The only natural law is the law of the strongest, i.e. if you harvest a banana and a thug comes by and beats you up that's now his banana.
Then someone else harvests banana, and thug comes by and take it. Other person and I team up to get rid of thug.
That's society. I've never watched "Survivor" but its not always the strongest who survives. I personally couldn't take on a lion on my own, but society gives me what I need to defeat one should the need arise.
Things like new deployment options, services hardening, re-engineering to provide functionality while reducing attack surface, expanding on multiple layers of management frameworks, expanding on policy enforcement, network access protection, using AES for more and more crypto functions, etc, etc, etc... In some cases Vista will represent a radical advance in the plumbing of the Windows platform.
Maybe its because I'm not looking in the right places, but I think part of the problem is that its hard to find any concrete information on what these changes are and how they're being implemented. I've always liked the Ars Technica review of OS X because they've always looked not just at the surface of the technology, but also describe how it works under the hood. As I've said before, I'd really like to see something like that for Vista, so if you have and sources for this kind of info, please let me know.
I think he was maybe referring to a problem I've had in the past (seems to have disappeared somewhere along the line). Take your example, I would type "p" and get the spinning beach ball for several seconds, it would start displaying those results, then it would start registering the "ro" and modify the search. Especially on slower systems that spinning beach ball could be there forever (10 seconds).
The best solution I saw in the several discussions I've been in about the problem would be to simply pause for a split second before starting the search and using the second and third letters if they were "immediately" available (immediate being some fraction of a second).
Only problem is, AFAIK, we don't know anything about Leopard yet. I don't mind comparisons like this as long as everyone understands what is really being compared (shipping vs. not).
After all, what's he going to do? Compare Tiger search with XP?
IMO, the value of search isn't in Finder/Explorer. Its in creating a foundation that can be used by applications. For example, a jukebox application no longer has to worry about tracking and cataloging all the music files on your computer. The OS has already taken care of it.
And since the same goes for any image or even email application, its expecially important for people who, for whatever reason, like to use more than one application to work with the same kind of file. You may prefer one app for ripping your music, a different one for playing it. Neither one needs to know where the files are actually located or how they've been sorted in the file system. Instead of relying on file paths, an app can use search criteria.
One thing that really caught me off guard (other than the bizarre inconsistencies in tiger that I havn't noticed) is the comment reguarding spotlight's searching as you type being counter-productive? I have a Powerbook G4 (so obviously not the most powerful mac available currently), and I have noticed absolutely no lag in performance when typing in a spotlight search.
I used to have a lot of trouble with that. As soon as I typed the first letter in, I would get the spinning beach ball as it started its search, and it could take several seconds before subsequent letters were included in the search. This only seemed to happen if you typed into a Finder window, not using the Spotlight menu. This seems to have been fixed somewhere along the line, because I no longer have that problem.
You have to remember that MS has redifined "beta". Beta used to mean feature-complete, time to squash bugs, work on performance. Now it means late-alpha that you want to get out there to prove you actually have something -even if it bears no resemblence to what will actually ship (if it ever ships).
IMO, since the days of the Win9, MS has used public betas as a way to ship their product without actually having to take any responsibility for it.
That's especially important given that this data was all about bits travelling between countries, not within the country. From TFA:
Mr Mauldin was keen to point out that the measurements it was taking were not a snapshot of all net traffic. This was because Telegeography does not count the amount of data flowing over cables within national boundaries which, he said, was likely to be at least as large cross-border traffic.
Don't know what country you're in, but in the US the cops do need a warrant or your permission to search your car (open the trunk, glove box to take a look). They can, however, look in the windows all they want. They can not revoke your license for refusing a search.
It does become a bit murkeir if your car is at a repair shop and the repairman opens the trunk to show the cops.It would be a bit like someone visiting your house giving the cops permission to search your house.
I have never once clicked on a link that I thought was for Disney and found myself looking at goatse.
Its not as much of a problem these days, but there still exist many sites which intentionally used common mispellings and errors for popular sites to get traffick. The classic example was www.whitehouse.com. People would type that in thinking they would get whitehouse.gov. It was pointed out to me that whitehouse.com is no longer a porn site.
And, yes, there used to be sites that even used childrens cartoon characters and common misspellings of their names for porn sites. Maybe you remember 3 or 4 years ago when there was a big stink about this (which is probably why whitehouse.com is no longer porn)
As I've said before, I have no problem with porn sites as long as their honest and up-front with what they are, and not trying to "trick" people to get traffic.
