No type-safety, no assurance that the end user's browser will interpret the script correctly (or at ALL, for that matter), etc. etc.
Not to mention that you're leaving a nice copy of your source code on every machine that accesses your application, as well as all the hideous problems that browser cacheing imposes on that as well...:(
I think the record labels have slightly missed the point here. People don't use p2p networks because it's a great way to distribute music, they use them because it's a great way to get hold of *free* music. It just feels like they're jumping on the p2p bandwagon.
I don't think that selling the content through this channel is really that much benefit, whereas having a music store (ITMS) that's distributed about (Akamai) and has high speed 'net links to anyone on the internet (better than one would get on limewire) is a more attractive propsition. You get the music you payed for quickly, and don't have to run the gauntlet of p2p virii, skiddiots, etc. It's also centrally administered, and therefore provides better accountability to the labels who signed up.
People steal music mostly because it's too expensive to buy in the shops. Studies also show that p2p sharing actually increases shop sales.
Wasn't this intended to be an OSX on Intel? Apple have (alledgedly) been devloping a version of OSX that runs on i386, in the event that PPC doesn't cut the mustard. Little can be found on the internet about it though...
For example, instead of having some random, and unknown, jabber file proxy to enter in, why can't the server offer hints? Someone sets up a jabber server, they are likely to understand how to setup the file proxy needed for it, so have that in the config file as a hint of which proxy to use.
What I suspect Apple will do is leverage the Rendezvous technology to provide a local list of iChat servers that you can join. Makes sense to have one server or instance per department, probably with OpenDirectory based ACL's. Server location could be centralised with a tracker, or just on an ad-hoc basis, with rendezvous. Hell, the OpenDirectory server could even maintain the list of local iChat servers.
Google's architecture might play well with this design with lots of processors in a dense package with relatively good power efficiency per processor.
It would be interesting to see if google would benefit from this, but their system is a grid computer built from commodity hardware, so is most likely optimised around that rather than any single powerful nodes (apart from the obvious benefit of more powerful individual nodes)
At the end of the day, I suspect it cheaper to plug in 50 more nodes than replace swathes of nodes with expensive, proprietary hardware.
Its bad enough that Metal and Aqua are mixed interchangably without any rhyme or reason...mix in X11 apps and now Windows apps and I think we can safely say that visual consistency in OSX is gone.
There is actually supposed to be some rhyme and reason to the Aqua/Metal looks in OSX:
See the section on Windows -> Window Appearance -> Brushed Metal Windows
However, if developers choose not to adhere to these guidelines, there's little that can be done, unless the apps get hacked. Turning on metal is as simple as toggling a switch in XCode and Interface builder. You can disable the metal look in Safari by editing it's preferences as well...
I was under the impression that it's hard to use a video card for general computing tasks because of the way that AGP is designed. It's really good at shunting massive amounts of data into the card (textures, geometry, lighting, etc) but terrible at getting a good data rate back into the computer. They're designed to take a load of data, process it and push the output back to the screen, not the processor. This is the major reason, IMHO.
This basically means that I can make sure my laptop is protected and use any bag I want to store my laptop in (cheap rucksack, record bag).
In practice, I'd recommend a good record bag for carrying round, as they're used to holding quite a weight and have a nice padded strap. They're also a good size and you can get a few folders, books, magazines, etc in there with the laptop in an ePac case.
Wouldn't some form of p2p style blacklisting system be ideal for this sort of application? Each mail server runs a small client that searches a p2p network of blacklisted hosts. Each host lists section of the list and queries other hosts to see if it's on the list. No central server to DoS, and I don't imagine the entire list being so large that it would cause too many bandwidth problems...
I agree with the DNC List, but the judge is probably right that it should have come out of the FCC.
From the article:
Lawmakers were quick to criticize the court's decision, arguing that they had given the FTC the authority to implement the list.
Seems like a pointless ruling though. If this is the case then it's just delaying the implementation of the list until the FTC can approve it or the FCC take over the issue.
Actually, it probably wont' cost more than the current top of the range AlBook. When apple release a new model, the don't adjust the prices, they just shift everything down one step on the price ladder. The top of the line modle gets moved to the middle price, the middle to the bottom, and so on. So this would be a good guide for the retail price.
They changed it from 0 to 1 when the last SSH vuln was disclosed. I see no reason that thye wouldn't do it this time. However, it's not afflicting OperBSD anyways...
