So does it really matter if a crew member does something that is possible seen by the hijackers? I mean, really? In bank robberies it *might* make sense not to do anything, because the robbers most likely don't have killing you first in their minds. After 911, it is however quite obvious that if you are in a plane being hijacked, you might as well risk your life protecting others rather than to crash in one place or an other.
Besides, I don't think that it would be that hard to activate in without being seen. Hijackers are most likely located more to the front of the plane and moving forward as fast as they can regardless of what is happening in the behind. This would give an opportunity to the flight attendants in the rear of the plane to trigger the alarm unnoticed. Hell. You don't even need eye contact. Just trigger it when you hear strange noises.
What's up with the extra 2 keys on the home row between JKL; and Enter?
As others here pointed out, this keyboard is to be compatible with international keyboards. Comparing to a Finnish keyboard there is one extra key after JKLÖÄ' and two on the row above after OPÅ + umlaut. But I agree that the Enter-key is a problem. Comparing with my keyboard it has moved one row down and quite a bit to the right in the place where right shift should be, which isn't good. Also, the left shift should be a small one because there is a key missing there! In Finnish layout there is <-key between left shift and Z-key, which is also used to type >-key. On PC keyboards you produce also the |-key, which could make piping UNIX commands difficult.
The numpad and arrows are nice if you play games + the sound control and eject button for Macs are a very nice to have. Nevertheless I would not have anything against a "light" version of the keyboard (or country-specific models for that matter). The left row of keys should however be removed.
What? Tabbed browsing works fine in Safari with tab + enter. Tab + space on other hand does not work. The only problem is that you can't see which element is selected. Personally though, I rarely use tabbed browsing and wouldn't even have checked it if it wouldn't have been mentioned here.
Those reasons are good, but IMHO the greatest reason not to use commercial P2P services is not technical: why would I give away my upstream bandwidth so that companies may profit from it?
Joining the discussion a bit late, but I want to point out that even if all of the applications would compile on the new platform right away, developers would *still* need several weeks or months notice beforehand. After the compiling process you would need to do some testing before releasing the final product on the new platform. Once the product is ready to be shipped, you still need to do packaging and distribution. All of this takes time.
Now the fact is that most programs will not compile AND work right away - small adjustment is most likely required even in the best cases. Mathematica is probably one of the easiest programs to port to the new processor because it is already cross-platform, running on Windows, OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX etc. Especially heavily optimized programs might need a lot of time. (If the code was written in PPC assembly all of it might need to be rewritten into i386, which developers may not even be familiar with at this point.)
The switch to Intel was announced at the World Wide Developer Conference because it was primarily intended for developers. Now we have time to prepare for the switch and we can provide our products to the new platform right away, when the first machines are released.
PS. I much rather would now buy a PPC Mac that is known to be stable and supports all the apps, than wait one year for the Intel Mac.
There was a project to create a 3D model of Helsinki about 10 years ago in VRML. I think it was a part of some bigger project they called Arenanet, which included map services etc.
The version I tried on the Net was basically quite ready in that sense that it had most if not all the buildings. The project however disappeared silently some years ago. There is still this site left with some panorama photos. The original site, arenanet.fi, does not exist any more. Some remnant may still be found at http://arenanet.fi/">the Internet Archive.
Or alternatively you should just get QuickTime Pro. IMHO it should however be part of the core system or iLife. What you described was actually not the craziest thing about QuickTime. What's even crazier is that you have to get Pro version of QuickTime in order to watch fullscreen movies (unless you use a hack like I do). But other than that, QuickTime is quite okay.
Port knocking allows trusted clients from less trusted networks to access services. It gives a couple of advantages to plain packet filtering.
First of all, it doesn't require you to know the IP address of the client - unlike with packet filtering. With static IP addresses this is not a problem for packet filtering, but clients with notebooks traveling around the world with all kinds of IP addresses it definitely is. By using port knocking techniques your services, while still available, will look invisible to an unauthorized user. With plain packet filtering you would need to decide wether you block all connections or allow all of them.
Port knocking also has the the advantage that it may provide some form of user authentication. If a malicious user is behind a trusted NATed IP address, packet filters will happily grant access to talk with services. On the other hand by using port knocking, these services would still be hidden from the malicious user. (There might be a risk where the malicious user could try to get in while the trusted user is opening a connection, but there are ways to prevent that.)
