I agree with your post for the most part, but I think you've missed something. Point 2 is also good. There are a lot of people who think purpose-built devices are more stable and secure. Some of those people even work in IT.
I was told at one job that I had to replace my Linux PC-based firewall with a 'purpose-built device' like a Cisco ASA because the Linux-based PC was somehow less secure and stable. Like the Cisco ASA, 'smart phones' have usually have some more or less general-purpose OS at their core, along with complex applications.
These are computer systems like any other, and thus require a skilled administrator to configure them in a secure fashion. Don't assume because some device is 'purpose-built' that it isn't hackable.
Because, if you read the article you linked to, you'd know that Windows has had more severe vulnerabilities than both OS X and Red Hat, really making Windows the least secure.
especially Apache with PHP installed I'm not convinced it's entirely PHP's fault, either. PHP (esp. in combination with MySQL) is the VB of the Web. Just as most VB programmers often had a blatant disregard for writing clean, secure and reliable code, so do most PHP programmers. The problem with PHP is that, like VB, the learning curve is simply too low for non-programmers. Languages like C force the programmer to learn to program. Now, C is so flexible that it doesn't force good programming habits, but with C you have to learn how to write bad code in it. With PHP and VB, writing bad code is the default mode.
The Billboard chart numbers are generated per week. 60,000 CDs translates to over 3,000,000 CDs if the same number sold each week. But that's way low compared with 2005 numbers.
CNN is reporting that he was terminated (read: fired). Not just on their website, but on Robin & Company this morning (blatant plug: Robin Meade is just soooo hot!). According to CNN, the company released a statement to that effect.
So who's telling the truth? I think maybe de Vellis has more to gain by lying, don't you?
I use compatible cartridges. You can pick these up for the Epson or Canon inkjets at sites like www.inkco.us for as little $3-5 a cartridge for the 4-cartridge printers. For instance, my Epson Stylus C88 carts cost around $15 at Office Depot or OfficeMax, $35 for the black. So about $80 in carts if you buy the Epson OEM carts. But the compatibles run me about $5 a piece, black or color, so a full set only costs me about $20 + shipping. I use inkco in particular because they will ship via USPS regular mail, which is very cheap.
Where does it say that in TFA? This is what I see:
Instead of releasing new versions of FoxPro, Microsoft will release core portions of the FoxPro software to its CodePlex community development site, said Alan Griver, a group manager within the Microsoft Visual Studio team, which leads the FoxPro team. and then, later:
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been working on "Sedna," which is the code name for the project that takes advantage of enhancements in Visual FoxPro 9.0. The primary goal of Sedna is to expand on the ability of Visual FoxPro-based solutions to better integrate with other Microsoft products and technologies, such as Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Windows Vista. No, it really looks like Microsoft is open-sourcing VFP, or at least its core components.
Hell they made it higher than anything Rutan has put forward and the way people act Rutan is the second coming. I, for one, welcome our new suborbital rocket plane-making overlord.
No, but seriously, Rutan has more hype. He's flamboyant, knows how to work the press, and well, SpaceShipOne just looks cool. If actual results were all that mattered, nobody would be talking about Vista; hence Rutan and Scaled Composites get all the hype, while SpaceX has actually produced the better result.
Exactly. There's a hidden assumption in the question that the Web is now and will continue to be run by businesses. Anyone who's been around long enough knows that most of the trends seen on the Web today were set forth years before any businesses started showing up. The businesses started following the trends then and they will continue to follow the trends set in motion by the pioneers of the Web, as long as they continue to reach critical mass.
But, you actually can open, modify and redistribute free beer legally if you're a restaurant with a beer and wine license, provided you pour it in a glass first and your redistribution area doesn't extend beyond the property line.
This is not technically true. The biggest problem with using fossil fuels is that we're taking a source of carbon that has effectively been outside of our ecosystem and burning it, returning it into our environment and, as we're seeing, prompting the Earth to seek a new equilibrium. When you make fuel, even combustible fuel, from plant matter, those plants are leeching carbon out of the atmosphere and ground, completing a cycle that can be run endlessly. We use plants to make Ethanol, we burn Ethanol, CO2 goes into the air, plants siphon back out the CO2, leaving our atmosphere with roughly the same concentration as it had when we started. Problem? I fail to see it. While that's true, you skipped the other half of my sentence -- the main problem being the fact that corn robs our soil of essential nutrients, especially the way it's planted today.
