Also, anybody can get access to the source of Firefox, while IE doesn't have publicly viewable source code. Comparing vulnerabilities among the two browsers is an apples and oranges afair thanks to this.
So tell me: exactly how many hours a week do you personally spend reviewing the Firefox code?
The fact is that the open source idea of code reviewed by thousands of eyeballs is false. Open source software can be reviewed by thousands of people but I have yet to meet anybody who is actually doing so.
You know, seems to me that ever since I fell out of that 50th story window, people have been saying I'm going to go splat on the pavement. And while, I guess, logically, that has to be true, I seem to be out-living most of these predictions. A lot like Apple and FreeBSD;-)
I don't think that Moore's Law can really be considered impressive if it only lasted for forty years. Natural laws, like the law of gravity, the laws of thermodynamics, seem to last a lot longer.
Maybe it should have been called Moore's Conjecture, or Moore's Trend.
Hasn't IBM been earning more than half its revenues from services for over a decade? And they're just getting around to announcing it now?
More news: Microsoft has announced they're going to be a software company. GM is showing some interest in making cars. Walmart is going to start selling stuff.
Since Daylight Savings Time is an internatinoal phenomenon, how is the U.S. congress going to make the decision binding on the rest of the world? (Short of invading every other country which I don't think even George W. Bush would condone, unless giving himk the excuse to invade other contries is the purpose of this law in the first place)
That's because this is a programming competition, i.e. writing code. Specifically it's about algorithm design.
The skills you mention have absolutely nothing to do with programming any more than the ability to paint a wall has anything to do with the ability to architect a house.
Around 1987 or 1988 some school in the US (I think it was Purdue) dumped their entire freshman class on the Internet without signing them up for news.announce.newusers. Up until then most schools only gave accounts to CS majors and maybe engineering and science students.
So this guy, who is a writer for the BBC by day and who has no formal training puts up an advert in his local news shop as a computer repairman. And he complains about these repairmen being amateurs? Was he looking in a mirror when he said that?
Civilization Republic of Rome Diplomacy Eurorails (and all of its offshoots) Cold War Illuminati (the original, not the trading cards) Cosmic Encounter
It was a newspaper article about a study that was conducted. Perhaps if you had attended the conference, you would have gotten the data and methodology (I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure).
And why would anybody waste their time doing a study of home users?
Face it, very few home users administer their own personal web server live on the internet. Even here on Slashdot, it's probably only a fraction of a percent.
...when we have stopped laughing, it was revealed that most ofthe people on Slashdot had some sort of conflict of interest, being that Linux and OSS is their religion and all...
And you seem to be ignoring the fact that no corporation in existence is going to start building their own computers from components. The added labour costs make this the least cost effective alternative.
And what does it say about these experts that they can't even identify who wrote something when there are numerous public samples of their handwriting available?
I'm guessing it was the handwriting analysts at the CIA who concluded that there were WMDs in Iraq.
Sounds like a complete mess to me. Can you imagine maintaining a project where every developer was writing in a different language? Can you imagine the completely idiotic constructs that would appear in the code of every junior developer with a God complex (read: all of them)?
Computer languages, like real languages, exist so that we have a common way to communicate with other people. Allowing people to change the underlying language would be like allowing to introduce new grammar rules and words into English and expecting everybody to communicate essentially in different languages.
I live in Toronto, and looking at the map I'd say that at least half of the unsecured networks are either very small businesses (no more than 5 or 6 employees), residential or one of the universities. The clusters along Yonge, Richmond, Queen, King, etc. are mostly stores with some residential or commercial space above them or condo towers.
Look around King and Bay where the banks are and you'll see that there are hardly any networks at all.
Still a problem, but it looks like the big boys (read the ones we don't want hacked) are doing OK, it's the little guys that are screwing up.
many of the factors that make them go spectacularly wrong are surprisingly consistent: impatient clients who won't hear "no"; shady or lazy designers who cut corners; excess confidence in glamorous new technologies; and, of course, good old-fashioned hubris.
This sounds like every software project I've ever worked on
Slashdot Mirror
Also, anybody can get access to the source of Firefox, while IE doesn't have publicly viewable source code. Comparing vulnerabilities among the two browsers is an apples and oranges afair thanks to this.
So tell me: exactly how many hours a week do you personally spend reviewing the Firefox code?
The fact is that the open source idea of code reviewed by thousands of eyeballs is false. Open source software can be reviewed by thousands of people but I have yet to meet anybody who is actually doing so.
You know, seems to me that ever since I fell out of that 50th story window, people have been saying I'm going to go splat on the pavement. And while, I guess, logically, that has to be true, I seem to be out-living most of these predictions. A lot like Apple and FreeBSD ;-)
-Jeff
I don't think that Moore's Law can really be considered impressive if it only lasted for forty years. Natural laws, like the law of gravity, the laws of thermodynamics, seem to last a lot longer.
