Its only when Microsoft gets pulled to shame about security problems, is when they actually start focusing on security, and putting it as a big priority. How lame is that? One can imagine about having to trust their products for security wise, and you always never know what comes around apart from more features and paying a premium prices for these sorts of products?
Its about time they actually did something about security.
DRM.. sure enough, it sounds like as if people will start making sure that they see copyright labells everywhere. From a simple little Internet browser that says Copyright(r) blah-blah..
With all these unnessary ways for companies to actually buy this sort of licencing... Think of it, wouldn't it be a way to show Microsofts and the like minded to proceed with that paladium project?
I heard at one stage Phonenix BIOS company were the ones that tried to implement advertisement into the bios. Which I think was totally crap... no offense to those who are Phoenix BIOS ad lovers...
With all these planned goodies to go into Phoenix BIOS, one can imagine about a BIOS going to be bloated. Soon enough, if they start implementing paladium or the like with a clumsy Microsoft's code, we will be on the road of having BIOS that has its own brains to do whatever it wants and crashes whenever it wants to crash...
I would have never thought that these new things allow spammers to act freely. Not only does this annoys me to an extent the fact that we get a whole bunch of unnessary trafic added to our connection thanks to the spammers who have all their time in the world to do all this...
I recalled there was some news about somewhere in US, a state, is putting ban on firewalls. These days, common win32 firewalls are equipped with spam blocking (basic, but somewhat efficient in someways). If I were to live in that state, I wouldn't even care about having my firewall on plus with a whole bunch of other ways to block unnessary internet traffic.
Already we have ISPs who try and put download/upload limits on our connection which is then charged every month towards our account. This is already somewhat stopping file sharers and leechers alike from Aust. in some ways. Do we need to be tortured again by RIAA and all these authorities who do nothing but try and finger point in stopping the notion and the motives of all these internet?
Talk about who is trying to govern internet after Microsoft....
Who would like to be hired to be a labour for mining minerals on Mars? Think of the game called 'Red Faction'
Probably it could mean more jobs, but certainly it would not be surprising to see some life forms on planets such as Mars seeing us invading their planet and making their planet look more like a Swiss cheeze as we have already done to some parts of our world already.
El quoted, "The open source developers will be amongst the last to see their (volunteer) jobs exported to India and China!"
At least the fact that if they are going to be relocated, hopefully they will work in an area not within the ms..:D
DunbarTheInept quoted, "So they make stupid changes perhaps just to cover their ass legally."
Who wouldn't agree the fact that ms have been trying to cover their ass over many things? Many things of the fact that they were woeful for, they try and hinder from the public for their shames.
When they forsee something is going to turn out good and/or they have done something good (which I have not seen anything good from them, apart from focusing on security when they were 'blamed') They have spokesperson or two to speak out about something that they can do.
Its all about ms and their so called automation. Maybe up to now, ms may realise that not too many people who prefer the open source has not chosen windows as their choice:D
Its always something to do with these 'big brothers' monitoring over our shoulders. Again, should the question of privacy be remain at stake?
I believe that those who visit NPD MusicWatch Digital or some site that is bound to make them download some malicious files in aid to monitor what they are doing on their pcs and to check how many music files have they deleted from their computer.
Yes I know, its spyware. Nevertheless, its pointless discussing about people deleting music files. Most likely, the smarter ones will keep watch of their shares, maybe disable them or put those music files onto some other media.
Maybe something of all these 'need for speed' is aiming for something that can calculate all possibilities in less than one second?
This could be something of an aid to AI:D
Already, we see the speeds of these processors can do these days cannot be limited. Remember what the famous m$ guru said? "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. - Bill Gates said in the early 1970s "
A quote from Anonymous Coward writes, "At least in this case. The students (and taxpayers to a degree) will be paying for it as part of their tuition."
I have to agree to the fact that the money has to come from somewhere. There is no such thing in this world is 'free'. Where capitalism exists, the only 'free' thing is to be living. Everything else will come at a cost. Even they all proclaim its free, but the money is bound to be from somewhere.
