And I could care less about pedantic assholes who refuse to accept the fact that language--especially slang and expressions--can and does change. "Could care less" == "couldn't care less" and has since the '60s.
>> DRM systems don't automatically switch themselves off when a work goes out of copyright.
> Article summary provided by the Department of Obviousness Department
Actually, this is the kind of thing that is very much not obvious to the average Joe. 99% of people really do walk around with ideas like "what's wrong with cavity searches before flights? if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have anything to hide" and "what's wrong with DRM? copyright holders should be allowed to protect their work!" At first glance, DRM makes sense to most people. We need a lot of these scenarios on the tops of our minds to tell people and give them these kinds of "oh, right" moments. We need people yelling this from the mountaintops daily if we're ever going to win this war. Only when things like this are obvious to non-Slashdotters will we have a chance.
I'm currently working on an anti-copy-protection document--something that will be about one page long and have lots of good reasons for average people to reject schemes like this. Check it out in my journal and add examples if you have any.
"Don't run random programs that some with e-mails. If you use Outlook Express, it'll even tell you not to (twice)."
Super. That will take care of it. </sarcasm>
I use OWA and this is next to every single attachment: "Attachments may contain viruses that are harmful to your computer." Gee, thanks. When users see that next to every single word doc, PDF, and JPEG they get on a daily basis, they start ignoring it. If everything is a threat, nothing is a threat.
The tour shows a feature called "QuickTabs" that looks good. If I'm correct, it looks like Expose for your tabs--shows thumbnails of all open tabs. Shiira for OS X has this and it's great--something every browser should have.
The companies you mention either did Linux as a dying gasp but didn't have enough resources (Corel*) or because it was the only way they could deal with the threat to their proprietary offerings (Novell, Sun) but their hearts really weren't in it. (Besides, none of those three had/have one-tenth the name recognition among the public that Google does.)
I think a Google Linux for the masses would be the greatest thing ever. They have the resources to make software packaging and delivery easy, they've got lots of cool apps & services they could deploy and integrate, they're smart enough to know how to make a good, clean, easy-to-use UI, they've got the resources to extensively test and then certify application compatibility (i.e., MS Office under Wine or CrossOver) and most importantly, it's a brand that everyone from a CEO to a PHB to a mail room guy knows and trusts.
What's holding back Linux adoption now? Fragmentation, and the main support options are from companies that techs swear are great but that PHBs have never heard of. Even if a manager did listen to his techs and investigate Linux, what would he see--a bunch of distros with odd names and support from a bunch of companies that come and go, none of which he's ever heard of. Google could change all that.
Ubuntu is a great distro--pretty, simple, works on lots of hardware. But it has a weird name and no particularly compelling features that would draw most Windows user. For every huge plus (no viruses!) there is an equally huge minus (my favorite old game doesn't work!). Google could change all that, too.
Basically it comes down to this: if there's one company that a) could make Linux work, b) has a compelling reason to want Linux to be a success among the masses, and c) has a name people respond positively to, Google is it. They could become a major force in both the home and the office. Google can pull it off. I really hope this rumor is true.
* Corel really could have been great. If they could have made a clean desktop and bundled NATIVE versions of Draw, PhotoPaint, and WordPerfect, it would have been awesome.
And I've set up shop next door: "No, Copyright Studios!"
Re:The article's an MP3, not text! Text Version?
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This is why I hate podcasts. Text can be indexed, skimmed, and searched with everything from Control/Command-F to Google. It can be cut, copied, pasted, and even plagiarized if you want. A sound recording has none of these advantages, and it has several disadvantages: the speaker might use a lot of "um"s and "uh"s or be otherwise unpleasant, you can only listen at a constant speed (more or less), skimming is pretty much impossible, etc etc etc. Also, you can read a lot faster than you can listen--i.e., how fast the other person can talk.
