Right. Unless the author has a brain. How about... write a worm that uses the title of a recent email for the virus emails? Or attaches the virus to real emails that a user sends? Attaches a virus macro to real *files* that a user sends? In that case, it will be in whatever language your friends happen to speak.
You *must* be able to safely read an email. This is not a complicated concept. If that simple design goal is accomplished, then there is nothing more dangerous about a preview pane.
Um, I completely disagree about the preview pane being a security flaw. If Outlook can be controlled completely by code within an email, it doesn't matter if it's previewed or not. If it's a halfway intelligent email worm, the subject will fool you. What would you do if you got an email from your mom, subject line "Hi"? Would you open it? Outlook has to be able to view email safely. The preview is not the problem.
Um, I don't agree with any of you, but... you seem to make one small misstatement. Usually government supported monopolies are not supported by tax dollars. Their supported by the fact that they are legal monopolies. IMHO, this is theft on at least the same level as taxation, but I don't think that it really counts as part of the "tax'n'burn" state. It's a different problem.
Um, not with any current OS or standard PC hardware. If it treated the SSD as a hard drive, it would insist on transfering everything into those 8MB before operating on it. So you'd beat the hell out of your 8MB of RAM, and you'd be doing it at RAM speeds, not 80GB/sec. In this completely hypothetical setup, it would definitely be faster to have more RAM. No PC could probably connect to this device, let alone exercise it.
I really want to know how much bogus mail gets delivered to 22B Baker Street, in every major metropolitan area. All of my friends use it, and I'm sure web spiders find it too.
Um, my guess is that it isn't the Mayans that disappeared. At least, they didn't disappear completely, because there are still Mayans. I've met quite a few. And some of them didn't move very far: If my recollection serves, a few thousand full blood Mayans still live in the Yucatan peninsula.
They're getting pretty well integrated, so I'm sure Mayan genes have spread around quite a bit. You might have met Mayan descendants in the US.
Hrm. I think I see what you mean about the article, but I didn't feel like it was that bad. It seemed like the journalist presented all the different facts without blaming anybody at all. And without making the contradiction that you describe.
And the journalist was trying to explain why the locals sometimes distrust the scientists. Well explained. Facts were presented, not a position. It seems like a trite, sad story because what is actually happening is a sad story. The descriptions of previous climate swings killing other people is there precisely to suggest that there might not be a good solution.
Iduno. Maybe I'm just used to college-grade maudlin guck, so professional-grade maudlin guck fools me completely. I liked the article a lot.
Um, how about this: an iPod 150% larger in all dimensions. Color screen. 10GB drive. Firewire. Microphone, low quality no-focus digital camera. Removable Lithium Polymer batteries.
It'd have to be able to record and playback MP3s and MPEGs. You could save VCDs on it. At this point, it doesn't have to be a handheld computer. It could just be the ultimate portable media device. The soul of an iPod. If you wanted it to be a Palm/PPC/Newton replacement, then you would have to change the interface, purpose, processor, etc. It would exactly be an iPod anymore.
Um, this all goes on in user space and is for software development. No one is going to be able to crash their machine with subterfugue, and the applications that they crash will be crashing for good reasons. So it's a little different from MacOS in that regard. It seems like a pretty elegant hack.
And I always thought that the reason MacOS did so much trapping was just to keep things modular. Upgrades to the Toolbox might have required traps if the Toolbox resided on ROMs... And there's nothing essentially wrong with trapping the way MacOS did. The reason it felt dirty was because of the lack of protected memory. If an application didn't work well with some extension, it wouldn't necessarily die quietly.
Am I full of it? Some Mac weenie want to correct me?
The mail client that comes with Mac OS X is pretty good. The main reason I like it so much is because it's so simple. It doesn't have many features, but it seems to have all the features I want. Filtering, IMAP over SSL, ending HTML Image-Downloading. It's 6.2MB. If it could check my Hotmail account, I'd never have to run IE, though...
I mean would you feel uncomfortable if gay males started cracking jokes about how good a shag this guy was, or this guy wasn't at the watercooler at work? What if girls start talking about two hot guys they saw kissing and how sexy this was in front of all of their male coworkers? Or start talking about how this guy they went out with who you know has such a small penis and can't take it.
