Usually a buyout like this would send people the message to immediately raise their expectations about the future performance of the business products. ProClarity has worked with Microsoft as a partner up until now to help them optimize SQL Server. Now we have to wonder how integral the ProClarity division will become and how likely they'll be the new target of internal blame when the intelligence just doesn't stack up.
ProClarity claims that their business intelligence software and solutions are used for decision support, data mining, balanced scorecards, and reporting from multiple data sources. It would be interesting to know just what scoring devices they'll be using for Microsoft's up and coming products.
Gold Star: It didn't crash until I opened a second copy
Silver: It was backwards compatable almost 30% of files from the previous version.
Bronze Star: Autosave worked great right after autodelete worked great!
Participants Award: Good thing they were only beta-testers...
People are for the most part, under concerned about privacy. Rights Online are one thing, but I think businesses (small ones included) should take it to the next step and concern themselves with surveillance with cameras and such to protect their homes and businesses. If you've ever been robbed before, you'll know the feeling of wishing you could prove exactly who done it. Digital surveillance is often the same way, except logfiles can be manipulated whereas its a lot more difficult to fake a filmed robbery of your home or business.
For babies it would provide an excellent advantage to predicting the right treatments early on in development. It's too bad that brain damage cannot be forseen early on in pregnancy and averted through re-correction of certain DNA modifications. That's sci-fi though for you.
MRIS fall under the radiology/xray world. They are actually fairly new in terms of technology and now can provide fairly accurate brain scans although a lot remains to be understood about the data they feed back. MRI's were first discovered to work in 1977 and they took about 5 hours to produce a single image. Smithsonian institute actually has the first MRI machine which looks more futuristic in its design then a lot of the new ones do.
MRI scanners vary in size and shape, and newer models have some degree of openness around the sides, but the basic design is the same. Once the body part to be scanned is in the exact center or isocenter of the magnetic field, the scan can begin.
As of todays technology, the MRI provides the greatest view inside the human body that technology can afford without doing actual surgery. It is largely done through discernment using that contrast injection technology, where injecting certain colored dies into the blood stream lets them see the seperation of parts. Its a very cool technology, all made possible through magnetism.
Also, there's many different ways of using Ruby besides Rails. Rails is ONE freamework. Iowa is another here you can find out .
Another is just plain eruby mod_ruby. Another is cgikit, a friend of mine uses it exclusively although it has little english documentation at this time.
Rails as has been said, is a framework. Ruby is the language, and all rails is just ruby with a design in place to make it easier. Some great tools for using rails are becoming available though, due to its increasing user-base. A lot of people are still "trying it, and going back to php" but its got a core user group now and that's what counts.
Microsofts original idea was to tie in the media center to this. I had the 'not so' pleasurable opportunity to sit next to the head of the Media center department on an airplane ride once who told me the network was supposed to be used in conjunction with their M$ Media Center software for channel controls and additional advertising for M$ Products. I'm not a huge fan of NBC or M$'s Media Center products which have proven to do nothing extra-special (s-video out/in) boog whoopdiedoo. I think its a flop mainly. On some interesting facts, Media Center project employs 400 or so M$ employees and was in beta until last year.
Well your comment is true in most cases, but there is the occasional guy who just posts meaningless drib which others have to mull over. Much like most slashdot comments!
This is a good idea on behalf of Mozilla to save money when it comes to producing advertising. It's a good program, mine as well contribute if you can make a good commercial.
We love luxuries. Listening to music wherever you are is a luxury. Being able to use a computer at your favorite cafe is a luxury (laptops). Being able to send pictures to your website from your cell phone MOBLOGGING is "perhaps" a stretch of a luxury, but remains a luxury. Perhaps we should use the term "Luxury 2.0" in jest, since these are the luxuries of the technological world.. Whose got some more!
One great thing about netbsd is the possibility of handheld netbsd. Find out more Here. Some people have tried using it on flash cards with great success, a good choice if that is the case is 256mb's to get the full effect. Handheld BSD is great though, give it a try.
