I'm just really really really surprised that marketing allowed that. More likely they didn't see it as its on a development blog. Not really, MS has become quite open on their blog content. You won't often see things like this removed, even if it's posted. This is probably considered harmless, like a lot of stuff is on e.g. Channel9 too. Why you rarely see it is probably more because of the mindset of their devs and trying to uphold a "professional" attitude.
Yes, this happens to international space photography every now and then too -- from the US, Europe, Russia... Often it's actually far more noticeable than in this case, and I seriously think that the controversy of this case actually comes from that the stitching is so *little* noticeable. That can make people come up with conspiracy theories. They probably wouldn't if the stitching was far more obvious, like from someone combining two images with even more differing perspectives (see the northern parts of that photo). That, and of course being a Chinese experiment (damn Commies, etc, etc) plays against them per definition.
Vista Ultimate: ~700$. Nothing really to offer, exept maybe this floating waterfall background, which must eat a ton of resources. Come on, I know you love Linux even above your girly JPG's, but please. This is getting old, fucking old even.
Windows Vista disadvantages over XP
- Lacking application compatibility. - Lacking driver compatibility that only recently seem to start being resolved. - Added resource requirements, although some can be mitigated by deactivating Aero Glass. - Added system services to improve performance over time, that may actually do things works. YMMV here. - Further tightened antipiracy features that sometimes lead to false positives. - Slow file operation bugs that affect some users, to be fixed in SP1, and available now as a hotfix. - Obnoxious User Account Control, although it is debated if it's finally what Windows has needed, and *NIX systems have had for decades in "sudo". - DRM support, although some debate this is only a support, not a requirement. People are still in charge of their systems and whether to actually play DRM protected files. Pirated HD movies can be streamed fine to a HDTV set in full resolution, for example. Nevertheless, this can be seen as Microsoft supporting anticompetitive and anticonsumer business practices in the media industry. - Increased battery life when using Aero Glass. - Widely reported reduced game performance. - Lacking IE customization controls compared to IE 6. - Dumbed down backup tool. - Loss of functionality in the sound recorder tool. - Controversial Kernel Patch Protection feature that achieves both good and evil. Etc...
Windows Vista advantages over XP
- Enhanced Explorer through breadcrumb navigation and better visualized meta-data. - Plugin architecture for thumbnail previews. - "Abstract" virtual folders that base their contents on custom criteria, not "physical" contents. - Organize files in "stacks" based on their metadata. - New API:s to help users discover which application is keeping a file lock. - Instant search / search as you type. - Performance diagnostics console with problem history for overviews and problem resolution assistance. - Non-destructive disk manager. - Application-specific audio controls. - Shadow copies for file versioning support. - Per-user language support for multiuser installations. - New contact management with extensibility API:s for application integration. - New calendar application to support the iCalendar format and WebDAV server synchronization. - Improved search in WMP 11, added integrated format support. (VC-1, AC3, etc) - New, modularized IIS engine. - Security feautres: Address space layout randomization, improved outbound firewall, drive encryption, EFS,... - Significantly improved task scheduler application. - New health monitoring and system diagnostics tools. - Significant changes to mobile computing. Etc...
I know you wish to see the world in black & white. Sure, you really do. But the truth is that it has many shades of grey too.
I agree with you that Vista Ultimate is expensive as hell, but most of what I listed doesn't even require it.
Why is this controversial? I thought it was in part because of things like undisclosed mailing lists, in part because of the weird nature of their admitted mistake in banning someone for around a month, not because they're trying to ban people that misbehave, as you try to put it:
You can't simultaneously complain that wikipedia is vulnerable to edits by ignorant/malicious/troll/pro-spin users, and complain that wikipedia takes action against those users by identifying them and banning them. I think that's missing the point of the article here a bit.
To be fair, this isn't specific about Wikipedia; it's the general tone of The Register. I've seen the same with Apple, Microsoft, or Linux. I don't think it's anything in specific to special demographies or services from what I've seen. Having said that, I still use to find articles on The Register to have grains of truth in them, although they have a preference to do write-ups of the kind that bring them attention.
They're hurting Wikipedia more than the petty vandals they're trying to stop, even bad guys with admin rights.:-(
It's one thing to contribute and have someone occasionally wreck thing up -- that can be repaired easily. It's a whole other thing to feel like you're contributing to admins with this mindset. Regaining confidence in the leadership isn't done in a similar fashion by a click of a button.
Alright, now I'm waiting to hear what Jimbo Wales will do to stop this behavior. Surely that can is a reasonable expectation?
There will be no changes to our games, our websites, our personnel, or our day-to-day operations as a result of the deal. That's what they always say first.
