Worse it should not be legal in the first place for such an extreme eula. Many spyware programs from 180networks already do not have an euala and just come bundled.
If we had an eula where the user agreed to be held as a slave would that be legal too? I think not.
What is next? Drm that will rewrite your bios and turn your pc into an expensive doorstop for copyright violation?
As if spyware itself is miraculiously legal and now we have this? Rootkits and spyware programs that append to windows in the mbr so even a reinstall wont delete thim IS TOO FAR!
I agree with a previous poster that is should be a criminal offense the same catagory as spypainting someones house or breaking an entry. Why do we allow this crap to be legal?
Its time we wrote our elected officials and inform them about what is happening and about Sony's drm and demand civil and criminal responsibility for malware makers. I dont care if its the CEO of some company spraypainting my house vs a teenage kid. Its still illegal and Sony should be held accountable.
I was reading on cnn about the drop of ecommerce even though there is still a rise in internet usage. This is due to all the spyware/scams/malware that is infecting pc's at record rates. This is killing out economy and many companies such as Google, Amazon, and Ebay are already getting hit with their wallets over these scams.
Lets organize and make a difference. This is a slippery slope and I fear what is coming next.
Like the other poster mentioned, speed is not an issue on a j2ee server. It's sql access times that equal the main bottleneck.
A j2ee http server is much faster than a regular http server running cgi scripts. The reason for this is that a java http server uses teh same engine for the java code and not a call to a seperate userspace program. In contrast Cgi scripts need to be passed to and from the http server. This could add up in a busy server with alot of hits with dynamic content.
The exceptions to this are asp and php because they are used in html itself and execute inside the http engine.
Java is also used because it has a great api that is deep, mature, and well rounded. There are classes for pretty much everything and it comes with lots of features. They are well written and mature unlike php which quality varies drastically on what you use. Java has great networking performance and security and is supurb for ecommerce applitions. Many companies also develop software for java servlets that make deploying and creating a java commerce site easy.
So if your a busy looking to minimize downtime, need security, need performance to handle alot of hits, and support for commerce and credit card payment clases than Java is your language.
If its from a trusted user on your friendslist I can see why someone would click it. Usually I know better but if I were having a conversation with someone on my buddies list and this link popped up talking about pics I would be tempted to click on it.
From a stranger its a different story.
ITs classic social engineering and I dont think users are stupid if the worm propogates via the buddylist.
Still got reinfected because a restore cd wont fdisk/mbr the infected data. Spyware makers do this so even a complete windows reinstallation wont clean off their warez.
Try explaining that to grandma? After all her antivirus software said nothing was installed right?
Explaining about api's only makes you look incompentant if your an It professional because your not speaking down to their language to build confidence.
I had a rootkit last month. Nothing could get rid of it but a full fdisk/mbr where I lost everything. It was MBR based and would append itself when running windows which made it nearly impossible to delete.
Watch as spyware makers do this in the future to prevent anyone from deleting their wares.
It was when I worked one summer at Bucsh Gardens in Tampa. I looked for the ghost and couldn't find it and asked alot of employees about it.
Rumor has it that Crown Colony house is haunted with a little girl who choked on some chicken a few decades ago on the third floor. She can be seen towards halloween waving to guests and is occionsally reported by employees at other times of the year.
I asked about this from people who worked at the Crown Colony house and results were mixed. More likely rumors but one security supervisor who refuses to go in at night said he hired an African Vodooist as a security guard. He can hear hear spirits and said heard the cries of a girl. Also plates have moved and the beer fountains occasionally go off on their own with no explanation.
The other is an appiration of a someone lieing down ona bench near the old brewery at the hospitality house. Turns out a guy drank a large amount of beer and died with a heartattack on the bench.
I don't know about these rumors but they are interesting to say the least. I do not know if its psychological but I do get a very errie feeling of uncomfort when I enter the colony house on the top floors.
All the people making these crazy decisions are elected officials. Everyone from the federal, state, and even the board of education has elections.
