There's no difference from the business's standpoint between a black hat and a white hat. Let me spin it a different way (which the trolls will come along and acuse me of metaphor comparasion or some crap):
If a someone broke into your house and then left you a note saying "I got in because your security system is junk and I got around it by doing _blah_" would you just say "ok cool, well i need to get it fixed.", or would you continually be wondering what in the world they were doing in your house in the first place, and why they would tell you all that as well. Maybe they're lying. Maybe they planted more stuff while they were there. Who knows. Inevitably the entire house is at loss.
White hat hackers do no good. With black hat hackers at least you can be like "well this sucks my data it gone and they emailed hatemail to my boss" but with white hat you have no idea what they saw or modified. The entire system is compromised. Might as well just unplug it already.
There's no differentiation. You break into someone's computer you violate the entire integrity of that system and the sensativity of it's data. Period.
I went into McDonalds last week and ordered prime rib with a side of potatoes. They wouldn't sell it to me.
When i go into a restraunt, i expect to order and get whatever i want. If they don't serve what i want, i won't eat there. Period. They just lost business from me. I know at least 20 people who tried to order steak from McDonalds and they wouldn't offer it, that's not counting the hundreds of people online who want all kinds of stuff that McDonald's doesn't sell.
I'm not saying that McDonalds should forsake thier demographics, target market, or any plans they had, but at least allow restraunt-goers a chance to eat whatever they want.
"The proposal specifically precludes the information from being used in a Free Software implementation, such as the Samba workgroup server software..."
Note the use of capitalization on Free Software. The question is are they referring to free as in beer or speech. Maybe it's intentionally ambiguous.
Or you pre-wash jeans with rocks 5040534050345 times so that they're so worn out to be cool and trendy, that after people buy them and wear them for a year they're worn out. Seriously, my denium jeans last for like a year and then i have to get new ones. It's a crock.
Easy: dump DSL and get a cable modem instead. Our local cable network was just upgraded to 5Mbps anyways. Beats that pants off local DSL all for $44/mo.
My first year of college, when i lived in the dorms, one of the guys there created a Quake III level of a portion of the campus, complete with all the buildings and everything.
Talk about mixing games with reality. It's odd enough to feel the urge in real life to "act" like you would in the games, but when you've already spent hours in the game map which is a replica of your real environment, and you know around the next corner there's a rocket launcher, it's hard to stay focused that you're in the real world.:P
I was wondering about the converting to PS then flipping as well. A 2nd monitor seems a bit extravegant (if you're on a limited budget that is). At work, my workstation's driver supports image flipping (it's an nvidia version i believe).
I've never actually used it for anything serious. Most of the time it's just to play office jokes by flipping the screen upside down then acting like i'm working. I suppose in this context it would actually benifit.
It's quite convenient for MS to sit and see what works, then create their own, and with their dominance in desktop OS, they can easily claim a huge chunk of the desktop-suite market share overnight.
Seems to work though wouldn't you say? I think a lot of business models are fashioned after low-risk investments. If someone else has already done the R&D why not "borrow" some from them? A good examples of positive externalities.
Actually, as you mentioned, integration with all of MS's tools is probably great... for people who use them. Devaiting from the norm has it's consequences however. Running SquirrelMail as your primary mail client you rarely get support like this (heck i can't even click a mailto: link and have a window open up). It's all good for ma and pa Dell Windows XP machine.
On the outset it looks odd, but if you consider your own job, it begins to make sense. I don't think i've ever had a job, regular or contract, that invovled all of the following:
1. Talented Management
2. Financial Resources
3. Clearly Outlined Plan or Goal
I've noticed that typically at least once is missing, if not all three. I think we look at it the opposite way. With the massive-sized companies of now-days how is it that they manage to actually get a compelted product to the shelf and still make all those fluff meetings and play office politics?
I was wondering that too. When i first read the headline i thought AMD was going to be competing with Microchip. I don't know why companies insist on using already well-used acronymns.
Well DVD can provide an alternative quick backup method. I worked in a Windows Server environment for several years and although we had serious tape backup systems on the file servers, monthly we'd make a mutliple CD/DVD backup for redundancy.
The downside to DVD backup is that it cannot restore NTFS permissions. That's a bitch.
In a small-business environment, say a sales exec was going on the road but needed data. It'd be easier for the IT staff to just burn his office's folder to a DVD and give it to him (assuming of course they didn't have VPN and/or he didn't have a connection were he was going). (and yes yes i know about intellimirror and all that, but i said _small_ business).
While i doubt you'd see it used in an enterprise or medium business setting, i think DVD burning capabilities are definatly something that comes in handy in a smaller business setup.
