if you're logged into your google account, go into search settings, roll to the bottom of the page and there'll be a "Blocked Sites" section where you can add sites manually.
it's more complicated than that. if you put him in a stick shifter, there's an extra pedal to the left called clutch that you need to use before using the shift stick, or you risk destroying the so-called gear box. in this kind of car speed is determined by a combination of pressure on the accelerator and the shift stick.
but i doubt a guy who can write assembly code would have any problem with this kind of finer grainned controls. he might actually like it better.
microsoft have silverlight as a competitor to flash. why would they allow adobe to run flash nativelly on the new windows and/or windows phone then ?
even apple doesn't allow flash (and i don't blame them, flash on mobiles is even buggier and shittier than on desktops) and apple doesn't have anything that competes directly. MSFT does. no i don't see flash on winphone/new windows anytime soon.
1) one. the host can be a linux box running virtualbox or vmware. 2) set networking to NATed, instead of bridge, running XP with direct contact with the internet is dangerous in any situation. 3) if you have proper firewalls, don't run unnecessary services, don't browse for por from inside the VM and use best practices in general, how would someone knows you're there or that you're starting from a snapshot every day ? what makes you think your XP machine is so important that people will dedicate several days|weeks to learn it's "patterns".
oh, and... if you're running an important service for an entire network out of an XP box... you're insane. this kind of thing is why MSFT sells _server_ versions of windows.
i'd define 'accidental' if the user deletes the information with "rm -rf/" or thows everything in the trash can, followed by an "empty trash" but the informations remains there.
fact is, most OSes don't actually wipe the data, they just remove the entry in the directory/clear the inodes. the data blocks remain intact until they're overwritten.
one more thing i miss from OS/2 warp, it had a conveniently placed "shredder" that actually wiped the data blocks.
about a week ago i bough a chep coby kyros tablet for less than a 1/4 of what an ipad would've costed me. ok, granted, it doesn't come anywhere near the ipad by any measure, but it does the job of browsing the web in the loo, i can read ebooks and watch cartoons on the subway, plus it's very hacker friendly (mine came rooted right out of the box).
then yesterday i was sitting in a food court watching a video while drinking coffee and a guy came to me asking about the tablet, the brand the price, what did it need to access the web, etc. he explained that he had a consulting job and he was thinking in buying tablets to his company to use them in product demos and keep some other files handy without having to lug a full notebook around. and this guy wasn't the only one. i already met 2 or 3 other people interested in a tablet that could do the job but wasn't as expensive as the ipad or the galaxy tab.
there is demand for competing products, some competitors have the technology and quality to match apple's. only thing they need now is a decent marketing departament to match cupertino's.
We all know what happened. The most open of the platforms prevailed, and the rest were basically crushed into obscurity. Most went completely out of business. Apple, by far the strongest of them, only barely managed to survive the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s.
I suspect that the same thing might be happening today. Although not the first, Apple took a commanding lead within the market. But facing competition from more open hardware and software, they don't have a hope in hell of surviving in the long run. It remains to be seen what will happen with Jobs in the near future, but if he departs from Apple for whatever reason, it's likely that they'll face yet another dark period like that between 1987 and 1999.
i don't think anyone's going out of business, for several reasons. but the most important is what's the so-called "killer app". see, the "killer app" back at those days were what i call "the holy trinity" lotus 1-2-3, d-base and wordstar. later it wordperfect took the crown as editor, later it became all MS office. other plataforms had a snowball chanve in hell of being adopted by business without office applications that were interoperable with PC. and in those days, real money was in the office market. home market was considered a "toy market" or "hobyst market". apple found a comfortable niche in grpahics and publishing that kept them afloat until the home market became as big as the business market.
then in mid 80's things changed in the home market, the 'killer app" at home moved from games ang hobby to being able to bring work home, that's when the PC crushed all the other platforms at this market too.
the other change, in late 90's was that the "killer app" at the home market became being able to access the internet and playing MP3/video. that's what allowed the mac to make a come back, and this is where it still is on the computer market.
now, smartphones ? the "killer app" untill now was: contacts, phoning and messaging. now it's all this, plus e-mail, web browsing and small apps.
all of this is available in ALL plataforms. contact's, mail, phone, messaging and web, those are all standardized or licensed (information on how to interface with MS exchange is available to any manufacturer for a fee. so it's available for android, iOS, RIM, webOS and symbian).
