And has driving really got any more complicted than in 1953?
OK, there may be some genuine safety advances that make the car more complicated, for example and air-conditioning system will help keep the windscreen from fogging up. But what functions do you need to drive a car safely?
BMW et al. can make running the stereo and other non-essential features as interesting as they want, so long as they don't mix them up with essential functions. People who get used to a particular UI aren't going to be the only people driving this car. Nor do we particlarly need a situation where you need a certification in a particular model of car before you can drive it safely.
How will the avoid diluting the quality of the data?
It would be possible to create interesting correlations by registering the same bogus name across multiple sites, this would be reflected automatically if you generated random details from a set of common tables. I can see Nadine doing a lot of shopping.
I can't, that was the first bogus entry I added to my Squid/DNS.:o)
If this thing flies, we'll have to populate participant's DBs with spurious and junk data. Just like how I subscribed several pets to Reader's Digest junkmail.
We used to have lovely Sun 20" monitors, and as good as they were, they do start to fade after 6 years.
Plus I do like having brand-name hardware on lease, all of it is under 3-year warranty so if it ever dies, it just gets sent back. There's a lot of attraction to PHBs in having that kind of predictable hardware cost rather than episodic bouts of upgrades, "If we spend Y dollars per person per year, everyone will always have a current model PC that is under warranty on their desk".
Just when my friends got the hang of GUI, Emacs has this thing where you can get your computer to do stuff without ever taking your hands from the keyboard!. What's the bet M$ will make an inferior copy and palm it off as their own? I have heard they have a clone app called "edlin".
24 bit true colour is 24 bits per pixel, viz 8 bits per channel (RGB). While extra depth on top of this can be used for doing things like alpha channels, IMHO, there's not much need for even more colour depth. I wish I had the notes from my first year remote sensing, but I recall that 24bpp is pretty close to what the human eye can discriminate anyway. We haven't received an office PC at work these last 3-4 years that *hasn't* had a pretty good 24bpp 2D card (certainly not an issue when we buy the most crummy monitors we can get away with).
The only reason I can think of having more channels is so that the windowing can be done on the video card, complete with lots of translucent overlays. Sheesh... as if tasteful textured pastel email stationery in Outhouse wasn't bad enough... roll on the floral decoupage desktop.
We had a room full of tech-books that had accumilated since before I started. When the PHBs would have dumped the whole lot in a skip, I spent the better part of a week sorting through that lot, Addison-Wesley X11 reference, Adobe Postscript reference, C, Fortran, a complete set of A/UX manuals, etc. etc. etc. No-one in the organisation even knew they existed anymore. Being able to zap the barcodes through a reader and generate a catalogue on our intranet would be cool, there are another three depertments that have similar geek rooms that are always one zealous PHB away from the dumpster.
Hmmm... I am sure there must be ISBN search facilities I can screen-scrape.... Coworker types ISBN of their newly received book into a front end and voila! I can grep for it.
Over here in Australia, you must pay a licence fee to APRA if you have a radio playing in your store.
The list of conditions is pretty exhaustive, I half expect to see a fee schedule for "humming tune whilst walking down public street" or, "singing whilst engaged in aqueous hygene activities".
Users of intelligent cat doors are advised to place port negotiation into a manual mode after skrpt k1TTi3z have shown that malicious mouse objects can be instantiated inside your home perimeter by placing them inside a trusted feline packet and inducing an overflow condition once the trusted feline packet is inside your perimeter. The mouse object may be fragmented as mouse packet mangling is usually enabled by default.
It is recommended that vulnerable sites requiring Automated Feline Access Protocol institute Feline Packet Monitoring by using a set of scales to calculate mass checksums of all incoming and outgoing feline packets and to deny all incoming feline packets not initiated from within the home and to feline packets exhibiting significant mass checksum variation indicating the presence of an embedded mouse object.
As an added precaution, site implementing the shag-pile transport layer may wish to flush buffers of all incoming feline packets in a controlled environment such as the bathtub.
I recall how the Amiga IRC client, AmIRC would display bogus keys to everyone in a channel except the person using it. Always thought that was one of the more amusing/clever means of policing keys that I have seen.
