Under captialism men willingly allow themselves to be exploited by men. Under feudalism, communism or any other tyrannical economic system there is no choosing one's exploiter.
Will ZoneAlarm be "Stackered"? Probably. And, as a bonus, you've hit upon the real reason Symantec, whose product(s) are asssociated with running Windows somewhat securely on corporate desktops, announced that for its own internal corporate desktops it would consider Linux to replace Windows. Symantec was telling Microsoft that if they would obviate Symantec, Symantec would in turn hurt Microsoft. (That's the only reason I could accept; that or negotiations for better licensing terms took a hard edge. I don't think a company focused on Windows desktop usage would seriously switch to another OS Platform without changing product directions, too; I could have missed the Symantec Gentoo distribution announcement, but I doubt it.)
XML doesn't eliminate the intermediary. Eliminating the intermediary eliminates the intermediary.
I mean, one can kiss of the intermediary with CSV files, financial 5-bit data files, packed decimal data files, string-and-cans dictation systems, etc.
And one can sign up to use any number of intermediaries with their brand-new XML data files backed with excellent XSDs, etc.
The data file does not bear on the intermediary.
I don't have time here but I will postulate what anyone doing data integration with disparate parties knows: XML only solves the parsing questions; data meaning still requires conferences and/or tomes of explanatory text to explain beyond the grammar of XML, XSD, etc.
Automated data integration is not possible unless one side is willing to do all the coding to match a well-publicized protocol with a test server for honing the solution. <rant>
In fact, I think XML, with its inherent repetition of "column" and "field" names (as in the repeated-for-each-tuple tag names) is a conspiracy amongst Intel, Western Digital and Level3 to sell more advanced processors, bigger disks and higher bandwidth allotments.
Doubt me? Name one project having complicated two-way data interchange that did not require a face-to-face meeting between development teams where both sides used all current-state-of-the-art XML tech and tools. Just one.
The only thing not needed to discuss is "how do you delimit fields containing your field delimiter." Other than that all the old questions are still valid (as to meaning and optional representation) and new ones exist (DTD?, XSD?, doctype? Version of XML? Order of data elements? Attributes? Whitespace handling? Characterset?).
XML: Big Waste of Time (for data integration). Bigger waste of process cycles, bandwidth and disk storage.
If it were being remade in PAKISTAN then he could swing from minaret to minaret. In India guess he'll have to settle to swinging from US call center communication towers...
My office has plush chairs, small round tables, shared / unavailable power plugs, piped in music, a Barrista and a cash register: Starbucks or Borders Books. TMobile HotSpot access also gives me office space in Kinkos. Then there's the free hotspots, too.
Headphones and a surly look give me the privacy I need to code, admin, write, email, collaborate, triage, interview -- all with a supply of vittles and drinks to keep the mind sharp and heart beating.
But those chocolate-dipped peanut butter cookies are going to be the end of me.
At Borders, I have a library available to suppliment my O'Reilly Safari subscription. At Kinkos: printers, fax machines, and office supplies.
Seriously, break the lease, pick a hotspot methodology and get to work!
Dufus. Not that most don't make the same mistake, but for a long-time Linux user NOT to have a physicially seperate stateful firewall between a PC and the Internet...sorry, "dufus" is mild.
If you even have a "Kirkland" (i.e., sold at Costco; could be Linksys, DLink or Netgear, etc.) Broadband Router/Gateway with WiFi for sharing your home connection, you'd solve most of your troubles.
However, on a Windows LAN I would recommend having an isolated subnet with its own Internet connection (at least one without routing of traffic to/from the main LAN) until all current patches and SPs are installed. This is keeping in principle of not sharing a network connection with unfiltered Windows boxes.
It's amazing that people think "costing no money" equals "free." And I don't mean free as in libre, either, though that is another problem.
In the Prophet Isaiah is the call:
Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, And you who have no money; Come, buy and eat; Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.
