In particular, MS is against patents held by other companies. Have we all forgotten that MS just lost its appeal on the Aoleas/UCB patent for plugins? they mounted an expensive legal effort because there's a 500 million dollar royalty overhead for their browser product. Thats just one patent, one product. there are so many more out there.
you ought to wait and see what they throw at themselves. Yes, they know
their internals better than symantec, MacAfee etc etc and yes, they know
what those internals will be 4 years from now. But given the way Microsoft
has of leaving holes, if not doorways, in what should be functional partitions
between operating system kernal, applications, communications stacks, languages,
debug/development environments and user
privelege management, I would bet ANY solutuion that really worked better than the
confederation of antivirus and antispyware I now run would
either add complexity to the the user's experience or reduce some of the
functionality that was based on execution that could jump through those
holes and doors. Go ahead Microsoft, impress me. We just have to
see their product. [and yes, it I too see it as a way to reduce market share
for AV vendors.]
Blogs are for otherwise unemployed people...it takes a LOT of reading and
digging to [a] have something worth posting every day and [b] having
something noone else has or can copy easily so that YOU get and keep the
traffic and eventually the ad revenue....this land rush attitude in TFA
just does not square with the realities. If it did, My 6 blogs would have
made me a millionaire by now.
Mr. Thompson may not be a nitwit...I have not read anything else by him. But he compares the work of a single author to the work of literally thousands of engineers, the ensemble of which he wants to regard as a seamless whole that terminates at his browser. That is a simplification only a simpleton could value. If he thinks he can wait for his on line bets, his porn downloads and his order from Amazon until we weld together a perfectly secure internet, he might just as well hand cary the damn cash to the vendor. Dumb journalist!
thanks to blogspot and its ilk, anybody and his 3-year-old sister can put up a weblog. consequence is that I have about 6 of them, each for a different area of interest that I pursue. so your estimated ceiling of the earth's population is potentially an UNDERestimate.
yes, there are millions of pages of home made web flatulence...I have a few of my own. This is a transitional condition which the backbones and the ISPs should take as a warning that they need to beef up capacity. Some REAL bandwidth pigs already exist: voip, torrents of movies and audio etc. These are just the beginning of an era when everybody with a connection will have an abiding internet presence which will come to do for them on the internet what their physical presence does for them in their neighborhood and town: it will be the "place and the face" by which most of the world knows and contacts them. Get used to it. [and maybe, kinda like house taxes, we should be paying for the infrastructure directly so the bandwidth will be there even after everybody is using VOIP and streaming packet video of everything they might want to watch to every device they might want to watch it on...hiding the infrastructure costs in the ISP fees and cable fees may break down when "bandwidth too cheap to meter" is saturated]
And so what if you don't know or care about most of the bloggers and their topics? You don't know or care about most of the people on this planet as it stands now so what's new here? You found the people you like some how or other and you meet them when it suits you. Bloggers have been doing the same for years with blogrolling, Technorati and other affiliation-discovery mechanisms and the 99.99% they have no use for, well, they just don't go to that corner of the World Wide block party.
While I would like to agree with you, and in terms of information density, XML is pretty fluffy if you go in for descriptive entity tags and all.....its more complicated than information density. I have written a few XML parsers and developed around Xerces and IBM xml/dom libraries and even written a parser generator code. What I eventually realized was that though the wires had to carry fatter messages, I had to write less code. Why? Regularity of the brutally simple grammar at the heart of XML and the hand-in-glove fit of nested structure and recursive languages means you can be very effective a developing and reusing XML handling objects. You won't notice this on your first project, maybe your second and for sure by the third one. Humans don't have to read the darn XML, programmers do. And we all know into which of those two species the preponderance of bill payers fall.
It is not so much the technology as the economic might of the one of the biggest developers of AJAX: Google. They are giving a wall to wall 24x7 demo of AJAX technique and its effectiveness to anyone who pays attention. The fact that middleweight clients that can support a bit of asynchronous update traffic in what , to the user, is the "background", is not so much technically amazing as perceptably practical and a better web experiance. I was looking for better doc on AJAX, having first got the impression it had to be JavaScript [which, frankly, is a crappy tool for designing ambitious software]. This article is a good addition to a topic that doesn't have much presence in the bookstores yet. There are other sources on line. Its not just for XML and its not just a J language either... Ruby will do.
