From the summary:
"malware... can still hide with user-mode rootkits"
Did that strike anyone else as odd? User mode rootkits... wouldn't that be "userkits", or just trojans/viruses/malware? If it doesn't have root access, I don't think you can call it a rootkit
I think he is making a distinction between the kernelspace and userspace. Vista has some new-fangled kernel patch protection thingie (tm), which should prevent unauthorized (unsigned I presume) changes in the kernel.
Userspace has no such protection, outside of UAC and whatever Microsoft has decided to throw in there. So it presents a softer target for rootkits. I agree with you, though, a userspace rootkit sounds more like a trojan/virus. Maybe he just likes to word "rootkit" better.
Agreed. Evaluation of infrastructure projects is pretty much my current job. I don't know if people realize this, but the margins on even infrastructure projects that make sense (as in highways that connect major urban centers) are pretty tight, and the traffic volumes needed to make most highway projects (let alone tunnels) economically feasible are quite high.
Just look at the deterioration of the U.S. highway system. Or the problems in finding financing for infrastructure projects in developing countries such as Vietnam. And then ask why you would spend money on such a ludicrous tunnel project when there isn't enough money to maintain infrastructures that have been proven to have high usage.
Also, the costs they are quoting won't buy you even half the tunnel they're proposing.
Undersea tunnels seem to be a political fixation similar to monorail projects. Even here in Korea, we have some bright politicians talking about a tunnel connecting Korea with Japan. But it's difficult to find any economists or engineers who would take these plans seriously. Of course there are always nutcases out there.
If you think that's bad, I'm using a keyboard at work that has the 'insert' key between the backspace and delete keys. Oh the countless times I've pressed it on by mistake and writing over existing text, what good times they have been.
Is there any reason this key should be toggleable?
Thank you for the links, those were an interesting read.
I still think that these legislation is not wise.
First, I do not think it is the job of the state to protect the success or effectiveness of a private entity's pr-campaign.
Second, this type of legislation would put a burden on the sellers of advertisement space. Would they have to verify the legal owner of each possible trademark that a keyword could refer to?
The link uses the example 'pontiac', and how it should point to General Motors website. What about 'pontac', 'pontiac dealership' or 'pontiac repairs'? It quickly becomes very difficult to draw the line on where the rights of a trademark owner end, and free competition for eyeballs begins.
Laptops are distributed to villiage in Africa.
Local warlord offers $5 per laptop and/or just takes them.
Nobody has a laptop, and thousands of them spring up on eBay.
Whereas the article:
The governments that have committed to buy laptops for their schoolchildren include Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand and Uruguay.
These are not countries where the population sits starving in the middle of the desert, like in some Southpark episode, ok? Not every kid in a poor country is a starving marvin.
These are kids that go to school, but who can't afford quality school books, or have poor access to the outside world, because the cost of PCs and Internet connection are too high for many of them. They do have enough food, however, and as much as your idea of sending a goat for them is appreciated, please keep the goat.
These are countries where people live in real communities that are not terrorized by evil warlords, like in some bad episode of Macgyver, ok?
Watch something other than CNN for a change, for f's sake.
Companies would _love_ to sell through an auction mechanism, especially when they have a monopoly-like situation. Having to set a universal price level eats profits.
That's why airlines have business and first classes, and all sorts of different price levels depending on when you book and the flight dates. This is a good-ish method of segmenting the market, and being able to sell basically the same product at different prices to consumers.
This also explains the stoopid core and premium sets xbox360 comes with. Most people will probably buy the fuller set, but this way Microsoft can also sell a 300 buck set without undermining the market segment that is willing to pay more
We pay 25,000 won a month for our 100 Mbps in Seoul. That's about 25$. This is because the building is new and the network is built into the infrastructure.
I agree with the cousin posts, however. 100 Mbps doesn't do that much more than, say, 20 Mbps would do. Not right now. But in a couple of years it might make a huge difference, and if the infrastructure is not in place by then, it'll be too late again.
Which is like comparing apples and oranges. Comparing cash reserves (and other assets) to GNP (which is basically the value added with in a year) makes no sense, yet this kind of comparison is all too common, and is used to falsely illustrate the size of big corporations vs. countries.
Better to compare pre-tax profits to GNP, or value of all stock to all the assets belonging to a country (which would make litle sense, though, as the stocks are owned by the citizens, i.e. it's part of the wealth of the whole nation).
I'm not saying Microsoft isn't big, i'm just saying that big corporations are rather on the same scale with medium-sized cities than countries.
