Probably anyone in Arkansas who earns a CS degree . . . ends up moving somewhere else anyway.
Walmart does have a pretty big IT shop in Bentonville, which does import CS grads. In between them and Tyson, there are programming jobs for managing corporate systems.
When doing a period of time comparison over a period of time comparison, the important thing is to keep the definition of your unit the same. Now I realize that not all cyber attacks are created equal, but so long as something that wasn't counted previously is now counted, it's still interesting data,
It's an operation where fecal matter is transplanted from a donor to a patient.
You know, there are web search engines these days that can be used to answer questions for you. You don't need to wave your ignorance around with pride anymore.
because there are too many websites that only work under one or the other of them
Have you tried playing with the user agent string for the different websites to see if the different browsers could work for all of the websites, but the sites break because they are trying to be too client specific?
In fact I think email should either die or have a massive protocol update of some kind to block spammers, otherwise it's a lost cause.
I'm not aware of anyone who used to use email who has stopped using email, are you? Given how effective spam blockers are these days, I'm not feeling a need to drop SMTP quite yet myself.
How does this not drive more Burger Kings into Canada? If they go after McDonalds and not (now Canadian) Burger King, they drive corps out. If they go after BK, then can any country do that, tax USA based corporate assets? It's probably better than a VAT, I guess (which is why USA corporate taxes are relatively high, it makes up for lack of Value Added Tax).
If all of the large corporations are driven out of the US, that will leave room in the marketplace for small companies to get founded, and the US will end up with lots of small companies, with lots of CEO's, instead of a handful of CEO's with all of the money. Why is driving corporations out a bad thing?
It's a tough problem to fix. If we come down too hard on companies for hiring guest workers, they'll often open off shore offices.
When it comes to software and research a lot of companies try that out. They tend not to be getting positive ROI's on doing so, so it's kept as a minimal footprint of their company.
some people in their focus groups didn't like it because it *sounds* different.
I have a Nissan with a CVT and I love it. If you pay attention to it, it does sound different, but once your on the road with all of the other road noise it's too quiet to hear. I don't know if 'normal' engine sounds include the transmission, so it is odd to think about the transmission making noise.
Anything that retards the move to 'web base applications' is a good thing.
Yeah, the current move to Store based apps is way more helpful to spreading information to multiple platforms in an open and free manner.
Down with the web.
Why would you be surprised? Google is making a fortune doing it. You don't think Microsoft wants a piece of, if not the whole, pie.
Because Microsoft knows it can't out Google, Google. Do they do cookie tracking of ads during web browsing, sure. But when it comes to personal data (email, OneDrive, etc), Microsoft follows its privacy policy and doesn't crawl through the data. Microsoft sells the 'feature' of not crawling through the personal data as a perceived advantage over Google.
Newer releases of Windows try really hard to get me to use some stupid online account to log into my own computer. At the same time, all sorts of spying and datamining features are conveniently brought into play.
I'd be surprised if Microsoft cared enough to spy on you. But, by signing in with an online account your settings sync between different computers/reinstalls. Tech people like talking about "the first thing I do when I reinstall my machine is...", and a lot of that now goes away if you log in with an existing account, and all of your settings are laid down for you.
since we've dismantled our mental institutions we've abandoned a huge segment of our population in dire need of state assistance. We did that for two reasons, 2.a) money and 2.b) concern with freedom.
I'm pretty sure it was due to the fact that media, particularly Hollywood, loved to portray those institutions in as negative a light as possible. They succeeded so well that instead of trying to encourage improvements, no politician has the political capital to survive should something imperfect happen in them while they're in office. So it's easier to get rid of the institutions than risk some sort of scandal.
C:\ProgramData was around before XP. The reason why it's there is because it's a place that all users have write access to. Programs get installed in Program Files, but that requires administrative permissions. Then the program can run as any standard user and modify files under ProgramData. Programs modifying files under Program Files, when they're not being installed is a really bad idea, and forces the users to run them to be administrators. And no one should run as Administrator.
Why does Windows keep this antiquated process around?
Because Windows is all about backwards compatibility. I know you probably have horrible war stories about something not working on the next version of Windows, but if you truly debugged those, you'd be more shocked that the application was ever working in the first place. The reason why the installers were created in the first place was to meet big software developers needs. Lots of programs need/want/can interact with other programs (plugins, RPC's, whatever). As a result they need to interface with the other programs, and that's done through the registry.
No. XP was the one exception, due to the amount of time it took to launch Vista. So far Windows 7 is matching the published schedule that Microsoft has had with all of it's operating system releases.
So, all things being equal, would you say that the leaders of Islamic State are not to blame for the terrorist attacks they incite (as opposed to those they carry out themselves)?
There's a difference between someone saying "You should go attack that group" vs. "Hey, here's what I think about that group". So they're not equal. So the leaders of the Islamic State are to blame, but the degree of blame is related to how involved they are in it. For centuries people have written news papers (and any other media) talking about how someone should go attack a certain group or country, and the vast majority of the time no one actually does anything about it.
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Probably anyone in Arkansas who earns a CS degree . . . ends up moving somewhere else anyway.
Walmart does have a pretty big IT shop in Bentonville, which does import CS grads. In between them and Tyson, there are programming jobs for managing corporate systems.
When doing a period of time comparison over a period of time comparison, the important thing is to keep the definition of your unit the same. Now I realize that not all cyber attacks are created equal, but so long as something that wasn't counted previously is now counted, it's still interesting data,
What in the name of god is a fecal transplant?
It's an operation where fecal matter is transplanted from a donor to a patient.
You know, there are web search engines these days that can be used to answer questions for you. You don't need to wave your ignorance around with pride anymore.
A ping flood? Attempted DOS? Attempt to connect to telnet port?
