I bet you haven't spend much time in the work world, or you have had a very, very rarified experience.
Conceptually, it doens't matter what OS or application suite a company uses, they want to standardize on one set of "stuff" so that they can more efficiently manage all that stuff. Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Solaris, who cares. What you don't want are a bunch of desktops all running on different stuff because they you have to hire people to manage all of it, operational expenses go through the roof, etc.
Now, Microsoft DOMINATES in the enterprise because alot of thier stuff is similar, they have a bunch of management tools, and there are a bunch of 3rd party management tools to boot. It is extremenly expensive to migrate from one bunch of stuff to another and it doens't matter of you are going from MS to Linux, Apple to Microsoft, Linux ro Apple, or even one linux distro to another, or even one Microsoft desktop OS to another Microsoft OS, because the costs to re-tool are high.
Now, most companies, dare I say 99%, have standardized on Microsoft OS's and most aren't going to let you just "do what you want." So while it's all well and good to say "If you're passionate about not using them, then why do you continue to use them at work?" and I know you can come up with some obscure cases that "prove" your point, but that doesn't fly with the rest of the world. You don't like the tools you use, you don't work and who does *that* hurt?
Seriously, unless you have an emergency or dire need for something, does anyone actually buy much from B&M stores these days?
Yep, Internet shopping is not as prevelant today as you might think. The average American user is still nervous making on-line purchases and the more they see on the news about ID theft of any kind, the longer they will remain nervous.
Besides, the price difference isn't that much. Unless your buying $100's of dollars worth of books, the tax is chump change. What I hate is the publishers charging exobitant prices for book, especially reprints. There are some classics that re-published on better stock and are priced out at $15-$20 for a paper back!
Did you watch the video? Its not even an attack ad really. It just says that 2008 won't be like 1984. It seems that the choice to use Hillary was fairly inconsequential to the message.
Dude? The fact Hillary was used is the POINT of the message. If W. was used instead of Hillary, that would have been a very different political message. If Homer Simpson were used, that would just be silly and no one would have cared.
SecondLife is what you make it. If you don't get invloved with the other characters, then yeah, there isn't a whole lot to do other than shop for stuff and have virtual sex.
But I have also spent lots of time "playing". Engaging in combat, playing hide and seek, chases, role playing, and just plain goofing around.
Or one could spend alot more time trying to make it better rather than picking it apart. Destroying something is so much easier than building something and the trolls should shut the fuck up.
Yep, on windows. I moved to FF2.0 when it came out, got hosed by java handling and other stuff, and jumped back to 1.5. I will wait a bit longer before I make the leap again.
Then it would be a trivial plugin to rewrite common typos, and avoid these sites entirely. We can push the advertising somewhere else!
yeah, subsidize the plug-in development and maitenence with advertising. Pop an interim page that says "You entered , we changed it to , but while we redirect you, why not check out these sites that sell "exmples".
Did you actually read the article? Did ya? No, you didn't. The trick is not about manipulating search engines. It's about leveraging random addresses, typo squatting, etc, entered into the address bar and the resulting page results in PPC links. So taking your search example, a user would type in "http://www.toyfiretruck.com" and end up at a domain park that perhaps had some relevant content about toy firetrucks. Oh, and PPC linksThat is a very different model.
I think paragraph four has the most pop to curb this business. However, what I want to know is if these parking services are driving business to PPC sites, then they are in fact generating revenue for the parker and the payee, so everyone wins, 'cept perhaps the hapless user.
But if the parked or typo squatted domain actually leads me to information that is relative to my "search", then I win too.
The market dynamics made this happen and it is unlikely to change until all the possible domains are parked. So who ever mentioned turning/etc/passwd (/etc/shadow, really) into a profit center, go patent it as "a system for turning private information into a gold mine". Get crackin'!
Yah, I did some research and the critical property of a secure has is that it is computationally infeasible to find two inputs that result to the same hash value. I can grasp that at a very high level and I just have to trust that people way smarter than I have proven it out.:)
so here is a question. in SHA-512, there are 2^512 possible hash values--a finite set. So there will be two different inputs that will result in the same value, right? There is not an infinite number of hash values.
Having read the article adn having a cursory understanding of secure hashing, when used with SSL, the chances of this break being useable is very, very unlikely because even assuming an attacker could get in the middle, they would still have to calculate the collision in near real time. Wiht hashes, generating a collision is the "break."
