You're right - the question really is 'would you use video-on-demand on your computer', and many people seem willing. Your comment, though, ignores the fact that video on demand only works 'well' for 1 (cable) of the 3 (air, cable, satellite) common video distribution systems. It happens to work very well for broadband.
The fact is that multiple recent studies (1 with a pretty picture) have shown that very desirable demographics (males, 21-30, for example) spend a LOT of time on the internet, which means advertising dollars will shift that way, too. If you can contain that audience in long-lasting, attention-heavy communication (like, say, video over IP), then you can make a significant amount of money.
If people are already at their computers, and you can get them to play a movie with ads (before, during, after), then there's money to be made, and that's what you'll see happen. The comfort level will increase (people who spend a lot of time in their chairs will buy better chairs and bigger monitors), and while it won't replace the TV for movies with loved ones, it may certainly replace (or at least, supplement for some percentage of the population) normal TV delivery methods for weekly shows.
Incidently, the video over IP has many other advantages, like giving amateur video producers the same opportunities that traditional podcasting gives amateur radio hosts - one of the ways people have been using vobbo is not necessarily as a blogging tool, but as an amateur video broadcast - it's essentially free ($45 webcam with mic), easy to distribute (links, RSS), and replaces the hassle of things like public access television.
They allow and perhaps encourage, but they don't force anything...
Visual Studio (VS newer than VS 6, up to and including VS 2005) is in the top 3 products MS has ever produced (behind MS Office and MS SQL Server). Powerful, flexible, and yes, it allows for very rapid development.
Well, it probably ran really fast for a few minutes, then broke.
Video drivers, as notoriously buggy and fragile as they are, don't handle clock speed changes very well at all. You can get a few percent without much problem, but the difficulty scale starts climbing much faster than CPU overclocking.
Congrats, though - it's only a matter of time until it happens in production chips.
For small websites that need 1-2 dynamic features ("news" and "mailing list", for example), it's cheaper to go with MySQL, where devs are all over and damn near everyshared hosting account supports it out of the box.
'General' implies usability in production systems. What you really want to read it as is this is the first non-beta release.
We tested many of our sites (including my personal favorite, vobbo, a site for video blogs) and found some very significant speed improvements, especially in some of the math functions (SIN, COS, etc).
1) It assumes there's a good reason for people to abandon MS. Security is close, but as we've seen with recent holes in Firefox/Mozilla, as other tools get popular, their security will come under attack, too. The price, perhaps, but 'free' versions of anything lack meaningful support, which kills it for a significant number of end users. Therefore, if there were a convincing reason for everyone to change (other than personal bias), this would be much more meaningful.
2) It assumes that it's the MS programs holding people back, when many desktops are tied because of third party software. For example, in my every-day job, I support dozens of workstations with Macromedia and Adobe software installed - neither of these run natively under Linux, and they run horribly under emulation. Yes, you can find replacement photo editors, but not really replacement video editors that are on par with After Effects, or replacements for Flash that have 95%+ installation base.
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It's worth mentioning that it's possible to trigger on known attack VECTORS rather than just known attacks - that is, on some vulnerabilities, all possible attacks will have a single signature at some point in the packet, which WILL be triggered. Moreover, some PROTOCOLS will always have the same signature, which may be hit as byproducts of the attack (ie: if I see an IRC packet coming from a webserver, I'm going to alert no matter what port it's on, or where it's going, because it shouldn't be there, period).
Snort can be bypassed in many scenarios, but it's still very useful.
I've always been unhappy with acrobat, and then Macromedia came out with FlashPaper (a SWF posing as a document). I didn't notice it at first, then I saw a resume come in with a FlashPaper attachment. Like most flash, it's got a very small filesize and loads fast.
It'll never be picked up by Microsoft (even though SWF is an open format), because MS is still trying to push it's Flash Killer line of graphics / motion tools. Real shame, because it's one of the better uses of Flash.
1) Honesty works better with technical folks; sugarcoating works better with business folks.
2) Reverse (1) for those concerned about financials or with titles beginning with 'C' - CFOs and COOs like honesty.
3) If your organization has more than 3 divisions, make sure that no employee is less than 5 levels away from the top - too many levels makes communication impossible
There's also a bit of complaining about the poor state of advanced education, which has some validity as well.
I spent a lot of money (in loans and scholarships) to go to a GREAT school. Many of my friends took the free ride to the local state school, and found that their professors didn't teach, the TAs didn't care, and they walked away knowing very little. The cause of this problem is complex, but the state of public secondary teaching is slacking, and that's bound to impact the graduates at some level, too.
Exactly. This post ignores salaries, R&D, and the fact that many (most?) of the chips Intel makes are NOT Pentium class chips, but rather, Cell phone and embedded processors.
The problem that's come up is that people have found it easier to file a civil lawsuit than accept defeat, and as we all know, defense against frivilous lawsuits is expensive and certainly not a guarantee, even if you're in the right.
The truth is an absolute defense against libel, but it's not going to protect you from a lawsuit.
