Chrome is pretty slick and very fast compared to IE. Its also following Googles principles of keeping it simple. IE on the other hand is bloating out like a pregnant pig. IE8 is just abysmal. On a modern fast four core desktop thats no biggie but since the most popular computers right now are smartphones and netbooks performance counts a boatload in reality.
Sending a computer by mail seems to me like a very stupid method to deliver a trojan horse. I have a hard time imaging someone that stupid, especially at espionage level.
I can imagene pentest like theese but not used by a smart hacker.
Thats nothing, when i was a child i had a calculator that was a pile of pebbles. By putting them in different piles i could count different types of objects at the same time.
If it was true that optimizing 5% was enough to get big performance gains in an OS i wonder why most recent ones are slugs on lead diet? Its not all about pure CPU performance, much is about disk and memory footprint which is where i suspect most of the gains lies in using assembly programming. The same routine for altering a picture in Windows might perform just as well as the same routine in for eg. Its just that everything else in a modern OS is written in high level language and the overhead makes it really noticable in the end. Compare reading a floppy into memory to reading and storing 16GB in memory and you get the picture.
Im pretty intrigued by all that the UK citizen that seems to put up with this. CCTV at their jobs, parks, roads and even pointing right into their very private homes. Laws demanding handing over encryption keys encriminating themselves, survalliance and secret prisons etc. For being able to monitor illegal downloads they will save ALL traffic that people sends and receives on their computers, not just movies and music but everything at all lika chat etc.
Are people in the UK just fine with this or are the press just ignoring it? Myself i have a hard time understanding how people would just sheeply comply with their overlords and bend over without a fuss. Especially when the powers that be tends to classify more and more about themselves the more they pry into about ther underlings. Things like theese makes the KGB/Stasi etc look pretty lame and innocent.
Im not so sure about that. If i4i is smart they will not under any circumstanses sell the patent to Microsoft. Demand a limited time license thats renegotiated periodically.
The thing is, i4i has ECMA Office Open XML by the balls. If i4i has the patent the standard is utterly useless for Microsoft. They must have it at any cost so the negotiating power lies at i4i. Not even Chuck Norris can help Microsoft on this.
Most people are ready to try Windows 7 as the tried Vista. The interesting question is how many will stay on Windows 7. How about business and application compability? I know about XP compability mode, wont happen. If its much work going from XP to Windows 7 there will be tough resistance.
I suspect the most eager people to go to Windows 7 is those on Windows Vista, not those on XP.
Essentially the problem is the same for Windows 7 as for Windows Vista. It doesnt bring anything that isnt already in Windows XP. Its just not worth the hassle.
After reading the verdict its pretty clear that Microsoft knew about this patent and i4i long before they implemented custom XML. Its probable that they did infact learn about custom XML through i4is products and patents. Internal mails was shown where Microsoft did mention i4i and even their patent numbers.
It looks as if Microsofts counsels has done pretty much anything possible to defend themselves but the case is so darn clearcut that they just cant win. The problem for Microsoft is that Office Open XML has now become i4is bitch while ODF is wholly in the clear and unencumbered by i4i patents (according to i4i). Since ECMA-376 contains the i4i patented technology in the standard its worthless to anyone in the US.
The long time effects of cellphones hasnt been properly researched yet. The problem is nobody knows if its dangerous yet. In ten-twenty years time we will know for sure and some parents may want to be on the safe side.
The usefullness of gaming mags are nowadays nonexistent. The reason is the blatant ad-based reviews. Put a couple of expensive ads in the mag and you get a stellar review of your game.
I dont want to wade through a gaming magazine and buy really crappy games to sift through muck before i find one thats playable. I want the gaming mag to describe to me what the game is all about.
The gaming mag industry killed itself just as the IT-mags are killing themselves with paid reviews and tight connections to the industry. Its all based on trust and when you cant tell an article from an ad you might as well drive around town looking at billbords than read a magazine.
