I'd prefer to see work that wasn't "inspired" by American cinema - which IMHO is amoungst the worst in the world. Sure, there are notable exceptions, but the majority of it is pure trash with little redeemable value.
It is better to be taught by a grand master than another apprentice.
Even artists need to eat. Why should cheap punks be able to enjoy the fruits of the artists labour without contributing something of their own. These artists aren't GPL'ing their work - they expect recompense for it.
Seems like ther're fighting over the wrong thing. The issue is not that the information could be found on the website and that they though that security through obscurity would protect it. The issue is that company report information is price sensitive (i.e. it affects the price of the stock) and should not be made public until the company is ready to release it. Reuters know this, they deal with it every day, and should not have released the information until the public announcement was made. Unless this info is released to ALL distribution chanels at the same time it can create a scenerio where some users are able to make trade decisions prior to the res of the market. This tends to be called insider trading.
You may have missed the point of this and the target audience. Solaris is aimed at business users, not nerds sitting at home debateing why vi is better than emacs.
For $99 you get a great OS, which is a nice start, but what all businesses really want is to know that there will be someone there providing support if they run into trouble. They can't just rely on the open source community hacking up a quick solution "once I'm done playing Quake".
$75/month wouldn't even show up on the balance sheet of any decent business and would be well worth paying to guarantee your supplier will be there when you need them i.e. they didn't go bust.
I develop bespoke software for a living and part of what we provide for all out clients is a service level agreement, which means they pay us x pounds a month, and we guarantee them x days of work and support on their apps each month. Without this arrangement their applications would soon become abandonware.
How about Fulan Gong practitioners being able to post or read information about their religion in a country that bans and outlaws it?
The chinese will simply block it at the firewall. Possession of this software will in itself become a crime - they will have less freedom than before because the people who could have used it for reasonable (according to chinese government) usage will be treated the same as the Fulan Gong members.
How about women in the middle east being able to safely find information about women's rights in other countries, and possibly even using such a network as medium for creating political change in their own countries?
I doubt their men will allow them access to the internet - even if there is a computer available in their general area. Even TV is banned in some of these countries.
How about americans being able to express their disagreement with current "anti-terrorist" laws or actions of the Bush administration without fear of ending up on some FBI list as a potential terrorist or disadent?
How about they do this, but not anonymously. Let the government know that ordinary people are angry. They can't put the whole country on a potential terrorist list now can they?
Perhaps if people started to create stuff and put their own content out into the wider world instead of ripping off and distributing other peoples hard work (while still trying to maintain they are striking some sort of blow for freedom) the governments and large corporations would look upon these PTP networks with a more friendly eye.
But what will almost certainly happen instead is that it will become a haunt for paedophiles (anonymonity suits them quite nicely) and kids who want to swap warez and mp3s. Shame really.
I wouldn't mind using it if they removed the anonymity from the system. Then people can publish what they want (which is good) but are still held accountable for their writings.
Is this performance noticeable by boring old workstation users (like me) using it as a desktop, or will I only notice if it's a server?
Just interested, since I don't have any compelling reason to switch from a kernel I know is working for me, and working well.
The government already lays down laws that govern nearly every aspect of your life. Why should software development be any different?
e.g. you can't just go throw some bricks together, call it a house, and live in it. There are basic safety standards that need to be adhered to.
Also, the government are the elected officials of the people...and we pay for everything the government says and does. I personnally don't want them spending £600/annum (or whatever the current cost of a complete desktop suite is) for each person who has a PC when there are perfectably acceptable alternatives available.
