Why would they? Now Oracle has a hardware arm and Solaris that they can do large deployments with. They've just made themselves an even bigger player in the Datacenter.
I never said I believed in any of the conspiracy theories. I never said I was looking for any kind of "real truth", I was just saying that no matter how many sources you read, you can never know anything approximating a "real truth". It's silly to think that just by reading enough liars, you'll somehow wind up with the "truth" whatever that is. You might end up with the objective facts (in many cases you will not). You might end up with a massive number of possible alternatives, but to think that just by finding the intersection of the different media sources you can manage to come up with "the truth" is ridiculous.
I've just found better things to do with my life than spend hours and hours daily reading through 5-10 different sources for every news story I'm interested in, especially when at least for most of the US news, it's all just syndicated from the AP, with a find&replace filter for a few keywords in the fox news version of the article (suicide bomber / homicide bomber, etc.). You can never find "the truth" (as if there's only one) no matter how many sources you read. Why bother going to all the trouble? Read one or two sources for whom you know the bias if you're interested in the news. Much more than that isn't required if you just want the most basic idea of what's going on in the world.
Most bias is in the stories that go unprinted, not in the way that the printed stories are presented. It's BECAUSE "the media" is so concerned with profit margins that sensationalized non-stories make the front page.
some islamic nutjobs highjacked airplanes and flew them into the towers, out of simple spite and hate
Nothing is simple spite and hate. It was a sociopolitical attack that had a lot of factors, perpetrated by a group that we created in the middle east to do our bidding before we left them in the cold. The islamic bent there was more or less just recruitment material, the higher-ups on their side knew what they were doing, and it had little to do with religion. There doesn't have to be a hollywood plot twist for things to be complicated.
watch fox news... then listen to the bbc. then pravda. then read a chinese news site. then a venezuelan one. then an iranian one. finish it off with pbs
Who has this kind of time? The truth isn't worth it. Especially since there's no way of knowing if ANY of them are telling the truth. What if they ALL lie? What if the part which they all have in common, the so-called 'truth' isn't actually true? Just because they all carry a common element, doesn't mean that common element is the truth. It might just be the most common lie.
With something like 9/11, you can dig through all the conspiracy theories and read all of the official reports and you still cannot possibly know the real truth. You might find the common elements (a few planes (probably) crashed into a few buildings and there was a collapse). BUT THOSE AREN'T THE IMPORTANT TRUTHS. You may never know the real story, no matter how many sources you read. In the end, you'll believe whichever source agrees with your bias the most.
I run both XP and Mac OSX on my macbook and for most tasks OSX has been faster. It also, unlike windows, doesn't like to completely freeze my UI and keep me from killing the software running on it. (I use the terminal for this).
I have never once had an issue sleeping and waking, and I almost never actually shut my computer down. I'm not sure what's so shitty about the filesystem, but I'm not a particular fan of the file manager (Finder), so I mostly just search for what I need in Spotlight...which is faster than I've ever seen Windows search.
When my touch cuts to home it's usually a buggy application crash that does it. What are you using frequently that might not be programmed quite right?
When I was a kid I went through the whole hacker stage using the childish excuse "We help people by highlighting vulnerabilities", this excuse does not hold water either legally or ethically.
A hacker isn't somebody who breaks into other machines maliciously. But some who break into systems DO take the moral high ground by getting into the system and leaving information for the administrator about what vulnerability was open and how to secure it without defacing the site.
I hope this unethical behaviour goes on their academic transcript.
What's so unethical? This is like if somebody put a sign in front of an open building that says "please write on the walls", you leave your building for a year or two and nobody has written on it except a bunch of guys who are using the wall to pass encoded messages to each other. If you don't like what they wrote, erase it, tell them they can't do it anymore. Chances are, they'll go find somebody else's open building rather than further piss you off.
What the students did was they just stopped writing on anybody's walls because they were pressured by the university. Maybe what they did annoyed some people, as it was not what the site owners were expecting, but you can't really complain too hard about the situation being "unethical" all things considered. They used the site for what it was made for in an unexpected way.
In addition, most of these abandoned sites are COVERED in spam messages because the admins didn't properly secure against bots posting viagra ads from top to bottom. Can you really blame the grad students for saying, going back to our analogy "hey, this guy just has ads for penis enlargement all over his wall, he probably won't mind if we start passing messages to each other..."? Get off your high horse. The backlash here is well within the site owners rights, but I don't think there should be consequences other than having to stop the project.