If people stop voting based on flashy campaign ads by special interest groups funding the by the religious right and oil companies this problem will go away.
Maybe voters feel only those republicans can protect people from these dangerous terrorists which are hiding under their bed? But you get what you pay for... or in this case vote for. Or perhaps family values were the number one issue in the country which is how bush got re-elected?
This is stupid and the rest of teh world is wondering why the Americans are doing this? We let this happen.
Do something and vote folks and inform others. After a terrible response with Katrina I think voters are realizing that voting republican is not a guaranteed safety net.
Last democrats see our education system in decline and how states like Alabama have reading and math scores that are the lowest in any first world country. The democrats want more funding and states do not have the resources to fund education so they are using the federal government to provide funding.
I dont recall Clinton ever trying to push school prayer and promising to pick judges based on ideology to satisfy some prolife groups.
People who are running for the board of education have an agenda funded by the religious right and will do everything they can to fullfill it. In otherwords dont vote for them! That simple
Well if folks stopping voting republican for all levels of government because of the illusion of safety from terrorists we would not be in this mess.
All the folks who are making this political have been elected by the people, and the people do not research when they vote. They base their voting based on flashy campaign ads paid for by the religious right and oil companies promising tax cuts.
Odd I have the exact same hardware as you including eax with the sound blaster live.
How much ram do you have? My system was one of the first chipsets to support ddr400 but only in the first bank. I settled with 512 megs of ddr333 ram so I could use 2 banks and 1gig dimms were pricy. I wonder if thats the bottle neck? I think I will take your advice. I turn off nvidia deskbar because it uses ram and I figured doom3 was ram hungry.
Programmers are not compensated for every copy of their software they develop for their employers. Actors are no different.
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson got paid an average engineer salary to develop unix, yet only Bell Labs and now the open group make money off of every copy sold. They agreed to work for x amount a year.
All the geforce 6600 cost over $200. I just purchased one 2 weeks ago and got a 6600GT but they they only come with 128 megs of ram but they are generally faster than the original 6600's.
still doom3 shutters when I go above 800x600. This was $275 later. What gives?
Its a whole world phoneomena that started in the bible belt but spread throughout the us. Canada is next on the right wing agenda with the 700club and focus on the family opening up canadian offices and bribing err supporting the conservative party of Canada.
Also the UK will likely be next on the right agenda to transform the world to be more corporate friendly while relying on the religious folks to supply the votes to elect the leaders into office.
Scary indeed and its not just an American thing anymore. The lobbying is already influencing the EU>
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Bloat vs features.
Openoffice is behind MS Office and is very bloated many times over. I believe its design if you ask anyone who profiled it and knows about operating system internals such as threading and object loading/unloading.
Actually if you google to sysinternals (I think thats the site... dont have time to look it up) and profile openoffice you will see how it handles threading and processing.
I read somewhere that openoffice performance can be improved by 20x alone by proper threading and object utilization in the win32 version. For example office only loads dlls it needs and unloads them when done to save ram.
It has nothing to do with language and more about design. Staroffice which openoffice came from was a unix program and many unix programs do not use so's like windows ones use dlls. Its a mess.
The idea was to hurt google's revenue stream by a very large margin. The less money google has the less investors will want to invest and the less resources it has to fight ms.
It was about bleeding google so the sharks can fed on it.
They are a competitor only because Gates says so. Not because they make operating systems. WHen MS goes into another market usually their new competitors just try to be ms and kill themselves unrationally out of fear.
Google is right to continue what its doing and keep a very very close eye on Microsoft in the process.
After reading comments from slashdoters mentioning time-warner creating a %30 of google's revenue as well as a promise to sell customer data to advertisers which google can not do, due to their license agreements, I can see Microsoft's stratedgy.
Google is scared and is running after Time-warner to make sure they do not favor MSNSearch and also they changed their agreement with protecting user data.
