For an author to write a book and a company to print the book and recover costs and provide some income for the writer, that's a good thing. Extending it for eternity is evil.
A lock code? It'll be hax0r3d. huhuh *snort* huhuh *snort* huhuh...
There. That should summarize about half of the responses.
my, cynical today, aren't we?
Actually, let me add to your prediciton: It'll be hax0r3d, then/. will carry posts, then Apple with threaten the author of the hack page, then/. will carry the story of that, plus the author's valiant struggle for freedom to reprogram crap you bought and the evils of DMCA reverse engineering provisions.
DARPA competitions encourage innovation in technology. Technology which may well end up on the battlefield some day. Not necessarily a bad thing if it prevents the loss of life, but after viewing the aforementioned film, I've got to thinking about how improved technology may be encouraging to those who would start wars. Why We Fight goes a ways toward exploring the military-industrial complex, congress' complicity (i.e. parts of a bomber are made in all 50 states, any representative proposing cutting the project sacrifices jobs in their state and 'doesn't bring home the bacon') and think-tanks which effectively are geared towards finding more ways for the private sector to invade government.
It's an excellent movie, far better and quite a bit more fair than Farhenheit 9/11. It really should be put on prime-time television, but as one reviewer noted, not a chance.
Didn't this _exact_ same sort of thing happen like six months ago? I remember a delay being announced, a management shakedown, and a commitment that a new development process would acclerate Vista's arrival. I remember it even being discussed on slashdot. Oh my if I could only find the link...
Yes, and before that with Trusted Computing intiative before that.
This is actually a shuffling of deckchairs as inertia finally catches up with Microsoft. It's been a horrid operating system/environment on many levels for years, like people can't actually look at it and see its just one giant hack -- this is why there are so many holes. Microsoft have fovused energy in all manner of directions, like some greedy octopod that tries to capture a different piece of food with each tentacle and somehow manages to miss out on each one, rather that exert maximum effort on one target -- make Windows what it should have been.
Maybe Vista finally is, it's a bit late, though. I've looked at VS2005 and thought, "well, looks like after all these years it's finally maturing" A damn shame they had to make all those billions on the way, peddling stuff that had promise, but one way or another just fell short.
When they keep reshuffling upper management, you know things are really in trouble. It will probably come out, but I sure won't be in the queue to pick it up. Woe to those who are.
Cray CTO Steve Scott says, 'The Cray motto is: adapt the system to the application - not the application to the system.'
That's a good motto, but how often do you bend the will of your application, needs or business to the limitations of
the application? I've been sitting on something for a couple weeks after telling someone "You really should
have accepted the information the other way, because this new way you want it is highly problematic (meaning: rather than
rip it off with a simple SQL query, I'll have to do an app)"
IMHO adapting to the needs of the user == customisationg, which also == money. Maybe it's not a bad idea at that!:-)
In certain cases, at run-time, the system will determine the most appropriate processor for running a piece of code, and direct the execution accordingly.
This assumes, of course, that you have X number of processors to chose from.
If you can't do it, the answer is still 'throw more money at it, buy more hardware.'
my head is still spinning from all the new buzzwords overheard at SD West 2006.
They claim to be associating establishing a physical location with each E911, at so many counties per week.
Yet someone on the blog points out in Ohio they're moving at a snail's pace and only in 4 rural counties.
Sounds like my office, let's process ~1,500 applications, which average about 30 minutes each, by one person,
who is being phased out due to lack of work. It done be amazing.
"please click on 1 if you have just seen bigfoot, click on 2 if a wolf has lept through your living room window, click 3
if you believe CowboyNeal is lurking under your bed, click 4 if you laughed so hard at the last South Park that
you are choking on a cheezy poof, click 5 if you are so offended by the last South Park you are choking on
a cheezy poof, click 6 if you think The Lakers is a stupid name for a team that moved from Minnesota to Los Angeles where
there are no lakes, click 7 if your house is on fire and your children have flown, click 8 if you are suffering a
medical emergency, click 9 if you are "dying zerelda, dying zerelda, die, die, die, die, die, die!!!" or stay on the line and listen to some light jazz until your connection is mysteriously dropped."
Seriously, they usually aren't going 15 under the limit, they are usually doing exactly the speed limit. Yes, it's a pisser, but actually, they are driving legally and safely, believe it or not.
Not the ones a couple nights back. They were doing as I stated and knew exactly what they were doing. A couple friends from highschool used to do that years ago. All you need is one guy behind you who figures it's intentional and has a short fuse and it's all over the place.
Yes, people really are rude in supermarkets, aren't they? You remind me of the guy on the freeway who gets right behind you and flashes his lights. Road rage in the supermarket aisles! You need to slow your ass down suckah.
