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by Hoff 16y ago
That might have had a ;) with it, but (if that was supposed to be a joke) you might want to read some of the fodder from last year: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/05/hp-introducing-... HP did appear to be (per Mr Hurd's comment
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by Hoff 16y ago
Assembly was how you coded many applications back in the 1970s and into 1980s, and tasks such as displaying output onto a serial terminal console could require as much as fifty lines of assembler on some systems. On a "nicer-architecture" b
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by Hoff 16y ago
The business PC gear has been dull, but some of the consumer gear has had color options. Dell has had various colors available for their systems for a number of years, and HP was selling designer-labeled minis for a while. Here's the Dell C
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by Hoff 16y ago
That would be the innovator's dilemma.
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This isn't a fun choice for the OS folks to make. Backward-compatibility for cases such as this can lead to arcane and more complex code within the OS, to difficulty with adding enhancements and creating fixes in the future, and creates lar
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by Hoff 16y ago
Welcome to enterprise computing, and to the world of zombie software management. Other OS vendors can carry decades of cruft and baggage for reasons of compatibility with older applications, and that really slows down development, and the t
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by Hoff 16y ago
I'm waiting for the Wired article entitled: "Why Wired Uses Titles Referencing iPhone and Verizon and ending in a Question Mark?" As for this case, this appears entirely analogous to the Carterfone decision. Other folks can connect FCC-appr
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by Hoff 16y ago
Set the lower right hot-corner to exposé and the lower left hot-corner to spaces, and navigating around spaces and windows becomes trivial. Hit both corners in sequence and you get all windows visible, and you can view or drag windows aroun
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by Hoff 16y ago
And then the GBL gets deployed by Spamhaus.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Normal? With languages? Normal is an ATM that doesn't know to look on my card or at my account data for my language. At my own bank. Ok, so maybe prompt for that and set that once. But then prompting me every single time I use that same
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by Hoff 16y ago
Play that idea through. Where do you end up, when can you get there, and will the results be worth it? With major businesses that have their networks disrupted (Halliburton, HP, GE, IBM, Apple, etc), with the router and firewall and server
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by Hoff 16y ago
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/dick.rumelt/Docs/Cases/...
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by Hoff 16y ago
When it comes to CAPTCHA... Effective, Cheap, or Simple... Pick any two... As for your question, I switched from reCAPTCHA over to a different scheme, though I might test with reCAPTCHA with different settings again in a few months.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Following the crypto analogy, reCAPTCHA is approaching the effectiveness of a Beaufort cipher. The reCAPTCHA tool has been broken. Various of the botnets will sail right past reCAPTCHA. And yes, the choice here and the options here stink.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Flip that "entire freaking life" comment around, and ask yourself whether the current IT schemes and the current common IT approaches are working as well as might be desired. Whether the current IT plans have survived contact with the end-u
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by Hoff 16y ago
This (also) parallels online games and gaming and gambling; of activities that can be addictive. If anything, social apps are games where your users provide the incremental AIs in the game in the form of inviting and engaging and luring oth
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by Hoff 16y ago
In two years, Microsoft will probably be competing with... ...maybe the second or third-generation iPad? ...maybe the forth or fifth-generation iPhone? ...maybe Mac OS X Lion, or later? ...whatever might follow the A4 SOC? ...and whatever e
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by Hoff 16y ago
The problem must be solved for all (or at least the majority) of users. Perfection being the enemy of good enough, and a common and valued and traditional mechanism to delay product shipment. And Google might well be able to utilize infor
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by Hoff 16y ago
Rephrased: Square peg, round hole, commence hammering. Most of the world does not think like a nerd. Not even remotely. Remember that when working. Clue: remember all those things that many of us nerds thought the iPad really needed? Coro
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by Hoff 16y ago
Porting an OS onto a new box can be technically quite interesting, but is only a fraction of the aggregate effort involved. It's the business issues that matter. Whether you can recoup the costs, and when. Application availability, third-p
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by Hoff 16y ago
Verisign already has de facto control over huge tracts of network security by virtue of having their root certs embedded in various browsers and other PKE-related tools.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Welcome to the on-going privatization of government services, and the plan to have all of .gov outsourced and privately hosted, and with the registration processing services having been bid out and presently hosted by Cyberdyne Systems doma
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by Hoff 16y ago
Gee, I was thinking "Now". And wondering if we're going to be seeing more of the ooh-shiny marketeer's web sites getting posted, too. We had a similar street-scene parallax ad site posted a while back, and the parallax HTTP messages from Gi
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by Hoff 16y ago
Strictly for the purposes of (expensive) price comparisons of processor products from Intel (and yes, straying from the x86 architecture), the various versions of the Intel Itanium 9300 series processors were (are?) priced from $946 to $383
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by Hoff 16y ago
From the article... I'm assuming you've understood all the issues that led to the successful intrusion in the first place before you even start this section. I don't want to overstate the case but if you haven't done that first then you r
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by Hoff 16y ago
Something has changed here. Aging or a ranking tweak or Phase Of The Moon, something. A search from a couple of days ago is now returning SO above EF, where that wasn't the case a few days ago. Ah, here's one from the search history with
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by Hoff 16y ago
Ah, fork(). One of my favorite C calls. Not. That looks to be some questionable phrasing from the article. Yes, fork() is a system call on many platforms, but not on all. And fork() is not ubiquitous. If anything, it's one of the common
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by Hoff 16y ago
Meaning? There's an existential discussion or two buried in there somewhere. Which leads into existence, and whether all of us are merely a figment of the viewer's imagination. And the point of saving someone's life? That discussion can g
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by Hoff 16y ago
There's no shortage of failed great technology, unfortunately. You need a way to get this launched, which means you need widely-available clients (PNaCl), and you need the content as otherwise nobody needs those clients you don't yet have,
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by Hoff 16y ago
Working all these years to be a paramedic, going to school, going to work, for what? To drive some people to the hospital? They're all just going to die anyway. Life is meaningless! Ayup. But then I've brought a few of those folks back,

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