I would suggest to the poster that ONLY company issued machines be allowed
to ever connect to the company systems, in or outside the perimeter. The "locked down" bare bones configuration are standard practice with better
defense contractors and large financial companies, especially brokerage
firms...I know this from experience. SecurId two part logins through VPN
that basically only let you access your desk top system and only as
your employee identity tend limit unauthorized access. And be very
careful with wireless. If it is tolerated at all, be darn sure users
don't ever get a chance to work without encryption turned on.
The question was from a person in a consulting role. I think that job means you know more than the customer and it is up to you to guide their
thinking past the misperceptions that limit their understanding of their own problems. So what if the school board all bring their wintel laptops
to the meeting and have some fear of anything different? The students and some poor, half-trained slob on the faculty are going to have to live with
the decision more than the administrators and bean counters. There is WAY
too much evidence that Mac's are easier to use and easier to network in a school setting...at my kid's school, the music teacher was able to put the
whole network together with little outside help.
My question to the poster would be "If they already know what they want inspite of better technical options, do you HAVE to work there?" There
a probably places where people pay for your expertise so they could actually listen to your advice. [I swear, I have heard there are such places;]
Rumors don't come from nowhere. What if all Apple needs to accomplish
is to intimdidate a few talkative employees? They don't have to win
a lawsuit to demonstrate that they mean business, just bring a suit to
court. And consider the other costs of "due diligence": if they have to
go from cube to cube with a polygraph, they are going to alienate a lot
of their own people. "Shoot first and ask questions later" can work OK if you only mean to fire warning shots.
filling the magenta cartridge on my Cannon 850 is the sloppiest damn
job in the world and it takes two days for the crap to wash or wear off of
my hands. What the hell kind of illegal activity is filling and ink
cartridge? Illegal activities are s'posed to be fun! Sheesh!
I have PCs runing win2k, XP and , until recently, even win98. Each
newer windows had a newer and apparently "more" functional format for.doc files. the file exetension being no reliable guide to whether
a file would open correctly, and more importantly, save correctly
on any given machine, I gave up. MS obviously means something different
when they say "functional". I have had Open Office for over a
year now and don't screw with incompatibilities that are promised
as increases in "function" but work as a gimmick to force me to pay
for a newer version of the word processor.
Ballmer, will you and Kim Jong Bill please get a clue: The resentment
and rejection of your product is not just due to
the hurt and jealousy of all the little programmers whose careers you
swamped with your bullying ways in the market, its the damn software!
You COULD have sold a "vanilla" or cost reduced version of word that
just stuck to the basics, never obsoleted old documents and left your
flagship product free to bloat up with every feature you could debug
[more or less] but noooo, one cadillac fits all.
'Bye from massachusetts!
a series of how-tos and standards docs
At the behest of the DOJ, NIST has been grinding out standards on how to forensically analyze a hard drive an other arcana for several years now.
yeah, good question. big deal they have the huge computer...its poor you who has the huge database, possibly with company confidential data. YOu not only have bandwidth issues, you probably have security issues. Like the article said, Sun is still ironing out the wrinkles in the Thin Client
software. Once you get the data uploaded, you store it there but that may not help much if the data all change a bit in the 6 monthes that elapse between runs.
first of all, keep it off of any net unless the net itself is a closed system. One-way push into such a net is possible but a pain to administer.
second. you can get away with a lot less security hobbles on the computer itself IF you can keep it in a locked room with access control via your employers security office...combination lock and TEMPEST-grade provisions against eavesdropping, with combination given only to cleared, need-to-know employees would mean that the plotters or other devices you would typically want on a CAD systems can be allowed.
3rd...looks like your employer was hard up for someone with a clearance AND secure system experience...they hiring?
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well, fact checking should precede posting. I got all my facts wrong according to our very well archived /. discussion of that patent>/a>. MS won and I misspelled the name of the loser. But my point is still standing: MS already talks out of both sides of its mouth on the matter of patents...and for the reasons cited in the parent.
