The premise is quite true. However, the paranoia and mistrust is anything but sane (of course, you are CrazyTaco;)).
Let's be realistic about a number of things, Vista isn't as horrible as slashdot fanboys make it to be. Linux isn't as awesome. I, personally, run a mix of operating systems (Kubuntu, a few versions of Windows, and soon mac os x on a laptop). Each have their strengths and weaknesses, and neither are this inherently good or evil thing that the sides like to play them.
We're engineers. Like all good engineers, we take pride in creating a good product, and it is disheartening when you receive a negative reaction based on preconceptions that are often untrue and highly biased. The fact is that Microsoft is a company that needs to make money to keep thousands employed, and it sells commodity software and hardware to a large number of people to do that. Though not perfect, as a company MS spends a lot of time trying to learn from its mistakes. Each of us do what we can to produce the best we can.
As I've said before, I think Vista was laying down the groundwork as far as backend technologies go for a better OS going forward. UAC annoys me no more than having to type "sudo " then my password every time I want to do an administrative task in linux, and performance is a metric that is, believe it or not, subjective. Ask a software developer how much memory they want/need. If they're truthful, they'll say "more." It is my opinion that Windows 7 will be akin to XP and Vista like 2k. The technology changes, and it's better, but there are a ton of complaints before people accept that the new thing is better. Let's be honest: people hate change. All I ask is that you take the time to give a try to things without allowing company dislike or philosophical bias destroy any chance of objective analysis.
I don't think we're looking at 10-15 years; look to windows 2000 and XP. One put down the technology, the other compelled users to buy it. Argue all you want about 2k being "enterprise" or for "professionals" only - most people didn't find the improved technology better until XP came along. In fact, people were complaining about how slow 2000 was at games compared to 98SE, and how annoying trying to integrate it into their networks was.
Mod parent up, he's correct, and therefore not trolling (similar to the fact you can't be libelous if you speak in fact), in that the McDonald's coffee case is often incorrectly dragged out as an example of the need for tort reform: http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
I was always under the impression that the midichlorians were just used to tell who had the powers, because people with high force ability attracted them. At least, that was the impression I came away from Episode 1 with. Of course, then I had to go look up the script and find out just how bad it really was:
ANAKIN
Master, sir... I've been wondering...
what are midi-chlorians?
QUI-GON
Midi-chlorians are a microcopic
lifeform that reside within all living
cells and communicates with the Force.
ANAKIN
They live inside of me?
QUI-GON
In your cells. We are symbionts with
the midi-chlorians.
ANAKIN
Symbionts?
QUI-GON
Life forms living together for mutual
advantage. Without the midi-chlorians,
life could not exist, and we would
have no knowledge of the Force. They
continually speak to you, telling
you the will of the Force.
ANAKIN
They do??
QUI-GON
When you learn to quiet your mind,
you will hear them speaking to you.
Oh well, so much for something being an indicator instead of a cause. Yeah, midichlorians were definitely the jump the shark moment.
There is a third group that has a huge concern about licenses: any business that sees a library of potential use to the company, but cannot disclose their source code. The "viral clause" within the GPL means every single piece of OSS that will be used needs a thorough vetting by the legal department.
With a purchased piece of software, this is much less of a problem because when something is purchased for use in programming, there is a reasonable legal expectation to be able to integrate the purchased product. You aren't expected to be required to turn over your source code to the selling party in exchange for using their program. As a result, GPL is business incompatible, and only BSD/LGPL code can be used. Moreover, each needs its own license attached, and each must be inspected to insure no unexpected clauses were added in... fortunately, this is easier with BSD than LGPL.
Thus, the third party is that which sees the benefit and a use for some open components (doesn't want to spread FUD), but cannot abide by the "use our code, open up yours" mentality.
I think Trent takes subtle digs at the RIAA on the CD itself. There's a "morality" warning that looks very similar in style to the FBI antipiracy warning. This also brings up a question, though. There's a warning on the CD about making unauthorized duplicates and the copyright infringements related to that... but Trent's releasing all of the "source" for these songs...
... The P4 3GHz came out 4 years ago. If things had kept up in the speed race on those old processors, that would mean by 2006 we should have had 12Ghz systems, and now be on our way towards 24Ghz. In computers, 4 years does make a processor incredibly old.
