There seems to be a misunderstanding by some people - including Gates himself - that Bill Gates is hated because he is rich. This is not true. We envy him because he is rich. We hate him because he produces crappy software and uses unethical techniques to promote it.
There seems to be another misunderstanding among people: that because a subculture of "misfit geeks" seems to hate Gates as a professional job, it's somehow supposedly everyone hating Gates.
Well, most people don't hate Gates. Many people compete with Microsoft, since Microsoft is so big. I know at least one guy who tries to pretend he really hates Microsoft, as part of his marketing campaign (cough.. Apple.. cough), but it's actually just business as any business.
And a third misunderstanding: you think someone cares what your reasons are for creating a storm in a jar, and your reasons to hate Gates. No one the hell cares why you hate Gates, get a life.
The problem is that the RIAA is just a faceless body representing the big labels, and until people start bitching about Sony, Universal Music, EMI etc, then what does the RIAA care if people hate them?
Can I ask everybody to stop repeating this without thinking. RIAA means Record Industry Association. It represents the entire industry, and hurts the collective image of labels as a whole, even non-RIAA ones.
If people really decide to boycott labels, they'd go against any label, and probably go for independent artists. Thing is, such boycott conspiracy is almost impossible, since too many people will want to just buy the latest smash single of *some-star-of-the-day* the industry produced.
Yawn. Now that this has been repeated to death, let's face it: all other OS have similar elevation dialogs. OSX has it, and other flavors of BSD, Linux has it.
It's part of life when you don't run as root all the time.
The fact you may get too many of them on Vista usually signifies improperly setup account, or poorly written software. In my experience, the elevation dialog only pops up rarely and when you'd really expect it to.
I don't have to resort to it, since it's my permanent state.
But then you can seal it with no need for "ports" to be maintained which as any engineer who deals with these sorts of problems will tell you, *are* failure points. Thus the whole industry of gaskets, seals etc...etc...etc...
Those are failure points because they let you put air/water/whatever inside the device or let it out. In the case with hard drives, the hard drives are not floating in water themselves, they are surrounded by a sealed packet of liquid. As such, there's no gasket/seal here, so no weak point of that sort.
1. Air should have better shock absorption abilities (consider an airbag filled with *water* in your car.. won't be nice) 2. And won't cause 'hardware casualties' upon container penetration (read: water or silicon gel all over your gadget/laptop).
I just hope they use liquids because I'm missing something obvious (likely), and not because they're patently stupid (unlikely), or stopped by patents (a bit more likely).
Yeah, but that gel is in an absolutely sealed envelope. Nothing (wires) needs to get in or out, whereas with a hard drive, unless you are powering by induction and have a wireless (radio or optical) way of transmitting data, you need wires to penetrate the envelope. *That* is where failure occurs.
Well, what a stupid theory.
I could take it further though. How did the liquid get into the envelope? It had to penetrate the envelope!
Now spend few minutes thinking how you could shape a tightly sealed envelope with liquid around a disk, and leave a hole for cables without using ice-pick to puncture it. Come on, it's not hard.
The article theorizes it may be left over from development work, or could have been included to create a 'false trail' for hackers.
Even better, I suspect this is the major reason Leopard was delayed. iPhone's software was completed all along: all those OSX developers were assigned to create numerous false trails for hackers, on the iPhone.
Yes, probably this is the default phone password which the phone uses to "autologin" into itself on startup, and as such isn't useful for "hacking" into the phone remotely.
But you should consider: a) the phone doesn't support custom software b) thousands of geeks who bought the phone want to write apps for it.
Maybe knowing the root login is a tiny step in that direction, if you get what I mean. I have the feeling we'll be seeing AT&T disabling remotely phones that have been hacked with custom apps. Same as MS did with modded XBOX360.
and developers aren't getting paid $100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys
Yes, now they're being paid $100K for being HTML and CSS and JavaScript jockeys. What a huge difference.
I hope the author recognizes the differences between a taxi cab driver and F1 driver. Because HTML/JS has low entry bar doesn't mean you can pay 50 bucks to a random college kid and have Google maps with draggable/adaptable routes in a week.
If there isn't any evidence of GPL violation, why make the accusation?
