Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x are confirmed not vulnerable.
The ver.8 series are not vulnerable to this exploit. They're vulnerable to a two dozen other ones that ver.9 fixes, so by all means, install Reader 8 and browse away.
See 2Advanced Studios for examples of what "Customers" want.
Bad example: something I've noticed about the Flash sites 2Advanced makes is their customers replace them with HTML sites within 5-6 months after the Flash version launches. Their micro-sites and interactive ads have fared better.
Sometimes what customers want, is not what customers need, and customers now know more about what they need. It's not 1998 anymore.
Aaaand... after reading TFA, it confirms ChromeOS,
Google is a software and software services company.
They can't substantially eliminate Windows if they want to develop software for Windows, and they can't substantially replace Macs and Windows PC-s with Chrome OS if their designers want to run Photoshop and co.
Intel have nothing to lose anymore by keeping the multipliers locked: the bottleneck isn't with the CPU frequency anymore. The biggest differentiators in their higher end models are number of cores and cache size.
If they can get few more sales with a pointless gimmick some fall for, why not?
C'mon. It may be a legitimate comparison on the continuum of platform comparision. "Sony, you've made the PS3 so closed and restrictive that you make the Mac look like Richard Stallman's promised land."
And Mac's also known to be mocked for its lack of games over the course of the last, well, 26 years, unlike Apple's closed iPlatforms, which are chock full of games only few years, even months from their introduction, including titles from big companies like EA.
It's just a really crappy comparison, don't try to rationalize it.
I doubt Gabe really thinks Sony's management would open up the PS3. Just venting hidden frustrations and a poor marketing shot at their Mac Steam port.
Attention! This is an announcement from your friendly neighborhood latin-speaking biochemist. People using "virii" as plural of "virus" shall be dragged into my secret underground lab, where my own tailor-made viruses shall be unleashed on them for testing purposes. The latin "virus" has no attested plural, so please refrain from making up a latin-looking plural for it. Even if it had one, "virii" would be neither a correct second nor third nor fourth declension plural. Thank you for your attention.
It's actually simple:
one virus - many virii one status - many statii one genius - many geniii one bus - many bii one focus - many focii one citrus - many citrii one Missus - many Missii one Miley Cyrus - many Miley Cyrii one hilarious circus - many hilariii circii
P.S. I find secret underground labs cool. Looking forward to meeting you soon.
I am free from programs that steal my private data on my PC if I choose to be. I am free from programs that trash my battery on my PC if I choose to be. I am free from porn on my PC, if I choose to be.
Yes, people do choose to buy an Apple product, or a competing product. Apple's products are not mandatory to own and use.
Some folks are bitter as they want an Apple product's feel and polish, but not the limitations that come with it. And some folks are bitter because Steve Jobs doesn't pick the lowest common denominator for their tech solutions, which would make it easier for people to target "iPhone eyeballs" with generic content, such as Flash applets.
This is not a concern of freedom or not. This is two not fully compatible interests fighting it out in the public. One one side, Apple and their users, who wants fully optimized and smooth experience. On the other side content and app producers, who wants the most eyeballs for the least time and effort.
If you don't like redefining terms like "freedom", then don't force your understanding of "freedom" on Apple. They apparently have their own understanding, which people can vote for or against with their wallet.
The real icing on the cake is (as mentioned near the end) the secondary drive doesn't require a whole lot of power so it can be run by a flywheel
This is something that bothers me as I look at this demo. The secondary drive doesn't require a whole lot of power, because there is literally nothing attached to the output to counteract the little motor's selected ratio.
To simulate the forces of what it'd be to have a car attached on the output, you can just use your hand and try to hold the output from moving, while the ratio is not in neutral. If there is a weaker motor and a stronger motor, what do you think will happen? The stronger motor may feel a pinch, and the small motor will be completely unable to stop the output from distorting the ratios, making the entire setup unusable.
Now, I hope I'm wrong, but there better be something hidden from view That Changes Everything.
To get a good view of society, one must separate himself from it. Your grammar/wording Nazi-ness doesn't invalidate any of spun's points.
So low-wage workers are the society, but he and his trash isn't part of the society. Next thing, he argues it's childish to ask of him to carry out what he himself stated should be done. I see a bright career in politics for him.
