Why spend all the effort on an energy-efficient desktop when many companies have already invested tremendous money to maximize battery life? These days, expandability problems of laptops have been largely solved with Firewire 800 and whatever is the current replacement for PCMCIA. Its more productive to spend your time installing double-pane windows, sealing off drafts in your house with insulation tape or shopping for a fuel-efficient car.
So in the case you described, encryption would benefit you and not the owner of the system. Intruder could use a shell without a tty and ptrace his own processes so that you can not. It's much more reliable to log telnet traffic from an independent system that doesn't allow any remote access. If I need to give people accounts with potentially dangerous privileges for them to do work, I might prefer telnet so that, if someone "fucks once" with my database, I can discover who it was. If I am chatting with my wife, I prefer SILC with client/server and peer-to-peer public key encryption. If I am dealing with embedded devices with 16Mhz CPUs, I don't have much of a choice. It all depends on the use case.
ssh is actually more complex than telnet and more likely to have exploitable bugs - there were a couple featured on slashdot in fact. ssh is for protection of the user, not the host system. It can make intrusion recovery more difficult, as you will not be able to see what the attacker is doing using network monitoring tools. Sun just got sloppy/unlucky with this one by unnecessarily mucking with login. Don't they teach in school to not add command line options/environment variables to a setuid program?
It seems pointless to seek ideas and feedback if you're going to ignore and delete the opinions you don't like.
Why, does asking for opinions imply that you agree to follow and publish every one of them? They might have had a different kind of feedback in mind, like new models with a different hardware feature set.
They could just send a letter to every student and figure the ones with guilty consciousness are going to settle. With all the popups I am getting about winning various sweepstakes, it may even be legal.
It's just a movie, they could just discard a few episodes at the end and restart with an alternative story. Would even feet the alternative universe thing nicely. Sisko threw a coin, it landed face up instead of down and he decided not to involve Romulans in Cardassian war or something.
We need a different film for a different society. People no longer expect computers to be operated with fixed touch panels or consoles to explode from feedback as if 802.11n remote controls were never invented. More fundamentally, US audience would no longer accept "USS" Enterprise as total do-goders. More likely, we'll support Cardassians in their fight against ruthless and religious Bajorian terrorists.
How do you compare this with a usability of the product that can not be installed at all, because the company making it went out of business? For a non-computer business it's quite possible to need access to files from 50 years earlier. Extraordinary construction projects like dams and tunnels could even take that long to finish. There is no guarantee Adobe will not be crashed by Microsoft by then, or for some other reason break Photoshop file compatibility and make old activation servers unavailable. In the mean time, Gimp will be still available, lost palettes and all.
Do you really want enterprise applications with copy protection support? Some day 10 years ago, you may discover that you need to update one of your old illustrations. Copy protection of your Photoshop CS probably will not take well to Windows Vista SP7 Microsoft will be selling then. You will be suddenly much more interested in just how well Gimp supports layers in PSD files.
They are already all over publishing or sound/video production. Will they penetrate companies that run a dozen of visual basic apps and care enough about costs to not want slick glossy finish or a webcam on their computers? Not likely, but Linux with Wine just might. IT might find that they can understand, customize and remotely manage a Linux distro better than the mind boggling complexity of Vista.
700 pages is not understandable by anyone but authors. "C programming language" book is 1/3 in size, have endured for 20 years and was instrumental in solving many more problems than word processing. Also, creating an ODF document is a minor function in most applications and is not worth the effort to understand such a huge standard. Proponents of both standards should come up with a modular design instead. At the base level, stick with basic HTML - bold and italic tags, fonts and sizes, paragraph breaks. Define many extensions that can be implemented independently or in any combination, in a manner convenient for both computers and, in a pinch, humans. Opera guy is biased as well - while basic HTML is great at its limited function, CSS is not very readable by humans. Nor does it solve pagination, collaborative editing, resolution independence, color profiles for printing...
A lot of decent software, such as Apple's iWork, can be bought to own for half a year of this "rental". And of course, most people can save $180 per year by going with OpenOffice or AbiWord. I can see paying $30 per month for a kind of "MSDN personal" subscription with on demand access to ALL Microsoft's up to date software, including OS.
Microsoft is the company that advertises backward compatibility. As such, if XP-certified applications do not work on Vista, its more of their burden then developer's.
Why should MS need to help you make an Adobe product work on their OS
Well, they don't have to initially - except that it would be in their interest if they didn't have a monopoly on desktop OS. But once the initial port is done, they do have a responsibility to customers who updated with an expectation of backward compatibility. Especially if the Adobe products in question are certified on XP or the previous OS is no longer available on most new PCs.
This is a step in the wrong direction - burning this natural gas will still produce greenhouse effect, causing all this ice to really become hot sooner than we would prefer. Even burning fast-growing wood would be more ecologically friendly.
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Why spend all the effort on an energy-efficient desktop when many companies have already invested tremendous money to maximize battery life? These days, expandability problems of laptops have been largely solved with Firewire 800 and whatever is the current replacement for PCMCIA. Its more productive to spend your time installing double-pane windows, sealing off drafts in your house with insulation tape or shopping for a fuel-efficient car.
