The first thing i thought of is that if they leave off all the exploding bits, we must be thinking of some revolutionary way to make it LEO. Perhaps maglav or a space elevator. Never underestimate those minds at NASA.
But seriously, the current technology depends on the exploding bits. And, reaslistically, things that have been used a lot, perhaps have failed, and have been fixed, will tend to more reliable that designing something from scratch.
So the key is can a failure mode be fixed. Challenge was realy a bone head accident, probably caused by bonehead high level official(outside of NASA), that do not understand anything more complex than keeping their mistress away from their wife. The issue that destroyed Culombia, I believe, is a more complex set of design flaws that are difficult to fix, but clearly depends on several levels of converging events. There are probably other issues like this.
As mentioned, it is an extremely good design. What I have heard is the shuttle will be hard to justify as a human rated design. As such it will be reworked as a transport that is cargo rate. A new type of safer simpler transport will be human rated. Perhpas we will have a third rating in the middle, monkey rated, that will be reserved for the bonehead officials that believe space travel is merely a political expediency.
It seems that may be a matter of formulating the question, or reference frame, or evaluating the assumptions.
For example, water will flow downhill. It does so to minimize the energy of the particles. This energy, perhaps, came from the sun, resulting in evaportation. We know how to make liquid water go uphill, but it doesn't happen in nature. We could relate time this inevitable flow of the water, which we do but not globaly.
Entropy seems to be increasing, but I believe it is dangerout to relate it directly to the arrow of time. For instance, we routinely decrease the entropy of local environments. Does this mean that time is moving backwards in those enviroments, and faster in the space where we exhaust the compensating entropy?
The explaination of time is an area for prime work, as is the GUT. It might,a s you say, be the same question. We think that light does not experience time, that the photon is it's own antiparticle, which is interesting because an antiparticle can be modeled as a particle moving backwards in time.
IMHO the outcome is going to be as strange as Newtonian mechaics fraturing into Relitivity and QM. Both came about the formulation of the photon, adn the resulting trouble, at least in a roundabout way. First the ultraviolent catastrophe followed by the need for a medium. The former told us the physical laws were not the same across all size, the later that Newtons assertion of fixed reference frame, which defied his asseriton of no preferable reference frame. So we quantized matter and made events reletive to the observer, and then made space time reletive to the observer.
Interesting both lead to many other catastophes, and IMHO, it is our formulation of time that is at issue, and the photon lack of time may provide the solution. It may very well be that when we find a GUT, the four dimensional space time may emerge as a composit property of the n-dimension, n>>4, real space, and while all dimensions may be reversible, time may be a strange artifact of the universe.
Which is to say that i have never seen anything to indicate that anyone really knows, and it is really going to take people looking very hard at the places where we stuck in fudge factors to make the theories fit reality. Everyone knows that the realities don't fit, and some scientist explore those holes. The rest make sure the math and data is correct on the existing work. The fact that our computers work and building stay up and LED all go blink blink mean we aare doing prety good.
I don't know what MS is going to do. They survive because of branding even though they provide no end to end solutions. They will license software, and people have to liscense the software because they have proprietary files to read, but MS does not have a product that provides a unique solution, only legacy solutions.
Now one may say look at IBM, but I would say look at compaq and DEC. IBM provides solutions, where MS just provides software. Everytime MS tries to provide solutions it can't because it has no control over hardware. And I think people are looking at why they spend so much money on legacy product.
What saves MS is that they have the hardware people by the nuts. Until the new adminisitration in washington, there was hope that MS would once again be subject to freee market forces. That hope is over. The next hope is that the $300 computers might start pushing vendors to other OS. It is like in the old days when a computer could get no cheaper that it's power supply. Now a computer get no cheaper than it's legacy OS.
I don't think it is democracy, I think it is the US system. Old george and his good old boys were not looking for a democracy, they just did not want to pay taxes anymore. It was cutting too much into thier profits, and impacting thier ability to be the royalty of the new world.