I run Chromium, the Linux port of Google Chrome since a couple of weeks. At first it was barely usable but things has started to pickup fast. Its dead fast on my eeepc 901 and on my normal workstations at work and at home. Over time i have really started to like Chromium, even more so than Firefox.
Ive also ran some on Windows with the normal Google Chrome and its even more stunning comparing IE8 and Google Chrome. The differences in speed and "up in your face!, here i am!, look at me!" are stunning. While IE8 is all over you trying to stear you towards Windows Live Google Chrome just stays the hell out of my way. Speedwise the difference is enormous on all sites.
If Google releases a real Google Chrome for Linux i suspect both Firefox and Konqueror is in for a ride. Not that they are bad in any way, rather that Google Chrome is so darn good already.
Its pretty common that civilian shelters/bunkers are bombed. In fact it happened multiple times in the iraq war. Thats what this bomb will be used for amongst other fine things. Its pretty hard to know how a bunker is used if you dont have people on the ground that can confirm a bunker is used for military purpouses and not as a shelter.
Ever since i first sat down in my dads electric Berlingo ive been wanting an electric car. The feeling of turning the key and silently whisk away is hard to explain. The odd acceleration thats constant all the way is nice, its more like a subway train than a car accelerating. I commute about 10 miles a day at most and does longer trips once or twice a month. We have two cars (three actually if i count my old car). Replacing one of them with an electric car and using one of them for longer trips will work excellent.
The government should make theese cars taxfree, without benefit taxes and subsidize them. Use the vast amount of money gotten from Gas taxes and enviroment taxes.
The reason we have this tech is that the same stuff is sold in Europe and the US amongst others. Most of Europe is right now implementing deep packet inspection and are about to become just like Iran. If the west starts complaining about it not only does it look bad but first of all it draws attention to widespread surveillance. I do not expect much complaints about Irans KGB/Stasi methods from the EU or the US.
The worst design decision in my mind is having the hot stuff inside the computer case. It would be very simple to cool the hot parts outside the case. The CPU is easiest, just put the CPU on the backside of the motherboard and have its hot side easily accesible on the outside. That way most CPU would be sufficiantly cooled by passive cooling given a large enough dissipating area. An added benefit would be that it wouldnt be heating the rest of the computer up.
Same goes for graphics, especially the kind that just tosses the same hot air around in the case. Its no wonder a modern computer is hard to cool silently since most of the cooling happens in a very hot enviroment and has very low delta T to operate in.
This must be the most transparent desperate try at getting good PR i have seen in a long time. Its pretty obvious Microsoft wants to distribute a picture of Google "putting their best" at finding out what new wonderful things has come from the name change Microsoft did. Everyone knows its just a rebranded Live Search with hand tweaked results.
Bing is just as bad as Live Search unless you stumble upon a very limited set of handmade search results. Bottomline, its still Live Search and the algorithm still sucks. No amount of PR will change that.
The only thing i think Google is afraid of is Microsoft using its monopoly to crush any competition. Like, using an upgrade to change peoples search presets or pushing people towards bing no matter where they really want to go...
The single most frustrating thing for a user is when something doesnt work wich in a normal corporate setting is pretty much all the time. Its very expensive to keep things running.
If you have had bad experinces with web applications chances are you have been running ActiveX kind of "webapps" wich is the worst of both worlds.
While Sony and Microsoft has largely lost money so far on their consoles Nintendo has made bucketloads, ney truckloads of money on the Wii. Nintendo can now upgrade their console up to par with Sony and Microsoft for a much smaller cost than Microsoft and Sony can upgrade theirs.
The big question i have is if Nintendo will focus on making the controls for Wii better and more accurate or if they have other gimmicks up their sleeve.
Getting rid of stupid clients would be godsent for any admin in the world. Having all applications in the browser would be a huge step forward.