This is despicable sensationalism, and not what I'd expect from the FSF.
Funny thing is, Microsoft promotes the exact same sentiment towards businesses regarding GPL. Microsoft believe it's harmful to free software, FSF believe it's beneficial.
Only $220 to Make an iPhone. Bomarc writes to tell us BuinessWeek is reporting that according to a recent analysis the new iPhone only costs Apple in the neighborhood of $200 ($220 for the 8-gigabyte model) to manufacture.
Someone's forgetting software development, R&D, support, distributing, warranties, shipping, licenses, patents, and around a 50-60 other things like that, which go into a product you buy from the local shop.
As much as I want to believe aliens are among us, it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico. And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to zero.
I won't pass judgement on Roswell since the information is too conflicting. But your arguments are poor.
So I can fly a spaceship and build rockets. I can still fall downstairs and kill myself. Accidents happen. You realize that interstellar travel wasn't most likely designed from scratch from the *pilots* of the supposed space ship, right. Just like people aren't one collective entity if wisdom that knows and can do everything, likewise with other animals, and possibly alien species.
Regarding the humanoid shape: wrong again. Recent advancements in evolution science have proven that although mutations are random, similar environment breeds and prefers similar "engineering" solutions. Which means: there are only few best ways to walk fly or float in a given environment. And if you put two totally different beings into the same environment, you can expect them to adapt and become more alike through the generations.
Consider dolphins, they look like fish, but are nothing like fish. Just this is how a swimming creature best functions.
If we assume that on the alien planet where our friends live there's atmosphere and rocks, and gravity (hello..), and other such planetary boring stuff, and they need to walk and create tools with some apparatus (hands..?), they will likely look similar to us.
On the inside they may be quite different and they may not even sport the exact same type of DNA, but we're likely to see many similarities on that level too (like a stomach and heart, sexual reproduction).
I doubt it will really work. The technique itself will be patented and will come at a cost to printer manufacturers to implement, whereas it will make the printers particularly unattractive to anyone on a budget.
Are you kidding. They'll up the price and even increase their margin as a result of this. "But why is the ink so expensive ?!" -> "Because people pirate the ink and we had to take protective measures".
Ask the people who dared publish cartoons depicting Mohammad. (Meanwhile, in the US, I don't recall violent protests of "Piss Christ" that ended with any buildings being set on fire...)
To be honest, you don't account for some cultural differences. How about pissing on the American flag. That would get people in certain regions protesting for sure.
Otherwise put, I'm not sure why it's shocking that corporations have more power than people. Well "people" (an entire nation) in US are more than the employees of any corporation out there. But they dont' work together, they just wander around seemingly aimlessly, everyone doing their own thing.
Corporation is thousands of people working day after day on a single focused strategy someone up there in the management devised. They are more akin to a military organization.
And we know if there's anyone who can overturn a government in any country, it's that country's military. It's not because they have big scary tanks. It's because of the hierarchy, organizational power that comes with controlling huge masses of people ready to do thy bidding.
On our side, we want the lawsuits to be secret. No one will ever know. How about that. Kinda makes the effort worthless, doesn't it.
Doing PR by lawsuit. It'll remain in history, and our grandchildren will be reading about what the RIAA used to do in our days in attempt to keep Earth from spinning.
Here in Europe in most cases we can change the SIM easily. Why not in the US?
I'm "here in Europe", and this is differing from country to country, and service provider to service provider. Sometimes even the same provider would offer locked and unlocked phones at the same time.
So don't oversimplify things so much.
As about disassembling the iPhone: bleh. I wanna see actual reviews and sales numbers.
It's not susprise if you open it you'll see chips, batteries and TFT screen.
You know, I have the feeling people who buy high-tech, flashy gadgetry such as the iPhone aren't likely to invest in it for the long term, with a value-for-money approach to buying and owning the product.
You'll be surprised. Most Mac people I know are poor, unemployed, and step on toes around their machines. But they were so convinced they should absolutely must get Apple, they would stay away from pot for a month to afford one.
