I don't have an answer to this question. Is it being unethical if you do what your employer is paying you to do, such as writing malware? I am crystal clear on the employer being unethical. And maybe on the programmer being unethical for accepting such employment. But I'm less harsh on the worker bees than on the higher ups who are probably the ones who both dream up whatever crooked scheme, and who profit the most from it.
If there weren't people writing malware, and making it into a big business for profit, then few to zero people would ever bother writing proof of concept malware. Back in about the mid 1980's, before there really was any malware, I remember seeing an example of a hypothetical virus in a textbook. I was browsing it in a bookstore, and I don't remember anything about the textbook other than that it had a black hard cover.
If Apple is unable to find an exploitable work force in America, then try something like this . . .
Hey fanboys! Here's a great opportunity to come work for Apple assembling iPhones! It's a fantastic opportunity to see how things work behind the magic illusion. Long hours. No pay. Benefits such as safety nets to prevent workers from committing suicide. Apply today.
A flaw in Hawking's thinking is that he seems to believe that humanity SHOULD escape extinction.
Everywhere that humans go they bring conflict, war, and untold suffering on other humans. Often motivated by greed for obscene wealth, lust or power over others. Do we really want that to ever escape from this solar system? Maybe that's why the stars are so far apart.
Just because a scientist makes a logical sensible argument with valid points and facts is no reason you should listen to him or her. Especially where public policy is concerned and some corporations might make less money.
If Samsung wants to compete with Android, why not make an Android compatible ecosystem. Build their own "Play store" and "play services" so to speak. Support some already existing, or create new android development tools. Say, based on Eclipse (or similar). If Android developers can use their existing skills and code to easily build apps for another ecosystem (like Amazons!), then they also could for Samsung's.
This would effectively compete with Google. Using the very developers that write for Google's platform. Developers would gain the advantages of multiple markets (Google, Amazon, Samsung) to sell their Android apps. Samsung would gain the advantage of many existing apps. Hardware OEMs would gain the advantage of multiple OS vendors with highly similar OSes to run on their existing hardware with only slight branding changes to the model number.
You would think Samsung would have noticed Nokia and Windows Phone 7 and 8. Microsoft was also paying developers developers to please, oh Please, for the love of God PLEASE put your app on our platform!
A new category for a Samsung OS on Samsung phone hardware. An app to remotely catch your phone on fire. That would be more popular than flashlight apps loaded with malware.
I'll summarize it for you: If nobody will write apps for Windows Phone 7, and then get backstabbed by Windows Phone 8, then why, oh why in God's name would anyone write apps for an OS for exploding phones? Hope that helps clarify.
Of course, I'm not sure that I would care, even if they announced it was available today. There would be some catch. Maybe the EULA allows Microsoft to sneak in while you are sleeping and harvest your organs. (Assuming your internet service provider hasn't already taken them first.)
Brag about Xcode all you want. But can Xcode do this . . .
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to get useful work done.
Would you like me to help you install Windows 10?
If you would like to have Windows 10 installed, then please do any of the following actions:
1. Click Yes
2. Click No
3. Click Cancel
4. Click the red button in the window's title bar
5. Abruptly disconnect the computer's electrical power to have Windows 10 conveniently installed on the next reboot.
Edlin. And let's not forget that disaster of a specification LIM (Lotus-Intel-Microsoft) Expanded Memory specification. (I don't mean Extended memory, but Expanded memory. Back in the day. This was useful, in some sense of the word, for exactly one thing: Lotus-123)
Microsoft laughed at the iPhone. No vision at all.
But then, Microsoft (Bill Gates) said (in 1995) that the internet was a fad. That should make you think about how much vision they have. It's in their DNA to be only a monopolist. They can't compete in any open market. That is why everything must be always tied back to Windows.
Microsoft misses because developers, and everyone else knows that the era of monopolists is past. Before, during and after Microsoft's heyday, people have always wanted the security of a 2nd source for everything. The software lock in phenomena that created IBM's and then Microsoft's (and Apple's) empire is a temporary quirk of history. One that predates the rise of open source. Open source is not yet done rising. It may be slower to rise, but it's rise never stops. It isn't beholden to short term management thinking. Marketing schedules. If there is internal bickering, forks can be created so that the Windows 8 approach loses out without being forced down everyone's throat as a bold experiment created by someone who fancies themselves a designer but knows little about how people use computers to do actual work.
Xbox = Windows
Data Center = Windows
Phones = Windows
Tablets = Windows
But what does the rest of the world use to run GPS navigators, cameras, routers, set top boxes, thermostats, wrist watches, super computers, and more? That would be Linux.
What do developers use? Linux. Microsoft admitted as much when they said the reason for bash on Windows was to lure developers back.
Maybe you shouldn't have driven developers away with Windows Surface, a whole new App API, and your crappy app store. Oh, but Surface also drove OEMs away because it back stabbed them by competing directly with them on hardware. And Surface drove users away, because it sucked. Wow. Developers, OEMs and Users. What a master stroke the Surface was!
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I don't have an answer to this question. Is it being unethical if you do what your employer is paying you to do, such as writing malware? I am crystal clear on the employer being unethical. And maybe on the programmer being unethical for accepting such employment. But I'm less harsh on the worker bees than on the higher ups who are probably the ones who both dream up whatever crooked scheme, and who profit the most from it.
If there weren't people writing malware, and making it into a big business for profit, then few to zero people would ever bother writing proof of concept malware. Back in about the mid 1980's, before there really was any malware, I remember seeing an example of a hypothetical virus in a textbook. I was browsing it in a bookstore, and I don't remember anything about the textbook other than that it had a black hard cover.