First of all, none of these things would begin to bother me in the workplace. Yes, I have endured exactly these things. I can see how they might bother other people.
Slashdot is far, far from the workplace. Can you imagine any forum in which you would not be offended by this sort of humor? Taking issue with the forum indicates that you believe *someone* reading here would be offended by the talk of sex. I don't really understand your distinction between being offended by talk of sex and the location of the forum.
Nur. Iduno if I've brought anything worthwhile to this discussion. Does anybody follow me?
I see plenty wrong with your attitude, however. Apple has only been able to spend that much time and money on graphic design because they got much of the nitty-gritty work done for them by open source folks. If it weren't for open source, OSX wouldn't be here and Apple would likely be out of business soon.
I agree with you about his attitude, and of course agree that Apple got a huge free head start from FreeBSD. But I disagree that Apple would be sunk without Open Source. Without BSD and thus NeXT Step, Apple would have continued talks with Be, Inc. and Mac users would be running a next generation Be OS. Sure, Apple would have had to pay $400 million because they wouldn't have had an alternative. But $400 mil wouldn't have sunk Apple. BSD wasn't their only option.
Ok, I've never posted to/. complaining about spelling before. In fact, I've modded down people complaining about spelling errors. I could care less. As long as I understand what taco means, it's no problem.
But what the #&%$! did you mean by "stangling," timothy? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you meant to say "staggering." Upon careful examination of my keyboard, I cannot begin to imagine how you made that particular typo. It involves at least three key misses, all of which you must have typed with the *wrong* *hand*.
Someone please explain this to me. Is "stangling" some new kind of slang word? Am I completely out of the loop? That would make a lot more sense.
Either that, or timothy is even more drunk than I am... Nah.
Diphthongs are probably the least of the problem. Imagine the difficulty involved in tonal languages.
But this company says that they are already able to distinguish vowels to a high degree of accuracy. And I don't think they're only reading lips. But the real interesting possibility is that even if they *never* figure out how to perfectly identify normal English diphthongs, they could simply invent a new way of representing those sounds with your mouth.
When you executed a certain motion, the voice machine would know to insert a diphthong. With the slightest amount of feedback and practice, people would learn quick.
Iduno. Just a thought. People learn dialects fast, but usually only if they're practicing all day long... Maybe that could never work.
Hehehe. So, Mac OS X can't count Linux apps because you have to be as smart as a Linux user to compile them? By that logic, Linux can't count Linux apps either. Sure, most Mac OS X users will never use those apps, but anyone that ever has a need will also have the ability.
You have just successfully argued that Linux apps are harder to use than Mac OS apps. This doesn't mean that you can't run them on Mac OS X. You *can* run most Unix programs on Mac OS X. Just like you can run most Unix programs on Linux. Comparing the relative number of applications for Mac OS X and Linux is silly.
Also, Classic != "emulation of the hackiest sort". Classic == Mac OS 9. You might argue that Mac OS 9 was hacky, but Classic is just like OS 9 running on it's own damn machine. If you were happy with Mac OS 9, you'll be happy with classic. Admittedly, I wasn't happy with Mac OS 9. But again, if Mac OS 9 users get to count Mac OS 9 programs, then Mac OS X users do too.
Iduno how much traveling is being done by Abiocor patients. Don't they only last a few months? And wouldn't the stress of pressure change fuck them up a little? I know I'd take greyhound in the unlikely event that I was doing any traveling.
You might expect that security restrictions would be the same when flying domestically, but this is international. I would expect that security might be much much more strict in some nations than in others. I don't see why you should be able to necessarily return in the same condition that you left in.
My domain uses Al Qaeda related names. It's great. We have osama, omar, taliban, atef, lindh. If you run out of names, just do more research on religious extremists.
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Right. Unless the author has a brain. How about... write a worm that uses the title of a recent email for the virus emails? Or attaches the virus to real emails that a user sends? Attaches a virus macro to real *files* that a user sends? In that case, it will be in whatever language your friends happen to speak.
You *must* be able to safely read an email. This is not a complicated concept. If that simple design goal is accomplished, then there is nothing more dangerous about a preview pane.
