...is Schwartz right in giving credit to McNealy for creating 'millions' of jobs? Or has Sun been a company on the decline since the mid-1990s, only temporarily buoyed by the Internet bubble?
What was that Family Guy quote? Didn't it go like this:
Lawyer: So, Mr Griffin, is Brian Griffin a sex-crazed dog or an irresponsible alchoholic?
Peter: Ah,ah...
Lawyer: Drunken lunatic or terrible father?
The world is not black and white. These choices on/. are annoying. Sun is a good company, not a great one, but giving an either/or question with disconnected answers is fallacious.
Is it reasonable to be afraid of this. To exploit this, in a way to allow running of arbitary code, you would need a buffer overflow - which is what this AMD weakness is purporting to allow. However, how many are affected? Only a few of the AMD chips, and AMD has only what, 30% of the market. So to code an exploit, you would be writing to a very limited audience, to a point where it is futile. Why not just exploit the latest create.Textrange of WMF exploit in IE/Windows? Much more money in that.
What's to stop a company, or a bunch of disenfranchised users, creating a free alternative to XFire? I'm not familiar with the technology used, but it is a tracker that determines what game you are playing, when, isn't it? In that case, if Viacom choose to go with embedded ads/possible spyware and adware, then it would be almost trivial with a large community movement to create a "Y-Fire" without the ads, wouldn't it? So any revenue attempts by Viacom would lose them money. Bad move IMHO.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Open standards lead to better products. Case in point - Hypertransport. That story about the possibilities of fluid simulations/path finding in the oil industry opened up by co-processors slotting into HTT links is just a case in point.
Hey Intel, hows the FSB? And, for that matter, how's that DRM-soaked Viiv product going?
OH NOES!! TEH TEROORISTS IS COMING!!!one1! WITH PIRATED DVD'S
Sorry about that, but this is going too far. Terrorism and child pornography are bad, yes, but attempts to prevent them are not worth the loss of our rights. In the other story about this kind of thing, I forgot who said it, but it went something like this - "Terrorism and Child Porn are the root passwords to the constitution". It's a sad time for the land of the free.
George W. Bush "invented" the iPod, and Al Gore "invented" the internet (and the Algorithm). Seems like I can't trust either side of politics at the moment!
I have to disagree - XGL is not "simple and unnecessary eye-candy". There are some _very_ useful things in there. The expose clone, for one. This is a _great_ feature of of OS X, and now it is "simple and unnecessary"? And the virtual desktops being exposed to the viewer. The cube metaphor works great, exposing functionality to the users. Friends, for the first time, are grouping apps - Work on Desktop 1, Web browsing on desktop 2 etc. Transparency can help or hinder (Vista), so I'm still on the fence on this one.
Sure, some things are just eye-candy, for example the way movies can play on the corners of the cube. But by and large, XGL is _useful_ and _not_ eyecandy.
Actually, it's not 50 MB, it's - 76.3 MB, at least for The latest release for Windows (OOo_2.0.1_Win32Intel_install.exe). I think that that it is rubbish. I had to torrent it FFS, to ease the load on the servers. But I suppose a lot of people torrent Office suites!
I think you always need a reason before you try something new and unproven. If it is an enterprise app, why? Is there a feature that Python et al. does not do? If you have no experience with it, and no good reason to switch - Why bother?
One Instrument - My fingers. And secondarily, my time. I haven't played violin, but I play electric guitar, and I have never used any software. Seriously, you can just pick up guitar and teach it to yourself. Just print some tabs off the internet, put aside an hour of your time, and just enjoy yourself.
There is no need for software if you practice, and practice well.
Sorry, but that is pure FUD. WPA-PSK is not "abysmally weak". WEP is "abysmally weak". You cannot, in any reasonable length of time, brute force a WPA-PSK key of length any more than 8 characters, especially if they are numbers, capital letters, symbols etc. Heres a hint, go to this password generator, get a key, and you are safe, despite using the ""abysmally weak" WPA-PSK. Do you want to brute-force that? Your 24 character limit is bogus. Try it yourself, make a WPA passphrase, and try brute-forcing it. Just try. Even a simple password, just letters, will NOT be brute forced.
For those of you who thought that Edison invented the light bulb, as I did, think again. He did not.
Choice quote from Wikipedia article: Many of his inventions were not completely original, but improvements which allowed for mass production. For example, contrary to public perception, Edison did not invent the electric light bulb. Several designs had already been developed by earlier inventors including the patent he purchased from Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, Moses G. Farmer,[2] Joseph Swan, James Bowman Lindsay, William Sawyer, Humphry Davy, and Heinrich Göbel. In 1878, Edison applied the term filament to the element of glowing wire carrying the current, although English inventor Joseph Swan used the term prior to this. Edison took the features of these earlier designs and set his workers to the task of creating longer-lasting bulbs. By 1879, he had produced a new concept: a high resistance lamp in a very high vacuum, which would burn for hundreds of hours. While the earlier inventors had produced electric lighting in laboratory conditions, Edison concentrated on commercial application and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relatively long-lasting light bulbs and creating a system for the generation and distribution of electricity.
What is Vista-Compatible? Is it the same as the "XP-Compatible" 300 MHz Pentium 2 Processor with 128 MB ram? It will install, but not do much else?
