"In fact, they now have a big incentive to make the OS less secure."
No, they are listening to the market as they always have. The market wondered where the MS antivirus solution is, and here it is! Now that it's here, the/. crowd doesn't like it!
But what makes the/. crowd think that MS is even listening to you? Clearly,/. isn't MS's market:)
Sheesh, and I thought *I* was bad. d00d, here in the western hemisphere we live in a system called capitalism...ppl AND companies have every right and oppurunity to provide a service or product and make a profit from it. There are no boundaries at how MUCH of a profit said company or individual can or should earn from said product. Again, NO limits. **Free Enterprise**. Along with free enterprise comes free choice...if you want something else, you're free to choose it, instead.
I use MS, sure, but also *BSD, *nix, even MAC. Yes, all paid for (where applicable). There is no one-size fits all in the world of computers, at least not for me - I like 'em all, regardless of OS.
Does MS have a monopoly? At the moment...yes, after all, they've created the market for themselves, and have listened to the market ever since, delivering what the market asks them too. Key word, *market*, not *individual*. When someone else comes along and builds an OS that anyone's granny can learn to send e-mail with, bring 'em on, I say! Buy it and give it to granny if she likes it better. Again, there's that "choice" thing.
What disturbs me FAR more than MS coming up with a low-priced virus scanner is the US Gov't wanting to index and essentially control the Internet...a previously un-regulated, community-built village that will soon be no more.
Nope, you're not.
I realize Google-wariness may not be popular here, but I'll say it: do you REALLY want Google indexing your chat logs, among SO many other things?? I have a hard enough time with the fact that all my e-mail is being indexed; to the point where I'll be implementing my own email server in the next month or so. Privacy is what you make it, if you're proactive about it.
If you make Google your e-mail provider, you run the risk of loosing some/all privacy. Yes, I've read their privacy policy. Sorry to be the anti-fanboy, but Google is simply running away with development, nifty toys coming out every other week (yes, with very good features - they do some fine work, to be sure) that are also indexing EVERYthing.
Has anyone been following the news? Bush is leaning toward Internet regulation. We're talking about the most powerful nation on earth with the most paranoid of presidents who is NOT interested in a global village. It's only a matter of time before a somewhat simple court order allows access to Google (or other records) indexes. Sure, it might be 5, even 10 or more years away.
But that's 10 years of indexing.
...with all the potential regulation of the Internet, and perhaps price/package changes, I've noticed more and more BBS's pop up again.
(thinking about opening my own)
hmmm
Well said, and I could not agree more. My father is a pro travel photographer, and loves digital for the convenience and instant results, as you point out. Think he's getting rid of his Hasselblad or large format plate-film cameras? hah - as someone with an eye for detail, he'd be a fool. Digital cams are wonderful for point-and-shoot and some low-end professional use (you mentioned newspapers etc - publications such as these use very low resolution, high-quality would be overkill). When he works, he now has two bags...digital equipment, and the tried-and true (analogue) Nikon.
It's all marketing...we are being fed things like "more megapixels this year for less than last year!" and "sale sale sale" and "more detail than ever!" and "blowout!" and gigs instead of megs, the list goes on. They say NOTHING of true quality in these adverts. Just the buzzwords.
This is why so many pro studios use both digital AND film cams. They'll set up the sitting, and take a snap with the digital as a "preview". Do ya like it? Ok, POP, take a film shot and print it. Point and shoot vs. quality.
I have a cousin who is in the digital photography business. She mainly does event photography, and digital suits her perfectly - snap snap snap, digital really does release the photographer from the confines of "what will it look like when it's developed", and creates a new freedom. She takes pic after pic and sorts the great from the good later. At these events, ppl aren't to concerned with high definition...just getting the shot.
So there are pros and cons to both, in my opinion. One is NOT better than the other in all or even many ways - the idea is to record the event, to capture the moment, in some cases, record history, and also to create art with true definition.
