Eye candy is fine, and making things look as good as is possible is one thing.
But take a look at the candy on offer in XP - Sliding and scrolling and rolling menus windows etc - they all slow me up - I get the same amount of frustration when using a cordless mouse - the fractional delay induced is just annoying as hell.
If they can make the effects instant and seamless it will be nice.
Some people are so overwrought by their machines, that I get answers like this a lot of the time:
"I installed it because it told me I had to"
On the one hand we have people like us telling users to stay away from spyware and dodgy things, but on the other, we tell them to install all patches and software updates to make sure they are safe, and they just get confused and answer yes to almost every technical/official looking question..
"News-flash: A virus has been released which tricks unsuspecting users by sending them a fake news report. Click here to protect yourself against this virus"
You can tell when management has "approved" a posting, its all buzzword compliant, and squeeky clean - NO product is perfect, and I tend to stay away from people who say otherwise.
I am usually guided towards the comments made by people who actually inform us of their involvement. Most are down to earth techies like us, and don't pump their product to the highest high.
Certainly sounds reasonable, but I thought GPFs were when you tried accessing memory outside the application space, as long as you stay within your applications memory you were ok?
Here in England, if somebody farts too much its considered a storm. It always amazes me how your intrepid news reporters are brave (daft?!) enough to be out in storms and situations like you describe.
Most likely, nobody will ever have to test how it feels to be under one of these drops, but if they were I hope your right:)
Your right, eDonkey and the other sharing tools make ALL the files available in your share folder available whenever you have eDonkey running.
Because of the decentralised way that torrents work, it would be useless to attempt the same with them. A torrent is available for the duration that one person holds a tracker file open. I love the totrent concept because it means that as well as "flash mod" assistance in getting a file quickly, you are only ever sharing 1 file at a time, and the worst the *AA could do is get you for that one file.
Treat a torrent like a freshly baked cake - get it while its hot. If you miss it, then go looking at the other p2p programs.
Your right, a barcode system only details product types, and as you point out, RFID will have unique identifiers for every item.
However, I think cost constraints will mean only expensive items will be tagged, and old fashioned security will still be needed for the regular items. Computer hardware, cameras etc will all be tagged, but drinks and food most likely wont.
Under those conditions, what we both say will work, and the store CAN link up sales at the checkout with items leaving the store.
This is one of the principle ideas behind the RFID plan, but what gets peoples heckles up about privacy is - if you walk back into the store - or another store with readers - they will know that you have purchased (for instance) the PDA thats in your pocket.
Regarding the time - its going to be many years before tagging becomes standard, but it looks like it will happen.
On the 25th May 1961 President John F Kennedy told Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself, before this decade is out, to the goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth."
10-15 years isnt much long than the 9 quoted here.
Sure, it needs massive impotus to continue, but a 10-15 year plan is extremely feasible.
The other alternative is to make the plans so low key that they slip unnoticed under the noses of whichever government is in power at that point.
If they were placed at specific commonly used orienteering points then they wouldn't be intrusive, and they would be in a perfect location for most ramblers/hikers to locate and identify them.
What happens if you are teary, or hungover and bloodshot at the point of getting initially scanned.
What then happens every other time you go get tested?
You may NEVER (apart from the initial day) be able to use it.
The entire concept of the National database is very police stateified, and will purely be used to pick up the pieces AFTER a crime.
No amount of scanners or cards can prevent a person being mugged in the street. They cannot stop somebody from stealing a car. They cannot prevent terrorists from doing their dispicable deeds.
What they will do is create fat lazy policemen whos entire "investigation" of a crime is to seek bio-evidence to go do a database lookup on.
Real policework involves investigation and brainwork - I sincerely hope we don't lose that skill.
I remember hearing the same kind of sceptisism regarding webbased mail providers.
The applications DID suck. However nowadays, everybody takes it for granted and just uses them.
We post millions of standards compliant webpages everyday with blogging/web publishing applications. YOU even used one yourself.