I assume that Vista has a Win2K mode, that cuts away all the Aero Glass crap and lets me work. Is that was this "Vista-Compatible" certification is? ie. It runs the low quality mode, but not the Toys-R-Us look? In that case, pretty much every machine with 256MB ram and a Pentium 4/ AMD Socket A proc will work
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What was that Family Guy quote? Didn't it go like this:
Lawyer: So, Mr Griffin, is Brian Griffin a sex-crazed dog or an irresponsible alchoholic?
Peter: Ah,ah...
Lawyer: Drunken lunatic or terrible father?
The world is not black and white. These choices on /. are annoying. Sun is a good company, not a great one, but giving an either/or question with disconnected answers is fallacious.
Interesting Perl script.
Is it reasonable to be afraid of this. To exploit this, in a way to allow running of arbitary code, you would need a buffer overflow - which is what this AMD weakness is purporting to allow. However, how many are affected? Only a few of the AMD chips, and AMD has only what, 30% of the market. So to code an exploit, you would be writing to a very limited audience, to a point where it is futile. Why not just exploit the latest create.Textrange of WMF exploit in IE/Windows? Much more money in that.
GO#D^LOADINGT%^@!
What's to stop a company, or a bunch of disenfranchised users, creating a free alternative to XFire? I'm not familiar with the technology used, but it is a tracker that determines what game you are playing, when, isn't it? In that case, if Viacom choose to go with embedded ads/possible spyware and adware, then it would be almost trivial with a large community movement to create a "Y-Fire" without the ads, wouldn't it? So any revenue attempts by Viacom would lose them money. Bad move IMHO.
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If they want to stop the problem of hackings, just block all IP's coming from MIT and Caltech!
There is a point where you have to stop and say - Is it reasonable for this to happen? If you have physical access, you lose security. Period.
Hey Intel, hows the FSB? And, for that matter, how's that DRM-soaked Viiv product going?
Sorry about that, but this is going too far. Terrorism and child pornography are bad, yes, but attempts to prevent them are not worth the loss of our rights. In the other story about this kind of thing, I forgot who said it, but it went something like this - "Terrorism and Child Porn are the root passwords to the constitution". It's a sad time for the land of the free.
George W. Bush "invented" the iPod, and Al Gore "invented" the internet (and the Algorithm). Seems like I can't trust either side of politics at the moment!
Sure, some things are just eye-candy, for example the way movies can play on the corners of the cube. But by and large, XGL is _useful_ and _not_ eyecandy.
But can it synergize end-to-end clicks-to-bricks solutions with transparent ROI? A bunch of VC's are waiting.
A: None. They just sit in the dark and cry.
Actually, it was a play on the name. M1911 and 9/11 - get it?
Too soon?
Actually, it's not 50 MB, it's - 76.3 MB, at least for The latest release for Windows (OOo_2.0.1_Win32Intel_install.exe). I think that that it is rubbish. I had to torrent it FFS, to ease the load on the servers. But I suppose a lot of people torrent Office suites!
Sincerely,
Justin Timberlake.
I think you always need a reason before you try something new and unproven. If it is an enterprise app, why? Is there a feature that Python et al. does not do? If you have no experience with it, and no good reason to switch - Why bother?
There is no need for software if you practice, and practice well.
Sorry, but that is pure FUD. WPA-PSK is not "abysmally weak". WEP is "abysmally weak". You cannot, in any reasonable length of time, brute force a WPA-PSK key of length any more than 8 characters, especially if they are numbers, capital letters, symbols etc. Heres a hint, go to this password generator, get a key, and you are safe, despite using the ""abysmally weak" WPA-PSK. Do you want to brute-force that? Your 24 character limit is bogus. Try it yourself, make a WPA passphrase, and try brute-forcing it. Just try. Even a simple password, just letters, will NOT be brute forced.
Choice quote from Wikipedia article: Many of his inventions were not completely original, but improvements which allowed for mass production. For example, contrary to public perception, Edison did not invent the electric light bulb. Several designs had already been developed by earlier inventors including the patent he purchased from Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, Moses G. Farmer,[2] Joseph Swan, James Bowman Lindsay, William Sawyer, Humphry Davy, and Heinrich Göbel. In 1878, Edison applied the term filament to the element of glowing wire carrying the current, although English inventor Joseph Swan used the term prior to this. Edison took the features of these earlier designs and set his workers to the task of creating longer-lasting bulbs. By 1879, he had produced a new concept: a high resistance lamp in a very high vacuum, which would burn for hundreds of hours. While the earlier inventors had produced electric lighting in laboratory conditions, Edison concentrated on commercial application and was able to sell the concept to homes and businesses by mass-producing relatively long-lasting light bulbs and creating a system for the generation and distribution of electricity.
More info: Thomas Edison and Light Bulbs from Wikipedia
Well, with respect, I don't think that anything will ever play Duke Nukem Forever.
I assume that Vista has a Win2K mode, that cuts away all the Aero Glass crap and lets me work. Is that was this "Vista-Compatible" certification is? ie. It runs the low quality mode, but not the Toys-R-Us look? In that case, pretty much every machine with 256MB ram and a Pentium 4/ AMD Socket A proc will work