Dont know about him, but APK seems to have plenty to say about my posts. Not sure if I should be flattered to have my own personal stalker troll, or not.
I stopped replying to your post when it became apparent that you didnt know what you were talking about, and everyone else realized it as well; and that furthermore, there is a large chance that you are a troll. Im letting you know to save you the effort of replying to one of my posts again.
THats huge, and people do it ALL the time. I just spent a week doing volunteer work for some students, and when I pointed out that her battery was nearing death and would she like us to order a replacement, she responded "nah, I think my dad already bought one."
Apple DOESNT "just work", it has the same kinds of problems that ANY consumer computer will have. It just happens to be a heck of a lot less reparable when a disk goes bad, or your RAM goes bad, or your processor overheats, or....
Wish I could mod this up. This is the huge problem with trying to be a Facebook or Apple-- you're the biggest thing on the block, until you arent, and then everyone is out of a job.
Microsoft has a far less chance of going that route-- Windows 8 can be (is) awful, and it wont really matter that much. If Apple pulls a Vista, theyre going to be hurting a lot.
If my car runs out of gas, I'll have to ride my bicycle to work, but at least I can still listen to my music on the way with my trusty iPod. And as an added bonus, no war between China and Japan.
Have fun procuring some arable land to grow your own veggies and raise your own cattle.
No, using market cap to label Apple "most valuable" is unabashedly pro-apple. It is a poor indicator of a company's ability to continue to generate revenue, which is a much closer definition IMO.
"True" and "misleading" are not mutually exclusive. Apple may have the current highest market cap, but its only a record high if you do it in "dollars of the day"-- that is, Apples market cap today in todays dollars, and Microsofts 1999 market cap in 1999 dollars. It also tries to conflate "market cap" with "value" when the two are not even CLOSE to synonymous-- whats Facebook's market cap now, and what was it 2 months ago? Did the company start producing more or less, or could it be that "market cap" is simply the result of speculation, and not an actual measure of a company's long term value?
Companies will do whatever necessary to capture sufficient market share to stay as profitable as possible. This is a simple fact of human motivation and the desire for wealth. This means that if it is cheaper to manufacture elsewhere and doing so will decrease costs and increase profits, they will do so. You can place tariffs on those companies, but they will then move elsewhere.
Just keep that in mind before you go and vote companies out of your state; if you want a good lesson in this, watch what happens in france over the next year or so (with their gigantic tax "penalties" for being rich).
If the project is interesting enough, work and hobby can coincide. Ive pulled sessions of a similar length on the odd saturday-- it is a rarity (a few times a year at most), but it can be enjoyable on the right project.
Depends on what you are doing... grinding out code for 16 hours straight, that might be productive once or twice a week, try doing it for 28 days straight and I don't think anybody is getting anything useful out of that.
This. I did a few of those last week (volunteer project), and I was quite productive, but if I were required to do so regularly I would find a new job ASAP for the sake of my sanity.
Extended days should be a rarity, but they are incredibly productive on those rare occasions.
The hosts file is one of the most fundamental STANDARDS in TCP/IP networking.
No, its not. I challenge you to find me in the TCP or IP specifications where it is so core. It has nothing to do with packet structure, headers, payload, or anything else remotely "core" on TCP / IP, and is only defined in 2 auxiliary RFCs.
If it were "fundamental", you would have a HOSTS file on Cisco routers and all firewall appliances, but apart from BSD and Linux based distros I cannot think of a one that has such a thing (Cisco DOES have static name mappings, but its not a "HOSTS file", nor does it meet the spec AFAIK).
The take-home message is the fact that Microsoft thought they NEEDED to do this because their OS design is so shitty.
The takeaway is that microsoft made a rather small error, and most people on slashdot utilizing HOSTS are armchair IT admins who have no idea how networking works or why HOSTS is a terrible idea (at least for the last 10 years).
There are practically monthly updates that fix privilege escalation bugs for Windows.
Source, please. Malware has largely evolved to run userland precisely because of UAC, and AFAIK escalation bugs remain quite rare on most systems, including windows
It's only my laptop, and I'm expected to know what I'm doing
Now imagine I have to coordinate with 30 other users with the same attitudes, and different hosts files on each, and you will begin to understand why this is a manageability nightmare.
Its not that you dont know what youre doing, and Im not saying that. There is just no easy way in that scenario for me to reprovision a server IP without tons of manual labor, and reimaging a dev laptop for a DNS change sounds like an enormously bad idea ("where did all my source code go?").
The hole to plug (17 years over do) Is the fact that malware is able to modify the hosts file
Not to be rude, but you simply dont understand how malware works. Once malware gets user privileges, it can do whatever the user can. It can even call an elevation prompt on itself, and if the user grants it, the malware now can do absolutely anything on the system not prevented by some third party product-- that is, unless your antivirus is blocking calls or protecting files, it can do anything at all.
Since the HOSTS file is protected by NTFS to be admin editable only, malware with system rights can make changes to it.
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Well played.
Dont know about him, but APK seems to have plenty to say about my posts. Not sure if I should be flattered to have my own personal stalker troll, or not.
I stopped replying to your post when it became apparent that you didnt know what you were talking about, and everyone else realized it as well; and that furthermore, there is a large chance that you are a troll. Im letting you know to save you the effort of replying to one of my posts again.
You will not be able to do it with a soldering iron, at all. You need a special kind of kit to resolder RAM to a motherboard.
THats huge, and people do it ALL the time. I just spent a week doing volunteer work for some students, and when I pointed out that her battery was nearing death and would she like us to order a replacement, she responded "nah, I think my dad already bought one."
