Key word in the text was "neophyte". Since this is her first at running such a big outfit, and since she has scant time to get it rolling again in a profitable direction, she takes shelter in what she knows. However, the employee base she gets is radically different than that at Google. No ultra-picked pack of uber-nerds that need scant supervision, much less handholding to whip up a frenzy of new products. The legendary Google work environment is tailored to such an employee base and letting loose a less motivated and focused group in so many distractions can be very risky. If things spiral out of control, Yahoo will circle even faster down the drain and her tenure may even establish a shortness record.
There are a lot of culprits. The risk-averse music business mafia, the declining mental prowess of so-called "musicians" with brains fried on too much drugs, the increasingly tone-deaf younger consumers with ears shot by too many nights at the disco or dance club, the dying out older consumers who could discern the shit being sold today and refuse to buy it. A perfect storm, actually.
Pretty soon polyphony will be a rarity, with "songs" being just words being monotonically grunted out by rappers and the like to the rythmn of a drum or two. A scene worthy of a neolithic cave. Wonder if there will be any Gregorian monks left to lift us out of such dire straits.
Was gonna flippantly reply "if human is a healthy, reasonably young member of the species in all five senses and with sufficent experience, computer should stand back, else the old fart should RIDE in the back."
But then someone mentioned planes. Anyone up to date with the news and who read the final BEA report on the Air France crash in the South Atlantic with 200+ dead will recall that the primary cause was lack of crew preparedness. Dumb pilots who couldn't fly a plane? Yes, but not cause of their choice.The airline chose to invest more in wiz-bang automated avionic wizardry instead of proper and traditional pilot training; pilots were just for show and just expensive chauffeurs who drove the plane in and out of the landing/takeoff strip, rest of the time the thing flew itself. Until the circumstances got beyond the capabilities of the dumb computer who panicked and handed over the controls to the pilots, who had no idea how to fly a big airliner out of a high altitude stall by the seat of the pants with minimal instruments cause they had never been trained to do so.
Given that there are WAY more cars, SUVs and trucks than planes, let's make sure this situation does not repeat itself in our streets and roads. How many young drivers know how to pull a motor vehicle out of a spin in an icy road, emergency brake successfully in a pouring thunderstorm, etc.?
Safari 5.1.7 is installed AFTER upgrading the OS to 10.7.4. The ~400MB delta or ~1.3GB combo updates applied thru Software Update (700MB delta / 1.55GB combo if downloaded as standalone updaters) bring Safari to 5.1.6 and patch a slew of other pending issues. Then you can run Software Update again and install the ~35MB Safari 5.1.7 update.
As for the disabling of vulnerable versions of third-party software, worth noting that a couple of weeks back during the FlashBack Trojan affaire, after installing the security updates that brought the problem to a halt, the Java browser plugin was disabled by default, the user would need to manually enable it when needed, and it would auto-disable itself again after a few days of inactivity.
Late last Wednesday 9 May 2012, Apple released the OS X 10.7.4 update for both the client and server editions of the OS, that corrects this error and closes this security vulnerability, amongst other issues. The update is available thru the standard automated Software Update channel as a delta update for 10.7.3 users or as a combo update for all 10.7.x users, or as downloadable updaters found in http://support.apple.com/downloads/#macosandsoftware The delta update is around 400MB (700 for the standalone downloadable) and the combo update is around 1.3GB (1.55 for the standalone downloadable). From the official blurb:
The 10.7.4 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac including fixes that: Resolve an issue where the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards Address an issue that may prevent files from being saved to a server Improve the reliability of copying files to an SMB server For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5167. For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
Those drives must have a curse on them. Wasn't Hitachi the recipient of IBM's failed Storage Division, whose infamous DeskStar drives were prone to failure after about a year of usage?
And, in the case of the restaurants, sure bet that the 4 latecomers were opened by former cooks, waiters, hosts from the first, who stole the clientele list or the recipe book.
