Given that Apple were hit with a patent granted to Creative Labs for an mp3 player interface that's an obvious extension of their existing Mac interface
Ok, first gulp... You really think it was a UI based on the Mac interface?
Second gulp... Apple stole more from Creative than just the organizational construct patent Creative sued Apple over, sadly Creative didn't patent more of their work at the time or it would have been a massive multi-level lawsuit.
Apple has made a living off of copying other people's work, and even have the nerve to copyright, tm, or patent what they ripped off.
iPod alone, what was the 'Apple' innovation that they created? What did they bring to the market other than a massive dose of marketing? Nothing... You can't even use the horrid iTunes store lock in, as it wasn't even the first of its kind.
I don't have respect for great marketing, especially when it is misleading and sits on technology others created.
Also you seem to discount how offensive Apple is with their IP. For comparison to 'evil' MS has had virtually NO IP initiated lawsuits, and Apple has had 100s, probably 1000s. (And the WMA one you will find was about reverse engineering code, not WMA itself, as there are tons of WMA codecs and players not made by Microsoft that are allowed to exist without any legal recourse.)
Using even 'recent' history go back to the mid 90s iMac and the design disputes where Apple were suing people for making things look like the teal/plastic iMacs without Apple licensing or royalties, yet the original design they used came from a freaking Clothes Iron they stole...
Based on the Patents and Patent attempts, Apple did not just NOW jump on the crazy train. They have iPod patents that if challenged would be destroyed by technology from the 40s.
I don't care if Apple is trying to use them as a defensive measure, but Apple isn't just defensive and tend to litigate with them like the leeches of the patent industry. (Yes patent industry)
Microsoft had a WiFi geo locator utility and web application several years ago, and abandoned it because people that cared where they were would just use the GPS in their phones, as it was consumer utility to find local information.
I don't think a utility that reports back where you are will be any more successful, and a bit scary.
1) MS Research probably has some of the best work being done on handwriting recognition, including imaged documents. However it is no where near the needed levels. Google would be better off to work with Microsoft on stuff like this, than the motto of screw anything MS is doing and we will recreate it ourselves.
2) On your Vista Tablet PC, the reason you can get 90-99% levels of recognition is that TabletPCs and Vista/Windows use a concept called 'ink' (that goes back to early work at Microsoft from the late 80s)
Ink not only stores a 'picture' (Bitmap/Vector) of what you wrote, but also the stroke pressure, speed, direction, and order of each movement. So even if it doesn't look like a 'T' because you use stokes that normally would make a T, Vista can figure this out.
Because of doing it different than reading the 'image' like OCR has to, you can you use cursive, printed, combinations or whatever and Vista can figure out from the motion and stoke more than from what it looks like.
Ink is also why Microsoft holds a lot of respect in industries that use handwriting device and TabletPCs like the medical industry, as it can even read Doctor's handwritting. Ink also holds more data that can be further looked at later on for more advanced processing of intent or even how the person writes. This is also why Vista (go look up YouTube demonstrations) is far ahead of handwritting technology in other OSes, like OS X.
Ink is also a 'crucial' data type that is not an image or a word, and one reason MS has been fighting for OOXML formats, because it retains this data like in onenote and Winword. Without the pen stroke information, ink become worthless, as it is no longer information about what the person wrote, and just a crappy image.
Why would I want that? If Windows crashes, I want it to restart and quickly, not waste my time dumping memory.
Agree, but having a pagefile the size of RAM in Windows is not for crashes as the parent suggests.
Having a pagefile the size of RAM in Vista for example, lets the OS do writethrough to the pagefile, so when you hibernate, it is faster, as it is a snapshot that doesn't have to be written to the HD.
I only recommend this for laptop users that want that extra second or two of speed when sending the computer to hibernate though.
If you have 4GB of RAM, a swap file is not needed 99% of the time for most users with today's applications. The only exceptions is gamers running multiple instances of large games, or using applications that are dealing with multiple GB of data, then you should have a 1.5 to 2x RAM pagefile or more according to the amount of data you are processing.
Yes on the "sad that people don't know where it comes from," no on the "Apple didn't innovate." Remember the Newton? Yes, that was 1993. A decade before your Tablet PC.
Go look up Pen Windows 3.1... Geesh.
Is a pissing match really where you want to take this?
There are a lot of companies that did touch input even 20 years before Pen Windows.
