Any of you who listen to Security Now will have heard M$ have re-written the networking stack...
Great, but how many vulnerabilities are related to the stack itself, as compared to services, browser, email, etc.? You can have a foot-thick steel door, but if the walls on your house are made out of mashed potatoes and Fluff...
apparently a lot of people in Texas are getting seriously pissed at all the Californians coming in, buying huge homes after selling up smaller places in CA and pushing up the Texan cost of living for people who're still paid no more
Ha! Washington and Oregon have hated California "equity refugees" for decades. Texans can call either of those two states (they both share one area code, I think; California has all the rest) for tips on how to deal.
Funny that reading the other replies I see that many other states feel the same way. How can one state affect all the others so much? Answer: 1/8 of the country lives in CA. That's a damn lot of people.
It's hard to see budget-conscious OEMs stepping up to this.
They'll try, and fail, as they have in the past. Remember that little blue Compaq that looked kind of like an SGI O2? It had an LCD panel in the front that could show you the time or if you had emails. (This was made when Celeron 500s were cool--I remember a friend had one.) How about that little grey tube thingie that Dell made for a while, a little after Compaq ditched that blue model? I think it was called, like, Web Jr., or something. Came and went in a matter of months. Both came out and were supposed to compete, style-wise, with the original CRT iMacs. They both did so badly that I'm having trouble even finding references to them. Anyway, yes, in theory, PC makers could design great products, but I'll bet anything they won't. Successfully, anyway. Besides the Cube (which only failed because it was overpriced), Apple hasn't had any really bad designs in the past few years. And PC makers haven't had any really great designs.
I agree 1000%. Look at the specs of what exists today: A Dell Axim X51v has 256MB Flash memory, 64 MB RAM, 16 MB VRAM, and built-in 640x480 screen, all for $499 (on sale for $374 right now.) Windows XP requires a 233 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 1.5 GB HD, and 600x800 screen. Why can't someone make a tiny little machine that is as small as can be but runs a real OS? The Toshiba Libretto came close, but it needs to be the size of a PDA, not a paperback.
I'd love to have a palm-sized device that runs a real OS. The capability is there, why keep crippling these devices with mobile OSs? My ideal machine would have specs like that Dell, a keyboard like a Sidekick or Blackberry or Sony PDA, and a stylus for a mouse. It would run a single app in full-screen mode that works like WinCE or PalmOS, but you could jump out to 'real' Windows if needed. Put it into a docking station with a keyboard, mouse, display, and hard drive, and it would be just like a regular computer. I got a lot done on my first 'real' computer, which was a 75 MHz Pentium Dell with an 850 MB hard drive, 24 MB RAM, Win95, Office 97, and Photoshop 3. If I could have that kind of power, and be portable--not just laptop-portable but pocket portable--that would be awesome. Performance would be fine if you turned off ann the unnecessary crap in XP to the point where it worked like 95. I swear, basic things like the 'Find' dialog come up faster in Win95 on a P200 than they do in XP--even after I turn off the stupid dog and put it into what I call 'useful mode.'
When you say you're "all grown up" I'll assume you're at least in your 30s. By that time, Einstein had discovered relativity and Edison had countless inventions under his belt, including the light bulb. What the fuck have you> done with your life? As long as we're using remarkable standards as the basis by which all people should be judged...
I'm not so sure the guns are the issue... I don't know offhand what IS, but I don't think it's the "impersonal" factor of guns being able to shoot across a room...
Hell, good guns are the only reason I'll play an online game. I don't have hours to spend honing my 7337 combat skills. If I can't hide in a corner and pick off competitors as they appear at the respawn point, I'm not playing.:-)
What's wrong with 5s and 1s? Rent on unimproved Baltic is like $6! Lots of stuff in the game has low values that aren't even tens. It's part of the game's quaint charm.
