So, MS, who desperately wants the 50% or so of entrenched businesses still on 2000 to upgrade, claims this worm is "low impact" hmm?
Clearly, MS is implying the solution is to upgrade to XP. From their site: If you are using any supported version of Windows other than Windows 2000, you are not at risk from Zotob and its variants.
How convenient! Really, why do I think the first answer to Bill's brainstorming marketing session on "How do we get people to move off 2000?" was some smart-ass saying "Well, we could always write a virus or worm for it."
After all, any notion of "irreperable harm" from security threats has vanished in the onslaught on the Windows hegemony. One little, "not so bad" worm wouldn't really hurt the Windows reputation any more than it already has been, and it sure would be a nice kick-in-the-pants for those businesses sitting on the 2000 fence.
Check out Not Lame for a site with a similar indie vibe, though more geared towards indie/alt power pop.
CD Baby, by the way, is a great way for indie and unsigned bands to get online music service distribution as well as CD sales. The tracks off my band's CD are just about on every online music store (iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.) thanks to CD Baby. Did I mention how cool CD Baby is?:-)
This "cache" was called a "disk image" and it wasn't really a cache (it remembered Finder's data structure for the disk but not any of the data on it). With 128K RAM, the Mac didn't have room to keep any "offline" disk contents in memory.
The reason for it, for those who don't remember, was that the original Macintosh had no hard drive. Thus, the only way to copy files between floppies was to create some representation of an "ejected" disk on the desktop. To copy: you'd eject the disk, put in a new one, and then drag "offline" documents from the disk image onto the 2nd floppy.
Or use Amnesty to get mutliple window levels (not just floating) for Dashboard widgets, plus settable opacity, auto-updating, virtual dashboard spaces, etc.
SCO's damage control is getting sloppy. The "literal copying" accusations were their biggest media grabs, and per this email, SCO was knowingly misleading their shareholders, the government and the media.
The only "delibirate obfuscation" can be found in SCO's pathetic and hysterical finger pointing, the trails of which form not only a rat's nest of weak arguments but - thanks to this email - apparently also the knot in the noose around their necks.
No, the $999 cost of the development system is only to lease the system until the end of 2006. All machines have to be returned at the end of the lease time period.
I'm exactly the opposite; everyone I know buys music legally from online services. Many of them used to get music illegally back in the Napster days, but not anymore.
You have to remember that these statistics are based over the entire population, so in fact, your friends (I'm assuming you're much younger than I am) may in fact rarely pay for legal music downloads, but my friends do, and thus "counter" yours.
It would be interesting to see how this statistic breaks down over age group.
Short answer: no, once a project is ready for x86, it'll still compile for PPC.
Long answer: The APIs for OS X development (Cocoa and Carbon) are not changing, so no, there is no reason developers will (or should) ever decide to build only one set of binaries for x86 without building binaries for PPC at the same time. The default will always be to build a Universal Binary containing native binaries for both platforms.
"If you're only interested in deep coding and you want to remain in your cubicle all day, there are a shrinking number of jobs for you," said Diane Morello, Gartner vice president of research."
Actually, if this describes you, and you are creative and business savvy to boot, then you are perfectly suited for starting up your own software business.
In fact, leveraging WebCore is the strategy used by Amnesty for running Dashboard widgets on the desktop under Panther (10.3.9) and Tiger.
But doing the same on a cell phone OS is problematic because many widgets use BSD system calls, embedded AppleScripts and Cocoa plugins to do their work.
So, CSS, JavaScript and HTML support is only adequate to support the very simplest of widgets.
Short-term answer (meaning next 3-5 years): No. Apple is still a hardware company, and Jobs will insure that OS X only runs on its hardware as long as Mac sales bring in the $.
Long-term answer: Probably. Depending on how the hardware market plays out (read: if Mac sales begin to become meaningless to Apple's bottom line), Apple may need to make a move in this direction some time in the future. By moving OS X to Intel now, Apple is well positioned to make the jump to being a software company (in OSes and productivity tools) as well as a hardware company in consumer electronics (iPods, etc.).