Heck even take the Casio Calculator watch from the mid 80's you could write numbers on the touch screen with your finger. AND THIS WAS A FREAKING WATCH back when the 68000 and 80286 were massive computing power.
Windows Mobile, Microsoft still hasn't released an update to handle gestures.
Windows Mobile has supported gestures for a long time. The Summary is misleading, as it is 'Gesture Navigation' that was to be expanded in Windows Mobile 7.
Gestures on Windows Mobile are almost as old as Pen Gestures introduced back in the Tablet PC in 2002.
Sad that people in the mainstream don't have any idea where all this comes from and how Apple did better at marketing than innovating anything. Most of us have been suckered by Apple, not helped by them.
Go look up multi-touch gesturing which comes from both MS Tablet (yes there were multi-touch tablets back in 2002 even), MS Research and demostrations from the TED conference about 5 years ago. Apple copied the TED expansion of the demostrated concepts idea for idea, even using the 'made up' gestures for the conference that were only to be 'examples'. -Google the TED Video.)
Another misleading item from the summarty is voice input, as Windows Mobile has had voice recognition dialing for a long time, something the iPhone still seriously lacks except from 3rd party add-ons. And sadly, something even free phones from Walmart can do that make the iPhone look sad. (Bluetooth headset users know this all too well.)
One mistake I see a lot of new programmers make is to follow an belief system, and refuse or be reluctant to expand into other areas outside their belief system.
Even if you don't have an immediate use for a technology or programming model/language, don't run from it. There are a lot of things to learn from tools that you may never use in production.
This goes from OSS classics to even.NET and WPF/XAML concepts that are new programming paradigms.
Absorb as much as you can, and AS A PROGRAMMER, accept all things as viable options and 'part of your profession'.
The second words of advise, don't limit yourself to programming. With the current markets many employers expect employees to not only be programming geniuses that can do everything themselves, but also manage the servers (web development for example) and be security gurus. The more of these roles you 'understand' the better you are, even if you don't get stuck in these roles, as you will know when the people in the roles are screwing up the operations or making your job harder for no reason.
Really? If Microsoft ever did anything like Apple is doing with the iPhone, they would have been dragged into court and publically bashed for even attempting such insane business practices.
Do people not remember Windows Mobile? I won't argue that it is superior to Android, as I haven't done enough research on Android, but in comparison to the iPhone SDK, the 'old' Microsoft Mobile SDK is light years ahead of what Apple offers, without restrictions.
Android's 'limitied' openness is more like Microsoft, is it not, as I have never seen any restrictions on a Windows Mobile application, and considering any newb can use VB or C# or C++ or whatever to delvelop for Windows Mobile, it even has more devleopment options, and more hardware acceleration support, including a DirectX subset.
The only thing I see Windows Mobile missing is a good WPF implementation, but considering the progress of WPF, it is not crucial to the market yet.
And is Android Java only? Why even have a Linux kernel if this is their approach? Java? Ouch...
LOL: Dear asshole wishful thinking is not a good replacement for reality.
I assume this is something you have experienced to the point of becoming an expert?
OSS will kill Microsoft, the Desktop computer is a thing of the past, Firefox is more secure than IE7, OS X is more secure than Vista, Linux will replace Windows on the Desktop (insert year here).
Sadly even as many times as this crap is repeated on SlashDot and other publications, it still isn't true, and looks like it won't be true for a long time if ever based on the current trend.
Microsoft is stronger and richer than ever, hows that for reality?
URL has been "confirmed" being "good", which sadly takes "ages" even via DSL, let alone dialup
Really, the server processes the confirmation request and sends back that byte of information over your connection slower if you are using dialup?
Wow, you are super smart, can I be your friend?
Geesh...
MS keeps its own blacklist
MS's blacklist is a community created and supported blacklist, not just a service or a list that one company can go 'bang' and kill a domain. Even MS isn't stupid enough to give themselves that kind of power. (Apparently Google is that stupid *cough*)
You also seem to not understand how IE works with MS anti-phising, if you think it slows down the browser, as the content is downloaded while the URL is being checked, so it doesn't slow down page loads like OTHER browsers or anti-phising technoloogies do.
Maybe research the Anti-Phishing technology MS uses next time and not make up crap on the fly.
OS X didn't even have a suspend to disk/hibernate option while Windows users were enjoying both hybrid suspend and hibernate.
Vista adds in a dual mode that initiates the hibernate 'write' during the suspend, so if power is lost it is still available.
