Adobe says both the existence of the new versions of its products -- Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe ImageReady 3.0 -- and their features are trade secrets.
Adobe says both the existence of the new versions of its products -- Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe ImageReady 3.0 -- and their features are trade secrets.
Really good trade secrets too. Let's see, Adobe has released Photoshops 1-5. They also employ a bunch of programmers. There are two possibilities: 1) they are working on Photoshop 6. 2) oh wait, there's only one possibility. Real nice secret guys.
I hear MS is working on a new version of office - oops, now/. is going to be hit with another cease and desist order.
Adobe requests the court to enjoin Macintosh News Network from soliciting or disclosing Adobe's trade secrets and for recovery of damages which it says "could conservatively amount to tens of millions of dollars."
I say that's a conservative estimate, nothing pisses of Wall Street more than shipping a new version of a flagship product. I bet their stock tanked after this leak.
The complaint says, "Adobe will suffer lost sales of products currently on the market.
Totally believable -- I only buy software if I'm sure that the company has cancelled all future development efforts.
Hear that? That's the last few shreds of my faith in human intelligence being stripped from me.
This one was totally cool. It required MS SQL Server 6.5, SMS 2.0 and perfmon. Basically, you installed SQL and then SMS. Then you open perfmon and have it display CPU activity. When you do, you'll see the easter egg (a red line at 100% since one of the SMS components gobbles all your cpu and renders the machine useless.) They removed this easter egg in SMS 2.0 sp1. Pity, as it was pretty cool, and you triggered it whether you wanted to or not!
--Shoeboy (former microserf)
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This is a serious question. A linux distro doesn't exactly own a lot of IP. The value is in: 1) the reputation in the community. 2) the qa work done in the distro. 3) the big names associated with the distro.
So if Compaq were to hire Alan Cox and several other big names, plus a solid QA team, then GPL parts of Tru64Unix and announce a coherent linux plan - they would have a better deal than if they bought mandrake or red hat.
I have two passions in life, dolphin molestation and slashdot. The problem is that when I'm scuba diving, I can't tell if slashdot has been updated. Just 5 minutes ago, I was wondering if there was some way to get new headlines emailed to me while I'm living out my flipper fantasies. All that karma has paid off!
A modest proposal for making life easier for DDoS crackers
I have an idea. I think it's brilliant. When you want to DDoS a big site into the stone age, most of your time is spent infecting hosts to use in the attack. This is annoying and it causes us to behave in antisocial ways. If I wan't to bring down Yahoo, I want to do it NOW!!, not after I finish setting up a subseven network. All the work I have to do makes me pissy. When I get pissy I wipe your hard drive to cover my tracks. Now you're pissy too. Misery loves company.
What I have in mind is a massive voluntary distributed computing effort along the lines of Seti @ Home. I call it kiddie @ home. Basically, those of you with cpu and bandwith to spare should sign up. When you aren't using your computer, I'll use it to launch SYN attacks and settle grudges. Now I don't have to crack anything, and you don't have to bother reading cert advisories. We're both happy.
The ANSI Perl standard recognizes that "there's more than 1 way to do it." Specifically, the standard outlines 123 ways to do it -- see appendix c. Additional methods are "implementation defined." --Shoeboy (former microserf)
1) Split up into two companies is based on what the two portions of the company were doing as of Apr 27, 2000. No saying "Hey, Office is part of the OS"
Interpreted literally, this would mean a "Microsoft employees counting the days until they vest their stock and retire" company, and a "Microsoft employees biding their time to pad their resume" company. Those are the two biggest functional splits at MS.
2) The 2 NewCo. may not recombine, enter into Joint Ventures, provide APIs to each other that are not available to other ISVs.. or basically collude.
Big deal, the developers on the never-gonna-ship netdocs project don't even share API's with their PM.
3) The OS company cannot know OEMs for supporting other OS's, OEM's can change the boot up sequence. Cannot know? Do you mean know in the biblical sense? That would explain why Michael Dell is so submissive and obedient.