In particular, MS is against patents held by other companies. Have we all forgotten that MS just lost its appeal on the Aoleas/UCB patent for plugins?
they mounted an expensive legal effort because there's a 500 million dollar
royalty overhead for their browser product. Thats just one patent, one product. there are so many more out there.
you ought to wait and see what they throw at themselves. Yes, they know their internals better than symantec, MacAfee etc etc and yes, they know what those internals will be 4 years from now. But given the way Microsoft has of leaving holes, if not doorways, in what should be functional partitions between operating system kernal, applications, communications stacks, languages, debug/development environments and user privelege management, I would bet ANY solutuion that really worked better than the confederation of antivirus and antispyware I now run would either add complexity to the the user's experience or reduce some of the functionality that was based on execution that could jump through those holes and doors.
Go ahead Microsoft, impress me.
We just have to see their product. [and yes, it I too see it as a way to reduce market share for AV vendors.]
Blogs are for otherwise unemployed people...it takes a LOT of reading and digging to [a] have something worth posting every day and [b] having something noone else has or can copy easily so that YOU get and keep the traffic and eventually the ad revenue....this land rush attitude in TFA just does not square with the realities. If it did, My 6 blogs would have made me a millionaire by now.
Mr. Thompson may not be a nitwit...I have not read anything else by him. But he compares the work of a single author to the work of literally thousands of engineers, the ensemble of which he wants to regard as a seamless whole that terminates at his browser. That is a simplification only a simpleton could value. If he thinks he can wait for his on line bets, his porn downloads and his order from Amazon until we weld together a perfectly secure internet, he might just as well hand cary the damn cash to the vendor. Dumb journalist!
lotta people lost houses and phone service will be spotty. buy a bagful of em' and keep one or two for yourself.
thanks, thats worth a bookmark and a close reading.
According to the Hubble site: "Precise observations made with the Hubble telescope confirm that the interstellar interloper is the closest neutron star ever seen. The object also doesn't have a companion star that would affect its appearance. Now located 200 light-years away in the southern constellation Corona Australis, it will swing by Earth at a safe distance of 170". The field strength of EM disturbances and the denisty of radiated particles will fall off as the square of the distances. So a neutron star quake in this nearest neighbor would be (50000^2)/(170^2) times stronger than the effects reported in TFA. Thats a 86505 fold increase in power.
yeah, you gonna need to put on some pretty strong SPF suntan lotion for that bad boy.
thanks to blogspot and its ilk, anybody and his 3-year-old sister can put up a weblog. consequence is that I have about 6 of them, each for a different area of interest that I pursue. so your estimated ceiling of the earth's population is potentially an UNDERestimate.
yes, there are millions of pages of home made web flatulence...I have a few of my own. This is a transitional condition which the backbones and the ISPs should take as a warning that they need to beef up capacity. Some REAL bandwidth pigs already exist: voip, torrents of movies and audio etc. These are just the beginning of an era when everybody with a connection will have an abiding internet presence which will come to do for them on the internet what their physical presence does for them in their neighborhood and town: it will be the "place and the face" by which most of the world knows and contacts them. Get used to it. [and maybe, kinda like house taxes, we should be paying for the infrastructure directly so the bandwidth will be there even after everybody is using VOIP and streaming packet video of everything they might want to watch to every device they might want to watch it on...hiding the infrastructure costs in the ISP fees and cable fees may break down when "bandwidth too cheap to meter" is saturated]
And so what if you don't know or care about most of the bloggers and their topics? You don't know or care about most of the people on this planet as it stands now so what's new here? You found the people you like some how or other and you meet them when it suits you. Bloggers have been doing the same for years with blogrolling, Technorati and other affiliation-discovery mechanisms and the 99.99% they have no use for, well, they just don't go to that corner of the World Wide block party.
While I would like to agree with you, and in terms of information density, XML is pretty fluffy if you go in for descriptive entity tags and all.....its more complicated than information density.
I have written a few XML parsers and developed around Xerces and IBM xml/dom libraries and even written a parser generator code. What I eventually realized was that though the wires had to carry fatter messages, I had to write less code. Why? Regularity of the brutally simple grammar at the heart of XML and the hand-in-glove fit of nested structure and recursive languages means you can be very effective a developing and reusing XML handling objects. You won't notice this on your first project, maybe your second and for sure by the third one. Humans don't have to read the darn XML, programmers do. And we all know into which of those two species the preponderance of bill payers fall.