However, XP would do suspend and then when it detected a low battery would do a full hibernate. (Basically the same thing, just the hibernate write happens only when needed.)
Yet... Apple after catching up several years later is the OS people think of when it comes to Sx states and instant on?
WTF is wrong with people?
Also WTF is it with boot times? Who in the hell doesn't use suspend or hibernate mechanisms on a computer, especially a laptop anymore?
As for Boot Times, I see pokes at Vista.
Is 20 secs to Desktop on a 2004 HP Laptop with 1GB of RAM really that slow? How about 15secs on a Clevo 2005 laptop?
I would love to get OS X or ANY LINUX distribution to boot or resume as fast as Vista on the same hardware.
I know this is SlashDot, but what type of crap virtualized tests have people been using to get 4min Vista or XP boot times?
Holy freaking cow, I have a 200mhz 80GB 1997 laptop with XP that fully boots to desktop in under 1 min. It even resumes from hibernate in 10 secs. (With original 5gb 4200rpm HD even)
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Wow, brilliant, free advertising and they still don't ahve to provide anything of use because of the size and ocmplexity of the package of software and component dependency.
So unless you are going to make your own Exchange clone, with 'limited features', this is cool or good why?
Why not come out with a product that 'replaces' exchange and actually works as well and have more features?
Can the OSS world offer anything that gives 'more' features instead of still carbon copying MS crap, and still designing UIs that look like Windows 95?
Cool software that is 'better', would be a good start if you are going to take on a MS product. Is this concept too much to ask?
And sadly this is why new MMOs keep going in the toilet...
Report after report and expert after expert and model after model shows that a game with no risk fails.
1) No Risk, No accomplishment, No Reward 2) Loses reality, as it feels just like a 'game' as there is nothing to protect, defend, covet, etc. 3) Destroys social aspect of the MMO experience, as there is no true interdependance if there is no risk and 'need' for help from other players.
SWG taught the industry these lessons years ago, and sadly, people making the games are in the same mindset as the idiots that CU & NGE'd SWG.
No Decay, No Death penalty, no sense of loss, no sense of accomplishment.
Prior to the CU/NGE, SWG was one of the first MMOs that presented such a cohesive mix of social and gaming aspects that people 'felt' like they had a 'piece' of the world they lived in, and they had ownership in that reality.
Another game with no decay, no death is not a 'social' game. It is a Halo Online wanna be with Trolls. Die, Respawn, find weapon shot, kill, die, respawn..
(This is 10yr old 'me want everything now and free' mentality, and is why it will catch the attention of these people for 15mins, then the game will disappear into the darkness of all the other MMOs that went down the same road.)
Seriously, go look up the studies about player 'investement' in games and how risk and death and decay and social necessity are the CRUX of a successful MMO experience.
There was a major report on this just a month or so ago, apparently the WARHAMMER jokers didn't listen or give a shit and catered to the 'me want now' beta testers. Feel sorry for them when the game can't hold people.
(I'm not even a big fan of WoW, but it has enough risk, death, decay, and reward to make it successful.)
Sorry to say, but this is the only reason why I don't buy it. I'm just tired of booting into Windows to play a game, that's why I stick to WoW for now - not because it's better than anything else but because it runs fine on my MacBook.
With the state of the desktop application level of performance and the OpenGL reliance Apple is tied to, you might just be waiting a lifetime before gaming ever becomes prominent on OS X.
1) OS X is slow for gaming. OpenGL, same game, virtually same code, Boot OS X Native, Vista Native, Windows wins everytime by a large number.
2) State of OpenGL is bad at the moment, and Apple has put all their fruit in the basket. OpenGL isn't even trying to catch up to DirectX 10, let alone 11, which will be the next big thing. (Go read Tom's Hardware on OpenGL/DirectX11).
3) Apple's graphics stategy is OpenGL and and SSE Intel optimizations. Trying to bank between the two to achieve respectible performance. SSE is not what Apple thought it would be, and even dropping to OpenGL 'AQUA/QUARTZ' concepts are failing.
Apple never was able to accelerate the original Quartz or Quickdraw, let alone the new lipstick pig they are trying this year.
Software rendering only goes so far in today computing environments, when you have rich web UI and WPF smacking your developers over the head with performance and simplicity Apple could only dream to offer.
