Defaults are not user choices, and running as Admin by default is a bad *Microsoft* choice. If XP installed and booted into a secure first-state, then the user could add on whatever, but they also wouldn't be in danger if they didn't add anything on.
Last year, after quite a few months of crabbing about my job I decided the company was not going in a direction I wanted to participate in. This involved a change in ownership from the founder to the VP Sales and the company culture changed from having a touchy-feely opendoor management style to having an authoritarian absentee CEO who hired management consultants and the whole Office Space rigamarole. I had saved up a chunk of money and I live in a rent-controlled apartment, so I quit. I had always thought that if a company I worked for was either sold or started hiring management consultants that I would quit immediately, but I liked my coworkers and there still remained some vestiges of the old way, so I waited a few months. I've taken the time off (since last May) to relax, do some traveling, and basically not think about having a job for awhile. I'm just now starting to get bored and am in the job market, but I feel this was just fine even though my family and some of my friends are of the "jobs are like women: don't quit one before you have another" mindset. You know your situation best and can plan for the future, though. If you're not hurting, I recommend taking at least a few weeks to figure out what was wrong with what you left so you can look for jobs that are more than "anything besides this" desperation.
I'm glad everything works out all nice and tidy in the world of game theory, but in the real world people have doubts and desires and may want to act on second thoughts. This is what eBay is profiting from.
Any two people are going to share traits when viewed in a generalized light. The difference between Stallman and Gates, of course, is that as both of them get older, Stallman is growing toward more inclusiveness than he propounded years ago, while Gates is advocating more closure and proprietary-ness.
What you describe is the difference between communism-the-political-system (perhaps if the FSF *required* copyright assignment to them) and communALism. Communalism is the phenomenon of people contributing to a greater whole. It at least avoids all the baiting around "communism"; it's a ruined word.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have several friends who are journalists and the rule of thumb that I've remembered for years is that a jounalist can print any information that was obtained legally. That is, legally between the source and the journalist. If the source obtained the information illegally (or in violation of an NDA, etc.) then that's the source's problem and they're probably going to be leaning on the journalist to protect their identity thereby.
The truth certainly does matter to Americans, but they'll (we'll? hmmm) believe what they're told. What other basis can you derive something that feels like the truth besides through the information you know? America is running high on belief these days, and Truth is very important to the world of belief.
why are you asking microsoft what's wrong with linux? a better question for microsoft is, "what's right with linux?"
that said, i'm sure he'd agree with all of your assessments of linuxes weaknesses, so why ask a question that can be answered with "all of the above, and becaue they're not more like microsoft".
You're falling for the language game. Responsiblity implies property, which implies ownership, which implies rights, which reinforces Microsoft's worldview. Microsoft's worldview does not have room for community ownership. I would suggest this be rephrased as:
"What does the Microsoft EULA offer the end-user that the GPL doesn't?"
>...she stated that the most important thing for any working person was >to first make yourself financially independent. Then you can make the >decisions you really believe in, without fear of being sacked.
It makes a difference if the rich^Wfinancially independent person makes decisions that created a fear of being sacked amongst those employees who *weren't* financially independent. A fear that became a threat, which became reality. You logic works just fine if your decisions don't affect other people but that's rarely the case, especially when the decisionmaker is the megalomaniacal narcissist heading a multi-billion dollar company. Now we all have 5 years of hindsight to learn ways in which solipsistic plutocrats can really ruin something great. Naturally, Carly will be right there on the sidelines waiting to take credit for something someone learned as a result of her idiocy.
I would expect them to treat their systems contractors like anybody else, as if the lives of people depended on the quality of their work. Apologizing for the train operator for not hiring qualified systems people doesn't change the fact that a system was implemented that could be taken over relatively easy. They wouldn't let just anybody in the control room at Paddington station in London, would they? Apparently there's been a breakdown in standards if "make sure random people can't control the system" isn't on the list of requirements for the project. There's no excuse here and if people were injured through this method I would expect the systems people to get sued and have criminal charges brought against them.
Just because a system is broken doesn't remove the ethical dilemma of taking advantage of it. You admit as much yourself when you say, "It's wrong, but I do it anyway because I can (get away with it)." Glib solutions aren't going to change the fact that people (and companies) take advantage of the system every day. There are two sides to the crime, and while nobody blames Microsoft for the problems of the USPTO, Microsoft is responsible for their own actions and should be held accountable for making a bad problem worse. To use an analogy nearly as strained as your equating the USPTO with the MPAA, your logic tells me that it's okay to beat up on people weaker than me because if they didn't want to get beat up they would become stronger and fight back.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm coming up on one year of Powerbook ownership and it's been really great. I have a similar history as you, going back to demo-ing VIC-20's when I was 13, throught early DOS and 10Meg harddrives. Furthermore, in a conversation yesterday that brought up unsafe default installs, I wondered to a friend why Windows hasn't taken more clues from OpenBSD. So yeah, Microsoft isn't trying hard enough.
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Defaults are not user choices, and running as Admin by default is a bad *Microsoft* choice. If XP installed and booted into a secure first-state, then the user could add on whatever, but they also wouldn't be in danger if they didn't add anything on.
