I tried wearing an MP3 while walking to work, but it was too distracting.
I live in a rural town and found the headphones way too distracting, as I could not concentrate on the what was going on around me. If I was running in the park or something that's a different matter, as I don't expect a fright or logging truck to not notice me and run me over. But on the partly sidewalkless streets here, you got to be aware of whats going on.
Though I think drivers are given way to much percived right of way than pedestrians, (it may say peds have it the law books, but not in real life). Not more than a week ago one kid in town got hit by a car while crossing the street to go to school (Caltrans took out many of the cross walks as it 'instilled a false sense of security', and are reluctant to put in a stop light else truck drivers would complain about stopping on a grade.).
FWIW: The Fuzzy character from the planet Melmac, Gordon Shumway (aka ALF) from the animated ALF series was a space grabage collector, Collecting junk in Melmac's orbit.
I've come to the conclusion that we (or some nation) should send up some sort of sticky, multilayered expandable ballon/net thing to catch such debris then drag it around different orbial paths to 'dredge' away the orbital junk. I can't see anything like Asteroids working.:-)
What are the minimum system requirements to download a movie or TV episode? Switching to Konquerer I was able to browse a coherent page layout and locate these system requirements:
Wal-Mart Video Download Manager - Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Vista (32 bit only no Macintosh or Linux). - 256MB of RAM or higher - 4 GB of hard disk space - A sound card - Speakers or headphones (if you want to play a movie or TV episode on your PC) - An internet connection (broadband recommended) - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher - Microsoft Windows Media® Player version 10 or higher (version 10 is preferred for syncing to portable devices) -.NET 2.0 or higher
I know how to spell it (as well as the many other words and syntax faux-pahs I create) just that my fingers don't like to type them and I don't notice till it's too late.
I guess I would give the PHB a potential cost of what breaches could happen and an analysis of your situation and what measures need to be done to prevent it.
i.e. If you are running a business that keeps SSNs, bank data or some other sensitive data you would factor in the cost of how many customers times how much it would cost if thier personal information were compromised. If you are in design/manufacturing, you could factor in R&D/loss of contract costs if designs were taken, etc. (not to mention press coverage and effects on future customers and the stock market for public companies.)
Also get any stories of breeches to a similar IT installation to show example that there is an issue.
It's not really an 'investment' as much as a reduction of liability, if the potential liability is less than the cost of the security it is a hard sell. But most likely it will be a fraction of the potential liability without it and even if you do get a breech after the security update it looks a whole lot better to clinets, the public and the press if you show a track record for keeping your security up to date.
Yeah, the Adam cassettes were standard cassets with an extra hole (to prevent stnadard cassettes from just fitting in and had been preformatted (coleco did not supply the formatting tools to the end user) Though I think there are formatting tools in the wild now.
the QL tapes are really tiny, I am sure smaller then the exatron (nver seen exatron tapes)
I think they are thinking more of thin clients with some sort of remote desktop thing.
I myself would like to strive for Linux Termimal Server type of installtion at our work, check out this Story from Newsforge and the one year follow up which chroniclaes the city of Largo Florida government deploying Linux Terminal Server/Clients.
I think it's happening a lot more then you think, it just takes time to configure and roll-out.
"Hollywood is blaming Canada as being the source for at least 50% of of the world's pirated movies..."
"Their problem is that the Canadian Copyright Act, as well as the policies of local police forces, makes it difficult to come down especially hard on perpetrators. Convicting someone is apparently rather difficult, almost requiring a law officer to have a 'smoking camcorder' in the hands of the accused. Hence, the consideration of more drastic measures."
So Canada is acting (unjustly according to Hollywood) in the notion that thier citizensa are innocent unless they are proven guilty beyond a shadow of doubt.
What a backwards country, thinking of of well being of its citizens over Corporate Revenues? Where are the lobbiests!?
I'm an engineer, and I can tell you that an engineer's politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs. Just three months ago I was offered a job working at one of the big information companies data centers, in a vast facility. And then I learned how screwed up the company's plans were. The money was right, but the risk was too big. So I passed the job onto a friend of mine.
