Virtual desktops all the way: 1) browser 2) Terminals to remote machines (DB servers and such) 3) remote X applications started in those terminals 4) Main IDE 5) Running instance of the application I'm working on. 6) Documentation 7) Email, skype and such 8) iTunes, spotify, etc. I could not be as productive with all of that cluttering up a single screen.
That doesn't work if the negatively affected parties are future generations or in a different jurisdiction/country. My unborn grandchildren can't sue the Koch brothers.
now the joys of asymmetric warfare make it FAR harder.
Asymetric/guerilla warfare is much older than you think. Look up the 80 years war (1568–1648) and the (Water)Geuzen/Sea Beggars. The Dutch war for independence had a lot of guerilla style warfare in the first two decades.
These systems work because they can react far faster than a human can or doing things that are just about impossible to do otherwise
Most people don't realize how slow people really are because our brains lie to us. It takes quite a while for the neuron signals to travel from our brain to our feet when braking. Our brain delays us becoming conscious of that we decided to use our foot by the same amount.
But in reality there is up to about 0.5 seconds between the moment the visual input reaches our eyes, and we are able to start moving our feet. In a car at speed that can be quite a distance.
Those speed limits exist because you share the road with grandma. The roads are designed to she can get to visit her brother safely. It means that for those with better vision and reflexes than her, the roads are indeed a little boring. But still plenty of people manage to get into accidents, especially quite a few young people with good vision and reflexes.
It's also the irresponsible drivers that make it necessary to have the rules in the first place. Cars at speed are very lethal implements. Unfortunately drivers licences aren't a good enough gatekeeper to keep the stupid out of getting behind a wheel.
Part of that is because the standards to obtain a drivers licence in the US is a joke. Go to Germany and see how much time, money, and effort is required, then come here and show up with a pulse and get a licence. (more or less)
The drivers licence in the USA is a means to obtain alcoholic beverages in primarily. It's utility in determining if someone is able to drive a motor vehicle is secondary and quite questionable.
I'm speaking of experience with having obtained both a Dutch and a US drivers licence.
The Dutch legally only allows the following country's drivers licences to be exchanged for a Dutch one without having to take both the theory and practical test: EU/EEA, Switzerland, Andorra, Israel, Japan, Monaco, Singapore, Republic of Korea, Quebec. Any other drivers licences are not considered to be a valid proof that you've safe enough to drive on Dutch roads for a prolonged time. (tourists get excepted, confusing the issue somewhat for probably practical reasons).
I grew up with the old LOGO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29) in the eighties to teach elementary school kids some programming. (I was about 10-11 at the time).
Nowadays you can do the same with the ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft. I've now been using it for 3 years to teach 13-14 year old girls programming and it works really well. I teach about 80 in a few events throughout the year as an outreach program for my work. They start writing working programs within 30 minutes and within a couple of hours can do things like write their own name in Minecraft blocks.
It worked much better than I could have hoped, I can really recommend it to anyone who needs to teach kids or teenagers some basic programming. They will have fun doing it.
I think the most important thing to remember on security related topics like this: The answers can get quickly outdated as technology progresses.
Books might be outdated by the time they appear in print, especially on a lot of practical details. What was considered impossible a few years ago might be done on a machine with a few big GPUs today. Technologies, ideas and theory advance a lot as there is a real war going on in the security field, both by big companies and more shady organisations. All with huge interests.
What academia needs to do is figure out what needs to be done in 2025, not 2015.
In my view the research that needs to be done at academia, is the stuff that has no immediate return on investment, and will thus never be done by industry. Some research might never pay off, some might take a century.
That's the research that should be done with public funding, because the biggest breakthroughs have been from fundamental research, but their return on investment periods are too long for industry to ever bother.
Which would indeed be a reason for me not to buy them. For a desktop machine, where space and weight are less of an issue, I see little reasons to make servicing hard.
In my experience nearly all of this built in entertainment stuff is just a bad idea for several reasons: - It's usually at least half a decade outdated on a brand new car, let alone an older model. - Car makers are hardware people and have little clue about software. Designing it, making it, managing it, etc. - None of it is modular and easily upgradable.
