Companies and brands get tarnished, almost disappear etc. all the time. It's really not that interesting. More interesting to me are that some actually are resurrected. Apple and Nintendo come to mind, as does Maserati for a mandatory car analogy. I understand that somebody actually bought the rights to the PDP-11 from DEC when things went to hell - maybe there's still hope?
According to a friend of mine who is a manager with a large Indian offshore IT company the biggest impact of Y2K was that it gave offshore IT consultancies a big opportunity to gain some street cred and foothold in the US. The rest is history. (Whether this is good, bad, inevitable, indifferent etc. is a separate matter and largely dependent on viewpoint I guess.)
Hmm. I think the widely accepted metaphor actually is to make a "mountain" out of a molehill. Not sure what you make a "crisis" out of metaphorically.(Perhaps something along the lines of "making a crisis out of a slashdot comment"? Open to other suggestions though, since this clearly is a problem begging for a solution.)
Why should I automatically assume that McAfee's prediction is correct? I thought TFA was pretty weak on justifications.
Personally, I suspect (predict?) that the top security threats in 2010 will be the same ones as in 2009, 2008 and so on i.e. things like slack coding and QA practices, bad design, poorly implemented security policies, end user gullibility etc. No real reason to assume Adobe or MS or Apple are any better or worse than they were last year.
This being a programmer issue, it's not surprising that the opinions offered are binary. (Music/prattle, quit your job/conform, boss is moron/you're a moron) What about the third way: Silence. You could quite reasonably claim that you need silence to work. Go get some of those largeconspicuous headphones from the eighties and don't hook them up to the music player. When the supervisor growls, dangle the unconnected plug in his face and innocently say all you wanted was to shut out the noise. After a few such incidents you'll be "the weird guy with the headphones", and nobody will notice when you plug in to your music player or switch to a cordless headset or whatever. You can have your music and your job, too! (Whether you want that job in the first place is another story...)
The Samba project and the people who work on it are truly amazing: Consider Tridge's statement that a salvo from the batteries of one the world's largest and most aggressive software corporations is a mere "inconvenience". That should tell us a lot about the power of individuals and open source! Yay!
At the same time I wish that Samba was less necessary. I wish that there were good Windows drivers for the many excellent open source distributed file systems etc. that are out there, so that people weren't "forced" to use the crappy Windows protocols to achieve interoperability. Yes, I'm aware of such initiatives but none are as widespread and easy to use as Samba. Unfortunately I'm not smart enough to do anything about the situation.
Aha. Maybe he just did what he had to do: Maybe he had the trunk full of plutonium, illegal child laborers wearing suicide vests or whatever and two years for an assault charge seemed like a bargain all things considered? So his devious plan was to make these basic "mistakes" to foil the law. Seems about as plausible as the bizarre notion of a hair triggered, power abusing, violence prone border guard going off like a maniac. At least it will in a court of law - he's totally screwed.
Yeah, cat in box is sooo last paradigm. I'd say give them a dog in a box. Then they go "WTF?" and that's how all real important science begins with a complete break with tradition.
True. But by the same token I really doubt that most bribes are taxed no matter what the currency is.;-) In a way I'd say the real problem is that immense wealth can be created by anybody without really adding commensurate value. Happens in real world as well as in the virtual ones.
In reality (no pun intended) virtual currencies really aren't any different than other currencies. They ahve a value, they can be converted back and forth etc. So what's the big hoopla?
Slashdot Mirror
Companies and brands get tarnished, almost disappear etc. all the time. It's really not that interesting. More interesting to me are that some actually are resurrected. Apple and Nintendo come to mind, as does Maserati for a mandatory car analogy. I understand that somebody actually bought the rights to the PDP-11 from DEC when things went to hell - maybe there's still hope?
