I will not argue for/against SANs (never worked with them, not even sure what it stands for) but I don't really like/accept the logic of "if there are people that charge a lot of money for it, it is impossible to do it yourself". Did not work for Linux or MySQL...
Why do I need account ID to commit fraud? Portable RFID scanners will be SOLD (completely legit) in a while (and maybe they are being sold now). High-tech fraud with faking RFID keys and stuff is still possible and IF they get hacked you will be vulnerable no matter how careful you are (unless you keep your cards with your RFID home).
But I am personally more worried about much less technical fraud. Just by somebody buying scanner and creating a company with a fake identification and walking in stores and charging people's cards. They do this for a week, cash out, close company. The very fact that access to my money is exposed through wireless for anyone to take a whack at it if they want to try makes ne nauseous.
And few more:
-Keyboards for defferent languages - right now I have to buy keyboard with two letters on each buttons. What if you need 3 languages?
-Different layouts. You want to try 'dvorak' - with a click of a button you have a dvorak keyboard.
- blind typing - for training, you can remove all symbols so there is no incentive to look at the keyboard
- extra keys (functional keys, keypad, etc.). You can reprogram them now but you need to remember what you set each key to. And for any application that uses shortcuts- you will be able to actually display what this shortcut does.
SHOOT ME but I can't remember shortcuts to "step in" and "step over" when I switch between Eclipse, NetBeans, VS and others.
Now, all that said... I will not pay $300 (which is probably about the price for a decent cell phone, lets drop all this "sign 3 year contract and get your phone free" crap) for the keyboard. $100 maybe...
Somebody, please help me...
quote 1: "QVGA-resolution (320 x 240)"
quote 2: "berDisplay 230K with approximately 230,000 pixel dots in 0.24 diagonal"
My calculator says 320*240=76800. Where is the rest 150 000 pixels? You should be able to get almost 600x400 (240 000).
Overall, seems like a step in the right direction but still rough around the edges.
As an instance, it sure makes "always on top" MUCH more useful (for indicators, "drag-and-drop" targets, EQ in winamp). It can be helpful for mail replies, so you do not have to jump back and forth between the windows. It enables an extra option and how you use it is totally up to you (and yeah, it is cool and allows for a ton of fun and non-intrusive effects that will eat up all you CPU and GPU but will look awesome.
Unfortunately, I speak in general terms of transparancy since site with screenshot is slashdotted:)
Hmm, thank you kindly for the reply. No wonder you postend it anonymously. I never said that I want those books free and the problem is not in that I can't find something. I can. But I can find too much with very mixed feedback over helpfulness of one or the other book that's why I wanted to ask Slashdot. If your remark was just about books being audio and not paperback, I spend a lot of time not being able to read and audio books seem like a nice solution.
I can understand how they plan to block porn sites or adult online stores and stuff. But I do have few questions.
1) Who to stop sites that have only SOME adult content (hell, ebay for instance or yahoo stores) from being blocked? Or even "accidents", when some sites that somebody does not like end up on the list?
2) What about proxies or other technologies that will bloom next second after the law is accepted? Will this be another one of those "best faith efforts"? What's the point then?
3) I don't know maybe I am too paranoid. Maybe. But ALL ISPs will be forced to install hardware to support internet filtering. I get shivers from the very fact that somebody will have a mean to filter what I am and what I am not allowed to see on the internet. It all has to start somewhere. First you have an option to block porn. Then, internet sites that show you how to make a bomb are blocked for everyone as dangerous and as supporting terrorism (it's all about these little key words). Then internet sites that express radical views are blocked. Then... I don't believe this law is really that dangerous and I will get my share of... public speach;) anyway and yet...
Well, nobody says that it will prevent every boy in Utah from seeing a naked girl on the internet. Or naked boy. Or whatever. As was noted before, however, it would make them to work HARD to find a non-blocked web site and they would not be able to use bookmarks & like. This would eliminate 99.99% or access attempts; I don't think crusades for pron will be all that popular:). As for the distribution time... Getting an updated list every five minutes through HTTP requests should be fast enough, no?
