Because then you are putting your nation's safety on the honor system, hoping the other country(..ies) are as optimistic as your are. Do you really want to roll the dice on that one?
"Blizzard, the user base, or Apples lab full of level 40 somethin' developers?"
Does it matter? Faster drawing to the screen on this 12" powerbook, that I doubt could ever play WoW, is only a good thing. YAY.
All I want is civ4 and simcity4 (and maybe something like moo3) to run well on this machine... And it just barely doesnt make it... My fault, I got antsy and couldn't wait for the revision of the 12" pbooks to happen... A better video card would have made a WORLD of difference...
PS: When will apple upgrade the bus speed of powerbooks(and ibooks)? Is it limited by the g4 chips?
Good point. However, a complete class(or seminar, or whatever) can't prepare you for truly defending a system if you don't know how hackers get information... You can have a checklist of do/don't for making your system 'safe', but how can you test it if you don't know how the bad guys are going to be trying to get you.
Hacker U? Yea, it is a concern. A strong warning, and a "if shit hits the fan at your school, I have already told the Principal your names and ages, you are the first suspects" type speech would be in order. Then, just attack with generic things, open source tools(ethereal, to sniff a telnet passwords) and such. Don't give them a free hacking seminar, show them how to use free tools genericly to gain information(that can be used in an attack).
Absolutely... A white/black hat attack/defend class would be awesome...
"This is how most hackers try to break into OUR real-world system every day" (scan, password brute-force, script kiddie tools, viruses, key loggers, etc) "This is how we stop them" (policies, software, password quality, firewalls, IDS boxes, log files, etc., Linux even)
Then host a group A vs. group B... one trying to hack(read the contents of certain files, or break their web server or something) while the other defends, then, vice versa.
I can't tell you enough how interesting and powerful that class would have been. I am a college frosh, fresh out of HS.
HOWEVER, if this was in a MMORPG, that allowed for real-life cashing in on money, and you had a bridge that you could charge $.05 a trip on, while also protecting boats from undercutting your business... Wouldn't that be a sound investment? A nickel a person, connecting the two largest cities in the game, and it is the sole connecting link?
According to a couple articles(Google News has a bunch), non-copyrighted works will have their entire content viewable(Oxford, for instance, is only allowing pre-1901 books to be scanned). Book still under copyright will still show up in your results if relavant, but only show the sentence (or two) or page(or two) surrounding the particular search term... With links to buy the book online.
It looks like this Digital Library is going to be part of Google Print, and be a special top-ranked entry on normal web searches...
I would like to see a Library section, of all the books scanned in(preferably text, with an image linked-to, rather than a image you read off of).
Also, I would think it would be neat to see a mailing-lists section either as an extension of their new google-groups2 system, if possible.
Lasly, I a blog search would be neat, though tricky. Being able to do an 'Opinion' section or 'Blog' section would pull a lot of the non-factual (though valid opinion) entries out of the main results.
Now we need a Image search 2(they haven't recrawled the image database in several months, according to google), and a Video search beta.
Then GDS beta 2 that includes myGmail account results... but that is getting ahead of myself:)
Actually the British Library is something like 30 million books greater than the Library of Congress. Harvard is second largest in the US. First is the Library of Congress, and worldwide(as far as I know) is the British Library.
I actually thought an arena football game would be neat... Like the Blitz series (ridiculously violent for a football game) but fast paced and with the new rules and such.
Would be a killer dedicated app. A bittorrent(well, swarmstream) client, that does a tivo/tv guide menu and presents a nice big video screen... Like a quicktime+tv guide+tivo...
Would be a KILLER app. Being able to download and save, schedule, find 'if you like this you might also like...' shows. Works with tv and movies.
Man, that would be a powerful use of a couple megs of harddrive space.
Well, ya, ofcourse it is a short-term achievement. Isn't that the point? It buys IBM, Moto, AMD and Intel(and Sun and, and...) some time before they are no longer able to produce faster stuff.
