This quote is taken from an interview about how they had to "Start Longhorn over" in early 2004. It has thus does not relate to Windows Vista (Longhorn's new name) because it contains none of that code base which was dumped.
I know you're joking but I've seen this feature and its nothing to be turning your nose at. You have a drop down list (with pictures of sized letters, not sizes) and as you move your mouse over them the text in the document (or selected) resized allowing you to find what you want without clicking the size box more than once.
It is one of those That is *so* obvious features that ends up in every product because it is just so *DUHHH* after someone popularises the concept.:-)
What happens when these books degrade and nothing is left but a memory of what they were?
Welcome to the digital generation people of the authors guild. This is a big battle between old value people and the new digital wave that google is riding.
I am not saying that it is google's responsibility to be the sole holder of books and other information, that is why MSN, Yahoo and other organisations should start a similar program. Or even the government to archive part of our society for future generations.
I found it very revealing that in their press release they say that google is uploading "Public Domain Works" -- and then goes on to say that this is wrong and is against copyright law? Maybe it is just badly written (>sniggle) but they should be careful with their words; a public domain piece of text is, by definition something anyone can use.
This has a fundamental chicken and egg problem: So you store the information, you also need to store the format of that information. So then how do you read "format of the information" document? What format is *that* in?
You see; whatever format you used for anything has to be documented and you can't use paper because it won't last as long... Do you carve it into stone?
Worse still you need some computer science grads to write up exactly the format down to how long a char is and the bit/byte order. It is a extremely difficult task even if you don't take into consideration finding a storage medium that will last that long.:-(
Back when the telephone tapping legislation was first created, some wise law maker decided a judge should look at the evidence and allow or deny the police the ability to monitor people.
Now what would happen if that same legislation (on phone tapping) was created today? Would the police and 'security services' be able to listen to anyone they wanted without any kind of oversight?
Where did our legal right to privacy go? And why do governments have no respect for people's right to communicate over the internet? Like it is some second class method of communication.
This was going on in 1996 and has been ever since so how is this a "New Generation"; the only thing that has changed between now and then is now we have more insecure WIFI networks but really that doesn't change how the game is played at all.
Mohad was NOT in Vista before all this sudo-virus junk appeared. It was taken out MONTHS ago! Microsoft have been saying for MONTHS that it will not appear in Vista but WILL appear in Longhorn Server.
Now some attention seekers claim they created a virus, which is no more powerful than anything you could currently do in VBScript and gets headlines. Now you link to a blog that says "There is no virus threat [TRUE!] and Mohad will not be in Vista [TRUE]" and conclude that A == B?! Dear god you people!
This is a silly idea. Most people don't know what good software is, they will always pick the thing with a giant paper-clip over something that runs ten fold faster... I fail to see how this is valid. Not least of all because a lot of OpenSource software isn't designed for the public domain and thus who would be able to say good things about it?
I would also like to ask what software being OpenSourced (as opposed to Closed or Free source) has to do with a rating system? Also what value is there is a 'standard' rating? And what is the standard? User Friendliness? Configuration? Standardisation? etc
This is somewhat off topic; but does anyone know what the legal position over the brand/name "UNIX" will be? If SCO owns it and dies off will it become public domain? And can people legally say that Linux is a form of UNIX?
I'm sorry but do you people take the time to read up before you complain? This is a wonderful opportunity for the open source movement. EFI makes booting multiple operating systems like a thousand times easier. Instead of having a single boot record on the hard disk boot information is stored in a data table and given as an option to the user who selections the OS they want.
This means that Linux can be installed without breaking the existing installations or screwing with the boot loader at all. The DRM is a problem but there is not too much information about if there is going to be a lot of DRM in this new bios replacement.
Current HDD prices...
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Depending on the your budget here in the UK you can get an 80Gb HDD for around £35, so split over some time you should be able to afford two (or an extra one if you already have one). This is a good enough reason for anyone to try RAID.
I myself currently have it setup to mirror my data across two 80Gb drives... Four months ago one of the hard disks died (funny buzzing sound, no access) but the manufacturers three year warranty was still valid, so I returned the drive to them for a free replacement. I received the replacement drive and shoved it in, mirrored the data back onto this new second drive and continued as before. If I hadn't have had this setup that data could have been permanently list. It also saves me from writing ten DVDs to store that much.
If history of technology has shown us anything, in a two horse race the cheapest normally wins unless their is a VERY good reason for it not to.
This might be one of those cases; HD-DVD seems perfectly capable as a higher capacity DVD; why would people want to pay a premium for a few more features about 10% higher quality?
If I read this correctly the venerability lies in how these blogging programs fetch RSS feeds from various places in that they don't check the input first. What are the chances that any popular blogs will link to sites likely to exploit this? And know how?
A worm is very unrealistic for the simple reason that blogging isn't popular enough and crossed linked well enough. Although there are junctions in blogging networks very few automated blogs pull from these areas, they are primarily designed for user use.
I'm sure this 'Internet Storm Centre' loved all this attention but it doesn't reflect on how good their alerts are or if there are any experts.
