>Now, how long until IE7? We all know a higher version means better!
God, please, no! Every new version of MS Internet Explorer comes filled with bugs, and now they support IE 5.0, 5.5 and 6 (as well as some service packs in between).
I just hope Microsoft waits a little befor releasing a new version of their software and make good code audit, or worms like Code Red/Nimda/Klez will continue to appear.
These constant Internet Exploer fixes are a result from the "browser wars", when MS an Netscape competed to release their new browser every six new months or so. The rush prevented good code auditing, and several bugs were not wiped.
Now that this "war" is over, I hope MS (and Netscape) make a good review of their browser before releasing it, and stabilize the existing code. If we are lucky, IE 7 will be shipped only in 2003 or 2004 - and by "we" I mean every internet user, for the bugs in IE helped the spread of annoying worms like Nimda and Klez.
Excerpt from the Internet Storm Center (isc.incidents.org):
... no current alert...
Widespread port 80 scans are still dominating all other activity. These scans appear to be caused by remaining Nimda/Code Red activity.(...)
In this particular case, most probes come from windows-only worms. The lead topics in Slashdot HAVE bias in Windows-related matters, but this time they are right.
18. An example of how the standardization made possible by the Windows platform benefits consumers and promotes innovation in the computer industry is AMD's Athlon XP microprocessor. The Athlon XP microprocessor is AMD's latest microprocessor, and it meets the computation-intensive needs of consumers who use cutting-edge software applications running on high-performance personal computers.
19. AMD invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the research and development of the Athlon XP microprocessor. This investment could only be recouped because Athlon XP microprocessors are guaranteed to perform--and perform well--on any personal computer running Microsoft Windows XP or other current or legacy versions of Windows. If AMD could not rely on the stability and consistency of the Windows platform, or upon the widespread availability of that platform, AMD could not have justified the enormous expense of creating the Athlon XP, to the great detriment of consumers. As stated at page 21 of our 2001 Annual Report (attached hereto as Exhibit A): "We Depend on Microsoft Corporation's Support for Our Products and Its Logo License. Our ability to innovate beyond the x86 instruction set controlled by Intel depends on support from Microsoft in its operating systems. If Microsoft does not provide support in its operating systems for our x86 instruction sets, independent software providers may forego designing their software applications to take advantage of our innovations. In addition, we have entered into logo license agreements with Microsoft that allow us to label our products as 'Designed for Microsoft Windows.' If we fail to retain the support and certification of Microsoft, our ability to market our processors could be materially adversely affected."
These links were posted today in Kazaa.com, but shortly after they were deleted. They were in a page where you could read:
"We are proud to announce our partnership with Altnet. As our relationship evolves you will see an evolution in p2p software, taking KaZaA to a completely new dimension without sacrificing any of the things you enjoy in the software."
Yada, Yada
"With Altnet, consumers will be able to opt in to making certain parts of their computing power available to businesses. This may include disk space, processing power or bandwidth. You will know exactly how a business would like to use your resources at the time of use. You choose what jobs can use your machine and which ones cannot. You earn redeemable points for sharing your resource."
Kazaa.com was so "proud" of this partnership that the page was removed from their server in the same day!
I checked out the server ftp:/download.us.kde.org and couldn't find the files. The directories are empty (it's 20h15 GMT). Has anyone downloaded stable KDE 3.0?
Someone striped Kazaa off the bundled software (spyare) and claims to make avaliable a clean version of the program. I have naver tested it, but you can find it on www.kazaalite.tk/.
Nope. Most artists get most of their money from selling CDs. This, of course, doesn't apply to new bands or underground band who have a tiny but fiel number of fans - a cult band.
Making shows involves a lot of costs, and audiences can't grow indefinitely. In other words, you can't put 2.500 people in a theather that have a capacity of 2.500.
The costs of producing an album are recording and marketing. Once an artist sells a certain amount of coppies, each new CD sold is pure profit. If the first 2.000 have sold out, it's not that difficult or expensive to print some more.