However, therein lies the rub: even though you can read faster than you can listen, anyone can talk faster than they can type. (Rough numbers: Reading, 200 wpm; talking, 100-150 wpm; typing, 30-60 wpm, plus proofreading, editing, formatting--maybe just 5-10 wpm in the end.) So, we're depending on the person with information we want to take lots of time to put the information in the most useful format for us, versus them sitting down with a mic and talking and recording in one quick and easy pass.
Podcasts, basically, are easier for the producer but much, much less useful for the consumer. It'll be very interesting to see in the next few years how all this goes.
Of course, podcasts are great for a lot of stuff--dramatic reading, music, other kinds of performance; and the ability to listen to them places where you might not be able to read, like while traveling--but for straight information-sharing, they pretty much suck.
Like you, I like the warm fuzzy feeling of running my own server, knowing I can put whatever I want on it (both in terms of content, and configuration--Win/Lin, PHP, Perl, Postgres, etc.), never run out of room, and not worry that someone else will upgrade a component that will break everything. So, I've got a vanity domain running on my DSL at home--mostly my little play area.
On the other hand, I don't want to *have* to keep that box up 24/7/365 so I've got my main "real" domain at a real host--that way, I (mostly) don't have to worry about important stuff like keeping my email going and not running a box that's vulnerable to spammers.
Also, consider your desired naming--do you *want* to be company.com/you or school.edu/~you forever? (And, more importantly *can* you? What happens if you quit, get fired, graduate, or drop out?) In any case, if you want a real, permanent TLD, you'll probably need to run your own box at home or pay for a host.
Luckily, I haven't had to fight too much malware, but I did have a couple hour bout after letting the kid on the computer once. A few months ago, he did quite a number on the machine. Spybot and AdAware did most of the work but one little bugger was really stubborn. He would run with a different (i.e., un-google-able) name all the time, and if you killed the process, it'd respawn. Try to delete his reg key, and he would re-insert himself. You couldn't possibly work fast enough to kill the process and remove the reg key before he respawned. I finally remembered to press "F8" while booting windows and come up in safe mode. Bam, no unneeded process were launched, I was easily able to remove the key and the app, and after teaching the wife how to lock the computer, all was fine.
If you do it while the phone is on, and nothing breaks, then yes.
You do know it's typically a Bad Idea to swap cards, chips, memory, etc. while a computer* is running, right? That's what makes his success noteworthy.
* except for awesome servers that are designed for this kind of thing
It's very unlikely they'll release the whole line. The 15" TiBook was the first to be introduced--the 12" and 17" models came later, in aluminum. Then, after a *really* long time, they finally made the 15" aluminum, too. Don't look for the other MacBooks (God, what a crappy name) until summer.
1) MUST be firewire. Intel Macs might boot from USB devices but PPC Macs can only boot from FireWire drives.
2) Given #1, you have to decide if you want it to be bus-powered or not. You basically have two choices here:
- you could buy a small enclosure with a 2.5" laptop-style hard drive. If you want, you can build your own with a 5400 RPM drive, or maybe even find a 7200 RPM one--rare and pricey but AFAIK they exist. Probably not in anything less than 60 GB, though--7200 RPM laptop drives are a recent development. In any case, these drives are small enough that they can run off the power that FireWire provides, so all you need is the drive and a cable. FireWire iPods fall into this category. The lack of an A/C adapter makes these very convenient. Note that some badly-designed 2.5" enclosures also need an A/C adapter--avoid these.
- you could buy a large enclosure and a regular 3.5" desktop-style drive. 7200 RPM drives are common here but I have never seen an external enclosure with a 3.5" drive that didn't require a separate A/C adapter for power. This means you've got to crawl around more for every machine you touch, but operations will go faster.
These guys used an odd mix: 3x Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500, 1xAnalog PCIe Tuner: PowerColor, and 4x Digital HDTV Tuners. So I guess the 3 analog cards are 2 tuners each, then the other analog tuner, and 4 HDTV via USB = 11.
yeah, copying and pasting the wikipedia entry or top google match is really dumb. that's why whenever I plagiarize a paper I run it through babelfish a few times, then through spellcheck. I get a few points off for grammar but otherwise I'm golden.