There are also non-English languages, you know
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For most people the presumed (dis)advantages of qwerty and dvorak are less than relevant, because for most languages the frequency of letters can be totally different.
For instance, I have a good 7 letters here on my keyboard that I will never need when typing in my native language (Finnish). On the other hand, two vowels are situated where I can only access them with my left pinky. Does this make my typing slower? Probably, but not very much. Why doesn't each country develop their own keyboards? Cause it would just be expensive and stupid.
People learn to cope with 'design flaws', and they move on. Just ask all the left-handed people out there.
There's even faster lines available in Korea nowadays.
The Korean government has been subsidising infrastructure for a while now, and all new buildings have very fast connections.
We moved into a new building a couple of months ago, and now we enjoy a 25 dollar a month broadband with 100Mbps total max. Though I haven't really seen it go much over 20Mbps yet.
This is a big improvement for me considering in my old country (Finland), you got to pay 60 euros a month for 6Mbps service, and the ISPs considered 256Kbps to be "broadband"
There really is other aspects of broadband that should be measured, not just the penetration rates. In South Korea, broadband connections for consumers cost about 30 percent of the OECD average (adjusted to purchasing power). This is not just because of the insane population densities, though of course that helps.
Many isolated locations have good connections also (such as mountain and island villages), and this is only because there has been a consistent and aggressive policy to encourage building a better broadband infrastructure. The government has also (with heavy regulation) been able to force aggressive competition between ISPs and their resellers, and this has really brought the prices down for the consumers.
Sure CRT might give a sharper image and all, but my home is oh so small, and I had so many difficulties fitting even this sweet 50 inch panel screen...
Or was it just me, but that site did not play nicely. Maybe it was the useless flash, or the adblocker extension fooling around, but scrolling up or down the page really bogged down mozilla. Maybe the site is also designed as a stress test for your box?
And some of us download Openoffice from distro-specific mirrors, or use Ximianized OO.
For a product that is distributed such as Open Office, there's just no simple way of accurately what size the installation base is, of course not. No one is saying that.
I still find 16 million downloads very impressive, even if it turns out to be the result of someone leaving their browser on autofresh at the download page.
I'm sure that blurb would continue on the lines of this...
"Install Internet Explorer 6" (Recommended)
"Advanced install" (Only for experts!)
-click advanced install
"Microsoft(tm) Windows (tm) technology has been designed to powerfully and securely integrate with Microsoft(tm) Internet Explorer(tm) technology. Microsoft makes no guarantees on the security of other, third-party browsers. Installing software other than Microsoft(tm) approved on your Windows(tm) PC can harm your computer."
-click "accept"
"Are you sure you do not want to install"
-click "yes"
"Updating configuration. This may take a while"
-wait 10 minutes
"No third-party browsers were found. Please visit www.microsoftupdate.com to search for licensed third-party browsers. Windows (tm) will now continue to install Internet Explorer(tm) 6."
AFAIR, this issue of WMP was brought up by other, competing companies. IE does not really make money, in the sense that there's little in the way of commercial content that could be locked into an IE standard.
For digital media, however, it's a whole different game, as everyone who's followed the fights over dominant DRM-standards can see.
WMP as a standard media player (and Microsoft's own DRM as a standard for digital "protection") would mean that they would be the only company that digital media providers could make business with. This would eventually mean that all digital media (which is, of course, supposed to be the next big thing) could be controlled by a single company, a company which already has a virtual (I said virtual, people, don't flame me!) monopoly on desktops, and that would, if allowed, take over all of the end-consumer market in technology and software.
So it is no wonder the EU commission is a little apprehensive about this prospect, especially considering Microsoft is a corporation from a nation (lovely rhyme) that is already giving the Europeans some troubles in market access.
In linux you actually have to, kinda, set those nifty things, as that's how the synaptics driver works.
Being a bonehead I still haven't gotten my real scrollwheel to work, but I can live without it, cause the touchpad simulates scroll with other methods.
As to the "too sensitive doubleclick"-thingie, it probably has nothing to do with the touchpad in itself, but is happening because the timeout between clicks has been set too low. If you're on a linux, you can set the time yourself with your X config, on windows I really haven't got the faintest idea how to do it.
So don't play with the interface, sheez... The point is that this is not taking anything away from people who prefer google. It's just something that other people might find more to their liking.
If you love google so much, stick with it. No one is forcing you to use anything else.
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I think he is making a distinction between the kernelspace and userspace. Vista has some new-fangled kernel patch protection thingie (tm), which should prevent unauthorized (unsigned I presume) changes in the kernel.
