What about us ? I mean if you go up in a space shuttle (I mean like real human transport) or suborbital/orbital transport vehicles (I imagine this is not too far away either) then wouldn't it be easier to navigate among a few dozen larger satellites than among some hundred/thousand smaller ones ?
Ok, as from someone who is in thie "business" of research, and papers "creation", you have to know, that there is no perfect idea, there is no perfect solution, there is no perfect paper. But this is not the goal, either. Conferences and conference papers are there to provide a ground for scientists to make their latest stuff public and let it be chewed and digested by others. It's after many iterations and discussions and quarrels sometimes, when one either gets to a point when the re- and re-corrected idea seems to work ok, or it turns out to be useless junk although it seemed like being good at first.
I read many papers, I don't know numbers, but many dozens in a month. Usually I don't care if they seem good or bad, if they are correct or not. The ideas therein are what matter. Sometimes you get ideas on how to improve an old idea, sometimes you get new ideas from older papers. sometimes it's just nice to know what others are doing.
The matter is very much different when you have to review papers, but the seriousness of that review also depends very much on how much time you have, possible IRL problems, etc., but that's why there are >=3 reviewers+associate editor assigned to the paper at most of the serious journals.
Stating such things as a certain percent of all papers are crap is just crazy sh*t. It happens very seldom that I read a published (conference or journal) paper and I think it was useless. Anyway, if it would be true that would mean that this guy's paper is also half useless. You are free to choose which half:P
...is that your windows pc can get infected also only by buying and using a portable digital music player. Now that sounds like fun, doesn't it:) Flame me below a frog's behind, I'm still having fun with this:P
Microsoft could probably find one negative line on Linux in a 100-page research report that it would spend $10 million marketing while ignoring the other 99 pages
Correct. You know, if it talks like a duck and it walks like a duck then go on. Why would any new campaign they do be any different than they did up to now ? Nuff said.
Most users don't care whether it's opensourced or cross-platform. However lots of users know about 1% of Word's features and will have trouble learning a new interface.
I don't mean to be rude, but that tells as much about the users, as it does about Microsoft. Computer usage is not about being chained to a particular piece of software. Of course 99% of computer using people are not even close to knowing enough to be able to comprehend the situation.
There are many situations where cross platform compatibility is an issue, and like it or not, Microsoft has absolutely nothing to deliver in that area.
And also, believe it or not, there are tools out there that are far superior to anything Microsoft has to deliver on the word processing front. That is e.g. tetex/elatex+kile on linux and e.g. miktex+texniccenter on windows. Besides these I only use openoffice.org and koffice for quite a while now, and I'm quite happy with them.
I personally will not ever again start writing important 50-100-... pages length documents with many figures, tables and images in word. I've had my fair share of s*cking with it, and I wouldn't especially want to it again.
No I didn't. My favourite tools for windows protection are the free avast av and kerio firewall. That's it. Still, half of my days and all weekends are spent in Debian land, thankyouverymuch.
As for the above replies, all I can say is I find them amusingly interesting:] That's all folks.
Maybe ViiV should be read like V2V (as in "v" "to" "v") for which I could make up any number of combinations with words starting with "v". Other than then, it look quite stupid.
Experience taught me that no av solution is good enough if it's just some string scanner. The best solutions I've come across are those which offer string search + resident protection + web shield + resident p2p/torrent and im scan + file hashing with file altering monitoring, and the whole combined with a good firewall. With time I have found the one for the first and one for the second task which I'm satisfied to the point that I quite rarely evaluate newly popped up solutions and install these every time. I won't name them 'cause I'm no free advertiser for nobody. I'm sure the thousands of security experts the/. crowd has:P will provide you with a gazillion of options to choose from:]
What I'd be interested in is minerals. I wouldn't send machinery and people there to search for bacteria. I'd send mining robots and automatic transport ground/space vehicles. Then I'd go for the gases on Jupiter.