You see, the colonists hated the royalty because they were money without work, and the royalty hated the coonist because they had money buy no culture. The colonist for some reason thought that money made them equal.
So Even though the English crown had funding the Americas, at no small expense, the colonist just wanted to be rid of them. So george, who was a major in America under british rule, and with the platantion inherieted from his father, got a group of equally greedy people together to fight the british. Greed is definitely a good thing.
But when they got the country, they did not trust democracy. The president was elected by the elite of the elite. Only the elite could vote. Men of the wrong color and women, though possible human, could not vote. Too little has changed.
The freedom to persue happiness was a freedom to persue unfettered profit.
I like this, except for one thing. Ditch the GUI. GUI are designed to take advantage of the mind remembering things when they see a key word, the ability for us to skim a page quickly, and the habit we form.
Therefore except in few situations, i would not think it would very useful. Apple type menus that are always in the same might be useful, but Windows menu that move and continuously change, even within an application, would be difficult. The GUI also eats up system resources that could be used for things more useful for a blind person.
Therefore it seems to me that we are talking about something that is comman line driven.
Now if we could get a device in which the screen in captured in brail, then that would be cool. However, there would still be the problem with bone head site designer. A flash on the homepage is quite useless. Using icons for navigation, and then not naming the icon with a descriptive img tag is just criminal.
That is so not true. The reason the US has low speed internet is that there is no money in it, and the goverment structure, at least after 2000, changed so that there were no longer any incentives. Pre-2000 there was real compitition. I did not have to go with local service provider. Today SBC has out nuts in a vise.
In effect, the current administration decided that the telco and cable were sufficient compition and allowed everyone else to be squeezed. Niether of these have an incetive to provide high bandwidth because it would squeeze other bussiness units.
A very good and recent analysis of this is in foreign affairs. It details the policy change that lead to the US becoming a technological backwater.
A wonderful quote from matt groening when the actors were negotiating new pay packages for the simpsons.
I have sympathy. They are incredibly talented, and they deserve a chance to be as rich and miserable as anyone else in Hollywood... Hold out for as much money as you can get, but make the deal...
There are creatures who build things, there are creatures protect things, there are creatures that try to destroy things, and there are creatures that allows everyone else the freedom to do whatever it is that they do. In the olden these later creatures were know as wizards or witches. In modern days they are called lawyers.
After all, where else would you go it you needed an incantion to make someone else do something they ordinarily would not, or to counteract another spell from working.
In the end, I do not think the movie would have been much different at all.
People have been suggesting that we put solar panels in orbit, preferable in a ring, for a long time. From about the 70s many have been convinced that we have the technology to do so. They are not really correct. The effeciency of solar panels and their tendency to quickly degrade in the cosmic radiation has only recently been somewhat solved. It is still very expensive to launch and biuld space structures. My thought would be that we burn more fuel and put more toxins in the world through the launch than we save with the solar panels. I would hope we prove we can finish a space station before entering into the scifi.
Then there is the issue of tranporting the energy to earth. It could be beamed to earth and captured. We can minimize the intensity of the beam by having it recieved over a very large area, say a squre mile, but a small error in trajectory could mean the bean hits 30 miles away. There are probably tracts of 1000 square miles of land avaialbe. Maybe part of Utah would do. Of course we would want to keep it local so we do not have to worry about price fixing. We could shoot it out the other direction and have it push ships out of the solar system.
Of course much of rings are discussed in Ringworld by Niven. A very good set of books.
My name is Prince omar en caver ensanado and i am in desperate need of help. My heard of unicorns are kiled by very bad men who have taken over my country of narnia. We need helps to buy food and supplies to keep alive the unicorns.
I know that you are a good child, and will be willing to help. I am also able to pay great money for the help. If you can email your momy or dadys bank account and social secutrity number, I put lots of money in the account. They be very happy and thank you for long time for making them so much money. In return we just need to spend some of it on food and some fun army stuff.
