While Firefox is indeed a great browser, it is a largely irrelevant part of this sage -- kid runs unauthorized application, is told not to, disobeys instructions and talks back.
Boring.
Sidenote - Do the editors or the submitter start off the tags these days? This story came fresh with 4 tags...I thought it waited until "democracy" spoke. Wisdom of the masses et al.
I'm a bit of a Blu-ray fan, I like the higher capacities
The higher capacity of Blu-ray is completely and utterly irrelevant for the task. Both have similar transfer speeds, and both can hold many hours of high definition, ultra-high quality sound media.
I'd love to have the capacity of blu-ray for PC backups, but from a packaged media perspective they are practically indistinguishable.
If HD-DVD vs BluRay were a concern, then why on earth does their game console require you to buy a $150+ add-on just to watch HD-DVDs
Because they wanted the base hardware to be cheaper? Because they didn't want to delay the launch of the unit?
Microsoft doesn't have a stake in HD-DVDs whatsoever
Apart from some technical details of HD-DVD that are intrinsically tied to Microsoft (completely undermining your point from the outset), the PS3 uses bluray. If bluray were dominant, the PS3 see a lot of default adoption simply by husbands excusing it to their wives as "not really that expensive because it's also the new hi-def DVD player".
Now it's basically the 51st state since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister (or "Steve" as GWB calls him). Too bad.
[Shakes Fist]DAMN THOSE NEOCONS!
Oh, right...the world isn't quite so simple is it?
There are a couple of rather significant flaws with your naive, juvenile view of Canadian politics-
a) The Conservative government is a minority government. Legislation doesn't pass unless it passes with a majority, which the conservatives cannot accomplish themselves.
b) Stringent, DCMA-style copyright regulations have been in the works for years -- yeah, back in the Liberal era. You can bet the Liberals will support this, because they basically authored it.
The next time your knee starts jerking to blame everything you perceive as negative on Stephen Harper, try to get some semblance of facts.
The unfortunate thing is businesses like this don't realize that while teleworkers can be distracted at home easier, many tend to do more and better work because they are comfortable at home and don't have anyone looking over their shoulder.
Every firm would be well served to do 100% telecommuting for a period of time, forcing them to re-evaluate how they judge the contributions of their team.
The sad reality is that many shops judge contribution simply by sacrifice and hours, and lots of face time presence, using that as a surrogate for any meaningful metrics at all. This is the root reason why most shops despise telecommuting, and why it's often a negative career step for a worker to undertake: Telecommute and you have to do double, triple, or more what your coworkers are doing to get the same respect, whereas showing up early each day and staying late is often a blanket immunity from any sort of real responsibilities or deliverables.
With rising energy costs, shops will have to start to become accustomed to telecommuting. As others have said, it's particularly hilarious that a company that is a foundational facilitator of telecommuting is the one going against the trend to decentralize.
Well it doesn't like at all like a toddler toy to me. It seems like the beads are way to small to start with.
It isn't a toddler toy. Nonetheless, children in the target ages often have siblings, and some of the those siblings are younger. Thus, there are some moderate expectations of marginal safety, such as "won't put you in a coma" or "doesn't contain explosives". This is an egregious safety violation of extraordinary negligence.
I just wonder if it being made in China has ANYTHING to do with it.
China has everything to do with it -- Chinese business took capitalism and embraced it with a zeal seldom seen in the worst heyday in the West -- if they can get away with it, they do. There seems to be zero business morals.
It's bad here in North America, but not remotely as bad as China.
lives with his wife and seven children in Washington. He spends his free time with his family, coaching sports teams, leading youth groups, and playing golf.
It absolutely worked, however it seems likely that the success that Radiohead enjoyed is a fluke more than it foretells some grand new world.
Recall when Stephen King released "The Plant" using a similar scheme, releasing it in parts. At first all of the "embrace the new medium!" enthusiasts flooded King's site (much like Radiohead's initiative, it was experimental and got a tonne of free press), paying up just to make a statement.
Everyone declared it the death of traditional publishing.
But then the "statement" of it fizzled, and more and more users opted to pay nothing at all.
