Unix had a tablet pc based remote desktop 30 years ago?
Windows has also hade remote desktop services built in and available as add on software (PC Anywhere) for as long as windows has been existance. This is not about remote desktops as a posibility, this is about a complete hardware unit that allows you to take your remote desktop with you wirelessly for short distances from your computer. It is less, but also about using a pen to it's fullest (so far) as a UI tool instead of a mouse or keyboard.
Actually Microsoft is great at leaving the value added innovations to their clients. Try looking at "Crazy Browzer". It only takes a few nights coding to add tabs to IE. If MS added tabs they'd be using their monopoly power to stomp the small value added companies, and if they don't include them , they are being dimwitted trogglodites. Well which is it?
There are entire companies that make their living providing value added enhancements to windows that match and frequently beat the OSS offerings on Linux. (Object Desktop beats the hell out of any customizable desktop solution I've seen anywhere elase) They have to be careful about what gets included because any single feature at this point will have some segment of people FREAKING OUT about it.
In general I've found curent consumer electronics to be of reasonably high quality. I never ever buy the extended warrenty and maybe one in 20 devices fails me within the extended warrenty time period, new or old. However...
Mitsubishi does have a serious quality problem on their big screens. I had mine go out after 24 months and got it repaired for $200 (Cracked trace on circuit board due to poor soldering quality)). The repairman said that this ususally happens within the first year.
But I suggest that this is one isolated case. Having been involved in the perifery of the electronics manfac buisness for about 16 years now, I can say that in general the parts and assembly processes have actually increased reliablility in the last decade while also allowing the lowering of prices because of the shrinking of part counts and increase in assembly line speeds.
Water based capacitors and poorly soldered mitsubishi mainbords aside. I doubt that there is any real declining quality in parts over all, except maybe a little bit on the absolute cheap end.
I agree that it may SEEM like quality has gone down because before you owned maybe 2-3 devices and the chances of getting a bad one were small. But now that a person can routinely own 20-30 electronic devices, the chances of one of them going bad is much higher than before.
Slashdot does it ALL THE TIME. Spreading false and misleading news. And when it happens 90% of everyone here swallows it hook line and sinker. Never bothering to check the actual article or any other sources that may contain possibly contradictory information. Slashdot has posted completely false stories and frequently picks out inflamitory and mostly incorrect stories to feed our insatiable lust for gossip.
Slashdot is itself one of the best examples of why this will fail as a "news" source. Slashdot is a self-feeding FUD machine where people come to hear what they want to hear and to oppress any thought that they do not want to consider. Slashdot is a popular gossip site but is an utter failure as a "news" site.
So if what you want is a giant audio gossip system, It'll go gang-busters. But reliable news? Not possible. You'll get prefiltered news for a particular segment of people. Anyone with an unpopular opinion will be "untrusted" out of the system just like they are "moderated" out of the system here. Popular news for the popular masses is no news at all.
That warranty is assuming continual use for 3 years. It's entirely possible that buying a new drive, and using it once a month for a monster backup, that it could easily last 10 years. The Q really is, will you still have a machine with an IDE bus that can read it in 10 years. I'd jump to serial ATA if you really want to reach that length of storage time as parallel ATA has only a couple years left on it.
Homebrewing is a major hobby. There are thousands of home brewing clubs around the nation. It's legal in most (but not all) states.
My friend and I have done about 35 5 gallon batches and 6 or so 15 gallon batches. About 90% "successful" about 5% dissapointing and tha couple that were hard to drink, but we did anyway. You cannot "save money" by brewing at home if a buzz is all you're looking for, but you can make great beer for less than buying quality beer at the store if an appretiation for the beverage itself is your goal.
I was going to post some links to the American Homebrewer Association and others places here in a truly karma whoring way, but a simpler way of getting information is to just type "Homebrew" into google. You'll get thousands of hits. Homebrewing is one of those huge subcultures that no one knows exists.
If you are interested, find a brewstore or a brewclub in your area and check it out. Like all hobbies, prepare to start small and cheap, but have your expenses grow as you get into it:)
Sounds to me like you are dissapointed that he is after all, just a person, not some kind of god. That's not very fair of you at all, complaining when someone doesn't match your idealised mental view of them.
