If hundreds of thousands of individuals spend hundreds of hours searching for bugs and only a very few find anything they can cash in, then Microsoft has already done it's job. Verisign just wants to make sure they have. I guess that depends on how you define very few. For simplicity sake lets call it 1%. 1% of hundreds of thousands is still thousands
While others may scoff at 8,000 dollars, people are spending hundreds of hours on projects that are bringing in much less if anything. This is a good way to give people healthy motivation and reveal vulnerabilities early...before they make headlines.
So, not so stupid. Unlike most of the posts on this article so far. Except that not everyone, in fact very few, will eventually be given a reward while hundreds of thousands of individuals spend possibly hundreds of hours each searching for flaws.
What it's really doing is getting those hundreds of thousands of individuals to do someone else's (Microsoft's) job for them for damn near free.
You thinking is right, but you worded it wrong. Doubling one dimension indeed only doubles the area. Doubling one dimension while keeping the other dimension proportional quadruples it. Right you are! Silly me (:
1080p is 1920x1080 which equals 2,073,600 pixels. 2160p is 3840x2160 which equals 8,294,400 pixels.
I think people have a hard time remembering that doubling one dimension is actually quadrupling the AREA of something. So a 2160p display is actually four 1080p displays.
This problem comes up a lot in modeling. I am an HO (1:87) and O (1:48) scale model railroader and I find it interesting when people adjust area and volume by that same ratio when in fact area, for HO scale, should be 1:7569 and volume should be 1:658503. That would make an 80 ton coal car weigh less than 4 ounces.
I'm rambling again. Point is, we're dealing with 2D, not 1D. Square your numbers.
I could go for higher screen resolution. But I'm not going to complain about an iApple product on this site again.
Ok, can't resist. Come on Apple! Dell's X51v has a 3.7" display with TWICE the pixels. Hardly any bigger real-estate but you can actually load a non shrunk website on the f'er.
Other than that I want one. Can't afford it, but I want one. I also found it interesting that Jobs did no demonstration of the camera feature. It has one, and it's 2MP. That's all we know. Woo. How about the controls? How does it look on the display? Etc, etc.
For all you naysayers who claim Final Cut will not be dethroned, just look at how InDesign took a chunk of QuarkXpress's market. Sure Quark is still out there making a product, but Adobe has given them a run for their money. My agency switched to InDesign about four years ago and hasn't looked back since. And I know of hundreds of other people who have done the same.
Final Cut is awesome, no doubt. But people like Adobe apps, and if they're already using Photoshop and Illustrator they'll likely be tempted to give the new version of Premier a shot.
Yup, people eager to line up to pay over the odds for flashy underpowered trinkets are the ideal market for the initial release of this technology. You mean Mac users right?
Of course the flip side of this story is that IE6 was safe for 81 days in 2006.
Obviously, the solution is to shorten the year to 81 days. Or only use IE during those 81 days. Use Firefox the rest of the time. Or all of the time - whichever makes you happy.
I know the Lotus Notes haters are going to be all over this, but this is exactly how Lotus Notes works, as well. In addition to my Mac administrative duties I'm also a Notes / Domino administrator. We only set up replication on laptops because it's a bit of a pain and the users are always confused by it. If the replication was just "done" without interaction from any user or administrator and the data looked the same whether it was being viewed from the local db or the server db I'd be happy.
I've heard a few good descriptions of the current middle few generations, including "The Microwave Generation". These people want everything right the fuck now - we can't wait for anything to happen. We also want everything for free. And within moments of something new being publicized it's already old and we're looking for something new.
Space exploration is slow, old news, and to really experience it (more than pictures and videos) is definitely not free.
It's like the entire populous has become bandwagon riders. It's rare to find people that stick with a hobby for any prolong amount of time. At least five people in my office of sixty were nuts over cycling while Lance was riding in France. They all bought expensive road bikes and yellow jerseys, but as soon as Lance was done they sold all their gear and haven't ridden a bike since. Or the people who see some travel show on TV and tell me they're going to go photograph the world - then a month later they tell me they haven't turned their camera on in weeks.
I'm just a tightwad. I don't like spending money on anything (:
I think it's absolutely possible. But I think a synchronizing system like.Mac uses makes more sense. In the event that you are unable to connect to the internet service (you're down / they're down /...) you still have everything from your last synchronization. And this also provides even more backups of your important data.
