You dont even understand what you are telling the world, Symbian should be using GCC targeted for arm, thumb. That way other far more competant people would be worrying about the compiler, and you could cross compile a decent CVS like git or subversion, on the platform.
Qt would compile
gdb would work
You dont begin to get it. All these 'decisions' were driven by the wish to develop a proprietary lock-in product that actually failed in the business sense. Symbian and most other vendors in the embedded space do not have the resources to compete with the FOSS world, neither do Apple. Nokia, and M$ have the money but not the High Level Architects to compete in a pro-active and agile way, they are forever in catch up.
The common sense analogy is the free market -v- directed economies; the former always win, see the old Soviet Union, not because of idiology but because, in directed economies everyone lies and those at the top do not have the information to compete in an agile way.
In the free market people try different things and those that work get funded.
And before politicised people jump in and talk, for example, about GM in the USA, they would have failed long ago without repeated government assistance, all in violation of WTO rules.
This is one of the reasons the rest of the world will not tolerate the rebuilding of the American economic hegmony and many Professors in MBA programs will have to find gainful employment.
This is what you get with sub-standard senior priests in the Cathederal, and lets not forget there are __LOTS__ of examples in the Unix/Linux world too, over the years we have seen horrendous unmaintainable junk created in Sun, X86Free and GCC. An added benefit of FOSS is peer review of APIs and Implementations before they get set in stone.
Most people havn't a clue how bad Symbian is, they just gave up at the sight, for contrast uxix/linux are mostly OK, mature and reasonably minimalist, and for any common processor the tool chain is very well debugged. Symbian is another OpenSolaris, a last ditch attempt by fools who dont understand the process to defend a proprietary platform. It will have some adherents, but not enough; that is the name of the game. A good example is 'cdrtools' which worked, and was first but got written out over the DVD thing and attitude.
This is the reason linux will trump Symbian, no matter what Nokia, or M$ want. You cant beat FREE in the embedded space and well supported and free is a no-brainer. If you cant make money on your proprietary licences why bother.
BTW another thing that will go away in this recession is the MBA driven focus on differentiation and the simple realization that a commodity is just that.
The only thing the FOSS community now has to get right/complete is to make sure that many of the key tools that underpin out eco-system, eg Open|Office, Gnome, KDE, Firefox etc are made more accessible to the developer and that poorly documented arcane repositories and build systems are quickly documented and fixed. Some big projects notably the kernel and GCC/binutils are fine, but OO and KDE are arcane, and dont need to be.
To complete, we need good M$ Win Connectivity, which means AD, in Samba 4, and an Exchange replacement, no clear view. OO is good enough, we need the same in AD and ES without getting bogged down in Windows centric details. If you have unix tools available, you simply do not need M$ nonsense and twisty mazes of.bat files. Someone, like IBM, needs to sponsor a good unix files system driver for windows, the current 'ext2' driver is said to lack stability and 'ext2' is un-journeled, 'ext4' maybe, Tso works for them.
I conclude that not only do you not know what you are talking about, but also that you are an idiot as well.
The point is not user stupidity, or scripts, __BUT__ what those scripts can actually do.
In any case your astroturfing here is pointless, all CIOs and Security Admins understand you crap all too well and are not interested in having their nets borked for 2-3 days every 3 months, and those that did not learn are no longer in post. Why M$ pay you to lurk and lie I do understand.
In well implemented Java, or JavaScript the executable is inside a carefully walled sand-box, except in IE. In IE the DOM constrints are not secure, another M$ extension, but Active X is completely untrammeled.
By the way all your comments about user credulity are true of UAC in Vista and Windows 7
Sorry, the US Military is another politicised beaurocracy, as all militaries become between wars and don't talk about Vietnam, Afganistan or Iraq, they are not wars, they were ill-considered military adventures conducted by insulated pols with no down-side to THEM.
As in real wars, command gets better with practice. While there is no chance of the US loosing, in any real sense, the game will go on, but not least a moment in any nation threatening conflict. Leaders, not ass-lickers, become generals. That is the entire difference. To understand look at WW2 and Chester Nimitz and George S Patton. The Admiral an General were military outsiders until Perl and the Bulge then Nimitz became an insider while Patton stayed outside the delicious military lifestyle. For those with a real interest in military history, and a sense of fun, look at General of the Army, George McArthur and the Washington generals and admirals (some of whom McArthur said should not be given command of a regiment, but was C JCS)
The bottom line is that a peace-time military does not like to fight wars, they winge,
Anything that lets Active X run, eg a Windows OS is an un-containable security risk. By that I mean that if you have a system that allows that stuff to run you have __NO__ security in that Logical Partition, and you have to be able to sacrifice the Image and start over.
Lots of (a) disk space, (b) care and organization are necessary. As others have said use virtualizarion, preferably over a Linux kernel even if you never use linux per se as it makes the virtual LPARs easier to manage and has an effective firewall, even with iptables off, at startup for most distributions. I use OpenSuSE.