... much the way that air (in the form of drag) is the number one enemy of flight. The thing is, it also provides lift and feeds the engines. Without it, there would be no flight.
Like others have said: if you don't like it, publish a restrictive robots.txt and see what happens to your business. Yes, there are those who will find the answer in Google's summary and not even visit, but for every one of them, there are probably ten who click through and visit,* and without the search engine, they never would have visited in the first place.
C'mon, Jakob, put your money where your mouth is: publish a super-restrictive robots.txt and tell us in a year how you're doing.
Like the man said: "I know half my advertising budget is wasted. I just don't know which half."
... but my company runs several substantial Intranet sites off one Windows box (2k server, IIRC) and all are MySQL-backed. (I myself have been using this box for about 3 or 4 years.) And it's not just reads to build content for the front page--lots of surveys, calendars, inventory databases, etc. If you're concerned about performance, test and benchmark. Overall, I'd say it's fine. It's not like there's some inherent 500% benefit you get from running MySQL under *nix. And, unlike older versions of Postgres, it doesn't even require Cygwin or anything weird like that. Runs native, runs fine, and has for years.
Look at it this way--the note is just that: a notice, a courtesy. You can buy OS X for PPC from Apple today but it won't install on non-Apple PPC hardware (like a Briq) due to various technical reasons. This new version will almost certainly be the same, kextfile or not.
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Great list, except I wouldn't mention SGI right now.
Holy crap! Not only are you not kidding, but they're calling the new system...
wait for it...
Blue&Me!
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/48683.html
And I could care less about pedantic assholes who refuse to accept the fact that language--especially slang and expressions--can and does change. "Could care less" == "couldn't care less" and has since the '60s.
>> DRM systems don't automatically switch themselves off when a work goes out of copyright.
> Article summary provided by the Department of Obviousness Department
Actually, this is the kind of thing that is very much not obvious to the average Joe. 99% of people really do walk around with ideas like "what's wrong with cavity searches before flights? if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have anything to hide" and "what's wrong with DRM? copyright holders should be allowed to protect their work!" At first glance, DRM makes sense to most people. We need a lot of these scenarios on the tops of our minds to tell people and give them these kinds of "oh, right" moments. We need people yelling this from the mountaintops daily if we're ever going to win this war. Only when things like this are obvious to non-Slashdotters will we have a chance.
I'm currently working on an anti-copy-protection document--something that will be about one page long and have lots of good reasons for average people to reject schemes like this. Check it out in my journal and add examples if you have any.
"Don't run random programs that some with e-mails. If you use Outlook Express, it'll even tell you not to (twice)."
Super. That will take care of it. </sarcasm>
I use OWA and this is next to every single attachment: "Attachments may contain viruses that are harmful to your computer." Gee, thanks. When users see that next to every single word doc, PDF, and JPEG they get on a daily basis, they start ignoring it. If everything is a threat, nothing is a threat.
"Those who use a browser to do extensive research, for example, are likely to have more windows and tabs open than the average user."
:-)
Not to mention people who look at pron. Note to Mozilla: must fix!!!!!11one
The tour shows a feature called "QuickTabs" that looks good. If I'm correct, it looks like Expose for your tabs--shows thumbnails of all open tabs. Shiira for OS X has this and it's great--something every browser should have.
The companies you mention either did Linux as a dying gasp but didn't have enough resources (Corel*) or because it was the only way they could deal with the threat to their proprietary offerings (Novell, Sun) but their hearts really weren't in it. (Besides, none of those three had/have one-tenth the name recognition among the public that Google does.)
I think a Google Linux for the masses would be the greatest thing ever. They have the resources to make software packaging and delivery easy, they've got lots of cool apps & services they could deploy and integrate, they're smart enough to know how to make a good, clean, easy-to-use UI, they've got the resources to extensively test and then certify application compatibility (i.e., MS Office under Wine or CrossOver) and most importantly, it's a brand that everyone from a CEO to a PHB to a mail room guy knows and trusts.