While writing a C# script for some part of thier web portal my friend was hit by a flying chair, it was a leathal blow, and he died instantly. I'm still employed because I recognized the risks involved in working in a Death Star. Anyone working in a Death Star data center for Google or Microsoft is aware of the risks involved in that war. Whatever happens to them is their own fault.
From my write-up about the rack: The rack in the picture holds 4 standard Pentium II Motherboards per level and has a total of 80 Linux (2.0) servers per rack. Since they were standard MBs they had to get creative with things such as wiring and insulation (which was, in this case, cork-board.) The panel shows the server room as well as talks about the fire dangers of doing such a design. (Google is a neighbor to the Computer History Museum BTW).(closeup)
Pretty much had my jaw drop on that one - in light of MS stating the Zune with its wireless sharing features will 'kill' the iPhone and iPod and such you would have thought the Music Industry would play all nicey-nicey till the Zune had some market share then start doing thier stuff.
I search the Google Groups discussions for people who comment on whatever it is, what problems they were having, what works, what doesn't. Sometimes you se shill postings and wide ranging opinions, so you need to read between the lines and see if it is a real topic or just some frustrated new buyer.
Nowadays with blogging as a profession, as that a lot of the postings are rants and opinions of people who have never actually bought or used the item (case in point - PS3 or Wii).
Obviously the guy knows enough about the code to cash in on consulting by implementing the system for other districts, I think he just got greedy.
As an aside I've heard of other "work for hire" situations where orgs paid contractors to develop apps later to have the contractor turn it around into a commercial profit selling it to others, most of the time it is because the org does not know what rights they have and they also depend on the contractor to keep the system running. On a couple occasions after a few years the money dries up and the contractor leave all the orgs high and dry with an outdated app and without the source.
As far as Iowa's position I think that is best, it sounds like the GPL, as in - it was paid for by public money and thus stays public. As I said consulting for such systems could be a good business, good tech help is hard to find in the public sector.
PHP is secure as in it has the functionality to make secure sites.
PHP is insecure in that some of this is not implemented from the get go.
PHP is flexible as it does not force security on you - if for any reason you are running in an isolated environ or implementing something different attached to PHP.
By not being as strict in variable typing, etc. there are some things that can be done more directly in PHP then in other languages. Though it could cause hidden errors in good code as well.
There is stuff that can be fixed, Zend should get some of the hard housecleaning done (magic quotes, register globals, etc.) in a version # release (those who can't stick with 4 or 5 etc.) Though you then need to get the ISPs to upgrade and all the legacy scripts...
ASP, Java, Perl and Ruby people would like to see more stuff in their languages than in PHP (and will FUD PHP to promote thier cause good or bad).
I chose PHP because: - it is on most webhosts and distro installers - a lot of great code and/or projects are readily available in PHP. - the language does everything I require and then some - the syntax is VERY easy to read and understand - this includes my own code as well as learning from others. - it is platform agnostic (no lock-in) - it is not limited by licensing (if open source, which is ok for me) or vendor-control code restraints - it works with many platform agnostic DBs also - even the security issues are well documented and understandable and does teache you a lot more about web security than languages that just do it for you (or that you assume are secure).
So for me I know the drawbacks and I see the benefits, and the benefits are worth the extra effort.
In summary I see that it has worthy merits and also "warning labels", (such as this slashdot post illustrates) the devs will make up thier own mind on using it, get over it.
Don't think the Mac's filesystem nevr gets corrupted after time, it does. Noton Utilities was THE program to repair a messed up file system repaing directory sructure b-tree leaves (whatever ythey were) detecting incomplete files etc. Maybe the file systems have improved but I am sure there is still some mess in any file system that build up after time (due to power outages, etc.)
Norton 3 included a bunch of great utilities besides the disk repair/recover, a erase free space utility (to prevent undelete utilities for finding stuff), a bakup utility that could baack up to disk sets (vetry easy to use also compressed), Defragmetor (Apple claims this is no problem now), a nice disk doctor program, and one of the better keyboard aids I've seen (keyfinder).