Of course if I'd happen to see some crashed alien spaceship, I'd just move along, dropping a few pyromaniacs to enjoy their time:]
Saying the above proves nothing more than those that said it being weak and out of any other ideas. I guess nothing in today's PR and marketing scene can surprise me anymore. They see a company good in ideas, realisation, plans, people, cash, businness, vision, resources, then they look at each other and say "Man, this Google is evil. Or, at least, so damn arrogant. What do they think, they can get to world domination before us ? How dare they ?"
No single test is perfectly reliable, so we have to apply multiple tests.
No kidding. This guy probably needs a wake up call.
We know some IP addresses cannot be shared by one person. These are the ones that would require a person to move faster than possible. If we have one IP address in New York, then one in Tokyo 60 minutes later, we know it can't be the same person because you can't get from New York to Tokyo in one hour.
Ok, so this is what normally is called a really stupid argumentation. I don't say that it can't be accounted for, but stating such a thing is nothing more than plain stupidity. Has this guy ever heard about that Internet thing ?
Flash can report to the system all the cookies a machine has held.
Uhmm, not a great argument to make people use it.
No one wants to know.
I don't think they don't want to know. They just don't want to see a sudden drop of ~50% of their user count from a day to the other. And it really doesn't matter if it's the truth or not. A drop is a drop.
in becoming the industry syndication standard. Microsoft's inclusion of RSS into the newest version of Internet Explorer and reports that RSS will be in Longhorn's coming release appears to be the final nail in the coffin of the Atom specification
Yup, I have nothing more to add besides: smartass.
Ok, just one more thing: for such smartasses managed MS to be where it is by acting as it acted along the last two decades. Like "ms does it so it is the good thing, everything else sucks". Zealotry school.
So thing is, if it's my money, I decide who will design and build the damn building. And if one would just hint for such hinderences regarding _my_ building, I'd just take my money some other place.
So you saying it's as easy to develop rootkits for a closed source kernel as for a fully open source one ? Or vice versa ? With both you'd be wrong. I can't help wondering what more one could do [regarding windows rootkits] if the kernel source would be known...
Try searching for the word, "failure" in Google and check the results.
You can't honestly think that someone sane enough would use any kind of text-indexing database search engine for making a query like "query". That would render the whole concept of rdbms and some dozen years of cbir research instantly useless, since you would need to filter out all the relevant [relevant for you, that is] information all by yourself from the vast amounts of useless crap that a response for a query like "failure" would give. So, what was you point again ?
Really, can you HONESTLY say that/. and the internet and the computer me and you and everyone else is able to afford now was NOT a direct or indirect result of Microsoft and its products?
For the internet part I'd definitely say "no", for the computer part I'd say an as vague "maybe" as your formulation was ("direct or indirect result"). I'd think you need one more moment to rethink MS's patent pratices and it's role as a fast follower.
You wouldn't say that if it were your product that would turn out being patented by MS after you already sold >20 mil pieces of it. When you money is on the game, speculation is a word you should definitely not use.
...to see MS make money by not making the product, not selling it, but still making a profit from it because of those cents-to-bucks per item sold. The issue looks oh so familiar from MS's day one.
Of course if they waited with it so as to ket the ipods gain great enough share until they'll sue, that behavior could be rightly enough questioned I guess.
Thanks for making the rest of us pay inflated fees because you are too cheap to go to U-Haul and buy them like a normal person.
Ok, so "normal" means giving out money to some company when you can get the same or better for free. We're on Slashdot, go figure out the similarity of this situation on the OS front.
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What about us ? I mean if you go up in a space shuttle (I mean like real human transport) or suborbital/orbital transport vehicles (I imagine this is not too far away either) then wouldn't it be easier to navigate among a few dozen larger satellites than among some hundred/thousand smaller ones ?
