If Microsoft is heavy-handed about this, I would think that manufacturers would react in much the same way folk reacted to Sony around Beta. A splinter group will form with another, superficially similar standard and the more open one will tend to win...
Most environments in which I coded would prefer a Room 101 model. A cage is placed on your head. When the build is broken, rats are released into the cage. The time it takes the rats to run down the tunnel and into the cage to eat your face gives you time to fix your mistake....
The lava lamp version sounds double-plus good.
Microsoft has been on this bandwagon since before they discovered the internet. First there was Team Productivity Update to BackOffice 4.5 in 1999 or so, but that wouldn't do, because they suddenly discovered the 'Net. Ok, so then there was Tahoe... er... SharePoint 2001, which introduced the WebStore (what amounted to a multivalue database a la Pick), something it had in common with Platinum (Exchange 2000) and almost was an off-line store for Office 10.
But that wouldn't do, because the WebStore was horribly slow and SharePoint needed a portal, so away went the WebStore (one step back to SQL, until the new multivalue database that thinks its a filesystem, WinFS, comes along -- two steps forward, someday. Ah, Cairo, someday your vision will be realized) and away went the Dashboard.
Now there is SharePoint 2003, half implemented as a series of web services imbedded in Server 2003. The fact that Office uses them to deliver collaborative capabilities is really cool. The task pane rocks if you have SharePoint.
But news? If you count Cairo, this is a path they've been on for, um, a decade now -- if you start with TPU, maybe 6 years.
Well, actually, do you want to claim the most famously (mis)manufactured bit, the myopic mirror, which I believe was made by Perkin Elmer, or at least tested by them. They appear to be in the US, though I am willing to believe it was a group of kanuckle-heads. The difference between precision and accuracy is an important one...
...forgot the listening device... how about telephone handsets? They certainly stand up to abuse and the wires are cheap and easily replaced if damaged...
Find some MP3 players that look easy to hack, physically, and some arcade game buttons -- they're designed to stand up to kids whacking away at them. Periodic cleaning of the contacts with very fine sandpaper may be required, but otherwise, it should be cheap and virtually indestructable. Go to the local pizza place or arcade and find the name and number of the video game owner to get the buttons. They may even be able to help out with cabinets...
It isn't that making Linux more user friendly will make it less secure. It is that making the tools require less understanding will lead the friendly users to a false sense of security.
Consider netfilter/iptables... Understanding how to really secure your system from this particular perspective requires a bit of study. Sure, you can paint relatively broad strokes and secure your system with a few clicks for a large majority of cases. But not knowing how the configuration files ended up being written means not knowing to what you are actually vunerable as a result of making a few simplistic choices.
Unfortunately, the Peter Principle often applies to home computer ownership, too.
I have Panasonic cordless phones -- two phones with one battery each, and one spare battery recharging in the base station. The Panasonic batteries were expensive and hard to find, but I found an identical, generic battery at Sears. The battery didn't fit -- until I removed an extraneous bit of plastic with a Dremmel tool. Works like a charm...
Epicurious is, by far, the best site for recipes on the web. The best feature is its archive of recipes from a variety of publications going back many years.
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It was all I could do to not use my mod points to adjust you down so you'd be right...
Already posted my comments about Cairo here last time we talked about Office.
Moderators, please: +1, Psychic
Perhaps now David Braben and Frontier Developments will be able to write the long-awaited next version of Elite!
If Microsoft is heavy-handed about this, I would think that manufacturers would react in much the same way folk reacted to Sony around Beta. A splinter group will form with another, superficially similar standard and the more open one will tend to win...
Tell me that first picture doesn't make you think of Duckman's grandma-in-law.
After all, nobody's ever stolen a ballot box, stuffed a ballot box, altered a paper ballot, discarded a paper ballot, or anything at all like that.
Most environments in which I coded would prefer a Room 101 model. A cage is placed on your head. When the build is broken, rats are released into the cage. The time it takes the rats to run down the tunnel and into the cage to eat your face gives you time to fix your mistake.... The lava lamp version sounds double-plus good.
Subject says it all...
Microsoft has been on this bandwagon since before they discovered the internet. First there was Team Productivity Update to BackOffice 4.5 in 1999 or so, but that wouldn't do, because they suddenly discovered the 'Net. Ok, so then there was Tahoe ... er... SharePoint 2001, which introduced the WebStore (what amounted to a multivalue database a la Pick), something it had in common with Platinum (Exchange 2000) and almost was an off-line store for Office 10.
But that wouldn't do, because the WebStore was horribly slow and SharePoint needed a portal, so away went the WebStore (one step back to SQL, until the new multivalue database that thinks its a filesystem, WinFS, comes along -- two steps forward, someday. Ah, Cairo, someday your vision will be realized) and away went the Dashboard.
Now there is SharePoint 2003, half implemented as a series of web services imbedded in Server 2003. The fact that Office uses them to deliver collaborative capabilities is really cool. The task pane rocks if you have SharePoint.
But news? If you count Cairo, this is a path they've been on for, um, a decade now -- if you start with TPU, maybe 6 years.
For the record.
Thanks Google.
Well, actually, do you want to claim the most famously (mis)manufactured bit, the myopic mirror, which I believe was made by Perkin Elmer, or at least tested by them. They appear to be in the US, though I am willing to believe it was a group of kanuckle-heads. The difference between precision and accuracy is an important one...
It never would have occurred to me to send in an article from memepool, but there was an entry for this site just a few days ago.
is to make sure nobody can use the domain by /.ing it.
... and I floored it.
...forgot the listening device... how about telephone handsets? They certainly stand up to abuse and the wires are cheap and easily replaced if damaged...
Find some MP3 players that look easy to hack, physically, and some arcade game buttons -- they're designed to stand up to kids whacking away at them. Periodic cleaning of the contacts with very fine sandpaper may be required, but otherwise, it should be cheap and virtually indestructable. Go to the local pizza place or arcade and find the name and number of the video game owner to get the buttons. They may even be able to help out with cabinets...
It isn't that making Linux more user friendly will make it less secure. It is that making the tools require less understanding will lead the friendly users to a false sense of security.
Consider netfilter/iptables... Understanding how to really secure your system from this particular perspective requires a bit of study. Sure, you can paint relatively broad strokes and secure your system with a few clicks for a large majority of cases. But not knowing how the configuration files ended up being written means not knowing to what you are actually vunerable as a result of making a few simplistic choices.
Unfortunately, the Peter Principle often applies to home computer ownership, too.
The only explanation.
for longer than there's been a slashdot. Of course it kills.
I have Panasonic cordless phones -- two phones with one battery each, and one spare battery recharging in the base station. The Panasonic batteries were expensive and hard to find, but I found an identical, generic battery at Sears. The battery didn't fit -- until I removed an extraneous bit of plastic with a Dremmel tool. Works like a charm...
Epicurious is, by far, the best site for recipes on the web. The best feature is its archive of recipes from a variety of publications going back many years.
The code written to date is being sold and folded into the Duke Nukem Forever.
"Where do you keep that gun, Max?"
"None of your damned business, Sam."
...is here.
But, if it is real, time to invest in jars.
"... the lense on the camera got really fogged up. That's when we really got suspicious."
... is that Kerry wasn't in Barbarella, either. Liars. All of you.