An OS that wont run Notes should be at the top of every IT manager's list, as far as I'm concerned. Hallelujah! A reason to upgrade! `Course, AmigaOS would be acceptable for the same reason.
Definitely good points. Our problem is that the E2K3 DB for our main Exchange Server is a bit over 1.5TB. Backing that up to LTO2 has been quite a challenge on a nightly basis. Especially when it interferes with our offsite tape copy. We've balanced this out so far by performing full backups MWF and incremental backups TR. The real problem is the brick level full backups. With a maximum throughput of 10GB/h per stream (maximum 5 streams), this backup of 1.5TB runs from Friday evening to Monday evening. Obviously an email archival solution would bring this time down tremendously, but as you stated, there is a high cost associated with that. With my mail I just use the built in replication on a 10 minute cycle to an external server. I could drop that to half hour or something, I suppose. The delay there allows users to read and delete the majority of mail before it gets copied offsite. Obviously depending on the amount of data and the size of your internet connections this solution varies in acceptability, but for my uses it's far better than tape solutions. It cost me a hard drive and an old server, and some configuration time. And I just put the server at my boss's house on his 3mbit home connection - significantly faster than our office's outbound.
We do the same thing with the file servers and a nice batch script scheduled to run every 12 hours. Again, the hard drive and old server are much cheaper than any tape solution. But for the file servers I have it make an onsite copy before it then copies it offsite. That way the files aren't 'in use' on the primary server for very long.
Learn to read, submitter. The "piffling 50-MB limit" is a corporate policy. Exchange has supported multigigabyte mailboxes for a long time. MS is trying to get companies to limit mailbox quotas to prevent users from bypassing corporate policy and forward mail to Gmail. That's kind of what I was thinking. I administrate a Lotus Domino server and we'd been using 200MB for years. Recently I cranked everyone up to 2GB. There are only about 60 of us, but even so it's not outrageous to build a system that can maintain that. Mirror it internally in the server and then replicate it offsite somewhere. Also use a 'shared mail' database for any duplicate messages sent to multiple recipients. To take it another step you could configure the server to delete attachments that are more than X days old (I went with a few months if I remember correctly). We're currently using 50GB+ of storage space just in mail, which is about 1GB per user average. So even a 5,000 user system wouldn't be impossible to build.
Either be very diligent with your backups (which you should be anyway) or just don't use it. "Viruses" and general issues with computers (MS products specifically) are the counter part to 'other people on the road' when driving your car. You either put up with the dangers and prepair yourself for the pain or simply don't get involved.
Fortunately with computers you can just make backups and only loose a day or two of production if everything goes to shit. Not so possible with a head on collision at 50mph.
I'm not interested. Why? Because on P2P, as other posters have said, I'm the the webserver. But who does the advertising money go to? Not me.
No, but you're also getting high definition entertainment that you didn't have to pay for.
I guess we've moved on from wanting everything for free to wanting to get paid for something you're not physically doing. Yay America!
The advertising money doesn't go to the bandwidth - it goes to the service of organizing the community and building awareness of the service. The point of BT is that the users do all the work. No free lunches.
I think the key is in universal use. Going back to the post I made that everyone drags up when there's anything to do with iPods, the first generation of the iPod didn't have a very large target audience - but as time progressed Apple made it available to virtually everyone, both technilogically and financially. They already had the aspect of 'easy to use' figured out.
Perhaps Microsoft's Zune is affordable, widely usable, and easy to use. What's left is making it play more file types and provide more services. Of course, the iPod could too, but it's miles ahead of the selection the Zune offers.
Does the vast majority of the global population really work in a sitting position, or is it just the vast majority that are participating in the "global economy"? I.e., if you factor in the billions who are living in poverty, is that statement still true? I'm skeptical.
Well don't even consider the unemployed. How about the hundreds of millions of factory workers in countries as prosperous as the United States (and company). Or the farmers and ranchers. I don't have specifics but I'd bet there are 10x as many jobs not sitting at a desk as there are that this study effects.
However! All humans sit. And most humans sit on a chair or bench where this study does provide useful information. The vast majority of us drive cars and sit in front of a TV for a few hours per week. And we all sit to eat.
So when you're sitting sit in a comfortable relaxing posture and make the most of the time on your butt.