Game developer know the OS X score, and bootcamp helps them make this an easier decision. Why should they even try to get a game to run, when they know it is going to run a lot slower than the Windows version, because you can't fight the Apple and OS X overhead to get the raw performance you can on the NT Architecture.
You give Google approval when you agree to their privacy agreement, which is extremely open and clear and not just a giant blob of legalese.
Not when viewing ads on a website. I have given no permission for the data they collect from my visit...
Now run along and look up Google moving their data center to a freaking boat so they can avoid US regulations, taxes, and accountability to any governing body. (This means they can do whatever they want with the data and no court can touch them.)
Sure data mining and collecting information on everyone is a 'good thing', just like the IBM punchcards Germany used in the 30s/40s...
Consolidation of personal information without approval is not ethical, nor an 'ad provider'.
When Windows XP started sending back crash information 'anonymously', people like you stepped up in numbers calling them evil and painting Microsoft as evil and looking over your shoulder, when all they wanted to do was fix the freaking crashes and identify bad drivers and software.
So Microsoft is evil for anonymously collecting crash data and NEVER using it, but Google is good for collecting personal data and using it to sell their ad services?
Google may not sell identities, but they are becoming a monopoly of identity information and they use that muscle and have more control over your life and what you see on the internet than you realize, and in the long run if left unruled, will make Microsoft look like Goodwill when the shape of everything you do is Google dominated.
From movie popularity, to products, Google is already changing the markets of ALL industries, and people think this is ok?
Even the press uses Google as a research source and based on data mining of the journalists, can shape the informatino they return, changing even the news stories you see on TV.
If you are not alarmed, you are either stupid, or working for Google.
Ok, even small time, this is stuff you should have learned before you are in this type of position.
If you are truly 'begining', then your success at a secure public server is borderline scary, especially with CentOS or any *nix. Even OS X server is not a plug in and go public setup.
This is why Microsoft makes lots of money, as Windows Server is what someone with your level of expertise should be looking at, since locking it down is something it does well, and is virtually idiot proof. (Especially Server 2003 and 2008)
Save your company and pick up Windows Web Server for a couple hundred bucks, and work on learning more about server security and configuration in your private time.
Google has been getting away with identity murder for years and years. For anyone that finds this whole thing 'new' or 'odd' needs to slap themselves and research the marketing company that is Google.
They don't provide services or features, they sell identity information and ads.
The services and online features are just the bait in the trap.
"Google, making Microsoft look non-Evil for years."
Zune - It takes Apple engineers to make it look good.
I know the WiFi is a latent 'me too' feature of the iPod, but holy crap Apple, between this and your handling of 3G you are starting to make your engineers look really stupid.
(PS This is news worthy, as I know a few people that have been waiting for this device and turning off WPA is probably not going to be an option for them at home, let alone at work where is mandatory.)
If you don't want to be paying taxes, democrat is not what to vote, but rather libertarian.
Libertarian, if you want your infrastructure to go to crap.
Democrats believe in taxing upper income or asset areas of society.
Sales tax affects the lower income level people harder than upper income people, and is something Democrats typically fight.
A family barely making enough money to live, a sales tax affects their daily life. Someone making 2-3 times this amount for the same size family might have to worry about where to invest or what type luxury car to buy, but they do NOT have to worry about basic needs or feeding their family.
Sales taxes unfairly put the burden on the people less capable of supporting them, and they are also kill the consumer markets.
I don't disagree with Libertarians on many things, but when it comes to the 'community' deciding they would like to hire an elevator inspector so I don't have to check the cables every time I ride in one, I think that is where community or 'by the people of the people = government' has a very defined place in society.
People forget the there is a difference between government and bureaucracy. They also seem to forget that government is the original mechanism for a society to 'work together' for a greater good.
So that is where I go Democrat, as I don't want to let the market decide whether my elevator is safe, nor do I want to inspect everyone I ride on.
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Given that Apple were hit with a patent granted to Creative Labs for an mp3 player interface that's an obvious extension of their existing Mac interface
Ok, first gulp... You really think it was a UI based on the Mac interface?
Second gulp... Apple stole more from Creative than just the organizational construct patent Creative sued Apple over, sadly Creative didn't patent more of their work at the time or it would have been a massive multi-level lawsuit.
Apple has made a living off of copying other people's work, and even have the nerve to copyright, tm, or patent what they ripped off.
iPod alone, what was the 'Apple' innovation that they created? What did they bring to the market other than a massive dose of marketing? Nothing... You can't even use the horrid iTunes store lock in, as it wasn't even the first of its kind.
