My friend was bitching about the quality of his ipod on his $1000 sound system so I hooked up the Creative Nomad Zen Xtra. The sound was louder, with less loss of quality. The difference was frankly, amazing. And the Zen cost $100 less.
I knew a guy who was saying some stuff, so we did comparisons and junk, and found out that everything I own or bought or borrowed from another guy totally are better than other things that I don't have.
Actually, it is Java 5.0 (they changed the name). And it has been out (final version) less than 4 months (as of now, being the middle of January). Update 1 came out in December.
But Apple is not the only one who will take their time. IBM will not release it in their Websphere line for a while as well.
People need to understand that Java 5.0 is a HUGE change from Java 1.4 (which is why they changed the name). Companies will need to do extensive testing to make sure that it will work with their products.
I think it took Apple longer than the 7 or so months we are looking at here to bring out Java 1.4.x - as OSX was still using 1.3.x LONG after the rest of the world had moved to 1.4. And the 1.4 to 5.0 jump is much much larger than the 1.3 to 1.4 jump.
But like a previous post says, Tiger on Tiger will be some nice action...
I have been extremely lucky. I am coming up on my Powerbook being 1 full year as the top-o-the-line Powerbook.
I have never had that happen with any computer I have ever owned.
I bought it the day it was announced, and until they bump the PBs it will be king... (well, 15 inch king. I have everything the 17 has without the god aweful size. I can't imagine trying to open the 17inch on a plane or actually use it in my lap...)
Now, I can reencode to MP3 for portable devices. I can reencode to Vorbis for putting on a DVD to take to work or a friend's house (or anywhere I can use a PC to listen to it). I could encode to AAC to listen on an iPod, if I had one.
They might not exactly be saved my the email server - but that doesn't mean they go away either. It is also possible that some companies you work with might do things that you are not aware of (indeed that many of the people involved might not be aware of) like mirroring drives and making off-site copies. And some companies (especially large ones or in the financial sector) might be required to keep them for a certain amount of time or forever. And any state, local, or federal governments in the USA keep them (and many states are required to turn them over in public freedom of information requests).
But the bigger message is that *we don't know*, and like clandestine communications - they are only as good as the weakest link... It must always be assumed they are compromised and can't be trusted...
But Slashdot comments on the other hand.... (smile)
If you know that your product may well have serious bugs like this, you shouldn't have sent out a press release promoting its launch, you shouldn't have given away free accounts to thousands of Blogger users, you shouldn't allow people to fire off a bunch of invitations to anyone they choose, and you should make some indication on the website (beyond "BETA," not everyone who uses Google reads Slashdot) that there can be risks associated with using it.
Google is not *really* or *purely* web based. Google is using a custom applet through the web browser, utilizing the connection and VM of the browser. The other sites might be passing session information on the URL instead of with a Cookie, or they could use a combination of both or maybe have more info in each cookie. There are a thousand ways to do this stuff, and no two sites will chose the exact same way.
This is nothing odd, sinister, or bad. And if you use a shared machine, you should have it deleting cookies when you close the web browser, or delete them yourself.
Maybe I'll make a new site called email-is-too-creepy.com just for you. If you think the service you're using now is any better, then you're likely in for quite a surpise. Email has never been a secure method of communication. Ever. Someone else said this already, so I'll quote (loosely): "Plaintext [aka, unencryped emails] are as secure as sending the same information on a postcard."
Even worse. Just about every system an email passes through now keeps a copy of the email for legal purposes. And if they don't say they do, odds are they are anyway.
So instead of just your "exposed" postcard being read by a few people - email is read, shared, saved, recalled, read, shared, saved, and spread. Rinse and repeat.
No matter how many times people say it, some just don't get - email is not secure.
I still have inlaws who send credit card numbers over email despite all the warnings... And no, you can't have their email address.:)
I can go to Google and other search engines and find Usenet and Email from me back in the late 80's early 90's!
