When will they stop allowing any other tags than plain:
A lot of pages where users can put their own data and are allowed to 'style' it, gets abused and if not abused, is contesting for worst designed webpage of the year. This is so for bays, tubes, spaces and I'm kinda getting sick of it. If you want to display some data the tags mentioned above should be enough, if not, then you can put in a link to your own website so that it's clear it comes from another source.
I think it's great that Apple chose the GSM system over the other cell phone carriers. A GSM has a SIM card, which allows you to switch providers whenever you want (depending on your contract). You can go to Europe with your iPhone, buy a pre-paid card and you're set to go, calling at local costs.
US cell phone carriers are the few in the world that (still) don't use GSM-like card systems. They happily sell you the RAZR and CRAZR for $20, but then you'll have to stay with them for 2 years. And as soon as you switch prematurely, your phone is useless AND you have to cough up the full price of your cell phone ($299) even if their service start sucking after a few months *cough*Sprint*cough*. I used to live in a rural area, and Sprint was the only service I could get. After a few months there wasn't any service I could get there, Sprint decided that not enough people lived there to justify the antenna('s), so they basically pulled the plug, oh yeah, and you with your 1 year and 9 months left on your contract, sorry.
The iPhone is supposed to be a combination of a blackberry/palm, a phone and a video iPod. I think the pricing is not too bad positioned for those 3 items in one, and you can switch cell phone providers in a whim, either using pre-paid cards or going for a full-blown 2 year contract. You're not locked in! As soon as my Sprint contract ends, I'll buy an iPhone and switch back to a GSM provider that gives me a SIM card.
Microsoft has never and will never play nice with other players. Unless they use the OpenOffice document format or any other OPEN format (not open with a backdoor as is ooxml) which they won't do because they just paid to upgrade their Word 97 format to Word-95-embedded-in-XML and standardized on that.
I agree however that an online office application that is also lightweight on the client side would be very well accepted. A lot of people are moving or have moved on to handheld and other low-power, low-performance (relatively speaking) devices like blackberry's, oversized cell phones and other 'book-like' devices. They already have their workgroup solution (calendars, e-mail) on the go, so if they can get their office client on the go too, without being limited to 2-4 hours of battery life, that would be a 'helpful' addition.
I tend to disagree. The Linux kernel and in a lesser degree Apple, but a great (commercial) example is Google all share the following:
They are not run by a dictator. A dictator tends to stifle progress because his idea is law and that's what's going to happen. I had a manager like that once, he was the CEO and everything he said was a good idea. He also had no clue about anything going on outside his office (kinda like the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert), actually that whole company runs like the Dilbert cartoon including the salesmen and Catbert.
They actually let people run with their ideas, produce something great and see if it fits in somewhere. If it gives any added value, it gets integrated, otherwise it gets dropped, rehashed or whatever is needed.
Lol. Microsoft has been doing it and is still doing it for years. People don't stop using Microsoft products do they? Read the EULA on any product or service made by [big software company here]. Read the restrictions on Microsoft's 'open' XML format. As soon as they decide, they can pull the 'open' from under your arse and any software development you did using it, all of a sudden can't use the latest iteration of the 'open' "standard".
What you're pointing out is just Microsoft-funded FUD, not that I personally would trust my business to any online service including Google's, I rather keep things closer to my bed, but even Microsoft is going 'Live' with a lot of their software including Office.
A lot of decision makers don't have any clue about what Vista is precisely and what it will do to their business. They just get a visit from their Microsoft rep. and decide something based on that. If the program is not on the list, it's not 'approved by Microsoft' and thus it will not get used by the customer on that basis.
I wish there were more smart people (or people that know something about computers) are in the places where those decisions get made in companies. We wouldn't have a Microsoft monopoly now.
We already have laws against stalking, bullying and picking fights don't we? Why do we need more that specify this also counts for online. This is going to be just another law just like the CAN-SPAM act which nobody can and will enforce. It will however be enforced against (free/online) speech, journalism and soap-box criticism on the government.
