Is global warming going to kill us? No. Is it the end of civilization as we know it? No. But what is the cost of doing nothing? If you americans need to evacuate long island, who is going to pay indemnities? Who will decide which houses get protected by dikes and which ones are given up? Are you going to tell all these sea-side home owners "too bad, shouldn't have been driving that SUV around.."? Because if you do, I can't predict the climate, but I can predict the lawyers are going to be more busy than the engineers... This has NOTHING to do with tree-hugging. This is like choosing whether we pay for fire-insurance. We can choose to pay a little now, or run the risk of paying a hundred thousand times as much 30 years from now.
The project you point to has a stable release > two years old and a white screen under "roadmap". Isn't this a big part of the problem: security should (specially for small deployments) be largely of the shelf, based on good toolkits, but it is not considered "sexy" to program these (parts of the) toolkits? I mean, how many ways are there to present a form on a website? It shouldn't be rocket technology to make one that says: "make sure the user entered a valid date here before throwing it on the database". That validation should be part of the toolkit, not left to homebrew hacking.
I 'd say she cured the disease but nearly killed the patient. Of all my (Danish) companies factories, the UK one is still the one with the most problems because of the negative influence of their unions. Hard handed cleaning was necessary. But Thatcher also paved the way for disasters like the privatization of British Water and the total underfunding of British Railway system. At one time she closed coal mines which were still profitable, just to break the power of the mining unions. That, in my book, is a bridge too far.
mmmm, you are a one-horse-show. You will be coding an embedded system, under closed source. If I install it in my company, and you get run over by a bus, I'm up sh*t creek without a paddle. Thanks, but no thanks.
Novozymes, one of the world largest producers of enzymes for bio-fuel, has their U.S. production in Franklinton, North Carolina. Looks like they are shooting themselves in the foot in more ways then one...
Yes, people will abuse it in any way they can. Mostly to try and get higher up in the search engines. But this does not mean it is by definition useless. It is useless to do ranking, but once you (the search engine) have decided to list a site, you could use the metadata for semantic web-stuff. How about allowing for a physical address, phone number, opening hours (for brick & mortar )...
This would e.g. allow for a "copy address to contacts" button. Make an easy (web based) program to generate the HTML so mom&pop shops can include it tin their website, and refrain from using it for ranking purposes, and you should be ok.
If you don't want to reinstal: http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
My mother in law bought one. Now I am used to your anti-virus no longer getting updated if you don't pay. But when her spamkiller expired, her email stopped working. And I can assure you there is NO WAY she would have been able to fix that herself without paying.
You don't have to obey our laws. You don't have to play by our rules. But we are the biggest consumer market in the world. And NOBODY can force us to open that market to you if you don't wish to play by our rules.
I call Bull. On my first PC, doing a print preview on WP 3 for DOS was a big, slow process. Then we did colour. Then we did sound. Then we did video. Then we did DVD quality video with surround sound. Three things have required the extra power: media types, useability (Clippy!) and using half of your resources to keep the other half malware-free.
Until my colleague can send me an invite, and I can click on yes/no/maybe, and it goes into my calender, and it gets synched to my mobile phone, thanks but no thanks. There is going to be an opportunity to beat Exchange the day phones and PDA's are hardwareabstracted in the OS and a cross-brand, unified API for synching is available. Today, Outlook IS the API.
My bank gave me a small calculator-like thingy. I insert my bankcard, enter the challenge shown on the website and my PIN, and it shows me a response. I can enter the response in www.nigerianscam.biz, and still be safe.
My company is "only" 2000 people. Every PC gets wiped as soon as it comes in the door, and is then loaded with a standard setup. It doesn't matter what Dell puts on there, that is just important for smaller companies. What does matter is that we have tenthousands of documents in our internal knowledge base. Many of them are powerpoints where slide 3 contains an embedded Excel sheet, itself containing an embedded Word document. How they will ever get out of that mess is beyond my imagination.
If the tide turns, and some big customers demand ODF support, will Microsoft have its business depend on some weirdo hackers in a sourcefourge project? I think not. So 50$ sais ODF support in MSoffice is already built and tested, as a compile line option currently switched off by the marketing department. Apply some pressure and witness the fastest patch in history... By the way, if your neighbour or your PHB asks you the difference between ODF and the MS XML thingy, summarize like this: The ODF spec is 600 pages, the MS spec is 6000. Intelligent people will be able to figure out the rest.
