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So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "
...As thousands of hackers asked The Grid... What is The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?
In the quarter ended in late November, Palm sold 602,000 Treos, nearing the 645,000 new subscriber accounts that RIM signed on in the same period.
Internally, Palm executives say they believe that the Treo will outsell BlackBerrys by the end of this year.
Here's what's happened so far:
1. Company's reliability goes into question 2. Consumers look for alternatives
This is what Palm is hoping is #3:
3. Competitors overtake market
However, this is what is really happening:
3. Company's reliability no longer in question 4. Consumers stop looking for alternatives
Yeah. Maybe they would have outsold Blackberrys had the lawsuit kept on chugging or RIM lost. Unfortunately for Palm, that did not happen. Whatever edge they had during the lawsuit is now gone. How can you predict continued growth when the market changed in the past month with the conclusion of the lawsuit?
The main power of GPL comes from copyright laws. First of all, his statement reeks of hypocricy. Besides, last time I checked, if I write something, it's mine to do whatever I want with. If I want to keep the source to myself or let others benefit from it, that's MY choice. If I want to destroy it or never look at it again, that's MY choice. Nobody has any right under any pretext to come over and forcably "liberate" my code. Slavery is the WRONG analogy. Slaves are people who are arbitrarily placed into servitude by people with more power.
The proper analogy is to normal property such as a house. Let's say I go out and buy a bunch of supplies (compilers and debuggers) and go to school to learn a bunch of architectural skills (programming knowledge). Then, using my new found resources, I build a house (program). It's my damn decision to live in it by myself, burn it down, rent it out, leave it empty, or give it away. What he's saying is that other people breaking into my house and stealing all or parts out of it at their leisure is okay as long as they're willing to share their loot with the rest of the world.
That's dead wrong. That's theft and that's CERTAINLY unethical.
Your last sentence is exactly what MS is going to stall or prevent at all costs. MS is good at this game. Don't be surprised if they manage to stall ODF all the way until the next, NEXT version of Office is out.
Well, aside from the already noted mispellings and lack of grammer, I must say your summary only reaffirms what I tell my friends when I try to convert them to BSG-ism. The characters are all flawed. The universe emphasizes realism over sensationalism. Most of the plot twists are not due to, as I like to describe it, "bullshit last-minute oh-my-god that's-impossible" moments.
I can't think of very many other shows that have all of these elements together. And I love how the stories are unpredictable because the writers are willing to put the main characters through pain and suffering without a "happy ending" at the end of each episode. Without spoiling anything, I can the last 3 episodes of the second season totally proves this point.
So long as they keep the show driven by the characters and not by special effects or plots written from the big surprise ending first, it will only gain more mindshare.
I'm sorry. Normally I wouldn't post off topic stuff like this, but only on Slashdot would you find advice to talk to a girl about non-computer stuff modded to a 4, Insightful!
Basically MS was too ambitious in their new plans.
As things get increasingly complex, the time to plan, develop, and test increases at an even faster rate. The code base is getting incredibly huge and complex. Unfortunately, the people at Microsoft undestimated just how complicated their plans were. In the end, they had to keep portions of legacy code they set out to irradicate, such as the registry or the boot system.
There's a few other delays down the road that are currently being overshadowed by the OS delay. The OS delay acts as a nice camo for pushing back other portions of the OS. For example, WinFS? Good luck seeing that any time soon. What about Monad? I would not be surprised if Office and IE7 are also contributing to this problem.
But let's not get carried away; MS is smart. They are on so many battlegrounds (search, home entertainment, portal computing, etc) at once and yet they are fighting them all at once. Why do you think that is?
They won't release Vista until it fully integrates and counters ALL of these fronts so that they can, in one monopolistic swing, win all the battles at once. So these delays are necessary in their Plan to come out #1.
First a new alliance around ODF pops up. Then Microsoft creates a counter announcement to make it look like they're encouraging "collaboration." You can tell they did this as a knee-jerk reaction based on how little this new consotrium offers.