Talk is cheap, you know. Watch me do it. At least I'm not quick to restructure the entire society around vague concerns for taking care of my garbage. In my opinion, a big step up from the current level of discussion.
I would be more than happy to pick up trash, it's not demeaning doing what needs to be done. I just wouldn't like being forced into it, and then scorned for having to do it. Heck, if everyone spent two hours a day doing the shitty jobs rather than forcing them onto the unfortunate, we'd get the shitty jobs done with plenty of time left over to do what we like.
When you try to score points in an argument based on guesses and assumptions, you will usually lose.
It's not demeaning to do what's done. Who said it is? Who's forcing you? Who's scorning you? That pesky strawman again.
This is not about verbal skills and arguments. You're really happy to pick up trash, you believe it should be done, then no one is forcing you. Great: go do it and keep me posted on your progress. I'm completely serious. I'll "score you some points" depending on how far you go supporting your bold rhetoric with real actions.
Why do we emphasize the importance of some jobs, like advertising executive or investment banker, that add nothing of real value to humanity, while denigrating those who pick up our trash?
Wait, did you catch that, everyone? "Those who pick our trash"? You don't see yourself as one of "those", do you? As long as it's "those" and not "you", it's ok to speak down on everyone, because they dare try to be anything more than pick someone's trash.
I say lead by example. I want you to pick my trash. We have a deal?
Or maybe you don't want to do this, as you think you're good at coding or designing or engineering. Shouldn't have graduated then. It's all your fault.
Chrome has long been one of the browsers with worse Flash integration. Right-click flash menu refusing to disappear, very slow Flash plugin startup, high resource usage, Chrome starting and running Flash at full priority in background pages.
I don't see any of these resolved. So far all that has materialized from the "advanced integration" is the bundling.
FTA: "The File button, by the way, replaces the Office orb button from Office 2007, which Microsoft says thoroughly confused people -- many thought it was a piece of branding eye candy rather than a functional button."
Indeed. Now how much do their UI people get paid?
I hope they get paid well as Office 2007 was an overwhelmingly positive change. There's always the fact that many of Office's users are the kind of users that get confused by everything. There's a remedy for the button: "Guys and gals, that candy button is the File menu". There, damage done. There's no harm to make it more obvious in ver. 2010 either. Means they listen to feedback.
So your argument is that Apple is just being correctly managed by BOFH?
I have no argument. Only an observation. Microsoft ActiveX has been ridiculed here for years because it allows the users to easily opt in to install any third party piece of software on Internet Explorer. It's been suggested the feature is removed, limited, white lists are added and so on. A new platform emerges with that model (iPhone), but that's now no longer good either. What's good is allowing the user to opt in and install anything, again, like Android does.
My conclusion is, I see no morals being defended on this forum, just developers defending their developer interests. Don't cry when Apple has their own bias on how to handle their own platform either.
If I own a company and sell a product to another company, I don't have any realistic expectation to control what that company does. My part of the business deal has concluded. Seriously Apple. Get real.
Are you suggesting Apple did that only in their imagination? It seems pretty real to me. If you own a store, and Apple sent you a kind message "please don't sell online, or you we won't sell you any more goods"... what would you do?
Then go Android and be treated like an adult. If you want to think for yourself, you're not in Apple's demo anyhow.
Just on a side note. Realistically, if everyone wanted to truly think for themselves, society would collapse;).
I've noticed an interesting dissonance in Slashdot's culture. When a non-expert refuses to do what his resident geek is telling him is best, that's described as a bad user, akin to a patient not listening to the sound advice of his doctor.
At the same time, when a non-expert purchases a non-expert gadget, then he's described as being treated like a child, for having a limited set of options before him, and he can't even recompile his mobile OS kernel!
If you want to understand why Apple does what they do, don't put yourself in the end-user's shoes. Try putting yourself in Apple's shoes. End-users need to be taken care of to limit "accidents" and poor experience. That's a fact of life when geeks deal with end-users.
Of course, Apple could do many things to improve the life of developers. But the problem is, again, Apple doesn't exist to serve developers, and so they do only what is needed to maintain the end-user experience.
Which is why I prefixed it with "if" -- I would agree Photoshop is better, but it also costs money.
Sure it costs money. The computer also costs money. You wouldn't go very far with no money at all, correct? Also this version of Photoshop is $70 dollars. Enjoy.
