"Oh yeah, those open source DNS servers are the lesser products" is either a liar or a moron.
Unless you are really selling a better product then the Open Source product is a lesser product.
Being as you admit that Bind is a pain in the ass. If one would create a product just as good as bind but with a nicer UI then it will be a superior product.
Or...
Depending on your point of view on what features you find important simpler apps my be superior to Bind because they may do what you want but without the hassle.
Don't be like RMS and pidgin hole people in nice little boxes of Smart and Stupid, Good and Evil. Because what will happen is the idiot will find a way to do something that will leave you in the dust.
I think there are more then a few or at least the bad apples cluster together, before you can get more whistle bowers you need an environment where it is ok to blow whistles. Although this is bad behavior and coming from the private sector myself I would say they should get fired not suspend for such actions, but for someone to risk the quality of their life, harassment from other cops, Possible retribution, etc... It would need to be more serious then cops playing video games when they should be working.
The biggest black market in the United States is the sale of unpasteurized milk. It just shows you how far people will go to do stupid things because they think every advancement made by man is bad.
Will the desktop go away anytime soon... Probably not. Mainframes are still around. However most of the work being done is shifting away from Desktops to Cell Phones, and Netbooks. Just as it has happened with mainframes. Slow compared to desktop processors but fast network connections is the key now. And I see the desktop being relegated to a word processor fairly soon.
For a sins what Palm did was 7 and what Apple did was a 4.
If you hacked you Palm to do what Palm did then that would be a sin of 1. But the fact that the company created such actions intentionally against Apples will (3) marketed it (4) to the general public.
If you did it with your own Palm then it is only a 1, perhaps a 3 if you made it public. As you have already purchased the product and what you are doing is actually a favor to Apple as you buying their songs and using their product... However by the corporation doing the same thing, they are hurting apple as they are making a product that is directly competing with their product, and not working with your competitor for compatibility.
Why is it worse for a company to do something then it is for an individual? Well first it is scale, The individual usually has limited influence as they don't have the resources to make a large influence, at best the hack would give you some geek credits and only the brave geeks who could afford to brick their phone to do it.
Why should Linus focus for Desktop Linux. It is a dead horse... Deal with it. Its a Dyeing market. Let Microsoft go down with that ship. Linux should be designed better for cloud/distributive processing, and server stuff. We are getting to a point we don't need desktops we need a thin client that can connect to the network. And let someone else do the work.
It really wasn't OK for Java to be slower then languages that came before it. Its success is rather limited. (now I opened the door to all the JavaDevelopers and IBM Trolls) Java was meant to be a replacement for for all those apps that are out there. But it has done little in terms of front end applications, where it was hoping to succeed the most. Why because of its poor performance, on standard PC and especially with GUI's Even using a fast PC you know when you are running a Java App. That is why Microsoft Visual Studios even with the abomination of.NET virtual machine garbage, has made it more popular for front end development then with Java. Because it performs better.
Saying that is bad because it is slower then Java means that Java is really slow and people are not happy with that so anything slower will make us more unhappy.
Yes it is. Even when I tried to be balanced My own views come into the picture. I have had bad experiences with Unions so my bias is passed in my writing about them.
Astronomy comes up with pretty pictures. Other areas not so much so. So what would you rather have you tax money go to... Pretty pictures. Or columns of crunched numbers.
That is much harder then you think... Your biases are often sent to the children even if you are not trying to do so. Lets use Unions. I don't think teachers can fairly teach children about unions and their effect on the US and the world. As they are directly benefiting from the Unions so even if they try to teach both sides it makes it seem that Unions will benefit the Underclass at a slight expense to the upperclass, Created such advancements such as Minimum Wage, Weekends and Holidays. However there is little teaching about the other side of unions to allow full critical thinking. Such as past (And possibly current) Moffia ties. The fact that they are now separate organizations who are in the lookout for improving the Union vs. The individual worker. The fact that Unions can hinder HR for a company so much that the company cannot be allowed to modernize or improve efficiency, as efficiency improvements either mean less employees or employees doing more or more difficult work. Or the fact the Unions are now more of a political force who pressure (mostly the democrat party) to do things their way).