I am sick and tired of people saying: Why use office? Use OpenOffice, or Emacs, or CrapTasticTyper 4....
Look. No one *wants* to use MS Office on a Mac. We would *love* to be able to use some cool Mac application that is better, faster, and nicer.
But Office productivity is NOT like web browsing. We CAN'T JUST PICK OUR OWN.
We have 2 Macs in my company of 20 people. NONE of our clients have Macs. We have absolutely ZERO people using Office alternatives. So because of that - If I want to be able to read and write the documents that those people produce, and let them read mine - it is MS Office. Period.
And ernough with the "TextPad opens.doc files" crap. NO. It does NOT. It will "open" excessively SIMPLE.doc files. But if you have any formating, tables, page numbering, outlines, footnotes, links to Excel, or anything remotely complex - YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT USE OFFICE!
OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, KOffice, whatever you chose - none of them can open complex Office documents.
If I were to use some open source or alternative office product, and either require people to dumb down their documents or support multimple formats or resend things - they would make me drop my Mac and switch to Windows, and MS Office. The only 100% requirement I have for any alternative is it HAS to support the MS Office file formats 100%, both reading and writing, and formatting, linking, displaying, and printing. If they can do that - then they are a real possibility.
You do realize that a tourist is defined as "One who travels for pleasure" right? So you are saying that you have never travelled for pleasure? Not even to another town near yours?
Not exactly. The RedCross responds to ALL disasters and many more places where relief is needed. The only error was that many people expected their donations to go directly to 9/11 only.
In response the Red Cross changed their donation policies and guidelines to better reflect what actually happens with the money.
Basically now, if you give to the "Disaster Relief Fund" they use it wherever they see fit, and if you give to the "International Response Fund" if you want the funds to go exclusively to the tsunami relief efforts.
In addition they have all sorts of other areas you can "designate" such as Military efforts, Local chapters, Vaccination efforts, etc etc.
When it comes to charities - the Red Cross and Red Crescent(American and International) are about as real and helpful as you get. They help everyone everywhere.
I find it interesting that people can hate the USA and criticize the American people and such - but then turn around and complain when we don't "give" what is expected of us when they need something.
I have donated as much money as I can afford to the Red Cross, and I am pushing people to do the same. I also think the USA and some of our wealthy companies - like Microsoft and IBM and such - should give plentifully (they have the cash).
I just find it funny that everyone hates us (and usually with good reason) but then is more than happy to take our money and aid...
It is not so much as "impossible" as "improbable without major help, technology, or infrastructure". In the latter, it would seem not too hard to catch or detect anyone doing such.
The ability of a human with a stealthy hand(s) held laser to actually track and hit a pilot well enough to do damage or create risk at most any airport in the world - is debatable. It *seems* highly unlikely, but then again - I am just a slashdot expert...;)
This may or may not be a threat. Some interesting thoughts here
But it seems to be that it would be awful hard for something from the ground to actually hit the inside of the cockpit unless it had some sort of tracking device to track the plane, and was high enough to hit the inside of the cockpit instead of the nose cone (perhaps on a tall building or mountain near an airport).
I think this could be another tactic to strike fear into the populace.
Slashdot Mirror
My friend was bitching about the quality of his ipod on his $1000 sound system so I hooked up the Creative Nomad Zen Xtra. The sound was louder, with less loss of quality. The difference was frankly, amazing. And the Zen cost $100 less.
I knew a guy who was saying some stuff, so we did comparisons and junk, and found out that everything I own or bought or borrowed from another guy totally are better than other things that I don't have.
(this has been a Slashdot product review)
Physically possible, yes. Financially possible? I have to wait till tonights Lotto drawing... :)
Actually, it is Java 5.0 (they changed the name). And it has been out (final version) less than 4 months (as of now, being the middle of January). Update 1 came out in December.
But Apple is not the only one who will take their time. IBM will not release it in their Websphere line for a while as well.
People need to understand that Java 5.0 is a HUGE change from Java 1.4 (which is why they changed the name). Companies will need to do extensive testing to make sure that it will work with their products.