A common and false statement. The hard drives used for storage are finite as is the coal that generates the electricity to run the servers. So the supply of digital music is limited by the Hardware and Electricity costs. It is more accurate to say, "Digital music is plentiful, but still a limited supply."
Which is why he said "effectively infinite". It's not technically infinite, but for one copy of the music on their servers, they can serve it to far more people than will ever attempt to download them.
I disagree. Yes it's a monopoly, but even the monopoly can not stop the process of aging. Songs decrease in value over time, just like any depreciating good. Sometimes a song will briefly spike in demand, such as when an old 80s song appears in a new videogame, but for the most part Old == low demand == cheaper price. Itunes new pricing scheme was meant to reflect that reality: higher prices for higher demand songs; lower prices for lower demand songs.
What you've suggested should be happening is what Jobs promised. There's one problem: that older songs aren't getting cheaper. They've mostly stayed at $0.99, while popular songs have gone up in price. There are very few songs that have dropped in price, despite claims from Apple that the opposite was true. This goes towards the idea that it's about control and not "supply and demand", which is difficult to apply to a resource which is EFFECTIVELY infinite.
In the real world, you actually care about overall architecture, design, methodologies for coordinating a team, maintainability, testability, etc.
Which is what we do in our Software Engineering and Project Management courses. Maybe your entry level CS courses are code-and-fix, but at least at my school, we're learning about the different lifecycle models and project workflows. (from the perspective of both the classical and the object-oriented paradigms)Team organization (and so much more) and applying them to create a project from the ground up for an actual client. (in a later course, it will be for a local business. In this course we got to choose our own project based on a client we might know in person and could interview). We're just now finishing the classical analysis phase, next week we'll start Object-Oriented analysis, and then move to the design phase. (we're doing both just for the experience)
I realize that in an actual work environment these might not be so clean and clear cut as they're presented in the course material and case studies, but the situation isn't as bad as you claim in all schools. My school requires all IT majors to do an internship to graduate as well, so that they have real world work experience in the field. In addition, a good portion of the school's IT work is student-run. We have student trainers, a student-run help desk, student web developers, and students doing a lot of work maintaining the servers, access points, etc. All supervised by professionals in some capacity, obviously, but maybe my school is the exception to the rule.
2nd Peter 3:8, from the King James: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
Note "as one day" and "as a thousand years". These are similes, and should not be taken as a definition of a unit of measure here. That passage is explaining that even though it seems like God is taking forever to come back to earth and set up his kingdom here, you should "not be ignorant of the fact" that God experiences time differently from us and you can't impose your sense of urgency on him. This has nothing to do with the creation story.
Genesis is translated from Hebrew and the word "Day" in Hebrew simply implies "a very long time."
Except that if you actually read the bible, it describes a "day" as the progression from morning through evening. --
"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." Gen 1:5 (KJV)
"And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." Gen 1:8 (KJV)
"And the evening and the morning were the third day." Gen 1:13 (KJV)
I think I've made my point.
The Bible does not include the creation of Earth itself - or the universe as apart of the six creative days. If you read Genesis again you'll notice that it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Then it goes on to describe the Earth's condition and then the process of the six creative days in which God made Earth habitable for life.
If you read genesis again, you'll realize that after it says "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" it begins a description of the process of creating the heavens and the earth, or else Genesis 2:1 would not make sense, which reads:
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."
Right before it explains that God rested on the seventh day. The most logical interpretation of Genesis 1 here is that it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, this is how he did it." not "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, this is how he made it fit for life"
I just think virtualizing your entire environment, doing huge numbers of backups, setting up networking and filesharing properly in order to actually store data, and doing all of this on an O/S that isn't windows is FAR beyond the capabilities of somebody who is this worried about contracting viruses and spyware, and somebody with that ability can just as easily run periodic virus scans (not a resident application) and not click on suspicious stuff.
One of these solutions seems far better than the other. If you're capable of doing solution number 1, you're probably just as secure with solution number 2. Resident antivirus is for people who can't manage either.
You clearly didn't RTFA. The rep didn't "suggest" a product. They took control of the customer's PC remotely, claimed they were using a Symantec tool, then downloaded a copy of software by Malwarebytes, installed it on the customer's system, and used it to clean an infection.
So the support techs lied to a customer and installed unauthorized software on their machine that they CLAIMED was a symantec product.
"before I open the box" implies that the box has not been open...very strongly. Which implies that it has not been installed on any other computer...very strongly. If the support techs had half a brain, they would have realized that the GP wanted to know if his copy of windows XP home would run on an AMD64 processor.
