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I saw on a web site somewhere (sorry can't remember where) a simple, elegant solution to this problem, at least when it concerns logging on to web sites.
You have a single password. This password is combined with the domain name and then processed with an appropriate mechanism (e.g. MD5) to produce a unique password for an individual site.
I think that's a great solution and think it should be incorporated into all open source web browsers. The user doesn't even have to know it is happening. Much more practical than biometric solutions.
I'm really looking forward to OSX on Intel and the sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.
I have a theory as to why Apple aren't coming out with them until sometime next year - I believe they actually want to come out with new machines at the same time as Vista is released. Why?:
1) Microsoft is going to spend (pinkie to mouth) 100 hundred billion dollars on promoting Vista. That's going to make a lot of noise, which Apple can cheaply ride on the back of. Imagine, loads of mainstream publications will cover Vista, and if Apple launches at the same time they'll surely do comparisons.
2) It will be switching time for everyone - current Windows users will be thinking - should I move to Vista? If there is another viable option visible at the same time, then they might consider that too.
3) Steve Jobs may be confident that the next generation of OSX will beat Vista in comparison reviews - hell, the current version (Tiger) has a lot of the features Vista is supposed to have already.
Anyway, that is my theory, which belongs to me and is mine.
I don't think you get it. The point is that Apple is testing the waters, without risking developing the "iPhone" and then finding it flops.
You can be pretty sure that sitting on a designers desk somewhere at Apple is a pretty little white iPhone which will be on the market within a year or so. They are just being cautious and testing the market.
Perhaps we should just try to take predictions of hurricanes more seriously? Katrina was predicted, both as a long-range risk and some days before it hit. The damage would have been considerably reduced if the levees hadn't broke.
I brought a Mac Mini for my old mum, and was so impressed with it I am currently changing my desktop to OSX. And I've been a windows user for about ten years.
The software you get with a Mac Mini is worth the price alone - I love that everything works together so nicely. As a desktop environment it's much nicer that Windows XP.
I live in Spain. It's generally pretty cool, but one thing I really don't like about it is that there isn't the freedom of speech here that there is in the rest of Europe.
Politicians here sometimes sue members of the public for slander or libel. The last president did it (aznar). I like the UK, where you can happily calll tony blair a liar and not worry he's going to try to sue you for it!
Firstly, let me say that I am generally against censorship. I have no problem with violent films or hardcore porn being accessible to adults.
However, having played GTA a bit, I have to say that I have changed my mind in some respects. The problem with GTA as I see it, is that it is very effective in teaching you how to act in an extreme criminal situation.
For instance - dragging the driver out of a car and then making off with a car. It I hadn't of played GTA, I don't think that would have occured to me, and it seems to be a very effective way of getting away (if you are not bothered about breaking the law).
Specifically, it is always illegal to import a work that was made in a manner where, had US law applied, it would've been illegal, regardless of the local law where it was made.
That doesn't make any sense at all legally. I think you need to reword this or it detracts from you argument. I assume that you are only talking about copyrighted works? Even then, I think it is a dubiously sweeping statement.
The thing that I find interesting is that I sometimes get three or four negative moderations apparently simultaneously, on a post that has been hanging around a while or got gradually moderated up. That does seem odd to me and suggests some kind of coordinated moderation.
Of course it could just be conincidence, but its happened to me several times.
How is it that sometimes one of my posts gets slowly moderated upwards to 4 or 5, and then suddenly receives a load of negative mods, apparently simultaneously? Is it that there are Slashdotters with multiple accounts, or do they gang up? Or is it the editors?
Perhaps the astroturfing companies also mod down posts that are negative to one of their clients, and use multiple accounts to do it? Perhaps that's why there are these sudden negative mods?
I don't consider my post to be flamebait. It is an honest opinion.
You certainly have no clue as to Steve Jobs involvement in Apple's technologies and products.
Yes I do.
Jobs is brilliant at making great products, about understanding what will work commercially, etc. He'll look at something and say, hey, that's cool, we can do something with that. He's great at that. But that's different to inventing technology.
I'm sure we've all had experiences of people telling us how clever Bill Gates is inventing Windows, or the Internet or whatever.
The real shame is that certain computer museums in the USA perpetuate the myth that the manufacturers of software like Bill Gates were actually the inventors of it. I also think that Steve Jobs is a cool guy but doesn't deserve much space in the history of computing. Commercialising and inventing are completely different things.