What I want is for my car to work well with my other electronic gadgets and for that it needs to have standardized interfaces and be easily upgradable and extendible.
When I got my first iPod, around 2004, I first mucked around with FM transmitters, but then bought a Pioneer single DIN DEH-P65BT car stereo with the CD-IB100II Ipod connector. I could also use it with my Nokia S60 N70 "smartphone". This has worked fine for almost ten years and several iPods/iPhones, until the 30-pin connector went extinct. I have now replaced it with a Pioneer DEH-X8700DAB talking to my new iPhone.
Over the past ten years this has given me more options than even the newest cars on the market could offer me at any time, and I never had a car less than half a decade old: My TomTom updates automatically over the cellular network (iTunes/App Store), I've got Spotify, Youtube, WhatsApp, Skype, internet radio, weather info (buienradar), traffic info, and many more. Every time I upgrade my phone, my options improve. Every time my phone got an OS update, my experience would usually get better. Pioneer could do a better job sometimes, but overall the experience has been miles ahead of anything that the car manufacturers offer. The only thing that doesn't work reliably is SIRI, for three reasons: Cars are noisy, SIRI can't control third-party apps like Spotify and I'm multi lingual and SIRI can't easily be switched between languages.
I've just bought a new car, and one of my most important selection criteria was how easy it was to rip out the existing entertainment system and add a more sensible after market one. I have skipped many otherwise nice options because they had horribly hard to replace entertainment systems.
It was also about freedom. I couldn't wait for the day I didn't have to get my Mom to drive me everywhere.
Bicycles have existed for well over hundred years. Public transport is also a thing. I've had very little need for my parents to transport me since I was about 9 years old and didn't buy a car until I was 26, as did most of my friends.
Well, one thing I understood from the linked article, is that except for the email address, which was changed to , nothing seems to have been changed on "deleted" accounts.
NASA doesn't exist, as the "American continents" are a lie by the government. Those few "Americans" we see here are government spies, don't believe anything they say.
1) Learn to model your business processes. 2) Learn to express what you want to do, instead of how you want to do it. 3) Make clear definitions of what you mean with certain words. 2a) Write down Use Cases, examples of what you need the software for.
These three/four points will be the biggest help for the programmers to understand what you want and what they need to do. Then it's the quality of the programmers and how well they're managed if you get good results.
I think it's really important to study original texts. A lot gets lost in translation, as anyone with any experience doing so knows. Even between different dialects.
I've studied, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Ancient Greek and Latin in High School and have since gone on to a Master in Physics and Computer Science. I find that especially outside of the language studies, people often have a poor understanding of how hard proper translations are.
I've always wondered how many University disciplines seem to be very much teaching rote, not science. It seems to be most prevalent in the areas with a lot of prestige and a very clear career path. Medicine, Law, MBA, that kind of thing.
If we want Universities to be mainly about creating scientists, several of these have little to no reason to be academic studies.
I used to be an MMO Player, I played several, with my biggest amount of time spent in World of Warcraft.
I stopped playing MMOs when NCSoft killed my favourite MMO out of the blue: City of Heroes. I liked it because it was not like other MMOs I had played. There were no restrictions on level, class, gear or skill as to which players could team up and have fun together. Your character was totally unique. There was the most and best story telling I've seen in any MMO, including WoW. It wasn't perfect, but I still consider it the best game ever.
I was having a lot of fun in that game, only having discovered it quite late (It was at first not available where I lived). Then NCSoft killed it two weeks before the new expansion went live. By what information the players could gather, not for financial reasons, but due to corporate politics. After that I decided I never wanted to invest time again into something where I was at the mercy of a corporate boardroom on the other side of the globe. I don't want to play any game where I don't control the hardware needed to run it.
This is the problem in the MMO genre. WoW was so successful that -everyone- tried to copy it, or at best make iterative improvements. Publishers didn't want an MMO that did well, they wanted "the next WoW" or a "WoW killer." I've been looking for a new MMO to play for a long, long time, but have yet to see anything of interest that makes it worth my time.
I completely agree. And it's not just the MMo genre. The problem is that when there is a game that does well, there are a lot of big game companies that try to make a copy. They don't understand that people will not be interested in the copy, because it's a copy.