The problem is when Country A want to get resources in Country B while paying little or nothing for it and at the same time stopping Country C from getting any of the resources from Country B even if they're willing to pay more than Country A for those resources.
Translation: The problem is when the USA want to get resources in the third world while paying little or nothing for it and at the same time stopping China from getting any of the resources from the third world even if they're willing to pay more than the USA for those resources.
In which way is this different from Java webstart? AFAIK that does about everything described above? Maybe it has more shiny graphics? PSSST, Adobe, hear this.... Make some software which makes it easier to develop forms on websites. Make it connect to and auto-update from your servers. If "Country" is needed, you guys supply a current list of all countries in the world. If the end user selects "Germany", you change the "Postcode" field automatically so it will only accept "D-xxxx" where x is a digit. Get the picture? A nice graphical UI on the develloper side where you can say "Date of Birth" has to be a valid date between 18 and 120 years ago. (You know, instead of a whole bunch of javascript with bugs in.) Add the posibility to map the fields graphically to a column in a database. Then release a free client with the next release of Flash, where the user can store his personal data, password protected, to autofill the said forms. Instant $$$$! Promess!
you get exactly the price you want. New Zealand pays back part of the medicine cost to their patients. For each type of medicine, they put out a bid and only the manufacturor with the lowest price gets his medicine subsidised by the government. They have about the lowest medicine prices on the planet. Pharma companies, just like anybody else, steal what they can get away with.
Peugot Citroen can use the savings. They had a bad year and are about to slash jobs. They make brilliant cars though. When the DS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroen_DS came out in 1955, the rest of the world was stil in the stone-age. Without any of the fancy stuff, my Saxo does 25 km on a liter of diesel, (that is 58 miles to the gallon for you gas-guzzlers!).
That is by design. Open source means you give away your sourcecode, now matter how insignificant. There is always a (very) small chance somebody takes over where you left. So the work you did should not be deleted. It is part of the SF experience...
Well cry me a river. Big bizz wants Linux in the server room and guess what: it is kicking ass down there. I've got Mandriva for email and webbanking without using 75% of my CPU on anti virus crap an guess what: it works. But my kids want to play Shockwave games on the net, so they get their own Windows trashcan(TM) to slowly fill up with parasites. And trust me, PHB is going to complain when he gets a "serious business email" with Flash content and it doesn't play. So no, it is not ready for the desktop and it will not be until MS and Macromedia decide so.
It is Bittorrent. They don't NEED filesharing. They just need to pass you a small list of computers where you can get the goodies. Heck, to save bandwith, they can host all their websites GIF's on a different server on the mainland.
Apparently, they will be doing a lot of work on PIM data. I, for one, look forward to the day where mobiles and handhelds will be hardware abstracted, just like printers. Instal your Nokia whatever driver, and it synchronises agenda, contacts, pictures and music, in exactly the same way as your iPod and your Palm.
DNA makes protein. Let's say there are DNA sequences which lead to protein so poisonous no cell can take it. Implant the DNA in a creature (plant/cell/animal). Whaaaw, now we have a creature which... kills itself??? It is not like there are no proteins available which are lethal to man but can be tolerated by other creatures: snake venom, certain plant extracts. The whole point of this is that no creature can take it.
I lived in York when the water company got privatised. Never seen such a disaster. It wasn't just a license to print money, it was also a license to be incompetent. Now with telecom, one can argue to which extent it stil is a monopoly. And people wo go living in the middle of nowhere should learn that this comes with a price tag. I can remember stories from Belgium where millionaires built illegal expensive villas in protected woods. Even though the constructions were illegal, the utility companies had to spend fortunes to connect these houses, paid for by suckers who live in appartments. And five years later, when they get kids, they go and complain to local politicians because there is no busstop anywhere near. So now the bus from A to B has to stop 10 times instead of 5, doubling travel time. Living in a city is better for the environment (less transport) and better for the community (public transport, utilities, schools...). It should be rewarded.