To the GP, assuming that you aren't lying through your teeth (which seems likely, considering that you knew what an AMD64 processor was and managed to download and install the proper version of linux yet couldn't figure out which version of XP would work on your machine) next time try pretending that you picked it up from the store next time, since if you have an unopened copy of windows XP in a box with a valid license, it makes no difference who the fuck picked it up from the store. Leave out unnecessary details and you might get somewhere next time
But included with the software is a free recovery tool which boots from CD to clean up an infested system which the support tech was obliged to tell the customer about. Instead, the tech told the customer that their only option was a session with an expert consultant that probably would have been ineffective.
Actually, the front line support tech did escalate the issue, and the second support person is the one which recommended the expert consulting service. In addition, there is a tool free for owners of the antivirus software which can be downloaded from norton's website and boots from CD.
When the customer contacted symantec later to complain, they confirmed that this was the appropriate course of action to take.
Seems like games are the one area where there would not be much money to be gained from support either. It's not like you can sell a support contract for a game to a large company, a game tends to require much less support than most software that could be used by a business, for example. At most there will be trouble with installation or possibly crashes. I don't see how it's plausible to charge for patches since they'll be governed under the same open source license as the game, the only way to charge for one of these things is to charge an online subscription fee for multiplayer for use of the servers. Games that don't include that kind of function wont' be able to get money for the work put in. While this doesn't matter to some, the entire industry can't work this way. Unlike infrastructure software like Operating Systems, server software and even to a lesser extent web browsers and office suites, game companies can't live on support alone.
I think GP was trying to say that the Open Document Formats (not microsofts "Open" standard) has been open for years, but because of MS marketing bullshit it's difficult to ever tell which set of formats we're talking about.
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Why would they? Now Oracle has a hardware arm and Solaris that they can do large deployments with. They've just made themselves an even bigger player in the Datacenter.
I never said I believed in any of the conspiracy theories. I never said I was looking for any kind of "real truth", I was just saying that no matter how many sources you read, you can never know anything approximating a "real truth". It's silly to think that just by reading enough liars, you'll somehow wind up with the "truth" whatever that is. You might end up with the objective facts (in many cases you will not). You might end up with a massive number of possible alternatives, but to think that just by finding the intersection of the different media sources you can manage to come up with "the truth" is ridiculous.
I've just found better things to do with my life than spend hours and hours daily reading through 5-10 different sources for every news story I'm interested in, especially when at least for most of the US news, it's all just syndicated from the AP, with a find&replace filter for a few keywords in the fox news version of the article (suicide bomber / homicide bomber, etc.). You can never find "the truth" (as if there's only one) no matter how many sources you read. Why bother going to all the trouble? Read one or two sources for whom you know the bias if you're interested in the news. Much more than that isn't required if you just want the most basic idea of what's going on in the world.
Most bias is in the stories that go unprinted, not in the way that the printed stories are presented. It's BECAUSE "the media" is so concerned with profit margins that sensationalized non-stories make the front page.
some islamic nutjobs highjacked airplanes and flew them into the towers, out of simple spite and hate
Nothing is simple spite and hate. It was a sociopolitical attack that had a lot of factors, perpetrated by a group that we created in the middle east to do our bidding before we left them in the cold. The islamic bent there was more or less just recruitment material, the higher-ups on their side knew what they were doing, and it had little to do with religion. There doesn't have to be a hollywood plot twist for things to be complicated.
watch fox news... then listen to the bbc. then pravda. then read a chinese news site. then a venezuelan one. then an iranian one. finish it off with pbs
Who has this kind of time? The truth isn't worth it. Especially since there's no way of knowing if ANY of them are telling the truth. What if they ALL lie? What if the part which they all have in common, the so-called 'truth' isn't actually true? Just because they all carry a common element, doesn't mean that common element is the truth. It might just be the most common lie.
With something like 9/11, you can dig through all the conspiracy theories and read all of the official reports and you still cannot possibly know the real truth. You might find the common elements (a few planes (probably) crashed into a few buildings and there was a collapse). BUT THOSE AREN'T THE IMPORTANT TRUTHS. You may never know the real story, no matter how many sources you read. In the end, you'll believe whichever source agrees with your bias the most.
I run both XP and Mac OSX on my macbook and for most tasks OSX has been faster. It also, unlike windows, doesn't like to completely freeze my UI and keep me from killing the software running on it. (I use the terminal for this).
I have never once had an issue sleeping and waking, and I almost never actually shut my computer down. I'm not sure what's so shitty about the filesystem, but I'm not a particular fan of the file manager (Finder), so I mostly just search for what I need in Spotlight...which is faster than I've ever seen Windows search.