4) Microsoft shall disclose to ISVs, IHVs, and OEMs in a Timely Manner, in whatever media Microsoft disseminates such information to its own personnel, all APIs In a timely manner is the sticking point. Microsoft's arguement is that they've never delivered anything in a timely manner before, and this would constitute undue hardship.
We won't have a say in the music industry until we provide content. So why aren't there any rapper/programmers. Both rappers and programmers are arrogant and prone to trash talking - seems like a natural fit. My coworkers are always saying things like "bitch couldn't optimize a hash join if you let him specify the cardinality of the tuples in advance." It seems like an easy transition from talking this kind of shit to busting phat rhymes. Why aren't any of us doing it? We'd have more pull if we produced music. If anyone wants to take action, I have the perfect stage name for you: NeXT Cube. Just screams geeky gangsta doesn't it? Enough talk, lets take control of the music! --Shoeboy (former microserf)
What does it look like? I can already encode "Saving Private Ryan" in under 350mb - the technique is called low framerates and low pixel resolution. How watchable is it? Does it slideshow in action intensive sequences? What's the average compression ratio?
Any of you slashgeeks want to fill in the details?
For all of you with questionable materials on your website: Ignore any and all e-mails claiming to be a cease and desist notice. Delete the @#$% things. Don't respond. Somebody who really wants to sue you will take the effort to send you a registered letter. You can refuse to sign for that too. If they're really determined they'll serve you in person. Once they do that, you have to either retain a lawyer or take the shit down, but you don't need to do anything in response to e-mail. IANAL - Even if I was a lawyer I'd put that there since I love typing ANAL in all-caps. --Shoeboy. (former microserf)
the mouse responds to squeezing, tapping, and stroking Big deal -- I already have a pointing device that meets these criteria. Unfortunately it wasn't designed by Steve Jobs, so not many people want to lick it.
Penis jokes aside, this line from the article made me laugh: "It's not just another wireless, optical mouse. It's done by Apple, so it's impressive." Sounds like someone is thinking a bit "different." Ingesting lead based paint flakes will do that to you.
I would like to put one of these in my basement and finally disprove the "7 steps to Kevin Bacon" theory everyone seems to buy into. It's usually 6 steps to kevin bacon, and it's an NP complete problem. If you do find a way to solve it in polynomial time, please share your algorithm. You'll probably get a Nobel prize. --Shoeboy (former microserf)
A split infinitive is like ending a sentence with a preposition -- it's not something most people notice. Confusing adverbs and adjectives is something the brighter sort of elementary school student can spot. --Shoeboy (former microserf)
If you were getting paid to come up with a new slogan for Apple, would you pick one that pisses of every English major who hears it? If you answered yes, you are a fucking moron. Thanks, --Shoeboy (former microserf)
Let me tell you.. if windows was a) built on top of a unix kernel, with real normal gnu userland tools, and source and b) had a proprietary windows interface on top of it, that was also x compliant, and supported win32... the world would be in trouble. Let me assure you that the only trouble would be the drop in productivity as all windows developers experienced simlutaneous spontaneous orgasms. Trust me on this one. --Shoeboy (former microserf)
As far as I can tell, the most the Xeon can scale to is 8 processors. And it doesn't do that well. Intel's 8 way chipset is crap. To grossly oversimplify it's two 4 way shared busses communicating over yet another shared bus. It performs about how you'd expect. Compaq has a better 8 way xeon chipset, but if they're not your hardware vendor, you're SOL. Somewhere Scot McNeally is screaming "Help, I'm being menaced by a dwarf!" Or not. --Shoeboy (former microserf)
Slashdot Mirror
*Ahem*
From the article:
Adobe says both the existence of the new versions of its products -- Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe ImageReady 3.0 -- and their features are trade secrets.
Emphasis mine.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Adobe says both the existence of the new versions of its products -- Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe ImageReady 3.0 -- and their features are trade secrets.
/. is going to be hit with another cease and desist order.
Really good trade secrets too. Let's see, Adobe has released Photoshops 1-5. They also employ a bunch of programmers. There are two possibilities:
1) they are working on Photoshop 6.
