I dont realize. Some body language have physiological roots, so should be common across cultures. But others are more imitation, things that you learn since child, and that is cultural, and in fact you can find "normal" body language in some cultures that could be pretty offensive in others.
Anyway, current globalization are "normalizing" aspects of culture, including body language, and probably more than spoken languages.
Which, of course, have already been addressed by the respective companies. Only unpatched systems would be affected.
In official packages of a linux distribution, i would say that almost all would be patched so shouldn't be affected. But we are talking about Windows world here. Im not sure how automatic are the updates for flash player (just today got one in my ubuntu box), Windows updates are known to add functionality (sometimes unwanted, so people could disable automatic updates after something "misbehaves"), and the MS fixes there probably arent for IE6 (still used by 20% of internet), maybe some for IE7 that is more widely used or older version of Office.
About the article, yes, it seriously lacks showing how the servers got intruded, it went more to the symptoms (in a google search were found to have that exploit link). But is useful to know for the people that claim that they are safe even running windows without latest patches or versions of software could get into trouble visiting normal/regular sites.
In humans language is something cultural, even syntax is something you learn from others, is not builtin. If is the same on monkeys maybe the ones from a region have a different syntax or semantics than others from far away.
Maybe i would use the word convergence instead of iteration. "Google way" includes a cloud usually, and different ways to access it depending on hardware/software installed. Take maps, i.e. They have Google Earth and Google Maps, and they converged in the cloud. But also they converged in other devices, like cellphones (there your location can be given in an approximate way if you dont have gps), and it kept evolving taking advantage of gps, accelerometers and cameras. What is the "dream" google maps device? All of them.
Some evolution is needed in the books front, at the very least to make a Chrome OS netbook with no storage a viable reading device, but for sure they will stay in the cloud (wont be surprised if Google signs agreements to enable users to "Buy" Amazon/B&N ebooks into user account, or enable users to "upload" their own books in some set of formats) so you will be able to read them (and continue reading) in whatever device you can access with a google account. Some will have some features nicer for reading books specially (tablets, screens with pixel qi technology, etc) but "best" could be defined for what else you can do with them, or how portable they will be, cheap, etc.
The point is that "very good infrastructure" is not a factor. A simple caching DNS on any of the sides of your internet connection is faster than getting to Google servers, and in the normal use will be faster almost all the time. If that DNS is used by enough people hitting a domain not in the cache should not be very common.
Essentially it showed that the ones from verizon (the one that provides him connection) are the fastest ones (not only the fios one, but the 151.202/3 ones too are from verizon), there are a few others faster than Googles (including 4.2.2.*), and then the rest of DNS tested were slower. Much of the speed that matters of a well installed DNS is how "close" is from you (as in i.e. ping time), and your upstream provider have usually the closest one. Could be a speed improvement in the few, rare times when you ask for something that is not cached already, but in massively used DNSs that is something rare and usually one-time hit. If you have to choose them for something, speed should not be the main factor.
Chrome OS proposes that the apps are in the web, and put each page in a tab (or a separate window). This KDE proposal goes the other way around. All are native apps, and you can put them in a browser-like windows, tabs included. Microsoft should had done that first, as their business is more focused in apps than in web (even worse, they dont have native virtual desktops as alternate app organization/grouping as KDE), and blurring that line putting their apps on a new, web-like environment looks like an approach they should have used a while ago.
Something nice that have Konsole (that could be seen as a tabbed apps interface at least, even if they are console based apps) is to show in which have been some activity while arent the front tab, maybe they are adding this feature too (if have a meaning for non-console apps, of course).
Wonder if will be able to manipulate those tabs as in Chrome/Mozilla, dragging a tab to the desktop to create a new separate window with it, or dragging a window to another to put it as a new tab there. And if that will have some conflict with those browser apps that already do the same.
Here in Uruguay all school childrens have an XO, that have a decent screen for reading text, even under sunlight. If well don't have a dual screen like those, cost less than half of the ones in the article, and can do far more than just reading books. And doing more than just displaying books means that education don't need to be something as passive as reading/memorizing a textbook, and a lot of its activities are oriented to getting student to participate. And we are talking about a device that is around since several years by now.
6 seems to be the number of the thing you want, is about to come, and takes forever to finally come, if ever. Is not a coincidence that the number of the devil is 666, should be an unlisted sin or punishment in hell that forever waiting for something that from the start was promised to come soon. IPV6 is another much wanted "imminent" upgrade that will take still a big while to come, and i bet that Duke Nukem Forever was planned to get out in the 6th iteration. I hope that PHP6 dont takes the same fate as Perl and comes when scheduled.
Anyway, between waiting and getting a half-baked product, with problems that will avoid it being ever widely adopted, i prefer to wait till is really done.