Furthermore, it's not that simple. Burning ethanol is a very, very wasteful process. Worse than gasoline. And the process releases more CO2 than gasoline. It's likely that if we standardized on ethanol for our motor vehicles, that 1) we would not be able to grow enough corn to produce all of the ethanol needed, and 2) we would be putting out more CO2 than the growing plants could absorb.
If I were you, before I went around advocating for ethanol, I'd do a bit more research first.
Ethanol (and the hydrogen pipe-dream to a lesser extent) are more about maintaining our current fuel distribution system than about finding real alternatives. The idea that we need to pipe fuel from distant places is a 19th century concept. Tesla would be disappointed that we're not using electricity to provide energy, and he'd be even more disappointed that we're charging money for it. Agreed. Ethanol is no better for the environment than oil -- in fact, it may be worse when you consider that the cheapest crops that are grown to produce it, like corn, strip the soil of nutrients and make it useless for growing other things.
The problem, though, is producing enough electricity. Right now, the cleanest way we have a producing electricity at the amounts required is through nuclear fission -- a process that makes toxic waste that will have to kept locked up for at least 10,000 years or more depending on the material used. Solar and wind power each have their associated problems that cause them to not be viable in certain parts of the world and they don't produce enough electricity to power all of the cars on the road -- nor will they with our precious land resources drying up. Hydroelectric power is promising, but right now there aren't nearly enough dams, and even then, dams can be quite damaging to the ecosystem.
While I agree with you about most of the text, the prohibition against embedded devices, set-top boxes, etc., is likely designed to prevent you from using it in such a device; and you're likely to see the same EULA on the Linux version. I'm guessing that they don't want people developing set-top boxes based on this technology without licensing the technology from Adobe.
For the longest time, all of the source code for Java has been available to everyone. And until recently it came with a licence that said: 'The source is open but you can't redistribute the results of any of your changes without passing the test suite.'
Isn't the old license quite a bit more restrictive than just passing a test suite? I mean, many Linux distros have either been requiring that the J2RE and so forth be downloaded from sun.java.com or they've been requiring that you download 3rd party implementations based on the Sun source like blackdown. It doesn't sound to me like the license was ever as laisez-faire as Gosling seems to be implying here.
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Yes. The internal connectors/old external connectors are poorly suited for external use. Just brushing one of those can nudge the cable out of its socket.
As an aside, I think the industry should really standardize on something to be a 'universal' interface, like USB or Firewire for desktop systems. Let's just remove all other types of interfaces, even VGA/DVI/HDMI cables and maybe even Ethernet. By standardizing the interfaces, end users will be far less confused, the interface decided upon will be further commoditized and prices for cables and connectors and such will fall.
You mean like a skip-list or a tree structured linked list?
These are well-known, and, yes, I actually could show prior art -- if I could somehow get the old MFM XT-controller hard drives I've got the source on to read in my PC.
It is and it is a BAD idea to clear the prefetch folder.
From a performance standpoint, yes it does seem like that based on your accurate technical description of how the prefetch folder works.
However, it would seem that there might be some kernel of truth to the misconception that cleaning out this folder will improve performance. Here's what you said in your article:
When you run a program, Windows creates a.pf file for it in the Prefetch folder. When you run the program again, Windows looks for this.pf file and uses it to determine how to load the program. The hash doesn't contain any portion of the original program code. If you never run the program again, that.pf file never gets used, and in fact it gets deleted eventually. If you're one of those people that tries a lot of programs in a 1-off fashion, much like writers for tech news sites might do, you will probably degrade your performance somewhat. Since Windows only ever keeps 128 files in the prefetch folder, as you describe it, the more 1-off programs you try, the more Windows will delete some of those files in the prefetch folder -- including ones for programs that you use regularly. Clearing out the prefetch folder will not actually help this situation much, if at all, but clearing it out if that's your scenario may actually cause some appearance of improved performance since Windows won't have to scan the files in that folder, nor will it have to delete any files out of the folder. In reality, you're probably hurting yourself more than helping, but it would explain why the myth exists.
I blame Bush, the Religious Right and the Christian Coalition. As soon as you talk about anything being naked, they're hitting the speed dial to call their lawyers...
I'm afraid you're right. In the olden days of software, money was made off of support contracts
That model really hasn't gone away with enterprise software, it's just morphed. You still need a support contract, and you still need to pay someone lots of money to maintain the system. The difference is that these days you need to pay a whole team of people to integrate and maintain the little pieces morphed together as a whole system -- this is usually called the 'IT Department' these days.:)
I'm sure they'll survive this time, but the business model they're running with is showing cracks.
Their business model has shown cracks for quite sometime -- the biggest of them being the wayyy late arrival of Vista, with most of its highly-toted promised features (i.e., WinFS, etc.) replaced with some shine and polish that's already been in its closest competitor, Mac OS X, for three years.