What happened to the rest of those dates! 23 sounds right though, they'll keep finding more moons on planets and rings as they are able to get satellites closer and closer to observe. Interesting!
It's hard to have a grip on anything p2p these days, since most p2p users have more than a single client depending on their interests/needs. Sometimes, bit-torrents come in handy, other times people resort to eMule/limewire and the various sorts of softwares available. Big deal. Kazaa really did it best when they got into the market and spread like wildfire before the competition. Their use of advertising helped give them a profit and in turn, feed back into making them a stronger company. And now with skype, what a landslide that was... The future of p2p is going to be up to the communities of people and their needs. It's not enforcable like it once was, shutting down warez servers one at time like the old-days. It's everyone and everywhere these days and gripping the market as a whole is next to impossible. Good luck
Coding or I should say, 'Encoding has come a long ways.' - Crackers and bot programmers have become increasingly smarter, realizing how programs such as Norton scan through software programs that are "bots" are in order to detect ones which they consider viruses. To understand how the latest virus writers are avoiding detection, you must understand the concepts of randomization, encoding, compiling and packing.
A normal software program compiled has strings in it which can be matched when scanned through. It examines what are known as string literals. There are even some programs for certain compilers that exist to recreate source code from compiled programs but that is a tangent. What we're dealing with here are encoded strings. If Norton knows how to match a program exactly based on certain strings it can match in the software, it can detect it in all cases, bot discovered, no more botpack. Here's what the smart botpack coders are attempting to do and in many cases doing effectively: They understand that Norton can scan their compiled bot, once it knows the strings to look for inside of it, and release in its Liveupdate a way for all people infected to remove it. Given this, they must either constantly compete with Nortons LiveUpdate's or find another method. If they are savvy enough or greedy enough, they'll find a way to have coded a packer which encodes uniquely every time it packs. For more information on packing in relationship to viruses, its in the field of Anti-Virus Heuristics. A very well known packer is UPX which you can search for and find more about. Many modifications of this packer exist. Essentially a bot"packer" is packing their bots uniquely, obscuring the strings from norton with every pack, meaning every bot appears unique and cannot be identified from any other bot. Of course, bots would probably have unique names or be titled something normally running on a machine such as svchost.exe as a process. This is the common trick and until AntiVirus makers can either employ programmers who can outsmart the encoding schemes these packers are using or users smarten up, its a tough situation for all who download anything from an untrusted source (someone besides your grandmother - and even then!).
Remember when Area 51 was a huge scenario (New Mexico).. Now they are doing tests in Arizona to do whether climate simulations.. All of these dust tests and for what? Can we live on another planet!
Guido.. going.. going.. Gonkers...
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I think that people immediately assume because he goes Google, that means Google as a whole is somehow going to revolutionize all the ways it does things to the 'Python' way (whatever that is). That is hardly going to be the case. He is just one man, who can, if they give him enough authority, make some significant contributions, but Google is already deep into its "ways" and it's difficult in terms of "quick overhauls" to do much of anything in terms of change.
It might be nice to see some of the Guido python style in Google's future software though.
Should MS beef up cranky old Internet Explorer for today's standards?
Doesn't MS claim to be so great because of their amazing ability to innovate and change the world with their one of a kind technology... Now they're supposed to buy an existing browser, and do away with the one they've had since "who knows how long.." all for corporate image? Are they then going to re-write the windows OS to use "Operlorer" as well? It seems unlikely this will ever happen... Silicon says Google might buy Opera though - will they get to it first?
Perhaps for the same reasaon the old Kings of England could execute someone at will and the US must pay for them to live in prison for 20 years before they can get the execution to finally take place.
Last week, the House voted 251-174 to renew the 16 provisions after striking a compromise that altered some of them.
Fortunately, this doesn't guarantee it will pass. One of the provisions I agree with is the one that eliminates barriers to intelligence agents and prosecutors sharing information. This act has already infringed on many peoples freedom, but has also opened up the government to be more scrutinous in the case of certain suspicious entities. Has it overall had a positive or negative effect? Since we as the general public cannot easily gauge what information they have collected entirely as a result, who can say for sure.
