Tom Reilly is running for governor, in a campaign where his first choice for lieutenant governor turned out to have not paid federal taxes, state taxes, property taxes or parking tickets for the last several years, and then dropped out of the race to spend more time with her family, all within 24 hours of being picked. (She's still a state rep, and on the Ways and Means Committee, no less, but apparently you don't need to pay taxes to hold that position.)
Anyway, thus Tom Reilly's sudden concern about MySpace...
China doesn't need the West's help to censor their internet; they build most of the world's computer equipment, they've shipped a person into orbit, and they have nuclear power. They're a big science and technology power and have been for some years.
I think you're conflating the PRC and Taiwan. You probably don't own a single piece of PRC-developed technology.
from the i-have-to-use-my-finger-to-type-pshh dept.
I don't think the users are sick of having to type -- they're sick of the situation created by lazy-ass admins who think that you create security by having 30 different accounts, each with >8 characters, with mandatory uppercase, lowercase, numerics and punctuation. Oh, and they all have to be rotated at 60 day intervals and it's easy because you just make up a little story about each of your convoluted passwords, remember all 30 of them and make up a new one and forget the old one every time you change the password!
I just had to change and lengthen my purchasing account password because, y'know, there's a huge problem with h4x0rs ordering office supplies in my name. I'll tell you where I'd like to implant an RFID chip...
I can't find so maybe it's gone now, but MPlayer used to have a "joke FAQ" with entries like "Q: Why do I get audio but no video? A: You're blind". Unfortunately, a lot of people (myself included) mistook it for the real FAQ because a) in a Google search on "MPlayer FAQ" it came up first and b) honestly, it wasn't significantly more obnoxious or less helpful than the people in #mplayer.
They buy, develop and market technologies; they don't typically buy established players for their market share. Hotmail and WebTV are the only two cases I can think of where Microsoft did that.
Between this and "Multi-threaded Programmation Makes You Crazy ?" I'm wondering if May 2 is Even More Incoherent Than Usual Story Day here.
If so, I have to complain about the "New Apple Campaign" item. "In one of the ads the PC repeat itself several times" and "In an other one (and maybe the most aggressive of all) PC is sick because of a virus, while Mac is healthy" fall far short of the mark.
Apple should spend more time making it easier to switch -- like including a "start menu" equivalent, using the defacto standard "ctrl-c & ctrl-v" type shortcut keys, better windows-style support for right-click instead of always having to use ctrl-click to get a pop-up menu, real windows-style "uninstall" functionality.
I'll let others flame you about the start menu and shortcut keys (If you want MacOS to behave exactly like Windows, why not just use Windows?) but:
a) Right-clicking should work the same as ctrl-clicking.
b) MacOS doesn't have "windows-style "uninstall" functionality" because uninstalling is trivial.
Without the Linux Community, I would never have been able to properly set up Ubuntu on my computer.
I think that's kind of the point -- it's become clear to companies that formally supporting home desktop users is a dead end, so they're writing them off as an official market and leaving them to "the community".
Hey, if it were one of the Google founders, it would be the most brilliantly innovative business strategy ever and we'd be reading a string of comments about how "I bet teh Steve Ballmer is throughing another chair!!!!"
As sucking up goes, "clever, highly effective protest" is pretty thin stuff.
There's a Web 2.0'ism for companies like YouTube that are wholly dependent on Google AdWords for their revenue generation, but I can't recall what it is...
At the point where it's more profitable for Dell to not include the crapware (either because of higher prices or increased volume) and forgo the revenue from including it -- that's what it'll cost.
So who are the lobbyists, and what do they look like? Unfortunately it is very difficult to prove that any one user is corrupted, let alone paid for this by a particular company, especially with only a few days of research. Sorting through thousands of edits and user contribution pages is not an easy task. A lot of these edits are done by anonymous users, just IPs to me.
Wow, that's quite a security expert there! I wonder how much it would cost to hire Whitedust Security to hang out on IRC and make up conspiracy theories about people attacking my network?
Right. Someone from 'Igor international' who created 'Urge' shouldn't criticise anything
Alternatively, one might argue that the name is so awful that even the director of "Igor International" thinks it's a bad idea. Perhaps we can convene marketing experts from Mandriva, Ekiga and SplunkBase to discuss this further.
I think the bottom line, though, is that the Nintendo brand is so much stronger than any of its product names that they might as well just clear away from everyone else. Parents will just ask for "Nintendo" anyway.
Samsung is going to come out of this decade as a real technology power, in the same league as the most influential Japanese giants. They've really been doing everything right for the last ten years.
No longer just the only way to get printing to work under Linux!