I recall this verse when I hear of sales pitches telling me to buy something for free. Yeah, there may not be a monetary layout for some good or service but I'm paying something for it -- whether time, privacy, convenience, opportunity cost, etc. Once I would never imagine paying someone to mow my yard and keep it nice; now I can't afford not to do so -- I'm too busy with work and family (and my kids are to young to participate in mowing, triming, edging to make it a family event) to mow the small yard I'm responsible for. In other words, these non-monetary costs may not hold value for everyone, but to some money is less valuable than these treasures.
While the biblical call to "buy" without price is a real bargain (thus those receiving the free gift of God in the New Testament are now "bought with a price" as Paul tells it in 2 Corinthians; the "Arise, the holy bargain strike / the fragment for the whole" as the hymnist said) those from commercial entities are dubious.
Remember NetZero and the ad-driven web of the late 90's? The bubble burst for a reason. "Free" isn't.
Know the costs.
This post written using Xandros 2.0 Deluxe, a debian-based Linux distribution which I bought for $89. I support free software.
If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
One good reason to think that they can do this right is their aquisition of the creators of RAV Anti-Virus last year. RAV was a great multiplatform (including Linux) Anti-Virus tool. Best configuration: external SMTP (MTA) using Postfix/Qmail with RAV Anti-Virus acting as a Gateway for internal-only Exchange 2000 server. I don't think that will be a config option with MSFT's "new" product, but whatever they got would surely be worth looking at.
Then, of course, drop Windows and switch to Linux (SUSE, RedHat, or Xandros are places I'd recommend taking a look).
When ePhysician.com turned out it's corporate lights it kept the servers running (a testament to the developers there -- the system ran over 6 months without any maintenance and the only way people found out the company was liqudated was when they attempted to add new users, delete existing users or update pharmacy fax numbers and no one ever returned a phone call). One day my company received a call from a prestigious ePhysician customer (the head of psychiatry at an Ivy League School) based on our company's website being linked as a eP partner; the call was directed to me as I was the CTO of our company (CTO and the "reboot monkey"; it was a small company and I really was the lead web app developer but someone needed to fill the C' role). The caller was trying to reach eP and I told him they were out of business and all their assets were on the table for a fraction of their cost. He was shocked and explained that he needed his records for legal reasons (prescription data is critical to prescribers). I told him to quickly and carefully use the standard report tools to pull the data down for archiving.
I develop ASP-style applications. Never would I want to put my customers in a situation like ePhysicians did or Dave Winer has. However, there is still the very real risk that your data on others servers will suddenly not be available to you. This is true of Hotmail, Yahoo!Mail, Source Forge, GMail.google.com, your ISP, your bank, or my stuff.
True; damages are the rub. Don't forget they likely have to be specified in terms of USD to be relevant for a US federal or state court. Civil courts can't compensate for non-material losses, which is why to persons unfamiliar with this fact wrongful death suits often make the plaintiff look like moneyhounds when parents sue for the death of a child (but I digress).
Typo: you wrote "call" instead of "can" when you wrote "I call Bullshit".
I noticed your mistake when I saw the link you posted: linking to Kuro5hin marks one as a high rolling BS'er (what a mental image I painted for myself).
It's reasonable that he was emotionally worked up writing this reply, but the stuttery nature (so many paragraphs of only two sentences!) made it particularly hard to read. It felt incoherent and rushed, like new insults were going straight from brain to keyboard with no later revision.
A note to email users - it's very easy to make a bad impression with informal writing style!
(emphasis added for ironic effect)
Thank you for providing an example of proper, non-stuttering writing. Eh?
So all those circa 1995 websites with the yellow-black color schemes with animated stick figures at work. ..who woulda thought they'd be ahead of their time?!
I was told by a friend who left a Java position to pursue his.WET dream that there's a few problems with.NET, namely:
get this: You can't use javascript! (at
least, we havent' figured out how). You have to use microsoft's form validator. we couldn't do form validation with javascript!...the thing is, microsoft added lotsa stuff to make life "easier", and 80% of the time it makes things easier, but for example events, like onsubmit, don't fire because they do preprocessing on the asp page...
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Under captialism men willingly allow themselves to be exploited by men. Under feudalism, communism or any other tyrannical economic system there is no choosing one's exploiter.