Userspace has no such protection, outside of UAC and whatever Microsoft has decided to throw in there. So it presents a softer target for rootkits. I agree with you, though, a userspace rootkit sounds more like a trojan/virus. Maybe he just likes to word "rootkit" better.
Agreed. Evaluation of infrastructure projects is pretty much my current job. I don't know if people realize this, but the margins on even infrastructure projects that make sense (as in highways that connect major urban centers) are pretty tight, and the traffic volumes needed to make most highway projects (let alone tunnels) economically feasible are quite high.
Just look at the deterioration of the U.S. highway system. Or the problems in finding financing for infrastructure projects in developing countries such as Vietnam. And then ask why you would spend money on such a ludicrous tunnel project when there isn't enough money to maintain infrastructures that have been proven to have high usage.
Also, the costs they are quoting won't buy you even half the tunnel they're proposing.
Undersea tunnels seem to be a political fixation similar to monorail projects. Even here in Korea, we have some bright politicians talking about a tunnel connecting Korea with Japan. But it's difficult to find any economists or engineers who would take these plans seriously. Of course there are always nutcases out there.
If you think that's bad, I'm using a keyboard at work that has the 'insert' key between the backspace and delete keys. Oh the countless times I've pressed it on by mistake and writing over existing text, what good times they have been.
Is there any reason this key should be toggleable?
For humanity's sake, I recommend everyone using Windows gets CapsUnlock: http://www.brainsystems.com/capsunlock/
Thank you for the links, those were an interesting read.
I still think that these legislation is not wise.
First, I do not think it is the job of the state to protect the success or effectiveness of a private entity's pr-campaign.
Second, this type of legislation would put a burden on the sellers of advertisement space. Would they have to verify the legal owner of each possible trademark that a keyword could refer to?
The link uses the example 'pontiac', and how it should point to General Motors website. What about 'pontac', 'pontiac dealership' or 'pontiac repairs'? It quickly becomes very difficult to draw the line on where the rights of a trademark owner end, and free competition for eyeballs begins.
Don't you mean "less people"?
These are not countries where the population sits starving in the middle of the desert, like in some Southpark episode, ok? Not every kid in a poor country is a starving marvin.
These are kids that go to school, but who can't afford quality school books, or have poor access to the outside world, because the cost of PCs and Internet connection are too high for many of them. They do have enough food, however, and as much as your idea of sending a goat for them is appreciated, please keep the goat.
These are countries where people live in real communities that are not terrorized by evil warlords, like in some bad episode of Macgyver, ok?
Watch something other than CNN for a change, for f's sake.
As they say here: It's only free if your time is worth nothing.
Can I install it safely without it messing my partitions (And I do mean extended partitions as well as grub)?
Can I roll back my windows partition (yes, I have only one primary partition to fool around with) to XP with my settings intact?
If not, it doesn't sound like a way to try out a beta OS that will be non-functioning within a year.
There's also bfilter: http://bfilter.sourceforge.net/
Blocks ads and pop-ups for all your browsers, runs in Linux, BSD, Windows and OS X.
Easy to add new filters.
Oh yeah, did I mention it's Free and GPL'd?
Companies would _love_ to sell through an auction mechanism, especially when they have a monopoly-like situation. Having to set a universal price level eats profits.
That's why airlines have business and first classes, and all sorts of different price levels depending on when you book and the flight dates. This is a good-ish method of segmenting the market, and being able to sell basically the same product at different prices to consumers.
This also explains the stoopid core and premium sets xbox360 comes with. Most people will probably buy the fuller set, but this way Microsoft can also sell a 300 buck set without undermining the market segment that is willing to pay more
Yes, but Guatemeala's GDP is 60 billion. Onle way Gates can equal that is if he earned that much a year.
Guatemala's actual worth is in a whole other magnitude. It's just they only earn 60 billion a year.
Bandwidth exceeded.
Use this instead.
We pay 25,000 won a month for our 100 Mbps in Seoul. That's about 25$. This is because the building is new and the network is built into the infrastructure.
I agree with the cousin posts, however. 100 Mbps doesn't do that much more than, say, 20 Mbps would do. Not right now. But in a couple of years it might make a huge difference, and if the infrastructure is not in place by then, it'll be too late again.
Which is like comparing apples and oranges. Comparing cash reserves (and other assets) to GNP (which is basically the value added with in a year) makes no sense, yet this kind of comparison is all too common, and is used to falsely illustrate the size of big corporations vs. countries.
Better to compare pre-tax profits to GNP, or value of all stock to all the assets belonging to a country (which would make litle sense, though, as the stocks are owned by the citizens, i.e. it's part of the wealth of the whole nation).