Right, and if the author has a brain, you can't know it's a virus WITHOUT OPENING IT.
Um, I completely disagree about the preview pane being a security flaw. If Outlook can be controlled completely by code within an email, it doesn't matter if it's previewed or not. If it's a halfway intelligent email worm, the subject will fool you. What would you do if you got an email from your mom, subject line "Hi"? Would you open it? Outlook has to be able to view email safely. The preview is not the problem.
Um, I don't agree with any of you, but... you seem to make one small misstatement. Usually government supported monopolies are not supported by tax dollars. Their supported by the fact that they are legal monopolies. IMHO, this is theft on at least the same level as taxation, but I don't think that it really counts as part of the "tax'n'burn" state. It's a different problem.
Um, not with any current OS or standard PC hardware. If it treated the SSD as a hard drive, it would insist on transfering everything into those 8MB before operating on it. So you'd beat the hell out of your 8MB of RAM, and you'd be doing it at RAM speeds, not 80GB/sec. In this completely hypothetical setup, it would definitely be faster to have more RAM. No PC could probably connect to this device, let alone exercise it.
I really want to know how much bogus mail gets delivered to 22B Baker Street, in every major metropolitan area. All of my friends use it, and I'm sure web spiders find it too.
I'd be a lot more scared if I was in front of Judge Fang.
"Ok, he's guilty."
"What! Wait, don't I get to defend myself?"
"Don't be an asshole."
Um, my guess is that it isn't the Mayans that disappeared. At least, they didn't disappear completely, because there are still Mayans. I've met quite a few. And some of them didn't move very far: If my recollection serves, a few thousand full blood Mayans still live in the Yucatan peninsula.
They're getting pretty well integrated, so I'm sure Mayan genes have spread around quite a bit. You might have met Mayan descendants in the US.
Hrm. I think I see what you mean about the article, but I didn't feel like it was that bad. It seemed like the journalist presented all the different facts without blaming anybody at all. And without making the contradiction that you describe.
And the journalist was trying to explain why the locals sometimes distrust the scientists. Well explained. Facts were presented, not a position. It seems like a trite, sad story because what is actually happening is a sad story. The descriptions of previous climate swings killing other people is there precisely to suggest that there might not be a good solution.
Iduno. Maybe I'm just used to college-grade maudlin guck, so professional-grade maudlin guck fools me completely. I liked the article a lot.
Um, how about this: an iPod 150% larger in all dimensions. Color screen. 10GB drive. Firewire. Microphone, low quality no-focus digital camera. Removable Lithium Polymer batteries.
It'd have to be able to record and playback MP3s and MPEGs. You could save VCDs on it. At this point, it doesn't have to be a handheld computer. It could just be the ultimate portable media device. The soul of an iPod. If you wanted it to be a Palm/PPC/Newton replacement, then you would have to change the interface, purpose, processor, etc. It would exactly be an iPod anymore.
Um, this all goes on in user space and is for software development. No one is going to be able to crash their machine with subterfugue, and the applications that they crash will be crashing for good reasons. So it's a little different from MacOS in that regard. It seems like a pretty elegant hack.
And I always thought that the reason MacOS did so much trapping was just to keep things modular. Upgrades to the Toolbox might have required traps if the Toolbox resided on ROMs... And there's nothing essentially wrong with trapping the way MacOS did. The reason it felt dirty was because of the lack of protected memory. If an application didn't work well with some extension, it wouldn't necessarily die quietly.
Am I full of it? Some Mac weenie want to correct me?
The mail client that comes with Mac OS X is pretty good. The main reason I like it so much is because it's so simple. It doesn't have many features, but it seems to have all the features I want. Filtering, IMAP over SSL, ending HTML Image-Downloading. It's 6.2MB. If it could check my Hotmail account, I'd never have to run IE, though...
Anyone have any complaints about Mail.app?
Linux feels a lot faster than X on my 600mHz G3 iBook. That's why. Aqua crawls.
If /. prematurely announces popular software, then the terrorists have already won.
Nur. And I meant to close those italics.