Then you're just as stuck as the next guy with his CPU soldered onto the motherboard
I mean yea, its so hard to find older CPUs, and older RAM types like RDRAM and DDR2, and older drive standards like IDE...
You should recheck your facts. Finding replacement parts and upgrades for older sockets is stupidly easy.
removable drives are okay until the new drives don't work with the power management system right and drain your battery out.
Ill just leave this little standard called "ACPI" right here.
Apple DOESNT "just work", it has the same kinds of problems that ANY consumer computer will have. It just happens to be a heck of a lot less reparable when a disk goes bad, or your RAM goes bad, or your processor overheats, or....
Wish I could mod this up. This is the huge problem with trying to be a Facebook or Apple-- you're the biggest thing on the block, until you arent, and then everyone is out of a job.
Microsoft has a far less chance of going that route-- Windows 8 can be (is) awful, and it wont really matter that much. If Apple pulls a Vista, theyre going to be hurting a lot.
If my car runs out of gas, I'll have to ride my bicycle to work, but at least I can still listen to my music on the way with my trusty iPod. And as an added bonus, no war between China and Japan.
Have fun procuring some arable land to grow your own veggies and raise your own cattle.
No, using market cap to label Apple "most valuable" is unabashedly pro-apple. It is a poor indicator of a company's ability to continue to generate revenue, which is a much closer definition IMO.
After a brief period of instability
Just how long do you suppose it takes up to ramp up production on new vehicles? Or to get new alternative technologies to be market viable?
I think the period of instability if all oil and gas were to disappear would be substantially longer than you suppose.
"True" and "misleading" are not mutually exclusive. Apple may have the current highest market cap, but its only a record high if you do it in "dollars of the day"-- that is, Apples market cap today in todays dollars, and Microsofts 1999 market cap in 1999 dollars. It also tries to conflate "market cap" with "value" when the two are not even CLOSE to synonymous-- whats Facebook's market cap now, and what was it 2 months ago? Did the company start producing more or less, or could it be that "market cap" is simply the result of speculation, and not an actual measure of a company's long term value?
Companies will do whatever necessary to capture sufficient market share to stay as profitable as possible. This is a simple fact of human motivation and the desire for wealth. This means that if it is cheaper to manufacture elsewhere and doing so will decrease costs and increase profits, they will do so. You can place tariffs on those companies, but they will then move elsewhere.
Just keep that in mind before you go and vote companies out of your state; if you want a good lesson in this, watch what happens in france over the next year or so (with their gigantic tax "penalties" for being rich).
Dunno, but unless Im mistaken Apple does NOT have a navy, so Im gonna guess the East India company was worth more.
If the project is interesting enough, work and hobby can coincide. Ive pulled sessions of a similar length on the odd saturday-- it is a rarity (a few times a year at most), but it can be enjoyable on the right project.
Depends on what you are doing... grinding out code for 16 hours straight, that might be productive once or twice a week, try doing it for 28 days straight and I don't think anybody is getting anything useful out of that.
This. I did a few of those last week (volunteer project), and I was quite productive, but if I were required to do so regularly I would find a new job ASAP for the sake of my sanity.
Extended days should be a rarity, but they are incredibly productive on those rare occasions.
there is a time difference.
A what?
C:\>cacls C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
Can you please point out the security hole here? Is it the "administrators:F"? Or perhaps that SYSTEM has rights to the file?
The hosts file is one of the most fundamental STANDARDS in TCP/IP networking.
No, its not. I challenge you to find me in the TCP or IP specifications where it is so core. It has nothing to do with packet structure, headers, payload, or anything else remotely "core" on TCP / IP, and is only defined in 2 auxiliary RFCs.
If it were "fundamental", you would have a HOSTS file on Cisco routers and all firewall appliances, but apart from BSD and Linux based distros I cannot think of a one that has such a thing (Cisco DOES have static name mappings, but its not a "HOSTS file", nor does it meet the spec AFAIK).
The take-home message is the fact that Microsoft thought they NEEDED to do this because their OS design is so shitty.
The takeaway is that microsoft made a rather small error, and most people on slashdot utilizing HOSTS are armchair IT admins who have no idea how networking works or why HOSTS is a terrible idea (at least for the last 10 years).
There are practically monthly updates that fix privilege escalation bugs for Windows.
Source, please. Malware has largely evolved to run userland precisely because of UAC, and AFAIK escalation bugs remain quite rare on most systems, including windows
It's only my laptop, and I'm expected to know what I'm doing
Now imagine I have to coordinate with 30 other users with the same attitudes, and different hosts files on each, and you will begin to understand why this is a manageability nightmare.
Its not that you dont know what youre doing, and Im not saying that. There is just no easy way in that scenario for me to reprovision a server IP without tons of manual labor, and reimaging a dev laptop for a DNS change sounds like an enormously bad idea ("where did all my source code go?").
in the case of the host file you could simply require administrator permission.
They already do. Can we end this stupid discussion now?
Not through doubleclick. You are basically saying that MS is unblocking ads for Google because....?
Does not compute, sorry.
The hole to plug (17 years over do) Is the fact that malware is able to modify the hosts file
Not to be rude, but you simply dont understand how malware works. Once malware gets user privileges, it can do whatever the user can. It can even call an elevation prompt on itself, and if the user grants it, the malware now can do absolutely anything on the system not prevented by some third party product-- that is, unless your antivirus is blocking calls or protecting files, it can do anything at all.
Since the HOSTS file is protected by NTFS to be admin editable only, malware with system rights can make changes to it.