so, the last "killer app" for mobiles: applications.
well, developing cross-plataform code is a lot easier today than it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago, so the same angry birds you play on android, you can play on iOS or even on windows.
the end result, don't expect apple, RIM or even MS to leave the market any time soon. even webOS may still have a future ahead of it, now that they have HPs deep pockets behind it.
they're not denying the source. they're just bundling togheter the vanilla kernel AND their own patches, nothing wrong with that from a GPL perspective, there's nothing in the license that says your changes have to come in the form of patches.
the problem with programing is not the languages themselves. there's lots of languages out there that try to be "intuitive" and "easy", yet, you don't see regular people doing anything with those.
the problem is logic. unless you give computers a human level AI, so they can deal with the ilogical way most people think, resolve ambiguities in speech, extrapolate from an incomple set of instructions and other human limitations, you'll still need people trained in the mathematical logic of computers to give instructions to the machines.
some chinese tablets are going for about that, and some of them already have 800 MHz CPUs with HDMI and full USB hosts. ad a cheap USB keyboard and a stand to keep it upright and you're set.
what you escribed was called "validation boot" at the old EDS, but it's not done to _solve problems_, which is the point of TFA, it's done to avoid _future_ problems, and only done during schedulled maintenance, which doesn't count against the SLA.
both HP and IBM survived their deals with microsoft thanks to their huge sizes.
IBM had the services, servers and mainframes to back them up after the relationship with MS went sour (the whole OS/2 vs windows thing). HP had their servers and imaging division when MS partnered with intel and screwed everyone with windows vista (costed HP 1 billion to upgrade the whole line of desktops/notebooks, only for MS to cater to intel's pressured and make vista run on underpowered chipsets).
both companies at the time of their respective screw ups had revenues bigger than microsoft's. compare today's values as a reference point:
MSFT: 66.69B IBM: 99.87B HPQ: 126.03B
3COM managed to survive a deal with MS too, but that was in the early 80's, MS was much smaller than today and small business networking was a booming business, so 3COM had enough room to recover. but i can't remember anyone else.
We've been doing desktops since dirt, and have it pretty well understood, reasonably well standardized across multiple operating systems. The building blocks are well understood, highly developed and well documented.
that's exactly the problem. multiple. operating. systems. making a desktop app that runs on all of them is a pain in the ass, an for commercial developers, expensive. no wonder that the majority of multi-plataform apps are opensource. now, developing for web, finally bring the dream of "write once, run everywhere", something that java promissed but failed to deliver in large scale.
So why does it seem as if everybody wants to make us dependent on a 24/7 connection to the web
HTML5 can store data locally, i guess this includes the applications files, so you can still use them while offline.
And don't get me started on clouds!!!
What do we gain besides a huge dependence on things outside of our immediate control.
Did events in Egypt not teach us anything about putting every thing on the web and in the cloud?
most non-techie people i know have problems installing updates, anti-virus, doing backups and all that. put it on "the cloud" and let professionals handle that.
and "huge dependence on things outside of our immediate control" ??? why do you use different standards for your personal data and your money ? i bet you keep your money on a bank, so why not your data ? it's not like it'll be unavailable if the web goes down, as long as you keep local copies.
and what does egypt have to do with web and clouds ? are you implying that a nation-wide internet shutdown will paralize us ? it didn't paralize the egyptians. the existence or not of the web had zero effect on the egyptian protests.
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if you're logged into your google account, go into search settings, roll to the bottom of the page and there'll be a "Blocked Sites" section where you can add sites manually.
No one wants to factor in the hundreds of billions of dollars of cost after something goes wrong
you forgot this part.
some people are saying the cost of cleanup and indemnification in fukushima can be as high as 60 billion.
how many wind turbines can you buy with that ?
it's more complicated than that. if you put him in a stick shifter, there's an extra pedal to the left called clutch that you need to use before using the shift stick, or you risk destroying the so-called gear box. in this kind of car speed is determined by a combination of pressure on the accelerator and the shift stick.
but i doubt a guy who can write assembly code would have any problem with this kind of finer grainned controls. he might actually like it better.
microsoft have silverlight as a competitor to flash. why would they allow adobe to run flash nativelly on the new windows and/or windows phone then ?
even apple doesn't allow flash (and i don't blame them, flash on mobiles is even buggier and shittier than on desktops) and apple doesn't have anything that competes directly. MSFT does. no i don't see flash on winphone/new windows anytime soon.