I mean would you feel uncomfortable if gay males started cracking jokes about how good a shag this guy was, or this guy wasn't at the watercooler at work? What if girls start talking about two hot guys they saw kissing and how sexy this was in front of all of their male coworkers? Or start talking about how this guy they went out with who you know has such a small penis and can't take it.
First of all, none of these things would begin to bother me in the workplace. Yes, I have endured exactly these things. I can see how they might bother other people.
Slashdot is far, far from the workplace. Can you imagine any forum in which you would not be offended by this sort of humor? Taking issue with the forum indicates that you believe *someone* reading here would be offended by the talk of sex. I don't really understand your distinction between being offended by talk of sex and the location of the forum.
Nur. Iduno if I've brought anything worthwhile to this discussion. Does anybody follow me?
I see plenty wrong with your attitude, however. Apple has only been able to spend that much time and money on graphic design because they got much of the nitty-gritty work done for them by open source folks. If it weren't for open source, OSX wouldn't be here and Apple would likely be out of business soon.
I agree with you about his attitude, and of course agree that Apple got a huge free head start from FreeBSD. But I disagree that Apple would be sunk without Open Source. Without BSD and thus NeXT Step, Apple would have continued talks with Be, Inc. and Mac users would be running a next generation Be OS. Sure, Apple would have had to pay $400 million because they wouldn't have had an alternative. But $400 mil wouldn't have sunk Apple. BSD wasn't their only option.
Well don't I feel silly.
Ok, I've never posted to /. complaining about spelling before. In fact, I've modded down people complaining about spelling errors. I could care less. As long as I understand what taco means, it's no problem.
But what the #&%$! did you mean by "stangling," timothy? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you meant to say "staggering." Upon careful examination of my keyboard, I cannot begin to imagine how you made that particular typo. It involves at least three key misses, all of which you must have typed with the *wrong* *hand*.
Someone please explain this to me. Is "stangling" some new kind of slang word? Am I completely out of the loop? That would make a lot more sense.
Either that, or timothy is even more drunk than I am... Nah.
Diphthongs are probably the least of the problem. Imagine the difficulty involved in tonal languages.
But this company says that they are already able to distinguish vowels to a high degree of accuracy. And I don't think they're only reading lips. But the real interesting possibility is that even if they *never* figure out how to perfectly identify normal English diphthongs, they could simply invent a new way of representing those sounds with your mouth.
When you executed a certain motion, the voice machine would know to insert a diphthong. With the slightest amount of feedback and practice, people would learn quick.
Iduno. Just a thought. People learn dialects fast, but usually only if they're practicing all day long... Maybe that could never work.
Hehehe. So, Mac OS X can't count Linux apps because you have to be as smart as a Linux user to compile them? By that logic, Linux can't count Linux apps either. Sure, most Mac OS X users will never use those apps, but anyone that ever has a need will also have the ability.
You have just successfully argued that Linux apps are harder to use than Mac OS apps. This doesn't mean that you can't run them on Mac OS X. You *can* run most Unix programs on Mac OS X. Just like you can run most Unix programs on Linux. Comparing the relative number of applications for Mac OS X and Linux is silly.
Also, Classic != "emulation of the hackiest sort". Classic == Mac OS 9. You might argue that Mac OS 9 was hacky, but Classic is just like OS 9 running on it's own damn machine. If you were happy with Mac OS 9, you'll be happy with classic. Admittedly, I wasn't happy with Mac OS 9. But again, if Mac OS 9 users get to count Mac OS 9 programs, then Mac OS X users do too.
Oh, I'm a retard. For some reason I thought I read O'Hare, not Ontario. Don't ask me how I screwed that up.
Iduno how much traveling is being done by Abiocor patients. Don't they only last a few months? And wouldn't the stress of pressure change fuck them up a little? I know I'd take greyhound in the unlikely event that I was doing any traveling.
You might expect that security restrictions would be the same when flying domestically, but this is international. I would expect that security might be much much more strict in some nations than in others. I don't see why you should be able to necessarily return in the same condition that you left in.
My domain uses Al Qaeda related names. It's great. We have osama, omar, taliban, atef, lindh. If you run out of names, just do more research on religious extremists.