If you me help reply please. The poor little unicorns are dying. To deposit the money in you parents account and make them very happy, I need you to buy some stuff and leave in wardrobe at place I tell you later. you can buy with credit cards. We give you gillions of dollars as soon as we get the stuff.
Please help! You want to make parent happy and be good child, yes. you don't want to be bad child? Pleas reply and I tell you what you must buy. All this ok, i promise, cross my hert!
I am not sure why you are so critical of Grean's quadrilateral as the modern critic no long calls the work ugly. Grean was a misunderstood artist who created object D'art far beyond the ability of his contemporaries to contemplate. All of them said, like, yeah, it a quadrilateral. Very nice. But it would be pretty, if like maybe, it had some paint or elephant dung or even better a nude study on it. Or at least if the angles of four sides reflected the classical dimensions or orientation.
Certainly the world was scandalized when Grean's quadrilateral began to sell for hundred of thousands of dollars and began to grace the walls of museums and executive boardrooms alike. And the grant from NEA, for funding to transform the quadrilateral to polygon with increasing number of vertices, nearly caused congress to dissolve the entity.
We know now that all those people missed Grean's genius. It was not about the quadrilateral or the polygons, or even the material, be it found objects like scrap metal, wrapping paper, wood, or old panties. It was about forcing these things from the found form to the structured bounded state that the world demands of us all. It was about one person's vision to create a contrived blank onto which each one of us could reflect on our own realities, hopes, dreams, and mortality.
I can see many people saying that there is no use to this. It can never be used. But I think this is a really cool device. The number of technologies that have been put together to make this is just incredible. I mean just the ability to stick and unstick the keys is pretty sharp.
I am not a person who really messes with my computer, at least anymore, but i can see myself getting this just to play with. I can use a qwerty keyboard, but if I couldn't, this would be great. The ability to spread and place 50 keys might do wonders for effeciency.
The one application i did think of was presentations with smart boards. There is not a lot of typing, but there is screen captures, moving back and forth between slides, turning on and off music, and the like. This would make a good control board.
In all the comments, i did not see any that addresses the issue of the name. I mean MS has the one of the greatest marketing department on the planet, and yet the chose 'least privilidged'. I mean who wants to be least. I want to be the most. So why not the most secure account. Or the Best user account. Or the Highest Karma Account. I know that they can't go with anything as plain or discriptive as 'Root' and 'User', or even defining what the user needs, as a continium, but they could have come up with a better name. If they realy wanted to.
I think that is pretty much what the US wanted to do after MS was convicted in a court of law, under the rule of law, of being a monopoly. But then the the frat boy got elected and decided that all that legal stuff was just too complicated, and MS was realy just a group of good old boys never meanin' no harm.
Likewise, it is what the EU is trying to do with Windows N. However they did not back it up with enough force, i.e. opening of standards and opening of contracts, so no vendor really feels confortable installing it. Unless futher legal changes are made, it is probably still fatal to get on MS bad side.
It would seem that after 10 years the richest software developer in the world would have caught up with the state of the art. I mean a search box? Is that the best they can do. I mean for those of us that have been browsing the internet for all that time, and a bit more, IE has always been the laughing stock. It is a very good application front end, a terminal really, but a horrible browser.
Which is realy not the fault fo the devolopers. I am sure they are very good. But when the goal is get and keep clients, and force is an option, one has a hard time justifing a customer centered approach to development. I mean it is kind of a waste of time to sweet talk a victim if you are just going to knock him out and take his money.
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the shoe phone. And the umbrella of silence. We were promised shoe phones and umbrellas of silence.
You know, it would be nice if we tried to solve the problem by concentrating on the factors that acutaly cause harm rather than trying to put everything we don't like into the evil class.
There are things about malware that are very bad. They install without the users knowledge. There is no obvious way to remove the software. If the software is removed, there is often a backup that gets reinstalled, a la IE. There is no indication in the pop up windows about where they originate. If the software is removed, there might be a hidden bit left on the computer meant to collect information.