For those interested in the provisions the House passed, this site explains most of them in plain english LA Times Provisions
Has the previous hype of Java and J2EE moved on to Ruby (on Rails) and Python?"
I hope it hasn't. Java is still an enterprise development language whose potential for new developers remains intact. Ruby and Rails have potential, they aren't be-all-end all solutions though. I program with both Java and Ruby. I can tell you there are times when one outweighs the other in benefit to use. Much code and pre-existing classes and examples for challenging situations have been tackled in java, providing a framework and foundation to re-use old code in many projects I've encountered. Ruby poses an incredible potential for new and fast application development, but I find myself often writing the entire program or large amounts of it from scratch, aside from the often use of Ruby facets The facets of Ruby which is an essential site for any ruby developer. With that said, sure it may not be as exciting as it once was, that doesn't mean its worthless to pursue and learn, even from its humble beginnings. My two cents.
All of thi sis tricky due to the difficulty to accurately monitor online transactions. A lot of trust is put in vendors to properly report the actual sales/dealings/account records they have occuring. Digital Law & Taxation are intimately discussed at this site eBizLaw where the reader can more accurately learn about the actual laws regarding it. I personally am in favour of some parties properly being assigned taxes they should be paying, but taking certain things too far into the hands of the government definetely begins to seem like "overstepping of bounds."
We have to be careful not to let lawmakers simply take whatever they want, and not simply what is justified and best for the economy.
These tricks are a few of many that spammers and scammers are resolting to in order to install malware on peoples computers. Santa Clause, how ironic seeing as its the holiday season and people are susceptible.
Microsoft provides this URL for users to immediately get rid of the latest Malware:
Remove Malware
The internet is the alternative, not this one site. It seems people get so narrow-viewed as to how to access information. It started as "AskJeeves" didn't it? Then it became, why ask jeeves when ALL the information ever is on wikipedia. The US government provides an interesting set of links as well Right here
And if you wanted medical journals for example, wikipedia doesn't do those, these guys do: Medical Journals
So sure, there are many sites offering you ways of posting/sharing information, but they are definetely not the one and only and as soon as people start realizing that and looking for themselves independent of those sites, they'll see that there are many ways of finding info, not just Wikipedia, or this. Digital Universe though is an alternative, so what?
The coolest new thing i've seen in Gmail is their implementation of AJAX in the autocompletion of address book names and other goodies in the system. Makes for easier emailing.
Obviously Linux as a screensaver seems to make little sense in the way that it would act as a usable operating system while defaulting as a screensaver. It could ideally using windows hibernation type of techniques, save a snapshot of windows settings, and then allow some kind of virtual representation of windows in screensaver mode. However, the whole idea of a screensaver is to be reserving some power use or to be a different screen than the normal workflow while the user is away.
As a user who would try this out, it sounds fishy in terms of any practical use. You type something, the screensaver vanishes. Not much use there. A great LiveCD however to experiment with linux in my opinion is Ubuntu, which lets you boot the operating system entirely from one of their livecd's. Ubuntu which is now being worked on by many debian developers is not a screensaver, but its certainly a lifesaver when it comes to often needed quick-fixes in the linux world. Praise Linux:)
Online digital rights have always been difficult to inforce. Recently berekely university had a conference on the topic www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/drm/resources .html to try and help people better understand the stiuation. France is exploring existing technologies on how to ensure digital rights French digital rights verbatum - Hopefully it will help those needing digital rights, but also, what about the little guy who is getting accused of digital rights violations and is doing no such thing except a similar idea.
Lastly, epic provides some great resources on the topic of what peoples privacy rights are: www.epic.org/privacy/drm/default.html
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Usually a buyout like this would send people the message to immediately raise their expectations about the future performance of the business products. ProClarity has worked with Microsoft as a partner up until now to help them optimize SQL Server. Now we have to wonder how integral the ProClarity division will become and how likely they'll be the new target of internal blame when the intelligence just doesn't stack up. ProClarity claims that their business intelligence software and solutions are used for decision support, data mining, balanced scorecards, and reporting from multiple data sources. It would be interesting to know just what scoring devices they'll be using for Microsoft's up and coming products. Gold Star: It didn't crash until I opened a second copy Silver: It was backwards compatable almost 30% of files from the previous version. Bronze Star: Autosave worked great right after autodelete worked great! Participants Award: Good thing they were only beta-testers...