Okay, stratjakt, you obviously haven't been following this all that closely and there's a bunch of confusion. Here's the deal.
1. errno.h/signal.h and so forth were different in earlier kernels than they are today. 2. The code in question in the suit is actually from the 2.2-series kernels and may some early 2.4-series kernels -- mostly because the suit started that long ago. These kernels have the OLD errno.h, not the current one. 3. Yes, Linus wrote the original errno.h. Some of errno.h, including comments, was copied from the Lions Book. But the numbers themselves were -- much to Linus' chagrin -- picked arbitrarily and the numbers were erroneous as compared to POSIX.1. Linux has since been re-written and restructured to use the POSIX.1-compliant errno.h, and the numbers now match (for the most part), the POSIX.1 document.
Basically, yes, Linus wrote errno.h, but no, he didn't write the current errno.h, which is mostly cut-and-paste from the Single UNIX Specification.
How is that different than other phones? I've heard lots of bells and whistles over the years about phones being a portal to direct advertising and that I'd get ads pushed to my phone constantly and, at least myself and my circle of contacts, it's. just. not. happening. You're kidding me, right? I have a Motorola Razr V3i from Sprint. I get SMS spam from Sprint just about every other day (it's gotten worse in the past 3 months or so). Plus, the phone itself is loaded with demo software (including a handy-dandy psuedo-GPS feature from a company called Handmark) that's expired since I got it -- this in itself is a form of advertising. Plus the Internet browsing experience is chock-full of advertising and 'popups'.
Interestingly enough, I already have GMail and Google Maps installed on my phone. Works great and also includes ads.
The phone is fully capable of displaying all sorts of ads -- it has a browser with Java and support for multiple forms of video and animation and a nice big screen. I wouldn't be surprised if Sprint starting pushing out more.
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Yeah, but not so much so as post-Star Wars.
Even Asimov's "I, Robot" was butchered by Hollywood.
I agree with your post for the most part, but I think you've missed something. Point 2 is also good. There are a lot of people who think purpose-built devices are more stable and secure. Some of those people even work in IT.
I was told at one job that I had to replace my Linux PC-based firewall with a 'purpose-built device' like a Cisco ASA because the Linux-based PC was somehow less secure and stable. Like the Cisco ASA, 'smart phones' have usually have some more or less general-purpose OS at their core, along with complex applications.
These are computer systems like any other, and thus require a skilled administrator to configure them in a secure fashion. Don't assume because some device is 'purpose-built' that it isn't hackable.
Because, if you read the article you linked to, you'd know that Windows has had more severe vulnerabilities than both OS X and Red Hat, really making Windows the least secure.
The Billboard chart numbers are generated per week. 60,000 CDs translates to over 3,000,000 CDs if the same number sold each week. But that's way low compared with 2005 numbers.
CNN is reporting that he was terminated (read: fired). Not just on their website, but on Robin & Company this morning (blatant plug: Robin Meade is just soooo hot!). According to CNN, the company released a statement to that effect.
So who's telling the truth? I think maybe de Vellis has more to gain by lying, don't you?
I use compatible cartridges. You can pick these up for the Epson or Canon inkjets at sites like www.inkco.us for as little $3-5 a cartridge for the 4-cartridge printers. For instance, my Epson Stylus C88 carts cost around $15 at Office Depot or OfficeMax, $35 for the black. So about $80 in carts if you buy the Epson OEM carts. But the compatibles run me about $5 a piece, black or color, so a full set only costs me about $20 + shipping. I use inkco in particular because they will ship via USPS regular mail, which is very cheap.
I had 24/7/365 Net xs when I wuz in coll3g3!!! I turn3d 0ut ju5t f1ne!!! LOL!!!!
No, but seriously, Rutan has more hype. He's flamboyant, knows how to work the press, and well, SpaceShipOne just looks cool. If actual results were all that mattered, nobody would be talking about Vista; hence Rutan and Scaled Composites get all the hype, while SpaceX has actually produced the better result.
Exactly. There's a hidden assumption in the question that the Web is now and will continue to be run by businesses. Anyone who's been around long enough knows that most of the trends seen on the Web today were set forth years before any businesses started showing up. The businesses started following the trends then and they will continue to follow the trends set in motion by the pioneers of the Web, as long as they continue to reach critical mass.
But, you actually can open, modify and redistribute free beer legally if you're a restaurant with a beer and wine license, provided you pour it in a glass first and your redistribution area doesn't extend beyond the property line.