These are bad things. This is what the article was about, this is what the AG is prosecuting. If someone makes an application that can be used for free, and chooses to attach advertisment, that hardly rises to the level of malware, as long as the user knows the application was installed, and it can be completely removed. In the example of weatherbug, yes they should put a bigger notice on their page that the free version is adware, but that is a minor point.
If we try to combine all adware with Malware we will be in the same boat as Spam. Not all UCE should be treated as spam. Some UCE does have the proper headers, and one can properly harras the company that sent it. It is only the bogus UCE, or the misleading UCE, that needs to be destroyed. By trying to get rid of everything, we end up with no impovement.
This is simply a way to stop the primary defense of corps: that our policy does not allow such actions, the contracted third party was not following policy,therefore the third party is to blame, not us.
Much of the outsourcing of major firms appears to be outsource risk. Walmart outsources janatorial servie, therefore Walmart is not liable for the fact that illigal aliens are cleaning thier stores, or the fact that thier demand for illigal alliens increases the demand for coyote, which increases cross border crime. MS outsources most software support to the reseller, so has little risk when the software does not work. Tax evaders, i.e. unpatriortic terrorist who want our soliers to die due to insuffecient equipment, outsource the risk associated with thier money laundering by having lawyer sign letter saying the they believe the criminal actvity is not actionable.
So, in this case, all the AG is saying is that at some point paying someone to go to jail for you will no longer acceptable. At some point we have to have the criminals in jails, not their proxies. Not that is not like a automatic blacklisted in which a spam will result in a reply to the the from: line. The AG will have humans researching the path of money and accociations.
This was kind of what I was thinking, but from a different point of view. To me customer satisfaction is due in a large part to gentle customer management. For instance, customers will request outlandish things, and in my experience, the best satifaction come when the response is not explaining what can't happen, but what can. For instance, if a customer wants a part, and i can't supply the part at a good price, it is a good idea to see if an equal part available. Or if I call SBC for DSL and ask why after two months it has not been installed, telling me the scheduling software is broken is not good customer service. I did not ask if the software worked, I asked when it would be installed.
Another part of managing customers is making sure they understand what they are buying. Many problems start with marketing lying to the customer. For instance, Apple now has problem becuase they are warrenting from some fictitious ship date instead of customer purchase. The PC manufacturers sell cheap computers yet promist the world. Of course the customers are upset. ISP and modem manufacturers promise high speed that does not exist.
On a good example are some iindustrial parts, for example pumps. They are expensive and wear out. That is told up front. One can rent them or pay a yearly serivce contract. Replacement parts are periodically shipped quickly and without questions, irregardless of the condition of the original unit.
The reliability of hard drives is an issue, but I do not see it is as Apple's big problem. The DVD drive, the mother board, the screen, these have been the issues for me. All of these have gone out before the HD. In any case, a HD is a known failure point, data should be backed up, and the HD can be replaced by the user. I know that lately many people have had serious problems with the HD, but i think that can be fixed by Apple reestablishing it's quality, and stop trying to meet a price point.
I do think that if an 18 GB solid state memeory card can be had for the price of a hard disk, that might lead some nice products. For instance, a 10" solid state iBook might be an in demand product. A power book with a hard disk and flash drive might resolve the issue with the powerbook having below average mass storage capacity.
Well, if I am speeding, and the cops pull me over,and accidently shoots me, that is a very bad thing, and hopefully the cop will be prosecuted, but I was knowingly breaking the law, and sometimes, even in the US where things are mostly fair, punishments are not always reasonable.
In the schools the same thing happens. The students is told not use their cell phone or music player in class. They choose to challenge that request,and the teacher has not choice but to enforce boundries and take the item up. The students might be used to getting the item back, but the teacher may or may not do so. The teacher may in fact it place in some random donation box. It is fair? Maybe not, but we all know we take risks when we break the rules.
Proabaly a number of people agree with you. They probably also think that if someone does not lock an item up, and that item is stolen, it is the not the fault of the thief, but the owner. People used to believe that killing minorities was great fun, and some still like to kill gay people.
