Barking up the wrong tree, especially as those machines are already out there. Better would be to, say... have ISPs block all incoming requests to home accounts.
If spammers can't broadcast commands to their networks there'd be no use in having them. And blocking incoming requests also dramatically limits the number of computers to which a bot can "phone home" to GET commands, which in turn let's them target the command and control IPs.
Given the choice of blocking the occassional geek whose too cheap to spend $5 a month on a hosting service, vs. drastically cutting the amount of spam... well, I know which one I'd choose.
"First, as far as web programming is concerned, the users are always slower than the slowest of all programming languages : they read the text, fill in the forms, etc."
Right.... Try applying the "slow user" argument to a server that has to handle thousands of simultaneous requests from said "slow" users.
The user can afford to be slow. The server can't, and if it can't scale you're in deep trouble.
"Industry" isn't one giant, monolithic entity. For every one that doesn't want tougher restrictions, there's another that makes money from selling new processes, filters, converters, and so on.
And even some that don't want them, but are shortsighted in doing so. Detroit, for example, can bitch and moan about it, or look at it as an opportunity to sell EVERYONE a new, fuel-efficient, non-poluting vehicle.
Until Windows has a true resolution-independent interface, I'm not sure having a higher resolution screen capable of displaying text in flyspeck condensed is a major advantage.
And as a photographer I do have FW800 drives, and do find the transfer speed to be higher than when I'm using thee FW400 connectors.
And sorry, but I thought the "Client Security Solution" was the typical first year anti-virus/firewall subscription that's de rigeur for all Windows systems. My bad.
Actually, I didn't see anything in the post that indicated the OP even had any technical skills. Lot's of people are "interested in" and "fascinated by" many subjects. Doesn't mean they can get a job doing them.
Agreed. Take classes in business, accounting, marketing, science, design, and/or whatever else interests you. Take English and writing classes so you can communicate your ideas.
Companies want developers who understand something more than PHP. If you can think in their problem domain you're a dozen times more valuable than the average I-only-know-code computer geek.
Less hardware? You seem to be missing the Aluminum case, the FW800 port, the iSight camera, the drop-tilt sensors, the ambient lighting sensors, the backlit keyboard, the ExpressCard slot, and the MagSafe power connector. All of which, to me anyway, closes up the gap nicely. And articles indicate that the Mac also has wireless-N, but is waiting for the drivers/standard to finallize.
And let's not forget OS X, the iLife suite, and the free person-to-person tech support availalbe at your local Apple store. What long-distance Chineese/Indian tech support phone tree do you have to naviagate if your TP has issues?
Well, you're also seem to be missing the Aluminum case, the FW800 port, the iSight camera, the drop-tilt sensors, the ambient lighting sensors, the backlit keyboard, the ExpressCard slot, the MagSafe power connector, OS X, and the iLife suite. All of which, to me anyway, closes up the gap nicely.
And let's not forget the free person-to-person tech support availalbe at your local Apple store. What Chineese/Indian tech support phone tree do you have to naviagate if your TP has issues?
And I notice that you listed the first installment of your yearly "Client Security Solution" subscription... as a BENEFIT?
Reread the part about "enriched Uranium-235". A massive amount of infrastructure is needed to separate, purify, and enrich enough Uranium to get it to weapons-grade levels. Or have you missed the cries of outrage over their plans to build 10,000 or so gas centrifuges?
If you have the technology needed to do that, I suspect you can figure out a few timing circuits...
"... because the relevant info is under lock and key."
Electronically controlled fuel injected straight six, with a 12-volt electrical system. Right there in the owners manual. Though I supose the relevant information is under lock and key when "I" lock the car.
And I definitely can't get a Chilton maunal for my vehicle for $27.45.
But nice excuse for a "closed-source" rant though...
Fundamentally this pretty much has the same issues as the recipe for rabbit stew:
Step 1) Catch a rabbit...
Unless Saddam has 25-plus pounds of enriched Uranium-235 lying around somewhere that we don't know about, having the recipe for one does you about as much good as the recipe for the other.
1) It requires that every mail system be modified to support that specific challenge/response protocol. Not going to happen.
2) The spammer doesn't care if it's computationally expensive, as most of the systems doing that spamming aren't his computers anyway. And if he needs to compensate he'll just aquire more bots and add them to his net.
3) How do you know the spam isn't coming from an eight-core 3GHz machine? "Expensive" is a relative term.