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And of course things that we (the TSA anyway) consider security threats--like water bottles, and nail clippers with a pointy file on airplains--are seen as harmless to them. I think maybe they understand some things about terrorism that we don't.
Different culture, different superstitions. Do not seek deep logic into either nation's arbitrary pain points. We laugh at people in the past for fearing broken mirror or throwing away salt would bring them a bad fortune. Today we fear nail clippers and mobile gadgets will do it. As any superstition, it's remotely based on some real rare occurrence or situation that has been overblown and distorted beyond recognition.
A tech-friendly person would always choose to choose, since if he can get closer to his preferences by flipping a finite (if large) set of switches in a finite (if large) set of menus and submenus, that's one happy user who got what he wanted.
Non-tech friendly users also try that, but with every option and menu they see and pick and not understand, they get farther from their desired basic goals. Don't expect the tech person to understand their frustration, so don't expect Apple's policy to be understood at this particular forum.
I mean, people always bitch about some random OS X app not having a native-like interface, but you know what? If my choice is between The Gimp and nothing, I'll take The Gimp, ugly X interface and all, every time.
Gimp vs nothing? False choice. Some of us wouldn't take Gimp anyway. Not to put down the effort by the Gimp team, it's a nice baseline raster editor.
Photoshop also has a bad half-native UI on OSX, so your entire rationalization is wrong. That's ok: choose for yourself, and let the other people choose for themselves as well.
You're trying to tell me that flash is innovation on the web?! FLASH!?! Are you high? Your comment is entirely devoid of any reason and sanity.
Be fair: Flash did it first, and Flash was a good thing for the web in the past decade. However, HTML5 has now covered similar grounds in a more sustainable and future-proof way. Flash is free to go.
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Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x are confirmed not vulnerable.
The ver.8 series are not vulnerable to this exploit. They're vulnerable to a two dozen other ones that ver.9 fixes, so by all means, install Reader 8 and browse away.
True, though let's face it - if this was from Apple, there'd be people here praising how revolutionary and innovative the idea was.
And if pigs could fly, they'd be the scorn of Earth and the final doom of humanity.
It's amazing these people had the knowledge, funding and support to build a sophisticated device like this, based upon such a ridiculously bad idea.
How is this possible? Maybe "imagine sticking two iPad clones together as a book" looked good on paper?
See 2Advanced Studios for examples of what "Customers" want.
Bad example: something I've noticed about the Flash sites 2Advanced makes is their customers replace them with HTML sites within 5-6 months after the Flash version launches. Their micro-sites and interactive ads have fared better.
Sometimes what customers want, is not what customers need, and customers now know more about what they need. It's not 1998 anymore.
Aaaand ... after reading TFA, it confirms ChromeOS,
Google is a software and software services company.
They can't substantially eliminate Windows if they want to develop software for Windows, and they can't substantially replace Macs and Windows PC-s with Chrome OS if their designers want to run Photoshop and co.
Apple's "fuck whatever you're doing and quit" key is stupidest UI decision ever made.
If you ask most people, they wish they had that button on absolutely every device they have to use.
Intel have nothing to lose anymore by keeping the multipliers locked: the bottleneck isn't with the CPU frequency anymore. The biggest differentiators in their higher end models are number of cores and cache size.
If they can get few more sales with a pointless gimmick some fall for, why not?
C'mon. It may be a legitimate comparison on the continuum of platform comparision.
"Sony, you've made the PS3 so closed and restrictive that you make the Mac look like Richard Stallman's promised land."
And Mac's also known to be mocked for its lack of games over the course of the last, well, 26 years, unlike Apple's closed iPlatforms, which are chock full of games only few years, even months from their introduction, including titles from big companies like EA.
It's just a really crappy comparison, don't try to rationalize it.
I doubt Gabe really thinks Sony's management would open up the PS3. Just venting hidden frustrations and a poor marketing shot at their Mac Steam port.
Attention! This is an announcement from your friendly neighborhood latin-speaking biochemist. People using "virii" as plural of "virus" shall be dragged into my secret underground lab, where my own tailor-made viruses shall be unleashed on them for testing purposes. The latin "virus" has no attested plural, so please refrain from making up a latin-looking plural for it. Even if it had one, "virii" would be neither a correct second nor third nor fourth declension plural. Thank you for your attention.