I have to ask. The entire review talks about how poorly the book was put together, how it missed its audience, et cetera, but it still got a 6/10. Shouldn't it be getting somewhere around a 2 or 3, citing "it parses as English, but other than that, don't bother?"
Seems people are far too generous in their book reviews.
When I worked at a computer repair shop, a woman brought in her system and said it was running slowly. I start the system up and expect there to be a bunch of virii. What I saw next shocked me.
After 30 minutes I'm looking at the default windows XP desktop. Immediately I know this is an illegal install, as the system had no sticker on it, and it looked too old to have had WinXP reasonably on it. I decide to see what service pack she's running, so I right click on my computer, click properties...and almost crap my pants. The system was running on a Cyrix M5 with 48MB of RAM. There were no service packs installed. She had about 30 worms installed and running on her system.
Sometimes, late at night, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about the horror of such a system.
Most likely your brain has compensated for the large amount of caffeine you intake by increasing the number of adenosine receptors to the point where you'd have a few day long "crash" should you stop. Though afterwards caffeine would "work" again.
Still waiting on the paperwork to go through for the divorce to finalize. Then, and only then, can I live in sweet, sweet reality freedom. Unfortunately, reality kept the house, the car, and half of my possessions.
Not necessarily a security bug, but it can be annoying. This comes from the project description, as a warning when trying to do natural joins for the project. This query:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from ord natural join item natural join product
is evaluated incorrectly in Oracle 10g (rel. 10.2.0.1).
Compare its output with the correct results generated by this query:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from item natural join product natural join ord
or this:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from ord natural join (item natural join product)
or this:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, prodid
, descrip "Description"
, total
from ord natural join item natural join product
This solution:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from (ord natural join item) natural join product
does not work either. The optimizer insists on doing a cartesian product between ORD and PRODUCT.
This is a new bug. It does not exist in Oracle 9i, which evaluates all queries correctly.
Slashdot Mirror
The premise is quite true. However, the paranoia and mistrust is anything but sane (of course, you are CrazyTaco ;)).
Let's be realistic about a number of things, Vista isn't as horrible as slashdot fanboys make it to be. Linux isn't as awesome. I, personally, run a mix of operating systems (Kubuntu, a few versions of Windows, and soon mac os x on a laptop). Each have their strengths and weaknesses, and neither are this inherently good or evil thing that the sides like to play them.
We're engineers. Like all good engineers, we take pride in creating a good product, and it is disheartening when you receive a negative reaction based on preconceptions that are often untrue and highly biased. The fact is that Microsoft is a company that needs to make money to keep thousands employed, and it sells commodity software and hardware to a large number of people to do that. Though not perfect, as a company MS spends a lot of time trying to learn from its mistakes. Each of us do what we can to produce the best we can.
As I've said before, I think Vista was laying down the groundwork as far as backend technologies go for a better OS going forward. UAC annoys me no more than having to type "sudo " then my password every time I want to do an administrative task in linux, and performance is a metric that is, believe it or not, subjective. Ask a software developer how much memory they want/need. If they're truthful, they'll say "more." It is my opinion that Windows 7 will be akin to XP and Vista like 2k. The technology changes, and it's better, but there are a ton of complaints before people accept that the new thing is better. Let's be honest: people hate change. All I ask is that you take the time to give a try to things without allowing company dislike or philosophical bias destroy any chance of objective analysis.
I don't think we're looking at 10-15 years; look to windows 2000 and XP. One put down the technology, the other compelled users to buy it. Argue all you want about 2k being "enterprise" or for "professionals" only - most people didn't find the improved technology better until XP came along. In fact, people were complaining about how slow 2000 was at games compared to 98SE, and how annoying trying to integrate it into their networks was.
Mod parent up, he's correct, and therefore not trolling (similar to the fact you can't be libelous if you speak in fact), in that the McDonald's coffee case is often incorrectly dragged out as an example of the need for tort reform:
http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
I was always under the impression that the midichlorians were just used to tell who had the powers, because people with high force ability attracted them. At least, that was the impression I came away from Episode 1 with. Of course, then I had to go look up the script and find out just how bad it really was:
ANAKIN
Master, sir... I've been wondering...
what are midi-chlorians?