It is not so much the technology as the economic might of the one of the biggest developers of AJAX: Google. They are giving a wall to wall 24x7 demo of AJAX technique and its effectiveness to anyone who pays attention. The fact that middleweight clients that can support a bit of asynchronous update traffic in what , to the user, is the "background", is not so much technically amazing as perceptably practical and a better web experiance. I was looking for better doc on AJAX, having first got the impression it had to be JavaScript [which, frankly, is a crappy tool for designing ambitious software]. This article is a good addition to a topic that doesn't have much presence in the bookstores yet. There are other sources on line. Its not just for XML and its not just a J language either... Ruby will do.
I would suggest to the poster that ONLY company issued machines be allowed to ever connect to the company systems, in or outside the perimeter. The "locked down" bare bones configuration are standard practice with better defense contractors and large financial companies, especially brokerage firms...I know this from experience. SecurId two part logins through VPN that basically only let you access your desk top system and only as your employee identity tend limit unauthorized access. And be very careful with wireless. If it is tolerated at all, be darn sure users don't ever get a chance to work without encryption turned on.
The question was from a person in a consulting role. I think that job means you know more than the customer and it is up to you to guide their thinking past the misperceptions that limit their understanding of their own problems. So what if the school board all bring their wintel laptops to the meeting and have some fear of anything different? The students and some poor, half-trained slob on the faculty are going to have to live with the decision more than the administrators and bean counters. There is WAY too much evidence that Mac's are easier to use and easier to network in a school setting...at my kid's school, the music teacher was able to put the whole network together with little outside help. My question to the poster would be "If they already know what they want inspite of better technical options, do you HAVE to work there?" There a probably places where people pay for your expertise so they could actually listen to your advice. [I swear, I have heard there are such places ;]
Rumors don't come from nowhere. What if all Apple needs to accomplish is to intimdidate a few talkative employees? They don't have to win a lawsuit to demonstrate that they mean business, just bring a suit to court. And consider the other costs of "due diligence": if they have to go from cube to cube with a polygraph, they are going to alienate a lot of their own people. "Shoot first and ask questions later" can work OK if you only mean to fire warning shots.
Apple
filling the magenta cartridge on my Cannon 850 is the sloppiest damn job in the world and it takes two days for the crap to wash or wear off of my hands. What the hell kind of illegal activity is filling and ink cartridge? Illegal activities are s'posed to be fun! Sheesh!
I have PCs runing win2k, XP and , until recently, even win98. Each newer windows had a newer and apparently "more" functional format for .doc files. the file exetension being no reliable guide to whether
a file would open correctly, and more importantly, save correctly
on any given machine, I gave up. MS obviously means something different
when they say "functional". I have had Open Office for over a
year now and don't screw with incompatibilities that are promised
as increases in "function" but work as a gimmick to force me to pay
for a newer version of the word processor.
Ballmer, will you and Kim Jong Bill please get a clue: The resentment
and rejection of your product is not just due to
the hurt and jealousy of all the little programmers whose careers you
swamped with your bullying ways in the market, its the damn software!
You COULD have sold a "vanilla" or cost reduced version of word that
just stuck to the basics, never obsoleted old documents and left your
flagship product free to bloat up with every feature you could debug
[more or less] but noooo, one cadillac fits all.
'Bye from massachusetts!
I have a proprietary solution.
They get hired by the USPTO it seems.
a series of how-tos and standards docs
At the behest of the DOJ, NIST has been grinding out standards on how to forensically analyze a hard drive an other arcana for several years now.
NIST even provides tools: http://www.cftt.nist.gov/
I was planning on using my 150 GMAIL invitations as christmas presents! Now they won't be very valuable.
http://www.sun.com/2005-0816/feature/index.html
yeah, good question. big deal they have the huge computer...its poor you who has the huge database, possibly with company confidential data. YOu not only have bandwidth issues, you probably have security issues. Like the article said, Sun is still ironing out the wrinkles in the Thin Client software. Once you get the data uploaded, you store it there but that may not help much if the data all change a bit in the 6 monthes that elapse between runs.
first of all, keep it off of any net unless the net itself is a closed system. One-way push into such a net is possible but a pain to administer. second. you can get away with a lot less security hobbles on the computer itself IF you can keep it in a locked room with access control via your employers security office...combination lock and TEMPEST-grade provisions against eavesdropping, with combination given only to cleared, need-to-know employees would mean that the plotters or other devices you would typically want on a CAD systems can be allowed. 3rd...looks like your employer was hard up for someone with a clearance AND secure system experience...they hiring?