Actually, parent (literally!) said: "I don't understand why anyone feels that anything Woz says is important, meaningful, or relevant... [Dated an obscure comedian is] about the only accomplishment I can recall". So I'm not sure I get the "made no impact on the business world" meaning you're seeing... and even if I did get it, I sure don't agree with it.
"Wozniak was a key contributor and benefactor to the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose"
"Wozniak went into teaching (he taught fifth grade students) and charitable activities in the field of education."
"Wozniak founded a new venture called C.L. 9, which developed and brought the first universal TV remote control to market in 1987."
"In 2006...Wozniak co-founded Acquicor Technology, a shell company for acquiring technology companies and developing them"
If you think those aren't accomplishments that have impacted anything, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Though technically you also violated somebody else's copyright when you included that billboard in your picture. I mean, I'm glad you won and all, but...
Let's not forget that this is a computer (presumably) connected to the internet and you are dealing with an actual user account here. Make the password too weak and you risk exposing that account—God forbid you install some network service that decides the account "kitten" with the password "cake" should be allowed access.
Hopefully there is a well-configured firewall or two between this machine and the internet/wifi, but that's not always the case.
Um, I suppose if the MBR is not encrypted, your would-be crypto-cracker could get frustrated and just write junk all over your MBR. That could be annoying. I suppose there is some sort of security in your partition table being encrypted, but I'm not smart enough to figure out what that security is.
There are dozens of encryption software packages out there touting 'whole', 'full', and 'entire' disk encryption. They ALL require BIOS support. If TrueCrypt will encrypt the MBR on machines with the necessary support, they can certainly tout that feature. If they don't, well... then I agree. But I haven't seen anybody in here say one way or another that they or they don't support MBR encryption.
Even if an attacker stole your notebook and plugged it in to wake it up from 'sleep', then they should be faced with the standard windows login. If you've got a strong password, then they'll be there forever
Assuming all of the other accounts on that machine also have strong passwords and there aren't any unpatched-and-exploitable services running.
It isn't always about paying attention. I can't count the number of times I've been cut off by someone not using their turn signal because they had one hand on the steering wheel and the other jamming a phone into their ear.
We've also got to deal with the fact that MS bought (okay, okay, I guess they earned) themselves a whole host of young fanatics thanks to the Xbox. Drop in on an Xbox website and say something bad about MS and you'll see what I mean. These young people have probably seen very few BSODs in their short lifetimes.
Valid points. I spend a lot of time customizing my KDE environment to meet my usability needs, so perhaps that's why I don't see the same issuesor at least don't see them AS issues. Gnome's (and OS X's) strength is their usability right out of the 'box'. In KDE (and Windows, to a lesser degree) you need to take advantage of the options to edit the environment in order to improve the usability of the product.
This is precisely the reason I'm not upgrading to KDE 4 yet. The options to customize the DE to make it a little more usable just aren't there yet.
You can make any computer (with 512 mb of ram or more) feel like a mac with gnome
But I don't want my computer to feel like a Mac. That's why I use KDE (3.x; 4.0 IS a bit awkward ATM). Don't get me wrong, I don't hate on OSX. In respect to Usability (and UI design in general) they're (IMHO) killing every other DEBut when I bother booting up my Mac at home, I can only spend about fifteen minutes on it before I get irritated by the lack of options to customize any number of things. And Finder... oh wow I loathe that thing.
It should be noted that I definitely have issues with KDE as well, but none of those issues are in any way related to "awkward menus" or "button placement" or "unnatural organization". I'd be curious to know what you find so awkward about them?
"That's one app that I think it miles ahead of the windows counter-part" Not just the Windows counterparts. [IMHO] There isn't a library-based media player on ANY platform that Amarok doesn't put to shame.
Bear in mind that (despite all of its evils) Wal-Mart had a sizable role in pushing the CFLs out to a large chunk of the populace.