We really don't know what happened in the school, or how much the students provoked the staff. It is my experience that if the police are called in it is because the students are not allowing the other students to learn. In this case the choice is between possibly destroying the life of a few students, or allowing them to destroy the future of the rest of the school.
What we do know is that the students broke the rules, and now seem to be too wussy to take the consequences.
First, anyone who would mistake then name of Nichelle Nichols, or not care enough to check the proper spelling, has no right to be writing a book on scifi. She is the most beautiful and undisputed goddess of the cult sci fi universe, with the possible exception of Sigourney Weaver. All of these anorexic newcomers, little more than screen filler, should just pray to have the her presence.
But seriously, I can't understand why this book is of any interest. It appears to be full of stupid errors, and seems to add nothing to the existing canon. I was expected the reviewer to say that it was mostly intolerable, but had a few gems that made it worthwhile. This is after all why we have book reviews. Not to tell what not to read, but what we might not ordinarily read, but might nevertheless enjoy. Of course, in an era where the only popular books are movie rewrites(thank you so much start wars), insightful reviews are too much to ask for.
Not to mention the American workers need for food, housing, and medical care. How dare an employee, a mere peasant, ask the overloads for such outrageous frills. The overload must have his due, his large castle, his servants, his many carriages. A servant asking an overload to give up a mistress so that the peasant's family might eat is totally unreasonable.
And I am sure the Indian people will be in line any day now to buy IBM products. I mean, at some point, the taxes no longer received from the fired IBM workers are going to negatively impact the purchase of supercomputers, and India will have to pick up the slack.
I think that google has to allow this if the state condones such data. It is after the state that is has decided the sex offenders, even those that have paid thier debt, are to singled out and identified.
My only real concern about this is that, like so many other arbitrary reductions of civil rights, provides little extra protection. The best way to insure the safety of a child is to know what the child does, who associates with the child, and to not assault your own child, or allow such assult by other family members. Many studies indicate that nearly half the children are victimized by family members, and most of the rest by people who are known to the child. So it seems the best security is, as it is in most cases, humint and not second hand accounts.
Add to this that it would be perfectly easy for an offendor to travel far away from thier home and find children who the parents believe are safe because there is no offender in the area, and one has the making of security fiasco.
The 17" monitor is what really identifies the author as a idiot. This is a constraint that is unneccesary. I mean, do we design cars only for people 5'10". Well, in American and Japan they do, which is one reason so many people still buy from Germany. The Japanese has the sales to handle it, but the American car market continues to suffer from lack of creativity.
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But seriously, the current technology depends on the exploding bits. And, reaslistically, things that have been used a lot, perhaps have failed, and have been fixed, will tend to more reliable that designing something from scratch.
So the key is can a failure mode be fixed. Challenge was realy a bone head accident, probably caused by bonehead high level official(outside of NASA), that do not understand anything more complex than keeping their mistress away from their wife. The issue that destroyed Culombia, I believe, is a more complex set of design flaws that are difficult to fix, but clearly depends on several levels of converging events. There are probably other issues like this.
As mentioned, it is an extremely good design. What I have heard is the shuttle will be hard to justify as a human rated design. As such it will be reworked as a transport that is cargo rate. A new type of safer simpler transport will be human rated. Perhpas we will have a third rating in the middle, monkey rated, that will be reserved for the bonehead officials that believe space travel is merely a political expediency.
For example, water will flow downhill. It does so to minimize the energy of the particles. This energy, perhaps, came from the sun, resulting in evaportation. We know how to make liquid water go uphill, but it doesn't happen in nature. We could relate time this inevitable flow of the water, which we do but not globaly.
Entropy seems to be increasing, but I believe it is dangerout to relate it directly to the arrow of time. For instance, we routinely decrease the entropy of local environments. Does this mean that time is moving backwards in those enviroments, and faster in the space where we exhaust the compensating entropy?