Ok, as from someone who is in thie "business" of research, and papers "creation", you have to know, that there is no perfect idea, there is no perfect solution, there is no perfect paper. But this is not the goal, either. Conferences and conference papers are there to provide a ground for scientists to make their latest stuff public and let it be chewed and digested by others. It's after many iterations and discussions and quarrels sometimes, when one either gets to a point when the re- and re-corrected idea seems to work ok, or it turns out to be useless junk although it seemed like being good at first.
:P
I read many papers, I don't know numbers, but many dozens in a month. Usually I don't care if they seem good or bad, if they are correct or not. The ideas therein are what matter. Sometimes you get ideas on how to improve an old idea, sometimes you get new ideas from older papers. sometimes it's just nice to know what others are doing.
The matter is very much different when you have to review papers, but the seriousness of that review also depends very much on how much time you have, possible IRL problems, etc., but that's why there are >=3 reviewers+associate editor assigned to the paper at most of the serious journals.
Stating such things as a certain percent of all papers are crap is just crazy sh*t. It happens very seldom that I read a published (conference or journal) paper and I think it was useless. Anyway, if it would be true that would mean that this guy's paper is also half useless. You are free to choose which half
...is that your windows pc can get infected also only by buying and using a portable digital music player. Now that sounds like fun, doesn't it :) Flame me below a frog's behind, I'm still having fun with this :P
Microsoft could probably find one negative line on Linux in a 100-page research report that it would spend $10 million marketing while ignoring the other 99 pages
Correct. You know, if it talks like a duck and it walks like a duck then go on. Why would any new campaign they do be any different than they did up to now ? Nuff said.
Most users don't care whether it's opensourced or cross-platform. However lots of users know about 1% of Word's features and will have trouble learning a new interface.
I don't mean to be rude, but that tells as much about the users, as it does about Microsoft. Computer usage is not about being chained to a particular piece of software. Of course 99% of computer using people are not even close to knowing enough to be able to comprehend the situation.
There are many situations where cross platform compatibility is an issue, and like it or not, Microsoft has absolutely nothing to deliver in that area.
And also, believe it or not, there are tools out there that are far superior to anything Microsoft has to deliver on the word processing front. That is e.g. tetex/elatex+kile on linux and e.g. miktex+texniccenter on windows. Besides these I only use openoffice.org and koffice for quite a while now, and I'm quite happy with them.
I personally will not ever again start writing important 50-100-... pages length documents with many figures, tables and images in word. I've had my fair share of s*cking with it, and I wouldn't especially want to it again.
No I didn't. My favourite tools for windows protection are the free avast av and kerio firewall. That's it. Still, half of my days and all weekends are spent in Debian land, thankyouverymuch.
:] That's all folks.
As for the above replies, all I can say is I find them amusingly interesting
Maybe ViiV should be read like V2V (as in "v" "to" "v") for which I could make up any number of combinations with words starting with "v". Other than then, it look quite stupid.
Experience taught me that no av solution is good enough if it's just some string scanner. The best solutions I've come across are those which offer string search + resident protection + web shield + resident p2p/torrent and im scan + file hashing with file altering monitoring, and the whole combined with a good firewall. With time I have found the one for the first and one for the second task which I'm satisfied to the point that I quite rarely evaluate newly popped up solutions and install these every time. I won't name them 'cause I'm no free advertiser for nobody. I'm sure the thousands of security experts the /. crowd has :P will provide you with a gazillion of options to choose from :]
What I'd be interested in is minerals. I wouldn't send machinery and people there to search for bacteria. I'd send mining robots and automatic transport ground/space vehicles. Then I'd go for the gases on Jupiter.
:]
Of course if I'd happen to see some crashed alien spaceship, I'd just move along, dropping a few pyromaniacs to enjoy their time
future of cross-platform development
... ... ...
You know, after a while, ignorance isn't even amusing anymore. gcc, nasm, qt, gtk, wxwidgets, more, then even more perl, python, ruby,
'You make a grown man cry' Yeah, I wonder why they didn't make this some golden script on MS's every Windows capmaign flag. Win9x in special.
coming across as arrogance
Saying the above proves nothing more than those that said it being weak and out of any other ideas. I guess nothing in today's PR and marketing scene can surprise me anymore. They see a company good in ideas, realisation, plans, people, cash, businness, vision, resources, then they look at each other and say "Man, this Google is evil. Or, at least, so damn arrogant. What do they think, they can get to world domination before us ? How dare they ?"
