How did safari even get on most of those computers. I think people are seriously missing the big issue here.
Imagine if Netscape won the browser wars and you installed Windows Media Player which later on, in the middle of then night, downloaded and installed IE for you. If Office 2008 did this on OSX there would be riots in the street. When Apple does it, its of course Microsoft's fault.
Granted, there's a lot of blame to go around, but claiming this is a MS problem is being pretty unfair and only shows up that Apple can do anything, and few will complain.
I dont think this even remotely compares to Akamai. Everytime I download something from Mozilla as opposed to going to a known ftp site, I get sent to a random country's university ftp site. Err, what exactly is the advantage of sending my packets across the globe at 1/3rd the speed when the local university ftp site is sitting there unused?
Mozilla doesnt have localization and a slew of other features that Akamai and Amazon use. From what I can tell its just a random mirror. That's a fine strategy for delivering the software but not for something like trying to create a new download record.
>I wonder if the Iraq War wouldn't have been over long ago if the US had banned all press before the invasion?
Makes sense, right? Bad strategy, bad decision, not understanding your enemy, no post-invasion planning, calling it a cakewalk internally... all faults of the media, eh?
>Men use spatial reasoning (go north 5 miles), women use procedural methods (turn right at the bargain outlet).
How much of that is social? I would think how a girl grows up is very different from how a boy grows up. If a boy joins boy scouts, goes hunting with dad, etc then he'll see a map as something with directions and distances. If a girl doesnt get these experiences, she may never see a map until she learns how to drive and at that point has internalized her surroundings by using landmarks.
I think many of the things we write up to genetic determinism really have social roots.
Whoa, when did the IIS become a space hotel? Are the russians kicking out real sceintists so they can jam a billionaire in there for a quick infusion of cash? How is that in the spirit of space research and exploration?
Actually a lot of it isnt. Its a knock-off brand but with the active ingredient. There was recently an advisory for people who buy herbal viagra that it contains the same active ingredient as the real stuff and they are at risk if they have heart issues. So ironically, not only is the fake stuff sometimes real, so is the herbal stuff.
>Wouldn't want it to compare too well to their higher-end corporate products, I suppose.
That's a pretty safe assumption. It would be stupid for cisco to improve the linksys line. My dd-wrt linksys can probably replace a cisco 800 in many situations. It costs perhaps 1/10th the price.
I wouldnt be surprised if cisco bought them so they could keep them in the residential market and out of the corporate market.
The problem with this analogy is that you only need x amount of processor power to run a calculator. Im sure I could get a free laptop that ran Windows 95 fairly quickly but couldnt run Vista at all. Laptops are forever a moving target. The scales of economy keep up, but not to the point where they will be commodity give-aways at conventions.
If someone really wanted to build something that ran, say Puppy Linux, fairly well with a small screen then it seems pretty doable if someone was willing to gamble to put such a thing in mass production. The amount of people who want or need a portable Puppy Linux machine probably isnt very high.
The OLPC people are also banking on this, but with the assumption that the demands of the market are not important when dealing with socialized top-down educational programs. Although lately the education administrators from the countries they market their product to are demanding XP thus killing the "we can sell a low-powered machine with a custom OS" assumption.
There's a pretty good demand for M-16s in my neighborhood and the gangsters have money to pay for one but theyre still hard to get. Funny how prohibiting sales actually can make a dent in something you want to control.
I know its cool to be all defeatist about such things and play up the free market as a moral system (hello ron paul supporters!) but in reality the ivory trade consists of a lot of poachers.
This was done recently, perhaps two or three years ago. I believe it encrypted everything in My Documents and asked for payment to unencrypt it. Turns out they used the same key every time. Article from 2006 here.
This issue may not be the number of shady TLD registrants, it may be the number of compromised hosts. If.hk has too many hackers or a culture of crime then they may prey on local resources and use those for international spamming/phishing. Or it may be a target for other reasons (lax computer crime laws, etc).
I remember that thread, I think. Perhaps its my faulty memory but I thought most of them panned it. Then later meta-moderators kept raising the score of the positive comments after the financial success of the ipod.
