I hope people will stop doing that (VNC remotes), as a contractor I have seen VNC installed "in the wild" 4 times. In all 4 cases they used a common password corporation wide. This password was stored weakly encrypted on the individual machines in registry, trivial to decrypt. At that point, it is just a matter of searching the network for the most important sounding user "Bob (CEO) Laptop" -- connect to it, watch 'em work for a minute, then open notepad and write "Can you call me at extension X, Thanks!"
Taking an award for a program that is about to die in public is bad form.
“It’s almost a theater of the absurd to have an award on transparency that isn’t transparent,” Gary Bass, founder of OMB Watch, and one of five groups that met with the president, told The Washington Post. “The irony is that everything the president said was spot-on. I wish people had heard what he had to say.”
How could I possibly "prove" that 'ghosts' don't exist to you, give me some scientific way to "prove" that 'ghosts' don't exist, and I will do my best.
It is nearly impossible for me to disprove make believe notions that exist only in the confines of your skull. If you thought that invisible undetectable purple elephants dance on every strand of hair on your head, this would also be very hard for me to disprove.
The weight of proof should rest on those making extraordinary claims, claiming there are invisible non-corporal humans running around is an extraordinary claim.
I don't see how playing into your families delusions helps them or you? Why not hunt for the Easter Bunny with them, or Santa... or setup a trap for the tooth fairy.
It seems like a bluff to me... the reason I think it is a bluff is simple, he oversold. Think about it, massive punishment on one side, and a 4 hour course and no permanent record on the other. No one who actually knows anything would offer such a deal. I am guessing that the statistical variances were there, but as anyone knows, variance isn't proof. This was a bluff, I am guessing the reason they sold is so big and so easy is they want the data. They have these statistical variances, and being able to get a more clear picture of with knowing exactly who cheated... and possibly might even get some ways to "get up the food chain" to the original people involved in getting the test data.
If this was a poker game, and I had money to win, I would go all in on such an obviously weak position... but as there is no money, and no upside at all for the students to "call his bluff", it will work.
#1. Some of the data was deleted (obviously, it has been mentioned many times).
#2. Some of the data was contractually banned from being shared (the Met is working on getting this fixed, sent requests to 180 counties).
Secret and deleted data is NOT a good basis for anything, and the Met agrees, and wants to redo it transparently over the next three years.
I hope the Met gets permission to do that, I would love some really transparent / open process work around this.
I was shocked when I found out that stuff based on "secret" or unpublishable data, or deleted data was allowed to be written up in a peer reviewed journal. How the hell do you review something you can't see the data to?
While this is a 'pressing' issue in the west, and they there is a strong bias for action, screwing it up and having bad science will have a huge impact on how it is viewed by India and China in the future... it is worth doing it all in a hyper-transparent and straightforward way.
FauxPasIII... once again, you prove how much closer the green movement is to religion than to science.
You basically have paraphrased "Pascal's Wager". Which is basically "If you believe in God and are wrong, you loose nothing (and maybe gain some things) -- but if you DO NOT believe in God and are incorrect, fire and pain, etc... Therefore being an atheist is illogical".
If you replace "God" with "Global Warming" and "atheist" with "global warming doubter"... got got your argument.
There are a couple reasons why Pascal's Wager (and by extension your argument) is incorrect. Let me answer your questions...
"if we follow the consensus and it turns out they're wrong, the consequences of that are what?" - The lack of study on real issues, the lack of honest and directness can decay science as a whole. We could have global cooling, or some other major issue going on -- that we choose to overlook because of our obsession with follow a consensus rather than fact. I believe there are many dangers in this.
"We've dramatically cleaned up our environment," - Possible a real benefit
" achieved energy independence," - Maybe, with a massive investment in nuclear power, but I think if you look at the fundamentals of most of the other energy streams, you will be sadly disappointed. Look into how much energy it takes to MAKE a solar cell, look at how much energy it takes to TRANSMIT wind power... etc, etc.
"freed ourselves from the political constraints of fossil fuels" - I assume this is a reference to 'no blood for oil' and similar chants. I will just gloss over it, as it is more politics.
