Nothing in the article says that MS is getting rid of ACL's, just that they are going to start writing software that is function with local admin.
AFAIK, many unices use ACLs, so that's not entirely relevant. But yes, your point about windows apps needing to distinguish between user-level access and admin access is very important here.
When newer processor technologies are developed, they're almost always deligated to server processors before they trickle down to desktop processors. (Of course, there are exceptions: MMX and its spawn, etc).
Should've stuck to your guns:) MMX is vector processing technology, which started in supercomputers like Crays AFAIK.
Aye, that is more useful. Still a little stereotypical and offensive for my taste, but there's good advice in there:)
Sorry, I didn't read the article. Tried, but the link seemed to take me around in circles.
A lot of name-calling, stereotyping of sick people, and just plain offensiveness there. Wouldn't have been so bad if your post had a point beyond "they're bad":(
I'm not a physicist, but even I can (seemingly) work this stuff out from first principles: a rubber ball bounces more than a brick because it's a soft body that can be bent, distorted, and recoiled by the forces involved in hitting the ground. Likewise, a more viscous liquid can hold in its forces more than a "lesser" liquid, and its shape will bend and distort as the forces (and fluid) push around inside it. Nothing counter-intuitive there to me.
Now, knowing something intuitively and validating it scientifically are two different things, and I (at least) wasn't aware that some liquids don't bounce, so I welcome this research of course. But I hope it leads to something a little more groundbreaking than that;)
I'd also like to know if this ethanol is REALLY not bouncing all of a sudden, or if it's just bouncing less so that it becomes undetectable.
Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when you're beholding a graphical effect that you never truly thought possible, but spent hours coding anyway only to find out it works... well, it tends to look pretty great.
Then you look at it a month later and realise it's useless;)
It's been a VERY long time since X worked well at 800x600. I remember trying to use X back in '95, and many programs assumed you had 1024x768, so they would be too big for the screen. Some wouldn't even start. If anything, apps have gotten better since then, using GTK/Qt for dynamically sized windows etc.
But they have to spend all their time reading the statements from banner ad companies that run all those microsoft ads. How could they have time to make keep the community's interests in mind?;)
They go on to warn that the only thing that's protected Apple users from exploits so far has been the small number of Macs on the net
is the exact FUD that I first heard in a very biased and out-of-place monologue delivered by a newscaster on Microsoft's MS/NBC network. While the user is always the biggest weakness, it's never been true that other modern platforms are as susceptible as windows.
You know, I was just wondering today... what's stopping TV stations from distributing over the net? After all, radio stations across the world seem to have jumped on the 'net early on as simply another method of broadcasting that they already do on a daily basis.
Even with traditional broadcasting, some people in neighbouring countries can pick up the signals, and some within the country can't. What if the TV stations "broadcast" over the net, but limit to the average number of hops to get across the country? Would that really be much different from throwing a TV program out onto the air waves for people to pick up and record?
I can only assume it's the relatively high bandwidth requirements stopping them, and that 'net broadcasting will happen sooner or later, as long as DRM doesn't worm its way in first. Maybe that's the whole point of DRM though, and why no one has really rushed to implement it until now.
Hmm, I wonder if we'll see a growth of cinemas that actually pirate themselves, swapping or buying cheap digital copies rather than shelling out for the original stuff? Who would know, after all?
Anyone know if these new cinemas include a DRM system that would prevent this?
Agreed, "cyber terrorism" isn't very likely imho, given the sort of lifestyle that leads to hacking skills vs. the sort of lifestyle that leads to being pissed off at thousands of citizens in a shopping mall. There's a danger of someone with the skills and few scruples being hired by a sociopath, but personally I think these things are far too rare to be seriously worrying about, and they're pretty much unstoppable anyway. It's the age-old question: how do you stop someone determined to kill you, even at the expense of their own lives? Simple answer is that you can't. But you can probably prevent it, with better mental healthcare, fairer treatment of other nations, etc.
However, cybercrime such as theft is much more likely, and needs to be taken seriously. And this whole phony war against terror thing is just distracting people from that, imho.
Well, "piracy" isn't something I believe in much either way. Personally, I'm hoping that this will hasten the transition to a viable digital distribution model (ie, all kinds of public information being freely redistributable to all citizens, with REASONABLE production fees paid for through taxes).
I wonder how many computer geeks have memory troubles? I have a theory that all those requesters and reminders and pop-up hints help us so much that they make us forget how to remember things. My memory is like a sieve these days. Although it could be other things, so I'm not sure.
