Wait a friggin' minute. Do you mean to say that Sony BMG ain't a bunch of care bears on a crussade to save our beloved artists from the paws of their evil mp3 sharing fans and imminent bankrupt, but a bunch or ruthless speculators manipulating the people for their own commercial benefit??
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
What's next, poorly written Big Brother software sneaking on my computer from music CD-s and opening my OS to wanna-be hackers? Wait...
researchers at the University of Calgary, will be presented on Sunday at the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research conference. According to the paper, the next generation of spam zombies will employ 'sophisticated data mining of their victims saved email'.
Nice, so even if most spammers don't have the intelligence or resources to do the research for more sophisticated spamming (beyond finding yet another exploit for IE), a bunch of researchers do it for them and publish the papers.
How helpful of them.
And btw that's happening all the time - researchers publishing papers of the next generation terrorism, virii (with working proof of concepts), spamming, identity theft and so on.
Good, do your research, maybe just don't make it widely available to the people you're claiming you're trying to protect us from.
This is why MacBookPro has a camera, guys, since Apple is about to buy eBay (which owns Skype). And this is why Skype added video in the last versions. See how it all makes sense?
Cringely, my man, you're on the fast track turning into a "Dvorak".
The project is meant to let people assemble Web applications using wikis, really simple syndication (RSS) and simple Web scripting. Similarly, the grassroots direct-marketing techniques of the consumer world are starting to be used to tout enterprise software, analysts said. The enterprise software market, once the hotbed of innovation, is starting to catch up to the consumer Web, where people are becoming used to melding data from their desktop with services online.
Ok I'm a web developer working every day with "web 2.0" concepts and applying them in practise. But hell if I have idea what the hell the summary means.
Good luck reaching consumers with stuff like that.
From the article photos it seems they were primarily interested in comparing their width, height and depth, as well as trying to build various models using them as freakishly expensive LEGO blocks.
What I wonder is if after the experience, at least one of them is behaving odd or making funny noises on startup.
If you had enough experience with computers, or especially if you lost one or more hard drives with precious data, that hard drive stack on the first page will shorten your life with a couple of years.
It's enough for someone to fire up a match for me to panick and go check if it's not the HDD. Works every time.
They have, however, shown signs that they are interested in defining their own standards and remain as economically independent as possible.
A ridiculous amount of processors, monitors, laptops, computers, consoles, TV-s, DVD players, CD players and mp3 players that we buy in Australia/Europe/America are produced by Chinese factories (frequently under a western brand).
If China cuts the rest of the world, and the rest of the world cuts China & starts producing their own electronics, China would have a huge revenue source cut off, so that counts as economic dependence in my book moreso than having your own standards for a few multimedia formats.
Yea, they try to save on DVD licenses by making their own DVD for home use. That's like a drop in the river.
From TFA: We at [H] are very impressed by this operating system option. It is truly a feature that many gamers and power users will welcome with open arms.
Something is really getting messed up in the computer market last few years when the lack of software is the hottest and most welcomed feature from the majority of computer users (adware, spyware, rootkits, bloatware, offers, crap on top of crap on top of crap...).
Oh and you gotta love when they screw up and start running "you spoke, we listened" ads. Sort of "we're your best darling from now on"... I've seen too many "you spoke, we listened" ads from various hardware and software companies the last 2 years. Sometimes they gotta run the campaign several times in case they screw up after their screw up.
In the good old times it didn't take one or two public releases of a product, mass outcry, very poor sales, or an avalanche of lawsuits to make a company "listen". Apparently times have changed.
On the other hand, China is unique because they are so huge. China has the power to collectively say "Screw you. We're making our own Windows-like OS."
The rest of the world is also not small but they can't collectively say anything. The fact that China is one country helps a little in the process. Now if the government of a big totalitarian country decides to get pissed about it, that's totally another question...
Thing is I don't know of the Chinese government showing signs of wanting Windows out of their country.
