MS just loves to accelerate the hardware upgrade cycle, don't they?
I played my Atari 2600 from 1981, when I got it, until 1988, when I finally got an NES. And in 1981, the console was already several years on the market. It finally quit working in 1990-91. I bet, if I still had it today, that I could probably repair it, too. Damn that was a solid machine.
$50,000 might be the cost of the disaster recovery + lost opportunity. It's probably NOT the cost of adequate prevention. It depends on what they mean by 'securing' -- once you're already compromised, it's going to be much more expensive as compared with the cost of being protected already.
How can they do a Total Cost of Ownership study when you can never truly own a Microsoft OS machine?
You never really OWN a Microsoft OS machine -- you may own the hardware, sure, but you merely license the use of the OS.
A Linux system, by contrast, allows you to actually own and modify the system, with the only restriction being that if you distribute modified GPL'd code, that you make the source available.
Isn't that inherently better than licensning the use-but-not-own?
You're right. Thanks for catching that one. We've amended it now, so it should be accurate. For your review:
"liberty and justice for all*
* Except for those living in Puerto Rico, Guatemala, the Virgin Islands, Guantanamo Bay, China, Syria, any temporarily designated 'Free Speech Zones' and, of course, Norway."
That's why I made my resume a flat text file that was well suited for importing into a database. Submitted in printed form, I used courier with no fancy formatting so that it wouldn't screw up an OCR scan. I got a lot of "hits" that way.
So, it's amazing this skill set is not available, because now they'll have to export the job offshore where apparently all the IT workers have this skill set.
Not exactly, but the 6 guys who do have those skills combined will still cost 1/2 as much as the American.
A few of those problems you mention are not the sort of problems that will be solved simply by throwing more speed at them (though more speed won't hurt and may help). AI, for example, is hampered because the problem still hasn't been properly understood or defined.
Give it another 6 months, then it'll be a great server/workstation solution
Not if enough early adopters don't adopt RIGHT NOW. If you warn everyone off buying the technology today, who'll be your early adopters? Somebody's got to show up to prove there's a market, otherwise AMD64 will be just like Itanium or Alpha -- a good idea that never really caught on. Obviously, it's going to get better over time as the technology matures. And maybe the smart thing for some people is to wait for that maturity. But AMD needs customers today, and if you want to be able to be their customer today, SOME people are going to need to support them now.
My Titanium and Platinum edition software isn't really made out of Titanium or Platinum, either. What a gyp. I thought the CDs would be made out of superior metals, and here they're just the same old standard foil you get with any other commercially pressed CD. Bleaugh.
Thanks for the cogent counter-point. I find a lot of the time when technophiles rant against user-hostile "features" like registration and software keys, someone usually responds with a plausible real-world example of how some common and non-malicious practice exists (such as my car keys and title analogy) which no one seems particularly threatened by or upset about, and which makes the technophile argument sound ridiculous. Good job on refuting my counterpoint.
They make you take keys and a certificate of title when you purchase a car, too. This doesn't imply that you're a criminal, rather it proves that you're the owner and protects you against thefts.
You might not think this makes much sense when dealing with software and installation media, but when dealing with user accounts for a multiplayer online game, it starts to make sense. So it depends on the sort of game you buy and the business model the company is using when they sell it to you -- are they selling binaries? or are they selling subscriptions to a service?
In CounterStrike, you can shoot full-auto. It's just that the opportunities to fire may only come every 30 seconds, and if you mash the trigger you'll run out of ammo before you ever see anyone.
In a pre-WWI game, you would have plenty of opportunities to fire more than once every 30 seconds in a typical full-on battle, but your weapon wouldn't support much more than a shot every 20-30 seconds. The weapons back then were single-shot and you had to manually reload essentially by assembling the bullet on the spot.
It'd have its charm to it, I suppose, especially if the reloading was a player task and not just a cycled script of graphics, but I don't know that I'd want to play that way all that much.
Considering you can get *BSD for free, and all the value it provides, surely $100 for a logo design isn't asking too much. If they were going to hire a professional graphic artist for that much, sure it'd be a lowball price. But for volunteers submitting what essentially amounts to a "patch" for some bit of outdated IP which will then be shared freely with the world, how is that asking too much for too little in return?
It gets worse than that when you stop to consider just how slow most people type! I know most g33ks are wizards at the keyboard, but most normal people can't type much faster than 50 wpm or so, and that's if they're good... At those rates, it'll take a several lifetimes to fill up 1TB.
I think you basically chmod the bacteria so that they have executable rights, but selectively so that they can only execute when located in/dev/stomach. They can't even be written to other areas unless something catastrophic happens such as an appendix overflow exploit or a gut wound attack.
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MOD PARENT UP, I have ALWAYS thought this!
MS just loves to accelerate the hardware upgrade cycle, don't they?
I played my Atari 2600 from 1981, when I got it, until 1988, when I finally got an NES. And in 1981, the console was already several years on the market. It finally quit working in 1990-91. I bet, if I still had it today, that I could probably repair it, too. Damn that was a solid machine.
$50,000 might be the cost of the disaster recovery + lost opportunity. It's probably NOT the cost of adequate prevention. It depends on what they mean by 'securing' -- once you're already compromised, it's going to be much more expensive as compared with the cost of being protected already.