I don't have respect for great marketing, especially when it is misleading and sits on technology others created.
Also you seem to discount how offensive Apple is with their IP. For comparison to 'evil' MS has had virtually NO IP initiated lawsuits, and Apple has had 100s, probably 1000s. (And the WMA one you will find was about reverse engineering code, not WMA itself, as there are tons of WMA codecs and players not made by Microsoft that are allowed to exist without any legal recourse.)
Using even 'recent' history go back to the mid 90s iMac and the design disputes where Apple were suing people for making things look like the teal/plastic iMacs without Apple licensing or royalties, yet the original design they used came from a freaking Clothes Iron they stole...
now Apple has jumped on the crazy train
Based on the Patents and Patent attempts, Apple did not just NOW jump on the crazy train. They have iPod patents that if challenged would be destroyed by technology from the 40s.
I don't care if Apple is trying to use them as a defensive measure, but Apple isn't just defensive and tend to litigate with them like the leeches of the patent industry. (Yes patent industry)
Microsoft had a WiFi geo locator utility and web application several years ago, and abandoned it because people that cared where they were would just use the GPS in their phones, as it was consumer utility to find local information.
I don't think a utility that reports back where you are will be any more successful, and a bit scary.
Couple of points...
1) MS Research probably has some of the best work being done on handwriting recognition, including imaged documents. However it is no where near the needed levels. Google would be better off to work with Microsoft on stuff like this, than the motto of screw anything MS is doing and we will recreate it ourselves.
2) On your Vista Tablet PC, the reason you can get 90-99% levels of recognition is that TabletPCs and Vista/Windows use a concept called 'ink' (that goes back to early work at Microsoft from the late 80s)
Ink not only stores a 'picture' (Bitmap/Vector) of what you wrote, but also the stroke pressure, speed, direction, and order of each movement. So even if it doesn't look like a 'T' because you use stokes that normally would make a T, Vista can figure this out.
Because of doing it different than reading the 'image' like OCR has to, you can you use cursive, printed, combinations or whatever and Vista can figure out from the motion and stoke more than from what it looks like.
Ink is also why Microsoft holds a lot of respect in industries that use handwriting device and TabletPCs like the medical industry, as it can even read Doctor's handwritting. Ink also holds more data that can be further looked at later on for more advanced processing of intent or even how the person writes. This is also why Vista (go look up YouTube demonstrations) is far ahead of handwritting technology in other OSes, like OS X.
Ink is also a 'crucial' data type that is not an image or a word, and one reason MS has been fighting for OOXML formats, because it retains this data like in onenote and Winword. Without the pen stroke information, ink become worthless, as it is no longer information about what the person wrote, and just a crappy image.
Why would I want that? If Windows crashes, I want it to restart and quickly, not waste my time dumping memory.
Agree, but having a pagefile the size of RAM in Windows is not for crashes as the parent suggests.
Having a pagefile the size of RAM in Vista for example, lets the OS do writethrough to the pagefile, so when you hibernate, it is faster, as it is a snapshot that doesn't have to be written to the HD.
I only recommend this for laptop users that want that extra second or two of speed when sending the computer to hibernate though.
If you have 4GB of RAM, a swap file is not needed 99% of the time for most users with today's applications. The only exceptions is gamers running multiple instances of large games, or using applications that are dealing with multiple GB of data, then you should have a 1.5 to 2x RAM pagefile or more according to the amount of data you are processing.
inventing something and having it go nowhere is pointless
There have been millions of these devices sold. More than freaking iPhones and all the iPods ever sold combined...
Just because YOU didn't know it existed means you are stupid, not that Apple invented it.
Yes on the "sad that people don't know where it comes from," no on the "Apple didn't innovate." Remember the Newton? Yes, that was 1993. A decade before your Tablet PC.
Go look up Pen Windows 3.1... Geesh.
Is a pissing match really where you want to take this?
There are a lot of companies that did touch input even 20 years before Pen Windows.
Heck even take the Casio Calculator watch from the mid 80's you could write numbers on the touch screen with your finger. AND THIS WAS A FREAKING WATCH back when the 68000 and 80286 were massive computing power.
Apple didn't invent this crap, OK?
Windows Mobile, Microsoft still hasn't released an update to handle gestures.
Windows Mobile has supported gestures for a long time. The Summary is misleading, as it is 'Gesture Navigation' that was to be expanded in Windows Mobile 7.
