i know i have a 99% probability i'm just feeding a troll, but tell him this:
If you are currently leading a large media-oriented company, and have less affinity with technology then a 3-year old, STEP DOWN, Just jump out the window with that golden parachute, perhaps use some of your golden-handshake to set up a business which you know stuff about, and perhaps something you actually enjoy doing (hand-building wooden sail-boats for all i care, just do something you like). Todays Media corporations needs to deal with technology, there is no escaping it, and someone who doesnt understand what is going on out there is the last guy you want making large business decisions.
Besides, if he isnt a bad guy, there are probably thousands of things he would enjoy doing more then being a record company CEO
pulling a Star Destroyer out of the sky was a novel and creative (if poorly implemented) idea.
Fully agreed, the sequence is nice, but it took me forever to actually pull it off, it took a while for me to realize you can just force-lightning the ties, and need to take multiple cycles to actually kill the thing, i was stuck on that for ages (threw the game aside for a year out of frustration), now i'm stuck in the section where you walk down the death-star laser channel and need to allign those rings... F-in sucks
I just hope they leave out those time-limited puzzles, the rest of the game was very nice
arent bunkers more about how deep you go, rather then how much surface area they have?
a two story bunker with x square meters is preferable to the same surface area in a single floor bunker even, as it reduces the surface area exposed to forces from above, which is where your threats are, bunker-wise.
oh yes i know, "hand in you geek-card", "judging from his high UID" and all that, with some hot gritts and a naked and petrified natalie portman thrown in..
i just found it noteworthy that starting tomorrow, SP2 is no longer actively supported, i should have known anything MS related wont work for a reasonable discussion on/.
I didnt mean to imply MS has any kind of responsability to keep support going for SP2 longer, i much more agree with cmdrTaco's stance "from the better-get-patching dept". My goal wasnt to start a whole new thread of MS bashing, more to just notify people about the end of SP2 support, which i think is significant for most nerds/geeks, even if they moved themselves to *nix ages ago, their parents/siblings/friends might still run SP2 somewhere.
Not to mention that SP2 made XP actually good, sp1 was OK as well, but SP2 was a pretty big thing.
Holy crap, that app made me smile and cry at the same time...
Android Market has reviews and popularity... how in the hell is that "unmoderated"?
From what i understand, apple does remove some total crapware once in a while from the app-store, including all those "bikini girl pictures FREE" apps which just clog up the pipes for no added value what so ever, i thought the android marketplace is completely open to any and all apps. As much as i hate apple for their approval policies, some level of QA is probably a plus (and apple is taking it way to far)
i'll just reply to you, since many others have already replied to me saying search etc..
I dont care if people want fart apps, or even milions of them, but if, when browsing an app-store, i end up wading through thousands of pieces of junk to find one or two actually good apps, that is annoying. I find this already happens a lot on the apple app-store, the mechanisms for searching etc. simply arent 'fast' enough for my taste, i spend too much time scrolling or whatever.
truth be told, i am very curious about android and the android market, i have no doubt that as soon as my contract is up for renewal i'll get a nice android phone
If this means the android market is gonna be filled up with apps made by toddlers and high-school girls.
Seriously though, props to google for making android development even more accesible, i just hope this doesnt result in milions upon milions of fart-apps and such, their largely unmoderated app-store is one of the reasons i want an android phone instead of an iphone, but this might become a tad painfull is left unchecked
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"Yet lack of uptake by young people will hardly stop the rush to apps. There’s too much potential upside."
Eh? I thought the entire drive behind the iphone and the appstore is young people... without them apple wouldnt be making money hand over fist, and not everyone and their grandma would be building apps to 'get rich quick'TM
If young people didnt care about apps, no one would make them, since there wouldnt be any benefit to doing so at all.
i'm not sure about C, but in java the required signature for the executable 'main' method includes an array for CLI style arguments, even if they arent used in the actual code.