Take this simple little comment box I'm filling in right now. I want to just write something and post it back. I dont want extra faffing with complex tags and escape codes - however - if I need them they are there.
There are still applications which are better suited run locally (video editing online anyone?) but for the greater majority of admin/office tasks, the web/intranet makes an ideal adaptive environment.
They possibly DO keep a list of all issued licenses, the problem comes because the service pack can be installed as a single file.
They have more chance of locking out Windows Update than locking the Corporate network installable service pack.
Microsoft would have to incorporate a list/tree of all known licenses inside each software update, and by simple extrapolation some noferious hacker could reverse engineer this list, and obtain completely legal license numbers based on the perfectly valid licenses.
At this point in time, microsoft MUST conclude, as indeed they have, that they cannot differentiate.
It has nothing to do with being selfless. If they COULD block access, then they would.
The problems with restricting access to this SP2 are totally different to restricting SP1.
At the SP1 stage, everyone with pirated version was using the devilsown serial key - one single key for every pirate.
This key was in use by 1 corporation, and it was fairly simple for microsoft to contact that one corporation, and talk them through changing their key.
Now that everyone knows the key is locked, they all use the newer keygenerators and produce random keys.
Microsoft can no longer determine the legit customers from the pirates.
It would cost them serious money if legit customers were blocked from updating.
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Eye candy is fine, and making things look as good as is possible is one thing.
But take a look at the candy on offer in XP - Sliding and scrolling and rolling menus windows etc - they all slow me up - I get the same amount of frustration when using a cordless mouse - the fractional delay induced is just annoying as hell.
If they can make the effects instant and seamless it will be nice.
Hey - that page you linked to has movies embedded incorrectly - heres the links:
Dirt hill
Nightlight
3 floor drop
This thing looks coooooooool - its just a strong version of the RC car I had when I was a kid.
Your not wrong.
Some people are so overwrought by their machines, that I get answers like this a lot of the time:
"I installed it because it told me I had to"
On the one hand we have people like us telling users to stay away from spyware and dodgy things, but on the other, we tell them to install all patches and software updates to make sure they are safe, and they just get confused and answer yes to almost every technical/official looking question..
"News-flash: A virus has been released which tricks unsuspecting users by sending them a fake news report. Click here to protect yourself against this virus"
You can tell when management has "approved" a posting, its all buzzword compliant, and squeeky clean - NO product is perfect, and I tend to stay away from people who say otherwise.
I am usually guided towards the comments made by people who actually inform us of their involvement. Most are down to earth techies like us, and don't pump their product to the highest high.
thanks
Certainly sounds reasonable, but I thought GPFs were when you tried accessing memory outside the application space, as long as you stay within your applications memory you were ok?
But what if my buffer overflow overwrote code already marked as Execute?
This would then get executed exactly as before and we still have the problem?
most definately is.
:)
Here in England, if somebody farts too much its considered a storm.
It always amazes me how your intrepid news reporters are brave (daft?!) enough to be out in storms and situations like you describe.
Most likely, nobody will ever have to test how it feels to be under one of these drops, but if they were I hope your right
Im sorry, but 24,000 gallons of water falling on your head would not be considered "a bit wet".
Sure, its preferable to the entire plane coming down on you, but still.
Thats like describing a hurricane as a gentle breeze!
Some bastard hacker already thought of that, and has designed an exploit for the brain-buffer overflow probl.....
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Your right, eDonkey and the other sharing tools make ALL the files available in your share folder available whenever you have eDonkey running.
Because of the decentralised way that torrents work, it would be useless to attempt the same with them. A torrent is available for the duration that one person holds a tracker file open. I love the totrent concept because it means that as well as "flash mod" assistance in getting a file quickly, you are only ever sharing 1 file at a time, and the worst the *AA could do is get you for that one file.
Treat a torrent like a freshly baked cake - get it while its hot.
If you miss it, then go looking at the other p2p programs.
Your right, a barcode system only details product types, and as you point out, RFID will have unique identifiers for every item.