The game-script is choose a virtualization, lots, mostly free, try to avoud things like VmWare unless you really need its features, Install basic Linux eg Ubantu, install VM manager, install Windows (1) on a real HD partition and (2) for its virtual environment. Burn CD/DVD of the Windows setup, install extensions, courseware... burn another DVD, turn on the 'tun' network to windows.
You are now in roughly the position most large corporate Windows users establish, you have glass 'Ghostlike' images of you setup as it was before you entered the unsafe-sex world of Windows, and you can quickly step back to them.
Corporate speak "re Image your machine".
Dont forget it ifconfig the tun down before you let anything get at your image. The MTTP (Mean Time ti Pawned) is c 3 mins for an un-protected Win box on the internet.
The parent is exactly right, and the question is lame, linux, like almost all Unix style systems assumes that normal users will run, protected from each other, and unable to subvert the basic system setup. They need to get local 'root' to change their local machine environment and tools like 'sudo' and 'su' enable management.
BUT the MAGIC point, always mis-understood by Windows shops is 'If you leave it alone, it defaults to secure'
My laptop, is on the real net almost all the time running modified SuSE 11.0, no firewall, has been up for 10.5 days, thousands of penetration attempts, including RPC, ssh probes.... no failure, last reboot elective kernel upgrade.
You can send all those lock down boys home, and make your users happier.
Answer, the Judges starting with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, colligially, and donward through Federal and State Appelate courts and on to benches of judges of first instance, and note precedence does not apply.
To have it any other way would undermine the separation of powers under Federal and State Constitutions.
This is why it is in the mess it is in, so what is needed is a good administratively minded Supreme Court judge, with and understanding of IT and modern technologies to clean it up. Hopefully a priority for an Obama appointment.
Nonsense, I am making structural points about good corporate governance.
You are Astroturfing.
It is time for Industry and Corporations to get on and innovate, not squabble, like hyenas on the corpse of long dead, and non-innovative turf marking whose engenderment and existance are the result of Congress passing silly legislation and the USPTO accepting so much dumb, obvious junk.
Again a failure to regulate and efficiently monitor the regulators. Get it? Banking, SEC, Anti Trust at Justice, Energy Policy at Commerce, Stem Cell Research and Id Policy arm-twisting by the Federal Government are not isolated, they are connected by political dogma, and so are these anti Open Source patent cases, in none of which the plaint survives any serious scrutiny and are, I am sure, motivated by M$ greed and its repetious need to "Do some Evil Today".
Note, I do not seek to prove malfeasance, that is for Justice and the Attornys General, the point is that "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... ",
and we have regulators to distinguish ducks from swans and indite the ducks!
Sorry to reply to myself, but of course, the Bilski decision means that
(a) in TomTom, the (V)FAT patents fail the test
(b) in Software Tree LLC, the wording of the patent, on its face
means that a Master (Magistrate Judge in US) can decide, on the pleadings, that the plaint "... discloses no reasonable cause of action" and can dismiss the action at the interlocutory phase therby stopping the Trolls in their tracks.
I am sorry, it has every relevance, I dont know where you spend your time, but M$ is a convicted corporate anti-trust criminal in both the US and EU. Had government sponsored corruption and purchased political influence peddling not intervened the problem would have been solved 10 years ago and people like Software Tree LLC would realise that meritless and vexatious litigation would just get them a huge bill.
I make two quite separate points:
1. I do not trust coincidence hand have been in the business long enough to recognize a corporate FUD campaign, which is just what this is, a mile away. The fact that you instantly Astroturfed my comment simply confirms my opinion.
2. Unless, like many in the US you dont get it, we, the rest of the World have had more than enough of your criminally corrupt business practices, stupid ideas like IP and strong arming other governments and international bodies. OOXML and ISO anybody?
The underlying theme is that a flacid US legal system, without say 'Costs in cause' but also strict time limits harms everyone. Someone, say the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, needs to take on the task of revising the Civil Procedure Rules to stop people gaming the system. In Switzerland it wouldnt last a day and in the UK, also anglo-saxon common law the defendant could move for dismissal as 'frivalous and vexatious and showing no reasonable cause of action' and a Master, subject to Appeal of course, would simply dismiss the action. Timeline 56 days, not years like SCO. This is terribly serious since the legal system must act as arbitrator of seroius enforcement.
The same is true with the SEC, Wall Street and the markets, stupid and corrupt de-regulation did not, as advertised, free the market. It opened up a playground for crooks, con-men and egotistical idiots.
The rules you have now (a) allowing short selling without up-tick, and (b) Mark-to-Market form the basis for a perpetual motion machine to export taxpayers money into traders hands, why do you think the market is volatile?
If the entire US regulatory system, SEC + Justice + Courts were doing their job it would be credibly understood that the next guy failing to deliver on a (naked) short sell would spend 25-life in Fort Levenworth the market would calm in a few weeks. Both the President and the Congress need to properly uphold their oaths of office and help clean up this mess so efficiency and competence rule, without partizanship and delay.