"and massively bolstered our economy with a whole new class of green businesses." - This isn't a fact, it isn't even a logical follow-on, this is hope. You "hope" a green economy will explode creating new jobs. Read some of the old clippings about nuclear power and you will do the time warp again! My point is, this is blind hope / faith -- like believing in a fancy place in the clouds waiting for you... it isn't based on any facts.
"Explain again why you're so against this?" - Because, I want science to be driven by truth... even when that truth is unpopular, even when that truth is frustrating, even when that truth goes AGAINST political causes. I want science to be unburdened by such things.
Great Point. Would a 30 day "pay wait" give you time to get the charge back and kick it back to CJ (or whoever) before they actually dole out payments to the 3rd party?
The problem isn't the legit farming -- it is the botting & selling. As blizzards TOS doesn't allow botting, and doesn't allow exchanging in game items/money for real world items/money. Period.
They can personally farm all day long -- it is when they cheat or go on ebay to sell it that they get in trouble.
As a "legal representative" -- you serve your client. While SPI may have preferred to be in the loop sooner, they can't "expect" or "demand" it. They are supposed to assist Debian. If Debian (as a body) chooses not to seek assistance / advice -- so be it!
The intelligence of the decision made by the Project Lead (Anthony Towns) is debatable. His control should not be -- and I think the primary point of his response was to clear up any "confusion" about SPI's power/control. When you are forced to have constant interaction with a group of lawyers *shiver*, I think a hard slap in the face is often needed to stop them from naturally trying to move more and more decision into the "legal domain" where they can apply pressure/control.
Honestly, this doesn't seem terribly dramatic to me, it just a gentle reminder to people that he is the decision maker, and SPI is replaceable. Hopefully, SPI will work in a more supportive, as compared to combative roll in the future, as they should be.
Finally, a good wiki, before the release of this, I couldn't find a wiki if I wanted one *sigh*. MS needs to just buckle down on getting the little jpeg issue under control.
Honestly, if you are looking for wiki software, there is lots of great stuff out...
OpenWiki -- Windows, easy to edit, featureful, fast, good. My favorite. http://www.openwiki.com/
PHPWiki -- Cross Platform, easy to setup, fast. http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/
Web based is not that way to go. Let me quote the question poster...
"""I can program data entry screens myself if I had to (either on the web or on the clients directly), but the printable layouts would kill me. Does anybody know of any package that will allow me to replicate FileMaker's easy interface for use with a RDBMS package such as PostgreSQL or MySQL? """
The bottom line is -- for "type-setting" browsers are GOD AWFUL -- they barely ( and badly ) support putting a header on each printed page via goofy CSS --- for the print media world, browsers are pathetically behind. He would end up laying out everything by hand, and have to tweak it for each printer -- *bah* -- god awful -- then if a new version of firefox/internet explorer comes out that thinks it should draw the table 1 pixel to the left -- broken again.
I would look for some conversation tool as some other posters have mentioned.
Web based software is great for a ton of projects, possibly even the majority of projects -- but for type-setting documents, it is just about the worst thing.
ASP is an interface to langauges, not a langauge in and of itself.
In theory you could do ASP pages in PHP, if the langague was setup properly. You can already do ASP in Perl, Python, JScript and VBScript, as well as other langauges I am sure I am forgetting.
Just tired of people comparing ASP as a langauge to PHP, very annoying.
P.S. I am aware that when people say "ASP" they are most likely referencing ASP when used with VBScript -- so don't bother reminding me.:)
Point #2. I believe you second point is a little off. If you are a Dell VAR (Value Added Reseller), Dell will let you create an image, and they will simply push that image to the hardware. This is something done by many VARs -- now, in this case, it is a little more extreme, totally different OS. Most of the VARs will send in images with like Real Player pre-installed and assorted other small tweaks (a link to the VAR on the desktop, etc). I think trying to play this off as Dell testing the waters, or anything else directly related to Dell is dishonest.
Point #3. Can you give me a link on Dell shipping these machines anywhere in the world, again, it was my understanding it was the VARs responsiblity to decide who could buy and where it could be shipped too, and in this case, that means a focus on the EU, but possibly worldwide, but, again it is Questar.