Ever been going to the road and there's a couple clowns, side by side, noodling along, keeping pace with each other, about 15 under the limit? Makes you wonder where the rage comes from.
Supermarkets, on the other hand, are opportunities for people who haven't seen each other, since the last time they met in the market, to natter away and catch up on all the gossip, while people actually there to get their cartful of food and get home have to navigate around them. There's probably a book and movie in this somewhere. I wonder if I could construct a blind and make observations and video recording of market behaviour. Would put Clerks to shame.
This will probably encourage the trend of people listening to music or talking on the phone *all the time*, in this case just so they don't have to hear the advertisements. I fail to see how this could be successful.
If they carried the anti-Co$ South Park shows, I do think I'd go shopping a bit for orften.
I feel bad for the poor produce section workers that have to listen to the same 8-minute loop for 8 hours a day.
Yeah, and as if we need to encourage people to loiter longer in the stores.
They way people drive shopping carts, IMHO, is highly indicative of the way they'd drive if they knew there was no ticket forthcoming.
I once got so fed up with a couple of nattering bints who completely blocked the aisle, I picked up one of the carts, and moved it aside. That shut their traps.
Like anyone didn't expect this. Are they too busy with Organimi or whatever? Xbox 360? Their URGE music store?
Well, these are typically different divisions and Microsoft is rather a large corporation.
Has Microsoft EVER released anything that was ON TIME?
Probably, but usually to everyone's mutual regret. I think the right time is when it's ready and not a moment sooner.
Did you hear about the Wembley Stadium roof collapse yesterday? Would they rather have that thing completed on time, filled with 100,000 people and then have the roof drop 1 metre?
Massive failure on Microsoft's part is taking a toll and they really have a lot at stake this time, after promising XP would be bug free and the best security ever, just before 1.04e7 bugs and security holes were revealed and exploited. Make Wembley look like a tempest in a teapot.
Oddly, even though they are citing the need for more time to tweak security, business editions will available to volume licensing customers before the close of the year.
Not really all that odd. I believe it's called a pre-sale. People do this on eBay all the time, selling items they don't yet have, but will send along when they get them.
In the software world, we've had a vendor offer us a new product, which we may actually like, at a 75% discount if we sign up by September. The product isn't entirely finished yet and
it would likely be two years before migration, but the pricebreak is clearly meant to ensure they have
some income. I have no idea what their books look like, but suspect this move is the result of a dire
need of revenue, so it makes us go "hmmmm..."
Where do you suppose Microsoft would like to enter the income for these early sales? Revenue recorded early
is revenue you can't record later. I rather doubt they are turning over a Special Bug-ridden Business User Version early. They'd be flayed in
the Information Trade press. (Then again, it's probably happened a few times already, which could explain
how little attention CIO's pay to these magazines, they just scatter them on their desks to look Connected and
Managerial.)
I would agree with you on this - there is a difference between ugly and simple, but beautiful simple is hard to do.
True, but we used to call that an Elegant page/site. Simple, to the point and not an eyesore. When you arrive at a nice style that works, you tend to stick with it and people in the shop who try to cram too much busy-whizzy into a page have to break it up.
Sadly, I was once forced into unspeakable crimes of development by an analyst who wanted to give the users EVERYTHING of EVERY FSCKING PAGE and still have it SIMPLE and ELEGANT. Such idiocy...
They contracted a company to do a whizzy sight, it also had considerable bandwidth needs, thanks to all the content.
Really, a simple form which let me type in a few search parameters was all I needed, all any custmer needed, but they replaced it with something hard to use with a lot of extra crap.
Oh, and before all the toolkits now with write js for you, programmers did this by hand, so yes, I do expect they spent quite a bit of money for it in the contract.
Look at the size of an eBay page, now. The things are huge, as if everyone has DSL or sommat. Less==more.
Put the snob in the backseat for a moment and consider there's a difference between Ugly and Simple.
Back in the early days there was a site
where I learned the fundamental difference between Form and Function, the bottom line is,
as it always has been, Keep It Simple, Stupid.
My designs tend to have a very small footprint and require minimal bandwidth. While I was building light
weight search engines, the clod who over-saw our website put a massive graphic on the home page. Those, like myself,
still on 2400 baud modems at the time had to sit and wait for that The Bob damn thing to load.
Years later I was working with United Airlines Air Cargo and some brain at the top elected to replace a very simple,
not pretty, but very simple interface with javascripts galore, whizzy graphics and image mapping, all in
a kind of Black on Black, which would have Hotblack Desiato break out in a sweat, dead or not. It didn't work
and they'd spent big on it.
