Re:Why there are so many MSFT minions today
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The increase of trolls in the last few days probably has to do with a bunch of bored kiddies at the end of summer break who decided to get their jollies on Linux related/friendly web boards because of all the attention from the Red Hat IPO.
They'll probably go away in a week or so when school starts up.
I'm interested in modern security not this crap encryption that's built into Linux.
Two problems with this statement:
If you're the same person (as I suspect you are) who's posted 20 or so times on this thread, completely off-topic, then you must think NT is a shining example of "modern security". NT does several things well, but security is not one of those things.
More importantly, Enigma has nothing at all to do with Linux.
And anonymous posting should remain as we don't all have the time to register.
But you have time to post a couple dozen off-topic rants? Though of course you're not bothering to actually read anything here, so you are saving some time there...
The funniest (and most clueless) Y2K comment I remember was a headline in a tabloid I saw while waiting to check out at the drug store. I went something like:
Cold War Fallout: Did the Russians plant the Y2K bug?
From what I can tell, the people actually writing code aren't doing it simply because it's "cool" or "hip" -- they're doing it out of a need for the software and a love of writing it.
If/when Linux gets "bogged down" because of mass-market concerns (and this is really more of a distribution issue than a kernal issue anyway) then the response won't be to abandon their work, it will be to fork a new development branch.
Also, expect to see new tools replacing old ones as people try to redesign what they think is "broken" about the older tool (e.g., Berlin as an X replacement) -- this logic extends to the kernal itself. Do you honestly expect that hackers are just going to abandon their code bases and start all over simply because a lot of people who aren't "elite" or "cool" happen to use it? No, starting over is saved for when a fundemental overhaul is called for, not because of "coolness".
Is this universal? No, and no more so than saying that Linux will be left behind. As others have pointed out, most of the work is done on software that actually isn't Linux-specific. The GIMP will still be the GIMP on *BSD or *NIX or BeOS or whatever, maybe requiring a little porting, but that's all.
That's the major reason that the KDE and GNOME projects are working on cross-compatibility issues right now. Over time, the experiences of these efforts will lead to a standard way of interfacing between desktop environments.
The commercials are for ESPN's own shows (I believe especially the ESPN-2 shows). The dust-puppy there is supposed to be the viewer's "knowledge", which grows as he (I haven't seen one yet for a femaile viewer) watches more shows like NHL2Nite or RPM2Nite.
The viewer then takes his "knowledge" out to the local sports bar or something to impress the other loser^H^H^H^H^Hpatrons there.
As for number two, that is one of the approaches specifically indicated in The Mythical Man Month. I was extrapolating from the concepts of the book. I apologize if I made it sound differently.
The ironic thing is that your message signature (eating an elephant one bite at a time) answers your question about why it's too much of a hassle to simply delete these mails. Spam isn't going away overnight and will probably never go completely away. But every incremental move to oppose major violators eventually will lead close to the seemingly unattainable goal...
He's also done the narration for quite a few industrial films, too.
My favorite part about Monty Python, other than their tendency to skewer anybody and anything, is that they didn't "dumb down" a lot of the material, or assuming their audience were a bunch of idiots. There are a lot of references to history, art, and philosophy that you just don't see in comedy from anyone else...
"I want a Last Supper with no trampoline acts, no mariachi bands, no jugglers, only 12 disciples, and one Christ." "ONE?!?!" "Yes. What in God's name possessed you to make this painting with THREE Christs in it?" "It WORKS, mate. The fat one balances out the two skinny ones..."
This is a tad harsh, and is a common misconception. It may have wound up as an investigation about an affair, but it was started because it was similar/related to the ongoing investigation of Web Hubbell. The common element was that witnesses in both cases were allegedly pressured or bribed into not cooperating or into perjuring themselves.
Change "very hard" to impossible, and remmeber that such decisions have utility to somebody, regardless of who the stated beneficiaries are...
For typical consumer use, you'd just try to scale this up to a mini-disc or CD size. As several people have pointed out, it's a good tradeoff of portable vs. large enough to not lose easily.
However, I can see penny-sized (or smaller) disks in embedded applications as a very nice thing indeed, assuming that the drive can be made small, too...