Create your own (variously) broken keys and flood the market so that people will need to second guess any \/\/4R3z they find.
Yeah, it's different inside the box. But are they going to immediately make SMB incompatible with all their other products as well? Are they going to stop large corps installing this OS because they cannot afford to switch every desktop and/or server overnight just because MS have a cool idea?
OTOH, it will make building dual-boot machines even more fun, and you can be damn sure it will implement some form of copyright control.
Perhaps look at.NET to see how they intend exporting these filesystems around a network? Why export filesystems when they really want to export data sources?
That would be cool. Imagine the incentive to write dense, compact code becase you'll be charged by volume. Windows would be taxed like a Detroit gas guzzler and things like QNX would pay zot all.
The ship also has access to email (and consiquently attachments) at sea via Immersat satellite software + (uhh-ohh) Microsoft Outlook. If a member of the ships crew were to open an email attachment apparently from the office, which was in fact a virus, and the network security was not up to scratch, it may have the capacity to shut down not only the ships main course plotting software (sending them to backup paper charts), but to disturb the monitoring of oil/balast on & off the ship in the dock.
That would be bad design. Systems controlling critical functions should be physically secured and certainly not anywhere near *any* kind of wider network access, least of all Outlook.
It boils down to criteria listed in several posts here already. There's no point in having the best, most secure OS if you leave it with a floppy drive, unattended root logins, Outlook, NFS exports. Since PCs are so cheap, why risk so much to save maybe $2,000 per PC?
The work is still copyrighted by the owner. If GPL was invalidated, you would need to negotiate an agreement with the relevant owner(s) if you wanted to use it. With any amount of collaborative input ("we used the libraries from project X and the drivers from project Y which was derived from project Z") this would be a real minefield that could see you sued further down the track (ala GIF). In the meantime, a new GPL would be circulated and pretty much overnight, most people would be distributing under "son of GPL".
Me thinking out loud:
I think it would take a ruling that took copyright away from owners to compromise things. Imagine a "Fair and Reasonable Corporate Access to Copyrighted Materials" Act that watered down copright for individuals. Say under the excuse that copyright shouldn't be used to protect DCMA circumvention and such copyrights are therefore forfeit.
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"Well you see, *anyone* can drive on these street things! It's terrible! I left my front door wide open and some guy just walked on down the street into my lounge room and stole my VCR!
"So we have this great idea where we'll set up cops on the streets to look for people carrying VCRs. That'll stop anyone from being bad. If you want to walk on the street, you'll need a licence from us, but we'll do it cheaply..."
It'd be laughable except there are enough morons out there to believe that poor security in Outlook is somehow the fault of TCP/IP.
The article is pretty light on how they processed the data.
Blue Marble goes into the detail a bit more (and has a link to tech references, but it seems to be dead). It's a 1 km resolution image, and the funkiness is not the resolution, but the colour balancing and whatnot. You try taking a panorama with your camera and try getting the colours to match across photos for even just a few pictures.
A friend predicted that to more evenly balance the distribution of characters, they will fiddle the stats and the most popular character will be the Ewok, since they'll have unlimited capacity for Jedi power accumilation or something.
I have been playing with Mapserver and it really rocks for online stuff. It only recently went sort-of-production with 3.5, but with support for PostGIS and PHP, it is great. Having tried both, IMHO, it's far more accessible than ESRI's ArcIMS.
Prior arts ("ingeneous"=="patentable")
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It's a nifty app, but so many people have been doing so many similar apps for so long. Look at the Writing messages in empty space story that ran here just the other day, and think about piping the content of that through anything device that can determine it's location and access the data. As well as pubs, you could tell it to grep for coffee bars, service stations. You could also filter out records from organisations who you don't like:
SELECT coffee_shops FROM locations WHERE coffee_shop_owner!="Starbucks" AND radius(1,km);
People have been working on the infrastructure for this kind of stuff for ages. I'd hate to see it all patented by the first halfway competent company that manages to get a vaguely workable implementation.
