Utah must offer their customers a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges.
This is a far cry from censorship. It's more like the V-Chip we all have to pay for in new televisions. It gives parents the ability to better control the content their children consume and we would all be better off to have such a thing implemented in our ISPs.
Better yet to separate.porn as a domain so that those who want it can find it yet those who don't can block it simply.
It means little unless you know it's spoken from the perspective of a 15th century penguin salesman extolling the virtues of a soft sell vs. a hard sell. The latter is most necessary with an inferior product; if the quality of the merchandise can speak for itself, don't get in its way.
I always think of these things as an interesting colloqualism for the larger picture. The survival of unpatched operating systems on the Internet is not unlike the relative longitivity of the many different types of critters in the jungle.
I suspect that, like with these critters, the conundrum of irreducible complexity strikes operating systems -- they did not evolve from a 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" program but were intelligently designed by a programmer to meet our needs.
Similarly, I believe that we are on the cusp of discovering the same about the animals in the wild and, ultimately, ourselves. Perhaps these sort of experiments will offer the degree of irrefutable proof that will finally breech the almost religious adherence to the current theory of evolution, or start computer scientists on a quest to design their own life in turn.
We put ridiculous warnings on all sorts of things. That's because we've got some truly ridiculous people here.
If my "Let Darwin sort them out" proposal would gain a little traction we'd all have a great deal more fun with our lives. Although it would seem a bit ironic because of my belief in an alternative theory -- intelligent design -- perhaps bringing a little more intelligence into society would improve our shared experiences a little.
I've gotten used to the high-quality digital transfers to the iPos over Firewire. Granted, the audio has lost some integrity due to its non-FLAC compression scheme, but that's all the more reason not to downgrade the transmission fidelity.
USB2 is good for joysticks, mice, and keyboards, but for my money Firewire is the best choice for quality A/V output hands down. I might as well listen to tape otherwise.
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Although, on the other hand, the better standard lost last time around, so maybe it's better to choose the same as you think everybody else will?
This, Avalon, and WinFS are all jokeworthy now, but at least one of these if not all of them will see decent implementation in GNU/Linux three to five years after they're being used in Longhorn, at which point Microsoft will have the replacement ready for release.
It might even have a better interface than Apple, spawning a whole new series of Longhorn themes for X-Windows.
Very little stock was on hand, but you would select the music you wanted on one of the robots. It'd burn the audio CD, print up the liner, and assemble a shrink-wrapped product for a couple of yen more than one you'd get off the shelf, then dance around the room playing the biggest hit off the album.
The experience would only have been cooler if it could talk with you, although the sushi-dispensing robots did have a few stock phrases and voice recognition (you had to shout for them to hear you however).
What he is doing here is putting the concept of two factor authentication in its place. He has expressed dissatisfaction in the past with "snake oil" cryptography and if he seems preoccupied with the shortcomings of security approaches it is IMHO because the benefits are usually much more obvious than the flaws. This is beneficial because it provides a more complete picture to those that care about adequately implementing security and can balance the features of various algorithms to create a solution, but is irrelevant (or even irritating) to those who just want to implement a fancy gimmick; in other words, it's a matter of precision.
If you want the best security, hire the pessimist, not the optimist.
Most security professionals agree that authentication should involve something you have rather than something you remember -- such as a fingerprint, smart card or optical scan instead of a password or PIN number. Soon we will use smart cards that use public key encryption to communicate with servers for authentication as they do not require security on the local system or network to retain their potential.
It really is incredible. Who knew that getting something for nothing would be such a raw deal, unless the something was herpes?
The first two were a far bigger tragedy than the third will ever be. Eclipsed only by all those people waiting in line for months every time a new Star Wars is churned out.
Conversely, Groove gets to present its unique approach to a larger audience than ever before, as well as having better access to improve and extend its compatibility with Microsoft products.
It's an exciting time for laptop warriors, that's for sure! Never before has this level of versatility been offered.
It can't be theft if the data is still there, right?
I don't mind a healthy debate on the issues, but I think ad homonem attacks on the character of the Linux community might be taking things a little far.
I suppose it's another example of form over function, but there you go. Hopefully Enlightenment comes out soon.
I just wish they'd distribute Firefox instead of Mozilla -- it makes a noticable difference on the desktop, and I'd imagine an even more sizeable one on a cellphone. Although I just recently saw a DivX movie on a friend's system, so maybe they're powerful enough to tolerate a little bloat.
We had Internet, 32-bit color, and multitasking in Windows 3.1, but no one seemed to complain about the jump to Windows 95 (especially because they didn't have to tinker with CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT to get games working.) Similarly, while new advanced technologies may be available in XP for developers and power users to preview or even use it is no substitute for the successful integration and exploitation of these features at all levels of the operating system.
Granted, a lot can be done with increased selectivity in transceivers and protocols designed specifically not to walk on each other's signals, but having a system that can measure and dynamically employ the relative signal strength of nearby equipment to form an optimal network under suboptimal conditions is what it's all about.
If a star is smaller than the conditions necessary for supernovae, and is struck with a star of the same size, you will end up with quadrupoles flying off in different directions. Needless to say this is rare, which makes this quite an exciting find!
I am heroically posting a story in my journal that is not unlike what you might find on the front page. Please enjoy during this brief hiatus.
You'll be wanting to set your web browser to allow images from the originating server only if you've seen some of the abuses of <IMG SRC ...> I have. Unless you don't mind a malicious individual building some "interesting" web browsing history for you when you visit a public forum that lets anyone post images as part of their messages.
It should be a text-only medium, period. No attachments, no graphics, no opportunity to get someone to click before they think.
Maybe we're just in a particularly lucky section of the Big Bang spew. Or maybe we can't observe light that far away because of gravitational effects on photons. Kind of makes you wonder if it's by design.
This is a far cry from censorship. It's more like the V-Chip we all have to pay for in new televisions. It gives parents the ability to better control the content their children consume and we would all be better off to have such a thing implemented in our ISPs.
Better yet to separate .porn as a domain so that those who want it can find it yet those who don't can block it simply.
It means little unless you know it's spoken from the perspective of a 15th century penguin salesman extolling the virtues of a soft sell vs. a hard sell. The latter is most necessary with an inferior product; if the quality of the merchandise can speak for itself, don't get in its way.
I suspect that, like with these critters, the conundrum of irreducible complexity strikes operating systems -- they did not evolve from a 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" program but were intelligently designed by a programmer to meet our needs.
Similarly, I believe that we are on the cusp of discovering the same about the animals in the wild and, ultimately, ourselves. Perhaps these sort of experiments will offer the degree of irrefutable proof that will finally breech the almost religious adherence to the current theory of evolution, or start computer scientists on a quest to design their own life in turn.
If my "Let Darwin sort them out" proposal would gain a little traction we'd all have a great deal more fun with our lives. Although it would seem a bit ironic because of my belief in an alternative theory -- intelligent design -- perhaps bringing a little more intelligence into society would improve our shared experiences a little.
USB2 is good for joysticks, mice, and keyboards, but for my money Firewire is the best choice for quality A/V output hands down. I might as well listen to tape otherwise.