I was going to post something against patents but I found it had been patented by fifteen companies and some other companies might claim copyright infringement on my work because I will be using similar or identical words.
Should read... - "For the administrators to monitor the students computer usage and for students that held the secret password to monitor one another. In order to keep the student's privacy safe while using the badly configured laptops the students had to get in and change the password. Upset by the fact they where made to look like noobs the school district are now bringing charges on all students that changed the password. When ask for comment the network admin had to say "I have an MCP, I think I can configure some laptops securely, the students are just messing with stuff using illegal haxor tools that they downloaded off P2P, I have contacted Microsoft, Apple and the MPAA about them!""
What exactly would be so difficult about having an RJ-45 jack coming out the seat? It would be a heck of a lot more secure, you wouldn't make everyone sit in the radio waves (which incidental could interfere with other equipment) you also have to take into account that the EM the aircraft puts out could disrupt the WiFI chatter.
I'm all for embracing new technology but existing technology would work perfectly well (if not better) in this scenario.
Excuse me if I don't jump on the band wagon just yet but I would have preferred to see this released into the public domain instead of locked into the GPL. For any team that wants to add features but keep their work free for anyone else to you (for any purpose) they are stuck and are forced to have their code infected by this heavily viral licence.
If a company is going to release something for anyone to use why don't they do so under a more liberal licence such as the BSD one; the GPL lot can still crap it up and hold it prisoner but at least that won't stop those interested in free software from developing something into the public domain.
Our government (UK) just spend x millions in creating this ID card scheme which is says we need... Now they are going to try and sell the public the concept of dumping all that R&D and use the USA standard... When that same government uses the cost so far as a reason why we can't just drop the entire project... Does anyone see a big hole in their logic?
1984 was a good book, just not a great estimate, I think 2010 is a more realistic estimate...
A lot of spyware (via the licence agreement) *do inform the user that they are about to be installed. Even those that install themselves via an ActiveX control do so... So this new law will help very little in this war against spyware.
On that note, look how much good the anti-virus laws have done in cutting them down (nothing). We need to find technical solutions to technical problems, not social solutions to technical problems.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ Who knows why the poster linked to a ZDNet article (Which incidentally can't handle a slashdotting) instead of the original blog.
Buy a cheap (£30) old computer which will just monitor all traffic on the network. If it detects that one is flooding the network with identical packets it could login to the DHCP server and cut them off (via a script?). The trick is to set the lease time on the DHCP server so the computers know when they have been cut off.
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This quote is taken from an interview about how they had to "Start Longhorn over" in early 2004. It has thus does not relate to Windows Vista (Longhorn's new name) because it contains none of that code base which was dumped.
I know you're joking but I've seen this feature and its nothing to be turning your nose at. You have a drop down list (with pictures of sized letters, not sizes) and as you move your mouse over them the text in the document (or selected) resized allowing you to find what you want without clicking the size box more than once.
:-)
It is one of those That is *so* obvious features that ends up in every product because it is just so *DUHHH* after someone popularises the concept.
What happens when these books degrade and nothing is left but a memory of what they were?
Welcome to the digital generation people of the authors guild. This is a big battle between old value people and the new digital wave that google is riding.
I am not saying that it is google's responsibility to be the sole holder of books and other information, that is why MSN, Yahoo and other organisations should start a similar program. Or even the government to archive part of our society for future generations.
I found it very revealing that in their press release they say that google is uploading "Public Domain Works" -- and then goes on to say that this is wrong and is against copyright law? Maybe it is just badly written (>sniggle) but they should be careful with their words; a public domain piece of text is, by definition something anyone can use.
This has a fundamental chicken and egg problem: So you store the information, you also need to store the format of that information. So then how do you read "format of the information" document? What format is *that* in?
... Do you carve it into stone?
:-(
You see; whatever format you used for anything has to be documented and you can't use paper because it won't last as long
Worse still you need some computer science grads to write up exactly the format down to how long a char is and the bit/byte order. It is a extremely difficult task even if you don't take into consideration finding a storage medium that will last that long.
Back when the telephone tapping legislation was first created, some wise law maker decided a judge should look at the evidence and allow or deny the police the ability to monitor people.
Now what would happen if that same legislation (on phone tapping) was created today? Would the police and 'security services' be able to listen to anyone they wanted without any kind of oversight?
Where did our legal right to privacy go? And why do governments have no respect for people's right to communicate over the internet? Like it is some second class method of communication.
This was going on in 1996 and has been ever since so how is this a "New Generation"; the only thing that has changed between now and then is now we have more insecure WIFI networks but really that doesn't change how the game is played at all.
Mohad was NOT in Vista before all this sudo-virus junk appeared. It was taken out MONTHS ago! Microsoft have been saying for MONTHS that it will not appear in Vista but WILL appear in Longhorn Server.
Now some attention seekers claim they created a virus, which is no more powerful than anything you could currently do in VBScript and gets headlines. Now you link to a blog that says "There is no virus threat [TRUE!] and Mohad will not be in Vista [TRUE]" and conclude that A == B?! Dear god you people!
