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I'll reserve my judgement about OSX Lion until Monday when Apple talks about it along with iOS5 but I'd take this windows interface over the iOS like Icon Grid in Lion any day.
It has a lot of improvements over the original game though.

If you look at them side by side (UQM against the original PC Starcon 2) it is remarkable how much work has been put in to improving the graphics and sound for modern computers.
Apple isn't ditching power users. They still sell Macs and OSX is not touch-based (nor will it be in Lion).

Microsoft converting all of it's desktop users to a touch-first OS is going to be... interesting.

Perhaps they will settle on multi-touch trackpads like the Apple Magic Trackpad to resolve the gorilla-arm issue?
Unfortunately, after seeing the firewall logs of several Internet facing machines in distinct hosting providers in different parts of the world, it's quite interesting to notice that 90% if not more of the port scans, http vulnerability scans, among others, come from network blocks from that part of the planet.

Even more illuminating that if their great firewall is so advanced, being able to block anything on a need basis, is not concerned on blocking these.
Isn't taking a phone UI exactly what Apple is doing with Lion too? The large icon matrix and "full screen apps" are exactly what you see on an iPhone/iPad. Though it does feel more "optional" on the Mac relative to this video.
+1 for knowing your history
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I looked at the video without sound, but from visuals alone I never got the impression that this was intended for the desktop.

In the demo when he switched to the "desktop" it looked pretty much like any desktop OS to me.
I'm a developer. A touch screen UI doesn't benefit me too much, just like I think it won't most business users. But maybe I'm wrong. We'll have to wait and see :)
Excel shown for 30 seconds in this video is the elephant in the room.

Touch-first OS with Excel? I'd like to see that done right.
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Did anyone else notice the Store icon on the start screen? I wonder if that will be the primary distribution channel for apps using the new UI. With any luck they'll sandbox apps like they do on Windows Phone 7. No more registry + dll hell.

It's also interesting that they only mentioned HTML5 + JS. Right now Silverlight is the only option for non-games on Windows Phone 7. Given how similar the UIs look, it would be a shame to be unable to share code between mobile and desktop versions of the same app.
The .99 price point makes developing anything but mega-hits a waste of time. I routinely see comments complaining that a $1.99 app is "too expensive" even if a desktop app of similar functionality would easily sell for 10x that price.
Subs aren't necessarily such a hugely expensive option though. A single typhoon or ohio class missile boat can carry up to about 200 total warheads. That's on the order of the entire nuclear arsenal for the average nuclear power (e.g. France, China, Israel, India). Considering the massive survivability boost of a submarine, it's one of the better bets as a nuclear deterrent backbone, provided you have the technology to build such things.
It is the only way to get an app on their phone that doesn't use their game development APIs. So it might be dead on the web, but it isn't dead yet.
They seem pretty clear about keeping the standard desktop.
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This looks like the same kind of thing as "Windows Media Player." A skin on top of the OS that hides complexity. First problem, if I'm am app developer why am I going to build for the Win 8 UI and then rebuild again for the other 95% of Windows machines that don't support the new touch interface? I can build for the old standard windows interface and it will work everywhere.
Wow, this looks great! For the first time that I can think of, I'm actually excited about a new version of Windows. Even moreso, I'm actually excited about developing for Windows as a platform. This is huge.
Sure, I'm curious how the standard mouse and keyboard interface will work, but I'm not really worried. It looks like the standard Windows 7 interface is still there, just working behind the scenes and collaboratively with the new UI.
I love that this post on avoiding distractions involved buying a camper and figuring out how to lever it painfully over a hole.
Two problems with this "analysis": 1) does anyone know if Gaga charged Amazon full price? and 2) marketing spend is usually not refered to as a "loss".
We created a clone in PHP for anyone to use: https://github.com/well/well-smiley
For businesses its a win if you can get everyone one laptop, rather than an iPad and a laptop.
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Pretty sure that was Joshua Topolsky. While being a self-proclaimed fan of WebOS, he's been ranting about Windows a lot lately in his podcasts at thisismynext.
The reason we only see the unsophisticated attacks might well be that the ones that are carried out professionally are never caught.

If I was China and intent on this kind of cybercrime I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket, but would try different avenues to get to my target. Resources don't seem to be a problem since it's apparently government backed.