Personally my ideal setup (as a shutterbug) would be something like a point and shoot digital with me at all times (which I do carry) and a DSLR (say a D90 or something) and my Nikon 35mm - lenses being interchangeable, why not??
Pro's like my dad are quite enjoying the digital revolution at this moment in time...not only for the new technology and some of the freedoms it brings, but also because it's at the cusp of good equipment at both ends, digital and film. He can find PLENTY of really great deals on some very high-end film equipment, because, as you've pointed out, Joe Blow is buying up all the latest Best Buy sales.
Remeber when this was the craze?...well they ARE helical, which does allow for lots of storage. If magnetic media really does have a decent shelf life, maybe the ppl trying VHS as a backup type weren't so nutty, after all.
For me, it's a trust issue...
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...and I don't trust Sony anymore...that's for sure.
Now...with all the DRM crap etc about...why should I buy music from a big retailer such as Sony/BMG? I mean, OTHER than to support the artist(s).
I want my money to support the artist's music I buy...but not like this. I don't want to support Sony or any other recording industry giant's "protective" measures.
This is the digital age...we are all equals here. Meaning, it's relatively easy (at least in recent history) to DUPLICATE those zeros and ones on a CD (or DVD for that matter). Yet Microsoft befuddles the issue with DRM, and Sony causes worldwide loss of faith with a rootkit.
Trust?/me doesn't.
I'm not advocating piracy...I'm just saying it's far EASIER (and now...safer) to find and play that MP3 than any of the "legit" *cough cough* alternatives.
I truly would like to see a less corporate model, in which the artist gets paid more fairly, and where artist and fan have a better relationship.
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I'm guessing you are a Bittorrent user?
Why is it assanine not follow the status quo, and use stuff "under the radar"? Sure, Bittorrent CAN be used for legitimate material...which is great.
But so can FTP. What can Bittorrent do that FTP cannot?
Bittorrent, and almost ALL file sharing apps SUCK, plain and simple. Look what they did to Usenet!!
FTP always has been, and always WILL be, the answer.
The only hurdle (which pretty much separates the wheat from the chaff in the technical world) is the (ftp) users might have to learn something!
Bittorrent gives a bad name to file sharing. Give the masses something any 6 year old to use, and pretty soon, every 6 year old is using it.
Trespass!? How about Break and Enter?
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Seriously though, it's refreshing to learn the courts are looking at it, and at least TRYING to make spyware fit into the legal system somewhere.
If I've ever said "there oughta be a law", here is where it most certainly applies.
Well said!! I second your comments, wholeheartedly.
Being a tech doens't mean being a platform tech, it means fixing computers and making recommendations considering cost, ease of use, scenario, and the user. Maybe ISA will work, maybe a *nix firewall will be OK too. Depends on the situation.
Re: sig - "Support Western separatism"?? That has to be the most UN-Canadian thing I've ever heard...there's always France!! If you really want seperatism...separate yourself from Canada.
..I use a mod that integrates with IDS (Snort rules!! hah hahhahah - ok sry.), and if an incoming, unsolicited connection violates any of the Snort rules (w/Oinkmaster updates) then that IP is blocked (further packets are dropped - not rejected, *dropped*) for an hour.
Of course, it's completely customizable - eg the ban limit can be config'd for 2 hours, or 30 minutes. Similarly, the Oinkmaster rules can also be modified - eg if a Yahoo! login triggers Snort, and Yahoo!'s IP becomes blocked, one can edit the rule to allows allow (or otherwise ignore) that rule - OR IP.
It's not a perfect system - it has a few flaws. However it requires very little maintanence and does the trick for now.
Curious, it was Chinese hack attempts to my site that prompted the search to find such an auto-blocking mod =/
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"In fact, they now have a big incentive to make the OS less secure." No, they are listening to the market as they always have. The market wondered where the MS antivirus solution is, and here it is! Now that it's here, the /. crowd doesn't like it!
