It goes over perfectly with the accountant. It's one less thing they need to keep track of... I think they'd actually be happy.
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How do you decipher what should be taken literally and whats just to prove a point? I think the Bible is to just be intepreted as a book of moral beliefs of an ancient group of people.
Reading it so literally as to actually believe in an invisible man in the sky ruling our universe would be taking the Scriptures too literally.
So then they didn't need to eat from the tree, no? They already knew the difference between good and evil. The tree was just a normal tree?
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Religion provides a way of doing that - "Christian Values" for example. Thou shalt not kill is one of these ways of life. Love thy neighbour is another. Do these kinds of things and it matters not whether you're Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jedi...
The thing is, even for yourself, it has nothing to do with Christianity. You just described a set of morals that even other Christians will disagree with (eg. its okay for me to blow up abortion clinics and kill those inside). That's an extreme case, and not a good one at that, but I'm just making a point.
If you found somewhere in the Bible that slavery is okay (and because it acknowledges slavery but doesn't mention that its wrong, its implicitly approving of the practice), would that change your moral stance at all? Or would you come up with a reason on why to ignore that part of the Bible? Honestly.
Face it. Most people don't base their morals on religion. It may influence some of their ideas, but its simply not a moral foundation for most people whether they ackowledge it or not.
Why would you buy the same songs on CDs you already have when you can just rip them yourself with iTunes, at a higher bitrate than 128kbs? I don't think they're trying to push people to buy songs on CDs they already own. Please support your assertion.
It would be cool if every pizza place could agree on XML format to accept orders so that someone could write a program to order it from anywhere, and have the program be able to get estimated times of delivery (based on how busy they are) from locations around you, and tell you all the specials different places were having.
The only thing is I doubt this would be practical with the risk for abuse...
They can get iTunes to do whatever, I'm sick of dealing with them and I won't do it anymore.
So what can I do? Well, I could pirate, or I could not use iTunes and use Allofmp3.com instead. Quite simply, it's better than iTunes. Now the interface might not be as nice, but what other music store let's you select any codec you want at the bitrate you want? Or why don't you just download the CD without using a lossless compression and use FLAC instead? You can have them encode it pretty much any way you want.
Even if they didn't have that feature, the price alone is worth it. I've downloaded albums at 85 cents (192kbs vbr MP3s). It's only $5 for 500MB of download.
The best part? It's all completely legal (endorsed by the Russian government and Russian equivalent of the RIAA).
We need to create an environment where piracy is looked down upon, not encouraged. Giving them updates is simply encouraging pirate behavior.
If an infected machine becomes such a problem that they're affecting other people, ISP's should simply revoke a users access until they upgrade to the latest patches and remove the virus. A pirated version of Windows wouldn't be able to get the updates and therefore would probably keep on getting the virus, costing them a great deal of inconvience every time their internet is shut off. Not to mention the knowledge that thier machine is going to be swamped with viruses and that their computer will be completely insecure.
The best way to get rid of pirates is to make the cost of pirating greater than the cost of buying the software (or finding a legit alternative).
You completely missed the point. No one is forcing anything on to the customer. But quite simply, if you have EVER worked in the software industry designing custom systems for customers, you will know that the customer generally doesn't know what they want exactly. They have a vague idea and assume that you have the same idea they do in your head.
The requirements process is where you get your specifications from the customer about what he or she wants. Design is a completely seperate stage. The requirements are something you both agree on, but its not just something the customer sends to you. You give them feedback about the requirements. Perhaps they are contradictory, perhaps there are better ways to do things. This part is crucial in that the more time you put into this, the more information you will fish out of the customer, and you'll be more confident that you and they will know what the software is supposed to exactly do.
The golden rule in software engineering is the requirements are going to change. You just have to accept it. Why do requirements change? Well, usually its because the customer finally realizes that what they got and what they actually wanted were two different things. And thus you make the necessary changes until the next time they come back looking for you...
How many times have you downloaded a program think it has everything you want, until you use it and then realize theres something more it needs?
Think about something like Mozilla. It's be a sufficient browser for a while now. But once people got it, started using it, they thought to themselves "Now I need tabs!". And thus the evolution of software...
And if you, as an admin, take less than an hour to test your rpm (or whatever) software installation, on a mission-critical server, you're not doing your job. I will give you that it takes a long time to compile most things, but in my book, it's time well spent.
As much as I love Gentoo, this comparison makes no sense. When you're compiling, you're still not testing your software installation. You're sitting there waiting for the installation to complete. The Redhat administrator can install and test his installation before you're even done compiling.
And who said anything about a mission critical servers? Most people aren't running mission critical servers, especially Gentoo users. They're tend to be more desktop oriented, so you're talking about a niche market. If you're running a mission critical server, you always have a completely seperate box to test new software and there's usually no rush to upgrade, barring security updates. In fact, I'd venture to say you may be more vulnerable with Gentoo on a mission critical server because you need to take the time to compile, leaving your exploitable machine open while your Redhat friend took 15 seconds to install the latest security update.
All that said, I love Gentoo. I use it on my desktop. It's by far my favorite distro. I just realize that Gentoo's approach isn't flawless in itself, and that compiling everything doesn't always make sense. But for myself, I like it.
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It goes over perfectly with the accountant. It's one less thing they need to keep track of... I think they'd actually be happy.