Sorry, didn't mean to send you on a wild goose chase. It used to be a porn site. Must have been changed after there was such a big ruckus about it. And like a typical/. poster, I didn't verify before I posted...
Although I hate to say this, FOX News hasn't even touched this story.
Or it could simply be that FOX News hasn't been hit by it. Ever notice how journalists go majorly nuts whenever a problem hits them instead of "regular people"?
This isn't a comment on FOX News, just pointing out that journalists tend to cover what they know and experience (or what they think they know).
I guess I was thinking the opposite. To me it sounds like getting $50 worth of stuff for $100.
For that, couldn't they at least make it a 120 GB HD so people can use it for more stuff? Let's face it, 20 GB is overboard for saving games, but not enough if its supposed to be some sort of media center.
OTOH, it would make it a lot easier to "censor" my kids' web browsing. Just like I don't let them watch XXX movies. Not all censorship is bad.
I simply prefer that web sites, movies, video games be up-front and honest with what they contain and let us make the decisions for ourselves. Doing stuff like "hiding" porn in places like whitehouse.com instead of allowing it to be in whitehouse.xxx just seems wrong to me.
I don't buy the argument that once you can identify porn, all of a sudden it will be censored by the government in a way that prevents or even hinders adults from accessing it. Its not like you can't walk into just about any convenience store and buy porn in the US. The web will be no different.
And on top of all of that, Hollywood needs to realize they aren't the only show in town any more. There are more things vying for our entertainment dollar and leisure time than there were 20 years ago. The internet and game consoles being two big ones.
Which (IMO) is why they want to get into the game market.
Exactly. IIRC what Harmony does is wrap songs downloaded from Real's online music service in Fairplay DRM. They do that so you can play songs purchased from Real on an iPod and they can still enforce their DRM scheme.
As you said, its not like an iPod can't play non-DRM'd audio (other than wma and ogg vorbis).
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I don't think the "official" part matters much at all. Its "hey this shirt looks nice and shows my support for the team without having to go broke".
The only natural law is the law of the strongest, i.e. if you harvest a banana and a thug comes by and beats you up that's now his banana.
Then someone else harvests banana, and thug comes by and take it. Other person and I team up to get rid of thug.
That's society. I've never watched "Survivor" but its not always the strongest who survives. I personally couldn't take on a lion on my own, but society gives me what I need to defeat one should the need arise.
OTOH if you look at the looting going on after Katrina, the guy who grabbed the Rice Crispies might be the smarter of the group.
Things like new deployment options, services hardening, re-engineering to provide functionality while reducing attack surface, expanding on multiple layers of management frameworks, expanding on policy enforcement, network access protection, using AES for more and more crypto functions, etc, etc, etc... In some cases Vista will represent a radical advance in the plumbing of the Windows platform.
Maybe its because I'm not looking in the right places, but I think part of the problem is that its hard to find any concrete information on what these changes are and how they're being implemented. I've always liked the Ars Technica review of OS X because they've always looked not just at the surface of the technology, but also describe how it works under the hood. As I've said before, I'd really like to see something like that for Vista, so if you have and sources for this kind of info, please let me know.
Its called Column View.
I think he was maybe referring to a problem I've had in the past (seems to have disappeared somewhere along the line). Take your example, I would type "p" and get the spinning beach ball for several seconds, it would start displaying those results, then it would start registering the "ro" and modify the search. Especially on slower systems that spinning beach ball could be there forever (10 seconds).
The best solution I saw in the several discussions I've been in about the problem would be to simply pause for a split second before starting the search and using the second and third letters if they were "immediately" available (immediate being some fraction of a second).
Only problem is, AFAIK, we don't know anything about Leopard yet. I don't mind comparisons like this as long as everyone understands what is really being compared (shipping vs. not).
After all, what's he going to do? Compare Tiger search with XP?
IMO, the value of search isn't in Finder/Explorer. Its in creating a foundation that can be used by applications. For example, a jukebox application no longer has to worry about tracking and cataloging all the music files on your computer. The OS has already taken care of it.
And since the same goes for any image or even email application, its expecially important for people who, for whatever reason, like to use more than one application to work with the same kind of file. You may prefer one app for ripping your music, a different one for playing it. Neither one needs to know where the files are actually located or how they've been sorted in the file system. Instead of relying on file paths, an app can use search criteria.
One thing that really caught me off guard (other than the bizarre inconsistencies in tiger that I havn't noticed) is the comment reguarding spotlight's searching as you type being counter-productive? I have a Powerbook G4 (so obviously not the most powerful mac available currently), and I have noticed absolutely no lag in performance when typing in a spotlight search.
