As a (curious) sysadmin I wouldn't mind reading a post mortem like what the/. crew did a few weeks ago. I think MS is missing out on a lot of brownie points by not publishing a blow by blow summary of how an enterprise goes about troubleshooting/fixing a system like that. It would be possible to do something like that w/o disclosing sensitive information. Like I said, wishfull thinking.
You are in fact right... the gains to be had from corps actually using their info on you can be helpfull. Targeted ads (for stuff we might actually be interested in) and all the other stuff you can read on Double Click's mission statement would be great.
The only problem is that most of these companies are (typically) as scrupulous as a loan sharks. Do I want my (car) insurance company finding out I renewed my contact lens perscription? Do I want my employer to know about what gets put on my CC? Do I want my SS# published on the net? If I apply for a CC do I want anyone to find out how much I make?
My point is that some conclusions about who I am can be good for marketing purposes, but some info (especially my meager financial info) should stay close to home because corps these days are particularly untrustworthy.
I actually like Dell and I think they sell pretty good HW for the price. Mostly the reason is cuz I know I can call them and with the right attitude I can get them to send me just about any replacement component overnight.
Even though I couldn't reformat it fast enough I believe in (most) of their products.
before you condemn Israelis for their brutality (which even I'll admit can be extreme) they have been met in kind by the Palestinians. Part of the conundrum of mid-east peace is that each side keeps raising the bar... PLO Fundamentalist bombs beachfront full of teenagers, Israelis close up the borders, PLO gets pissed and riots, riots are met with riot police... rinse lather repeat. I'm not insinuating who started what (I'm sure my parents dont even remember) but it seems like you aren't seeing both sides of the issue.
In your estimation do you think MS' campaigns for "Shared Source" combined with their opinions of Linux as a server platform been effective in relegating Linux's ?
By extension, what affect do you forsee on the numbers of server sales as a result of these campaigns?
My company publishes PDF's. Me and some of the sales guys are tight and they tell me that they suspect a lot of clients are sharing their publication with the rest of their network effectively pirating our materials. We're relatively small with only about 100k readers so every buck counts. The future of secured (notice I didnt say secure) text would be of a lot of use for me and other small publishers like mine.
Novelists IMO have nothing to worry about, no one likes to curl up to a laptop/e-book when they can't sleep. Besides, if ain't disposable for us, it ain't profitable for them.
disclaimer: I didn't post this in Ars. XWRed did. greetz to all the other Ars lurkers!:)
Symmetric multitasking means all OS X apps can take advantage of two processors in a dual-processor Mac to
That just made me laugh.
Reading reviews like this almost make me sick, there's so much misinformation and obfuscation.
I'm sure the BF could collectively come up with something *FAR* more comprehensive.
Heck, I probably could if I played both sides.
In this category, Windows 2000 is simply overmatched. When it comes to Internet-ready operating systems, Apple stepped ahead way back at OS 9
This is laughable as well. Every single thing the guy listed for OSX, Win2k Pro comes with.
Well, Microsoft doesn't supply free WebDav space, but I doubt the OS can be faulted for that.
OS X delivers the killing blow with its integration of Apache
Thats the big FUD. Sure, Apple biggybacks on the work of others and includes that stuff. But its by no means integration. Its just a checkbox for on or off, I see no frontend for configuring all of the httpd or ftpd options.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Windows zealot by any means, its just that I can't stand journalism like this. Both of the guys barely know what they're talking about, the Mac guy obfuscates everything, and the Windows guy can barely defend Win2k.
Oh, and I hate it when arguments hinge on simplicity. It seems like none of these journalists are real men anymore, they all want their hands to be held while they're computing because their pussies hurt too much.
Despite this, SDMI threatened Felten and all the rest, including IHW organizers, with legal action under the DMCA
This seems a little weird to me and I said this last time but how the hell can they challenge the DMCA over a threat? They only threatened a lawsuit. They didn't initiate one. Last I checked I can threaten to sue each and everyone of you for whatever I want.
Watch this: Me: Mod me down and I'll sue Slashdot for slander. Slashdot: Please don't let him sue us!