Goes to prove yet again how the "free market", that weird beast so idolized by economists, is such a fickle creature. Cause after over several months underwater, there is NO way you are gonna get a clean room facility up to snuff & speed in a matter of days. Of course, now that the excuse is over, all the hoarding speculators are trembling in fear of getting stuck with their huge stockpile and will start to desperately flood the market.
In spite of Apple's best efforts, the GUI is still much connected to cultural artifacts and, hence, is very difficult to come up with a Universal GUI understood and liked by all. There are, granted, some universal constructs, but these seem to be of a very general nature and you quickly run into a wall when digging into the specifics.
I would like to dream that a beneficial effect of globalization will be that us humans will eventually come to a common understanding. Maybe my great grandchildren will live long enough to see that, I we don't blow ourselves up first. Oh, and I have to get working on engendering a few kids first...:p
Worth noting that, keeping in line with maximizing a forced adoption of the latest cat, the fix is only available for those using the latest version of Snow Leopard or Lion. At least at this time (5 PM CDT, 9 Sep 2011) the rest of the MacOS universe can go suck an egg...
Just like the case of adopting Lion. If you want to skip a cat and not have to pay for Snow Leopard, tough luck, compadre. Lion ONLY installs on top of Snow Leopard.
FYI, Mexico passed the "LEY FEDERAL DE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS PERSONALES EN POSESIÓN DE LOS PARTICULARES" or "federal law for the protection of personal data in the hands of third parties " (official decree page in Spanish: http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5150631&fecha=05/07/2010), which is scheduled to go in effect on Jan/2012. This law is equivalent to the US legislation and was probably a mandatory development in line with NAFTA and other international agreements.
BTW, this has proven to be a big business opportunity for the likes of IBM and others, as all responsible companies in Mexico scramble to comply by the deadline.
I can't believe the droves of geeks orbiting the/slashdot cyberverse did NOT MENTION IPv6!!
Ok, not anticipated but something dreaded and inevitable. Any and all products, hardware or software, needed to make IPv6 work across the board will be an inescapable necessity. Latest projection (10 min ago) indicates the last few unassigned bits of IPv4 address space will be gone before February is out.
Yes, cute, we've slashdotted the OpenBSD foundation.... Well... at least they're getting the attention they so justly deserve after the unwavering effort!
How comes that, after a Microsloth lackey talks about "rethinking OS's" and gets everyone hot and horny with mental masturbations of what needs to be done to that disgrace to Computer Sciences called Windows, not a single mention has been made to the fact that Sun Microsystems developed the Niagara processor, with 8 cores capable of running 4 concurrent threads each, for a massive total of 32 concurrent threads in a single chip. And how the Solaris O.S. has evolved to a massively multithreaded system capable of using that processing capability. And how that was done in the past century. But since at the time Microsloth was too busy extorting our money with Lentium single core/thread processors, all that technology was conveniently ignored. Now that the low hanging fruit is gone and the going's rough, they will want us to believe they "invented" together with their Intel cohorts the multicore/multithread/paralell processing idea so they can raise the price of Windoze 8?
Beware that the first time you run Chrome, it will install their Keystone auto-update facility, with which Google feels free to update whatever they want, whenever they want and however they want. Even when you're not running the browser, as the Keystone agent will launch itself automatically at system boot.
And let's not forget the current Mexican Administration, hellbent on establishing a special tax on all telecommunications: cell and landline telephony, internet access, the works.
A few weeks back there was an article on how the growth of Wikipedia had levelled off. The average rate of new/expanded/revised articles was tapering off in most subject areas. And that was with an "open" Wikipedia. Now if contributors are going to have to go thru the hoops to get something "approved" by editors appointed thru an obscure process and who might niggle on subject, content, extent or style, that sounds like a good recipe for stagnation.
AH, the Great Depression of 2009 has finally hit the 'pedia...