Besides, the point is somewhat lame... Multiprocessor boxes, higher bus speeds, harddrive rpms (massive flash storage to replace hdds) and card speeds and bandwidth have lagged behind for decades, time for them to catch up!
On that, why don't we(we are, somewhat) move to a distributed PC system similar to a router, where our Video cards' GPU(OS X, Longhorn) do the video stuff, our sound card processor does sound, our nic does network, etc... Take the load off the main processor and distribute it to the other components, with the main processor being a mother/over-seer and a 'helping hand' style role. Even to the point of your video card being able to talk directly to your sound or harddrive, without going through your main processor. Makes sense to me. Then it won't matter if 4GHz is the max speed, because we will have 2-10 processors(working on specific roles) in the box.
Our video cards are sorta moving this way, i know.
Playing with Ubuntu and Redhat 7.3 recently... I can see a lot of improvment for Linux, it becomes much more straight-forward on the GUI side, but the CLI side(man pages, in part) still has too high a learning curve for basic things...
For man pages, I often forget the tar-zxvf (or something) tags I need to unpack a.tar.gz file.. I just don't use it too often. So what do I do? I "man tar" but the documentation(reading the whole thing on redhat 7.3) doesn't give a 'this is the most common usage' list of flags, nor are the individual flags obvious for me to put together.
For instance(this is from memory on my redhat 7.3 system), to setup a network connection, I used the ifconfig command for setting an ip address and the subnet mask. However, to set dns I had to vi in and edit a/etc/hosts (?) file with the server ip address...
Maybe this is me, but like in the GUI, where the network settings are in one windows(maybe under different tabs, but still), the CLI, I would think, would have a more comprehensive network setup. Single command ifconfig, or whatever, that does a series of questions or similar asking me all the parameters for a configuration..
I appreciate that Linux uses text files for everything, in place of Windows registry/Group Policy/binary system files/etc, but the documentation, while there, isn't always clear.
I do admit, redhat 7.3 is a fairly old distro, So I will accept that ubuntu/fedora core have these issues resolved... I just have my doubts that they are at the moment.
Because to stay on Microsoft's non-enemy list, they have to suck up. When you buy a OEM pc, you get an AOL desktop icon. That is a deal with Microsoft, now, if AOL wanted to end that deal(break the contract, possibly), then sure, Firefox would be the default AOL browser and the core of the AOL standalone-browser.
HOWEVER, it would just be plain dumb to give Earthlink or MSN those potential clients without fighting for them. AOL is hurting already, they can't turn their back on new users.
What AOL SHOULD do, is...
1. Switch to firefox on their AOL software, 2. hire a team of a few coders to clean up the code and modularize it. Making it easy to add custom plug-ins, but tearing out the bloat and making it run faster. 2b. This should go hand-in-hand(if not already) with smart-caching servers and compression to the AOL servers, for faster connections on web surfing. 3. License ad-aware and bundle it into the same interface as their Virus blocker(the user thinks they are the same, anyway). 3b. This should(as part of firefox) block pop-ups. 3c. (It would be neat to have a tagline at the login/out of AOL software that said:
"With AOL and Mozilla technology, you have avoided receiving X ad-ware programs, Y Viruses, and Z pop-ups, but don't mention, we are happy to help"
That would give users a constant, GOOD feeling on using AOL, to mitigate frustrations and lower temptations to switch to MSN, etc.) 4. add smart-spam filters and 'report spam' buttons that learn, etc. 5. cut prices to 19.99/month for the whole package. AOL users are leaving to cheaper generic dialup services or just paying a few bucks more for DSL. 6. buy a cable ISP, and do everything you can to migrate your users to broadband.. 7. Have Time Warner bundle on-demand over IP(o-doip?) movies (pay-per-view) to AOL subscribers only. (Imagine the TW archive in an iTunes store-like system. 3 bucks a movie, watch as much as you want for 3-5 days, and it self-destructs.) 8. Beyond which, they should bundle(as part of their modular system) toys like video and voice chat from a Skype deal 9. Exclusive content and deals, iTunes discounts, sneak-peaks at movie trailers, netflix, etc.