If everyone abided by this idea, about 95 percent of all the Windows-Macintosh diatribes would evaporate overnight. But here it is: If you haven't tried something, then you really have no basis to comment.
There is an interesting corallary to this, which to this day amazes me. The token zealot (on either side) appears to believe that the world is divided amonst though who don't have either "competing" product, those who own A, and those who own B.
Apparently, the notion of owning - and perhaps more importantly, enjoying - both products is so counter to the agenda of your garden variety fanboy, that it is anathema to their very dogma.
Yes, that is a valid point. However, considering the (IMHO) substantial barriers to widespread adoption (getting authors to provide semantic descriptions, dealing with SPAM or purposefully misleading descriptions, etc.), I still would like to see more effort in context analysis research. The AI field has been floundering for so long, a catchy phrase such as "Semantic Web" (which, has been quite a successful meme) applied towards AI applications in contextual derivation could be helpful in moving things along in that direction as well.
Although I find the Semantic Web project intriguing, the idea of tagging data to define it is somewhat of a cop-out. The "meaning" of any given page is already there: in the page. Instead of spending so much time tagging pages, how about working on algorithms to derive meaning from the content. Surely those in the field of Computational Linguistics can make a real push at this: "artificial" corpora aren't needed anymore: the web offers more data than you'll ever need.
Shameless promotion: for OS X users, theConcept offers an example of mining key words and phrases, and contextual elements automatically from pages returned by Google queries.
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So, MS, who desperately wants the 50% or so of entrenched businesses still on 2000 to upgrade, claims this worm is "low impact" hmm?
Clearly, MS is implying the solution is to upgrade to XP. From their site: If you are using any supported version of Windows other than Windows 2000, you are not at risk from Zotob and its variants.
How convenient! Really, why do I think the first answer to Bill's brainstorming marketing session on "How do we get people to move off 2000?" was some smart-ass saying "Well, we could always write a virus or worm for it."
After all, any notion of "irreperable harm" from security threats has vanished in the onslaught on the Windows hegemony. One little, "not so bad" worm wouldn't really hurt the Windows reputation any more than it already has been, and it sure would be a nice kick-in-the-pants for those businesses sitting on the 2000 fence.
Just saying^H^H^H^H^H^Hpostulating.
Sure you do: just in the other direction.
You'd think an administration with a Dick and a Bush would be all for the xxx domain.
Check out Not Lame for a site with a similar indie vibe, though more geared towards indie/alt power pop.
:-)
CD Baby, by the way, is a great way for indie and unsigned bands to get online music service distribution as well as CD sales. The tracks off my band's CD are just about on every online music store (iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.) thanks to CD Baby. Did I mention how cool CD Baby is?
Actually, according to Sean Connery, it's "Daylaich Schaving Schtime."
This "cache" was called a "disk image" and it wasn't really a cache (it remembered Finder's data structure for the disk but not any of the data on it). With 128K RAM, the Mac didn't have room to keep any "offline" disk contents in memory.
The reason for it, for those who don't remember, was that the original Macintosh had no hard drive. Thus, the only way to copy files between floppies was to create some representation of an "ejected" disk on the desktop. To copy: you'd eject the disk, put in a new one, and then drag "offline" documents from the disk image onto the 2nd floppy.
Or use Amnesty to get mutliple window levels (not just floating) for Dashboard widgets, plus settable opacity, auto-updating, virtual dashboard spaces, etc.
Bonus: runs on Panther too.
"And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel bass."
Relax, I kid!
;-)
Just getting the inevitable out of the way...
Mod parent up.
SCO's damage control is getting sloppy. The "literal copying" accusations were their biggest media grabs, and per this email, SCO was knowingly misleading their shareholders, the government and the media.
The only "delibirate obfuscation" can be found in SCO's pathetic and hysterical finger pointing, the trails of which form not only a rat's nest of weak arguments but - thanks to this email - apparently also the knot in the noose around their necks.
The end of free Internet content will come when Web browsers start blocking online advertisements by default, a DoubleClick executive has warned.