Anti-trust, and perjury are serious, and it is only politics that kept some senior members of the M$ board out of jail. They have two strikes against them already!
There is a distinct sense of __non__coincedence__ in the air, the stink of M$ and rotten US corporatism and lack of effective regulation and enforcement of honest transparent business practices.
In spite of what Rob Endele has said this is enemy action, "Once is coincedence..."
The US legal system, as I have said before, needs to brace up and get its act together on vexatious corporate litigation and to adopt the 'Costs in cause' rule so small defendants with a strong case will always defend. I look to senior academic lawyers, and the appelate benches of the Federal Appeal Circuit and the Supreme Court, which does not require legislation or a specific case but can be delt with by practice direction, to take a lead on this.
Those responsible for business competitiveness, especially in the EU need to do more. At minimum re-opening the M$ anti-trust investigations which I hope TomTom press for, from the Netherands. The State Attorneys and US Justice Department should also re-open the Anti-Trust suit compliance issue, especially after the discovered and proven complicity of M$ in the meritless SCO litigation.
The EU should also raise this as a WTO issue. Indeed the rational reaction is to say to US "We will hold all enforcement and co-operation on IP issues until you have reformed your broken Patent and Copyright systems" and stand firmly against term extension as the rest of the world needs the innovation effect of time limited IP rights. We should no-longer tolerate the East Texas fiasco and put as much back pressure on the US to end this legal corruption, which is, by no-means, too strong a description.
This can be effected by amicus-curia briefs by Commerce and Justice and by making it clear to these judges that all their decisions will be appealed until they resign or retire. They have done enough damage.
And no, after the Economic Crisis largely created by US corporate malfeasance, greed and lack of transperency the rest of the world needs to say 'enough' loudly, and refuse to toady or further pander to the economic nonsense, from the lunatic right, in Washington, which has done so much to damage the world economy.
US Citizens who voted for Obama need to remind his administration of the open 48 hour Bill pledge, which would rid you of this crap once and for all. At a time when the Congress has the lowest approval in history, and the only thing that has real bi-partisan support is shady Washington business-as-usual it is time for all US citizens to send the Hill a message - That they will not stand for it!
I agree, history and sociology of hard science, Mathematics, ideas and philosophy are __very__ important, as is understanding of intuitional, inductive and deductive reasoning in __everything__, NOT ONLY Mathematics. That is one of the reasons why Professional Teachers teach Math and Science so poorly. You have to like it and want to understand it yourself to teach it properly. I was fortunate to have two excellent teachers, an Oxford 2nd Wrangler and one of Fred Hoyles postdocs, and most of what they taught me was how to develop the skill to guess well, ie intuition.This leads to the debate as to whether we invent or discover Mathematics, and how far the answer extends to other sciences. E T Bell's book is good, and so is the History of Mathematics (3 volume opus, for the school library) the Mathematical Dictionary is good as is Wiki. Hard Math is usually of quite good quality.
The trick is to interest and stretch your students without loosing them, which like all good teaching, requires sensitivity, ruthlessness, and good judgement. Another thing is the Maturity and Ability to Think Abstractly of each individual student. Mathematical maturity can begin by in 1/2 grade and be complete by 6 grade, though it normally happend 3-4 years later; once it does normal school lessons become useless and boring, you get it and it becomes intuitive, you read ahead, for yourself, and need teaches to answer hard questions,... not say things three times;-).
If they cannot think, and visualize abstractly, and do not enjoy introspective intellectual challenges they will never develop a working math/science intuition and (I nearly joke) should do Chemistry or Biology... that's a bit unkind, especially these days. If they can, and are bright, you will find you only have to spark the fire. Then they will read/think/learn faster than you can imagine, and come ask you difficult questions! This can happen at __really__ young ages, 15-25 is the top of the game.
G.H. Hardy, of Trinity College, Cambridge wrote A Mathematician's Apology, his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics. The apology is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician written for the layman. He discovered and encouraged Srinivasa Ramanujan, a young brilliant Tamil student who later his collaborator.
The major problem with modern education is that it has the wrong goal and is not sufficiently differentiated. Why do I say this, well for me Mathematics and Hard Science, Cosmology, Physics, Physical Chemistry always came easily; I never went to Maths class after 11 and taught the Mathematics Scholarship class from 13-16, when I graduated. At the same time I was absolutely struggling in Modern languages. Now I live in Switzerland, and speak 5-6, in the worst case, and normally here, all at once! We say 'merci vielmal' in German (Schweizerdeutsch).
One thing you need to be aware of is that Mathematics(-ians) come in two favors Pure [logic, consistance...] and Applied [Cosmology, Quantum Theory, Relativity... ] and are different cats!
The key is interest, inform, challenge and convince the kid that "Yes you can understand", but sadly I feel that only works for teaches who also understand.
Finally, I must add that, if you teach, and are not yourself interested and good at the subject matter, dont waste your time. This is true for Languages, Economics... but especially true in Mathematics/Science.
Let the Force, and the Source(FOSS) and your imagination, and commitment be with you, YES THEY CAN!, our students are our shared future.