I used to have a lot of trouble with that. As soon as I typed the first letter in, I would get the spinning beach ball as it started its search, and it could take several seconds before subsequent letters were included in the search. This only seemed to happen if you typed into a Finder window, not using the Spotlight menu. This seems to have been fixed somewhere along the line, because I no longer have that problem.
You have to remember that MS has redifined "beta". Beta used to mean feature-complete, time to squash bugs, work on performance. Now it means late-alpha that you want to get out there to prove you actually have something -even if it bears no resemblence to what will actually ship (if it ever ships).
IMO, since the days of the Win9, MS has used public betas as a way to ship their product without actually having to take any responsibility for it.
That's especially important given that this data was all about bits travelling between countries, not within the country. From TFA:
Mr Mauldin was keen to point out that the measurements it was taking were not a snapshot of all net traffic. This was because Telegeography does not count the amount of data flowing over cables within national boundaries which, he said, was likely to be at least as large cross-border traffic.
Don't know what country you're in, but in the US the cops do need a warrant or your permission to search your car (open the trunk, glove box to take a look). They can, however, look in the windows all they want. They can not revoke your license for refusing a search.
It does become a bit murkeir if your car is at a repair shop and the repairman opens the trunk to show the cops.It would be a bit like someone visiting your house giving the cops permission to search your house.
I was thinking 3.5" drives. Are they really using 1.8" drives? I didn't see that in TFA, though it does say "20GB detachable hard drive".
Nah, that was just your parents covering up stuff they didn't want you to see.
Sorry, late responding...
I have never once clicked on a link that I thought was for Disney and found myself looking at goatse.
Its not as much of a problem these days, but there still exist many sites which intentionally used common mispellings and errors for popular sites to get traffick. The classic example was www.whitehouse.com. People would type that in thinking they would get whitehouse.gov. It was pointed out to me that whitehouse.com is no longer a porn site.
And, yes, there used to be sites that even used childrens cartoon characters and common misspellings of their names for porn sites. Maybe you remember 3 or 4 years ago when there was a big stink about this (which is probably why whitehouse.com is no longer porn)
As I've said before, I have no problem with porn sites as long as their honest and up-front with what they are, and not trying to "trick" people to get traffic.
Sorry, didn't mean to send you on a wild goose chase. It used to be a porn site. Must have been changed after there was such a big ruckus about it. And like a typical /. poster, I didn't verify before I posted...
Although I hate to say this, FOX News hasn't even touched this story.
Or it could simply be that FOX News hasn't been hit by it. Ever notice how journalists go majorly nuts whenever a problem hits them instead of "regular people"?
This isn't a comment on FOX News, just pointing out that journalists tend to cover what they know and experience (or what they think they know).
I guess I was thinking the opposite. To me it sounds like getting $50 worth of stuff for $100.
For that, couldn't they at least make it a 120 GB HD so people can use it for more stuff? Let's face it, 20 GB is overboard for saving games, but not enough if its supposed to be some sort of media center.
How about parents? Or even adults who simply want to avoid porn while browsing the net?
Its not all black helicopters and oppression of the people.
and, as I mentioned above, the non-obvious ones like whitehouse.com...
OTOH, it would make it a lot easier to "censor" my kids' web browsing. Just like I don't let them watch XXX movies. Not all censorship is bad.
I simply prefer that web sites, movies, video games be up-front and honest with what they contain and let us make the decisions for ourselves. Doing stuff like "hiding" porn in places like whitehouse.com instead of allowing it to be in whitehouse.xxx just seems wrong to me.
I don't buy the argument that once you can identify porn, all of a sudden it will be censored by the government in a way that prevents or even hinders adults from accessing it. Its not like you can't walk into just about any convenience store and buy porn in the US. The web will be no different.
And many of them wanted more than one.
Do the equivalent in just about any country, and you'll end up with the same thing.
Sad? Yes. American only? No.
And on top of all of that, Hollywood needs to realize they aren't the only show in town any more. There are more things vying for our entertainment dollar and leisure time than there were 20 years ago. The internet and game consoles being two big ones.
Which (IMO) is why they want to get into the game market.
Exactly. IIRC what Harmony does is wrap songs downloaded from Real's online music service in Fairplay DRM. They do that so you can play songs purchased from Real on an iPod and they can still enforce their DRM scheme.
As you said, its not like an iPod can't play non-DRM'd audio (other than wma and ogg vorbis).