At some point the light should go off in everyone's head to see where governments are going with this. It'll probably be too late, but at least we will realize what happened... But then what?
Immediately after the Symantec/Huawei joint venture in 2007, backdoors and trojans began to appear that targeted Symantec products. Symantec products have been a staple of DoD environments for a number of years (http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030527a.html), so something like this likely raised more than a few eyebrows. I'm honestly surprised that it took this long considering how much trust we have in the Chinese (extremely little) and the fact that Huawei products had already been blacklisted by the DoD.
As I've stated below, I know who he is, but why should that even matter? This was about as newsworthy as RNS tweeting what he ate for breakfast or Miguel de Icaza blurting somewhere that he's on his way to Ecuador for some R&R.
His contributions to FOSS don't make him above a bit of criticizm or someone poking fun at a post on his blog.
I know exactly who Bruce is. Doesn't negate the fact that this was not "News", and it's STILL the ramblings of a guy (Bruce Perens, male = guy) on the internet (his blog = on the internet).
Unless Microsoft is keen to take heed to the mistakes made by their Kin phones (HA!), this may well fail just as miserably. Kin phones didn't even make it two months before getting pulled off the shelves.
When people feel the absence of consequence, they reveal who they truly are. Most people are complete assholes. Is anyone surprised? After all, there is a pretty strong, positive selection pressure among our society for sociopathy.
The above video illustrates what CAN happen when an internet shit talker is discovered and confronted in real life. As many would think, said shit talkers turn out to be 130lb skinny guys who mouthed off to the wrong person online.
On the internet, you can be whatever you want including that which you could NEVER bring yourself to be in real life (yes, this includes "online pedo/offline proud parent" types). Many choose to be rude, filth spewing slagmonkeys because they want to be.
I just left AZ a bit over a year ago and lived in Maricopa County. Joe Arpaio started his b.s. first, but even before that he and his office were a menace to the Latino populace of the county. Don't get me wrong, there ARE illegals there, no one will ever dispute that claim, however he's been less than truthful when he repeatedly states that they're responsible for all the crime there. Take a look at the mugshots his office posts daily, plenty of black and white faces to go along with the brown ones he singles out.
If Microsoft were to drop support for older formats today, couldn't I simply install an older version of Office to get that unsupported format?
Just seems to make sense to me, especially when I have Office 2003 installed on my Win7-64bit laptop (along with the Office format convertor to get newer format compatibility).
Actually, I bought the Macmillan Publishing Mandrake 6.1 in 2000 (which they decided to renumber as 6.5), but starting there, if memory serves me:
Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, Red Hat 6.2 Mandrake 7.2 (my favorite of all time) Some version of Caldera Decided to give Debian a try and grabbed 2.2/Potato Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 Red Hat 7.0, 7.1 Mandrake 8.2, Progeny Linux Slackware 8, IIRC Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, Red Hat 9 Mandrake 9.2, 10, 10.1, 10.2 Red Hat Enterprise 2.1 some version of DSL Fedora Core 4 Red Hat Enterprise 3 Mandriva 2006, 2007 Red Hat Enterprise 4.x Mandriva 2008... and there's more, but it's getting fuzzier. At this point, I had also used more DSL versions, White Box Enterprise Linux 4, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Suse.
This is similar to used car dealerships that use PassTime , whereby a person that doesn't pay for their car on-time can't drive it and, thanks to the built-in GPS, the person constantly has their whereabouts tracked. This is done purely to keep the money rolling in, hardship be damned.
Are you logged into Google or any other search/email service right now? Then the data collected is most definitely not anonymous. Your search and surfing data is being collected and can be tied to you, or at least your online identity.
The Internet is a great, recent, example. Nobody predicted it, not even in Sci-Fi. The idea of a truly global, integrated, universal network was just not something people thought of. Hell even when it was first developed as ARPAnet it was just envisioned for government and research, they didn't say "We are going to connect all the computers in the world!" Their goals were much smaller, it just ended up evolving in to that.
Incremental changes we can sometimes predict. The real revolutionary ones we almost never can.
and refrigerators... don't forget about the refrigerators...