You are putting the subject in the wrong part of the problem. Is surprising (ok, maybe not) how easy is to get "addicted" to something, specially when makes you feel part of a community, no matter how shitty the "experience" is. If you think that it is wrong, in the Gamasutra article they point to mybrute, that makes Farmville look like a piece of art, and still should be wildly successful. And even that implies more "participation" from you than being fan of a football/soccer/basket club.
A perfect invisibility cloak is also a perfect blindness cloak. Unless you make i.e. missiles or bullets (dodge that, Neo!) with it, things with a predefined target, could be somewhat useless for most interesting uses. The imperfect are the useful ones.
What about tracking somali pirates? Or take photos of the big bad cthuluish beast that eat ships at Bermuda Triangle. All will depend on what they are that day
What if you computer is or has been part on a botnet that transfered that kind of picture to your hard drive, without you ever be aware of that? What if spammers or botnet hoarders starts to send mails with child porn attached to millons of email addresses? Or worse, what if someone sends to a rival a simple anonymous mail with such picture and then call the cops?
Eyes, brain raw power, could be considered somewhat "low" technology, But you need to be smart to implement a pattern recognition engine (and integration with existing data) as the brain have.
Think that you can have "vision" with something far less precise than eyes (with i.e. this and similar low res devices).
How much power requires that pattern recognition? By standards approachs probably a lot, but the approach they seem to use there (like in compare how much fits what they have with thousands of candidate models) could require less, and far better if you use for that hardware that are more adequated for that task.
If you bought a month of internet use at up certain speed, you can't be blamed if you use it, even if you use all of it. If doing that causes problems to other customers or the ISP, is isp fault for selling more than what they have, not yours.
What about IE6 supporting this? If Microsoft pays they quota just for IE6 this will mean millons in donations to Apache Foundation, FreeBSD and others.
World keeps advancing. Now there is another diplomatic way to say "you are not good enough for us". They deserve a Nobel Peace prize for this, who knows how many wars will be avoided if politics start using it.
At least Google exist. Not that it makes it better, sometimes things are good because they dont exist (ok, at least not yet, keep asking google how entropy can be reversed and eventually there will be an answer from them).
So Windows 8 will have the Beige Screen of Death, Windows 9 the Brown one, and Windows 10... well, Microsoft will change naming standards again, so from there on Windows will have codenames like Bronze, Brass, Burgundy and Bizantine (and more from this list)
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Well, be careful, if you change just a letter of your name, weird things could happens, you can even avoid war (or all the opposite)
That is for the ones that think that putting a data center is not rocket science.
I dont realize. Some body language have physiological roots, so should be common across cultures. But others are more imitation, things that you learn since child, and that is cultural, and in fact you can find "normal" body language in some cultures that could be pretty offensive in others. Anyway, current globalization are "normalizing" aspects of culture, including body language, and probably more than spoken languages.
Which, of course, have already been addressed by the respective companies. Only unpatched systems would be affected.
In official packages of a linux distribution, i would say that almost all would be patched so shouldn't be affected. But we are talking about Windows world here. Im not sure how automatic are the updates for flash player (just today got one in my ubuntu box), Windows updates are known to add functionality (sometimes unwanted, so people could disable automatic updates after something "misbehaves"), and the MS fixes there probably arent for IE6 (still used by 20% of internet), maybe some for IE7 that is more widely used or older version of Office.
About the article, yes, it seriously lacks showing how the servers got intruded, it went more to the symptoms (in a google search were found to have that exploit link). But is useful to know for the people that claim that they are safe even running windows without latest patches or versions of software could get into trouble visiting normal/regular sites.
In humans language is something cultural, even syntax is something you learn from others, is not builtin. If is the same on monkeys maybe the ones from a region have a different syntax or semantics than others from far away.
Maybe i would use the word convergence instead of iteration. "Google way" includes a cloud usually, and different ways to access it depending on hardware/software installed. Take maps, i.e. They have Google Earth and Google Maps, and they converged in the cloud. But also they converged in other devices, like cellphones (there your location can be given in an approximate way if you dont have gps), and it kept evolving taking advantage of gps, accelerometers and cameras. What is the "dream" google maps device? All of them.
Some evolution is needed in the books front, at the very least to make a Chrome OS netbook with no storage a viable reading device, but for sure they will stay in the cloud (wont be surprised if Google signs agreements to enable users to "Buy" Amazon/B&N ebooks into user account, or enable users to "upload" their own books in some set of formats) so you will be able to read them (and continue reading) in whatever device you can access with a google account. Some will have some features nicer for reading books specially (tablets, screens with pixel qi technology, etc) but "best" could be defined for what else you can do with them, or how portable they will be, cheap, etc.
The point is that "very good infrastructure" is not a factor. A simple caching DNS on any of the sides of your internet connection is faster than getting to Google servers, and in the normal use will be faster almost all the time. If that DNS is used by enough people hitting a domain not in the cache should not be very common.
