It's about to go down in price. Google Video is about to release a new, less ugly version and then there's http://soapbox.msn.com/ and Live Video Search.
Is there at least one editor in Linux that closely mimicks the feature set (and hotkeys) of Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html), but in console mode? That's all I ever use on Windows these days. I know there's SciTe, but I want the same thing _in console_
I have a 1.5GHz Pentium M Dell with 128M Radeon 9600 mobility and 1GB RAM. It's an old laptop, but it runs XP (and Linux) well. I've installed Vista on it and my observation is that I get about 30% less battery life with it. On top of that the laptop runs much hotter (it'd barely get warm under normal use in XP) and never stops its fans (it'd rarely even start them in XP). I think that because Aero uses 3d features of the graphics adapter, it starts to consume a heck of a lot more power, which drains the battery. Looks like Microsoft is about to find out why Apple underclocks Radeons in Mac Book Pros.
The more they find, the more they fix, the more secure Firefox becomes. That's the beauty of open source for you, folks. For IE you wouldn't even know about half the bugs and vulnerabilities (which doesn't mean hackers wouldn't know about them, though).
They're pursuing yet another grand idea instead of spending the same effort on something less sexy, like finding and fixing buffer overruns. Static code analysis (which they use) can't catch them all, particularly in a system with tons of dependencies all over the place.
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>> developers with your level of knowledge in crypto
As a matter of fact, you don't know my level of knowledge in crypto. Which kinda makes you sound like an insecure snake oil salesman in the rest of your missive.
It requires expensive... blah blah blah
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>> It requires expensive and uncommon skills to verify that data is really being protected by the use of cryptography
No. It requires reading a couple of good, inexpensive books and understanding of what the heck you're doing. Math behind the whole thing can be complicated. But you don't really need to understand the math 100% here. All you need to know is whether an algorithm is considered "strong" by today's standards, understand a few key concepts, guard your keys, and aproach security related coding with a healthy amount of paranoia.
In other words, a decent developer can get a pretty good understanding of this all in two weeks or less. And these skills need to become "common" already.
Client - maybe (it's already way behind), server - no. I run all three. Windows and Mac on the desktop and Linux on my router and file/dhcp/cache/web/mail/etc server. On the server side Linux is just too good to ignore. I wish someone would write something as integrated and painless as ASP.NET for web development (I know there's RoR, but I'd like to see something Java based, in addition). On the server Linux absolutely kicks ass.
This is all about VOIP, folks. Telcos try to stop VoIP it's plain and simple. It's not Google or Yahoo who's the target here, not even Youtube. Those companies won't be screwed much if their traffic was deprioritized by a little. VoIP on the other hand becomes unusable the second you deprioritize its realtime traffic. So telcos think they can keep their cell, landline and voip customers to themselves by deprioritizing traffic of other VoIP companies or making them pay through the nose (thereby making their rates less competitive).
They did that to Netscape devs back in the day, too, albeit in a slightly less obvious way. They'd camp out in the nearest cafes and restaurants around lunch hour and "talk" to Netscape developers, sometimes making them offers they couldn't refuse. Many of those devs were at that point more interested in Ferraris and mansions than in writing code, but MSFT hired them anyway (only to fire when Netscape kicks the bucket).
Expect some folks getting offers in Redmond. Higher ups in IE team are downright stupid if they don't try to hire people away from Mozilla. You kill two birds with one stone - strangle Mozilla and get a good, security minded dev (who will be forced to think a lot less about security at MSFT by an arbitrary, managemen imposed deadline).
Borland was EXTREMELY popular back in the day. They could have OWNED the dev tools space completely. At some point they got too carried away with MBA-related activities, such as branding, enterprise fads du jour, etc and they lost their userbase and fucked up their products. I have used Delphi and C++ Builder extensively. 6-7 years back there was NO decent RAD alternative. The best thing about them was you could drop all the way to the bare metal at any time if you wanted to and you could have RAD capabilities if you needed to deliver stuff quickly.
I feel for Borland, but at this point I think they should fold up their tent and die. They're beyond any hope of recovery, thanks to retarded management and marketing.
Those OEMs couldn't "beautify" anything if their life depended on it. If they could, they'd already do so. The best they can do is steal Apple's 3 year old designs.
That's not how corporate America works. You should have said:
The owner of the company that employes whoever comes up with a significant advance in battery technology will die a very rich person. Heck, at the best inventor will get his name on a patent and $500 cash.
Slashdot Mirror
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=MSFT
They've made 12,599.00 MUSD in profit in FY06.
I can't in my wildest dreams see myself generating this much money over my lifetime. I sometimes wonder where these numbers come from?
Now if only they followed these "rules" themselves, Vista wouldn't be such a nauseating, gaudy, broken piece of shit.
It's about to go down in price. Google Video is about to release a new, less ugly version and then there's http://soapbox.msn.com/ and Live Video Search.
If you work with Windows at all, I highly recommend Notepad2. It's that good.