New original ideas are going to be the next big thing. Minecraft, League of Legends and World of Tanks are real WoW-killers, not any MMO that came after WoW and tried to copy it. Companies that don't understand that, end up killing the unique and different MMOs when trying to focus on the WoW-clone.
There was a time I understood this during the PPC era of mac, but now that macs run on commodity, non specialized CISC based x86, I have no idea why they retain their value. A lot of PC makers are starting to make machines that look *almost* as nice as a MBP. My HP Envy Beats laptops have a nice aluminum case.
Have you tried using an old Mac?
My 2007 Macbook Pro still gets used very often. Runs the latest OSX, 2.4 GHz dual core, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8600GT/256MB, 160GB HD, Dual DVI, 1440x900 screen, 2560x1600 on the Cinema HD 30" external screen. It weighs 2.4 kg in a very nice slim (for 2007) aluminium case and still gets 4+ hours of battery life. It really is a good solid machine with lots of attention to detail, like the keys that light up if it gets dark, built in microphone and camera,...
If it saves weight I have not so much problems with it on a portable device.
I know very few people who bother to upgrade things on a laptop any way, except maybe the RAM in some cases. I know I never bothered, even though I have upgraded my desktops many times.
I first got acquainted with Linux in about 1993, when a friend of mine got it on his 386. I think it was an early Slackware. When I got to the University a year later, we had some IRIX very nice machines there, and the computer department was all HP-UX. That made me learn Linux in earnest. When I got my own computer, a Pentium 90, late 1994, I installed it to dual boot between Slackware and DOS/Windows.
I switched to SuSE around version 5.0, somewhere around 1997. I then started using Linux much more, as SuSE came on CDs, and thus I didn't have to download the programs over my 14k4 modem, as I could get them from the CDs.
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Virtual desktops all the way:
1) browser
2) Terminals to remote machines (DB servers and such)
3) remote X applications started in those terminals
4) Main IDE
5) Running instance of the application I'm working on.
6) Documentation
7) Email, skype and such
8) iTunes, spotify, etc.
I could not be as productive with all of that cluttering up a single screen.
That doesn't work if the negatively affected parties are future generations or in a different jurisdiction/country. My unborn grandchildren can't sue the Koch brothers.
now the joys of asymmetric warfare make it FAR harder.
Asymetric/guerilla warfare is much older than you think. Look up the 80 years war (1568–1648) and the (Water)Geuzen/Sea Beggars. The Dutch war for independence had a lot of guerilla style warfare in the first two decades.
Some people get killed by seatbelts and airbags each year as well, but on average they save much more lives.
These systems work because they can react far faster than a human can or doing things that are just about impossible to do otherwise
Most people don't realize how slow people really are because our brains lie to us. It takes quite a while for the neuron signals to travel from our brain to our feet when braking. Our brain delays us becoming conscious of that we decided to use our foot by the same amount.
But in reality there is up to about 0.5 seconds between the moment the visual input reaches our eyes, and we are able to start moving our feet. In a car at speed that can be quite a distance.
I don't see how this is different from getting seatbelts into cars, getting lead out of car fuels or similar things.
Those speed limits exist because you share the road with grandma. The roads are designed to she can get to visit her brother safely. It means that for those with better vision and reflexes than her, the roads are indeed a little boring. But still plenty of people manage to get into accidents, especially quite a few young people with good vision and reflexes.
It's also the irresponsible drivers that make it necessary to have the rules in the first place. Cars at speed are very lethal implements. Unfortunately drivers licences aren't a good enough gatekeeper to keep the stupid out of getting behind a wheel.
Jim Jefferies explains it quite well in a talk about gun control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Part of that is because the standards to obtain a drivers licence in the US is a joke. Go to Germany and see how much time, money, and effort is required, then come here and show up with a pulse and get a licence. (more or less)
The drivers licence in the USA is a means to obtain alcoholic beverages in primarily. It's utility in determining if someone is able to drive a motor vehicle is secondary and quite questionable.
I'm speaking of experience with having obtained both a Dutch and a US drivers licence.