I wonder how they will block Google cache and others like that though. And how often non-pron sites or "pron and SO much more" sites will end up on that list (movie rating sites, art sites, cable chanel web sites, etc.)
I never said the artivle was beneath my level. Highschool geography above my level too, I know none. I do know some basics about shampoos and deodorants but would not be offended by a decent article on either.
BUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, not on Slashdot. If you want articles on hardware go to Tom's Hardware, Anandtech or any other of a number of sites.
Kudos to CmdrTaco for being one of the fathers of Slashdot but IMO this is still WRONG.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!
Could you please post links to "Introduction to Notepad" and "Mastering Paint"? Oh, and "Ctrl-Alt-Del for dummies", yeah, that one too!
One glitch was already mentioned, "Experts say spyware programs are also necessary for Windows users". I guess yeah, if you are a Windows user you are entitled to spyware soft and every virus out there but I don't think your help is really needed with installing it. Then, "Windows SP 1" and "Windows SP 2"... XP is mentioned only at the very end. Yes, it is obvious what Windows they are talking about but still, Windows is not the name, Windows XP is. Then, patching and builds. SP is just a service pack, there are security updates, patches, builds... Just saying "Windows XP" does not define what is actually installed on the machine. No details on atacks (except Windows SP1). On spyware, "Cookies are used by online companies to track user preferences". I hate when Ad-aware tells me that cookies are spyware but I understand the idea that it would not make sense to make a separate category for it. But an article?!
IMO, lots of bull with conclusion that everybody except the author knew a while ago.
Impatiently looking forward to next articles in the series, "Blind Typing" and "Introduction to Microsoft Word for accountants".... information on folding cables is at least less available.
A lot of people replied to your post, but I want to add a point I did not find in replies (maybe I missed it).
I feel that there are two primary objectives any language comparison tests; one is to test optimizations done by compiler/JVM and two is to compare "normal programming style" from both languages.
I do agreee with you that tests are not fare from the first stand point, as C++ test incurs overhead of destroying objects. However, isn't this standard programming style for C++? How often have you built resource managers and how often have you used them for small objects, like strings?
The more fare test would be to have the test run out of memory and do a gc ONCE (well, or few times for statistics). In THAT case you would have code running in conditions as close to "wild life" as possible.
I like java very much and I am very glad to see that these days it is being compared to C++ and people ARGUE about which one is faster. Just few years ago the argument would be about "hey, performance is not what Java is all about!"
Damn... Sorry, I though it would convert \n into [br], my bad
Heh, probably cleanest answer.
But I guess you are lucky because:
I like KDE a lot. But it does not readily support my trackball and I do not know where to look for drivers. I do not like that Fedora rebuilds KDE to strip out MP3 and Work Doc support and so you do not know what feature set you are installing really. I do not like very limited multimedia support (video and audio), ugly "arts control" and the fact that to configure internationalized keyboard I have to manually edit configuration file (and it still does not work properly)
I like Mozilla. Love tabs, love cookie control. Went to browse Canon site in it... Try to do this, you'll love it. Mozilla is a great product but is still renders some pages wacky as they were built for IE (and this is not to say Mozilla is bad, it is a reality of life)
Games are great! But you can find free games for Windows.
Your kid can't break it? Your kid probably can mess up his own account. And in Windows you can use permissions too (well, OK, dismissed, lets not go into permissions and Windows)
blah blah blah.
I like Linux very much. At this point at home I have only XP. Why? Because I upgraded to Fedora 2 and it crushed my partitions rendering everything unusable and I was not even able to reinstall Windows.
I will get Linux back and I will get KDevelop that I love. And amarok. and gcc.
I hate Windows for corporate policies of secrecy and unfair competition. But if we forget about Gates, money, antitrust and do just technical comparison, I am not sure I would trade utter convenience and usability of Windows for extra security of Linux. I hope Linux will get there for Desktops, but for now I use Windows as my primary desktop.
