The Microsoft stock is dropping rapidly.. unfortunately for their investors - especially with the events of the past two weeks!
I got some rather interesting feedback yesterday when I asked if OS coders would use this to improve Wine and whether that would be legitimate. Of course I was flamed! But hey. Now answer this - why would looking at the code instantly taint you from joining any OS initiative. ie. If you had seen the code, what would stop you from coding part of a new groupware client, or what would stop you from coding an OS DVD Player.. I'm sure the effects aren't so far reaching?
Please don't be too harsh on me - I'm stupid!
as this source code is now out, can we expect people in the wine project to start using it as a basis for their coding. I'm sure it would provoke a legal battle of the SCO type (but with reason this time) but surely with a bit of clever coding and a bit of reference to this code wine could be advanced very far. Sure it's illegal, but so have many things Microsoft has done. I haven't been able to get through to that link (/.ed). This source code could, theoretically, be a big step for ReactOS and the WineX and Wine projects particularly as it is 2000 which has support for a lot of the stuff that NT does.. very exciting!
..open source has always been a controversial issue.. here is an interesting article on the debate "GPL Good, Commercial Bad..." It cites GCC as an example of how destructive OS can be in that it removed the market for any other type of compiler. Can it be said that Mozilla has in effect done an "Internet explorer" with the open source world? It is now almost an integral part of any distrib.
Thoughts? Tim
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.. has been a long standing problem with everyone. This book is not unique in the way that the outline is so cliche, but it still underlines a big point. It has been extremely rare to find books with completely original themes recently, you seem to have the framed school, the lawyer school, etc. What has happened to the Chuck Palahniuks of the world? Even his books have become too samy samy.. is it me, or do we need another Wodehouse to rise up?
The team detailed here has not cloned a human has such. It has cloned the stem cells in an embryo specifically for stem cells. The claims that they have made (also made in New Scientist this week) are not as radical as the claims made by the Raelians and Panayiotis Zavos, and so are much more believable than can be expected by looking at this title:)
I say all power to the team doing this as they are obviously going for something that is going to eventually become a pioneering field for saving life. I think the key issue is that they are cloning the cells (i believe) rather than the entire embryo, and so the issue of Sanctity of Life does not come into it.
Tim
...what badly audited code can do these days? In this case the results weren't nearly as disastrous as they could have been. For example if a similar software error had prevent an alarm from going off in a Nuclear powerplant, we could be on for another Chernobyl. Now one could argue that all code in that kind of situation would be properly auditted, but I'm sure the GE code had been tested fairly thoroughly. I find it quite disturbing that occurences like this can happen..
It is nice to see the inclusion of PCI-X, we can hope that this is the start of the end of "old" PCI. I was a bit confused by the decision to include Firewire in this machine. I know it is an apple kind of penchant, but surely a server won't need firewire. Who wants to use a firewire hard disk with a server? You're more likely to back up onto tape. It seems akin to a High End commodity intel server having an Audigy sound card with optical out, I don't think there is much point. I think some of the features could have been thought about more on the machine rather than lamely following the tradition of previous iMACs. However, it looks like a great machine, and Mac is coming up in mine, and many other x86 users (I believe) opinions.
Well depending on the technical competence of the people you are showing the link to why not use it to transfer a few Linux ISOs across the network..
However, if the people aren't technically competent, just make a pretty powerpoint presentation which says "this is how fast a 100mb network is.." (very slow meter filling up), now "this is how fast a 2.5gb network is.." (very fast meter filling up).. that should just about satisfy them;)
when things aren't built from the ground up with security in mind, there is likely to be some compromise for the sake of ease of use, when security issues come to mind. apart from the fact that any form of wireless communication is prone to be insecure!
think about it.. ARGH THE GOVERNMENT IS LISTENING TO MY PHONE CALLS!!
*sighs*.. It's that I do not enjoy getting caught by a sysadmin (who is probably reading this as I write). Firebird is not the latest release anymore..
Firefox..
Unfortunately, as can be seen with Zeitgeist. Windows users on MSIE dominate the market. The majority of these the software auto searching for them is as bad, or actually as noticeable, as the DNS doing it.
That is fair enough.. but what about those of us unfortunate enough to be on a school network where we can't install a single thing (not even Mozilla Firefox, bird whatever..)
And where we can't access settings.
The other point was that for home users, many of whom do not know how to use the configuration to turn off M$ autosearch, it is just as bad as the Verisign is.
When you type in a wrong address at the moment which doesn't exist, you are automatically taken to either a site search engine, which is pure crap.. or to the microsoft auto search.. (talking for users on School networks, with Windows terminals) which offers the option to use the great Hotmail (Spam Central), Shopping (at ridiculous prices, from the company which could afford to give us all we want free) etc.
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The Microsoft stock is dropping rapidly.. unfortunately for their investors - especially with the events of the past two weeks!
