Well said. Moreover, for those of us who have dealt with hardware piracy, Device and Vendor IDs are critical identification tools, not only to ensure that OUR software runs correctly, but it's one other way to identify pirated hardware. Most pirates aren't smart enough to use the correct information in the flash. Heck it was so important 10 years ago that Microsoft used Windows Update to enforce four-field enforcement on PCI devices. Instead of using two-field matching, that allowed, say, Asus motherboards to coat-tail on Intel drivers, Windows Update required four-field matching (Vendor ID, Device ID, Subvendor ID, subdevice ID). While it added an additional layer of validation cost, Microsoft did it because of the problems with incompatible drivers, not piracy. Also, in the PCI world, falsifying IDs is just as critical as in the USB world.
My main concern is that the purpose of these IDs is to ensure compatibility, which Apple can, in no way, guarantee with the Pre. Had Palm asked and entered into an arrangement, they might've had the opportunity to do it right. It's also true that Apple has no legal requirement to facilitate the functionality and no MORAL obligation, for that matter. The way Palm went about the Pre indicates that no matter how revolutionary the OS is (and it IS), it will be marginalized for both consumers AND business. Palm has developed a pattern on the Pre of half-assing things that actually MATTER (ActiveSync security, anyone?).
How many folks will simply throw the CFL out when they die? Think about all the mercury this will put in our landfills and how many millions of acres will be poisoned as a result?
Classic idiocy from Congress...next time, perhaps, they'll finally figure out that they don't no anything about unintended consequences (who the hell am I kidding?!)
Am I more intelligent than most? Most decidedly so. Did I come from an upper middle-class background? Most decidedly not. Did I ever even complete college? Nope.
So, every one of your assumptions except for intelligence is disproved anecdotally by my existence. Granted that my existence is not empirical evidence, but certainly I'm at least one of the statistical outliers that your generalizations neglect.
I'm a libertarian (little l as I don't belong to the party...yet) because I believe that people are generally good. And that government is generally bad. Governments are bad at effectively spending money to improve lives. Governments are bad at efficiently spending money on infrastructure. Basically, governments aren't very good at things beyond basic infrastructure needs (roads, water, sewer, etc.) and self defense (but most concerning is that self-defense is also against it's own people). I think that no government has the right to invade anyone's home except in extreme cases of potential threat to the whole country. Sorry, but there are a whole lot of distasteful activities that are suddenly completely acceptable in this regard AND, more importantly, if no victim is created by the activity, then no crime has occurred, plain and simple. In the case of drugs, for example, if you get high at home, but maintain your yard and don't drive loaded, who the hell am I to complain as your neighbor? And by what natural right does the government CARE?! I don't take drugs as a matter of personal choice, but that doesn't mean that I have ANY right to control YOUR consumption, as long as your consumption doesn't interfere with the rights of those around you...and I think we should throw away the key if you elect to drive loaded, btw, even if no one is hurt.
Essentially, get out of my wallet and get out of my bedroom pretty much sums it up for me. I haven't joined the party because they have some VERY odd planks that appear to finally be disappearing, but crap like "there is no such thing as mental illness..." clearly indicates that there IS such a thing as mental illness and it appears boldly in THEIR platform.
I have scratched, scrimped, fought, and otherwise EARNED my income and my title. Don't try to take it away from me because YOU are a pampered child of an upper middle-class, educated family and therefore everyone in your industry is JUST.LIKE.YOU.
You aren't from 'round here, are ya? In Sitka, you can't really drive much of anywhere...unless you drive onto a ferry.
Your point about information is only marginally correct as well. There are plenty of people who survive quite well without blazing fast data pipes, but the affluent are, by necessity, becoming greater information consumers and require bigger pipes. What you are really saying, I believe, is that to reach a certain level of affluence requires reliable access to fat data pipes...
I'm sorry, but you aren't listening to AMD very well if you call BS...in their own lawsuit they said they were selling every processor they could make...and adding several hundred-thousand Dell systems would completely burst them, even with the new fab.