The explaination of time is an area for prime work, as is the GUT. It might,a s you say, be the same question. We think that light does not experience time, that the photon is it's own antiparticle, which is interesting because an antiparticle can be modeled as a particle moving backwards in time.
IMHO the outcome is going to be as strange as Newtonian mechaics fraturing into Relitivity and QM. Both came about the formulation of the photon, adn the resulting trouble, at least in a roundabout way. First the ultraviolent catastrophe followed by the need for a medium. The former told us the physical laws were not the same across all size, the later that Newtons assertion of fixed reference frame, which defied his asseriton of no preferable reference frame. So we quantized matter and made events reletive to the observer, and then made space time reletive to the observer.
Interesting both lead to many other catastophes, and IMHO, it is our formulation of time that is at issue, and the photon lack of time may provide the solution. It may very well be that when we find a GUT, the four dimensional space time may emerge as a composit property of the n-dimension, n>>4, real space, and while all dimensions may be reversible, time may be a strange artifact of the universe.
Which is to say that i have never seen anything to indicate that anyone really knows, and it is really going to take people looking very hard at the places where we stuck in fudge factors to make the theories fit reality. Everyone knows that the realities don't fit, and some scientist explore those holes. The rest make sure the math and data is correct on the existing work. The fact that our computers work and building stay up and LED all go blink blink mean we aare doing prety good.
Now one may say look at IBM, but I would say look at compaq and DEC. IBM provides solutions, where MS just provides software. Everytime MS tries to provide solutions it can't because it has no control over hardware. And I think people are looking at why they spend so much money on legacy product.
What saves MS is that they have the hardware people by the nuts. Until the new adminisitration in washington, there was hope that MS would once again be subject to freee market forces. That hope is over. The next hope is that the $300 computers might start pushing vendors to other OS. It is like in the old days when a computer could get no cheaper that it's power supply. Now a computer get no cheaper than it's legacy OS.
You see, the colonists hated the royalty because they were money without work, and the royalty hated the coonist because they had money buy no culture. The colonist for some reason thought that money made them equal.
So Even though the English crown had funding the Americas, at no small expense, the colonist just wanted to be rid of them. So george, who was a major in America under british rule, and with the platantion inherieted from his father, got a group of equally greedy people together to fight the british. Greed is definitely a good thing.
But when they got the country, they did not trust democracy. The president was elected by the elite of the elite. Only the elite could vote. Men of the wrong color and women, though possible human, could not vote. Too little has changed.
The freedom to persue happiness was a freedom to persue unfettered profit.
Therefore except in few situations, i would not think it would very useful. Apple type menus that are always in the same might be useful, but Windows menu that move and continuously change, even within an application, would be difficult. The GUI also eats up system resources that could be used for things more useful for a blind person.
Therefore it seems to me that we are talking about something that is comman line driven.
Now if we could get a device in which the screen in captured in brail, then that would be cool. However, there would still be the problem with bone head site designer. A flash on the homepage is quite useless. Using icons for navigation, and then not naming the icon with a descriptive img tag is just criminal.
In effect, the current administration decided that the telco and cable were sufficient compition and allowed everyone else to be squeezed. Niether of these have an incetive to provide high bandwidth because it would squeeze other bussiness units.
A very good and recent analysis of this is in foreign affairs. It details the policy change that lead to the US becoming a technological backwater.
I have sympathy. They are incredibly talented, and they deserve a chance to be as rich and miserable as anyone else in Hollywood ... Hold out for as much money as you can get, but make the deal...
After all, where else would you go it you needed an incantion to make someone else do something they ordinarily would not, or to counteract another spell from working.
In the end, I do not think the movie would have been much different at all.
Then there is the issue of tranporting the energy to earth. It could be beamed to earth and captured. We can minimize the intensity of the beam by having it recieved over a very large area, say a squre mile, but a small error in trajectory could mean the bean hits 30 miles away. There are probably tracts of 1000 square miles of land avaialbe. Maybe part of Utah would do. Of course we would want to keep it local so we do not have to worry about price fixing. We could shoot it out the other direction and have it push ships out of the solar system.
