You mean the streams that most MS products can't even access?
While theoretically interesting, I have yet to find a practical use for these "extra" streams. Not even good for data hiding as you cna never be sure of which version of copy/xcopy/dragondropping will preserve the info.
I know that a few government computers failed, but they were old computers at that, and they were up after awhile. Airports didn't shut down like everyone expected, and life went on like normal.
Sometimes, you have to listen to the people that don't code, but have tried different test and have proven theories wrong. Maybe they are right. I just think it is funny all the worry that went into the "y2k bug" especially after nothing happened.
Would you be more impressed with the Y2K fear if millions and millions of man hours were not spent on making sure that nothing happened?
Your comment reminds me of the great irony of IT: You only get appreciated if you save the day in some spectacular "restore from 7 year old tape after finding tape drive at garage sale while waving dead chicken" situation. There is no glory in keeping things quietly humming along. Things like the power grid, financial transactions, and keeping that 777 in the air at midnight were very real. Code needed to be checked.
At first I was a little offended by your post, but hey, you're young, you'll learn. Though you do have a funny engineering mentality; saying that if it works on a 486 (not even close to indicative of the plethora of diverse platforms out in the world) is like what Microsoft says about anything pre 3.0: "It compiles, ship it!"
If you say you have a deficiency in your own product, you probably aren't motivated to lie. However, don't you think that either video card or monitor manufacturers would jump on this fantastic technology that for a small additional cost makes your desktop look even BETTER?
Take it all with a grain of salt.. even if 100 sales people from different companies say the same thing it still doesn't make it true. Remember: "No highs, no lows, must be BOSE"? Classic example of the crap that salespeople are able to successfully propagate...
Re:How can a switch box improve video quality ???
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OK, I know you qualified this as an 'odd' result, but can someone explain how this could possibly be true ?
You forgot the key component of the parent post, namely:
All the units besides the IOView degrade the video quality, I understand from long conversations with sales people.
I've got a used KVM you can buy really cheap.. it is in fantastic condition and was only used by my grandmother on Sundays. I really need the space, so I am willing to practically giving it away. Lucky for you, my manager is at lunch, so we can make this deal now.. he probably won't go for the deal, so you'll have to sign here quick. Don't bother reading the terms, they are standard boiler-plate. Can I have you social security number, mother's maiden name, place of birth, and your ATM PIN? How would you like to pay for this? Cash or charge.. we are able to finance you, and I definitely recommend that option, cause you won't have to pay for 6 months! Oh, and one more thing, we offer free delievery if you come and pick it up yourself.
Let me say that I like this post, however I'm not sure about a couple of the points:
1) OS X is locking up the creative market place
Apple has always catered very well in this arena, and I'm not sure that recent changes (last few years) have made a significant impact here. That is, I don't think things like the iMac or XServe have attracted more artists, or were even designed with that goal in mind. I think that Apple already had an effective lock on that market.
2. Windows has NEVER
migrated to ANY other platform than the x86. Its not for want of trying. They have already failed at it.
Are you forgetting that NT ran on Alpha and MIPS? Or are you trying to say that these attempts to different platforms have failed. What would the motivation for MS be to run on multiple architectures? They don't sell hardware, but they do sell a buttload of software on what is (and has been for a while) the cheapest hardware available. The whole Wintel mentality is bread and butter for MS. Also, don't forget about Windows CE. I just want to make sure that a rant as correct as possible. Is iPaq not running windows in your mind? Is it not nifty? (apologies to http://www.userfriendly.org)
3. The new PC chip architectures (Intel/HPs & AMDs) are already Linux playgrounds. The chip makers are tired of the x86 architecture and want to get on to the next stage. But windows is holding them back.
Is windows holding them back? Or are they simply cognizant of the fact that they can sell a hell of a lot more chips (and they are in business to do just that) by being backwards compatible. I agree that adding SSE, SSE2, etc is kind of frankensteinian and that the industry would benefit overall with a new chip design, but the problem is that you need someone to create an operating system for that arch in order to sell it. I think this is being done with Itanium.. basically MS and Intel have come together to create a new OS and chip design. There is no way for Intel to simply put out a new design and hope that someone will create an OS. Undoubtedly, a linux port will be created, but on who's timeline? Hmmm, maybe Intel should fund some developers to do just that.. but would you be willing to run Intelinux?
