WinFS is a layer on top of NTFS. WinFS does NOT replace NTFS as the lowest layer on the disk. Why should they create a totally new filesystem when NTFS is quite good at what it does?
NTFS supports many features that go unused >90% of the time, such as multiple file streams. WinFS will more fully use features present in NTFS as part of its operation.
If you are considering imaging a drive, you should seriously read that paper. If you don't, then you open up a whole bunch of security breaches as you'll end up with duplicate Security Identifiers. Joe could acess Sue's file if they both have the same SID!
Trucks that get Hazmat certification already are very highly regulated, far more so than normal trucks and passenger cars.
Requiring them to have onboard GPS with remote deactivation makes sense here, and I don't think that just because hazmat tucks have it that it will be forced upon everyone. Commercial traffic, especially hazmat, has far less 4th amendment protections than your average joe.
Our solution was sponsoring, in one way or another: support from wealthier individuals or firms, getting advertising and honorable mentions in return.
The way that you describe is exactly how the fine arts world works. For orchestra concerts, ballets, operas, museum exhibitions and the like, ticket sales *never* cover all of the costs. It's up to wealthy donors to subsidize the work and in return their name goes into a program and sometimes they get buildings named for them.
That reminds me of an essay I saw called Robotic Nation. The author makes the argument that within 50 years, the unemployment rate in the US will be close to 50% due to the elimination of the service sector.
6-14GB is a large database? We easyily get 15GB per day of new data in one system that I'm working with; the SAN datastore is in the 15TB range. Oh yeah, and it's all running on Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server just fine.
The issue isn't whether it'll be leaked out but whether it'll be admissible in court. Those are two totally seperate things.
And the book you're refering to is The Light of Other Days, by Aurther C. Clarke. I think that it would actually be quite nice to have a device that any one could use to see anything in the past. It would totally change society. Of course people who grew up prior to its invention would have the hardest time adapting, but those who grew up with it would be radically different. It'd be like Foucault's Panopticon. People would subconciously alter their behavior because they think they are being watched.
Of course I'm going to get modded to hell for this, but here goes anyway:
Why shouldn't the military have the information needed to protect us against our enemies? In this era, power isn't restricted to iron, but also information. The Gov't has always held a military advantage over the populace.
I understand the concerns regarding the database, but how many people really believe that the government is out to get them? Face it, you're just not that important and your life just isn't that interesting. Even with existing technology, if the goverment wanted to spy on you, you're SOL. Remember, an entity's funding determines how well they can track you and get to you. You may be safe against most companies, but the Gov't already has you beaten.
Now Mohammad Atta's life they would be extremely interesting. While no one's making any promises, what if such a system had been able to prevent 9-11? What about the next time? Do you really think that the 9-11 attacks will be the last by terrorists on US soil? How many more people will be killed when a biological or dirty bomb goes off?
When doing a cost-benefit analysis, there's really no question. In this day and age, where terrorists are our primary threat, we need to be able to locate them quickly. Uncle Sam really isn't going to be looking closely at Joe Smith--he's too boring.
There ya go, flame away.
Unfortunately, it would still be a violation. It doesn't really matter whether they intend on offering it to the public or whether it's strictly for in-house use.
I'm not saying that I agree with it--I most certainly don't--but that's the current state of the law.
The best bet in that case would be to try to get the PTO to review the patent on the grounds that it's obvious and has prior art.
You still wouldn't be allowed to use the device. I don't recall the specifics, but years ago DEC and Intel were sparring over patents between Alpha and one of the Intel chips.
What it boiled down to was there's only a few possible ways to do a certain thing, but DEC happened to patent it first. That Intel also happened to do it the same way (despite the fact that there were few "other" ways), was irrelevant. DEC won that round of the fight.
That's completely not true. Any recent version of Outlook, and any version of Outlook with SP2 on it, has scripting off by default. It may have even been off longer than that.
The real bulk of the problem is with stupid users running attachments that they shouldn't.
This is old news... The Onion had a story about it over three years ago!
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One of the things the article mentions are live search folders--basically folders comprised of an pregenerated search result (for which the index is automaticly updated).
This allows you to have different views of your existing data to separate the physical location from what you actually want.
Microsoft Outlook 2003 includes these search folders in it now. For example, you can have a search folder for all unread items in all folders. So if you have rules that filter your incoming mail to various foldes, you can just go to the search folder to see all unread items--and then mark them all as read there rather than having to select mark all as read for each folder.
If you want to have access to all email pertaining to a particular project, you can create a search folder to do so. The actual messages might be in your read and sent folders, and perhaps even in other public shared folders, but they'd all appear in your search folder.
Given how useful it is for Outlook, I can't imagine how useful it'd be for an entire filesystem.
Something tells me that this will be possbile in Longhorn with the new WinFS filesystem based on Yukon. It certainly will be interesting.
