2) i beg your pardon? so you're saying a fake copy of a boarding pass is illegal? even if i have no plans to fly or enter an airport ever again? take a step back and think of the absurdity of that statement.
at the least it means a cop can walk up to anyone and demand ID, then search them in the interest of national securty, find an "illegal boarding pass", and finally detain them in a secret prison while they figure out whats going on. sounds great right?
what happens if that person is you? congratulations, we have just made every potential united states citizen a terrorist. do you feel safer now than you did before 9/11?
and what about the check-in bomb luggage of Susan E. Terrorist? xrays mean shit. not being able to take a lighter on the plane means shit. 150 people sitting in their seats like zombies, since 90% of their carry on luggage is now an additional check-in bag, staring straight ahead thinking they're safe is NOT my idea of travel. i can still pay cash and ride a train without being hassled for id, but i have to worry about "legal" random bag searches. invasion of privacy enough to limit my method of travel? yep. fuck america, i'm out of here within the next 5 years.
Yeah.. seriously.. that's a urban myth [wired.com].
i would like to point out it was a statement that was made by someone. and you prove that the mentality exists.
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False. That was spread by certain parties within Sega who had a vested interest in boosting their own SDK. There was some overhead in running an OS versus writing to the bare metal, as Sega's SDK did, but even then, the WinCE SDK came out ahead in certain respects.
it was more because it was not easy to port games written on wince/directx to the playstation or n64.
i'm going to let you in on the biggest reason why OSS will fail at revolutionizing the desktop.
lack of Quality Assurance.
I mean seriously, Fedora, Ubuntu, et al don't even come CLOSE in terms of usability compared to Windows. Mac OS X does. BeOS did. Linux still is and always will be a hobbyist OS. I happened to find out today that the SCTP vulnerability in the linux kernel (back in 2.6.14 days) exists because of lack of standard checks in the kernel that were outlined in the draft proposal (read: lazy developer let things slide because of the 640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody mentality).. I mean seriously.. if you fail to see that problem then you're also going to fail to see why X is the worst idea for a desktop environment (hint: BeOS, heck even SkyOS and AtheOS/syllable have tight windowing systems.. why are we still pushing X?)
if only i had money to quit my job.. i'd help the oss world in ways never seen before (thats not a promise, thats a threat)
I recently built my own machine... 2G memory,.5TB (2 SATA drives), 3.06Ghz dual core... all very cool. I spent almost 2 weeks getting Ubuntu installed and working properly (for what reason would an OS not come with generic video drivers?). The sound was a nightmare to get running, don't get me started on my unsupported video capture card. Fortunately (I guess), a lot of the drivers came with the linux kernel (as one might expect), but the installation and configuration was amazingly tedious, and error prone.
I'm convinced one part of the horrible nature is that even today it seems that EVERY driver, EVERY re-configuration demanded intimate knowledge of my hardware though in my wildest imagination, I couldn't think of a rationale -- this continuity interruptus makes for a tedious, drawn out, error-sprinkled, bad-taste-in-the-mouth experience.
I finally shook out all of the bugs (oh, yeah, about 100MB+ of software updates -- the original was from earlier this year, go figure), got a SCREAMING machine, absolutely delighted with the configuration and performance (although my 3d benchmark isn't as high as windows).
Now, to be on-topic, I can't begin to imagine these upgrades will be problem free, I can't even think they'd be problem-sparse. It's non-trivial work installing from scratch, much less considering layering something as big as GLXserver over an existing Xorg installation. I wouldn't want to do it. I've read enough reviews from people with bollixed machines (granted, they were working with CVS releases) -- there will be a LOT of people out there who've committed too much data and personal work (blood, sweat and tears) on their new Linux machines -- and they're going to lose data (ReiserFS anyone?).
It's interesting to note the article doesn't recommends upgrading to a newer version of Ubuntu by doing a clean install. That's not really upgrading Ubuntu, that's installing Ubuntu. How many people will not have had their data backed up properly ahead of this? How many will be left with applications that ran on a previous kernel that won't run on the current kernel?
