I know I'm off-topic for the article, but I'm on-topic for the thread. Moderate as you see fit (you would anyway).
I may be a minority in this opinion, but here goes:
I hate XP's taskbar grouping. The point of the taskbar was that you could easily see what you had open, switch between different tasks with the click of a mouse, and close uneeded programs in two steps.
Grouping defeats teh function of the taskbar. Windows has always been "instance independant" - grouping seems like some desperate attempt to be a little more like a Mac, where you run one program and had multiple windows.
I like Apple's approach, and the combination of Tabs and the "Apple-`" command fixed that for me on my Mac. The problem is the Windows interface (independant menu bars, mostly) isn't conducive to the Macintosh implementation.
Releasing a new console this soon could be damaging to Sony. Computers have advanced quite quickly, and this has lead to confusion and hesitant buyers (Why buy now when something better will be out in 2 weeks?).
If game consoles start coming out more often, it will become more difficult for people to justify the expense. A console is worth it because it lasts. If new consoles are out every 2 years, plenty of people will skip generations to save on cost, and developers will go crazy trying to push out a newer, better version of their game for the next console.
End result: Fewer games available for each platform. Unless Sony intends to make every console backwards compatible to the PS1 (it worked so well for Intel, right?) something would eventually give.
I wonder what kind of acceptance rate the Xserve RAID will acheive. It seems like a useful product, but might only get niche use, as many people still view Apple products as incompatible, expensive, and underpowered, regardless of the truth. *sigh*
Some proprietary products like Microsoft Office partially maintain there dominance by not disclosing the details of the file format, or modifying standard formats to reduce compatability. Do you think that competetive free products would be more widely accepted if the file formats were open/standardized, or would the dominance and familiarity of the current packages would maintain their market control?
We have technology available that allows you to search audio files by phonemes. That can be rolled together into dictation software and could provide a text track/file that would be searchable. This would require a bit of new software to be written. It would probably end up with an XML style document where each word or sentence is marked by data describing its time index.
As a side note, technology like that would have incredibly beneficial implications for the television/movie world - imagine being able to index all the speech in a movie and bring up clips based on word usage. This would improve the gathering of footage for news programs and could make editing documentaries easier.
My parents have an iMac running OS 9. I would like to be able to connect to it wirelessly, but the $89 price tag on the AirPort card is a little steep. If I could get a cheaper USB one, I might be able to set it up. Granted, I don't know about connectivity speeds, what with USB's inherent issues.
And why doesn't anyone make FireWire Wireless Adaptors?! I want to connect my CD-RW to my laptop wirelessly! Oh, wait, nevermind.
Not completely. If you have a severe up/downstream difference, providing priority to packets on your end will improve the availability of your bandwidth, even when you are maxing it out.
I think a timeframe needs to be established. Those who find exploits in programs have a moral obligation to let the maintainers of the program know first and give them a reasonable amount of time to fix the problem.
But what is reasonable? A week? A month? What if the exploit is a deep flaw in the system, something that cannot be fixed?
So, how long is long enough to keep an exploit from the general public? Does it depend upon the exploit, the company that makes the product, or the person who finds it? Is there a balance to be found?
Windows always has been and always will be a security risk.
Superior alternatives exist... so why is anyone still using Windows??? -- Sure Joe runs sendmail, and sendmail is insecure. But does Joe's server get attacked frequently? Chances are it probably doesn't. If it does, Joe may be looking into alternatives, or Joe may have found one already.
Joe doesn't have the time to fix every potential threat. Joe probably installs patches and updates as frequently as possible, maybe even on a schedule. Joe does his best to keep sendmail from being a problem, and at the same time Joe tries not to waste time.
If Joe were working for a huge company that depended heavily on it's e-mail, Joe would probably spend more time on sendmail. But odds are Joe doesn't, and Joe is doing the best he can.
I've never thought, "Gee, I wish I could use my computer from across the room, but dammit, I don't have a wireless mouse with the sufficient range... Wait! I've got a cellphone! If only..."
I suppose it actually has some practical use - Maybe Steve Jobs will use his cell phone to control his KeyNote presentations, or does he already?
That is an excellent consideration. Apple has long since dropped the floppy drive from their computer and most people don't miss it. The people most affected are the ones who work on small files at home or move small files between locations. They have been either constantly e-mailing documents, or may have purchased a floppy drive. The easier integration of a.Mac account into the Windows world makes both.Mac more appealing, and life easier for the small-file movers.
Though I don't remember the name off the top of my head, it's FM. I think all your speakers have to do is match the freqeuncy of the station somewhere - either in the circuitry on the computer, in the amplifier, or somewhere, and the "noise" of the band's modulation is incorporated into the signal.
Those with more (read: any) EE experience please tear my theory to shreds as appropriate.