There are no technical articles that have been published
no specific initiatives are planned to be undertaken by the forum
we're making it up as we go
So in other words, a bunch of groups were hoping the worlds' documents don't go proprietary and decided to join so they'd have some say on the matter. Then Microsoft capitalizes on the fact that they joined. Clever.
Perhaps you didn't catch the part where I said watch the video from 2/3 marker. He doesn't use AJAX until that point.
Watch the video very carefully and you will see this. Up to that point, everytime he does an action, the colored bar at the top blinks so you know it is doing a fast refresh. But after he tosses in Atlas, the page is no longer, in fact, reloading. He even puts in a 2 second delay at one point and then you can really see that the page is truly not refreshing.
Like I said, the first 2/3 of the video is him doing standard ASP.NET stuff. It's the last 1/3 that's interesting.
I'm not really a fan of MS, but I recognize they have a lot going for them. I'm a PHP developer so please don't assume I'm defending it because I like ASP. Really, I don't.
I think a bunch of people commenting read the press release and made their judgements without actually investigating how incredible the technology is. There was even the flamebait who posted something about cross browser compatibility. Well, watch the freaking demo video before you go trolling. You can find their first of many such demos here:
Maybe I find it amazing because I'm not that used to ASP development, but I'm thoroughly impressed how far MS has come in making developing for their platform easy. The demo I pasted above shows him making a pretty standard data grid. That part is cool, at best, to anybody familiar with ASP, and flat out amazing to anybody who's never seen ASP sites being developed. About 2/3 into the video he busts out the new Atlas code (so fast forward to there). It was maybe 3 additional ASP tags to implement full asynchronous functionality plus one more to setup a "updating..." dialog. Suddenly, a page that required refreshes on any action could add, edit, and *sort* paginated data without any refreshes.
And then he fires up the same code in Firefox and goes to show that it works exactly the same in both browsers. 3 ASP tags.
I'm sorry, but how can you blindly bash that? Sure there's equivalent technology in the works out there (such as rails), but it doesn't make this any less amazing. If there was a development platform as complete as MS's offering but based on Python/PHP, people would be pissing their pants. To ASP developers, this will make creating AJAX functionality unbelievably easy.
MS just scored major Hype 2.0 points today. But the hype isn't all unjustified. Again, go learn about this before you bash it.
So in other words, if your website is too difficult to navigate or doesn't have an immediately obvious function, it won't take off no matter how pretty it is? So if I were to build a car that had 50 horse power but looked pretty and I tried to sell it for 50k, he's predicting I'm going to fail? Come on! This is the most obvious no-brainer conclusion. If your website does jack and people can't figure it out, no design is going to save it. But I guarantee you that there are plenty of really ugly websites, if not more than pretty ones, that fail because they are both unattractive AND hard to navigate.
Microsoft announced today it will be creating a TV/Phone/Electricity/Food/Desk/Soda/Car/Lawmower/A nnoying Baby/Lamp/Watch/Shoe/Cheap Labor/Headphone/Pen/Umbrella/Pocket Knife/McDonalds/Train/Tire/Sock/Hat Killer device.
My boss Google'd me when I first applied for my job before my interview. And from what I could tell, he Googled me quite thoroughly. He even brought up stuff I had forgotten about. I'm well aware that having stuff on the internet is like putting it up on a big sign on your front lawn. People these days don't seem to fully consider if a particular picture or post is something they may want to keep to themselves. For example, this now happening on the facebook.
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Kids can't possibly understand the subtle complexities of Pong.
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So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "
...As thousands of hackers asked The Grid... What is The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?
In the quarter ended in late November, Palm sold 602,000 Treos, nearing the 645,000 new subscriber accounts that RIM signed on in the same period.
Internally, Palm executives say they believe that the Treo will outsell BlackBerrys by the end of this year.