Many companies will contract the labor out to an Indian company to get around the equal pay problem of H1-B's. Rather than have foreigners work over here, they work for an Indian company, in India, and take two-month business trips here to train.
A lot of work is being shifted offshore like this, and it's purely for economic reasons. An Indian engineer makes a small fraction of what an American one does, so the Indian company can underbid any US outsourcing firm.
No, I haven't personally, but I've seen what they can do and I haven't been impressed. There's a certain quality and tonality that you simply cannot get from digital at present. Ideally, the best way to view the slides is not printed, but projected. Once projected, there's a vividness unlike anything digital can produce (at the moment for any kind of "reasonable" price).
Microsoft never needed Corel to port.NET to Linux. They already have it running on Linux internally in their labs. Not only that, but MS has *all* of their major apps running on Linux in their labs.
*If* they wanted to release SQL Server for Linux, it'd take them less than two days to do so. Ditto for Office, IE, and everything else.
It's really a business decision. They have zero reason to release a Linux version of those since it'd take away OS sales.
On the other hand how do you propose to put an access control that won't violate anyones privacy?
<em>The court also said screening methods suggested by the government, including requiring Web-page viewers to give a credit card number, would unfairly require adults to identify themselves before viewing constitutionally protected material such as medical sites offering sex advice. </em>
That last issue seems like it will be the downfall of any access-control system. How do you both prove age while maintaining anonymity? They're mutually exclusive things.
Well, when it comes to wine, if it's in any sort of reputable store, 9 times out of 10, that $20 bottle of wine *will* be better than that $2 one, and there is plenty of evidence to support that.
Wine pricing follows a true supply/demand curve much closer than many other industries. The reason a Chateau Muton Rothschild is $400+ a bottle is because there's far more demand for it than supply. The demand exists because the wine is widely considered of superior taste. By that same token, a wine is $2 if there's no demand for it--it's a bad wine...
Through.NET's interop features, you can call any Win32 DLL via P/Invoke, so anything that isn't natively supported by.NET can still be accessed via P/Invoke. That includes things like winmm.dll for multimedia funtions and shell32.dll for shell stuff (extract icons, etc), etc.
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WinFS is a layer on top of NTFS. WinFS does NOT replace NTFS as the lowest layer on the disk. Why should they create a totally new filesystem when NTFS is quite good at what it does?
NTFS supports many features that go unused >90% of the time, such as multiple file streams. WinFS will more fully use features present in NTFS as part of its operation.
Using Disk-Image Copying in Microsoft Windows Deployment.
If you are considering imaging a drive, you should seriously read that paper. If you don't, then you open up a whole bunch of security breaches as you'll end up with duplicate Security Identifiers. Joe could acess Sue's file if they both have the same SID!
Requiring them to have onboard GPS with remote deactivation makes sense here, and I don't think that just because hazmat tucks have it that it will be forced upon everyone. Commercial traffic, especially hazmat, has far less 4th amendment protections than your average joe.
The way that you describe is exactly how the fine arts world works. For orchestra concerts, ballets, operas, museum exhibitions and the like, ticket sales *never* cover all of the costs. It's up to wealthy donors to subsidize the work and in return their name goes into a program and sometimes they get buildings named for them.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/PDC/4118/ARC334.ppt
It's a facinating essay.
6-14GB is a large database? We easyily get 15GB per day of new data in one system that I'm working with; the SAN datastore is in the 15TB range. Oh yeah, and it's all running on Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server just fine.
The issue isn't whether it'll be leaked out but whether it'll be admissible in court. Those are two totally seperate things.
And the book you're refering to is The Light of Other Days, by Aurther C. Clarke. I think that it would actually be quite nice to have a device that any one could use to see anything in the past. It would totally change society. Of course people who grew up prior to its invention would have the hardest time adapting, but those who grew up with it would be radically different. It'd be like Foucault's Panopticon. People would subconciously alter their behavior because they think they are being watched.
Of course I'm going to get modded to hell for this, but here goes anyway: Why shouldn't the military have the information needed to protect us against our enemies? In this era, power isn't restricted to iron, but also information. The Gov't has always held a military advantage over the populace. I understand the concerns regarding the database, but how many people really believe that the government is out to get them? Face it, you're just not that important and your life just isn't that interesting. Even with existing technology, if the goverment wanted to spy on you, you're SOL. Remember, an entity's funding determines how well they can track you and get to you. You may be safe against most companies, but the Gov't already has you beaten. Now Mohammad Atta's life they would be extremely interesting. While no one's making any promises, what if such a system had been able to prevent 9-11? What about the next time? Do you really think that the 9-11 attacks will be the last by terrorists on US soil? How many more people will be killed when a biological or dirty bomb goes off? When doing a cost-benefit analysis, there's really no question. In this day and age, where terrorists are our primary threat, we need to be able to locate them quickly. Uncle Sam really isn't going to be looking closely at Joe Smith--he's too boring. There ya go, flame away.