Last year, after quite a few months of crabbing about my job I decided the company was not going in a direction I wanted to participate in. This involved a change in ownership from the founder to the VP Sales and the company culture changed from having a touchy-feely opendoor management style to having an authoritarian absentee CEO who hired management consultants and the whole Office Space rigamarole. I had saved up a chunk of money and I live in a rent-controlled apartment, so I quit. I had always thought that if a company I worked for was either sold or started hiring management consultants that I would quit immediately, but I liked my coworkers and there still remained some vestiges of the old way, so I waited a few months. I've taken the time off (since last May) to relax, do some traveling, and basically not think about having a job for awhile. I'm just now starting to get bored and am in the job market, but I feel this was just fine even though my family and some of my friends are of the "jobs are like women: don't quit one before you have another" mindset. You know your situation best and can plan for the future, though. If you're not hurting, I recommend taking at least a few weeks to figure out what was wrong with what you left so you can look for jobs that are more than "anything besides this" desperation.
>You should never need to increase your maximum.
I'm glad everything works out all nice and tidy in the world of game theory, but in the real world people have doubts and desires and may want to act on second thoughts. This is what eBay is profiting from.
When all you have are foxes, everything looks like a henhouse.
>But seriously, discovering unicellular life on Mars would be the
>greatest scientific discovery of the last 200 years
I think it's impact would be much greater on the theological world than the scientific.
And thusly, isn't it a trojan and not a piggybacked virus?
Any two people are going to share traits when viewed in a generalized light. The difference between Stallman and Gates, of course, is that as both of them get older, Stallman is growing toward more inclusiveness than he propounded years ago, while Gates is advocating more closure and proprietary-ness.
What you describe is the difference between communism-the-political-system (perhaps if the FSF *required* copyright assignment to them) and communALism. Communalism is the phenomenon of people contributing to a greater whole. It at least avoids all the baiting around "communism"; it's a ruined word.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have several friends who are journalists and the rule of thumb that I've remembered for years is that a jounalist can print any information that was obtained legally. That is, legally between the source and the journalist. If the source obtained the information illegally (or in violation of an NDA, etc.) then that's the source's problem and they're probably going to be leaning on the journalist to protect their identity thereby.
The truth certainly does matter to Americans, but they'll (we'll? hmmm) believe what they're told. What other basis can you derive something that feels like the truth besides through the information you know? America is running high on belief these days, and Truth is very important to the world of belief.
.sig. You know they're the same as the freeipod people, right? Well, they just had their TrustE membership cancelled for misusing private data. So good luck on that.
That said, I noticed your "freemacmini" link in your
MS is making progress on security using any reasonable metric, so if you don't think Windows is secure then you're being unreasonable.
>They will be able to track individual gabling habits, and from that, system usage.
First you track the individual gambling habits, then you get the system usage, then you get the power, THEN you get the women.
excellent point.
i think this is actually a good question!
why are you asking microsoft what's wrong with linux? a better question for microsoft is, "what's right with linux?"
that said, i'm sure he'd agree with all of your assessments of linuxes weaknesses, so why ask a question that can be answered with "all of the above, and becaue they're not more like microsoft".
You're falling for the language game. Responsiblity implies property, which implies ownership, which implies rights, which reinforces Microsoft's worldview. Microsoft's worldview does not have room for community ownership. I would suggest this be rephrased as:
"What does the Microsoft EULA offer the end-user that the GPL doesn't?"
>...she stated that the most important thing for any working person was
>to first make yourself financially independent. Then you can make the
>decisions you really believe in, without fear of being sacked.
It makes a difference if the rich^Wfinancially independent person makes decisions that created a fear of being sacked amongst those employees who *weren't* financially independent. A fear that became a threat, which became reality. You logic works just fine if your decisions don't affect other people but that's rarely the case, especially when the decisionmaker is the megalomaniacal narcissist heading a multi-billion dollar company. Now we all have 5 years of hindsight to learn ways in which solipsistic plutocrats can really ruin something great. Naturally, Carly will be right there on the sidelines waiting to take credit for something someone learned as a result of her idiocy.
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std. disclaimer: i am just a fan. ba dum bum.
I would expect them to treat their systems contractors like anybody else, as if the lives of people depended on the quality of their work. Apologizing for the train operator for not hiring qualified systems people doesn't change the fact that a system was implemented that could be taken over relatively easy. They wouldn't let just anybody in the control room at Paddington station in London, would they? Apparently there's been a breakdown in standards if "make sure random people can't control the system" isn't on the list of requirements for the project. There's no excuse here and if people were injured through this method I would expect the systems people to get sued and have criminal charges brought against them.
Just because a system is broken doesn't remove the ethical dilemma of taking advantage of it. You admit as much yourself when you say, "It's wrong, but I do it anyway because I can (get away with it)." Glib solutions aren't going to change the fact that people (and companies) take advantage of the system every day. There are two sides to the crime, and while nobody blames Microsoft for the problems of the USPTO, Microsoft is responsible for their own actions and should be held accountable for making a bad problem worse. To use an analogy nearly as strained as your equating the USPTO with the MPAA, your logic tells me that it's okay to beat up on people weaker than me because if they didn't want to get beat up they would become stronger and fight back.
XCF is an internal format of the Gimp just like PSD is for photoshop! these formats are not really intended to be opened by other programs!
.doc files and Microsoft Word?
You mean, like
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm coming up on one year of Powerbook ownership and it's been really great. I have a similar history as you, going back to demo-ing VIC-20's when I was 13, throught early DOS and 10Meg harddrives. Furthermore, in a conversation yesterday that brought up unsafe default installs, I wondered to a friend why Windows hasn't taken more clues from OpenBSD. So yeah, Microsoft isn't trying hard enough.
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The Barbeaubot will surely rule them all with the D Cups of Justice.
Thank you for telling us what "fansubbing" is, since the editor and submitter didn't seem to think it important.