Yeah, this seems flawed to me too. The idea that these groups will suddenly all vote Republican is a bit of a stretch. The only appeal I see here is that these groups had a good time with the Clinton administration and expected Hillary to be an extension of that. That in itself is a stretch. Its not 1992 anymore. I expect these groups to keep doing what theyve always been doing: voting democratic in moderate to low numbers.
I also have heard that "x candidate will bring in y group who never votes thus win" so many times and its failed to pan out every. single. time.
I believe the MSI Wind will eventually roll-out with some 3G card. There was a prototype earlier. Not sure which/when. Just keep a look out at gadget sites.
Wait a second. Pidgin is an all-one client for proprietary networks. How can they reliably make voice and video extensions without the help of AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc who would rather then not have it?
I can see it working for only pidgin or perhaps an open standard along with jabber, but the app isnt a drop in replacement for those clients. Its always been an unsupported and unloved hack by those who run the chat networks. Like Trillian.
Yeah, this could be a good idea. When I was a kid there was a TV show where you could point your spacecraft at the TV and try to shoot it or get shot by it. I think it just read some broadcasted scan code and made sounds. A little googling tells me this toy was from Captain Power.
I could see this concept taken and turned into a sort of fame show and with produced bits that would advanced in-game quests and storyline.
>I still think that stupid "tachyon" garbage Veidt used was a major flaw in the story. I lost a bit of respect for Moore for using technobabble and hand waving to get around Jon's immense power.
Right... so what you want is a realistic explanation for a freakin' flying blue guy who can do anything?
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How did safari even get on most of those computers. I think people are seriously missing the big issue here.
Imagine if Netscape won the browser wars and you installed Windows Media Player which later on, in the middle of then night, downloaded and installed IE for you. If Office 2008 did this on OSX there would be riots in the street. When Apple does it, its of course Microsoft's fault.
Granted, there's a lot of blame to go around, but claiming this is a MS problem is being pretty unfair and only shows up that Apple can do anything, and few will complain.
I dont think this even remotely compares to Akamai. Everytime I download something from Mozilla as opposed to going to a known ftp site, I get sent to a random country's university ftp site. Err, what exactly is the advantage of sending my packets across the globe at 1/3rd the speed when the local university ftp site is sitting there unused?
Mozilla doesnt have localization and a slew of other features that Akamai and Amazon use. From what I can tell its just a random mirror. That's a fine strategy for delivering the software but not for something like trying to create a new download record.
>I wonder if the Iraq War wouldn't have been over long ago if the US had banned all press before the invasion?
Makes sense, right? Bad strategy, bad decision, not understanding your enemy, no post-invasion planning, calling it a cakewalk internally... all faults of the media, eh?
>Men use spatial reasoning (go north 5 miles), women use procedural methods (turn right at the bargain outlet).
How much of that is social? I would think how a girl grows up is very different from how a boy grows up. If a boy joins boy scouts, goes hunting with dad, etc then he'll see a map as something with directions and distances. If a girl doesnt get these experiences, she may never see a map until she learns how to drive and at that point has internalized her surroundings by using landmarks.
I think many of the things we write up to genetic determinism really have social roots.
Its non-classified info anyway. Look at the top of this screenshot.
Whoa, when did the IIS become a space hotel? Are the russians kicking out real sceintists so they can jam a billionaire in there for a quick infusion of cash? How is that in the spirit of space research and exploration?
Actually a lot of it isnt. Its a knock-off brand but with the active ingredient. There was recently an advisory for people who buy herbal viagra that it contains the same active ingredient as the real stuff and they are at risk if they have heart issues. So ironically, not only is the fake stuff sometimes real, so is the herbal stuff.
>Bush murdered a decorated war hero on national television
He's murdered several war heroes.
>Wouldn't want it to compare too well to their higher-end corporate products, I suppose.
That's a pretty safe assumption. It would be stupid for cisco to improve the linksys line. My dd-wrt linksys can probably replace a cisco 800 in many situations. It costs perhaps 1/10th the price.