4. Windows is extremely vulnerable to security breaches and even more vulnerable to the processing requirements of biometric security data.
I'm confused by the point you are trying to make with the second half of this statement. Can you clarify?
That's pretty amusing. Here are the secret decoding instructions:
1) Click on the link 2) Read the first two paragraphs 3) Tell me why you were marked up as "insightful"
Actually, I agree with the rest of your post. The fact that there is the term "business practices" is quite scary when you think about it. It specifically refers to the fact that people change their behavior in order to screw someone else. Obviously it is not human nature (or they wouldn't change the way they act ever) but it might fall along the lines of the infamous "survival instinct" or whatever it is that allows us to kill the other guy before he can pull the trigger first.
I think the real issue is how it is arranged. John Cage had a piano piece and had notations indicating exactly how to rest, half rest, etc. Now, if you were not at a piano, or were in fact a full piece orchestra playing something COMPLETELY different (different notations, different key, different tempo, and different length) then there is nothing being copied whatsoever.
Re:Brilliant! Hacktivism!
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We can be sure because Lindows and Michael Robertson love publicity, as a way to increase their company image and sales potential.
Hmmm, I wonder about the company image. In fact, I also wonder about the sales potential. Living in San Diego, I've had the joyous experience of seeing Michael Robertson drive around in his porsche with his "MP3 COM" license plate. That about as much I've seen of him in the community, literally or on-line. I see two issues with Lindows.
1) It doesn't seem to have any linux community support. Outside of the lindows.com site, I haven't seen one positive statement. That is, it looks to be more of a land grab by Mr. Robertson (ala mp3.com) than a worthwhile company to promote a viable alternative to Microsoft. What I'm saying is that what with the outlandish claims of "WINE just needs capital to be pretty much fully Windows compatible in under 2 years", Lindows screams "fly-by-night" to me.
2) The business model is: For maybe $100 less per workstation, we will give you an OS that will mostly do what you want it to do. Now, this might appeal to the home market, but most businesses that I've worked with would rather pay the extra money to have something that works. Arguments that Microsoft doesn't work is crap, it runs Excel which everyone and their brother has a plug-in for.. now if Reuters would work under Open Office. . . but then, when someone wants to write a program, they write for the biggest audience, not a posix compliant OS with a really slow Java front end. Solve the issue of compatibility and yes, you have gold. Solve it only 75% and what you have is worthless.
I recommend Daniel C Dennet's "The Mind's Eye" (hmmm, or was it "Conciousness Explained") for further readings that delve into just this topic. The introduction discusses the transporter from Mars to Earth where the original is not destroyed, and it jumps off from there.
Quick correction: Einstein's theory never said that the speed of light was the fastest that things could travel. Is in an impossible barrier to anything with MASS (due to the fact that mass will increase asymptotically to infinity as it approaches the speed of light) But then this argument also does not bring up tachyons, which would work with the theory happily.
The ERP theory *was* proposed by Albert to attempt to disprove instantaneous communication. However, since relativity makes the whole concept of instantaneous moot what are we talking about anyways??
If you don't have AV on the desktops, how do you protect against the floppy disk vector? Or the CD from the manufacturer that somehow managed to be shipped with a virus? The simplest solution that comes to mind is to protect your server as best as possible (I prefer belt and suspenders, so add in another AV on the hosts themselves) and toss the desktops to the wolves (i.e. they can be replaced with a new disk image in under 15 minutes)
Wow, your life must be a living hell... having to type in the 2 or three commands required to build a new kernel. Or is it that you are having trouble with vi?
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Be it as it may, this will be a good thing. However, how can they restrict people from copying the ISOs?
Hmmm, maybe there will be a registration code (can I suggest 5 groups of 5 chars?) and then product activatation... then maybe a tie-in with some kind of virtual ID.. a "passport" if you will.