I've heard it said that the right to privacy is not specified in the Constitution because, in the late 1700s, privacy was a natural, physical right. You want to have a private conversation? Walk into the middle of a large open field and talk. They put in the part about "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" because physical belongings are a different matter, but things like taping conversations, eavesdropping electronically from great distances, etc., simply didn't exist. There is also no part in there about "we have the right to walk on the ground" because gravity pretty much takes care of that. If they ever repeal the law of gravity and everything's floating around, people will say "the Constitution doesn't guarantee your right to walk on the ground!" Same thing here.
Dennis Miller on the Constitution: "What else do we have from 200 years ago? Churning butter? Shitting outside in winter? No--just the core document by which we govern our day-to-day lives."
Mattel already takes care of that. barbieflasher.com is now blondeflasher.com. Sorry, I'm at work & can't provide good links for proof, but a little googling should turn up something.
Actually, if you RTFA, he's not exactly 100% pro-Windows:
The Genuine Advantage initiative is comprised of three parts: Education... Engineering... and Enforcement...
WGA is a component of the Engineering part of that unholy triumvirate. [Emphasis added]... Aside from basic trust issues--Apple, for example, does not burden users with Product Activation or any similar anti-piracy technologies in its Mac OS X operating system--Microsoft made two major mistakes with WGA. [Emphasis added]
I agree, though--his "ah, well" conclusion leaves much to be desired.
Wow, I bet Paul is going to get a lot of hate mail about this. Maybe even personal threats. I think he needs a robot standing guard outside his home to protect him. Something like the ED-209 from RoboCop. Preferably programmed by Microsoft, since he's obviously happy with the way they code things. And if his wife and kids come home one day, maybe dressed in black because it's Halloween or something, and ED thinks they're criminals, and they get shot a few dozen times for not being in compliance, even though they are... ah well.
If I were to take home $500,000/yr, that would be 10x more than my theoretical $50k. I could buy a second house* AND a second car** EVERY YEAR and still have TWICE AS MUCH ($100k vs. $50k) left over as I'm making now. And since I wouldn't be working, I could spend my life traveling the country or world, buying a new house in every city I stop in, and never eating anywhere but the finest restaurants. And you call that "not elevating me much beyond my current lifestyle"?
OK, the supermodel*** and private island were a bit of an exaggeration, but I think you're greatly UNDERestimating the power of money. Or maybe you were just taking me too literally. My point was, someone with $7M in the bank (OK, fine, $3.5M after taxes) should not be kept up at night worrying about his resume.
* ~$200,000 in Orlando ** Ferrari or Bentley, your choice, ~$200,000 *** might have to settle for a regular model.;-)
Of course, I'll go to my grave not understanding why someone who makes more in a year than my whole family will see in my lifetime gives a shit about his resume. Isn't there such thing as "enough"? Give me a $7M golden parachute and I'll spend the rest of my days snorting coke out of supermodels' cleavage on my private island, wiping my ass with however many copies of my resume I still have around.
Seriously, it's disgusting that someone who's basically holding the wheel of a sinking ship gets paid that much. I'm pretty sure I could drive the final nails into a dying company's coffin with the skills and training I have now. I could also plow a stock car into Turn 1 at Daytona. Where's my seven mil?
I've watched many movies on TV that I own because they're *just there.* Like you, I would never, say, pull Titanic off the shelf and sit down to watch it, but I'll watch it (or at least have it on while I do other stuff) whenever it's on HBO/MAX/whatever. And owning a TiVo, there's always fun stuff to watch (mostly shows, but sometimes movies) so I've pretty much quit buying movies for now... even the ones that are on sale each week @ 2 for $15 or $5.99 each that I've always wanted to own, I figure it's better to just buy what I want, when I want to see it (which will probably equal "never") than spending money now just for the privilege of maintaining an inventory. When I was younger, I wanted to own every cool movie ever made--and I got off to a good start there for a while--but then I realized that I'll never again have time to sit around and watch movies like I used to. I'm very happy I realized that about myself--I've saved a ton of money already.
