Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run.
If the XP to Vista roadmap is any indication, I figure they have at least five years before they have to worry about the next major Windows release not running on their machines.
I am not qualified to evaluate the content of this documentary, but doing some research on the participants reveals damaging information about their credentials. An argumentive fallacy to be sure, but useful for inspiring skepticism. As always, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
So you are saying you emerged from the womb with complete understanding of language, mathematics, and cause-effect association? When you were a child, did you have a clear rationale explaining why you were being taught how to divide or expand your vocabulary? I think you were sent to school where you received exposure to these and other concepts repeatedly until you began accurately repeating them to your instructors. Eventually you learned how to independently form sophisticated compositions of those simple concepts, possibly through repetition, for the purpose of solving problems. This seems a lot like training to me.
Fine, then I do not want to watch the content at all. I am willing to be lots of other people feel the same way. And considering the scale of amateur content production these days, I think there is plenty of room and sponsorship for alternative sites.
Allowing for a romp in speculation with the assumption that Leopard contains a great many changes and outright overhauls (not just in frameworks but for end-users concerns as well), then it is possible Apple has “bitten off more than they can chew.” As Microsoft made a similar attempt over the past six years, we might now call this the “Vista Effect”.
Solid and consistent software releases tend to be incremental, adopting smaller (read: less significant) changes that require less vetting to be made reliable and considered trustworthy. Apple may be attempting a moon-shot with Leopard and could simply lack the resources—iPhone or no iPhone—to make it possible.
For this reason, I believe all the complaints about Apple dropping the “Computer” and focusing on phones and set top boxes are empty and irrelevant. This could all just come down to the misguided, albeit noble goal of trying to do too much too fast. I think it is also likely Apple wanted to take a longer crack at Leopard and expected to do this from the outset. They have such clout with the people who enjoy their products (myself included) that nearly any blunder will be forgiven once new releases roll out and credit cards get swiped.
Not for long.
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You have successfully alienated what I believe is your largest customer base: the technically savvy who, in being such, understand “defective by design” and choose to avoid it. (I do not expect their stock-value free-fall to come to an end any time soon.)
Half-awake audiences and inadequate preparation on the part of the presenter whose resources simply get dumped in a public repository anyway. Are you trying to defend this practice or provide an example of how not to share information? I would hope it is the latter.
Presentation Zen. Definitely read their contrast of presentations given by Gates and Jobs. On a personal note, I can proudly say I have never given a presentation with bullet points. I tried hard to give up that crutch and the result has always been commendation afterwards. My audiences have described my presentations as fluid, participatory, and engaging. Avoiding bullet points at least proves you know your material. Also remember that your presentation is there to enhance what you have to say, and not the other way around.
“Web 2.0” is not AJAX and “AJAX” is not Web 2.0. These terms are not synonyms nor does one necessarily imply the other. Yes, AJAX is an important participant, but Web 2.0 is really about service architecture that is equally consumable by machines and people—a notion that somewhat embodies the original vision of the Web. The article title “Web 2.0 Under Siege” is misleading nonsense. It is analogous to stating that programming is “under siege” because a library exists that contains a vulnerability.
This is the beauty of peer review, especially from a group as vicious as Slashdot. I imagine the author of this process was so pleased with himself and excited to share his ingenuity with the world, only to submit it here and have his ideas stomped, blasted, toasted, dragged through mud, and rendered to pieces. Not that I would suggest we do anything different, but sometimes I cannot help but to admire the crucible that is public forum.
AC, perhaps you misunderstood my use of contrast to provide emphasis on my point. Otherwise, you have shown nothing but a disposition to level personal attacks. As you are clearly better informed and possessed of superior reading comprehension skills, care to enlighten me by offering any support to your claims?
I am the worst (or best, depending on your point of view) kind of Apple apologist, but any attempt from any company to stifle, ignore, or deny security research is not just silly, it is reprehensible. Companies with products where security is a concern should always respond with acknowledgement of the research, credit to the researchers, and evidence proving the validity of the claim either way. Then, of course, release a fix in due time if necessary. These same corporate entities ask for courtesy from the security community in notifying them first of problems, but yet many still react negatively to this valuable community-provided service. For those who behave properly, this restraint should be afforded. For those who respond as Apple have done, the appropriate response is, I think, exactly what happened: a flurry of publicized of exploits without prior and exclusive notification. Proceding in this fashion creates an incentive to take security concerns seriously and disintentives to burry them.
Go vote with your dollars, people. If a decent percentage of the Slashdot population buys DRM-free music from Puretracks, it will bolster the message that we do not want encumbered music in a big way.
Why not just let the user copy the application bundle to wherever they have write permissions? That application then executes with the privileges of the user that invokes it. If only there was a platform that offered such a simple an effective solution.
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If the XP to Vista roadmap is any indication, I figure they have at least five years before they have to worry about the next major Windows release not running on their machines.
This guy is just a fucking popularity magnet.
