You are running a logical circle. Saying that good and evil are relative is an absolute in and of itself. Now, just because good and evil are absolute, doesn't mean that we KNOW what those absolutes are... our interpretations are relative - "absolutists" think that they "KNOW" the absolute truth. This is the real problem.
And why don't you tell that to all Muslims who live in the US who had NOTHING to do with the attacks. Yet, the attacks where taken out as a "holy war" against the US.
The price hasn't gone up that much. Win2k has gone down in price since it's been out, and it's still almost as much as WinXP. The Win2k pro upgrade is $189 as opposed to the WinXP Pro upgrade at $199. Win ME was $89 upgrade (at Costco I believe. I've seen it for $99 elsewhere). Same with Win98. Inflation's gone up more than that!
Apple supporting USB is what made USB what it is today.
You wish - as much as you may hate it, it wasn't mainstream until M$ caught on. And you're right, firewire is where it's at. We don't need TWO external busses anyway.
The Java toolkits have a lot more functionality and are generally easier to program and more robust than Gtk+.
For us M$ developers, GDI+ (the graphics interface for.NET) seems to be a lot faster than Java, and a bit easier to program. Either way, computers are supposed to be Human Centered, so if the computer has to do more work for the sake of less human work (!= human sloppyness), I'm all for it.
I have used Limewire in the past and I like it a lot, but the CPU load makes me cry.
It's written in Java. Not a flame on Java but it's the truth. The coders are extremely talented and have done an incredible job, but there's only so much you can do (performance wise) for windowed Java apps.
So, go buy a copy, and return it claiming that it doesn't work in your computer player. Seriously, if the returns aren't high enough, they'll keep selling this crappy format.
One thing about Microsoft that you have to understand is that each dept. can be like working at a different company. This being said, multiple dev's that I've talked to have nerf football indoors, sometimes nerf wars, and many times supersoaker fights in the summer. I know someone else who is a Sysadmin for MSN, and although he says the working conditions aren't as good as other departments there, he says that network games (read:CS!) are acceptable to the management.
Personally, when I am grinding over some piece of code, I NEED to have a ping-pong or CS break every once in a while. I think it improves my productivity, and my moral. I figure that as a developer I'm responsible enough to get the job done, and since I spend most of my life at work, I should be allowed to have a life at work.
but rumour has it that the NSA can crack 128bit encryption (read: this has NOTHING to do with key size - a 128bit key or a 1024bit key, it's all the same). From a semi-reliable source the NSA has been funding a massive cryptology group to essentially find mathmatical weeknesses in many of our popular algorithms. Personally, I don't believe this is true, but it makes me think twice. If this is true, the reason this legislation is coming about is because the NSA doesn't share crap with the FBI, and very little with the CIA, and it's the FBI and the CIA that want it all. Food for thought.
Right, I wasn't paying attention to the name, just the arguments. I don't mean to offend you, however, to say that "MS dumped Java", and that "MS allows rampent piracy" so on and so forth is just plain wrong. MS has a HUGE anti-piracy deptartment and Sun and MS settled that MS's VM was illigal! And you have to admit that the entire spirit of your post was not to state facts (even if some of it was factual), but to slam MS.
I'm a.NET developer and recently I've been building solutions using Windows, SQL Server, Etc. I can usually be found defending MS as Slashdot generally has an unfair bias against them. This, however, SHOCKS ME. How many more donations to the EFF do I have to make this year? I used to say MS's biggest weakness (and challange) was it's inherint security problems in Office/Outlook. Now I'll have to tack on truly draconion EULA's.
No, this is not a staw man. It would be if I contended that everything he said in his statements where wrong simply based on the fact that his weakest argument (piracy) was false. Rather, I was simply stating that the vast majority of his post was clearly not factual and would be observed as such by any reasonable person. In light of this, it is a waste of time for me to contest each argument. Instead, I fairly demonstrated how ludicrous his piracy argument was. If one is to make such ludicrous claims, it is apparent to me that they have gone out of thier way to push an agenda, regardless of factual basis.
Well, this is a poorly architected system if they can get your CC# through IIS. ALL web systems should be considered INSECURE, and your data should be secured even if a web server (or any server accessible by the public) was comprimised. Yes, the IIS exploits are embarassing at best, but I would blame the architects for poorly securing the data.
Because the highest volumes of piracy doesn't happen when one of us geeks downloads the copy or borrows it from a friend and get's a serial. The poster was suggesting that MS was flooding the market on purpose by letting mass-piracy takes place. I'm saying, that's BS.
I know. And now that Great Plains has been purchased by MS, most medium to larger sized businesses will be running their ledgers and payroll from MSSQL and MS software. But, hey, why look at the facts?
Money isn't everything. If I had $100 billion, I would still program. Heck, I'd probably program more because I could afford the resources to start my own company and code what I want to code.
Please come back later when you have some facts to present. Oh, and I'd like to see you easily "warez" what's considered the most sophisticated anti-piracy measures in the business (esp. mass piracy via dupped CD's). Time to roll out your holograph printer.
That's why your medical information and bank account passwords aren't going to be in your MS passport. This is designed for e-Commerce and personalized sites not your Online Bank.
Good question. I think that MS should release a PR to developers regarding the planned Kerberos implementation, since in the past "open Kerberos" ment open to all who used their implementation of it!
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You are running a logical circle. Saying that good and evil are relative is an absolute in and of itself. Now, just because good and evil are absolute, doesn't mean that we KNOW what those absolutes are... our interpretations are relative - "absolutists" think that they "KNOW" the absolute truth. This is the real problem.