I get so bored and annoyed by some of the silly advice here, I dont pracice law, but hold a Doktor Recht. I do consult on IP issues.
Both in the EU and USA patent requires originallity and is absolutely barred by prior art.
That means all you need to do is establish prior art in a copy(left|right)ed document and publish it, by donating a copy to a copyright library eg Library of Congress, University of Cambridge, Universität Basle for example.
The date of publication, entry into the public catalog establishes the prior art.
You do not need to patent, and if you do you (theoretically) publish the details of your invention. That is why there are so many un-patentable Trade Secrets.
I am getting increasingly annoyed, and bored, by the fact that everytime we have a M$ story here, especially with the Windows-7 run up we see the same band of M$ astroturfers generating noise here.
Character assassination, eg of Gutmann and Schneier and opinion/speculation is no substitute for clear numerate analysis and benchmarking.
Let me offer two opinions based on nearly 40 years of operating systems experience, starting with the EDSAC-II:
(a) No one whoc claims that DRM is only active for part of the time has never seen/understood the inside of a scheduler or device driver, at the very least the DRM system must protect itself.
(b) The memory bandwith considerations for multi-core are much more complicated, especially for HPC, than just NUMA, which itself is an old kludge mandated by earlier system designs. In a very real sense the NU.. is now always present, since caches are ubiquitous and mandatory and almost always layered and hardware managed. The is no particular benefit or reason to make the backing DRAM Non Uniform, quite the opposite!
Finally I remark that there are two very different situations depending on chip architecture eg Intel v AMD and the workload. With Intel, and the FSB, a limited bandwidth, to the NorthBridge is shared out between all the cores, which is why Intel is rapidly migrating away from the FSB architecture. By contrast, an 8 core AMD system, with two quad cores has twice the memory bandwidth (almost) as the single quad system (due to scheduling latency and interfearence) in the Hyperchannel
If your workload is essentially infinitely parallelisable then you can make your workload scale, slightly less, eg 0.8, with increasing cores _and_ by keeping idle time on all cores, your system will feel snappy and responsive eg for gaming and transaction processing.
If, for some logical or physical reasons, your problem has inherent limit on its parallelism then you have a much harder problem. Examples are the partial-differential equations of mathematical physics (Navier-Stokes, Heat, Elasticity) and directed stochastic processes use in asset pricing and (sensible) risk management things are much more complex and mostly depend on parallel algorithms and minimising latency. For much more detail see the Berkeley paper http://view.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Main_Page [The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley].
To cut to the chase M$ made a marketing choice, plumb DRM into the resource schedulers and IO system, even if hook based, as it should be, this must impact parallelism and introduce locking latency costs which must be paid all the time, and if done less that perfectly, will reduce scalability which will harm responsiveness.
So you pay so that M$ can cosy up to Hollywood, RIAA and MPAA, all of whom have problems with their business model. No amount of astroturf can put lipstick on this pig!
As Schneier keeps telling us obscurity dosnt help!
The 'hardware' may well be pork, and needs looking at after 8 years. This is probably one of the things that the COS (Emmanuel) should look at, since there are lots of other vital bits of government communication that look very old, and at the very least should be looked at with "Think outside the box" mentality.
I would start with having Schneier and Ross Anderson, from Cambridge, shaddow Obama and start with mobile-phone, netbook and the nuclear code football which limits choice and cuffs the President.
None of us wants to bring back the _bad_ part of the old days, but your attitude is really stupid, if it is more complex, it is more important to do it right. I take, from your comments that you think that OO is the answer to a maiden's prayer and that you do not believe in prototyping and bottom-up feasability analysis.
Simple, functional tools are almost always the best, especially for the non-technical non-specialist. Design patterns, use cases... are crutches for those that wont think. Wordstar may be better for text input than Wordperfect. but nedit, kedit, joe... would all do the job. I prefer vi (now vim) even on windows.
Finally, the training argument is nonsense. If someone cannot learn the basics of using an editor in a day it or them need changing.
Finally the M$ approach leads to expensive crap, every time I see a document typeset in Word I cringe at the awfulness of it. Troff was better.
No, your are not I have a n 3100 that I use to make calls, 4+ days idle +6h talk and likes my BMW and a n95 (1d, 2h) that I sometimes use at my desk or if I need a GPRS modem
This is the classic example of what is wrong with the splintered culture in the US. The SMART dinousour business men make a completely dumb decision because the go to the same country club, and still think all the sheeple will follow.
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You dont even understand what you are telling the world, Symbian should be using GCC targeted for arm, thumb. That way other far more competant people would be worrying about the compiler, and you could cross compile a decent CVS like git or subversion, on the platform.
Qt would compile
gdb would work
You dont begin to get it. All these 'decisions' were driven by the wish to develop a proprietary lock-in product that actually failed in the business sense. Symbian and most other vendors in the embedded space do not have the resources to compete with the FOSS world, neither do Apple. Nokia, and M$ have the money but not the High Level Architects to compete in a pro-active and agile way, they are forever in catch up.