If Apple is unable to find an exploitable work force in America, then try something like this . . .
Hey fanboys! Here's a great opportunity to come work for Apple assembling iPhones! It's a fantastic opportunity to see how things work behind the magic illusion. Long hours. No pay. Benefits such as safety nets to prevent workers from committing suicide. Apply today.
It sickens me that Britain passed the most extreme surveillance law ever.
America is supposed to be number 1 at everything. C'mon congress, get on the ball! Don't let America be out done by Britain.
A flaw in Hawking's thinking is that he seems to believe that humanity SHOULD escape extinction.
Everywhere that humans go they bring conflict, war, and untold suffering on other humans. Often motivated by greed for obscene wealth, lust or power over others. Do we really want that to ever escape from this solar system? Maybe that's why the stars are so far apart.
Uh, edlin might be more his speed.
Trump can simply build a wall around China.
It will be a great, Great wall, I tell you. I promise.
And we'll make the Mexico pay for it.
Everyone who has ever seen one of my great walls has just loved it. Believe me. I know my great walls. Classy beautiful stuff.
Just because a scientist makes a logical sensible argument with valid points and facts is no reason you should listen to him or her. Especially where public policy is concerned and some corporations might make less money.
If China had invented a Climate Change Hoax, wouldn't they have patented it?
If Samsung wants to compete with Android, why not make an Android compatible ecosystem. Build their own "Play store" and "play services" so to speak. Support some already existing, or create new android development tools. Say, based on Eclipse (or similar). If Android developers can use their existing skills and code to easily build apps for another ecosystem (like Amazons!), then they also could for Samsung's.
This would effectively compete with Google. Using the very developers that write for Google's platform. Developers would gain the advantages of multiple markets (Google, Amazon, Samsung) to sell their Android apps. Samsung would gain the advantage of many existing apps. Hardware OEMs would gain the advantage of multiple OS vendors with highly similar OSes to run on their existing hardware with only slight branding changes to the model number.
You would think Samsung would have noticed Nokia and Windows Phone 7 and 8. Microsoft was also paying developers developers to please, oh Please, for the love of God PLEASE put your app on our platform!
A new category for a Samsung OS on Samsung phone hardware. An app to remotely catch your phone on fire. That would be more popular than flashlight apps loaded with malware.
Grammar problems in your sentence there are. -- Yoda, Jedi Master.
I'll summarize it for you: If nobody will write apps for Windows Phone 7, and then get backstabbed by Windows Phone 8, then why, oh why in God's name would anyone write apps for an OS for exploding phones? Hope that helps clarify.
Con jobs are for half of the US voters, which themselves are half of the US population.
That was also my first question.
Of course, I'm not sure that I would care, even if they announced it was available today. There would be some catch. Maybe the EULA allows Microsoft to sneak in while you are sleeping and harvest your organs. (Assuming your internet service provider hasn't already taken them first.)
Brag about Xcode all you want. But can Xcode do this . . .
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to get useful work done.
Would you like me to help you install Windows 10?
If you would like to have Windows 10 installed, then please do any of the following actions:
1. Click Yes
2. Click No
3. Click Cancel
4. Click the red button in the window's title bar
5. Abruptly disconnect the computer's electrical power to have Windows 10 conveniently installed on the next reboot.
Edlin. And let's not forget that disaster of a specification LIM (Lotus-Intel-Microsoft) Expanded Memory specification. (I don't mean Extended memory, but Expanded memory. Back in the day. This was useful, in some sense of the word, for exactly one thing: Lotus-123)
Microsoft laughed at the iPhone. No vision at all.
But then, Microsoft (Bill Gates) said (in 1995) that the internet was a fad. That should make you think about how much vision they have. It's in their DNA to be only a monopolist. They can't compete in any open market. That is why everything must be always tied back to Windows.
Maybe they can more fully admit their problem and recognize that most people hate patent extortion bullies.
Microsoft now seems to think that it is 'open'.
Microsoft misses because developers, and everyone else knows that the era of monopolists is past. Before, during and after Microsoft's heyday, people have always wanted the security of a 2nd source for everything. The software lock in phenomena that created IBM's and then Microsoft's (and Apple's) empire is a temporary quirk of history. One that predates the rise of open source. Open source is not yet done rising. It may be slower to rise, but it's rise never stops. It isn't beholden to short term management thinking. Marketing schedules. If there is internal bickering, forks can be created so that the Windows 8 approach loses out without being forced down everyone's throat as a bold experiment created by someone who fancies themselves a designer but knows little about how people use computers to do actual work.
Azure. It's the name of a color. A shade of blue. It's the color of acrid blue smoke belched by an old engine that is dying.
Xbox = Windows
Data Center = Windows
Phones = Windows
Tablets = Windows
But what does the rest of the world use to run GPS navigators, cameras, routers, set top boxes, thermostats, wrist watches, super computers, and more? That would be Linux.
What do developers use? Linux. Microsoft admitted as much when they said the reason for bash on Windows was to lure developers back.
Maybe you shouldn't have driven developers away with Windows Surface, a whole new App API, and your crappy app store. Oh, but Surface also drove OEMs away because it back stabbed them by competing directly with them on hardware. And Surface drove users away, because it sucked. Wow. Developers, OEMs and Users. What a master stroke the Surface was!
We have a phone UI that can replace your desktop UI.