Plus, owning a TiVo, I've made another realization: "now playing" lists rule, physical media sucks ass. (Especially with all the unskippable crap on DVDs now, or shitty things like the intro to The Matrix--I swear, whenever I pop that in, all excited to pretend it's 1999 again, I watch that intro and think "oh yeah, that's pretty much every good scene in the movie... I think I'll watch something else now.") So no more DVDs until HDs are cheap enough that I can rip every single disc I own and watch them on the Mac Mini that serves as a media player. (Which I hardly ever use, since all the good stuff is on TiVo, of course.)
My DVD consumption these days pretty much consists of getting random stuff from the library.
I agree--they've done a lot of cool stuff, they've still got some good tech and people, and just like wanting a puppy to find a good home, I think Apple could do a lot of good stuff with SGI's assets.
And on a related note, here's something I wrote last year when they were delisted, which struck me as funny then, and still does:*
Clark is not afraid to publicly dis a company like Apple, much as Steve Jobs once mocked IBM.
"Apple," Jim Clark will sigh, as if he were talking about a horse on its way to the glue factory. "They're not doing anything... Apple blew it."
Then, with a dismissive wave of his hand, and just the hint of a grin: "I think they're in serious trouble."
Funny how things can change in 12 years.:-)
* in a sad way, of course--I used to drive past all the cool companies along 101 on my way to work when I lived in the Bay Area in the late 90s, and I have fond memories of those days, back when SGI was the coolest thing around.
We already went through this just a few years ago with OS X. Apple would be STUPID to wait until CS3 comes out. Yes, designers squirmed for a year or two while they waited for all their apps to come out, but Apple managed to stay in business in the meantime, and by the time the apps came out, the OS was quite nice. Hell, the FINDER in OS X 10.0 sucked ass performance-wise; I can't imagine trying to run any real APPS with it. (I used 10.0 to play around with the UNIX side of OS X while I waited 9 months for 10.1 to appear. While 10.1 was out, all the apps were released, and then Apple came out with 10.2 and the whole package was finally very nice.)
Same thing this time: Apple will have new hardware out, and one day when the apps appear, users will be able to buy them and use them that day. Apple will continue to sell G5s, and designers will hoard them, just like they did with the last of the OS-9-booting MDD G4s. The switch to Intel is really no different. Doesn't matter if it's the OS or hardware changing, the effect on the applications is the same: the apps won't run in an ideal manner, so people will either wait to change, or get by with non-optimal systems, untill the apps match the system.
Besides, plenty of people buy nice Macs and don't use CS. Final Cut is already shipping for Intel and Apple's other pro apps will all be universal soon--maybe even coincident with the release of the hardware. I'd expect to see an announcement regarding that at the WWDC as well: "We at Apple have just finished our transition to Intel, and we've also transitioned all of our apps. Yay us!"
The biggest difference this time, actually, is with Adobe: since OS 9 came out, they purchased Macromedia, and Quark almost dead, so Adobe can drag their feet all they want for the Intel transition.* That's another big reason that Apple would be stupid to wait for Adobe to get a product out the door. (Besides, how would it look for Apple to be waiting on Adobe before releasing new hardware? Very weak, that's how.)
I hope you get some 'insightful' points for that in addition to the one 'funny' point you've already got. I'd like to see more computers moving towards small/efficient/quiet, like the Mac Mini. I just got a Dell Dimension 3100 and it's huge and heavy for what it does. It might be 2x or 4x faster than my G4 Mini, but it's also got to be at least 30x larger. Hell, I could put the Mini into one of the Dell's drive bays and tuck the power supply inside as well. And maybe add a tiny toaster-oven door and shelf to keep my meatball sandwich warm. Wait, what was my point again?
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Don't tease us with stories about Leopards the day before WWDC!!!
Any of you who listen to Security Now will have heard M$ have re-written the networking stack...
Great, but how many vulnerabilities are related to the stack itself, as compared to services, browser, email, etc.? You can have a foot-thick steel door, but if the walls on your house are made out of mashed potatoes and Fluff...