What does that exchange mean to the law? My guess is about as much as my opinion matters to most of you. Seriously though, the RIAA's use of the DMCA as a sword instead of sheild in this case is moot. All they did was invoke a name, not a lawsuit.
It's already been done. If you're ever on the corner of 34th and 3rd in NYC you'd see 2 giant screens (at least 10' sq). One is on the 34th street side and the other on the 3rd Ave side. It's made up of a number of smaller LCD panels of about 20", exactly as you describe. I pass by the thing everyday and sometimes you can see a black square where one of the LCD's apparently failed but the rest of the picture comes out fine. If you walk underneath the thing you couldn't tell that it's made up smaller panels.
Remember how when RDRAM first came out and it's benchmarks were abysmal? Rambus said that it was designed for the P4 moreso then the P3. I remember thinking that was a bunch of bs but it turns out to be true, not only that but the 10% performance difference (btwn RDRAM AND DDR)in that benchmark sounds about right if recall my impressions from some of Tom's comparisons.
I wouldn't go near a RDRAM based system but now that they have a viable platform for their product they'll never see the market penetration they now need. If I didn't hate Rambus so much I woulda considered an i850 RDRAM.
I've had a couple of rejections like that too. The only thing I can come up with is maybe they didn't like the way I wrote the run-down of the story. I've found that screaming at the top of my lungs with my rejected story on a sign in Times Square is more effective anyway.
1. A word used in electronic mail and news messages to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humour, especially in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?"
I should ask dictionary.com to include "MS releases a server under the GPL." as an example.
Your solution would have to either be magical (minus the auto) or a breakthrough in AI. Otherwise it would go from Attritions Defacement list to getting spammed by all the idiots mirroring anything
Without an actual human being to verify the fact that a page has been hacked what would they do, use an honor system? 'Defaced' is an intangible, relative term. A person would have to check the defacement even if there was an automatic way of setting up the mirror. Personally I'm glad their postal section will have more "hack my g/f's hotmail account plz" then "stfu and mirror my hack of Chucks Hardware site". The 'teach me to hacks msgs' are mad funny!
I saw this interview linked to on securityportal. This guy Dennis Blaine talks about the future of wireless sec. I like this part best...
Q: Why don't we have that today? A: Just like there is a huge number of types of mobile platforms and methodologies, you could also have the same number of encryption technologies. To date, no one has addressed that problem: the problem of how a single carrier can accommodate all those different encryption technologies.
My point is that the one thing keeping me from adapting is that fact that I can't really do the things that I think are really important like checking my stocks, or bank account, or even my yah00 mail. They are my passwords and I'd like em to stay that way.
To comply with the law, operators would have to severely censor their Web sites or would have to adopt age or credit card verification systems to shield minors from material deemed harmful...
I think my CC numbers would be safer in a usenet posting then with a age verification system.
Ever go clubbing lately? Most places in NYC charge you $6 for a 12 ounce bottle of water on a Friday night. Nevermind why water sells so well (use your Emagination). I don't complain... I also dont dehydrate.
Re:Well, I see the usual anti-union bushwah
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You definatly have valid points but even though your job might not be guarenteed- scratch that, even though you can be fired at a moments notice and not have any say in it, if you're good at what you do and didnt do something overtly foolish (like steal something) you can still get another job in this market. Your job might be in jeopardy at the drop of a hat but your career will be ok and I think that's one important aspect that lots of peeps here are missing.
I'll put it you this way, IMO unions were created to protect workers from greedy corps so the peeps can have a comitees over firing someone, wage protection and more influence over certain decisions that affect their day to day ops. (I'm sure I'm leaving some other stuff out). These things are important because after working in a plant 5 or 10+ years it's really really tough to do something else w/o taking a huge cut in pay right? It would be easy for the corp to fire someone @50k after 10 years for a job when they can bring in a newbie to do the same thing for 30k.