The article is probably wrong, this is GNU's olive branch to... well... no one really... who had hoped to roll out the new machines with brand spanking new Linux distro already installed. It's a PR debacle and nightmare in the making. Fortunately for Linux, that would be mostly irrelevant.
(To contrast, on same machine described above, I took the new Vista release candidate, booted up, installed and got completely running, all sound and video working perfectly -- in less than 2 hours!
Funny, for my life I could not find a satisfactory solution (or even find a google solution) to get Grub configured properly to reference Vista... Finally gave up, and let the new Vista boot loader handle it, the configuration was painless and flawless. Go figure.)
Feel free to replace with with Mac OS X, FreeBSD, BeOS, any other Linux distro, etc. Just because you fail at life (i mean really, who has issues with a windows installation on stable hardware....) doesn't mean you need to act like a hobbyist OS is the holy grail. Oh yea, Syllable 4 Life!!!</sarcasm>
please note it was a contract manufacturer. which means apple probably didn't regularly (if they even did) audit them. which means this COULD have been deliberate along with the possible theory of a random infection
its more like they make money off the interest they get by holding your down payment in the bank. thanks i'll wait for costco to get the jumbo discount pack for $400 and walk out with it the same day. maybe even two and sell one on ebay. $ching$
i always use the konami code to find out who had friends when they were a kid. i personally say "up up down down left right left right B A select start" only because everytime i played contra it would be with my friends. i have noticed a few others do the same thing.
and your solution for high speed internet? i'm sorry but last i checked the only 5mbit+ connectivity to my house is monopolized by my cable co. (no fios yet). in fact when i lived in my last apartment, comcast laughed at me when i threatened to find another tv provider (couldn't use a satellite dish in that apt)
I have theoretical knowledge that could be used for nefarious purposes in practice quite easily, but my ethics standards prevent me from doing anything stupid. Besides, it is more fun to be paid to catch blackhats who are unfortunate enough to wonder into my domain.
erm. what's stopping you from doing it? They may have nefarious uses in nature, but they also have some wildly fun practical applications. My favorite is an app I wrote recently that will randomly take all the letters in the current Word or notepad window and make them start dancing around the screen. The faces of my victims are priceless. Its even better when their computer gets "hacked" and I never touched it (USB drive social engineering anyone?:). Or taking over an array of computers to play a sound chopped into 100ms blocks (i miss sun boxes coming with built in audio).
I wouldn't take these apps to work, nor would I broadcast my knowledge to potential clients*.. I would just say I have extensive knowledge of black hat techniques. If they ask, I tell them I used to do "security consultation for companies" in the pre-dotcom days. I never get questioned beyond that.;)
Why? It all started Some 13+ years ago, I wrote a "virus" that prenteded to erase my mom's computer. She was extremely upset at the thought of losing all of her data, but being able to turn her anger into racuous laughter was priceless.
* - there are better ways to do this without painting a picture of distrust around you. For instance, I walked into my last job interview and wrote a sendmail ruleset to block an annoying spam problem my interviewer had almost entirely from the top of my head. At 22 it landed me a project management position.. i don't think i would have made it if i said (and/or demonstrated) "i can write a near undetectable rootkit":-)
you have a radio with a poorly shielded antenna connection. my stock radio used to get decent reception (i live in a major metropolitan area) until i switched to an aftermarket stereo. now i get crappy reception whereever i am (tested in different areas). so my fm transmitter which i thought was the best thing since sliced bread is now garbage.
my next move? wire in a new connection directly to my amp to play my mp3 player. as long as the amp doesn't send 200+ watts to my mp3 player, we should be okay
as someone who went to UNI for a longer time and hated every second of it, i feel as though i made better connections when i reached the real world. as wild as it sounds, drinking in a major city is enough to make those better connections you speak of. at least for my occupation and as far as the goals for my company are concerned, i have met more people in the last 8 months that helped advance my company compared to the 6 years i spent in college.
Did you even do a FUCKING SEARCH on google? Threadmaster can throttle your cpu usage. Linux equivalant. Solaris can throttle cpu usage in zones. His complaint could be answered by a simple google search. He is just finding excuses...
i didn't own a car for the last 8 months and live in a major metropolitan area. it takes an hour to take a bus or train to the nearest bestbuy. there is no way to reach a target or walmart except for a taxi for the last 1/2 mile stretch. time is money, it got to the point where i didn't go anywhere but to work and ordered everything online. mass transit is seriously crippled in the us that it's only practical to use for work*
if you don't believe me, try not using your car for a week.