It's actually simple:
one virus - many virii
one status - many statii
one genius - many geniii
one bus - many bii
one focus - many focii
one citrus - many citrii
one Missus - many Missii
one Miley Cyrus - many Miley Cyrii
one hilarious circus - many hilariii circii
P.S. I find secret underground labs cool. Looking forward to meeting you soon.
I am free from programs that steal my private data on my PC if I choose to be.
I am free from programs that trash my battery on my PC if I choose to be.
I am free from porn on my PC, if I choose to be.
Yes, people do choose to buy an Apple product, or a competing product. Apple's products are not mandatory to own and use.
Some folks are bitter as they want an Apple product's feel and polish, but not the limitations that come with it. And some folks are bitter because Steve Jobs doesn't pick the lowest common denominator for their tech solutions, which would make it easier for people to target "iPhone eyeballs" with generic content, such as Flash applets.
This is not a concern of freedom or not. This is two not fully compatible interests fighting it out in the public. One one side, Apple and their users, who wants fully optimized and smooth experience. On the other side content and app producers, who wants the most eyeballs for the least time and effort.
If you don't like redefining terms like "freedom", then don't force your understanding of "freedom" on Apple. They apparently have their own understanding, which people can vote for or against with their wallet.
The real icing on the cake is (as mentioned near the end) the secondary drive doesn't require a whole lot of power so it can be run by a flywheel
This is something that bothers me as I look at this demo. The secondary drive doesn't require a whole lot of power, because there is literally nothing attached to the output to counteract the little motor's selected ratio.
To simulate the forces of what it'd be to have a car attached on the output, you can just use your hand and try to hold the output from moving, while the ratio is not in neutral. If there is a weaker motor and a stronger motor, what do you think will happen? The stronger motor may feel a pinch, and the small motor will be completely unable to stop the output from distorting the ratios, making the entire setup unusable.
Now, I hope I'm wrong, but there better be something hidden from view That Changes Everything.
To get a good view of society, one must separate himself from it. Your grammar/wording Nazi-ness doesn't invalidate any of spun's points.
So low-wage workers are the society, but he and his trash isn't part of the society. Next thing, he argues it's childish to ask of him to carry out what he himself stated should be done. I see a bright career in politics for him.
Talk is cheap, you know. Watch me do it. At least I'm not quick to restructure the entire society around vague concerns for taking care of my garbage. In my opinion, a big step up from the current level of discussion.
Like I'm going to go pick up everyone's trash for free.
It's not free, dude, they pay you for it.
What would be the point of that?
Don't ask me. You said you'll be happy to do it. If your own echo sounds like an argument a two-year old would use, then you get my point.
I would be more than happy to pick up trash, it's not demeaning doing what needs to be done. I just wouldn't like being forced into it, and then scorned for having to do it. Heck, if everyone spent two hours a day doing the shitty jobs rather than forcing them onto the unfortunate, we'd get the shitty jobs done with plenty of time left over to do what we like.
When you try to score points in an argument based on guesses and assumptions, you will usually lose.
It's not demeaning to do what's done. Who said it is? Who's forcing you? Who's scorning you? That pesky strawman again.
This is not about verbal skills and arguments. You're really happy to pick up trash, you believe it should be done, then no one is forcing you. Great: go do it and keep me posted on your progress. I'm completely serious. I'll "score you some points" depending on how far you go supporting your bold rhetoric with real actions.
Why do we emphasize the importance of some jobs, like advertising executive or investment banker, that add nothing of real value to humanity, while denigrating those who pick up our trash?
Wait, did you catch that, everyone? "Those who pick our trash"? You don't see yourself as one of "those", do you? As long as it's "those" and not "you", it's ok to speak down on everyone, because they dare try to be anything more than pick someone's trash.
I say lead by example. I want you to pick my trash. We have a deal?
Or maybe you don't want to do this, as you think you're good at coding or designing or engineering. Shouldn't have graduated then. It's all your fault.
Chrome has long been one of the browsers with worse Flash integration. Right-click flash menu refusing to disappear, very slow Flash plugin startup, high resource usage, Chrome starting and running Flash at full priority in background pages.
I don't see any of these resolved. So far all that has materialized from the "advanced integration" is the bundling.