2) oh wait, there's only one possibility.
Real nice secret guys.
I hear MS is working on a new version of office - oops, now
Adobe requests the court to enjoin Macintosh News Network from soliciting or disclosing Adobe's trade secrets and for recovery of damages which it says "could conservatively amount to tens of millions of dollars."
I say that's a conservative estimate, nothing pisses of Wall Street more than shipping a new version of a flagship product. I bet their stock tanked after this leak.
The complaint says, "Adobe will suffer lost sales of products currently on the market.
Totally believable -- I only buy software if I'm sure that the company has cancelled all future development efforts.
Hear that? That's the last few shreds of my faith in human intelligence being stripped from me.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
This one was totally cool. It required MS SQL Server 6.5, SMS 2.0 and perfmon. Basically, you installed SQL and then SMS. Then you open perfmon and have it display CPU activity. When you do, you'll see the easter egg (a red line at 100% since one of the SMS components gobbles all your cpu and renders the machine useless.)
They removed this easter egg in SMS 2.0 sp1. Pity, as it was pretty cool, and you triggered it whether you wanted to or not!
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
This is a serious question. A linux distro doesn't exactly own a lot of IP. The value is in:
1) the reputation in the community.
2) the qa work done in the distro.
3) the big names associated with the distro.
So if Compaq were to hire Alan Cox and several other big names, plus a solid QA team, then GPL parts of Tru64Unix and announce a coherent linux plan - they would have a better deal than if they bought mandrake or red hat.
Am I wrong here?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Check out portalofevil.com, there's plently there that will disturb you.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
I have two passions in life, dolphin molestation and slashdot. The problem is that when I'm scuba diving, I can't tell if slashdot has been updated. Just 5 minutes ago, I was wondering if there was some way to get new headlines emailed to me while I'm living out my flipper fantasies. All that karma has paid off!
Science, is there anything it can't do?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
A modest proposal for making life easier for DDoS crackers
I have an idea. I think it's brilliant. When you want to DDoS a big site into the stone age, most of your time is spent infecting hosts to use in the attack. This is annoying and it causes us to behave in antisocial ways. If I wan't to bring down Yahoo, I want to do it NOW!!, not after I finish setting up a subseven network. All the work I have to do makes me pissy. When I get pissy I wipe your hard drive to cover my tracks. Now you're pissy too. Misery loves company.
What I have in mind is a massive voluntary distributed computing effort along the lines of Seti @ Home. I call it kiddie @ home. Basically, those of you with cpu and bandwith to spare should sign up. When you aren't using your computer, I'll use it to launch SYN attacks and settle grudges. Now I don't have to crack anything, and you don't have to bother reading cert advisories. We're both happy.
What do you guys think? Can I sign you up?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
If you can stomach the unfunny and ugly crap that is BadTech you can handle anything.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
The guys at pointless waste of time called "Battlefield Earth" the best film ever. Check out their review.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
The ANSI Perl standard recognizes that "there's more than 1 way to do it." Specifically, the standard outlines 123 ways to do it -- see appendix c. Additional methods are "implementation defined."
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Let's take a closer look and do some analysis:
1) Split up into two companies is based on what the two portions of the company were doing as of Apr 27, 2000. No saying "Hey, Office is part of the OS"
Interpreted literally, this would mean a "Microsoft employees counting the days until they vest their stock and retire" company, and a "Microsoft employees biding their time to pad their resume" company. Those are the two biggest functional splits at MS.
2) The 2 NewCo. may not recombine, enter into Joint Ventures, provide APIs to each other that are not available to other ISVs.. or basically collude.
Big deal, the developers on the never-gonna-ship netdocs project don't even share API's with their PM.
3) The OS company cannot know OEMs for supporting other OS's, OEM's can change the boot up sequence.
Cannot know? Do you mean know in the biblical sense? That would explain why Michael Dell is so submissive and obedient.