(Note: I'm not equating ZoneAlarm with Symantec nor Symantec with security)
Will ZoneAlarm be "Stackered"? Probably. And, as a bonus, you've hit upon the real reason Symantec, whose product(s) are asssociated with running Windows somewhat securely on corporate desktops, announced that for its own internal corporate desktops it would consider Linux to replace Windows. Symantec was telling Microsoft that if they would obviate Symantec, Symantec would in turn hurt Microsoft. (That's the only reason I could accept; that or negotiations for better licensing terms took a hard edge. I don't think a company focused on Windows desktop usage would seriously switch to another OS Platform without changing product directions, too; I could have missed the Symantec Gentoo distribution announcement, but I doubt it.)
Is mono so focused on MS that it optimizes for IE?
Or, perhaps, that's "mono" as in "monoculture," the bane of bio-geneticists and system security experts everywhere.
Now I regret adding the [OT]...
I mean, one can kiss of the intermediary with CSV files, financial 5-bit data files, packed decimal data files, string-and-cans dictation systems, etc.
And one can sign up to use any number of intermediaries with their brand-new XML data files backed with excellent XSDs, etc.
The data file does not bear on the intermediary.
I don't have time here but I will postulate what anyone doing data integration with disparate parties knows: XML only solves the parsing questions; data meaning still requires conferences and/or tomes of explanatory text to explain beyond the grammar of XML, XSD, etc.
Automated data integration is not possible unless one side is willing to do all the coding to match a well-publicized protocol with a test server for honing the solution.
<rant>
In fact, I think XML, with its inherent repetition of "column" and "field" names (as in the repeated-for-each-tuple tag names) is a conspiracy amongst Intel, Western Digital and Level3 to sell more advanced processors, bigger disks and higher bandwidth allotments.
Doubt me? Name one project having complicated two-way data interchange that did not require a face-to-face meeting between development teams where both sides used all current-state-of-the-art XML tech and tools. Just one.
The only thing not needed to discuss is "how do you delimit fields containing your field delimiter." Other than that all the old questions are still valid (as to meaning and optional representation) and new ones exist (DTD?, XSD?, doctype? Version of XML? Order of data elements? Attributes? Whitespace handling? Characterset?).
XML: Big Waste of Time (for data integration). Bigger waste of process cycles, bandwidth and disk storage.
</rant>
If $995 was expensive for a commercial development venture, I'd be out of business already.
Think about it.
Ha ha. Not funny.
If it were being remade in PAKISTAN then he could swing from minaret to minaret. In India guess he'll have to settle to swinging from US call center communication towers...
- the sight of nervous 19 year olds with M16s at Logan airport in late 2001 did not make me feel "protected".
How about the fact that the rifles you saw were unloaded?If the world were perfect, none of those CDs would exist. That they weren't selling leads me to revise upward my opinion of our society.
Marha's Scary Sounds?? Yiiieeee!
(Personally, the Disney-produced scary sounds LP my dad played every Halloween in the 70's as I grew up was the best.)
As a society, yes. But an "at will" employee can be fired with or without cause.
Careful - MS funds some MIT research. Did you check to see if this project was MS funded?
My office has plush chairs, small round tables, shared / unavailable power plugs, piped in music, a Barrista and a cash register: Starbucks or Borders Books. TMobile HotSpot access also gives me office space in Kinkos. Then there's the free hotspots, too.
Headphones and a surly look give me the privacy I need to code, admin, write, email, collaborate, triage, interview -- all with a supply of vittles and drinks to keep the mind sharp and heart beating.
But those chocolate-dipped peanut butter cookies are going to be the end of me.
At Borders, I have a library available to suppliment my O'Reilly Safari subscription. At Kinkos: printers, fax machines, and office supplies.
Seriously, break the lease, pick a hotspot methodology and get to work!
Dufus. Not that most don't make the same mistake, but for a long-time Linux user NOT to have a physicially seperate stateful firewall between a PC and the Internet...sorry, "dufus" is mild.