By the way, i still don't know why MS did away with the terminology of the PDC. Schema master? RID Master? What are those? Feels like a PDC just without the name.
Any teacher that had the ability to be a leader, so to speak, got my respect.
Excellent point. I've always had the most trouble in classes were I can clearly see the instructor does not know the content of the course, and simply reads the text book the night before the lecture.
It seems I find myself in the same cycle in college. Start of the semester I read through the course catalog to locate class that sound fun and exciting that also fill in my univ requirements. I get all hyped about them ahead of time, but after a few weeks of attendance I quickly discover the incompetance of the teacher, the lack of leadership they display, thier overall lack of understanding, and poor implementation and instruction of materials, not to mention ridiculous and unchallanging "busy work" (homework) to make the class seem effective, to which I quickly become disenchanted and switch over to "survive this class and get credit" mode which has been 80% of my college expirience.
The article ends with... "There's this sort of bizarre belief that computers cast a spell over students and teachers and schools," says Christopher Dede, professor of learning technologies at the Harvard School of Education. "Can you imagine what would happen if you had the same in business, asking if computers were interfering with performance? It would be a big joke."
Yea, but i'd like to add, at school you won't be kicked out (fired) for being caught playing games. The consequence of surfing the internet for hours or playing games at work is much larger than that of an academic institution. Slap on the wrist? Big whoop.
By the way, aren't we forgetting about all those studies that say that a good portion of employees time goes to surfing the internet, reading/sending personal emails, and what not? For that matter, aren't the phones a problem with people making personal calls for hours?
ps. i forgot to mention, most of the problems people have with drawing is seeing and not in hand control. You've been handwriting for years and years in school. Your hand has great control of a pencil. To learn drawing you need to learn how to see things. Once you can see them, translating it to your hand falls into place. If you've never taken a college level drawing course, i'd advise you to. You'd be amazed at what you can achieve with some proper instruction. Your hand is fine, you need someone to teach you to see.:D
Well they are different mediums, but that doesn't mean you can't use both. Drawing is really a core of art and design. Drawing and computer graphics have the same relationship that assembler and visual basic have. You can use visual basic to build rather complex and useful programs and have no idea of the low level operations the computer is performing. At the same time learning assembler doesn't have a direct impact on your visual basic programming skill, but indirectly as you learn the fundamental theory of computer internals and operations, the projects you develop in VB show much more intellegence in design and comprehension of the "medium" of programming.
Last semester i had a very interesting class schedule. I had two classes back to back by the same teacher. My first class was oil painting and the second class was digital illustration (adobe illustrator). The wierd thing was i'd attend my painting class, listen to the lecture about light logic on spheres, then oil paint a sphere on a canvas board. I'd then clean up and go to my computer art class where i'd hear the same lecture on light logic of a sphere and be required to create the same sphere on the computer. It was interesting having such a situtation, and being able to do projects in traditional and digital mediums. Overall though, i've seen an indirect impact on my computer graphics skills as a result of my studying painting and drawing.
Those people who can just sit down and bang out great stuff on a computer design program, they're actually sketching it out in thier head first. When you learn to put what you have in your head on paper you can evaluate the idea better and communicate better with others. Sooner or later it's invitable. For as far as computer graphics have come, you can't leave behind traditional art (just as for as far as high level lanugages have come, you can't neglect low level operations and the understanding of such).
Yea. I know what you mean. I took a business speaking class a while back, which typically required oral presentations once about every two weeks. Pretty much everyone used powerpoint for thier visuals aspect with a few exceptions. Quite a few just copy and pasted thier outline from Word into Powerpoint and left the default white background and black text point size 10.
I decided to be different for my second project and use... the overhead projector! Yea, that dusty thing sitting in the corner. I used Illustrator and designed all my "slides". There weren't any fancy transitions or sound effects, but i was able to delever the data i wanted to in an effective way. Believe it or not i used this method more and more as the semester went on. Why? I didn't have to 1.) haul a laptop to class. 2.) cross my fingers that the battery was charged that windows wouldn't crash during my presentation 3.) worry about which slide was next i can't remember (since i couldn't just look down at them on the podeum). I found the overhead projector to be quite simple and easy to use.
Funny how that works huh? Once you become dis-enchanted with technology you're able to judge it based on it's true merit, and evaluate those problems for which it is the solution of choice and those problems for which something else is more effective, simpler, or more efficient.
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There's no difference from the business's standpoint between a black hat and a white hat. Let me spin it a different way (which the trolls will come along and acuse me of metaphor comparasion or some crap):
If a someone broke into your house and then left you a note saying "I got in because your security system is junk and I got around it by doing _blah_" would you just say "ok cool, well i need to get it fixed.", or would you continually be wondering what in the world they were doing in your house in the first place, and why they would tell you all that as well. Maybe they're lying. Maybe they planted more stuff while they were there. Who knows. Inevitably the entire house is at loss.