This may be a bigger issue with long term storage like e-signing a contract.
I used to play Descent until I got motion sick and then it would invade my dreams at night. What a great game. The only thing I didn't like was the BOSS killing. Kind of a stupid concept.
Move it to the HL2 engine, add internet gaming, and what a blast.
No, it's not ironic at all. Even if your posts are moderated down to -3, slashdot users can still read what you have to say. Your post is not deleted. You are free to say what you like on slashdot, and others are free to mod you up or down. Total freedom.
Nah, your ignoring how people use/. I bet if there was a poll taken, or maybe the/. admins could tell us, that we would find most people filter at 0 or 1. That is the result of the voting and filtering system.
It is also a a blinding reality that the most vocal/. members tend to be rabid (to the point of detriment of the results) freedom of speechers and if they have mod points will mod downwars any *perceived* threat to freedom of speech whether the threat is a true threat like state sponsored censorship or non-threats like copyright issues where a copyright owners rights are violated.
That is the point the GP was making. Ignoring how/. works is silly. It is NOT a warm and fuzzy eglatarian (sp?) society.
Ok, I wil bite. I am not a programmer, but a user and yes, Java apps are slow and tend to consume lots of memory and not let it go. I don't know if that is due to the language or the developers use of the language, but I do know that whatever the cause, the net effect is slow apps.
Other issues, let's see, for some reason, firefox hangs when more than one java app is run in the browser. I see alot of Java apps where dialogs are non-modal (you can access/view one window at a time). Java apps aften *require* a specific version of the JVM and why for the of all that is holy can't a computer have multiple versions of the JVM and let the damn app choose the right interpreter? An example, Concur expense reporting application requires JRE 1.4.[something]. Nearly everything else that I use requires at least JRE 1.5. So I maintain a VMWare image just to interact with Concur. Now that makes sense. so there is also backward compatabilty.
Java, write once, run everywhere. What a pipe dream.
Replace Cell phone with... Verizon FIOS. "WE'll force ads to pop up on your desktop with verizon fios" How fucking insane would that be? YAH! they should do it!
Chill, brother. Verizon doesn't pop-up ads on FiOS customers. I have had it for several months and I haven't seen a single one.
I think what people hate to admit is that in order to sell Linux to the masses, it's going to have to be dumbed down.
nah, it shouldn't be dumbed down. That is the wrong approach. It needs to be made smarter and by that I mean make the user think less about the details. I used to hate to have to update a linux box just because I had to figure out all the dependencies (I am not a Linux guru, just a very experineced users (13+ years)). Things like Yum, apt-get, what ever, take alot of the pain out of it. Updates are on my mind becuase I am installing a new Fedora Core 6 box at the moment and that is way easier than manually traversing a depdedency tree.
But there are other areas as well. Stop trying to mimic the Windows paradigm and make the UI smarter and more efficient. Is there a better way to manage multiple windows than tabbing through them? Is there a better way to launch an application? For example, if I want to write a letter, I have to open an application, then create a new document, then write the letter. Why not have have a short cut that says "Write a Letter" that does all that for me. Ok, that is a simple example, but the point is make the UI more intuitive. It is not a trivial task. Another example. I use Outlook for email, calendar, tasks, everything. Know what I hate? When I get an email from someone, I might want to add them to my contact list. Right now I have to right click the address, lookup the contact, find out they are not listed, click OK, then right click, add the contact, then fill in the information. Why not have a button that ask if I want to add the contact when the lookup fails? I could probably write up some VBA to do that, but why should I?
These may seem like trivial tasks, and individually they are. Implementing one or two would not make me swtich OS's, but if there was a smarter computing paradigm that makes me more efficient, takes the onus of managing my computer out of my hands, then that would be great. Make the computer smarter, not dumber.
Yeah, but the Window Manager is the fist thing people see. I think the Window paradigm sucks in general and I don't have a suggestion for anything better, but unfortunatly, that is where the market is. It is difficult for most non-techies users to convert from Windows to MacOSX, which are actually pretty similar. The current crop of windows managers fir Linux are sufficiently different to make the transition even more difficult.
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Those crazy French. wanadoo.fr is just a seething hot-bed of miscreants. Think they would do something about that first.
I want a program to do the formatting for me so that I don't have to worry about it.
Can't wait for the RIAA to try to collect royalties on that!