I would see this as the top of the iceberg, and expect there to be more sophisticated attacks hiding out there that we might never know about.
I follow nobody and have my Github wired up to tweet whenever I push code. The end result is that my Twitter is an annoying yet reliable reminder of how much code I produce.
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You'll do it for the same reason you build an iPad app for 20M users and not a Windows app for 1B users.
The combination of kickstarter-like funding models complemented by transparent incremental development models (i.e. blog as you go to increase interest, release the finished product later, or construct a finished product from organic blog posts) certainly lowers the threshold substantially. More so, it increases the strength of monetary feedback to a degree that it becomes much more financially viable for writers to make a living off their works, especially for technical non-fiction. I'm very excited to see the tranformation of the writing profession that is upon us.
It doesn't look bad. In fact, it's nice. How it will work when you're using it to do real work will be where the rubber meets the road but I commend them for doing more than copying Apple. OS competition might now get interesting as it may no longer be an Apple to apples comparison (pun intended heehee.) As an Apple guy, I'm looking forward to what innovations they can bring with W8 and push the industry forward.
It wouldn't be that bad to have it start on a different number every time. It means that you would have to actually pay attention to the unlock process though, muscle memory wouldn't work.
Probably not a majority, but a lot. Think 50-100M the first year.
Nothing I wrote is unreasonable. The only real advantage of HTML5 on the desktop is that it has a shallow learning curve vs., say, iOS.

I didn't say it wouldn't be developer friendly. I'm saying that it really makes no difference that they are using HTML+JS if, like WebOS, they have tight coupling to the native OS API.

Also, I didn't say they would use ASP.NET controls, but something similar - rich controls backed specifically by the OS.

My point stands: Different developer toolset - same vendor lock-in.
Windows 8 apps to be built in HTML & JavaScript
This fits well with all the earlier talk about Windows 8 supporting ARM.

Microsoft isn't scaling Windows Phone 7 up to the tablet, they are scaling Windows 8 down to the tablet. By the time Windows 8 is released, it might be viable to run this OS on a phone. Will the mobile and desktop OS's merge?
I don't think you'll see a new branch, but there already is a Cyber Command - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
Off topic but I love the link design used on his site.
Yes. That's true. That's why I said it has no bearing on the law.
I agree it's absolutely ridiculous. Supporting HTML/JS and being "open" might sound like a good idea but all it's going to do is turn former Win32/WinForms/WPF/Silverlight devs over to HTML/JS which then they'll lose a platform lock on as they'll migrate over to Macs. Good job Microsoft and good luck with that stock price.
Hmmm ...

> When the DNT header is present Mochi will not assign your browser a unique cookie ....

HOWEVER:

> In the Local Shared Object we still store some information about the ads you've seen, ....

A LSO is just a "cookie" that's controlled by Flash, not by the browser. So users usually know less about them, think all cookies have been blocked/deleted when LSO's have not, etc.

Conclusion: Maybe these people are trying to be ethical, or maybe they're trying to be sneaky, and pretend to be ethical. I can't tell. I hope it's the former. If it is, then I'm afraid a bit better explanation is still needed.

In particular: why not just store a browser cookie?

If this is an attempt to be ethical, then I'm sorry I had to be so cynical. But, as we all know, the web is full of scammers, and I don't know anything about these people.
This is great. I've been waiting for a while to see some sort of good desktop UI that got away from the classic icons + sidebar widgets design. While this provides the same functionality, it gives the user a lot more information at a glance, plus it looks nicer (IMO).

I really hope that store becomes some sort of primary distribution channel. After using Linux for so long, I've become so used to repositories that it makes me cringe to go find some obscure nagware application when ever I need to get something done on Windows.
why do people downvote questions like this? it makes no sense to me at all. am i doing something wrong? i thought i was polite and on-topic.
From the video:
"[The apps] are designed for touch... but of course they work well with mouse and keyboard as well if that's what you have."

Sorry, but that's not how it works. Microsoft needs to realize this. Everything he was doing there would be terrible with a mouse.
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The interface is beautiful but I think it will prove to be nothing more than eye candy veneer for an increasingly out-of-touch piece of software.

Let the desktop metaphor evolve respectively until it's no longer needed (by most), do not sap it's identity by tearing users between two very different modes of interaction. Once my brain is working in the desktop metaphor will it want to "zoom-out" to yet another layer of abstraction and back and forth? Surely this is a recipe for experience-degrading cognitive dissonance. When I stand up from working on my mac, pick up my iPad and then read a blog on the couch I have, subconsciously, switched to a drastically different set of interaction-metaphors for iPad use. ("Design dissolving into behavior." - Naoto Fukasawa)

If this interface found it's way on sub $100 20"+ smart screens (lcd or laser projected) with kinect-like interaction than you have a compelling product. Put it on Xbox and media center devices/tv's and you potentially have a new interaction ecosystem.