On top of that, an artist can be at only one place at a time, make one show a night. His CD, however, may be bought in different places, at the same time. It can be bought in a city or country he has never set his foot at. Bands and artists make their shows as a way of promoting their CDs, and not the other way round.
And getting money from selling t-shirts... c'mon. Not every music fan buy the t-shirt of the artists they appreciate. If a musician get his money from selling clothes, he should consider changing his profession.
You got a point, but it applies only to films and TV series. Music, books, articles, photographs generally have one or few authors. Corporations only contribute with marketing and distribution (what, I admit, may be vital to the dissemination of the work).
Software gets in the middle: it can be a one-man-job or involve a huge development team.
I fail to see a practical implication of this decision beyond the legal precedent. Kazaa BV, developer of Kazaa, sold the rights of the program to an obscure Australian company, Sharman Networks. This way, they could evade Dutch jurisdiction after the first trial.
Niklas Zennstrom, original developer of Kazaa, seems to be the only one directly afected by the decision.
Only if higher courts upheld the decision it would have a practical effect: Holland would turn into a haven for P2P companies and developers.
Dnet was the first project to create a flexible distributed client for internet work. They contributed in the development of distributed computing based on public participation over the internet. Before it, I can remember of GIMPS, but their client performs only one task - searching for new primes. With the Dnet, the same client can be used for different tasks.
It is also the most non-obstrusive distributed client, taking up only 2 MB RAM while in background. Other clients can eat as much as 16 MB of your RAM.
One could argue over Dnet priorities. They have taken over 1500 days to break the 64-bit encription key, and may take 300 more to wrap it up. But we should hope the project pick up a new goal once RC5-64 is finished, and not disband altogether.
In a nutshell, Dnet may not have clear practical goals, but it may be used for the development of distributed computing, that can be put for very practical uses.
Sure, tech-savy people know about such pratices from Microsoft, but when a CEO speak about it in a public trial, this kind of information makes headlines. It will be tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal.
The general public must be informed about it, or else everyone would think the agreeement between MS and DJA was "fair".
Slashdot Mirror
God, please, no! Every new version of MS Internet Explorer comes filled with bugs, and now they support IE 5.0, 5.5 and 6 (as well as some service packs in between).
I just hope Microsoft waits a little befor releasing a new version of their software and make good code audit, or worms like Code Red/Nimda/Klez will continue to appear.
These constant Internet Exploer fixes are a result from the "browser wars", when MS an Netscape competed to release their new browser every six new months or so. The rush prevented good code auditing, and several bugs were not wiped.
Now that this "war" is over, I hope MS (and Netscape) make a good review of their browser before releasing it, and stabilize the existing code. If we are lucky, IE 7 will be shipped only in 2003 or 2004 - and by "we" I mean every internet user, for the bugs in IE helped the spread of annoying worms like Nimda and Klez.
Widespread port 80 scans are still dominating all other activity. These scans appear to be caused by remaining Nimda/Code Red activity.(...)
In this particular case, most probes come from windows-only worms. The lead topics in Slashdot HAVE bias in Windows-related matters, but this time they are right.
18. An example of how the standardization made possible by the Windows platform benefits consumers and promotes innovation in the computer industry is AMD's Athlon XP microprocessor. The Athlon XP microprocessor is AMD's latest microprocessor, and it meets the computation-intensive needs of consumers who use cutting-edge software applications running on high-performance personal computers.
19. AMD invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the research and development of the Athlon XP microprocessor. This investment could only be recouped because Athlon XP microprocessors are guaranteed to perform--and perform well--on any personal computer running Microsoft Windows XP or other current or legacy versions of Windows. If AMD could not rely on the stability and consistency of the Windows platform, or upon the widespread availability of that platform, AMD could not have justified the enormous expense of creating the Athlon XP, to the great detriment of consumers. As stated at page 21 of our 2001 Annual Report (attached hereto as Exhibit A): "We Depend on Microsoft Corporation's Support for Our Products and Its Logo License. Our ability to innovate beyond the x86 instruction set controlled by Intel depends on support from Microsoft in its operating systems. If Microsoft does not provide support in its operating systems for our x86 instruction sets, independent software providers may forego designing their software applications to take advantage of our innovations. In addition, we have entered into logo license agreements with Microsoft that allow us to label our products as 'Designed for Microsoft Windows.' If we fail to retain the support and certification of Microsoft, our ability to market our processors could be materially adversely affected."