Is there at least one editor in Linux that closely mimicks the feature set (and hotkeys) of Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html), but in console mode? That's all I ever use on Windows these days. I know there's SciTe, but I want the same thing _in console_
I have a 1.5GHz Pentium M Dell with 128M Radeon 9600 mobility and 1GB RAM. It's an old laptop, but it runs XP (and Linux) well. I've installed Vista on it and my observation is that I get about 30% less battery life with it. On top of that the laptop runs much hotter (it'd barely get warm under normal use in XP) and never stops its fans (it'd rarely even start them in XP). I think that because Aero uses 3d features of the graphics adapter, it starts to consume a heck of a lot more power, which drains the battery. Looks like Microsoft is about to find out why Apple underclocks Radeons in Mac Book Pros.
The more they find, the more they fix, the more secure Firefox becomes. That's the beauty of open source for you, folks. For IE you wouldn't even know about half the bugs and vulnerabilities (which doesn't mean hackers wouldn't know about them, though).
They're pursuing yet another grand idea instead of spending the same effort on something less sexy, like finding and fixing buffer overruns. Static code analysis (which they use) can't catch them all, particularly in a system with tons of dependencies all over the place.
>> developers with your level of knowledge in crypto
As a matter of fact, you don't know my level of knowledge in crypto. Which kinda makes you sound like an insecure snake oil salesman in the rest of your missive.
>> It requires expensive and uncommon skills to verify that data is really being protected by the use of cryptography
No. It requires reading a couple of good, inexpensive books and understanding of what the heck you're doing. Math behind the whole thing can be complicated. But you don't really need to understand the math 100% here. All you need to know is whether an algorithm is considered "strong" by today's standards, understand a few key concepts, guard your keys, and aproach security related coding with a healthy amount of paranoia.
In other words, a decent developer can get a pretty good understanding of this all in two weeks or less. And these skills need to become "common" already.
Client - maybe (it's already way behind), server - no. I run all three. Windows and Mac on the desktop and Linux on my router and file/dhcp/cache/web/mail/etc server. On the server side Linux is just too good to ignore. I wish someone would write something as integrated and painless as ASP.NET for web development (I know there's RoR, but I'd like to see something Java based, in addition). On the server Linux absolutely kicks ass.
Photos and the video, maybe? I mean, it's a live monkey with wires sticking out of his brain. No "sensationalization" necessary here.
http://www.aesop-project.org/Israel/Experiments_ex posed.html
Then I'm sorry to say, I'm glad activists reached their goal. I don't approve of their methods, but I don't approve of vivisection either.
That's why I work and sleep on the couch in the living room.
This is all about VOIP, folks. Telcos try to stop VoIP it's plain and simple. It's not Google or Yahoo who's the target here, not even Youtube. Those companies won't be screwed much if their traffic was deprioritized by a little. VoIP on the other hand becomes unusable the second you deprioritize its realtime traffic. So telcos think they can keep their cell, landline and voip customers to themselves by deprioritizing traffic of other VoIP companies or making them pay through the nose (thereby making their rates less competitive).
They did that to Netscape devs back in the day, too, albeit in a slightly less obvious way. They'd camp out in the nearest cafes and restaurants around lunch hour and "talk" to Netscape developers, sometimes making them offers they couldn't refuse. Many of those devs were at that point more interested in Ferraris and mansions than in writing code, but MSFT hired them anyway (only to fire when Netscape kicks the bucket).
Expect some folks getting offers in Redmond. Higher ups in IE team are downright stupid if they don't try to hire people away from Mozilla. You kill two birds with one stone - strangle Mozilla and get a good, security minded dev (who will be forced to think a lot less about security at MSFT by an arbitrary, managemen imposed deadline).
Borland was EXTREMELY popular back in the day. They could have OWNED the dev tools space completely. At some point they got too carried away with MBA-related activities, such as branding, enterprise fads du jour, etc and they lost their userbase and fucked up their products. I have used Delphi and C++ Builder extensively. 6-7 years back there was NO decent RAD alternative. The best thing about them was you could drop all the way to the bare metal at any time if you wanted to and you could have RAD capabilities if you needed to deliver stuff quickly.
I feel for Borland, but at this point I think they should fold up their tent and die. They're beyond any hope of recovery, thanks to retarded management and marketing.
Where are the highest paying jobs? Let me guess... In the areas with highest cost of living. What's the "news that matters" here, again?
Those OEMs couldn't "beautify" anything if their life depended on it. If they could, they'd already do so. The best they can do is steal Apple's 3 year old designs.
It won't be as easy or cheap to do later in life, especially the second part.
Just pull the plug and sell your console. Problem solved. There's nothing to "treat" here.
If there's a single example of Microsoft innovation to point out it'd be LINQ.
Check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq/
The cool thing is that the query language can be adapted to ANYTHING, even Reflection.
That's not how corporate America works. You should have said:
The owner of the company that employes whoever comes up with a significant advance in battery technology will die a very rich person. Heck, at the best inventor will get his name on a patent and $500 cash.
It's Powered by Dell batteries I'm assuming? It's a great car for 4th of July then.