Likely that the submitter didn't WTFV.
apparently a lot of people in Texas are getting seriously pissed at all the Californians coming in, buying huge homes after selling up smaller places in CA and pushing up the Texan cost of living for people who're still paid no more
Ha! Washington and Oregon have hated California "equity refugees" for decades. Texans can call either of those two states (they both share one area code, I think; California has all the rest) for tips on how to deal.
Funny that reading the other replies I see that many other states feel the same way. How can one state affect all the others so much? Answer: 1/8 of the country lives in CA. That's a damn lot of people.
Also good reading: an old Slashdot article on diamonds, which up until recently was one of the most-read stories.
Hopefully these guys can put an end to the whole fucking mess.
It's hard to see budget-conscious OEMs stepping up to this.
They'll try, and fail, as they have in the past. Remember that little blue Compaq that looked kind of like an SGI O2? It had an LCD panel in the front that could show you the time or if you had emails. (This was made when Celeron 500s were cool--I remember a friend had one.) How about that little grey tube thingie that Dell made for a while, a little after Compaq ditched that blue model? I think it was called, like, Web Jr., or something. Came and went in a matter of months. Both came out and were supposed to compete, style-wise, with the original CRT iMacs. They both did so badly that I'm having trouble even finding references to them. Anyway, yes, in theory, PC makers could design great products, but I'll bet anything they won't. Successfully, anyway. Besides the Cube (which only failed because it was overpriced), Apple hasn't had any really bad designs in the past few years. And PC makers haven't had any really great designs.
I agree 1000%. Look at the specs of what exists today: A Dell Axim X51v has 256MB Flash memory, 64 MB RAM, 16 MB VRAM, and built-in 640x480 screen, all for $499 (on sale for $374 right now.) Windows XP requires a 233 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 1.5 GB HD, and 600x800 screen. Why can't someone make a tiny little machine that is as small as can be but runs a real OS? The Toshiba Libretto came close, but it needs to be the size of a PDA, not a paperback.
I'd love to have a palm-sized device that runs a real OS. The capability is there, why keep crippling these devices with mobile OSs? My ideal machine would have specs like that Dell, a keyboard like a Sidekick or Blackberry or Sony PDA, and a stylus for a mouse. It would run a single app in full-screen mode that works like WinCE or PalmOS, but you could jump out to 'real' Windows if needed. Put it into a docking station with a keyboard, mouse, display, and hard drive, and it would be just like a regular computer. I got a lot done on my first 'real' computer, which was a 75 MHz Pentium Dell with an 850 MB hard drive, 24 MB RAM, Win95, Office 97, and Photoshop 3. If I could have that kind of power, and be portable--not just laptop-portable but pocket portable--that would be awesome. Performance would be fine if you turned off ann the unnecessary crap in XP to the point where it worked like 95. I swear, basic things like the 'Find' dialog come up faster in Win95 on a P200 than they do in XP--even after I turn off the stupid dog and put it into what I call 'useful mode.'
When you say you're "all grown up" I'll assume you're at least in your 30s. By that time, Einstein had discovered relativity and Edison had countless inventions under his belt, including the light bulb. What the fuck have you> done with your life? As long as we're using remarkable standards as the basis by which all people should be judged...
I'm not so sure the guns are the issue... I don't know offhand what IS, but I don't think it's the "impersonal" factor of guns being able to shoot across a room...
:-)
Hell, good guns are the only reason I'll play an online game. I don't have hours to spend honing my 7337 combat skills. If I can't hide in a corner and pick off competitors as they appear at the respawn point, I'm not playing.
"The switch to debit cards does reflect reality."
Yeah, because the one thing I really want in a game is realism.
What's wrong with 5s and 1s? Rent on unimproved Baltic is like $6! Lots of stuff in the game has low values that aren't even tens. It's part of the game's quaint charm.
Real life pennies, on the other hand...