What's holding back Linux adoption now? Fragmentation, and the main support options are from companies that techs swear are great but that PHBs have never heard of. Even if a manager did listen to his techs and investigate Linux, what would he see--a bunch of distros with odd names and support from a bunch of companies that come and go, none of which he's ever heard of. Google could change all that.
Ubuntu is a great distro--pretty, simple, works on lots of hardware. But it has a weird name and no particularly compelling features that would draw most Windows user. For every huge plus (no viruses!) there is an equally huge minus (my favorite old game doesn't work!). Google could change all that, too.
Basically it comes down to this: if there's one company that a) could make Linux work, b) has a compelling reason to want Linux to be a success among the masses, and c) has a name people respond positively to, Google is it. They could become a major force in both the home and the office. Google can pull it off. I really hope this rumor is true.
* Corel really could have been great. If they could have made a clean desktop and bundled NATIVE versions of Draw, PhotoPaint, and WordPerfect, it would have been awesome.
Thank you for the funniest post I've seen all month.
And I've set up shop next door: "No, Copyright Studios!"
This is why I hate podcasts. Text can be indexed, skimmed, and searched with everything from Control/Command-F to Google. It can be cut, copied, pasted, and even plagiarized if you want. A sound recording has none of these advantages, and it has several disadvantages: the speaker might use a lot of "um"s and "uh"s or be otherwise unpleasant, you can only listen at a constant speed (more or less), skimming is pretty much impossible, etc etc etc. Also, you can read a lot faster than you can listen--i.e., how fast the other person can talk.
However, therein lies the rub: even though you can read faster than you can listen, anyone can talk faster than they can type. (Rough numbers: Reading, 200 wpm; talking, 100-150 wpm; typing, 30-60 wpm, plus proofreading, editing, formatting--maybe just 5-10 wpm in the end.) So, we're depending on the person with information we want to take lots of time to put the information in the most useful format for us, versus them sitting down with a mic and talking and recording in one quick and easy pass.
Podcasts, basically, are easier for the producer but much, much less useful for the consumer. It'll be very interesting to see in the next few years how all this goes.
Of course, podcasts are great for a lot of stuff--dramatic reading, music, other kinds of performance; and the ability to listen to them places where you might not be able to read, like while traveling--but for straight information-sharing, they pretty much suck.
Like you, I like the warm fuzzy feeling of running my own server, knowing I can put whatever I want on it (both in terms of content, and configuration--Win/Lin, PHP, Perl, Postgres, etc.), never run out of room, and not worry that someone else will upgrade a component that will break everything. So, I've got a vanity domain running on my DSL at home--mostly my little play area.
On the other hand, I don't want to *have* to keep that box up 24/7/365 so I've got my main "real" domain at a real host--that way, I (mostly) don't have to worry about important stuff like keeping my email going and not running a box that's vulnerable to spammers.
Also, consider your desired naming--do you *want* to be company.com/you or school.edu/~you forever? (And, more importantly *can* you? What happens if you quit, get fired, graduate, or drop out?) In any case, if you want a real, permanent TLD, you'll probably need to run your own box at home or pay for a host.
Luckily, I haven't had to fight too much malware, but I did have a couple hour bout after letting the kid on the computer once. A few months ago, he did quite a number on the machine. Spybot and AdAware did most of the work but one little bugger was really stubborn. He would run with a different (i.e., un-google-able) name all the time, and if you killed the process, it'd respawn. Try to delete his reg key, and he would re-insert himself. You couldn't possibly work fast enough to kill the process and remove the reg key before he respawned. I finally remembered to press "F8" while booting windows and come up in safe mode. Bam, no unneeded process were launched, I was easily able to remove the key and the app, and after teaching the wife how to lock the computer, all was fine.
If you do it while the phone is on, and nothing breaks, then yes.