I picked Red Stripe last time I was in the supermarket. I'm pretty sure some beer connoisseur can ream me for all the reasons why I shouldn't have bought it... but the commercial was funny. I can see a student debating between an Apple and a Dell pick the Mac because of a commercial.
and how exactly do you delete your spam? if you say you never left click it and then click the DELETE/ERASE/MARK AS SPAM button, then i will call you a damn lier. the I *HEART* YOU virus was a special one in the fact that it hijacked outlook as soon as it showed up in your preview pane. when the office secretary saw the mail, she probably said "hmm junk, i'm going to delete it". clicked it, anticipating the erase button as her next move only to find her computer hijacked. you can blame them for using outlook or maybe not patching their computer right away.. but putting the blame on the user when its out of their control is just as dumb. maybe we'll find a virus that can hijack windows before it fully boots, then all those idiots out there......oh wait, one already exists.
shadow copies have been around for a year and a half now. if you ever worked in a business that implemented them, you would be in love. it is tracked by date, so you pick the point in time you want to go back to (ala system restore, which is another blessing for lusers) and access them like a normal folder in explorer. the oldest files get erased first when you run low on space, so it is completely transparent. and this crazy performance impact you talk about is ntfs defragging itself, hardly an impact for a modern computer..
as a previous commenter pointed out, systems are powerful enough to enable this stuff on a default install. if you don't like it, turn it off. doesn't that make more sense for the 60+% of the computer illiterate users out there?
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2) i beg your pardon? so you're saying a fake copy of a boarding pass is illegal? even if i have no plans to fly or enter an airport ever again? take a step back and think of the absurdity of that statement.
at the least it means a cop can walk up to anyone and demand ID, then search them in the interest of national securty, find an "illegal boarding pass", and finally detain them in a secret prison while they figure out whats going on. sounds great right?
what happens if that person is you? congratulations, we have just made every potential united states citizen a terrorist. do you feel safer now than you did before 9/11?
it was pre-9/11, but 9/11 introduced a few phantom billions of dollars for spending so there is an air marshall on practically every flight now
and what about the check-in bomb luggage of Susan E. Terrorist? xrays mean shit. not being able to take a lighter on the plane means shit. 150 people sitting in their seats like zombies, since 90% of their carry on luggage is now an additional check-in bag, staring straight ahead thinking they're safe is NOT my idea of travel. i can still pay cash and ride a train without being hassled for id, but i have to worry about "legal" random bag searches. invasion of privacy enough to limit my method of travel? yep. fuck america, i'm out of here within the next 5 years.
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Yeah.. seriously.. that's a urban myth [wired.com].
i would like to point out it was a statement that was made by someone. and you prove that the mentality exists.
False. That was spread by certain parties within Sega who had a vested interest in boosting their own SDK. There was some overhead in running an OS versus writing to the bare metal, as Sega's SDK did, but even then, the WinCE SDK came out ahead in certain respects.
it was more because it was not easy to port games written on wince/directx to the playstation or n64.
I mean srsly
go use Mac OS X then.
yea thats right, i took the bait.
i'm going to let you in on the biggest reason why OSS will fail at revolutionizing the desktop.
lack of Quality Assurance.
I mean seriously, Fedora, Ubuntu, et al don't even come CLOSE in terms of usability compared to Windows. Mac OS X does. BeOS did. Linux still is and always will be a hobbyist OS. I happened to find out today that the SCTP vulnerability in the linux kernel (back in 2.6.14 days) exists because of lack of standard checks in the kernel that were outlined in the draft proposal (read: lazy developer let things slide because of the 640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody mentality).. I mean seriously.. if you fail to see that problem then you're also going to fail to see why X is the worst idea for a desktop environment (hint: BeOS, heck even SkyOS and AtheOS/syllable have tight windowing systems.. why are we still pushing X?)
if only i had money to quit my job.. i'd help the oss world in ways never seen before (thats not a promise, thats a threat)
I recently built my own machine... 2G memory, .5TB (2 SATA drives), 3.06Ghz dual core... all very cool. I spent almost 2 weeks getting Ubuntu installed and working properly (for what reason would an OS not come with generic video drivers?). The sound was a nightmare to get running, don't get me started on my unsupported video capture card. Fortunately (I guess), a lot of the drivers came with the linux kernel (as one might expect), but the installation and configuration was amazingly tedious, and error prone.