When HFS Extended came in they dropped the backup, later they pretty much dropped the rest of the extras and the repairr utility was causing more problems then solutions (loss of knowledgeable file system repair technicians is my assumption). So then they turned to mainly seling AV scanning tools as they had a pretty safe bet on that front.
Several of these are Microsoft products, probably pulled to protect their Windows business. The loss of those, and the hobbling of Office 2007 can't be put to Apple's door (especially Office 2007, as the Mac user base is getting larger). FoxPro hasn't been available since... 1994 for the Mac, and about the same for Windows. Now it's MS Access, which Microsoft will probably never port.
I'm, not putting it on "Apple's Door" I am stating for the sake of Business on Macs that the business tools available for the Mac had been dwindling over time (regardless of Apple's involvement or due to its lack thereof)
VirtualPC is no loss at all now, since Boot Camp and Parallels are both much better at just about everything.
If you want to run Windows apps that is; and Boot Camp is excellent - if you don't want to run Mac OS.
So... given that your lists had 14 items and only 5 of them were Apple (and of those, only 4 are unique) how can Apple "catch up" with the other items?
Well by actually promiting business use on the Mac again would be a good start. (you remember those old MAc ads with the guy runnign circles around the DOS/Windows user with fancy charts quick turnaround and stuff... probably not)
Should they lobby the other companies for feature parity, or to port the missing apps? How can Apple force Microsoft to release new Mac products, for example, and is that a realistic thing to attempt?
They need to get thier business related devloper toolkits built back up again (there are some great languages DBs, etc now available they can build resources for), re-start thier human interface standards group (I think they fired them all during the development of OSX), fix the problems with the Finder (networking access is real slow), and re-introduce some lost productivity-oriented tools (scrapbook, keycaps) might be a good start.
I wasn't trolling I work in an office where Macs have been around since the 80s, corporate software selections were better then. In the past few years Apple had been ignoring "Macintosh: work with style" more toward plugging "Digital lifestyle" and riding on the business reputation of the OS9 days. OSX is a great advancement for some things and has promise, but also has its share of issues (like network performance) to still clean up.
As for Parallels and VMware I am aware of those but you have to buy Windows all over again so Crossover Office is definately more promising for those who already have a perfectly good OS and don't want to buy another one to run certain programs.
As for using Windows or GNU apps to suplement the lack of Mac apps, it's doable but not the best solution as they are not overly compatible to Mac's OS features as native ones are.
Apple needs to catch back up to the business software base they had with OS 7-9, There were tons of cool apps for earlier macs that for one reason or another are not available/usable anymore (largly because the transition to OS 10 proabaly was not worth the developer's efforts to go do a re-wite.)
Here are some of the many great business app casualties: - MS Project - MS Outlook - Dragon Power Secretary - Omniform - FoxPro - AppleWorks - Virtual PC (Intel) (though Crossover Office has promise) - Classic (on intel) - Hypercard
Some that did or are making the transition are hobbled versions compared to earlier versions: - MS Office 2007 (or whatever they will call it it - will be hobbled- no VBA) - Noton Utilities (if only it had the features of ver 3) - Apple iWork (read: AppleWorks beyond 6) where is the Spreadsheet and DB?
Then there are others that offer a new better version but no form of backwards compatibility (such as to convert the old files to new): - PrintShop - iWork (AppleWorks->Pages)
More than likely the "Geico Caveman look" will then become all the fasion and we will be spammed to high end with adds about guys being able to have more hair in more places so we can have that 21st century caveman appearance.
Slashdot Mirror
I tried wearing an MP3 while walking to work, but it was too distracting.
I live in a rural town and found the headphones way too distracting, as I could not concentrate on the what was going on around me. If I was running in the park or something that's a different matter, as I don't expect a fright or logging truck to not notice me and run me over. But on the partly sidewalkless streets here, you got to be aware of whats going on.
Though I think drivers are given way to much percived right of way than pedestrians, (it may say peds have it the law books, but not in real life). Not more than a week ago one kid in town got hit by a car while crossing the street to go to school (Caltrans took out many of the cross walks as it 'instilled a false sense of security', and are reluctant to put in a stop light else truck drivers would complain about stopping on a grade.).