Though the answers were short, it may also be that those questions have been asked 10,000 times before and if you've ever been in a situation where even 10 different people asked how your vacation was, by the 10th time your reply is hardly more than "fine", you might understand how he feels about answering "Questions".
Did/. "deserve" more? I bet most people think so, but in reality the answer is surely "You are lucky he answered at all".
But it is probably cheaper. Sony's customers are losing out because sony is being cheap here. Nothing more, nothing less. Everyone is hurting, especially Sony. They are cutting back on quality to save money. Pretty typical buisness.
The word "software" refers to computer code, any document, film, video, music or any other "information" that is cheaply reproduceable as an object such as a CD, disk, cartridge or datastream that can be used by a piece of "hardware" such as a computer, VCR, or CD player. This term has been used in such context for decades.
And that is why this site is so pathetic. It does more to hose Linux itself than any amount of anti-linux BS MS could dish out.
It's plain that this site is run by, read by and posted to by cry-babies. One gets the impression that all of Open Source and Linux is a giant playpen full of brats.
The word "professional" is truly not in the vocabulary here. And that is a huge shame.:(
Note: I am a software engineer and have done enough Windows and Linux cross platform GUI and non GUI coding to not be considered a Linux idiot.
Caution: Well thought-out and knowledgeable opinions ahead. If these disturb you , read no further.
I will not be switching from Windows to Linux as my main platform any time soon because:
1) Less hassle dealing with the OS. I don't care anything about the "OS" part when I'm using a machine. I use applications. Windows is far easier to install and use applications on than Linux. application and install break windows far less than on Linux IMHE.
2) The applications themselves. Though Linux has the basics covered. There is nothing even close to replacing Reason, T-Racks and Wavelab on the music front. Then there is the ubiquitous Photoshop. Though I couldn't afford the full version, my copy of Photoshop Elements for $69 is 90% of Photoshop for 1/10th the price. There is nothing that even comes close to the funtionality of Photoshop Elements for Linux. And of course Games. I work hard and I play hard (all on the computer of course).
3) Development. Believe it or not developing for Windows is infinitely nicer than developing on Linux (Okay, that's just my opinion). The tools are all equal (gcc, perl, python, vi, emacs) up to far more advanced (Visual Studio) and far more varied to choose from.
Basically, everything I do of any importance on Windows has no real counterpart on Linux. There are a lot of wannabe applications (GIMP etc) but they are usually pale shadows of real apps. The major windows (and Mac) apps are just too frequently not there for Linux.
Money concerns: Free is great, but when you can't get what you want for free, then pay is the way. The current state of free is not up to the current state for pay. I work for a living, I make money, I have no problem paying other peoeple for the work they do.
Even if everything else completely equal, the fact that I have 10 years of Windows and Windows Apps know-how in my head means that I would still benefit from staying.
It's been said many many times, but until Linux is considerably better than Windows on all these fronts, there is no incentive to switch. I (and most computer users I'd bet) are not political grand-standers, were tool users, plain and simple. Best tool for the job wins. For all my jobs, Windows wins.
First: There are probably still thousands of people are still running oder versions so this announcement is vitally important to some.
Second: When any flaw in any version of any Windows software older that the latest and greatest has a flaw, it is flailed mercelessly on this very site. And now you're saying we should just ignore the same situation with Unix?
I dream of a day that/. editors stop spreading FUD and panic about Windows software problems too. But if they're going to do it for one, it had better be for both!
That's probably the beta 40.xx drivers. Look around the web for them. I've installed them on one machine at home with 2 nvidia cards in it and they seems stable enough (no problems so far)
Sony used to have a lightweight pair of folding headphones that did this. They were made to be carried around in a pocket. Don't know if they still sell them.
Blank DVD-R disks are down to $1 ea for 2 hours of fairly high quality recording. I'd say the media costs are already as good as or better than tape.
You can of course do all this with a PC today. But for a lot of people it really is worth a grand just to have a single "Rec" button rather than the 25 steps to do the same thing on a PC.
You are absolutely correct! They ARE confused. Since when do people do stupid things for ego or status? Like every second of every day?
For pure text, LCDS are great, if very expensive. But for graphics, video, or gaming, even the best of them don't work well. The very thing that makes LCDs great for text editing (Extremely high contrast) also make imaging on them nearly impossible. Everything 70% gray is white. It's impossible to see the details of the low and high ends while the details of the middle spectrum are largely exagerrated. LCDs also are not very linear with their reproduction of color from bit to bit. Also making profesional imaging nearly impossible. They get better abd better every year, but are still atleast 5 years from matching CRTs on image quality.