I look forward to newsforges follow up article to this one, because it seems like you might have your wires crossed.
I gotta wonder if the original poster on this wanted it to be misleading, or just lacked the ability to google before pushing it over to the slashdot editors.
Isn't a License Agreement what protects the developers of GPL'ed software from being sued as well.
Given, the GPL is not a EULA (End User License Agreement) -- the GPL only takes effect if you modify or distribute the application -- it still seems if it was tested and failed in court, it could have a big impact on OSS.
abstract:"People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities."
It is worse than you think, the first NUMBERED patent was filed on July 13th, 1836 -- prior to that, patents were not numbered, yet, even before that (between 1790 and 1836) nearly 10,000 patents where filed.
By 1870, we had over 100,000 numbered patents filed.
By 1911, we had over 1,000,000 numbered patents filed.
By 1935, 2,000,000.
By 1961, 3,000,000.
By 1975, 4,000,000.
By 1991, 5,000,000.
Currently, in 2004, we are nearly at the 7 million patent mark -- expected to be crossed before the end of the year.
What a horrific research firm!
-- By the way, my info comes from around 5 minutes of google research, I am in no way interested in patent history! --
If it makes you feel better, just for that reason, I tend to read postings "newest first" with a focus on people with good karma, seems to work out fairly well.
Lots of people seem to think that compatibility with windows applications is a "Killer Feature" for linux.
I fear it could "Kill" the linux developer community.
OS/2 was highly windows compatibile, and this lead to people not developing application for OS/2 -- they could just build it for windows, and it would work on OS/2. People never took advantage of the more powerful APIs and other tools available in OS/2.
From a developer point of view, developing for OS/2 made no sense, if I developer for OS/2 -- I get that market, if I developer for Windows -- I get TWO markets.
Yeah, this will be just like apple. I am not even an apple FAN and I have to come to apple's defense here.
#1. Apple's hardware is actually unique, it isn't whitebox PC's trying to be unique. Apple produces the unique units and charges for them.
#2. Apple's OS (in this case OS is defined as complete default install, not BSD underpinnings) is actually unique, it isn't linux with a couple bolt on additions trying to be unique. Apple produces the unique OS and charges for it.
-- I can see them getting away with calling it 'similar to the apple experience' MAYBE, but they better keep the prices very sane.
-- Also, if the OS is open-source, how are they going to stop redistribution, (former) SuSE like control panel + installer?
-- Do you really want a linux distro tied to the hardware? What if you want to add (X) piece of hardware, one of the advantages of whiteboxes is being able to go pick it up and install it. If thier OS is tied to the hardware, they probably want you to purchase all hardware upgrades via them. (sounds pricey!)
-- Maybe I am being silly, but trying to control an open-hardware platform, and an open-source operating system and core software seems like a setup for failure. Is it?
Well at any rate, good luck to them. The real world is the best test of such a concept.
Exactly, who controls the "trusting" is the difference between the microsoft plan, and what TCPA is... they are not even tangently related...
People need to get a clue on the MASSIVE differences between TCPA(and ESS), Palladium and DRM -- they are all seperate technologies. TCPA is the follow-on to ESS.
Lucky IBM has posted research to help those who like to scream and yell, but don't like to read...
You will see cygwin (which others will recommend) totally left out of the recommendations. That is because I find it slow and oversized and I am not a huge fan of it.
#1. Get FlashDesktops, you have to pay for it, but it is utterly wonderful. Multiple desktops on windows as fast as Xwindows. http://flashdesktops.com/
#9. Get everything from sysinternals, a ton of wonderful stuff here, too much to mention, but will let you track every file access, every registry write, every debugging message. Look around, it gives you control of your box like you expect on a *nix. Ton of great command line tools too. http://www.sysinternals.com/
You will see cygwin (which others will recommend) totally left out of the recommendations. That is because I find it slow and oversized and I am not a huge fan of it.