In the end the experiment was a failure -- I don't even think he finished releasing the book via that method.
but if Microsoft had known that they'd be enabling a general-purpose platform for application delivery -- one that doesn't require Win32, or even a full desktop computer at all -- they'd have found another way or not done it at all
Firstly, at the time there were a huge range of "safe-for-scripting" ActiveX objects that could be created in IE. This was Microsoft's way of clutching every corporate shop that dared to use one in a death grip, instantly destroying their potential to have the versatility that a web application would normally bring. XmlHttp, found in the MSXML library, was just another safe-for-scripting object. At the time the web curious were already exploring a number of ways to do asynchronous calls, most commonly being hidden IFRAME updates, but there were a myriad of other options, including plenty of third-party XmlHttp type components, and even some Java Applet techniques for doing this.
This was a hugely growing need, and while Netscape was beaten to the ground and slowly regrouping Microsoft seemed to lead by default.
The point, I suppose, is that the invention of "AJAX" was absolutely, positively inevitable. Microsoft's influence in those early days is entirely the result of its monopoly, not its technical leadership.
The music industry is trying to come to terms with the fact that they can't make money the way that they used to
SOCAN has always used these sorts of tactics, basically taxing all Canadians to create a sort of artists welfare. Read the document and you'll find them talk about game creators having to pay the SOCAN tax regardless of whether every single bit of in-game music, if any, was licensed or contracted. Doesn't matter - send SOCAN a check for the privilege of music.
It has always astounded me that such an organization could continue to enjoy such legislative influence despite their interests being so contrary to capitalism, and to 99.9999%+ of Canadians. I suspect it has to do with the general apathy of Canadians towards government, and the reality that the overwhelming majority of Canadians have no clue about such things.
Microsoft definitely has something going on with.NET code though. The kind of security you can get there can't be compared with anything you can do on the software or even hardware level, with pure unmanaged code.
Such as?
Exactly as you stated, all modern systems have some sandboxing and security constraints. Everything that unmanaged code wants to do -- beyond simply spinning in its own little memory box -- requires the cooperation of the OS. Want to open a network socket? Ask the OS. Want to open a file in read mode? Ask the OS. Want to put something on the screen? Ask the OS. With completely unmanaged code, there is a framework for the finest granularity of security --.NET didn't invent that.
Which is a funny comment, really, because.NET took the potential security advantages and just tossed them all in the dumpster. Extraordinarily few.NET developers have any comprehension of the security namespaces and framework...because they don't need to -- the overwhelming majority of.NET code runs with FullTrust.
Some comments would get point scores, usually 1 or sometimes (rarely) 2
Are you referring to the karma bonus? After you've accumulated a certain amount of karma, you can start your posts off with a natural score of 2 (and if you care about karma -- which sadly some do -- it could actually hurt your quest: If you start at two you can only possibly gain 3 points, but you can lose 3, whereas with a normal score 1 start you can gain 4 and only possibly lose 2. It's like you're trading in options).
It's kind of lame starting your own post with an elevated score, so most users disabled it.
And now, as evidenced by intro of "Idiocracy", we have a trend in other direction
Idiocracy was classist shit, pandering to the kid haters' intrinsic prejudice, and their desperate need to feel better than other people.
It is true, however, that human intelligence and capacity is significantly driven by nutrition. The situational poor often find themselves in a recursive, inescapable cycle, subsisting on vacuous calories and corn syrup, while the affluent are mentally optimized by a highly diversified diet rich with fatty acids and vitamins, etc.
EDD revenue increased primarily due to increased Xbox 360 console sales, Zune sales, and increased Xbox accessories and video game sales. We shipped 6.6 million Xbox 360 consoles during fiscal year 2007 as compared to 5.0 million consoles during fiscal year 2006. Xbox and PC game revenue increased $650 million or 19% as a result of the increased number of Xbox 360 platform sales, partially offset by decreased sales of the first generation Xbox console and related accessories and video games. Zune, consumer hardware and software, and TV platforms revenue increased $539 million or 65%. Mobile and Embedded Devices revenue increased $138 million or 28% driven by sales growth in Windows Mobile software and Windows Embedded operating systems.
Two obvious ways are for the Feds to find and exploit their own operating system backdoors, or to compromise security vendors...
Would it even be necessary to compromise security vendors? While heuristics and malware detection has been something long promised, it is my understanding that the vast majority of security software works purely by comparing against their dictionary of known attacks. If the police have highly specialized, very limited deployment spyware, it seems that most security software wouldn't have any inkling that it's malware in the first place.
I have no doubt that organized crime and government agencies are aware of and abusing exploits. Given that they don't blast it to the world like a giddy teenager looking for attention, no one knows what to look for.
