You forget that you're talking about an omnipotent deity.
To make up rules which are impossible for God to violate is to negate that omnipotence.
Just because some human sees a logical fallacy in the temporary suspension of free will does not make it impossible for God to have done so - assuming, of course, that there actually is a God and that he actually did attempt such a thing.
On the other hand, it is sometimes argued that the purpose of organized religion is to control God by defining what he is and is not, and what he can and cannot do, while at the same time proclaiming his omnipotence.
Speaking of history lessons, the Boxer Rebellion lasted "from November 1899 to September 7, 1901" per its Wikipedia entry. It's from whence the US Marines got the phrase "gung-ho".
So how does sending support to Chiang Kai-shek's government during WWII constitute "carving up China"?
First thing ya gotta understand about history, see, is that different things happened at different times.....
Last summer I took over admin of my company's catch-all mailbox. It was pretty steady at about 200/day until November, then it shot up to about 12,000/day for a few weeks, and now it's suddenly down to less than 100/day.
Christopher Tolkien taught English at Oxford, too. Can anyone else in this forum claim such high credentials in the field of English Language and Literature as Christopher Tolkien? And yet people speak of him as if he had no credentials at all beyond his ancestry.
Christopher's technical command of the language may not be as high as his father's, nor his creativity so great; but as Planesdragon pointed out, Christopher has the time and focus for the task that JRR always wished to have. I am sorry that JRR did not give us a second or third or fourth series as good as LOTR; but such disappointment does not make any of us better qualified than Christopher Tolkien to manage his father's literary estate. I think it unlikely that a publisher would have or could have assigned so good a caretaker of JRR's work as Christopher Tolkien. Who else on this Earth is more qualified to interpret JRR's intent and meaning than the son to whom JRR confided these things?
Christopher Tolkien has given us all a "backstage pass" to his father's creativity. If you are the sort who cares not for such things, then do not read them. It is in the nature of such a unique and voluminous body of work that there should be much left unfinished; and I for one want to see it all. I am grateful to Christopher Tolkien for giving to me both whole stories and glimpses of "roads not taken" that either would have mouldered, forgotten in deep dust long ago; or would have been "improved" at the behest of some publishing house.
". . . this gives MS two months to find the exploit . .."
You mean that -- "in the real world" -- Microsoft needs two months to find an exploit *after* someone reports it to them?
OK, that was facetious, but your argument refers to "the exploit" (singular) when the geek community's ire is over the average time for MS to respond to the *thousands* of exploits found over the years. Why do you restict your argument to the (relatively) few bugs for which that amount of time is actually justified?
As to the statistical argument, just how skewed do the data have to be for the fixes from the BSDs to average less than a day while MS averages well over a month to even acknowledge that an exploit exists?
In your original post, you asked who should define how long it takes to fix an exploit. MS has more resources to throw at these problems than any company in history has ever had to solve any problem. Yes, that's a lot of superlatives; and no, I do not believe that to be an overstatement. So while I don't have a specific answer to that question, I'm pretty confident in agreeing with the vast majority of posters that Microsoft's rate of response is, and always has been, wholly inadequate.
MS claims that their policies are designed to benefit the customer. Well, I'm not just a Slahdot poster, I'm also someone who makes purchasing decisions for my company; and *I* say that one day of vulnerability for my production machines is one day too many. The customer has spoken.
Exactly. A lot of my users never change their IE start page from MSN, then the very first thing that they do after launching IE is to do an MSN search for Google. Some of them even have an IE favorite for Google, and therefore have a start page with absolutely zero value for them at all. When I point out to them that they could just change their start page to Google, they complain that "that's too hard". These are people with college degrees. I'm over forty now, and some of these people have been using computers since before my high school got its first Apple IIs. I hear a lot of stories about their old Digital timesharing system with the reel-to-reel tapes and how they had to fight with DOS when they got their first PCs. Now they tell me how easy I have it, and in the same breath complain that Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer are "too complicated".
If half of them had half a clue each then I would be out of a job.
"As for checkwriting ability, good point, not something I'd considered off the top of my head."
Get used to unexpected consequences to your decisions, if you're going to run your own business. You MUST learn to think things through - i.e. "look before you leap". You have to do it as a doctor; so just remember to do it as a boss, too.
Today we rearranged our office. Impromptu - no planning - just "do it now" and "we'll figure it out as we go". Moving one row of cubicle dividers next to the wall meant that the power, phone, and data outlets along that wall were no longer accessible and the previously used outlets became too far away. Management said "no down time" and then had to accept down time for four production workstations while someone made a Home Depot run for extension cables - which, of course, are yet another kind of mistake. (Then there was a second run, as management had forgotten that power cables are not the only kind of cables . ..)