I'm not saying Microsoft isn't big, i'm just saying that big corporations are rather on the same scale with medium-sized cities than countries.
For most people the presumed (dis)advantages of qwerty and dvorak are less than relevant, because for most languages the frequency of letters can be totally different.
For instance, I have a good 7 letters here on my keyboard that I will never need when typing in my native language (Finnish). On the other hand, two vowels are situated where I can only access them with my left pinky. Does this make my typing slower? Probably, but not very much. Why doesn't each country develop their own keyboards? Cause it would just be expensive and stupid.
People learn to cope with 'design flaws', and they move on. Just ask all the left-handed people out there.
...monkeyboy
There's even faster lines available in Korea nowadays.
The Korean government has been subsidising infrastructure for a while now, and all new buildings have very fast connections.
We moved into a new building a couple of months ago, and now we enjoy a 25 dollar a month broadband with 100Mbps total max. Though I haven't really seen it go much over 20Mbps yet.
This is a big improvement for me considering in my old country (Finland), you got to pay 60 euros a month for 6Mbps service, and the ISPs considered 256Kbps to be "broadband"
There really is other aspects of broadband that should be measured, not just the penetration rates. In South Korea, broadband connections for consumers cost about 30 percent of the OECD average (adjusted to purchasing power). This is not just because of the insane population densities, though of course that helps.
Many isolated locations have good connections also (such as mountain and island villages), and this is only because there has been a consistent and aggressive policy to encourage building a better broadband infrastructure. The government has also (with heavy regulation) been able to force aggressive competition between ISPs and their resellers, and this has really brought the prices down for the consumers.
Sure CRT might give a sharper image and all, but my home is oh so small, and I had so many difficulties fitting even this sweet 50 inch panel screen...
Samsung Pavv
Sure ko
Or was it just me, but that site did not play nicely. Maybe it was the useless flash, or the adblocker extension fooling around, but scrolling up or down the page really bogged down mozilla. Maybe the site is also designed as a stress test for your box?
And some of us download Openoffice from distro-specific mirrors, or use Ximianized OO.
For a product that is distributed such as Open Office, there's just no simple way of accurately what size the installation base is, of course not. No one is saying that.
I still find 16 million downloads very impressive, even if it turns out to be the result of someone leaving their browser on autofresh at the download page.
I'm sure that blurb would continue on the lines of this...
"Install Internet Explorer 6" (Recommended)
"Advanced install" (Only for experts!)
-click advanced install
"Microsoft(tm) Windows (tm) technology has been designed to powerfully and securely integrate with Microsoft(tm) Internet Explorer(tm) technology. Microsoft makes no guarantees on the security of other, third-party browsers. Installing software other than Microsoft(tm) approved on your Windows(tm) PC can harm your computer."
-click "accept"
"Are you sure you do not want to install"
-click "yes"
"Updating configuration. This may take a while"
-wait 10 minutes
"No third-party browsers were found. Please visit www.microsoftupdate.com to search for licensed third-party browsers. Windows (tm) will now continue to install Internet Explorer(tm) 6."
AFAIR, this issue of WMP was brought up by other, competing companies. IE does not really make money, in the sense that there's little in the way of commercial content that could be locked into an IE standard.
For digital media, however, it's a whole different game, as everyone who's followed the fights over dominant DRM-standards can see.
WMP as a standard media player (and Microsoft's own DRM as a standard for digital "protection") would mean that they would be the only company that digital media providers could make business with. This would eventually mean that all digital media (which is, of course, supposed to be the next big thing) could be controlled by a single company, a company which already has a virtual (I said virtual, people, don't flame me!) monopoly on desktops, and that would, if allowed, take over all of the end-consumer market in technology and software.
So it is no wonder the EU commission is a little apprehensive about this prospect, especially considering Microsoft is a corporation from a nation (lovely rhyme) that is already giving the Europeans some troubles in market access.
In linux you actually have to, kinda, set those nifty things, as that's how the synaptics driver works.
Being a bonehead I still haven't gotten my real scrollwheel to work, but I can live without it, cause the touchpad simulates scroll with other methods.
As to the "too sensitive doubleclick"-thingie, it probably has nothing to do with the touchpad in itself, but is happening because the timeout between clicks has been set too low. If you're on a linux, you can set the time yourself with your X config, on windows I really haven't got the faintest idea how to do it.
So don't play with the interface, sheez... The point is that this is not taking anything away from people who prefer google. It's just something that other people might find more to their liking.
If you love google so much, stick with it. No one is forcing you to use anything else.