Of course much of rings are discussed in Ringworld by Niven. A very good set of books.
My name is Prince omar en caver ensanado and i am in desperate need of help. My heard of unicorns are kiled by very bad men who have taken over my country of narnia. We need helps to buy food and supplies to keep alive the unicorns.
I know that you are a good child, and will be willing to help. I am also able to pay great money for the help. If you can email your momy or dadys bank account and social secutrity number, I put lots of money in the account. They be very happy and thank you for long time for making them so much money. In return we just need to spend some of it on food and some fun army stuff.
If you me help reply please. The poor little unicorns are dying. To deposit the money in you parents account and make them very happy, I need you to buy some stuff and leave in wardrobe at place I tell you later. you can buy with credit cards. We give you gillions of dollars as soon as we get the stuff.
Please help! You want to make parent happy and be good child, yes. you don't want to be bad child? Pleas reply and I tell you what you must buy. All this ok, i promise, cross my hert!
Certainly the world was scandalized when Grean's quadrilateral began to sell for hundred of thousands of dollars and began to grace the walls of museums and executive boardrooms alike. And the grant from NEA, for funding to transform the quadrilateral to polygon with increasing number of vertices, nearly caused congress to dissolve the entity.
We know now that all those people missed Grean's genius. It was not about the quadrilateral or the polygons, or even the material, be it found objects like scrap metal, wrapping paper, wood, or old panties. It was about forcing these things from the found form to the structured bounded state that the world demands of us all. It was about one person's vision to create a contrived blank onto which each one of us could reflect on our own realities, hopes, dreams, and mortality.
I am not a person who really messes with my computer, at least anymore, but i can see myself getting this just to play with. I can use a qwerty keyboard, but if I couldn't, this would be great. The ability to spread and place 50 keys might do wonders for effeciency.
The one application i did think of was presentations with smart boards. There is not a lot of typing, but there is screen captures, moving back and forth between slides, turning on and off music, and the like. This would make a good control board.
In all the comments, i did not see any that addresses the issue of the name. I mean MS has the one of the greatest marketing department on the planet, and yet the chose 'least privilidged'. I mean who wants to be least. I want to be the most. So why not the most secure account. Or the Best user account. Or the Highest Karma Account. I know that they can't go with anything as plain or discriptive as 'Root' and 'User', or even defining what the user needs, as a continium, but they could have come up with a better name. If they realy wanted to.
Likewise, it is what the EU is trying to do with Windows N. However they did not back it up with enough force, i.e. opening of standards and opening of contracts, so no vendor really feels confortable installing it. Unless futher legal changes are made, it is probably still fatal to get on MS bad side.
Which is realy not the fault fo the devolopers. I am sure they are very good. But when the goal is get and keep clients, and force is an option, one has a hard time justifing a customer centered approach to development. I mean it is kind of a waste of time to sweet talk a victim if you are just going to knock him out and take his money.
the shoe phone. And the umbrella of silence. We were promised shoe phones and umbrellas of silence.
There are things about malware that are very bad. They install without the users knowledge. There is no obvious way to remove the software. If the software is removed, there is often a backup that gets reinstalled, a la IE. There is no indication in the pop up windows about where they originate. If the software is removed, there might be a hidden bit left on the computer meant to collect information.
These are bad things. This is what the article was about, this is what the AG is prosecuting. If someone makes an application that can be used for free, and chooses to attach advertisment, that hardly rises to the level of malware, as long as the user knows the application was installed, and it can be completely removed. In the example of weatherbug, yes they should put a bigger notice on their page that the free version is adware, but that is a minor point.
If we try to combine all adware with Malware we will be in the same boat as Spam. Not all UCE should be treated as spam. Some UCE does have the proper headers, and one can properly harras the company that sent it. It is only the bogus UCE, or the misleading UCE, that needs to be destroyed. By trying to get rid of everything, we end up with no impovement.
