The reason are i dont really feal threatened by Google having my private data. They have so far proven to be a very benovolent company with high moral fiber, as opposed to the courtroom jockey Microsoft have proven to be.
If i want autocomplete, synced bookmarks, search in the adressbar and other functions i really like some way or another that information has to pass through google for it to work. I can take that without much fuss because i trust Google.
On the other hand i wouldnt even dream of doing the same exakt thing with Microsoft because boy dont i trust those people.
And thats the problem for Microsoft but their solution is wrong. Instead of trying to wage a PR war against Google Microsoft should focus on getting a better rep by their own actions. Right now all they do is make me despise them for being whiny loosers.
And this is different from Google how? Id much rather put my security in the hands of the best software company in the world with a stunning track record for security.
Siding with China in times when the US is just waiting for anything to lambast China for this is not a smart move of Microsoft. The US has slowly started to realize China is the lawnmower and US is the grass unless something is done, especially know when the brain drain is starting to go towards China, leaving the US with nothing at all, neither patents nor manufacturing or talent.
The problem for Microsoft is that a whitdrawal would give open source unprecedented foothold. No matter how they turn they end up with problems at their hands. I dont think that was the goal of Google but if it plays out this way it sure tells being "the good guy" can pay out in the long run.
Google has about 40% of a netizen count of more than 320 million, thats not bad at all. In comparison Yahoo/Bing has 1,5% and 0,09% respectivly. Also lets not forget the biggest use of Bada is listening to pirated music, not search.
It was very sad that Linux wouldnt be allowed in this year as opposed to last time when nobody could crack it. Regardless of how you measure market penetration its nice to have it there as a reference point. Anything you pay for should be much better than something you can get for free.
Chrome has an excellent sandbox, especially compared to IE8 and Safari which makes exploiting stuff very hard even if you know of an open exploit. That nobody even bothered is a testament to that it really works. Nobody hacks at pwn2own, its done long before the competition starts in reality.
Google Chrome OS is something really interesting and everything up until now points to it becoming one of the most secure OS in a long time. While MacOS X and Windows 7 is a pile of ugly hacks Chrome OS seems to be built on excellent foundation from a security viewpoint. I really like it how they take the user out of the equation, just in line with Microsofts security researchers (that Microsoft never seems to listen to).
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I have been using it since last night and it has worked throughout from atleast last night up until now. This is a local problem somewhere, not real outage.
The problem is that its arbitrary what constitutes sensitive information. History has shown us with blinding clarity that the politicians always mix their personal comfort with whats good for the country they run.
It always comes down to "-If people know we are slezeball scumbags it threatens this countries stability" and many things thats sensitive in a political context gets rubberstamp "Top Secret" even if it in no way whatsoever threatens the country in itself.
The problem is the blatant abuse of the national security laws. Give a good man bad tools and he will use them. Give a politician bad tools and he will use them in any way possible for his own gain.
Its nice and very refreshing to see that a company can take responsibility and not just hide behind the money. Right now we are building a society where nobody is to blame for anything and everybody hides behind "business reasons" as if that was an excuse for making decisions against good faith.
I applaud Google and i really hope this will rub off against other companies. Its time we pull our global economy out of the gutter and start acting like grown up people.
The solution would be more resiliant systems because there will be a time when those bugs, holes and security issues, both technical and social, will be used by foreign governments. Going after the small people like carders etc is not the answer to the real problem, complete lack of any security responsibility from the various vendors.
Im actually grateful that "cyber criminals" exist because without them it security would be if possible even worse than today.
Does the fact that 100% of these machines run Windows XP/Vista/7 mean that Microsoft is the biggest supplier of Cloud OS computing software (if you disregard the small patches from the botnet owners)?
Have you actually compared Google to your random US company? I think regardless who you compare them with they come out pretty decent.
Some people tend to put them to extremely higher standards than anyone else. Its not enough they are nice, they have to be some kind of techie Ghandies fused with Jesus and a couple of hundred saints.
They are just refusing to do business by Chinas terms. Google will still be there, just not censored, edited and altered to suit China authorities. I suspect it will make Google more attractive to Chinese citizens at large, not less. Once China dumps their censoring Google will be the knight in shining armor while Bing, Baidu etc are the crooks nobody will want to associate with. My suspicion is that Google plays this for the long run and has calculated there aren't enough short term benefits selling their soul to the devil.