My guess is MS could just invest %10 of the shares of all the top 5 advertisers for google underagreements to use MSN only. This would cut google's airsupply and once the investors sell they will slow down and perhaps wont be able to catch up as they cut back. This is what happened with Netscape.
I see at as a corporate culture and one that is widespread. After the.com crash people undervalue IT or the systems work now after the y2k bug so there is no need to upgrade. When this happens you are viewed as a maintainance person like an electrician or plumber. Not someone valuable.
Most medical equipment and critical systems are not written byh vb jockeys. They are written using calculus to mathmatically prove it can not crash. Nasa does this with some systems.
But if something needs to be done quickly then VB + access is great for limiting things and time is money. Our jobs are just mathmatical functions where x is inputed for Y result. If x can output more y then its more efficient. So I see it both ways
For mission critical stuff people get what they pay for. Its your bosses fault and not yours. Stuff for quick guis are nice and relatively bugfree if its Microsofts code. Dont get me started on MFC
I believe VS.net and Java do encourage bad programming for those learning or only using these environments. i had some experience with vb4 and msbasic before that using lots of goto statements.
Using myself as an example i had to drop out of a java course because i could not understand or remember all these funny things called methods and "."s and what they did.
It was not until i picked up a college level C++ book by Dietel & Dietel on how to program aimed for computer science101 students that I finally understood. You need to learn how to write good code and the pros and cons of doing things. After a few months and many programs I finally started objected oriented programming. After learning about structs and pointers i had an idea of what member functions were and then i understood java ALOT easier. Same can be true of vs. Does the programmer know what enheirantance is? Or how to scope variable and how do you pass a call to a function that is clean like call by value but not not as slow or ugly like call by reference?
Now I am looking at Java and wow its not hard and I understand what is going on and I actually know how to program some what.
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Worse it should not be legal in the first place for such an extreme eula. Many spyware programs from 180networks already do not have an euala and just come bundled.
If we had an eula where the user agreed to be held as a slave would that be legal too? I think not.
What is next? Drm that will rewrite your bios and turn your pc into an expensive doorstop for copyright violation?
As if spyware itself is miraculiously legal and now we have this? Rootkits and spyware programs that append to windows in the mbr so even a reinstall wont delete thim IS TOO FAR!
I agree with a previous poster that is should be a criminal offense the same catagory as spypainting someones house or breaking an entry. Why do we allow this crap to be legal?
Its time we wrote our elected officials and inform them about what is happening and about Sony's drm and demand civil and criminal responsibility for malware makers. I dont care if its the CEO of some company spraypainting my house vs a teenage kid. Its still illegal and Sony should be held accountable.
I was reading on cnn about the drop of ecommerce even though there is still a rise in internet usage. This is due to all the spyware/scams/malware that is infecting pc's at record rates. This is killing out economy and many companies such as Google, Amazon, and Ebay are already getting hit with their wallets over these scams.
Lets organize and make a difference. This is a slippery slope and I fear what is coming next.
Like the other poster mentioned, speed is not an issue on a j2ee server. It's sql access times that equal the main bottleneck.
A j2ee http server is much faster than a regular http server running cgi scripts. The reason for this is that a java http server uses teh same engine for the java code and not a call to a seperate userspace program. In contrast Cgi scripts need to be passed to and from the http server. This could add up in a busy server with alot of hits with dynamic content.
The exceptions to this are asp and php because they are used in html itself and execute inside the http engine.
Java is also used because it has a great api that is deep, mature, and well rounded. There are classes for pretty much everything and it comes with lots of features. They are well written and mature unlike php which quality varies drastically on what you use. Java has great networking performance and security and is supurb for ecommerce applitions. Many companies also develop software for java servlets that make deploying and creating a java commerce site easy.
So if your a busy looking to minimize downtime, need security, need performance to handle alot of hits, and support for commerce and credit card payment clases than Java is your language.
If its from a trusted user on your friendslist I can see why someone would click it. Usually I know better but if I were having a conversation with someone on my buddies list and this link popped up talking about pics I would be tempted to click on it.
From a stranger its a different story.
