That give the Open Source community a chance to prove it's salt. Look and see how quickly Firefox will get fixed in comparison to IE. Not only that but even if there never is a full system wide fix, individuals can fix theirs personally if they want. Try doing that with IE.
Computer use is going to move to that point someday, in which everyone will be capable of at least small changes in the software. All it takes is a few generations learning simple programming and getting used to the idea.
It's still easier to make a program like this in Flash; you can use ruby for a command line version. Why do you think so many are flocking to Flash now. MX 2004 Pro can do amazing things with very little work! And the next version is going to be better.
That's why I hold out hope for native flash compiling solutions like Flirt.
But it's not enough to have Flash being able to be run natively, we also need a free Flash IDE. That's where good OOP scripting languages like Ruby and Flash extensions like Ming/Ruby come in handy. With the mix of the two you can make an open source Flash IDE, using Flash as the interface elements (an interface made in flash that sends the variables on) that could send out all the info through Ruby, which would then compile the.swf for you and viola'! a Flash IDE made from Flash to compile Flash.
Now all we need is people to help Ming and all the sub project, Ming/php, Ming/Ruby, Ming/perl, et cetera, to keep up with the file format specs released by Macromedia.
I agree with you in that a player with perseverance should head towards the op of the ladder. But why take skill out of the perseverance equation?
For instance, why not make each skill build up, so that it takes perseverance to acquire the skill fully, yet make it easy to start the skill so that it's not out of the range of normal people to obtain.
Also, why should skills be tied into levels? Most people look at levels as a gauge of player experience. Your not going to mess with a guy who's level 50 if you're level 3. But that shouldn't mean you have to be level 50 to learn how to ride a horse for instance; not in real life at least.
I'd like to see a bit more realism in the interaction part seep into games, while making it seamless for the clients. What are your opinions on this?
You know, I heard about the dvorak (or however it's spelled) alignment and, having OS X which supports it, I manually took my keys off and rearranged them from qwerty to dvorak. I used it for a week before giving up. I'm back to qwerty again.
The problem really was that dvorak is not laid out to make words easily. All the major keys are on one line of keys, what they call their home row, which you'd think would be nice. But try and spell something quickly and you'll find that the letters for normal words do not flow right; there is no rhythm to it.
That's a real problem. When you type you need to build a rhythm to keep a decent speed going. It really is not a matter of learning the key board: I had the dvorak pattern memorized with 2 days. The qwerty pattern keeps your hands taking turns, left, right, left, right, left, right, et cetera, for the most part.
Also, standard english words are much harder to type out in dvorak once you get past the 3 letter words. The letters are placed so that you have to take your hand away from the keyboard to strike the right letter, unless you want to do a strange twisting of the fingers to hit that certain key.
Not that I'm pro qwerty either, but there is a reason that it's lasted so long. It may have been made to be slow on type writers, but it's also very ergonomic when it comes to actual english words and rhythm.
This even becomes more true when it comes to programming. It's far easier to reach the colon/semi-colon, greater/less than, brackets/braces, parentheses, and plus/minus/underscore keys on my standard qwerty keyboard, than it is on the dvorak layout. Again it goes towards rhythm. There are far less wasted strokes when programming in the qwerty layout.
I can't see a new standard that keeps all the letters in alphabetical order, and shrinks the number of keys no less, as being any better. In fact I bet it will be worse than dvorak and qwerty combined. Ease of learning is not a consideration for someone who's been typing already for over twenty years.
Now stop interrupting my productivity to show me some possible new productive layout, and let me get back to work!
I've got 1k left to pay on my powerbook and this beats it's specs... hmmm wonder who got screwed? A pc user for this nice entry level mac with the power of a default pbook, or the recent pbook owner?
Either way I'm happy to see this out. Now I'll have a nice desktop at home for my wife and can afford to get one for my kids too. Got plenty of extra keyboards and mice lying around. Now just get two monitors at sub-$100 and I'm set!
Apple is now on there way to reclaiming lost territory. The good news? Even if they don't win it's going to force a lot of new smaller form factors out by their competition and make the world a better place!