So port knocking is one of the next steps you might do increasing the security on a system. Although there is a small overhead, you want to think about using port knocking when allowing connections from untrusted networks to your services.
My guess is: yes. China has some huge potential in the IT industry. When considering how many people there are in China, this operating system may one day become the most popular OS. My first impression: impressive effort.
It is true, that computers can distract students, resulting in worse grades. The problem is however not the computer itself. Maybe the class was boring. Maybe the subject didn't interest you. I think the computers are not the cause of the problem, but one of the results. Just like worse grades.
It is up to the student itself to use the computers responsibly. Personally I bought an iBook a couple of months ago to use it on my lectures. While some others play games with their notebooks, I use it to write down notes and to manage my calendar. I am pretty sure it has made my studies much more efficient than before using computer. But that is up to oneself how to use it.
So as a summary, computers can be a very useful tool in education. They are however not used as they should in education. It's a problem of teaching - not computers.
There is a huge difference between CogVis and the WWW Roshambot you linked to. CogVis didn't know how to play rock-paper-scissors - it learned just by observing the human players! WWW Roshabot on the other hand knows how to play the game. It probably just uses some kind of statistical algorithm that decides the "optimal" move. Below are my results after ten games. Not impressive at all.
Results so far
You have won 5, lost 1, and tied 4 games
Statistics for 10 games winning percentage*: 40.00% won : 50.00% lost: 10.00% tied: 40.00%
* winning percentage is (wins - losses) / total games
Usually the word that is most frequently used will be the one that is correct. There are numerous of examples of this. I understand that the Chinese officially use the word astronaut, but if we decide use the word taikonaut instead (which our media at least in my experience has), it will be the word we should use, because it is the word we are familiar with.
True. But I think the majority of the people here on Slashdot live in the Western world. Taikonaut is a good word because it tells the nationality to the reader. "The term taikonaut is sometimes used" is a bit confusing IMHO because at least in my experience the word taikonaut has been always used instead of astronaut when it comes to the Chinese. Who has the right to decide?
You must be new here... Everyone knows that first you comment and then you read the article.:-)
Okay. So you're right this time. They weren't burglars but some kind of robbers... But if they would have been burglars then I would have made a valid point. But that's again speculation.
Most likely the burglar didn't get scared of the sound from GTA because it sounded like cops. When he heard the sound he probably just figured out someone was at home and decided to escape. Burglars want to do their business alone... not when the house is packed with people.
Once I would have an opportunity to watch video trough some VR glasses, I could consider. Otherwise, I don't think portable video is going to succeed...
...why everyone is so negative. I found this project at SourceForge.net a while ago, and I thought it was quite cool and started to follow it's progress. Just because the commercial XYZ app already can do something similar, I don't understand why we need to bash this project down.
The last time I installed OpenBSD it did have the OpenSSH daemon enabled by default and maybe some inetd services if I remember correctly. IMHO that is too much. Every service that is on by default is too much. Therefore I consider NetBSD the cleanest as it does not have a single server enabled by default.
Having services enabled by default is nothing to brag about.
The parent post I replied to suggested that Mac OS X could be sold as a counterpart to KDE and Gnome. I wanted to point out that Mac OS X isn't just a pretty GUI on top of Darwin. As Aqua and other parts of OS X utilizes unique features (and implementations) of Darwin, you can't tear them appart as easily as the parent suggests.
Yeah, right. Just because you only buy low-end machines doesn't mean everyone do the same. Macs are pretty popular in the media industry and have a group of very loyal fans. Unless they are going down, I doubt Apple is going down either.
I don't see any reason for Mac OS to be a GUI on top of Linux either. First of all, it would be yet an other transition. Secondly, they wouldn't win anything at it. Linux kernel doesn't have all the stuff the Darwin kernel has. I think it's ridiculous that you are suggesting that they would switch a nice kernel that they have complete control over to a third party kernel they don't have control over which doesn't even have the same features.
Don't get me wrong. Linux is okay and I use it too, but the truth is that it's being hyped way to much. Linux is not superior in any way as some people (like you) seem to think. Soon these people will learn that there are alternatives to Linux also. It isn't just Windows or Linux.