There will always be someone that will leak the codes out, either that, someone will work something similar.
Seeing as how ms can actually release something like this. Lets not hope that it would have problems.. something to do with mem leaks and other mem problems:P:D
Speaking of which about new graphics/ new graphical animations. Could this bring new light to internet marketing gurus? Already they have jumped from jpg and gif images for advertisement to flash images. Those flash images are already making a little harder for those who try and block those little advertisements, considering some sites are preventing newcomers blocking it by simply 'right clicking' it and sending it to their Norton Internet Security program to block it.
With many other implementations of html in a bid to protect images, will these advertisers make good deals with the webmasters in a bid to keep their internet images to everyone who has to 'watch' their internet images more secure? Already, more and more html codings and new methods are found to block smarter users blocking these annoying advertisements.
Will we have to result in host blocking again? and/or maybe using firewall to block ipv4 and ipv6 addresses and/or address blocks?
Back to porting... already some of the windows emulator applications (namely, wine, winex, etc) They have provided linux users to access some of the windows applications. Although some of these emulators cost money in order to support the coders and/or proprietory coding implementations. It may bring some hopes that it can bring these new graphics onto linux.
Then again, the whole thing remains as to whether its stability can be maintained?
I read up an interesting article on Hydrogen power in the Science Bulletin.
I do not know the actual chemistry with all this but I heard that they try and generate them from nuclear power.
The fact that you need 40+ nuclear power plants to be running 100% reliability, and to constantly produce maximum amount of hydrogen in order to fuel cars which require hydrogen.
In terms of today's technology, nuclear powerplants have about 90+% of reliability and that their generation of hydrogen from the process of splitting atoms, is not constant.
This in turn, make hydrogen costing alot of money to be produced massively to the public.
That would be very much like Microsoft Windows XP...
The fact is simplicity is not something that would attract those who believe there is something missing in the picture when it comes to pure simplicity..
Despite the fact that people these days are asking for more and more simpler things, as technology matures, the less need of old style of setting things up and getting them sorted out. This 'old style method' seems to be fading away slowly..
I often avoid simplicity on computers and its related things. Despite the fact that there are almost always catches to having very simple things.
BMonger quoted, "I'm going to continue doing so until they can find an effective way to keep tabs on me..."
I agree with that as well. Although I'm very much of privacy advocate, but there is something wrong with this concept. This may be a small step to something big. Soon, we will be wearing tags that are permanently implemanted to our skins so that information about us (and maybe including the history) to be on that tag.
Davak quoted, "Good if you are an employer and want to make sure your employees are not abusing the company time. Bad if this information is used to harm your personal rights..."
I agree with that idea totally. Even though the fact is that they may only use it to only monitor thefts, etc. This idea can be easily flawed. Although it was mentioned before that the car tracking system is optional.
Considering the fact that these days where privacy can be seen as a big issue, it still needs to be focused on. Claims are just claims, but there are times where corporate/government bodies try to ensure that people will have their privacy respected. Have you ever considered that it could be looked as somewhat a little 'threatening' when they abuse it and cover it all up?
There are many many cases that can back up my claim on this.. have a look at CIA, and how some corporate bodies try and cover up their tracks when they do something that was not supposed to happen.
I'm sure that these sorts of people have been trying to cover up many of their facts that they were hiding the truth and bludging the whole idea that it was not true.
With the help of satellite technologies nowadays where they use it to do various things apart from checking out weather patterns, sending transmissions across, etc. They are expanding into an area that can be considered as tempting with the privacy laws.
Think about it for a few moments....
Quote from austad. "Even if I lost it would cost them money, and say I had 100 songs they were suing over at $150k each, that's $15 million. How in the world is a broke college student going to pay a $15 million dollar fine? Surely everyone would see it as ludricrous that downloading 100 songs would incur a $15 million dollar fine."
It has been a money making industry, it has been and always will be.