AOL users either want a cheaper dial-up ($35/month). AOL is in a horrible mid-$20/month range with crappy software that noone likes. People are getting smart and want to change in droves. AOL/TW needs to give users a reason to use AOL that isn't just name-brand and momentum.
Furthermore, it was Non-voting stock, so Microsoft never had a 'say' in Apple, it was just a PR move. Apple didn't even need the money, they needed the public support by Microsoft.
with that stock, they shortly after(a matter of months, i believe) sold it, for a profit, and haven't looked back since.
1. Best tool for the job. Open or closed, BEST tool. 2. Support. Forums and mailing-lists do not (officially) count, enterprise-level support REQUIRES a phone number that can get a live trained tech to fix the problem.
100%? No. The kernel and core utilities are fully open source, which Apple has superb relations with the projects. The browser is based on KHTML, etc.
The hardware is open standards, which Apple leads the way in (USB, Firewire, bluetooth, rondevous, pci-x) and is first to adopt. PowerPC, ram, video cards, monitors, keyboards, peripherals, drives, disk drives, etc... All open(though not necesarily the most abundant) standards.
get off your high horse. Apple is consistantly giving back to the open source community, rely on open standards, and join open groups.
They are a company, they can do what they want. But give them some slack.
This is Microsoft's own game getting used against them. Both sides are pretty bad for going after patents that should never be granted, but they are playing by the rules as they exist. Microsoft can file for all kinds of worthless (and obvious) patents, and they do, for approval. It isn't their fault the patent office is approving crap patents.
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Because then you are putting your nation's safety on the honor system, hoping the other country(..ies) are as optimistic as your are. Do you really want to roll the dice on that one?
"Blizzard, the user base, or Apples lab full of level 40 somethin' developers?"
Does it matter? Faster drawing to the screen on this 12" powerbook, that I doubt could ever play WoW, is only a good thing. YAY.
All I want is civ4 and simcity4 (and maybe something like moo3) to run well on this machine... And it just barely doesnt make it... My fault, I got antsy and couldn't wait for the revision of the 12" pbooks to happen... A better video card would have made a WORLD of difference...
PS: When will apple upgrade the bus speed of powerbooks(and ibooks)? Is it limited by the g4 chips?
Good point. However, a complete class(or seminar, or whatever) can't prepare you for truly defending a system if you don't know how hackers get information... You can have a checklist of do/don't for making your system 'safe', but how can you test it if you don't know how the bad guys are going to be trying to get you.
Hacker U? Yea, it is a concern. A strong warning, and a "if shit hits the fan at your school, I have already told the Principal your names and ages, you are the first suspects" type speech would be in order. Then, just attack with generic things, open source tools(ethereal, to sniff a telnet passwords) and such. Don't give them a free hacking seminar, show them how to use free tools genericly to gain information(that can be used in an attack).
Absolutely... A white/black hat attack/defend class would be awesome...
"This is how most hackers try to break into OUR real-world system every day" (scan, password brute-force, script kiddie tools, viruses, key loggers, etc)
"This is how we stop them" (policies, software, password quality, firewalls, IDS boxes, log files, etc., Linux even)
Then host a group A vs. group B... one trying to hack(read the contents of certain files, or break their web server or something) while the other defends, then, vice versa.
I can't tell you enough how interesting and powerful that class would have been. I am a college frosh, fresh out of HS.
HOWEVER, if this was in a MMORPG, that allowed for real-life cashing in on money, and you had a bridge that you could charge $.05 a trip on, while also protecting boats from undercutting your business... Wouldn't that be a sound investment? A nickel a person, connecting the two largest cities in the game, and it is the sole connecting link?
Heck, what is next, irc logs?
According to a couple articles(Google News has a bunch), non-copyrighted works will have their entire content viewable(Oxford, for instance, is only allowing pre-1901 books to be scanned). Book still under copyright will still show up in your results if relavant, but only show the sentence (or two) or page(or two) surrounding the particular search term... With links to buy the book online.