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So does it really matter if a crew member does something that is possible seen by the hijackers? I mean, really? In bank robberies it *might* make sense not to do anything, because the robbers most likely don't have killing you first in their minds. After 911, it is however quite obvious that if you are in a plane being hijacked, you might as well risk your life protecting others rather than to crash in one place or an other.
Besides, I don't think that it would be that hard to activate in without being seen. Hijackers are most likely located more to the front of the plane and moving forward as fast as they can regardless of what is happening in the behind. This would give an opportunity to the flight attendants in the rear of the plane to trigger the alarm unnoticed. Hell. You don't even need eye contact. Just trigger it when you hear strange noises.
As others here pointed out, this keyboard is to be compatible with international keyboards. Comparing to a Finnish keyboard there is one extra key after JKLÖÄ' and two on the row above after OPÅ + umlaut. But I agree that the Enter-key is a problem. Comparing with my keyboard it has moved one row down and quite a bit to the right in the place where right shift should be, which isn't good. Also, the left shift should be a small one because there is a key missing there! In Finnish layout there is <-key between left shift and Z-key, which is also used to type >-key. On PC keyboards you produce also the |-key, which could make piping UNIX commands difficult.
The numpad and arrows are nice if you play games + the sound control and eject button for Macs are a very nice to have. Nevertheless I would not have anything against a "light" version of the keyboard (or country-specific models for that matter). The left row of keys should however be removed.
What? Tabbed browsing works fine in Safari with tab + enter. Tab + space on other hand does not work. The only problem is that you can't see which element is selected. Personally though, I rarely use tabbed browsing and wouldn't even have checked it if it wouldn't have been mentioned here.
Those reasons are good, but IMHO the greatest reason not to use commercial P2P services is not technical: why would I give away my upstream bandwidth so that companies may profit from it?
Not going to happen. I'll stick to iTMS.
Joining the discussion a bit late, but I want to point out that even if all of the applications would compile on the new platform right away, developers would *still* need several weeks or months notice beforehand. After the compiling process you would need to do some testing before releasing the final product on the new platform. Once the product is ready to be shipped, you still need to do packaging and distribution. All of this takes time.
Now the fact is that most programs will not compile AND work right away - small adjustment is most likely required even in the best cases. Mathematica is probably one of the easiest programs to port to the new processor because it is already cross-platform, running on Windows, OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX etc. Especially heavily optimized programs might need a lot of time. (If the code was written in PPC assembly all of it might need to be rewritten into i386, which developers may not even be familiar with at this point.)
The switch to Intel was announced at the World Wide Developer Conference because it was primarily intended for developers. Now we have time to prepare for the switch and we can provide our products to the new platform right away, when the first machines are released.
PS. I much rather would now buy a PPC Mac that is known to be stable and supports all the apps, than wait one year for the Intel Mac.
Fixed link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://arenanet.fi.
Slashdot seems to screw up that URL if you put it in <a>. Sorry!
There was a project to create a 3D model of Helsinki about 10 years ago in VRML. I think it was a part of some bigger project they called Arenanet, which included map services etc.
The version I tried on the Net was basically quite ready in that sense that it had most if not all the buildings. The project however disappeared silently some years ago. There is still this site left with some panorama photos. The original site, arenanet.fi, does not exist any more. Some remnant may still be found at http://arenanet.fi/">the Internet Archive.
Somebody know more about this project?
Or alternatively you should just get QuickTime Pro. IMHO it should however be part of the core system or iLife. What you described was actually not the craziest thing about QuickTime. What's even crazier is that you have to get Pro version of QuickTime in order to watch fullscreen movies (unless you use a hack like I do). But other than that, QuickTime is quite okay.
For more HD videos to watch, go to the HD gallery. They are awesome.
Port knocking allows trusted clients from less trusted networks to access services. It gives a couple of advantages to plain packet filtering.
First of all, it doesn't require you to know the IP address of the client - unlike with packet filtering. With static IP addresses this is not a problem for packet filtering, but clients with notebooks traveling around the world with all kinds of IP addresses it definitely is. By using port knocking techniques your services, while still available, will look invisible to an unauthorized user. With plain packet filtering you would need to decide wether you block all connections or allow all of them.
Port knocking also has the the advantage that it may provide some form of user authentication. If a malicious user is behind a trusted NATed IP address, packet filters will happily grant access to talk with services. On the other hand by using port knocking, these services would still be hidden from the malicious user. (There might be a risk where the malicious user could try to get in while the trusted user is opening a connection, but there are ways to prevent that.)