As a young adult I can say this: I grew up in the wake of the internet (was a teenager through the 90's) and thus parents didn't know what computers were, what the internet was they were paying for except that it was good for our development and would make us perform better at school by finding information faster, learning to program and becoming the next CEO of Altavista. It would also help us in keeping contact with the rest of the world, by IRC, ICQ, e-mail and (binary) newsgroups.
The Internet has porn, at the wake of the Internet, it was slow to get good pictures and we only had one computer with Internet in the living room and later common study so we exchanged Data-CD, floppies, stories and magazine's at school with guess what... pictures of naked women in suggesting positions. I had a computer in my room (with a 2MBit/s coax Netware network) and could thus 'enjoy' my newfound literature.
Now the Internet is mainstream and a lot of it has been sensationalized. There are predators out there, I am not going to dispute that, but most of them aren't going to be on the Internet, they are going to be in a van outside school, taking pictures (someone at my school was arrested for that) and sometimes luring kids in their vehicle with candy or puppies (heard plenty of those stories).
What you need to do is not shield/blind your kid's from it (as did my parents) because they are going to get curious about the VHS in the back of the closet or the movie coming after that recorded tape that was 'not for kids' and find out anyway. We are going to get in contact with porn, violence, abuse, rotten.com and more either in school, friends, home or just by accident.
If you don't tell your kids the real deal about it they are going to hide it (because it's bad) and then they are going to get the ideas they find out in porn and try it out (which is sometimes impossible - I found out) or link them to their own sex life, which is not always the best idea. Just go out there, tell your kids all about the flowers and the bees at a young age, because what predators look for is kids that have been 'protected' from that and are just curious, tell them what's out there (so they're not innocent about it) and how it's done, even what it feels/taste/looks like so they know about it and what to beware of.
You guys expect them to work magic and "know" the difference between legitimate and illegitimate requests
Yes, but you don't need magic for that, you just need to rewrite your kernel to catch those illegitimate requests and security that each program or daemon runs on it's own user & rights (like most daemons do in Linux/Unix) and you need to make it a little more transparent for both users, admins and developers (DLL, registry). If you're running a server you might need similar things like SELinux.
Unix boxes run over 70% of the internet, some are old as dirt. How come we don't have a general pandemic of virusses, malware and worms that take over these boxes? Those would have a larger impact than Windows boxes and it has a lot more traffic going through it that would be of importance to users. How come that a 3rd party firewall or virus scanner, either stand-alone or in Windows hardly gets circumvented and all of a sudden gets you 90% better protection?
The problem with most AS patients is that they don't have a clue they have it, even their family and health care agents don't know. I was diagnosed (professionally) with motoric disorders early on in life (I am very clumsy) and a lot of people including the family physician and a psychiatry-student later thought I must have a slight form of autism. The problem is nobody knows a lot about AS or autism for that matter, if anything. I am not going to go to another doctor to find out for sure, but I recently found out that a lot of my actions and disabilities (both physical and emotional) match the specifications for AS.
I got beat up at school and home and I didn't have a clue why people disliked me. My marriage and a lot of other relationships broke up because I am such a moron, insensitive and just plain don't get the (you would call it obvious) cues provided. A not-as-tactful person gave me some clues that I wasn't as socially acceptable because of what I said and did (and especially how I said it). I just say it's my personality and go on with my life. Up to this moment, even my parents don't know that I am always picture thinking, even the abstract (Nobody ever asked, so I thought it was how everybody thinks) and that I get by socially by imitating other people and using their conversation starters (and stoppers).
The great thing though is that I am great at technical stuff and quickly pick up things like computers, programming, electronics and other stuff. That makes that I am earning good money (70k+ in rural PA) with only a high school diploma and thus I am socially seen as a pretty nice guy, paying the greater share and maybe a little excentric (Mac, Buick, Loft).
You would get arrested for 'interfering with a police investigation' or something similar like that.
Although there is no law against radar detectors in cars, I once got harassed by a cop who saw me speeding by (he didn't have his radar gun on so he didn't know how fast I was going, I was passing everybody by though) so after a little bit of negotiating that he couldn't have known my speed and it wouldn't hold up in court he called his boss and then issued me a ticket for interfering with a police investigation (by using a radar detector). It didn't hold up in court, but I had to shill out another $25 to my law insurance.