FWIW: The Fuzzy character from the planet Melmac, Gordon Shumway (aka ALF) from the animated ALF series was a space grabage collector, Collecting junk in Melmac's orbit.
I've come to the conclusion that we (or some nation) should send up some sort of sticky, multilayered expandable ballon/net thing to catch such debris then drag it around different orbial paths to 'dredge' away the orbital junk. I can't see anything like Asteroids working. :-)
What are the minimum system requirements to download a movie or TV episode?
.NET 2.0 or higher
Switching to Konquerer I was able to browse a coherent page layout and locate these system requirements:
Wal-Mart Video Download Manager
- Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Vista (32 bit only no Macintosh or Linux).
- 256MB of RAM or higher
- 4 GB of hard disk space
- A sound card
- Speakers or headphones (if you want to play a movie or TV episode on your PC)
- An internet connection (broadband recommended)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
- Microsoft Windows Media® Player version 10 or higher (version 10 is preferred for syncing to portable devices)
-
It sure looked a lot like the "Silly Walk" that John Cleese does in Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks sketch. I think Mr. Cleese should sue him!
Perfect score, I never played any of them! (Ok, really not that hard since I only use Mac and Linux OS on modern machines).
I know how to spell it (as well as the many other words and syntax faux-pahs I create) just that my fingers don't like to type them and I don't notice till it's too late.
:-D
I guess it's "no mod points for me!"
I guess I would give the PHB a potential cost of what breaches could happen and an analysis of your situation and what measures need to be done to prevent it.
i.e. If you are running a business that keeps SSNs, bank data or some other sensitive data you would factor in the cost of how many customers times how much it would cost if thier personal information were compromised. If you are in design/manufacturing, you could factor in R&D/loss of contract costs if designs were taken, etc. (not to mention press coverage and effects on future customers and the stock market for public companies.)
Also get any stories of breeches to a similar IT installation to show example that there is an issue.
It's not really an 'investment' as much as a reduction of liability, if the potential liability is less than the cost of the security it is a hard sell. But most likely it will be a fraction of the potential liability without it and even if you do get a breech after the security update it looks a whole lot better to clinets, the public and the press if you show a track record for keeping your security up to date.
Yeah, the Adam cassettes were standard cassets with an extra hole (to prevent stnadard cassettes from just fitting in and had been preformatted (coleco did not supply the formatting tools to the end user) Though I think there are formatting tools in the wild now.
the QL tapes are really tiny, I am sure smaller then the exatron (nver seen exatron tapes)
From my old timer memory:
8" disks are commonly called floopy disks.
5.25" disks - mini-floppy disks. (unless they were the Lisa ones which were Twiggy Floppys)
3.5" disks - micro-floppy disks.
(though micro-floppy was widely used for other formats like the 3 and 2" versions as well.)
Cassette tapes were just Cassttes - or in Commodore speak 'datasettes' (I think Adam cassettes were data-packs).
Then there were the exatron tapes which were stringy floppies.
And the tinly Sinclair QL tapes were micrdodrive cartridges or something like that.
I think they are thinking more of thin clients with some sort of remote desktop thing.
I myself would like to strive for Linux Termimal Server type of installtion at our work, check out this Story from Newsforge and the one year follow up which chroniclaes the city of Largo Florida government deploying Linux Terminal Server/Clients.
I think it's happening a lot more then you think, it just takes time to configure and roll-out.
"Hollywood is blaming Canada as being the source for at least 50% of of the world's pirated movies..."
"Their problem is that the Canadian Copyright Act, as well as the policies of local police forces, makes it difficult to come down especially hard on perpetrators. Convicting someone is apparently rather difficult, almost requiring a law officer to have a 'smoking camcorder' in the hands of the accused. Hence, the consideration of more drastic measures."
So Canada is acting (unjustly according to Hollywood) in the notion that thier citizensa are innocent unless they are proven guilty beyond a shadow of doubt.