As a matter of fact Microsoft has suffered far more trouble from US and EU with all those browser / media player antitrust suits (and Windows is still there thriving).
But in case of inventions (or rather tools, as is the case here), if the scientists are doing it at all, they will be doing it with some future goals in mind.
Correct, but the articles lead many people (see grand-grandparent) to believe the invention is working and the practical implementation is about to happen, which is totally misleading.
What we get is very small and (in the big picture) insignificant steps to solve the puzzle of bringing an invention in working state to the market, but we get breaking news that we're about to get flying cars every other week.
People get tired, and start becoming suspicious. Is this what we want.
Ok everyone and his dog is trying to guess what "Wii" will mean for the future of the new Nintendo console. We've basically three groups of people:
Some explain how all the talk helps it differentiate from the competition, how it is free advertisement and so on.
Other claim how funny it is, make pee jokes about it, and explain how parents will be ashamed to buy it for their kids.
Yet other go the easy route of bringing similar examples from the history and claim they nailed the consequences.
Here's my super accurate and sophisticated analysis: we've no fucking clue what'll happen, so stop trying to guess.
You may hate or like the name but this means nothing for the rest of the people who may, somehow, have their own opinion which is not driven by your rants or blessings.
Bringing other, often popular and worn out examples from the industry is extremely naive as the cases are familiar on very a superficial level and causes for one's demise or success may have nothing to do with the bad/good choice of name we're discussing here.
While we're analysing if the ability to kid with the name means good or bad sales, we forget how important are all other variables in the equation: content, availability, quality, features, offers, advertisement, recognition and so on to name just a few, and probably thousands more that even modern marketing can't detect and make sense of.
Seeing as how China is the piracy capital of the world. I doubt Microsoft can do little to stop it. Having been in China, I can say that the piracy market is impressive. Every market you go to you'll find dvds, software, and everything else on the cheap.
Exactly the case here (Bulgaria) in 1998-2000, the piracy is ripe, and actually Microsoft is indirectly encouraging piracy (do you remember they didn't even require you to enter a serial in Windows 95?) in plenty of political and technological ways.
Then, when the market is hopelessly stuck with Windows (and to a certain degree Office) they come and harvest the crops, by launching a massive anti-piracy scheme, checks in firms for genuine software and so on niceties.
Microsoft was getting ready to go harvest in China for quite some time now, it was a known thing to come. The huge piracy in China is actually a blessing for Microsoft, and they have a well thought plan how to take advantage of it.
As a matter of fact, if every human on the planet was so honest that he'd never pirate Windows, we'd be much less dependent on it in first place, and Microsoft wouldn't sell so much. That's obvious.
I'm pretty sure the only thing that would stop people using artificial brains would be technical limitations, as well as being scared that they won't really be them once they're copied.. and in effect, moving to an artificial brain would kill you, even if you then lived forever. That maybe comes under 'religious', but the fact remains that you would be dead, unless you could transfer your 'ghost' a lá GitS
A brain is not a hard drive you can copy, i.e. the very structure of the device is the information and mechanism of the device - this is how our brains work.
Therefore you can't separate the brain into mechanism and data, which data can be copied.
What I really meant was not copying yourself into a PC brain, but augmenting and gradually replacing your brain with artificial extensions, or deciding to get a robo brain kid instead of one with a real brain:D and so on
In his book The Age of Spiritual Machines , futurist Ray Kurzweil ventures that the transformation of humans from flesh-and-blood to total machine bodies will start with small augmentations like this, proceeding step by step until everything original is replaced.
That's pretty good, and natural. After all only then we'll be in power to control out own destiny. Of course I don't see the brain being replaced in the near 100-200 years, not just for technical, but also religious, political and moral reasons.
Why is it that 99% of those articles try to be done with the boring facts as fast as possible and dive into the exciting world of "this may/can/will be used for [INSERT SOMETHING FROM A MOVIE OR SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS REALLY IMPORTANT]" speculation.