> Probably the most surprising element of the Apple update is the overall size of it; 442MB for the point update, and 729MB for the ComboUpdate."
Well, the Server version of the Combo updater runs close to the whole GB. In other words, it would seem the patch is virtually overwriting the entire OS.
Wonder if the the Vista patch is doing the same, overwriting with Windows 7?:D
Ok, so Galois has decided that, given the depressed economy, a few extra potential customers might be a good idea. Cause what you get is just the concept of the language. Whatever your bright mind may decide to do with it will remain bottled up until you pay for the full COMMERCIAL product, since what you download for free just lets you see that "gee, whiz, this might work in the Real World when I pay for the whole shebang...". And, given the origins of the product, I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of caveats as to who's on the DOD/NSA/CIA worthy-of-using-cryptol list.
Innovation: the customized jet engines on the plane he flew around the world. In a world of dwindling energy supplies, anything that runs more for less is more than welcome.
Round the world after the fourth try. Now we know THREE different ways that don't work. Like Edison inventing the incandescent light bulb: tried dunno how many times til he got it right.
But yes, for us common folks struggling to make ends meet, it is galling to watch this rich snob garner public attention time and again. But if the stuff he has to come up with to get his jollies and which cost him a pretty penny, eventually trickles down to something that makes my life easier/safer/better, I'm quite willing to swallow my pride and tolerate his being a media whore.
Given that NASA has not come up with much innovation lately (and probably won't in a spell, given the economic doldrums) and the fact that the War on Terror doesn't seem to be generating the level of innovation that the Cold War did, having to develop the technology that allows people like Fossett to accomplish their exploits can be an alternate source of knowledge and expertise in materials, technology and finished products. And that kind of innovation is the only thing that will save us from ourselves and all the crap we've done lately.
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Key word in the text was "neophyte". Since this is her first at running such a big outfit, and since she has scant time to get it rolling again in a profitable direction, she takes shelter in what she knows. However, the employee base she gets is radically different than that at Google. No ultra-picked pack of uber-nerds that need scant supervision, much less handholding to whip up a frenzy of new products. The legendary Google work environment is tailored to such an employee base and letting loose a less motivated and focused group in so many distractions can be very risky. If things spiral out of control, Yahoo will circle even faster down the drain and her tenure may even establish a shortness record.
There are a lot of culprits. The risk-averse music business mafia, the declining mental prowess of so-called "musicians" with brains fried on too much drugs, the increasingly tone-deaf younger consumers with ears shot by too many nights at the disco or dance club, the dying out older consumers who could discern the shit being sold today and refuse to buy it. A perfect storm, actually.
Pretty soon polyphony will be a rarity, with "songs" being just words being monotonically grunted out by rappers and the like to the rythmn of a drum or two. A scene worthy of a neolithic cave. Wonder if there will be any Gregorian monks left to lift us out of such dire straits.
Was gonna flippantly reply "if human is a healthy, reasonably young member of the species in all five senses and with sufficent experience, computer should stand back, else the old fart should RIDE in the back."
But then someone mentioned planes. Anyone up to date with the news and who read the final BEA report on the Air France crash in the South Atlantic with 200+ dead will recall that the primary cause was lack of crew preparedness. Dumb pilots who couldn't fly a plane? Yes, but not cause of their choice.The airline chose to invest more in wiz-bang automated avionic wizardry instead of proper and traditional pilot training; pilots were just for show and just expensive chauffeurs who drove the plane in and out of the landing/takeoff strip, rest of the time the thing flew itself. Until the circumstances got beyond the capabilities of the dumb computer who panicked and handed over the controls to the pilots, who had no idea how to fly a big airliner out of a high altitude stall by the seat of the pants with minimal instruments cause they had never been trained to do so.
Given that there are WAY more cars, SUVs and trucks than planes, let's make sure this situation does not repeat itself in our streets and roads. How many young drivers know how to pull a motor vehicle out of a spin in an icy road, emergency brake successfully in a pouring thunderstorm, etc.?
