Instead of disabling portions of it, why not just give it a rolling encryption that the terrorists cannot decipher for a period of time greater than the duration of the attack? With our troops and weaponry increasingly dependent on the technology, the outcome could be much worse for us in that we could be left completely unable to respond to the attack. If we're going to think ahead, then let's really think about it!
IMHO, where OS software can make inroads into Microsoft's domain is quality. Why pay more for a buggy Microsoft product when there is a practical, higher quality alternative available? Isn't this what Firefox and Mozilla are actively demonstrating in the marketplace?
It's the story of the Impossibles all over again! Maybe the reason that there are no magicians, super-heroes etc. is that they have been reorganized, collectivized and legislated out of existence. It used to be that a person with a good idea and a modest amount of computer skill could actually accomplish something great! Now we've almost completely been regulated into mediocrity! What made the computer great was more often the common person who had a good idea and the passion and commitment to see it through.
Personally I don't really give a 'whopping whoopty-doo' that someone has a copyright or a patent on an idea, wraps it up in the cloak of 'process' and denies it for all other uses. If someone else realizes that something can be done and improved on why don't we just let them do it? Microsoft pays for studies that show that Linux may infringe on some 200+ patents. No one set out to 'infringe' on anything, they just had an idea about a different way to do something and put the sweat equity into it to make it work. And for every one that has worked out there are several orders of magnitude worth of ideas and techniques that didn't work at all. Sourceforge has about ten times the users as they do projects, but they sure don't have ten users per project! We need a process that encourages and empowers those who can and do make changes and improve things. Instead we chase them with lawyers who want to be sure that two specific assembly language instructions don't appear one after the other because someone else already did that and has the copyright and or patent to prove it. What we have is a litigious society that punishes those without the legal muscle to defend themselves, and in the process we deny everyone the benefits of a whole generation of innovators.
I mean how many minutes will it be before a mod is available? Probably well under an hour when the right person gets the upgrade and loses a substattial part of their library!
I get too much interference between my shirt pockets from my slide rule tie clip! Can I get a reflector that I can add to the tape that holds my glasses together? And just where am I suppoded to put the WAN firewall?
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Q: How much of your department's time, as an IT organization, is spent on security? We've heard the figure 10 percent thrown around.
A: "It's hard to capture the overall time spent on security, but 10 percent is probably about right."
This is exactly what is wrong with Microsoft Security. It needs to be the total responsibility of a few individuals who work closely with the larger security community, clearly when security is everyone's problem and they spend 10% of their time on it, then it is really nobody's problem. (Except that then it is everybodys problem! )
Microsoft could save money and improve it by outsourcing security. Rather than trying again to fix a broken culture, why not just admit it's broken and realize that other companies use outside resources and it works fine for them. For example, would you but an extension cord without it first having been researched by Underwriters Labs? Would you go to a hospital that was not inspected by JCAHO?
With the addition of video (perhaps even two way) this would be a breakthrough in rescue equipment. Imagine not only being able to remotely locate survivors, but also being able to communicate with them. Very Impressive!
While his accent was sometimes annoying ahd his examples often comical ("Imagine Jupiter as a giant Quarter Pounder.") I miss Carl. He was pretty long winded, but that seemed to provide an opportunity for much more detailed and vaired visual imagery. Then there was the book. I don't know, maybe he was just a bit more melodramatic and more of a showman. I'm sure that this condensed, updated show is probably just right for the current age, but I experienced almost all of this decades ago with a little boy who ask a librarian for books on the stars, and corrected her when she misunderstood him. His vision of cosmology awed and inspired me. I hope this series does the same for the next generation.
Bush suggests that Kerry could debate himself for 90 minutes. This is probably true. Unfortunately Bush probably couldn't even pull that off; but the maliprops and 'Bushisms' of him debating himself would be priceless.
Sorry, I was seized by the FP bug at the time. The mere thought of using the spell checker hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
I am pretty much appauled by the state of most e-learning software these days. Systems like Blackboard may be great for an instructor with a liner interpretation of the sum of all the textbooks they've ever studied, but it is clerical in nature. It is not designed and built to stimulate learning and transforming information into knowledge. Sounds like a good read. I loved the Soul of a New Machine.
My son started with Stickybear Bop before he was three on my old Apple ][. When he started school, his kindergarten teacher was amazed with what he could do. She asked my to do a workshop for the students and we ended up with a day long event! (No naps, it was a little gruling!)
We described the features of the computer in terms that they had vocabulary for. The keyboard was the ear (because you could tell it something). The monitor was the face (because it could tell you something). The 'stuff in the box' was the brains, and the floppy drive was the notebook.