I really doubt it. When this stuff happens the media reports it. that is advertising.
Somehow I doubt that the new Harry Potter book needs much advertising. It's a bit of a paradox because the only reason it's getting attention is because it needs no advertising -- if this were some book that few had heard of, the media wouldn't care that it was leaked.
And for you folks that read this and/or the spoilers, too bad. You could have closed your eyes.
Idiotic. The problem with an early release (although it would be awesome if some budding writer wrote some fan fiction pseudo-Harry Potter, after which they'll reveal themselves and enjoy the masses that read their work that wouldn't have otherwise) isn't that fans can't stop themselves, but that sociopath asshats have some innate need to try to spoil things for other people, so I'm sure the trolls are downloading it purely for source material.
For that reason there needs to be so much noise of false spoilers that it no longer has the impact it once did.
Harry Potter is seduced to the dark side by Lord Voldemort. To prove his loyalty he is sent to kill Hermione, but just as he's about to strike the mortal blow he pushes back the evil and is freed from Voldemort's grasp.
(BTW: I don't read Harry Potter, but I appreciate that some people are really into it)
There have been several stories about GPS-enabled advertising here on Slashdot over the years.
Ultimately it isn't the "next big thing", and the author seems to be imagining that they're onto something new. You can find people talking about this for going on a decade+ now, because it's blatantly obvious.
Location specific searches aren't limited to mobile devices, however. When Google was a noob I was emailing them asking them to ratify or anoint one of the geocoding standards, because as a searcher the web is simply too big when all I want are results pertinent to my own town. Google sort of achieves that by scraping addresses from sites, but that's prone to error and is terribly incomplete : It'd be better if content declared where it was appropriate for.
Do I read correctly that they invested $218M and expect to have $130M after the IPO? That smells like some other motive than stock investing...
EMC is retaining 90% ownership of VMWare, and is IPOing shares representing 10% of the company. That 10% is expected to bring in $949 million, giving the whole company a market capitalization of around $10 billion.
2.5% of $10 billion is around $250 million of course.
Hell, even the amiga at 7mhz achieved better results than anything today at 200mhz
I share the sentiment.
I have a Moto Q, based upon Windows Mobile 5, running on a 312 MHz Intel XScale PXA270: This thing is a dream supercomputer compared to the Atari ST (8Mhz, 512KB RAM, no storage beyond the 360KB floppy disk drive) that I used and abused back in the late 80s. Yet somehow basic operations often have extraordinary delays, and the general set of functionality is just...unimpressive. I try to keep things in proper context -- on my Atari ST I had to run a command line program, taking upwards of a minute, to decompress a single small JPG -- however it just seems like it was so much more capable, and certainly never left me with seconds before it responded to a single input. Smartphones aren't alone, though, and I experience the same bullshit with the PVR, where on occasion it'll go off to do whatever, queueing up remote control commands for second and then completing them as a batch.
And Windows Mobile really is a shoddy piece of software given the criticality of the use, and the age and progression of the software (it isn't a new beta -- they've been at this since the turn of the century) -- I have come across a number of ridiculous faults, and the usability is...questionable.
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While Firefox is indeed a great browser, it is a largely irrelevant part of this sage -- kid runs unauthorized application, is told not to, disobeys instructions and talks back.
Boring.
Sidenote - Do the editors or the submitter start off the tags these days? This story came fresh with 4 tags...I thought it waited until "democracy" spoke. Wisdom of the masses et al.
Says who? Toshiba has been selling gangbuster quantities of HD-A# machines (in promos for $99).
The only place where Blu-ray has been coming ahead is in numbers that include PS3 games with "units sold" for Blu-ray.
The higher capacity of Blu-ray is completely and utterly irrelevant for the task. Both have similar transfer speeds, and both can hold many hours of high definition, ultra-high quality sound media.
I'd love to have the capacity of blu-ray for PC backups, but from a packaged media perspective they are practically indistinguishable.
Because they wanted the base hardware to be cheaper? Because they didn't want to delay the launch of the unit?
Apart from some technical details of HD-DVD that are intrinsically tied to Microsoft (completely undermining your point from the outset), the PS3 uses bluray. If bluray were dominant, the PS3 see a lot of default adoption simply by husbands excusing it to their wives as "not really that expensive because it's also the new hi-def DVD player".
SOoooooo true. Has our Lord and Saviour Google ever made a mistake? Good God, I don't think so!
Save your fan-boy rhetoric for people who care.
