... would be that of course more vulnerabilities were found for Mozilla, it's several years younger than IE. How many exploits were being found (announced or not) when IE was at roughly the same maturity? He could also go into Open Source vs. proprietary, but that's already been covered by other posters...
... amazing how much bulk lifts off from Earth, and how little returns (see the video here). Can anyone explain why we shouldn't invest all this money into basic science research that might result in better propulsion, stronger & lighter materials, and similar useful advancements? Personally I think it's a shame that the US is cutting so much research funding and linking grants to military and national security needs in our effort to pay for wars, hurricanes, moon shots, debt servicing, and the like. Seems like nanotech, nuclear fusion research, and even the Superconducting Supercollider would make much better investments with much more potential ROI than upgrading 40-year old solid rocket tech and going to the moon again.
Russians never fully embraced their shuttles (Buran, http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/rsa/buran.html [nasa.gov] ) despite it posessing payload and operational capacities superior to those of US Shuttle...
Of course, the Russian engineers had to earn their pay, er or something like that, somehow, since any monkey could just copy stolen NASA designs...;p
IE 6.x is much more mature than Firefox, being basically IE 5.x with some extras. What is really needed here is a graph which shows monthly exploits found or patches released for IE 5/6 over its lifetime, superimposed by the same graph for Firefox over its lifetime. That would probably give a better idea relatively vulnerbilities than this current survey.
IMPRESSIONS: At first, I was standing up and swinging my hand all around to aim - and my arms got really tired really quick. But once I sat down and relaxed, resting my hands on my legs as I would with a normal controller, everything clicked.
Yes, leave it to geeks and gamers to quickly figure out how to get around Nintendo's quixotic attempt to force some exercise on our lazy, couch-potato, videogaming arses...
"We've learned from Apache," acknowledged Bill Staples, product unit manager for IIS. Version 7.0 takes the IIS feature set and breaks it down into individual components, or modules, that can be loaded on an as-needed basis. The result is a Web server with much less overhead.
Too bad Apache didn't patent the idea of modularizing a web server, and then sue MS for infringement. A little taste of your own medicine in sometimes a good thing...
"At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something," Gates said
And still are, I'd wager, even the defunct ones...:)
Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not.
Solaris, 'Network is the computer', most other *nix's, Linux...
Heh, if you throw the chair with maximum power and about 1/6 - 1/5 angle (eg almost straight up), and get it to hit the first window coming down at a very steep angle you can break the game. The chair won't make it across the landscape, will off the bottom of the screen, and when the screen scrolls into Kai-Fu-Lee's office, his office will be a blank grey screen.
I agree that the nano targets the market that is not used to carrying their entire music collection around,
FYI, it also targets the market of people with less than 1000-1500 songs. Yes, shockingly that market exists, I happen to be in it. Speaking for myself, I'm just picky about the music I spend money on, and go for quality over quantity, so all my stuff would fit on a 4B nano.
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Looks like the blogs only really care about Ebay and Skype. Not to surprising...
The only thing that is keeping me from doing it right now is the government with their troops and guns.
And that Libertarian's own guns, which given the relative resources we seem to be dealing with here, are probably more and bigger than your own. Libertarians don't have blinders on, you're just conveniently omitting an important part of their philosophy to make your argument.
Or, maybe most OEMs will hype to the hilt the HPE edition, while offering the watered-down edition as a silent alternative. They'll most likely make more margin off the HPE edition.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. The understanding of theory that you gain in a CS program prepares you for a lifetime of computer-related work, whether it's as a computer science researcher, a middle-ware & web app developer, or a sysadmin. Having a CS background makes it easier to switch roles and to learn and master new technology, especially since almost everything used today is just a variation on something that was invented twenty or thirty years ago. Know the fundamentals, and you can teach yourself the rest.
I actually RTFA and it really pissed me off (in the American sense). This attitude is, imho, one of the primary things wrong with American (and British?) higher education - the undervaluing of theory. Students want jobs and companies want vocationally trained workers, and everyone blows off theory as if it is useless in that quest. Fools. In the long run the most important thing is theory, as theory both leads to new innovation and guides practice. Our current attitude that higher education should be glorified vocational training is bunk, and probably a threat to our scientific and technological advancement.
The sooner we get humans out of space exploration entirely, the more progress we'll make.
Our problem isn't putting humans in space, our problem is attempting to put them in space without an efficient enough energy source to propel and sustain them for the long distances meaningful space travel requires. Our ships are too slow and our fuel doesn't last long enough and takes too much space to store. There's nothing wrong with putting humans in space, but we shouldn't be spending all the money to do so right now, when instead we could be diverting those resources to finding more efficient methods of energy generation and propulsion.