I bet you haven't spend much time in the work world, or you have had a very, very rarified experience. Conceptually, it doens't matter what OS or application suite a company uses, they want to standardize on one set of "stuff" so that they can more efficiently manage all that stuff. Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Solaris, who cares. What you don't want are a bunch of desktops all running on different stuff because they you have to hire people to manage all of it, operational expenses go through the roof, etc. Now, Microsoft DOMINATES in the enterprise because alot of thier stuff is similar, they have a bunch of management tools, and there are a bunch of 3rd party management tools to boot. It is extremenly expensive to migrate from one bunch of stuff to another and it doens't matter of you are going from MS to Linux, Apple to Microsoft, Linux ro Apple, or even one linux distro to another, or even one Microsoft desktop OS to another Microsoft OS, because the costs to re-tool are high. Now, most companies, dare I say 99%, have standardized on Microsoft OS's and most aren't going to let you just "do what you want." So while it's all well and good to say "If you're passionate about not using them, then why do you continue to use them at work?" and I know you can come up with some obscure cases that "prove" your point, but that doesn't fly with the rest of the world. You don't like the tools you use, you don't work and who does *that* hurt?
Somebody slap zappepcs, please. :)
Seriously, unless you have an emergency or dire need for something, does anyone actually buy much from B&M stores these days?
Yep, Internet shopping is not as prevelant today as you might think. The average American user is still nervous making on-line purchases and the more they see on the news about ID theft of any kind, the longer they will remain nervous.
Besides, the price difference isn't that much. Unless your buying $100's of dollars worth of books, the tax is chump change. What I hate is the publishers charging exobitant prices for book, especially reprints. There are some classics that re-published on better stock and are priced out at $15-$20 for a paper back!
Did you watch the video? Its not even an attack ad really. It just says that 2008 won't be like 1984. It seems that the choice to use Hillary was fairly inconsequential to the message.
Dude? The fact Hillary was used is the POINT of the message. If W. was used instead of Hillary, that would have been a very different political message. If Homer Simpson were used, that would just be silly and no one would have cared.
SecondLife is what you make it. If you don't get invloved with the other characters, then yeah, there isn't a whole lot to do other than shop for stuff and have virtual sex.
But I have also spent lots of time "playing". Engaging in combat, playing hide and seek, chases, role playing, and just plain goofing around.
Sure they if they are configured to do so. It;s not that hard and has been productied for years.
Nothing new, let's move along.
Or one could spend alot more time trying to make it better rather than picking it apart. Destroying something is so much easier than building something and the trolls should shut the fuck up.
Wow, feeling a bit bitter today, Mastershake?
Sure, you are not going to be playing Quake on this thing, but it is a pretty cool accomplishment nonetheless.
Yeah, you gotta love candor like that. Admitting she did't immediately see the signigance of her miscalculation is priceless--human.
Yep, on windows. I moved to FF2.0 when it came out, got hosed by java handling and other stuff, and jumped back to 1.5. I will wait a bit longer before I make the leap again.
Then it would be a trivial plugin to rewrite common typos, and avoid these sites entirely. We can push the advertising somewhere else!
yeah, subsidize the plug-in development and maitenence with advertising. Pop an interim page that says "You entered , we changed it to , but while we redirect you, why not check out these sites that sell "exmples".
I'm kidding, of course.
Did you actually read the article? Did ya? No, you didn't. The trick is not about manipulating search engines. It's about leveraging random addresses, typo squatting, etc, entered into the address bar and the resulting page results in PPC links. So taking your search example, a user would type in "http://www.toyfiretruck.com" and end up at a domain park that perhaps had some relevant content about toy firetrucks. Oh, and PPC linksThat is a very different model.
I think paragraph four has the most pop to curb this business. However, what I want to know is if these parking services are driving business to PPC sites, then they are in fact generating revenue for the parker and the payee, so everyone wins, 'cept perhaps the hapless user.
/etc/passwd (/etc/shadow, really) into a profit center, go patent it as "a system for turning private information into a gold mine". Get crackin'!
But if the parked or typo squatted domain actually leads me to information that is relative to my "search", then I win too.
The market dynamics made this happen and it is unlikely to change until all the possible domains are parked. So who ever mentioned turning
Yah, I did some research and the critical property of a secure has is that it is computationally infeasible to find two inputs that result to the same hash value. I can grasp that at a very high level and I just have to trust that people way smarter than I have proven it out. :)
so here is a question. in SHA-512, there are 2^512 possible hash values--a finite set. So there will be two different inputs that will result in the same value, right? There is not an infinite number of hash values.