This is a silly idea. Most people don't know what good software is, they will always pick the thing with a giant paper-clip over something that runs ten fold faster... I fail to see how this is valid. Not least of all because a lot of OpenSource software isn't designed for the public domain and thus who would be able to say good things about it?
I would also like to ask what software being OpenSourced (as opposed to Closed or Free source) has to do with a rating system? Also what value is there is a 'standard' rating? And what is the standard? User Friendliness? Configuration? Standardisation? etc
This is somewhat off topic; but does anyone know what the legal position over the brand/name "UNIX" will be? If SCO owns it and dies off will it become public domain? And can people legally say that Linux is a form of UNIX?
I'm sorry but do you people take the time to read up before you complain? This is a wonderful opportunity for the open source movement. EFI makes booting multiple operating systems like a thousand times easier. Instead of having a single boot record on the hard disk boot information is stored in a data table and given as an option to the user who selections the OS they want.
This means that Linux can be installed without breaking the existing installations or screwing with the boot loader at all. The DRM is a problem but there is not too much information about if there is going to be a lot of DRM in this new bios replacement.
Depending on the your budget here in the UK you can get an 80Gb HDD for around £35, so split over some time you should be able to afford two (or an extra one if you already have one). This is a good enough reason for anyone to try RAID.
I myself currently have it setup to mirror my data across two 80Gb drives... Four months ago one of the hard disks died (funny buzzing sound, no access) but the manufacturers three year warranty was still valid, so I returned the drive to them for a free replacement. I received the replacement drive and shoved it in, mirrored the data back onto this new second drive and continued as before. If I hadn't have had this setup that data could have been permanently list. It also saves me from writing ten DVDs to store that much.
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that."
If history of technology has shown us anything, in a two horse race the cheapest normally wins unless their is a VERY good reason for it not to.
This might be one of those cases; HD-DVD seems perfectly capable as a higher capacity DVD; why would people want to pay a premium for a few more features about 10% higher quality?
If I read this correctly the venerability lies in how these blogging programs fetch RSS feeds from various places in that they don't check the input first. What are the chances that any popular blogs will link to sites likely to exploit this? And know how?
A worm is very unrealistic for the simple reason that blogging isn't popular enough and crossed linked well enough. Although there are junctions in blogging networks very few automated blogs pull from these areas, they are primarily designed for user use.
I'm sure this 'Internet Storm Centre' loved all this attention but it doesn't reflect on how good their alerts are or if there are any experts.
I was going to post something against patents but I found it had been patented by fifteen companies and some other companies might claim copyright infringement on my work because I will be using similar or identical words.
Should read ... - "For the administrators to monitor the students computer usage and for students that held the secret password to monitor one another. In order to keep the student's privacy safe while using the badly configured laptops the students had to get in and change the password. Upset by the fact they where made to look like noobs the school district are now bringing charges on all students that changed the password. When ask for comment the network admin had to say "I have an MCP, I think I can configure some laptops securely, the students are just messing with stuff using illegal haxor tools that they downloaded off P2P, I have contacted Microsoft, Apple and the MPAA about them!""
What exactly would be so difficult about having an RJ-45 jack coming out the seat? It would be a heck of a lot more secure, you wouldn't make everyone sit in the radio waves (which incidental could interfere with other equipment) you also have to take into account that the EM the aircraft puts out could disrupt the WiFI chatter.
I'm all for embracing new technology but existing technology would work perfectly well (if not better) in this scenario.
Excuse me if I don't jump on the band wagon just yet but I would have preferred to see this released into the public domain instead of locked into the GPL. For any team that wants to add features but keep their work free for anyone else to you (for any purpose) they are stuck and are forced to have their code infected by this heavily viral licence.
If a company is going to release something for anyone to use why don't they do so under a more liberal licence such as the BSD one; the GPL lot can still crap it up and hold it prisoner but at least that won't stop those interested in free software from developing something into the public domain.
Our government (UK) just spend x millions in creating this ID card scheme which is says we need... Now they are going to try and sell the public the concept of dumping all that R&D and use the USA standard... When that same government uses the cost so far as a reason why we can't just drop the entire project... Does anyone see a big hole in their logic?
1984 was a good book, just not a great estimate, I think 2010 is a more realistic estimate...
A lot of spyware (via the licence agreement) *do inform the user that they are about to be installed. Even those that install themselves via an ActiveX control do so... So this new law will help very little in this war against spyware.
On that note, look how much good the anti-virus laws have done in cutting them down (nothing). We need to find technical solutions to technical problems, not social solutions to technical problems.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ Who knows why the poster linked to a ZDNet article (Which incidentally can't handle a slashdotting) instead of the original blog.
For *the user base*... This is not a general survey of everyone that uses Linux, if you had RTFA you would know that.
So hunting over the internet is "unsporting" but killing animals with high power, long range rifles isn't?
I am not supporting internet hunting but come on guys, can you REALLY call any modern day hunting a "real hunt", there is NO challenge.
Buy a cheap (£30) old computer which will just monitor all traffic on the network. If it detects that one is flooding the network with identical packets it could login to the DHCP server and cut them off (via a script?). The trick is to set the lease time on the DHCP server so the computers know when they have been cut off.