This isn't really an ugly site. On the other hand/.... hmm.
"New simulations show that big asteroid impacts on Earthcould havesent about 600
million boulders
flying into space. About 100 have reached Jupiter's moon Europa - but they landed at 24 miles/sec.
Ok, I'll bite, how do they know they came from Earth rather than, say were asteroids? A lot of asteroids look like
they broke away from something as they're irregular in shape, perhaps there's other likely origins. But this has gone
from 'could have' to did without convincing me. After all, we see supposed martian rock on earth. Who's really to say that
those martian rocks broke from Mars, rather than are the stuff Mars is made up of and some of it landed on Earth, or some other theory.
'This must be rather frustrating if you're a bacterium that survived launch from Earth,' says
a researcher. But 30 boulders from each impact reach Titan - and they land gently."
From
the article: "'I thought the Titan result was really surprising - how many would get there
and how slowly they'd land,' Treiman told New Scientist. 'The thing I don't know about is if
there are any bugs on Earth that would be happy living on Titan.' Titan's surface temperature is
a very cold -179C and its chemistry is very different from Earth's."
That's a tough bug. The temperature isn't such a big deal and time isn't either, as there are bacteria found
in Antarctica which were left over from when it was more temperate. Tough bugs, sure, but traveling through space also means
withstanding the full bore radation of Mr. Sun, with no atmosphere to protect you. I'm not sure I want to meet one of these
in a dark alley.
From
the article: "'I thought the Titan result was really surprising - how many would get there
and how slowly they'd land,' Treiman told New Scientist. 'The thing I don't know about is if
there are any bugs on Earth that would be happy living on Titan.' Titan's surface temperature is
a very cold -179C and its chemistry is very different from Earth's."
It actually makes no sense given that there's no single entity responding to the mob. They act as individuals on individual pages.
Mob rule might be the case if they're deciding on a single issue. But if you can't get a mob to even decide what issue they're deciding upon, then it's just a whole lot of people doing things.
Ah, but charismatic leaders can guide mobs and once they have enough of them in line, they can direct the mob against those who don't fall into step or question things. I believe Adolf Hitler
His denunciations spoke for many, who question how something built by the wisdom of crowds can become anything other than mob rule
Isn't that how people get elected?
No.
The way people in the american political system get elected, is the parties pick candidates to be picked apart by vultures, then one rigs the election system so they win in pivotal states with large numbers of "electors" who then are supposed to vote for so and so from their districts. In backwards countries, where vile dictators for life, parties labeled as terrorists, political strongmen and their machines all practice it works pretty much the same, but only american leaders are allowed to be critical of how the other countries process works.
Mob rule would mean people actually pick their candidates themselves and throw all their votes behind them and the one who actually gets the most votes wins.
Clearly we can't have that, so strong organizations, such as political parties are necessary to ensure we get what we deserve.
i believe in education -- i'll teach you all a lesson
Adding CPU-intensive tasks such as encryption/DRM parsing requires more CPU, therefore more power, which therefore drains batteries at an increased rate.
This is why I play NetHack rather than World of Warcraft.
Slashdot Mirror
Watch it, by being rational and intelligent you're flirting with a Flamebait mod!
It's the implementation of it that Sucks.
For an author to write a book and a company to print the book and recover costs and provide some income for the writer, that's a good thing. Extending it for eternity is evil.
cthulhu would be so proud
No, please no more April Fools jokes, Please! Arghgh!!!
There. That should summarize about half of the responses.
my, cynical today, aren't we?
Actually, let me add to your prediciton: It'll be hax0r3d, then /. will carry posts, then Apple with threaten the author of the hack page, then /. will carry the story of that, plus the author's valiant struggle for freedom to reprogram crap you bought and the evils of DMCA reverse engineering provisions.
DARPA competitions encourage innovation in technology. Technology which may well end up on the battlefield some day. Not necessarily a bad thing if it prevents the loss of life, but after viewing the aforementioned film, I've got to thinking about how improved technology may be encouraging to those who would start wars. Why We Fight goes a ways toward exploring the military-industrial complex, congress' complicity (i.e. parts of a bomber are made in all 50 states, any representative proposing cutting the project sacrifices jobs in their state and 'doesn't bring home the bacon') and think-tanks which effectively are geared towards finding more ways for the private sector to invade government.
It's an excellent movie, far better and quite a bit more fair than Farhenheit 9/11. It really should be put on prime-time television, but as one reviewer noted, not a chance.
After watching Why We Fight, I'm not so keen on something like this anymore.
What's the saying? "Hold your friends close, but your enemies closer?" Looks like Microsoft practices this.