Here here! That's one ugly piece of hardware... what's with the handle sticking out for no apparent reason. Not to mention that's the only smooth contoured line, the rest is just a box. This reminds me of all the gateway iMac copycat attempt... only worse looking.
Don't get me wrong. Nice piece of hardware, at least idea wise, but not up on the design by far.
Not to mention what happens when people add p2p communication into normal everyday applications. Dynamic pathways with no centralization and heavy encryption would be tough to crack.
I know what you are saying, but look at it this way. If the knowledge of electricity had been kept to a select few, we would have saved a lot of problems and deaths, but look how much better it served us by being shared and discussed in the open.
Another reason for openness is to forward the craft. How far do you think electronic theory would have come if kept in house in one or two labs?
And like electricity, the only way that we can start progressing past our very limited knowledge of biology, is to come back to the premise of open ideas. It is after all how it was in the past. The only interest that are served by having a closed experimental scenario are the corporate, religious, or political interest.
We are not talking about the people who want to make money from their hard work; we are talking about those who want a monopolistic control over a valuable situation. It's not that they want it to stop; they want the controlling interest in the situation: Monopolistic Corporations (as apart from corporations in the free market) want to use their control for financial but mostly political gain; Religions do not like change because they somehow feel threatened, as if their congregation would no longer believe in the faith if technology grew to x amount of knowledge; Politics because that's the name of the game.
The open source movement is really one of the few ways for humanity in general, to take back what we once had: honest experiments and growth, because we wanted to better it for ourselves or others around us.
I hope no one overlooked the "radiation hardening" part of the article. This is something the common, and even a lot of techs I talk to, don't realize as important. Speed is not the only variable in the equation. I'd much rather have a chip that doesn't fall to pieces on me while I'm flying through space. In fact I think it's time for us normal people to get used to thinking about quality again. We are soon going to be forced into harsh elements where we must be able to depend, absolutely, on the hardware being reliable. It's time we start now getting used to the performance loss some might have because of it; or get ready to ditch thin again.
It's about time people open up biology. Our health relies on it, and it is a technology that should stay public, and not be denied because of bloody patent rights.
>>Is marraige a 'binding contract between two people under the eyes of the govt'? or is it 'a joining of two people under god'?
>Personally I think it should be done away with as a legal institution.. Because marrage is a spiritual bond..
Take this further... Marriage is a contractual bond. In many countries and throughout history that is how it was. It is not a legal state provided by the government (or it shouldn't be rather), it is a legal state provided between individuals.
I hope that people don't lose sight of the point of virus'.
The Virus writers put out a violent statement, pointing to errors that need to be fixed.
Getting rid of the virus writers, or railing against them, will only make you lose sight of the problem.
The holes need fixed!
It's easy to persicute, ridicule, to pretend that the problem is not the problem but rather the person taking advantage of the problem is the problem. It's a lot harder to swallow your hurt pride and fix the problem, not the problem abusers.
This is entirely funny since my machine can't be "owned" without root's express permission.
Someday hopefully you windows freaks will learn real security. As soon as I bailed windows 4 years ago, and delved into *nix, the world opened up for me and I finally knew what true security meant.
If Microsoft were in the window manufacturing business, all their windows would be spray painted opaque with only their art on it, it would be illegal to open, and it would have bars on the inside covered in plush red velvet with the lock outside with the key in it... But I digress...
I must point this out. This exploit is as much of an exploit as say... http:... or telnet:... or (gasp) ftp: . I could go on but frankly it's pointless. This is no exploit. It is simply the proper use of a protocol.
If you want to be fair about it, to become a security risk, it would have to have access to something.
As far as the dmg thing goes, a mounted dmg shows up on your desktop right away, A screen pops up showing it mounting, etc... There's no missing what is going on by even the simplest mac user.
Disk access is another issue. Is this exploit being run as root? Administrator? Against other users of the system? Does it somehow exploit suid or chown? Is it remotely executable?
The answer is almost usaully a resounding no!