So if a new sort of "no unpopped kernels" popcorns was disovered, we'll have to read how this will lead to us flying to distant galaxies and finding the purpose of existence.
The question, I want to ask is, is it still in research phase or professional services will start becoming available, when and how much it might cost?
The problem is all these are misleading. Articles about wiring cameras to the eye nerves, artificial eyes and so on are coming down the pipe for years now. I remember not less than 4 years ago articles about artificial eyes that can help blind people.
In most cases, the misleading sytarts right at the source, where for PR reasons the achievement is blown out of proportion for PR reasons, to justify the spent resources and time, and back them when they request more funds for continuing their research.
Frequently also the media tag on catchy "breaking news" titles to make their articles more interesting.
A recent example is for example the computerised machine guns that disarms rockets that get close to a tank.. That was "marketed" as a magical energy shield around tanks.. Comment withheld..
So your contention is that because FLASH 8 and 9 will only be available on INTEL/WINDOWS
It's available for PowerPC and Intel on a set of Linux distribution, OSX, BSD and Windows. What it's not available on is ane xtoci 64-bit chip that Adobe will certainly not care about.
FLASH 7 and 9 are the most important part of the "computing experience" for you?
I thought we've established that people will use those for e-mail and browsing. Even if Flash isn't that relevant to the computing experience, it's pretty relevant, in 2006, to the browsing experience of a consumer user.
That's an odd statistic to run. I tmakes sense at first but then it feels like something MS did so it can make IIS first in something (no longer though I guess).
Now MS can start a new stat: who's the leader in "commercial" (non-free) servers. That can go on forever...
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Wait a friggin' minute. Do you mean to say that Sony BMG ain't a bunch of care bears on a crussade to save our beloved artists from the paws of their evil mp3 sharing fans and imminent bankrupt, but a bunch or ruthless speculators manipulating the people for their own commercial benefit??
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
What's next, poorly written Big Brother software sneaking on my computer from music CD-s and opening my OS to wanna-be hackers? Wait...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!......
They have Vista to push and advertise next year, or is that not important anymore.
researchers at the University of Calgary, will be presented on Sunday at the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research conference. According to the paper, the next generation of spam zombies will employ 'sophisticated data mining of their victims saved email'.
Nice, so even if most spammers don't have the intelligence or resources to do the research for more sophisticated spamming (beyond finding yet another exploit for IE), a bunch of researchers do it for them and publish the papers.
How helpful of them.
And btw that's happening all the time - researchers publishing papers of the next generation terrorism, virii (with working proof of concepts), spamming, identity theft and so on.
Good, do your research, maybe just don't make it widely available to the people you're claiming you're trying to protect us from.
This is why MacBookPro has a camera, guys, since Apple is about to buy eBay (which owns Skype).
And this is why Skype added video in the last versions. See how it all makes sense?
Cringely, my man, you're on the fast track turning into a "Dvorak".
The project is meant to let people assemble Web applications using wikis, really simple syndication (RSS) and simple Web scripting. Similarly, the grassroots direct-marketing techniques of the consumer world are starting to be used to tout enterprise software, analysts said. The enterprise software market, once the hotbed of innovation, is starting to catch up to the consumer Web, where people are becoming used to melding data from their desktop with services online.
Ok I'm a web developer working every day with "web 2.0" concepts and applying them in practise. But hell if I have idea what the hell the summary means.
Good luck reaching consumers with stuff like that.
From the article photos it seems they were primarily interested in comparing their width, height and depth, as well as trying to build various models using them as freakishly expensive LEGO blocks.
What I wonder is if after the experience, at least one of them is behaving odd or making funny noises on startup.
If you had enough experience with computers, or especially if you lost one or more hard drives with precious data, that hard drive stack on the first page will shorten your life with a couple of years.
It's enough for someone to fire up a match for me to panick and go check if it's not the HDD. Works every time.