Id hate to work for someone like you. I have more important things to do than run around fighting fires. Like, tending to business interests instead of dealing with technological shortcomings of one specific vendor.
If you really want to be sure you avoid being part of a botnet, then yes, Windows is not one of the choices you have. It cant be secured, its like going down the rapids in a colander while trying to plug the holes with cabbage.
If you want to mitigate the problem you can add all sorts of defences but you will be owned eventually if you stay on Windows. The question is, is it worth all the money? One thing is sure, its damn expensive to fix Windows up to half-bad.
If you for one second think what you hear on the radio is decided by the radio station itself you sir are very gullable. Its very hard getting aired unless you have a big contract not matter how good your music is. On the rare occasions it happens RIAA is defacating themselves because you cant write slave contracts with an already successful artist.
This is about being the gatekeeper to media content. It has nothing at all to do with piracy per see. Youtube is the place to be if you want content to spread, like traliers, new bands etc.
If Youtube becomes the place to be for content Viacom and the rest of the leeches gets taken out of the equation as distributors. Its the same fight the RIAA is making. Its not about piracy, its about deciding what you watch, listens to and buys.
"Why should you ever, with all this parallel hardware, ever be waiting for your computer?"
Well for starters its only the CPU thats parallell in most computers. Your bloated pig of an OS that takes 4 Gig to run is causing more waiting because of I/O than because of CPU tasks. Stop writing often used routines in high level languages and youll see performance gains much bigger than any hardware can bring the next couple of years.
Back when Novell bought SUSE they wore lining up to be the most important company of all. They had a core service, eDir, that let them connect Linux, Windows and Mac computers together and collaborate in a coherent way. They could be the spider in the net, connecting it all in the background. Microsoft would never even touch that market with a ten foot pole so they wouldn't compete directly with MS.
Then came a series of very bad decisions like only (barely) support their own Linux version. kind of made their core service suck since you couldnt use it with any other Linux distribution than SUSE. They made a strange decision to use mono for their services. Things that was pretty reliable, like Zenworks completely blows with mono. Zenworks 10 is something your lucky if you get working, if you get a function realiable, go buy a lottery ticket. They made DSFW, domain services for Windows. A hard complicated and cumbersome way of running an AD. Why on earth would i want to run AD even crazier than on Windows?
The patent agreement with Microsoft was the real letter of resignation. They had the technology to capture a untapped market. The customers existed everywhere (what company today dont have Linux machines all over?) and they could help them with very little effort because their core services was ready to go and much of them already worked on Linux. It was just a matter of compiling and testing.
My theory is that upper management knew this and still opted for a quick buck. They sold their shareholders out in the long run, killing the company in the process.
I think your model would work very well, mostly based on my own experiences. I have taken numerous exams in all kinds of topics and the ones i remember the best are my Cisco and Novell certifications. The reason is that when i studied them i used an application that threw a couple of questions at me and based on what i replied i got more of the topics i hadnt got a good handle on.
This made me having to study the missing bits much harder but that in turn made the pieces i already had fall into place on the bigger picture.
Having to retake the tests in lower grades until you understand makes it much easier later on in school. Its worth the extra time and hassle, both for the student and the teacher.
Your system makes it the current teachers responsibility and impossible for a bad teacher to offload the work onto the next in line. It also makes it harder for students in bad classes to get good grades because their peers are not motivated and not because they are any good by themselves.
I really think this is a very good idea. Its a very nice way of measuring knowledge and makes it hard to coast through school on charm alone.
By splitting the points up in segments where for eg. perfect knowledge in a specific area gives 5 points you can force students who wants more points to cover the whole curriculum. It becomes much harder to ride on narrow knowledge. Grades becomes so much clearer than today and its really easy to pinpoint areas where more work is needed.
MS Research is a good place. Sadly nobody at Microsoft ever listen to them or take their advice. The beancounters and salespeople run the show from top to bottom and no amount of research will change that.
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The reason are i dont really feal threatened by Google having my private data. They have so far proven to be a very benovolent company with high moral fiber, as opposed to the courtroom jockey Microsoft have proven to be.