People are for the most part, under concerned about privacy. Rights Online are one thing, but I think businesses (small ones included) should take it to the next step and concern themselves with surveillance with cameras and such to protect their homes and businesses. If you've ever been robbed before, you'll know the feeling of wishing you could prove exactly who done it. Digital surveillance is often the same way, except logfiles can be manipulated whereas its a lot more difficult to fake a filmed robbery of your home or business.
MRI scanners vary in size and shape, and newer models have some degree of openness around the sides, but the basic design is the same. Once the body part to be scanned is in the exact center or isocenter of the magnetic field, the scan can begin.
As of todays technology, the MRI provides the greatest view inside the human body that technology can afford without doing actual surgery. It is largely done through discernment using that contrast injection technology, where injecting certain colored dies into the blood stream lets them see the seperation of parts. Its a very cool technology, all made possible through magnetism.
That link was meant to be here
Rails as has been said, is a framework. Ruby is the language, and all rails is just ruby with a design in place to make it easier. Some great tools for using rails are becoming available though, due to its increasing user-base. A lot of people are still "trying it, and going back to php" but its got a core user group now and that's what counts.
Microsofts original idea was to tie in the media center to this. I had the 'not so' pleasurable opportunity to sit next to the head of the Media center department on an airplane ride once who told me the network was supposed to be used in conjunction with their M$ Media Center software for channel controls and additional advertising for M$ Products. I'm not a huge fan of NBC or M$'s Media Center products which have proven to do nothing extra-special (s-video out/in) boog whoopdiedoo. I think its a flop mainly. On some interesting facts, Media Center project employs 400 or so M$ employees and was in beta until last year.
Well your comment is true in most cases, but there is the occasional guy who just posts meaningless drib which others have to mull over. Much like most slashdot comments!
This is a good idea on behalf of Mozilla to save money when it comes to producing advertising. It's a good program, mine as well contribute if you can make a good commercial.
We love luxuries. Listening to music wherever you are is a luxury. Being able to use a computer at your favorite cafe is a luxury (laptops). Being able to send pictures to your website from your cell phone MOBLOGGING is "perhaps" a stretch of a luxury, but remains a luxury. Perhaps we should use the term "Luxury 2.0" in jest, since these are the luxuries of the technological world.. Whose got some more!
One great thing about netbsd is the possibility of handheld netbsd. Find out more Here. Some people have tried using it on flash cards with great success, a good choice if that is the case is 256mb's to get the full effect. Handheld BSD is great though, give it a try.
What happened to the rest of those dates! 23 sounds right though, they'll keep finding more moons on planets and rings as they are able to get satellites closer and closer to observe. Interesting!
It's hard to have a grip on anything p2p these days, since most p2p users have more than a single client depending on their interests/needs. Sometimes, bit-torrents come in handy, other times people resort to eMule/limewire and the various sorts of softwares available. Big deal. Kazaa really did it best when they got into the market and spread like wildfire before the competition. Their use of advertising helped give them a profit and in turn, feed back into making them a stronger company. And now with skype, what a landslide that was... The future of p2p is going to be up to the communities of people and their needs. It's not enforcable like it once was, shutting down warez servers one at time like the old-days. It's everyone and everywhere these days and gripping the market as a whole is next to impossible. Good luck
A normal software program compiled has strings in it which can be matched when scanned through. It examines what are known as string literals. There are even some programs for certain compilers that exist to recreate source code from compiled programs but that is a tangent. What we're dealing with here are encoded strings. If Norton knows how to match a program exactly based on certain strings it can match in the software, it can detect it in all cases, bot discovered, no more botpack.