Actually, it doesn't matter if he was on stimulants. In fact, if he was, that's just more damning evidence. WHY was he on stimulants? So he could stay up for 86 hours playing on line? That's even worse than the original story! "Gaming addict takes speed to stay up 86 hours to play games, then dies of heart attack".
The immediate reason he died (Embolism, heart attack , whatever) is less important than the circumstances that caused it.
The first thing to do is define your target audience. There are already so many 3d modeling/animation programs out there, what is it you are trying to do by making a new one?
There is a reason why people are willing to pay hundreds and thousands for Maya and 3ds. They are THE standard and they work great. And if that doesn't matter to you then Martin Hash's Animation Master is an amazingly powerful set of programs for dirt cheap.
So if it isn't to be either of those then what? The first 3d program with a truly easy to use interface? (That may not even be possible, but it would be a godsend)
Before thinking about programming "para-dig-ums", I'd concentrate on what the "product" (Free or not) really is. Believe it or not, desighning the code framework for the internals and drawing the 3d elements on screen is the EASY part. Getting a good, no make that excellent, "User Interaction" going on what is likely the most difficult thing anyone does on a computer is far more work.
That was more or less the point of the list. To point out the top 10 POTENTIAL security problem areas. Lazy admins could make great strides by merely keeping tabs on these top 10 items alone.
It seems incredable to me too that anyone with the title of "administrator" could NOT already be doing this, but then there is reality.
There is no "blaim" intended in making those lists. It's not a "Top 10 programs whose creators and users should be punished for being insecure". It is merely a list to help admins maintain secure machines. As far as these lists go, "fault" doesn't enter in to it, therefore there is no "fair" or "Unfair" to their contents.
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Unix had a tablet pc based remote desktop 30 years ago?
Windows has also hade remote desktop services built in and available as add on software (PC Anywhere) for as long as windows has been existance. This is not about remote desktops as a posibility, this is about a complete hardware unit that allows you to take your remote desktop with you wirelessly for short distances from your computer. It is less, but also about using a pen to it's fullest (so far) as a UI tool instead of a mouse or keyboard.
Unix did not have THIS 30 years ago.
Actually Microsoft is great at leaving the value added innovations to their clients. Try looking at "Crazy Browzer". It only takes a few nights coding to add tabs to IE. If MS added tabs they'd be using their monopoly power to stomp the small value added companies, and if they don't include them , they are being dimwitted trogglodites. Well which is it?
There are entire companies that make their living providing value added enhancements to windows that match and frequently beat the OSS offerings on Linux. (Object Desktop beats the hell out of any customizable desktop solution I've seen anywhere elase) They have to be careful about what gets included because any single feature at this point will have some segment of people FREAKING OUT about it.
Webwasher. Live it, Love it, Use it. Install it on your parents computer and show them you love them.
In general I've found curent consumer electronics to be of reasonably high quality. I never ever buy the extended warrenty and maybe one in 20 devices fails me within the extended warrenty time period, new or old. However...
Mitsubishi does have a serious quality problem on their big screens. I had mine go out after 24 months and got it repaired for $200 (Cracked trace on circuit board due to poor soldering quality)). The repairman said that this ususally happens within the first year.
But I suggest that this is one isolated case. Having been involved in the perifery of the electronics manfac buisness for about 16 years now, I can say that in general the parts and assembly processes have actually increased reliablility in the last decade while also allowing the lowering of prices because of the shrinking of part counts and increase in assembly line speeds.
Water based capacitors and poorly soldered mitsubishi mainbords aside. I doubt that there is any real declining quality in parts over all, except maybe a little bit on the absolute cheap end.
I agree that it may SEEM like quality has gone down because before you owned maybe 2-3 devices and the chances of getting a bad one were small. But now that a person can routinely own 20-30 electronic devices, the chances of one of them going bad is much higher than before.
Slashdot does it ALL THE TIME. Spreading false and misleading news. And when it happens 90% of everyone here swallows it hook line and sinker. Never bothering to check the actual article or any other sources that may contain possibly contradictory information. Slashdot has posted completely false stories and frequently picks out inflamitory and mostly incorrect stories to feed our insatiable lust for gossip.