My point is that this sort of thing doesn't really apply to what we do. If I lost my job tommorow I -might- take a pay cut but if I did it wouldn't be much and even then it would take me 3 weeks to find another job. The market is still in our favor because the technology is our leverage, not a union. They (plant workers) didn't have that advantage back then or now and thats why they continue to pay their dues. (Back to us geeks)If the job market sours then maybe the issue should be revisited but IMO that'll take at least another 10 years. And even then corps will still have to depend on us to keep their shit working and write their new shit to make it work better.
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...not a labor union. I'm more concerned over the representation I'm receiving in Congress then in my CEO's office. When I speak in that office my voice is heard. When my opinion takes the form of a letter to my local congressperson the results are shall we say, minimal at best. We need advocates that will make our jobs easier by letting us do things like reverse engineering, white-hatting our own networks (which almost became a crime in the EU), examining empirical data and being able to discuss our findings.
We make enough money to live comfortably and we're actually able to do something about it if we feel short changed.
A capitalist is a person who lives off of their capital as opposed to their labor
Maybe you grew up rich but I think most of us didn't. It just so happens that my capital is my skillz and by extension the labor I offer is the only thing keeping me from going to a school on New Utrecht Ave. learning how to drive the L train from Canarsie to 14th St.
In America, you are what you do professionally, and it is natural to have some pressure to do it well.
You definatly have a point but the pressure more often comes from within then from without. The socio-economic model that is often associated with the american lifestyle is represented as a triangle. Rich peeps at the pointy top, poor peeps on the wide bottom. Since the majority are on the bottom and can climb as high as their intelligence/luck will allow the incentive to do what you do as best as you can is simply the drive to be on that pointy top. At least, thats how I see it.
Consider this for a moment... if there was some device that you could use at work that would increase your productivity by 20%, why do you still work 5 days a week.
I'll tell you why. Capitalism, pure and simple. I'm a capitalist and I'm not afraid of the consequences. I know that if I bust my ass (which I do) I'll be rewarded. My pay will increase, I'll have more cash in the bank and I can go to Amsterdam more often. I like money. I can eat really nice food, see more Yankee games and honestly, I equate having a lot of money to achieving something. Note that I didn't say "Having lots of money makes my life feel more complete." I see my job (and the money it brings me) as a means to an end. What that end is I may never find out but at least I'll have the oppurtunity to try and find out. MY point is that I -like- to work hard. When I get home and I can feel my brain again I have a feeling of accomplishment in there somewhere and I think my bank account is begining to represent that. When I'm retired I like to think that I'll be able to look back and say, "Yeah, I came up with some clever shit when computers were unpredictable and Bill Gates was still in the closet!":)
...thats what most of them are charging because they can't make money off it. I'm serious! I know a guy who works for a regional up-and-coming ilec. He told me that they don't sell dsl service alone, you have to also 'subscribe' to their highly competitive long distance service which happens to be the voip service which is on the same fddi ring as their as their internet service. I didn't even realize how easily they can be packaged together until he told me that. As a service it's bareable but in a package could sweeten a deal.
"Intel has technical operations in China, Russia, India and so forth, and we have them there frankly to a significant extent because that's where there are trained people." (See! It has nothing to do with money!)
I'll do my best to not flame you but come on, use your head. Even if the amount of technically competent people were the same here (in the US) as in India, China, Russia and so forth they'd STILL have all those plants and research centers abroad.
It's all about the money cause they don't have to pay as much in those places. Take GM or whoever it was that moved a whole car manufacturing plant to Mexico. Are American plant workers any more skilled at manning a production line then their Mexican counterparts (after being trained)? In Intels case, I'm sure there aren't as many American engineers as Russia, China, etc but you have to admit saying it's not about the money (esp in Intel's case) is kinda ridiculous.
I suppose this is the first of many criticisms of MS but it doesn't surprise me that they introduced us to Digital Divide 2.0 (PR1). Slicing up the US into UCITA Compliant and Non UCITA...even I gotta admit that's pretty slick in that shady kinda way...