They post a EULA. If you can't read a EULA, get a lawyer or learn legalese. People need to take responsibility for themselves, and people ultimately need to be accountable for the software they install on their computer. It'll be a cold day in hell and a dark day on the surface if some judge ruled in favor of the plaintiff if anybody sued over this.
Saying that people should get a lawyer before installing software is ridiculous. Why aren't you thinking? Any lawyer worth his or her salt would look at any EULA, and tell you not to install the software. Do you accept EULA's where they explicitly say that the terms can change at any time without your consent?
This is actually a good idea: Kazaa provides a free service for its users and a free download, and in exchange for this the users give up some CPU time. Maybe you all who think everything on the Internet should be for free (*glare at T(H)GSB*) should take your altruism back to 1999.
As mentioned previously, yes that would be a usable model, as long as all parties agreed and were made aware of it. Also, you used the word 'altruism' wrong. I suggest it be replaced by 'greediness', 'selfishness' or some such.
If you don't know what software does, don't install it. I know what I have installed on my computer, I know what it does, and I don't get surprised when I do (pkg_info|dpkg -l).
Do you seriously expect anyone to believe you when you say this? I can guarantee that you do NOT know exactly what you have on your computer.
You can't do a line by line code review, and if you could, do you think you could determine what it does? I suggest you take a programming course on proving algorithms. You look like you are attempting to say that a black box ad hoc analysis is fine to determine levels of safety for an end user.
pkg_info doesn't even begin to list out what you have installed. Can you tell me that the default installation doesn't have built in spyware? What, you sniffed the network and didn't see any bad traffic leaving your box? Can you honestly believe it is hard to detect when sniffers are active and obfuscate as, perhaps an ICMP or DNS packet? I am willing to bet that you can't tell me what version of/bin/sh you are running (and why) without looking into the code. How do you know it isn't a trojan reporting a random version number? Have you confirmed the the versions of FTP you use don't also send a copy of your data to some central server? Wouldn't you be pissed if it did? But, as you suggest, you only have yourself to blame.
Reread what you said and tell me if it doesn't sound arrogant. And ignorant.
You should look for a junior level position with a mentor, you are eager but way too naive and green.
More reliable and acceptable units would have to be in football fields. Of course, I measure my velocity in nano-parsec per micro-fortnights, but that's not a bad unit. I suppose for measuring the number of bits, one would need a good conversion for surface area as in GB per sq in... thus 240 GB could be construed as something like 2 micro-football fields.
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That's because you forgot step two: SELL THE EMAIL ADDRESSES.
sheesh.... rookie. ;)
While theoretically interesting, I have yet to find a practical use for these "extra" streams. Not even good for data hiding as you cna never be sure of which version of copy/xcopy/dragondropping will preserve the info.
Sometimes, you have to listen to the people that don't code, but have tried different test and have proven theories wrong. Maybe they are right. I just think it is funny all the worry that went into the "y2k bug" especially after nothing happened.
Would you be more impressed with the Y2K fear if millions and millions of man hours were not spent on making sure that nothing happened?
Your comment reminds me of the great irony of IT: You only get appreciated if you save the day in some spectacular "restore from 7 year old tape after finding tape drive at garage sale while waving dead chicken" situation. There is no glory in keeping things quietly humming along. Things like the power grid, financial transactions, and keeping that 777 in the air at midnight were very real. Code needed to be checked.
At first I was a little offended by your post, but hey, you're young, you'll learn. Though you do have a funny engineering mentality; saying that if it works on a 486 (not even close to indicative of the plethora of diverse platforms out in the world) is like what Microsoft says about anything pre 3.0: "It compiles, ship it!"
Take it all with a grain of salt.. even if 100 sales people from different companies say the same thing it still doesn't make it true. Remember: "No highs, no lows, must be BOSE"? Classic example of the crap that salespeople are able to successfully propagate...
You forgot the key component of the parent post, namely: All the units besides the IOView degrade the video quality, I understand from long conversations with sales people.