Slashdot is itself one of the best examples of why this will fail as a "news" source. Slashdot is a self-feeding FUD machine where people come to hear what they want to hear and to oppress any thought that they do not want to consider. Slashdot is a popular gossip site but is an utter failure as a "news" site.
So if what you want is a giant audio gossip system, It'll go gang-busters. But reliable news? Not possible. You'll get prefiltered news for a particular segment of people. Anyone with an unpopular opinion will be "untrusted" out of the system just like they are "moderated" out of the system here. Popular news for the popular masses is no news at all.
That warranty is assuming continual use for 3 years. It's entirely possible that buying a new drive, and using it once a month for a monster backup, that it could easily last 10 years. The Q really is, will you still have a machine with an IDE bus that can read it in 10 years. I'd jump to serial ATA if you really want to reach that length of storage time as parallel ATA has only a couple years left on it.
For those of us in the US...
:)
Homebrewing is a major hobby. There are thousands of home brewing clubs around the nation. It's legal in most (but not all) states.
My friend and I have done about 35 5 gallon batches and 6 or so 15 gallon batches. About 90% "successful" about 5% dissapointing and tha couple that were hard to drink, but we did anyway. You cannot "save money" by brewing at home if a buzz is all you're looking for, but you can make great beer for less than buying quality beer at the store if an appretiation for the beverage itself is your goal.
I was going to post some links to the American Homebrewer Association and others places here in a truly karma whoring way, but a simpler way of getting information is to just type "Homebrew" into google. You'll get thousands of hits. Homebrewing is one of those huge subcultures that no one knows exists.
If you are interested, find a brewstore or a brewclub in your area and check it out. Like all hobbies, prepare to start small and cheap, but have your expenses grow as you get into it
Sounds to me like you are dissapointed that he is after all, just a person, not some kind of god. That's not very fair of you at all, complaining when someone doesn't match your idealised mental view of them.
/. "deserve" more? I bet most people think so, but in reality the answer is surely "You are lucky he answered at all".
Though the answers were short, it may also be that those questions have been asked 10,000 times before and if you've ever been in a situation where even 10 different people asked how your vacation was, by the 10th time your reply is hardly more than "fine", you might understand how he feels about answering "Questions".
Did
But it is probably cheaper. Sony's customers are losing out because sony is being cheap here. Nothing more, nothing less. Everyone is hurting, especially Sony. They are cutting back on quality to save money. Pretty typical buisness.
The word "software" refers to computer code, any document, film, video, music or any other "information" that is cheaply reproduceable as an object such as a CD, disk, cartridge or datastream that can be used by a piece of "hardware" such as a computer, VCR, or CD player. This term has been used in such context for decades.
I would say that this applies.
Let it RIP.
So slashdot is now a hacker site eh?
Not only condoning but actually formulating ways of destroying a network.
I knew it was only a matter of time before you guys crossed the line. This is it.
And that is why this site is so pathetic. It does more to hose Linux itself than any amount of anti-linux BS MS could dish out.
:(
It's plain that this site is run by, read by and posted to by cry-babies. One gets the impression that all of Open Source and Linux is a giant playpen full of brats.
The word "professional" is truly not in the vocabulary here. And that is a huge shame.
Note: I am a software engineer and have done enough Windows and Linux cross platform GUI and non GUI coding to not be considered a Linux idiot.
Caution: Well thought-out and knowledgeable opinions ahead. If these disturb you , read no further.
I will not be switching from Windows to Linux as my main platform any time soon because:
1) Less hassle dealing with the OS. I don't care anything about the "OS" part when I'm using a machine. I use applications. Windows is far easier to install and use applications on than Linux. application and install break windows far less than on Linux IMHE.
2) The applications themselves. Though Linux has the basics covered. There is nothing even close to replacing Reason, T-Racks and Wavelab on the music front. Then there is the ubiquitous Photoshop. Though I couldn't afford the full version, my copy of Photoshop Elements for $69 is 90% of Photoshop for 1/10th the price. There is nothing that even comes close to the funtionality of Photoshop Elements for Linux. And of course Games. I work hard and I play hard (all on the computer of course).
3) Development. Believe it or not developing for Windows is infinitely nicer than developing on Linux (Okay, that's just my opinion). The tools are all equal (gcc, perl, python, vi, emacs) up to far more advanced (Visual Studio) and far more varied to choose from.