According to a friend of mine who is a manager with a large Indian offshore IT company the biggest impact of Y2K was that it gave offshore IT consultancies a big opportunity to gain some street cred and foothold in the US. The rest is history. (Whether this is good, bad, inevitable, indifferent etc. is a separate matter and largely dependent on viewpoint I guess.)
Hmm. I think the widely accepted metaphor actually is to make a "mountain" out of a molehill. Not sure what you make a "crisis" out of metaphorically.(Perhaps something along the lines of "making a crisis out of a slashdot comment"? Open to other suggestions though, since this clearly is a problem begging for a solution.)
Nope. I suspect it's horizontal stripes in black and white...
Gimme a good old Active-X control any day! :-)
Why should I automatically assume that McAfee's prediction is correct? I thought TFA was pretty weak on justifications. Personally, I suspect (predict?) that the top security threats in 2010 will be the same ones as in 2009, 2008 and so on i.e. things like slack coding and QA practices, bad design, poorly implemented security policies, end user gullibility etc. No real reason to assume Adobe or MS or Apple are any better or worse than they were last year.
Heroin was actually an early attempt at "synthmorphine". Didn't work as intended though.
Wow. Some people drink alcohol to celebrate things you know.
Hmm. A competitor perchance?
Move along, nothing to see here.
It's FOX News - what did you expect?
Easy. They were still shrink wrapped.
This being a programmer issue, it's not surprising that the opinions offered are binary. (Music/prattle, quit your job/conform, boss is moron/you're a moron) What about the third way: Silence. You could quite reasonably claim that you need silence to work. Go get some of those largeconspicuous headphones from the eighties and don't hook them up to the music player. When the supervisor growls, dangle the unconnected plug in his face and innocently say all you wanted was to shut out the noise. After a few such incidents you'll be "the weird guy with the headphones", and nobody will notice when you plug in to your music player or switch to a cordless headset or whatever. You can have your music and your job, too! (Whether you want that job in the first place is another story...)
The Samba project and the people who work on it are truly amazing: Consider Tridge's statement that a salvo from the batteries of one the world's largest and most aggressive software corporations is a mere "inconvenience". That should tell us a lot about the power of individuals and open source! Yay! At the same time I wish that Samba was less necessary. I wish that there were good Windows drivers for the many excellent open source distributed file systems etc. that are out there, so that people weren't "forced" to use the crappy Windows protocols to achieve interoperability. Yes, I'm aware of such initiatives but none are as widespread and easy to use as Samba. Unfortunately I'm not smart enough to do anything about the situation.
Aha. Maybe he just did what he had to do: Maybe he had the trunk full of plutonium, illegal child laborers wearing suicide vests or whatever and two years for an assault charge seemed like a bargain all things considered? So his devious plan was to make these basic "mistakes" to foil the law. Seems about as plausible as the bizarre notion of a hair triggered, power abusing, violence prone border guard going off like a maniac. At least it will in a court of law - he's totally screwed.
Wake up people, our laws are broken.
That's a very ambiguous statement. Cool.
Mod points? Wait a sec, is that how it works?
Don't forget the car analogies. Invaluable.
You got your mythology all wrong, dude. It's common knowledge that Alcor invented the Internet and then went on to discover Global Warming.
This must be a great location for a Ray-Ban store!
Sounds like the standard schwag at every tech conference...
Yeah, cat in box is sooo last paradigm. I'd say give them a dog in a box. Then they go "WTF?" and that's how all real important science begins with a complete break with tradition.
True. But by the same token I really doubt that most bribes are taxed no matter what the currency is. ;-) In a way I'd say the real problem is that immense wealth can be created by anybody without really adding commensurate value. Happens in real world as well as in the virtual ones.
Use MySpace!
In reality (no pun intended) virtual currencies really aren't any different than other currencies. They ahve a value, they can be converted back and forth etc. So what's the big hoopla?
It's both actually: According to another recent /. posting women buy vinyl because it's a bit more romantic. Men buy it because they're fucking idiots.