Here's what's happened so far:
1. Company's reliability goes into question
2. Consumers look for alternatives
This is what Palm is hoping is #3:
3. Competitors overtake market
However, this is what is really happening:
3. Company's reliability no longer in question
4. Consumers stop looking for alternatives
Yeah. Maybe they would have outsold Blackberrys had the lawsuit kept on chugging or RIM lost. Unfortunately for Palm, that did not happen. Whatever edge they had during the lawsuit is now gone. How can you predict continued growth when the market changed in the past month with the conclusion of the lawsuit?
"GoDaddy.com Asks for Forgiveness and Crawls Back to Linux"
I read that and thought the exact same thing.
The main power of GPL comes from copyright laws. First of all, his statement reeks of hypocricy. Besides, last time I checked, if I write something, it's mine to do whatever I want with. If I want to keep the source to myself or let others benefit from it, that's MY choice. If I want to destroy it or never look at it again, that's MY choice. Nobody has any right under any pretext to come over and forcably "liberate" my code. Slavery is the WRONG analogy. Slaves are people who are arbitrarily placed into servitude by people with more power.
The proper analogy is to normal property such as a house. Let's say I go out and buy a bunch of supplies (compilers and debuggers) and go to school to learn a bunch of architectural skills (programming knowledge). Then, using my new found resources, I build a house (program). It's my damn decision to live in it by myself, burn it down, rent it out, leave it empty, or give it away. What he's saying is that other people breaking into my house and stealing all or parts out of it at their leisure is okay as long as they're willing to share their loot with the rest of the world.
That's dead wrong. That's theft and that's CERTAINLY unethical.
Your last sentence is exactly what MS is going to stall or prevent at all costs. MS is good at this game. Don't be surprised if they manage to stall ODF all the way until the next, NEXT version of Office is out.
Well, aside from the already noted mispellings and lack of grammer, I must say your summary only reaffirms what I tell my friends when I try to convert them to BSG-ism. The characters are all flawed. The universe emphasizes realism over sensationalism. Most of the plot twists are not due to, as I like to describe it, "bullshit last-minute oh-my-god that's-impossible" moments.
I can't think of very many other shows that have all of these elements together. And I love how the stories are unpredictable because the writers are willing to put the main characters through pain and suffering without a "happy ending" at the end of each episode. Without spoiling anything, I can the last 3 episodes of the second season totally proves this point.
So long as they keep the show driven by the characters and not by special effects or plots written from the big surprise ending first, it will only gain more mindshare.
So in other words, now that they've won the browser wars at the expense of OS security, they'll unbundle it now.
I'm sorry. Normally I wouldn't post off topic stuff like this, but only on Slashdot would you find advice to talk to a girl about non-computer stuff modded to a 4, Insightful!
Actually, it's Apples to Microsofts.
Basically MS was too ambitious in their new plans.
As things get increasingly complex, the time to plan, develop, and test increases at an even faster rate. The code base is getting incredibly huge and complex. Unfortunately, the people at Microsoft undestimated just how complicated their plans were. In the end, they had to keep portions of legacy code they set out to irradicate, such as the registry or the boot system.
There's a few other delays down the road that are currently being overshadowed by the OS delay. The OS delay acts as a nice camo for pushing back other portions of the OS. For example, WinFS? Good luck seeing that any time soon. What about Monad? I would not be surprised if Office and IE7 are also contributing to this problem.
But let's not get carried away; MS is smart. They are on so many battlegrounds (search, home entertainment, portal computing, etc) at once and yet they are fighting them all at once. Why do you think that is?
They won't release Vista until it fully integrates and counters ALL of these fronts so that they can, in one monopolistic swing, win all the battles at once. So these delays are necessary in their Plan to come out #1.
the SSD's capacity of 32 GB cannot compete with traditional hard drives that currently offers up to 80 GB space
In the other news, this journalist can't compete with modern journalists who have been known to use "Computers."
First a new alliance around ODF pops up. Then Microsoft creates a counter announcement to make it look like they're encouraging "collaboration." You can tell they did this as a knee-jerk reaction based on how little this new consotrium offers.