(Last time I used IRC was in an attempt to get support on a particular open source software package. Worst. Support. Ever. In a room with 50+ connected people, seemingly every single one was AFK for a solid 5 minutes. Yes, that's MUCH worse than a commercial package with phone support! You're NEVER put on hold for 5 minutes there, I tell you!;-)
I don't see how a blog is related to a wiki / project manager / multi-user collaboration system in any way at all.
Blogs are "web logs" where people can post stuff without multi user collaboration. A wiki, project manager, or collaboration system is a content managing system for user groups. How would these two be related exactly?
I don't know how I should best put this or if you're joking but -- no, bank web sites are usually more heavily scrutizined against attacks, and it seems successfully so. Bank sites should logically be major hacker targets, but the only way I use to see people "hack" themselves to find any bank account details here is by having people run a trojan in a mail in advance containing a keylogger. Or go to a web site set up to look like a bank site and have the user input the private details there. But in neither of these cases is it really a bank security problem.
I must say I don't really recall a national bank here being attacked "for real", but I recall plenty of other categories of web sites.
They don't own the content (it was licensed to them under GFDL) so they just can't change the license. But they aren't switching license. They're making it compatible with a particular variant of the CC 3.0 license.
While this is yet another technical issue with the ISS, when will this end? When will a space station under development be free of problems? When will a software in development be bug free?
This is technology, technology even in a quite extreme environment... I think you'd better get used to it. I think this is part of space science.
As long as we can handle it, we can handle it. I don't think we can hope for more, really.
Agreed -- Google hasn't done anything evil about their information other than by machine analyzing the data to provide relevant ads. I think the reason is simple enough... Even if they were evil enough to do anything more, they ought to have the brains to understand how damaging that would be to their brand when it's the god damn core of their business model. Managing information. I mean, I can't even see how Google would even want to do this even from a business perspective. It would just take them to be discovered having done something fishy once and they could risk losing a lot of their reputation.
At least let Google say something on their plans first...?
Besides, what's so special even if they'd do this? It's the norm to not encrypt mails. It's the norm to not encrypt instant messages on servers on services that provide offline messaging (Messenger, ICQ,...). Software may send usage information to some company's servers. Game companies analyze your system to detect cheats, and could in the process find a lot of other things on it.
As usual, when this is released, I think *gasp* that the users will just have to decide for themselves if they care for having encryption or not. They'll also be free to encrypt their data. Why the rumor mill? Just chill and take it for what it is, as with any other service. It's not like Google will force you onto it. Then I could see the fearmongering kicking in early be more motivated.
HTML at V4 and its mess of presentation structure should IMO not even be here in the first place in a perfect world. That's why I like HTML 5, because it makes the distinction of presentation (this is what CSS is for, and why so much of HTML 4 is now deprecated in XHTML and HTML 5) and structure even more clear. And less complex to understand.
Is this more of a complaint about not being able to keep up with the times than one of added complexity? I can imagine that someone learning HTML 5 or XHTML and knowing nothing of HTML 4 and the mess it introduced could actually have an easier time doing so...
The problems with HTML will not be solved by making it bigger and more complicated. I think instead we should generalize what it does well, while excising features that are problematic. Ehh, I think I'll stop reading already there.
W3C has already deprecated quite a bit of the mess from HTML 4 that mixed up the presentation with the structure, and HTML 5 aims to make that distinction more clear than ever, and make more sense with more "natural" tags for the page structure. I don't see HTML being very complex now at all, with so much of the presentation having been moved to CSS.
What most editors still generate and lots you see on the web is actually deprecated stuff. Things like FONT tags and color attributes for whatever.
A page that don't use scripts or such things like deprecated page design methodologies look very clean to me already, and a HTML 5 page will thanks to the more natural tags introduced for structure will probably be even more human readable and understandable.
XP may remain a common OS among Windows users, but many sure won't jump ship to OS X.
The operating systems aren't software compatible, OS X don't have alternatives for everything, and it's a hassle to use workarounds like virtual machines or Boot Camp to jump between them.
What's most scary with these ideas is that I fear few upcoming politicians will, if they come into effect, have the guts to abolish them later. It's like eroding peoples' rights to privacy in surveillance societies. "If you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?" As soon as they'd try to take something like this in effect out again, they'd get the whole media industry against them, and they usually make more noise through money than the individuals. People just tend to adapt to the new circumstances. Just watch how popular iTunes is, despite the people not owning something they're in control of. People just gape and swallow anyway.