Actually, just as interesting would be emails from great people BEFORE they became great.
Absolutely. Think about artists for instance - many Brit artists these days are famous just for being controversial. The ones that are famous now will probably be forgotten about in the future, and I bet there are artists working today that won't be really appreciated until they are dead.
I think the answer to that is almost certainly no. The stuff they have in Japan will make your eyes drop out. My wife got very fed up of me dragging her around the electronics district of Tokyo - it's tech heaven.
ok, here's a weird thought. In many Asian countries, the mentality is to work as a group, rather than individually, with the individual sacrificing themselves for the group if necessary. In the USA and most of the "western" world, we tend to act more as individuals. We tend to think think our system is better, but what if we're wrong? Perhaps, as this experiment shows, the Asian mentality may actually be the superior strategy?
China has been most consistently the biggest superpower over mankinds history, and it looks like it's going to be that way again in a couple of decades. Perhaps these things are related...
Absolutely. Not only that, but I would love there to be extensions that can be installed as easily as the Firefox ones, and an extension manager that notifies you when there are new ones available.
There is loads of room for innovations in the office suite area. I think that because everyone has become so used to MS Office, we've forgotten to question the design of office suites. Come on openOffice team, innovate! Or even better, make it so that openOffice is easily extensible so others can create innovative extensions!
I wish they would stop just copying Microsoft Office. There is lots of innovation still to be done in the office suite and openOffice is where it should be happening. I don't want more features, I want well designed user interfaces. They should take a leaf out of the Firefox team's book.
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I saw on a web site somewhere (sorry can't remember where) a simple, elegant solution to this problem, at least when it concerns logging on to web sites.
You have a single password. This password is combined with the domain name and then processed with an appropriate mechanism (e.g. MD5) to produce a unique password for an individual site.
I think that's a great solution and think it should be incorporated into all open source web browsers. The user doesn't even have to know it is happening. Much more practical than biometric solutions.
I'm really looking forward to OSX on Intel and the sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.
I have a theory as to why Apple aren't coming out with them until sometime next year - I believe they actually want to come out with new machines at the same time as Vista is released. Why?:
1) Microsoft is going to spend (pinkie to mouth) 100 hundred billion dollars on promoting Vista. That's going to make a lot of noise, which Apple can cheaply ride on the back of. Imagine, loads of mainstream publications will cover Vista, and if Apple launches at the same time they'll surely do comparisons.
2) It will be switching time for everyone - current Windows users will be thinking - should I move to Vista? If there is another viable option visible at the same time, then they might consider that too.
3) Steve Jobs may be confident that the next generation of OSX will beat Vista in comparison reviews - hell, the current version (Tiger) has a lot of the features Vista is supposed to have already.
Anyway, that is my theory, which belongs to me and is mine.
I don't think you get it. The point is that Apple is testing the waters, without risking developing the "iPhone" and then finding it flops.
You can be pretty sure that sitting on a designers desk somewhere at Apple is a pretty little white iPhone which will be on the market within a year or so. They are just being cautious and testing the market.
Perhaps we should just try to take predictions of hurricanes more seriously? Katrina was predicted, both as a long-range risk and some days before it hit. The damage would have been considerably reduced if the levees hadn't broke.
I wasn't criticising OSX overall, I was more questioning the value of Tiger relative to Panther
Ah ok! That wasn't clear from your post.
I brought a Mac Mini for my old mum, and was so impressed with it I am currently changing my desktop to OSX. And I've been a windows user for about ten years.
The software you get with a Mac Mini is worth the price alone - I love that everything works together so nicely. As a desktop environment it's much nicer that Windows XP.
I live in Spain. It's generally pretty cool, but one thing I really don't like about it is that there isn't the freedom of speech here that there is in the rest of Europe.
Politicians here sometimes sue members of the public for slander or libel. The last president did it (aznar). I like the UK, where you can happily calll tony blair a liar and not worry he's going to try to sue you for it!
Firstly, let me say that I am generally against censorship. I have no problem with violent films or hardcore porn being accessible to adults.
However, having played GTA a bit, I have to say that I have changed my mind in some respects. The problem with GTA as I see it, is that it is very effective in teaching you how to act in an extreme criminal situation.