You try, getting three different clients working against a database from the same vendor working properly. They all crave different versions of dotnet, java or whatnot and any new version of the client software demands countless hours of testing just about every possible combination of apps. Upgrades are pure nightmare. Couple this with locked down desktops, profiles that has to be managed and policies that needs hard testing before you alter a single setting.
Getting rid of all those problems alone would be worth serious money for any company. Added benefit would be that backend services would be totally decoupled from what OS the client runs. Microsoft will fight this for all they are worth.
How can it not be antitrust behavior to put strong pressure on OEM's not to sell competing products? The availability of Linux doesn't change the fact that any manufacturer of anything competing with Windows gets a big gun aimed at their head. Remember BeOS, OLPC and Asus netbooks? Those are solid examples where a manufacturer and its customer wants one thing and Microsoft coerces them to ditch alternatives in favor for Windows. Its blatant open and utter contempt for ordinary market forces at play here and it hurts the market much more than it hurts the competitors to Microsoft.
Microsoft is abusing OEMs and directing them to the point that the only thing left they can compete on is price alone. Theres nothing they can differentiate at all. ASUS did go the Linux route, was extremely succesful and still ditched Linux because of enormous pressure from Microsoft. Even if Linux based netbooks sold like butter they vanished off the market. The same goes for any competitor on the OS market. Nobody will get past Microsoft no matter how god OS gets released and thats the real problem. Numerous old inventions in the OS realm still waits for someone to implement them but its just wasted money to do so because of how Microsoft abuses its current monopoly.
Were at a complete standstill when it comes to computing and its all thanks to Microsoft and lax US antitrust regulations. Imagine where we would be today hadnt US DOJ stepped in 1980 and wrangled the computing market away from IBM? You sure as heck wouldnt be having a computer at home thats for sure!
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Chrome is pretty slick and very fast compared to IE. Its also following Googles principles of keeping it simple. IE on the other hand is bloating out like a pregnant pig. IE8 is just abysmal. On a modern fast four core desktop thats no biggie but since the most popular computers right now are smartphones and netbooks performance counts a boatload in reality.
"SUVs are designed to kill people."
SUVs arent designed, that would imply some kind of thinking behind them.
Took me a while to understand it but now my coworker keeps staring at me as i cant stop giggling.
Youre fucking awesome!
Sending a computer by mail seems to me like a very stupid method to deliver a trojan horse. I have a hard time imaging someone that stupid, especially at espionage level.
I can imagene pentest like theese but not used by a smart hacker.
Thats nothing, when i was a child i had a calculator that was a pile of pebbles. By putting them in different piles i could count different types of objects at the same time.
If it was true that optimizing 5% was enough to get big performance gains in an OS i wonder why most recent ones are slugs on lead diet? Its not all about pure CPU performance, much is about disk and memory footprint which is where i suspect most of the gains lies in using assembly programming. The same routine for altering a picture in Windows might perform just as well as the same routine in for eg. Its just that everything else in a modern OS is written in high level language and the overhead makes it really noticable in the end. Compare reading a floppy into memory to reading and storing 16GB in memory and you get the picture.
Im pretty intrigued by all that the UK citizen that seems to put up with this. CCTV at their jobs, parks, roads and even pointing right into their very private homes. Laws demanding handing over encryption keys encriminating themselves, survalliance and secret prisons etc. For being able to monitor illegal downloads they will save ALL traffic that people sends and receives on their computers, not just movies and music but everything at all lika chat etc.
Are people in the UK just fine with this or are the press just ignoring it? Myself i have a hard time understanding how people would just sheeply comply with their overlords and bend over without a fuss. Especially when the powers that be tends to classify more and more about themselves the more they pry into about ther underlings. Things like theese makes the KGB/Stasi etc look pretty lame and innocent.
Im not so sure about that. If i4i is smart they will not under any circumstanses sell the patent to Microsoft. Demand a limited time license thats renegotiated periodically.