I think your confusing real-world mutation with movie/sci-fi mutation. They are hardly the same. Mutations are almost always: 1.Useless 2.Harmful in some way to the creature 3.Lost in the next generation(assuming the creature can breed)
So, a little more 5 legged frog, and a little less sharks with freakin laser beams.
You're boring, you know that? But, ok, I'll accept your science ways, and take the 5 legged frog. But only if can laugh in an evil voice and has an army of minions trying to take over the world.
"This technique could possibly lead to the creation of 'designer' microbes producing fuel or help cleaning toxic waste."
Well it's perfect that we could just program a microbe to solve all our messy problems just like snapping my fingers.
Now.. some mutations have been observed when the microbe was released in the wild. Of course, releasing in the wild means that your creation kinda gets a life on its own. Some mutations have been observed.
Mutation one turns the form of liquid metal that wants to kill John Konnor. Mutation two is a purple mist that's a destroyer of worlds.
But I bet we could engineer a microbe to kill those first microbes.
Now they're paying the price - they can't manufacture it. All indications I've heard are that they're having production problems. Compare this with the alternative of just gluing a few dual cores together. AMD can mock this approach all they want, we'll see who's laughing when they're "next gen" chip underperforms (in many benchmarks, I'm betting) a previous gen competitor's chip and falls quite a way behind the competitor's "next gen" chip.
Looks like you're mocking the outcome of a future event that has not happened yet.
IT is a funny place to be: sometimes when it seems you're a total loser, you are, but sometimes, you come on top and kill the competition.
It's all about the details, details which you don't know.
I think they should have her set it up, then give the two laptops to a pair of teenage girls for 3 weeks with $300 to spend on any software they choose and an unencumbered internet connection.
If you do that, you can bet at the end both laptops would have the Rutkowska's rootkit.
Never mind it's not in the wild, never mind it's not infectious: trust a teenage girl with 3 weeks and unencumbered internet access, and she'll find a way to get infected with it.
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There seems to be a misunderstanding by some people - including Gates himself - that Bill Gates is hated because he is rich. This is not true. We envy him because he is rich.
.. cough), but it's actually just business as any business.
We hate him because he produces crappy software and uses unethical techniques to promote it.
There seems to be another misunderstanding among people: that because a subculture of "misfit geeks" seems to hate Gates as a professional job, it's somehow supposedly everyone hating Gates.
Well, most people don't hate Gates. Many people compete with Microsoft, since Microsoft is so big. I know at least one guy who tries to pretend he really hates Microsoft, as part of his marketing campaign (cough.. Apple
And a third misunderstanding: you think someone cares what your reasons are for creating a storm in a jar, and your reasons to hate Gates. No one the hell cares why you hate Gates, get a life.
The problem is that the RIAA is just a faceless body representing the big labels, and until people start bitching about Sony, Universal Music, EMI etc, then what does the RIAA care if people hate them?
Can I ask everybody to stop repeating this without thinking. RIAA means Record Industry Association. It represents the entire industry, and hurts the collective image of labels as a whole, even non-RIAA ones.
If people really decide to boycott labels, they'd go against any label, and probably go for independent artists. Thing is, such boycott conspiracy is almost impossible, since too many people will want to just buy the latest smash single of *some-star-of-the-day* the industry produced.
you just have time to cancel or allow?
Yawn. Now that this has been repeated to death, let's face it: all other OS have similar elevation dialogs. OSX has it, and other flavors of BSD, Linux has it.
It's part of life when you don't run as root all the time.
The fact you may get too many of them on Vista usually signifies improperly setup account, or poorly written software. In my experience, the elevation dialog only pops up rarely and when you'd really expect it to.
What game deserves to top a list of the 100 best games ever made?
My opinion is you can take all Top Whatever lists ever devised and shove 'em. It's pointless.
You don't have to resort to being an ass here...
I don't have to resort to it, since it's my permanent state.
But then you can seal it with no need for "ports" to be maintained which as any engineer who deals with these sorts of problems will tell you, *are* failure points. Thus the whole industry of gaskets, seals etc...etc...etc...
Those are failure points because they let you put air/water/whatever inside the device or let it out. In the case with hard drives, the hard drives are not floating in water themselves, they are surrounded by a sealed packet of liquid. As such, there's no gasket/seal here, so no weak point of that sort.