And it takes the well known hacker defacement "yow haz b33n Pwned!" to a whole new level......
Safari 5.1.7 is installed AFTER upgrading the OS to 10.7.4. The ~400MB delta or ~1.3GB combo updates applied thru Software Update (700MB delta / 1.55GB combo if downloaded as standalone updaters) bring Safari to 5.1.6 and patch a slew of other pending issues. Then you can run Software Update again and install the ~35MB Safari 5.1.7 update.
As for the disabling of vulnerable versions of third-party software, worth noting that a couple of weeks back during the FlashBack Trojan affaire, after installing the security updates that brought the problem to a halt, the Java browser plugin was disabled by default, the user would need to manually enable it when needed, and it would auto-disable itself again after a few days of inactivity.
Late last Wednesday 9 May 2012, Apple released the OS X 10.7.4 update for both the client and server editions of the OS, that corrects this error and closes this security vulnerability, amongst other issues. The update is available thru the standard automated Software Update channel as a delta update for 10.7.3 users or as a combo update for all 10.7.x users, or as downloadable updaters found in http://support.apple.com/downloads/#macosandsoftware The delta update is around 400MB (700 for the standalone downloadable) and the combo update is around 1.3GB (1.55 for the standalone downloadable). From the official blurb:
The 10.7.4 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac including fixes that:
Resolve an issue where the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled
Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards
Address an issue that may prevent files from being saved to a server
Improve the reliability of copying files to an SMB server
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5167.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
Those drives must have a curse on them. Wasn't Hitachi the recipient of IBM's failed Storage Division, whose infamous DeskStar drives were prone to failure after about a year of usage?
And, in the case of the restaurants, sure bet that the 4 latecomers were opened by former cooks, waiters, hosts from the first, who stole the clientele list or the recipe book.
Goes to prove yet again how the "free market", that weird beast so idolized by economists, is such a fickle creature. Cause after over several months underwater, there is NO way you are gonna get a clean room facility up to snuff & speed in a matter of days. Of course, now that the excuse is over, all the hoarding speculators are trembling in fear of getting stuck with their huge stockpile and will start to desperately flood the market.
Almost sounds like a trick question.
In spite of Apple's best efforts, the GUI is still much connected to cultural artifacts and, hence, is very difficult to come up with a Universal GUI understood and liked by all. There are, granted, some universal constructs, but these seem to be of a very general nature and you quickly run into a wall when digging into the specifics.
I would like to dream that a beneficial effect of globalization will be that us humans will eventually come to a common understanding. Maybe my great grandchildren will live long enough to see that, I we don't blow ourselves up first. Oh, and I have to get working on engendering a few kids first... :p
Worth noting that, keeping in line with maximizing a forced adoption of the latest cat, the fix is only available for those using the latest version of Snow Leopard or Lion. At least at this time (5 PM CDT, 9 Sep 2011) the rest of the MacOS universe can go suck an egg...
Just like the case of adopting Lion. If you want to skip a cat and not have to pay for Snow Leopard, tough luck, compadre. Lion ONLY installs on top of Snow Leopard.
FYI, Mexico passed the "LEY FEDERAL DE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS PERSONALES EN POSESIÓN DE LOS PARTICULARES" or "federal law for the protection of personal data in the hands of third parties " (official decree page in Spanish: http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5150631&fecha=05/07/2010), which is scheduled to go in effect on Jan/2012. This law is equivalent to the US legislation and was probably a mandatory development in line with NAFTA and other international agreements.
BTW, this has proven to be a big business opportunity for the likes of IBM and others, as all responsible companies in Mexico scramble to comply by the deadline.
I can't believe the droves of geeks orbiting the /slashdot cyberverse did NOT MENTION IPv6!!