The thing is, i4i has ECMA Office Open XML by the balls. If i4i has the patent the standard is utterly useless for Microsoft. They must have it at any cost so the negotiating power lies at i4i. Not even Chuck Norris can help Microsoft on this.
Most people are ready to try Windows 7 as the tried Vista. The interesting question is how many will stay on Windows 7. How about business and application compability? I know about XP compability mode, wont happen. If its much work going from XP to Windows 7 there will be tough resistance.
I suspect the most eager people to go to Windows 7 is those on Windows Vista, not those on XP.
Essentially the problem is the same for Windows 7 as for Windows Vista. It doesnt bring anything that isnt already in Windows XP. Its just not worth the hassle.
After reading the verdict its pretty clear that Microsoft knew about this patent and i4i long before they implemented custom XML. Its probable that they did infact learn about custom XML through i4is products and patents. Internal mails was shown where Microsoft did mention i4i and even their patent numbers.
It looks as if Microsofts counsels has done pretty much anything possible to defend themselves but the case is so darn clearcut that they just cant win. The problem for Microsoft is that Office Open XML has now become i4is bitch while ODF is wholly in the clear and unencumbered by i4i patents (according to i4i). Since ECMA-376 contains the i4i patented technology in the standard its worthless to anyone in the US.
The long time effects of cellphones hasnt been properly researched yet. The problem is nobody knows if its dangerous yet. In ten-twenty years time we will know for sure and some parents may want to be on the safe side.
Its just that this company isnt a patent troll. Its a former close partner to Microsoft.
The usefullness of gaming mags are nowadays nonexistent. The reason is the blatant ad-based reviews. Put a couple of expensive ads in the mag and you get a stellar review of your game.
I dont want to wade through a gaming magazine and buy really crappy games to sift through muck before i find one thats playable. I want the gaming mag to describe to me what the game is all about.
The gaming mag industry killed itself just as the IT-mags are killing themselves with paid reviews and tight connections to the industry. Its all based on trust and when you cant tell an article from an ad you might as well drive around town looking at billbords than read a magazine.
I run Chromium, the Linux port of Google Chrome since a couple of weeks. At first it was barely usable but things has started to pickup fast. Its dead fast on my eeepc 901 and on my normal workstations at work and at home. Over time i have really started to like Chromium, even more so than Firefox.
Ive also ran some on Windows with the normal Google Chrome and its even more stunning comparing IE8 and Google Chrome. The differences in speed and "up in your face!, here i am!, look at me!" are stunning. While IE8 is all over you trying to stear you towards Windows Live Google Chrome just stays the hell out of my way. Speedwise the difference is enormous on all sites.
If Google releases a real Google Chrome for Linux i suspect both Firefox and Konqueror is in for a ride. Not that they are bad in any way, rather that Google Chrome is so darn good already.
Its pretty common that civilian shelters/bunkers are bombed. In fact it happened multiple times in the iraq war. Thats what this bomb will be used for amongst other fine things. Its pretty hard to know how a bunker is used if you dont have people on the ground that can confirm a bunker is used for military purpouses and not as a shelter.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1049327.html
Now the US can bomb even more civilian bunkers to bits than they did in the Iraq war!
The constant aggression from the US is the biggest reason theese countries tries to get nuclear arms.
Ever since i first sat down in my dads electric Berlingo ive been wanting an electric car. The feeling of turning the key and silently whisk away is hard to explain. The odd acceleration thats constant all the way is nice, its more like a subway train than a car accelerating. I commute about 10 miles a day at most and does longer trips once or twice a month. We have two cars (three actually if i count my old car). Replacing one of them with an electric car and using one of them for longer trips will work excellent.
The government should make theese cars taxfree, without benefit taxes and subsidize them. Use the vast amount of money gotten from Gas taxes and enviroment taxes.
The reason we have this tech is that the same stuff is sold in Europe and the US amongst others. Most of Europe is right now implementing deep packet inspection and are about to become just like Iran. If the west starts complaining about it not only does it look bad but first of all it draws attention to widespread surveillance. I do not expect much complaints about Irans KGB/Stasi methods from the EU or the US.
