This test is not really a fair comparison for security (the article doesn't claim that it is) since Firefox is not anywhere near IE as far as market share goes.
If you are writing a piece of spyware to attack a browser, would you rather write it for the browser that ~80% of the population uses, or the browser used by ~10-15% of the population (and consisting largely of internet-savvy users)?
Combine that with the fact that Internet Explorer allows Active-X controls, and the choice is pretty clear.
Both IE and Firefox are written by humans (yes, M$ employees are human too), so both will always contain bugs that can be used by the people writing spyware.
I would expect to see attacks on Firefox increase as its market share continues to increase.
I'm sure you could pay anyone to do your programming for you whether they're in another country or across the hall... but that's not the point.
If you're going through programming classes and not trying to learn programming, then why are you taking the classes in the first place?
I may have missed something, but I thought the whole point of paying thousands of dollars to take classes was to actually learn something, not to pay more money to have someone else learn for you.
If you manage to get a comp sci degree without learning any programming, then congratulations, but don't expect your boss to care what your degree says when they learn you can't even make a "Hello World" program.
Video as a source of information is just plain annoying. If it's simply someone telling me information, then ultimately the video will just slow me down. People can read much faster than people can talk, so yes a video blog in that sense will be unsuccessful. Text has advantages in that you can read it much faster, and you can skim and search in text.
However, a video blog could be successful if it was done primarily as a source of entertainment (not information), or if it used video to communicate something atcually useful, such as a how-to for a hands-on project or something similar.
But no, I'm not going to sit through a talking head telling me something I could just as easily read. Unless that talking head was female and was really hot.
These traits make the object, nicknamed "Buffy" after the US television series about a vampire slayer, hard to explain. "Maybe Buffy is going to be a bit of a theory slayer," Allen told New Scientist.
That's about as far from being clever as "Buffy" is from the Sun...
I actually wrote a research paper over the evolution of language for my senior seminar, so the discussion of ape vs. human intelligence came up a lot. Unfortunately I'm at work so I'll have to work from memory here:).
Yes, apes can learn words and can be taught to communicate on a very basic level. However, the prime difference is that humans can grasp advanced grammar and syntax, while primates cannot.
Additionally, if language is not present, humans will create their own, as evidence in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language
Here's a brief summary: In the 70s Nicaragua established a special needs school, where ~50 deaf children (previously isolated from any other deaf children) came together. The teachers tried to teach the children finger spelling, but since the children had no concept of spoken language, it was an exercise in futility. Meanwhile, the children were quickly developing their own form of sign language, and the teachers, desparate from the students' inability to learn the fingerspelling, and their own inability to understand the children, asked for outside help from Judy Kegl. Kegl discovered that they had their own language, and that it was evolving from one group of children to the next, into a full-fledged primary sign language.
wouldn't a more appropriate title have been "Giant Fissure in Ethiopia Continues to Grow"?
No, that will be the title of the article Slashdot posts in 10 years:
Giant Fissure in Ethiopia Continues to Grow
Regarding the fissure we reported on previously, we wanted to let you know that it has grown roughly three quarters of a foot, and seems intent on continuing at its blistering pace!
There are a lot of problems when thinking about making an MMOFPS.
First, you're appealing to very different demographics. I know when I play MMORPGs, I consistently come across (relatively) older (and mature) people, including married couples. Additionally, pretty much anyone is capable of doing well, regardless of reflexes and hand-eye coordination.
The appeal of an FPS is to a much younger crowd. If any of you have played FPS games online, you know that it's not uncommon to have many pre-pubescent kids playing on the same server. This is a double knock for an MMOFPS - it lowers the overall maturity of the game world, and these people also don't have their own income or a credit card.
Additionally, people either have 'twitch' skills, or you don't, and I've had enough experience with my non-twitch friends to know that people don't enjoy losing at a game every time they play it. This necessitates adding 'support' roles that don't require quick reflexes for shooting, thus pushing the game closer to the RPG genre.
The main problem I see with an MMOFPS is this: is it a unique game experience? My answer would be no. There are already tons of FPS games you can play online (and for free after you buy the initial game). These can allow anywhere up to 64 people to be playing simultaneously. Granted, it wouldn't be quite the same scale, but it is free, and you get the same adrenaline rush that most people are looking for when they want to play an FPS.
In short, I don't see MMOFPS games becoming a large market any time in the near future.
North Carolina law requires the Board of Elections to review all voting system code "prior to certification." Ignoring this requirement, the Board of Elections on Dec. 1 certified voting systems offered by Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems and Election Systems and Software (ESS) without having first obtained the system code.
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This test is not really a fair comparison for security (the article doesn't claim that it is) since Firefox is not anywhere near IE as far as market share goes.
If you are writing a piece of spyware to attack a browser, would you rather write it for the browser that ~80% of the population uses, or the browser used by ~10-15% of the population (and consisting largely of internet-savvy users)?
Combine that with the fact that Internet Explorer allows Active-X controls, and the choice is pretty clear.
Both IE and Firefox are written by humans (yes, M$ employees are human too), so both will always contain bugs that can be used by the people writing spyware.
I would expect to see attacks on Firefox increase as its market share continues to increase.
I'm sure you could pay anyone to do your programming for you whether they're in another country or across the hall... but that's not the point.
If you're going through programming classes and not trying to learn programming, then why are you taking the classes in the first place?