Slashdot Mirror
As a (curious) sysadmin I wouldn't mind reading a post mortem like what the /. crew did a few weeks ago. I think MS is missing out on a lot of brownie points by not publishing a blow by blow summary of how an enterprise goes about troubleshooting/fixing a system like that. It would be possible to do something like that w/o disclosing sensitive information. Like I said, wishfull thinking.
You are in fact right... the gains to be had from corps actually using their info on you can be helpfull. Targeted ads (for stuff we might actually be interested in) and all the other stuff you can read on Double Click's mission statement would be great.
The only problem is that most of these companies are (typically) as scrupulous as a loan sharks. Do I want my (car) insurance company finding out I renewed my contact lens perscription? Do I want my employer to know about what gets put on my CC? Do I want my SS# published on the net? If I apply for a CC do I want anyone to find out how much I make?
My point is that some conclusions about who I am can be good for marketing purposes, but some info (especially my meager financial info) should stay close to home because corps these days are particularly untrustworthy.
I actually like Dell and I think they sell pretty good HW for the price. Mostly the reason is cuz I know I can call them and with the right attitude I can get them to send me just about any replacement component overnight.
Even though I couldn't reformat it fast enough I believe in (most) of their products.
before you condemn Israelis for their brutality (which even I'll admit can be extreme) they have been met in kind by the Palestinians. Part of the conundrum of mid-east peace is that each side keeps raising the bar... PLO Fundamentalist bombs beachfront full of teenagers, Israelis close up the borders, PLO gets pissed and riots, riots are met with riot police... rinse lather repeat. I'm not insinuating who started what (I'm sure my parents dont even remember) but it seems like you aren't seeing both sides of the issue.
I think they were just trying to be facetious.
is this Confusingly Titled Meta Story
Appraisal of story, plus cogent quotes.
Criticism of other similar stories contrasted with why this particular one shines.
In your estimation do you think MS' campaigns for "Shared Source" combined with their opinions of Linux as a server platform been effective in relegating Linux's ?
By extension, what affect do you forsee on the numbers of server sales as a result of these campaigns?
(at 4.30am no less)
My company publishes PDF's. Me and some of the sales guys are tight and they tell me that they suspect a lot of clients are sharing their publication with the rest of their network effectively pirating our materials. We're relatively small with only about 100k readers so every buck counts. The future of secured (notice I didnt say secure) text would be of a lot of use for me and other small publishers like mine.
Novelists IMO have nothing to worry about, no one likes to curl up to a laptop/e-book when they can't sleep. Besides, if ain't disposable for us, it ain't profitable for them.
disclaimer: I didn't post this in Ars. XWRed did. greetz to all the other Ars lurkers!
Symmetric multitasking means all OS X apps can take advantage of two processors in a dual-processor Mac to
That just made me laugh. Reading reviews like this almost make me sick, there's so much misinformation and obfuscation. I'm sure the BF could collectively come up with something *FAR* more comprehensive. Heck, I probably could if I played both sides.
In this category, Windows 2000 is simply overmatched. When it comes to Internet-ready operating systems, Apple stepped ahead way back at OS 9
This is laughable as well. Every single thing the guy listed for OSX, Win2k Pro comes with. Well, Microsoft doesn't supply free WebDav space, but I doubt the OS can be faulted for that.
OS X delivers the killing blow with its integration of Apache
Thats the big FUD. Sure, Apple biggybacks on the work of others and includes that stuff. But its by no means integration. Its just a checkbox for on or off, I see no frontend for configuring all of the httpd or ftpd options. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Windows zealot by any means, its just that I can't stand journalism like this. Both of the guys barely know what they're talking about, the Mac guy obfuscates everything, and the Windows guy can barely defend Win2k.
Oh, and I hate it when arguments hinge on simplicity. It seems like none of these journalists are real men anymore, they all want their hands to be held while they're computing because their pussies hurt too much.
Despite this, SDMI threatened Felten and all the rest, including IHW organizers, with legal action under the DMCA
This seems a little weird to me and I said this last time but how the hell can they challenge the DMCA over a threat? They only threatened a lawsuit. They didn't initiate one. Last I checked I can threaten to sue each and everyone of you for whatever I want.