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Is global warming going to kill us? No. Is it the end of civilization as we know it? No. But what is the cost of doing nothing? If you americans need to evacuate long island, who is going to pay indemnities? Who will decide which houses get protected by dikes and which ones are given up? Are you going to tell all these sea-side home owners "too bad, shouldn't have been driving that SUV around.."? Because if you do, I can't predict the climate, but I can predict the lawyers are going to be more busy than the engineers... This has NOTHING to do with tree-hugging. This is like choosing whether we pay for fire-insurance. We can choose to pay a little now, or run the risk of paying a hundred thousand times as much 30 years from now.
The project you point to has a stable release > two years old and a white screen under "roadmap". Isn't this a big part of the problem: security should (specially for small deployments) be largely of the shelf, based on good toolkits, but it is not considered "sexy" to program these (parts of the) toolkits? I mean, how many ways are there to present a form on a website? It shouldn't be rocket technology to make one that says: "make sure the user entered a valid date here before throwing it on the database". That validation should be part of the toolkit, not left to homebrew hacking.
I 'd say she cured the disease but nearly killed the patient. Of all my (Danish) companies factories, the UK one is still the one with the most problems because of the negative influence of their unions. Hard handed cleaning was necessary. But Thatcher also paved the way for disasters like the privatization of British Water and the total underfunding of British Railway system. At one time she closed coal mines which were still profitable, just to break the power of the mining unions. That, in my book, is a bridge too far.
This does not look good!
mmmm, you are a one-horse-show. You will be coding an embedded system, under closed source. If I install it in my company, and you get run over by a bus, I'm up sh*t creek without a paddle. Thanks, but no thanks.
Novozymes, one of the world largest producers of enzymes for bio-fuel, has their U.S. production in Franklinton, North Carolina. Looks like they are shooting themselves in the foot in more ways then one...
Yes, people will abuse it in any way they can. Mostly to try and get higher up in the search engines. But this does not mean it is by definition useless. It is useless to do ranking, but once you (the search engine) have decided to list a site, you could use the metadata for semantic web-stuff. How about allowing for a physical address, phone number, opening hours (for brick & mortar )... This would e.g. allow for a "copy address to contacts" button. Make an easy (web based) program to generate the HTML so mom&pop shops can include it tin their website, and refrain from using it for ranking purposes, and you should be ok.
If you don't want to reinstal: http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/ My mother in law bought one. Now I am used to your anti-virus no longer getting updated if you don't pay. But when her spamkiller expired, her email stopped working . And I can assure you there is NO WAY she would have been able to fix that herself without paying.
Dear REST of the WORLD,
You don't have to obey our laws. You don't have to play by our rules. But we are the biggest consumer market in the world. And NOBODY can force us to open that market to you if you don't wish to play by our rules.
Lots of love,
USA
I call Bull. On my first PC, doing a print preview on WP 3 for DOS was a big, slow process. Then we did colour. Then we did sound. Then we did video. Then we did DVD quality video with surround sound. Three things have required the extra power: media types, useability (Clippy!) and using half of your resources to keep the other half malware-free.
Until my colleague can send me an invite, and I can click on yes/no/maybe, and it goes into my calender, and it gets synched to my mobile phone, thanks but no thanks. There is going to be an opportunity to beat Exchange the day phones and PDA's are hardwareabstracted in the OS and a cross-brand, unified API for synching is available. Today, Outlook IS the API.
My bank gave me a small calculator-like thingy. I insert my bankcard, enter the challenge shown on the website and my PIN, and it shows me a response. I can enter the response in www.nigerianscam.biz, and still be safe.
My company is "only" 2000 people. Every PC gets wiped as soon as it comes in the door, and is then loaded with a standard setup. It doesn't matter what Dell puts on there, that is just important for smaller companies. What does matter is that we have tenthousands of documents in our internal knowledge base. Many of them are powerpoints where slide 3 contains an embedded Excel sheet, itself containing an embedded Word document. How they will ever get out of that mess is beyond my imagination.
If the tide turns, and some big customers demand ODF support, will Microsoft have its business depend on some weirdo hackers in a sourcefourge project? I think not. So 50$ sais ODF support in MSoffice is already built and tested, as a compile line option currently switched off by the marketing department. Apply some pressure and witness the fastest patch in history...