If i want autocomplete, synced bookmarks, search in the adressbar and other functions i really like some way or another that information has to pass through google for it to work. I can take that without much fuss because i trust Google.
On the other hand i wouldnt even dream of doing the same exakt thing with Microsoft because boy dont i trust those people.
And thats the problem for Microsoft but their solution is wrong. Instead of trying to wage a PR war against Google Microsoft should focus on getting a better rep by their own actions. Right now all they do is make me despise them for being whiny loosers.
"10 USD/mailbox/mth for exchange hosting"
And this is different from Google how? Id much rather put my security in the hands of the best software company in the world with a stunning track record for security.
"I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?"
Possible version:
I'm trying to teach myself to set idiots on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-CN-monthly-200902-201003
Many foreign companies has begun putting advanced research in China. It doesnt matter that the research is done by local residents, its still a drain.
Siding with China in times when the US is just waiting for anything to lambast China for this is not a smart move of Microsoft. The US has slowly started to realize China is the lawnmower and US is the grass unless something is done, especially know when the brain drain is starting to go towards China, leaving the US with nothing at all, neither patents nor manufacturing or talent.
The problem for Microsoft is that a whitdrawal would give open source unprecedented foothold. No matter how they turn they end up with problems at their hands. I dont think that was the goal of Google but if it plays out this way it sure tells being "the good guy" can pay out in the long run.
Just look at this article:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/24/technology/china_google_hearing/index.htm
Google has about 40% of a netizen count of more than 320 million, thats not bad at all. In comparison Yahoo/Bing has 1,5% and 0,09% respectivly. Also lets not forget the biggest use of Bada is listening to pirated music, not search.
It was very sad that Linux wouldnt be allowed in this year as opposed to last time when nobody could crack it. Regardless of how you measure market penetration its nice to have it there as a reference point. Anything you pay for should be much better than something you can get for free.
Chrome has an excellent sandbox, especially compared to IE8 and Safari which makes exploiting stuff very hard even if you know of an open exploit. That nobody even bothered is a testament to that it really works. Nobody hacks at pwn2own, its done long before the competition starts in reality.
Google Chrome OS is something really interesting and everything up until now points to it becoming one of the most secure OS in a long time. While MacOS X and Windows 7 is a pile of ugly hacks Chrome OS seems to be built on excellent foundation from a security viewpoint. I really like it how they take the user out of the equation, just in line with Microsofts security researchers (that Microsoft never seems to listen to).
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=3275&tag=nl.e036
I have been using it since last night and it has worked throughout from atleast last night up until now. This is a local problem somewhere, not real outage.
The problem is that its arbitrary what constitutes sensitive information. History has shown us with blinding clarity that the politicians always mix their personal comfort with whats good for the country they run.
It always comes down to "-If people know we are slezeball scumbags it threatens this countries stability" and many things thats sensitive in a political context gets rubberstamp "Top Secret" even if it in no way whatsoever threatens the country in itself.
The problem is the blatant abuse of the national security laws. Give a good man bad tools and he will use them. Give a politician bad tools and he will use them in any way possible for his own gain.
Its nice and very refreshing to see that a company can take responsibility and not just hide behind the money. Right now we are building a society where nobody is to blame for anything and everybody hides behind "business reasons" as if that was an excuse for making decisions against good faith.
I applaud Google and i really hope this will rub off against other companies. Its time we pull our global economy out of the gutter and start acting like grown up people.
The solution would be more resiliant systems because there will be a time when those bugs, holes and security issues, both technical and social, will be used by foreign governments. Going after the small people like carders etc is not the answer to the real problem, complete lack of any security responsibility from the various vendors.
Im actually grateful that "cyber criminals" exist because without them it security would be if possible even worse than today.
Does the fact that 100% of these machines run Windows XP/Vista/7 mean that Microsoft is the biggest supplier of Cloud OS computing software (if you disregard the small patches from the botnet owners)?
Have you actually compared Google to your random US company? I think regardless who you compare them with they come out pretty decent.
Some people tend to put them to extremely higher standards than anyone else. Its not enough they are nice, they have to be some kind of techie Ghandies fused with Jesus and a couple of hundred saints.