We played games where the 16 children were data bits and I was the data bus 'driver' we got on the bus at the keyboard, went to the cpu and ended up in the floppy, all walking around the room to different stations.
We broke into two groups and became two separate binary numbers and then we used some really simple logic to add the numbers together.
Then we entered into programming. A program is a story that you tell a computer. So we asked the students (a trick question) of what should we make the computer do. What we settled on was that the students wanted to type their names and have them appear on the screen. So there was a simple two line program with an input and a print statement, and by using a little formatting we got it to change color when it printed.
Years later for an introduction to programming I had the students write a pong program, for a Freshman project.
I know that 10 year olds like games, but not something that's terribly sophisticated. So I would suggest looking for a simplified maze game that draws random mazes and lets the user use arrow keys to traverse the mazes. I think that animation would be too hard for a 10 year old.
In general I would work towards stuff that they could do and touch. Take an old motherboard, maybe a failed hard drive that they can see ine insides and pass them around, talk about what happens inside. Data travels from keyboard to ram to cpu to ram to disk and reverse it to get to the screen for output. I kad put together a little workbook for them, each pahe took 1 word or one drawing, that kind of thing. Instead of staples I used dead 1K ram chips, so they each got to take a piece of the computer home. Run the ideas by your child, and get them to help give the presentation, his/her ability to participate will help to get buy in from the other kids, and empower them to believe that they can do this. And of course check with the teacher to find out what they are already doing on the school computers; it's very unlikely that they have no expierence!
Wrong on both counts. I'm 14 years married and the mobile to mobile minutes are free. But you two both seem to recognize a loser; 'takes one to know one.'
I recently got a new cell phone. I took information for a search and asked for a vanity number. Then I kept hearing the numbers as they told me what was available, checking it and telling them 'no.' Finally on the 11th try I got an acceptible number. What I was searching for was a 7 digit prime. Fortunately the number with area code was the product of two primes as well. Now I can give out either the ordinal index of the prime for the local, or the prime factors of the 10 digit number. People who are unable to deal with the math just can't call me!
Where they shot the rescue vehicle through the eye of a hurricane. Perhaps the US should consider annexing a small portion of a land bound equatorial country in hopes of having a better launch site. Maybe Colombia, where at least they'd have good coffee.
COBOL was written by accountants for accountants you have to account for every friggin' byte! Java is just as bad in that respect. I like a language that can take care of data management itself. If I had to manage the data storage in that manner I'd rather skip the middleman and go right to assembler.
I also like to do just what I need to do right where I need to do it. Why load a bunch of class libraries when you're only using a small portion of them? I can do the same thing without extra function calls then I save a bunch of cpu time and stack space. And don't even get me started on VM's...
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Instead of disabling portions of it, why not just give it a rolling encryption that the terrorists cannot decipher for a period of time greater than the duration of the attack? With our troops and weaponry increasingly dependent on the technology, the outcome could be much worse for us in that we could be left completely unable to respond to the attack. If we're going to think ahead, then let's really think about it!
I'm waiting for the mod chip for my game console.
IMHO, where OS software can make inroads into Microsoft's domain is quality. Why pay more for a buggy Microsoft product when there is a practical, higher quality alternative available? Isn't this what Firefox and Mozilla are actively demonstrating in the marketplace?
Personally I don't really give a 'whopping whoopty-doo' that someone has a copyright or a patent on an idea, wraps it up in the cloak of 'process' and denies it for all other uses. If someone else realizes that something can be done and improved on why don't we just let them do it? Microsoft pays for studies that show that Linux may infringe on some 200+ patents. No one set out to 'infringe' on anything, they just had an idea about a different way to do something and put the sweat equity into it to make it work. And for every one that has worked out there are several orders of magnitude worth of ideas and techniques that didn't work at all. Sourceforge has about ten times the users as they do projects, but they sure don't have ten users per project! We need a process that encourages and empowers those who can and do make changes and improve things. Instead we chase them with lawyers who want to be sure that two specific assembly language instructions don't appear one after the other because someone else already did that and has the copyright and or patent to prove it. What we have is a litigious society that punishes those without the legal muscle to defend themselves, and in the process we deny everyone the benefits of a whole generation of innovators.
I mean how many minutes will it be before a mod is available? Probably well under an hour when the right person gets the upgrade and loses a substattial part of their library!
Shouldn't it be SOOLLOG?
I get too much interference between my shirt pockets from my slide rule tie clip! Can I get a reflector that I can add to the tape that holds my glasses together? And just where am I suppoded to put the WAN firewall?
How about the Z80 Basic Interpreter?
A: "It's hard to capture the overall time spent on security, but 10 percent is probably about right."