Just a way for the compiler/runtime/whatever to only have to handle one single type of method signature as the main thread of execution i guess
The same, i was implying that since MS is US based, the various TLAs from the US have the best chances of acquiring a back door into windows
Sure, russia et all might be able to find a peephole in their limited view of the source, but if there are any real TLA backdoors, they will be in the parts the russians dont get
The mouse hardware may be cheaper, but it requires much more complicated software which makes mouse more expensive.
What are you smoking, and can i have some? Mouse hard/software is incredibly generic and simple, if this machine runs software based even losely on any OS used in the past 15 years, it will have built-in mouse support.
As for the ipod touch comment, i dont know if you have one, but it just doesnt work for anything serious. It's ok for casual browsing or even short forum posts, but for anything more then a one-liner i would much prefer even my cramped 7" netbook. the ipod would be fine for the kids to reads news and twitter, but any serious creative work (which is the direction you want to head in with these things, you want the kids to learn to use the computer constructively) is pretty much prohibited.
On the upside, given apple's margins and with some cutting in the specs (8gb of flash is hugely overspecced), an ipod touch like pda should be possible for a few tenners
F) Grid networking. Instead of crowding around a single access point that might not be in reach, a school full of OLPC's can piggyback on eachother's signals to get much further than otherwise possible.
Isnt this pretty much a software/firmware feature? i doubt that the OLPC has some really special hardware inside to make this work..
But yeah, the OLPC is pretty much a rugedized netbook, putting normal netbooks in the same environment wouldnt work well
Last I heard (which, admittedly, was around 2002), the source code that they provide is not enough to build a complete Windows system, and the license does not permit building it, only reviewing it, so this only lets you find (but not fix) accidental flaws, not malicious ones.
What use is it anyway then? I gather the russians (and brits, americans, chinese) want to be able to fully review the software in order to clear it for national security, what would be the point of only getting 90% of the code, and being allowed to build from it?
i'd say a specific linux build for national security sensitive applications is in order, in every country which might want to stop the US or MS from spying in their stuff (which is everyone, including the US themselves)
Even if writing vulnerability-free software proves impossible, MS could hire a few of these researches to full-time check their software for vulnerabilities
Security researchers might have some moral obligation to not put the general public at risk, microsoft's obligation to keep their users safe (in this case enlarged by the fact that their userbase is MASSIVE and historically attracts hackers like no other) is much larger and solid.
make you write a piece of sample code, using.net, C#, visual basic or any but the most basic win32 apis is an instant fail...
Or they put you in a room with some glass walls and a couple of chairs, and speakers spouting 'google is awesome' for a few hours... guess what the clue is..
But what if Microsoft are currently spending their time fixing a major security hole that is currently being exploited. Isn't it reasonable for them to prioritise that over some newly discovered bug that nobody knows about just because some hacker wants their 15 minutes of fame immediately?
How is the researcher supposed to know if MS is really swamped with work, or if they are just stalling?
Anyway, as far as i am concerned, if a researchers finds a vulnerability through his own effort without use of non-public info from third parties (i.e. no internal MS documents), he is allowed to publish that at will, (it is information that can be derived from publicly available knowledge/software after all), any lead time he gives the company behind the software is just courtesy, and in no way required.
Now obviously i would prefer it if a researcher gives the company a good lead (reasonable, not a day, but also not a few months) and the vulnerability gets patched before exploits turn up in the wild, but if companies like MS will happily sit on published vulnerabilities for months or even years without a fix, screw them, they prove they dont do anything with given lead-time, so they dont deserve it.
Makes sense, then apple can do an iphone 5 with a new kernel, endeavour to improve lots of stuff on that on the ihpone vista (six, if you keep count) and then take back the market with the iphone 7...
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How about SSL-ed usenet? a decent usenet account is under 10 dollars a month, will allow SSL connections and gets you 20mbit downstream
i know i have a 99% probability i'm just feeding a troll, but tell him this:
If you are currently leading a large media-oriented company, and have less affinity with technology then a 3-year old, STEP DOWN, Just jump out the window with that golden parachute, perhaps use some of your golden-handshake to set up a business which you know stuff about, and perhaps something you actually enjoy doing (hand-building wooden sail-boats for all i care, just do something you like). Todays Media corporations needs to deal with technology, there is no escaping it, and someone who doesnt understand what is going on out there is the last guy you want making large business decisions.