Every few years, someone pops up and says "Everything is going in X direction, this is what we'll be using/how software will look". Generally speaking they're usually dead wrong. Most famously, Andrew Tanenbaum once argued in 1992 that "... 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5".
1997 came and went, everyone was running non-free Windows 95 on their 200MHz PentiumMMX beige boxes.
As others have said, Audition was the once awesome Cool Edit Pro. However, you COULD swap Audition out with something like Energy XT (€39 multi platform, Win, Linux, and OSX), Reaper ($60 discounted license, $225 for full license, functionally the same, Windows and OSX), or even FL Studio ($199.00 for Producer edition to get full-on audio editing and processing).
There's a third class: "Power Users". I'm sorry, but properly-configured XP on the same hardware IS faster than Windows 7. Better machines than what you describe still perform better on XP than Windows 7. To me, it's a waste of money to upgrade to Windows 7 when I'm going to take a performance hit in the process. I also waste a lot more time reconfiguring Windows 7 to the way I like it than XP.
You're right that the only compelling reason for upgrading is 64-bit, >4GB (technically >2GB) applications. You're also right that partitioning the OS on one partition, data/users on another is an exercise in frustration (there are multiple ways to do it, all of which suck. I even tried junctions. What a mess). The only other reason I can think of at this point for choosing Windows 7 (when you have the choice) will be if hardware vendors stop supporting drivers for XP.,
Some companies still support Windows 2000 with their drivers, though the number is getting pretty small (hell, a few even support Win98!). For instance, D-Link's Wireless N PCI cards still have 2k drivers. Nvida only stopped a few years ago and ATI dropped 2K support a year before Nvidia did. With XP being far more popular than 2K, I would expect that it would be supported for quite a while longer.
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Didn't this game have page turning animations in it back in '83?
At some point the light should go off in everyone's head to see where governments are going with this. It'll probably be too late, but at least we will realize what happened... But then what?
Immediately after the Symantec/Huawei joint venture in 2007, backdoors and trojans began to appear that targeted Symantec products. Symantec products have been a staple of DoD environments for a number of years (http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030527a.html), so something like this likely raised more than a few eyebrows. I'm honestly surprised that it took this long considering how much trust we have in the Chinese (extremely little) and the fact that Huawei products had already been blacklisted by the DoD.
Surely we can all agree that "Facebook Privacy" is an oxymoron.
As I've stated below, I know who he is, but why should that even matter? This was about as newsworthy as RNS tweeting what he ate for breakfast or Miguel de Icaza blurting somewhere that he's on his way to Ecuador for some R&R.
His contributions to FOSS don't make him above a bit of criticizm or someone poking fun at a post on his blog.
I know exactly who Bruce is. Doesn't negate the fact that this was not "News", and it's STILL the ramblings of a guy (Bruce Perens, male = guy) on the internet (his blog = on the internet).
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/19/192207/expect-mandatory-big-brother-black-boxes-in-all-new-cars-from-2015
... that I'll never get back.
This was not "News For Nerds", it was "the ramblings of a guy on the internet".
Unless Microsoft is keen to take heed to the mistakes made by their Kin phones (HA!), this may well fail just as miserably. Kin phones didn't even make it two months before getting pulled off the shelves.
When people feel the absence of consequence, they reveal who they truly are. Most people are complete assholes. Is anyone surprised? After all, there is a pretty strong, positive selection pressure among our society for sociopathy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gysGCrZTXQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFwADg0OZso
The above video illustrates what CAN happen when an internet shit talker is discovered and confronted in real life. As many would think, said shit talkers turn out to be 130lb skinny guys who mouthed off to the wrong person online.
did I do it right???
On the internet, you can be whatever you want including that which you could NEVER bring yourself to be in real life (yes, this includes "online pedo/offline proud parent" types). Many choose to be rude, filth spewing slagmonkeys because they want to be.
... quietly, somewhere at the Apple offices all records of and references to the iPod Touch are being destroyed.
I'm going to leave this here as a placeholder for the inevitable...
I just left AZ a bit over a year ago and lived in Maricopa County. Joe Arpaio started his b.s. first, but even before that he and his office were a menace to the Latino populace of the county. Don't get me wrong, there ARE illegals there, no one will ever dispute that claim, however he's been less than truthful when he repeatedly states that they're responsible for all the crime there. Take a look at the mugshots his office posts daily, plenty of black and white faces to go along with the brown ones he singles out.