Errm... that's not remembering anything new. It's simply recalling details of your office that you work in every day.
If I read out numbers that seem meaningless to you, and you use the people in your office as a mnemonic to remember them, that's different.
But personally, I've little interest in rote learning. I'd much rather understand how the world works and be able to explain it from principles than to simply have meaningless tables of data in my head. The former is applicable to more than just pre-determined questions.
For example, which would you rather know: the date at which world war two broke out, out the sequence of events since world war two, and their causality? With knowledge, you can backtrack to the right year from other dates you do remember, and, much more, you can actually use the information for new ideas and insights.
*sigh* Yes, I meant "write". But I think the bad spelling in online communities is starting to become contagious. Lately, I've caught myself writing "one" as "whon" and performing all sorts of other atrocities;/
Sounds like a good book:) Reminds me a lot of the kind of thing you get in China/Japan: the Tao of this, the way of that: all about the philosophy and beauty of something that seems very basic to the untrained eye:)
Agreed. This is the problem with SETI etc.: they're looking for radio waves, which is what WE choose to make, in a certain kind of human society that just happens to be successful dominant at the moment.
If we ever find aliens, I'm not even sure we'll be able to find a common frame of reference, never mind a compatible communication technology, or recognisable DNA.
Still, I guess there's a good chance that any lifeform will break down known energy sources in a known way, thereby producing detectable by-products, and SETI is a nice compliment to that, as an entirely different approach that covers the other end of the spectrum (no pun intended).
I'd be very surprised if IE7 did those things too:)
However, that won't matter. People have taken up Firefox as a solution to IE's problems. As soon as microsoft announce a new version of IE that even claims to fix them, a lot of non-loyal Firefox users who don't really understand why it's better will switch back for the novelty of a "new version of IE", even though it probably won't be more than a few band-aids.
At the very least, Firefox will have to have a major version bump (read: Firefox 2.0) or some serious new UI tweaking to keep peoples' interest.
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AFAIK, many unices use ACLs, so that's not entirely relevant. But yes, your point about windows apps needing to distinguish between user-level access and admin access is very important here.
"Open Source" has a lot to answer for in hiding the point of "Free Software". I suggest reading GNU.org's Why Free if you don't get this.
When newer processor technologies are developed, they're almost always deligated to server processors before they trickle down to desktop processors. (Of course, there are exceptions: MMX and its spawn, etc). Should've stuck to your guns :) MMX is vector processing technology, which started in supercomputers like Crays AFAIK.
Actually, I thought Eclipse itself was a pretty satanic example of bloat ;)
Aye, that is more useful. Still a little stereotypical and offensive for my taste, but there's good advice in there :)
Sorry, I didn't read the article. Tried, but the link seemed to take me around in circles.
It's how you mix the peanuts and the butter and the jello that gets me... ;)
Problem is, if you're technically challenged, you're unlikely to see why this wouldn't work, and therefore more likely to be unsurprised by it.
- Are you stupid?
- Are you evil natured?
- Are you disorganized?
- Are you unsuccessful?
- Do you have no budget?
- Are you a stinking liar? Weasel?
- Are you a know it all?
- Are you a control freak?
- Do you have mental problems?
- Are you superstitious?
A lot of name-calling, stereotyping of sick people, and just plain offensiveness there. Wouldn't have been so bad if your post had a point beyond "they're bad"That would be a ken-by-ten But what about Barbie, and all my other action figures? ;)
I'm not a physicist, but even I can (seemingly) work this stuff out from first principles: a rubber ball bounces more than a brick because it's a soft body that can be bent, distorted, and recoiled by the forces involved in hitting the ground. Likewise, a more viscous liquid can hold in its forces more than a "lesser" liquid, and its shape will bend and distort as the forces (and fluid) push around inside it. Nothing counter-intuitive there to me.
Now, knowing something intuitively and validating it scientifically are two different things, and I (at least) wasn't aware that some liquids don't bounce, so I welcome this research of course. But I hope it leads to something a little more groundbreaking than that ;)
I'd also like to know if this ethanol is REALLY not bouncing all of a sudden, or if it's just bouncing less so that it becomes undetectable.
Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when you're beholding a graphical effect that you never truly thought possible, but spent hours coding anyway only to find out it works... well, it tends to look pretty great. Then you look at it a month later and realise it's useless ;)
It's been a VERY long time since X worked well at 800x600. I remember trying to use X back in '95, and many programs assumed you had 1024x768, so they would be too big for the screen. Some wouldn't even start. If anything, apps have gotten better since then, using GTK/Qt for dynamically sized windows etc.