I am not qualified to evaluate the content of this documentary, but doing some research on the participants reveals damaging information about their credentials. An argumentive fallacy to be sure, but useful for inspiring skepticism. As always, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
So you are saying you emerged from the womb with complete understanding of language, mathematics, and cause-effect association? When you were a child, did you have a clear rationale explaining why you were being taught how to divide or expand your vocabulary? I think you were sent to school where you received exposure to these and other concepts repeatedly until you began accurately repeating them to your instructors. Eventually you learned how to independently form sophisticated compositions of those simple concepts, possibly through repetition, for the purpose of solving problems. This seems a lot like training to me.
Will we head for the Pole? Or do we keep going “up” into Russia? My mind boggles at all the Slashdot clichés that might come of this.
Fine, then I do not want to watch the content at all. I am willing to be lots of other people feel the same way. And considering the scale of amateur content production these days, I think there is plenty of room and sponsorship for alternative sites.
Allowing for a romp in speculation with the assumption that Leopard contains a great many changes and outright overhauls (not just in frameworks but for end-users concerns as well), then it is possible Apple has “bitten off more than they can chew.” As Microsoft made a similar attempt over the past six years, we might now call this the “Vista Effect”.
Solid and consistent software releases tend to be incremental, adopting smaller (read: less significant) changes that require less vetting to be made reliable and considered trustworthy. Apple may be attempting a moon-shot with Leopard and could simply lack the resources—iPhone or no iPhone—to make it possible.
For this reason, I believe all the complaints about Apple dropping the “Computer” and focusing on phones and set top boxes are empty and irrelevant. This could all just come down to the misguided, albeit noble goal of trying to do too much too fast. I think it is also likely Apple wanted to take a longer crack at Leopard and expected to do this from the outset. They have such clout with the people who enjoy their products (myself included) that nearly any blunder will be forgiven once new releases roll out and credit cards get swiped.
HDCP.
You have successfully alienated what I believe is your largest customer base: the technically savvy who, in being such, understand “defective by design” and choose to avoid it. (I do not expect their stock-value free-fall to come to an end any time soon.)
Half-awake audiences and inadequate preparation on the part of the presenter whose resources simply get dumped in a public repository anyway. Are you trying to defend this practice or provide an example of how not to share information? I would hope it is the latter.
Presentation Zen. Definitely read their contrast of presentations given by Gates and Jobs. On a personal note, I can proudly say I have never given a presentation with bullet points. I tried hard to give up that crutch and the result has always been commendation afterwards. My audiences have described my presentations as fluid, participatory, and engaging. Avoiding bullet points at least proves you know your material. Also remember that your presentation is there to enhance what you have to say, and not the other way around.
“Web 2.0” is not AJAX and “AJAX” is not Web 2.0. These terms are not synonyms nor does one necessarily imply the other. Yes, AJAX is an important participant, but Web 2.0 is really about service architecture that is equally consumable by machines and people—a notion that somewhat embodies the original vision of the Web. The article title “Web 2.0 Under Siege” is misleading nonsense. It is analogous to stating that programming is “under siege” because a library exists that contains a vulnerability.
Eventually we will have no physical record of these writings and may someday learn from the digital copies that Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and others had offered enthusiastic support for wiretapping and other forms of electronic surveillance.
End feline exploitation!
I agree. PF is just like so totally awesome and everything else is like major sucks. Because I say so.
This is the beauty of peer review, especially from a group as vicious as Slashdot. I imagine the author of this process was so pleased with himself and excited to share his ingenuity with the world, only to submit it here and have his ideas stomped, blasted, toasted, dragged through mud, and rendered to pieces. Not that I would suggest we do anything different, but sometimes I cannot help but to admire the crucible that is public forum.
AC, perhaps you misunderstood my use of contrast to provide emphasis on my point. Otherwise, you have shown nothing but a disposition to level personal attacks. As you are clearly better informed and possessed of superior reading comprehension skills, care to enlighten me by offering any support to your claims?
I am the worst (or best, depending on your point of view) kind of Apple apologist, but any attempt from any company to stifle, ignore, or deny security research is not just silly, it is reprehensible. Companies with products where security is a concern should always respond with acknowledgement of the research, credit to the researchers, and evidence proving the validity of the claim either way. Then, of course, release a fix in due time if necessary. These same corporate entities ask for courtesy from the security community in notifying them first of problems, but yet many still react negatively to this valuable community-provided service. For those who behave properly, this restraint should be afforded. For those who respond as Apple have done, the appropriate response is, I think, exactly what happened: a flurry of publicized of exploits without prior and exclusive notification. Proceding in this fashion creates an incentive to take security concerns seriously and disintentives to burry them.
Emphasizing the “I” in RAID.
And I thought this idea was a bit over the top.
Check out this old-fashion keyboard modification with early 1900s brass features.
Alright, we have phong shading, but at least some specular bloom. Folding@home are taking their first steps into next-generation graphics!
Who has proliferated, most of all?
Go vote with your dollars, people. If a decent percentage of the Slashdot population buys DRM-free music from Puretracks, it will bolster the message that we do not want encumbered music in a big way.
Why not just let the user copy the application bundle to wherever they have write permissions? That application then executes with the privileges of the user that invokes it. If only there was a platform that offered such a simple an effective solution.