The comments about the lack change to the PowerMac desktop line are spot on...Apple has a real problem here.
The iMac now has a G4 at comparable speeds, a Superdrive, more expandable RAM capability, and OH YEAH it comes with a 15" LCD display. The PowerMac has the same thing, for $600 more, and without the display (so throw in another $500 if you want to be able to actually see the output of your computer). It is more than just disappointing...it is totally illogical.
I will grant that the PowerMac is more expandable in terms of PCI slots, but...I can no longer think of a single good reason anyone would want to buy a PowerMac, which means unless Apple updates them before the iMacs ship in January, their high-end desktop sales are pretty much going down the crapper.
judging by the sheer number of replies this comment generated in all of 5 minutes, I'm starting to think maybe he's just baiting the unsuspecting/. crowd.
ya know, like poking a bee hive with a stick just to make them all fly around and get mad (or pedantic, as the case may be). it worked;)
because only sending the fix to MS really doesn't make it harder for people to do "bad things." it makes is neccessary for MS to fix the bug, and fix it DAMN fast. "full disclosure" as a philosophy and a practical method is the only real way to force a closed source behemoth like MS to really fix stuff. we can't do it for them, so we just have to COMPEL them to do it.
and, as it has been said before, there really just is no such thing as obscurity anyway. if the good guys have found the hole, you can bet the bad guys probably know also. they just didn't tell anybody.
the fundemental issue is trust--because we can't see their code, we don't know whether they took that exploit we so kindly mailed them and actually fixed it.
this seems like good news in general, but I also get the feelin a lot of work will be duplicated by the Winamp and XMMS people.
on the top of the poster's list was playlist controls. I totally agree, and I am shouting at whoever is listening...LOOK at iTunes!! anyone who has ever had the good fortune to use iTunes knows what I'm talking about. it is hands down the most powerful, flexible (and beautiful) music interface I have ever used, and I would pay money for it, without hesitation, should someone port a similar scheme to linux.
of course there probably isn't any way to prove that this was actually Fischer, but I for one belive Short, the man who claims to have played him, for one reason: whatever happpened during these game, he seems absolutely moved, as though the moves themselves had a power and grandeur that transcenced the game. I guess it could be fake, but he sounds like these games wanted to make him cry.
I wonder though if he wouldn't post the move lists the for games. that would tell us something.
as for your "Big Problem": my point was that MS has the clout to SOLVE this big problem. MS could single-handedly cause the entire MS-using world (which constitutes a sizable chunk of the REAL world) to swich to these devices. and I'm saying they would be doing us a favor, for once.
the cost and distribution problems solve themselves, because they're shipping millions of these things (did you, umm, read my actual post?). in such volume, the device wouldn't be any more expensive than the cardboard WinXP box it shipped in. then every user has one, voila.
now the getting stolen problem is a little thornier...but I think you answered it yourself. so you say when you lose a credit card you call the bank and have them send you a new one. but surely you have to answer a few questions to their satisfaction before they mail you a new card? credit cards companies have already invented the answers to all your questions, and tested them also. there are already working protocols in place to implement such a system.
you don't think we should be "too hasty to criticise a long-standing, tried and tested approach." when it simply doesn't work that well, why not? smartcards are an evolutionary extension to credit cards and phone cards, and would work much the same way. I'm still not sure why we're not doing it already.
thats just a jab at microsoft, and has nothing to do with the thrust of my post but...Do you want to give some examples (perhaps corresponding to mine) of exactly who they ripped off? it's not that I don't believe you, but I see too many angry and unsubstantiated posts on/.
this is such a classic microsoft-ism: thinking up a really good idea, and totally fucking up the implementation ([d]com, ole, activex, etc).
what I can't figure out is why this company, which is supposedly on the brink of launching this massive, multi-tiered platform that is.NET has shackled it to possibly the worst authentication possible.