This Windows 8 concept is fighting reality and for it's eventual users it won't feel nearly as natural as their smartphones do today.
> FWIW, I intentionally keep IE 6 on my work machine (not a big corp, but we sell to them) for testing

Why not use Microsoft's ie VPC images? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...

"In order to help web designers and web developers test their websites in older versions of Internet Explorer, we've provided the following VHD with Windows set up with the specified version of Internet Explorer. The images are patched with the latest security updates and are otherwise clean installs of the operating system with very few modifications."

Also works with VirtualBox on linux / mac:
http://shapeshed.com/journal/testing_with_ie6_ie7_and_ie8_on...

You do not even need a Windows license:

"Note: You may be required to activate the OS as the product key has been deactivated. This is the expected behavior. The VHDs will not pass genuine validation. Immediately after you start the Windows 7 or Windows Vista images they will request to be activated. You can cancel the request and it will login to the desktop. You can activate up to two “rearms” (type slmgr –rearm at the command prompt) which will extend the trial for another 30 days each time OR simply shutdown the VPC image and discard the changes you’ve made from undo disks to reset the image back to its initial state. By doing either of these methods, you can technically have a base image which never expires although you will never be able to permanently save any changes on these images for longer than 90 days."
How does etherpad (acquired by google) compare to just using Google docs? Recently went through an interview with Google where we used a shared document, it was a horrible experience. I remember thinking that no sane person would code with a plain text editor and there should be a better way to do it. The ideal service to me would be something like a web based collaborative emacs.
Yes. Let the touch panel makers be prepared.
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Finger prints are good for identification (think username), but horrible at authentication (think password). We leave finger prints all over the place.
Thanks for the tl;dr. I wasn't bored enough to read the article.
The time is right now, because the government will most likely kill bitcoin as soon as it even gets close to becoming mainstream.
The Germans could have chosen to fight in the east, where they actually won historically, and decide to sit it out in the west.
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Don't try to sneak in - if you really don't have the money, find the organizer and privately explain the situation, explain why you want to be there, and ask if there is anything you can volunteer for to help.

If you try to scam them you'll lose your reputation along with getting kicked out - if you approach it eagerly and ready to work to gain that experience you'll leave with a new contact and the experience.
Processing payments generally involves a minimum per transaction fee that is often too large a percentage of the microtransaction product price itself to make it work. As mentioned by another user, Paypal has a relatively new microtransaction processing service that helps address this problem, though, so there is some progress, at least for microtransactions of a certain size.
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FWIW, Windows 8 won't support legacy apps on ARM platform.

And as far as specs go, one of the demo devices was running an Intel Atom processor.
Looks really nice. I really enjoy Microsoft's 2D designs. It started with Whistler, then Windows Mobile 6 (even if I liked nothing else from it), and continuing on to WP7 and now Windows 8.

Even if ARM consumes less power than Intel chips, I hope that the desktop underpinnings of Windows 8 don't bog it down and destroy battery life. I also hope there's an OEM that can build hardware that's up to snuff.
Advances? In ballistics? Who are you Leonardo Da Vinci?
> An attack originating in Jinan does not necessarily mean chinese govt either.

In that case, we should expect to see a vigorous Chinese investigation into this illegal activity that originated from China, right?

Just like there was a comprehensive Chinese response to the well-documented cyber attacks on several American tech companies that originated from China in Dec 2009?
I think that's better worded as "Merges can be hard". There isn't anything git-specific here.
Can someone just write a worm that upgrades IE6 installs? :)
The fact that he's shown driving away with the laptop shortly after stealing it.
I'd look at the microtxn service from PayPal.
As someone who also has his CV up on SO Careers, this is interesting to see that it is designed like that. I was also concerned about the very low number of views and times appearing in search results.
there is no tech bubble.
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I definitely think there can and will be some massive bitcoin startups on YouTube scale. So what. All startups have obstacles to overcome. It can base itself wherever it needs to.
My understanding was the great firewall isn't so advanced. It is essentially a filter system, run in quite a manual fashion (i.e eyeballs on screens assessing if things should be blocked).

I'm not refuting attacks originating from china, there is piles of evidence that support this.

Things to keep in mind - there are more internet users in china, than anywhere else, so there is going to be more of 'everything' from china. One needs to convert the stats into per-capita ratios before making meaningful conclusions about % of attacks etc.

My main issue (in my original post) is the jump from "Attack from Chinese IP addresses on gmail accounts" to "China attacked us [The US]" - without any qualification.