They are just refusing to do business by Chinas terms. Google will still be there, just not censored, edited and altered to suit China authorities. I suspect it will make Google more attractive to Chinese citizens at large, not less. Once China dumps their censoring Google will be the knight in shining armor while Bing, Baidu etc are the crooks nobody will want to associate with. My suspicion is that Google plays this for the long run and has calculated there aren't enough short term benefits selling their soul to the devil.
Id hate to work for someone like you. I have more important things to do than run around fighting fires. Like, tending to business interests instead of dealing with technological shortcomings of one specific vendor.
If you really want to be sure you avoid being part of a botnet, then yes, Windows is not one of the choices you have. It cant be secured, its like going down the rapids in a colander while trying to plug the holes with cabbage.
If you want to mitigate the problem you can add all sorts of defences but you will be owned eventually if you stay on Windows. The question is, is it worth all the money? One thing is sure, its damn expensive to fix Windows up to half-bad.
Call me old fashioned but i find GNAA hilarious because of the question; are there this many people trying to get into the GNAA association?
If you for one second think what you hear on the radio is decided by the radio station itself you sir are very gullable. Its very hard getting aired unless you have a big contract not matter how good your music is. On the rare occasions it happens RIAA is defacating themselves because you cant write slave contracts with an already successful artist.
This is about being the gatekeeper to media content. It has nothing at all to do with piracy per see. Youtube is the place to be if you want content to spread, like traliers, new bands etc.
If Youtube becomes the place to be for content Viacom and the rest of the leeches gets taken out of the equation as distributors. Its the same fight the RIAA is making. Its not about piracy, its about deciding what you watch, listens to and buys.
"Why should you ever, with all this parallel hardware, ever be waiting for your computer?"
Well for starters its only the CPU thats parallell in most computers. Your bloated pig of an OS that takes 4 Gig to run is causing more waiting because of I/O than because of CPU tasks. Stop writing often used routines in high level languages and youll see performance gains much bigger than any hardware can bring the next couple of years.
Back when Novell bought SUSE they wore lining up to be the most important company of all. They had a core service, eDir, that let them connect Linux, Windows and Mac computers together and collaborate in a coherent way. They could be the spider in the net, connecting it all in the background. Microsoft would never even touch that market with a ten foot pole so they wouldn't compete directly with MS.
Then came a series of very bad decisions like only (barely) support their own Linux version. kind of made their core service suck since you couldnt use it with any other Linux distribution than SUSE. They made a strange decision to use mono for their services. Things that was pretty reliable, like Zenworks completely blows with mono. Zenworks 10 is something your lucky if you get working, if you get a function realiable, go buy a lottery ticket. They made DSFW, domain services for Windows. A hard complicated and cumbersome way of running an AD. Why on earth would i want to run AD even crazier than on Windows?
The patent agreement with Microsoft was the real letter of resignation. They had the technology to capture a untapped market. The customers existed everywhere (what company today dont have Linux machines all over?) and they could help them with very little effort because their core services was ready to go and much of them already worked on Linux. It was just a matter of compiling and testing.
My theory is that upper management knew this and still opted for a quick buck. They sold their shareholders out in the long run, killing the company in the process.
I think your model would work very well, mostly based on my own experiences. I have taken numerous exams in all kinds of topics and the ones i remember the best are my Cisco and Novell certifications. The reason is that when i studied them i used an application that threw a couple of questions at me and based on what i replied i got more of the topics i hadnt got a good handle on.
This made me having to study the missing bits much harder but that in turn made the pieces i already had fall into place on the bigger picture.
Having to retake the tests in lower grades until you understand makes it much easier later on in school. Its worth the extra time and hassle, both for the student and the teacher.
Your system makes it the current teachers responsibility and impossible for a bad teacher to offload the work onto the next in line. It also makes it harder for students in bad classes to get good grades because their peers are not motivated and not because they are any good by themselves.
I really think this is a very good idea. Its a very nice way of measuring knowledge and makes it hard to coast through school on charm alone.
By splitting the points up in segments where for eg. perfect knowledge in a specific area gives 5 points you can force students who wants more points to cover the whole curriculum. It becomes much harder to ride on narrow knowledge. Grades becomes so much clearer than today and its really easy to pinpoint areas where more work is needed.
MS Research is a good place. Sadly nobody at Microsoft ever listen to them or take their advice. The beancounters and salespeople run the show from top to bottom and no amount of research will change that.