If you even have a "Kirkland" (i.e., sold at Costco; could be Linksys, DLink or Netgear, etc.) Broadband Router/Gateway with WiFi for sharing your home connection, you'd solve most of your troubles.
However, on a Windows LAN I would recommend having an isolated subnet with its own Internet connection (at least one without routing of traffic to/from the main LAN) until all current patches and SPs are installed. This is keeping in principle of not sharing a network connection with unfiltered Windows boxes.
Fair enough! I pay for my Yahoo Premium email account and I still get "non-graphical" ads. So, I'd take a GMail account in a minute!
In the Prophet Isaiah is the call:
- Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, And you who have no money; Come, buy and eat; Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.
I recall this verse when I hear of sales pitches telling me to buy something for free. Yeah, there may not be a monetary layout for some good or service but I'm paying something for it -- whether time, privacy, convenience, opportunity cost, etc. Once I would never imagine paying someone to mow my yard and keep it nice; now I can't afford not to do so -- I'm too busy with work and family (and my kids are to young to participate in mowing, triming, edging to make it a family event) to mow the small yard I'm responsible for. In other words, these non-monetary costs may not hold value for everyone, but to some money is less valuable than these treasures.While the biblical call to "buy" without price is a real bargain (thus those receiving the free gift of God in the New Testament are now "bought with a price" as Paul tells it in 2 Corinthians; the "Arise, the holy bargain strike / the fragment for the whole" as the hymnist said) those from commercial entities are dubious.
Remember NetZero and the ad-driven web of the late 90's? The bubble burst for a reason. "Free" isn't.
Know the costs.
This post written using Xandros 2.0 Deluxe, a debian-based Linux distribution which I bought for $89. I support free software.
Why do people think exposing themselves to targeted email is "free"?
Then, of course, drop Windows and switch to Linux (SUSE, RedHat, or Xandros are places I'd recommend taking a look).
When ePhysician.com turned out it's corporate lights it kept the servers running (a testament to the developers there -- the system ran over 6 months without any maintenance and the only way people found out the company was liqudated was when they attempted to add new users, delete existing users or update pharmacy fax numbers and no one ever returned a phone call). One day my company received a call from a prestigious ePhysician customer (the head of psychiatry at an Ivy League School) based on our company's website being linked as a eP partner; the call was directed to me as I was the CTO of our company (CTO and the "reboot monkey"; it was a small company and I really was the lead web app developer but someone needed to fill the C' role). The caller was trying to reach eP and I told him they were out of business and all their assets were on the table for a fraction of their cost. He was shocked and explained that he needed his records for legal reasons (prescription data is critical to prescribers). I told him to quickly and carefully use the standard report tools to pull the data down for archiving.
I develop ASP-style applications. Never would I want to put my customers in a situation like ePhysicians did or Dave Winer has. However, there is still the very real risk that your data on others servers will suddenly not be available to you. This is true of Hotmail, Yahoo!Mail, Source Forge, GMail.google.com, your ISP, your bank, or my stuff.
Watch out for your interests and don't assume.
True; damages are the rub. Don't forget they likely have to be specified in terms of USD to be relevant for a US federal or state court. Civil courts can't compensate for non-material losses, which is why to persons unfamiliar with this fact wrongful death suits often make the plaintiff look like moneyhounds when parents sue for the death of a child (but I digress).
I noticed your mistake when I saw the link you posted: linking to Kuro5hin marks one as a high rolling BS'er (what a mental image I painted for myself).
Mebbe Ken Brownoser was looking to impress MSFT and SUNW...
- It's reasonable that he was emotionally worked up writing this reply, but the stuttery nature (so many paragraphs of only two sentences!) made it particularly hard to read. It felt incoherent and rushed, like new insults were going straight from brain to keyboard with no later revision.
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A note to email users - it's very easy to make a bad impression with informal writing style!
(emphasis added for ironic effect)Thank you for providing an example of proper, non-stuttering writing. Eh?
So all those circa 1995 websites with the yellow-black color schemes with animated stick figures at work. . .who woulda thought they'd be ahead of their time?!