English isn't my native language, and I've started using the "could" variant after hearing and seeing the native speakers use it. I thought it was some kind of "americanism". Thanks for correcting!
Mind your own business. Never in my life I've seen a piece of software as intrusive, spyware and ad-ridden and poorly written as Real Player. Face it, fellas, even if you force Microsoft to bundle RealPlayer with Windows it isn't gonna fly. First thing the customers will do is they will turn this piece of crap off, because it will try feed insane amounts of ads to them and pop up the god damn notification thingy to remind you that even though it's not doing anything useful at the time it's still taking up 10M of RAM and some processor resources while also trying to upsell you on the crap you could care less about.
Good god, I don't want them to win. I'd hate to have to remove this shit from my newly purchased PC.
One day I think my head will explode when another marketoid walks in with his moronic ideas that are impossible to implement in real software. Or if I go through yet another reorg, which PHBs do all the time to show their PHBs that they're doing anything at all.
that there were none. If Saddam doesnt know where they are, nobody knows. If on the other hand WMD did exist, expect them to be found within next month. CIA interrogators will make him talk. Quite frankly being a pussy that he is he will start talking before they fill their syringes.
The idea makes sense, but who's going to pay for antipatents? Patenting something is costly. Anti-patenting (and paying lawyers when you anti-patent is challenged in court) may be even more costly. One of the main purposes of patents is to make innovation profitable to stimulate innovation. Sure patents are wildly abused, but this was the initial idea behind them. What would be the idea behind anti-patents that would make the government want to implement this legal mechanism?
I already have a DSLR and a nice collection of expensive lenses, so I wanted to be able to shoot B&W and slide film (Velvia, Provia) with the same lenses, so I bought a Canon Elan IIe. It cost me $150 with 12 rolls of film, a bag and a remote release thingy. Not bad at all.
Though these days for someone with a limited budget I'd suggest the upper-class P&S or Digital Rebel just to avoid the processing cost and get the instant gratification of digital.
If you buy a DSLR be prepared for massive cash outlay for decent lenses. Cheap lenses mean crappy pictures and even more so on digital than on film.
If you're in this (software development) for money, then I'm really sorry for your future. Software is becoming a commodity pretty quickly, and nobody is ready to throw out insane piles of cash on wild ideas anymore. You can't run a business on enthusiasm alone (even in your garage).
10 years down the road you will REALLY regret you hadn't gone through the college, but it will be too late to change anything.
Select one of the choices below: 1. They threaten Microsoft and get their deep discount. Smart. 2. They buy into Sun and pay dearly for support as well as for rewriting all of their already working software. Stupid.
Somehow I think the entire point of this "switch" is to do #1.
Also, minute changes in the camera array (say, thermal deformation of the structure they're mounted on) would cause pixel level errors which are painfully obvious when doing pixel-level inspection. It's easier to just tell undergrads to stitch the damn thing by hand.:-)
They'll be sending out hundreds of thousands of CDs FREE OF CHARGE when beta-testing time comes. Sure, somebody in Malaysia is stupid enough to pay $2 for pre-alpha code with major pieces missing. What's the big deal here? Why is this "stuff that matters"?
They either should remove taxes from my DSL bill OR from phone bill, because right now I pay two sets of taxes. They're trying to eat with two spoons, and this is not the prettiest way to eat, especially if someone feeds you. The fella giving you money may decide you're too greedy and cut off your food supply for good.
People buy music for 99 cents a track for three primary reasons: 1. Because it's cool 2. Because they're afraid of RIAA subpoenas 3. Because they're too dumb to run a filesharing program
That's it. Myself, I don't think compressed music is worth 90% of the price of uncompressed music, especially considering the fact I don't get the original artwork. I've bought a couple of tracks on iTunes, though - the ones I couldn't find on CDs. For everything else I use Half.com.
$350 for a fragile device used to listen to compressed music? Aren't plain old CD/MD players good enough anymore? After all, how many CDs do you listen to during the day? Two? Three?
You know, I envy the French. They can make some weird useless things, publish enough ads about them and women will sell their kidneys to get the latest fashions, no matter how useless, stupid and uncomfortable to wear/use they are.
I observe the same kind of trend here. Apple told them it's "cool", so peer pressure hit really hard. Lickable enclosure, you know (drool). Like, 40GB, dude (drool). And ads make gullible people believe they'll look like dorks if they don't have the latest HD jukebox attached to their belt. And there we have it. $100 HDD coupled with $50 enclosure and electronics go for $350 like hot cakes. "Because you're worth it" (TM).
I've heard piracy is pretty darn rampant there. You can buy ANY software product on the street for 2-3 bucks. Sure enough no one wants to pay $250 for a version of Office they can't reliably "replicate" to all machines in the department (and to home PCs of employees as well). There's a lot more to Office than just word processing and spreadsheets. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on which side in this battle is yours) there's not enough education about all the stuff MS Office can do. MS has to realize that customers don't give a flying fuck about the features if they don't know they're in there.