Gestures on Windows Mobile are almost as old as Pen Gestures introduced back in the Tablet PC in 2002.
Sad that people in the mainstream don't have any idea where all this comes from and how Apple did better at marketing than innovating anything. Most of us have been suckered by Apple, not helped by them.
Go look up multi-touch gesturing which comes from both MS Tablet (yes there were multi-touch tablets back in 2002 even), MS Research and demostrations from the TED conference about 5 years ago. Apple copied the TED expansion of the demostrated concepts idea for idea, even using the 'made up' gestures for the conference that were only to be 'examples'. -Google the TED Video.)
Another misleading item from the summarty is voice input, as Windows Mobile has had voice recognition dialing for a long time, something the iPhone still seriously lacks except from 3rd party add-ons. And sadly, something even free phones from Walmart can do that make the iPhone look sad. (Bluetooth headset users know this all too well.)
Be open minded, not just OSS minded...
One mistake I see a lot of new programmers make is to follow an belief system, and refuse or be reluctant to expand into other areas outside their belief system.
Even if you don't have an immediate use for a technology or programming model/language, don't run from it. There are a lot of things to learn from tools that you may never use in production.
This goes from OSS classics to even .NET and WPF/XAML concepts that are new programming paradigms.
Absorb as much as you can, and AS A PROGRAMMER, accept all things as viable options and 'part of your profession'.
The second words of advise, don't limit yourself to programming. With the current markets many employers expect employees to not only be programming geniuses that can do everything themselves, but also manage the servers (web development for example) and be security gurus. The more of these roles you 'understand' the better you are, even if you don't get stuck in these roles, as you will know when the people in the roles are screwing up the operations or making your job harder for no reason.
Apple is taking a page from Microsoft's book
Really? If Microsoft ever did anything like Apple is doing with the iPhone, they would have been dragged into court and publically bashed for even attempting such insane business practices.
Do people not remember Windows Mobile? I won't argue that it is superior to Android, as I haven't done enough research on Android, but in comparison to the iPhone SDK, the 'old' Microsoft Mobile SDK is light years ahead of what Apple offers, without restrictions.
Android's 'limitied' openness is more like Microsoft, is it not, as I have never seen any restrictions on a Windows Mobile application, and considering any newb can use VB or C# or C++ or whatever to delvelop for Windows Mobile, it even has more devleopment options, and more hardware acceleration support, including a DirectX subset.
The only thing I see Windows Mobile missing is a good WPF implementation, but considering the progress of WPF, it is not crucial to the market yet.
And is Android Java only? Why even have a Linux kernel if this is their approach? Java? Ouch...
same domains in IE7's phishing filter
But here is a part of the point being made. MS's Anti-Phishing doesn't block complete domains in one whack.
URL based checking vs domain based seems a bit 'brighter' to me, and apparently with this example in the news, it is.
LOL: Dear asshole wishful thinking is not a good replacement for reality.
I assume this is something you have experienced to the point of becoming an expert?
OSS will kill Microsoft, the Desktop computer is a thing of the past, Firefox is more secure than IE7, OS X is more secure than Vista, Linux will replace Windows on the Desktop (insert year here).
Sadly even as many times as this crap is repeated on SlashDot and other publications, it still isn't true, and looks like it won't be true for a long time if ever based on the current trend.
Microsoft is stronger and richer than ever, hows that for reality?
URL has been "confirmed" being "good", which sadly takes "ages" even via DSL, let alone dialup
Really, the server processes the confirmation request and sends back that byte of information over your connection slower if you are using dialup?
Wow, you are super smart, can I be your friend?
Geesh...
MS keeps its own blacklist
MS's blacklist is a community created and supported blacklist, not just a service or a list that one company can go 'bang' and kill a domain. Even MS isn't stupid enough to give themselves that kind of power. (Apparently Google is that stupid *cough*)
You also seem to not understand how IE works with MS anti-phising, if you think it slows down the browser, as the content is downloaded while the URL is being checked, so it doesn't slow down page loads like OTHER browsers or anti-phising technoloogies do.
Maybe research the Anti-Phishing technology MS uses next time and not make up crap on the fly.
Why does Apple even get mentioned here?
OS X didn't even have a suspend to disk/hibernate option while Windows users were enjoying both hybrid suspend and hibernate.