I mean, come on, the username/password combo was maybe reasonable in the days when everyone had exactly one shell account. but today when everyone is expected to remember a user/pass combo for every one of a dozen or so websites they want to log into, the weakness of this paradigm has hit pretty hard. simply put: people can't remember them all, which means they either write them down lots of places (prett damn insecure) or use the same username/password for each account (even worse).
and MS has made THIS the lynchpin of their security model?
why couldn't MS use some of their much vaunted "monopoly power" to "leverage" an authentication system that actually matched the sophistication of the rest of.NET?
my suggestion: the medium which most people are accustomed to carrying that is intimately tied to their financial and personal data is the credit card. my MS "Passport" could be a physical smartcard that held authentication data, encryption keys...hell, anything. each copy of XP (and each bundled OEM copy) would include a small USB device that could read this card, maybe that was designed to mount onto the side of the monitor so it would stay out of the way.
YES this would be a major move, and it would stir things up a little. but when it is clearly called for, WHY NOT? people would just carry another little card in their wallet, the reader device would be small and dirt cheap (in that volume, most anything is) and in a year we would forget what we did without them. we have calling cards, and credit cards,and ATM cards...where is my computer card?
in any case, tying their much-heralded.NET platform to the username/password "security system" is about as intelligent as locking your car with duct tape, and will probably be about as effective.
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it is probably wisest to wait and see, of course, but you shouldn't have any trouble running 10.1 on a G3. right now 10.0.4's interface is equally slow on my G3 and my friends G4, and reports are that 10.1 is wickedly faster on all machines. Apple has been speeding up the code itself, and adding hardware video acceleration support, not just moving stuff to AltiVec (which is what could give the G4 its advantage).
ok, so I read through your post and thought is was kinda interesting.
then I got to the last paragraph, about people hacking the server, and I just had to stop in wonder and think: it's a mighty strange world where "yahoos" can remotely freak out your dog via http. strange, man.
yeah, the would be Gnome you where thinking of (as compiled under the FINK project). and of course you need to run it under XFree, it doesn't run directly under Quartz/Aqua. but FINK has been moving along pretty well, so KDA may not be that far away...
Well, I'd say they shot themselves in the foot with their choice of subjects. They specify that "Customer shall not...connect blah blah blah" and all that, but in a wireless environment, of course, the customer does not "connect" the cable modem to anything, other people walk up and connect (wirelessly) to the cable modem. and THEY never agreed to the TOS, so that's that.
glibness aside, however, I feel certain that once this starts to gain any steam (as it would have to, to be useful), the ISPs involved will react pretty strongly. and, really, I can see their point--as one poster pointed out, it's very similar to splicing cable lines, and giving all your neighbors cable "for free." it doesn't make you an all around nice guy, rather a theif.
and, I can't wait until NYU finds out that THEY are in fact serving as an ISP for this network. I somehow doubt they will be amused.
two other posters have already supplied a definition for you, so I won't bother.
but, in general, when the digerati start springing jargon on me, I visit www.everything2.com and just type it in. now you can laugh and revel in your 3733t-ness;)
> the more entrenched the Microsoft/Windows mindset becomes in the minds of Corporate America
yeah, until it doesn't anymore. by which I mean that we will not use Windows indefinitely. every product, however entrenched, has its eventual (and inevitable) decline, and the example is every product there ever was. the word "Windows" will someday be mentioned in the same way that "Atari" is today. and, while I don't think Linux can usurp MS, I do think it will be in an excellent postion to fill the vacuum that must someday be created when Windows eventually dies.
am I the only one that read the summary and just kind of blinked? then I visited the webpage and I still don't really know wtf is going on.
I caught the "hivemind" bit, though, and immediately thought of Ender's Game and the hive queen and the father trees, and Jane dancing through philotic webs.
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The comments about the lack change to the PowerMac desktop line are spot on...Apple has a real problem here.
The iMac now has a G4 at comparable speeds, a Superdrive, more expandable RAM capability, and OH YEAH it comes with a 15" LCD display. The PowerMac has the same thing, for $600 more, and without the display (so throw in another $500 if you want to be able to actually see the output of your computer). It is more than just disappointing...it is totally illogical.