No doubt. I'm still getting shit for the things I said about the original iPod. WHICH WERE ALL TRUE. But have since been changed to make the product worth purchasing. Hell, even I owned one (didn't pay for it...) for a while.
Either way, Apple had best not rest on its laurels for too long. Microsoft isn't the only competitor out there that wants a piece of the iPod pie.
This isn't exactly new. DDR was quite a workout just a few years ago, and Nintendo themselves had that goofy controller pad for sports games some 15 years ago. I'd bet our current bushel of couch potatoes won't get much out of swinging a half-pound chunk of plastic around. But time shall tell.
A lot of my coworkers complain that there are too many options when configuring a computer on Dell's website, that they like Apple's approach much better. Frankly I tend to agree with them.
But it's not that there are too many options. It's that there are too many options that I just don't give a rip about. Like printers, or advanced warrenties, or internet services, or virus scanning, blah blah blah. I want more HARDWARE options, and more options on how to have it configured. I want to be able to have four 320GB SATA 10K drives striped, but you can't do that on Dell's website. Apple allows you to select four hard drives, but you can't get them in any capacity (500+ only on the last three) and you can't get the 10K drives from them.
And neither online store gives you the option to configure a 3x30" display rig, though it is technically possible with either system.
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How is thousands of flaws defined as a good job?
So, not so stupid. Unlike most of the posts on this article so far. Except that not everyone, in fact very few, will eventually be given a reward while hundreds of thousands of individuals spend possibly hundreds of hours each searching for flaws.
What it's really doing is getting those hundreds of thousands of individuals to do someone else's (Microsoft's) job for them for damn near free.
1080p is 1920x1080 which equals 2,073,600 pixels.
2160p is 3840x2160 which equals 8,294,400 pixels.
I think people have a hard time remembering that doubling one dimension is actually quadrupling the AREA of something. So a 2160p display is actually four 1080p displays.
This problem comes up a lot in modeling. I am an HO (1:87) and O (1:48) scale model railroader and I find it interesting when people adjust area and volume by that same ratio when in fact area, for HO scale, should be 1:7569 and volume should be 1:658503. That would make an 80 ton coal car weigh less than 4 ounces.
I'm rambling again. Point is, we're dealing with 2D, not 1D. Square your numbers.
I could go for higher screen resolution. But I'm not going to complain about an iApple product on this site again.
Ok, can't resist. Come on Apple! Dell's X51v has a 3.7" display with TWICE the pixels. Hardly any bigger real-estate but you can actually load a non shrunk website on the f'er.
Other than that I want one. Can't afford it, but I want one. I also found it interesting that Jobs did no demonstration of the camera feature. It has one, and it's 2MP. That's all we know. Woo. How about the controls? How does it look on the display? Etc, etc.
For all you naysayers who claim Final Cut will not be dethroned, just look at how InDesign took a chunk of QuarkXpress's market. Sure Quark is still out there making a product, but Adobe has given them a run for their money. My agency switched to InDesign about four years ago and hasn't looked back since. And I know of hundreds of other people who have done the same.
Final Cut is awesome, no doubt. But people like Adobe apps, and if they're already using Photoshop and Illustrator they'll likely be tempted to give the new version of Premier a shot.
Of course the flip side of this story is that IE6 was safe for 81 days in 2006.
Obviously, the solution is to shorten the year to 81 days. Or only use IE during those 81 days. Use Firefox the rest of the time. Or all of the time - whichever makes you happy.
I've heard a few good descriptions of the current middle few generations, including "The Microwave Generation". These people want everything right the fuck now - we can't wait for anything to happen. We also want everything for free. And within moments of something new being publicized it's already old and we're looking for something new.
Space exploration is slow, old news, and to really experience it (more than pictures and videos) is definitely not free.
It's like the entire populous has become bandwagon riders. It's rare to find people that stick with a hobby for any prolong amount of time. At least five people in my office of sixty were nuts over cycling while Lance was riding in France. They all bought expensive road bikes and yellow jerseys, but as soon as Lance was done they sold all their gear and haven't ridden a bike since. Or the people who see some travel show on TV and tell me they're going to go photograph the world - then a month later they tell me they haven't turned their camera on in weeks.
I'm just a tightwad. I don't like spending money on anything (:
I think it's absolutely possible. But I think a synchronizing system like .Mac uses makes more sense. In the event that you are unable to connect to the internet service (you're down / they're down / ...) you still have everything from your last synchronization. And this also provides even more backups of your important data.