But what makes the /. crowd think that MS is even listening to you? Clearly, /. isn't MS's market :)
Sheesh, and I thought *I* was bad. d00d, here in the western hemisphere we live in a system called capitalism...ppl AND companies have every right and oppurunity to provide a service or product and make a profit from it. There are no boundaries at how MUCH of a profit said company or individual can or should earn from said product. Again, NO limits. **Free Enterprise**. Along with free enterprise comes free choice...if you want something else, you're free to choose it, instead.
I use MS, sure, but also *BSD, *nix, even MAC. Yes, all paid for (where applicable). There is no one-size fits all in the world of computers, at least not for me - I like 'em all, regardless of OS.
Does MS have a monopoly? At the moment...yes, after all, they've created the market for themselves, and have listened to the market ever since, delivering what the market asks them too. Key word, *market*, not *individual*. When someone else comes along and builds an OS that anyone's granny can learn to send e-mail with, bring 'em on, I say! Buy it and give it to granny if she likes it better. Again, there's that "choice" thing.
What disturbs me FAR more than MS coming up with a low-priced virus scanner is the US Gov't wanting to index and essentially control the Internet...a previously un-regulated, community-built village that will soon be no more.
Nope, you're not. I realize Google-wariness may not be popular here, but I'll say it: do you REALLY want Google indexing your chat logs, among SO many other things?? I have a hard enough time with the fact that all my e-mail is being indexed; to the point where I'll be implementing my own email server in the next month or so. Privacy is what you make it, if you're proactive about it. If you make Google your e-mail provider, you run the risk of loosing some/all privacy. Yes, I've read their privacy policy. Sorry to be the anti-fanboy, but Google is simply running away with development, nifty toys coming out every other week (yes, with very good features - they do some fine work, to be sure) that are also indexing EVERYthing. Has anyone been following the news? Bush is leaning toward Internet regulation. We're talking about the most powerful nation on earth with the most paranoid of presidents who is NOT interested in a global village. It's only a matter of time before a somewhat simple court order allows access to Google (or other records) indexes. Sure, it might be 5, even 10 or more years away. But that's 10 years of indexing.
...with all the potential regulation of the Internet, and perhaps price/package changes, I've noticed more and more BBS's pop up again. (thinking about opening my own) hmmm
that's just silly, and kinda hard to take seriously
Well said, and I could not agree more. My father is a pro travel photographer, and loves digital for the convenience and instant results, as you point out. Think he's getting rid of his Hasselblad or large format plate-film cameras? hah - as someone with an eye for detail, he'd be a fool. Digital cams are wonderful for point-and-shoot and some low-end professional use (you mentioned newspapers etc - publications such as these use very low resolution, high-quality would be overkill). When he works, he now has two bags...digital equipment, and the tried-and true (analogue) Nikon.
It's all marketing...we are being fed things like "more megapixels this year for less than last year!" and "sale sale sale" and "more detail than ever!" and "blowout!" and gigs instead of megs, the list goes on. They say NOTHING of true quality in these adverts. Just the buzzwords.
This is why so many pro studios use both digital AND film cams. They'll set up the sitting, and take a snap with the digital as a "preview". Do ya like it? Ok, POP, take a film shot and print it. Point and shoot vs. quality.
I have a cousin who is in the digital photography business. She mainly does event photography, and digital suits her perfectly - snap snap snap, digital really does release the photographer from the confines of "what will it look like when it's developed", and creates a new freedom. She takes pic after pic and sorts the great from the good later. At these events, ppl aren't to concerned with high definition...just getting the shot.
So there are pros and cons to both, in my opinion. One is NOT better than the other in all or even many ways - the idea is to record the event, to capture the moment, in some cases, record history, and also to create art with true definition.
Personally my ideal setup (as a shutterbug) would be something like a point and shoot digital with me at all times (which I do carry) and a DSLR (say a D90 or something) and my Nikon 35mm - lenses being interchangeable, why not??