How do you decipher what should be taken literally and whats just to prove a point? I think the Bible is to just be intepreted as a book of moral beliefs of an ancient group of people.
Reading it so literally as to actually believe in an invisible man in the sky ruling our universe would be taking the Scriptures too literally.
So then they didn't need to eat from the tree, no? They already knew the difference between good and evil. The tree was just a normal tree?
Religion provides a way of doing that - "Christian Values" for example. Thou shalt not kill is one of these ways of life. Love thy neighbour is another. Do these kinds of things and it matters not whether you're Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jedi...
The thing is, even for yourself, it has nothing to do with Christianity. You just described a set of morals that even other Christians will disagree with (eg. its okay for me to blow up abortion clinics and kill those inside). That's an extreme case, and not a good one at that, but I'm just making a point.
If you found somewhere in the Bible that slavery is okay (and because it acknowledges slavery but doesn't mention that its wrong, its implicitly approving of the practice), would that change your moral stance at all? Or would you come up with a reason on why to ignore that part of the Bible? Honestly.
Face it. Most people don't base their morals on religion. It may influence some of their ideas, but its simply not a moral foundation for most people whether they ackowledge it or not.
Why would you buy the same songs on CDs you already have when you can just rip them yourself with iTunes, at a higher bitrate than 128kbs? I don't think they're trying to push people to buy songs on CDs they already own. Please support your assertion.
Bytecode.
It would be cool if every pizza place could agree on XML format to accept orders so that someone could write a program to order it from anywhere, and have the program be able to get estimated times of delivery (based on how busy they are) from locations around you, and tell you all the specials different places were having.
The only thing is I doubt this would be practical with the risk for abuse...
It's trivial to shut off general internet access and still give them access to windowsupdate.com or antivirus websites...
You simply give them access to one domain, namely windowsupdate.com. Problem solved.
They can get iTunes to do whatever, I'm sick of dealing with them and I won't do it anymore.
So what can I do? Well, I could pirate, or I could not use iTunes and use Allofmp3.com instead. Quite simply, it's better than iTunes. Now the interface might not be as nice, but what other music store let's you select any codec you want at the bitrate you want? Or why don't you just download the CD without using a lossless compression and use FLAC instead? You can have them encode it pretty much any way you want.
Even if they didn't have that feature, the price alone is worth it. I've downloaded albums at 85 cents (192kbs vbr MP3s). It's only $5 for 500MB of download.
The best part? It's all completely legal (endorsed by the Russian government and Russian equivalent of the RIAA).
We need to create an environment where piracy is looked down upon, not encouraged. Giving them updates is simply encouraging pirate behavior.
If an infected machine becomes such a problem that they're affecting other people, ISP's should simply revoke a users access until they upgrade to the latest patches and remove the virus. A pirated version of Windows wouldn't be able to get the updates and therefore would probably keep on getting the virus, costing them a great deal of inconvience every time their internet is shut off. Not to mention the knowledge that thier machine is going to be swamped with viruses and that their computer will be completely insecure.
The best way to get rid of pirates is to make the cost of pirating greater than the cost of buying the software (or finding a legit alternative).
Yeah, damn those software projects that take 160% of the time to complete.
You completely missed the point. No one is forcing anything on to the customer. But quite simply, if you have EVER worked in the software industry designing custom systems for customers, you will know that the customer generally doesn't know what they want exactly. They have a vague idea and assume that you have the same idea they do in your head.
The requirements process is where you get your specifications from the customer about what he or she wants. Design is a completely seperate stage. The requirements are something you both agree on, but its not just something the customer sends to you. You give them feedback about the requirements. Perhaps they are contradictory, perhaps there are better ways to do things. This part is crucial in that the more time you put into this, the more information you will fish out of the customer, and you'll be more confident that you and they will know what the software is supposed to exactly do.
The golden rule in software engineering is the requirements are going to change. You just have to accept it. Why do requirements change? Well, usually its because the customer finally realizes that what they got and what they actually wanted were two different things. And thus you make the necessary changes until the next time they come back looking for you...
How many times have you downloaded a program think it has everything you want, until you use it and then realize theres something more it needs?
Think about something like Mozilla. It's be a sufficient browser for a while now. But once people got it, started using it, they thought to themselves "Now I need tabs!". And thus the evolution of software...
And if you, as an admin, take less than an hour to test your rpm (or whatever) software installation, on a mission-critical server, you're not doing your job. I will give you that it takes a long time to compile most things, but in my book, it's time well spent.
As much as I love Gentoo, this comparison makes no sense. When you're compiling, you're still not testing your software installation. You're sitting there waiting for the installation to complete. The Redhat administrator can install and test his installation before you're even done compiling.
And who said anything about a mission critical servers? Most people aren't running mission critical servers, especially Gentoo users. They're tend to be more desktop oriented, so you're talking about a niche market. If you're running a mission critical server, you always have a completely seperate box to test new software and there's usually no rush to upgrade, barring security updates. In fact, I'd venture to say you may be more vulnerable with Gentoo on a mission critical server because you need to take the time to compile, leaving your exploitable machine open while your Redhat friend took 15 seconds to install the latest security update.
All that said, I love Gentoo. I use it on my desktop. It's by far my favorite distro. I just realize that Gentoo's approach isn't flawless in itself, and that compiling everything doesn't always make sense. But for myself, I like it.