Besides, if he isnt a bad guy, there are probably thousands of things he would enjoy doing more then being a record company CEO
pulling a Star Destroyer out of the sky was a novel and creative (if poorly implemented) idea.
Fully agreed, the sequence is nice, but it took me forever to actually pull it off, it took a while for me to realize you can just force-lightning the ties, and need to take multiple cycles to actually kill the thing, i was stuck on that for ages (threw the game aside for a year out of frustration), now i'm stuck in the section where you walk down the death-star laser channel and need to allign those rings... F-in sucks
I just hope they leave out those time-limited puzzles, the rest of the game was very nice
arent bunkers more about how deep you go, rather then how much surface area they have?
a two story bunker with x square meters is preferable to the same surface area in a single floor bunker even, as it reduces the surface area exposed to forces from above, which is where your threats are, bunker-wise.
posted it in the main thread already, but this is the source i have on it:
http://laws.qualys.com/2010/05/end-of-life-for-windows-xp-sp.html
My own company (world wide ~90000 employees) pushed SP3 only just a few months ago, and we are actually an IT-minded club
oh yes i know, "hand in you geek-card", "judging from his high UID" and all that, with some hot gritts and a naked and petrified natalie portman thrown in..
i just found it noteworthy that starting tomorrow, SP2 is no longer actively supported, i should have known anything MS related wont work for a reasonable discussion on /.
http://laws.qualys.com/2010/05/end-of-life-for-windows-xp-sp.html
That article states SP2 is still used on 50% of XP machines
submitter here,
I didnt mean to imply MS has any kind of responsability to keep support going for SP2 longer, i much more agree with cmdrTaco's stance "from the better-get-patching dept". My goal wasnt to start a whole new thread of MS bashing, more to just notify people about the end of SP2 support, which i think is significant for most nerds/geeks, even if they moved themselves to *nix ages ago, their parents/siblings/friends might still run SP2 somewhere.
Not to mention that SP2 made XP actually good, sp1 was OK as well, but SP2 was a pretty big thing.
piece of crap apps
Holy crap, that app made me smile and cry at the same time...
Android Market has reviews and popularity ... how in the hell is that "unmoderated"?
From what i understand, apple does remove some total crapware once in a while from the app-store, including all those "bikini girl pictures FREE" apps which just clog up the pipes for no added value what so ever, i thought the android marketplace is completely open to any and all apps. As much as i hate apple for their approval policies, some level of QA is probably a plus (and apple is taking it way to far)
i'll just reply to you, since many others have already replied to me saying search etc..
I dont care if people want fart apps, or even milions of them, but if, when browsing an app-store, i end up wading through thousands of pieces of junk to find one or two actually good apps, that is annoying. I find this already happens a lot on the apple app-store, the mechanisms for searching etc. simply arent 'fast' enough for my taste, i spend too much time scrolling or whatever.
truth be told, i am very curious about android and the android market, i have no doubt that as soon as my contract is up for renewal i'll get a nice android phone
If this means the android market is gonna be filled up with apps made by toddlers and high-school girls.
Seriously though, props to google for making android development even more accesible, i just hope this doesnt result in milions upon milions of fart-apps and such, their largely unmoderated app-store is one of the reasons i want an android phone instead of an iphone, but this might become a tad painfull is left unchecked
"Yet lack of uptake by young people will hardly stop the rush to apps. There’s too much potential upside."
Eh? I thought the entire drive behind the iphone and the appstore is young people... without them apple wouldnt be making money hand over fist, and not everyone and their grandma would be building apps to 'get rich quick'TM
If young people didnt care about apps, no one would make them, since there wouldnt be any benefit to doing so at all.
i'm not sure about C, but in java the required signature for the executable 'main' method includes an array for CLI style arguments, even if they arent used in the actual code.
Just a way for the compiler/runtime/whatever to only have to handle one single type of method signature as the main thread of execution i guess
yeah, i mean, i'm recompiling my armchair kernel rightnow.