So in the case you described, encryption would benefit you and not the owner of the system. Intruder could use a shell without a tty and ptrace his own processes so that you can not. It's much more reliable to log telnet traffic from an independent system that doesn't allow any remote access. If I need to give people accounts with potentially dangerous privileges for them to do work, I might prefer telnet so that, if someone "fucks once" with my database, I can discover who it was. If I am chatting with my wife, I prefer SILC with client/server and peer-to-peer public key encryption. If I am dealing with embedded devices with 16Mhz CPUs, I don't have much of a choice. It all depends on the use case.
ssh is actually more complex than telnet and more likely to have exploitable bugs - there were a couple featured on slashdot in fact. ssh is for protection of the user, not the host system. It can make intrusion recovery more difficult, as you will not be able to see what the attacker is doing using network monitoring tools. Sun just got sloppy/unlucky with this one by unnecessarily mucking with login. Don't they teach in school to not add command line options/environment variables to a setuid program?
And is it going to take another 20 years to close all the holes in telnet?
It seems pointless to seek ideas and feedback if you're going to ignore and delete the opinions you don't like.
Why, does asking for opinions imply that you agree to follow and publish every one of them? They might have had a different kind of feedback in mind, like new models with a different hardware feature set.
How so? Libel implies intent to make your statements public.
They could just send a letter to every student and figure the ones with guilty consciousness are going to settle. With all the popups I am getting about winning various sweepstakes, it may even be legal.
It's just a movie, they could just discard a few episodes at the end and restart with an alternative story. Would even feet the alternative universe thing nicely. Sisko threw a coin, it landed face up instead of down and he decided not to involve Romulans in Cardassian war or something.
We need a different film for a different society. People no longer expect computers to be operated with fixed touch panels or consoles to explode from feedback as if 802.11n remote controls were never invented. More fundamentally, US audience would no longer accept "USS" Enterprise as total do-goders. More likely, we'll support Cardassians in their fight against ruthless and religious Bajorian terrorists.
How do you compare this with a usability of the product that can not be installed at all, because the company making it went out of business? For a non-computer business it's quite possible to need access to files from 50 years earlier. Extraordinary construction projects like dams and tunnels could even take that long to finish. There is no guarantee Adobe will not be crashed by Microsoft by then, or for some other reason break Photoshop file compatibility and make old activation servers unavailable. In the mean time, Gimp will be still available, lost palettes and all.
Do you really want enterprise applications with copy protection support? Some day 10 years ago, you may discover that you need to update one of your old illustrations. Copy protection of your Photoshop CS probably will not take well to Windows Vista SP7 Microsoft will be selling then. You will be suddenly much more interested in just how well Gimp supports layers in PSD files.
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They are already all over publishing or sound/video production. Will they penetrate companies that run a dozen of visual basic apps and care enough about costs to not want slick glossy finish or a webcam on their computers? Not likely, but Linux with Wine just might. IT might find that they can understand, customize and remotely manage a Linux distro better than the mind boggling complexity of Vista.
Nice, but you could just copy the list to array and do counting/radix sort. Does nothing for strings, floating point values, structures...
700 pages is not understandable by anyone but authors. "C programming language" book is 1/3 in size, have endured for 20 years and was instrumental in solving many more problems than word processing. Also, creating an ODF document is a minor function in most applications and is not worth the effort to understand such a huge standard. Proponents of both standards should come up with a modular design instead. At the base level, stick with basic HTML - bold and italic tags, fonts and sizes, paragraph breaks. Define many extensions that can be implemented independently or in any combination, in a manner convenient for both computers and, in a pinch, humans. Opera guy is biased as well - while basic HTML is great at its limited function, CSS is not very readable by humans. Nor does it solve pagination, collaborative editing, resolution independence, color profiles for printing...
A lot of decent software, such as Apple's iWork, can be bought to own for half a year of this "rental". And of course, most people can save $180 per year by going with OpenOffice or AbiWord. I can see paying $30 per month for a kind of "MSDN personal" subscription with on demand access to ALL Microsoft's up to date software, including OS.
Microsoft is the company that advertises backward compatibility. As such, if XP-certified applications do not work on Vista, its more of their burden then developer's.
Why should MS need to help you make an Adobe product work on their OS
Well, they don't have to initially - except that it would be in their interest if they didn't have a monopoly on desktop OS. But once the initial port is done, they do have a responsibility to customers who updated with an expectation of backward compatibility. Especially if the Adobe products in question are certified on XP or the previous OS is no longer available on most new PCs.
Is this Microsoft fanboy's version of making Safari more snappy?
I always knew Internet development was driven by pr0n. Way to go, Europeans!
I just wich there was a non-commercial bash compiler around; that would make things a bit quicker.
You misspelled powerpoint.
Is spelling the most essential education to help us get to Mars? Perhaps physics, mathematics and engineering would be more helpful?
This is a step in the wrong direction - burning this natural gas will still produce greenhouse effect, causing all this ice to really become hot sooner than we would prefer. Even burning fast-growing wood would be more ecologically friendly.
Why, do you view spelling as more important that putting people on Mars?
Your noose bled that much? You should really cut down.