I think it took Apple longer than the 7 or so months we are looking at here to bring out Java 1.4.x - as OSX was still using 1.3.x LONG after the rest of the world had moved to 1.4. And the 1.4 to 5.0 jump is much much larger than the 1.3 to 1.4 jump.
But like a previous post says, Tiger on Tiger will be some nice action...
You must have a different powerbook than we do. We own a 1Ghz 12inch and a 1.5Ghz 15inch.
Nothing like what you describe.
I have been extremely lucky. I am coming up on my Powerbook being 1 full year as the top-o-the-line Powerbook.
I have never had that happen with any computer I have ever owned.
I bought it the day it was announced, and until they bump the PBs it will be king... (well, 15 inch king. I have everything the 17 has without the god aweful size. I can't imagine trying to open the 17inch on a plane or actually use it in my lap...)
15inch 1.5Ghz 1024MB RAM, 5400RPM drive, 128MB VRAM, Backlit keyboard...
Now, I can reencode to MP3 for portable devices. I can reencode to Vorbis for putting on a DVD to take to work or a friend's house (or anywhere I can use a PC to listen to it). I could encode to AAC to listen on an iPod, if I had one.
iPods play MP3. You don't have to use AAC.
I had a Vorbis listening party this past Summer at my home.
But no one came.
Caches, backups, server logs, firewall logs, intrusion detection systems, spam filters, search engines....
They might not exactly be saved my the email server - but that doesn't mean they go away either. It is also possible that some companies you work with might do things that you are not aware of (indeed that many of the people involved might not be aware of) like mirroring drives and making off-site copies. And some companies (especially large ones or in the financial sector) might be required to keep them for a certain amount of time or forever. And any state, local, or federal governments in the USA keep them (and many states are required to turn them over in public freedom of information requests).
But the bigger message is that *we don't know*, and like clandestine communications - they are only as good as the weakest link... It must always be assumed they are compromised and can't be trusted...
But Slashdot comments on the other hand.... (smile)
If you know that your product may well have serious bugs like this, you shouldn't have sent out a press release promoting its launch, you shouldn't have given away free accounts to thousands of Blogger users, you shouldn't allow people to fire off a bunch of invitations to anyone they choose, and you should make some indication on the website (beyond "BETA," not everyone who uses Google reads Slashdot) that there can be risks associated with using it.
Hmm. I wouldn't try Windows if I were you...
Google is not *really* or *purely* web based. Google is using a custom applet through the web browser, utilizing the connection and VM of the browser. The other sites might be passing session information on the URL instead of with a Cookie, or they could use a combination of both or maybe have more info in each cookie. There are a thousand ways to do this stuff, and no two sites will chose the exact same way.
This is nothing odd, sinister, or bad. And if you use a shared machine, you should have it deleting cookies when you close the web browser, or delete them yourself.
Now there is no security problem. No email, no problem.
Maybe I'll make a new site called email-is-too-creepy.com just for you. If you think the service you're using now is any better, then you're likely in for quite a surpise. Email has never been a secure method of communication. Ever. Someone else said this already, so I'll quote (loosely): "Plaintext [aka, unencryped emails] are as secure as sending the same information on a postcard."
:)
Even worse. Just about every system an email passes through now keeps a copy of the email for legal purposes. And if they don't say they do, odds are they are anyway.
So instead of just your "exposed" postcard being read by a few people - email is read, shared, saved, recalled, read, shared, saved, and spread. Rinse and repeat.
No matter how many times people say it, some just don't get - email is not secure.
I still have inlaws who send credit card numbers over email despite all the warnings... And no, you can't have their email address.
I can go to Google and other search engines and find Usenet and Email from me back in the late 80's early 90's!
What do you think BETA is for? Isn't the whole purpose to find and fix bugs exactly like this?
I've taken to composing all my email in Navajo.
I hate crime.