Then it's simply not an exploit. It can do nothing. End of story.
I had a hp 1.2ghz 512mb ram 20gb hdd w/ cd-rw/dvd combo and radeon 16mb ram vid running xp home natively. I'm a programmer and put my machines through the ringer several times a day. It crashed on me so much and I had to re-image it 3 times a week atleast (atleast I was smart enough to keep my work on a seperate partition from my OS). Also it was incredibly slow! Not to mention my wife had games programmed by microsoft for xp (namely age of kings) that wouldn't even run every time the computer was restarted: she'd have to reinstall it after bootup then play and hope the computer stayed alive for a game.
Well I finally wisened up and traded it straight up for my father in-laws shiny new ibook 600mhz 256 mb ram radeon 16 mb vid 20 gb hdd w/ mac osx 10.1. The reason he was willing to trade is cause he couldn't get used to the mac after using a pc for 4-5 years.
I've had this machine running for 2 months straight w/ no reboots or crashes: I put it in standby when I leave someplace w/ it and it comes right back up (let's see xp do that; it can't I've been through that since 3.11). I've just recently rebooted it for an update which killed my uptime streak but I still have no problems with uptime or stability. I even run win 98 and xp simutaniously using virtual pc and they're the only thing prone to crashing.
As far as speed goes. This blows away my laptop (GUI speed wise) by atleast 3 -4 times. I happen to love the Finder prog too. It's just as intuitive as explorer but much faster; I do miss the lack of shortcut keys though. I do have mac 9.2 loaded on the hdd too and osx 10.1 kills it too in speed.
I do 3 times more stuff at a time on this machine than my windows laptop because I don't have to worry about it slowing down or crashing: yes it keeps it speed all the way through.
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That give the Open Source community a chance to prove it's salt. Look and see how quickly Firefox will get fixed in comparison to IE. Not only that but even if there never is a full system wide fix, individuals can fix theirs personally if they want. Try doing that with IE. Computer use is going to move to that point someday, in which everyone will be capable of at least small changes in the software. All it takes is a few generations learning simple programming and getting used to the idea.
It's still easier to make a program like this in Flash; you can use ruby for a command line version. Why do you think so many are flocking to Flash now. MX 2004 Pro can do amazing things with very little work! And the next version is going to be better.
.swf for you and viola'! a Flash IDE made from Flash to compile Flash.
That's why I hold out hope for native flash compiling solutions like Flirt.
But it's not enough to have Flash being able to be run natively, we also need a free Flash IDE. That's where good OOP scripting languages like Ruby and Flash extensions like Ming/Ruby come in handy. With the mix of the two you can make an open source Flash IDE, using Flash as the interface elements (an interface made in flash that sends the variables on) that could send out all the info through Ruby, which would then compile the
Now all we need is people to help Ming and all the sub project, Ming/php, Ming/Ruby, Ming/perl, et cetera, to keep up with the file format specs released by Macromedia.
I agree with you in that a player with perseverance should head towards the op of the ladder. But why take skill out of the perseverance equation? For instance, why not make each skill build up, so that it takes perseverance to acquire the skill fully, yet make it easy to start the skill so that it's not out of the range of normal people to obtain. Also, why should skills be tied into levels? Most people look at levels as a gauge of player experience. Your not going to mess with a guy who's level 50 if you're level 3. But that shouldn't mean you have to be level 50 to learn how to ride a horse for instance; not in real life at least. I'd like to see a bit more realism in the interaction part seep into games, while making it seamless for the clients. What are your opinions on this?
You know, I heard about the dvorak (or however it's spelled) alignment and, having OS X which supports it, I manually took my keys off and rearranged them from qwerty to dvorak. I used it for a week before giving up. I'm back to qwerty again.
The problem really was that dvorak is not laid out to make words easily. All the major keys are on one line of keys, what they call their home row, which you'd think would be nice. But try and spell something quickly and you'll find that the letters for normal words do not flow right; there is no rhythm to it.