Could this have something to do with the fact that China Telecom charges close to $1 per minute for calls to United States and Europe?"
No, more likely it has to do with the fact that Skype calls and chats are encrypted, preventing the controlling communist government and party from eavesdropping on their populace via their state-controlled telcoms. Certainly such a thing is absolutely unacceptable for the Chinese Communist Party.
"I just read through his response letter. Has everyone lost their professional touch? ESR definitely makes himself look like a jerk with that response.
In the real world, people tend to be more polite."
Actually he didn't really send that to MS, he just wrote that letter for the amusement of his fans and blog readers.
ESR: UPDATE: For those of you who missed the subtlety (which was a surprising lot of you) I was quite polite to this guy on the phone.
Having had a 3G iPod with a crapped out battery, I'd really like to see Apple give their new iPods user-replaceable batteries like cell-phones have. I don't mind a proprietary battery, as long as I can buy a spare and charge one while the other is playing. I can only assume Apple hasn't yet done this b/c it cuts into their margins, and most people don't think about this till after they already bought one.
I'd also really like a radio incorporated, even if it can't record radio audio, it would be nice to have. Although podcasts make a decent substitute, it would still be nice to listen to NPR or some of the more obscure channels.
For something as straightforward as cabin pressure and lights in an airplane, something like WindowsCE is actually pretty easy to implement and use. I, for one, wouldn't worry a bit about it running such systems.
Risk should always be measured not only by probability of failure, but also by consequences of failure. So for something that has a low probability and low consequences, fine use Windows CE. Even for something with high probability and low consequences, like a PDA, use Windows CE. But for something with any probability and high consequences, like failure of cabin pressure potentially causing the death of a passenger with a tendancy for blood clotting, then use the most reliable, rock solid embedded OS you can find, regardless of the cost and popularity factor.
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... would be that of course more vulnerabilities were found for Mozilla, it's several years younger than IE. How many exploits were being found (announced or not) when IE was at roughly the same maturity? He could also go into Open Source vs. proprietary, but that's already been covered by other posters...
1. Add video capability to iPod.
2. Engage the Reality Distortion Field.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
... amazing how much bulk lifts off from Earth, and how little returns (see the video here). Can anyone explain why we shouldn't invest all this money into basic science research that might result in better propulsion, stronger & lighter materials, and similar useful advancements? Personally I think it's a shame that the US is cutting so much research funding and linking grants to military and national security needs in our effort to pay for wars, hurricanes, moon shots, debt servicing, and the like. Seems like nanotech, nuclear fusion research, and even the Superconducting Supercollider would make much better investments with much more potential ROI than upgrading 40-year old solid rocket tech and going to the moon again.
Russians never fully embraced their shuttles (Buran, http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/rsa/buran.html [nasa.gov] ) despite it posessing payload and operational capacities superior to those of US Shuttle...
;p
Of course, the Russian engineers had to earn their pay, er or something like that, somehow, since any monkey could just copy stolen NASA designs...
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IE 6.x is much more mature than Firefox, being basically IE 5.x with some extras. What is really needed here is a graph which shows monthly exploits found or patches released for IE 5/6 over its lifetime, superimposed by the same graph for Firefox over its lifetime. That would probably give a better idea relatively vulnerbilities than this current survey.
IMPRESSIONS: At first, I was standing up and swinging my hand all around to aim - and my arms got really tired really quick. But once I sat down and relaxed, resting my hands on my legs as I would with a normal controller, everything clicked.
Yes, leave it to geeks and gamers to quickly figure out how to get around Nintendo's quixotic attempt to force some exercise on our lazy, couch-potato, videogaming arses...
What about Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, and other dialects. Sheesh, insensitive clod. :)
Looks like NAFA's at it again.
"We've learned from Apache," acknowledged Bill Staples, product unit manager for IIS. Version 7.0 takes the IIS feature set and breaks it down into individual components, or modules, that can be loaded on an as-needed basis. The result is a Web server with much less overhead.
Too bad Apache didn't patent the idea of modularizing a web server, and then sue MS for infringement. A little taste of your own medicine in sometimes a good thing...
"At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something," Gates said
:)
And still are, I'd wager, even the defunct ones...
Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not.
Solaris, 'Network is the computer', most other *nix's, Linux...