But they have to spend all their time reading the statements from banner ad companies that run all those microsoft ads. How could they have time to make keep the community's interests in mind? ;)
is the exact FUD that I first heard in a very biased and out-of-place monologue delivered by a newscaster on Microsoft's MS/NBC network. While the user is always the biggest weakness, it's never been true that other modern platforms are as susceptible as windows.
You know, I was just wondering today... what's stopping TV stations from distributing over the net? After all, radio stations across the world seem to have jumped on the 'net early on as simply another method of broadcasting that they already do on a daily basis.
Even with traditional broadcasting, some people in neighbouring countries can pick up the signals, and some within the country can't. What if the TV stations "broadcast" over the net, but limit to the average number of hops to get across the country? Would that really be much different from throwing a TV program out onto the air waves for people to pick up and record?
I can only assume it's the relatively high bandwidth requirements stopping them, and that 'net broadcasting will happen sooner or later, as long as DRM doesn't worm its way in first. Maybe that's the whole point of DRM though, and why no one has really rushed to implement it until now.
Don't know about Eire, but Northern Ireland has 100% broadband coverage, making it ahead of the rest of the UK.
I think we can guess "mad" or "drunk" :)
Hmm, I wonder if we'll see a growth of cinemas that actually pirate themselves, swapping or buying cheap digital copies rather than shelling out for the original stuff? Who would know, after all?
Anyone know if these new cinemas include a DRM system that would prevent this?
Agreed, "cyber terrorism" isn't very likely imho, given the sort of lifestyle that leads to hacking skills vs. the sort of lifestyle that leads to being pissed off at thousands of citizens in a shopping mall. There's a danger of someone with the skills and few scruples being hired by a sociopath, but personally I think these things are far too rare to be seriously worrying about, and they're pretty much unstoppable anyway. It's the age-old question: how do you stop someone determined to kill you, even at the expense of their own lives? Simple answer is that you can't. But you can probably prevent it, with better mental healthcare, fairer treatment of other nations, etc.
However, cybercrime such as theft is much more likely, and needs to be taken seriously. And this whole phony war against terror thing is just distracting people from that, imho.Well, "piracy" isn't something I believe in much either way. Personally, I'm hoping that this will hasten the transition to a viable digital distribution model (ie, all kinds of public information being freely redistributable to all citizens, with REASONABLE production fees paid for through taxes).
I wonder how many computer geeks have memory troubles? I have a theory that all those requesters and reminders and pop-up hints help us so much that they make us forget how to remember things. My memory is like a sieve these days. Although it could be other things, so I'm not sure.
Errm... that's not remembering anything new. It's simply recalling details of your office that you work in every day.
If I read out numbers that seem meaningless to you, and you use the people in your office as a mnemonic to remember them, that's different.
But personally, I've little interest in rote learning. I'd much rather understand how the world works and be able to explain it from principles than to simply have meaningless tables of data in my head. The former is applicable to more than just pre-determined questions.
For example, which would you rather know: the date at which world war two broke out, out the sequence of events since world war two, and their causality? With knowledge, you can backtrack to the right year from other dates you do remember, and, much more, you can actually use the information for new ideas and insights.
*sigh* Yes, I meant "write". But I think the bad spelling in online communities is starting to become contagious. Lately, I've caught myself writing "one" as "whon" and performing all sorts of other atrocities ;/
Sounds like a good book :) Reminds me a lot of the kind of thing you get in China/Japan: the Tao of this, the way of that: all about the philosophy and beauty of something that seems very basic to the untrained eye :)
Agreed. This is the problem with SETI etc.: they're looking for radio waves, which is what WE choose to make, in a certain kind of human society that just happens to be successful dominant at the moment. If we ever find aliens, I'm not even sure we'll be able to find a common frame of reference, never mind a compatible communication technology, or recognisable DNA. Still, I guess there's a good chance that any lifeform will break down known energy sources in a known way, thereby producing detectable by-products, and SETI is a nice compliment to that, as an entirely different approach that covers the other end of the spectrum (no pun intended).
I'd be very surprised if IE7 did those things too :)
However, that won't matter. People have taken up Firefox as a solution to IE's problems. As soon as microsoft announce a new version of IE that even claims to fix them, a lot of non-loyal Firefox users who don't really understand why it's better will switch back for the novelty of a "new version of IE", even though it probably won't be more than a few band-aids. At the very least, Firefox will have to have a major version bump (read: Firefox 2.0) or some serious new UI tweaking to keep peoples' interest.