Now that a teacher is a Union Member they will have a difficult time teaching the negatives especially if they feel these negatives are untrue or just a small side effect. Vs. someone else who sees it as a major side effect.
Is it important when teaching say american history to cover big events say the civil war WWI and WWII (Where the US won and was considered the good guy) vs. Whisky Rebellion, War of 1812 (WHICH WE ACTUALLY LOST!), Vietnam... Where our goals wern't not always noble and our success wasn't so great.
And do you have any idea what backlash you would have from the parents and politicians if you tried to teach children to look at both sides of WWII.
Stopping such programs will make them that much harder to start again. If you say Lets stop the ISS and shuttle program then when it come back to a point where Man space travel looks more promising then they will go well look at earlier 21st century we canceled Man Space Flight because it was a wast of resources why should we start it again. Vs keeping it on life support right now so when if/when interest kicks back up it will be an easier sell to just raise the budget.
VMS is not dead. Most of the products you use today are in part of a production system build on VMS. They have trying to get rid of it for decades. However the cost of moving off of it is still cheaper then paying the remaining VMS developers full 1990's consulting fees to keep it going.
I am not sure about this $10 per barrel price... Because oddly enough Plastic is made from Petroleum products. I guess they are assuming that they get the plastic for free where someone else paid the current fuel costs to buy the plastic products. But it isn't $10 per barrel but $10 added to the cost per barrel. But the cost was deferred because someone paid for the fuel at full cost then when they were done with it they decided to give it away, as its utility in its current state was completed.
What they will get is the Ancient Egyptians made nuclear weapons. Sheep can be traded for Bricks, The success of evolution is based on the intelligence of the designer, with the attempt to zoom into the beaches in Brazil. Well I guess that is as good as american Education gets. You not really raising the bar. But the kids get the same education and have fun at it.
I never stated I was a real system administrator... I am not I am software developer and any real System Administrator knows they are 2 very different levels of specialties, while either can probably do each other jobs and in time they would be good at it. But for the most part it is about priorities. But a lot of places don't have real administrators heck they are lucky if they have Software people who kinda do administration.
Most Linux distros have great updaters that check *daily* for security updates - not just to the "core" of the OS, but for *every* installed package. That is assuming you go threw the channels of installing software that the OS vender wants you to go threw.
Linux for the mainstream desktop/notebook/netbook is just a dream. Linux is a Server OS and it is good as a Workstation OS too... However for Netbooks to sell. They need to be familiar to the end user. Ubuntu is neither familiar like Windows XP to the average user. nor is it Sexy and well polished like OS X. All the pieces are there however they are just not glued together correctly. For Netbooks the fact that it has Windows running on it is a big thing, and a selling point. Having Linux running on it or some other OS brings to mind the old PDA where there is a very few functions that work. And whenever there is a change you are stuck until the next upgrade. Yes this isn't true for linux you have a slew of stuff. But the mental image of using a linux system is just that espectially on a netbook.
Most Linux distributions seem to run a good set of Core Applications that are relatively common across the distributions, and many ways a lot of tiny security holes that are not always designed for full security and expecting the security to happen the next level up but they don't necessarily know who that is and what exactly it does as in theory it could be different. So when there is a glitch there is a bunch of finger pointing as there is no mono-culture who is interested in making the overall product better but just one piece of it. So often the security fix doesn't fix the core issue just a stop gap somewhere in the line. And if that module was replaced with an other then it could happen all over again. Also there it little to tell if a security fix will end up failing some other app down the line. So the open source model isn't fool proof either. And that is without the valid argument that it is easier for a hacker to see the code and know where exactly to strike, as Module X wasn't designed to handle such security conserns.