So, which current AMD vendor(s) would you like to sacrifice to all-mighty Dell, praytell?
Ummm...No, not in context of proper English. It's a referential statement aligned with the prior statements, "Infected binary or source code files aren't anything new. And sometimes they are found on public servers."
Mozilla's infection is the latest example of a public server serving infected files. Latest has nothing to do with the virus but rather relates to infections on public servers. Unless you can show how this common use of the English language somehow is not relevant in this case, I don't get your point at all.
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Could it be that they want to have digital transfer until the DA converter gets it? In other words, they are providing a higher-quality passthrough than simply sticking the analog output through a bunch of routing.
I'd definitely find digital transfer more compelling than analog...but that's just me.
What I find most fascinating is that no one seems willing to recognize that the more users you have, the greater the interest in hacking becomes. If you have a paltry penetration for your technology, hackers ignore you.
Now, is Firefox more secure? In theory it should be. Are the exploits in Firefox less problematic? Well, until hackers care to exploit it, who the heck really knows? I remember when Firefox pop-up blocking worked. Now, there are known methods to circumvent the technology...go figure...the folks who care have found new methods because Firefox was eating their lunch.
Now, I heard someone say that Apache is a model...what about all those worms that have been attacking, and defeating, Apache for the last 3 years (slapper, scalper, etc.)? Apache's only grace is that the developers move FAST when a new exploit is found. However, most attacks are not day zero attacks, which means that the vast majority of attacks are based on known, patched or patchable flaws.
So, it is incumbent on any admin to keep their systems up-to-date AND recognize that patch management is one of the key hallmarks of a secure system.
What does this mean for Firefox? Same patch management must be implemented for Firefox as should be in place for Exploder. Moreover, perimeter firewalls and intrusion detection systems must be in place and up-to-date themselves. And even with this diligence, per the CSI FBI Computer Crime & Security Survey 2005, 95% of Enterprises experienced system penetration and 55% were attacked by worms or viri.
Guess what? Software development methodology is not a panacea anymore than anything else.
Diligence, not arrogance, will protect your computing assets.
The first time I heard about holographic memory replacing conventional methods (RAM/ROM/HDD), I was a kid just beginning work at NCR...let's see what the way-back machine says: 1991.
I've been waiting for 14 years for the technology to become real, and like nuclear fusion, I suspect I'll be waiting forever...
In fact, there are branding laws and they are part and parcel with trademark laws. Tiger is no more generic than, say, Apple, which is trademarked and is considered a brand.
Now, if Apple was in the animal husbandry field, their use of "Tiger" would pose no risk to the established brand "Tiger" in computers. Since Apple is also in the computer trade, this definitely qualifies as a valid complaint according to the laws of the US.
So, a code-name like Tiger cannot be attacked because it's simply an internal code-name.
When Apple decided to use "Tiger" in their advertising, this became a branding issue. The reason TigerDirect sought an injuction now is NOT the code-name but rather the use of the code-name in a publicity blitz, which results in a new brand creation.
While geeks may not like it, branding is a very painful discipline fraught with LOTS of legal ramifications. In this case, in order to protect their brand, Tiger had to respond to Apple's use of "Tiger" in advertising and could only elect to take legal action once Apple made the branding decision.
It's not slimy; it's not blackmail; it's branding and you defend your brands or you lose them (Kleenex, Xerox, etc.)
Couple of corrections to the statements already made: 1. It is not really possible to properly account for option grants vis a vis cash vaule because: a. options are a hedge AND b. options may not be cashed out (employee leaves/dies, stock is underwater) 2. If 1 is true, then you get an equally distorted view AFTER this decision as before
The argument that investors will have a better idea of the business as a result of this is not really accurate, either. After all, institutional investors already follow option grants, so this isn't hidden. If you don't follow this kind of data for any company you invest in, you're simply willfully ignorant.
The problem is that the person responsible for this decline is Craig Barrett, and unless the Board decides to can his ass six months from retirement, you're not gonna see anything for at least another year.
Have you noticed how far Intel has declined under Barrett? You wonder how the Board could put up with this noob for so long.