4) Microsoft shall disclose to ISVs, IHVs, and OEMs in a Timely Manner, in whatever media Microsoft disseminates such information to its own personnel, all APIs
In a timely manner is the sticking point. Microsoft's arguement is that they've never delivered anything in a timely manner before, and this would constitute undue hardship.
--Shoeboy
I don't work for microsoft anymore.
(former microserf)
Here's a couple of simple rhymes to get you started:
Jiggy ho's -- Buffer overflows
Glock -- Overclock
Relaxin -- Vaxen
You'll be on your way to rap superstardom in seconds.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
We won't have a say in the music industry until we provide content. So why aren't there any rapper/programmers. Both rappers and programmers are arrogant and prone to trash talking - seems like a natural fit. My coworkers are always saying things like "bitch couldn't optimize a hash join if you let him specify the cardinality of the tuples in advance." It seems like an easy transition from talking this kind of shit to busting phat rhymes. Why aren't any of us doing it? We'd have more pull if we produced music. If anyone wants to take action, I have the perfect stage name for you: NeXT Cube. Just screams geeky gangsta doesn't it?
Enough talk, lets take control of the music!
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
What does it look like? I can already encode "Saving Private Ryan" in under 350mb - the technique is called low framerates and low pixel resolution. How watchable is it? Does it slideshow in action intensive sequences? What's the average compression ratio?
Any of you slashgeeks want to fill in the details?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
For all of you with questionable materials on your website:
Ignore any and all e-mails claiming to be a cease and desist notice. Delete the @#$% things. Don't respond. Somebody who really wants to sue you will take the effort to send you a registered letter. You can refuse to sign for that too. If they're really determined they'll serve you in person. Once they do that, you have to either retain a lawyer or take the shit down, but you don't need to do anything in response to e-mail.
IANAL - Even if I was a lawyer I'd put that there since I love typing ANAL in all-caps.
--Shoeboy.
(former microserf)
the mouse responds to squeezing, tapping, and stroking
Big deal -- I already have a pointing device that meets these criteria. Unfortunately it wasn't designed by Steve Jobs, so not many people want to lick it.
Penis jokes aside, this line from the article made me laugh:
"It's not just another wireless, optical mouse. It's done by Apple, so it's impressive."
Sounds like someone is thinking a bit "different."
Ingesting lead based paint flakes will do that to you.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
I would like to put one of these in my basement and finally disprove the "7 steps to Kevin Bacon" theory everyone seems to buy into.
It's usually 6 steps to kevin bacon, and it's an NP complete problem. If you do find a way to solve it in polynomial time, please share your algorithm. You'll probably get a Nobel prize.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
There's a time and place for nitpicking the fine points of grammar
Yes, and it's called slashdot.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
A split infinitive is like ending a sentence with a preposition -- it's not something most people notice. Confusing adverbs and adjectives is something the brighter sort of elementary school student can spot.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Would you buy hardware manufactured by "Suzees All-Nite Donut Drive-Thru?"
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
If you were getting paid to come up with a new slogan for Apple, would you pick one that pisses of every English major who hears it?
If you answered yes, you are a fucking moron.
Thanks,
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Let me tell you.. if windows was a) built on top of a unix kernel, with real normal gnu userland tools, and source and b) had a proprietary windows interface on top of it, that was also x compliant, and supported win32... the world would be in trouble.
Let me assure you that the only trouble would be the drop in productivity as all windows developers experienced simlutaneous spontaneous orgasms.
Trust me on this one.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
Now all the astronauts will have to walk past signs that say "You must be this tall to ride the space shuttle."
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
As far as I can tell, the most the Xeon can scale to is 8 processors.
And it doesn't do that well. Intel's 8 way chipset is crap. To grossly oversimplify it's two 4 way shared busses communicating over yet another shared bus. It performs about how you'd expect. Compaq has a better 8 way xeon chipset, but if they're not your hardware vendor, you're SOL.
Somewhere Scot McNeally is screaming "Help, I'm being menaced by a dwarf!"
Or not.
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)
I can't belive that deepvideo.com wasn't immediately grabbed by a porno company. How did a monitor maker come up with it?
--Shoeboy
(former microserf)