And as comparison, how many patches do windows users normally need to install over the 'default install' to get it secure and close every hole in the default setup? Methinks slightly more than 1 or 2...
DARPA have been commissioned to investigate all possibilities. They have developed a 'futures' model, betting on how many terrorist acts are avoided if you do or don't lock your doors.
At least if you're doing something on your computer you're choosing what you want to do, not being fed whatever rubbish is coming out your TV. The 'net gives you the control over what you want to see and provides more of a means to interact with people.
When I go on the 'net, I read five or six different news sites, then go and iChat to some of my friends, then add some stuff to some sites I'm working on. I don't think that's any worse than lying in the sofa for 4 hours watching Sky1.
Don't publish in a PDF. This is what XML and XSLT are all about. You publish the content in XML format and use XSLT transformations to convert it into HTML, PDF, RTF, PPT, whatever. This way you're not bound by any medium, and you have achieved the true separation of content and presentation.
That's a very hard thing to do when an email arrives in your inbox, to see if the original sender was genuine. Anyways, if I was going to send loads of spam I'd setup my own mail server that did allow forged From: headers as opposed to using somebody else's.
Incidentally (and at the risk of getting/.'d) I run a WebLog that allows anyone to contribute by text. Going for over a year now.
http://weblog.vanhegan.net
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It's clear that there are different driving forces behind Open Source projects and paid commercial projects.
Open Source projects are driven by people who enjoy coding in their spare time, people who want to contribute something to the community or by people who have a need for a particular piece of software of functionality.
Commercial projects are driven by the need to produce a product on-time and under-budget in order to sell it to make profit.
In your expierience, how similar is managing an Open Source project to a commerical one? What sort of challenges would you face in an Open Source project that you wouldn't come across in a commercial one? Where do the skill sets required for each differ?
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No type-safety, no assurance that the end user's browser will interpret the script correctly (or at ALL, for that matter), etc. etc.
:(
Not to mention that you're leaving a nice copy of your source code on every machine that accesses your application, as well as all the hideous problems that browser cacheing imposes on that as well...
I think the record labels have slightly missed the point here. People don't use p2p networks because it's a great way to distribute music, they use them because it's a great way to get hold of *free* music. It just feels like they're jumping on the p2p bandwagon.
I don't think that selling the content through this channel is really that much benefit, whereas having a music store (ITMS) that's distributed about (Akamai) and has high speed 'net links to anyone on the internet (better than one would get on limewire) is a more attractive propsition. You get the music you payed for quickly, and don't have to run the gauntlet of p2p virii, skiddiots, etc. It's also centrally administered, and therefore provides better accountability to the labels who signed up.
People steal music mostly because it's too expensive to buy in the shops. Studies also show that p2p sharing actually increases shop sales.
Wasn't this intended to be an OSX on Intel? Apple have (alledgedly) been devloping a version of OSX that runs on i386, in the event that PPC doesn't cut the mustard. Little can be found on the internet about it though...
http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2002/08/20020830181 129.shtml
For example, instead of having some random, and unknown, jabber file proxy to enter in, why can't the server offer hints? Someone sets up a jabber server, they are likely to understand how to setup the file proxy needed for it, so have that in the config file as a hint of which proxy to use.
What I suspect Apple will do is leverage the Rendezvous technology to provide a local list of iChat servers that you can join. Makes sense to have one server or instance per department, probably with OpenDirectory based ACL's. Server location could be centralised with a tracker, or just on an ad-hoc basis, with rendezvous. Hell, the OpenDirectory server could even maintain the list of local iChat servers.
Google's architecture might play well with this design with lots of processors in a dense package with relatively good power efficiency per processor.
It would be interesting to see if google would benefit from this, but their system is a grid computer built from commodity hardware, so is most likely optimised around that rather than any single powerful nodes (apart from the obvious benefit of more powerful individual nodes)
At the end of the day, I suspect it cheaper to plug in 50 more nodes than replace swathes of nodes with expensive, proprietary hardware.
Its bad enough that Metal and Aqua are mixed interchangably without any rhyme or reason...mix in X11 apps and now Windows apps and I think we can safely say that visual consistency in OSX is gone.
There is actually supposed to be some rhyme and reason to the Aqua/Metal looks in OSX:
Apple Human Interface Guidelines
See the section on Windows -> Window Appearance -> Brushed Metal Windows
However, if developers choose not to adhere to these guidelines, there's little that can be done, unless the apps get hacked. Turning on metal is as simple as toggling a switch in XCode and Interface builder. You can disable the metal look in Safari by editing it's preferences as well...