1) one. the host can be a linux box running virtualbox or vmware.
2) set networking to NATed, instead of bridge, running XP with direct contact with the internet is dangerous in any situation.
3) if you have proper firewalls, don't run unnecessary services, don't browse for por from inside the VM and use best practices in general, how would someone knows you're there or that you're starting from a snapshot every day ? what makes you think your XP machine is so important that people will dedicate several days|weeks to learn it's "patterns".
oh, and... if you're running an important service for an entire network out of an XP box... you're insane. this kind of thing is why MSFT sells _server_ versions of windows.
install XP on a virtual machine, configure everything to save on a shared folder on the guest. restore a clean snapshot every day.
this reduces administration and security woes to a minimum.
i'd define 'accidental' if the user deletes the information with "rm -rf /" or thows everything in the trash can, followed by an "empty trash" but the informations remains there.
fact is, most OSes don't actually wipe the data, they just remove the entry in the directory/clear the inodes. the data blocks remain intact until they're overwritten.
one more thing i miss from OS/2 warp, it had a conveniently placed "shredder" that actually wiped the data blocks.
i don't think it's just apple driving the market.
about a week ago i bough a chep coby kyros tablet for less than a 1/4 of what an ipad would've costed me. ok, granted, it doesn't come anywhere near the ipad by any measure, but it does the job of browsing the web in the loo, i can read ebooks and watch cartoons on the subway, plus it's very hacker friendly (mine came rooted right out of the box).
then yesterday i was sitting in a food court watching a video while drinking coffee and a guy came to me asking about the tablet, the brand the price, what did it need to access the web, etc. he explained that he had a consulting job and he was thinking in buying tablets to his company to use them in product demos and keep some other files handy without having to lug a full notebook around. and this guy wasn't the only one. i already met 2 or 3 other people interested in a tablet that could do the job but wasn't as expensive as the ipad or the galaxy tab.
there is demand for competing products, some competitors have the technology and quality to match apple's. only thing they need now is a decent marketing departament to match cupertino's.
We all know what happened. The most open of the platforms prevailed, and the rest were basically crushed into obscurity. Most went completely out of business. Apple, by far the strongest of them, only barely managed to survive the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s.
I suspect that the same thing might be happening today. Although not the first, Apple took a commanding lead within the market. But facing competition from more open hardware and software, they don't have a hope in hell of surviving in the long run. It remains to be seen what will happen with Jobs in the near future, but if he departs from Apple for whatever reason, it's likely that they'll face yet another dark period like that between 1987 and 1999.
i don't think anyone's going out of business, for several reasons. but the most important is what's the so-called "killer app". see, the "killer app" back at those days were what i call "the holy trinity" lotus 1-2-3, d-base and wordstar. later it wordperfect took the crown as editor, later it became all MS office. other plataforms had a snowball chanve in hell of being adopted by business without office applications that were interoperable with PC. and in those days, real money was in the office market. home market was considered a "toy market" or "hobyst market". apple found a comfortable niche in grpahics and publishing that kept them afloat until the home market became as big as the business market.
then in mid 80's things changed in the home market, the 'killer app" at home moved from games ang hobby to being able to bring work home, that's when the PC crushed all the other platforms at this market too.
the other change, in late 90's was that the "killer app" at the home market became being able to access the internet and playing MP3/video. that's what allowed the mac to make a come back, and this is where it still is on the computer market.
now, smartphones ? the "killer app" untill now was: contacts, phoning and messaging. now it's all this, plus e-mail, web browsing and small apps.
all of this is available in ALL plataforms. contact's, mail, phone, messaging and web, those are all standardized or licensed (information on how to interface with MS exchange is available to any manufacturer for a fee. so it's available for android, iOS, RIM, webOS and symbian).
so, the last "killer app" for mobiles: applications.
well, developing cross-plataform code is a lot easier today than it was 10, 20 or 30 years ago, so the same angry birds you play on android, you can play on iOS or even on windows.
the end result, don't expect apple, RIM or even MS to leave the market any time soon. even webOS may still have a future ahead of it, now that they have HPs deep pockets behind it.
they're not denying the source. they're just bundling togheter the vanilla kernel AND their own patches, nothing wrong with that from a GPL perspective, there's nothing in the license that says your changes have to come in the form of patches.
from TFA:
"Like Google, Mozilla is going to use four channels for development"
don't they mean "like debian's four branches (experimental, SID, testing, stable) ?