The common sense analogy is the free market -v- directed economies; the former always win, see the old Soviet Union, not because of idiology but because, in directed economies everyone lies and those at the top do not have the information to compete in an agile way.
In the free market people try different things and those that work get funded.
And before politicised people jump in and talk, for example, about GM in the USA, they would have failed long ago without repeated government assistance, all in violation of WTO rules.
This is one of the reasons the rest of the world will not tolerate the rebuilding of the American economic hegmony and many Professors in MBA programs will have to find gainful employment.
You know what you sound like, a fan-boi, all systems, no matter how lousey have them.
... give me a break, the only thing Symbian has going for it is Nokia, and they will turn in a New York minuit.
All is good, C++ sans exceptions + longjump and a manual destroy stack is OK?
You can write in Python, Ruby
This is what you get with sub-standard senior priests in the Cathederal, and lets not forget there are __LOTS__ of examples in the Unix/Linux world too, over the years we have seen horrendous unmaintainable junk created in Sun, X86Free and GCC. An added benefit of FOSS is peer review of APIs and Implementations before they get set in stone.
.bat files. Someone, like IBM, needs to sponsor a good unix files system driver for windows, the current 'ext2' driver is said to lack stability and 'ext2' is un-journeled, 'ext4' maybe, Tso works for them.
Most people havn't a clue how bad Symbian is, they just gave up at the sight, for contrast uxix/linux are mostly OK, mature and reasonably minimalist, and for any common processor the tool chain is very well debugged. Symbian is another OpenSolaris, a last ditch attempt by fools who dont understand the process to defend a proprietary platform. It will have some adherents, but not enough; that is the name of the game. A good example is 'cdrtools' which worked, and was first but got written out over the DVD thing and attitude.
This is the reason linux will trump Symbian, no matter what Nokia, or M$ want. You cant beat FREE in the embedded space and well supported and free is a no-brainer. If you cant make money on your proprietary licences why bother.
BTW another thing that will go away in this recession is the MBA driven focus on differentiation and the simple realization that a commodity is just that.
The only thing the FOSS community now has to get right/complete is to make sure that many of the key tools that underpin out eco-system, eg Open|Office, Gnome, KDE, Firefox etc are made more accessible to the developer and
that poorly documented arcane repositories and build systems are quickly documented and fixed. Some big projects notably the kernel and GCC/binutils are fine, but OO and KDE are arcane, and dont need to be.
To complete, we need good M$ Win Connectivity, which means AD, in Samba 4, and an Exchange replacement, no clear view. OO is good enough, we need the same in AD and ES without getting bogged down in Windows centric details. If you have unix tools available, you simply do not need M$ nonsense and twisty mazes of
I conclude that not only do you not know what you are talking about, but also that you are an idiot as well.
The point is not user stupidity, or scripts, __BUT__ what those scripts can actually do.
In any case your astroturfing here is pointless, all CIOs and Security Admins understand you crap all too well and are not interested in having their nets borked for 2-3 days every 3 months, and those that did not learn are no longer in post. Why M$ pay you to lurk and lie I do understand.
In well implemented Java, or JavaScript the executable is inside a carefully walled sand-box, except in IE. In IE the DOM constrints are not secure, another M$ extension, but Active X is completely untrammeled.
By the way all your comments about user credulity are true of UAC in Vista and Windows 7
Sorry, the US Military is another politicised beaurocracy, as all militaries become between wars and don't talk about Vietnam, Afganistan or Iraq, they are not wars, they were ill-considered military adventures conducted by insulated pols with no down-side to THEM.
As in real wars, command gets better with practice. While there is no chance of the US loosing, in any real sense, the game will go on, but not least a moment in any nation threatening conflict. Leaders, not ass-lickers, become generals. That is the entire difference. To understand look at WW2 and Chester Nimitz and George S Patton. The Admiral an General were military outsiders until Perl and the Bulge then Nimitz became an insider while Patton stayed outside the delicious military lifestyle. For those with a real interest in military history, and a sense of fun, look at General of the Army, George McArthur and the Washington generals and admirals (some of whom McArthur said should not be given command of a regiment, but was C JCS)
The bottom line is that a peace-time military does not like to fight wars, they winge,
Nonsense
Anything that lets Active X run, eg a Windows OS is an un-containable security risk. By that I mean that if you have a system that allows that stuff to run you have __NO__ security in that Logical Partition, and you have to be able to sacrifice the Image and start over.
... burn another DVD, turn on the 'tun' network to windows.
Lots of (a) disk space, (b) care and organization are necessary. As others have said use virtualizarion, preferably over a Linux kernel even if you never use linux per se as it makes the virtual LPARs easier to manage and has an effective firewall, even with iptables off, at startup for most distributions. I use OpenSuSE.