What a backwards country, thinking of of well being of its citizens over Corporate Revenues? Where are the lobbiests!?
This needs a rewrite:
I'm an engineer, and I can tell you that an engineer's politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs. Just three months ago I was offered a job working at one of the big information companies data centers, in a vast facility. And then I learned how screwed up the company's plans were. The money was right, but the risk was too big. So I passed the job onto a friend of mine.
While writing a C# script for some part of thier web portal my friend was hit by a flying chair, it was a leathal blow, and he died instantly. I'm still employed because I recognized the risks involved in working in a Death Star. Anyone working in a Death Star data center for Google or Microsoft is aware of the risks involved in that war. Whatever happens to them is their own fault.
Like this early rackmounted array of Google servers which was displayed at the Vintage Computer Festival in 2005 and now is (I believe) on display at the Computer History Museum (which is worth the effort to tour if you are near the Palo Alto/Mountain View California Area.
From my write-up about the rack: The rack in the picture holds 4 standard Pentium II Motherboards per level and has a total of 80 Linux (2.0) servers per rack. Since they were standard MBs they had to get creative with things such as wiring and insulation (which was, in this case, cork-board.) The panel shows the server room as well as talks about the fire dangers of doing such a design. (Google is a neighbor to the Computer History Museum BTW). (closeup)
Pretty much had my jaw drop on that one - in light of MS stating the Zune with its wireless sharing features will 'kill' the iPhone and iPod and such you would have thought the Music Industry would play all nicey-nicey till the Zune had some market share then start doing thier stuff.
Nowadays with blogging as a profession, as that a lot of the postings are rants and opinions of people who have never actually bought or used the item (case in point - PS3 or Wii).
Obviously the guy knows enough about the code to cash in on consulting by implementing the system for other districts, I think he just got greedy.
As an aside I've heard of other "work for hire" situations where orgs paid contractors to develop apps later to have the contractor turn it around into a commercial profit selling it to others, most of the time it is because the org does not know what rights they have and they also depend on the contractor to keep the system running. On a couple occasions after a few years the money dries up and the contractor leave all the orgs high and dry with an outdated app and without the source.
As far as Iowa's position I think that is best, it sounds like the GPL, as in - it was paid for by public money and thus stays public. As I said consulting for such systems could be a good business, good tech help is hard to find in the public sector.
The arguments:
PHP is secure as in it has the functionality to make secure sites.
PHP is insecure in that some of this is not implemented from the get go.
PHP is flexible as it does not force security on you - if for any reason you are running in an isolated environ or implementing something different attached to PHP.
By not being as strict in variable typing, etc. there are some things that can be done more directly in PHP then in other languages. Though it could cause hidden errors in good code as well.
There is stuff that can be fixed, Zend should get some of the hard housecleaning done (magic quotes, register globals, etc.) in a version # release (those who can't stick with 4 or 5 etc.) Though you then need to get the ISPs to upgrade and all the legacy scripts...
ASP, Java, Perl and Ruby people would like to see more stuff in their languages than in PHP (and will FUD PHP to promote thier cause good or bad).
I chose PHP because:
- it is on most webhosts and distro installers
- a lot of great code and/or projects are readily available in PHP.
- the language does everything I require and then some
- the syntax is VERY easy to read and understand - this includes my own code as well as learning from others.
- it is platform agnostic (no lock-in)
- it is not limited by licensing (if open source, which is ok for me) or vendor-control code restraints
- it works with many platform agnostic DBs also
- even the security issues are well documented and understandable and does teache you a lot more about web security than languages that just do it for you (or that you assume are secure).
So for me I know the drawbacks and I see the benefits, and the benefits are worth the extra effort.
In summary I see that it has worthy merits and also "warning labels", (such as this slashdot post illustrates) the devs will make up thier own mind on using it, get over it.
That was really good, insightful, interesting, etc. Thanks for the tip!