Heh, probably cleanest answer. But I guess you are lucky because:
I like KDE a lot. But it does not readily support my trackball and I do not know where to look for drivers. I do not like that Fedora rebuilds KDE to strip out MP3 and Work Doc support. I do not like very limited multimedia support (video and audio), ugly "arts control" and the fact that to configure internationalized keyboard I have to manually edit configuration file (and it still does not work properly)
I like Mozilla. Love tabs, love cookie control. Went to browse Canon site in it... Try to do this, you'll love it. Mozilla is a great product but is still renders some pages wacky as they were built for IE (and this is not to say Mozilla is bad, it is a reality of life)
Games are great! But you can find free games for Windows.
Your kid can't break it? Your kid probably can mess up his own account. And in Windows you can use permissions too (well, OK, dismissed, lets not go into permissions and Windows)
blah blah blah. I like Linux very much. At this point at home I have only XP. Why? Because I upgraded to Fedora 2 and it crushed my partitions rendering everything unusable and I was not even able to reinstall Windows. I will get Linux back and I will get KDevelop that I love. And amarok. and gcc.
I hate Windows for corporate policies of non-disclosure and unfair competition. But if we forget about Gates, money, antitrust and do just technical comparison, I am not sure I would trade utter convenience and usability of Windows for extra security of Linux. I hope Linux will get there for Desktops, but for now I use Windows as primary.
Yep, maybe we will have dc-SCOd Linux by the time this whole mess is settled. It will take at least few generations to settle with decent performance/ stability so I would not expect it to be a smooth transaction (and if something like API and the methodology are under copyright it will not be smooth at all). I do not know. All I wanted to say is that if SCO wins people will either to move to different version of kernel or pay license (or move to FreeBSD, Windows, Solaris, so on). And you better be monitoring the case to be ready to take actions.
I don't know, most likely this point was already made, but as the article says, SCO will not be able to sue you for damages. I totally agree that this is the case. However, there may be a big BUT(T). This but(t) is that should SCO win the suit, they get the damages AND they retain copyright on the parts of Linux. And these parts of Linux can no more be distributed under GPL and you can not use them. So, should SCO win the suit, you will have two choices: rip IP source from your Linux installation or pay license fees to SCO. As SCO claims IP on lots of very nice and sometime essential features (like multiple CPU) you may not be able to rip all IP out. As for whether you want to buy license now... I believe it is somewhat a gamble. You pay now and SCO looses (or partially looses)- you loose your money (unless you can get them back). But if you do not pay and they win, license fee for Linux will not be $600 any more, it will be thousands. Naw, I am not a lawyer so maybe all beforementioned is complete bull, but just something to think about.
That's the beauty. They distribute NOTHING. You do not have right to use Linux (again, assuming everything they claim is true). So all they do is the ALLOW you to use Linux for an extra fee. They do not claim any right for Linux, from what I understand, but they claim that nobody can use or distribute Linux without their permission.
It's like you invent some material. I steam material design from you and start building somehting with it. Now, I can say "dude, you are not selling these". I get nothing, you get nothing, everybody is happy. Or I say "dude, you did baaaad, but I will allow you to do this for a while if you payme some ransom". Now, all work done is yours, all rights for the device (or whatever you have built) are yours, BUT noone can use or make or sell it without my permission.
I don't think this all the an issue for SCO. The problem is that they claim that Linux itself is illegal. Which means that don't give a rat's ass about licenses Linux is distributed under. What they say is this: "You do not have right to use Linux. Period. BUT, if you pay us we will allow you to run binary distribution of Linux". Yes indeed, they have the rights for code, so if you can get Linux and strip out all code that SCO claims you can use Linux however you want (which is impossible as they don't tell WHAT code they own). But if you do not strip code out you have to either stop using Linux or follow SCO rules (that is, of course, if you deside to admit that SCO has such rights).