"Wal-Mart announced yesterday that the company has blown past an ambitious goal of selling 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs by the end of 2007 -- three months early"
I'll ignore the flame and respond to your (well hidden!) constructive criticisms instead: There are certainly 'degrees' of proprietaries at play here. Adobe, while often the bane of our existence, has been making more of an effort to cater [Flash] to non-Windows users than Microsoft has been making with [ANY of] their formats. So yeah, this is good news. It could always be better, but every victory has degrees.
It's less of a stretch to compare 'Nazi Death Camps' to 'Concentration Camps' then to compare Gitmo to 'Concentration Camps'.
Is it a stretch at all? Like it or not, there IS a definition of 'Concentration Camp'. And according to that definition, both the Nazi Death Camps and Gitmo qualify as such. If you disagree with the definition, well... that's your prerogative. But the definition exists and it is certainly worthy of mention in an academic discussion.
Less then 300 prisoners, not much of a concentration. Maybe we should call Guiness and tell them we've found the world's smallest 'Concentration Camp'. Also the most hospitable.
Actually, it looks like 'Tin Town' might have Gitmo beat on both counts.
Bear in mind that Hollywood's versions might be dumb because the writer and/or director probably hasn't been trained in basic computer forensics. And hasn't bothered finding a competent expert as a consultant.
Also, Hollywood's versions of the Police [when dealing with cryptology] are usually either IMPOSSIBLY good (crack the encryption within a few minutes) or really bad (typically when you're supposed to see them as incompetent, power-hungry jackasses).
It's costly, arduous and at times a deeply unsexy job of supporting customers day by day in launching phones. That's something there's very little experience of in Google's environment.
"if you are a serious phone maker and you are asked to bet your handsets on somebody, you would want to bet on someone with a track record of delivery and support.
They're not delivering the phones. They won't be supporting phone users directly. They'll be dealing directly with the hardware companies, which is NOT the same thing as supporting end users. The phone companies will be supporting the end users. If you need some help with your iPhone chances are you contact AT&T, NOT Apple.
Take some time to look at Virb (at http://www.virb.com). While still practically in a Beta state (it's just not all that _complete_), it's one of the first to offer the option to hook into the APIs of other social networks (flickr, odea, youtube, and twitter, to name just a few). If myspace/facebook/et al offerred APIs, I'm sure they'd jump on that too.
...But to load up a server with multiple instances of the same operating system is ludicrous. It certainly doesn't scale well at all...
Ah, but it probably does save a few thousand on hardware costs, which tends to be more important to the head honchos (who decide what checks get signed) than the possibility of being the victim of an exploit that might not ever be discovered. Cost savings is probably the number 1 reason virtualization is as popular as it is.
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Actually, parent (literally!) said: "I don't understand why anyone feels that anything Woz says is important, meaningful, or relevant... [Dated an obscure comedian is] about the only accomplishment I can recall". So I'm not sure I get the "made no impact on the business world" meaning you're seeing... and even if I did get it, I sure don't agree with it.
If you think those aren't accomplishments that have impacted anything, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Are you kidding? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak#Post-Apple_career
Though technically you also violated somebody else's copyright when you included that billboard in your picture. I mean, I'm glad you won and all, but...
Let's not forget that this is a computer (presumably) connected to the internet and you are dealing with an actual user account here. Make the password too weak and you risk exposing that account—God forbid you install some network service that decides the account "kitten" with the password "cake" should be allowed access.
Hopefully there is a well-configured firewall or two between this machine and the internet/wifi, but that's not always the case.
Um, I suppose if the MBR is not encrypted, your would-be crypto-cracker could get frustrated and just write junk all over your MBR. That could be annoying. I suppose there is some sort of security in your partition table being encrypted, but I'm not smart enough to figure out what that security is.
There are dozens of encryption software packages out there touting 'whole', 'full', and 'entire' disk encryption. They ALL require BIOS support. If TrueCrypt will encrypt the MBR on machines with the necessary support, they can certainly tout that feature. If they don't, well... then I agree. But I haven't seen anybody in here say one way or another that they or they don't support MBR encryption.
Assuming all of the other accounts on that machine also have strong passwords and there aren't any unpatched-and-exploitable services running.