OOXML is NOT open, so please do NOT use it. Read the articles recently on Groklaw, the standard submitted to ECMA specifies that only THAT version of the OOXML is open and has the covenant 'not-to-sue'. As soon as another vendor (or Microsoft) decides to extend the format or change it (eg. in the next version of Office), the whole OOXML is closed again and subject to patent litigation.
Probably afraid (s)he's going to get sued now because they violated a cancer-cure patent? Well, but just as a lot of 'inventions' and breakthroughs, they happen by accident.
Or maybe they're not happy because now they can't earn money anymore looking for the ultimate cancer-killer (how would you feel if a program was made that automatically created perfect code by letting your manager put in all his wishes).
The problem imho in Windows is that Userspace, kernelspace and configuration is not separated. For example.
A common structure in Unix/Linux is:/etc -> configuration, usually the owner can read/write, everybody else just read/usr -> binaries, whatever you need to run. Everybody can read&execute, owner can write/lib -> libraries (say DLL in Windows). Everbody can read, owner can write/home -> home directories. People put their own stuff in there
Usually the Owner is Root, which you usually don't need unless you're installing something systemwide You can put your own shit in/home. Whether that be a virus or not, as soon as you log out, it gets killed and the admin can easily go in and delete it The configuration is separated from runtime and read only to almost anything (ok there are exceptions, I am generalizing everything a bit here) Almost every daemon is run under it's own user and group, and is only permitted to create files and folders with it's own credentials, it has sometimes it's own chroot jail but can't touch the other stuff that's running at all.
In Windows however, both runtime information, configuration and preferences are located in the "Registry" for system wide settings, user settings etc. a user might have it's separate tree, but it's too easy to get into the rest of the tree unless explicit permissions are set (and a lot of programs don't do this). There is also too much stuff still running under SYSTEM. Logon windows, RPC services, SQL, whatever services are out there are by default ran as system unless you explicitly define otherwise. Under Unix/Linux/Mac it's the other way around, a daemon is installed by an administrator but then it still has to run under it's own user. The user is much more restricted and the programs that are ran by the user, are also restricted to his own space and it's not necessary to run elevated permissions even if you want to install stuff, just install it under/home/username. Sure there can be scripts running rm -rf / but it's at most only going to delete the users' home folder
They should make movies, music etc. much cheaper and without DRM, especially the main stream media. Sure they can say, that it costs a lot to create stuff, but if we give the performing people according to what they do and not what they look like, that would make the costs plummet. I always hate when they talk about an actor, getting $13 million for maybe a year long project. I probably won't ever make that in my life. I currently think I am paid pretty well (70k+) and I can support myself. I can understand that they probably need/want/deserve more but anything over $2m/year is a little overrated for me.
Also, eliminate organizations like RIAA, MPAA and other shills that are not adding any positive value to the process (that includes DRM, ratings etc). Look at any standard business model, any piece in an organization that is not performing or delivering any added value (short or long term) to the organization is (usually) cut loose.
They just declare themselves (rightfully or not) the winner, dumb people (aka (Best Buy, Staples,...) employees and their customers) might read it or hear it and even believe it. They go now to the store with the pre-conceived notion that HD-DVD is going to be old pretty soon.
Imho I would rather buy Blu-Ray over HD-DVD just because of the internal technology (Java vs. Microsoft's-Java-Rip-off) used and the extra storage space (30G vs. 50G). But I won't choose either for now as long as it has DRM. Let's see what's on BitTorrent...
closed source is so much more secure... what we need is developers, developers, developers, yeah, whoo
Seriously, I think all findings on the human genome project should be open. It took a huge effort and even persons at home let spare cycles run on this project. Our bodies, and what's inside should be open since it's not something 'they' invented, manufactured or engineered. Whatever drugs they're developing could be closed, but generics should definitely be allowed too.
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I think it's great that Apple chose the GSM system over the other cell phone carriers. A GSM has a SIM card, which allows you to switch providers whenever you want (depending on your contract). You can go to Europe with your iPhone, buy a pre-paid card and you're set to go, calling at local costs.