...but eventually you just know that they'll start to prioritize search results with it.
At which point it will become the world's #1 target for gaming, primarily via mass vote-up botnets.
[Shakes Fist]DAMN THOSE NEOCONS!
Oh, right...the world isn't quite so simple is it?
There are a couple of rather significant flaws with your naive, juvenile view of Canadian politics-
a) The Conservative government is a minority government. Legislation doesn't pass unless it passes with a majority, which the conservatives cannot accomplish themselves.
b) Stringent, DCMA-style copyright regulations have been in the works for years -- yeah, back in the Liberal era. You can bet the Liberals will support this, because they basically authored it.
The next time your knee starts jerking to blame everything you perceive as negative on Stephen Harper, try to get some semblance of facts.
Every firm would be well served to do 100% telecommuting for a period of time, forcing them to re-evaluate how they judge the contributions of their team.
The sad reality is that many shops judge contribution simply by sacrifice and hours, and lots of face time presence, using that as a surrogate for any meaningful metrics at all. This is the root reason why most shops despise telecommuting, and why it's often a negative career step for a worker to undertake: Telecommute and you have to do double, triple, or more what your coworkers are doing to get the same respect, whereas showing up early each day and staying late is often a blanket immunity from any sort of real responsibilities or deliverables.
With rising energy costs, shops will have to start to become accustomed to telecommuting. As others have said, it's particularly hilarious that a company that is a foundational facilitator of telecommuting is the one going against the trend to decentralize.
It isn't a toddler toy. Nonetheless, children in the target ages often have siblings, and some of the those siblings are younger. Thus, there are some moderate expectations of marginal safety, such as "won't put you in a coma" or "doesn't contain explosives". This is an egregious safety violation of extraordinary negligence.
China has everything to do with it -- Chinese business took capitalism and embraced it with a zeal seldom seen in the worst heyday in the West -- if they can get away with it, they do. There seems to be zero business morals.
It's bad here in North America, but not remotely as bad as China.
From Stuart's quickly updated PressPass page we see in the bottom that he-
Ouch.
It absolutely worked, however it seems likely that the success that Radiohead enjoyed is a fluke more than it foretells some grand new world.
Recall when Stephen King released "The Plant" using a similar scheme, releasing it in parts. At first all of the "embrace the new medium!" enthusiasts flooded King's site (much like Radiohead's initiative, it was experimental and got a tonne of free press), paying up just to make a statement.
Everyone declared it the death of traditional publishing.
But then the "statement" of it fizzled, and more and more users opted to pay nothing at all.
In the end the experiment was a failure -- I don't even think he finished releasing the book via that method.
Firstly, at the time there were a huge range of "safe-for-scripting" ActiveX objects that could be created in IE. This was Microsoft's way of clutching every corporate shop that dared to use one in a death grip, instantly destroying their potential to have the versatility that a web application would normally bring. XmlHttp, found in the MSXML library, was just another safe-for-scripting object. At the time the web curious were already exploring a number of ways to do asynchronous calls, most commonly being hidden IFRAME updates, but there were a myriad of other options, including plenty of third-party XmlHttp type components, and even some Java Applet techniques for doing this.
This was a hugely growing need, and while Netscape was beaten to the ground and slowly regrouping Microsoft seemed to lead by default.
The point, I suppose, is that the invention of "AJAX" was absolutely, positively inevitable. Microsoft's influence in those early days is entirely the result of its monopoly, not its technical leadership.
???
Social networking sites are pretty much the perfect example of stickiness...
SOCAN has always used these sorts of tactics, basically taxing all Canadians to create a sort of artists welfare. Read the document and you'll find them talk about game creators having to pay the SOCAN tax regardless of whether every single bit of in-game music, if any, was licensed or contracted. Doesn't matter - send SOCAN a check for the privilege of music.
It has always astounded me that such an organization could continue to enjoy such legislative influence despite their interests being so contrary to capitalism, and to 99.9999%+ of Canadians. I suspect it has to do with the general apathy of Canadians towards government, and the reality that the overwhelming majority of Canadians have no clue about such things.
Such as?