The game-script is choose a virtualization, lots, mostly free, try to avoud things like VmWare unless you really need its features, Install basic Linux eg Ubantu, install VM manager, install Windows (1) on a real HD partition and (2) for its virtual environment. Burn CD/DVD of the Windows setup, install extensions, courseware
You are now in roughly the position most large corporate Windows users establish, you have glass 'Ghostlike' images of you setup as it was before you entered the unsafe-sex world of Windows, and you can quickly step back to them.
Corporate speak "re Image your machine".
Dont forget it ifconfig the tun down before you let anything get at your image. The MTTP (Mean Time ti Pawned) is c
3 mins for an un-protected Win box on the internet.
The parent is exactly right, and the question is lame, linux, like almost all Unix style systems assumes that normal users will run, protected from each other, and unable to subvert the basic system setup. They need to get local 'root' to change their local machine environment and tools like 'sudo' and 'su' enable management.
.... no failure, last reboot elective kernel upgrade.
BUT the MAGIC point, always mis-understood by Windows shops is 'If you leave it alone, it defaults to secure'
My laptop, is on the real net almost all the time running modified SuSE 11.0, no firewall, has been up for 10.5 days, thousands of penetration attempts, including RPC, ssh probes
You can send all those lock down boys home, and make your users happier.
Answer, the Judges starting with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, colligially, and donward through Federal and State Appelate courts and on to benches of judges of first instance, and note precedence does not apply.
To have it any other way would undermine the separation of powers under Federal and State Constitutions.
This is why it is in the mess it is in, so what is needed is a good administratively minded Supreme Court judge, with and understanding of IT and modern technologies to clean it up. Hopefully a priority for an Obama appointment.
Nonsequitur at it's finest ???
... ",
Nonsense, I am making structural points about good corporate governance.
You are Astroturfing.
It is time for Industry and Corporations to get on and innovate, not squabble, like hyenas on the corpse of long dead, and non-innovative turf marking whose engenderment and existance are the result of Congress passing silly legislation and the USPTO accepting so much dumb, obvious junk.
Again a failure to regulate and efficiently monitor the regulators. Get it? Banking, SEC, Anti Trust at Justice, Energy Policy at Commerce, Stem Cell Research and Id Policy arm-twisting by the Federal Government are not isolated, they are connected by political dogma, and so are these anti Open Source patent cases, in none of which the plaint survives any serious scrutiny and are, I am sure, motivated by M$ greed and its repetious need to "Do some Evil Today".
Note, I do not seek to prove malfeasance, that is for Justice and the Attornys General, the point is that "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck
and we have regulators to distinguish ducks from swans and indite the ducks!
Sorry to reply to myself, but of course, the Bilski decision means that
... discloses no reasonable cause of action" and can dismiss the action at the interlocutory phase therby stopping the Trolls in their tracks.
(a) in TomTom, the (V)FAT patents fail the test
(b) in Software Tree LLC, the wording of the patent, on its face
means that a Master (Magistrate Judge in US) can decide, on the pleadings, that the plaint "
I am sorry, it has every relevance, I dont know where you spend your time, but M$ is a convicted corporate anti-trust criminal in both the US and EU. Had government sponsored corruption and purchased political influence peddling not intervened the problem would have been solved 10 years ago and people like Software Tree LLC would realise that meritless and vexatious litigation would just get them a huge bill.
I make two quite separate points:
1. I do not trust coincidence hand have been in the business long enough to recognize a corporate FUD campaign, which is just what this is, a mile away. The fact that you instantly Astroturfed my comment simply confirms my opinion.
2. Unless, like many in the US you dont get it, we, the rest of the World have had more than enough of your criminally corrupt business practices, stupid ideas like IP and strong arming other governments and international bodies. OOXML and ISO anybody?
The underlying theme is that a flacid US legal system, without say 'Costs in cause' but also strict time limits harms everyone. Someone, say the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, needs to take on the task of revising the Civil Procedure Rules to stop people gaming the system. In Switzerland it wouldnt last a day and in the UK, also anglo-saxon common law the defendant could move for dismissal as 'frivalous and vexatious and showing no reasonable cause of action' and a Master, subject to Appeal of course, would simply dismiss the action. Timeline 56 days, not years like SCO. This is terribly serious since the legal system must act as arbitrator of seroius enforcement.
The same is true with the SEC, Wall Street and the markets, stupid and corrupt de-regulation did not, as advertised, free the market. It opened up a playground for crooks, con-men and egotistical idiots.
The rules you have now (a) allowing short selling without up-tick, and (b) Mark-to-Market form the basis for a perpetual motion machine to export taxpayers money into traders hands, why do you think the market is volatile?
If the entire US regulatory system, SEC + Justice + Courts were doing their job it would be credibly understood that the next guy failing to deliver on a (naked) short sell would spend 25-life in Fort Levenworth the market would calm in a few weeks. Both the President and the Congress need to properly uphold their oaths of office and help clean up this mess so efficiency and competence rule, without partizanship and delay.
Anti-trust, and perjury are serious, and it is only politics that kept some senior members of the M$ board out of jail. They have two strikes against them already!
There is a distinct sense of __non__coincedence__ in the air, the stink of M$ and rotten US corporatism and lack of effective regulation and enforcement of honest transparent business practices.
