There's a difference between expected job duties and conditions.. in fact, duties and conditions that define the job, and having a crappy boss that treats you like shit.
You don't see many techies complaining because they're exposed to too much technology, or that they hate all the programming they have to do... That's what the job is.
If someone complained to you about their job as a sewer repair person, wouldn't you say "Well, you chose to work in that field, so stop complaining!"?
If you choose to work in a slaughterhouse, you can't complain that you have to kill animals all day long.
Likewise, going to work as a model is one of those jobs that don't afford much sympathy for being "stared at" or treated like an object. They knew going in what it was like.
Well, I used both 7 and Vista, but 7 does have a number of features that Vista lacks. Jumplists for one, and Libraries for another (yeah, lots of people hate Libraries, but I like them).
Yes, Microsofts percentage share has dropped considertably, but only because the market has grown so much in the last several years. (a market that would not exist without iPhone or Android).
The point is that Windows Mobile is still selling about what it did, and is improved a bit... They did not capture much of the emerging touch market, but they didn't lose what they had.
I would suggest that YOU actually read the fucking license. I have. Many times.
You do not need to agree to anything in the GPL in order to install or use the software. In fact, the license itself says you don't have to agree to it.
But a ton of GPL'd software requires you to click the "I Agree" to install.
Anyone who's argument against BSDL involves "giving back to the community" doesn't understand the GPL.
There is nothing in the GPL that requires anyone to "give back to the community". You are under the requirement to give source code ONLY to those you give the binary to. You don't have to give it "back to the community".
It's true that the people you sell the software to (with source code) could turn around it and release it publicly, but that's unlikely to be the case very often. After all, they paid for it, why would they want to give it away to everyone else?
The fact is, if you predicate your support of the GPL because of a belief in a tit-for-tat, then you are sorely mistaken. What you really want is something like MPL.
but a community does not hold double tandards, only individuals may do so
But a community is made up of individuals. For instance, the KKK is a "community", and they certainly hold double standards. A political party is a "community" and I don't know of any organized political party that doesn't have double standards.
Communities have beliefs shared by most of the community.
I don't think so. Most users don't even know how to change their TV inputs... My wife can't figure out how to enable the DVD player from the DVR. One device is really where people want things.
Regarding the Steve Ballmer comment.. to be honest, the iPhone never was a threat to Microsoft. Microsoft had a very small niche market for phones, and to this day still has that market. The iPhone has done little to change that. In fact, Windows Phone 7.x has slightly improved their market share.
Where exactly did I say anything about inflated stats? I said that if one number goes up, others must go down (i guess from that perspective, "inflated could mean going up" but i don't think that's what you meant).
FF's stats did go down, at leat.5% during that time period. That is fact, based on the very link you gave. Don't try to use weasel words like "more or less". It's less. There's no more.
Yes, the others did go down. Chrome surpassed FF a while ago, and surpassed IE recently (Although those numbers do not reflect in any server statistics I have access to.. IE is still 80%+ in my experience).
While certainly, if you have three numbers, and one goes up, then both of the others do not have to go down, but in this case that is in fact what happened.
The point is that percentages represent a closed system. If numbers go up in one place, they have to go down in another.
That's incorrect. What it does is enable Compatibility Updates, which is a list of websites that require Compatibility View to function. This list can be upgraded periodically.
This does not turn on compatibility view by default, except for the sites in the list.
I may be speculating, but i've had friends and co-workers have their emails compromised on Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, and others.. and the key to all of them was that they used the same password as their email on almost every site they registered with. A guy from google posted in this article that this was the most common way accounts were compromised.
Why bother trying to hack hotmail, or gmail, or other sites that get millions of attacks a day, when you can compromise smaller sites with less security and get the same information?
Or, the most likely... he used the same email and password on a site that was comprimsed, collected his credentials and logged in and started spamming.
Most of the time, they compromise a website that does not bother to hash passwords, grab the database and try the email addresses you signed up with with the password you used.
Think, how many times have you used the same password as your email account on a webiste?
Let's face it, turning off a few lights is going to have negligable effect on the global climate. The real problem is countries like China and India, where industrialization has boomed and there are few people watching the ecology.
While, technically true that the compiler can almost certainly optimize code as good, if not better than most developers. It still has to optimized the actual code written, which may not be as efficient.
People tend to use libraries for everything in higher level languages. And those libraries are typically filled with code that's not necessary for the specific job being accomplished.
In general, you are better off with this, since the library code is debugged and well designed. So programs are typically filled with well written, well designed "average use case" optimized algorithms.
Yes, Amateurs wrote Linux, and Linux was Amateurish until Professionals started writing it. That is, at some point Linus ceased being an Amateur and professional kernel developers from IBM and other major players started contributing. That's when Linux started becoming reliable and enterprise oriented.
Most people forget that Linux (the kernel) sucked for the first few years. It had tons of problems, was not cross-platform at all, and simply was not of professional quality.
Oh, and what does it say about Mac users that they'd rather admit to being morons (for executing a trojan) than admitting their computer might not be as invulnerable as they thought?
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There's a difference between expected job duties and conditions.. in fact, duties and conditions that define the job, and having a crappy boss that treats you like shit.
You don't see many techies complaining because they're exposed to too much technology, or that they hate all the programming they have to do... That's what the job is.
If someone complained to you about their job as a sewer repair person, wouldn't you say "Well, you chose to work in that field, so stop complaining!"?