I will grant that the PowerMac is more expandable in terms of PCI slots, but...I can no longer think of a single good reason anyone would want to buy a PowerMac, which means unless Apple updates them before the iMacs ship in January, their high-end desktop sales are pretty much going down the crapper.
sean
can you even charge someone with breaking and entering if your house doesn't actually have a DOOR?
I second the motion to name this the "dumbass worm"
judging by the sheer number of replies this comment generated in all of 5 minutes, I'm starting to think maybe he's just baiting the unsuspecting
ya know, like poking a bee hive with a stick just to make them all fly around and get mad (or pedantic, as the case may be). it worked
cheers,
sean
because only sending the fix to MS really doesn't make it harder for people to do "bad things." it makes is neccessary for MS to fix the bug, and fix it DAMN fast. "full disclosure" as a philosophy and a practical method is the only real way to force a closed source behemoth like MS to really fix stuff. we can't do it for them, so we just have to COMPEL them to do it.
and, as it has been said before, there really just is no such thing as obscurity anyway. if the good guys have found the hole, you can bet the bad guys probably know also. they just didn't tell anybody.
the fundemental issue is trust--because we can't see their code, we don't know whether they took that exploit we so kindly mailed them and actually fixed it.
sean
this seems like good news in general, but I also get the feelin a lot of work will be duplicated by the Winamp and XMMS people.
on the top of the poster's list was playlist controls. I totally agree, and I am shouting at whoever is listening...LOOK at iTunes!! anyone who has ever had the good fortune to use iTunes knows what I'm talking about. it is hands down the most powerful, flexible (and beautiful) music interface I have ever used, and I would pay money for it, without hesitation, should someone port a similar scheme to linux.
regards,
sean
yah yah your comment is very beautiful and special. now stop being so damn excited or I'll mod you down to (-1, Noisy).
of course there probably isn't any way to prove that this was actually Fischer, but I for one belive Short, the man who claims to have played him, for one reason: whatever happpened during these game, he seems absolutely moved, as though the moves themselves had a power and grandeur that transcenced the game. I guess it could be fake, but he sounds like these games wanted to make him cry.
I wonder though if he wouldn't post the move lists the for games. that would tell us something.
sean
as for your "Big Problem": my point was that MS has the clout to SOLVE this big problem. MS could single-handedly cause the entire MS-using world (which constitutes a sizable chunk of the REAL world) to swich to these devices. and I'm saying they would be doing us a favor, for once.
the cost and distribution problems solve themselves, because they're shipping millions of these things (did you, umm, read my actual post?). in such volume, the device wouldn't be any more expensive than the cardboard WinXP box it shipped in. then every user has one, voila.
now the getting stolen problem is a little thornier...but I think you answered it yourself. so you say when you lose a credit card you call the bank and have them send you a new one. but surely you have to answer a few questions to their satisfaction before they mail you a new card? credit cards companies have already invented the answers to all your questions, and tested them also. there are already working protocols in place to implement such a system.
you don't think we should be "too hasty to criticise a long-standing, tried and tested approach." when it simply doesn't work that well, why not? smartcards are an evolutionary extension to credit cards and phone cards, and would work much the same way. I'm still not sure why we're not doing it already.
sean
thats just a jab at microsoft, and has nothing to do with the thrust of my post but...Do you want to give some examples (perhaps corresponding to mine) of exactly who they ripped off? it's not that I don't believe you, but I see too many angry and unsubstantiated posts on /.
this is such a classic microsoft-ism: thinking up a really good idea, and totally fucking up the implementation ([d]com, ole, activex, etc).
.NET has shackled it to possibly the worst authentication possible.
.NET?