What is in a name? Now, bear with me for a second here while I explain. As much as we geeks would like to believe it, we are not going to be the ones who decide which format wins out in the end; consumers are. Now, we all know people hate change. Users already know what DVD is, and most would like to think they understand HD. But Blu-Ray? Your average Joe only wants one thing when it comes to new technology, a feeling of comfort and understanding
If you want to know what I think -- rather than expending energy worrying which DVD format wins out, you'd do better learning to stop talking like that.
For heaven's sake, you're not Claude freaking Shannon; you're some guy buying a device to play Spiderman 2. (You also may or not be the guy who thought "Digital" was the appropriate category for this topic but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one...) Could you possibly dial the condescension back a bit?
That's working already. (Just as well, as I don't have permission for that registry change.) Maybe it's on by default in XP (the link refers to W2K) or maybe our company build has it on.
I actually like the sequential tab completion, at least when there are only a few options. My ideal would probably be the MS-style completion for a configurable number of choices, at which point it spills over to bash's tab-*beep*-type-tab-*beep*-type-tab behavior.
OMG, bless you! (For those who don't understand what "check the properties of the window" means, right-click on the title bar.) I see you can drag files to the command line as well, not just directories.
To resume complaining about Microsoft, though -- perhaps they could include a help button or any other visual cue that there's more to the app than a window with a cursor? It doesn't have to be Clippy ("It looks like you're trying to use Unix commands out of habit!") but I wouldn't mind having the cat scratch itself and chase butterflies while SAS runs...
I suspect this researcher merely "appropriated" the valgrind source code as a test harness for her ideas. It's certainly much cheaper to do it that way than do build your own x86 fab...
That's what struck me as funny -- she bothered to talk to someone at Intel about her scheme to implement the hardware counterpart to Gentoo. And the more realistic fallback plan was to run everything in a debugger!
She said this idea didn't fly very well with hardware engineers at Intel with whom she spoke to last year, as they envisioned having to build different chips around all these different instruction sets.
Gee, ya think?
Forrest's team got around this issue by building its technology atop virtual machine software dubbed Valgrind that she said provided flexibility because it is open source but that is not as efficient as she would have liked.
Gee, ya think?
Forrest acknowledged that the RISE system is unwieldy in some ways and still has kinks to work out...
I was in a jewelry store a couple of weeks ago shopping for a birthday present for my wife, and all the salesman wanted to do was sell me an extended warranty on the necklace. It was like Best Buy with emeralds. I quickly fled for someplace with less pressured sales.
BTW, for those who were wondering -- "B&M" is "brick and mortar". (And "BTW" is "by the way".) I'd thought the HardOCP guys had gotten confused and tried to by a computer at H&M and then either the submitter or Zonk had misspelled it.
ACM contest is fun but that doesn't mean that the winners are the world's best CS people. Nope.
When I was in high school, I ran track (poorly), played hockey (poorly) and dated (poorly). Then I got to college and was mightily impressed by all these kids who had been in the International Chemistry Olympiad or Physics Olympiad or whatnot.
Check back a few years later and I seem like a much better hockey player, now that I only play against other researchers. Meanwhile, the former Olympians have never done anything that's reached my notice. Maybe they quit and went to hedge funds and have been succesful there, but certainly not in chemistry or physics.
Schwartz is a PR genius, and the way he continuously trolls the Linux journalist/zealot community for attention is masterful. But that seems like a strange fit for the CEO position.
At any rate, this should prompt the 30-something crowd here and elsewhere to reflect on just what the hell they've been doing with thir careers while this guy becomes the CEO of Sun...
I've been thinking about upgrading my old G4 powerbook for sometime, but have not been able to find a notebook from any vendor with 3 usb ports (and on different sides!!!!!)
As I mentioned in the Lenovo article a few days ago, the two advantages my T40 has over my TiBook are:
1) It's a more effective tool for clubbing baby seals.
2) The USB ports on the side are much more comfortable when using a memory stick on an airplane tray table.
I don't know if Apple changed the slots from the back to to the side in this model or earlier, but over here it's a welcome improvement. Now about those baby seals...
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Anyway, thus Tom Reilly's sudden concern about MySpace...
I think you're conflating the PRC and Taiwan. You probably don't own a single piece of PRC-developed technology.
I don't think the users are sick of having to type -- they're sick of the situation created by lazy-ass admins who think that you create security by having 30 different accounts, each with >8 characters, with mandatory uppercase, lowercase, numerics and punctuation. Oh, and they all have to be rotated at 60 day intervals and it's easy because you just make up a little story about each of your convoluted passwords, remember all 30 of them and make up a new one and forget the old one every time you change the password!
I just had to change and lengthen my purchasing account password because, y'know, there's a huge problem with h4x0rs ordering office supplies in my name. I'll tell you where I'd like to implant an RFID chip...