ITs classic social engineering and I dont think users are stupid if the worm propogates via the buddylist.
Tried that.
/mbr the infected data. Spyware makers do this so even a complete windows reinstallation wont clean off their warez.
Still got reinfected because a restore cd wont fdisk
To me that is pure evil
Try explaining that to grandma? After all her antivirus software said nothing was installed right?
Explaining about api's only makes you look incompentant if your an It professional because your not speaking down to their language to build confidence.
I had a rootkit last month. Nothing could get rid of it but a full fdisk/mbr where I lost everything. It was MBR based and would append itself when running windows which made it nearly impossible to delete.
Watch as spyware makers do this in the future to prevent anyone from deleting their wares.
It was when I worked one summer at Bucsh Gardens in Tampa. I looked for the ghost and couldn't find it and asked alot of employees about it.
Rumor has it that Crown Colony house is haunted with a little girl who choked on some chicken a few decades ago on the third floor. She can be seen towards halloween waving to guests and is occionsally reported by employees at other times of the year.
I asked about this from people who worked at the Crown Colony house and results were mixed. More likely rumors but one security supervisor who refuses to go in at night said he hired an African Vodooist as a security guard. He can hear hear spirits and said heard the cries of a girl. Also plates have moved and the beer fountains occasionally go off on their own with no explanation.
The other is an appiration of a someone lieing down ona bench near the old brewery at the hospitality house. Turns out a guy drank a large amount of beer and died with a heartattack on the bench.
I don't know about these rumors but they are interesting to say the least. I do not know if its psychological but I do get a very errie feeling of uncomfort when I enter the colony house on the top floors.
And this mess will go away.
All the people making these crazy decisions are elected officials. Everyone from the federal, state, and even the board of education has elections.
If people stop voting based on flashy campaign ads by special interest groups funding the by the religious right and oil companies this problem will go away.
Maybe voters feel only those republicans can protect people from these dangerous terrorists which are hiding under their bed? But you get what you pay for... or in this case vote for. Or perhaps family values were the number one issue in the country which is how bush got re-elected?
This is stupid and the rest of teh world is wondering why the Americans are doing this? We let this happen.
Do something and vote folks and inform others. After a terrible response with Katrina I think voters are realizing that voting republican is not a guaranteed safety net.
Last democrats see our education system in decline and how states like Alabama have reading and math scores that are the lowest in any first world country. The democrats want more funding and states do not have the resources to fund education so they are using the federal government to provide funding.
Yes
I dont recall Clinton ever trying to push school prayer and promising to pick judges based on ideology to satisfy some prolife groups.
People who are running for the board of education have an agenda funded by the religious right and will do everything they can to fullfill it. In otherwords dont vote for them! That simple
Well if folks stopping voting republican for all levels of government because of the illusion of safety from terrorists we would not be in this mess.
All the folks who are making this political have been elected by the people, and the people do not research when they vote. They base their voting based on flashy campaign ads paid for by the religious right and oil companies promising tax cuts.
They deserve what they get
You just described an IT job post .com crash.
I would be thrilled to make 25k a year and insurance is a luxury.
Try reading the netbsd changes log to figure out what NetBSD 3.0 will include. Only bob_smiley wrote driver for the hijinker api.
still have no clue what NetBSD 3.0 will come and I am supposed to figure it out on my own.
Odd I have the exact same hardware as you including eax with the sound blaster live.
How much ram do you have? My system was one of the first chipsets to support ddr400 but only in the first bank. I settled with 512 megs of ddr333 ram so I could use 2 banks and 1gig dimms were pricy. I wonder if thats the bottle neck? I think I will take your advice. I turn off nvidia deskbar because it uses ram and I figured doom3 was ram hungry.
Programmers are not compensated for every copy of their software they develop for their employers. Actors are no different.
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson got paid an average engineer salary to develop unix, yet only Bell Labs and now the open group make money off of every copy sold. They agreed to work for x amount a year.