White hat hackers do no good. With black hat hackers at least you can be like "well this sucks my data it gone and they emailed hatemail to my boss" but with white hat you have no idea what they saw or modified. The entire system is compromised. Might as well just unplug it already.
There's no differentiation. You break into someone's computer you violate the entire integrity of that system and the sensativity of it's data. Period.
so that's why there aren't any good deals on ebay anymore...
hahaha this was the first thing i thought of too
I went into McDonalds last week and ordered prime rib with a side of potatoes. They wouldn't sell it to me.
When i go into a restraunt, i expect to order and get whatever i want. If they don't serve what i want, i won't eat there. Period. They just lost business from me. I know at least 20 people who tried to order steak from McDonalds and they wouldn't offer it, that's not counting the hundreds of people online who want all kinds of stuff that McDonald's doesn't sell.
I'm not saying that McDonalds should forsake thier demographics, target market, or any plans they had, but at least allow restraunt-goers a chance to eat whatever they want.
I was wondering this as well. From the article...
"The proposal specifically precludes the information from being used in a Free Software implementation, such as the Samba workgroup server software..."
Note the use of capitalization on Free Software. The question is are they referring to free as in beer or speech. Maybe it's intentionally ambiguous.
Or you pre-wash jeans with rocks 5040534050345 times so that they're so worn out to be cool and trendy, that after people buy them and wear them for a year they're worn out. Seriously, my denium jeans last for like a year and then i have to get new ones. It's a crock.
Easy: dump DSL and get a cable modem instead. Our local cable network was just upgraded to 5Mbps anyways. Beats that pants off local DSL all for $44/mo.
My first year of college, when i lived in the dorms, one of the guys there created a Quake III level of a portion of the campus, complete with all the buildings and everything.
:P
Talk about mixing games with reality. It's odd enough to feel the urge in real life to "act" like you would in the games, but when you've already spent hours in the game map which is a replica of your real environment, and you know around the next corner there's a rocket launcher, it's hard to stay focused that you're in the real world.
Another great example of Hollywood attempting to portray the computer-age culture, but my "favorite" line must have been:
"We want you to control the flow of data on the internet. What are you going to need?"
"Lots of HOTPOCKETS!!!"
It could be a skill/quest/whatever that pays money for each capture. An alternative to quests or something of that sort.
it's hard to do that when you don't write them yourself. :P
Displayer? Most people i work with would probably have gone with "In Front of Camera Word Thingy"
I was wondering about the converting to PS then flipping as well. A 2nd monitor seems a bit extravegant (if you're on a limited budget that is). At work, my workstation's driver supports image flipping (it's an nvidia version i believe).
I've never actually used it for anything serious. Most of the time it's just to play office jokes by flipping the screen upside down then acting like i'm working. I suppose in this context it would actually benifit.
Yes. I noticed the glitch in the Matrix as well.
Well i switch to Thunderbird once it hit 1.0 and only use SquirrelMail now when i'm not at home so it's all good. 8-)
Is that where the now-delayed WinFS was going?
It's quite convenient for MS to sit and see what works, then create their own, and with their dominance in desktop OS, they can easily claim a huge chunk of the desktop-suite market share overnight.
Seems to work though wouldn't you say? I think a lot of business models are fashioned after low-risk investments. If someone else has already done the R&D why not "borrow" some from them? A good examples of positive externalities.
Actually, as you mentioned, integration with all of MS's tools is probably great... for people who use them. Devaiting from the norm has it's consequences however. Running SquirrelMail as your primary mail client you rarely get support like this (heck i can't even click a mailto: link and have a window open up). It's all good for ma and pa Dell Windows XP machine.
On the outset it looks odd, but if you consider your own job, it begins to make sense. I don't think i've ever had a job, regular or contract, that invovled all of the following: 1. Talented Management 2. Financial Resources 3. Clearly Outlined Plan or Goal I've noticed that typically at least once is missing, if not all three. I think we look at it the opposite way. With the massive-sized companies of now-days how is it that they manage to actually get a compelted product to the shelf and still make all those fluff meetings and play office politics?
I was wondering that too. When i first read the headline i thought AMD was going to be competing with Microchip. I don't know why companies insist on using already well-used acronymns.
Well DVD can provide an alternative quick backup method. I worked in a Windows Server environment for several years and although we had serious tape backup systems on the file servers, monthly we'd make a mutliple CD/DVD backup for redundancy.
The downside to DVD backup is that it cannot restore NTFS permissions. That's a bitch.