I've heard it said that the right to privacy is not specified in the Constitution because, in the late 1700s, privacy was a natural, physical right. You want to have a private conversation? Walk into the middle of a large open field and talk. They put in the part about "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" because physical belongings are a different matter, but things like taping conversations, eavesdropping electronically from great distances, etc., simply didn't exist. There is also no part in there about "we have the right to walk on the ground" because gravity pretty much takes care of that. If they ever repeal the law of gravity and everything's floating around, people will say "the Constitution doesn't guarantee your right to walk on the ground!" Same thing here.
Dennis Miller on the Constitution: "What else do we have from 200 years ago? Churning butter? Shitting outside in winter? No--just the core document by which we govern our day-to-day lives."
You mean this?
Mattel already takes care of that. barbieflasher.com is now blondeflasher.com. Sorry, I'm at work & can't provide good links for proof, but a little googling should turn up something.
I have mod points, but unfortunately there isn't a mod option for "trotting out the same old Ayn Rand quote whether it's applicable or not"
"Did you really think that we want those mod points to be used?" said Cmdr. Taco...
BRB, gotta go invent 'Zunecasting.'
Editors: you misspelled 'iPod Killer" :-)
I agree, though--his "ah, well" conclusion leaves much to be desired.
Wow, I bet Paul is going to get a lot of hate mail about this. Maybe even personal threats. I think he needs a robot standing guard outside his home to protect him. Something like the ED-209 from RoboCop. Preferably programmed by Microsoft, since he's obviously happy with the way they code things. And if his wife and kids come home one day, maybe dressed in black because it's Halloween or something, and ED thinks they're criminals, and they get shot a few dozen times for not being in compliance, even though they are... ah well.
If I were to take home $500,000/yr, that would be 10x more than my theoretical $50k. I could buy a second house* AND a second car** EVERY YEAR and still have TWICE AS MUCH ($100k vs. $50k) left over as I'm making now. And since I wouldn't be working, I could spend my life traveling the country or world, buying a new house in every city I stop in, and never eating anywhere but the finest restaurants. And you call that "not elevating me much beyond my current lifestyle"?
;-)
OK, the supermodel*** and private island were a bit of an exaggeration, but I think you're greatly UNDERestimating the power of money. Or maybe you were just taking me too literally. My point was, someone with $7M in the bank (OK, fine, $3.5M after taxes) should not be kept up at night worrying about his resume.
* ~$200,000 in Orlando
** Ferrari or Bentley, your choice, ~$200,000
*** might have to settle for a regular model.
No savvy CxO wants a sunk ship on his resume.
Of course, I'll go to my grave not understanding why someone who makes more in a year than my whole family will see in my lifetime gives a shit about his resume. Isn't there such thing as "enough"? Give me a $7M golden parachute and I'll spend the rest of my days snorting coke out of supermodels' cleavage on my private island, wiping my ass with however many copies of my resume I still have around.
Seriously, it's disgusting that someone who's basically holding the wheel of a sinking ship gets paid that much. I'm pretty sure I could drive the final nails into a dying company's coffin with the skills and training I have now. I could also plow a stock car into Turn 1 at Daytona. Where's my seven mil?
I've watched many movies on TV that I own because they're *just there.* Like you, I would never, say, pull Titanic off the shelf and sit down to watch it, but I'll watch it (or at least have it on while I do other stuff) whenever it's on HBO/MAX/whatever. And owning a TiVo, there's always fun stuff to watch (mostly shows, but sometimes movies) so I've pretty much quit buying movies for now... even the ones that are on sale each week @ 2 for $15 or $5.99 each that I've always wanted to own, I figure it's better to just buy what I want, when I want to see it (which will probably equal "never") than spending money now just for the privilege of maintaining an inventory. When I was younger, I wanted to own every cool movie ever made--and I got off to a good start there for a while--but then I realized that I'll never again have time to sit around and watch movies like I used to. I'm very happy I realized that about myself--I've saved a ton of money already.