Bnetd has already wacked off their site binaries and source code of the server.
Or opennap.sourceforge.net.
These links were posted today in Kazaa.com, but shortly after they were deleted. They were in a page where you could read:
"We are proud to announce our partnership with Altnet. As our relationship evolves you will see an evolution in p2p software, taking KaZaA to a completely new dimension without sacrificing any of the things you enjoy in the software."
Yada, Yada
"With Altnet, consumers will be able to opt in to making certain parts of their computing power available to businesses. This may include disk space, processing power or bandwidth. You will know exactly how a business would like to use your resources at the time of use. You choose what jobs can use your machine and which ones cannot. You earn redeemable points for sharing your resource."
Kazaa.com was so "proud" of this partnership that the page was removed from their server in the same day!
So... I guess it is not out yet!
Someone striped Kazaa off the bundled software (spyare) and claims to make avaliable a clean version of the program. I have naver tested it, but you can find it on www.kazaalite.tk/.
Making shows involves a lot of costs, and audiences can't grow indefinitely. In other words, you can't put 2.500 people in a theather that have a capacity of 2.500.
The costs of producing an album are recording and marketing. Once an artist sells a certain amount of coppies, each new CD sold is pure profit. If the first 2.000 have sold out, it's not that difficult or expensive to print some more.
On top of that, an artist can be at only one place at a time, make one show a night. His CD, however, may be bought in different places, at the same time. It can be bought in a city or country he has never set his foot at. Bands and artists make their shows as a way of promoting their CDs, and not the other way round.
And getting money from selling t-shirts... c'mon. Not every music fan buy the t-shirt of the artists they appreciate. If a musician get his money from selling clothes, he should consider changing his profession.
You got a point, but it applies only to films and TV series. Music, books, articles, photographs generally have one or few authors. Corporations only contribute with marketing and distribution (what, I admit, may be vital to the dissemination of the work). Software gets in the middle: it can be a one-man-job or involve a huge development team.
I fail to see a practical implication of this decision beyond the legal precedent. Kazaa BV, developer of Kazaa, sold the rights of the program to an obscure Australian company, Sharman Networks. This way, they could evade Dutch jurisdiction after the first trial. Niklas Zennstrom, original developer of Kazaa, seems to be the only one directly afected by the decision. Only if higher courts upheld the decision it would have a practical effect: Holland would turn into a haven for P2P companies and developers.
Dnet was the first project to create a flexible distributed client for internet work. They contributed in the development of distributed computing based on public participation over the internet. Before it, I can remember of GIMPS, but their client performs only one task - searching for new primes. With the Dnet, the same client can be used for different tasks. It is also the most non-obstrusive distributed client, taking up only 2 MB RAM while in background. Other clients can eat as much as 16 MB of your RAM. One could argue over Dnet priorities. They have taken over 1500 days to break the 64-bit encription key, and may take 300 more to wrap it up. But we should hope the project pick up a new goal once RC5-64 is finished, and not disband altogether. In a nutshell, Dnet may not have clear practical goals, but it may be used for the development of distributed computing, that can be put for very practical uses.
Sure, tech-savy people know about such pratices from Microsoft, but when a CEO speak about it in a public trial, this kind of information makes headlines. It will be tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal. The general public must be informed about it, or else everyone would think the agreeement between MS and DJA was "fair".
Memento was nominated for "Film Editing" and "Writing (Original Screenplay)" this year. And it lost to Black Hawk Down - shame on you, Holywood!