Those interested in this subject should probably check out The Death of Free Speech by John Ziegler, a radio host who recently won a libel suit filed by a ex who happened to be a TV personality after making true statements about her on the air.
Because eventually something will 'go wrong' with it - for example, the first time they unplug it from the wall without powering down, and the kernel forces a check (e2fsck or whichever), and (because it's actively reading and writing all the time) some inconsistency is found: I'm not willing (due to past experiences attempting to support their electronics) to answer phone calls and walk them through an explanation of how to get the system live again.
It's a decision I made ages ago, and I highly recommend doing the same for anyone who does computer'ish work for a living.
But the age-old argument holds: this won't work for (just an example) my parents.
In the past, Tivo employees have been very helpful in helping users work around these types of issues - they don't really care if you record the show, install larger hard drives, pull video off to your computer, as long as they get their subscription fee.
Hopefully a workaround comes out and makes it to the forums.
After reading advisory, this actually isn't a hole in the IOS authentication, but in the proxy authentication for FTP and Telnet.
This opens the whole somewhat (ie: it's open to an untrusted userbase by its nature), but the original point still stands as good general practices.
The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition.
Devices that do not support, or are not configured for Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Services are not affected.
Devices configured with only Authentication Proxy for HTTP and/or HTTPS are not affected.
It's been pretty standard to ACL off authentication methods from unknown or untrusted networks for some time.
If you can only auth from a known network, then an overrun in that auth process still requires access to a restricted location, which will stop 99% of attacks (which are usually automated these days).
These are neat little boxes - we've managed 2 (the yellow appliance, and the blue mini appliance), and the performance of both was pretty nice.
The tools google provides (very easy binary updates, strong web control panel, for example) turn the relatively common task into a dead-simple, point-and-click configuration.
They even provide a decent interface for skinning the search pages, and while it's not perfect, it's certainly adequate for even the best looking sites on the internet.
The resolution isn't a big deal - we use virtually the same resolution for recording video blogs and the results are great. The color levels, though, will be the problems with this.
It'll be great to watch as it develops though - if we could send videos of drunk girls via email/MMS out to handheld paper displays, I think college students could die happy.
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Morons deserve what they get... buying real estate without due dilligence? You're going to get screwed on Earth, too.
You're right - the question really is 'would you use video-on-demand on your computer', and many people seem willing. Your comment, though, ignores the fact that video on demand only works 'well' for 1 (cable) of the 3 (air, cable, satellite) common video distribution systems. It happens to work very well for broadband.
The fact is that multiple recent studies (1 with a pretty picture) have shown that very desirable demographics (males, 21-30, for example) spend a LOT of time on the internet, which means advertising dollars will shift that way, too. If you can contain that audience in long-lasting, attention-heavy communication (like, say, video over IP), then you can make a significant amount of money.
If people are already at their computers, and you can get them to play a movie with ads (before, during, after), then there's money to be made, and that's what you'll see happen. The comfort level will increase (people who spend a lot of time in their chairs will buy better chairs and bigger monitors), and while it won't replace the TV for movies with loved ones, it may certainly replace (or at least, supplement for some percentage of the population) normal TV delivery methods for weekly shows.
Incidently, the video over IP has many other advantages, like giving amateur video producers the same opportunities that traditional podcasting gives amateur radio hosts - one of the ways people have been using vobbo is not necessarily as a blogging tool, but as an amateur video broadcast - it's essentially free ($45 webcam with mic), easy to distribute (links, RSS), and replaces the hassle of things like public access television.
What they really need to do is video blogging / video casting, and then buy a $45 logitech webcam with mic builtin.
Record your own TV shows, I'll comp anyone who's serious and does a science-related broadcast.
They allow and perhaps encourage, but they don't force anything...
Visual Studio (VS newer than VS 6, up to and including VS 2005) is in the top 3 products MS has ever produced (behind MS Office and MS SQL Server). Powerful, flexible, and yes, it allows for very rapid development.
Well, it probably ran really fast for a few minutes, then broke.
Video drivers, as notoriously buggy and fragile as they are, don't handle clock speed changes very well at all. You can get a few percent without much problem, but the difficulty scale starts climbing much faster than CPU overclocking.
Congrats, though - it's only a matter of time until it happens in production chips.
Fark? Is that you?
// Slashes are for fark, too. /// Where's the 'Boobies' link?
/ The checkbox thing has been done
Friend finders, using zip -> lat/long data to find people 'near' you (for some arbitrary radius).
Postgres was free ('as in beer') and free ('as in a real license'), and gave away these features long ago.
Besides, for 'freedom', the BSD license used by Postgres beats the GPL hands-down.
For small websites that need 1-2 dynamic features ("news" and "mailing list", for example), it's cheaper to go with MySQL, where devs are all over and damn near everyshared hosting account supports it out of the box.
'General' implies usability in production systems. What you really want to read it as is this is the first non-beta release.
We tested many of our sites (including my personal favorite, vobbo, a site for video blogs) and found some very significant speed improvements, especially in some of the math functions (SIN, COS, etc).