You do know it's typically a Bad Idea to swap cards, chips, memory, etc. while a computer* is running, right? That's what makes his success noteworthy.
* except for awesome servers that are designed for this kind of thing
It's very unlikely they'll release the whole line. The 15" TiBook was the first to be introduced--the 12" and 17" models came later, in aluminum. Then, after a *really* long time, they finally made the 15" aluminum, too. Don't look for the other MacBooks (God, what a crappy name) until summer.
1) MUST be firewire. Intel Macs might boot from USB devices but PPC Macs can only boot from FireWire drives.
2) Given #1, you have to decide if you want it to be bus-powered or not. You basically have two choices here:
- you could buy a small enclosure with a 2.5" laptop-style hard drive. If you want, you can build your own with a 5400 RPM drive, or maybe even find a 7200 RPM one--rare and pricey but AFAIK they exist. Probably not in anything less than 60 GB, though--7200 RPM laptop drives are a recent development. In any case, these drives are small enough that they can run off the power that FireWire provides, so all you need is the drive and a cable. FireWire iPods fall into this category. The lack of an A/C adapter makes these very convenient. Note that some badly-designed 2.5" enclosures also need an A/C adapter--avoid these.
- you could buy a large enclosure and a regular 3.5" desktop-style drive. 7200 RPM drives are common here but I have never seen an external enclosure with a 3.5" drive that didn't require a separate A/C adapter for power. This means you've got to crawl around more for every machine you touch, but operations will go faster.
Wrong. Spider works for a company that recently installed WebSense and he's sad 'cause he can't surf porn anymore. :-)
Like the racers say, "If you want to finish first, you have to first finish."
Priority #1: make it last (i.e., solve heat problems.)
Priority #2: make it quiet. After all, you could always just put it in another room and run some wires to your TV and sound system.
Snapstream built a box with 10 tuners a while ago. http://www.snapstream.com/Community/Articles/hydra /default.asp They used five Hauppauge PVR-500MCE cards which each have two tuners.
These guys used an odd mix: 3x Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500, 1xAnalog PCIe Tuner: PowerColor, and 4x Digital HDTV Tuners.
So I guess the 3 analog cards are 2 tuners each, then the other analog tuner, and 4 HDTV via USB = 11.
Spinal Tap would be proud.
yeah, copying and pasting the wikipedia entry or top google match is really dumb. that's why whenever I plagiarize a paper I run it through babelfish a few times, then through spellcheck. I get a few points off for grammar but otherwise I'm golden.
... much the way that air (in the form of drag) is the number one enemy of flight. The thing is, it also provides lift and feeds the engines. Without it, there would be no flight.
Like others have said: if you don't like it, publish a restrictive robots.txt and see what happens to your business. Yes, there are those who will find the answer in Google's summary and not even visit, but for every one of them, there are probably ten who click through and visit,* and without the search engine, they never would have visited in the first place.
C'mon, Jakob, put your money where your mouth is: publish a super-restrictive robots.txt and tell us in a year how you're doing.
Like the man said: "I know half my advertising budget is wasted. I just don't know which half."
* Source: my ass, (c) 2006.
... but my company runs several substantial Intranet sites off one Windows box (2k server, IIRC) and all are MySQL-backed. (I myself have been using this box for about 3 or 4 years.) And it's not just reads to build content for the front page--lots of surveys, calendars, inventory databases, etc. If you're concerned about performance, test and benchmark. Overall, I'd say it's fine. It's not like there's some inherent 500% benefit you get from running MySQL under *nix. And, unlike older versions of Postgres, it doesn't even require Cygwin or anything weird like that. Runs native, runs fine, and has for years.
Their just jealous of your low UID. ;-)
Look at it this way--the note is just that: a notice, a courtesy. You can buy OS X for PPC from Apple today but it won't install on non-Apple PPC hardware (like a Briq) due to various technical reasons. This new version will almost certainly be the same, kextfile or not.
After using iTunes to watch that downloaded clip from the superbowl halftime show 24 times in a row, it just kinda figured...