I do want to upgrade soon though, compiling takes ages on my 1950s armchair, but its just so comfy.
not to mention that lots of people these days play on 1920*1080 or above screen (the ones spending 500 bucks on a vga card anyway)
and with eyefinity out on the loose, some people play these games spanning three monitors
The same, i was implying that since MS is US based, the various TLAs from the US have the best chances of acquiring a back door into windows
Sure, russia et all might be able to find a peephole in their limited view of the source, but if there are any real TLA backdoors, they will be in the parts the russians dont get
The mouse hardware may be cheaper, but it requires much more complicated software which makes mouse more expensive.
What are you smoking, and can i have some? Mouse hard/software is incredibly generic and simple, if this machine runs software based even losely on any OS used in the past 15 years, it will have built-in mouse support.
As for the ipod touch comment, i dont know if you have one, but it just doesnt work for anything serious. It's ok for casual browsing or even short forum posts, but for anything more then a one-liner i would much prefer even my cramped 7" netbook. the ipod would be fine for the kids to reads news and twitter, but any serious creative work (which is the direction you want to head in with these things, you want the kids to learn to use the computer constructively) is pretty much prohibited.
On the upside, given apple's margins and with some cutting in the specs (8gb of flash is hugely overspecced), an ipod touch like pda should be possible for a few tenners
F) Grid networking. Instead of crowding around a single access point that might not be in reach, a school full of OLPC's can piggyback on eachother's signals to get much further than otherwise possible.
Isnt this pretty much a software/firmware feature? i doubt that the OLPC has some really special hardware inside to make this work..
But yeah, the OLPC is pretty much a rugedized netbook, putting normal netbooks in the same environment wouldnt work well
Last I heard (which, admittedly, was around 2002), the source code that they provide is not enough to build a complete Windows system, and the license does not permit building it, only reviewing it, so this only lets you find (but not fix) accidental flaws, not malicious ones.
What use is it anyway then? I gather the russians (and brits, americans, chinese) want to be able to fully review the software in order to clear it for national security, what would be the point of only getting 90% of the code, and being allowed to build from it?
i'd say a specific linux build for national security sensitive applications is in order, in every country which might want to stop the US or MS from spying in their stuff (which is everyone, including the US themselves)
heartbeat signals?
"hmm, node 1642 hasnt reported in over 30 seconds, better kill off that subnet"
and for backwards compatibility with previous solutions it should respond be being called 'bitch'
which is no excuse to give up on the whole idea
Even if writing vulnerability-free software proves impossible, MS could hire a few of these researches to full-time check their software for vulnerabilities
Security researchers might have some moral obligation to not put the general public at risk, microsoft's obligation to keep their users safe (in this case enlarged by the fact that their userbase is MASSIVE and historically attracts hackers like no other) is much larger and solid.
make you write a piece of sample code, using .net, C#, visual basic or any but the most basic win32 apis is an instant fail...
Or they put you in a room with some glass walls and a couple of chairs, and speakers spouting 'google is awesome' for a few hours... guess what the clue is..
But what if Microsoft are currently spending their time fixing a major security hole that is currently being exploited. Isn't it reasonable for them to prioritise that over some newly discovered bug that nobody knows about just because some hacker wants their 15 minutes of fame immediately?
How is the researcher supposed to know if MS is really swamped with work, or if they are just stalling?
Anyway, as far as i am concerned, if a researchers finds a vulnerability through his own effort without use of non-public info from third parties (i.e. no internal MS documents), he is allowed to publish that at will, (it is information that can be derived from publicly available knowledge/software after all), any lead time he gives the company behind the software is just courtesy, and in no way required.
Now obviously i would prefer it if a researcher gives the company a good lead (reasonable, not a day, but also not a few months) and the vulnerability gets patched before exploits turn up in the wild, but if companies like MS will happily sit on published vulnerabilities for months or even years without a fix, screw them, they prove they dont do anything with given lead-time, so they dont deserve it.
Makes sense, then apple can do an iphone 5 with a new kernel, endeavour to improve lots of stuff on that on the ihpone vista (six, if you keep count) and then take back the market with the iphone 7...