Show me that this is evenly applied and I'll believe you.
Unfortunately, like all laws, I'm fairly confident that this law is applied unevenly at best and unjustly at worst.
Moreover, show me how his degree was used for unethical or criminal purposes. It's a stretch to say that he held his position due to his degree, though this is about the most clear chain between his degree and his disgrace. Unless, that is, his thesis was flawed.
If we go down this path, we are quickly descending a path whereby many PhD's could be revoked using thin evidence. Do we really want to head down the slippery slope?
This is about a University that is emabarrased by one of its alumnus. Period.
They either found his doctoral thesis flawed recently and are afraid to admit it or they are simply heaping pain on the alumnus. If it is the former, then come clean and admit they were flawed in the doctoral review or get over the new charges.
This is just the type of politics that makes me question the value of academia.
Gotta love revisionist history...AMD was the king of MHz marketing back in the day...oh yeah, don't worry that we're AMD cuz our K6 is clocked at the same speed, so we're just as fast...except that it didn't work that way for them, either.
Feel free to hate marketing (I'm in marketing and I hate it), but keep the right sense of perspective and history or you simply lose credibility. If you want to hate a company, simply hate them, don't seek ways to justify the hate.
Between the local stations broadcasting in HDTV already and the satellite or cable systems, I have well over 25 HDTV stations that operate at least 20 hours a day of content each.
If so, then whomever decides to go up and save the 'scope will be entitled to ownership...that doesn't necessarily give them access to communications methodology, but it is certainly more than a start.
Funny that OS developers also include device driver writers and other kernel-interactive developers, which are very much in demand...
While C# and Java are very common, they are also mostly non-technical widgets rather than hard core programming. You CAN have hard core C# and Java, but mostly C and C++ are used for more in-depth programming for obvious reasons.
Calling me a troll is a bit like the kettle...oh, never mind, you probably wouldn't get it anyway.
I don't think you've checked out the economics recently. As I mentioned in my post, the costs in Bangalore are growing geometrically. No matter what, it won't take more than 50 years.
What WILL happen is that the discrepancy between the rural, agrarian-based economy and the urban, technology-based economy will create two Indias again, just like it ever was. I can tell you that the purchasing power parity in places like Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi is NOT an order of magnitude any more. I've paid 450 rupees for a mocha (for those doing the math, that's about $10). That mocha wasn't in a hotel, btw.
This somewhat mirrors my comments from four weeks ago.
Based on my trip, I don't think good programmers should worry. More importantly, if you have the skills, you are way ahead of your Indian counterparts right now (emphasis on right now). Keep improving your skills and becoming more and more expert and you will continue to be employed. Focus on fad languages and "me too" web designs and you're putting yourself in front of a train. I can't tell you how many people in India listed C# and Java as their primary languages...C'mon now, we all know that those are good for small things and prototyping, but they aren't languages you write OSs or such in.
Offshoring and outsourcing are not bad in their own right, but managers who think it is a panacea will be bitten for their lack of vision. The world is going to be global. Get used to it. Recognize that we AREN'T worth more than Doctors and other professionals.
Every profession, when it is in its infancy, has the potential to create very wealthy people relative to the norm. After a time, those new professions become common and the lucre standardizes lower than originally expected. Our incomes in the West will decrease somewhat. I think it sucks, too. That said, the cost-basis for India is growing geometrically now (from 4k to 7k to 18k in five years). Guess what? Those programmers in India who are good are unwilling to be without the amenities that you are I take for granted...good phones...broadband...etc. The infrastructure must grow and that costs money...so you have to pay them more...and costs grow.
Get over it, grow in your profession, become an expert and highly sought-after. It doesn't matter where you live...it matters what you know and can demonstrate.