Lets combine that most people don't update their Linux boxes as quickly as Macs or Windows too. As Linux is a server OS and for the most part it will just kinda sit there in the background without much looking at it and as long it is running things are fine. I have seen Linux Hacked more often then Mac because of that fact. They just kinda do its job and we expect and while it is doing its job we don't check on it. Until it is to late.
I got cable almost 10years ago my speed and capacity has dropped, reliability has dropped massively and is going to take another hit Funny I got Cable almost 10 years ago too... And my reliability and speed has increased massively. I Get about 20Mbs Down and 1Mbs Up. (even though it has been consistent for the past 10 years) Perhaps it is because there are about 3 or 4 different DSL companies competing for my business in my area so they are sure to offer as good service as possible. Capitalism does work, When the businesses stay out of government (A democrat idea) and government stays out of business (a republican idea) .
Slashdot loves to underestimate "security by obscurity". However it is usually the first line of defense, and it works quite often. It is like locking your door without a deadbolt, It keeps the honest, honest. If it is hard to know how to get in. Then most "hackers" will not be able to get in, until some real hackers actually take their time un-obscuring and getting familiar with the system, and then write an easy script for the script kiddies to take advantage of. However having it obscure could put years of being unhacked. To a system... Sometimes enough for it to be increadibly out of date that when they find a way to get in they no longer want to anymore.
Now for Windows, OS X and Linux There are a lot of people who have oddly Strong emotions about their Computer Operating System and there are a lot of people who would love to wipe the smug expressions off each other faces so there is a lot of focus of trying to un-obscure their competitors and hack in. However if you are a no-name brand system security threw obscurity could have saved you a lot of money in development and testing and not have a system broken into. Unfortunately this creates a lot of smug developers who think they write secure code because it was never hacked into.
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"Oh yeah, those open source DNS servers are the lesser products" is either a liar or a moron.
Unless you are really selling a better product then the Open Source product is a lesser product.
Being as you admit that Bind is a pain in the ass. If one would create a product just as good as bind but with a nicer UI then it will be a superior product.
Or...
Depending on your point of view on what features you find important simpler apps my be superior to Bind because they may do what you want but without the hassle.
Don't be like RMS and pidgin hole people in nice little boxes of Smart and Stupid, Good and Evil. Because what will happen is the idiot will find a way to do something that will leave you in the dust.
It is not as much that 1 line out of 4000 is average for each programmer. It is just that they fix the bugs before release.
I think there are more then a few or at least the bad apples cluster together, before you can get more whistle bowers you need an environment where it is ok to blow whistles. Although this is bad behavior and coming from the private sector myself I would say they should get fired not suspend for such actions, but for someone to risk the quality of their life, harassment from other cops, Possible retribution, etc... It would need to be more serious then cops playing video games when they should be working.
The biggest black market in the United States is the sale of unpasteurized milk. It just shows you how far people will go to do stupid things because they think every advancement made by man is bad.
You sound like a mainframe guy.
Will the desktop go away anytime soon... Probably not. Mainframes are still around.
However most of the work being done is shifting away from Desktops to Cell Phones, and Netbooks. Just as it has happened with mainframes.
Slow compared to desktop processors but fast network connections is the key now. And I see the desktop being relegated to a word processor fairly soon.
For a sins what Palm did was 7 and what Apple did was a 4.
If you hacked you Palm to do what Palm did then that would be a sin of 1. But the fact that the company created such actions intentionally against Apples will (3) marketed it (4) to the general public.
If you did it with your own Palm then it is only a 1, perhaps a 3 if you made it public. As you have already purchased the product and what you are doing is actually a favor to Apple as you buying their songs and using their product...
However by the corporation doing the same thing, they are hurting apple as they are making a product that is directly competing with their product, and not working with your competitor for compatibility.
Why is it worse for a company to do something then it is for an individual?
Well first it is scale, The individual usually has limited influence as they don't have the resources to make a large influence, at best the hack would give you some geek credits and only the brave geeks who could afford to brick their phone to do it.