I got some rather interesting feedback yesterday when I asked if OS coders would use this to improve Wine and whether that would be legitimate. Of course I was flamed! But hey. Now answer this - why would looking at the code instantly taint you from joining any OS initiative. ie. If you had seen the code, what would stop you from coding part of a new groupware client, or what would stop you from coding an OS DVD Player.. I'm sure the effects aren't so far reaching?
Please don't be too harsh on me - I'm stupid!
as this source code is now out, can we expect people in the wine project to start using it as a basis for their coding. I'm sure it would provoke a legal battle of the SCO type (but with reason this time) but surely with a bit of clever coding and a bit of reference to this code wine could be advanced very far. Sure it's illegal, but so have many things Microsoft has done. I haven't been able to get through to that link (/.ed). This source code could, theoretically, be a big step for ReactOS and the WineX and Wine projects particularly as it is 2000 which has support for a lot of the stuff that NT does.. very exciting!
..open source has always been a controversial issue.. here is an interesting article on the debate "GPL Good, Commercial Bad..." It cites GCC as an example of how destructive OS can be in that it removed the market for any other type of compiler. Can it be said that Mozilla has in effect done an "Internet explorer" with the open source world? It is now almost an integral part of any distrib.
Thoughts?
Tim
.. has been a long standing problem with everyone. This book is not unique in the way that the outline is so cliche, but it still underlines a big point. It has been extremely rare to find books with completely original themes recently, you seem to have the framed school, the lawyer school, etc. What has happened to the Chuck Palahniuks of the world? Even his books have become too samy samy.. is it me, or do we need another Wodehouse to rise up?
The team detailed here has not cloned a human has such. It has cloned the stem cells in an embryo specifically for stem cells. The claims that they have made (also made in New Scientist this week) are not as radical as the claims made by the Raelians and Panayiotis Zavos, and so are much more believable than can be expected by looking at this title :)
I say all power to the team doing this as they are obviously going for something that is going to eventually become a pioneering field for saving life. I think the key issue is that they are cloning the cells (i believe) rather than the entire embryo, and so the issue of Sanctity of Life does not come into it.
Tim
...what badly audited code can do these days? In this case the results weren't nearly as disastrous as they could have been. For example if a similar software error had prevent an alarm from going off in a Nuclear powerplant, we could be on for another Chernobyl. Now one could argue that all code in that kind of situation would be properly auditted, but I'm sure the GE code had been tested fairly thoroughly. I find it quite disturbing that occurences like this can happen..
It is nice to see the inclusion of PCI-X, we can hope that this is the start of the end of "old" PCI. I was a bit confused by the decision to include Firewire in this machine. I know it is an apple kind of penchant, but surely a server won't need firewire. Who wants to use a firewire hard disk with a server? You're more likely to back up onto tape. It seems akin to a High End commodity intel server having an Audigy sound card with optical out, I don't think there is much point. I think some of the features could have been thought about more on the machine rather than lamely following the tradition of previous iMACs. However, it looks like a great machine, and Mac is coming up in mine, and many other x86 users (I believe) opinions.
Well depending on the technical competence of the people you are showing the link to why not use it to transfer a few Linux ISOs across the network.. However, if the people aren't technically competent, just make a pretty powerpoint presentation which says "this is how fast a 100mb network is.." (very slow meter filling up), now "this is how fast a 2.5gb network is.." (very fast meter filling up).. that should just about satisfy them ;)
It's called Open source.. heard of it?
But my brother's laptop is about as big as a ferrari... and you can always make Windows 3.1 play a sound when it starts up.. can't you?!?!??!
what about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer??!?!?
HUH??
HUH???
these are not the dvds you are looking for...
"Also, it is easy to find Oracle admins for support."
And it isn't easy to find Windoze admins?
There are no photos! It is all a government conspiracy... There is no other life... There is no color red..
;)..
Oh and SCO are totally right in everything they say
when things aren't built from the ground up with security in mind, there is likely to be some compromise for the sake of ease of use, when security issues come to mind. apart from the fact that any form of wireless communication is prone to be insecure! think about it.. ARGH THE GOVERNMENT IS LISTENING TO MY PHONE CALLS!!
*sighs* .. It's that I do not enjoy getting caught by a sysadmin (who is probably reading this as I write). Firebird is not the latest release anymore..
Firefox..
Unfortunately, as can be seen with Zeitgeist. Windows users on MSIE dominate the market. The majority of these the software auto searching for them is as bad, or actually as noticeable, as the DNS doing it.
That is fair enough.. but what about those of us unfortunate enough to be on a school network where we can't install a single thing (not even Mozilla Firefox, bird whatever..) And where we can't access settings. The other point was that for home users, many of whom do not know how to use the configuration to turn off M$ autosearch, it is just as bad as the Verisign is.
When you type in a wrong address at the moment which doesn't exist, you are automatically taken to either a site search engine, which is pure crap.. or to the microsoft auto search.. (talking for users on School networks, with Windows terminals) which offers the option to use the great Hotmail (Spam Central), Shopping (at ridiculous prices, from the company which could afford to give us all we want free) etc.