Furthermore, it's not that simple. Burning ethanol is a very, very wasteful process. Worse than gasoline. And the process releases more CO2 than gasoline. It's likely that if we standardized on ethanol for our motor vehicles, that 1) we would not be able to grow enough corn to produce all of the ethanol needed, and 2) we would be putting out more CO2 than the growing plants could absorb.
If I were you, before I went around advocating for ethanol, I'd do a bit more research first.
The problem, though, is producing enough electricity. Right now, the cleanest way we have a producing electricity at the amounts required is through nuclear fission -- a process that makes toxic waste that will have to kept locked up for at least 10,000 years or more depending on the material used. Solar and wind power each have their associated problems that cause them to not be viable in certain parts of the world and they don't produce enough electricity to power all of the cars on the road -- nor will they with our precious land resources drying up. Hydroelectric power is promising, but right now there aren't nearly enough dams, and even then, dams can be quite damaging to the ecosystem.
While I agree with you about most of the text, the prohibition against embedded devices, set-top boxes, etc., is likely designed to prevent you from using it in such a device; and you're likely to see the same EULA on the Linux version. I'm guessing that they don't want people developing set-top boxes based on this technology without licensing the technology from Adobe.
Isn't the old license quite a bit more restrictive than just passing a test suite? I mean, many Linux distros have either been requiring that the J2RE and so forth be downloaded from sun.java.com or they've been requiring that you download 3rd party implementations based on the Sun source like blackdown. It doesn't sound to me like the license was ever as laisez-faire as Gosling seems to be implying here.
Yes. The internal connectors/old external connectors are poorly suited for external use. Just brushing one of those can nudge the cable out of its socket.
As an aside, I think the industry should really standardize on something to be a 'universal' interface, like USB or Firewire for desktop systems. Let's just remove all other types of interfaces, even VGA/DVI/HDMI cables and maybe even Ethernet. By standardizing the interfaces, end users will be far less confused, the interface decided upon will be further commoditized and prices for cables and connectors and such will fall.
You mean like a skip-list or a tree structured linked list?
These are well-known, and, yes, I actually could show prior art -- if I could somehow get the old MFM XT-controller hard drives I've got the source on to read in my PC.
From a performance standpoint, yes it does seem like that based on your accurate technical description of how the prefetch folder works.
However, it would seem that there might be some kernel of truth to the misconception that cleaning out this folder will improve performance. Here's what you said in your article: When you run a program, Windows creates a
I blame Bush, the Religious Right and the Christian Coalition. As soon as you talk about anything being naked, they're hitting the speed dial to call their lawyers...
The end of the Mayan calendar?
A high-point in the major changes happening in our cultural evolution as a human race? Yes. Oblivion? Not so much so, no.
I'm afraid you're right. In the olden days of software, money was made off of support contracts
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That model really hasn't gone away with enterprise software, it's just morphed. You still need a support contract, and you still need to pay someone lots of money to maintain the system. The difference is that these days you need to pay a whole team of people to integrate and maintain the little pieces morphed together as a whole system -- this is usually called the 'IT Department' these days.
I'm sure they'll survive this time, but the business model they're running with is showing cracks.
Their business model has shown cracks for quite sometime -- the biggest of them being the wayyy late arrival of Vista, with most of its highly-toted promised features (i.e., WinFS, etc.) replaced with some shine and polish that's already been in its closest competitor, Mac OS X, for three years.
Good question. ;)
Okay, stratjakt, you obviously haven't been following this all that closely and there's a bunch of confusion. Here's the deal.
1. errno.h/signal.h and so forth were different in earlier kernels than they are today.
2. The code in question in the suit is actually from the 2.2-series kernels and may some early 2.4-series kernels -- mostly because the suit started that long ago. These kernels have the OLD errno.h, not the current one.
3. Yes, Linus wrote the original errno.h. Some of errno.h, including comments, was copied from the Lions Book. But the numbers themselves were -- much to Linus' chagrin -- picked arbitrarily and the numbers were erroneous as compared to POSIX.1. Linux has since been re-written and restructured to use the POSIX.1-compliant errno.h, and the numbers now match (for the most part), the POSIX.1 document.
Basically, yes, Linus wrote errno.h, but no, he didn't write the current errno.h, which is mostly cut-and-paste from the Single UNIX Specification.
Interestingly enough, I already have GMail and Google Maps installed on my phone. Works great and also includes ads.
The phone is fully capable of displaying all sorts of ads -- it has a browser with Java and support for multiple forms of video and animation and a nice big screen. I wouldn't be surprised if Sprint starting pushing out more.