I wouldnt be surprised if cisco bought them so they could keep them in the residential market and out of the corporate market.
Ive wondered that too. I imagine the reason why has to do with software engineers protecting their jobs and a corporate Not Invented Here attitude.
The problem with this analogy is that you only need x amount of processor power to run a calculator. Im sure I could get a free laptop that ran Windows 95 fairly quickly but couldnt run Vista at all. Laptops are forever a moving target. The scales of economy keep up, but not to the point where they will be commodity give-aways at conventions.
If someone really wanted to build something that ran, say Puppy Linux, fairly well with a small screen then it seems pretty doable if someone was willing to gamble to put such a thing in mass production. The amount of people who want or need a portable Puppy Linux machine probably isnt very high.
The OLPC people are also banking on this, but with the assumption that the demands of the market are not important when dealing with socialized top-down educational programs. Although lately the education administrators from the countries they market their product to are demanding XP thus killing the "we can sell a low-powered machine with a custom OS" assumption.
>Probably the most embarrassing thing that would be revealing some of the locations of body piercings.
Or perhaps the dreaded, "Its a man, baby!" scenario.
There's a pretty good demand for M-16s in my neighborhood and the gangsters have money to pay for one but theyre still hard to get. Funny how prohibiting sales actually can make a dent in something you want to control.
I know its cool to be all defeatist about such things and play up the free market as a moral system (hello ron paul supporters!) but in reality the ivory trade consists of a lot of poachers.
This was done recently, perhaps two or three years ago. I believe it encrypted everything in My Documents and asked for payment to unencrypt it. Turns out they used the same key every time. Article from 2006 here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5038330.stm
The magic key is:
mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw
Most admins probably have a volume disk and serial ready, but yeah youre right MS is doing this so it doesnt cannibalize vista too much.
This issue may not be the number of shady TLD registrants, it may be the number of compromised hosts. If .hk has too many hackers or a culture of crime then they may prey on local resources and use those for international spamming/phishing. Or it may be a target for other reasons (lax computer crime laws, etc).
I remember that thread, I think. Perhaps its my faulty memory but I thought most of them panned it. Then later meta-moderators kept raising the score of the positive comments after the financial success of the ipod.
Yeah, this seems flawed to me too. The idea that these groups will suddenly all vote Republican is a bit of a stretch. The only appeal I see here is that these groups had a good time with the Clinton administration and expected Hillary to be an extension of that. That in itself is a stretch. Its not 1992 anymore. I expect these groups to keep doing what theyve always been doing: voting democratic in moderate to low numbers.
I also have heard that "x candidate will bring in y group who never votes thus win" so many times and its failed to pan out every. single. time.
Psst, look here:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107
This is also why I pay no attention to the slashdot mob's opinions or predictions.
I believe the MSI Wind will eventually roll-out with some 3G card. There was a prototype earlier. Not sure which/when. Just keep a look out at gadget sites.
Wait a second. Pidgin is an all-one client for proprietary networks. How can they reliably make voice and video extensions without the help of AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc who would rather then not have it?
I can see it working for only pidgin or perhaps an open standard along with jabber, but the app isnt a drop in replacement for those clients. Its always been an unsupported and unloved hack by those who run the chat networks. Like Trillian.
Yeah, this could be a good idea. When I was a kid there was a TV show where you could point your spacecraft at the TV and try to shoot it or get shot by it. I think it just read some broadcasted scan code and made sounds. A little googling tells me this toy was from Captain Power.
I could see this concept taken and turned into a sort of fame show and with produced bits that would advanced in-game quests and storyline.
Theres a different between a knock-off that can potentially be sold at market and a propaganda tech "win."
So how's the Dragon PC w/ the People's Linux coming along?
and this is why Sid Meier is a poor man's Will Wright.
>I still think that stupid "tachyon" garbage Veidt used was a major flaw in the story. I lost a bit of respect for Moore for using technobabble and hand waving to get around Jon's immense power.
Right... so what you want is a realistic explanation for a freakin' flying blue guy who can do anything?