They have, however, shown signs that they are interested in defining their own standards and remain as economically independent as possible.
A ridiculous amount of processors, monitors, laptops, computers, consoles, TV-s, DVD players, CD players and mp3 players that we buy in Australia/Europe/America are produced by Chinese factories (frequently under a western brand).
If China cuts the rest of the world, and the rest of the world cuts China & starts producing their own electronics, China would have a huge revenue source cut off, so that counts as economic dependence in my book moreso than having your own standards for a few multimedia formats.
Yea, they try to save on DVD licenses by making their own DVD for home use. That's like a drop in the river.
From TFA: We at [H] are very impressed by this operating system option. It is truly a feature that many gamers and power users will welcome with open arms.
Something is really getting messed up in the computer market last few years when the lack of software is the hottest and most welcomed feature from the majority of computer users (adware, spyware, rootkits, bloatware, offers, crap on top of crap on top of crap...).
Oh and you gotta love when they screw up and start running "you spoke, we listened" ads. Sort of "we're your best darling from now on"...
I've seen too many "you spoke, we listened" ads from various hardware and software companies the last 2 years. Sometimes they gotta run the campaign several times in case they screw up after their screw up.
In the good old times it didn't take one or two public releases of a product, mass outcry, very poor sales, or an avalanche of lawsuits to make a company "listen". Apparently times have changed.
On the other hand, China is unique because they are so huge. China has the power to collectively say "Screw you. We're making our own Windows-like OS."
The rest of the world is also not small but they can't collectively say anything. The fact that China is one country helps a little in the process. Now if the government of a big totalitarian country decides to get pissed about it, that's totally another question...
Thing is I don't know of the Chinese government showing signs of wanting Windows out of their country.
As a matter of fact Microsoft has suffered far more trouble from US and EU with all those browser / media player antitrust suits (and Windows is still there thriving).
But in case of inventions (or rather tools, as is the case here), if the scientists are doing it at all, they will be doing it with some future goals in mind.
Correct, but the articles lead many people (see grand-grandparent) to believe the invention is working and the practical implementation is about to happen, which is totally misleading.
What we get is very small and (in the big picture) insignificant steps to solve the puzzle of bringing an invention in working state to the market, but we get breaking news that we're about to get flying cars every other week.
People get tired, and start becoming suspicious. Is this what we want.
Here's my super accurate and sophisticated analysis: we've no fucking clue what'll happen, so stop trying to guess.
You may hate or like the name but this means nothing for the rest of the people who may, somehow, have their own opinion which is not driven by your rants or blessings.
Bringing other, often popular and worn out examples from the industry is extremely naive as the cases are familiar on very a superficial level and causes for one's demise or success may have nothing to do with the bad/good choice of name we're discussing here.
While we're analysing if the ability to kid with the name means good or bad sales, we forget how important are all other variables in the equation: content, availability, quality, features, offers, advertisement, recognition and so on to name just a few, and probably thousands more that even modern marketing can't detect and make sense of.
Why oh why do people care? Hardcore /. nerds won't give a damn what it's called
No slashdotter would miss the opportunity for toilet humor.
Seeing as how China is the piracy capital of the world. I doubt Microsoft can do little to stop it. Having been in China, I can say that the piracy market is impressive. Every market you go to you'll find dvds, software, and everything else on the cheap.
Exactly the case here (Bulgaria) in 1998-2000, the piracy is ripe, and actually Microsoft is indirectly encouraging piracy (do you remember they didn't even require you to enter a serial in Windows 95?) in plenty of political and technological ways.
Then, when the market is hopelessly stuck with Windows (and to a certain degree Office) they come and harvest the crops, by launching a massive anti-piracy scheme, checks in firms for genuine software and so on niceties.
Microsoft was getting ready to go harvest in China for quite some time now, it was a known thing to come. The huge piracy in China is actually a blessing for Microsoft, and they have a well thought plan how to take advantage of it.