US cell phone carriers are the few in the world that (still) don't use GSM-like card systems. They happily sell you the RAZR and CRAZR for $20, but then you'll have to stay with them for 2 years. And as soon as you switch prematurely, your phone is useless AND you have to cough up the full price of your cell phone ($299) even if their service start sucking after a few months *cough*Sprint*cough*. I used to live in a rural area, and Sprint was the only service I could get. After a few months there wasn't any service I could get there, Sprint decided that not enough people lived there to justify the antenna('s), so they basically pulled the plug, oh yeah, and you with your 1 year and 9 months left on your contract, sorry.
The iPhone is supposed to be a combination of a blackberry/palm, a phone and a video iPod. I think the pricing is not too bad positioned for those 3 items in one, and you can switch cell phone providers in a whim, either using pre-paid cards or going for a full-blown 2 year contract. You're not locked in! As soon as my Sprint contract ends, I'll buy an iPhone and switch back to a GSM provider that gives me a SIM card.
Microsoft has never and will never play nice with other players. Unless they use the OpenOffice document format or any other OPEN format (not open with a backdoor as is ooxml) which they won't do because they just paid to upgrade their Word 97 format to Word-95-embedded-in-XML and standardized on that.
I agree however that an online office application that is also lightweight on the client side would be very well accepted. A lot of people are moving or have moved on to handheld and other low-power, low-performance (relatively speaking) devices like blackberry's, oversized cell phones and other 'book-like' devices. They already have their workgroup solution (calendars, e-mail) on the go, so if they can get their office client on the go too, without being limited to 2-4 hours of battery life, that would be a 'helpful' addition.
I tend to disagree. The Linux kernel and in a lesser degree Apple, but a great (commercial) example is Google all share the following:
They are not run by a dictator. A dictator tends to stifle progress because his idea is law and that's what's going to happen. I had a manager like that once, he was the CEO and everything he said was a good idea. He also had no clue about anything going on outside his office (kinda like the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert), actually that whole company runs like the Dilbert cartoon including the salesmen and Catbert.
They actually let people run with their ideas, produce something great and see if it fits in somewhere. If it gives any added value, it gets integrated, otherwise it gets dropped, rehashed or whatever is needed.
Lol. Microsoft has been doing it and is still doing it for years. People don't stop using Microsoft products do they? Read the EULA on any product or service made by [big software company here]. Read the restrictions on Microsoft's 'open' XML format. As soon as they decide, they can pull the 'open' from under your arse and any software development you did using it, all of a sudden can't use the latest iteration of the 'open' "standard".
What you're pointing out is just Microsoft-funded FUD, not that I personally would trust my business to any online service including Google's, I rather keep things closer to my bed, but even Microsoft is going 'Live' with a lot of their software including Office.
A lot of decision makers don't have any clue about what Vista is precisely and what it will do to their business. They just get a visit from their Microsoft rep. and decide something based on that. If the program is not on the list, it's not 'approved by Microsoft' and thus it will not get used by the customer on that basis.
I wish there were more smart people (or people that know something about computers) are in the places where those decisions get made in companies. We wouldn't have a Microsoft monopoly now.
We already have laws against stalking, bullying and picking fights don't we? Why do we need more that specify this also counts for online. This is going to be just another law just like the CAN-SPAM act which nobody can and will enforce. It will however be enforced against (free/online) speech, journalism and soap-box criticism on the government.
As a young adult I can say this: I grew up in the wake of the internet (was a teenager through the 90's) and thus parents didn't know what computers were, what the internet was they were paying for except that it was good for our development and would make us perform better at school by finding information faster, learning to program and becoming the next CEO of Altavista. It would also help us in keeping contact with the rest of the world, by IRC, ICQ, e-mail and (binary) newsgroups.
The Internet has porn, at the wake of the Internet, it was slow to get good pictures and we only had one computer with Internet in the living room and later common study so we exchanged Data-CD, floppies, stories and magazine's at school with guess what... pictures of naked women in suggesting positions. I had a computer in my room (with a 2MBit/s coax Netware network) and could thus 'enjoy' my newfound literature.