Why should Linus focus for Desktop Linux. It is a dead horse... Deal with it. Its a Dyeing market. Let Microsoft go down with that ship. Linux should be designed better for cloud/distributive processing, and server stuff. We are getting to a point we don't need desktops we need a thin client that can connect to the network. And let someone else do the work.
It really wasn't OK for Java to be slower then languages that came before it. Its success is rather limited. (now I opened the door to all the JavaDevelopers and IBM Trolls) Java was meant to be a replacement for for all those apps that are out there. But it has done little in terms of front end applications, where it was hoping to succeed the most. Why because of its poor performance, on standard PC and especially with GUI's Even using a fast PC you know when you are running a Java App. That is why Microsoft Visual Studios even with the abomination of .NET virtual machine garbage, has made it more popular for front end development then with Java. Because it performs better.
Saying that is bad because it is slower then Java means that Java is really slow and people are not happy with that so anything slower will make us more unhappy.
Yes it is. Even when I tried to be balanced My own views come into the picture. I have had bad experiences with Unions so my bias is passed in my writing about them.
Astronomy comes up with pretty pictures. Other areas not so much so. So what would you rather have you tax money go to... Pretty pictures. Or columns of crunched numbers.
Well it would be enough to arrest him. And get additional warents to search his house for the missing items. Then goes to court for that.
That is much harder then you think... Your biases are often sent to the children even if you are not trying to do so.
Lets use Unions. I don't think teachers can fairly teach children about unions and their effect on the US and the world. As they are directly benefiting from the Unions so even if they try to teach both sides it makes it seem that Unions will benefit the Underclass at a slight expense to the upperclass, Created such advancements such as Minimum Wage, Weekends and Holidays. However there is little teaching about the other side of unions to allow full critical thinking. Such as past (And possibly current) Moffia ties. The fact that they are now separate organizations who are in the lookout for improving the Union vs. The individual worker. The fact that Unions can hinder HR for a company so much that the company cannot be allowed to modernize or improve efficiency, as efficiency improvements either mean less employees or employees doing more or more difficult work. Or the fact the Unions are now more of a political force who pressure (mostly the democrat party) to do things their way).
Now that a teacher is a Union Member they will have a difficult time teaching the negatives especially if they feel these negatives are untrue or just a small side effect. Vs. someone else who sees it as a major side effect.
Is it important when teaching say american history to cover big events say the civil war WWI and WWII (Where the US won and was considered the good guy) vs. Whisky Rebellion, War of 1812 (WHICH WE ACTUALLY LOST!), Vietnam... Where our goals wern't not always noble and our success wasn't so great.
And do you have any idea what backlash you would have from the parents and politicians if you tried to teach children to look at both sides of WWII.
Stopping such programs will make them that much harder to start again. If you say Lets stop the ISS and shuttle program then when it come back to a point where Man space travel looks more promising then they will go well look at earlier 21st century we canceled Man Space Flight because it was a wast of resources why should we start it again. Vs keeping it on life support right now so when if/when interest kicks back up it will be an easier sell to just raise the budget.
VMS is not dead. Most of the products you use today are in part of a production system build on VMS. They have trying to get rid of it for decades. However the cost of moving off of it is still cheaper then paying the remaining VMS developers full 1990's consulting fees to keep it going.
They do for the most part. They also toss their cell phones.
Space Travel is just like the internet. All you need to do is navigate a bunch of tubes.
I am not sure about this $10 per barrel price...
Because oddly enough Plastic is made from Petroleum products. I guess they are assuming that they get the plastic for free where someone else paid the current fuel costs to buy the plastic products. But it isn't $10 per barrel but $10 added to the cost per barrel. But the cost was deferred because someone paid for the fuel at full cost then when they were done with it they decided to give it away, as its utility in its current state was completed.
What they will get is the Ancient Egyptians made nuclear weapons. Sheep can be traded for Bricks, The success of evolution is based on the intelligence of the designer, with the attempt to zoom into the beaches in Brazil. Well I guess that is as good as american Education gets. You not really raising the bar. But the kids get the same education and have fun at it.