The Dutch legally only allows the following country's drivers licences to be exchanged for a Dutch one without having to take both the theory and practical test: EU/EEA, Switzerland, Andorra, Israel, Japan, Monaco, Singapore, Republic of Korea, Quebec.
Any other drivers licences are not considered to be a valid proof that you've safe enough to drive on Dutch roads for a prolonged time. (tourists get excepted, confusing the issue somewhat for probably practical reasons).
I grew up with the old LOGO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29) in the eighties to teach elementary school kids some programming. (I was about 10-11 at the time).
Nowadays you can do the same with the ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft. I've now been using it for 3 years to teach 13-14 year old girls programming and it works really well. I teach about 80 in a few events throughout the year as an outreach program for my work. They start writing working programs within 30 minutes and within a couple of hours can do things like write their own name in Minecraft blocks.
It worked much better than I could have hoped, I can really recommend it to anyone who needs to teach kids or teenagers some basic programming. They will have fun doing it.
I think the most important thing to remember on security related topics like this: The answers can get quickly outdated as technology progresses.
Books might be outdated by the time they appear in print, especially on a lot of practical details. What was considered impossible a few years ago might be done on a machine with a few big GPUs today. Technologies, ideas and theory advance a lot as there is a real war going on in the security field, both by big companies and more shady organisations. All with huge interests.
What academia needs to do is figure out what needs to be done in 2025, not 2015.
In my view the research that needs to be done at academia, is the stuff that has no immediate return on investment, and will thus never be done by industry.
Some research might never pay off, some might take a century.
That's the research that should be done with public funding, because the biggest breakthroughs have been from fundamental research, but their return on investment periods are too long for industry to ever bother.
Which would indeed be a reason for me not to buy them. For a desktop machine, where space and weight are less of an issue, I see little reasons to make servicing hard.
In my experience nearly all of this built in entertainment stuff is just a bad idea for several reasons:
- It's usually at least half a decade outdated on a brand new car, let alone an older model.
- Car makers are hardware people and have little clue about software. Designing it, making it, managing it, etc.
- None of it is modular and easily upgradable.
What I want is for my car to work well with my other electronic gadgets and for that it needs to have standardized interfaces and be easily upgradable and extendible.
When I got my first iPod, around 2004, I first mucked around with FM transmitters, but then bought a Pioneer single DIN DEH-P65BT car stereo with the CD-IB100II Ipod connector. I could also use it with my Nokia S60 N70 "smartphone". This has worked fine for almost ten years and several iPods/iPhones, until the 30-pin connector went extinct. I have now replaced it with a Pioneer DEH-X8700DAB talking to my new iPhone.
Over the past ten years this has given me more options than even the newest cars on the market could offer me at any time, and I never had a car less than half a decade old: My TomTom updates automatically over the cellular network (iTunes/App Store), I've got Spotify, Youtube, WhatsApp, Skype, internet radio, weather info (buienradar), traffic info, and many more. Every time I upgrade my phone, my options improve. Every time my phone got an OS update, my experience would usually get better. Pioneer could do a better job sometimes, but overall the experience has been miles ahead of anything that the car manufacturers offer.
The only thing that doesn't work reliably is SIRI, for three reasons: Cars are noisy, SIRI can't control third-party apps like Spotify and I'm multi lingual and SIRI can't easily be switched between languages.
I've just bought a new car, and one of my most important selection criteria was how easy it was to rip out the existing entertainment system and add a more sensible after market one. I have skipped many otherwise nice options because they had horribly hard to replace entertainment systems.
It was also about freedom. I couldn't wait for the day I didn't have to get my Mom to drive me everywhere.
Bicycles have existed for well over hundred years. Public transport is also a thing. I've had very little need for my parents to transport me since I was about 9 years old and didn't buy a car until I was 26, as did most of my friends.
Well, one thing I understood from the linked article, is that except for the email address, which was changed to , nothing seems to have been changed on "deleted" accounts.
Hah. You even believe that NASA exists.
NASA doesn't exist, as the "American continents" are a lie by the government.
Those few "Americans" we see here are government spies, don't believe anything they say.