If you outlaw crime only outlaws will commit crime.
Wait. Damn this bumper sticker mentality. I'm off to wait in traffic for the rapture...
Mod parent up +1 MOTHER F$%*ING EXACTLY.
.doc files" crap. NO. It does NOT. It will "open" excessively SIMPLE .doc files. But if you have any formating, tables, page numbering, outlines, footnotes, links to Excel, or anything remotely complex - YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT USE OFFICE!
I am sick and tired of people saying: Why use office? Use OpenOffice, or Emacs, or CrapTasticTyper 4....
Look. No one *wants* to use MS Office on a Mac. We would *love* to be able to use some cool Mac application that is better, faster, and nicer.
But Office productivity is NOT like web browsing. We CAN'T JUST PICK OUR OWN.
We have 2 Macs in my company of 20 people. NONE of our clients have Macs. We have absolutely ZERO people using Office alternatives. So because of that - If I want to be able to read and write the documents that those people produce, and let them read mine - it is MS Office. Period.
And ernough with the "TextPad opens
OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, KOffice, whatever you chose - none of them can open complex Office documents.
If I were to use some open source or alternative office product, and either require people to dumb down their documents or support multimple formats or resend things - they would make me drop my Mac and switch to Windows, and MS Office. The only 100% requirement I have for any alternative is it HAS to support the MS Office file formats 100%, both reading and writing, and formatting, linking, displaying, and printing. If they can do that - then they are a real possibility.
"Gee honey, we never have 35 foot waves in Iowa! Get the Camera, meet me at the water line!"
Tourists are idiots anyways
You do realize that a tourist is defined as "One who travels for pleasure" right? So you are saying that you have never travelled for pleasure? Not even to another town near yours?
Not to mention that I probably missed a few.
3.8 million in Congo
Not exactly. The RedCross responds to ALL disasters and many more places where relief is needed. The only error was that many people expected their donations to go directly to 9/11 only.
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In response the Red Cross changed their donation policies and guidelines to better reflect what actually happens with the money.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/redcross_06-0
http://www.redcross.org/press/disaster/ds_pr/0206
Basically now, if you give to the "Disaster Relief Fund" they use it wherever they see fit, and if you give to the "International Response Fund" if you want the funds to go exclusively to the tsunami relief efforts.
In addition they have all sorts of other areas you can "designate" such as Military efforts, Local chapters, Vaccination efforts, etc etc.
When it comes to charities - the Red Cross and Red Crescent(American and International) are about as real and helpful as you get. They help everyone everywhere.
I find it interesting that people can hate the USA and criticize the American people and such - but then turn around and complain when we don't "give" what is expected of us when they need something.
I have donated as much money as I can afford to the Red Cross, and I am pushing people to do the same. I also think the USA and some of our wealthy companies - like Microsoft and IBM and such - should give plentifully (they have the cash).
I just find it funny that everyone hates us (and usually with good reason) but then is more than happy to take our money and aid...
Or maybe an accidental "weapon".
It is not so much as "impossible" as "improbable without major help, technology, or infrastructure". In the latter, it would seem not too hard to catch or detect anyone doing such.
;)
The ability of a human with a stealthy hand(s) held laser to actually track and hit a pilot well enough to do damage or create risk at most any airport in the world - is debatable. It *seems* highly unlikely, but then again - I am just a slashdot expert...
This may or may not be a threat. Some interesting thoughts here
But it seems to be that it would be awful hard for something from the ground to actually hit the inside of the cockpit unless it had some sort of tracking device to track the plane, and was high enough to hit the inside of the cockpit instead of the nose cone (perhaps on a tall building or mountain near an airport).
I think this could be another tactic to strike fear into the populace.
They are not worried about FireFox. But they *are* worried about FireFox+Mozilla+Thunderbird+OpenOffice+Linux+MacOS X+Java+Eclipse+Apache+Mono etc...
Every time someone says "I don't need [Microsoft product] because I can use [open source or competing product]" it scares them.