#1. Get FlashDesktops, you have to pay for it, but it is utterly wonderful. Multiple desktops on windows as fast as Xwindows. http://flashdesktops.com/
#2. Get UxUtils, NATIVE ports of lots of great unix apps. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
#3. Get The Bat!, it is a wonderful email client, fast, simple, can be totally driven by keyboard. http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/
#4. Get FireFox, it is a wonderful browser on linux AND windows (I actually prefer the windows version). http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
#5. Get gVim, vim is great on linux, great on windows too! http://www.vim.org/
#6. Get OpenOffice, great on both platforms. http://www.openoffice.org/
#7. Get WinSCP, a wonderful SCP/SFTP client for windows. http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/
#8. Get Putty (and friends), wonderful ssh client and other utils. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
#9. Get everything from sysinternals, a ton of wonderful stuff here, too much to mention, but will let you track every file access, every registry write, every debugging message. Look around, it gives you control of your box like you expect on a *nix. Ton of great command line tools too. http://www.sysinternals.com/
#10. ClearTweak, a tool to let you customize your ClearType settings (a must for LCDs). http://www.ioisland.com/cleartweak/
#11. Daemon Tools, lets you mount up to 4 ISO's as drives, and can emulate security protection. http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/portal.php
#12. Memstat XP, lets you monitor memory usage in tray, small and simple. http://memstat.sourceforge.net/
#13. NetMeter, lets you monitor network usage in the tray, small and simple. http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
#14. TrayMeter, lets you monitor cpu usage in the tray, small and simple. http://www.thmundt.com/traymeter/
#15. TweakUI, get control over some things you might want (like hover-to-focus, autologin, other). http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/p owertoys.asp
#16. WinRoll, lets you roll up windows just like in lots of windows managers on linux. http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
#17. XP Log Reader, lets you watch the XP firewall logs. http://www.winxpcentral.com/windowsxp/fwlog.php
#18. WinRAR, unzip anything you want, supports tar.gz, zip, rar, arc, and much more. http://www.rarlab.com/
#19. Beyond Compare, best tool for comparing directories or files, great for syncing backups. http://www.scootersoftware.com/
#20. Nero, the best CD writer for windows. http://www.nero.com/us/index.html
#21. WinDVD, watch movies! http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Home.jsp
#22. WinImage, create images from CDs, very easy, very clean. http://www.winimage.com/
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I hope people will stop doing that (VNC remotes), as a contractor I have seen VNC installed "in the wild" 4 times. In all 4 cases they used a common password corporation wide. This password was stored weakly encrypted on the individual machines in registry, trivial to decrypt. At that point, it is just a matter of searching the network for the most important sounding user "Bob (CEO) Laptop" -- connect to it, watch 'em work for a minute, then open notepad and write "Can you call me at extension X, Thanks!"
Taking an award for a program that is about to die in public is bad form.
“It’s almost a theater of the absurd to have an award on transparency that isn’t transparent,” Gary Bass, founder of OMB Watch, and one of five groups that met with the president, told The Washington Post. “The irony is that everything the president said was spot-on. I wish people had heard what he had to say.”
http://www.allgov.com/Unusual_News/ViewNews/Obama_Receives_Transparency_Award__in_Private_110402
How could I possibly "prove" that 'ghosts' don't exist to you, give me some scientific way to "prove" that 'ghosts' don't exist, and I will do my best.
It is nearly impossible for me to disprove make believe notions that exist only in the confines of your skull. If you thought that invisible undetectable purple elephants dance on every strand of hair on your head, this would also be very hard for me to disprove.
The weight of proof should rest on those making extraordinary claims, claiming there are invisible non-corporal humans running around is an extraordinary claim.
Parent++.
I don't see how playing into your families delusions helps them or you? Why not hunt for the Easter Bunny with them, or Santa... or setup a trap for the tooth fairy.
It seems like a bluff to me... the reason I think it is a bluff is simple, he oversold. Think about it, massive punishment on one side, and a 4 hour course and no permanent record on the other. No one who actually knows anything would offer such a deal. I am guessing that the statistical variances were there, but as anyone knows, variance isn't proof. This was a bluff, I am guessing the reason they sold is so big and so easy is they want the data. They have these statistical variances, and being able to get a more clear picture of with knowing exactly who cheated... and possibly might even get some ways to "get up the food chain" to the original people involved in getting the test data.