We needed to move our servers over by seven feet. "What do you have to take them down for? The cables will reach. We need our productivity!" So after sending everybody home when two of our 1-TB RAID volumes stopped communicating with the server, I got an earful from management about how we employees had bungled a "simple" rearrangement of the entire office. We employees also got blamed for "our" failure to plan!
I also got an extraordinarily polite ass-chewing from a Dell server tech about trying to physically move a running server with external RAIDs - and believe me, I did make it VERY clear to management that that move was NOT a good idea! We came very close to losing about 1.5-TB of data today; despite our backups the loss would still be hurting us months from now.
My company produces maps for units of government and for civil engineering firms working on government contracts.
We use AutoDesk's AutoCAD & Bentley's MicroStation & Boeing Autometric's KORK & ESRI's ArcInfo with a plethora of civil & geospatial add-ons.
When the contract states ". . . shall meet (insert state here) DOT specs" these programs are not just "something real", they are in the fact the only real things, period.
Pro/E? Wildfire? Unigraphics? I've heard of those, but not in my industry.
If that company had 100 machine presses - and everybody, even the CEO, needed to run a machine press six out of eight hours a day - then they would probably have more than one machine press mechanic.
In my company it's executive email. Screw all of the other users and their workstations - if the President can't get his AOL on his laptop then his "network department" (i.e. me, myself, and I) does NOTHING else until he's back online.
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.....and still no puns abouts CORBAs.....what's wrong with you people?
"Oh dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. -- HHGTTG
You forget that you're talking about an omnipotent deity.
To make up rules which are impossible for God to violate is to negate that omnipotence.
Just because some human sees a logical fallacy in the temporary suspension of free will does not make it impossible for God to have done so - assuming, of course, that there actually is a God and that he actually did attempt such a thing.
On the other hand, it is sometimes argued that the purpose of organized religion is to control God by defining what he is and is not, and what he can and cannot do, while at the same time proclaiming his omnipotence.
No, he did not think so. That was his point.
Speaking of history lessons, the Boxer Rebellion lasted "from November 1899 to September 7, 1901" per its Wikipedia entry. It's from whence the US Marines got the phrase "gung-ho".
So how does sending support to Chiang Kai-shek's government during WWII constitute "carving up China"?
First thing ya gotta understand about history, see, is that different things happened at different times.....
Last summer I took over admin of my company's catch-all mailbox. It was pretty steady at about 200/day until November, then it shot up to about 12,000/day for a few weeks, and now it's suddenly down to less than 100/day.
What "testing, QA and support" is MacHeist doing for "their" products?
Christopher Tolkien taught English at Oxford, too. Can anyone else in this forum claim such high credentials in the field of English Language and Literature as Christopher Tolkien? And yet people speak of him as if he had no credentials at all beyond his ancestry.
Christopher's technical command of the language may not be as high as his father's, nor his creativity so great; but as Planesdragon pointed out, Christopher has the time and focus for the task that JRR always wished to have. I am sorry that JRR did not give us a second or third or fourth series as good as LOTR; but such disappointment does not make any of us better qualified than Christopher Tolkien to manage his father's literary estate. I think it unlikely that a publisher would have or could have assigned so good a caretaker of JRR's work as Christopher Tolkien. Who else on this Earth is more qualified to interpret JRR's intent and meaning than the son to whom JRR confided these things?
Christopher Tolkien has given us all a "backstage pass" to his father's creativity. If you are the sort who cares not for such things, then do not read them. It is in the nature of such a unique and voluminous body of work that there should be much left unfinished; and I for one want to see it all. I am grateful to Christopher Tolkien for giving to me both whole stories and glimpses of "roads not taken" that either would have mouldered, forgotten in deep dust long ago; or would have been "improved" at the behest of some publishing house.
Doesn't Buffalo offer a "Turbo" version of their b/g routers?
"Social Gamers, Leisure Gamers, Dormant Gamers, Incidental Gamers"
In other words, people who don't spend money on games.
So TFA is about how the publishers "just" need to figure out how to create games which are good enough to sell to non-buyers.
If only the publishers had thought of this themselves . . .
". . . this gives MS two months to find the exploit . . ."
You mean that -- "in the real world" -- Microsoft needs two months to find an exploit *after* someone reports it to them?
OK, that was facetious, but your argument refers to "the exploit" (singular) when the geek community's ire is over the average time for MS to respond to the *thousands* of exploits found over the years. Why do you restict your argument to the (relatively) few bugs for which that amount of time is actually justified?