Maintenance seems to be the major portion of any project to me. Once it's designed, coded and deployed it enters that twillight world of maintenance, where it resides for the next decade or more:-)
God I hope they haven't granted this blatently obvious and completely covered by prior art patent to him:
"Module Computer Program for Managing Dynamic Pricing Information
Patent Number: WO 01/29744 A2
Users of a computer network (e.g., the Internet) can be encouraged to access dynamic pricing information (e.g., bid/ask pricing information for goods/services available in commerce) on the computer network (e.g., collected and maintained by a dynamic pricing system) by distributing to one or more users of the computer network (e.g., by e-mail) a modular computer program (e.g., a Java applet) that displays (e.g., in ticker format) dynamic pricing information collected from the computer network, and presenting to the one or more users of the modular computer program an interactive visual indication (e.g., a hyperlink or glyph) of a user-attractive resource available on the computer network (e.g., a contest, reword program coupons, etc. ). Access to the user-attractive resource can be provided to a user upon sensing that the user selected the interactive visual indication. The stream of dynamic pricing information displayed to users can have a predefined taxonomy, and the users can selectively view different levels of the taxonomy."
That would cover every stock ticker in the world. This sort of stuff is ludicrous. We would have to go back to using ticker tape or a LED display to avoid the patent - as long as the LED device didn't use a JVM that is!
I'm going to patent jerking off while using a cheap terminal to convey pornographics images to me. I bet no-one has thought of that before - and no-one would admit to prior art. It's all mine...ha ha ha ha!
I have seen many Windows 2000 Pro machines with a blank admin password. It's not FUD, it's fact. That may be bacause when people are prompted to set the password they can accept the default which is blank...hard to remember since I haven't done an install for a few months.
Also, IIS is installed by default on Server and Advanced Server, but not on Professional.
There's a ton of reasons why it's less secure, so I'll just cover a couple to give you a taste.
1. Although it asks you to log in before use you can just press ESC to bypass this and have complete access to the machine.
2. Anyone can change any file and there is no record of the action.
3. No firewall by default (most OS's don't but at least linux encourages you to use one).
4. It's not really supported anymore so any exploits out there are likely to remain in action forever.
The only blessing for Win98 is that it has lot's less internet connectivity out the box. So, although it's piss easy to screw with if you have console access, there is less to attack with internet access. i.e. without FP Extensions, FTP, SMTP and Web Servers installed by default it is slightly more secure than the defaults with Win2000 (which now have well known hacks unless you service pack them). Students are unlikely to know they need to keep service packing their machines.
So he's plugged a monitor into a PC and it's small. So what? Why is this considered newsworthy on SlashDot? A laptop would have made a better mini cinema.
That's odd, I have the opposite experience, but maybe that's just the way I'm approaching the distro. I loaded SuSE 7.0 onto my machine which learning Linux. It was an excellent first distro, so when time came I updated the machine to 7.1, which generally worked OK.
Once I got better at Linux I started to compile all myt apps from source code, and this is how I have been updating my machine for the last 18 months (including KDE3). Of course, I can't rely on the RPM system anymore because it's not aware of all those cool source installs I have done, but that's not really an issue for me. Today, the vast amount of software on my box has been compiled from source, and only the Ogg libraries gave me any grief - though they eventually got it together and compiled with a later release.
Check out NITF for an XML format that can take embedded documents (JPEG, GIF, Video, Audio). Anything can be embedded into XML if you encode it (like email which I should remind you was and possibly is in some places 7bit).
You're missing the best feature of Visio and the sole reason we use it. Design your ERD in Visio, then get Visio to actually create the database tables, triggers, relationships, etc for you from the diagram.
You can then place the ERD Diagram into your tech spec and you're done for the afternoon. Go to the pub and drink beer.
Oddly enough this isn't actually true, it's just what M$ wants you to believe. FTSE is considering reclassifying M$ next year because they make most of their revenue from *investment* in other companies. Crazy hey?
Of the software revenue Office is their greatest earner.
Face it, IT is alot like manual labor, it is just putting your nose to the grindstone and just work. Someone willing to put in the time can make something of themselves, especially a smart person, but they are not going to turn into the CEO of a big company, you need that degree/i>
It's fairly obvious from this statement that you are not in IT, or if you are, you're in one of those menial positions that can be filled by degree holders.
Programming is not like manual labour. It requires high degrees of business and analysis skills along with creative problem solving.
It's worth pointing out too that accountants don't need a degree either. They can go into acounting straight from high school. There are professional accounting bodies that will provide accreditation to accountants.