If this was a poker game, and I had money to win, I would go all in on such an obviously weak position... but as there is no money, and no upside at all for the students to "call his bluff", it will work.
Well played professor.
#1. Some of the data was deleted (obviously, it has been mentioned many times).
#2. Some of the data was contractually banned from being shared (the Met is working on getting this fixed, sent requests to 180 counties).
Secret and deleted data is NOT a good basis for anything, and the Met agrees, and wants to redo it transparently over the next three years.
I hope the Met gets permission to do that, I would love some really transparent / open process work around this.
I was shocked when I found out that stuff based on "secret" or unpublishable data, or deleted data was allowed to be written up in a peer reviewed journal. How the hell do you review something you can't see the data to?
While this is a 'pressing' issue in the west, and they there is a strong bias for action, screwing it up and having bad science will have a huge impact on how it is viewed by India and China in the future... it is worth doing it all in a hyper-transparent and straightforward way.
Download: every time a pacific storm is brewing, they have to shut of power to California to deal with the storm...
Upside: the rolling brownouts in California over the last few years where not accidents, they where training!
FauxPasIII... once again, you prove how much closer the green movement is to religion than to science.
You basically have paraphrased "Pascal's Wager". Which is basically "If you believe in God and are wrong, you loose nothing (and maybe gain some things) -- but if you DO NOT believe in God and are incorrect, fire and pain, etc... Therefore being an atheist is illogical".
If you replace "God" with "Global Warming" and "atheist" with "global warming doubter"... got got your argument.
There are a couple reasons why Pascal's Wager (and by extension your argument) is incorrect. Let me answer your questions...
"if we follow the consensus and it turns out they're wrong, the consequences of that are what?"
- The lack of study on real issues, the lack of honest and directness can decay science as a whole. We could have global cooling, or some other major issue going on -- that we choose to overlook because of our obsession with follow a consensus rather than fact. I believe there are many dangers in this.
"We've dramatically cleaned up our environment,"
- Possible a real benefit
" achieved energy independence,"
- Maybe, with a massive investment in nuclear power, but I think if you look at the fundamentals of most of the other energy streams, you will be sadly disappointed. Look into how much energy it takes to MAKE a solar cell, look at how much energy it takes to TRANSMIT wind power... etc, etc.
"freed ourselves from the political constraints of fossil fuels"
- I assume this is a reference to 'no blood for oil' and similar chants. I will just gloss over it, as it is more politics.
"and massively bolstered our economy with a whole new class of green businesses." ... it isn't based on any facts.
- This isn't a fact, it isn't even a logical follow-on, this is hope. You "hope" a green economy will explode creating new jobs. Read some of the old clippings about nuclear power and you will do the time warp again! My point is, this is blind hope / faith -- like believing in a fancy place in the clouds waiting for you
"Explain again why you're so against this?"
- Because, I want science to be driven by truth... even when that truth is unpopular, even when that truth is frustrating, even when that truth goes AGAINST political causes. I want science to be unburdened by such things.
Great Point. Would a 30 day "pay wait" give you time to get the charge back and kick it back to CJ (or whoever) before they actually dole out payments to the 3rd party?
The problem isn't the legit farming -- it is the botting & selling. As blizzards TOS doesn't allow botting, and doesn't allow exchanging in game items/money for real world items/money. Period.
They can personally farm all day long -- it is when they cheat or go on ebay to sell it that they get in trouble.
As a "legal representative" -- you serve your client. While SPI may have preferred to be in the loop sooner, they can't "expect" or "demand" it. They are supposed to assist Debian. If Debian (as a body) chooses not to seek assistance / advice -- so be it!
The intelligence of the decision made by the Project Lead (Anthony Towns) is debatable. His control should not be -- and I think the primary point of his response was to clear up any "confusion" about SPI's power/control. When you are forced to have constant interaction with a group of lawyers *shiver*, I think a hard slap in the face is often needed to stop them from naturally trying to move more and more decision into the "legal domain" where they can apply pressure/control.