There are no technical articles that have been published
no specific initiatives are planned to be undertaken by the forum
we're making it up as we go
So in other words, a bunch of groups were hoping the worlds' documents don't go proprietary and decided to join so they'd have some say on the matter. Then Microsoft capitalizes on the fact that they joined. Clever.
Who needs email addresses and phones when they can just get a warrant to use yours!
Don't worry, that's exactly what happens if Theo doesn't get enough money.
Perhaps you didn't catch the part where I said watch the video from 2/3 marker. He doesn't use AJAX until that point.
Watch the video very carefully and you will see this. Up to that point, everytime he does an action, the colored bar at the top blinks so you know it is doing a fast refresh. But after he tosses in Atlas, the page is no longer, in fact, reloading. He even puts in a 2 second delay at one point and then you can really see that the page is truly not refreshing.
Like I said, the first 2/3 of the video is him doing standard ASP.NET stuff. It's the last 1/3 that's interesting.
I'm not really a fan of MS, but I recognize they have a lot going for them. I'm a PHP developer so please don't assume I'm defending it because I like ASP. Really, I don't.
I think a bunch of people commenting read the press release and made their judgements without actually investigating how incredible the technology is. There was even the flamebait who posted something about cross browser compatibility. Well, watch the freaking demo video before you go trolling. You can find their first of many such demos here:
mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/uifx/asp_net_atlas.wmv
Maybe I find it amazing because I'm not that used to ASP development, but I'm thoroughly impressed how far MS has come in making developing for their platform easy. The demo I pasted above shows him making a pretty standard data grid. That part is cool, at best, to anybody familiar with ASP, and flat out amazing to anybody who's never seen ASP sites being developed. About 2/3 into the video he busts out the new Atlas code (so fast forward to there). It was maybe 3 additional ASP tags to implement full asynchronous functionality plus one more to setup a "updating..." dialog. Suddenly, a page that required refreshes on any action could add, edit, and *sort* paginated data without any refreshes.
And then he fires up the same code in Firefox and goes to show that it works exactly the same in both browsers. 3 ASP tags.
I'm sorry, but how can you blindly bash that? Sure there's equivalent technology in the works out there (such as rails), but it doesn't make this any less amazing. If there was a development platform as complete as MS's offering but based on Python/PHP, people would be pissing their pants. To ASP developers, this will make creating AJAX functionality unbelievably easy.
MS just scored major Hype 2.0 points today. But the hype isn't all unjustified. Again, go learn about this before you bash it.
Slashdot beat it with an ugly stick.
So in other words, if your website is too difficult to navigate or doesn't have an immediately obvious function, it won't take off no matter how pretty it is? So if I were to build a car that had 50 horse power but looked pretty and I tried to sell it for 50k, he's predicting I'm going to fail? Come on! This is the most obvious no-brainer conclusion. If your website does jack and people can't figure it out, no design is going to save it. But I guarantee you that there are plenty of really ugly websites, if not more than pretty ones, that fail because they are both unattractive AND hard to navigate.
Microsoft announced today it will be creating a TV/Phone/Electricity/Food/Desk/Soda/Car/Lawmower/A nnoying Baby/Lamp/Watch/Shoe/Cheap Labor/Headphone/Pen/Umbrella/Pocket Knife/McDonalds/Train/Tire/Sock/Hat Killer device.
That was totally MY idea!!!!!!!!! You shall be hearing from my attorney shortly.
My boss Google'd me when I first applied for my job before my interview. And from what I could tell, he Googled me quite thoroughly. He even brought up stuff I had forgotten about. I'm well aware that having stuff on the internet is like putting it up on a big sign on your front lawn. People these days don't seem to fully consider if a particular picture or post is something they may want to keep to themselves. For example, this now happening on the facebook.
Would anybody like to hear my two cents on this issue?
Too bad. My thoughts now require the equivalent royalty to access. Thank you.