But will it blow up twice as often?
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Which means the hacker either didn't care of covering his tracks or needed constant access or just wasn't qualified enough to clean up the mess. Good hackers don't work like that. They get in, deploy a bunch of crap, take what they need, clean up and get out. Maybe a month later they announce a "newly discovered" vulnerability. So a couple of five thousand packets in debian _may_ contain unintended code which uses not yet announced vulnerabilities in linux kernel (or in the upcoming 2.6.x). Will anybody do a full code reivew on the entire codebase now?
The point is, just because it's Linux doesn't mean it's any more secure than Windows. In both cases a decent admin is necessary to fend off the attacks. Not many Linux servers are attacked (except for script kiddies) because attacking them is not (yet) in vogue. Guess what, this is changing. And remove those cron jobs which update your systems. They may be downloading trojans from the compromised distribution servers. Test before you deploy in other words. Or SIGN THE FUCKING CODE like Microsoft does.
Order #334 issued by Russian President Boris Yeltsin on April 4th 1995 explicitly prohibits "juridical and physical entities" from "developing, manufacturing, selling and using" crypto stuff without a license issued by Federal Agency of Communication and Information (aka FAPSI). Just look it up on any Russian search engine. Please note, that even if you're _using_ cryptography without a license, you're doing so against this order (which pretty much means "against the law"), and you can be punished by whoever wants to punish you at any time. That's how Russian legal system works. There are lots of laws that are impossible to abide by, so people break the law pretty much every day. When the time comes and they want to fuck you up, you'll get it all the way up the rectum.
'cause they don't know jack shit! We once had Gartner do market analysis for us, and when the guy came over to present it, a couple of his pie charts showed wrong percentages. The percentages he had on his slides were adding up to something like 112%, not 100. Of course he got caught and laughed at. We haven't used their services since then.:0) Our management can pull better numbers out of their ass.
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English isn't my native language, and I've started using the "could" variant after hearing and seeing the native speakers use it. I thought it was some kind of "americanism". Thanks for correcting!
Mind your own business. Never in my life I've seen a piece of software as intrusive, spyware and ad-ridden and poorly written as Real Player. Face it, fellas, even if you force Microsoft to bundle RealPlayer with Windows it isn't gonna fly. First thing the customers will do is they will turn this piece of crap off, because it will try feed insane amounts of ads to them and pop up the god damn notification thingy to remind you that even though it's not doing anything useful at the time it's still taking up 10M of RAM and some processor resources while also trying to upsell you on the crap you could care less about.
Good god, I don't want them to win. I'd hate to have to remove this shit from my newly purchased PC.
One day I think my head will explode when another marketoid walks in with his moronic ideas that are impossible to implement in real software. Or if I go through yet another reorg, which PHBs do all the time to show their PHBs that they're doing anything at all.
that there were none. If Saddam doesnt know where they are, nobody knows. If on the other hand WMD did exist, expect them to be found within next month. CIA interrogators will make him talk. Quite frankly being a pussy that he is he will start talking before they fill their syringes.
The idea makes sense, but who's going to pay for antipatents? Patenting something is costly. Anti-patenting (and paying lawyers when you anti-patent is challenged in court) may be even more costly. One of the main purposes of patents is to make innovation profitable to stimulate innovation. Sure patents are wildly abused, but this was the initial idea behind them. What would be the idea behind anti-patents that would make the government want to implement this legal mechanism?
Considering the marketshares we can conclude Microsoft windows is the most secure OS ever. :-)
www.linuxisnotsecureeither.com
I already have a DSLR and a nice collection of expensive lenses, so I wanted to be able to shoot B&W and slide film (Velvia, Provia) with the same lenses, so I bought a Canon Elan IIe. It cost me $150 with 12 rolls of film, a bag and a remote release thingy. Not bad at all.
Though these days for someone with a limited budget I'd suggest the upper-class P&S or Digital Rebel just to avoid the processing cost and get the instant gratification of digital.
If you buy a DSLR be prepared for massive cash outlay for decent lenses. Cheap lenses mean crappy pictures and even more so on digital than on film.
If you're in this (software development) for money, then I'm really sorry for your future. Software is becoming a commodity pretty quickly, and nobody is ready to throw out insane piles of cash on wild ideas anymore. You can't run a business on enthusiasm alone (even in your garage).
10 years down the road you will REALLY regret you hadn't gone through the college, but it will be too late to change anything.
FYI, I'm 26 and I have M.Sc. in CS.
Moreover, they have no experience or education (there are rare exceptions). I suggest you getting your degree first. Basic education is important.