I wonder how long it'll take to repair the damage Bush did to USA, for example. Politicians that intend to take out regulations and point to that infamous piece of paper unfortunately don't grow on trees.:-(
I'm not sure that's what he's talking about -- that he expects the tech to be mature immediately.
However, one can do expect the description to be worded a bit more truthfully.
In this case, why not just skip the "close" part but still describe what it does? Because one can really say this isn't very close, at least for the uses I can imagine with this.
Imagine what giving them just 0.5% more of the US budget would do in comparison to how little the last few additions of 0.5% did to improving the situation in Iraq.:-/
That's really depressing to think about, IMHO...
(the total NASA budget is about 0.6%... err, that is, not 24% as estimated by an all too large share of the US population)
Slashdot Mirror
Bricking. That word will have became annoying to me by the end of 2008.
And in particular vote for Putin.
Yes, this happens to international space photography every now and then too -- from the US, Europe, Russia... Often it's actually far more noticeable than in this case, and I seriously think that the controversy of this case actually comes from that the stitching is so *little* noticeable. That can make people come up with conspiracy theories. They probably wouldn't if the stitching was far more obvious, like from someone combining two images with even more differing perspectives (see the northern parts of that photo). That, and of course being a Chinese experiment (damn Commies, etc, etc) plays against them per definition.
Sorry, missed some words here and there:
- Decreased battery life when using Aero Glass.
- may actually do things worse
At least I put them in the right categories.
Windows Vista disadvantages over XP
- Lacking application compatibility.
- Lacking driver compatibility that only recently seem to start being resolved.
- Added resource requirements, although some can be mitigated by deactivating Aero Glass.
- Added system services to improve performance over time, that may actually do things works. YMMV here.
- Further tightened antipiracy features that sometimes lead to false positives.
- Slow file operation bugs that affect some users, to be fixed in SP1, and available now as a hotfix.
- Obnoxious User Account Control, although it is debated if it's finally what Windows has needed, and *NIX systems have had for decades in "sudo".
- DRM support, although some debate this is only a support, not a requirement. People are still in charge of their systems and whether to actually play DRM protected files. Pirated HD movies can be streamed fine to a HDTV set in full resolution, for example. Nevertheless, this can be seen as Microsoft supporting anticompetitive and anticonsumer business practices in the media industry.
- Increased battery life when using Aero Glass.
- Widely reported reduced game performance.
- Lacking IE customization controls compared to IE 6.
- Dumbed down backup tool.
- Loss of functionality in the sound recorder tool.
- Controversial Kernel Patch Protection feature that achieves both good and evil.
Etc...
Windows Vista advantages over XP
- Enhanced Explorer through breadcrumb navigation and better visualized meta-data.
- Plugin architecture for thumbnail previews.
- "Abstract" virtual folders that base their contents on custom criteria, not "physical" contents.
- Organize files in "stacks" based on their metadata.
- New API:s to help users discover which application is keeping a file lock.
- Instant search / search as you type.
- Performance diagnostics console with problem history for overviews and problem resolution assistance.
- Non-destructive disk manager.
- Application-specific audio controls.
- Shadow copies for file versioning support.
- Per-user language support for multiuser installations.
- New contact management with extensibility API:s for application integration.
- New calendar application to support the iCalendar format and WebDAV server synchronization.
- Improved search in WMP 11, added integrated format support. (VC-1, AC3, etc)
- New, modularized IIS engine.
- Security feautres: Address space layout randomization, improved outbound firewall, drive encryption, EFS,
- Significantly improved task scheduler application.
- New health monitoring and system diagnostics tools.
- Significant changes to mobile computing.
Etc...
I know you wish to see the world in black & white. Sure, you really do. But the truth is that it has many shades of grey too.
I agree with you that Vista Ultimate is expensive as hell, but most of what I listed doesn't even require it.
To be fair, this isn't specific about Wikipedia; it's the general tone of The Register. I've seen the same with Apple, Microsoft, or Linux. I don't think it's anything in specific to special demographies or services from what I've seen. Having said that, I still use to find articles on The Register to have grains of truth in them, although they have a preference to do write-ups of the kind that bring them attention.
They're hurting Wikipedia more than the petty vandals they're trying to stop, even bad guys with admin rights. :-(
It's one thing to contribute and have someone occasionally wreck thing up -- that can be repaired easily. It's a whole other thing to feel like you're contributing to admins with this mindset. Regaining confidence in the leadership isn't done in a similar fashion by a click of a button.
Alright, now I'm waiting to hear what Jimbo Wales will do to stop this behavior. Surely that can is a reasonable expectation?
Agreed, if they can't even protect themselves from a harmless Googlebot, imagine if a person with an agenda would try to access that information...