I've got a used KVM you can buy really cheap.. it is in fantastic condition and was only used by my grandmother on Sundays. I really need the space, so I am willing to practically giving it away. Lucky for you, my manager is at lunch, so we can make this deal now.. he probably won't go for the deal, so you'll have to sign here quick. Don't bother reading the terms, they are standard boiler-plate. Can I have you social security number, mother's maiden name, place of birth, and your ATM PIN? How would you like to pay for this? Cash or charge.. we are able to finance you, and I definitely recommend that option, cause you won't have to pay for 6 months! Oh, and one more thing, we offer free delievery if you come and pick it up yourself.
1) OS X is locking up the creative market place
Apple has always catered very well in this arena, and I'm not sure that recent changes (last few years) have made a significant impact here. That is, I don't think things like the iMac or XServe have attracted more artists, or were even designed with that goal in mind. I think that Apple already had an effective lock on that market.
2. Windows has NEVER migrated to ANY other platform than the x86. Its not for want of trying. They have already failed at it.
Are you forgetting that NT ran on Alpha and MIPS? Or are you trying to say that these attempts to different platforms have failed. What would the motivation for MS be to run on multiple architectures? They don't sell hardware, but they do sell a buttload of software on what is (and has been for a while) the cheapest hardware available. The whole Wintel mentality is bread and butter for MS. Also, don't forget about Windows CE. I just want to make sure that a rant as correct as possible. Is iPaq not running windows in your mind? Is it not nifty? (apologies to http://www.userfriendly.org)
3. The new PC chip architectures (Intel/HPs & AMDs) are already Linux playgrounds. The chip makers are tired of the x86 architecture and want to get on to the next stage. But windows is holding them back.
Is windows holding them back? Or are they simply cognizant of the fact that they can sell a hell of a lot more chips (and they are in business to do just that) by being backwards compatible. I agree that adding SSE, SSE2, etc is kind of frankensteinian and that the industry would benefit overall with a new chip design, but the problem is that you need someone to create an operating system for that arch in order to sell it. I think this is being done with Itanium.. basically MS and Intel have come together to create a new OS and chip design. There is no way for Intel to simply put out a new design and hope that someone will create an OS. Undoubtedly, a linux port will be created, but on who's timeline? Hmmm, maybe Intel should fund some developers to do just that.. but would you be willing to run Intelinux?
4. Windows is extremely vulnerable to security breaches and even more vulnerable to the processing requirements of biometric security data.
I'm confused by the point you are trying to make with the second half of this statement. Can you clarify?
Man, oh man.. when the real Max Cohen starts getting SPAM, he/she is going to be pissed. Evil evil evil.
NO, no... We now do everything FULL-assed.
That's pretty amusing. Here are the secret decoding instructions:
1) Click on the link
2) Read the first two paragraphs
3) Tell me why you were marked up as "insightful"
Actually, I agree with the rest of your post. The fact that there is the term "business practices" is quite scary when you think about it. It specifically refers to the fact that people change their behavior in order to screw someone else. Obviously it is not human nature (or they wouldn't change the way they act ever) but it might fall along the lines of the infamous "survival instinct" or whatever it is that allows us to kill the other guy before he can pull the trigger first.
I think the real issue is how it is arranged. John Cage had a piano piece and had notations indicating exactly how to rest, half rest, etc. Now, if you were not at a piano, or were in fact a full piece orchestra playing something COMPLETELY different (different notations, different key, different tempo, and different length) then there is nothing being copied whatsoever.
Done and Done.
They helped pioneer the original CD, thus have beeen in the market for years. This time it is just smaller.
Hmmm, I wonder about the company image. In fact, I also wonder about the sales potential. Living in San Diego, I've had the joyous experience of seeing Michael Robertson drive around in his porsche with his "MP3 COM" license plate. That about as much I've seen of him in the community, literally or on-line. I see two issues with Lindows.
1) It doesn't seem to have any linux community support. Outside of the lindows.com site, I haven't seen one positive statement. That is, it looks to be more of a land grab by Mr. Robertson (ala mp3.com) than a worthwhile company to promote a viable alternative to Microsoft. What I'm saying is that what with the outlandish claims of "WINE just needs capital to be pretty much fully Windows compatible in under 2 years", Lindows screams "fly-by-night" to me.