For instance - dragging the driver out of a car and then making off with a car. It I hadn't of played GTA, I don't think that would have occured to me, and it seems to be a very effective way of getting away (if you are not bothered about breaking the law).
If anything, the Iraq situation should have taught us that the UN's edicts are meaningless.
I'm afraid it's the current USA administration that is making international law meaningless, not the UN.
I consider myself a bit of a leftie, and I don't find the Economist very right wing.
Why should they be expected to support copies of Windows that people didn't pay for?
Because unpatched machines (licensed or not) affect those that do pay Microsoft - their customers. Which is pretty much everyone.
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Specifically, it is always illegal to import a work that was made in a manner where, had US law applied, it would've been illegal, regardless of the local law where it was made.
That doesn't make any sense at all legally. I think you need to reword this or it detracts from you argument. I assume that you are only talking about copyrighted works? Even then, I think it is a dubiously sweeping statement.
The thing that I find interesting is that I sometimes get three or four negative moderations apparently simultaneously, on a post that has been hanging around a while or got gradually moderated up. That does seem odd to me and suggests some kind of coordinated moderation.
Of course it could just be conincidence, but its happened to me several times.
How is it that sometimes one of my posts gets slowly moderated upwards to 4 or 5, and then suddenly receives a load of negative mods, apparently simultaneously? Is it that there are Slashdotters with multiple accounts, or do they gang up? Or is it the editors?
Perhaps the astroturfing companies also mod down posts that are negative to one of their clients, and use multiple accounts to do it? Perhaps that's why there are these sudden negative mods?
I don't consider my post to be flamebait. It is an honest opinion.
Yes, in the case of software, commercializing, while just as important, is harder.
But is it as worthy of our admiration?
You certainly have no clue as to Steve Jobs involvement in Apple's technologies and products.
Yes I do.
Jobs is brilliant at making great products, about understanding what will work commercially, etc. He'll look at something and say, hey, that's cool, we can do something with that. He's great at that. But that's different to inventing technology.
I'm sure we've all had experiences of people telling us how clever Bill Gates is inventing Windows, or the Internet or whatever.
The real shame is that certain computer museums in the USA perpetuate the myth that the manufacturers of software like Bill Gates were actually the inventors of it. I also think that Steve Jobs is a cool guy but doesn't deserve much space in the history of computing. Commercialising and inventing are completely different things.
>To: tracey.emin@hotmail.com
> Hi Tracey,
> how's the work going?
Fuck off! Haven't done anything this week. Can't be bothered.
Saatchi brought a box full of my old rubbish yesterday. 20 thousand quid!!! What a twat!!
> You on for going out tonight?
Too right! Let's go get fucking wasted!
Trace xxx
Actually, just as interesting would be emails from great people BEFORE they became great.
Absolutely. Think about artists for instance - many Brit artists these days are famous just for being controversial. The ones that are famous now will probably be forgotten about in the future, and I bet there are artists working today that won't be really appreciated until they are dead.
(and do they wonder the same thing about the USA)
I think the answer to that is almost certainly no. The stuff they have in Japan will make your eyes drop out. My wife got very fed up of me dragging her around the electronics district of Tokyo - it's tech heaven.
ok, here's a weird thought. In many Asian countries, the mentality is to work as a group, rather than individually, with the individual sacrificing themselves for the group if necessary. In the USA and most of the "western" world, we tend to act more as individuals. We tend to think think our system is better, but what if we're wrong? Perhaps, as this experiment shows, the Asian mentality may actually be the superior strategy?
China has been most consistently the biggest superpower over mankinds history, and it looks like it's going to be that way again in a couple of decades. Perhaps these things are related...
This is a test
Absolutely. Not only that, but I would love there to be extensions that can be installed as easily as the Firefox ones, and an extension manager that notifies you when there are new ones available.
There is loads of room for innovations in the office suite area. I think that because everyone has become so used to MS Office, we've forgotten to question the design of office suites. Come on openOffice team, innovate! Or even better, make it so that openOffice is easily extensible so others can create innovative extensions!
I love openOffice.org, but...
I wish they would stop just copying Microsoft Office. There is lots of innovation still to be done in the office suite and openOffice is where it should be happening. I don't want more features, I want well designed user interfaces. They should take a leaf out of the Firefox team's book.