ProSql might prove to be a difficult name change. There is already some OS X DB management software out there: http://www.scandariato.com/prosql/
It isn't always about paying attention. I can't count the number of times I've been cut off by someone not using their turn signal because they had one hand on the steering wheel and the other jamming a phone into their ear.
Actually, I think the BBC story was directly sourced from the Royal Botanic Gardens story.
Better pictures and more info at the Royal Botanic Gardens website:
http://www.kew.org/scihort/news/new_palm_genus.html
We've also got to deal with the fact that MS bought (okay, okay, I guess they earned) themselves a whole host of young fanatics thanks to the Xbox. Drop in on an Xbox website and say something bad about MS and you'll see what I mean. These young people have probably seen very few BSODs in their short lifetimes.
Valid points. I spend a lot of time customizing my KDE environment to meet my usability needs, so perhaps that's why I don't see the same issuesor at least don't see them AS issues. Gnome's (and OS X's) strength is their usability right out of the 'box'. In KDE (and Windows, to a lesser degree) you need to take advantage of the options to edit the environment in order to improve the usability of the product.
This is precisely the reason I'm not upgrading to KDE 4 yet. The options to customize the DE to make it a little more usable just aren't there yet.
But I don't want my computer to feel like a Mac. That's why I use KDE (3.x; 4.0 IS a bit awkward ATM). Don't get me wrong, I don't hate on OSX. In respect to Usability (and UI design in general) they're (IMHO) killing every other DEBut when I bother booting up my Mac at home, I can only spend about fifteen minutes on it before I get irritated by the lack of options to customize any number of things. And Finder... oh wow I loathe that thing.
It should be noted that I definitely have issues with KDE as well, but none of those issues are in any way related to "awkward menus" or "button placement" or "unnatural organization". I'd be curious to know what you find so awkward about them?
Bear in mind that (despite all of its evils) Wal-Mart had a sizable role in pushing the CFLs out to a large chunk of the populace.
"Wal-Mart announced yesterday that the company has blown past an ambitious goal of selling 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs by the end of 2007 -- three months early"
Google "Wal-Mart CFL"
I'll ignore the flame and respond to your (well hidden!) constructive criticisms instead: There are certainly 'degrees' of proprietaries at play here. Adobe, while often the bane of our existence, has been making more of an effort to cater [Flash] to non-Windows users than Microsoft has been making with [ANY of] their formats. So yeah, this is good news. It could always be better, but every victory has degrees.
Is it a stretch at all? Like it or not, there IS a definition of 'Concentration Camp'. And according to that definition, both the Nazi Death Camps and Gitmo qualify as such. If you disagree with the definition, well... that's your prerogative. But the definition exists and it is certainly worthy of mention in an academic discussion.
Less then 300 prisoners, not much of a concentration. Maybe we should call Guiness and tell them we've found the world's smallest 'Concentration Camp'. Also the most hospitable.Actually, it looks like 'Tin Town' might have Gitmo beat on both counts.
Bear in mind that Hollywood's versions might be dumb because the writer and/or director probably hasn't been trained in basic computer forensics. And hasn't bothered finding a competent expert as a consultant.
Also, Hollywood's versions of the Police [when dealing with cryptology] are usually either IMPOSSIBLY good (crack the encryption within a few minutes) or really bad (typically when you're supposed to see them as incompetent, power-hungry jackasses).
Take some time to look at Virb (at http://www.virb.com). While still practically in a Beta state (it's just not all that _complete_), it's one of the first to offer the option to hook into the APIs of other social networks (flickr, odea, youtube, and twitter, to name just a few). If myspace/facebook/et al offerred APIs, I'm sure they'd jump on that too.
Ah, but it probably does save a few thousand on hardware costs, which tends to be more important to the head honchos (who decide what checks get signed) than the possibility of being the victim of an exploit that might not ever be discovered. Cost savings is probably the number 1 reason virtualization is as popular as it is.
And the ads don't slow things down at all?
Also, don't the adds call some sort of script? I wouldn't call that static.
Yeah, well... I'VE pitched at least 11 accounts. AND I was around here before CmdrTaco!