It promotes a nationalistic 'Us against Them' mentality that is primarily based on hysteria rather than fact.
FWIW: Leo's actual comments are a bit more interesting than this Engadget story, full transcript and video below.

Ethan
HP Corporate Communications

http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Data-Central/HP-CEO-L%C3%A9o-Ap...

"I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system. So there's no reason to believe that the only hardware that can run it is HP's," Leo said. "By the way, they don't have to be 'hardware makers' in the classical IT sense. There are many people who make all kinds of control devices, why wouldn't they want to use webOS for that? Appliance makers can use webOS to create connectivity between their appliances and the Web."

"There are all kinds of other people who want to make whatever device or piece of hardware they make connected to the Internet," he continued. "And therefore, we'd like to make webOS available to these people, as we are going to make webOS available to enterprises, or indeed to SMB's who want to create whatever kind of environment within their own firewall."

"So from that perspective, yes, webOS will be more than just running inside or on top of a particular piece of hardware that HP will make."
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> moving on to OS X Lion (to which Win8 is surprisingly similar)

in what way is Lion surprisingly similar to win8?
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If Apple didn't have large multi-touch trackpads on their macbooks with a slew of natural gestures for navigating things like launchpad and mission control they WOULD be mindlessly scaling the iOS UI to the desktop... but alas, they have discernment and strong design.
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From the end of the video: "This is the new version of Windows. It's gonna run on laptops, it's gonna run on desktops, it's gonna run on PCs with mouse and keyboard, it's gonna run on touch slates, it's gonna run on everything. Hundreds of millions of Windows PCs powered by this new interface and new platform."
If anyone remembers the Productivity Future Vision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvA9lA7_5FE) video, it looks like Microsoft is staying true to its beliefs about the future of interfaces in computing.
Looks to me like MS just declared the desktop to be dead.
Qt, GTK, Tcl/Tk - for Tcl/Tk that day is at least thirteen years ago. For Java that day is sixteen years ago.
based on the demo, underlying it is still the same old Windows.
At the point where he fired up Microsoft Words, it actually pulls up the usual desktop view.
So it is basically adding another layer of Metro UI to adapt to touch devices.
But yeah i guess you are right, if that's the only new thing in Win8, then perhaps some may consider sticking to Win7..
The 2-factor auth process doesn't use SMS, it uses a one-time-password generator app that you can run on modern smartphones.
I did some quick overlays, and I applaud them for apparently paying attention to color blind users in their interface design. The colorful icons and sidebars all seem to provide contrast to the 8% of us dudes who are color blind.
This is an interesting idea and some of the other commenters did a good job of fleshing it out a little, but IIRC it is illegal to operate a UAV in the US unless you can take manual control at any time and so long as the UAV is always within the "operator's" eyesight.
This calculation of course needs to take into account the limited rationality of humans, and the time value of rewards and punishments.
This comment makes me extremely angry. Do you know anything about this man or his family? Do you know anything about the reasons that he was climbing the mountain?

Disrespectful in the extreme.
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Agree that it looks good at first blush however it's key that the "OS" is a true OS and not a touch based shell on top of Windows7. HP has shipped a number of computers with these touch-based shells and while they demo well they aren't deep enough for day-to-day use. I do love that they are pushing the desktop platform and creating a product that is clearly different in user experience. I also like the idea of HTML as a rich platform but this was said back in the days of Windows98 so I'm waiting and seeing. (Disclosure I worked on the Windows team during 2000 and we had some similar explorations that never saw the light of day so it's great to see)
So, if MS stayed focused on their traditional APIs, developers complain that they only care about proprietary technologies, but if they adopt HTML5+JS, they'll lose developers? Explain to me how that makes sense.
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You can't criticize a decision outside of the context of the person who makes it.
If you have a local networked base definitely use it first. If you don't then recruiters are usually the best way. Research them though and pick a few to apply directly to and work with a recruiter there to specify exactly what you want. If you can't stand the recruiter walk away, you're going to want this like this person and maintain a relationship with them. I've been on both sides(posting jobs on big general job sites and posting my resume) and its never been a very good experience.
If they do it right, Windows 8 would be on the smart screen, on the Xbox, on the netbook, on the tablet, and on the smartphones a few years in our future when they're even faster than they are now. The UI may not be identical but it'd be the unified "Windows Everywhere" type thing Microsoft has seemingly always wanted to do.
What amount of computational power would it take to brute-force recover that private key? For $81,000 it would be worth throwing some considerable hardware resources at it.