Heh, if you throw the chair with maximum power and about 1/6 - 1/5 angle (eg almost straight up), and get it to hit the first window coming down at a very steep angle you can break the game. The chair won't make it across the landscape, will off the bottom of the screen, and when the screen scrolls into Kai-Fu-Lee's office, his office will be a blank grey screen.
Is that an iPod in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Hopefully, for your sake, it's an iPod.
[Notice Apple's comparison of Nano to a pencil...]
I agree that the nano targets the market that is not used to carrying their entire music collection around,
FYI, it also targets the market of people with less than 1000-1500 songs. Yes, shockingly that market exists, I happen to be in it. Speaking for myself, I'm just picky about the music I spend money on, and go for quality over quantity, so all my stuff would fit on a 4B nano.
Looks like the blogs only really care about Ebay and Skype. Not to surprising...
The only thing that is keeping me from doing it right now is the government with their troops and guns.
And that Libertarian's own guns, which given the relative resources we seem to be dealing with here, are probably more and bigger than your own. Libertarians don't have blinders on, you're just conveniently omitting an important part of their philosophy to make your argument.
most OEMs will deliver the watered down version,
Or, maybe most OEMs will hype to the hilt the HPE edition, while offering the watered-down edition as a silent alternative. They'll most likely make more margin off the HPE edition.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. The understanding of theory that you gain in a CS program prepares you for a lifetime of computer-related work, whether it's as a computer science researcher, a middle-ware & web app developer, or a sysadmin. Having a CS background makes it easier to switch roles and to learn and master new technology, especially since almost everything used today is just a variation on something that was invented twenty or thirty years ago. Know the fundamentals, and you can teach yourself the rest.
I actually RTFA and it really pissed me off (in the American sense). This attitude is, imho, one of the primary things wrong with American (and British?) higher education - the undervaluing of theory. Students want jobs and companies want vocationally trained workers, and everyone blows off theory as if it is useless in that quest. Fools. In the long run the most important thing is theory, as theory both leads to new innovation and guides practice. Our current attitude that higher education should be glorified vocational training is bunk, and probably a threat to our scientific and technological advancement.
The sooner we get humans out of space exploration entirely, the more progress we'll make.
Our problem isn't putting humans in space, our problem is attempting to put them in space without an efficient enough energy source to propel and sustain them for the long distances meaningful space travel requires. Our ships are too slow and our fuel doesn't last long enough and takes too much space to store. There's nothing wrong with putting humans in space, but we shouldn't be spending all the money to do so right now, when instead we could be diverting those resources to finding more efficient methods of energy generation and propulsion.
Could this have something to do with the fact that China Telecom charges close to $1 per minute for calls to United States and Europe?"
No, more likely it has to do with the fact that Skype calls and chats are encrypted, preventing the controlling communist government and party from eavesdropping on their populace via their state-controlled telcoms. Certainly such a thing is absolutely unacceptable for the Chinese Communist Party.
"I just read through his response letter. Has everyone lost their professional touch? ESR definitely makes himself look like a jerk with that response.
In the real world, people tend to be more polite."
Actually he didn't really send that to MS, he just wrote that letter for the amusement of his fans and blog readers.
ESR: UPDATE: For those of you who missed the subtlety (which was a surprising lot of you) I was quite polite to this guy on the phone.
Having had a 3G iPod with a crapped out battery, I'd really like to see Apple give their new iPods user-replaceable batteries like cell-phones have. I don't mind a proprietary battery, as long as I can buy a spare and charge one while the other is playing. I can only assume Apple hasn't yet done this b/c it cuts into their margins, and most people don't think about this till after they already bought one.
I'd also really like a radio incorporated, even if it can't record radio audio, it would be nice to have. Although podcasts make a decent substitute, it would still be nice to listen to NPR or some of the more obscure channels.
For something as straightforward as cabin pressure and lights in an airplane, something like WindowsCE is actually pretty easy to implement and use. I, for one, wouldn't worry a bit about it running such systems.
Risk should always be measured not only by probability of failure, but also by consequences of failure. So for something that has a low probability and low consequences, fine use Windows CE. Even for something with high probability and low consequences, like a PDA, use Windows CE. But for something with any probability and high consequences, like failure of cabin pressure potentially causing the death of a passenger with a tendancy for blood clotting, then use the most reliable, rock solid embedded OS you can find, regardless of the cost and popularity factor.
Darn formatting, please ignore this one, see below.
1. Form new company
2. Get to Mars and dig up stuff
3. Ship it back to Moon
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
1. Form new company 2. Get to Mars and dig up stuff 3. Ship it back to Moon 4. ??? 5. Profit!!!