Yes, it's immediately obvious at a glance that OpenOffice is crap, and I wish people would stop touting it as a suitable alternative to Word. It doesn't help Linux or OSS's credibility at all.
Do you seriously think finding exploits is such a black art that only "eccentric lone genius"es can do it? It's mostly a matter of tediously attempting all conceivable attack vectors. Any competent programmer can learn to find exploits, and the "well-paid" business you mention is motivation enough.
I don't think you are up to date with the motivations of attackers nowadays. Sure ten years ago writing viruses and such was mainly an ego thing for petty vandals -- who might well have been influenced to attack more by bluster on the part of operating system makers -- but nowadays most attacks are done by organized crime for real money (spyware, spam, blackmail, information theft). Whatever claims Microsoft does or does not make will not make much difference to the incentives of attackers.
Uhh, he didn't even make any spelling mistakes? I don't see any particular reason to doubt his claim.
(I combed through your post to point out spelling mistakes of your own, but you even managed to use "whom" properly, so this usually reliable form of Slashdot comeback fails for once. Nicely done, sir!)
I don't think there are especially a lot of delays in the game industry though? Forget about famous vaporware like Duke Nukem Forever, and you'll notice that most games do ship on time. If it was not possible to ship games reliably for a deadline you would not be seeing all these movie-licensed games that ship at the same time as their respective movie.
Nor is it really fair to blame management for every problem. A failure of the programming leads to build a scalable technical architecture, for instance, can also be a root cause of delays/low quality.
Google's study said that failure rates were not much correlated with the amount of time a drive's been in use. I'd trust them over a subjective impression on a small sample.
Yeah, why mention syntax at all? And personally I encounter way more varied and difficult problems in my daily work than just figuring out how to access or manipulate data. Though, looking at the programs he feels are worth showing off, suddenly his ignorance doesn't seem so surprising. Gee whiz, a calculator! Get back to me when you're tracking down race conditions in million-line programs, bub.
No-one cares about microsofts needs, that's human nature, we are all selfish unless giving something away brings a valued return. For them to expect that people would *want* to take part with no benefit to themselves is a pretty hefty misconception.
Not only that, if you have already bought valid Windows licenses, Microsoft doesn't even gain anything from you phoning home! If you hacked your legal copies to remove the activation because you find it inconvenient, Microsoft loses strictly nothing. After all, the feature only serves a use to Microsoft when it catches pirates.
Uhhh you realize fission was first made to work in the 1940s in the Manhattan Project? You are thinking of fusion. (... which also already works, it's just not outputting more energy than it takes in.)
Yeah, all I'm interested in hearing about is, why is it necessary to have a special-purpose language for Second Life in the first place? Is there a good reason or is it just Not-Invented-Here syndrome? Why not use Lua (a simple, extensible language commonly used to script games) or something instead?
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Yes, it's immediately obvious at a glance that OpenOffice is crap, and I wish people would stop touting it as a suitable alternative to Word. It doesn't help Linux or OSS's credibility at all.
Just out of curiosity: what is a lie in what the grandparent said?
Who the hell is Ken?
You use the Reliability Monitor Monitor, of course.
Do you seriously think finding exploits is such a black art that only "eccentric lone genius"es can do it? It's mostly a matter of tediously attempting all conceivable attack vectors. Any competent programmer can learn to find exploits, and the "well-paid" business you mention is motivation enough.
I don't think you are up to date with the motivations of attackers nowadays. Sure ten years ago writing viruses and such was mainly an ego thing for petty vandals -- who might well have been influenced to attack more by bluster on the part of operating system makers -- but nowadays most attacks are done by organized crime for real money (spyware, spam, blackmail, information theft). Whatever claims Microsoft does or does not make will not make much difference to the incentives of attackers.
Uhh, he didn't even make any spelling mistakes? I don't see any particular reason to doubt his claim.
(I combed through your post to point out spelling mistakes of your own, but you even managed to use "whom" properly, so this usually reliable form of Slashdot comeback fails for once. Nicely done, sir!)
I don't think there are especially a lot of delays in the game industry though? Forget about famous vaporware like Duke Nukem Forever, and you'll notice that most games do ship on time. If it was not possible to ship games reliably for a deadline you would not be seeing all these movie-licensed games that ship at the same time as their respective movie.
Nor is it really fair to blame management for every problem. A failure of the programming leads to build a scalable technical architecture, for instance, can also be a root cause of delays/low quality.
Google's study said that failure rates were not much correlated with the amount of time a drive's been in use. I'd trust them over a subjective impression on a small sample.
Yeah, why mention syntax at all? And personally I encounter way more varied and difficult problems in my daily work than just figuring out how to access or manipulate data. Though, looking at the programs he feels are worth showing off, suddenly his ignorance doesn't seem so surprising. Gee whiz, a calculator! Get back to me when you're tracking down race conditions in million-line programs, bub.
Not only that, if you have already bought valid Windows licenses, Microsoft doesn't even gain anything from you phoning home! If you hacked your legal copies to remove the activation because you find it inconvenient, Microsoft loses strictly nothing. After all, the feature only serves a use to Microsoft when it catches pirates.
Overgeneralizing. Slashdotters like to take complicated and heterogeneous groups and make sweeping generalizations about them.
Uhhh you realize fission was first made to work in the 1940s in the Manhattan Project? You are thinking of fusion. (... which also already works, it's just not outputting more energy than it takes in.)
Yeah, all I'm interested in hearing about is, why is it necessary to have a special-purpose language for Second Life in the first place? Is there a good reason or is it just Not-Invented-Here syndrome? Why not use Lua (a simple, extensible language commonly used to script games) or something instead?