That's a real problem. When you type you need to build a rhythm to keep a decent speed going. It really is not a matter of learning the key board: I had the dvorak pattern memorized with 2 days. The qwerty pattern keeps your hands taking turns, left, right, left, right, left, right, et cetera, for the most part.
Also, standard english words are much harder to type out in dvorak once you get past the 3 letter words. The letters are placed so that you have to take your hand away from the keyboard to strike the right letter, unless you want to do a strange twisting of the fingers to hit that certain key.
Not that I'm pro qwerty either, but there is a reason that it's lasted so long. It may have been made to be slow on type writers, but it's also very ergonomic when it comes to actual english words and rhythm.
This even becomes more true when it comes to programming. It's far easier to reach the colon/semi-colon, greater/less than, brackets/braces, parentheses, and plus/minus/underscore keys on my standard qwerty keyboard, than it is on the dvorak layout. Again it goes towards rhythm. There are far less wasted strokes when programming in the qwerty layout.
I can't see a new standard that keeps all the letters in alphabetical order, and shrinks the number of keys no less, as being any better. In fact I bet it will be worse than dvorak and qwerty combined. Ease of learning is not a consideration for someone who's been typing already for over twenty years.
Now stop interrupting my productivity to show me some possible new productive layout, and let me get back to work!
I would continue this further.
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Because you built this, you can expand it!
Wireless p2p mp3 players anyone?
This just fixed a problem I have. Thanks for this post. Very useful.
I've got 1k left to pay on my powerbook and this beats it's specs... hmmm wonder who got screwed? A pc user for this nice entry level mac with the power of a default pbook, or the recent pbook owner?
Either way I'm happy to see this out. Now I'll have a nice desktop at home for my wife and can afford to get one for my kids too. Got plenty of extra keyboards and mice lying around. Now just get two monitors at sub-$100 and I'm set!
Apple is now on there way to reclaiming lost territory. The good news? Even if they don't win it's going to force a lot of new smaller form factors out by their competition and make the world a better place!
That's a stupid comment! Minor's will always stay minor in mind if they don't face the consequences every once in a while.
Here here! That's one ugly piece of hardware... what's with the handle sticking out for no apparent reason. Not to mention that's the only smooth contoured line, the rest is just a box. This reminds me of all the gateway iMac copycat attempt... only worse looking.
Don't get me wrong. Nice piece of hardware, at least idea wise, but not up on the design by far.
This was my idea over a year ago, but the dumb vc's wouldn't invest in it! GRRR!
Speaking of which, don't forget the old mail routing trick found in tac. If you know what tac is you know what I mean.
Not to mention what happens when people add p2p communication into normal everyday applications. Dynamic pathways with no centralization and heavy encryption would be tough to crack.
I know what you are saying, but look at it this way. If the knowledge of electricity had been kept to a select few, we would have saved a lot of problems and deaths, but look how much better it served us by being shared and discussed in the open.
Another reason for openness is to forward the craft. How far do you think electronic theory would have come if kept in house in one or two labs?
And like electricity, the only way that we can start progressing past our very limited knowledge of biology, is to come back to the premise of open ideas. It is after all how it was in the past. The only interest that are served by having a closed experimental scenario are the corporate, religious, or political interest.
We are not talking about the people who want to make money from their hard work; we are talking about those who want a monopolistic control over a valuable situation. It's not that they want it to stop; they want the controlling interest in the situation: Monopolistic Corporations (as apart from corporations in the free market) want to use their control for financial but mostly political gain; Religions do not like change because they somehow feel threatened, as if their congregation would no longer believe in the faith if technology grew to x amount of knowledge; Politics because that's the name of the game.
The open source movement is really one of the few ways for humanity in general, to take back what we once had: honest experiments and growth, because we wanted to better it for ourselves or others around us.
I hope no one overlooked the "radiation hardening" part of the article. This is something the common, and even a lot of techs I talk to, don't realize as important. Speed is not the only variable in the equation. I'd much rather have a chip that doesn't fall to pieces on me while I'm flying through space. In fact I think it's time for us normal people to get used to thinking about quality again. We are soon going to be forced into harsh elements where we must be able to depend, absolutely, on the hardware being reliable. It's time we start now getting used to the performance loss some might have because of it; or get ready to ditch thin again.