Pro's like my dad are quite enjoying the digital revolution at this moment in time...not only for the new technology and some of the freedoms it brings, but also because it's at the cusp of good equipment at both ends, digital and film. He can find PLENTY of really great deals on some very high-end film equipment, because, as you've pointed out, Joe Blow is buying up all the latest Best Buy sales.
Remeber when this was the craze? ...well they ARE helical, which does allow for lots of storage. If magnetic media really does have a decent shelf life, maybe the ppl trying VHS as a backup type weren't so nutty, after all.
...and I don't trust Sony anymore...that's for sure.
/me doesn't.
Now...with all the DRM crap etc about...why should I buy music from a big retailer such as Sony/BMG? I mean, OTHER than to support the artist(s).
I want my money to support the artist's music I buy...but not like this. I don't want to support Sony or any other recording industry giant's "protective" measures.
This is the digital age...we are all equals here. Meaning, it's relatively easy (at least in recent history) to DUPLICATE those zeros and ones on a CD (or DVD for that matter). Yet Microsoft befuddles the issue with DRM, and Sony causes worldwide loss of faith with a rootkit.
Trust?
I'm not advocating piracy...I'm just saying it's far EASIER (and now...safer) to find and play that MP3 than any of the "legit" *cough cough* alternatives.
I truly would like to see a less corporate model, in which the artist gets paid more fairly, and where artist and fan have a better relationship.
Can't argue with that. It IS very efficient. I suppose what I'm after is at least the OPTION to password protect one's offerings, and encryption.
? I'm guessing you are a Bittorrent user? Why is it assanine not follow the status quo, and use stuff "under the radar"? Sure, Bittorrent CAN be used for legitimate material...which is great. But so can FTP. What can Bittorrent do that FTP cannot?
Bittorrent, and almost ALL file sharing apps SUCK, plain and simple. Look what they did to Usenet!! FTP always has been, and always WILL be, the answer. The only hurdle (which pretty much separates the wheat from the chaff in the technical world) is the (ftp) users might have to learn something! Bittorrent gives a bad name to file sharing. Give the masses something any 6 year old to use, and pretty soon, every 6 year old is using it.
Seriously though, it's refreshing to learn the courts are looking at it, and at least TRYING to make spyware fit into the legal system somewhere.
If I've ever said "there oughta be a law", here is where it most certainly applies.
Well said!! I second your comments, wholeheartedly.
Being a tech doens't mean being a platform tech, it means fixing computers and making recommendations considering cost, ease of use, scenario, and the user. Maybe ISA will work, maybe a *nix firewall will be OK too. Depends on the situation.
rofl - did I say I lived in the east? not EVERYone in the west is a hick, you know.
Re: sig - "Support Western separatism"?? That has to be the most UN-Canadian thing I've ever heard...there's always France!! If you really want seperatism...separate yourself from Canada.
...service pack 1a. It's been revised.
..I use a mod that integrates with IDS (Snort rules!! hah hahhahah - ok sry.), and if an incoming, unsolicited connection violates any of the Snort rules (w/Oinkmaster updates) then that IP is blocked (further packets are dropped - not rejected, *dropped*) for an hour.
Of course, it's completely customizable - eg the ban limit can be config'd for 2 hours, or 30 minutes. Similarly, the Oinkmaster rules can also be modified - eg if a Yahoo! login triggers Snort, and Yahoo!'s IP becomes blocked, one can edit the rule to allows allow (or otherwise ignore) that rule - OR IP.
It's not a perfect system - it has a few flaws. However it requires very little maintanence and does the trick for now.
Curious, it was Chinese hack attempts to my site that prompted the search to find such an auto-blocking mod =/
eg, "better", "worse", "x browser does it better", etc etc...
Thanks Opera, and Happy Birthday!
Rather good of them to give their product away.
Kudos!
FTP.
The ORIGINAL file sharing protocol. P2P's come and go - FTP will remain mighty!!