As to the statistical argument, just how skewed do the data have to be for the fixes from the BSDs to average less than a day while MS averages well over a month to even acknowledge that an exploit exists?
In your original post, you asked who should define how long it takes to fix an exploit. MS has more resources to throw at these problems than any company in history has ever had to solve any problem. Yes, that's a lot of superlatives; and no, I do not believe that to be an overstatement. So while I don't have a specific answer to that question, I'm pretty confident in agreeing with the vast majority of posters that Microsoft's rate of response is, and always has been, wholly inadequate.
MS claims that their policies are designed to benefit the customer. Well, I'm not just a Slahdot poster, I'm also someone who makes purchasing decisions for my company; and *I* say that one day of vulnerability for my production machines is one day too many. The customer has spoken.
"baited breath"
I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but with what do you bait your breath - worms?
And just what are you hoping to catch?
Exactly. A lot of my users never change their IE start page from MSN, then the very first thing that they do after launching IE is to do an MSN search for Google. Some of them even have an IE favorite for Google, and therefore have a start page with absolutely zero value for them at all. When I point out to them that they could just change their start page to Google, they complain that "that's too hard". These are people with college degrees. I'm over forty now, and some of these people have been using computers since before my high school got its first Apple IIs. I hear a lot of stories about their old Digital timesharing system with the reel-to-reel tapes and how they had to fight with DOS when they got their first PCs. Now they tell me how easy I have it, and in the same breath complain that Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer are "too complicated".
If half of them had half a clue each then I would be out of a job.
DOPA: The Acronym for Those Who Can Not Spell "D'OH!"
"feel the energy" . . . I'll bet THAT never gets old!
"If the printer inside jams, it stops accepting transactions."
Well, I've never seen one jam; but I've seen them run out of paper plenty of times and keep right on running transactions.
"As for checkwriting ability, good point, not something I'd considered off the top of my head."
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Get used to unexpected consequences to your decisions, if you're going to run your own business. You MUST learn to think things through - i.e. "look before you leap". You have to do it as a doctor; so just remember to do it as a boss, too.
Today we rearranged our office. Impromptu - no planning - just "do it now" and "we'll figure it out as we go". Moving one row of cubicle dividers next to the wall meant that the power, phone, and data outlets along that wall were no longer accessible and the previously used outlets became too far away. Management said "no down time" and then had to accept down time for four production workstations while someone made a Home Depot run for extension cables - which, of course, are yet another kind of mistake. (Then there was a second run, as management had forgotten that power cables are not the only kind of cables . .
We needed to move our servers over by seven feet. "What do you have to take them down for? The cables will reach. We need our productivity!" So after sending everybody home when two of our 1-TB RAID volumes stopped communicating with the server, I got an earful from management about how we employees had bungled a "simple" rearrangement of the entire office. We employees also got blamed for "our" failure to plan!
I also got an extraordinarily polite ass-chewing from a Dell server tech about trying to physically move a running server with external RAIDs - and believe me, I did make it VERY clear to management that that move was NOT a good idea! We came very close to losing about 1.5-TB of data today; despite our backups the loss would still be hurting us months from now.
Hopefully you will do better.
So lefty sites link to free streaming content and righty sites don't?
OK, that one actually sounds like it might be legit.
You've certainly done your homework today.
"Limbaugh and O'Reilly do not have streaming media."
I just visited those sites . . . and I call bullshit.
I've never just outright called someone a liar on Slashdot before - please explain yourself so I don't have to start now.
So lefty sites are more bandwidth-intensive than righty sites?
Limbaugh and O'Reilly are "work"?
If you consider auto-increment to be part of "arrangement", then I'm with you.
"Get something real."
My company produces maps for units of government and for civil engineering firms working on government contracts.
We use AutoDesk's AutoCAD & Bentley's MicroStation & Boeing Autometric's KORK & ESRI's ArcInfo with a plethora of civil & geospatial add-ons.
When the contract states ". . . shall meet (insert state here) DOT specs" these programs are not just "something real", they are in the fact the only real things, period.
Pro/E? Wildfire? Unigraphics? I've heard of those, but not in my industry.
If that company had 100 machine presses - and everybody, even the CEO, needed to run a machine press six out of eight hours a day - then they would probably have more than one machine press mechanic.
In my company it's executive email. Screw all of the other users and their workstations - if the President can't get his AOL on his laptop then his "network department" (i.e. me, myself, and I) does NOTHING else until he's back online.
"You, as an employee, owe the company little other than doing the work expected of you."
And when addressing this issue IS the work expected of you, should you respond with "that's not my problem"?
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Flamefest!