?
I don't see how a blog is related to a wiki / project manager / multi-user collaboration system in any way at all.
Blogs are "web logs" where people can post stuff without multi user collaboration. A wiki, project manager, or collaboration system is a content managing system for user groups. How would these two be related exactly?
I don't know how I should best put this or if you're joking but -- no, bank web sites are usually more heavily scrutizined against attacks, and it seems successfully so. Bank sites should logically be major hacker targets, but the only way I use to see people "hack" themselves to find any bank account details here is by having people run a trojan in a mail in advance containing a keylogger. Or go to a web site set up to look like a bank site and have the user input the private details there. But in neither of these cases is it really a bank security problem.
I must say I don't really recall a national bank here being attacked "for real", but I recall plenty of other categories of web sites.
When will a software in development be bug free?
This is technology, technology even in a quite extreme environment... I think you'd better get used to it. I think this is part of space science.
As long as we can handle it, we can handle it. I don't think we can hope for more, really.
Especially how quickly they can get their parents attention by crying. :-S
Agreed -- Google hasn't done anything evil about their information other than by machine analyzing the data to provide relevant ads. I think the reason is simple enough... Even if they were evil enough to do anything more, they ought to have the brains to understand how damaging that would be to their brand when it's the god damn core of their business model. Managing information. I mean, I can't even see how Google would even want to do this even from a business perspective. It would just take them to be discovered having done something fishy once and they could risk losing a lot of their reputation.
At least let Google say something on their plans first...?
...). Software may send usage information to some company's servers. Game companies analyze your system to detect cheats, and could in the process find a lot of other things on it.
Besides, what's so special even if they'd do this? It's the norm to not encrypt mails. It's the norm to not encrypt instant messages on servers on services that provide offline messaging (Messenger, ICQ,
As usual, when this is released, I think *gasp* that the users will just have to decide for themselves if they care for having encryption or not. They'll also be free to encrypt their data. Why the rumor mill? Just chill and take it for what it is, as with any other service. It's not like Google will force you onto it. Then I could see the fearmongering kicking in early be more motivated.
HTML at V4 and its mess of presentation structure should IMO not even be here in the first place in a perfect world. That's why I like HTML 5, because it makes the distinction of presentation (this is what CSS is for, and why so much of HTML 4 is now deprecated in XHTML and HTML 5) and structure even more clear. And less complex to understand.
Is this more of a complaint about not being able to keep up with the times than one of added complexity? I can imagine that someone learning HTML 5 or XHTML and knowing nothing of HTML 4 and the mess it introduced could actually have an easier time doing so...
W3C has already deprecated quite a bit of the mess from HTML 4 that mixed up the presentation with the structure, and HTML 5 aims to make that distinction more clear than ever, and make more sense with more "natural" tags for the page structure. I don't see HTML being very complex now at all, with so much of the presentation having been moved to CSS.
What most editors still generate and lots you see on the web is actually deprecated stuff. Things like FONT tags and color attributes for whatever.
A page that don't use scripts or such things like deprecated page design methodologies look very clean to me already, and a HTML 5 page will thanks to the more natural tags introduced for structure will probably be even more human readable and understandable.
XP may remain a common OS among Windows users, but many sure won't jump ship to OS X.
The operating systems aren't software compatible, OS X don't have alternatives for everything, and it's a hassle to use workarounds like virtual machines or Boot Camp to jump between them.
What's most scary with these ideas is that I fear few upcoming politicians will, if they come into effect, have the guts to abolish them later. It's like eroding peoples' rights to privacy in surveillance societies. "If you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?" As soon as they'd try to take something like this in effect out again, they'd get the whole media industry against them, and they usually make more noise through money than the individuals. People just tend to adapt to the new circumstances. Just watch how popular iTunes is, despite the people not owning something they're in control of. People just gape and swallow anyway.
:-(
I wonder how long it'll take to repair the damage Bush did to USA, for example. Politicians that intend to take out regulations and point to that infamous piece of paper unfortunately don't grow on trees.
I'm not sure that's what he's talking about -- that he expects the tech to be mature immediately.
However, one can do expect the description to be worded a bit more truthfully.
In this case, why not just skip the "close" part but still describe what it does? Because one can really say this isn't very close, at least for the uses I can imagine with this.
Imagine what giving them just 0.5% more of the US budget would do in comparison to how little the last few additions of 0.5% did to improving the situation in Iraq. :-/
That's really depressing to think about, IMHO...
(the total NASA budget is about 0.6%... err, that is, not 24% as estimated by an all too large share of the US population)