I'm convinced one part of the horrible nature is that even today it seems that EVERY driver, EVERY re-configuration demanded intimate knowledge of my hardware though in my wildest imagination, I couldn't think of a rationale -- this continuity interruptus makes for a tedious, drawn out, error-sprinkled, bad-taste-in-the-mouth experience.
I finally shook out all of the bugs (oh, yeah, about 100MB+ of software updates -- the original was from earlier this year, go figure), got a SCREAMING machine, absolutely delighted with the configuration and performance (although my 3d benchmark isn't as high as windows).
Now, to be on-topic, I can't begin to imagine these upgrades will be problem free, I can't even think they'd be problem-sparse. It's non-trivial work installing from scratch, much less considering layering something as big as GLXserver over an existing Xorg installation. I wouldn't want to do it. I've read enough reviews from people with bollixed machines (granted, they were working with CVS releases) -- there will be a LOT of people out there who've committed too much data and personal work (blood, sweat and tears) on their new Linux machines -- and they're going to lose data (ReiserFS anyone?).
It's interesting to note the article doesn't recommends upgrading to a newer version of Ubuntu by doing a clean install. That's not really upgrading Ubuntu, that's installing Ubuntu. How many people will not have had their data backed up properly ahead of this? How many will be left with applications that ran on a previous kernel that won't run on the current kernel?
The article is probably wrong, this is GNU's olive branch to... well... no one really... who had hoped to roll out the new machines with brand spanking new Linux distro already installed. It's a PR debacle and nightmare in the making. Fortunately for Linux, that would be mostly irrelevant.
(To contrast, on same machine described above, I took the new Vista release candidate, booted up, installed and got completely running, all sound and video working perfectly -- in less than 2 hours!
Funny, for my life I could not find a satisfactory solution (or even find a google solution) to get Grub configured properly to reference Vista... Finally gave up, and let the new Vista boot loader handle it, the configuration was painless and flawless. Go figure.)
Feel free to replace with with Mac OS X, FreeBSD, BeOS, any other Linux distro, etc. Just because you fail at life (i mean really, who has issues with a windows installation on stable hardware....) doesn't mean you need to act like a hobbyist OS is the holy grail. Oh yea, Syllable 4 Life!!!</sarcasm>
please note it was a contract manufacturer. which means apple probably didn't regularly (if they even did) audit them. which means this COULD have been deliberate along with the possible theory of a random infection
its more like they make money off the interest they get by holding your down payment in the bank. thanks i'll wait for costco to get the jumbo discount pack for $400 and walk out with it the same day. maybe even two and sell one on ebay. $ching$
Poor moderators don't get the Harrison Ford, Fugative reference :(
But considering half of slashdot is under the age of 17, I'm not surprised. Anyway, I would have marked you funny
i always use the konami code to find out who had friends when they were a kid. i personally say "up up down down left right left right B A select start" only because everytime i played contra it would be with my friends. i have noticed a few others do the same thing.
and your solution for high speed internet? i'm sorry but last i checked the only 5mbit+ connectivity to my house is monopolized by my cable co. (no fios yet). in fact when i lived in my last apartment, comcast laughed at me when i threatened to find another tv provider (couldn't use a satellite dish in that apt)
I have theoretical knowledge that could be used for nefarious purposes in practice quite easily, but my ethics standards prevent me from doing anything stupid. Besides, it is more fun to be paid to catch blackhats who are unfortunate enough to wonder into my domain.
:). Or taking over an array of computers to play a sound chopped into 100ms blocks (i miss sun boxes coming with built in audio).