Nope, not going to work, and wasn't going to work the first time it was suggested.
That's why in the last line I mentioned search. Or to continue the analogy, is it faster to wander around the building looking for Fred, or should I just page him over the intercom?
In most languages if you forget an opening or closing brace the compiler will syntax out. Screw up one tab in Python and everything "seems" to work... until it doesn't.
Unless you're planning on creating a new ideomatic language and teaching it to the rest of the world, we're kind of stuck with that whole letter-word-sentence-paragraph thing. Which gives rise to the idea of a page or document or file or folder that encapsulates a bunch of them.
Most sites or interfaces that try to overlay reality with other metaphors fail, usually because the metaphor doesn't communicate (why is the home page the "Town Hall"?) and because most graphical systems aren't as dense as text. To take your example, do I want to navigate a virtual building trying to find Fred's desk, or is it faster to find Fred in an alphabetic list and click on it.
I actually expect search and metadata (aka Spotlight) to take us further than 3D spinning virtual worlds...
Why can't you have well-designed ergonomics AND great eye-candy? Why deny that both serve a useful place at the table?
Another thing that's needed is something similar to Apple's original User Interface Guidelines, so that all of the applicatons on the platform are consistent from both a usability and visual standpoint.
Having consistent dialogs, button placements, menus, and so on tend to make a platform a LOT more accessible.
There are quite a few things like Time Machine, Spaces, significant upgrades to Mail, iCal, iChat, Dashboard, resolution-independent interfaces, plus a lot of under-the-hood enhancements like 2D Extreme, Core Animation, 64-bit, and so on.
Go to the OS X page on Apple's site to see most of the announced "user-side" improvements, and here to see the developer stuff. Just simple stuff like the iCal store can mean lot's of nifty little utilities being generated for that system.
And to reiterate, those are just the "announced" features. SJ implied that there are some other "surprise" features waiting...
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Barking up the wrong tree, especially as those machines are already out there. Better would be to, say... have ISPs block all incoming requests to home accounts.
If spammers can't broadcast commands to their networks there'd be no use in having them. And blocking incoming requests also dramatically limits the number of computers to which a bot can "phone home" to GET commands, which in turn let's them target the command and control IPs.
Given the choice of blocking the occassional geek whose too cheap to spend $5 a month on a hosting service, vs. drastically cutting the amount of spam... well, I know which one I'd choose.
"First, as far as web programming is concerned, the users are always slower than the slowest of all programming languages : they read the text, fill in the forms, etc."
Right.... Try applying the "slow user" argument to a server that has to handle thousands of simultaneous requests from said "slow" users.
The user can afford to be slow. The server can't, and if it can't scale you're in deep trouble.
So a beginner programming in Python has to known the internal implementation details of every function?
"Industry" isn't one giant, monolithic entity. For every one that doesn't want tougher restrictions, there's another that makes money from selling new processes, filters, converters, and so on.
And even some that don't want them, but are shortsighted in doing so. Detroit, for example, can bitch and moan about it, or look at it as an opportunity to sell EVERYONE a new, fuel-efficient, non-poluting vehicle.
DDLs are just the base. Sounds to me that the OP is talking about building systems on top of more systems on top of other systems based on DLLs...
"significantly lower resolution screen"
Until Windows has a true resolution-independent interface, I'm not sure having a higher resolution screen capable of displaying text in flyspeck condensed is a major advantage.
And as a photographer I do have FW800 drives, and do find the transfer speed to be higher than when I'm using thee FW400 connectors.
And sorry, but I thought the "Client Security Solution" was the typical first year anti-virus/firewall subscription that's de rigeur for all Windows systems. My bad.
Actually, I didn't see anything in the post that indicated the OP even had any technical skills. Lot's of people are "interested in" and "fascinated by" many subjects. Doesn't mean they can get a job doing them.
Agreed. Take classes in business, accounting, marketing, science, design, and/or whatever else interests you. Take English and writing classes so you can communicate your ideas.
Companies want developers who understand something more than PHP. If you can think in their problem domain you're a dozen times more valuable than the average I-only-know-code computer geek.
Less hardware? You seem to be missing the Aluminum case, the FW800 port, the iSight camera, the drop-tilt sensors, the ambient lighting sensors, the backlit keyboard, the ExpressCard slot, and the MagSafe power connector. All of which, to me anyway, closes up the gap nicely. And articles indicate that the Mac also has wireless-N, but is waiting for the drivers/standard to finallize.