Much of the outsourcing of major firms appears to be outsource risk. Walmart outsources janatorial servie, therefore Walmart is not liable for the fact that illigal aliens are cleaning thier stores, or the fact that thier demand for illigal alliens increases the demand for coyote, which increases cross border crime. MS outsources most software support to the reseller, so has little risk when the software does not work. Tax evaders, i.e. unpatriortic terrorist who want our soliers to die due to insuffecient equipment, outsource the risk associated with thier money laundering by having lawyer sign letter saying the they believe the criminal actvity is not actionable.
So, in this case, all the AG is saying is that at some point paying someone to go to jail for you will no longer acceptable. At some point we have to have the criminals in jails, not their proxies. Not that is not like a automatic blacklisted in which a spam will result in a reply to the the from: line. The AG will have humans researching the path of money and accociations.
Another part of managing customers is making sure they understand what they are buying. Many problems start with marketing lying to the customer. For instance, Apple now has problem becuase they are warrenting from some fictitious ship date instead of customer purchase. The PC manufacturers sell cheap computers yet promist the world. Of course the customers are upset. ISP and modem manufacturers promise high speed that does not exist.
On a good example are some iindustrial parts, for example pumps. They are expensive and wear out. That is told up front. One can rent them or pay a yearly serivce contract. Replacement parts are periodically shipped quickly and without questions, irregardless of the condition of the original unit.
I do think that if an 18 GB solid state memeory card can be had for the price of a hard disk, that might lead some nice products. For instance, a 10" solid state iBook might be an in demand product. A power book with a hard disk and flash drive might resolve the issue with the powerbook having below average mass storage capacity.
In the schools the same thing happens. The students is told not use their cell phone or music player in class. They choose to challenge that request,and the teacher has not choice but to enforce boundries and take the item up. The students might be used to getting the item back, but the teacher may or may not do so. The teacher may in fact it place in some random donation box. It is fair? Maybe not, but we all know we take risks when we break the rules.
Proabaly a number of people agree with you. They probably also think that if someone does not lock an item up, and that item is stolen, it is the not the fault of the thief, but the owner. People used to believe that killing minorities was great fun, and some still like to kill gay people.
We really don't know what happened in the school, or how much the students provoked the staff. It is my experience that if the police are called in it is because the students are not allowing the other students to learn. In this case the choice is between possibly destroying the life of a few students, or allowing them to destroy the future of the rest of the school.
What we do know is that the students broke the rules, and now seem to be too wussy to take the consequences.
But seriously, I can't understand why this book is of any interest. It appears to be full of stupid errors, and seems to add nothing to the existing canon. I was expected the reviewer to say that it was mostly intolerable, but had a few gems that made it worthwhile. This is after all why we have book reviews. Not to tell what not to read, but what we might not ordinarily read, but might nevertheless enjoy. Of course, in an era where the only popular books are movie rewrites(thank you so much start wars), insightful reviews are too much to ask for.
And I am sure the Indian people will be in line any day now to buy IBM products. I mean, at some point, the taxes no longer received from the fired IBM workers are going to negatively impact the purchase of supercomputers, and India will have to pick up the slack.
My only real concern about this is that, like so many other arbitrary reductions of civil rights, provides little extra protection. The best way to insure the safety of a child is to know what the child does, who associates with the child, and to not assault your own child, or allow such assult by other family members. Many studies indicate that nearly half the children are victimized by family members, and most of the rest by people who are known to the child. So it seems the best security is, as it is in most cases, humint and not second hand accounts.
Add to this that it would be perfectly easy for an offendor to travel far away from thier home and find children who the parents believe are safe because there is no offender in the area, and one has the making of security fiasco.
The 17" monitor is what really identifies the author as a idiot. This is a constraint that is unneccesary. I mean, do we design cars only for people 5'10". Well, in American and Japan they do, which is one reason so many people still buy from Germany. The Japanese has the sales to handle it, but the American car market continues to suffer from lack of creativity.