It looks like this Digital Library is going to be part of Google Print, and be a special top-ranked entry on normal web searches...
I would like to see a Library section, of all the books scanned in(preferably text, with an image linked-to, rather than a image you read off of).
Also, I would think it would be neat to see a mailing-lists section either as an extension of their new google-groups2 system, if possible.
Lasly, I a blog search would be neat, though tricky. Being able to do an 'Opinion' section or 'Blog' section would pull a lot of the non-factual (though valid opinion) entries out of the main results.
Now we need a Image search 2(they haven't recrawled the image database in several months, according to google), and a Video search beta.
Then GDS beta 2 that includes myGmail account results... but that is getting ahead of myself:)
Actually the British Library is something like 30 million books greater than the Library of Congress. Harvard is second largest in the US. First is the Library of Congress, and worldwide(as far as I know) is the British Library.
I actually thought an arena football game would be neat... Like the Blitz series (ridiculously violent for a football game) but fast paced and with the new rules and such.
scholar.google.com
They are getting there.
Would be a killer dedicated app. A bittorrent(well, swarmstream) client, that does a tivo/tv guide menu and presents a nice big video screen... Like a quicktime+tv guide+tivo...
Would be a KILLER app. Being able to download and save, schedule, find 'if you like this you might also like...' shows. Works with tv and movies.
Man, that would be a powerful use of a couple megs of harddrive space.
Well, ya, ofcourse it is a short-term achievement. Isn't that the point? It buys IBM, Moto, AMD and Intel(and Sun and, and...) some time before they are no longer able to produce faster stuff.
Besides, the point is somewhat lame... Multiprocessor boxes, higher bus speeds, harddrive rpms (massive flash storage to replace hdds) and card speeds and bandwidth have lagged behind for decades, time for them to catch up!
On that, why don't we(we are, somewhat) move to a distributed PC system similar to a router, where our Video cards' GPU(OS X, Longhorn) do the video stuff, our sound card processor does sound, our nic does network, etc... Take the load off the main processor and distribute it to the other components, with the main processor being a mother/over-seer and a 'helping hand' style role. Even to the point of your video card being able to talk directly to your sound or harddrive, without going through your main processor. Makes sense to me. Then it won't matter if 4GHz is the max speed, because we will have 2-10 processors(working on specific roles) in the box.
Our video cards are sorta moving this way, i know.
Playing with Ubuntu and Redhat 7.3 recently... I can see a lot of improvment for Linux, it becomes much more straight-forward on the GUI side, but the CLI side(man pages, in part) still has too high a learning curve for basic things...
.tar.gz file.. I just don't use it too often. So what do I do? I "man tar" but the documentation(reading the whole thing on redhat 7.3) doesn't give a 'this is the most common usage' list of flags, nor are the individual flags obvious for me to put together.
/etc/hosts (?) file with the server ip address...
For man pages, I often forget the tar-zxvf (or something) tags I need to unpack a
For instance(this is from memory on my redhat 7.3 system), to setup a network connection, I used the ifconfig command for setting an ip address and the subnet mask. However, to set dns I had to vi in and edit a
Maybe this is me, but like in the GUI, where the network settings are in one windows(maybe under different tabs, but still), the CLI, I would think, would have a more comprehensive network setup. Single command ifconfig, or whatever, that does a series of questions or similar asking me all the parameters for a configuration..
I appreciate that Linux uses text files for everything, in place of Windows registry/Group Policy/binary system files/etc, but the documentation, while there, isn't always clear.
I do admit, redhat 7.3 is a fairly old distro, So I will accept that ubuntu/fedora core have these issues resolved... I just have my doubts that they are at the moment.
Dell buying the Chinese factories that build their computers.
"it's called the "Ha ha, fuck you - we're all the way over in Russia. Come get us! :-)" model."
So THAT must be what "Step 2 ???" is.
No, sorry, you can't.