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It's closer to stealing $1 from the company that made it and preventing all the middle men from getting the rest.
It is better to be taught by a grand master than another apprentice.
Even artists need to eat. Why should cheap punks be able to enjoy the fruits of the artists labour without contributing something of their own. These artists aren't GPL'ing their work - they expect recompense for it.
Seems like ther're fighting over the wrong thing. The issue is not that the information could be found on the website and that they though that security through obscurity would protect it. The issue is that company report information is price sensitive (i.e. it affects the price of the stock) and should not be made public until the company is ready to release it. Reuters know this, they deal with it every day, and should not have released the information until the public announcement was made. Unless this info is released to ALL distribution chanels at the same time it can create a scenerio where some users are able to make trade decisions prior to the res of the market. This tends to be called insider trading.
For $99 you get a great OS, which is a nice start, but what all businesses really want is to know that there will be someone there providing support if they run into trouble. They can't just rely on the open source community hacking up a quick solution "once I'm done playing Quake".
$75/month wouldn't even show up on the balance sheet of any decent business and would be well worth paying to guarantee your supplier will be there when you need them i.e. they didn't go bust.
I develop bespoke software for a living and part of what we provide for all out clients is a service level agreement, which means they pay us x pounds a month, and we guarantee them x days of work and support on their apps each month. Without this arrangement their applications would soon become abandonware.
It's great for circuit boards and audio connectors!
The chinese will simply block it at the firewall. Possession of this software will in itself become a crime - they will have less freedom than before because the people who could have used it for reasonable (according to chinese government) usage will be treated the same as the Fulan Gong members.
I doubt their men will allow them access to the internet - even if there is a computer available in their general area. Even TV is banned in some of these countries.
How about they do this, but not anonymously. Let the government know that ordinary people are angry. They can't put the whole country on a potential terrorist list now can they?
Perhaps if people started to create stuff and put their own content out into the wider world instead of ripping off and distributing other peoples hard work (while still trying to maintain they are striking some sort of blow for freedom) the governments and large corporations would look upon these PTP networks with a more friendly eye. But what will almost certainly happen instead is that it will become a haunt for paedophiles (anonymonity suits them quite nicely) and kids who want to swap warez and mp3s. Shame really. I wouldn't mind using it if they removed the anonymity from the system. Then people can publish what they want (which is good) but are still held accountable for their writings.
Is this performance noticeable by boring old workstation users (like me) using it as a desktop, or will I only notice if it's a server? Just interested, since I don't have any compelling reason to switch from a kernel I know is working for me, and working well.
Publish your idea in the relevant scientific journals.
If the idea is good it will stand up to their careful examination and then you can organise a business partner who can cash it on it with you.
If your idea sucks then it will be rubbished and it has cost you nothing to find this out.
No-one else can patent the idea because you can show clear prior art - so open source dudes are able to enjoy your algorithm.
If it's as good an idea as you think you can just milk the publicity bandwagon for a few years as a way of cashing it
Don't bother with this technique, I am pretty sure it is an old wives tale. Why not just place the algorithm into an escrow insetad?
The government already lays down laws that govern nearly every aspect of your life. Why should software development be any different? e.g. you can't just go throw some bricks together, call it a house, and live in it. There are basic safety standards that need to be adhered to. Also, the government are the elected officials of the people...and we pay for everything the government says and does. I personnally don't want them spending £600/annum (or whatever the current cost of a complete desktop suite is) for each person who has a PC when there are perfectably acceptable alternatives available.