When my touch cuts to home it's usually a buggy application crash that does it. What are you using frequently that might not be programmed quite right?
When I was a kid I went through the whole hacker stage using the childish excuse "We help people by highlighting vulnerabilities", this excuse does not hold water either legally or ethically.
Educate yourself:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
A hacker isn't somebody who breaks into other machines maliciously. But some who break into systems DO take the moral high ground by getting into the system and leaving information for the administrator about what vulnerability was open and how to secure it without defacing the site.
I hope this unethical behaviour goes on their academic transcript.
What's so unethical? This is like if somebody put a sign in front of an open building that says "please write on the walls", you leave your building for a year or two and nobody has written on it except a bunch of guys who are using the wall to pass encoded messages to each other. If you don't like what they wrote, erase it, tell them they can't do it anymore. Chances are, they'll go find somebody else's open building rather than further piss you off.
What the students did was they just stopped writing on anybody's walls because they were pressured by the university. Maybe what they did annoyed some people, as it was not what the site owners were expecting, but you can't really complain too hard about the situation being "unethical" all things considered. They used the site for what it was made for in an unexpected way.
In addition, most of these abandoned sites are COVERED in spam messages because the admins didn't properly secure against bots posting viagra ads from top to bottom. Can you really blame the grad students for saying, going back to our analogy "hey, this guy just has ads for penis enlargement all over his wall, he probably won't mind if we start passing messages to each other..."? Get off your high horse. The backlash here is well within the site owners rights, but I don't think there should be consequences other than having to stop the project.
A common and false statement. The hard drives used for storage are finite as is the coal that generates the electricity to run the servers. So the supply of digital music is limited by the Hardware and Electricity costs. It is more accurate to say, "Digital music is plentiful, but still a limited supply."
Which is why he said "effectively infinite". It's not technically infinite, but for one copy of the music on their servers, they can serve it to far more people than will ever attempt to download them.
I disagree. Yes it's a monopoly, but even the monopoly can not stop the process of aging. Songs decrease in value over time, just like any depreciating good. Sometimes a song will briefly spike in demand, such as when an old 80s song appears in a new videogame, but for the most part Old == low demand == cheaper price. Itunes new pricing scheme was meant to reflect that reality: higher prices for higher demand songs; lower prices for lower demand songs.
What you've suggested should be happening is what Jobs promised. There's one problem: that older songs aren't getting cheaper. They've mostly stayed at $0.99, while popular songs have gone up in price. There are very few songs that have dropped in price, despite claims from Apple that the opposite was true. This goes towards the idea that it's about control and not "supply and demand", which is difficult to apply to a resource which is EFFECTIVELY infinite.
That's a pretty lame April Fools prank...
there's no way you RTFA. Try something more believable next time. Excuse me while I cower in my bunker awaiting nuclear holocaust.
I'm four you insensitive clod!
In the real world, you actually care about overall architecture, design, methodologies for coordinating a team, maintainability, testability, etc.
Which is what we do in our Software Engineering and Project Management courses. Maybe your entry level CS courses are code-and-fix, but at least at my school, we're learning about the different lifecycle models and project workflows. (from the perspective of both the classical and the object-oriented paradigms)Team organization (and so much more) and applying them to create a project from the ground up for an actual client. (in a later course, it will be for a local business. In this course we got to choose our own project based on a client we might know in person and could interview). We're just now finishing the classical analysis phase, next week we'll start Object-Oriented analysis, and then move to the design phase. (we're doing both just for the experience)
I realize that in an actual work environment these might not be so clean and clear cut as they're presented in the course material and case studies, but the situation isn't as bad as you claim in all schools. My school requires all IT majors to do an internship to graduate as well, so that they have real world work experience in the field. In addition, a good portion of the school's IT work is student-run. We have student trainers, a student-run help desk, student web developers, and students doing a lot of work maintaining the servers, access points, etc. All supervised by professionals in some capacity, obviously, but maybe my school is the exception to the rule.
He has put out the word that he wants a dialogue with Iran.
And hasn't started one.
He made changes with Guantanamo.
And shipped the prisoners there to another prison in Afghanistan while refusing to change the Bush policy on denying the right to trial for prisoners.
He's made changes in the tax system - albeit not enough for my tastes.
We'll see how that plays out.
He's dealing with one of the worst economies in decades.
The same way that Bush did, so far.
It looks like we're finally getting out of Iraq and maybe things in Afghanistan will improve too.
This has yet to be seen.