Vista adds in a dual mode that initiates the hibernate 'write' during the suspend, so if power is lost it is still available.
However, XP would do suspend and then when it detected a low battery would do a full hibernate. (Basically the same thing, just the hibernate write happens only when needed.)
Yet... Apple after catching up several years later is the OS people think of when it comes to Sx states and instant on?
WTF is wrong with people?
Also WTF is it with boot times? Who in the hell doesn't use suspend or hibernate mechanisms on a computer, especially a laptop anymore?
As for Boot Times, I see pokes at Vista.
Is 20 secs to Desktop on a 2004 HP Laptop with 1GB of RAM really that slow? How about 15secs on a Clevo 2005 laptop?
Suspend resume, Vista, Instant.
Hibernate resume, 4-5 secs.
I would love to get OS X or ANY LINUX distribution to boot or resume as fast as Vista on the same hardware.
I know this is SlashDot, but what type of crap virtualized tests have people been using to get 4min Vista or XP boot times?
Holy freaking cow, I have a 200mhz 80GB 1997 laptop with XP that fully boots to desktop in under 1 min. It even resumes from hibernate in 10 secs. (With original 5gb 4200rpm HD even)
Geesh...
This is where the Firefox/Google fans realize that MS will end up winning again, this time by being the 'good guy'...
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Wow, brilliant, free advertising and they still don't ahve to provide anything of use because of the size and ocmplexity of the package of software and component dependency.
So unless you are going to make your own Exchange clone, with 'limited features', this is cool or good why?
Why not come out with a product that 'replaces' exchange and actually works as well and have more features?
Can the OSS world offer anything that gives 'more' features instead of still carbon copying MS crap, and still designing UIs that look like Windows 95?
Cool software that is 'better', would be a good start if you are going to take on a MS product. Is this concept too much to ask?
MMOs don't typically do that anymore
And sadly this is why new MMOs keep going in the toilet...
Report after report and expert after expert and model after model shows that a game with no risk fails.
1) No Risk, No accomplishment, No Reward
2) Loses reality, as it feels just like a 'game' as there is nothing to protect, defend, covet, etc.
3) Destroys social aspect of the MMO experience, as there is no true interdependance if there is no risk and 'need' for help from other players.
SWG taught the industry these lessons years ago, and sadly, people making the games are in the same mindset as the idiots that CU & NGE'd SWG.
No Decay, No Death penalty, no sense of loss, no sense of accomplishment.
Prior to the CU/NGE, SWG was one of the first MMOs that presented such a cohesive mix of social and gaming aspects that people 'felt' like they had a 'piece' of the world they lived in, and they had ownership in that reality.
Another game with no decay, no death is not a 'social' game. It is a Halo Online wanna be with Trolls. Die, Respawn, find weapon shot, kill, die, respawn..
(This is 10yr old 'me want everything now and free' mentality, and is why it will catch the attention of these people for 15mins, then the game will disappear into the darkness of all the other MMOs that went down the same road.)
Seriously, go look up the studies about player 'investement' in games and how risk and death and decay and social necessity are the CRUX of a successful MMO experience.
There was a major report on this just a month or so ago, apparently the WARHAMMER jokers didn't listen or give a shit and catered to the 'me want now' beta testers. Feel sorry for them when the game can't hold people.
(I'm not even a big fan of WoW, but it has enough risk, death, decay, and reward to make it successful.)
Sorry to say, but this is the only reason why I don't buy it. I'm just tired of booting into Windows to play a game, that's why I stick to WoW for now - not because it's better than anything else but because it runs fine on my MacBook.
With the state of the desktop application level of performance and the OpenGL reliance Apple is tied to, you might just be waiting a lifetime before gaming ever becomes prominent on OS X.
1) OS X is slow for gaming. OpenGL, same game, virtually same code, Boot OS X Native, Vista Native, Windows wins everytime by a large number.
2) State of OpenGL is bad at the moment, and Apple has put all their fruit in the basket. OpenGL isn't even trying to catch up to DirectX 10, let alone 11, which will be the next big thing. (Go read Tom's Hardware on OpenGL/DirectX11).
3) Apple's graphics stategy is OpenGL and and SSE Intel optimizations. Trying to bank between the two to achieve respectible performance. SSE is not what Apple thought it would be, and even dropping to OpenGL 'AQUA/QUARTZ' concepts are failing.
Apple never was able to accelerate the original Quartz or Quickdraw, let alone the new lipstick pig they are trying this year.
