Basing it on one company with a hundred employees is essentially out of thin air, especially because whenever it is convenient to his "argument" he stresses that companies don't count because Apple focuses on consumer computers. His made up figure of an average two year lifespan for consumer PCs is laughable.
There are tons of consumers (like my dad) who buy a new computer maybe every four or five years. There are very few consumers who buy a new computer every six months or year. There is no way the average lifespan of a consumer PC before it gets thrown away is two years.
I also lol'd at his claim that even out of PCs that do make it to the geriatric age of three years, "a large portion of these older PCs are now running Linux".
Marketshare is by far the most relevant thing. There is a huge black market in IE vulnerabilities. If you find an unknown exploit, you can sell it to people who want to use it to set up spam botnets or make money installing spyware or whatever. So crackers make a living finding IE exploits. No one is doing that for Firefox because there is no money in it. If there were as many people running Firefox on Windows as IE, people would be willing to pay as much for exploits and then the good crackers would actually be looking for them.
Keep in mind that one product where open source has more market share is web browsers, and Apache 2 has had way more vulnerabilities found and patched than IIS 6.
I agree. VB.net is more or less C# with a different syntax, so given that Mono had C# working, it is not that surprising or impressive that they were also able to get VB.net. Still cool though.
It's sort of silly to say that the fact that the guy is PM makes him sort of super authority. It's not as if he has a high-ranking position (VP, PUM). For all we know, he was just hired out of college last week; hell, there are PM interns.
Status didn't magically become a reserved word in IE7. The variable 'status' refers to the status bar in IE7 just like it did in IE6. IE7 doesn't let script fuck with the status bar anymore (which is good), so the status variable is now read-only. If you were storing random information by saving it in the status bar object (the status variable), then your app is going to have problems in IE7, but really you shouldn't have been doing that in the first place.
Apple are progressively upgrading the OS having smaller releases. Microsoft does exactly the same thing. The last upgrade for XP (SP2) was about a year and a half ago. The difference is that they don't charge $100 for it.
while not successful()
for i=1 to 254
spank (module old code with randomized address prediction)
next i;/*next spank
The goal is to prevent you from exploiting the machine by getting it run your code. If you have somehow gotten this "new code" running, then the game is already over.
why make the window bigger if it is to show more whitespace and keep you from dragging content to/from an other Window? Because it doesn't "keep me from dragging content". Maximizing is only for the current monitor. The content I want to drag is on my other monitor.
So I should be able to ask my employer to start paying me by transferring me money on Second Life and I won't need to pay income tax anymore? What if eBay added an option to let you send someone "eBay points" and also had an option to convert those points to and from USD at a 1:1 ratio. Should I really be able to get paid that way and avoid the normal taxes?
And we all know what Microsoft doesn't make available to the developers : the source code and the ability to fix it/keep it whenever needed... You are saying that people writing "click once and run" applications for my browser should be able to "fix" the.NET CLR however they want and run on their own custom version of it? Do you really not see how that undermines any possibility of this model being secure? Not to mention the entire concept of a "common" virtual machine platform?
game companies are now incapable of producing games so good you'd spend days of your life crusing and screaming in frustration and still count the game as amoung the best you've ever played. They simply cannot do it anymore. Go beat Master Mode Extra in Super Monkey Ball 2 and then come back and tell me this.
Not everyone can afford to live somewhere with a basement/ garage. In a small apartment with limited closet space, it doesn't make sense to keep around 15 year old computers that you never use.
The need for combinatory patents was best explained by George Carlin: "If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you".
You want to murder someone for commiting a murder? That makes you (or the state, rather) just as bad. So what about if he had imprisoned his mother in a cell for several years? Should the state not be able to give him jail time for it because it would be "just as bad"?
That gives you a weird hybrid registration containing the dlls from whichever cab you unpacked along with the registry info for the version you actually have installed.
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I think the tag was originally embraceextend and then some other group decided to embrace and extend it.
Basing it on one company with a hundred employees is essentially out of thin air, especially because whenever it is convenient to his "argument" he stresses that companies don't count because Apple focuses on consumer computers. His made up figure of an average two year lifespan for consumer PCs is laughable.
There are tons of consumers (like my dad) who buy a new computer maybe every four or five years. There are very few consumers who buy a new computer every six months or year. There is no way the average lifespan of a consumer PC before it gets thrown away is two years.
I also lol'd at his claim that even out of PCs that do make it to the geriatric age of three years, "a large portion of these older PCs are now running Linux".
Marketshare is by far the most relevant thing. There is a huge black market in IE vulnerabilities. If you find an unknown exploit, you can sell it to people who want to use it to set up spam botnets or make money installing spyware or whatever. So crackers make a living finding IE exploits. No one is doing that for Firefox because there is no money in it. If there were as many people running Firefox on Windows as IE, people would be willing to pay as much for exploits and then the good crackers would actually be looking for them.
Keep in mind that one product where open source has more market share is web browsers, and Apache 2 has had way more vulnerabilities found and patched than IIS 6.
I agree. VB.net is more or less C# with a different syntax, so given that Mono had C# working, it is not that surprising or impressive that they were also able to get VB.net. Still cool though.
Agreed. Disliking advertising is pretty mainstream.
Thanks for the clarification.
It's sort of silly to say that the fact that the guy is PM makes him sort of super authority. It's not as if he has a high-ranking position (VP, PUM). For all we know, he was just hired out of college last week; hell, there are PM interns.
It's only an iPod replacement if you have less than 8 gb of music and video.
Status didn't magically become a reserved word in IE7. The variable 'status' refers to the status bar in IE7 just like it did in IE6. IE7 doesn't let script fuck with the status bar anymore (which is good), so the status variable is now read-only. If you were storing random information by saving it in the status bar object (the status variable), then your app is going to have problems in IE7, but really you shouldn't have been doing that in the first place.
Or perhaps Crossfire?
for i=1 to 254
spank (module old code with randomized address prediction)
next i;
The goal is to prevent you from exploiting the machine by getting it run your code. If you have somehow gotten this "new code" running, then the game is already over.
They're morally obligated to obtain someone's medical records before deciding whether to sue?
But I want cake and pie :(
So I should be able to ask my employer to start paying me by transferring me money on Second Life and I won't need to pay income tax anymore? What if eBay added an option to let you send someone "eBay points" and also had an option to convert those points to and from USD at a 1:1 ratio. Should I really be able to get paid that way and avoid the normal taxes?
The Sonic Game for DS (Sonic Rush) was quite good also. Not as good as Mario, but a fun old school Sonic game that certainly worth the $20.
Not everyone can afford to live somewhere with a basement/ garage. In a small apartment with limited closet space, it doesn't make sense to keep around 15 year old computers that you never use.
The need for combinatory patents was best explained by George Carlin: "If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you".
You want to murder someone for commiting a murder? That makes you (or the state, rather) just as bad.
So what about if he had imprisoned his mother in a cell for several years? Should the state not be able to give him jail time for it because it would be "just as bad"?
Sorry, that was supposed to be "hybrid version".
That gives you a weird hybrid registration containing the dlls from whichever cab you unpacked along with the registry info for the version you actually have installed.