Don't think the Mac's filesystem nevr gets corrupted after time, it does. Noton Utilities was THE program to repair a messed up file system repaing directory sructure b-tree leaves (whatever ythey were) detecting incomplete files etc. Maybe the file systems have improved but I am sure there is still some mess in any file system that build up after time (due to power outages, etc.) Norton 3 included a bunch of great utilities besides the disk repair/recover, a erase free space utility (to prevent undelete utilities for finding stuff), a bakup utility that could baack up to disk sets (vetry easy to use also compressed), Defragmetor (Apple claims this is no problem now), a nice disk doctor program, and one of the better keyboard aids I've seen (keyfinder). When HFS Extended came in they dropped the backup, later they pretty much dropped the rest of the extras and the repairr utility was causing more problems then solutions (loss of knowledgeable file system repair technicians is my assumption). So then they turned to mainly seling AV scanning tools as they had a pretty safe bet on that front.
Foxpro is alive and kicking
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/
and equating it to Access is a joke (you don't do much DB work eh?)
I'm, not putting it on "Apple's Door" I am stating for the sake of Business on Macs that the business tools available for the Mac had been dwindling over time (regardless of Apple's involvement or due to its lack thereof)
VirtualPC is no loss at all now, since Boot Camp and Parallels are both much better at just about everything.
If you want to run Windows apps that is; and Boot Camp is excellent - if you don't want to run Mac OS.
So... given that your lists had 14 items and only 5 of them were Apple (and of those, only 4 are unique) how can Apple "catch up" with the other items?
Well by actually promiting business use on the Mac again would be a good start. (you remember those old MAc ads with the guy runnign circles around the DOS/Windows user with fancy charts quick turnaround and stuff... probably not)
Should they lobby the other companies for feature parity, or to port the missing apps? How can Apple force Microsoft to release new Mac products, for example, and is that a realistic thing to attempt?
They need to get thier business related devloper toolkits built back up again (there are some great languages DBs, etc now available they can build resources for), re-start thier human interface standards group (I think they fired them all during the development of OSX), fix the problems with the Finder (networking access is real slow), and re-introduce some lost productivity-oriented tools (scrapbook, keycaps) might be a good start.I wasn't trolling I work in an office where Macs have been around since the 80s, corporate software selections were better then. In the past few years Apple had been ignoring "Macintosh: work with style" more toward plugging "Digital lifestyle" and riding on the business reputation of the OS9 days. OSX is a great advancement for some things and has promise, but also has its share of issues (like network performance) to still clean up.
As for Parallels and VMware I am aware of those but you have to buy Windows all over again so Crossover Office is definately more promising for those who already have a perfectly good OS and don't want to buy another one to run certain programs.
As for using Windows or GNU apps to suplement the lack of Mac apps, it's doable but not the best solution as they are not overly compatible to Mac's OS features as native ones are.
Apple needs to catch back up to the business software base they had with OS 7-9, There were tons of cool apps for earlier macs that for one reason or another are not available/usable anymore (largly because the transition to OS 10 proabaly was not worth the developer's efforts to go do a re-wite.)
Here are some of the many great business app casualties:
- MS Project
- MS Outlook
- Dragon Power Secretary
- Omniform
- FoxPro
- AppleWorks
- Virtual PC (Intel) (though Crossover Office has promise)
- Classic (on intel)
- Hypercard
Some that did or are making the transition are hobbled versions compared to earlier versions:
- MS Office 2007 (or whatever they will call it it - will be hobbled- no VBA)
- Noton Utilities (if only it had the features of ver 3)
- Apple iWork (read: AppleWorks beyond 6) where is the Spreadsheet and DB?
Then there are others that offer a new better version but no form of backwards compatibility (such as to convert the old files to new):
- PrintShop
- iWork (AppleWorks->Pages)
More than likely the "Geico Caveman look" will then become all the fasion and we will be spammed to high end with adds about guys being able to have more hair in more places so we can have that 21st century caveman appearance.
Well, Um, I tried Valgol, and my code kept gagging with like "Spoon Error"s. :-P
Dude.
I mean, like, I try to write this program, and like, the language does ONLY what I tell it to, not what I really want. That really sucks.
Can't someone write up some stuff that understands proper english? Geez.