FTA: "The File button, by the way, replaces the Office orb button from Office 2007, which Microsoft says thoroughly confused people -- many thought it was a piece of branding eye candy rather than a functional button."
Indeed. Now how much do their UI people get paid?
I hope they get paid well as Office 2007 was an overwhelmingly positive change. There's always the fact that many of Office's users are the kind of users that get confused by everything. There's a remedy for the button: "Guys and gals, that candy button is the File menu". There, damage done. There's no harm to make it more obvious in ver. 2010 either. Means they listen to feedback.
So your argument is that Apple is just being correctly managed by BOFH?
I have no argument. Only an observation. Microsoft ActiveX has been ridiculed here for years because it allows the users to easily opt in to install any third party piece of software on Internet Explorer. It's been suggested the feature is removed, limited, white lists are added and so on. A new platform emerges with that model (iPhone), but that's now no longer good either. What's good is allowing the user to opt in and install anything, again, like Android does.
My conclusion is, I see no morals being defended on this forum, just developers defending their developer interests. Don't cry when Apple has their own bias on how to handle their own platform either.
If I own a company and sell a product to another company, I don't have any realistic expectation to control what that company does. My part of the business deal has concluded. Seriously Apple. Get real.
Are you suggesting Apple did that only in their imagination? It seems pretty real to me. If you own a store, and Apple sent you a kind message "please don't sell online, or you we won't sell you any more goods"... what would you do?
Then go Android and be treated like an adult. If you want to think for yourself, you're not in Apple's demo anyhow.
Just on a side note. Realistically, if everyone wanted to truly think for themselves, society would collapse ;).
I've noticed an interesting dissonance in Slashdot's culture. When a non-expert refuses to do what his resident geek is telling him is best, that's described as a bad user, akin to a patient not listening to the sound advice of his doctor.
At the same time, when a non-expert purchases a non-expert gadget, then he's described as being treated like a child, for having a limited set of options before him, and he can't even recompile his mobile OS kernel!
If you want to understand why Apple does what they do, don't put yourself in the end-user's shoes. Try putting yourself in Apple's shoes. End-users need to be taken care of to limit "accidents" and poor experience. That's a fact of life when geeks deal with end-users.
Of course, Apple could do many things to improve the life of developers. But the problem is, again, Apple doesn't exist to serve developers, and so they do only what is needed to maintain the end-user experience.
Which is why I prefixed it with "if" -- I would agree Photoshop is better, but it also costs money.
Sure it costs money. The computer also costs money. You wouldn't go very far with no money at all, correct? Also this version of Photoshop is $70 dollars. Enjoy.
And of course things that we (the TSA anyway) consider security threats--like water bottles, and nail clippers with a pointy file on airplains--are seen as harmless to them. I think maybe they understand some things about terrorism that we don't.
Different culture, different superstitions. Do not seek deep logic into either nation's arbitrary pain points. We laugh at people in the past for fearing broken mirror or throwing away salt would bring them a bad fortune. Today we fear nail clippers and mobile gadgets will do it. As any superstition, it's remotely based on some real rare occurrence or situation that has been overblown and distorted beyond recognition.
And some still think modern people are logical.
A tech-friendly person would always choose to choose, since if he can get closer to his preferences by flipping a finite (if large) set of switches in a finite (if large) set of menus and submenus, that's one happy user who got what he wanted.
Non-tech friendly users also try that, but with every option and menu they see and pick and not understand, they get farther from their desired basic goals. Don't expect the tech person to understand their frustration, so don't expect Apple's policy to be understood at this particular forum.
I mean, people always bitch about some random OS X app not having a native-like interface, but you know what? If my choice is between The Gimp and nothing, I'll take The Gimp, ugly X interface and all, every time.
Gimp vs nothing? False choice. Some of us wouldn't take Gimp anyway. Not to put down the effort by the Gimp team, it's a nice baseline raster editor.
Photoshop also has a bad half-native UI on OSX, so your entire rationalization is wrong. That's ok: choose for yourself, and let the other people choose for themselves as well.
You're trying to tell me that flash is innovation on the web?! FLASH!?! Are you high? Your comment is entirely devoid of any reason and sanity.
Be fair: Flash did it first, and Flash was a good thing for the web in the past decade.
However, HTML5 has now covered similar grounds in a more sustainable and future-proof way. Flash is free to go.