I may have missed something, but I thought the whole point of paying thousands of dollars to take classes was to actually learn something, not to pay more money to have someone else learn for you.
If you manage to get a comp sci degree without learning any programming, then congratulations, but don't expect your boss to care what your degree says when they learn you can't even make a "Hello World" program.
And most slashdotters do it way faster than 10 minutes.
If you haven't seen it that means all of your friends have common sense and enough knowhow so as not to click on everything they see.
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http://www.thetechzone.com.nyud.net:8090/?m=show&
Each 24" monitor has a resolution of 1920x1200, so it would actually be 3840x1200... which wouldn't be to shabby.
I said hit CmdrTaco's house with the meteor! Not some random rock on the moon!
Of course, any attacker with intelligence will simply go around the flagpole rather than running into it.
Hey! Are you calling me stupid?
Video as a source of information is just plain annoying. If it's simply someone telling me information, then ultimately the video will just slow me down. People can read much faster than people can talk, so yes a video blog in that sense will be unsuccessful. Text has advantages in that you can read it much faster, and you can skim and search in text.
However, a video blog could be successful if it was done primarily as a source of entertainment (not information), or if it used video to communicate something atcually useful, such as a how-to for a hands-on project or something similar.
But no, I'm not going to sit through a talking head telling me something I could just as easily read. Unless that talking head was female and was really hot.
Did they find a preserved watermelon or two as well?
So all my ninja bot has to do is wear a bunch of mirrors and your robot could never see it! Sucker!
It's like putting somebody in a toaster oven on low heat
Boy, but you should see them complain when it's on high!
Am I missing something? What is Janet Jackson doing at the top of the search list?
;)
I know I search for news on Janet several times a minute. Restraining orders don't account for virtual distance
So have you seen the doctor about that?
And I expect good parents to whack them upside the head until they say please.
And then whack them upside the head until they politely shut up after the parent says "No".
Why on earth is that modded insightful?
These traits make the object, nicknamed "Buffy" after the US television series about a vampire slayer, hard to explain. "Maybe Buffy is going to be a bit of a theory slayer," Allen told New Scientist.
That's about as far from being clever as "Buffy" is from the Sun...
So now we're saying it's one's environment that decides if your path will be straight or not?
Ok, that innuendo may be reaching a little much.
I actually wrote a research paper over the evolution of language for my senior seminar, so the discussion of ape vs. human intelligence came up a lot. Unfortunately I'm at work so I'll have to work from memory here :).
Yes, apes can learn words and can be taught to communicate on a very basic level. However, the prime difference is that humans can grasp advanced grammar and syntax, while primates cannot.
Additionally, if language is not present, humans will create their own, as evidence in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language
Here's a brief summary: In the 70s Nicaragua established a special needs school, where ~50 deaf children (previously isolated from any other deaf children) came together. The teachers tried to teach the children finger spelling, but since the children had no concept of spoken language, it was an exercise in futility. Meanwhile, the children were quickly developing their own form of sign language, and the teachers, desparate from the students' inability to learn the fingerspelling, and their own inability to understand the children, asked for outside help from Judy Kegl. Kegl discovered that they had their own language, and that it was evolving from one group of children to the next, into a full-fledged primary sign language.
All I know is that I could get where I was going better if I could shoot turtles at others on the highway.
That's turtle shells. Live turtles don't slide nearly as well. Trust me.
Only if I get to loot his gear.
wouldn't a more appropriate title have been "Giant Fissure in Ethiopia Continues to Grow"?
No, that will be the title of the article Slashdot posts in 10 years:
Giant Fissure in Ethiopia Continues to Grow
Regarding the fissure we reported on previously, we wanted to let you know that it has grown roughly three quarters of a foot, and seems intent on continuing at its blistering pace!
There are a lot of problems when thinking about making an MMOFPS.
First, you're appealing to very different demographics. I know when I play MMORPGs, I consistently come across (relatively) older (and mature) people, including married couples. Additionally, pretty much anyone is capable of doing well, regardless of reflexes and hand-eye coordination.
The appeal of an FPS is to a much younger crowd. If any of you have played FPS games online, you know that it's not uncommon to have many pre-pubescent kids playing on the same server. This is a double knock for an MMOFPS - it lowers the overall maturity of the game world, and these people also don't have their own income or a credit card.
Additionally, people either have 'twitch' skills, or you don't, and I've had enough experience with my non-twitch friends to know that people don't enjoy losing at a game every time they play it. This necessitates adding 'support' roles that don't require quick reflexes for shooting, thus pushing the game closer to the RPG genre.
The main problem I see with an MMOFPS is this: is it a unique game experience? My answer would be no. There are already tons of FPS games you can play online (and for free after you buy the initial game). These can allow anywhere up to 64 people to be playing simultaneously. Granted, it wouldn't be quite the same scale, but it is free, and you get the same adrenaline rush that most people are looking for when they want to play an FPS.
In short, I don't see MMOFPS games becoming a large market any time in the near future.
North Carolina law requires the Board of Elections to review all voting system code "prior to certification." Ignoring this requirement, the Board of Elections on Dec. 1 certified voting systems offered by Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems and Election Systems and Software (ESS) without having first obtained the system code.
but that it will be millions of years before that could occur
I can't wait!
Literally.
So where do people stand on Web 2.0 vs. Internet Mark II?