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I will not argue for/against SANs (never worked with them, not even sure what it stands for) but I don't really like/accept the logic of "if there are people that charge a lot of money for it, it is impossible to do it yourself". Did not work for Linux or MySQL...
Please help me out here...
Why do I need account ID to commit fraud? Portable RFID scanners will be SOLD (completely legit) in a while (and maybe they are being sold now). High-tech fraud with faking RFID keys and stuff is still possible and IF they get hacked you will be vulnerable no matter how careful you are (unless you keep your cards with your RFID home).
But I am personally more worried about much less technical fraud. Just by somebody buying scanner and creating a company with a fake identification and walking in stores and charging people's cards. They do this for a week, cash out, close company. The very fact that access to my money is exposed through wireless for anyone to take a whack at it if they want to try makes ne nauseous.
BTW, your wikipedia link does not work.
And few more:
-Keyboards for defferent languages - right now I have to buy keyboard with two letters on each buttons. What if you need 3 languages?
-Different layouts. You want to try 'dvorak' - with a click of a button you have a dvorak keyboard.
- blind typing - for training, you can remove all symbols so there is no incentive to look at the keyboard
- extra keys (functional keys, keypad, etc.). You can reprogram them now but you need to remember what you set each key to. And for any application that uses shortcuts- you will be able to actually display what this shortcut does.
SHOOT ME but I can't remember shortcuts to "step in" and "step over" when I switch between Eclipse, NetBeans, VS and others.
Now, all that said... I will not pay $300 (which is probably about the price for a decent cell phone, lets drop all this "sign 3 year contract and get your phone free" crap) for the keyboard. $100 maybe...
Somebody, please help me... quote 1: "QVGA-resolution (320 x 240)" quote 2: "berDisplay 230K with approximately 230,000 pixel dots in 0.24 diagonal" My calculator says 320*240=76800. Where is the rest 150 000 pixels? You should be able to get almost 600x400 (240 000). Overall, seems like a step in the right direction but still rough around the edges.
As an instance, it sure makes "always on top" MUCH more useful (for indicators, "drag-and-drop" targets, EQ in winamp). It can be helpful for mail replies, so you do not have to jump back and forth between the windows. It enables an extra option and how you use it is totally up to you (and yeah, it is cool and allows for a ton of fun and non-intrusive effects that will eat up all you CPU and GPU but will look awesome. Unfortunately, I speak in general terms of transparancy since site with screenshot is slashdotted :)
Hmm, thank you kindly for the reply. No wonder you postend it anonymously. I never said that I want those books free and the problem is not in that I can't find something. I can. But I can find too much with very mixed feedback over helpfulness of one or the other book that's why I wanted to ask Slashdot. If your remark was just about books being audio and not paperback, I spend a lot of time not being able to read and audio books seem like a nice solution.
I can understand how they plan to block porn sites or adult online stores and stuff. But I do have few questions. ... public speach ;) anyway and yet...
1) Who to stop sites that have only SOME adult content (hell, ebay for instance or yahoo stores) from being blocked? Or even "accidents", when some sites that somebody does not like end up on the list?
2) What about proxies or other technologies that will bloom next second after the law is accepted? Will this be another one of those "best faith efforts"? What's the point then?
3) I don't know maybe I am too paranoid. Maybe. But ALL ISPs will be forced to install hardware to support internet filtering. I get shivers from the very fact that somebody will have a mean to filter what I am and what I am not allowed to see on the internet. It all has to start somewhere. First you have an option to block porn. Then, internet sites that show you how to make a bomb are blocked for everyone as dangerous and as supporting terrorism (it's all about these little key words). Then internet sites that express radical views are blocked. Then... I don't believe this law is really that dangerous and I will get my share of
Well, nobody says that it will prevent every boy in Utah from seeing a naked girl on the internet. Or naked boy. Or whatever. As was noted before, however, it would make them to work HARD to find a non-blocked web site and they would not be able to use bookmarks & like. This would eliminate 99.99% or access attempts; I don't think crusades for pron will be all that popular :). As for the distribution time... Getting an updated list every five minutes through HTTP requests should be fast enough, no?