Actually, if you are going to use a gun for up-close personal defense, (and I'm assuming from a defensive position like your home where weight and concealment are not issues) I'd say your best bet is a shotgun, preferably a semi-automatic.
With a shotgun, you don't have to be too terribly accurate to ruin a would-be attacker's day... of course, the range sucks -- but that shouldn't be a concern.
They're required by law to explain the risks to potential investors. If Red Hat(or any other public offering) fails to do so, and the stock takes a nose dive, the cries of "fraud" will be loud and immediate.
Ever read a prospectus for a stock or mutual fund? It's a listing of all the reasons you shouldn't buy the stock...
Brooks' Law (named after Richard brooks, the author of The Mythical Man-Month, the best book on software management ever written) basically says communications complexity increases exponentially (or is that geometrically?) with the number of developers.
The practical upshot is that the larger the team, the more productivity is lost to the overhead of dealing with other people. Therefore, the best software is typically written by very, very small teams (or often, single people).
It's not hopeless, however, to have large teams working effectively. If the project is modular and parallel enough, the team is broken in several smaller teams (and further subdivided, as necessary), each responsible for a subset of the system. The sub-team leads are responsible for coordinating with the other sub-team leads to keep the project coherent. This requires the sub-team leads to be a manager as well as a developer.
I'm not sure this is what the original poster meant, but it's true that all those things are said by so-called "journalists" about Linux. Obviously they can't all be true.
Well, actually they can, but only from a variety of reference points. One author couldn't state all of them at the same time. Whether any of them are actually true depends entirely on your own personal viewpoint and expectations. There will always be someone who can defend any of those statements about anything, let alone Linux.
I was sorry to hear about the plane accident, but I quickly became frustrated and annoyed about hearing it over and over again, everytime I went within a mile of a news source.
There are two predominant type of reactions to this type of story. I share one of them -- initially shock/grief/sadness/reflection/whatever follow by resentment as the story continues to get all of the coverage, despite a total lack of information.
The second, and more prevalent, reaction is the total immersion in the story, and the reaction the Katz writes about above. To be honest, I'm totally perplexed by this type of reaction. I honestly don't "get" what drives people to hang on every frame/article related to the incident in question.
Moreover, the comparisons between Kennedy and Diana Spencer are a little overblown, though I fully expected them. Diana was a much more prominent public figure than Kennedy ever was... but wait, I forgot... he was a Kennedy® which automatically qualified him for godhood in America, it seems. Even still, I was sick of the Diana coverage, especially when a person truly deserving of admiration, Mother Theresa, died at the same time with barely a passing reference.
I felt like a 12 year old, at least that seemed to me to be their target audience's education level.
Sounds about right. I seem to recall that the average US newspaper is written to be read by a person with a 6th-grade reading level (normal 12-year old). It doesn't surprise me that a TV news (especially a "news magazine") broadcast would have the same target, or one even lower.
I don't understand this sentence. Yes, the mail is stored on the server in a closed, proprietary format. Who cares what particular database they used to store messages on the server? All that matters to the end user is how they access the messages. I think computer people call that an abstract data type.
One of the problems is that if you ever decide to migrate to another mail tool for any reason, your old mailbox is unable to be simply copied over to the new tool.
Abstract data types are good. Abstract data types whose interfaces adhere to open standards are much better.
It was a smaller loss than was projected for them, and much of it can be written off as investing in the fabrication process for the K7 line (sorry, I think "Athalon" is just too cheesy...) -- their Q3 and Q4 numbers should be very interesting.
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They'll probably go away in a week or so when school starts up.
Two problems with this statement:
And anonymous posting should remain as we don't all have the time to register.
But you have time to post a couple dozen off-topic rants? Though of course you're not bothering to actually read anything here, so you are saving some time there...
Go home, troll.
Cold War Fallout: Did the Russians plant the Y2K bug?
Oh... never mind...
If/when Linux gets "bogged down" because of mass-market concerns (and this is really more of a distribution issue than a kernal issue anyway) then the response won't be to abandon their work, it will be to fork a new development branch.
Also, expect to see new tools replacing old ones as people try to redesign what they think is "broken" about the older tool (e.g., Berlin as an X replacement) -- this logic extends to the kernal itself. Do you honestly expect that hackers are just going to abandon their code bases and start all over simply because a lot of people who aren't "elite" or "cool" happen to use it? No, starting over is saved for when a fundemental overhaul is called for, not because of "coolness".