In a small-business environment, say a sales exec was going on the road but needed data. It'd be easier for the IT staff to just burn his office's folder to a DVD and give it to him (assuming of course they didn't have VPN and/or he didn't have a connection were he was going). (and yes yes i know about intellimirror and all that, but i said _small_ business).
While i doubt you'd see it used in an enterprise or medium business setting, i think DVD burning capabilities are definatly something that comes in handy in a smaller business setup. By the way, i still don't know why MS did away with the terminology of the PDC. Schema master? RID Master? What are those? Feels like a PDC just without the name.
Any teacher that had the ability to be a leader, so to speak, got my respect.
Excellent point. I've always had the most trouble in classes were I can clearly see the instructor does not know the content of the course, and simply reads the text book the night before the lecture.
It seems I find myself in the same cycle in college. Start of the semester I read through the course catalog to locate class that sound fun and exciting that also fill in my univ requirements. I get all hyped about them ahead of time, but after a few weeks of attendance I quickly discover the incompetance of the teacher, the lack of leadership they display, thier overall lack of understanding, and poor implementation and instruction of materials, not to mention ridiculous and unchallanging "busy work" (homework) to make the class seem effective, to which I quickly become disenchanted and switch over to "survive this class and get credit" mode which has been 80% of my college expirience.
The article ends with...
"There's this sort of bizarre belief that computers cast a spell over students and teachers and schools," says Christopher Dede, professor of learning technologies at the Harvard School of Education. "Can you imagine what would happen if you had the same in business, asking if computers were interfering with performance? It would be a big joke."
Yea, but i'd like to add, at school you won't be kicked out (fired) for being caught playing games. The consequence of surfing the internet for hours or playing games at work is much larger than that of an academic institution. Slap on the wrist? Big whoop.
By the way, aren't we forgetting about all those studies that say that a good portion of employees time goes to surfing the internet, reading/sending personal emails, and what not? For that matter, aren't the phones a problem with people making personal calls for hours?
ps. i forgot to mention, most of the problems people have with drawing is seeing and not in hand control. You've been handwriting for years and years in school. Your hand has great control of a pencil. To learn drawing you need to learn how to see things. Once you can see them, translating it to your hand falls into place. If you've never taken a college level drawing course, i'd advise you to. You'd be amazed at what you can achieve with some proper instruction. Your hand is fine, you need someone to teach you to see. :D
Well they are different mediums, but that doesn't mean you can't use both. Drawing is really a core of art and design. Drawing and computer graphics have the same relationship that assembler and visual basic have. You can use visual basic to build rather complex and useful programs and have no idea of the low level operations the computer is performing. At the same time learning assembler doesn't have a direct impact on your visual basic programming skill, but indirectly as you learn the fundamental theory of computer internals and operations, the projects you develop in VB show much more intellegence in design and comprehension of the "medium" of programming.
Last semester i had a very interesting class schedule. I had two classes back to back by the same teacher. My first class was oil painting and the second class was digital illustration (adobe illustrator). The wierd thing was i'd attend my painting class, listen to the lecture about light logic on spheres, then oil paint a sphere on a canvas board. I'd then clean up and go to my computer art class where i'd hear the same lecture on light logic of a sphere and be required to create the same sphere on the computer. It was interesting having such a situtation, and being able to do projects in traditional and digital mediums. Overall though, i've seen an indirect impact on my computer graphics skills as a result of my studying painting and drawing.
Those people who can just sit down and bang out great stuff on a computer design program, they're actually sketching it out in thier head first. When you learn to put what you have in your head on paper you can evaluate the idea better and communicate better with others. Sooner or later it's invitable. For as far as computer graphics have come, you can't leave behind traditional art (just as for as far as high level lanugages have come, you can't neglect low level operations and the understanding of such).
Yea. I know what you mean. I took a business speaking class a while back, which typically required oral presentations once about every two weeks. Pretty much everyone used powerpoint for thier visuals aspect with a few exceptions. Quite a few just copy and pasted thier outline from Word into Powerpoint and left the default white background and black text point size 10.
I decided to be different for my second project and use... the overhead projector! Yea, that dusty thing sitting in the corner. I used Illustrator and designed all my "slides". There weren't any fancy transitions or sound effects, but i was able to delever the data i wanted to in an effective way. Believe it or not i used this method more and more as the semester went on. Why? I didn't have to 1.) haul a laptop to class. 2.) cross my fingers that the battery was charged that windows wouldn't crash during my presentation 3.) worry about which slide was next i can't remember (since i couldn't just look down at them on the podeum). I found the overhead projector to be quite simple and easy to use.
Funny how that works huh? Once you become dis-enchanted with technology you're able to judge it based on it's true merit, and evaluate those problems for which it is the solution of choice and those problems for which something else is more effective, simpler, or more efficient.