I wonder how they will block Google cache and others like that though. And how often non-pron sites or "pron and SO much more" sites will end up on that list (movie rating sites, art sites, cable chanel web sites, etc.)
I never said the artivle was beneath my level. Highschool geography above my level too, I know none. I do know some basics about shampoos and deodorants but would not be offended by a decent article on either.
BUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, not on Slashdot. If you want articles on hardware go to Tom's Hardware, Anandtech or any other of a number of sites.
Kudos to CmdrTaco for being one of the fathers of Slashdot but IMO this is still WRONG.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! Could you please post links to "Introduction to Notepad" and "Mastering Paint"? Oh, and "Ctrl-Alt-Del for dummies", yeah, that one too!
One glitch was already mentioned, "Experts say spyware programs are also necessary for Windows users". I guess yeah, if you are a Windows user you are entitled to spyware soft and every virus out there but I don't think your help is really needed with installing it. Then, "Windows SP 1" and "Windows SP 2"... XP is mentioned only at the very end. Yes, it is obvious what Windows they are talking about but still, Windows is not the name, Windows XP is. Then, patching and builds. SP is just a service pack, there are security updates, patches, builds... Just saying "Windows XP" does not define what is actually installed on the machine. No details on atacks (except Windows SP1). On spyware, "Cookies are used by online companies to track user preferences". I hate when Ad-aware tells me that cookies are spyware but I understand the idea that it would not make sense to make a separate category for it. But an article?! IMO, lots of bull with conclusion that everybody except the author knew a while ago.
Impatiently looking forward to next articles in the series, "Blind Typing" and "Introduction to Microsoft Word for accountants". ... information on folding cables is at least less available.
A lot of people replied to your post, but I want to add a point I did not find in replies (maybe I missed it).
I feel that there are two primary objectives any language comparison tests; one is to test optimizations done by compiler/JVM and two is to compare "normal programming style" from both languages.
I do agreee with you that tests are not fare from the first stand point, as C++ test incurs overhead of destroying objects. However, isn't this standard programming style for C++? How often have you built resource managers and how often have you used them for small objects, like strings?
The more fare test would be to have the test run out of memory and do a gc ONCE (well, or few times for statistics). In THAT case you would have code running in conditions as close to "wild life" as possible.
I like java very much and I am very glad to see that these days it is being compared to C++ and people ARGUE about which one is faster. Just few years ago the argument would be about "hey, performance is not what Java is all about!"
Damn... Sorry, I though it would convert \n into [br], my bad
Heh, probably cleanest answer.
But I guess you are lucky because:
I like KDE a lot. But it does not readily support my trackball and I do not know where to look for drivers. I do not like that Fedora rebuilds KDE to strip out MP3 and Work Doc support and so you do not know what feature set you are installing really. I do not like very limited multimedia support (video and audio), ugly "arts control" and the fact that to configure internationalized keyboard I have to manually edit configuration file (and it still does not work properly)
I like Mozilla. Love tabs, love cookie control. Went to browse Canon site in it... Try to do this, you'll love it. Mozilla is a great product but is still renders some pages wacky as they were built for IE (and this is not to say Mozilla is bad, it is a reality of life)
Games are great! But you can find free games for Windows.
Your kid can't break it? Your kid probably can mess up his own account. And in Windows you can use permissions too (well, OK, dismissed, lets not go into permissions and Windows)
blah blah blah.
I like Linux very much. At this point at home I have only XP. Why? Because I upgraded to Fedora 2 and it crushed my partitions rendering everything unusable and I was not even able to reinstall Windows.
I will get Linux back and I will get KDevelop that I love. And amarok. and gcc.
I hate Windows for corporate policies of secrecy and unfair competition. But if we forget about Gates, money, antitrust and do just technical comparison, I am not sure I would trade utter convenience and usability of Windows for extra security of Linux. I hope Linux will get there for Desktops, but for now I use Windows as my primary desktop.