By the way, if your neighbour or your PHB asks you the difference between ODF and the MS XML thingy, summarize like this: The ODF spec is 600 pages, the MS spec is 6000. Intelligent people will be able to figure out the rest.
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The problem is when the USA want to get resources in the third world while paying little or nothing for it and at the same time stopping China from getting any of the resources from the third world even if they're willing to pay more than the USA for those resources.
In which way is this different from Java webstart? AFAIK that does about everything described above? Maybe it has more shiny graphics? PSSST, Adobe, hear this.... Make some software which makes it easier to develop forms on websites. Make it connect to and auto-update from your servers. If "Country" is needed, you guys supply a current list of all countries in the world. If the end user selects "Germany", you change the "Postcode" field automatically so it will only accept "D-xxxx" where x is a digit. Get the picture? A nice graphical UI on the develloper side where you can say "Date of Birth" has to be a valid date between 18 and 120 years ago. (You know, instead of a whole bunch of javascript with bugs in.) Add the posibility to map the fields graphically to a column in a database. Then release a free client with the next release of Flash, where the user can store his personal data, password protected, to autofill the said forms. Instant $$$$! Promess!
you get exactly the price you want. New Zealand pays back part of the medicine cost to their patients. For each type of medicine, they put out a bid and only the manufacturor with the lowest price gets his medicine subsidised by the government. They have about the lowest medicine prices on the planet. Pharma companies, just like anybody else, steal what they can get away with.
Peugot Citroen can use the savings. They had a bad year and are about to slash jobs. They make brilliant cars though. When the DS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroen_DS came out in 1955, the rest of the world was stil in the stone-age. Without any of the fancy stuff, my Saxo does 25 km on a liter of diesel, (that is 58 miles to the gallon for you gas-guzzlers!).
That is by design. Open source means you give away your sourcecode, now matter how insignificant. There is always a (very) small chance somebody takes over where you left. So the work you did should not be deleted. It is part of the SF experience...
mmmm, you did actually click the linky yourself, no? Shockwave, Linux? No? Try again;-)
Well cry me a river. Big bizz wants Linux in the server room and guess what: it is kicking ass down there. I've got Mandriva for email and webbanking without using 75% of my CPU on anti virus crap an guess what: it works. But my kids want to play Shockwave games on the net, so they get their own Windows trashcan(TM) to slowly fill up with parasites. And trust me, PHB is going to complain when he gets a "serious business email" with Flash content and it doesn't play. So no, it is not ready for the desktop and it will not be until MS and Macromedia decide so.
It is Bittorrent. They don't NEED filesharing. They just need to pass you a small list of computers where you can get the goodies. Heck, to save bandwith, they can host all their websites GIF's on a different server on the mainland.
Apparently, they will be doing a lot of work on PIM data. I, for one, look forward to the day where mobiles and handhelds will be hardware abstracted, just like printers. Instal your Nokia whatever driver, and it synchronises agenda, contacts, pictures and music, in exactly the same way as your iPod and your Palm.
DNA makes protein. Let's say there are DNA sequences which lead to protein so poisonous no cell can take it. Implant the DNA in a creature (plant/cell/animal). Whaaaw, now we have a creature which... kills itself??? It is not like there are no proteins available which are lethal to man but can be tolerated by other creatures: snake venom, certain plant extracts. The whole point of this is that no creature can take it.
I lived in York when the water company got privatised. Never seen such a disaster. It wasn't just a license to print money, it was also a license to be incompetent. Now with telecom, one can argue to which extent it stil is a monopoly. And people wo go living in the middle of nowhere should learn that this comes with a price tag. I can remember stories from Belgium where millionaires built illegal expensive villas in protected woods. Even though the constructions were illegal, the utility companies had to spend fortunes to connect these houses, paid for by suckers who live in appartments. And five years later, when they get kids, they go and complain to local politicians because there is no busstop anywhere near. So now the bus from A to B has to stop 10 times instead of 5, doubling travel time. Living in a city is better for the environment (less transport) and better for the community (public transport, utilities, schools...). It should be rewarded.