Unfortunately, it would still be a violation. It doesn't really matter whether they intend on offering it to the public or whether it's strictly for in-house use.
I'm not saying that I agree with it--I most certainly don't--but that's the current state of the law.
The best bet in that case would be to try to get the PTO to review the patent on the grounds that it's obvious and has prior art.
You still wouldn't be allowed to use the device. I don't recall the specifics, but years ago DEC and Intel were sparring over patents between Alpha and one of the Intel chips.
What it boiled down to was there's only a few possible ways to do a certain thing, but DEC happened to patent it first. That Intel also happened to do it the same way (despite the fact that there were few "other" ways), was irrelevant. DEC won that round of the fight.
Yes. Patent's are agnostic about whether they were developed independently or not. The only thing that matters is who filed first.
That's completely not true. Any recent version of Outlook, and any version of Outlook with SP2 on it, has scripting off by default. It may have even been off longer than that.
The real bulk of the problem is with stupid users running attachments that they shouldn't.
This is old news... The Onion had a story about it over three years ago!
One of the things the article mentions are live search folders--basically folders comprised of an pregenerated search result (for which the index is automaticly updated).
This allows you to have different views of your existing data to separate the physical location from what you actually want.
Microsoft Outlook 2003 includes these search folders in it now. For example, you can have a search folder for all unread items in all folders. So if you have rules that filter your incoming mail to various foldes, you can just go to the search folder to see all unread items--and then mark them all as read there rather than having to select mark all as read for each folder.
If you want to have access to all email pertaining to a particular project, you can create a search folder to do so. The actual messages might be in your read and sent folders, and perhaps even in other public shared folders, but they'd all appear in your search folder.
Given how useful it is for Outlook, I can't imagine how useful it'd be for an entire filesystem.
Something tells me that this will be possbile in Longhorn with the new WinFS filesystem based on Yukon. It certainly will be interesting.
Granted, it's from an April Fools story, but couldn't they even try to get the BSOD screen shot right?
That BSOD version is from Win9x versions... the NT-based BSOD has the text at the upper left of the screen, and no CTRL-ALT-DEL message either.
As usual, News.com trolls Slashdot for interesting comments... You've just been quoted at the end of the article. :)
Many companies will contract the labor out to an Indian company to get around the equal pay problem of H1-B's. Rather than have foreigners work over here, they work for an Indian company, in India, and take two-month business trips here to train.
A lot of work is being shifted offshore like this, and it's purely for economic reasons. An Indian engineer makes a small fraction of what an American one does, so the Indian company can underbid any US outsourcing firm.
No, I haven't personally, but I've seen what they can do and I haven't been impressed. There's a certain quality and tonality that you simply cannot get from digital at present. Ideally, the best way to view the slides is not printed, but projected. Once projected, there's a vividness unlike anything digital can produce (at the moment for any kind of "reasonable" price).
You try blowing up your 11MP image to 30"x40". I can do that just fine with my Kodachrome 64 on my Nikon FG camera.
Microsoft never needed Corel to port .NET to Linux. They already have it running on Linux internally in their labs. Not only that, but MS has *all* of their major apps running on Linux in their labs.
*If* they wanted to release SQL Server for Linux, it'd take them less than two days to do so. Ditto for Office, IE, and everything else.
It's really a business decision. They have zero reason to release a Linux version of those since it'd take away OS sales.
On the other hand how do you propose to put an access control that won't violate anyones privacy?
<em>The court also said screening methods suggested by the government, including requiring Web-page viewers to give a credit card number, would unfairly require adults to identify themselves before viewing constitutionally protected material such as medical sites offering sex advice. </em>
That last issue seems like it will be the downfall of any access-control system. How do you both prove age while maintaining anonymity? They're mutually exclusive things.
Well, when it comes to wine, if it's in any sort of reputable store, 9 times out of 10, that $20 bottle of wine *will* be better than that $2 one, and there is plenty of evidence to support that.
Wine pricing follows a true supply/demand curve much closer than many other industries. The reason a Chateau Muton Rothschild is $400+ a bottle is because there's far more demand for it than supply. The demand exists because the wine is widely considered of superior taste. By that same token, a wine is $2 if there's no demand for it--it's a bad wine...
Through .NET's interop features, you can call any Win32 DLL via P/Invoke, so anything that isn't natively supported by .NET can still be accessed via P/Invoke. That includes things like winmm.dll for multimedia funtions and shell32.dll for shell stuff (extract icons, etc), etc.
Gee, you must be at CWRU. As an alum, no other school's network could have been as poorly designed (then).