It's about time people open up biology. Our health relies on it, and it is a technology that should stay public, and not be denied because of bloody patent rights.
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>>Is marraige a 'binding contract between two people under the eyes of the govt'? or is it 'a joining of two people under god'?
>Personally I think it should be done away with as a legal institution.. Because marrage is a spiritual bond..
Take this further... Marriage is a contractual bond. In many countries and throughout history that is how it was. It is not a legal state provided by the government (or it shouldn't be rather), it is a legal state provided between individuals.
Which they yanked because IE couldn't compete with the other browsers on it's own.
Or maybe I'm speaking too soon. This sounds almost like a campaign pledge to me.
I hope that people don't lose sight of the point of virus'.
The Virus writers put out a violent statement, pointing to errors that need to be fixed.
Getting rid of the virus writers, or railing against them, will only make you lose sight of the problem.
The holes need fixed!
It's easy to persicute, ridicule, to pretend that the problem is not the problem but rather the person taking advantage of the problem is the problem. It's a lot harder to swallow your hurt pride and fix the problem, not the problem abusers.
This is entirely funny since my machine can't be "owned" without root's express permission.
Someday hopefully you windows freaks will learn real security. As soon as I bailed windows 4 years ago, and delved into *nix, the world opened up for me and I finally knew what true security meant.
If Microsoft were in the window manufacturing business, all their windows would be spray painted opaque with only their art on it, it would be illegal to open, and it would have bars on the inside covered in plush red velvet with the lock outside with the key in it... But I digress...
I must point this out. This exploit is as much of an exploit as say... http: ... or telnet: ... or (gasp) ftp: . I could go on but frankly it's pointless. This is no exploit. It is simply the proper use of a protocol.
If you want to be fair about it, to become a security risk, it would have to have access to something.
As far as the dmg thing goes, a mounted dmg shows up on your desktop right away, A screen pops up showing it mounting, etc... There's no missing what is going on by even the simplest mac user.
Disk access is another issue. Is this exploit being run as root? Administrator? Against other users of the system? Does it somehow exploit suid or chown? Is it remotely executable?
The answer is almost usaully a resounding no!
Then it's simply not an exploit. It can do nothing. End of story.
Well you'll get a kick out of this then.
I had a hp 1.2ghz 512mb ram 20gb hdd w/ cd-rw/dvd combo and radeon 16mb ram vid running xp home natively. I'm a programmer and put my machines through the ringer several times a day. It crashed on me so much and I had to re-image it 3 times a week atleast (atleast I was smart enough to keep my work on a seperate partition from my OS). Also it was incredibly slow! Not to mention my wife had games programmed by microsoft for xp (namely age of kings) that wouldn't even run every time the computer was restarted: she'd have to reinstall it after bootup then play and hope the computer stayed alive for a game.
Well I finally wisened up and traded it straight up for my father in-laws shiny new ibook 600mhz 256 mb ram radeon 16 mb vid 20 gb hdd w/ mac osx 10.1. The reason he was willing to trade is cause he couldn't get used to the mac after using a pc for 4-5 years.
I've had this machine running for 2 months straight w/ no reboots or crashes: I put it in standby when I leave someplace w/ it and it comes right back up (let's see xp do that; it can't I've been through that since 3.11). I've just recently rebooted it for an update which killed my uptime streak but I still have no problems with uptime or stability. I even run win 98 and xp simutaniously using virtual pc and they're the only thing prone to crashing.
As far as speed goes. This blows away my laptop (GUI speed wise) by atleast 3 -4 times. I happen to love the Finder prog too. It's just as intuitive as explorer but much faster; I do miss the lack of shortcut keys though. I do have mac 9.2 loaded on the hdd too and osx 10.1 kills it too in speed.
I do 3 times more stuff at a time on this machine than my windows laptop because I don't have to worry about it slowing down or crashing: yes it keeps it speed all the way through.
The myth is dead!