So long as the metrics are the same year over year, does it really matter?
because there are too many websites that only work under one or the other of them
Have you tried playing with the user agent string for the different websites to see if the different browsers could work for all of the websites, but the sites break because they are trying to be too client specific?
Theoretically IMAP gives you a synchronized view of your mail, but in practice there are all kinds of pitfalls.
MAPI and ActiveSync do a great job synchronizing the same view of your email from the server to their respective clients.
In fact I think email should either die or have a massive protocol update of some kind to block spammers, otherwise it's a lost cause.
I'm not aware of anyone who used to use email who has stopped using email, are you? Given how effective spam blockers are these days, I'm not feeling a need to drop SMTP quite yet myself.
ensuring there is a strong Thunderbird to help preserve a free and open email ecosystem.
Why would having an open email client help preserve free and open email? Is something threatening email rfc's recently?
How does this not drive more Burger Kings into Canada? If they go after McDonalds and not (now Canadian) Burger King, they drive corps out. If they go after BK, then can any country do that, tax USA based corporate assets? It's probably better than a VAT, I guess (which is why USA corporate taxes are relatively high, it makes up for lack of Value Added Tax).
If all of the large corporations are driven out of the US, that will leave room in the marketplace for small companies to get founded, and the US will end up with lots of small companies, with lots of CEO's, instead of a handful of CEO's with all of the money. Why is driving corporations out a bad thing?
Microsoft has in the past complained that Google Inc., which manages Android, has blocked its programs from the operating system
When was the last time evil Microsoft blocked a program from running on one of its platforms.
I guess I'll need to download the preview and see if I can get rid of both.
You know, you won't have to get rid of both if you don't download the preview.
It's a tough problem to fix. If we come down too hard on companies for hiring guest workers, they'll often open off shore offices.
When it comes to software and research a lot of companies try that out. They tend not to be getting positive ROI's on doing so, so it's kept as a minimal footprint of their company.
some people in their focus groups didn't like it because it *sounds* different.
I have a Nissan with a CVT and I love it. If you pay attention to it, it does sound different, but once your on the road with all of the other road noise it's too quiet to hear. I don't know if 'normal' engine sounds include the transmission, so it is odd to think about the transmission making noise.
Anything that retards the move to 'web base applications' is a good thing.
Yeah, the current move to Store based apps is way more helpful to spreading information to multiple platforms in an open and free manner.
Down with the web.
Why would you be surprised? Google is making a fortune doing it. You don't think Microsoft wants a piece of, if not the whole, pie.
Because Microsoft knows it can't out Google, Google. Do they do cookie tracking of ads during web browsing, sure. But when it comes to personal data (email, OneDrive, etc), Microsoft follows its privacy policy and doesn't crawl through the data. Microsoft sells the 'feature' of not crawling through the personal data as a perceived advantage over Google.
Yes, including the malware from which you were hoping to escape when you abandoned your old PC and logged into a new system.
That certainly is a risk. It's one of the reasons for the big break with WinRT vs. Win32.
Newer releases of Windows try really hard to get me to use some stupid online account to log into my own computer. At the same time, all sorts of spying and datamining features are conveniently brought into play.
I'd be surprised if Microsoft cared enough to spy on you. But, by signing in with an online account your settings sync between different computers/reinstalls. Tech people like talking about "the first thing I do when I reinstall my machine is ...", and a lot of that now goes away if you log in with an existing account, and all of your settings are laid down for you.
And just exploring through the tree-based Start Menu is something I really miss.
That is so sad.
So it's a place that all users have write access to, but it's invisible, so most users don't know that it even exists?
Yes. Most users would do more damage, knowing it's there, than by not knowing it's there. Programmers, should know it's there, users should not.
since we've dismantled our mental institutions we've abandoned a huge segment of our population in dire need of state assistance. We did that for two reasons, 2.a) money and 2.b) concern with freedom.
I'm pretty sure it was due to the fact that media, particularly Hollywood, loved to portray those institutions in as negative a light as possible. They succeeded so well that instead of trying to encourage improvements, no politician has the political capital to survive should something imperfect happen in them while they're in office. So it's easier to get rid of the institutions than risk some sort of scandal.
C:\ProgramData was around before XP. The reason why it's there is because it's a place that all users have write access to. Programs get installed in Program Files, but that requires administrative permissions. Then the program can run as any standard user and modify files under ProgramData. Programs modifying files under Program Files, when they're not being installed is a really bad idea, and forces the users to run them to be administrators. And no one should run as Administrator.
Why does Windows keep this antiquated process around?
Because Windows is all about backwards compatibility. I know you probably have horrible war stories about something not working on the next version of Windows, but if you truly debugged those, you'd be more shocked that the application was ever working in the first place. The reason why the installers were created in the first place was to meet big software developers needs. Lots of programs need/want/can interact with other programs (plugins, RPC's, whatever). As a result they need to interface with the other programs, and that's done through the registry.
is this the shortest MS has supported an OS yet?
No. XP was the one exception, due to the amount of time it took to launch Vista. So far Windows 7 is matching the published schedule that Microsoft has had with all of it's operating system releases.
Surely this shows that it is not Islam itself that is the problem?
Nope, I'm not seeing that at all. Given that the worlds most violent people tend to be Muslim, it may actually be Islam that's the problem.
So, all things being equal, would you say that the leaders of Islamic State are not to blame for the terrorist attacks they incite (as opposed to those they carry out themselves)?
There's a difference between someone saying "You should go attack that group" vs. "Hey, here's what I think about that group". So they're not equal. So the leaders of the Islamic State are to blame, but the degree of blame is related to how involved they are in it. For centuries people have written news papers (and any other media) talking about how someone should go attack a certain group or country, and the vast majority of the time no one actually does anything about it.