Maybe it should have been called Moore's Conjecture, or Moore's Trend.
Hasn't IBM been earning more than half its revenues from services for over a decade? And they're just getting around to announcing it now?
More news: Microsoft has announced they're going to be a software company. GM is showing some interest in making cars. Walmart is going to start selling stuff.
Just a quick qeustion:
Since Daylight Savings Time is an internatinoal phenomenon, how is the U.S. congress going to make the decision binding on the rest of the world? (Short of invading every other country which I don't think even George W. Bush would condone, unless giving himk the excuse to invade other contries is the purpose of this law in the first place)
That's because this is a programming competition, i.e. writing code. Specifically it's about algorithm design.
The skills you mention have absolutely nothing to do with programming any more than the ability to paint a wall has anything to do with the ability to architect a house.
Spoken like a true I.T. manager (who transferred from a non-technical department).
Tell me, how exactly do you get your hair to stand up in those two symmetric points on either side of your head?
I remember it was earlier than that.
Around 1987 or 1988 some school in the US (I think it was Purdue) dumped their entire freshman class on the Internet without signing them up for news.announce.newusers. Up until then most schools only gave accounts to CS majors and maybe engineering and science students.
IIRC, that was the first big blow to netiquett.
Looks like the Mozilla team is donig yet another "embrace and extend" with features that haven't yet been officially adopted into the html standard...
Oh, wait, we're only supposed to complain when Microsoft does that
So this guy, who is a writer for the BBC by day and who has no formal training puts up an advert in his local news shop as a computer repairman. And he complains about these repairmen being amateurs? Was he looking in a mirror when he said that?
Off the top of my head:
Civilization
Republic of Rome
Diplomacy
Eurorails (and all of its offshoots)
Cold War
Illuminati (the original, not the trading cards)
Cosmic Encounter
One of my best managers had no technical background. He was just very sensitive to the needs of everybody who worked for him.
Because of this, his team was very efficient and very loyal.
If you're a manager, you should probably be delegating most of the technical anyway.
It was a newspaper article about a study that was conducted. Perhaps if you had attended the conference, you would have gotten the data and methodology (I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure).
And why would anybody waste their time doing a study of home users?
Face it, very few home users administer their own personal web server live on the internet. Even here on Slashdot, it's probably only a fraction of a percent.
Most scientific conclusions are made without direct eyewitness evidence.
Do you believev in black holes? Ever seen one?
Do you believe in relativity? Ever watched sub-atomic particles in action with the un-aided eye?
Making conclusions by studying the effects of things is valid from a scientific point of view.
...when we have stopped laughing, it was revealed that most ofthe people on Slashdot had some sort of conflict of interest, being that Linux and OSS is their religion and all...
And you seem to be ignoring the fact that no corporation in existence is going to start building their own computers from components. The added labour costs make this the least cost effective alternative.
And what does it say about these experts that they can't even identify who wrote something when there are numerous public samples of their handwriting available?
I'm guessing it was the handwriting analysts at the CIA who concluded that there were WMDs in Iraq.
Jeff
and before anybody jumps on this bandwagon, let's remember that handwriting analysis is only a little more authoritative than phrenology or astrology
The Sweet Hereafter
A Clockwork Orange
The Ninth Gate
Just a few off the top of my head
my god, how'd you guess my password?
But some of us IT folks like to make our decisions based on what is best for the busines, not what is the most cool or the most fun.
Windows is built by a company that listens to its potential customers and tries to fulfill their needs.
Linux is built by a group that listens to itself and tries to impress each other.
Sounds like a complete mess to me. Can you imagine maintaining a project where every developer was writing in a different language? Can you imagine the completely idiotic constructs that would appear in the code of every junior developer with a God complex (read: all of them)?
Computer languages, like real languages, exist so that we have a common way to communicate with other people. Allowing people to change the underlying language would be like allowing to introduce new grammar rules and words into English and expecting everybody to communicate essentially in different languages.
I live in Toronto, and looking at the map I'd say that at least half of the unsecured networks are either very small businesses (no more than 5 or 6 employees), residential or one of the universities. The clusters along Yonge, Richmond, Queen, King, etc. are mostly stores with some residential or commercial space above them or condo towers.
Look around King and Bay where the banks are and you'll see that there are hardly any networks at all.
Still a problem, but it looks like the big boys (read the ones we don't want hacked) are doing OK, it's the little guys that are screwing up.
many of the factors that make them go spectacularly wrong are surprisingly consistent: impatient clients who won't hear "no"; shady or lazy designers who cut corners; excess confidence in glamorous new technologies; and, of course, good old-fashioned hubris.
This sounds like every software project I've ever worked on