Don't get your hopes up. The FBI has had some "master" database system in the works for years and it's been a pile of shit. By all accounts it's been a massive waste of money and it hasn't shown any results.
What this sounds like is that they finally realized that they need to build the system from the inside out and not rely on contractors etc. todo the job.
However, I expect much like everything else, once all the people are hired the project plan presented with be full of unrealisic goals and timelines.
I agree. This is an ideology game. However, MS is in a tight spot.
They turn on the TV and they see Sun and Google standing up on stage saying into the mic "The age of Microsoft Office has come to an end!"
Now, microsoft could hold their own press confence and reply with "Um, not it's not!" but (as their PR firm rightly pointed out) that would make them look reactionary (which MS is)
Instead their PR firm said, "What you need todo is write up a memo discussing the Sun-Google partnership regarding the longstanding innovative stragetic work you've been doing on the Windows/Office side. Make sure you word it so that when people read it, they'll think you've actually got a plan and a strategy!"
"Then what we'll do is downsample the thing via progressive photocopying and then we'll fax it to a couple of trade mags from random locations through the city and we'll right stuff like 'The world needs to know about this!!!' with a black marker in the margin"
Gates responded with "Great idea!" the PR firm then gave him that look... he pressed a small little red button on the edge of his desk and a large sack of money fell into the trunk of a waiting car by the loading dock.
A buddy of mine has a machine made by TAIG www.taigtools.com and the thing is amazing. He initally bought the hand version and then for a couple hundred bucks more bought the add on motors to make it CNC.
All told I think he's spent about 3 grand (over several years, so it's not that bad).
The only short coming he's had with it is that it's a small mill, so your not going to milling yourself a 430 Chevy big block with it...
Well Google could always modify the cache to return results that have some auto generated URL that would differ with every hit, thus their firewall would end having to block an impossible number of every changing URL's...
Well, until they just decide to block everything from the google domain...
Obviously, you've never been to the "The Smoking Gun" pages where they've through the freedom of information act obtained all of complaint letters that the DMV has recieved by citizens concerning other citizens licence plates...
I was thinking the same thing... You'd open Add/Remove programs and under installed programs would be something like "j00 l33t R00t|<1t" with a remove tab...
Though one of my friends whose pretty low on the totem pole in terms of computer literacy up and started sending me links that went to an executable... mc-{something}.exe A quick googelization told me it was some trojan/malware that takes your machine over and then attempts to send the link to everybody on your buddylist.
Though after that first day she disappeared off of IM. So either AOL got wise and started proactively looking for this and locking out those accounts or whatever it was drove her machine into the ground... My bets on the latter...
Ultimately Blizzard has the same problem as the DMV, we're infinite in our creativity in coming up with offensive content that they are finite in their ability to filter it...
A buddy of mine who was setting up a website that was going to be heavily DB driven got an account through on of these hosting services that gives you a 100mb of space and access to their mysql server.
He instantly noticed that their mysql server root password was set to "password".
Ironically when he pointed this out to them, they were actually nice about it, thanked him and promptly changed the password.
Obviously, you've never had to give Microsoft's support line a call...
Just because an OS is being supported in different variations from different companies isn't going to deminish the support options, it's going to expand them.
I'd have to imagine that GoogleTalk's guts are probably heavily reused parts of Gaim. It makes no sense to reinvent the wheel when you've already got an excellent OSS multiprotocol chat client out there.
So, hiring the guy who wrote the piece of software that your now trying to use makes perfect sense.
Hence, now he'll be working on refining the libraries, etc. for Gaim more since they'll be used in both the Googletalk client and Gaim proper.
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Don't get your hopes up. The FBI has had some "master" database system in the works for years and it's been a pile of shit. By all accounts it's been a massive waste of money and it hasn't shown any results.
What this sounds like is that they finally realized that they need to build the system from the inside out and not rely on contractors etc. todo the job.
However, I expect much like everything else, once all the people are hired the project plan presented with be full of unrealisic goals and timelines.
plowing into the ground and 14 times the speed of sound...
I've seen alot of amazing engineering come about this way.
More than a couple of great products were coctail napkin ideas that an engineer ran off and created a prototype and then showed it to his boss.
Hmm, taking a look at the patent system makes me think of this quote:
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
s/abyss/"U.S. Patent System/g;
Nothing is funnier than while dueling with someone to use mind control and run them off the nearest cliff...
They turn on the TV and they see Sun and Google standing up on stage saying into the mic "The age of Microsoft Office has come to an end!"