Honestly, this doesn't seem terribly dramatic to me, it just a gentle reminder to people that he is the decision maker, and SPI is replaceable. Hopefully, SPI will work in a more supportive, as compared to combative roll in the future, as they should be.
Finally, a good wiki, before the release of this, I couldn't find a wiki if I wanted one *sigh*. MS needs to just buckle down on getting the little jpeg issue under control.
Honestly, if you are looking for wiki software, there is lots of great stuff out...
OpenWiki -- Windows, easy to edit, featureful, fast, good. My favorite.
http://www.openwiki.com/
PHPWiki -- Cross Platform, easy to setup, fast.
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/
KWiki -- The king of Wiki's!
http://kwiki.org/
Web based is not that way to go. Let me quote the question poster...
"""I can program data entry screens myself if I had to (either on the web or on the clients directly), but the printable layouts would kill me. Does anybody know of any package that will allow me to replicate FileMaker's easy interface for use with a RDBMS package such as PostgreSQL or MySQL? """
The bottom line is -- for "type-setting" browsers are GOD AWFUL -- they barely ( and badly ) support putting a header on each printed page via goofy CSS --- for the print media world, browsers are pathetically behind. He would end up laying out everything by hand, and have to tweak it for each printer -- *bah* -- god awful -- then if a new version of firefox/internet explorer comes out that thinks it should draw the table 1 pixel to the left -- broken again.
I would look for some conversation tool as some other posters have mentioned.
Web based software is great for a ton of projects, possibly even the majority of projects -- but for type-setting documents, it is just about the worst thing.
ASP is an interface to langauges, not a langauge in and of itself.
:)
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In theory you could do ASP pages in PHP, if the langague was setup properly. You can already do ASP in Perl, Python, JScript and VBScript, as well as other langauges I am sure I am forgetting.
Just tired of people comparing ASP as a langauge to PHP, very annoying.
P.S. I am aware that when people say "ASP" they are most likely referencing ASP when used with VBScript -- so don't bother reminding me.
P.P.S Told you it was a nit-picky post
I look forward to newsforges follow up article to this one, because it seems like you might have your wires crossed.
You downgraded the news from "great" to "ok"... I am going to one up you and mark it "utterly meaningless".
Why? Because the news is flat out wrong, Dell is not doing anything of the sort, someone who happens to buy computers from Dell is doing it.
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I gotta wonder if the original poster on this wanted it to be misleading, or just lacked the ability to google before pushing it over to the slashdot editors.
Isn't a License Agreement what protects the developers of GPL'ed software from being sued as well.
Given, the GPL is not a EULA (End User License Agreement) -- the GPL only takes effect if you modify or distribute the application -- it still seems if it was tested and failed in court, it could have a big impact on OSS.
What do you think?
Article: "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments"
abstract: "People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities."
It is worse than you think, the first NUMBERED patent was filed on July 13th, 1836 -- prior to that, patents were not numbered, yet, even before that (between 1790 and 1836) nearly 10,000 patents where filed.
By 1870, we had over 100,000 numbered patents filed.
By 1911, we had over 1,000,000 numbered patents filed.
By 1935, 2,000,000.
By 1961, 3,000,000.
By 1975, 4,000,000.
By 1991, 5,000,000.
Currently, in 2004, we are nearly at the 7 million patent mark -- expected to be crossed before the end of the year.
What a horrific research firm!
-- By the way, my info comes from around 5 minutes of google research, I am in no way interested in patent history! --
If it makes you feel better, just for that reason, I tend to read postings "newest first" with a focus on people with good karma, seems to work out fairly well.
Lots of people seem to think that compatibility with windows applications is a "Killer Feature" for linux.
I fear it could "Kill" the linux developer community.
OS/2 was highly windows compatibile, and this lead to people not developing application for OS/2 -- they could just build it for windows, and it would work on OS/2. People never took advantage of the more powerful APIs and other tools available in OS/2.
From a developer point of view, developing for OS/2 made no sense, if I developer for OS/2 -- I get that market, if I developer for Windows -- I get TWO markets.