1. Air should have better shock absorption abilities (consider an airbag filled with *water* in your car.. won't be nice)
2. And won't cause 'hardware casualties' upon container penetration (read: water or silicon gel all over your gadget/laptop).
I just hope they use liquids because I'm missing something obvious (likely), and not because they're patently stupid (unlikely), or stopped by patents (a bit more likely).
Yeah, but that gel is in an absolutely sealed envelope. Nothing (wires) needs to get in or out, whereas with a hard drive, unless you are powering by induction and have a wireless (radio or optical) way of transmitting data, you need wires to penetrate the envelope. *That* is where failure occurs.
Well, what a stupid theory.
I could take it further though. How did the liquid get into the envelope? It had to penetrate the envelope!
Now spend few minutes thinking how you could shape a tightly sealed envelope with liquid around a disk, and leave a hole for cables without using ice-pick to puncture it. Come on, it's not hard.
The article theorizes it may be left over from development work, or could have been included to create a 'false trail' for hackers.
Even better, I suspect this is the major reason Leopard was delayed. iPhone's software was completed all along: all those OSX developers were assigned to create numerous false trails for hackers, on the iPhone.
Yes, probably this is the default phone password which the phone uses to "autologin" into itself on startup, and as such isn't useful for "hacking" into the phone remotely.
But you should consider: a) the phone doesn't support custom software b) thousands of geeks who bought the phone want to write apps for it.
Maybe knowing the root login is a tiny step in that direction, if you get what I mean. I have the feeling we'll be seeing AT&T disabling remotely phones that have been hacked with custom apps. Same as MS did with modded XBOX360.
and developers aren't getting paid $100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys
Yes, now they're being paid $100K for being HTML and CSS and JavaScript jockeys. What a huge difference.
I hope the author recognizes the differences between a taxi cab driver and F1 driver. Because HTML/JS has low entry bar doesn't mean you can pay 50 bucks to a random college kid and have Google maps with draggable/adaptable routes in a week.
Not the first time I'll say that (and I totally mean it):
FFS, FSF. WTF?
If there isn't any evidence of GPL violation, why make the accusation?
This is despicable sensationalism, and not what I'd expect from the FSF.
Funny thing is, Microsoft promotes the exact same sentiment towards businesses regarding GPL. Microsoft believe it's harmful to free software, FSF believe it's beneficial.
One of them is dead wrong.
Only $220 to Make an iPhone. Bomarc writes to tell us BuinessWeek is reporting that according to a recent analysis the new iPhone only costs Apple in the neighborhood of $200 ($220 for the 8-gigabyte model) to manufacture.
Someone's forgetting software development, R&D, support, distributing, warranties, shipping, licenses, patents, and around a 50-60 other things like that, which go into a product you buy from the local shop.
As much as I want to believe aliens are among us, it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico. And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to zero.
I won't pass judgement on Roswell since the information is too conflicting. But your arguments are poor.
So I can fly a spaceship and build rockets. I can still fall downstairs and kill myself. Accidents happen. You realize that interstellar travel wasn't most likely designed from scratch from the *pilots* of the supposed space ship, right. Just like people aren't one collective entity if wisdom that knows and can do everything, likewise with other animals, and possibly alien species.
Regarding the humanoid shape: wrong again. Recent advancements in evolution science have proven that although mutations are random, similar environment breeds and prefers similar "engineering" solutions. Which means: there are only few best ways to walk fly or float in a given environment. And if you put two totally different beings into the same environment, you can expect them to adapt and become more alike through the generations.
Consider dolphins, they look like fish, but are nothing like fish. Just this is how a swimming creature best functions.
If we assume that on the alien planet where our friends live there's atmosphere and rocks, and gravity (hello..), and other such planetary boring stuff, and they need to walk and create tools with some apparatus (hands..?), they will likely look similar to us.
On the inside they may be quite different and they may not even sport the exact same type of DNA, but we're likely to see many similarities on that level too (like a stomach and heart, sexual reproduction).
I doubt it will really work. The technique itself will be patented and will come at a cost to printer manufacturers to implement, whereas it will make the printers particularly unattractive to anyone on a budget.