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In spite of what Rob Endele has said this is enemy action, "Once is coincedence
The US legal system, as I have said before, needs to brace up and get its act together on vexatious corporate litigation and to adopt the 'Costs in cause' rule so small defendants with a strong case will always defend. I look to senior academic lawyers, and the appelate benches of the Federal Appeal Circuit and the Supreme Court, which does not require legislation or a specific case but can be delt with by practice direction, to take a lead on this.
Those responsible for business competitiveness, especially in the EU need to do more. At minimum re-opening the M$ anti-trust investigations which I hope TomTom press for, from the Netherands. The State Attorneys and US Justice Department should also re-open the Anti-Trust suit compliance issue, especially after the discovered and proven complicity of M$ in the meritless SCO litigation.
The EU should also raise this as a WTO issue. Indeed the rational reaction is to say to US "We will hold all enforcement and co-operation on IP issues until you have reformed your broken Patent and Copyright systems" and stand firmly against term extension as the rest of the world needs the innovation effect of time limited IP rights. We should no-longer tolerate the East Texas fiasco and put as much back pressure on the US to end this legal corruption, which is, by no-means, too strong a description.
This can be effected by amicus-curia briefs by Commerce and Justice and by making it clear to these judges that all their decisions will be appealed until they resign or retire. They have done enough damage.
And no, after the Economic Crisis largely created by US corporate malfeasance, greed and lack of transperency the rest of the world needs to say 'enough' loudly, and refuse to toady or further pander to the economic nonsense, from the lunatic right, in Washington, which has done so much to damage the world economy.
US Citizens who voted for Obama need to remind his administration of the open 48 hour Bill pledge, which would rid you of this crap once and for all. At a time when the Congress has the lowest approval in history, and the only thing that has real bi-partisan support is shady Washington business-as-usual it is time for all US citizens to send the Hill a message - That they will not stand for it!
I agree, history and sociology of hard science, Mathematics, ideas and philosophy are __very__ important, as is understanding of intuitional, inductive and deductive reasoning in __everything__, NOT ONLY Mathematics. That is one of the reasons why Professional Teachers teach Math and Science so poorly. You have to like it and want to understand it yourself to teach it properly. I was fortunate to have two excellent teachers, an Oxford 2nd Wrangler and one of Fred Hoyles postdocs, and most of what they taught me was how to develop the skill to guess well, ie intuition.This leads to the debate as to whether we invent or discover Mathematics, and how far the answer extends to other sciences. E T Bell's book is good, and so is the History of Mathematics (3 volume opus, for the school library) the Mathematical Dictionary is good as is Wiki. Hard Math is usually of quite good quality.
... not say things three times ;-).
... that's a bit unkind, especially these days. If they can, and are bright, you will find you only have to spark the fire. Then they will read/think/learn faster than you can imagine, and come ask you difficult questions! This can happen at __really__ young ages, 15-25 is the top of the game.
...] and Applied [Cosmology, Quantum Theory, Relativity ... ] and are different cats!
... but especially true in Mathematics/Science.
The trick is to interest and stretch your students without loosing them, which like all good teaching, requires sensitivity, ruthlessness, and good judgement. Another thing is the Maturity and Ability to Think Abstractly of each individual student. Mathematical maturity can begin by in 1/2 grade and be complete by 6 grade, though it normally happend 3-4 years later; once it does normal school lessons become useless and boring, you get it and it becomes intuitive, you read ahead, for yourself, and need teaches to answer hard questions,
If they cannot think, and visualize abstractly, and do not enjoy introspective intellectual challenges they will never develop a working math/science intuition and (I nearly joke) should do Chemistry or Biology
G.H. Hardy, of Trinity College, Cambridge wrote A Mathematician's Apology, his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics. The apology is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician written for the layman. He discovered and encouraged Srinivasa Ramanujan, a young brilliant Tamil student who later his collaborator.
The major problem with modern education is that it has the wrong goal and is not sufficiently differentiated. Why do I say this, well for me Mathematics and Hard Science, Cosmology, Physics, Physical Chemistry always came easily; I never went to Maths class after 11 and taught the Mathematics Scholarship class from 13-16, when I graduated. At the same time I was absolutely struggling in Modern languages. Now I live in Switzerland, and speak 5-6, in the worst case, and normally here, all at once! We say 'merci vielmal' in German (Schweizerdeutsch).
One thing you need to be aware of is that Mathematics(-ians) come in two favors Pure [logic, consistance
The key is interest, inform, challenge and convince the kid that "Yes you can understand", but sadly I feel that only works for teaches who also understand.
Finally, I must add that, if you teach, and are not yourself interested and good at the subject matter, dont waste your time. This is true for Languages, Economics
Let the Force, and the Source(FOSS) and your imagination, and commitment be with you, YES THEY CAN!, our students are our shared future.
I get so bored and annoyed by some of the silly advice here, I dont pracice law, but hold a Doktor Recht. I do consult on IP issues.