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Well said. Moreover, for those of us who have dealt with hardware piracy, Device and Vendor IDs are critical identification tools, not only to ensure that OUR software runs correctly, but it's one other way to identify pirated hardware. Most pirates aren't smart enough to use the correct information in the flash. Heck it was so important 10 years ago that Microsoft used Windows Update to enforce four-field enforcement on PCI devices. Instead of using two-field matching, that allowed, say, Asus motherboards to coat-tail on Intel drivers, Windows Update required four-field matching (Vendor ID, Device ID, Subvendor ID, subdevice ID). While it added an additional layer of validation cost, Microsoft did it because of the problems with incompatible drivers, not piracy. Also, in the PCI world, falsifying IDs is just as critical as in the USB world.
My main concern is that the purpose of these IDs is to ensure compatibility, which Apple can, in no way, guarantee with the Pre. Had Palm asked and entered into an arrangement, they might've had the opportunity to do it right. It's also true that Apple has no legal requirement to facilitate the functionality and no MORAL obligation, for that matter. The way Palm went about the Pre indicates that no matter how revolutionary the OS is (and it IS), it will be marginalized for both consumers AND business. Palm has developed a pattern on the Pre of half-assing things that actually MATTER (ActiveSync security, anyone?).
How many folks will simply throw the CFL out when they die? Think about all the mercury this will put in our landfills and how many millions of acres will be poisoned as a result?
Classic idiocy from Congress...next time, perhaps, they'll finally figure out that they don't no anything about unintended consequences (who the hell am I kidding?!)
Gosh, I don't know where to begin...
Am I more intelligent than most? Most decidedly so.
Did I come from an upper middle-class background? Most decidedly not.
Did I ever even complete college? Nope.
So, every one of your assumptions except for intelligence is disproved anecdotally by my existence. Granted that my existence is not empirical evidence, but certainly I'm at least one of the statistical outliers that your generalizations neglect.
I'm a libertarian (little l as I don't belong to the party...yet) because I believe that people are generally good. And that government is generally bad. Governments are bad at effectively spending money to improve lives. Governments are bad at efficiently spending money on infrastructure. Basically, governments aren't very good at things beyond basic infrastructure needs (roads, water, sewer, etc.) and self defense (but most concerning is that self-defense is also against it's own people). I think that no government has the right to invade anyone's home except in extreme cases of potential threat to the whole country. Sorry, but there are a whole lot of distasteful activities that are suddenly completely acceptable in this regard AND, more importantly, if no victim is created by the activity, then no crime has occurred, plain and simple. In the case of drugs, for example, if you get high at home, but maintain your yard and don't drive loaded, who the hell am I to complain as your neighbor? And by what natural right does the government CARE?! I don't take drugs as a matter of personal choice, but that doesn't mean that I have ANY right to control YOUR consumption, as long as your consumption doesn't interfere with the rights of those around you...and I think we should throw away the key if you elect to drive loaded, btw, even if no one is hurt.
Essentially, get out of my wallet and get out of my bedroom pretty much sums it up for me. I haven't joined the party because they have some VERY odd planks that appear to finally be disappearing, but crap like "there is no such thing as mental illness..." clearly indicates that there IS such a thing as mental illness and it appears boldly in THEIR platform.
I have scratched, scrimped, fought, and otherwise EARNED my income and my title. Don't try to take it away from me because YOU are a pampered child of an upper middle-class, educated family and therefore everyone in your industry is JUST.LIKE.YOU.
LOL...
You aren't from 'round here, are ya? In Sitka, you can't really drive much of anywhere...unless you drive onto a ferry.
Your point about information is only marginally correct as well. There are plenty of people who survive quite well without blazing fast data pipes, but the affluent are, by necessity, becoming greater information consumers and require bigger pipes. What you are really saying, I believe, is that to reach a certain level of affluence requires reliable access to fat data pipes...
Don't you mean 90% of the GENE pool?
I'm sorry, but you aren't listening to AMD very well if you call BS...in their own lawsuit they said they were selling every processor they could make...and adding several hundred-thousand Dell systems would completely burst them, even with the new fab.
So, which current AMD vendor(s) would you like to sacrifice to all-mighty Dell, praytell?
Um...Q3 2005 was over a couple of days ago...it's now Q4 2005 unless you're using a business calendar rather than a chronological calendar...