Watch this:
Me: Mod me down and I'll sue Slashdot for slander.
Slashdot: Please don't let him sue us!
What does that exchange mean to the law? My guess is about as much as my opinion matters to most of you. Seriously though, the RIAA's use of the DMCA as a sword instead of sheild in this case is moot. All they did was invoke a name, not a lawsuit.
It's already been done. If you're ever on the corner of 34th and 3rd in NYC you'd see 2 giant screens (at least 10' sq). One is on the 34th street side and the other on the 3rd Ave side. It's made up of a number of smaller LCD panels of about 20", exactly as you describe. I pass by the thing everyday and sometimes you can see a black square where one of the LCD's apparently failed but the rest of the picture comes out fine. If you walk underneath the thing you couldn't tell that it's made up smaller panels.
Remember how when RDRAM first came out and it's benchmarks were abysmal? Rambus said that it was designed for the P4 moreso then the P3. I remember thinking that was a bunch of bs but it turns out to be true, not only that but the 10% performance difference (btwn RDRAM AND DDR)in that benchmark sounds about right if recall my impressions from some of Tom's comparisons.
I wouldn't go near a RDRAM based system but now that they have a viable platform for their product they'll never see the market penetration they now need. If I didn't hate Rambus so much I woulda considered an i850 RDRAM.
Anyone agree/disagree?
I've had a couple of rejections like that too. The only thing I can come up with is maybe they didn't like the way I wrote the run-down of the story. I've found that screaming at the top of my lungs with my rejected story on a sign in Times Square is more effective anyway.
fnord
1. A word used in electronic mail and news messages to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humour, especially in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?"
I should ask dictionary.com to include "MS releases a server under the GPL." as an example.
Your solution would have to either be magical (minus the auto) or a breakthrough in AI. Otherwise it would go from Attritions Defacement list to getting spammed by all the idiots mirroring anything
Without an actual human being to verify the fact that a page has been hacked what would they do, use an honor system? 'Defaced' is an intangible, relative term. A person would have to check the defacement even if there was an automatic way of setting up the mirror.
Personally I'm glad their postal section will have more "hack my g/f's hotmail account plz" then "stfu and mirror my hack of Chucks Hardware site". The 'teach me to hacks msgs' are mad funny!
I saw this interview linked to on securityportal. This guy Dennis Blaine talks about the future of wireless sec. I like this part best...
Q: Why don't we have that today?
A: Just like there is a huge number of types of mobile platforms and methodologies, you could also have the same number of encryption technologies. To date, no one has addressed that problem: the problem of how a single carrier can accommodate all those different encryption technologies.
My point is that the one thing keeping me from adapting is that fact that I can't really do the things that I think are really important like checking my stocks, or bank account, or even my yah00 mail. They are my passwords and I'd like em to stay that way.
To comply with the law, operators would have to severely censor their Web sites or would have to adopt age or credit card verification systems to shield minors from material deemed harmful...
I think my CC numbers would be safer in a usenet posting then with a age verification system.
Ever go clubbing lately? Most places in NYC charge you $6 for a 12 ounce bottle of water on a Friday night. Nevermind why water sells so well (use your Emagination). I don't complain... I also dont dehydrate.
You definatly have valid points but even though your job might not be guarenteed- scratch that, even though you can be fired at a moments notice and not have any say in it, if you're good at what you do and didnt do something overtly foolish (like steal something) you can still get another job in this market. Your job might be in jeopardy at the drop of a hat but your career will be ok and I think that's one important aspect that lots of peeps here are missing.
I'll put it you this way, IMO unions were created to protect workers from greedy corps so the peeps can have a comitees over firing someone, wage protection and more influence over certain decisions that affect their day to day ops. (I'm sure I'm leaving some other stuff out). These things are important because after working in a plant 5 or 10+ years it's really really tough to do something else w/o taking a huge cut in pay right? It would be easy for the corp to fire someone @50k after 10 years for a job when they can bring in a newbie to do the same thing for 30k.