QUI-GON
Midi-chlorians are a microcopic
lifeform that reside within all living
cells and communicates with the Force.
ANAKIN
They live inside of me?
QUI-GON
In your cells. We are symbionts with
the midi-chlorians.
ANAKIN
Symbionts?
QUI-GON
Life forms living together for mutual
advantage. Without the midi-chlorians,
life could not exist, and we would
have no knowledge of the Force. They
continually speak to you, telling
you the will of the Force.
ANAKIN
They do??
QUI-GON
When you learn to quiet your mind,
you will hear them speaking to you.
Oh well, so much for something being an indicator instead of a cause. Yeah, midichlorians were definitely the jump the shark moment.
There is a third group that has a huge concern about licenses: any business that sees a library of potential use to the company, but cannot disclose their source code. The "viral clause" within the GPL means every single piece of OSS that will be used needs a thorough vetting by the legal department.
With a purchased piece of software, this is much less of a problem because when something is purchased for use in programming, there is a reasonable legal expectation to be able to integrate the purchased product. You aren't expected to be required to turn over your source code to the selling party in exchange for using their program. As a result, GPL is business incompatible, and only BSD/LGPL code can be used. Moreover, each needs its own license attached, and each must be inspected to insure no unexpected clauses were added in... fortunately, this is easier with BSD than LGPL.
Thus, the third party is that which sees the benefit and a use for some open components (doesn't want to spread FUD), but cannot abide by the "use our code, open up yours" mentality.
...water remains wet.
But... "moot" means debatable, and "mute" means silenced.
I think Trent takes subtle digs at the RIAA on the CD itself. There's a "morality" warning that looks very similar in style to the FBI antipiracy warning. This also brings up a question, though. There's a warning on the CD about making unauthorized duplicates and the copyright infringements related to that... but Trent's releasing all of the "source" for these songs...
Just something to ponder.
... The P4 3GHz came out 4 years ago. If things had kept up in the speed race on those old processors, that would mean by 2006 we should have had 12Ghz systems, and now be on our way towards 24Ghz. In computers, 4 years does make a processor incredibly old.
Psychic Mode.
They have to have notify that you are typing turned on for it to function, afaik.
I have to ask. The entire review talks about how poorly the book was put together, how it missed its audience, et cetera, but it still got a 6/10. Shouldn't it be getting somewhere around a 2 or 3, citing "it parses as English, but other than that, don't bother?"
Seems people are far too generous in their book reviews.
When I worked at a computer repair shop, a woman brought in her system and said it was running slowly. I start the system up and expect there to be a bunch of virii. What I saw next shocked me.
After 30 minutes I'm looking at the default windows XP desktop. Immediately I know this is an illegal install, as the system had no sticker on it, and it looked too old to have had WinXP reasonably on it. I decide to see what service pack she's running, so I right click on my computer, click properties...and almost crap my pants. The system was running on a Cyrix M5 with 48MB of RAM. There were no service packs installed. She had about 30 worms installed and running on her system.
Sometimes, late at night, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking about the horror of such a system.
Most likely your brain has compensated for the large amount of caffeine you intake by increasing the number of adenosine receptors to the point where you'd have a few day long "crash" should you stop. Though afterwards caffeine would "work" again.
Still waiting on the paperwork to go through for the divorce to finalize. Then, and only then, can I live in sweet, sweet reality freedom. Unfortunately, reality kept the house, the car, and half of my possessions.
Not necessarily a security bug, but it can be annoying. This comes from the project description, as a warning when trying to do natural joins for the project.
This query:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from ord natural join item natural join product
is evaluated incorrectly in Oracle 10g (rel. 10.2.0.1).
Compare its output with the correct results generated by this query:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from item natural join product natural join ord
or this:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from ord natural join (item natural join product)
or this:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, prodid
, descrip "Description"
, total
from ord natural join item natural join product
This solution:
select ordid, lineno, orderdate
, descrip "Description"
, total
from (ord natural join item) natural join product
does not work either. The optimizer insists on doing a cartesian product between ORD and PRODUCT.
This is a new bug. It does not exist in Oracle 9i, which evaluates all queries correctly.