If they're still saying Q3 2005, then I'd say they've already missed.
Ummm...No, not in context of proper English. It's a referential statement aligned with the prior statements, "Infected binary or source code files aren't anything new. And sometimes they are found on public servers."
Mozilla's infection is the latest example of a public server serving infected files. Latest has nothing to do with the virus but rather relates to infections on public servers. Unless you can show how this common use of the English language somehow is not relevant in this case, I don't get your point at all.
Could it be that they want to have digital transfer until the DA converter gets it? In other words, they are providing a higher-quality passthrough than simply sticking the analog output through a bunch of routing.
I'd definitely find digital transfer more compelling than analog...but that's just me.
What I find most fascinating is that no one seems willing to recognize that the more users you have, the greater the interest in hacking becomes. If you have a paltry penetration for your technology, hackers ignore you.
Now, is Firefox more secure? In theory it should be. Are the exploits in Firefox less problematic? Well, until hackers care to exploit it, who the heck really knows? I remember when Firefox pop-up blocking worked. Now, there are known methods to circumvent the technology...go figure...the folks who care have found new methods because Firefox was eating their lunch.
Now, I heard someone say that Apache is a model...what about all those worms that have been attacking, and defeating, Apache for the last 3 years (slapper, scalper, etc.)? Apache's only grace is that the developers move FAST when a new exploit is found. However, most attacks are not day zero attacks, which means that the vast majority of attacks are based on known, patched or patchable flaws.
So, it is incumbent on any admin to keep their systems up-to-date AND recognize that patch management is one of the key hallmarks of a secure system.
What does this mean for Firefox? Same patch management must be implemented for Firefox as should be in place for Exploder. Moreover, perimeter firewalls and intrusion detection systems must be in place and up-to-date themselves. And even with this diligence, per the CSI FBI Computer Crime & Security Survey 2005, 95% of Enterprises experienced system penetration and 55% were attacked by worms or viri.
Guess what? Software development methodology is not a panacea anymore than anything else.
Diligence, not arrogance, will protect your computing assets.
Did anyone notice the article's claim that 70 million unique visitors equates to 12 billion page impressions...
That means that, on average, each of those 70 million look at more than 170 pages per month?!
OMG...some people obviously have too much time on their hands...
The first time I heard about holographic memory replacing conventional methods (RAM/ROM/HDD), I was a kid just beginning work at NCR...let's see what the way-back machine says: 1991.
I've been waiting for 14 years for the technology to become real, and like nuclear fusion, I suspect I'll be waiting forever...
In fact, there are branding laws and they are part and parcel with trademark laws. Tiger is no more generic than, say, Apple, which is trademarked and is considered a brand.
Now, if Apple was in the animal husbandry field, their use of "Tiger" would pose no risk to the established brand "Tiger" in computers. Since Apple is also in the computer trade, this definitely qualifies as a valid complaint according to the laws of the US.
So, a code-name like Tiger cannot be attacked because it's simply an internal code-name.
When Apple decided to use "Tiger" in their advertising, this became a branding issue. The reason TigerDirect sought an injuction now is NOT the code-name but rather the use of the code-name in a publicity blitz, which results in a new brand creation.
While geeks may not like it, branding is a very painful discipline fraught with LOTS of legal ramifications. In this case, in order to protect their brand, Tiger had to respond to Apple's use of "Tiger" in advertising and could only elect to take legal action once Apple made the branding decision.
It's not slimy; it's not blackmail; it's branding and you defend your brands or you lose them (Kleenex, Xerox, etc.)
Couple of corrections to the statements already made:
1. It is not really possible to properly account for option grants vis a vis cash vaule because: a. options are a hedge AND b. options may not be cashed out (employee leaves/dies, stock is underwater)
2. If 1 is true, then you get an equally distorted view AFTER this decision as before
The argument that investors will have a better idea of the business as a result of this is not really accurate, either. After all, institutional investors already follow option grants, so this isn't hidden. If you don't follow this kind of data for any company you invest in, you're simply willfully ignorant.