That's shielding, I think. Only really good speakers are shielded, and all sorts of things come through when you don't have shielded speakers.
Various systems/speakers I've used I have heard hard drive access, monitor changes, even mouse movement. Though, my favorite speaker issue is my current speakers pick up a country station when the volume is all the way down. You can make it out when it's quiet, especially at night.
I'm completely unsure if this is possible, but could you set up the PII boxes as iSCSI servers, and connect to them that way? I think that would offer better efficiency than Samba, and someone who knows could tell you if any sort of RAID is possible with iSCSI.
If he wanted to do this with Macs instead, the newer PowerMacs use a single System Controller within which both the ethernet and memory subsystems lie. This gives you one-step access from the ethernet card to the memory, which could improve your communication latency. Also, the new PowerMacs handle GigE, support to 2 GB ofRAM, and use DDR (266 or 333, depending on model), making for a (hopefully) better situation.
Of course, you are still suffering from practical network limitations, protocol limitations, and more. Making a distributed file system over a network of sufficient speed doesn't sound like a bad idea, it just seems to need a few things.
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I'm with you. While this is certainly thinner than most light sources, the "totally flat" suggested is a little much.
And in another segement of "Me Paying Attention", none of the other links work, either, expecting the non x86 links under Platforms, which link back to the main page.
Moore's Observation? Moore's Theorum? Moore's Speculation? - this would have been good early on... Moore's Principle? Moore's Equation? - something for the big math fans to complain about... Moore's Paradigm? - something for the cliche in all of us... Moore's Model? Moore's Formula?
I kind of like Moore's Determinant, but it's not very accurate.
But if we wander around changing things because we think they aren't right, that makes us revisionists. And revisionists are doomed to experience history for what they are sure is the first time.
Webmail is insecure because it resends the same data (username & password) regularly to the server. Credit Cards submissions and sign-in pages are unlikely to keep sending the same data repetetively.
Of course, we just need a better webmail application, and you'll be fine.
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I know I'm off-topic for the article, but I'm on-topic for the thread. Moderate as you see fit (you would anyway).
I may be a minority in this opinion, but here goes:
I hate XP's taskbar grouping. The point of the taskbar was that you could easily see what you had open, switch between different tasks with the click of a mouse, and close uneeded programs in two steps.
Grouping defeats teh function of the taskbar. Windows has always been "instance independant" - grouping seems like some desperate attempt to be a little more like a Mac, where you run one program and had multiple windows.
I like Apple's approach, and the combination of Tabs and the "Apple-`" command fixed that for me on my Mac. The problem is the Windows interface (independant menu bars, mostly) isn't conducive to the Macintosh implementation.
Alright, I'll stop.
Releasing a new console this soon could be damaging to Sony. Computers have advanced quite quickly, and this has lead to confusion and hesitant buyers (Why buy now when something better will be out in 2 weeks?).
If game consoles start coming out more often, it will become more difficult for people to justify the expense. A console is worth it because it lasts. If new consoles are out every 2 years, plenty of people will skip generations to save on cost, and developers will go crazy trying to push out a newer, better version of their game for the next console.
End result: Fewer games available for each platform. Unless Sony intends to make every console backwards compatible to the PS1 (it worked so well for Intel, right?) something would eventually give.
I wonder what kind of acceptance rate the Xserve RAID will acheive. It seems like a useful product, but might only get niche use, as many people still view Apple products as incompatible, expensive, and underpowered, regardless of the truth. *sigh*
Cornell has entered into a partnership with local Office Supply stores - CD-R sales are expected to skyrocket!
Some proprietary products like Microsoft Office partially maintain there dominance by not disclosing the details of the file format, or modifying standard formats to reduce compatability. Do you think that competetive free products would be more widely accepted if the file formats were open/standardized, or would the dominance and familiarity of the current packages would maintain their market control?
We have technology available that allows you to search audio files by phonemes. That can be rolled together into dictation software and could provide a text track/file that would be searchable. This would require a bit of new software to be written. It would probably end up with an XML style document where each word or sentence is marked by data describing its time index.
As a side note, technology like that would have incredibly beneficial implications for the television/movie world - imagine being able to index all the speech in a movie and bring up clips based on word usage. This would improve the gathering of footage for news programs and could make editing documentaries easier.
My parents have an iMac running OS 9. I would like to be able to connect to it wirelessly, but the $89 price tag on the AirPort card is a little steep. If I could get a cheaper USB one, I might be able to set it up. Granted, I don't know about connectivity speeds, what with USB's inherent issues.
And why doesn't anyone make FireWire Wireless Adaptors?! I want to connect my CD-RW to my laptop wirelessly! Oh, wait, nevermind.
Not completely. If you have a severe up/downstream difference, providing priority to packets on your end will improve the availability of your bandwidth, even when you are maxing it out.