Essentially it showed that the ones from verizon (the one that provides him connection) are the fastest ones (not only the fios one, but the 151.202/3 ones too are from verizon), there are a few others faster than Googles (including 4.2.2.*), and then the rest of DNS tested were slower. Much of the speed that matters of a well installed DNS is how "close" is from you (as in i.e. ping time), and your upstream provider have usually the closest one.
Could be a speed improvement in the few, rare times when you ask for something that is not cached already, but in massively used DNSs that is something rare and usually one-time hit. If you have to choose them for something, speed should not be the main factor.
Chrome OS proposes that the apps are in the web, and put each page in a tab (or a separate window). This KDE proposal goes the other way around. All are native apps, and you can put them in a browser-like windows, tabs included. Microsoft should had done that first, as their business is more focused in apps than in web (even worse, they dont have native virtual desktops as alternate app organization/grouping as KDE), and blurring that line putting their apps on a new, web-like environment looks like an approach they should have used a while ago.
Something nice that have Konsole (that could be seen as a tabbed apps interface at least, even if they are console based apps) is to show in which have been some activity while arent the front tab, maybe they are adding this feature too (if have a meaning for non-console apps, of course).
Wonder if will be able to manipulate those tabs as in Chrome/Mozilla, dragging a tab to the desktop to create a new separate window with it, or dragging a window to another to put it as a new tab there. And if that will have some conflict with those browser apps that already do the same.
Here in Uruguay all school childrens have an XO, that have a decent screen for reading text, even under sunlight. If well don't have a dual screen like those, cost less than half of the ones in the article, and can do far more than just reading books. And doing more than just displaying books means that education don't need to be something as passive as reading/memorizing a textbook, and a lot of its activities are oriented to getting student to participate. And we are talking about a device that is around since several years by now.
6 seems to be the number of the thing you want, is about to come, and takes forever to finally come, if ever. Is not a coincidence that the number of the devil is 666, should be an unlisted sin or punishment in hell that forever waiting for something that from the start was promised to come soon. IPV6 is another much wanted "imminent" upgrade that will take still a big while to come, and i bet that Duke Nukem Forever was planned to get out in the 6th iteration. I hope that PHP6 dont takes the same fate as Perl and comes when scheduled.
Anyway, between waiting and getting a half-baked product, with problems that will avoid it being ever widely adopted, i prefer to wait till is really done.
You are putting the subject in the wrong part of the problem. Is surprising (ok, maybe not) how easy is to get "addicted" to something, specially when makes you feel part of a community, no matter how shitty the "experience" is. If you think that it is wrong, in the Gamasutra article they point to mybrute, that makes Farmville look like a piece of art, and still should be wildly successful. And even that implies more "participation" from you than being fan of a football/soccer/basket club.
A perfect invisibility cloak is also a perfect blindness cloak. Unless you make i.e. missiles or bullets (dodge that, Neo!) with it, things with a predefined target, could be somewhat useless for most interesting uses. The imperfect are the useful ones.
What about tracking somali pirates? Or take photos of the big bad cthuluish beast that eat ships at Bermuda Triangle. All will depend on what they are that day
What if you computer is or has been part on a botnet that transfered that kind of picture to your hard drive, without you ever be aware of that? What if spammers or botnet hoarders starts to send mails with child porn attached to millons of email addresses? Or worse, what if someone sends to a rival a simple anonymous mail with such picture and then call the cops?
How much power requires that pattern recognition? By standards approachs probably a lot, but the approach they seem to use there (like in compare how much fits what they have with thousands of candidate models) could require less, and far better if you use for that hardware that are more adequated for that task.
Does it runs in linux? yes, it does
Caffeine?
If you bought a month of internet use at up certain speed, you can't be blamed if you use it, even if you use all of it. If doing that causes problems to other customers or the ISP, is isp fault for selling more than what they have, not yours.
What about IE6 supporting this? If Microsoft pays they quota just for IE6 this will mean millons in donations to Apache Foundation, FreeBSD and others.
World keeps advancing. Now there is another diplomatic way to say "you are not good enough for us". They deserve a Nobel Peace prize for this, who knows how many wars will be avoided if politics start using it.
At least Google exist. Not that it makes it better, sometimes things are good because they dont exist (ok, at least not yet, keep asking google how entropy can be reversed and eventually there will be an answer from them).
You think so? wait till gets to homepage the Google DNS story, and there you will have a bit more to complain.
So Windows 8 will have the Beige Screen of Death, Windows 9 the Brown one, and Windows 10... well, Microsoft will change naming standards again, so from there on Windows will have codenames like Bronze, Brass, Burgundy and Bizantine (and more from this list)
Is just the perceived speed of Windows Vista running at 2.2Ghz