Now, microsoft could hold their own press confence and reply with "Um, not it's not!" but (as their PR firm rightly pointed out) that would make them look reactionary (which MS is)
Instead their PR firm said, "What you need todo is write up a memo discussing the Sun-Google partnership regarding the longstanding innovative stragetic work you've been doing on the Windows/Office side. Make sure you word it so that when people read it, they'll think you've actually got a plan and a strategy!"
"Then what we'll do is downsample the thing via progressive photocopying and then we'll fax it to a couple of trade mags from random locations through the city and we'll right stuff like 'The world needs to know about this!!!' with a black marker in the margin"
Gates responded with "Great idea!" the PR firm then gave him that look... he pressed a small little red button on the edge of his desk and a large sack of money fell into the trunk of a waiting car by the loading dock.
Our thinking is that that this cruise ship should invite a platoon of fully armed military personell for a free vacation off the coast of Somalia...
Nothing's funnier than shredding pirates with a momma duece while sippin a mai tai!
A buddy of mine has a machine made by TAIG www.taigtools.com and the thing is amazing. He initally bought the hand version and then for a couple hundred bucks more bought the add on motors to make it CNC.
All told I think he's spent about 3 grand (over several years, so it's not that bad).
The only short coming he's had with it is that it's a small mill, so your not going to milling yourself a 430 Chevy big block with it...
I have something worse happening to me...
I'll start humming some small verse of a song and then I'll start switching back and forth between the original and the Weird Al version.
Right now I've got "One Week" and "Jerry Springer" alternating in my head.
Then again, I am writing perl code to interact with Oracle, so maybe it's fitting...
Personally, my favorite editor is jed. Key bindings of emacs, memory footprint of vi...
"Internet killed the newspaper star" ;-)
Ultimately the newspapers will have to adapt or die, period.
"That which doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger..." the newspapers that survive will be the ones that embrance the internet and leverage it.
Well Google could always modify the cache to return results that have some auto generated URL that would differ with every hit, thus their firewall would end having to block an impossible number of every changing URL's...
Well, until they just decide to block everything from the google domain...
Your not the only one who sees bad stuff coming.
I see this as just another step towards the balkanization of the internet.
Obviously, you've never been to the "The Smoking Gun" pages where they've through the freedom of information act obtained all of complaint letters that the DMV has recieved by citizens concerning other citizens licence plates...
Some of them are truely hilarious...
I was thinking the same thing... You'd open Add/Remove programs and under installed programs would be something like "j00 l33t R00t|<1t" with a remove tab...
Though one of my friends whose pretty low on the totem pole in terms of computer literacy up and started sending me links that went to an executable... mc-{something}.exe A quick googelization told me it was some trojan/malware that takes your machine over and then attempts to send the link to everybody on your buddylist.
Though after that first day she disappeared off of IM. So either AOL got wise and started proactively looking for this and locking out those accounts or whatever it was drove her machine into the ground... My bets on the latter...
Dying rich means you never spent your money on cool stuff...
I want to die poor in my space station orbiting mars!
Moore's Law: The speed of processors will double every 18 months.
Gate's Law: The speed of software will halve every 18 months.
Ultimately Blizzard has the same problem as the DMV, we're infinite in our creativity in coming up with offensive content that they are finite in their ability to filter it...
Get the next iteration of programmers comfortable with their tools and API's.
I'm suspecting the future is going to smell like AJAX...
Also, while barely literate, I'm pretty sure that dollar sign goes before the ammount...
Considering that the average lightbulb creates more heat than light, this is great!
How about this? Why not just send 4 horny bisexuals (2 male, 2 female) who don't have any hangups about group sex?
Then NASA could just sell the video feed of their "fun room" to help recoup the costs on the mission!
Worse, your subjected to his national policy... Unless your affliated with Halliburton or an oil company, then everything is peachy...
A buddy of mine who was setting up a website that was going to be heavily DB driven got an account through on of these hosting services that gives you a 100mb of space and access to their mysql server.
He instantly noticed that their mysql server root password was set to "password".
Ironically when he pointed this out to them, they were actually nice about it, thanked him and promptly changed the password.
Obviously, you've never had to give Microsoft's support line a call...
Just because an OS is being supported in different variations from different companies isn't going to deminish the support options, it's going to expand them.
I'd have to imagine that GoogleTalk's guts are probably heavily reused parts of Gaim. It makes no sense to reinvent the wheel when you've already got an excellent OSS multiprotocol chat client out there.
So, hiring the guy who wrote the piece of software that your now trying to use makes perfect sense.
Hence, now he'll be working on refining the libraries, etc. for Gaim more since they'll be used in both the Googletalk client and Gaim proper.