Exactly as you stated, all modern systems have some sandboxing and security constraints. Everything that unmanaged code wants to do -- beyond simply spinning in its own little memory box -- requires the cooperation of the OS. Want to open a network socket? Ask the OS. Want to open a file in read mode? Ask the OS. Want to put something on the screen? Ask the OS. With completely unmanaged code, there is a framework for the finest granularity of security --
Which is a funny comment, really, because
Are you referring to the karma bonus? After you've accumulated a certain amount of karma, you can start your posts off with a natural score of 2 (and if you care about karma -- which sadly some do -- it could actually hurt your quest: If you start at two you can only possibly gain 3 points, but you can lose 3, whereas with a normal score 1 start you can gain 4 and only possibly lose 2. It's like you're trading in options).
It's kind of lame starting your own post with an elevated score, so most users disabled it.
Idiocracy was classist shit, pandering to the kid haters' intrinsic prejudice, and their desperate need to feel better than other people.
It is true, however, that human intelligence and capacity is significantly driven by nutrition. The situational poor often find themselves in a recursive, inescapable cycle, subsisting on vacuous calories and corn syrup, while the affluent are mentally optimized by a highly diversified diet rich with fatty acids and vitamins, etc.
Microsoft's SEC filing says--
You do realize that they were being sarcastic, right? That they were actually guessing that Comcast has such a requirement because they are idiots?
Would it even be necessary to compromise security vendors? While heuristics and malware detection has been something long promised, it is my understanding that the vast majority of security software works purely by comparing against their dictionary of known attacks. If the police have highly specialized, very limited deployment spyware, it seems that most security software wouldn't have any inkling that it's malware in the first place.
I have no doubt that organized crime and government agencies are aware of and abusing exploits. Given that they don't blast it to the world like a giddy teenager looking for attention, no one knows what to look for.
Somehow I doubt that the new Harry Potter book needs much advertising. It's a bit of a paradox because the only reason it's getting attention is because it needs no advertising -- if this were some book that few had heard of, the media wouldn't care that it was leaked.
Idiotic. The problem with an early release (although it would be awesome if some budding writer wrote some fan fiction pseudo-Harry Potter, after which they'll reveal themselves and enjoy the masses that read their work that wouldn't have otherwise) isn't that fans can't stop themselves, but that sociopath asshats have some innate need to try to spoil things for other people, so I'm sure the trolls are downloading it purely for source material.
For that reason there needs to be so much noise of false spoilers that it no longer has the impact it once did.
Harry Potter is seduced to the dark side by Lord Voldemort. To prove his loyalty he is sent to kill Hermione, but just as he's about to strike the mortal blow he pushes back the evil and is freed from Voldemort's grasp.
(BTW: I don't read Harry Potter, but I appreciate that some people are really into it)
There have been several stories about GPS-enabled advertising here on Slashdot over the years.
Ultimately it isn't the "next big thing", and the author seems to be imagining that they're onto something new. You can find people talking about this for going on a decade+ now, because it's blatantly obvious.
Location specific searches aren't limited to mobile devices, however. When Google was a noob I was emailing them asking them to ratify or anoint one of the geocoding standards, because as a searcher the web is simply too big when all I want are results pertinent to my own town. Google sort of achieves that by scraping addresses from sites, but that's prone to error and is terribly incomplete : It'd be better if content declared where it was appropriate for.
We use NTSC in Canada.
Here's a nice graph for your future reference.. Please print it and tape a copy to your monitor. Preferably in front of the screen.
Thank you.
EMC is retaining 90% ownership of VMWare, and is IPOing shares representing 10% of the company. That 10% is expected to bring in $949 million, giving the whole company a market capitalization of around $10 billion.
2.5% of $10 billion is around $250 million of course.
I share the sentiment.
I have a Moto Q, based upon Windows Mobile 5, running on a 312 MHz Intel XScale PXA270: This thing is a dream supercomputer compared to the Atari ST (8Mhz, 512KB RAM, no storage beyond the 360KB floppy disk drive) that I used and abused back in the late 80s. Yet somehow basic operations often have extraordinary delays, and the general set of functionality is just...unimpressive. I try to keep things in proper context -- on my Atari ST I had to run a command line program, taking upwards of a minute, to decompress a single small JPG -- however it just seems like it was so much more capable, and certainly never left me with seconds before it responded to a single input. Smartphones aren't alone, though, and I experience the same bullshit with the PVR, where on occasion it'll go off to do whatever, queueing up remote control commands for second and then completing them as a batch.
And Windows Mobile really is a shoddy piece of software given the criticality of the use, and the age and progression of the software (it isn't a new beta -- they've been at this since the turn of the century) -- I have come across a number of ridiculous faults, and the usability is...questionable.