Because to stay on Microsoft's non-enemy list, they have to suck up. When you buy a OEM pc, you get an AOL desktop icon. That is a deal with Microsoft, now, if AOL wanted to end that deal(break the contract, possibly), then sure, Firefox would be the default AOL browser and the core of the AOL standalone-browser.
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HOWEVER, it would just be plain dumb to give Earthlink or MSN those potential clients without fighting for them. AOL is hurting already, they can't turn their back on new users.
What AOL SHOULD do, is...
1. Switch to firefox on their AOL software,
2. hire a team of a few coders to clean up the code and modularize it. Making it easy to add custom plug-ins, but tearing out the bloat and making it run faster.
2b. This should go hand-in-hand(if not already) with smart-caching servers and compression to the AOL servers, for faster connections on web surfing.
3. License ad-aware and bundle it into the same interface as their Virus blocker(the user thinks they are the same, anyway).
3b. This should(as part of firefox) block pop-ups.
3c. (It would be neat to have a tagline at the login/out of AOL software that said
"With AOL and Mozilla technology, you have avoided receiving X ad-ware programs, Y Viruses, and Z pop-ups, but don't mention, we are happy to help"
That would give users a constant, GOOD feeling on using AOL, to mitigate frustrations and lower temptations to switch to MSN, etc.)
4. add smart-spam filters and 'report spam' buttons that learn, etc.
5. cut prices to 19.99/month for the whole package. AOL users are leaving to cheaper generic dialup services or just paying a few bucks more for DSL.
6. buy a cable ISP, and do everything you can to migrate your users to broadband..
7. Have Time Warner bundle on-demand over IP(o-doip?) movies (pay-per-view) to AOL subscribers only.
(Imagine the TW archive in an iTunes store-like system. 3 bucks a movie, watch as much as you want for 3-5 days, and it self-destructs.)
8. Beyond which, they should bundle(as part of their modular system) toys like video and voice chat from a Skype deal
9. Exclusive content and deals, iTunes discounts, sneak-peaks at movie trailers, netflix, etc.
AOL users either want a cheaper dial-up ($35/month). AOL is in a horrible mid-$20/month range with crappy software that noone likes. People are getting smart and want to change in droves. AOL/TW needs to give users a reason to use AOL that isn't just name-brand and momentum.
Chance of any of this happening? Nill.
Actually, the Vice-President is the top politician for NASA, not the President. And no, Cheney will not 'run' NASA anymore than he does now.
James:
dead wrong.
MS bought stock, as part of the agreement, which they sold shortly after for a profit. It was non-voting stock and it was many years ago.
Furthermore, it was Non-voting stock, so Microsoft never had a 'say' in Apple, it was just a PR move. Apple didn't even need the money, they needed the public support by Microsoft.
with that stock, they shortly after(a matter of months, i believe) sold it, for a profit, and haven't looked back since.
1. Best tool for the job. Open or closed, BEST tool.
2. Support. Forums and mailing-lists do not (officially) count, enterprise-level support REQUIRES a phone number that can get a live trained tech to fix the problem.
Does Debian or Gentoo have that?
100%? No. The kernel and core utilities are fully open source, which Apple has superb relations with the projects. The browser is based on KHTML, etc.
The hardware is open standards, which Apple leads the way in (USB, Firewire, bluetooth, rondevous, pci-x) and is first to adopt. PowerPC, ram, video cards, monitors, keyboards, peripherals, drives, disk drives, etc... All open(though not necesarily the most abundant) standards.
get off your high horse. Apple is consistantly giving back to the open source community, rely on open standards, and join open groups.
They are a company, they can do what they want. But give them some slack.
This is Microsoft's own game getting used against them. Both sides are pretty bad for going after patents that should never be granted, but they are playing by the rules as they exist. Microsoft can file for all kinds of worthless (and obvious) patents, and they do, for approval. It isn't their fault the patent office is approving crap patents.
A good point, and I didn't even realize that.
Pearl Harbor was exactly what happened with Iraq. Preemptive strike on a sovereign nation that was no immediate threat.
Good catch.