Now the Internet is mainstream and a lot of it has been sensationalized. There are predators out there, I am not going to dispute that, but most of them aren't going to be on the Internet, they are going to be in a van outside school, taking pictures (someone at my school was arrested for that) and sometimes luring kids in their vehicle with candy or puppies (heard plenty of those stories).
What you need to do is not shield/blind your kid's from it (as did my parents) because they are going to get curious about the VHS in the back of the closet or the movie coming after that recorded tape that was 'not for kids' and find out anyway. We are going to get in contact with porn, violence, abuse, rotten.com and more either in school, friends, home or just by accident.
If you don't tell your kids the real deal about it they are going to hide it (because it's bad) and then they are going to get the ideas they find out in porn and try it out (which is sometimes impossible - I found out) or link them to their own sex life, which is not always the best idea. Just go out there, tell your kids all about the flowers and the bees at a young age, because what predators look for is kids that have been 'protected' from that and are just curious, tell them what's out there (so they're not innocent about it) and how it's done, even what it feels/taste/looks like so they know about it and what to beware of.
Secretary: Darkness came with them, and they cried with the voices of death
You guys expect them to work magic and "know" the difference between legitimate and illegitimate requests
Yes, but you don't need magic for that, you just need to rewrite your kernel to catch those illegitimate requests and security that each program or daemon runs on it's own user & rights (like most daemons do in Linux/Unix) and you need to make it a little more transparent for both users, admins and developers (DLL, registry). If you're running a server you might need similar things like SELinux.
Unix boxes run over 70% of the internet, some are old as dirt. How come we don't have a general pandemic of virusses, malware and worms that take over these boxes? Those would have a larger impact than Windows boxes and it has a lot more traffic going through it that would be of importance to users. How come that a 3rd party firewall or virus scanner, either stand-alone or in Windows hardly gets circumvented and all of a sudden gets you 90% better protection?
The problem with most AS patients is that they don't have a clue they have it, even their family and health care agents don't know. I was diagnosed (professionally) with motoric disorders early on in life (I am very clumsy) and a lot of people including the family physician and a psychiatry-student later thought I must have a slight form of autism. The problem is nobody knows a lot about AS or autism for that matter, if anything. I am not going to go to another doctor to find out for sure, but I recently found out that a lot of my actions and disabilities (both physical and emotional) match the specifications for AS.
I got beat up at school and home and I didn't have a clue why people disliked me. My marriage and a lot of other relationships broke up because I am such a moron, insensitive and just plain don't get the (you would call it obvious) cues provided. A not-as-tactful person gave me some clues that I wasn't as socially acceptable because of what I said and did (and especially how I said it). I just say it's my personality and go on with my life. Up to this moment, even my parents don't know that I am always picture thinking, even the abstract (Nobody ever asked, so I thought it was how everybody thinks) and that I get by socially by imitating other people and using their conversation starters (and stoppers).
The great thing though is that I am great at technical stuff and quickly pick up things like computers, programming, electronics and other stuff. That makes that I am earning good money (70k+ in rural PA) with only a high school diploma and thus I am socially seen as a pretty nice guy, paying the greater share and maybe a little excentric (Mac, Buick, Loft).
You would get arrested for 'interfering with a police investigation' or something similar like that.
Although there is no law against radar detectors in cars, I once got harassed by a cop who saw me speeding by (he didn't have his radar gun on so he didn't know how fast I was going, I was passing everybody by though) so after a little bit of negotiating that he couldn't have known my speed and it wouldn't hold up in court he called his boss and then issued me a ticket for interfering with a police investigation (by using a radar detector). It didn't hold up in court, but I had to shill out another $25 to my law insurance.
Well, all those trucks going through the tubes generate a lot of carbon dioxide you know...
OOXML is NOT open, so please do NOT use it. Read the articles recently on Groklaw, the standard submitted to ECMA specifies that only THAT version of the OOXML is open and has the covenant 'not-to-sue'. As soon as another vendor (or Microsoft) decides to extend the format or change it (eg. in the next version of Office), the whole OOXML is closed again and subject to patent litigation.