I can't find so maybe it's gone now, but MPlayer used to have a "joke FAQ" with entries like "Q: Why do I get audio but no video? A: You're blind". Unfortunately, a lot of people (myself included) mistook it for the real FAQ because a) in a Google search on "MPlayer FAQ" it came up first and b) honestly, it wasn't significantly more obnoxious or less helpful than the people in #mplayer.
They buy, develop and market technologies; they don't typically buy established players for their market share. Hotmail and WebTV are the only two cases I can think of where Microsoft did that.
If so, I have to complain about the "New Apple Campaign" item. "In one of the ads the PC repeat itself several times" and "In an other one (and maybe the most aggressive of all) PC is sick because of a virus, while Mac is healthy" fall far short of the mark.
I'll let others flame you about the start menu and shortcut keys (If you want MacOS to behave exactly like Windows, why not just use Windows?) but:
a) Right-clicking should work the same as ctrl-clicking.
b) MacOS doesn't have "windows-style "uninstall" functionality" because uninstalling is trivial.
I think that's kind of the point -- it's become clear to companies that formally supporting home desktop users is a dead end, so they're writing them off as an official market and leaving them to "the community".
As sucking up goes, "clever, highly effective protest" is pretty thin stuff.
There's a Web 2.0'ism for companies like YouTube that are wholly dependent on Google AdWords for their revenue generation, but I can't recall what it is...
I was thinking they'd call in the Dream Police...
At the point where it's more profitable for Dell to not include the crapware (either because of higher prices or increased volume) and forgo the revenue from including it -- that's what it'll cost.
Wow, that's quite a security expert there! I wonder how much it would cost to hire Whitedust Security to hang out on IRC and make up conspiracy theories about people attacking my network?
Alternatively, one might argue that the name is so awful that even the director of "Igor International" thinks it's a bad idea. Perhaps we can convene marketing experts from Mandriva, Ekiga and SplunkBase to discuss this further.
I think the bottom line, though, is that the Nintendo brand is so much stronger than any of its product names that they might as well just clear away from everyone else. Parents will just ask for "Nintendo" anyway.
No longer just the only way to get printing to work under Linux!
If you want to know what I think -- rather than expending energy worrying which DVD format wins out, you'd do better learning to stop talking like that.
For heaven's sake, you're not Claude freaking Shannon; you're some guy buying a device to play Spiderman 2. (You also may or not be the guy who thought "Digital" was the appropriate category for this topic but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one...) Could you possibly dial the condescension back a bit?
I actually like the sequential tab completion, at least when there are only a few options. My ideal would probably be the MS-style completion for a configurable number of choices, at which point it spills over to bash's tab-*beep*-type-tab-*beep*-type-tab behavior.
To resume complaining about Microsoft, though -- perhaps they could include a help button or any other visual cue that there's more to the app than a window with a cursor? It doesn't have to be Clippy ("It looks like you're trying to use Unix commands out of habit!") but I wouldn't mind having the cat scratch itself and chase butterflies while SAS runs...
That's what struck me as funny -- she bothered to talk to someone at Intel about her scheme to implement the hardware counterpart to Gentoo. And the more realistic fallback plan was to run everything in a debugger!
Gee, ya think?
Forrest's team got around this issue by building its technology atop virtual machine software dubbed Valgrind that she said provided flexibility because it is open source but that is not as efficient as she would have liked.
Gee, ya think?
Forrest acknowledged that the RISE system is unwieldy in some ways and still has kinks to work out...
Gee, ya think?
BTW, for those who were wondering -- "B&M" is "brick and mortar". (And "BTW" is "by the way".) I'd thought the HardOCP guys had gotten confused and tried to by a computer at H&M and then either the submitter or Zonk had misspelled it.
When I was in high school, I ran track (poorly), played hockey (poorly) and dated (poorly). Then I got to college and was mightily impressed by all these kids who had been in the International Chemistry Olympiad or Physics Olympiad or whatnot.
Check back a few years later and I seem like a much better hockey player, now that I only play against other researchers. Meanwhile, the former Olympians have never done anything that's reached my notice. Maybe they quit and went to hedge funds and have been succesful there, but certainly not in chemistry or physics.
At any rate, this should prompt the 30-something crowd here and elsewhere to reflect on just what the hell they've been doing with thir careers while this guy becomes the CEO of Sun...
Antibodies bind to targets, as do all sorts of other biochemical molecules. (As others have pointed out.) This isn't an antibody.
As I mentioned in the Lenovo article a few days ago, the two advantages my T40 has over my TiBook are:
1) It's a more effective tool for clubbing baby seals.
2) The USB ports on the side are much more comfortable when using a memory stick on an airplane tray table.
I don't know if Apple changed the slots from the back to to the side in this model or earlier, but over here it's a welcome improvement. Now about those baby seals...