Having read the article adn having a cursory understanding of secure hashing, when used with SSL, the chances of this break being useable is very, very unlikely because even assuming an attacker could get in the middle, they would still have to calculate the collision in near real time. Wiht hashes, generating a collision is the "break."
This may be a bigger issue with long term storage like e-signing a contract.
I used to play Descent until I got motion sick and then it would invade my dreams at night. What a great game. The only thing I didn't like was the BOSS killing. Kind of a stupid concept.
Move it to the HL2 engine, add internet gaming, and what a blast.
No, it's not ironic at all. Even if your posts are moderated down to -3, slashdot users can still read what you have to say. Your post is not deleted. You are free to say what you like on slashdot, and others are free to mod you up or down. Total freedom.
/. I bet if there was a poll taken, or maybe the /. admins could tell us, that we would find most people filter at 0 or 1. That is the result of the voting and filtering system.
/. members tend to be rabid (to the point of detriment of the results) freedom of speechers and if they have mod points will mod downwars any *perceived* threat to freedom of speech whether the threat is a true threat like state sponsored censorship or non-threats like copyright issues where a copyright owners rights are violated.
/. works is silly. It is NOT a warm and fuzzy eglatarian (sp?) society.
Nah, your ignoring how people use
It is also a a blinding reality that the most vocal
That is the point the GP was making. Ignoring how
Ok, I wil bite. I am not a programmer, but a user and yes, Java apps are slow and tend to consume lots of memory and not let it go. I don't know if that is due to the language or the developers use of the language, but I do know that whatever the cause, the net effect is slow apps.
Other issues, let's see, for some reason, firefox hangs when more than one java app is run in the browser. I see alot of Java apps where dialogs are non-modal (you can access/view one window at a time). Java apps aften *require* a specific version of the JVM and why for the of all that is holy can't a computer have multiple versions of the JVM and let the damn app choose the right interpreter? An example, Concur expense reporting application requires JRE 1.4.[something]. Nearly everything else that I use requires at least JRE 1.5. So I maintain a VMWare image just to interact with Concur. Now that makes sense. so there is also backward compatabilty. Java, write once, run everywhere. What a pipe dream.
Replace Cell phone with... Verizon FIOS. "WE'll force ads to pop up on your desktop with verizon fios" How fucking insane would that be? YAH! they should do it!
Chill, brother. Verizon doesn't pop-up ads on FiOS customers. I have had it for several months and I haven't seen a single one.
I think what people hate to admit is that in order to sell Linux to the masses, it's going to have to be dumbed down.
nah, it shouldn't be dumbed down. That is the wrong approach. It needs to be made smarter and by that I mean make the user think less about the details. I used to hate to have to update a linux box just because I had to figure out all the dependencies (I am not a Linux guru, just a very experineced users (13+ years)). Things like Yum, apt-get, what ever, take alot of the pain out of it. Updates are on my mind becuase I am installing a new Fedora Core 6 box at the moment and that is way easier than manually traversing a depdedency tree.
But there are other areas as well. Stop trying to mimic the Windows paradigm and make the UI smarter and more efficient. Is there a better way to manage multiple windows than tabbing through them? Is there a better way to launch an application? For example, if I want to write a letter, I have to open an application, then create a new document, then write the letter. Why not have have a short cut that says "Write a Letter" that does all that for me. Ok, that is a simple example, but the point is make the UI more intuitive. It is not a trivial task. Another example. I use Outlook for email, calendar, tasks, everything. Know what I hate? When I get an email from someone, I might want to add them to my contact list. Right now I have to right click the address, lookup the contact, find out they are not listed, click OK, then right click, add the contact, then fill in the information. Why not have a button that ask if I want to add the contact when the lookup fails? I could probably write up some VBA to do that, but why should I?
These may seem like trivial tasks, and individually they are. Implementing one or two would not make me swtich OS's, but if there was a smarter computing paradigm that makes me more efficient, takes the onus of managing my computer out of my hands, then that would be great. Make the computer smarter, not dumber.
Yeah, but the Window Manager is the fist thing people see. I think the Window paradigm sucks in general and I don't have a suggestion for anything better, but unfortunatly, that is where the market is. It is difficult for most non-techies users to convert from Windows to MacOSX, which are actually pretty similar. The current crop of windows managers fir Linux are sufficiently different to make the transition even more difficult.
Sorry man.