As a matter of fact, if every human on the planet was so honest that he'd never pirate Windows, we'd be much less dependent on it in first place, and Microsoft wouldn't sell so much. That's obvious.
And the PR people work in the Department of Redundancy Department?
Yes, however, I really wish the there are less grammar/sentence-flow nazys about my grammar and sentence flow really, however.
I'm pretty sure the only thing that would stop people using artificial brains would be technical limitations, as well as being scared that they won't really be them once they're copied.. and in effect, moving to an artificial brain would kill you, even if you then lived forever. That maybe comes under 'religious', but the fact remains that you would be dead, unless you could transfer your 'ghost' a lá GitS
:D and so on
A brain is not a hard drive you can copy, i.e. the very structure of the device is the information and mechanism of the device - this is how our brains work.
Therefore you can't separate the brain into mechanism and data, which data can be copied.
What I really meant was not copying yourself into a PC brain, but augmenting and gradually replacing your brain with artificial extensions, or deciding to get a robo brain kid instead of one with a real brain
In his book The Age of Spiritual Machines , futurist Ray Kurzweil ventures that the transformation of humans from flesh-and-blood to total machine bodies will start with small augmentations like this, proceeding step by step until everything original is replaced.
That's pretty good, and natural. After all only then we'll be in power to control out own destiny. Of course I don't see the brain being replaced in the near 100-200 years, not just for technical, but also religious, political and moral reasons.
Why is it that 99% of those articles try to be done with the boring facts as fast as possible and dive into the exciting world of "this may/can/will be used for [INSERT SOMETHING FROM A MOVIE OR SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS REALLY IMPORTANT]" speculation.
So if a new sort of "no unpopped kernels" popcorns was disovered, we'll have to read how this will lead to us flying to distant galaxies and finding the purpose of existence.
The question, I want to ask is, is it still in research phase or professional services will start becoming available, when and how much it might cost?
The problem is all these are misleading. Articles about wiring cameras to the eye nerves, artificial eyes and so on are coming down the pipe for years now. I remember not less than 4 years ago articles about artificial eyes that can help blind people.
In most cases, the misleading sytarts right at the source, where for PR reasons the achievement is blown out of proportion for PR reasons, to justify the spent resources and time, and back them when they request more funds for continuing their research.
Frequently also the media tag on catchy "breaking news" titles to make their articles more interesting.
A recent example is for example the computerised machine guns that disarms rockets that get close to a tank.. That was "marketed" as a magical energy shield around tanks.. Comment withheld..
I predict it to be about as successful as the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. I'm surprised we haven't yet had a war on piracy.
Billy, Billy, this is NYPD, stop that streaming mp3 server and come out of your room, or we'll have to nuke you.
So your contention is that because FLASH 8 and 9 will only be available on INTEL/WINDOWS
It's available for PowerPC and Intel on a set of Linux distribution, OSX, BSD and Windows.
What it's not available on is ane xtoci 64-bit chip that Adobe will certainly not care about.
FLASH 7 and 9 are the most important part of the "computing experience" for you?
I thought we've established that people will use those for e-mail and browsing. Even if Flash isn't that relevant to the computing experience, it's pretty relevant, in 2006, to the browsing experience of a consumer user.
Saying an optional feature in Vista is targeted to making dual booting harded is like claiming Aero Glass is targeted to making XP look ugly.
That's an odd statistic to run. I tmakes sense at first but then it feels like something MS did so it can make IIS first in something (no longer though I guess).
Now MS can start a new stat: who's the leader in "commercial" (non-free) servers. That can go on forever...
or now knows as Nintento Puu.
Check this out... Take the brand ViiV from Intel, a brand for a home entertainment unit..
Now...
Take that V in the end and make one "Revolution" around the text so that it ends at the start: VVii.
GET IT? VV = W, VVii = Wii...
Fuck it, I'm so smart and insightfull, I gotta work in CIA or something...