Heh, probably cleanest answer. But I guess you are lucky because: I like KDE a lot. But it does not readily support my trackball and I do not know where to look for drivers. I do not like that Fedora rebuilds KDE to strip out MP3 and Work Doc support. I do not like very limited multimedia support (video and audio), ugly "arts control" and the fact that to configure internationalized keyboard I have to manually edit configuration file (and it still does not work properly) I like Mozilla. Love tabs, love cookie control. Went to browse Canon site in it... Try to do this, you'll love it. Mozilla is a great product but is still renders some pages wacky as they were built for IE (and this is not to say Mozilla is bad, it is a reality of life) Games are great! But you can find free games for Windows. Your kid can't break it? Your kid probably can mess up his own account. And in Windows you can use permissions too (well, OK, dismissed, lets not go into permissions and Windows) blah blah blah. I like Linux very much. At this point at home I have only XP. Why? Because I upgraded to Fedora 2 and it crushed my partitions rendering everything unusable and I was not even able to reinstall Windows. I will get Linux back and I will get KDevelop that I love. And amarok. and gcc. I hate Windows for corporate policies of non-disclosure and unfair competition. But if we forget about Gates, money, antitrust and do just technical comparison, I am not sure I would trade utter convenience and usability of Windows for extra security of Linux. I hope Linux will get there for Desktops, but for now I use Windows as primary.
Yep, maybe we will have dc-SCOd Linux by the time this whole mess is settled. It will take at least few generations to settle with decent performance/ stability so I would not expect it to be a smooth transaction (and if something like API and the methodology are under copyright it will not be smooth at all). I do not know. All I wanted to say is that if SCO wins people will either to move to different version of kernel or pay license (or move to FreeBSD, Windows, Solaris, so on). And you better be monitoring the case to be ready to take actions.
I don't know, most likely this point was already made, but as the article says, SCO will not be able to sue you for damages. I totally agree that this is the case. However, there may be a big BUT(T).
This but(t) is that should SCO win the suit, they get the damages AND they retain copyright on the parts of Linux. And these parts of Linux can no more be distributed under GPL and you can not use them. So, should SCO win the suit, you will have two choices: rip IP source from your Linux installation or pay license fees to SCO. As SCO claims IP on lots of very nice and sometime essential features (like multiple CPU) you may not be able to rip all IP out.
As for whether you want to buy license now... I believe it is somewhat a gamble. You pay now and SCO looses (or partially looses)- you loose your money (unless you can get them back). But if you do not pay and they win, license fee for Linux will not be $600 any more, it will be thousands.
Naw, I am not a lawyer so maybe all beforementioned is complete bull, but just something to think about.
That's the beauty. They distribute NOTHING. You do not have right to use Linux (again, assuming everything they claim is true). So all they do is the ALLOW you to use Linux for an extra fee. They do not claim any right for Linux, from what I understand, but they claim that nobody can use or distribute Linux without their permission. It's like you invent some material. I steam material design from you and start building somehting with it. Now, I can say "dude, you are not selling these". I get nothing, you get nothing, everybody is happy. Or I say "dude, you did baaaad, but I will allow you to do this for a while if you payme some ransom". Now, all work done is yours, all rights for the device (or whatever you have built) are yours, BUT noone can use or make or sell it without my permission.
I don't think this all the an issue for SCO. The problem is that they claim that Linux itself is illegal. Which means that don't give a rat's ass about licenses Linux is distributed under. What they say is this: "You do not have right to use Linux. Period. BUT, if you pay us we will allow you to run binary distribution of Linux". Yes indeed, they have the rights for code, so if you can get Linux and strip out all code that SCO claims you can use Linux however you want (which is impossible as they don't tell WHAT code they own). But if you do not strip code out you have to either stop using Linux or follow SCO rules (that is, of course, if you deside to admit that SCO has such rights).