The worst design decision in my mind is having the hot stuff inside the computer case. It would be very simple to cool the hot parts outside the case. The CPU is easiest, just put the CPU on the backside of the motherboard and have its hot side easily accesible on the outside. That way most CPU would be sufficiantly cooled by passive cooling given a large enough dissipating area. An added benefit would be that it wouldnt be heating the rest of the computer up.
Same goes for graphics, especially the kind that just tosses the same hot air around in the case. Its no wonder a modern computer is hard to cool silently since most of the cooling happens in a very hot enviroment and has very low delta T to operate in.
This must be the most transparent desperate try at getting good PR i have seen in a long time. Its pretty obvious Microsoft wants to distribute a picture of Google "putting their best" at finding out what new wonderful things has come from the name change Microsoft did. Everyone knows its just a rebranded Live Search with hand tweaked results.
Bing is just as bad as Live Search unless you stumble upon a very limited set of handmade search results. Bottomline, its still Live Search and the algorithm still sucks. No amount of PR will change that.
The only thing i think Google is afraid of is Microsoft using its monopoly to crush any competition. Like, using an upgrade to change peoples search presets or pushing people towards bing no matter where they really want to go...
The single most frustrating thing for a user is when something doesnt work wich in a normal corporate setting is pretty much all the time. Its very expensive to keep things running.
If you have had bad experinces with web applications chances are you have been running ActiveX kind of "webapps" wich is the worst of both worlds.
While Sony and Microsoft has largely lost money so far on their consoles Nintendo has made bucketloads, ney truckloads of money on the Wii. Nintendo can now upgrade their console up to par with Sony and Microsoft for a much smaller cost than Microsoft and Sony can upgrade theirs.
The big question i have is if Nintendo will focus on making the controls for Wii better and more accurate or if they have other gimmicks up their sleeve.
Getting rid of stupid clients would be godsent for any admin in the world. Having all applications in the browser would be a huge step forward.
You try, getting three different clients working against a database from the same vendor working properly. They all crave different versions of dotnet, java or whatnot and any new version of the client software demands countless hours of testing just about every possible combination of apps. Upgrades are pure nightmare. Couple this with locked down desktops, profiles that has to be managed and policies that needs hard testing before you alter a single setting.
Getting rid of all those problems alone would be worth serious money for any company. Added benefit would be that backend services would be totally decoupled from what OS the client runs. Microsoft will fight this for all they are worth.
How can it not be antitrust behavior to put strong pressure on OEM's not to sell competing products? The availability of Linux doesn't change the fact that any manufacturer of anything competing with Windows gets a big gun aimed at their head. Remember BeOS, OLPC and Asus netbooks? Those are solid examples where a manufacturer and its customer wants one thing and Microsoft coerces them to ditch alternatives in favor for Windows. Its blatant open and utter contempt for ordinary market forces at play here and it hurts the market much more than it hurts the competitors to Microsoft.
Microsoft is abusing OEMs and directing them to the point that the only thing left they can compete on is price alone. Theres nothing they can differentiate at all. ASUS did go the Linux route, was extremely succesful and still ditched Linux because of enormous pressure from Microsoft. Even if Linux based netbooks sold like butter they vanished off the market. The same goes for any competitor on the OS market. Nobody will get past Microsoft no matter how god OS gets released and thats the real problem. Numerous old inventions in the OS realm still waits for someone to implement them but its just wasted money to do so because of how Microsoft abuses its current monopoly.
Were at a complete standstill when it comes to computing and its all thanks to Microsoft and lax US antitrust regulations. Imagine where we would be today hadnt US DOJ stepped in 1980 and wrangled the computing market away from IBM? You sure as heck wouldnt be having a computer at home thats for sure!
I dont understand how they can go after small things like this while Microsoft continues abusing OEM's.