;)
:-)
erm. what's stopping you from doing it? They may have nefarious uses in nature, but they also have some wildly fun practical applications. My favorite is an app I wrote recently that will randomly take all the letters in the current Word or notepad window and make them start dancing around the screen. The faces of my victims are priceless. Its even better when their computer gets "hacked" and I never touched it (USB drive social engineering anyone?
I wouldn't take these apps to work, nor would I broadcast my knowledge to potential clients*.. I would just say I have extensive knowledge of black hat techniques. If they ask, I tell them I used to do "security consultation for companies" in the pre-dotcom days. I never get questioned beyond that.
Why?
It all started Some 13+ years ago, I wrote a "virus" that prenteded to erase my mom's computer. She was extremely upset at the thought of losing all of her data, but being able to turn her anger into racuous laughter was priceless.
* - there are better ways to do this without painting a picture of distrust around you. For instance, I walked into my last job interview and wrote a sendmail ruleset to block an annoying spam problem my interviewer had almost entirely from the top of my head. At 22 it landed me a project management position.. i don't think i would have made it if i said (and/or demonstrated) "i can write a near undetectable rootkit"
you have a radio with a poorly shielded antenna connection. my stock radio used to get decent reception (i live in a major metropolitan area) until i switched to an aftermarket stereo. now i get crappy reception whereever i am (tested in different areas). so my fm transmitter which i thought was the best thing since sliced bread is now garbage.
my next move? wire in a new connection directly to my amp to play my mp3 player. as long as the amp doesn't send 200+ watts to my mp3 player, we should be okay
as someone who went to UNI for a longer time and hated every second of it, i feel as though i made better connections when i reached the real world. as wild as it sounds, drinking in a major city is enough to make those better connections you speak of. at least for my occupation and as far as the goals for my company are concerned, i have met more people in the last 8 months that helped advance my company compared to the 6 years i spent in college.
i believe they have already factored that into the equation
Did you even do a FUCKING SEARCH on google? Threadmaster can throttle your cpu usage. Linux equivalant. Solaris can throttle cpu usage in zones. His complaint could be answered by a simple google search. He is just finding excuses...
i didn't own a car for the last 8 months and live in a major metropolitan area. it takes an hour to take a bus or train to the nearest bestbuy. there is no way to reach a target or walmart except for a taxi for the last 1/2 mile stretch. time is money, it got to the point where i didn't go anywhere but to work and ordered everything online. mass transit is seriously crippled in the us that it's only practical to use for work*
if you don't believe me, try not using your car for a week.
* nyc and possibly chicago excluded
what the fuck?
BOO CREEPY FOOT DOCTOR.
HORRAY BEER.
I picked Red Stripe last time I was in the supermarket. I'm pretty sure some beer connoisseur can ream me for all the reasons why I shouldn't have bought it... but the commercial was funny. I can see a student debating between an Apple and a Dell pick the Mac because of a commercial.
Ads sell.
and how exactly do you delete your spam? if you say you never left click it and then click the DELETE/ERASE/MARK AS SPAM button, then i will call you a damn lier. the I *HEART* YOU virus was a special one in the fact that it hijacked outlook as soon as it showed up in your preview pane. when the office secretary saw the mail, she probably said "hmm junk, i'm going to delete it". clicked it, anticipating the erase button as her next move only to find her computer hijacked. you can blame them for using outlook or maybe not patching their computer right away.. but putting the blame on the user when its out of their control is just as dumb. maybe we'll find a virus that can hijack windows before it fully boots, then all those idiots out there......oh wait, one already exists.
sprint != nextel.
sprint ~ 1.8ghz
nextel ~ 800mhz
sprint > *
shadow copies have been around for a year and a half now. if you ever worked in a business that implemented them, you would be in love. it is tracked by date, so you pick the point in time you want to go back to (ala system restore, which is another blessing for lusers) and access them like a normal folder in explorer. the oldest files get erased first when you run low on space, so it is completely transparent. and this crazy performance impact you talk about is ntfs defragging itself, hardly an impact for a modern computer..
as a previous commenter pointed out, systems are powerful enough to enable this stuff on a default install. if you don't like it, turn it off. doesn't that make more sense for the 60+% of the computer illiterate users out there?