Do you feel this is a valid concern?
Yeah, this will be just like apple. I am not even an apple FAN and I have to come to apple's defense here.
#1. Apple's hardware is actually unique, it isn't whitebox PC's trying to be unique. Apple produces the unique units and charges for them.
#2. Apple's OS (in this case OS is defined as complete default install, not BSD underpinnings) is actually unique, it isn't linux with a couple bolt on additions trying to be unique. Apple produces the unique OS and charges for it.
-- I can see them getting away with calling it 'similar to the apple experience' MAYBE, but they better keep the prices very sane.
-- Also, if the OS is open-source, how are they going to stop redistribution, (former) SuSE like control panel + installer?
-- Do you really want a linux distro tied to the hardware? What if you want to add (X) piece of hardware, one of the advantages of whiteboxes is being able to go pick it up and install it. If thier OS is tied to the hardware, they probably want you to purchase all hardware upgrades via them. (sounds pricey!)
-- Maybe I am being silly, but trying to control an open-hardware platform, and an open-source operating system and core software seems like a setup for failure. Is it?
Well at any rate, good luck to them. The real world is the best test of such a concept.
Exactly, who controls the "trusting" is the difference between the microsoft plan, and what TCPA is ... they are not even tangently related...
People need to get a clue on the MASSIVE differences between TCPA(and ESS), Palladium and DRM -- they are all seperate technologies. TCPA is the follow-on to ESS.
Lucky IBM has posted research to help those who like to scream and yell, but don't like to read...
tcpa rebuttal
More TCPA research
http://flashdesktops.com/
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
You will see cygwin (which others will recommend) totally left out of the recommendations. That is because I find it slow and oversized and I am not a huge fan of it. #1. Get FlashDesktops, you have to pay for it, but it is utterly wonderful. Multiple desktops on windows as fast as Xwindows. http://flashdesktops.com/ #2. Get UxUtils, NATIVE ports of lots of great unix apps. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ #3. Get The Bat!, it is a wonderful email client, fast, simple, can be totally driven by keyboard. http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ #4. Get FireFox, it is a wonderful browser on linux AND windows (I actually prefer the windows version). http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ #5. Get gVim, vim is great on linux, great on windows too! http://www.vim.org/ #6. Get OpenOffice, great on both platforms. http://www.openoffice.org/ #7. Get WinSCP, a wonderful SCP/SFTP client for windows. http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/ #8. Get Putty (and friends), wonderful ssh client and other utils. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
#9. Get everything from sysinternals, a ton of wonderful stuff here, too much to mention, but will let you track every file access, every registry write, every debugging message. Look around, it gives you control of your box like you expect on a *nix. Ton of great command line tools too. http://www.sysinternals.com/
#10. ClearTweak, a tool to let you customize your ClearType settings (a must for LCDs). http://www.ioisland.com/cleartweak/
#11. Daemon Tools, lets you mount up to 4 ISO's as drives, and can emulate security protection. http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/portal.php
#12. Memstat XP, lets you monitor memory usage in tray, small and simple. http://memstat.sourceforge.net/
#13. NetMeter, lets you monitor network usage in the tray, small and simple. http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
#14. TrayMeter, lets you monitor cpu usage in the tray, small and simple. http://www.thmundt.com/traymeter/
#15. TweakUI, get control over some things you might want (like hover-to-focus, autologin, other). http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/p owertoys.asp
#16. WinRoll, lets you roll up windows just like in lots of windows managers on linux. http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
#17. XP Log Reader, lets you watch the XP firewall logs. http://www.winxpcentral.com/windowsxp/fwlog.php
#18. WinRAR, unzip anything you want, supports tar.gz, zip, rar, arc, and much more. http://www.rarlab.com/
#19. Beyond Compare, best tool for comparing directories or files, great for syncing backups. http://www.scootersoftware.com/
#20. Nero, the best CD writer for windows. http://www.nero.com/us/index.html
#21. WinDVD, watch movies! http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Home.jsp
#22. WinImage, create images from CDs, very easy, very clean. http://www.winimage.com/