I would love to be able to buy the music I want, be sure of the quality, and be able to listen to it on my iPod.
;)
Besides, I'm tired of getting damn samples of Cochise when I'm looking for something.
I think a timeframe needs to be established. Those who find exploits in programs have a moral obligation to let the maintainers of the program know first and give them a reasonable amount of time to fix the problem.
But what is reasonable? A week? A month? What if the exploit is a deep flaw in the system, something that cannot be fixed?
So, how long is long enough to keep an exploit from the general public? Does it depend upon the exploit, the company that makes the product, or the person who finds it? Is there a balance to be found?
Windows always has been and always will be a security risk.
Superior alternatives exist... so why is anyone still using Windows???
--
Sure Joe runs sendmail, and sendmail is insecure. But does Joe's server get attacked frequently? Chances are it probably doesn't. If it does, Joe may be looking into alternatives, or Joe may have found one already.
Joe doesn't have the time to fix every potential threat. Joe probably installs patches and updates as frequently as possible, maybe even on a schedule. Joe does his best to keep sendmail from being a problem, and at the same time Joe tries not to waste time.
If Joe were working for a huge company that depended heavily on it's e-mail, Joe would probably spend more time on sendmail. But odds are Joe doesn't, and Joe is doing the best he can.
I've never thought, "Gee, I wish I could use my computer from across the room, but dammit, I don't have a wireless mouse with the sufficient range... Wait! I've got a cellphone! If only..."
I suppose it actually has some practical use - Maybe Steve Jobs will use his cell phone to control his KeyNote presentations, or does he already?
That is an excellent consideration. Apple has long since dropped the floppy drive from their computer and most people don't miss it. The people most affected are the ones who work on small files at home or move small files between locations. They have been either constantly e-mailing documents, or may have purchased a floppy drive. The easier integration of a .Mac account into the Windows world makes both .Mac more appealing, and life easier for the small-file movers.
Photoshop was developed on Macintosh because the salesman let the Knoll brothers take home a Mac and play with it for a few weeks.
:)
It's not a new idea, but it's a good one.
Though I don't remember the name off the top of my head, it's FM. I think all your speakers have to do is match the freqeuncy of the station somewhere - either in the circuitry on the computer, in the amplifier, or somewhere, and the "noise" of the band's modulation is incorporated into the signal.
Those with more (read: any) EE experience please tear my theory to shreds as appropriate.
That's shielding, I think. Only really good speakers are shielded, and all sorts of things come through when you don't have shielded speakers.
Various systems/speakers I've used I have heard hard drive access, monitor changes, even mouse movement. Though, my favorite speaker issue is my current speakers pick up a country station when the volume is all the way down. You can make it out when it's quiet, especially at night.
I'm completely unsure if this is possible, but could you set up the PII boxes as iSCSI servers, and connect to them that way? I think that would offer better efficiency than Samba, and someone who knows could tell you if any sort of RAID is possible with iSCSI.
If he wanted to do this with Macs instead, the newer PowerMacs use a single System Controller within which both the ethernet and memory subsystems lie. This gives you one-step access from the ethernet card to the memory, which could improve your communication latency. Also, the new PowerMacs handle GigE, support to 2 GB ofRAM, and use DDR (266 or 333, depending on model), making for a (hopefully) better situation.
Of course, you are still suffering from practical network limitations, protocol limitations, and more. Making a distributed file system over a network of sufficient speed doesn't sound like a bad idea, it just seems to need a few things.
I'm with you. While this is certainly thinner than most light sources, the "totally flat" suggested is a little much.
And in another segement of "Me Paying Attention", none of the other links work, either, expecting the non x86 links under Platforms, which link back to the main page.
You'll note the "Get MicroBSD" links are all 404.
Apache/2.0.43 Server at www.microbsd.com Port 80
What happens if someone wants to open a link in a new window, or work on two sections at the same time?
Not trying to downplay the concept, just interested in the implementation.
Maybe he should have been more vague...
That way we'd all own something like a HP Beowulf Complex (Pavilions are much too small) 4550, or IBM's latest NetVista HIVE 8000.
Of course, laptops would just suck.
Moore's Observation?
Moore's Theorum?
Moore's Speculation? - this would have been good early on...
Moore's Principle?
Moore's Equation? - something for the big math fans to complain about...
Moore's Paradigm? - something for the cliche in all of us...
Moore's Model?
Moore's Formula?
I kind of like Moore's Determinant, but it's not very accurate.
But if we wander around changing things because we think they aren't right, that makes us revisionists. And revisionists are doomed to experience history for what they are sure is the first time.
Webmail is insecure because it resends the same data (username & password) regularly to the server. Credit Cards submissions and sign-in pages are unlikely to keep sending the same data repetetively.
Of course, we just need a better webmail application, and you'll be fine.