Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007

This is total blog spam, but I basically just wanted to keep record of this on my blog. Here's a summary from the original blog by Larry Dignan"The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems, I’ve compiled all the security flaws in Mac OS X and Windows"

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6 Steps to Deflate Self-Defeating Fears

Have you ever justified your lack of success towards a goal with the excuse that you lacked the experience? Or that you lacked the resources: money and time? Did you give up before you even tried?

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What every programmer should know about memory

Unlike storage subsystems, removing the main memory as a bottleneck has proven much more difficult and almost all solutions require changes to the hardware.

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Microsoft launches Mediaroom IPTV and Multimedia Platform

"Microsoft today announced the availability of Mediaroom, the latest update to its award-winning IPTV software platform, featuring several new multimedia capabilities, including in-home personal music and photo sharing, dynamic MultiView (multiple picture-in-picture) capabilities, Multimedia Application Environment for development of interactive .."



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I'm not sure if all readers of this will realize the bigger picture here. Microsoft chose to call this "Mediaroom" because that's truly what they want to provide, all types of digital media to any room in the house. To me, this is one of the last pieces to a puzzle that I've been seeing form for quite some time. Some people who dislike and/or fear Microsoft for it's approach will certainly view this as an "another attempt to own your living room", and their kind of right. This software by itself will not require you to give any money to Microsoft. What it does is make it very simple for a person, who wants to, to create a simplified solution for their home entertainment system, but it's all Microsoft.

I for one am already considering this solution because it will allow me to do something I've dreamed of since I baught my XBox 360....THROW AWAY MY CABLE BOX...plain and simple, I hate it. Poor interface coupled with poor hardware. Plus, it's just one more device, one more remote and one more layer of complication. This product, once I choose an IPTV provider, will allow me to use my Xbox and any other networked PC as the sole hardware for a unified, simplified solution that does everything I want to do with my TV.

Microsoft wants me to do this because they think I'll be more likely to purchase XBox Live video content; movies & TV shows. But I don't want to. Not unless they want to offer much more selection and a much more reasonable pricing, something at least as cheap as and with the selection of the movie store. I can make a trip to a RedBox quicker than I can download a full length movie, so why bother?

So, in a sense, they are making pretty good leaps and bounds to "owning" a lot of living rooms, but not in the sense of taking anythign away from the owner. Instead, more that people who share my idea of how integrated a home network and a entertainment system should be, will be far less likely to be buying an AppleTV, or any other so called solution any time soon.

Huge Tidal Turbine Will Power 1000 Homes (PHOTOS)

It's the largest tidal turbine in the world -- it will generate 1.2 megawatts. I can't tell you how many times I've sat and thaught why in the world haven't we come up with a way to harness the power of the ocean in an ecologically sound way. I've had a few rough designs in my head, most of which used the forces of boyancy on the ever changing tide. I'm no mechanical engineer, so I'll assume this is a much better design. Finally!!



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(VIDEO) Bill Gates Shows Off Microsoft's Touch Table

Billy Gates was on the Today Show this morning showing off his fancy new table. Want to see it in action rather than just in photos? Check the video for all sorts of goodness of it being used for all sorts of applications, such as playing with photos, wirelessly pulling photos off a camera, and ordering and paying for food using credit cards.



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Why software commoditisation is a myth (The Reason Microsoft Attacks Linux)

“Software prices will eventually fall to zero. The open-source software movement has already started that commoditisation.” -- Good article, but I disagree

Open Source software will always be used as a "par" for commercialized software. If companies can't release software that is easier and at least as feature rich as an open source alternative, they can't expect to get payed for it. Some companies get away with this for a little while but eventually they are forced to either beef up their products or get out of the industry. Generally speaking, software can pretty much always improve. Software prices may fall as the margin of quality between open source and commercialized software narrows, but there will always be some margin.

Open Source serving as a par is an AWESOME thing though, I must give the open source developers their kudos for implementing the high end features that they do. I wish I had the time and lack of greed to do it. Raising the bar for companies like Microsoft and Apple is a necessity. If the public is gonna shell out these prices for software we better be making these guys work for our money.



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