This is exactly what is wrong with Microsoft Security. It needs to be the total responsibility of a few individuals who work closely with the larger security community, clearly when security is everyone's problem and they spend 10% of their time on it, then it is really nobody's problem. (Except that then it is everybodys problem! )
Microsoft could save money and improve it by outsourcing security. Rather than trying again to fix a broken culture, why not just admit it's broken and realize that other companies use outside resources and it works fine for them. For example, would you but an extension cord without it first having been researched by Underwriters Labs? Would you go to a hospital that was not inspected by JCAHO?
With the addition of video (perhaps even two way) this would be a breakthrough in rescue equipment. Imagine not only being able to remotely locate survivors, but also being able to communicate with them. Very Impressive!
If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently? Why?
Been almost 30 years since I saw it.
While his accent was sometimes annoying ahd his examples often comical ("Imagine Jupiter as a giant Quarter Pounder.") I miss Carl. He was pretty long winded, but that seemed to provide an opportunity for much more detailed and vaired visual imagery. Then there was the book. I don't know, maybe he was just a bit more melodramatic and more of a showman. I'm sure that this condensed, updated show is probably just right for the current age, but I experienced almost all of this decades ago with a little boy who ask a librarian for books on the stars, and corrected her when she misunderstood him. His vision of cosmology awed and inspired me. I hope this series does the same for the next generation.
Bush suggests that Kerry could debate himself for 90 minutes. This is probably true. Unfortunately Bush probably couldn't even pull that off; but the maliprops and 'Bushisms' of him debating himself would be priceless.
Sorry, I was seized by the FP bug at the time. The mere thought of using the spell checker hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
I'll use it in a diver's camera enclosure if I go outside in the rain! ;^)
I am pretty much appauled by the state of most e-learning software these days. Systems like Blackboard may be great for an instructor with a liner interpretation of the sum of all the textbooks they've ever studied, but it is clerical in nature. It is not designed and built to stimulate learning and transforming information into knowledge. Sounds like a good read. I loved the Soul of a New Machine.
We described the features of the computer in terms that they had vocabulary for. The keyboard was the ear (because you could tell it something). The monitor was the face (because it could tell you something). The 'stuff in the box' was the brains, and the floppy drive was the notebook.
We played games where the 16 children were data bits and I was the data bus 'driver' we got on the bus at the keyboard, went to the cpu and ended up in the floppy, all walking around the room to different stations.
We broke into two groups and became two separate binary numbers and then we used some really simple logic to add the numbers together.
Then we entered into programming. A program is a story that you tell a computer. So we asked the students (a trick question) of what should we make the computer do. What we settled on was that the students wanted to type their names and have them appear on the screen. So there was a simple two line program with an input and a print statement, and by using a little formatting we got it to change color when it printed.
Years later for an introduction to programming I had the students write a pong program, for a Freshman project.
I know that 10 year olds like games, but not something that's terribly sophisticated. So I would suggest looking for a simplified maze game that draws random mazes and lets the user use arrow keys to traverse the mazes. I think that animation would be too hard for a 10 year old.
In general I would work towards stuff that they could do and touch. Take an old motherboard, maybe a failed hard drive that they can see ine insides and pass them around, talk about what happens inside. Data travels from keyboard to ram to cpu to ram to disk and reverse it to get to the screen for output. I kad put together a little workbook for them, each pahe took 1 word or one drawing, that kind of thing. Instead of staples I used dead 1K ram chips, so they each got to take a piece of the computer home. Run the ideas by your child, and get them to help give the presentation, his/her ability to participate will help to get buy in from the other kids, and empower them to believe that they can do this. And of course check with the teacher to find out what they are already doing on the school computers; it's very unlikely that they have no expierence!
I know it's an old joke. But if they did, how long before there would be no one left alive to drive them?
Wrong on both counts. I'm 14 years married and the mobile to mobile minutes are free. But you two both seem to recognize a loser; 'takes one to know one.'
Actually I'm married, so it's not an issue! ;^)
I recently got a new cell phone. I took information for a search and asked for a vanity number. Then I kept hearing the numbers as they told me what was available, checking it and telling them 'no.' Finally on the 11th try I got an acceptible number. What I was searching for was a 7 digit prime. Fortunately the number with area code was the product of two primes as well. Now I can give out either the ordinal index of the prime for the local, or the prime factors of the 10 digit number. People who are unable to deal with the math just can't call me!
Where they shot the rescue vehicle through the eye of a hurricane. Perhaps the US should consider annexing a small portion of a land bound equatorial country in hopes of having a better launch site. Maybe Colombia, where at least they'd have good coffee.
I also like to do just what I need to do right where I need to do it. Why load a bunch of class libraries when you're only using a small portion of them? I can do the same thing without extra function calls then I save a bunch of cpu time and stack space. And don't even get me started on VM's...