No single test is perfectly reliable, so we have to apply multiple tests.
No kidding. This guy probably needs a wake up call.
We know some IP addresses cannot be shared by one person. These are the ones that would require a person to move faster than possible. If we have one IP address in New York, then one in Tokyo 60 minutes later, we know it can't be the same person because you can't get from New York to Tokyo in one hour.
Ok, so this is what normally is called a really stupid argumentation. I don't say that it can't be accounted for, but stating such a thing is nothing more than plain stupidity. Has this guy ever heard about that Internet thing ?
Flash can report to the system all the cookies a machine has held.
Uhmm, not a great argument to make people use it.
No one wants to know.
I don't think they don't want to know. They just don't want to see a sudden drop of ~50% of their user count from a day to the other. And it really doesn't matter if it's the truth or not. A drop is a drop.
in becoming the industry syndication standard. Microsoft's inclusion of RSS into the newest version of Internet Explorer and reports that RSS will be in Longhorn's coming release appears to be the final nail in the coffin of the Atom specification
Yup, I have nothing more to add besides: smartass.
Ok, just one more thing: for such smartasses managed MS to be where it is by acting as it acted along the last two decades. Like "ms does it so it is the good thing, everything else sucks". Zealotry school.
So thing is, if it's my money, I decide who will design and build the damn building. And if one would just hint for such hinderences regarding _my_ building, I'd just take my money some other place.
As a long time Matrox fan I first skipped to the Matrox page, only to find out G550 is the last on the list. Now come on.
And other than that, it's just yet another chip comparison.
If hacker knowledge is outlawed
...everybody who seeks knowledge will be outlawed.
The same can go for the Linux kernel.
So you saying it's as easy to develop rootkits for a closed source kernel as for a fully open source one ? Or vice versa ? With both you'd be wrong. I can't help wondering what more one could do [regarding windows rootkits] if the kernel source would be known...
Try searching for the word, "failure" in Google and check the results.
You can't honestly think that someone sane enough would use any kind of text-indexing database search engine for making a query like "query". That would render the whole concept of rdbms and some dozen years of cbir research instantly useless, since you would need to filter out all the relevant [relevant for you, that is] information all by yourself from the vast amounts of useless crap that a response for a query like "failure" would give. So, what was you point again ?
Or at least fast forward/rewind within a song/track
There are plenty of them that can do that out there. Hell even my very first cheap as hell mp3 player could do that 5-6 years ago.
Really, can you HONESTLY say that /. and the internet and the computer me and you and everyone else is able to afford now was NOT a direct or indirect result of Microsoft and its products?
For the internet part I'd definitely say "no", for the computer part I'd say an as vague "maybe" as your formulation was ("direct or indirect result"). I'd think you need one more moment to rethink MS's patent pratices and it's role as a fast follower.
He may run the company, but he is hardly an engineer
Yeah. To say the least you could also do like Apple I,II,Lisa or the NeXt line in an eyeblink. I won't even go further.
all just loose speculation
You wouldn't say that if it were your product that would turn out being patented by MS after you already sold >20 mil pieces of it. When you money is on the game, speculation is a word you should definitely not use.
...to see MS make money by not making the product, not selling it, but still making a profit from it because of those cents-to-bucks per item sold. The issue looks oh so familiar from MS's day one.
Of course if they waited with it so as to ket the ipods gain great enough share until they'll sue, that behavior could be rightly enough questioned I guess.
Thanks for making the rest of us pay inflated fees because you are too cheap to go to U-Haul and buy them like a normal person.
Ok, so "normal" means giving out money to some company when you can get the same or better for free. We're on Slashdot, go figure out the similarity of this situation on the OS front.