However, I think cost constraints will mean only expensive items will be tagged, and old fashioned security will still be needed for the regular items. Computer hardware, cameras etc will all be tagged, but drinks and food most likely wont.
Under those conditions, what we both say will work, and the store CAN link up sales at the checkout with items leaving the store.
This is one of the principle ideas behind the RFID plan, but what gets peoples heckles up about privacy is - if you walk back into the store - or another store with readers - they will know that you have purchased (for instance) the PDA thats in your pocket.
Regarding the time - its going to be many years before tagging becomes standard, but it looks like it will happen.
tags = scanners
You would just need tags on each of the entrance/exits.
You can see when stock was moved around and check automatically on the computers.
You could even go as far as checking out all items that have been through the EPOS system and only look at those which werent.
It wouldnt be that tricky. It is cases and scenarios like the one described that actually make RFID look great.
No, because it is a pass through cache only.
It is not possible to push your personal content up and tell the cache to serve it under a different URL.
You dont actually expect your ISP to actually do something that makes sense now do you?
On the 25th May 1961 President John F Kennedy told Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself, before this decade is out, to the goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth."
10-15 years isnt much long than the 9 quoted here.
Sure, it needs massive impotus to continue, but a 10-15 year plan is extremely feasible.
The other alternative is to make the plans so low key that they slip unnoticed under the noses of whichever government is in power at that point.
If they were placed at specific commonly used orienteering points then they wouldn't be intrusive, and they would be in a perfect location for most ramblers/hikers to locate and identify them.
Reverse it slightly.
What happens if you are teary, or hungover and bloodshot at the point of getting initially scanned.
What then happens every other time you go get tested?
You may NEVER (apart from the initial day) be able to use it.
The entire concept of the National database is very police stateified, and will purely be used to pick up the pieces AFTER a crime.
No amount of scanners or cards can prevent a person being mugged in the street. They cannot stop somebody from stealing a car. They cannot prevent terrorists from doing their dispicable deeds.
What they will do is create fat lazy policemen whos entire "investigation" of a crime is to seek bio-evidence to go do a database lookup on.
Real policework involves investigation and brainwork - I sincerely hope we don't lose that skill.
The BBC have a long history of supporting computer technology.
Many of us English folks grew up with the BBC Micro computer in schools.
somebody sent a load of pics regarding bush and the chimp!
here
Surprisingly, it did quite well!
I remember hearing the same kind of sceptisism regarding webbased mail providers.
The applications DID suck. However nowadays, everybody takes it for granted and just uses them.
We post millions of standards compliant webpages everyday with blogging/web publishing applications. YOU even used one yourself.
Take this simple little comment box I'm filling in right now. I want to just write something and post it back. I dont want extra faffing with complex tags and escape codes - however - if I need them they are there.
There are still applications which are better suited run locally (video editing online anyone?) but for the greater majority of admin/office tasks, the web/intranet makes an ideal adaptive environment.
he might be a karma whore, but without him I wouldn't have read the very enlightening comment.
:)
He deserves the karma and being helpful should be applauded not bitched at.
Thanks Inigo/pario
They possibly DO keep a list of all issued licenses, the problem comes because the service pack can be installed as a single file.
They have more chance of locking out Windows Update than locking the Corporate network installable service pack.
Microsoft would have to incorporate a list/tree of all known licenses inside each software update, and by simple extrapolation some noferious hacker could reverse engineer this list, and obtain completely legal license numbers based on the perfectly valid licenses.
At this point in time, microsoft MUST conclude, as indeed they have, that they cannot differentiate.
It has nothing to do with being selfless. If they COULD block access, then they would.
The problems with restricting access to this SP2 are totally different to restricting SP1.
At the SP1 stage, everyone with pirated version was using the devilsown serial key - one single key for every pirate.
This key was in use by 1 corporation, and it was fairly simple for microsoft to contact that one corporation, and talk them through changing their key.
Now that everyone knows the key is locked, they all use the newer keygenerators and produce random keys.
Microsoft can no longer determine the legit customers from the pirates.
It would cost them serious money if legit customers were blocked from updating.