So port knocking is one of the next steps you might do increasing the security on a system. Although there is a small overhead, you want to think about using port knocking when allowing connections from untrusted networks to your services.
Are you sure? What would Apple be without Steve Jobs? ...Absolutely nothing.
My guess is: yes. China has some huge potential in the IT industry. When considering how many people there are in China, this operating system may one day become the most popular OS. My first impression: impressive effort.
It is true, that computers can distract students, resulting in worse grades. The problem is however not the computer itself. Maybe the class was boring. Maybe the subject didn't interest you. I think the computers are not the cause of the problem, but one of the results. Just like worse grades.
It is up to the student itself to use the computers responsibly. Personally I bought an iBook a couple of months ago to use it on my lectures. While some others play games with their notebooks, I use it to write down notes and to manage my calendar. I am pretty sure it has made my studies much more efficient than before using computer. But that is up to oneself how to use it.
So as a summary, computers can be a very useful tool in education. They are however not used as they should in education. It's a problem of teaching - not computers.
There is a huge difference between CogVis and the WWW Roshambot you linked to. CogVis didn't know how to play rock-paper-scissors - it learned just by observing the human players! WWW Roshabot on the other hand knows how to play the game. It probably just uses some kind of statistical algorithm that decides the "optimal" move. Below are my results after ten games. Not impressive at all.
Usually the word that is most frequently used will be the one that is correct. There are numerous of examples of this. I understand that the Chinese officially use the word astronaut, but if we decide use the word taikonaut instead (which our media at least in my experience has), it will be the word we should use, because it is the word we are familiar with.
True. But I think the majority of the people here on Slashdot live in the Western world. Taikonaut is a good word because it tells the nationality to the reader. "The term taikonaut is sometimes used" is a bit confusing IMHO because at least in my experience the word taikonaut has been always used instead of astronaut when it comes to the Chinese. Who has the right to decide?
I misspelled the word "correct". Ironic isn't it?
Astronauts? Shouldn't the corrent term be Taikonaut? Anyway, it is nice to see China making progress in this field.
You must be new here... Everyone knows that first you comment and then you read the article. :-)
Okay. So you're right this time. They weren't burglars but some kind of robbers... But if they would have been burglars then I would have made a valid point. But that's again speculation.
Nothing to see. Move along.
Most likely the burglar didn't get scared of the sound from GTA because it sounded like cops. When he heard the sound he probably just figured out someone was at home and decided to escape. Burglars want to do their business alone... not when the house is packed with people.
No.
Once I would have an opportunity to watch video trough some VR glasses, I could consider. Otherwise, I don't think portable video is going to succeed...
...why everyone is so negative. I found this project at SourceForge.net a while ago, and I thought it was quite cool and started to follow it's progress. Just because the commercial XYZ app already can do something similar, I don't understand why we need to bash this project down.
The last time I installed OpenBSD it did have the OpenSSH daemon enabled by default and maybe some inetd services if I remember correctly. IMHO that is too much. Every service that is on by default is too much. Therefore I consider NetBSD the cleanest as it does not have a single server enabled by default.
Having services enabled by default is nothing to brag about.
That is my humble opinion.
The parent post I replied to suggested that Mac OS X could be sold as a counterpart to KDE and Gnome. I wanted to point out that Mac OS X isn't just a pretty GUI on top of Darwin. As Aqua and other parts of OS X utilizes unique features (and implementations) of Darwin, you can't tear them appart as easily as the parent suggests.
I do agree with the points you made.
Yeah, right. Just because you only buy low-end machines doesn't mean everyone do the same. Macs are pretty popular in the media industry and have a group of very loyal fans. Unless they are going down, I doubt Apple is going down either.
I don't see any reason for Mac OS to be a GUI on top of Linux either. First of all, it would be yet an other transition. Secondly, they wouldn't win anything at it. Linux kernel doesn't have all the stuff the Darwin kernel has. I think it's ridiculous that you are suggesting that they would switch a nice kernel that they have complete control over to a third party kernel they don't have control over which doesn't even have the same features.
Don't get me wrong. Linux is okay and I use it too, but the truth is that it's being hyped way to much. Linux is not superior in any way as some people (like you) seem to think. Soon these people will learn that there are alternatives to Linux also. It isn't just Windows or Linux.