Ok, not anticipated but something dreaded and inevitable. Any and all products, hardware or software, needed to make IPv6 work across the board will be an inescapable necessity. Latest projection (10 min ago) indicates the last few unassigned bits of IPv4 address space will be gone before February is out.
See here: http://inetcore.com/project/ipv4ec/index_en.html
Yes, cute, we've slashdotted the OpenBSD foundation.... Well... at least they're getting the attention they so justly deserve after the unwavering effort!
Fags and fruits????
How comes that, after a Microsloth lackey talks about "rethinking OS's" and gets everyone hot and horny with mental masturbations of what needs to be done to that disgrace to Computer Sciences called Windows, not a single mention has been made to the fact that Sun Microsystems developed the Niagara processor, with 8 cores capable of running 4 concurrent threads each, for a massive total of 32 concurrent threads in a single chip. And how the Solaris O.S. has evolved to a massively multithreaded system capable of using that processing capability. And how that was done in the past century. But since at the time Microsloth was too busy extorting our money with Lentium single core/thread processors, all that technology was conveniently ignored. Now that the low hanging fruit is gone and the going's rough, they will want us to believe they "invented" together with their Intel cohorts the multicore/multithread/paralell processing idea so they can raise the price of Windoze 8?
Beware that the first time you run Chrome, it will install their Keystone auto-update facility, with which Google feels free to update whatever they want, whenever they want and however they want. Even when you're not running the browser, as the Keystone agent will launch itself automatically at system boot.
You have been warned.
And let's not forget the current Mexican Administration, hellbent on establishing a special tax on all telecommunications: cell and landline telephony, internet access, the works.
A few weeks back there was an article on how the growth of Wikipedia had levelled off. The average rate of new/expanded/revised articles was tapering off in most subject areas. And that was with an "open" Wikipedia. Now if contributors are going to have to go thru the hoops to get something "approved" by editors appointed thru an obscure process and who might niggle on subject, content, extent or style, that sounds like a good recipe for stagnation.
AH, the Great Depression of 2009 has finally hit the 'pedia...
> Probably the most surprising element of the Apple update is the overall size of it; 442MB for the point update, and 729MB for the ComboUpdate."
Well, the Server version of the Combo updater runs close to the whole GB. In other words, it would seem the patch is virtually overwriting the entire OS.
Wonder if the the Vista patch is doing the same, overwriting with Windows 7? :D
Ok, so Galois has decided that, given the depressed economy, a few extra potential customers might be a good idea. Cause what you get is just the concept of the language. Whatever your bright mind may decide to do with it will remain bottled up until you pay for the full COMMERCIAL product, since what you download for free just lets you see that "gee, whiz, this might work in the Real World when I pay for the whole shebang...". And, given the origins of the product, I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of caveats as to who's on the DOD/NSA/CIA worthy-of-using-cryptol list.
Good riddance.
I'll roast marshmallows over a fire made with my SCO Linux install CD's...
Ok, I'll bite...
Innovation: the customized jet engines on the plane he flew around the world. In a world of dwindling energy supplies, anything that runs more for less is more than welcome.
Round the world after the fourth try. Now we know THREE different ways that don't work. Like Edison inventing the incandescent light bulb: tried dunno how many times til he got it right.
But yes, for us common folks struggling to make ends meet, it is galling to watch this rich snob garner public attention time and again. But if the stuff he has to come up with to get his jollies and which cost him a pretty penny, eventually trickles down to something that makes my life easier/safer/better, I'm quite willing to swallow my pride and tolerate his being a media whore.
No, Unix doesn't crash. He was running Windows for Airplanes and got a BSOD....
Given that NASA has not come up with much innovation lately (and probably won't in a spell, given the economic doldrums) and the fact that the War on Terror doesn't seem to be generating the level of innovation that the Cold War did, having to develop the technology that allows people like Fossett to accomplish their exploits can be an alternate source of knowledge and expertise in materials, technology and finished products. And that kind of innovation is the only thing that will save us from ourselves and all the crap we've done lately.