All the geforce 6600 cost over $200. I just purchased one 2 weeks ago and got a 6600GT but they they only come with 128 megs of ram but they are generally faster than the original 6600's.
still doom3 shutters when I go above 800x600. This was $275 later. What gives?
This assumes the dust storm travels over any one of them.
Maybe another power boast? Or would there be any scientific value of observing one huge storm through the cameras of the rovers?
Its a whole world phoneomena that started in the bible belt but spread throughout the us. Canada is next on the right wing agenda with the 700club and focus on the family opening up canadian offices and bribing err supporting the conservative party of Canada.
Also the UK will likely be next on the right agenda to transform the world to be more corporate friendly while relying on the religious folks to supply the votes to elect the leaders into office.
Scary indeed and its not just an American thing anymore. The lobbying is already influencing the EU>
Bloat vs features.
Openoffice is behind MS Office and is very bloated many times over. I believe its design if you ask anyone who profiled it and knows about operating system internals such as threading and object loading/unloading.
Actually if you google to sysinternals (I think thats the site... dont have time to look it up) and profile openoffice you will see how it handles threading and processing.
I read somewhere that openoffice performance can be improved by 20x alone by proper threading and object utilization in the win32 version. For example office only loads dlls it needs and unloads them when done to save ram.
It has nothing to do with language and more about design. Staroffice which openoffice came from was a unix program and many unix programs do not use so's like windows ones use dlls. Its a mess.
The idea was to hurt google's revenue stream by a very large margin. The less money google has the less investors will want to invest and the less resources it has to fight ms.
It was about bleeding google so the sharks can fed on it.
You said it right
They are a competitor only because Gates says so. Not because they make operating systems. WHen MS goes into another market usually their new competitors just try to be ms and kill themselves unrationally out of fear.
Google is right to continue what its doing and keep a very very close eye on Microsoft in the process.
Hmmm
After reading comments from slashdoters mentioning time-warner creating a %30 of google's revenue as well as a promise to sell customer data to advertisers which google can not do, due to their license agreements, I can see Microsoft's stratedgy.
Google is scared and is running after Time-warner to make sure they do not favor MSNSearch and also they changed their agreement with protecting user data.
My guess is MS could just invest %10 of the shares of all the top 5 advertisers for google underagreements to use MSN only. This would cut google's airsupply and once the investors sell they will slow down and perhaps wont be able to catch up as they cut back. This is what happened with Netscape.
I see at as a corporate culture and one that is widespread. After the .com crash people undervalue IT or the systems work now after the y2k bug so there is no need to upgrade. When this happens you are viewed as a maintainance person like an electrician or plumber. Not someone valuable.
Most medical equipment and critical systems are not written byh vb jockeys. They are written using calculus to mathmatically prove it can not crash. Nasa does this with some systems.
But if something needs to be done quickly then VB + access is great for limiting things and time is money. Our jobs are just mathmatical functions where x is inputed for Y result. If x can output more y then its more efficient. So I see it both ways
For mission critical stuff people get what they pay for. Its your bosses fault and not yours. Stuff for quick guis are nice and relatively bugfree if its Microsofts code. Dont get me started on MFC
I believe VS.net and Java do encourage bad programming for those learning or only using these environments. i had some experience with vb4 and msbasic before that using lots of goto statements.
Using myself as an example i had to drop out of a java course because i could not understand or remember all these funny things called methods and "."s and what they did.
It was not until i picked up a college level C++ book by Dietel & Dietel on how to program aimed for computer science101 students that I finally understood. You need to learn how to write good code and the pros and cons of doing things. After a few months and many programs I finally started objected oriented programming. After learning about structs and pointers i had an idea of what member functions were and then i understood java ALOT easier. Same can be true of vs. Does the programmer know what enheirantance is? Or how to scope variable and how do you pass a call to a function that is clean like call by value but not not as slow or ugly like call by reference?
Now I am looking at Java and wow its not hard and I understand what is going on and I actually know how to program some what.
This is what the author was saying and I agree.