If you choose to work in a slaughterhouse, you can't complain that you have to kill animals all day long.
Likewise, going to work as a model is one of those jobs that don't afford much sympathy for being "stared at" or treated like an object. They knew going in what it was like.
Well, I used both 7 and Vista, but 7 does have a number of features that Vista lacks. Jumplists for one, and Libraries for another (yeah, lots of people hate Libraries, but I like them).
The Zenbooks don't have capacitive touch screens, nor do they detach the keyboard to make the main unit a tablet.
As they say, statistics can show anything.
Yes, Microsofts percentage share has dropped considertably, but only because the market has grown so much in the last several years. (a market that would not exist without iPhone or Android).
The point is that Windows Mobile is still selling about what it did, and is improved a bit... They did not capture much of the emerging touch market, but they didn't lose what they had.
I would suggest that YOU actually read the fucking license. I have. Many times.
You do not need to agree to anything in the GPL in order to install or use the software. In fact, the license itself says you don't have to agree to it.
But a ton of GPL'd software requires you to click the "I Agree" to install.
Anyone who's argument against BSDL involves "giving back to the community" doesn't understand the GPL.
There is nothing in the GPL that requires anyone to "give back to the community". You are under the requirement to give source code ONLY to those you give the binary to. You don't have to give it "back to the community".
It's true that the people you sell the software to (with source code) could turn around it and release it publicly, but that's unlikely to be the case very often. After all, they paid for it, why would they want to give it away to everyone else?
The fact is, if you predicate your support of the GPL because of a belief in a tit-for-tat, then you are sorely mistaken. What you really want is something like MPL.
But a community is made up of individuals. For instance, the KKK is a "community", and they certainly hold double standards. A political party is a "community" and I don't know of any organized political party that doesn't have double standards.
Communities have beliefs shared by most of the community.
If it's for information, why must you click the "I Agree" button to continue?
I don't think so. Most users don't even know how to change their TV inputs... My wife can't figure out how to enable the DVD player from the DVR. One device is really where people want things.
Regarding the Steve Ballmer comment.. to be honest, the iPhone never was a threat to Microsoft. Microsoft had a very small niche market for phones, and to this day still has that market. The iPhone has done little to change that. In fact, Windows Phone 7.x has slightly improved their market share.
Where exactly did I say anything about inflated stats? I said that if one number goes up, others must go down (i guess from that perspective, "inflated could mean going up" but i don't think that's what you meant).
FF's stats did go down, at leat .5% during that time period. That is fact, based on the very link you gave. Don't try to use weasel words like "more or less". It's less. There's no more.
Yes, the others did go down. Chrome surpassed FF a while ago, and surpassed IE recently (Although those numbers do not reflect in any server statistics I have access to.. IE is still 80%+ in my experience).
While certainly, if you have three numbers, and one goes up, then both of the others do not have to go down, but in this case that is in fact what happened.
The point is that percentages represent a closed system. If numbers go up in one place, they have to go down in another.
Actually, that's kind of the point. Research projects are intended to be shut down, and their results used in real projects later down the line.
That's the entire purpose of Microsoft Research, unlike Wave or Buzz, which are actual failed commercial products.
That's incorrect. What it does is enable Compatibility Updates, which is a list of websites that require Compatibility View to function. This list can be upgraded periodically.
This does not turn on compatibility view by default, except for the sites in the list.
Do you understand how percentages work? If one goes up, the others have to go down.
People got sick of Real invading their OS's, and burrowing so deep into them it was impossible to remove without reformatting.
I may be speculating, but i've had friends and co-workers have their emails compromised on Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, and others.. and the key to all of them was that they used the same password as their email on almost every site they registered with. A guy from google posted in this article that this was the most common way accounts were compromised.
Why bother trying to hack hotmail, or gmail, or other sites that get millions of attacks a day, when you can compromise smaller sites with less security and get the same information?
That's like lending someone your bookshelf, with all your books on it, just so they can read one of them.
Or, the most likely... he used the same email and password on a site that was comprimsed, collected his credentials and logged in and started spamming.
Most of the time, they compromise a website that does not bother to hash passwords, grab the database and try the email addresses you signed up with with the password you used.
Think, how many times have you used the same password as your email account on a webiste?
Let's face it, turning off a few lights is going to have negligable effect on the global climate. The real problem is countries like China and India, where industrialization has boomed and there are few people watching the ecology.
While, technically true that the compiler can almost certainly optimize code as good, if not better than most developers. It still has to optimized the actual code written, which may not be as efficient.
People tend to use libraries for everything in higher level languages. And those libraries are typically filled with code that's not necessary for the specific job being accomplished.
In general, you are better off with this, since the library code is debugged and well designed. So programs are typically filled with well written, well designed "average use case" optimized algorithms.
Yes, Amateurs wrote Linux, and Linux was Amateurish until Professionals started writing it. That is, at some point Linus ceased being an Amateur and professional kernel developers from IBM and other major players started contributing. That's when Linux started becoming reliable and enterprise oriented.
Most people forget that Linux (the kernel) sucked for the first few years. It had tons of problems, was not cross-platform at all, and simply was not of professional quality.
That's hilarious.
Good job of proving my point ;)
Oh, and what does it say about Mac users that they'd rather admit to being morons (for executing a trojan) than admitting their computer might not be as invulnerable as they thought?