How to talk to Software Engineers:
1) Learn to model your business processes.
2) Learn to express what you want to do, instead of how you want to do it.
3) Make clear definitions of what you mean with certain words.
2a) Write down Use Cases, examples of what you need the software for.
These three/four points will be the biggest help for the programmers to understand what you want and what they need to do.
Then it's the quality of the programmers and how well they're managed if you get good results.
I think it's really important to study original texts. A lot gets lost in translation, as anyone with any experience doing so knows. Even between different dialects.
I've studied, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Ancient Greek and Latin in High School and have since gone on to a Master in Physics and Computer Science. I find that especially outside of the language studies, people often have a poor understanding of how hard proper translations are.
I've always wondered how many University disciplines seem to be very much teaching rote, not science. It seems to be most prevalent in the areas with a lot of prestige and a very clear career path. Medicine, Law, MBA, that kind of thing.
If we want Universities to be mainly about creating scientists, several of these have little to no reason to be academic studies.
I used to be an MMO Player, I played several, with my biggest amount of time spent in World of Warcraft.
I stopped playing MMOs when NCSoft killed my favourite MMO out of the blue: City of Heroes.
I liked it because it was not like other MMOs I had played. There were no restrictions on level, class, gear or skill as to which players could team up and have fun together. Your character was totally unique. There was the most and best story telling I've seen in any MMO, including WoW. It wasn't perfect, but I still consider it the best game ever.
I was having a lot of fun in that game, only having discovered it quite late (It was at first not available where I lived).
Then NCSoft killed it two weeks before the new expansion went live. By what information the players could gather, not for financial reasons, but due to corporate politics.
After that I decided I never wanted to invest time again into something where I was at the mercy of a corporate boardroom on the other side of the globe. I don't want to play any game where I don't control the hardware needed to run it.
This is the problem in the MMO genre. WoW was so successful that -everyone- tried to copy it, or at best make iterative improvements. Publishers didn't want an MMO that did well, they wanted "the next WoW" or a "WoW killer." I've been looking for a new MMO to play for a long, long time, but have yet to see anything of interest that makes it worth my time.
I completely agree. And it's not just the MMo genre. The problem is that when there is a game that does well, there are a lot of big game companies that try to make a copy. They don't understand that people will not be interested in the copy, because it's a copy.
New original ideas are going to be the next big thing. Minecraft, League of Legends and World of Tanks are real WoW-killers, not any MMO that came after WoW and tried to copy it. Companies that don't understand that, end up killing the unique and different MMOs when trying to focus on the WoW-clone.
There was a time I understood this during the PPC era of mac, but now that macs run on commodity, non specialized CISC based x86, I have no idea why they retain their value. A lot of PC makers are starting to make machines that look *almost* as nice as a MBP. My HP Envy Beats laptops have a nice aluminum case.
Have you tried using an old Mac?
My 2007 Macbook Pro still gets used very often. Runs the latest OSX, 2.4 GHz dual core, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8600GT/256MB, 160GB HD, Dual DVI, 1440x900 screen, 2560x1600 on the Cinema HD 30" external screen. It weighs 2.4 kg in a very nice slim (for 2007) aluminium case and still gets 4+ hours of battery life. It really is a good solid machine with lots of attention to detail, like the keys that light up if it gets dark, built in microphone and camera, ...
If it saves weight I have not so much problems with it on a portable device.
I know very few people who bother to upgrade things on a laptop any way, except maybe the RAM in some cases.
I know I never bothered, even though I have upgraded my desktops many times.
I first got acquainted with Linux in about 1993, when a friend of mine got it on his 386. I think it was an early Slackware. When I got to the University a year later, we had some IRIX very nice machines there, and the computer department was all HP-UX. That made me learn Linux in earnest.
When I got my own computer, a Pentium 90, late 1994, I installed it to dual boot between Slackware and DOS/Windows.
I switched to SuSE around version 5.0, somewhere around 1997. I then started using Linux much more, as SuSE came on CDs, and thus I didn't have to download the programs over my 14k4 modem, as I could get them from the CDs.
I'm puzzled if you're describing Latin America or Italy. They both fit your description.