Basically, everything I do of any importance on Windows has no real counterpart on Linux. There are a lot of wannabe applications (GIMP etc) but they are usually pale shadows of real apps. The major windows (and Mac) apps are just too frequently not there for Linux.
Money concerns: Free is great, but when you can't get what you want for free, then pay is the way. The current state of free is not up to the current state for pay. I work for a living, I make money, I have no problem paying other peoeple for the work they do.
Even if everything else completely equal, the fact that I have 10 years of Windows and Windows Apps know-how in my head means that I would still benefit from staying.
It's been said many many times, but until Linux is considerably better than Windows on all these fronts, there is no incentive to switch. I (and most computer users I'd bet) are not political grand-standers, were tool users, plain and simple. Best tool for the job wins. For all my jobs, Windows wins.
First: There are probably still thousands of people are still running oder versions so this announcement is vitally important to some.
/. editors stop spreading FUD and panic about Windows software problems too. But if they're going to do it for one, it had better be for both!
Second: When any flaw in any version of any Windows software older that the latest and greatest has a flaw, it is flailed mercelessly on this very site. And now you're saying we should just ignore the same situation with Unix?
I dream of a day that
That's probably the beta 40.xx drivers. Look around the web for them. I've installed them on one machine at home with 2 nvidia cards in it and they seems stable enough (no problems so far)
Sony used to have a lightweight pair of folding headphones that did this. They were made to be carried around in a pocket. Don't know if they still sell them.
Blank DVD-R disks are down to $1 ea for 2 hours of fairly high quality recording. I'd say the media costs are already as good as or better than tape.
You can of course do all this with a PC today. But for a lot of people it really is worth a grand just to have a single "Rec" button rather than the 25 steps to do the same thing on a PC.
Less flexible. But infinitely easier to use.
You are absolutely correct! They ARE confused. Since when do people do stupid things for ego or status? Like every second of every day?
For pure text, LCDS are great, if very expensive. But for graphics, video, or gaming, even the best of them don't work well. The very thing that makes LCDs great for text editing (Extremely high contrast) also make imaging on them nearly impossible. Everything 70% gray is white. It's impossible to see the details of the low and high ends while the details of the middle spectrum are largely exagerrated. LCDs also are not very linear with their reproduction of color from bit to bit. Also making profesional imaging nearly impossible. They get better abd better every year, but are still atleast 5 years from matching CRTs on image quality.
The ensuing disaster of epic proportions would make the greatest reality TV show ever!
Actually, it doesn't matter if he was on stimulants. In fact, if he was, that's just more damning evidence. WHY was he on stimulants? So he could stay up for 86 hours playing on line? That's even worse than the original story! "Gaming addict takes speed to stay up 86 hours to play games, then dies of heart attack".
The immediate reason he died (Embolism, heart attack , whatever) is less important than the circumstances that caused it.
Maybe I don't want my real voice number to be advertised all over the net????
The first thing to do is define your target audience. There are already so many 3d modeling/animation programs out there, what is it you are trying to do by making a new one?
There is a reason why people are willing to pay hundreds and thousands for Maya and 3ds. They are THE standard and they work great. And if that doesn't matter to you then Martin Hash's Animation Master is an amazingly powerful set of programs for dirt cheap.
So if it isn't to be either of those then what? The first 3d program with a truly easy to use interface? (That may not even be possible, but it would be a godsend)
Before thinking about programming "para-dig-ums", I'd concentrate on what the "product" (Free or not) really is. Believe it or not, desighning the code framework for the internals and drawing the 3d elements on screen is the EASY part. Getting a good, no make that excellent, "User Interaction" going on what is likely the most difficult thing anyone does on a computer is far more work.
That was more or less the point of the list. To point out the top 10 POTENTIAL security problem areas. Lazy admins could make great strides by merely keeping tabs on these top 10 items alone.
It seems incredable to me too that anyone with the title of "administrator" could NOT already be doing this, but then there is reality.
There is no "blaim" intended in making those lists. It's not a "Top 10 programs whose creators and users should be punished for being insecure". It is merely a list to help admins maintain secure machines. As far as these lists go, "fault" doesn't enter in to it, therefore there is no "fair" or "Unfair" to their contents.