2) The business model is: For maybe $100 less per workstation, we will give you an OS that will mostly do what you want it to do. Now, this might appeal to the home market, but most businesses that I've worked with would rather pay the extra money to have something that works. Arguments that Microsoft doesn't work is crap, it runs Excel which everyone and their brother has a plug-in for.. now if Reuters would work under Open Office. . . but then, when someone wants to write a program, they write for the biggest audience, not a posix compliant OS with a really slow Java front end. Solve the issue of compatibility and yes, you have gold. Solve it only 75% and what you have is worthless.
--paul
ok, I stand corrected, sir! You obviously brought up the point because you've moved on!
You're obviously bringing up this point because you are jealous!
I recommend Daniel C Dennet's "The Mind's Eye" (hmmm, or was it "Conciousness Explained") for further readings that delve into just this topic. The introduction discusses the transporter from Mars to Earth where the original is not destroyed, and it jumps off from there.
The ERP theory *was* proposed by Albert to attempt to disprove instantaneous communication. However, since relativity makes the whole concept of instantaneous moot what are we talking about anyways??
If you don't have AV on the desktops, how do you protect against the floppy disk vector? Or the CD from the manufacturer that somehow managed to be shipped with a virus? The simplest solution that comes to mind is to protect your server as best as possible (I prefer belt and suspenders, so add in another AV on the hosts themselves) and toss the desktops to the wolves (i.e. they can be replaced with a new disk image in under 15 minutes)
I stand corrected.. serves me right for missing a 0 :)
hmmm, is $39 not cheap enough?
You've obviously never been to UCSD. . .
Wow, your life must be a living hell... having to type in the 2 or three commands required to build a new kernel. Or is it that you are having trouble with vi?
Hmmm, maybe there will be a registration code (can I suggest 5 groups of 5 chars?) and then product activatation... then maybe a tie-in with some kind of virtual ID.. a "passport" if you will.
Saying that people should get a lawyer before installing software is ridiculous. Why aren't you thinking? Any lawyer worth his or her salt would look at any EULA, and tell you not to install the software. Do you accept EULA's where they explicitly say that the terms can change at any time without your consent?
This is actually a good idea: Kazaa provides a free service for its users and a free download, and in exchange for this the users give up some CPU time. Maybe you all who think everything on the Internet should be for free (*glare at T(H)GSB*) should take your altruism back to 1999.
As mentioned previously, yes that would be a usable model, as long as all parties agreed and were made aware of it. Also, you used the word 'altruism' wrong. I suggest it be replaced by 'greediness', 'selfishness' or some such.
If you don't know what software does, don't install it. I know what I have installed on my computer, I know what it does, and I don't get surprised when I do (pkg_info|dpkg -l).
Do you seriously expect anyone to believe you when you say this? I can guarantee that you do NOT know exactly what you have on your computer.
You can't do a line by line code review, and if you could, do you think you could determine what it does? I suggest you take a programming course on proving algorithms. You look like you are attempting to say that a black box ad hoc analysis is fine to determine levels of safety for an end user.
pkg_info doesn't even begin to list out what you have installed. Can you tell me that the default installation doesn't have built in spyware? What, you sniffed the network and didn't see any bad traffic leaving your box? Can you honestly believe it is hard to detect when sniffers are active and obfuscate as, perhaps an ICMP or DNS packet? I am willing to bet that you can't tell me what version of /bin/sh you are running (and why) without looking into the code. How do you know it isn't a trojan reporting a random version number? Have you confirmed the the versions of FTP you use don't also send a copy of your data to some central server? Wouldn't you be pissed if it did? But, as you suggest, you only have yourself to blame.
Reread what you said and tell me if it doesn't sound arrogant. And ignorant.
You should look for a junior level position with a mentor, you are eager but way too naive and green.
More reliable and acceptable units would have to be in football fields. Of course, I measure my velocity in nano-parsec per micro-fortnights, but that's not a bad unit. I suppose for measuring the number of bits, one would need a good conversion for surface area as in GB per sq in... thus 240 GB could be construed as something like 2 micro-football fields.