I heard claims saying that singers who have their cd published gets $2 for every cd sold. I do not know how true is that but if that is true, it would be a total rip job. Paying for AUD$30+ for a cd when it costs less when comparing with the materials used. It is totally shocking...
Quote from DrEldarion "there (BitTorrent) doesn't seem to be any disadvantages..."
Recent rumors claim that you can try and stop sharing but having a firewall to block or limit the uplink speed. Unfortunately, it seems as though its not of a big deal to consider, however, when large amounts of leechers decides to use this method, it can create more excessive bandwidths to be 'squeezed' out of those who are actually sharing most of their bandwidth.
I'm not to say that leechers should be sharing with their full bandwidth (considering the fact that you do get some lag with DNS resolutions). The fact is that some of them tries to block out all outgoing connections from that port and/or program altogether. This technically can be a problem if many of them decides to use this idea.
However, I do agree with the fact that BitTorrent is the way to go, it needs to have a few more patches to make sure that the bandwidth load from each of the leechers and shares alike should be somewhat equal. Otherwise, like I said, it will create heavier loads.
The fact that Microsoft as we all know has tried to bribe many of its corporate associations to show what capabilities of Microsoft's products are. I'd like to point out that the expert thinking that Windows straight out of box can have more security than linux altogether should be shot in the head... really. The fact that Microsoft's strategy before was NOT to concentrate on security (so there goes the security, down the list of priorities) and that it tries to 'father' the internet. Shame... Because of a few big corporate connections are complaining about Microsoft's lack of security, it seems as though now they are trying to refocus rather than concentrating on both the internet and user domination. For someone to believe what that expert says and keeps considering windows to be far superior in security against linux, should also be shot in the head. The fact that there are lazy administrators who cannot be bothered to update on things and the fact that they can't be bothered to write scripts if need be. I'm not having a hard punt at those real hard working net admins who actually do make their security tough. To be quite frank and sweet to the point, experts supporting Microsoft, from my point of view are biased, and it always sounds like they are bribed. Furthermore, underestimating linux is pure stupidity considering a few countries are already putting linux onto real powerful mainframes.
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Its only when Microsoft gets pulled to shame about security problems, is when they actually start focusing on security, and putting it as a big priority. How lame is that? One can imagine about having to trust their products for security wise, and you always never know what comes around apart from more features and paying a premium prices for these sorts of products?
Its about time they actually did something about security.
DRM.. sure enough, it sounds like as if people will start making sure that they see copyright labells everywhere. From a simple little Internet browser that says Copyright(r) blah-blah.. With all these unnessary ways for companies to actually buy this sort of licencing... Think of it, wouldn't it be a way to show Microsofts and the like minded to proceed with that paladium project?
I heard at one stage Phonenix BIOS company were the ones that tried to implement advertisement into the bios. Which I think was totally crap... no offense to those who are Phoenix BIOS ad lovers... With all these planned goodies to go into Phoenix BIOS, one can imagine about a BIOS going to be bloated. Soon enough, if they start implementing paladium or the like with a clumsy Microsoft's code, we will be on the road of having BIOS that has its own brains to do whatever it wants and crashes whenever it wants to crash...
I would have never thought that these new things allow spammers to act freely. Not only does this annoys me to an extent the fact that we get a whole bunch of unnessary trafic added to our connection thanks to the spammers who have all their time in the world to do all this... I recalled there was some news about somewhere in US, a state, is putting ban on firewalls. These days, common win32 firewalls are equipped with spam blocking (basic, but somewhat efficient in someways). If I were to live in that state, I wouldn't even care about having my firewall on plus with a whole bunch of other ways to block unnessary internet traffic.
Already we have ISPs who try and put download/upload limits on our connection which is then charged every month towards our account. This is already somewhat stopping file sharers and leechers alike from Aust. in some ways. Do we need to be tortured again by RIAA and all these authorities who do nothing but try and finger point in stopping the notion and the motives of all these internet? Talk about who is trying to govern internet after Microsoft....