Yes, and before that with Trusted Computing intiative before that.
This is actually a shuffling of deckchairs as inertia finally catches up with Microsoft. It's been a horrid operating system/environment on many levels for years, like people can't actually look at it and see its just one giant hack -- this is why there are so many holes. Microsoft have fovused energy in all manner of directions, like some greedy octopod that tries to capture a different piece of food with each tentacle and somehow manages to miss out on each one, rather that exert maximum effort on one target -- make Windows what it should have been.
Maybe Vista finally is, it's a bit late, though. I've looked at VS2005 and thought, "well, looks like after all these years it's finally maturing" A damn shame they had to make all those billions on the way, peddling stuff that had promise, but one way or another just fell short.
When they keep reshuffling upper management, you know things are really in trouble. It will probably come out, but I sure won't be in the queue to pick it up. Woe to those who are.
Cray CTO Steve Scott says, 'The Cray motto is: adapt the system to the application - not the application to the system.'
That's a good motto, but how often do you bend the will of your application, needs or business to the limitations of the application? I've been sitting on something for a couple weeks after telling someone "You really should have accepted the information the other way, because this new way you want it is highly problematic (meaning: rather than rip it off with a simple SQL query, I'll have to do an app)"
IMHO adapting to the needs of the user == customisationg, which also == money. Maybe it's not a bad idea at that! :-)
In certain cases, at run-time, the system will determine the most appropriate processor for running a piece of code, and direct the execution accordingly.
This assumes, of course, that you have X number of processors to chose from. If you can't do it, the answer is still 'throw more money at it, buy more hardware.'
my head is still spinning from all the new buzzwords overheard at SD West 2006.
Now to just reverse the polarity and we've got anti-gravity, which I see as far more useful.
Alan Ralsky's house bombed with rotten oranges, pictures at 11
They claim to be associating establishing a physical location with each E911, at so many counties per week. Yet someone on the blog points out in Ohio they're moving at a snail's pace and only in 4 rural counties. Sounds like my office, let's process ~1,500 applications, which average about 30 minutes each, by one person, who is being phased out due to lack of work. It done be amazing.
"please click on 1 if you have just seen bigfoot, click on 2 if a wolf has lept through your living room window, click 3 if you believe CowboyNeal is lurking under your bed, click 4 if you laughed so hard at the last South Park that you are choking on a cheezy poof, click 5 if you are so offended by the last South Park you are choking on a cheezy poof, click 6 if you think The Lakers is a stupid name for a team that moved from Minnesota to Los Angeles where there are no lakes, click 7 if your house is on fire and your children have flown, click 8 if you are suffering a medical emergency, click 9 if you are "dying zerelda, dying zerelda, die, die, die, die, die, die!!!" or stay on the line and listen to some light jazz until your connection is mysteriously dropped."
Not the ones a couple nights back. They were doing as I stated and knew exactly what they were doing. A couple friends from highschool used to do that years ago. All you need is one guy behind you who figures it's intentional and has a short fuse and it's all over the place.
My guess is you don't drive a car. Lucky you.
Ever been going to the road and there's a couple clowns, side by side, noodling along, keeping pace with each other, about 15 under the limit? Makes you wonder where the rage comes from.
Supermarkets, on the other hand, are opportunities for people who haven't seen each other, since the last time they met in the market, to natter away and catch up on all the gossip, while people actually there to get their cartful of food and get home have to navigate around them. There's probably a book and movie in this somewhere. I wonder if I could construct a blind and make observations and video recording of market behaviour. Would put Clerks to shame.
If they carried the anti-Co$ South Park shows, I do think I'd go shopping a bit for orften.
maybe carry some childcare tips from Chef, too
Yeah, and as if we need to encourage people to loiter longer in the stores.
They way people drive shopping carts, IMHO, is highly indicative of the way they'd drive if they knew there was no ticket forthcoming.
I once got so fed up with a couple of nattering bints who completely blocked the aisle, I picked up one of the carts, and moved it aside. That shut their traps.
Well, these are typically different divisions and Microsoft is rather a large corporation.
Has Microsoft EVER released anything that was ON TIME?
Probably, but usually to everyone's mutual regret. I think the right time is when it's ready and not a moment sooner.
Did you hear about the Wembley Stadium roof collapse yesterday? Would they rather have that thing completed on time, filled with 100,000 people and then have the roof drop 1 metre?
Massive failure on Microsoft's part is taking a toll and they really have a lot at stake this time, after promising XP would be bug free and the best security ever, just before 1.04e7 bugs and security holes were revealed and exploited. Make Wembley look like a tempest in a teapot.