Maintenance seems to be the major portion of any project to me. Once it's designed, coded and deployed it enters that twillight world of maintenance, where it resides for the next decade or more :-)
God I hope they haven't granted this blatently obvious and completely covered by prior art patent to him: "Module Computer Program for Managing Dynamic Pricing Information Patent Number: WO 01/29744 A2 Users of a computer network (e.g., the Internet) can be encouraged to access dynamic pricing information (e.g., bid/ask pricing information for goods/services available in commerce) on the computer network (e.g., collected and maintained by a dynamic pricing system) by distributing to one or more users of the computer network (e.g., by e-mail) a modular computer program (e.g., a Java applet) that displays (e.g., in ticker format) dynamic pricing information collected from the computer network, and presenting to the one or more users of the modular computer program an interactive visual indication (e.g., a hyperlink or glyph) of a user-attractive resource available on the computer network (e.g., a contest, reword program coupons, etc. ). Access to the user-attractive resource can be provided to a user upon sensing that the user selected the interactive visual indication. The stream of dynamic pricing information displayed to users can have a predefined taxonomy, and the users can selectively view different levels of the taxonomy." That would cover every stock ticker in the world. This sort of stuff is ludicrous. We would have to go back to using ticker tape or a LED display to avoid the patent - as long as the LED device didn't use a JVM that is!
I'm going to patent jerking off while using a cheap terminal to convey pornographics images to me. I bet no-one has thought of that before - and no-one would admit to prior art. It's all mine...ha ha ha ha!
I have seen many Windows 2000 Pro machines with a blank admin password. It's not FUD, it's fact. That may be bacause when people are prompted to set the password they can accept the default which is blank...hard to remember since I haven't done an install for a few months. Also, IIS is installed by default on Server and Advanced Server, but not on Professional.
There's a ton of reasons why it's less secure, so I'll just cover a couple to give you a taste. 1. Although it asks you to log in before use you can just press ESC to bypass this and have complete access to the machine. 2. Anyone can change any file and there is no record of the action. 3. No firewall by default (most OS's don't but at least linux encourages you to use one). 4. It's not really supported anymore so any exploits out there are likely to remain in action forever. The only blessing for Win98 is that it has lot's less internet connectivity out the box. So, although it's piss easy to screw with if you have console access, there is less to attack with internet access. i.e. without FP Extensions, FTP, SMTP and Web Servers installed by default it is slightly more secure than the defaults with Win2000 (which now have well known hacks unless you service pack them). Students are unlikely to know they need to keep service packing their machines.
So he's plugged a monitor into a PC and it's small. So what? Why is this considered newsworthy on SlashDot? A laptop would have made a better mini cinema.
That's odd, I have the opposite experience, but maybe that's just the way I'm approaching the distro. I loaded SuSE 7.0 onto my machine which learning Linux. It was an excellent first distro, so when time came I updated the machine to 7.1, which generally worked OK. Once I got better at Linux I started to compile all myt apps from source code, and this is how I have been updating my machine for the last 18 months (including KDE3). Of course, I can't rely on the RPM system anymore because it's not aware of all those cool source installs I have done, but that's not really an issue for me. Today, the vast amount of software on my box has been compiled from source, and only the Ogg libraries gave me any grief - though they eventually got it together and compiled with a later release.
Check out NITF for an XML format that can take embedded documents (JPEG, GIF, Video, Audio). Anything can be embedded into XML if you encode it (like email which I should remind you was and possibly is in some places 7bit).
You're missing the best feature of Visio and the sole reason we use it. Design your ERD in Visio, then get Visio to actually create the database tables, triggers, relationships, etc for you from the diagram. You can then place the ERD Diagram into your tech spec and you're done for the afternoon. Go to the pub and drink beer.
I and my development team all use Visio to draw up ERD's...that's at least a dozen people...
Yep, my windows box is always identifiable by the blue screen it frequently displays.
Oddly enough this isn't actually true, it's just what M$ wants you to believe. FTSE is considering reclassifying M$ next year because they make most of their revenue from *investment* in other companies. Crazy hey? Of the software revenue Office is their greatest earner.
Face it, IT is alot like manual labor, it is just putting your nose to the grindstone and just work. Someone willing to put in the time can make something of themselves, especially a smart person, but they are not going to turn into the CEO of a big company, you need that degree/i> It's fairly obvious from this statement that you are not in IT, or if you are, you're in one of those menial positions that can be filled by degree holders. Programming is not like manual labour. It requires high degrees of business and analysis skills along with creative problem solving. It's worth pointing out too that accountants don't need a degree either. They can go into acounting straight from high school. There are professional accounting bodies that will provide accreditation to accountants.