Who would like to be hired to be a labour for mining minerals on Mars? Think of the game called 'Red Faction' Probably it could mean more jobs, but certainly it would not be surprising to see some life forms on planets such as Mars seeing us invading their planet and making their planet look more like a Swiss cheeze as we have already done to some parts of our world already.
El quoted, "The open source developers will be amongst the last to see their (volunteer) jobs exported to India and China!" At least the fact that if they are going to be relocated, hopefully they will work in an area not within the ms.. :D
DunbarTheInept quoted, "So they make stupid changes perhaps just to cover their ass legally."
Who wouldn't agree the fact that ms have been trying to cover their ass over many things? Many things of the fact that they were woeful for, they try and hinder from the public for their shames.
When they forsee something is going to turn out good and/or they have done something good (which I have not seen anything good from them, apart from focusing on security when they were 'blamed') They have spokesperson or two to speak out about something that they can do.
Its all about ms and their so called automation. Maybe up to now, ms may realise that not too many people who prefer the open source has not chosen windows as their choice :D
Its always something to do with these 'big brothers' monitoring over our shoulders. Again, should the question of privacy be remain at stake? I believe that those who visit NPD MusicWatch Digital or some site that is bound to make them download some malicious files in aid to monitor what they are doing on their pcs and to check how many music files have they deleted from their computer. Yes I know, its spyware. Nevertheless, its pointless discussing about people deleting music files. Most likely, the smarter ones will keep watch of their shares, maybe disable them or put those music files onto some other media.
Maybe something of all these 'need for speed' is aiming for something that can calculate all possibilities in less than one second?
:D
This could be something of an aid to AI
Already, we see the speeds of these processors can do these days cannot be limited. Remember what the famous m$ guru said? "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. - Bill Gates said in the early 1970s "
A quote from Anonymous Coward writes, "At least in this case. The students (and taxpayers to a degree) will be paying for it as part of their tuition." I have to agree to the fact that the money has to come from somewhere. There is no such thing in this world is 'free'. Where capitalism exists, the only 'free' thing is to be living. Everything else will come at a cost. Even they all proclaim its free, but the money is bound to be from somewhere.
Seeing as how ms can actually release something like this. Lets not hope that it would have problems.. something to do with mem leaks and other mem problems :P :D
Speaking of which about new graphics/ new graphical animations. Could this bring new light to internet marketing gurus? Already they have jumped from jpg and gif images for advertisement to flash images. Those flash images are already making a little harder for those who try and block those little advertisements, considering some sites are preventing newcomers blocking it by simply 'right clicking' it and sending it to their Norton Internet Security program to block it.
With many other implementations of html in a bid to protect images, will these advertisers make good deals with the webmasters in a bid to keep their internet images to everyone who has to 'watch' their internet images more secure? Already, more and more html codings and new methods are found to block smarter users blocking these annoying advertisements.
Will we have to result in host blocking again? and/or maybe using firewall to block ipv4 and ipv6 addresses and/or address blocks?
Back to porting... already some of the windows emulator applications (namely, wine, winex, etc) They have provided linux users to access some of the windows applications. Although some of these emulators cost money in order to support the coders and/or proprietory coding implementations. It may bring some hopes that it can bring these new graphics onto linux.
Then again, the whole thing remains as to whether its stability can be maintained?
I read up an interesting article on Hydrogen power in the Science Bulletin. I do not know the actual chemistry with all this but I heard that they try and generate them from nuclear power. The fact that you need 40+ nuclear power plants to be running 100% reliability, and to constantly produce maximum amount of hydrogen in order to fuel cars which require hydrogen. In terms of today's technology, nuclear powerplants have about 90+% of reliability and that their generation of hydrogen from the process of splitting atoms, is not constant. This in turn, make hydrogen costing alot of money to be produced massively to the public.
That would be very much like Microsoft Windows XP... The fact is simplicity is not something that would attract those who believe there is something missing in the picture when it comes to pure simplicity.. Despite the fact that people these days are asking for more and more simpler things, as technology matures, the less need of old style of setting things up and getting them sorted out. This 'old style method' seems to be fading away slowly.. I often avoid simplicity on computers and its related things. Despite the fact that there are almost always catches to having very simple things.