these ones can: http://www.dell.com/xfr
f%&k tablets. a dell XFR is my dream machine. seriously, ballistic armor ? gotta love a notebook that can take a bullet for you.
the problem with programing is not the languages themselves. there's lots of languages out there that try to be "intuitive" and "easy", yet, you don't see regular people doing anything with those.
the problem is logic. unless you give computers a human level AI, so they can deal with the ilogical way most people think, resolve ambiguities in speech, extrapolate from an incomple set of instructions and other human limitations, you'll still need people trained in the mathematical logic of computers to give instructions to the machines.
tinfoil doesn't work. at least not with the motorola milestone i have.
i know because i tried. a faday cage, maybe. have to build me one.
it was the last lauch for _discovery_. atlantis and endeavour still have one launch each on the schedule
plug computers are going for US$ 99.
some chinese tablets are going for about that, and some of them already have 800 MHz CPUs with HDMI and full USB hosts. ad a cheap USB keyboard and a stand to keep it upright and you're set.
i remember a story about benjamin franklin being asked by fellow congressman what would be the practical uses for electricity. his answer ?
"i don't know what it's usefull for, but i know that in the future you will taxing it".
so, there's your answer.
you must be new here...
what you escribed was called "validation boot" at the old EDS, but it's not done to _solve problems_, which is the point of TFA, it's done to avoid _future_ problems, and only done during schedulled maintenance, which doesn't count against the SLA.
To say Linux and BSD are not UNIX is like saying humans are not primates...
Something about religious beliefs or some shit, don't ask me.
following the analogy, all OSes are primates. but they're different kinds of primates.
saying "BSD and linux are not unix" could be construed as "capuchin and spider monkeys are not apes".
or something like that.
where's BadAnalogyGuy when we need him ???
both HP and IBM survived their deals with microsoft thanks to their huge sizes.
IBM had the services, servers and mainframes to back them up after the relationship with MS went sour (the whole OS/2 vs windows thing). HP had their servers and imaging division when MS partnered with intel and screwed everyone with windows vista (costed HP 1 billion to upgrade the whole line of desktops/notebooks, only for MS to cater to intel's pressured and make vista run on underpowered chipsets).
both companies at the time of their respective screw ups had revenues bigger than microsoft's. compare today's values as a reference point:
MSFT: 66.69B
IBM: 99.87B
HPQ: 126.03B
3COM managed to survive a deal with MS too, but that was in the early 80's, MS was much smaller than today and small business networking was a booming business, so 3COM had enough room to recover. but i can't remember anyone else.
i would go with "adolf hitler", "charles manson", "ted bundy"...
saint steve wasn't at apple when the pippin was released and flopped, so it didn't come with a reality distortion field as factory standard.
now, hardcore gamers will probably shun this thing, but casual gamers (mostly mom and grandma) will probably buy it.
basicaly another gaming niche that currently belongs to nintendo that apple will tackle and probably be successfull.
tell me where i can buy parts for a DIY notebook and i'll buy...
We've been doing desktops since dirt, and have it pretty well understood, reasonably well standardized
across multiple operating systems. The building blocks are well understood, highly developed and
well documented.
that's exactly the problem. multiple. operating. systems. making a desktop app that runs on all of them is a pain in the ass, an for commercial developers, expensive. no wonder that the majority of multi-plataform apps are opensource. now, developing for web, finally bring the dream of "write once, run everywhere", something that java promissed but failed to deliver in large scale.
So why does it seem as if everybody wants to make us dependent on a 24/7 connection to the
web
HTML5 can store data locally, i guess this includes the applications files, so you can still use them while offline.
And don't get me started on clouds!!!
What do we gain besides a huge dependence on things outside of our immediate control.
Did events in Egypt not teach us anything about putting every thing on the web and in
the cloud?
most non-techie people i know have problems installing updates, anti-virus, doing backups and all that. put it on "the cloud" and let professionals handle that.
and "huge dependence on things outside of our immediate control" ??? why do you use different standards for your personal data and your money ? i bet you keep your money on a bank, so why not your data ? it's not like it'll be unavailable if the web goes down, as long as you keep local copies.
and what does egypt have to do with web and clouds ? are you implying that a nation-wide internet shutdown will paralize us ? it didn't paralize the egyptians. the existence or not of the web had zero effect on the egyptian protests.