Plus, owning a TiVo, I've made another realization: "now playing" lists rule, physical media sucks ass. (Especially with all the unskippable crap on DVDs now, or shitty things like the intro to The Matrix--I swear, whenever I pop that in, all excited to pretend it's 1999 again, I watch that intro and think "oh yeah, that's pretty much every good scene in the movie... I think I'll watch something else now.") So no more DVDs until HDs are cheap enough that I can rip every single disc I own and watch them on the Mac Mini that serves as a media player. (Which I hardly ever use, since all the good stuff is on TiVo, of course.)
My DVD consumption these days pretty much consists of getting random stuff from the library.
I agree--they've done a lot of cool stuff, they've still got some good tech and people, and just like wanting a puppy to find a good home, I think Apple could do a lot of good stuff with SGI's assets.
:-)
And on a related note, here's something I wrote last year when they were delisted, which struck me as funny then, and still does:*
A few days after SGI was delisted, I stumbled across an old (1994) article about SGI while I was poking around in one of my favorite places, the Wired archive. The article has this quote from SGI founder Jim Clark:
Clark is not afraid to publicly dis a company like Apple, much as Steve Jobs once mocked IBM.
"Apple," Jim Clark will sigh, as if he were talking about a horse on its way to the glue factory. "They're not doing anything... Apple blew it."
Then, with a dismissive wave of his hand, and just the hint of a grin: "I think they're in serious trouble."
Funny how things can change in 12 years.
* in a sad way, of course--I used to drive past all the cool companies along 101 on my way to work when I lived in the Bay Area in the late 90s, and I have fond memories of those days, back when SGI was the coolest thing around.
We already went through this just a few years ago with OS X. Apple would be STUPID to wait until CS3 comes out. Yes, designers squirmed for a year or two while they waited for all their apps to come out, but Apple managed to stay in business in the meantime, and by the time the apps came out, the OS was quite nice. Hell, the FINDER in OS X 10.0 sucked ass performance-wise; I can't imagine trying to run any real APPS with it. (I used 10.0 to play around with the UNIX side of OS X while I waited 9 months for 10.1 to appear. While 10.1 was out, all the apps were released, and then Apple came out with 10.2 and the whole package was finally very nice.)
Same thing this time: Apple will have new hardware out, and one day when the apps appear, users will be able to buy them and use them that day. Apple will continue to sell G5s, and designers will hoard them, just like they did with the last of the OS-9-booting MDD G4s. The switch to Intel is really no different. Doesn't matter if it's the OS or hardware changing, the effect on the applications is the same: the apps won't run in an ideal manner, so people will either wait to change, or get by with non-optimal systems, untill the apps match the system.
Besides, plenty of people buy nice Macs and don't use CS. Final Cut is already shipping for Intel and Apple's other pro apps will all be universal soon--maybe even coincident with the release of the hardware. I'd expect to see an announcement regarding that at the WWDC as well: "We at Apple have just finished our transition to Intel, and we've also transitioned all of our apps. Yay us!"
The biggest difference this time, actually, is with Adobe: since OS 9 came out, they purchased Macromedia, and Quark almost dead, so Adobe can drag their feet all they want for the Intel transition.* That's another big reason that Apple would be stupid to wait for Adobe to get a product out the door. (Besides, how would it look for Apple to be waiting on Adobe before releasing new hardware? Very weak, that's how.)
* Plus, the switch to Intel ain't exactly easy. Same situation at Microsoft.
I hope you get some 'insightful' points for that in addition to the one 'funny' point you've already got. I'd like to see more computers moving towards small/efficient/quiet, like the Mac Mini. I just got a Dell Dimension 3100 and it's huge and heavy for what it does. It might be 2x or 4x faster than my G4 Mini, but it's also got to be at least 30x larger. Hell, I could put the Mini into one of the Dell's drive bays and tuck the power supply inside as well. And maybe add a tiny toaster-oven door and shelf to keep my meatball sandwich warm. Wait, what was my point again?