BMonger quoted, "I'm going to continue doing so until they can find an effective way to keep tabs on me..." I agree with that as well. Although I'm very much of privacy advocate, but there is something wrong with this concept. This may be a small step to something big. Soon, we will be wearing tags that are permanently implemanted to our skins so that information about us (and maybe including the history) to be on that tag.
Davak quoted, "Good if you are an employer and want to make sure your employees are not abusing the company time. Bad if this information is used to harm your personal rights..." I agree with that idea totally. Even though the fact is that they may only use it to only monitor thefts, etc. This idea can be easily flawed. Although it was mentioned before that the car tracking system is optional. Considering the fact that these days where privacy can be seen as a big issue, it still needs to be focused on. Claims are just claims, but there are times where corporate/government bodies try to ensure that people will have their privacy respected. Have you ever considered that it could be looked as somewhat a little 'threatening' when they abuse it and cover it all up? There are many many cases that can back up my claim on this.. have a look at CIA, and how some corporate bodies try and cover up their tracks when they do something that was not supposed to happen. I'm sure that these sorts of people have been trying to cover up many of their facts that they were hiding the truth and bludging the whole idea that it was not true. With the help of satellite technologies nowadays where they use it to do various things apart from checking out weather patterns, sending transmissions across, etc. They are expanding into an area that can be considered as tempting with the privacy laws. Think about it for a few moments....
Quote from austad. "Even if I lost it would cost them money, and say I had 100 songs they were suing over at $150k each, that's $15 million. How in the world is a broke college student going to pay a $15 million dollar fine? Surely everyone would see it as ludricrous that downloading 100 songs would incur a $15 million dollar fine." It has been a money making industry, it has been and always will be. I heard claims saying that singers who have their cd published gets $2 for every cd sold. I do not know how true is that but if that is true, it would be a total rip job. Paying for AUD$30+ for a cd when it costs less when comparing with the materials used. It is totally shocking...
Quote from DrEldarion "there (BitTorrent) doesn't seem to be any disadvantages..." Recent rumors claim that you can try and stop sharing but having a firewall to block or limit the uplink speed. Unfortunately, it seems as though its not of a big deal to consider, however, when large amounts of leechers decides to use this method, it can create more excessive bandwidths to be 'squeezed' out of those who are actually sharing most of their bandwidth. I'm not to say that leechers should be sharing with their full bandwidth (considering the fact that you do get some lag with DNS resolutions). The fact is that some of them tries to block out all outgoing connections from that port and/or program altogether. This technically can be a problem if many of them decides to use this idea. However, I do agree with the fact that BitTorrent is the way to go, it needs to have a few more patches to make sure that the bandwidth load from each of the leechers and shares alike should be somewhat equal. Otherwise, like I said, it will create heavier loads.
The fact that Microsoft as we all know has tried to bribe many of its corporate associations to show what capabilities of Microsoft's products are.
I'd like to point out that the expert thinking that Windows straight out of box can have more security than linux altogether should be shot in the head... really.
The fact that Microsoft's strategy before was NOT to concentrate on security (so there goes the security, down the list of priorities) and that it tries to 'father' the internet. Shame...
Because of a few big corporate connections are complaining about Microsoft's lack of security, it seems as though now they are trying to refocus rather than concentrating on both the internet and user domination.
For someone to believe what that expert says and keeps considering windows to be far superior in security against linux, should also be shot in the head.
The fact that there are lazy administrators who cannot be bothered to update on things and the fact that they can't be bothered to write scripts if need be. I'm not having a hard punt at those real hard working net admins who actually do make their security tough.
To be quite frank and sweet to the point, experts supporting Microsoft, from my point of view are biased, and it always sounds like they are bribed. Furthermore, underestimating linux is pure stupidity considering a few countries are already putting linux onto real powerful mainframes.
I leave you with the opinions.