Even more shocking is that the NYT reporter didn't immediately attempt to patent searching for common misspellings as a business method.
How can they do a Total Cost of Ownership study when you can never truly own a Microsoft OS machine?
You never really OWN a Microsoft OS machine -- you may own the hardware, sure, but you merely license the use of the OS.
A Linux system, by contrast, allows you to actually own and modify the system, with the only restriction being that if you distribute modified GPL'd code, that you make the source available.
Isn't that inherently better than licensning the use-but-not-own?
You're right. Thanks for catching that one. We've amended it now, so it should be accurate. For your review:
"liberty and justice for all*
* Except for those living in Puerto Rico, Guatemala, the Virgin Islands, Guantanamo Bay, China, Syria, any temporarily designated 'Free Speech Zones' and, of course, Norway."
Better?
Beware, the Blue Knight of Death approacheth!
I'm glad it's that part, and not the part that says the PATRIOT Act will expire. It'd suck if that part got ruled unconstitutional.
That's why I made my resume a flat text file that was well suited for importing into a database. Submitted in printed form, I used courier with no fancy formatting so that it wouldn't screw up an OCR scan. I got a lot of "hits" that way.
10 years experience in java programming required
Well, that's a great way to weed out the dipshits who can't parse binary...
So, it's amazing this skill set is not available, because now they'll have to export the job offshore where apparently all the IT workers have this skill set.
Not exactly, but the 6 guys who do have those skills combined will still cost 1/2 as much as the American.
A few of those problems you mention are not the sort of problems that will be solved simply by throwing more speed at them (though more speed won't hurt and may help). AI, for example, is hampered because the problem still hasn't been properly understood or defined.
Give it another 6 months, then it'll be a great server/workstation solution
Not if enough early adopters don't adopt RIGHT NOW. If you warn everyone off buying the technology today, who'll be your early adopters? Somebody's got to show up to prove there's a market, otherwise AMD64 will be just like Itanium or Alpha -- a good idea that never really caught on. Obviously, it's going to get better over time as the technology matures. And maybe the smart thing for some people is to wait for that maturity. But AMD needs customers today, and if you want to be able to be their customer today, SOME people are going to need to support them now.
Some people may actually build several computers at once.
Others may screw up and have to try it again.
Still others may be obsessive compulsive weenies and constantly swap heatsinks trying to get 1 degree cooler.
But mainly it's probably not any cheaper for them to package the stuff in any smaller quantity, so there's no point in packaging it smaller.
Seal the tube and re-use it. Just check to make sure it hasn't gone bad in the meantime.
My Titanium and Platinum edition software isn't really made out of Titanium or Platinum, either. What a gyp. I thought the CDs would be made out of superior metals, and here they're just the same old standard foil you get with any other commercially pressed CD. Bleaugh.
Thanks for the cogent counter-point. I find a lot of the time when technophiles rant against user-hostile "features" like registration and software keys, someone usually responds with a plausible real-world example of how some common and non-malicious practice exists (such as my car keys and title analogy) which no one seems particularly threatened by or upset about, and which makes the technophile argument sound ridiculous. Good job on refuting my counterpoint.
They make you take keys and a certificate of title when you purchase a car, too. This doesn't imply that you're a criminal, rather it proves that you're the owner and protects you against thefts.
You might not think this makes much sense when dealing with software and installation media, but when dealing with user accounts for a multiplayer online game, it starts to make sense. So it depends on the sort of game you buy and the business model the company is using when they sell it to you -- are they selling binaries? or are they selling subscriptions to a service?
In CounterStrike, you can shoot full-auto. It's just that the opportunities to fire may only come every 30 seconds, and if you mash the trigger you'll run out of ammo before you ever see anyone.
In a pre-WWI game, you would have plenty of opportunities to fire more than once every 30 seconds in a typical full-on battle, but your weapon wouldn't support much more than a shot every 20-30 seconds. The weapons back then were single-shot and you had to manually reload essentially by assembling the bullet on the spot.
It'd have its charm to it, I suppose, especially if the reloading was a player task and not just a cycled script of graphics, but I don't know that I'd want to play that way all that much.
Considering you can get *BSD for free, and all the value it provides, surely $100 for a logo design isn't asking too much. If they were going to hire a professional graphic artist for that much, sure it'd be a lowball price. But for volunteers submitting what essentially amounts to a "patch" for some bit of outdated IP which will then be shared freely with the world, how is that asking too much for too little in return?
It gets worse than that when you stop to consider just how slow most people type! I know most g33ks are wizards at the keyboard, but most normal people can't type much faster than 50 wpm or so, and that's if they're good... At those rates, it'll take a several lifetimes to fill up 1TB.
That's interesting as well.
/dev/stomach. They can't even be written to other areas unless something catastrophic happens such as an appendix overflow exploit or a gut wound attack.
I think you basically chmod the bacteria so that they have executable rights, but selectively so that they can only execute when located in
Yeah, definitely useless. If they didn't include the "feature" that prevents counterfeiting, EVERYTHING would get a lot cheaper.
They actually liked my suggestion! Way to go, Scott!
HA-ha!
Would X-Terminating humans mean sending them to an X-Terminal? That's not sooo bad....