How is it any different to a large DSL install base? You just need to make sure that whatever device people are using to connect themselves to this WAN does sane things like not spewing SMB out over the wire(less). Besides, you had exactly the same issues recently with enterprising geeks cruising around finding open 802.11 sites and that's hardly killed 802.11.
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OK, there may be some genuine safety advances that make the car more complicated, for example and air-conditioning system will help keep the windscreen from fogging up. But what functions do you need to drive a car safely?
BMW et al. can make running the stereo and other non-essential features as interesting as they want, so long as they don't mix them up with essential functions. People who get used to a particular UI aren't going to be the only people driving this car. Nor do we particlarly need a situation where you need a certification in a particular model of car before you can drive it safely.
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How will the avoid diluting the quality of the data?
It would be possible to create interesting correlations by registering the same bogus name across multiple sites, this would be reflected automatically if you generated random details from a set of common tables. I can see Nadine doing a lot of shopping.
The possibilities are boundless...
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I can't, that was the first bogus entry I added to my Squid/DNS.
If this thing flies, we'll have to populate participant's DBs with spurious and junk data. Just like how I subscribed several pets to Reader's Digest junkmail.
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We used to have lovely Sun 20" monitors, and as good as they were, they do start to fade after 6 years.
Plus I do like having brand-name hardware on lease, all of it is under 3-year warranty so if it ever dies, it just gets sent back. There's a lot of attraction to PHBs in having that kind of predictable hardware cost rather than episodic bouts of upgrades, "If we spend Y dollars per person per year, everyone will always have a current model PC that is under warranty on their desk".
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(awaiting domain name disputes)
Which gleplaxlor should your fazzweeger plonkspobble when divotting?
(o) Humungospleen 2000
( ) FDISK.EXE
( ) No, pick me! Yeah! Yeah! Me!!!!! I'm cool!!!!
( ) Mungemaster 8.1
Be warned that selecting the non-orthogonal option may result in wergle alignment conundrums!
Half a dozen relatives call me whenever this kind of stuff appears on their screen. The other half call me the next day to rebuild their box.
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24 bit true colour is 24 bits per pixel, viz 8 bits per channel (RGB). While extra depth on top of this can be used for doing things like alpha channels, IMHO, there's not much need for even more colour depth. I wish I had the notes from my first year remote sensing, but I recall that 24bpp is pretty close to what the human eye can discriminate anyway. We haven't received an office PC at work these last 3-4 years that *hasn't* had a pretty good 24bpp 2D card (certainly not an issue when we buy the most crummy monitors we can get away with).
The only reason I can think of having more channels is so that the windowing can be done on the video card, complete with lots of translucent overlays. Sheesh... as if tasteful textured pastel email stationery in Outhouse wasn't bad enough... roll on the floral decoupage desktop.
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We had a room full of tech-books that had accumilated since before I started. When the PHBs would have dumped the whole lot in a skip, I spent the better part of a week sorting through that lot, Addison-Wesley X11 reference, Adobe Postscript reference, C, Fortran, a complete set of A/UX manuals, etc. etc. etc. No-one in the organisation even knew they existed anymore. Being able to zap the barcodes through a reader and generate a catalogue on our intranet would be cool, there are another three depertments that have similar geek rooms that are always one zealous PHB away from the dumpster.
Hmmm... I am sure there must be ISBN search facilities I can screen-scrape.... Coworker types ISBN of their newly received book into a front end and voila! I can grep for it.
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Step three, vigorously prosecute anyone developing competing products that do not let you tax the proceeds.
The potential synergies of these power grabs are even more scarey than the grabs themselves.
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OK, this is a neat board, (10 EIDE devices and 6 USB!) but look at what the current Mac has had for a while:
2 x Firewire
4 x USB (2 on the keyboard)
4 x PCI
Modem
Gigabit Ether
Audio
Video
(Airport) (currently optional)
See ADB or DB25 SCSI anyywhere there?
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The list of conditions is pretty exhaustive, I half expect to see a fee schedule for "humming tune whilst walking down public street" or, "singing whilst engaged in aqueous hygene activities".