And let's not forget OS X, the iLife suite, and the free person-to-person tech support availalbe at your local Apple store. What long-distance Chineese/Indian tech support phone tree do you have to naviagate if your TP has issues?
Well, you're also seem to be missing the Aluminum case, the FW800 port, the iSight camera, the drop-tilt sensors, the ambient lighting sensors, the backlit keyboard, the ExpressCard slot, the MagSafe power connector, OS X, and the iLife suite. All of which, to me anyway, closes up the gap nicely.
And let's not forget the free person-to-person tech support availalbe at your local Apple store. What Chineese/Indian tech support phone tree do you have to naviagate if your TP has issues?
And I notice that you listed the first installment of your yearly "Client Security Solution" subscription... as a BENEFIT?
Reread the part about "enriched Uranium-235". A massive amount of infrastructure is needed to separate, purify, and enrich enough Uranium to get it to weapons-grade levels. Or have you missed the cries of outrage over their plans to build 10,000 or so gas centrifuges?
If you have the technology needed to do that, I suspect you can figure out a few timing circuits...
"... because the relevant info is under lock and key."
Electronically controlled fuel injected straight six, with a 12-volt electrical system. Right there in the owners manual. Though I supose the relevant information is under lock and key when "I" lock the car.
And I definitely can't get a Chilton maunal for my vehicle for $27.45.
But nice excuse for a "closed-source" rant though...
Fundamentally this pretty much has the same issues as the recipe for rabbit stew:
Step 1) Catch a rabbit...
Unless Saddam has 25-plus pounds of enriched Uranium-235 lying around somewhere that we don't know about, having the recipe for one does you about as much good as the recipe for the other.
Clever, except for two points:
1) It requires that every mail system be modified to support that specific challenge/response protocol. Not going to happen.
2) The spammer doesn't care if it's computationally expensive, as most of the systems doing that spamming aren't his computers anyway. And if he needs to compensate he'll just aquire more bots and add them to his net.
3) How do you know the spam isn't coming from an eight-core 3GHz machine? "Expensive" is a relative term.
Nope, not going to work, and wasn't going to work the first time it was suggested.
Better still, if you notice a machine sending vast amounts of spam, root it yourself and corrupt the network drivers, taking it off the air... ;)
New era in video is... advertising?
That's why in the last line I mentioned search. Or to continue the analogy, is it faster to wander around the building looking for Fred, or should I just page him over the intercom?
In most languages if you forget an opening or closing brace the compiler will syntax out. Screw up one tab in Python and everything "seems" to work... until it doesn't.
You obviously let the smoke out. Any piece of electronics will stop working when you let the smoke out...
So where's the TPM module that validates the firmware???
Unless you're planning on creating a new ideomatic language and teaching it to the rest of the world, we're kind of stuck with that whole letter-word-sentence-paragraph thing. Which gives rise to the idea of a page or document or file or folder that encapsulates a bunch of them.
Most sites or interfaces that try to overlay reality with other metaphors fail, usually because the metaphor doesn't communicate (why is the home page the "Town Hall"?) and because most graphical systems aren't as dense as text. To take your example, do I want to navigate a virtual building trying to find Fred's desk, or is it faster to find Fred in an alphabetic list and click on it.
I actually expect search and metadata (aka Spotlight) to take us further than 3D spinning virtual worlds...
Yet another brilliant but incomprehensible /. automotive analogy...
"We're about as far in that direction as Afghanistan is sending turbaned men to Mars."
Yeah, like the US has a program either...
Why can't you have well-designed ergonomics AND great eye-candy? Why deny that both serve a useful place at the table?
Another thing that's needed is something similar to Apple's original User Interface Guidelines, so that all of the applicatons on the platform are consistent from both a usability and visual standpoint.
Having consistent dialogs, button placements, menus, and so on tend to make a platform a LOT more accessible.
There are quite a few things like Time Machine, Spaces, significant upgrades to Mail, iCal, iChat, Dashboard, resolution-independent interfaces, plus a lot of under-the-hood enhancements like 2D Extreme, Core Animation, 64-bit, and so on.
Go to the OS X page on Apple's site to see most of the announced "user-side" improvements, and here to see the developer stuff. Just simple stuff like the iCal store can mean lot's of nifty little utilities being generated for that system.
And to reiterate, those are just the "announced" features. SJ implied that there are some other "surprise" features waiting...