Are you a 18-years old dreaming of geek stardom?
Select one of the choices below:
1. They threaten Microsoft and get their deep discount. Smart.
2. They buy into Sun and pay dearly for support as well as for rewriting all of their already working software. Stupid.
Somehow I think the entire point of this "switch" is to do #1.
Also, minute changes in the camera array (say, thermal deformation of the structure they're mounted on) would cause pixel level errors which are painfully obvious when doing pixel-level inspection. It's easier to just tell undergrads to stitch the damn thing by hand. :-)
Because they'd still get 196 separate pictures each of which would have to be corrected for lens distortions, pitch, yaw, roll and other things.
They'll be sending out hundreds of thousands of CDs FREE OF CHARGE when beta-testing time comes. Sure, somebody in Malaysia is stupid enough to pay $2 for pre-alpha code with major pieces missing. What's the big deal here? Why is this "stuff that matters"?
Now add lack of management and hyper-inflated egos to the mix and you'll get it all.
But then they aren't that smart. You can buy real CD for the same money on half.com. So they kinda fall under the third category.
They either should remove taxes from my DSL bill OR from phone bill, because right now I pay two sets of taxes. They're trying to eat with two spoons, and this is not the prettiest way to eat, especially if someone feeds you. The fella giving you money may decide you're too greedy and cut off your food supply for good.
People buy music for 99 cents a track for three primary reasons:
1. Because it's cool
2. Because they're afraid of RIAA subpoenas
3. Because they're too dumb to run a filesharing program
That's it. Myself, I don't think compressed music is worth 90% of the price of uncompressed music, especially considering the fact I don't get the original artwork. I've bought a couple of tracks on iTunes, though - the ones I couldn't find on CDs. For everything else I use Half.com.
$350 for a fragile device used to listen to compressed music? Aren't plain old CD/MD players good enough anymore? After all, how many CDs do you listen to during the day? Two? Three?
You know, I envy the French. They can make some weird useless things, publish enough ads about them and women will sell their kidneys to get the latest fashions, no matter how useless, stupid and uncomfortable to wear/use they are.
I observe the same kind of trend here. Apple told them it's "cool", so peer pressure hit really hard. Lickable enclosure, you know (drool). Like, 40GB, dude (drool). And ads make gullible people believe they'll look like dorks if they don't have the latest HD jukebox attached to their belt. And there we have it. $100 HDD coupled with $50 enclosure and electronics go for $350 like hot cakes. "Because you're worth it" (TM).
I've heard piracy is pretty darn rampant there. You can buy ANY software product on the street for 2-3 bucks. Sure enough no one wants to pay $250 for a version of Office they can't reliably "replicate" to all machines in the department (and to home PCs of employees as well). There's a lot more to Office than just word processing and spreadsheets. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on which side in this battle is yours) there's not enough education about all the stuff MS Office can do. MS has to realize that customers don't give a flying fuck about the features if they don't know they're in there.
That's the question. :-)
Which means the hacker either didn't care of covering his tracks or needed constant access or just wasn't qualified enough to clean up the mess. Good hackers don't work like that. They get in, deploy a bunch of crap, take what they need, clean up and get out. Maybe a month later they announce a "newly discovered" vulnerability. So a couple of five thousand packets in debian _may_ contain unintended code which uses not yet announced vulnerabilities in linux kernel (or in the upcoming 2.6.x). Will anybody do a full code reivew on the entire codebase now?
The point is, just because it's Linux doesn't mean it's any more secure than Windows. In both cases a decent admin is necessary to fend off the attacks. Not many Linux servers are attacked (except for script kiddies) because attacking them is not (yet) in vogue. Guess what, this is changing. And remove those cron jobs which update your systems. They may be downloading trojans from the compromised distribution servers. Test before you deploy in other words. Or SIGN THE FUCKING CODE like Microsoft does.
Order #334 issued by Russian President Boris Yeltsin on April 4th 1995 explicitly prohibits "juridical and physical entities" from "developing, manufacturing, selling and using" crypto stuff without a license issued by Federal Agency of Communication and Information (aka FAPSI). Just look it up on any Russian search engine. Please note, that even if you're _using_ cryptography without a license, you're doing so against this order (which pretty much means "against the law"), and you can be punished by whoever wants to punish you at any time. That's how Russian legal system works. There are lots of laws that are impossible to abide by, so people break the law pretty much every day. When the time comes and they want to fuck you up, you'll get it all the way up the rectum.
'cause they don't know jack shit! We once had Gartner do market analysis for us, and when the guy came over to present it, a couple of his pie charts showed wrong percentages. The percentages he had on his slides were adding up to something like 112%, not 100. Of course he got caught and laughed at. We haven't used their services since then. :0) Our management can pull better numbers out of their ass.