FUD to English Translation:
The end of DoubleClick will come when Web browsers start blocking online advertisements by default, a DoubleClick executive has whined.
No, the $999 cost of the development system is only to lease the system until the end of 2006. All machines have to be returned at the end of the lease time period.
Translation: No one attempted to sneak the Broadcast flag into law.
Translation: The rumor was completely false, and all those having hysterics fell for it.
I'm exactly the opposite; everyone I know buys music legally from online services. Many of them used to get music illegally back in the Napster days, but not anymore.
You have to remember that these statistics are based over the entire population, so in fact, your friends (I'm assuming you're much younger than I am) may in fact rarely pay for legal music downloads, but my friends do, and thus "counter" yours.
It would be interesting to see how this statistic breaks down over age group.
Short answer: no, once a project is ready for x86, it'll still compile for PPC.
Long answer: The APIs for OS X development (Cocoa and Carbon) are not changing, so no, there is no reason developers will (or should) ever decide to build only one set of binaries for x86 without building binaries for PPC at the same time. The default will always be to build a Universal Binary containing native binaries for both platforms.
Startups require marketing, marketing, and more marketing.
Yes, that is exactly what I mean by "business savvy."
"If you're only interested in deep coding and you want to remain in your cubicle all day, there are a shrinking number of jobs for you," said Diane Morello, Gartner vice president of research."
Actually, if this describes you, and you are creative and business savvy to boot, then you are perfectly suited for starting up your own software business.
How did you make it through your entire life not "troubled" about Scope, Tide, Dawn, Crest, etc.?
Generic names are fine for trademarks if they are generic in their market. Hence the above names. This is not abuse of the trademark system.
In fact, leveraging WebCore is the strategy used by Amnesty for running Dashboard widgets on the desktop under Panther (10.3.9) and Tiger.
But doing the same on a cell phone OS is problematic because many widgets use BSD system calls, embedded AppleScripts and Cocoa plugins to do their work.
So, CSS, JavaScript and HTML support is only adequate to support the very simplest of widgets.
Best. Goatse.cx. Trap. Ever.
Everyone knows folders must crease to exist.
(Ba dump)
Short-term answer (meaning next 3-5 years): No. Apple is still a hardware company, and Jobs will insure that OS X only runs on its hardware as long as Mac sales bring in the $.
Long-term answer: Probably. Depending on how the hardware market plays out (read: if Mac sales begin to become meaningless to Apple's bottom line), Apple may need to make a move in this direction some time in the future. By moving OS X to Intel now, Apple is well positioned to make the jump to being a software company (in OSes and productivity tools) as well as a hardware company in consumer electronics (iPods, etc.).
2. No condemning something until you've tried it.
If everyone abided by this idea, about 95 percent of all the Windows-Macintosh diatribes would evaporate overnight. But here it is: If you haven't tried something, then you really have no basis to comment.
There is an interesting corallary to this, which to this day amazes me. The token zealot (on either side) appears to believe that the world is divided amonst though who don't have either "competing" product, those who own A, and those who own B.
Apparently, the notion of owning - and perhaps more importantly, enjoying - both products is so counter to the agenda of your garden variety fanboy, that it is anathema to their very dogma.
Yes, that is a valid point. However, considering the (IMHO) substantial barriers to widespread adoption (getting authors to provide semantic descriptions, dealing with SPAM or purposefully misleading descriptions, etc.), I still would like to see more effort in context analysis research. The AI field has been floundering for so long, a catchy phrase such as "Semantic Web" (which, has been quite a successful meme) applied towards AI applications in contextual derivation could be helpful in moving things along in that direction as well.
Although I find the Semantic Web project intriguing, the idea of tagging data to define it is somewhat of a cop-out. The "meaning" of any given page is already there: in the page. Instead of spending so much time tagging pages, how about working on algorithms to derive meaning from the content. Surely those in the field of Computational Linguistics can make a real push at this: "artificial" corpora aren't needed anymore: the web offers more data than you'll ever need.
Shameless promotion: for OS X users, theConcept offers an example of mining key words and phrases, and contextual elements automatically from pages returned by Google queries.