Are you kidding. They'll up the price and even increase their margin as a result of this. "But why is the ink so expensive ?!" -> "Because people pirate the ink and we had to take protective measures".
Ask the people who dared publish cartoons depicting Mohammad. (Meanwhile, in the US, I don't recall violent protests of "Piss Christ" that ended with any buildings being set on fire...)
To be honest, you don't account for some cultural differences. How about pissing on the American flag. That would get people in certain regions protesting for sure.
Otherwise put, I'm not sure why it's shocking that corporations have more power than people. Well "people" (an entire nation) in US are more than the employees of any corporation out there. But they dont' work together, they just wander around seemingly aimlessly, everyone doing their own thing.
Corporation is thousands of people working day after day on a single focused strategy someone up there in the management devised. They are more akin to a military organization.
And we know if there's anyone who can overturn a government in any country, it's that country's military. It's not because they have big scary tanks. It's because of the hierarchy, organizational power that comes with controlling huge masses of people ready to do thy bidding.
On our side, we want the lawsuits to be secret. No one will ever know. How about that.
Kinda makes the effort worthless, doesn't it.
Doing PR by lawsuit. It'll remain in history, and our grandchildren will be reading about what the RIAA used to do in our days in attempt to keep Earth from spinning.
Here in Europe in most cases we can change the SIM easily. Why not in the US?
I'm "here in Europe", and this is differing from country to country, and service provider to service provider. Sometimes even the same provider would offer locked and unlocked phones at the same time.
So don't oversimplify things so much.
As about disassembling the iPhone: bleh. I wanna see actual reviews and sales numbers.
It's not susprise if you open it you'll see chips, batteries and TFT screen.
You know, I have the feeling people who buy high-tech, flashy gadgetry such as the iPhone aren't likely to invest in it for the long term, with a value-for-money approach to buying and owning the product.
You'll be surprised. Most Mac people I know are poor, unemployed, and step on toes around their machines. But they were so convinced they should absolutely must get Apple, they would stay away from pot for a month to afford one.
I think your confusing real-world mutation with movie/sci-fi mutation. They are hardly the same.
Mutations are almost always:
1.Useless
2.Harmful in some way to the creature
3.Lost in the next generation(assuming the creature can breed)
So, a little more 5 legged frog, and a little less sharks with freakin laser beams.
You're boring, you know that? But, ok, I'll accept your science ways, and take the 5 legged frog. But only if can laugh in an evil voice and has an army of minions trying to take over the world.
"This technique could possibly lead to the creation of 'designer' microbes producing fuel or help cleaning toxic waste."
Well it's perfect that we could just program a microbe to solve all our messy problems just like snapping my fingers.
Now.. some mutations have been observed when the microbe was released in the wild. Of course, releasing in the wild means that your creation kinda gets a life on its own. Some mutations have been observed.
Mutation one turns the form of liquid metal that wants to kill John Konnor. Mutation two is a purple mist that's a destroyer of worlds.
But I bet we could engineer a microbe to kill those first microbes.
Now they're paying the price - they can't manufacture it. All indications I've heard are that they're having production problems. Compare this with the alternative of just gluing a few dual cores together. AMD can mock this approach all they want, we'll see who's laughing when they're "next gen" chip underperforms (in many benchmarks, I'm betting) a previous gen competitor's chip and falls quite a way behind the competitor's "next gen" chip.
Looks like you're mocking the outcome of a future event that has not happened yet.
IT is a funny place to be: sometimes when it seems you're a total loser, you are, but sometimes, you come on top and kill the competition.
It's all about the details, details which you don't know.
I think they should have her set it up, then give the two laptops to a pair of teenage girls for 3 weeks with $300 to spend on any software they choose and an unencumbered internet connection.
If you do that, you can bet at the end both laptops would have the Rutkowska's rootkit.
Never mind it's not in the wild, never mind it's not infectious: trust a teenage girl with 3 weeks and unencumbered internet access, and she'll find a way to get infected with it.
Given the large audience of Slashdot, this gives me the change to become the biggest cyberbully on the continent:
you're all morons!!
So what would be the killer feature of the IQ PC? Lemme guess: it's brown.