1) It assumes there's a good reason for people to abandon MS. Security is close, but as we've seen with recent holes in Firefox/Mozilla, as other tools get popular, their security will come under attack, too. The price, perhaps, but 'free' versions of anything lack meaningful support, which kills it for a significant number of end users. Therefore, if there were a convincing reason for everyone to change (other than personal bias), this would be much more meaningful.
2) It assumes that it's the MS programs holding people back, when many desktops are tied because of third party software. For example, in my every-day job, I support dozens of workstations with Macromedia and Adobe software installed - neither of these run natively under Linux, and they run horribly under emulation. Yes, you can find replacement photo editors, but not really replacement video editors that are on par with After Effects, or replacements for Flash that have 95%+ installation base.
It's worth mentioning that it's possible to trigger on known attack VECTORS rather than just known attacks - that is, on some vulnerabilities, all possible attacks will have a single signature at some point in the packet, which WILL be triggered. Moreover, some PROTOCOLS will always have the same signature, which may be hit as byproducts of the attack (ie: if I see an IRC packet coming from a webserver, I'm going to alert no matter what port it's on, or where it's going, because it shouldn't be there, period).
Snort can be bypassed in many scenarios, but it's still very useful.
I've always been unhappy with acrobat, and then Macromedia came out with FlashPaper (a SWF posing as a document). I didn't notice it at first, then I saw a resume come in with a FlashPaper attachment. Like most flash, it's got a very small filesize and loads fast.
It'll never be picked up by Microsoft (even though SWF is an open format), because MS is still trying to push it's Flash Killer line of graphics / motion tools. Real shame, because it's one of the better uses of Flash.
A few things that have helped me:
1) Honesty works better with technical folks; sugarcoating works better with business folks.
2) Reverse (1) for those concerned about financials or with titles beginning with 'C' - CFOs and COOs like honesty.
3) If your organization has more than 3 divisions, make sure that no employee is less than 5 levels away from the top - too many levels makes communication impossible
I don't know how valid your cash cow point is - from what I've seen, a talented engineer still gets to name his price in Orange County.
.NET/SQL Server dev for 8+ months, and couldn't find anyone who was qualified and could pass a basic competancy test.
We had a position open for a
There's also a bit of complaining about the poor state of advanced education, which has some validity as well.
I spent a lot of money (in loans and scholarships) to go to a GREAT school. Many of my friends took the free ride to the local state school, and found that their professors didn't teach, the TAs didn't care, and they walked away knowing very little. The cause of this problem is complex, but the state of public secondary teaching is slacking, and that's bound to impact the graduates at some level, too.
Just FYI, since I see this come up a lot -
You can take a screenshot of a Windows Media Player by disabling Overlays:
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Uncheck 'Use Overlays'
Exactly. This post ignores salaries, R&D, and the fact that many (most?) of the chips Intel makes are NOT Pentium class chips, but rather, Cell phone and embedded processors.
Hype article, no real news value.
The problem that's come up is that people have found it easier to file a civil lawsuit than accept defeat, and as we all know, defense against frivilous lawsuits is expensive and certainly not a guarantee, even if you're in the right.
The truth is an absolute defense against libel, but it's not going to protect you from a lawsuit.
Those interested in this subject should probably check out The Death of Free Speech by John Ziegler, a radio host who recently won a libel suit filed by a ex who happened to be a TV personality after making true statements about her on the air.
Because eventually something will 'go wrong' with it - for example, the first time they unplug it from the wall without powering down, and the kernel forces a check (e2fsck or whichever), and (because it's actively reading and writing all the time) some inconsistency is found: I'm not willing (due to past experiences attempting to support their electronics) to answer phone calls and walk them through an explanation of how to get the system live again.
It's a decision I made ages ago, and I highly recommend doing the same for anyone who does computer'ish work for a living.
But the age-old argument holds: this won't work for (just an example) my parents.
In the past, Tivo employees have been very helpful in helping users work around these types of issues - they don't really care if you record the show, install larger hard drives, pull video off to your computer, as long as they get their subscription fee.
Hopefully a workaround comes out and makes it to the forums.
This opens the whole somewhat (ie: it's open to an untrusted userbase by its nature), but the original point still stands as good general practices.
It's been pretty standard to ACL off authentication methods from unknown or untrusted networks for some time.
If you can only auth from a known network, then an overrun in that auth process still requires access to a restricted location, which will stop 99% of attacks (which are usually automated these days).
These are neat little boxes - we've managed 2 (the yellow appliance, and the blue mini appliance), and the performance of both was pretty nice.
The tools google provides (very easy binary updates, strong web control panel, for example) turn the relatively common task into a dead-simple, point-and-click configuration.
They even provide a decent interface for skinning the search pages, and while it's not perfect, it's certainly adequate for even the best looking sites on the internet.
The resolution isn't a big deal - we use virtually the same resolution for recording video blogs and the results are great. The color levels, though, will be the problems with this.
It'll be great to watch as it develops though - if we could send videos of drunk girls via email/MMS out to handheld paper displays, I think college students could die happy.