The problem is that the person responsible for this decline is Craig Barrett, and unless the Board decides to can his ass six months from retirement, you're not gonna see anything for at least another year.
Have you noticed how far Intel has declined under Barrett? You wonder how the Board could put up with this noob for so long.
Um...it's 35 nm, not 65 nm. Intel announced 65 nm last year.
Show me that this is evenly applied and I'll believe you.
Unfortunately, like all laws, I'm fairly confident that this law is applied unevenly at best and unjustly at worst.
Moreover, show me how his degree was used for unethical or criminal purposes. It's a stretch to say that he held his position due to his degree, though this is about the most clear chain between his degree and his disgrace. Unless, that is, his thesis was flawed.
If we go down this path, we are quickly descending a path whereby many PhD's could be revoked using thin evidence. Do we really want to head down the slippery slope?
This is about a University that is emabarrased by one of its alumnus. Period.
They either found his doctoral thesis flawed recently and are afraid to admit it or they are simply heaping pain on the alumnus. If it is the former, then come clean and admit they were flawed in the doctoral review or get over the new charges.
This is just the type of politics that makes me question the value of academia.
Gotta love revisionist history...AMD was the king of MHz marketing back in the day...oh yeah, don't worry that we're AMD cuz our K6 is clocked at the same speed, so we're just as fast...except that it didn't work that way for them, either.
Feel free to hate marketing (I'm in marketing and I hate it), but keep the right sense of perspective and history or you simply lose credibility. If you want to hate a company, simply hate them, don't seek ways to justify the hate.
Between the local stations broadcasting in HDTV already and the satellite or cable systems, I have well over 25 HDTV stations that operate at least 20 hours a day of content each.
Too bad I still don't have an HDTV...
If so, then whomever decides to go up and save the 'scope will be entitled to ownership...that doesn't necessarily give them access to communications methodology, but it is certainly more than a start.
Could PRC or Russia claim salvage rights?
dave
Funny that OS developers also include device driver writers and other kernel-interactive developers, which are very much in demand...
While C# and Java are very common, they are also mostly non-technical widgets rather than hard core programming. You CAN have hard core C# and Java, but mostly C and C++ are used for more in-depth programming for obvious reasons.
Calling me a troll is a bit like the kettle...oh, never mind, you probably wouldn't get it anyway.
I don't think you've checked out the economics recently. As I mentioned in my post, the costs in Bangalore are growing geometrically. No matter what, it won't take more than 50 years.
What WILL happen is that the discrepancy between the rural, agrarian-based economy and the urban, technology-based economy will create two Indias again, just like it ever was. I can tell you that the purchasing power parity in places like Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi is NOT an order of magnitude any more. I've paid 450 rupees for a mocha (for those doing the math, that's about $10). That mocha wasn't in a hotel, btw.
dave
Based on my trip, I don't think good programmers should worry. More importantly, if you have the skills, you are way ahead of your Indian counterparts right now (emphasis on right now). Keep improving your skills and becoming more and more expert and you will continue to be employed. Focus on fad languages and "me too" web designs and you're putting yourself in front of a train. I can't tell you how many people in India listed C# and Java as their primary languages...C'mon now, we all know that those are good for small things and prototyping, but they aren't languages you write OSs or such in.
Offshoring and outsourcing are not bad in their own right, but managers who think it is a panacea will be bitten for their lack of vision. The world is going to be global. Get used to it. Recognize that we AREN'T worth more than Doctors and other professionals.
Every profession, when it is in its infancy, has the potential to create very wealthy people relative to the norm. After a time, those new professions become common and the lucre standardizes lower than originally expected. Our incomes in the West will decrease somewhat. I think it sucks, too. That said, the cost-basis for India is growing geometrically now (from 4k to 7k to 18k in five years). Guess what? Those programmers in India who are good are unwilling to be without the amenities that you are I take for granted...good phones...broadband...etc. The infrastructure must grow and that costs money...so you have to pay them more...and costs grow.
Get over it, grow in your profession, become an expert and highly sought-after. It doesn't matter where you live...it matters what you know and can demonstrate.
Dave