.NET platform to the username/password "security system" is about as intelligent as locking your car with duct tape, and will probably be about as effective.
what I can't figure out is why this company, which is supposedly on the brink of launching this massive, multi-tiered platform that is
I mean, come on, the username/password combo was maybe reasonable in the days when everyone had exactly one shell account. but today when everyone is expected to remember a user/pass combo for every one of a dozen or so websites they want to log into, the weakness of this paradigm has hit pretty hard. simply put: people can't remember them all, which means they either write them down lots of places (prett damn insecure) or use the same username/password for each account (even worse).
and MS has made THIS the lynchpin of their security model?
why couldn't MS use some of their much vaunted "monopoly power" to "leverage" an authentication system that actually matched the sophistication of the rest of
my suggestion: the medium which most people are accustomed to carrying that is intimately tied to their financial and personal data is the credit card. my MS "Passport" could be a physical smartcard that held authentication data, encryption keys...hell, anything. each copy of XP (and each bundled OEM copy) would include a small USB device that could read this card, maybe that was designed to mount onto the side of the monitor so it would stay out of the way.
YES this would be a major move, and it would stir things up a little. but when it is clearly called for, WHY NOT? people would just carry another little card in their wallet, the reader device would be small and dirt cheap (in that volume, most anything is) and in a year we would forget what we did without them. we have calling cards, and credit cards,and ATM cards...where is my computer card?
in any case, tying their much-heralded
it is probably wisest to wait and see, of course, but you shouldn't have any trouble running 10.1 on a G3. right now 10.0.4's interface is equally slow on my G3 and my friends G4, and reports are that 10.1 is wickedly faster on all machines. Apple has been speeding up the code itself, and adding hardware video acceleration support, not just moving stuff to AltiVec (which is what could give the G4 its advantage).
sean
ok, so I read through your post and thought is was kinda interesting.
then I got to the last paragraph, about people hacking the server, and I just had to stop in wonder and think: it's a mighty strange world where "yahoos" can remotely freak out your dog via http. strange, man.
sean
yeah, the would be Gnome you where thinking of (as compiled under the FINK project). and of course you need to run it under XFree, it doesn't run directly under Quartz/Aqua. but FINK has been moving along pretty well, so KDA may not be that far away...
sean
Well, I'd say they shot themselves in the foot with their choice of subjects. They specify that "Customer shall not...connect blah blah blah" and all that, but in a wireless environment, of course, the customer does not "connect" the cable modem to anything, other people walk up and connect (wirelessly) to the cable modem. and THEY never agreed to the TOS, so that's that.
glibness aside, however, I feel certain that once this starts to gain any steam (as it would have to, to be useful), the ISPs involved will react pretty strongly. and, really, I can see their point--as one poster pointed out, it's very similar to splicing cable lines, and giving all your neighbors cable "for free." it doesn't make you an all around nice guy, rather a theif.
and, I can't wait until NYU finds out that THEY are in fact serving as an ISP for this network. I somehow doubt they will be amused.
sean
two other posters have already supplied a definition for you, so I won't bother.
;)
but, in general, when the digerati start springing jargon on me, I visit www.everything2.com and just type it in. now you can laugh and revel in your 3733t-ness
regards,
sean
honorary (+1, funny)
sad? yes, I would say, sad that you seem to have married the wrong woman.
anyone with deltron in their sig is automatically cool
sean
> the more entrenched the Microsoft/Windows mindset becomes in the minds of Corporate America
yeah, until it doesn't anymore. by which I mean that we will not use Windows indefinitely. every product, however entrenched, has its eventual (and inevitable) decline, and the example is every product there ever was. the word "Windows" will someday be mentioned in the same way that "Atari" is today. and, while I don't think Linux can usurp MS, I do think it will be in an excellent postion to fill the vacuum that must someday be created when Windows eventually dies.
sean
of COURSE it runs NetBSD!!
(sorry, obligitory
sean
this will be PERFECT for windows users, as they're barely a step up from hamsters anyway. oh wait, what kind of wheel?
am I the only one that read the summary and just kind of blinked? then I visited the webpage and I still don't really know wtf is going on.
I caught the "hivemind" bit, though, and immediately thought of Ender's Game and the hive queen and the father trees, and Jane dancing through philotic webs.
just a pleasant little free association...
sean
(go ahead, mod me offtopic, I can afford it)
You claim it's intuitive? All I have to say is that in order to SHUTDOWN the computer I click on the START menu. um, hello?
sean