And why don't you tell that to all Muslims who live in the US who had NOTHING to do with the attacks. Yet, the attacks where taken out as a "holy war" against the US.
I mod your post:
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Right. But if good and evil are relative, then who's to say that murder is wrong? It's all relative right?
The price hasn't gone up that much. Win2k has gone down in price since it's been out, and it's still almost as much as WinXP. The Win2k pro upgrade is $189 as opposed to the WinXP Pro upgrade at $199. Win ME was $89 upgrade (at Costco I believe. I've seen it for $99 elsewhere). Same with Win98. Inflation's gone up more than that!
Apple supporting USB is what made USB what it is today.
You wish - as much as you may hate it, it wasn't mainstream until M$ caught on. And you're right, firewire is where it's at. We don't need TWO external busses anyway.
Just because you can't _SEE_ structural damage doesn't mean that there isn't any.
The Java toolkits have a lot more functionality and are generally easier to program and more robust than Gtk+.
.NET) seems to be a lot faster than Java, and a bit easier to program. Either way, computers are supposed to be Human Centered, so if the computer has to do more work for the sake of less human work (!= human sloppyness), I'm all for it.
For us M$ developers, GDI+ (the graphics interface for
I have used Limewire in the past and I like it a lot, but the CPU load makes me cry.
It's written in Java. Not a flame on Java but it's the truth. The coders are extremely talented and have done an incredible job, but there's only so much you can do (performance wise) for windowed Java apps.
wonder if cdrom.com can now break there previous trafic record ([they're] the holder of the title 'max trafic in a day right?)
I think that fileplanet.com has them beat. They claim to have done over 20TB of traffic in less than one week.
Wolfconfig.cfg:
// generated by quake, do not modify
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So, go buy a copy, and return it claiming that it doesn't work in your computer player. Seriously, if the returns aren't high enough, they'll keep selling this crappy format.
One thing about Microsoft that you have to understand is that each dept. can be like working at a different company. This being said, multiple dev's that I've talked to have nerf football indoors, sometimes nerf wars, and many times supersoaker fights in the summer. I know someone else who is a Sysadmin for MSN, and although he says the working conditions aren't as good as other departments there, he says that network games (read:CS!) are acceptable to the management.
Personally, when I am grinding over some piece of code, I NEED to have a ping-pong or CS break every once in a while. I think it improves my productivity, and my moral. I figure that as a developer I'm responsible enough to get the job done, and since I spend most of my life at work, I should be allowed to have a life at work.
but rumour has it that the NSA can crack 128bit encryption (read: this has NOTHING to do with key size - a 128bit key or a 1024bit key, it's all the same). From a semi-reliable source the NSA has been funding a massive cryptology group to essentially find mathmatical weeknesses in many of our popular algorithms. Personally, I don't believe this is true, but it makes me think twice. If this is true, the reason this legislation is coming about is because the NSA doesn't share crap with the FBI, and very little with the CIA, and it's the FBI and the CIA that want it all. Food for thought.
Right, I wasn't paying attention to the name, just the arguments. I don't mean to offend you, however, to say that "MS dumped Java", and that "MS allows rampent piracy" so on and so forth is just plain wrong. MS has a HUGE anti-piracy deptartment and Sun and MS settled that MS's VM was illigal! And you have to admit that the entire spirit of your post was not to state facts (even if some of it was factual), but to slam MS.
I'm a .NET developer and recently I've been building solutions using Windows, SQL Server, Etc. I can usually be found defending MS as Slashdot generally has an unfair bias against them. This, however, SHOCKS ME. How many more donations to the EFF do I have to make this year? I used to say MS's biggest weakness (and challange) was it's inherint security problems in Office/Outlook. Now I'll have to tack on truly draconion EULA's.
No, this is not a staw man. It would be if I contended that everything he said in his statements where wrong simply based on the fact that his weakest argument (piracy) was false. Rather, I was simply stating that the vast majority of his post was clearly not factual and would be observed as such by any reasonable person. In light of this, it is a waste of time for me to contest each argument. Instead, I fairly demonstrated how ludicrous his piracy argument was. If one is to make such ludicrous claims, it is apparent to me that they have gone out of thier way to push an agenda, regardless of factual basis.
Well, this is a poorly architected system if they can get your CC# through IIS. ALL web systems should be considered INSECURE, and your data should be secured even if a web server (or any server accessible by the public) was comprimised. Yes, the IIS exploits are embarassing at best, but I would blame the architects for poorly securing the data.
Because the highest volumes of piracy doesn't happen when one of us geeks downloads the copy or borrows it from a friend and get's a serial. The poster was suggesting that MS was flooding the market on purpose by letting mass-piracy takes place. I'm saying, that's BS.
I know. And now that Great Plains has been purchased by MS, most medium to larger sized businesses will be running their ledgers and payroll from MSSQL and MS software. But, hey, why look at the facts?
Score: -1 Flamebait
Money isn't everything. If I had $100 billion, I would still program. Heck, I'd probably program more because I could afford the resources to start my own company and code what I want to code.
Please come back later when you have some facts to present. Oh, and I'd like to see you easily "warez" what's considered the most sophisticated anti-piracy measures in the business (esp. mass piracy via dupped CD's). Time to roll out your holograph printer.
That's why your medical information and bank account passwords aren't going to be in your MS passport. This is designed for e-Commerce and personalized sites not your Online Bank.
Good question. I think that MS should release a PR to developers regarding the planned Kerberos implementation, since in the past "open Kerberos" ment open to all who used their implementation of it!
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
If someone performs a DDOS on a lot of major POPs PNAPs and it inturrupts communication and kills the patient is the script kiddie up for murder?