Here's what the smart botpack coders are attempting to do and in many cases doing effectively: They understand that Norton can scan their compiled bot, once it knows the strings to look for inside of it, and release in its Liveupdate a way for all people infected to remove it. Given this, they must either constantly compete with Nortons LiveUpdate's or find another method. If they are savvy enough or greedy enough, they'll find a way to have coded a packer which encodes uniquely every time it packs. For more information on packing in relationship to viruses, its in the field of Anti-Virus Heuristics. A very well known packer is UPX which you can search for and find more about. Many modifications of this packer exist. Essentially a bot"packer" is packing their bots uniquely, obscuring the strings from norton with every pack, meaning every bot appears unique and cannot be identified from any other bot. Of course, bots would probably have unique names or be titled something normally running on a machine such as svchost.exe as a process. This is the common trick and until AntiVirus makers can either employ programmers who can outsmart the encoding schemes these packers are using or users smarten up, its a tough situation for all who download anything from an untrusted source (someone besides your grandmother - and even then!).
Remember when Area 51 was a huge scenario (New Mexico).. Now they are doing tests in Arizona to do whether climate simulations.. All of these dust tests and for what? Can we live on another planet!
It might be nice to see some of the Guido python style in Google's future software though.
Should MS beef up cranky old Internet Explorer for today's standards? Doesn't MS claim to be so great because of their amazing ability to innovate and change the world with their one of a kind technology... Now they're supposed to buy an existing browser, and do away with the one they've had since "who knows how long.." all for corporate image? Are they then going to re-write the windows OS to use "Operlorer" as well? It seems unlikely this will ever happen... Silicon says Google might buy Opera though - will they get to it first?
Perhaps for the same reasaon the old Kings of England could execute someone at will and the US must pay for them to live in prison for 20 years before they can get the execution to finally take place.
Fortunately, this doesn't guarantee it will pass. One of the provisions I agree with is the one that eliminates barriers to intelligence agents and prosecutors sharing information. This act has already infringed on many peoples freedom, but has also opened up the government to be more scrutinous in the case of certain suspicious entities. Has it overall had a positive or negative effect? Since we as the general public cannot easily gauge what information they have collected entirely as a result, who can say for sure.
For those interested in the provisions the House passed, this site explains most of them in plain english LA Times Provisions
This site has the latest in how the patriot act currently stands.
I hope it hasn't. Java is still an enterprise development language whose potential for new developers remains intact. Ruby and Rails have potential, they aren't be-all-end all solutions though. I program with both Java and Ruby. I can tell you there are times when one outweighs the other in benefit to use. Much code and pre-existing classes and examples for challenging situations have been tackled in java, providing a framework and foundation to re-use old code in many projects I've encountered. Ruby poses an incredible potential for new and fast application development, but I find myself often writing the entire program or large amounts of it from scratch, aside from the often use of Ruby facets The facets of Ruby which is an essential site for any ruby developer. With that said, sure it may not be as exciting as it once was, that doesn't mean its worthless to pursue and learn, even from its humble beginnings. My two cents.
We have to be careful not to let lawmakers simply take whatever they want, and not simply what is justified and best for the economy.
Microsoft provides this URL for users to immediately get rid of the latest Malware: Remove Malware
And if you wanted medical journals for example, wikipedia doesn't do those, these guys do: Medical Journals So sure, there are many sites offering you ways of posting/sharing information, but they are definetely not the one and only and as soon as people start realizing that and looking for themselves independent of those sites, they'll see that there are many ways of finding info, not just Wikipedia, or this. Digital Universe though is an alternative, so what?
The coolest new thing i've seen in Gmail is their implementation of AJAX in the autocompletion of address book names and other goodies in the system. Makes for easier emailing.
As a user who would try this out, it sounds fishy in terms of any practical use. You type something, the screensaver vanishes. Not much use there. A great LiveCD however to experiment with linux in my opinion is Ubuntu, which lets you boot the operating system entirely from one of their livecd's. Ubuntu which is now being worked on by many debian developers is not a screensaver, but its certainly a lifesaver when it comes to often needed quick-fixes in the linux world. Praise Linux :)
Lastly, epic provides some great resources on the topic of what peoples privacy rights are: www.epic.org/privacy/drm/default.html