I never stated I was a real system administrator... I am not I am software developer and any real System Administrator knows they are 2 very different levels of specialties, while either can probably do each other jobs and in time they would be good at it. But for the most part it is about priorities. But a lot of places don't have real administrators heck they are lucky if they have Software people who kinda do administration.
Most Linux distros have great updaters that check *daily* for security updates - not just to the "core" of the OS, but for *every* installed package.
That is assuming you go threw the channels of installing software that the OS vender wants you to go threw.
but you can get a good magnetic needle compass for like $5.00
Pretty much... Yea.
Linux for the mainstream desktop/notebook/netbook is just a dream. Linux is a Server OS and it is good as a Workstation OS too... However for Netbooks to sell. They need to be familiar to the end user. Ubuntu is neither familiar like Windows XP to the average user. nor is it Sexy and well polished like OS X. All the pieces are there however they are just not glued together correctly. For Netbooks the fact that it has Windows running on it is a big thing, and a selling point. Having Linux running on it or some other OS brings to mind the old PDA where there is a very few functions that work. And whenever there is a change you are stuck until the next upgrade. Yes this isn't true for linux you have a slew of stuff. But the mental image of using a linux system is just that espectially on a netbook.
True however most "Security" Fixes are Safety fixes. Security is a 100% Guarantee, Safety if better then nothing.
Most Linux distributions seem to run a good set of Core Applications that are relatively common across the distributions, and many ways a lot of tiny security holes that are not always designed for full security and expecting the security to happen the next level up but they don't necessarily know who that is and what exactly it does as in theory it could be different. So when there is a glitch there is a bunch of finger pointing as there is no mono-culture who is interested in making the overall product better but just one piece of it. So often the security fix doesn't fix the core issue just a stop gap somewhere in the line. And if that module was replaced with an other then it could happen all over again. Also there it little to tell if a security fix will end up failing some other app down the line. So the open source model isn't fool proof either. And that is without the valid argument that it is easier for a hacker to see the code and know where exactly to strike, as Module X wasn't designed to handle such security conserns.
Lets combine that most people don't update their Linux boxes as quickly as Macs or Windows too. As Linux is a server OS and for the most part it will just kinda sit there in the background without much looking at it and as long it is running things are fine. I have seen Linux Hacked more often then Mac because of that fact. They just kinda do its job and we expect and while it is doing its job we don't check on it. Until it is to late.
I got cable almost 10years ago my speed and capacity has dropped, reliability has dropped massively and is going to take another hit
Funny I got Cable almost 10 years ago too... And my reliability and speed has increased massively. I Get about 20Mbs Down and 1Mbs Up. (even though it has been consistent for the past 10 years)
Perhaps it is because there are about 3 or 4 different DSL companies competing for my business in my area so they are sure to offer as good service as possible. Capitalism does work, When the businesses stay out of government (A democrat idea) and government stays out of business (a republican idea) .
Slashdot loves to underestimate "security by obscurity". However it is usually the first line of defense, and it works quite often. It is like locking your door without a deadbolt, It keeps the honest, honest. If it is hard to know how to get in. Then most "hackers" will not be able to get in, until some real hackers actually take their time un-obscuring and getting familiar with the system, and then write an easy script for the script kiddies to take advantage of. However having it obscure could put years of being unhacked. To a system... Sometimes enough for it to be increadibly out of date that when they find a way to get in they no longer want to anymore.
Now for Windows, OS X and Linux There are a lot of people who have oddly Strong emotions about their Computer Operating System and there are a lot of people who would love to wipe the smug expressions off each other faces so there is a lot of focus of trying to un-obscure their competitors and hack in. However if you are a no-name brand system security threw obscurity could have saved you a lot of money in development and testing and not have a system broken into. Unfortunately this creates a lot of smug developers who think they write secure code because it was never hacked into.