Both in the EU and USA patent requires originallity and is absolutely barred by prior art.
That means all you need to do is establish prior art in a copy(left|right)ed document and publish it, by donating a copy to a copyright library eg Library of Congress, University of Cambridge, Universität Basle for example.
The date of publication, entry into the public catalog establishes the prior art.
You do not need to patent, and if you do you (theoretically) publish the details of your invention. That is why there are so many un-patentable Trade Secrets.
This kind of lazy, unethical and CYA attitude is why we are economic melt-down.
You would find a fine place in a pre-meltdown bank, broker or rating agency.
This is also why the rest of the word will NEVER trust america again.
The EU competition court has put a stop to that one and this is also how Samba got all the M$ protocol interface documentation.
With the economic downturn you can expect IT to get more frugal and pain lusers quieter as pink slips abound.
I am getting increasingly annoyed, and bored, by the fact that everytime we have a M$ story here, especially with the Windows-7 run up we see the same band of M$ astroturfers generating noise here.
Character assassination, eg of Gutmann and Schneier and opinion/speculation is no substitute for clear numerate analysis and benchmarking.
Let me offer two opinions based on nearly 40 years of operating systems experience, starting with the EDSAC-II:
(a) No one whoc claims that DRM is only active for part of the time has never seen/understood the inside of a scheduler or device driver, at the very least the DRM system must protect itself.
(b) The memory bandwith considerations for multi-core are much more complicated, especially for HPC, than just NUMA, which itself is an old kludge mandated by earlier system designs. In a very real sense the NU.. is now always present, since caches are ubiquitous and mandatory and almost always layered and hardware managed. The is no particular benefit or reason to make the backing DRAM Non Uniform, quite the opposite!
Finally I remark that there are two very different situations depending on chip architecture eg Intel v AMD and the workload. With Intel, and the FSB, a limited bandwidth, to the NorthBridge is shared out between all the cores, which is why Intel is rapidly migrating away from the FSB architecture. By contrast, an 8 core AMD system, with two quad cores has twice the memory bandwidth (almost) as the single quad system (due to scheduling latency and interfearence) in the Hyperchannel
If your workload is essentially infinitely parallelisable then you can make your workload scale, slightly less, eg 0.8, with increasing cores _and_ by keeping idle time on all cores, your system will feel snappy and responsive eg for gaming and transaction processing.
If, for some logical or physical reasons, your problem has inherent limit on its parallelism then you have a much harder problem. Examples are the partial-differential equations of mathematical physics (Navier-Stokes, Heat, Elasticity) and directed stochastic processes use in asset pricing and (sensible) risk management things are much more complex and mostly depend on parallel algorithms and minimising latency. For much more detail see the Berkeley paper http://view.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Main_Page [The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley].
To cut to the chase M$ made a marketing choice, plumb DRM into the resource schedulers and IO system, even if hook based, as it should be, this must impact parallelism and introduce locking latency costs which must be paid all the time, and if done less that perfectly, will reduce scalability which will harm responsiveness.
So you pay so that M$ can cosy up to Hollywood, RIAA and MPAA, all of whom have problems with their business model. No amount of astroturf can put lipstick on this pig!
As Schneier keeps telling us obscurity dosnt help!
The 'hardware' may well be pork, and needs looking at after 8 years. This is probably one of the things that the COS (Emmanuel) should look at, since there are lots of other vital bits of government communication that look very old, and at the very least should be looked at with "Think outside the box" mentality.
I would start with having Schneier and Ross Anderson, from Cambridge, shaddow Obama and start with mobile-phone, netbook and the nuclear code football which limits choice and cuffs the President.
This kind of un-informed nonsense tells me that too many Americans believe their nonsense media:
... USA is barely hanging on in Europe, they dont argue, they just ignore you, and you have just suffered 8 years of that
Eg
1. Arthur Anderson is alive and well as Accenture.
2. Europe, Japan
None of us wants to bring back the _bad_ part of the old days, but your attitude is really stupid, if it is more complex, it is more important to do it right. I take, from your comments that you think that OO is the answer to a maiden's prayer and that you do not believe in prototyping and bottom-up feasability analysis.
... are crutches for those that wont think. Wordstar may be better for text input than Wordperfect. but nedit, kedit, joe ... would all do the job. I prefer vi (now vim) even on windows.
Simple, functional tools are almost always the best, especially for the non-technical non-specialist. Design patterns, use cases
Finally, the training argument is nonsense. If someone cannot learn the basics of using an editor in a day it or them need changing.
Finally the M$ approach leads to expensive crap, every time I see a document typeset in Word I cringe at the awfulness of it. Troff was better.
With so much labour how can they get such poor results?
No, your are not I have a n 3100 that I use to make calls, 4+ days idle +6h talk and likes my BMW and a n95 (1d, 2h) that I sometimes use at my desk or if I need a GPRS modem
This is the classic example of what is wrong with the splintered culture in the US. The SMART dinousour business men make a completely dumb decision because the go to the same country club, and still think all the sheeple will follow.