If Microsoft were to drop support for older formats today, couldn't I simply install an older version of Office to get that unsupported format?
Just seems to make sense to me, especially when I have Office 2003 installed on my Win7-64bit laptop (along with the Office format convertor to get newer format compatibility).
Actually, I bought the Macmillan Publishing Mandrake 6.1 in 2000 (which they decided to renumber as 6.5), but starting there, if memory serves me:
Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, ... and there's more, but it's getting fuzzier. At this point, I had also used more DSL versions, White Box Enterprise Linux 4, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Suse.
Red Hat 6.2
Mandrake 7.2 (my favorite of all time)
Some version of Caldera
Decided to give Debian a try and grabbed 2.2/Potato
Mandrake 8.0, 8.1
Red Hat 7.0, 7.1
Mandrake 8.2,
Progeny Linux
Slackware 8, IIRC
Mandrake 9.0, 9.1,
Red Hat 9
Mandrake 9.2, 10, 10.1, 10.2
Red Hat Enterprise 2.1
some version of DSL
Fedora Core 4
Red Hat Enterprise 3
Mandriva 2006, 2007
Red Hat Enterprise 4.x
Mandriva 2008
This is similar to used car dealerships that use PassTime , whereby a person that doesn't pay for their car on-time can't drive it and, thanks to the built-in GPS, the person constantly has their whereabouts tracked. This is done purely to keep the money rolling in, hardship be damned.
... oh wait.... ... nevermind.
you just said pretty much the same thing I said... Albeit with a bit more info, but the same basic principle.
Are you logged into Google or any other search/email service right now? Then the data collected is most definitely not anonymous. Your search and surfing data is being collected and can be tied to you, or at least your online identity.
The Internet is a great, recent, example. Nobody predicted it, not even in Sci-Fi. The idea of a truly global, integrated, universal network was just not something people thought of. Hell even when it was first developed as ARPAnet it was just envisioned for government and research, they didn't say "We are going to connect all the computers in the world!" Their goals were much smaller, it just ended up evolving in to that.
Incremental changes we can sometimes predict. The real revolutionary ones we almost never can.
and refrigerators... don't forget about the refrigerators...
Every few years, someone pops up and says "Everything is going in X direction, this is what we'll be using/how software will look". Generally speaking they're usually dead wrong. Most famously, Andrew Tanenbaum once argued in 1992 that "... 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5".
1997 came and went, everyone was running non-free Windows 95 on their 200MHz PentiumMMX beige boxes.
As others have said, Audition was the once awesome Cool Edit Pro. However, you COULD swap Audition out with something like Energy XT (€39 multi platform, Win, Linux, and OSX), Reaper ($60 discounted license, $225 for full license, functionally the same, Windows and OSX), or even FL Studio ($199.00 for Producer edition to get full-on audio editing and processing).
There's a third class: "Power Users". I'm sorry, but properly-configured XP on the same hardware IS faster than Windows 7. Better machines than what you describe still perform better on XP than Windows 7. To me, it's a waste of money to upgrade to Windows 7 when I'm going to take a performance hit in the process. I also waste a lot more time reconfiguring Windows 7 to the way I like it than XP.
You're right that the only compelling reason for upgrading is 64-bit, >4GB (technically >2GB) applications. You're also right that partitioning the OS on one partition, data/users on another is an exercise in frustration (there are multiple ways to do it, all of which suck. I even tried junctions. What a mess). The only other reason I can think of at this point for choosing Windows 7 (when you have the choice) will be if hardware vendors stop supporting drivers for XP.,
Some companies still support Windows 2000 with their drivers, though the number is getting pretty small (hell, a few even support Win98!). For instance, D-Link's Wireless N PCI cards still have 2k drivers. Nvida only stopped a few years ago and ATI dropped 2K support a year before Nvidia did. With XP being far more popular than 2K, I would expect that it would be supported for quite a while longer.
I guess somewhere down the line we may get an answer, but I really have to wonder: Why GoDaddy?