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Users of intelligent cat doors are advised to place port negotiation into a manual mode after skrpt k1TTi3z have shown that malicious mouse objects can be instantiated inside your home perimeter by placing them inside a trusted feline packet and inducing an overflow condition once the trusted feline packet is inside your perimeter. The mouse object may be fragmented as mouse packet mangling is usually enabled by default.
It is recommended that vulnerable sites requiring Automated Feline Access Protocol institute Feline Packet Monitoring by using a set of scales to calculate mass checksums of all incoming and outgoing feline packets and to deny all incoming feline packets not initiated from within the home and to feline packets exhibiting significant mass checksum variation indicating the presence of an embedded mouse object.
As an added precaution, site implementing the shag-pile transport layer may wish to flush buffers of all incoming feline packets in a controlled environment such as the bathtub.
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Create your own (variously) broken keys and flood the market so that people will need to second guess any \/\/4R3z they find.
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Yeah, it's different inside the box. But are they going to immediately make SMB incompatible with all their other products as well? Are they going to stop large corps installing this OS because they cannot afford to switch every desktop and/or server overnight just because MS have a cool idea?
.NET to see how they intend exporting these filesystems around a network? Why export filesystems when they really want to export data sources?
OTOH, it will make building dual-boot machines even more fun, and you can be damn sure it will implement some form of copyright control.
Perhaps look at
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That would be cool. Imagine the incentive to write dense, compact code becase you'll be charged by volume. Windows would be taxed like a Detroit gas guzzler and things like QNX would pay zot all.
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That would be bad design. Systems controlling critical functions should be physically secured and certainly not anywhere near *any* kind of wider network access, least of all Outlook.
It boils down to criteria listed in several posts here already. There's no point in having the best, most secure OS if you leave it with a floppy drive, unattended root logins, Outlook, NFS exports. Since PCs are so cheap, why risk so much to save maybe $2,000 per PC?
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Let's assume GPL is deemed invalid:
The work is still copyrighted by the owner. If GPL was invalidated, you would need to negotiate an agreement with the relevant owner(s) if you wanted to use it. With any amount of collaborative input ("we used the libraries from project X and the drivers from project Y which was derived from project Z") this would be a real minefield that could see you sued further down the track (ala GIF). In the meantime, a new GPL would be circulated and pretty much overnight, most people would be distributing under "son of GPL".
Me thinking out loud:
I think it would take a ruling that took copyright away from owners to compromise things. Imagine a "Fair and Reasonable Corporate Access to Copyrighted Materials" Act that watered down copright for individuals. Say under the excuse that copyright shouldn't be used to protect DCMA circumvention and such copyrights are therefore forfeit.
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"So we have this great idea where we'll set up cops on the streets to look for people carrying VCRs. That'll stop anyone from being bad. If you want to walk on the street, you'll need a licence from us, but we'll do it cheaply..."
It'd be laughable except there are enough morons out there to believe that poor security in Outlook is somehow the fault of TCP/IP.
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A friend predicted that to more evenly balance the distribution of characters, they will fiddle the stats and the most popular character will be the Ewok, since they'll have unlimited capacity for Jedi power accumilation or something.
Ecology can be tricky...
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I have been playing with Mapserver and it really rocks for online stuff. It only recently went sort-of-production with 3.5, but with support for PostGIS and PHP, it is great. Having tried both, IMHO, it's far more accessible than ESRI's ArcIMS.
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Yeah, but you sure don't want to know what you need to do to get the source code...
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...as The Extreme Ultraviolent Exploder
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SELECT coffee_shops FROM locations WHERE coffee_shop_owner!="Starbucks" AND radius(1,km);
People have been working on the infrastructure for this kind of stuff for ages. I'd hate to see it all patented by the first halfway competent company that manages to get a vaguely workable implementation.
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How is it any different to a large DSL install base? You just need to make sure that whatever device people are using to connect themselves to this WAN does sane things like not spewing SMB out over the wire(less). Besides, you had exactly the same issues recently with enterprising geeks cruising around finding open 802.11 sites and that's hardly killed 802.11.
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