Is this universal? No, and no more so than saying that Linux will be left behind. As others have pointed out, most of the work is done on software that actually isn't Linux-specific. The GIMP will still be the GIMP on *BSD or *NIX or BeOS or whatever, maybe requiring a little porting, but that's all.
The viewer then takes his "knowledge" out to the local sports bar or something to impress the other loser^H^H^H^H^Hpatrons there.
Actually, it was Tom Clancy, not Grisham...
As for number two, that is one of the approaches specifically indicated in The Mythical Man Month. I was extrapolating from the concepts of the book. I apologize if I made it sound differently.
The ironic thing is that your message signature (eating an elephant one bite at a time) answers your question about why it's too much of a hassle to simply delete these mails. Spam isn't going away overnight and will probably never go completely away. But every incremental move to oppose major violators eventually will lead close to the seemingly unattainable goal...
My favorite part about Monty Python, other than their tendency to skewer anybody and anything, is that they didn't "dumb down" a lot of the material, or assuming their audience were a bunch of idiots. There are a lot of references to history, art, and philosophy that you just don't see in comedy from anyone else...
"I want a Last Supper with no trampoline acts, no mariachi bands, no jugglers, only 12 disciples, and one Christ."
"ONE?!?!"
"Yes. What in God's name possessed you to make this painting with THREE Christs in it?"
"It WORKS, mate. The fat one balances out the two skinny ones..."
For typical consumer use, you'd just try to scale this up to a mini-disc or CD size. As several people have pointed out, it's a good tradeoff of portable vs. large enough to not lose easily.
However, I can see penny-sized (or smaller) disks in embedded applications as a very nice thing indeed, assuming that the drive can be made small, too...
With a shotgun, you don't have to be too terribly accurate to ruin a would-be attacker's day... of course, the range sucks -- but that shouldn't be a concern.
Ever read a prospectus for a stock or mutual fund? It's a listing of all the reasons you shouldn't buy the stock...
The practical upshot is that the larger the team, the more productivity is lost to the overhead of dealing with other people. Therefore, the best software is typically written by very, very small teams (or often, single people).
It's not hopeless, however, to have large teams working effectively. If the project is modular and parallel enough, the team is broken in several smaller teams (and further subdivided, as necessary), each responsible for a subset of the system. The sub-team leads are responsible for coordinating with the other sub-team leads to keep the project coherent. This requires the sub-team leads to be a manager as well as a developer.
Well, actually they can, but only from a variety of reference points. One author couldn't state all of them at the same time. Whether any of them are actually true depends entirely on your own personal viewpoint and expectations. There will always be someone who can defend any of those statements about anything, let alone Linux.
There are two predominant type of reactions to this type of story. I share one of them -- initially shock/grief/sadness/reflection/whatever follow by resentment as the story continues to get all of the coverage, despite a total lack of information.
The second, and more prevalent, reaction is the total immersion in the story, and the reaction the Katz writes about above. To be honest, I'm totally perplexed by this type of reaction. I honestly don't "get" what drives people to hang on every frame/article related to the incident in question.
Moreover, the comparisons between Kennedy and Diana Spencer are a little overblown, though I fully expected them. Diana was a much more prominent public figure than Kennedy ever was... but wait, I forgot... he was a Kennedy® which automatically qualified him for godhood in America, it seems. Even still, I was sick of the Diana coverage, especially when a person truly deserving of admiration, Mother Theresa, died at the same time with barely a passing reference.
Sounds about right. I seem to recall that the average US newspaper is written to be read by a person with a 6th-grade reading level (normal 12-year old). It doesn't surprise me that a TV news (especially a "news magazine") broadcast would have the same target, or one even lower.
One of the problems is that if you ever decide to migrate to another mail tool for any reason, your old mailbox is unable to be simply copied over to the new tool.
Abstract data types are good. Abstract data types whose interfaces adhere to open standards are much better.
It was a smaller loss than was projected for them, and much of it can be written off as investing in the fabrication process for the K7 line (sorry, I think "Athalon" is just too cheesy...) -- their Q3 and Q4 numbers should be very interesting.