Software rendering only goes so far in today computing environments, when you have rich web UI and WPF smacking your developers over the head with performance and simplicity Apple could only dream to offer.
Game developer know the OS X score, and bootcamp helps them make this an easier decision. Why should they even try to get a game to run, when they know it is going to run a lot slower than the Windows version, because you can't fight the Apple and OS X overhead to get the raw performance you can on the NT Architecture.
You give Google approval when you agree to their privacy agreement, which is extremely open and clear and not just a giant blob of legalese.
Not when viewing ads on a website. I have given no permission for the data they collect from my visit...
Now run along and look up Google moving their data center to a freaking boat so they can avoid US regulations, taxes, and accountability to any governing body. (This means they can do whatever they want with the data and no court can touch them.)
Do no evil my ass...
Sure data mining and collecting information on everyone is a 'good thing', just like the IBM punchcards Germany used in the 30s/40s...
Consolidation of personal information without approval is not ethical, nor an 'ad provider'.
When Windows XP started sending back crash information 'anonymously', people like you stepped up in numbers calling them evil and painting Microsoft as evil and looking over your shoulder, when all they wanted to do was fix the freaking crashes and identify bad drivers and software.
So Microsoft is evil for anonymously collecting crash data and NEVER using it, but Google is good for collecting personal data and using it to sell their ad services?
Google may not sell identities, but they are becoming a monopoly of identity information and they use that muscle and have more control over your life and what you see on the internet than you realize, and in the long run if left unruled, will make Microsoft look like Goodwill when the shape of everything you do is Google dominated.
From movie popularity, to products, Google is already changing the markets of ALL industries, and people think this is ok?
Even the press uses Google as a research source and based on data mining of the journalists, can shape the informatino they return, changing even the news stories you see on TV.
If you are not alarmed, you are either stupid, or working for Google.
topics I want to learn about.
Ok, even small time, this is stuff you should have learned before you are in this type of position.
If you are truly 'begining', then your success at a secure public server is borderline scary, especially with CentOS or any *nix. Even OS X server is not a plug in and go public setup.
This is why Microsoft makes lots of money, as Windows Server is what someone with your level of expertise should be looking at, since locking it down is something it does well, and is virtually idiot proof. (Especially Server 2003 and 2008)
Save your company and pick up Windows Web Server for a couple hundred bucks, and work on learning more about server security and configuration in your private time.
Do no evil, unless you can fool the public?
Google has been getting away with identity murder for years and years. For anyone that finds this whole thing 'new' or 'odd' needs to slap themselves and research the marketing company that is Google.
They don't provide services or features, they sell identity information and ads.
The services and online features are just the bait in the trap.
"Google, making Microsoft look non-Evil for years."
Zune - It takes Apple engineers to make it look good.
I know the WiFi is a latent 'me too' feature of the iPod, but holy crap Apple, between this and your handling of 3G you are starting to make your engineers look really stupid.
(PS This is news worthy, as I know a few people that have been waiting for this device and turning off WPA is probably not going to be an option for them at home, let alone at work where is mandatory.)
If you don't want to be paying taxes, democrat is not what to vote, but rather libertarian.
Libertarian, if you want your infrastructure to go to crap.
Democrats believe in taxing upper income or asset areas of society.
Sales tax affects the lower income level people harder than upper income people, and is something Democrats typically fight.
A family barely making enough money to live, a sales tax affects their daily life. Someone making 2-3 times this amount for the same size family might have to worry about where to invest or what type luxury car to buy, but they do NOT have to worry about basic needs or feeding their family.
Sales taxes unfairly put the burden on the people less capable of supporting them, and they are also kill the consumer markets.
I don't disagree with Libertarians on many things, but when it comes to the 'community' deciding they would like to hire an elevator inspector so I don't have to check the cables every time I ride in one, I think that is where community or 'by the people of the people = government' has a very defined place in society.
People forget the there is a difference between government and bureaucracy. They also seem to forget that government is the original mechanism for a society to 'work together' for a greater good.
So that is where I go Democrat, as I don't want to let the market decide whether my elevator is safe, nor do I want to inspect everyone I ride on.
1995 Called... San Diego Anyone?
The Carpool lanes in San Diego I15 had magnets put in them over 10 years ago and fully autonomous GM cars navigated the roads effortlessly.
This was almost 15 freaking yeats ago...
Anyone so NOT impressed by this?