I was under the impression that it's hard to use a video card for general computing tasks because of the way that AGP is designed. It's really good at shunting massive amounts of data into the card (textures, geometry, lighting, etc) but terrible at getting a good data rate back into the computer. They're designed to take a load of data, process it and push the output back to the screen, not the processor. This is the major reason, IMHO.
I have an ePac:
http://www.epac.uk.com/
This basically means that I can make sure my laptop is protected and use any bag I want to store my laptop in (cheap rucksack, record bag).
In practice, I'd recommend a good record bag for carrying round, as they're used to holding quite a weight and have a nice padded strap. They're also a good size and you can get a few folders, books, magazines, etc in there with the laptop in an ePac case.
The device (as the pictures show) seems to take the new Sony UMD media. This looks lke a mini-DVD sized thing, similar to the Game Cube discs.
Doing a search... reveals surprisingly little about what UMD actually is, other than a 1.8Gb DVD-like media, in a protective case.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Jolt cola, beard and braces are also vital components to any good *nix admin,
Wouldn't some form of p2p style blacklisting system be ideal for this sort of application? Each mail server runs a small client that searches a p2p network of blacklisted hosts. Each host lists section of the list and queries other hosts to see if it's on the list. No central server to DoS, and I don't imagine the entire list being so large that it would cause too many bandwidth problems...
I agree with the DNC List, but the judge is probably right that it should have come out of the FCC.
From the article:
Lawmakers were quick to criticize the court's decision, arguing that they had given the FTC the authority to implement the list.
Seems like a pointless ruling though. If this is the case then it's just delaying the implementation of the list until the FTC can approve it or the FCC take over the issue.
cause it's gonna cost a butt-load....
Actually, it probably wont' cost more than the current top of the range AlBook. When apple release a new model, the don't adjust the prices, they just shift everything down one step on the price ladder. The top of the line modle gets moved to the middle price, the middle to the bottom, and so on. So this would be a good guide for the retail price.
They changed it from 0 to 1 when the last SSH vuln was disclosed. I see no reason that thye wouldn't do it this time. However, it's not afflicting OperBSD anyways...
And as comparison, how many patches do windows users normally need to install over the 'default install' to get it secure and close every hole in the default setup? Methinks slightly more than 1 or 2...
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DARPA have been commissioned to investigate all possibilities. They have developed a 'futures' model, betting on how many terrorist acts are avoided if you do or don't lock your doors.
The Department for Homeland Security has just announced that putting 'locks' on your 'doors' will stop thieves burgling your house.
Latest research also indicates that umbrellas keep you dry in the rain, women like chocolate, oranges are not the only fruit and it's dark at night.
At least if you're doing something on your computer you're choosing what you want to do, not being fed whatever rubbish is coming out your TV. The 'net gives you the control over what you want to see and provides more of a means to interact with people.
When I go on the 'net, I read five or six different news sites, then go and iChat to some of my friends, then add some stuff to some sites I'm working on. I don't think that's any worse than lying in the sofa for 4 hours watching Sky1.
Don't publish in a PDF. This is what XML and XSLT are all about. You publish the content in XML format and use XSLT transformations to convert it into HTML, PDF, RTF, PPT, whatever. This way you're not bound by any medium, and you have achieved the true separation of content and presentation.
This is getting silly now...
... which is why, as the article suggests, you whitelist the mailing lists.
That's a very hard thing to do when an email arrives in your inbox, to see if the original sender was genuine. Anyways, if I was going to send loads of spam I'd setup my own mail server that did allow forged From: headers as opposed to using somebody else's.
Incidentally (and at the risk of getting /.'d) I run a WebLog that allows anyone to contribute by text. Going for over a year now.
http://weblog.vanhegan.net
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It's clear that there are different driving forces behind Open Source projects and paid commercial projects.
Open Source projects are driven by people who enjoy coding in their spare time, people who want to contribute something to the community or by people who have a need for a particular piece of software of functionality.
Commercial projects are driven by the need to produce a product on-time and under-budget in order to sell it to make profit.
In your expierience, how similar is managing an Open Source project to a commerical one? What sort of challenges would you face in an Open Source project that you wouldn't come across in a commercial one? Where do the skill sets required for each differ?
It looks like you're trying to pot the '8' ball. Would you like me to:
( ) Show you the angle
( ) Pot it for you
( o ) Shut the hell up