They run Linux, so they won't get automagically infected like all the Windows machines out there.
As the compound is already patented, her team will probably have to design something slightly different to be able to patent it as a new drug.
FTW. I found a cure for cancer, sorry patented. And for AIDS too, sorry patented. I found a cure for all sickness and death, sorry patented.
Probably afraid (s)he's going to get sued now because they violated a cancer-cure patent? Well, but just as a lot of 'inventions' and breakthroughs, they happen by accident.
Or maybe they're not happy because now they can't earn money anymore looking for the ultimate cancer-killer (how would you feel if a program was made that automatically created perfect code by letting your manager put in all his wishes).
Is there room for politics in gaming, or do you just want to shoot stuff?
America's Army
'nuff said?
UAC works good... in theory.
/etc -> configuration, usually the owner can read/write, everybody else just read /usr -> binaries, whatever you need to run. Everybody can read&execute, owner can write /lib -> libraries (say DLL in Windows). Everbody can read, owner can write /home -> home directories. People put their own stuff in there
/home. Whether that be a virus or not, as soon as you log out, it gets killed and the admin can easily go in and delete it
/home/username. Sure there can be scripts running rm -rf / but it's at most only going to delete the users' home folder
The problem imho in Windows is that Userspace, kernelspace and configuration is not separated. For example.
A common structure in Unix/Linux is:
Usually the Owner is Root, which you usually don't need unless you're installing something systemwide
You can put your own shit in
The configuration is separated from runtime and read only to almost anything (ok there are exceptions, I am generalizing everything a bit here)
Almost every daemon is run under it's own user and group, and is only permitted to create files and folders with it's own credentials, it has sometimes it's own chroot jail but can't touch the other stuff that's running at all.
In Windows however, both runtime information, configuration and preferences are located in the "Registry" for system wide settings, user settings etc. a user might have it's separate tree, but it's too easy to get into the rest of the tree unless explicit permissions are set (and a lot of programs don't do this). There is also too much stuff still running under SYSTEM. Logon windows, RPC services, SQL, whatever services are out there are by default ran as system unless you explicitly define otherwise. Under Unix/Linux/Mac it's the other way around, a daemon is installed by an administrator but then it still has to run under it's own user. The user is much more restricted and the programs that are ran by the user, are also restricted to his own space and it's not necessary to run elevated permissions even if you want to install stuff, just install it under
They should make movies, music etc. much cheaper and without DRM, especially the main stream media. Sure they can say, that it costs a lot to create stuff, but if we give the performing people according to what they do and not what they look like, that would make the costs plummet. I always hate when they talk about an actor, getting $13 million for maybe a year long project. I probably won't ever make that in my life. I currently think I am paid pretty well (70k+) and I can support myself. I can understand that they probably need/want/deserve more but anything over $2m/year is a little overrated for me.
Also, eliminate organizations like RIAA, MPAA and other shills that are not adding any positive value to the process (that includes DRM, ratings etc). Look at any standard business model, any piece in an organization that is not performing or delivering any added value (short or long term) to the organization is (usually) cut loose.
Look up ABLE ARCHER 83, a little more serious and we would all be dead now (or mutated).
They just declare themselves (rightfully or not) the winner, dumb people (aka (Best Buy, Staples, ...) employees and their customers) might read it or hear it and even believe it. They go now to the store with the pre-conceived notion that HD-DVD is going to be old pretty soon.
Imho I would rather buy Blu-Ray over HD-DVD just because of the internal technology (Java vs. Microsoft's-Java-Rip-off) used and the extra storage space (30G vs. 50G). But I won't choose either for now as long as it has DRM. Let's see what's on BitTorrent...
closed source is so much more secure... what we need is developers, developers, developers, yeah, whoo
Seriously, I think all findings on the human genome project should be open. It took a huge effort and even persons at home let spare cycles run on this project. Our bodies, and what's inside should be open since it's not something 'they' invented, manufactured or engineered. Whatever drugs they're developing could be closed, but generics should definitely be allowed too.
Dude, I'm still supporting ADA and Fortran.
I thought Hillary Clinton was running for president... ca-ching, thank you I'll be here all week, try the clam chowder