My point is that this sort of thing doesn't really apply to what we do. If I lost my job tommorow I -might- take a pay cut but if I did it wouldn't be much and even then it would take me 3 weeks to find another job. The market is still in our favor because the technology is our leverage, not a union. They (plant workers) didn't have that advantage back then or now and thats why they continue to pay their dues. (Back to us geeks)If the job market sours then maybe the issue should be revisited but IMO that'll take at least another 10 years. And even then corps will still have to depend on us to keep their shit working and write their new shit to make it work better.
...not a labor union. I'm more concerned over the representation I'm receiving in Congress then in my CEO's office. When I speak in that office my voice is heard. When my opinion takes the form of a letter to my local congressperson the results are shall we say, minimal at best. We need advocates that will make our jobs easier by letting us do things like reverse engineering, white-hatting our own networks (which almost became a crime in the EU), examining empirical data and being able to discuss our findings.
We make enough money to live comfortably and we're actually able to do something about it if we feel short changed.
A capitalist is a person who lives off of their capital as opposed to their labor
Maybe you grew up rich but I think most of us didn't. It just so happens that my capital is my skillz and by extension the labor I offer is the only thing keeping me from going to a school on New Utrecht Ave. learning how to drive the L train from Canarsie to 14th St.
In America, you are what you do professionally, and it is natural to have some pressure to do it well.
:)
You definatly have a point but the pressure more often comes from within then from without. The socio-economic model that is often associated with the american lifestyle is represented as a triangle. Rich peeps at the pointy top, poor peeps on the wide bottom. Since the majority are on the bottom and can climb as high as their intelligence/luck will allow the incentive to do what you do as best as you can is simply the drive to be on that pointy top. At least, thats how I see it.
Consider this for a moment... if there was some device that you could use at work that would increase your productivity by 20%, why do you still work 5 days a week.
I'll tell you why. Capitalism, pure and simple. I'm a capitalist and I'm not afraid of the consequences. I know that if I bust my ass (which I do) I'll be rewarded. My pay will increase, I'll have more cash in the bank and I can go to Amsterdam more often. I like money. I can eat really nice food, see more Yankee games and honestly, I equate having a lot of money to achieving something. Note that I didn't say "Having lots of money makes my life feel more complete." I see my job (and the money it brings me) as a means to an end. What that end is I may never find out but at least I'll have the oppurtunity to try and find out.
MY point is that I -like- to work hard. When I get home and I can feel my brain again I have a feeling of accomplishment in there somewhere and I think my bank account is begining to represent that. When I'm retired I like to think that I'll be able to look back and say, "Yeah, I came up with some clever shit when computers were unpredictable and Bill Gates was still in the closet!"
...thats what most of them are charging because they can't make money off it. I'm serious! I know a guy who works for a regional up-and-coming ilec. He told me that they don't sell dsl service alone, you have to also 'subscribe' to their highly competitive long distance service which happens to be the voip service which is on the same fddi ring as their as their internet service. I didn't even realize how easily they can be packaged together until he told me that. As a service it's bareable but in a package could sweeten a deal.
"Intel has technical operations in China, Russia, India and so forth, and we have them there frankly to a significant extent because that's where there are trained people." (See! It has nothing to do with money!)
I'll do my best to not flame you but come on, use your head. Even if the amount of technically competent people were the same here (in the US) as in India, China, Russia and so forth they'd STILL have all those plants and research centers abroad.
It's all about the money cause they don't have to pay as much in those places. Take GM or whoever it was that moved a whole car manufacturing plant to Mexico. Are American plant workers any more skilled at manning a production line then their Mexican counterparts (after being trained)? In Intels case, I'm sure there aren't as many American engineers as Russia, China, etc but you have to admit saying it's not about the money (esp in Intel's case) is kinda ridiculous.
I suppose this is the first of many criticisms of MS but it doesn't surprise me that they introduced us to Digital Divide 2.0 (PR1). Slicing up the US into UCITA Compliant and Non UCITA...even I gotta admit that's pretty slick in that shady kinda way...
:)
wish I woulda thought of that