You are confusing accessibility with responsibility. Using the money example, it is better to have the Money class increase the amount instead of having someone else do it. As in your example, Money.increaseBy(float), or even Money.add(Money), is more maintainable than orderTotal += Money.getAmount().
It's perfectly fine to have a Money.getAmount() : float, but do not have a Money.setAmount(float). If you need to set the amount, create a new Money object, new Money(float).
If you want a universal way of getting the value of money, then do Money.getAmount() : String. Not only does it allow you to display it, but it hides the underlying implementation.
I used FC1 as my workstation at work since January 1st and just installed FC2 on the 22nd. Like the author, I did a clean install. However, unlike the author, I was able to get around some of the limitations, like MP3 playing and nVidia drivers, realtively quickly.
However, one issue that I do have with FC2 is with my Intellimouse Explorer USB. It doesn't matter which application I am in, but I cannot use the wheel to scroll up. The application starts to scroll, but then the context menu appears and randomly selects an item off that menu. Try as I might, I still haven't found a resolution to this issue.
I hope you mean that Symantec is being hit hard with requests for their AV software... it would be scary to this otherwise as the virus has been in the wild since August!
There are several factors that I have always seen used to justify cost of virus infections: The sysadmin time, the infected user's time, the bandwidth on the network, and used space on the network drives due to the virus.
However, the only real cost is that of the infected user. The sysadmin's time, whether it be disinfecting a computer or troubleshooting a non-related network problem, his time is already paid for. The same goes for network bandwidth and server space; both of these cannot be quantified into total costs as they too are already paid for.
The only true cost indicator of virus infections are the hourly costs of the infected user during the time of the cleanup and the hard cash purchase of antivirus software. One should also take into account the amount of time the infected user will talk about their virus infection well after the sysadmin has cleaned up their computer.
As two previous posts pointed out, with the SMP codebase trickling down from BSDi, and the massive increase of BSD users with the release of OS X (and more corporate support), BSD will be rejunenated and will gain much more momentum.
As a Linux user for over five years, I have made my switch to FreeBSD in November and heven't looked back. The *extreme* ease of keeping a complete FreeBSD system updated with the latest userland security fixes is reason enough to switch.
Last I looked, Apple was in Sun's good books, so one would have to expect that the ports of Java for BSD would be happening on a much quicker schedule.
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You are confusing accessibility with responsibility. Using the money example, it is better to have the Money class increase the amount instead of having someone else do it. As in your example, Money.increaseBy(float), or even Money.add(Money), is more maintainable than orderTotal += Money.getAmount().
It's perfectly fine to have a Money.getAmount() : float, but do not have a Money.setAmount(float). If you need to set the amount, create a new Money object, new Money(float).
If you want a universal way of getting the value of money, then do Money.getAmount() : String. Not only does it allow you to display it, but it hides the underlying implementation.
I used FC1 as my workstation at work since January 1st and just installed FC2 on the 22nd. Like the author, I did a clean install. However, unlike the author, I was able to get around some of the limitations, like MP3 playing and nVidia drivers, realtively quickly.
However, one issue that I do have with FC2 is with my Intellimouse Explorer USB. It doesn't matter which application I am in, but I cannot use the wheel to scroll up. The application starts to scroll, but then the context menu appears and randomly selects an item off that menu. Try as I might, I still haven't found a resolution to this issue.
I hope you mean that Symantec is being hit hard with requests for their AV software... it would be scary to this otherwise as the virus has been in the wild since August!
There are several factors that I have always seen used to justify cost of virus infections: The sysadmin time, the infected user's time, the bandwidth on the network, and used space on the network drives due to the virus.
However, the only real cost is that of the infected user. The sysadmin's time, whether it be disinfecting a computer or troubleshooting a non-related network problem, his time is already paid for. The same goes for network bandwidth and server space; both of these cannot be quantified into total costs as they too are already paid for.
The only true cost indicator of virus infections are the hourly costs of the infected user during the time of the cleanup and the hard cash purchase of antivirus software. One should also take into account the amount of time the infected user will talk about their virus infection well after the sysadmin has cleaned up their computer.
As two previous posts pointed out, with the SMP codebase trickling down from BSDi, and the massive increase of BSD users with the release of OS X (and more corporate support), BSD will be rejunenated and will gain much more momentum.
As a Linux user for over five years, I have made my switch to FreeBSD in November and heven't looked back. The *extreme* ease of keeping a complete FreeBSD system updated with the latest userland security fixes is reason enough to switch.
Last I looked, Apple was in Sun's good books, so one would have to expect that the ports of Java for BSD would be happening on a much quicker schedule.
"interest, n.: What borrowers pay, lenders receive, stockholders own, and burned out employees must feign."