2nd Peter 3:8, from the King James:
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
Note "as one day" and "as a thousand years". These are similes, and should not be taken as a definition of a unit of measure here. That passage is explaining that even though it seems like God is taking forever to come back to earth and set up his kingdom here, you should "not be ignorant of the fact" that God experiences time differently from us and you can't impose your sense of urgency on him. This has nothing to do with the creation story.
Genesis is translated from Hebrew and the word "Day" in Hebrew simply implies "a very long time."
Except that if you actually read the bible, it describes a "day" as the progression from morning through evening. --
"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." Gen 1:5 (KJV)
"And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." Gen 1:8 (KJV)
"And the evening and the morning were the third day." Gen 1:13 (KJV)
I think I've made my point.
The Bible does not include the creation of Earth itself - or the universe as apart of the six creative days.
If you read Genesis again you'll notice that it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Then it goes on to describe the Earth's condition and then the process of the six creative days in which God made Earth habitable for life.
If you read genesis again, you'll realize that after it says "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" it begins a description of the process of creating the heavens and the earth, or else Genesis 2:1 would not make sense, which reads:
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."
Right before it explains that God rested on the seventh day. The most logical interpretation of Genesis 1 here is that it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, this is how he did it." not "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, this is how he made it fit for life"
No, they'll just blame the decrease in sales on piracy.
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wooosh...
http://www.timecube.com/
Does it now? It didn't used to, which was causing a lot of problems for me last time I tried to use it, which was only maybe a year ago.
People who want to play any PC games or do anything requiring Direct X would be terribly pissed.
Beyond that, they'd also need to provide an automated backup solution and an easy-to-use method for restoring from backups.
Barring those difficulties, I guess that wouldn't be too bad of a solution, but I still think it's overkill for most people.
Lots of people, unfortunately.
I just think virtualizing your entire environment, doing huge numbers of backups, setting up networking and filesharing properly in order to actually store data, and doing all of this on an O/S that isn't windows is FAR beyond the capabilities of somebody who is this worried about contracting viruses and spyware, and somebody with that ability can just as easily run periodic virus scans (not a resident application) and not click on suspicious stuff.
One of these solutions seems far better than the other. If you're capable of doing solution number 1, you're probably just as secure with solution number 2. Resident antivirus is for people who can't manage either.
You clearly didn't RTFA. The rep didn't "suggest" a product. They took control of the customer's PC remotely, claimed they were using a Symantec tool, then downloaded a copy of software by Malwarebytes, installed it on the customer's system, and used it to clean an infection.
So the support techs lied to a customer and installed unauthorized software on their machine that they CLAIMED was a symantec product.
And where do you store your files?
"before I open the box" implies that the box has not been open...very strongly. Which implies that it has not been installed on any other computer...very strongly. If the support techs had half a brain, they would have realized that the GP wanted to know if his copy of windows XP home would run on an AMD64 processor.
To the GP, assuming that you aren't lying through your teeth (which seems likely, considering that you knew what an AMD64 processor was and managed to download and install the proper version of linux yet couldn't figure out which version of XP would work on your machine) next time try pretending that you picked it up from the store next time, since if you have an unopened copy of windows XP in a box with a valid license, it makes no difference who the fuck picked it up from the store. Leave out unnecessary details and you might get somewhere next time
But included with the software is a free recovery tool which boots from CD to clean up an infested system which the support tech was obliged to tell the customer about. Instead, the tech told the customer that their only option was a session with an expert consultant that probably would have been ineffective.
Actually, the front line support tech did escalate the issue, and the second support person is the one which recommended the expert consulting service. In addition, there is a tool free for owners of the antivirus software which can be downloaded from norton's website and boots from CD.
When the customer contacted symantec later to complain, they confirmed that this was the appropriate course of action to take.
Seems like games are the one area where there would not be much money to be gained from support either. It's not like you can sell a support contract for a game to a large company, a game tends to require much less support than most software that could be used by a business, for example. At most there will be trouble with installation or possibly crashes. I don't see how it's plausible to charge for patches since they'll be governed under the same open source license as the game, the only way to charge for one of these things is to charge an online subscription fee for multiplayer for use of the servers. Games that don't include that kind of function wont' be able to get money for the work put in. While this doesn't matter to some, the entire industry can't work this way. Unlike infrastructure software like Operating Systems, server software and even to a lesser extent web browsers and office suites, game companies can't live on support alone.
I think GP was trying to say that the Open Document Formats (not microsofts "Open" standard) has been open for years, but because of MS marketing bullshit it's difficult to ever tell which set of formats we're talking about.