We do the same thing with the file servers and a nice batch script scheduled to run every 12 hours. Again, the hard drive and old server are much cheaper than any tape solution. But for the file servers I have it make an onsite copy before it then copies it offsite. That way the files aren't 'in use' on the primary server for very long.
Storage space is cheap. Buy lots of it.
Either be very diligent with your backups (which you should be anyway) or just don't use it. "Viruses" and general issues with computers (MS products specifically) are the counter part to 'other people on the road' when driving your car. You either put up with the dangers and prepair yourself for the pain or simply don't get involved.
Fortunately with computers you can just make backups and only loose a day or two of production if everything goes to shit. Not so possible with a head on collision at 50mph.
Just empty your trash while your device is plugged in. It should empty the trash everywhere it can, in theory.
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Yeah because, you know, Macs are sooo user friendly.
I'm not interested. Why? Because on P2P, as other posters have said, I'm the the webserver. But who does the advertising money go to? Not me.
No, but you're also getting high definition entertainment that you didn't have to pay for.
I guess we've moved on from wanting everything for free to wanting to get paid for something you're not physically doing. Yay America!
The advertising money doesn't go to the bandwidth - it goes to the service of organizing the community and building awareness of the service. The point of BT is that the users do all the work. No free lunches.
I think the key is in universal use. Going back to the post I made that everyone drags up when there's anything to do with iPods, the first generation of the iPod didn't have a very large target audience - but as time progressed Apple made it available to virtually everyone, both technilogically and financially. They already had the aspect of 'easy to use' figured out.
Perhaps Microsoft's Zune is affordable, widely usable, and easy to use. What's left is making it play more file types and provide more services. Of course, the iPod could too, but it's miles ahead of the selection the Zune offers.
Does the vast majority of the global population really work in a sitting position, or is it just the vast majority that are participating in the "global economy"? I.e., if you factor in the billions who are living in poverty, is that statement still true? I'm skeptical.
Well don't even consider the unemployed. How about the hundreds of millions of factory workers in countries as prosperous as the United States (and company). Or the farmers and ranchers. I don't have specifics but I'd bet there are 10x as many jobs not sitting at a desk as there are that this study effects.
However! All humans sit. And most humans sit on a chair or bench where this study does provide useful information. The vast majority of us drive cars and sit in front of a TV for a few hours per week. And we all sit to eat.
So when you're sitting sit in a comfortable relaxing posture and make the most of the time on your butt.
At $30 a pop for the title, PopCap is almost certain to make a profit.
$30? I wouldn't pay that for a package of 5 of their games. And furthermore, $30 isn't the correct price.
Buy Bookworm Deluxe today! Get unlimited play when you register and unlock your Deluxe game! Only $19.95.
Or a bunch of games at $5.29 / game.
Get 17 games for only $89.95. Save over 70% with the PopCap Platinum Pack
I'd like to where I got the information from but I used the one in the main post.
Why bother to comment on a first effort
...) for a while.
No doubt. I'm still getting shit for the things I said about the original iPod. WHICH WERE ALL TRUE. But have since been changed to make the product worth purchasing. Hell, even I owned one (didn't pay for it
Either way, Apple had best not rest on its laurels for too long. Microsoft isn't the only competitor out there that wants a piece of the iPod pie.
It's good for everyone (:
This isn't exactly new. DDR was quite a workout just a few years ago, and Nintendo themselves had that goofy controller pad for sports games some 15 years ago. I'd bet our current bushel of couch potatoes won't get much out of swinging a half-pound chunk of plastic around. But time shall tell.
A lot of my coworkers complain that there are too many options when configuring a computer on Dell's website, that they like Apple's approach much better. Frankly I tend to agree with them.
But it's not that there are too many options. It's that there are too many options that I just don't give a rip about. Like printers, or advanced warrenties, or internet services, or virus scanning, blah blah blah. I want more HARDWARE options, and more options on how to have it configured. I want to be able to have four 320GB SATA 10K drives striped, but you can't do that on Dell's website. Apple allows you to select four hard drives, but you can't get them in any capacity (500+ only on the last three) and you can't get the 10K drives from them.
And neither online store gives you the option to configure a 3x30" display rig, though it is technically possible with either system.
Shorter list: What's NOT wrong with US high schools.
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The fact I'm from Arkansas has nothing to do with this comment.