Oddly, even though they are citing the need for more time to tweak security, business editions will available to volume licensing customers before the close of the year.
Not really all that odd. I believe it's called a pre-sale. People do this on eBay all the time, selling items they don't yet have, but will send along when they get them.
In the software world, we've had a vendor offer us a new product, which we may actually like, at a 75% discount if we sign up by September. The product isn't entirely finished yet and it would likely be two years before migration, but the pricebreak is clearly meant to ensure they have some income. I have no idea what their books look like, but suspect this move is the result of a dire need of revenue, so it makes us go "hmmmm..."
Where do you suppose Microsoft would like to enter the income for these early sales? Revenue recorded early is revenue you can't record later. I rather doubt they are turning over a Special Bug-ridden Business User Version early. They'd be flayed in the Information Trade press. (Then again, it's probably happened a few times already, which could explain how little attention CIO's pay to these magazines, they just scatter them on their desks to look Connected and Managerial.)
True, but we used to call that an Elegant page/site. Simple, to the point and not an eyesore. When you arrive at a nice style that works, you tend to stick with it and people in the shop who try to cram too much busy-whizzy into a page have to break it up.
Sadly, I was once forced into unspeakable crimes of development by an analyst who wanted to give the users EVERYTHING of EVERY FSCKING PAGE and still have it SIMPLE and ELEGANT. Such idiocy...
They contracted a company to do a whizzy sight, it also had considerable bandwidth needs, thanks to all the content.
Really, a simple form which let me type in a few search parameters was all I needed, all any custmer needed, but they replaced it with something hard to use with a lot of extra crap.
Oh, and before all the toolkits now with write js for you, programmers did this by hand, so yes, I do expect they spent quite a bit of money for it in the contract.
Look at the size of an eBay page, now. The things are huge, as if everyone has DSL or sommat. Less==more.
Put the snob in the backseat for a moment and consider there's a difference between Ugly and Simple. Back in the early days there was a site where I learned the fundamental difference between Form and Function, the bottom line is, as it always has been, Keep It Simple, Stupid.
My designs tend to have a very small footprint and require minimal bandwidth. While I was building light weight search engines, the clod who over-saw our website put a massive graphic on the home page. Those, like myself, still on 2400 baud modems at the time had to sit and wait for that The Bob damn thing to load.
Years later I was working with United Airlines Air Cargo and some brain at the top elected to replace a very simple, not pretty, but very simple interface with javascripts galore, whizzy graphics and image mapping, all in a kind of Black on Black, which would have Hotblack Desiato break out in a sweat, dead or not. It didn't work and they'd spent big on it.
This isn't really an ugly site. On the other hand /. ... hmm.
The main problem is finding stores that carry those little tiny jugs of antifreeze.
Ok, I'll bite, how do they know they came from Earth rather than, say were asteroids? A lot of asteroids look like they broke away from something as they're irregular in shape, perhaps there's other likely origins. But this has gone from 'could have' to did without convincing me. After all, we see supposed martian rock on earth. Who's really to say that those martian rocks broke from Mars, rather than are the stuff Mars is made up of and some of it landed on Earth, or some other theory. That's a tough bug. The temperature isn't such a big deal and time isn't either, as there are bacteria found in Antarctica which were left over from when it was more temperate. Tough bugs, sure, but traveling through space also means withstanding the full bore radation of Mr. Sun, with no atmosphere to protect you. I'm not sure I want to meet one of these in a dark alley. From the article: "'I thought the Titan result was really surprising - how many would get there and how slowly they'd land,' Treiman told New Scientist. 'The thing I don't know about is if there are any bugs on Earth that would be happy living on Titan.' Titan's surface temperature is a very cold -179C and its chemistry is very different from Earth's."
Ah, but charismatic leaders can guide mobs and once they have enough of them in line, they can direct the mob against those who don't fall into step or question things. I believe Adolf Hitler
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No.
The way people in the american political system get elected, is the parties pick candidates to be picked apart by vultures, then one rigs the election system so they win in pivotal states with large numbers of "electors" who then are supposed to vote for so and so from their districts. In backwards countries, where vile dictators for life, parties labeled as terrorists, political strongmen and their machines all practice it works pretty much the same, but only american leaders are allowed to be critical of how the other countries process works.
Mob rule would mean people actually pick their candidates themselves and throw all their votes behind them and the one who actually gets the most votes wins.
Clearly we can't have that, so strong organizations, such as political parties are necessary to ensure we get what we deserve.
i believe in education -- i'll teach you all a lesson
This is why I play NetHack rather than World of Warcraft.
oh, and because it's free as in beer, too