Amen to that. I have been dumbfounded many a times by asshatery which goes on in the name of upgrading to the latest piece of crap round the block be it J2EE, ASP,.NET, Rails or whatever. If it works and works perfectly in terms of fulfillment of requirements for the job, speed and scalability, then why would anyone want to "upgrade" just because a new technology is on the block is beyond me. I have seen perfectly good systems tossed and replaced with brand new (and non-working) systems just because the new systems are based on a new technology. Then of course the inevitable cycle of debugging, re-factoring , re-writing, testing goes on for a couple of years till they are finally working to the same level as the old system. By that time of course, another shiny new piece of tech comes along and off they go again. I sometimes think they do it just to justify their jobs.
While I agree 100% with the general argument that you make, to be pedantic, no matter how much free you try to make your execution path, there will always be at least one not completely trustable and/or proprietary code path to get there.How do you know that the BIOS which is POSTing is trustworthy? You will not have the source code for that. Say you use LinuxBIOS, can you trust the processor's microcode? That is closed too.
Bottom line: no matter what you do, you will have to use closed source software in part even though you may not realize it.
malware is malware whether it arrives as an attachment with a Salesforce.com email or from Jody hawking Viagra. A heuristic AV algorithm should find it and flag it as such.
Why would I want to upgrade to Vista? I upgraded my work PC from 2000 to XP a few months after it came out and felt cheated. Like the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. No Sir, I will keep using XP on my work PC and will upgrade to fiesty fawn at home.
when a publicly traded company does anything that can be construed as falsely painting a picture of business prospects that might impact the value of a share in the company.
Are you implying that a word which originates in one language can never truly become a part of another language? Sheikh is a word very commonly used in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati and Farsi as well. When I wrote that "mat/maat" is common to Hindi and Urdu it by definition means that it is the same word but belongs in different languages.
By your logic, English does not have any words of its own. It's all Latin!
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Amen to that. I have been dumbfounded many a times by asshatery which goes on in the name of upgrading to the latest piece of crap round the block be it J2EE, ASP, .NET, Rails or whatever. If it works and works perfectly in terms of fulfillment of requirements for the job, speed and scalability, then why would anyone want to "upgrade" just because a new technology is on the block is beyond me. I have seen perfectly good systems tossed and replaced with brand new (and non-working) systems just because the new systems are based on a new technology. Then of course the inevitable cycle of debugging, re-factoring , re-writing, testing goes on for a couple of years till they are finally working to the same level as the old system. By that time of course, another shiny new piece of tech comes along and off they go again. I sometimes think they do it just to justify their jobs.
So if your neighbor gets shot, is it OK for your TV to be stolen?, cause hey, it fits well with your argument.
While I agree 100% with the general argument that you make, to be pedantic, no matter how much free you try to make your execution path, there will always be at least one not completely trustable and/or proprietary code path to get there.How do you know that the BIOS which is POSTing is trustworthy? You will not have the source code for that. Say you use LinuxBIOS, can you trust the processor's microcode? That is closed too.
Bottom line: no matter what you do, you will have to use closed source software in part even though you may not realize it.
> the airplane is liable if you still miss your plane.
So we can actually sue the airplane? cool.
malware is malware whether it arrives as an attachment with a Salesforce.com email or from Jody hawking Viagra. A heuristic AV algorithm should find it and flag it as such.
>The problem is that Ubuntu touches the hard drive on a regular basis
I knew Ubuntu was doing something dirty!
I was beginning to like you, and then I read the article you linked to. THAT, is what you read? I mean, SERIOUSLY?
I can see that you have a deep resentment for someone you could not be. What do you do, hack CSS for a living?
There, fixed that for ya.
Whooooosh!
Lisa?
Come on mods. This deserves a +5 Insightful. This will become truer as the erosion of more freedoms in the 'land of the free' takes place.
What the hell has a UID got to do with the argument that he makes? Are you sore that you have a 6 digit UID? Read Freud much?
Why would I want to upgrade to Vista? I upgraded my work PC from 2000 to XP a few months after it came out and felt cheated. Like the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. No Sir, I will keep using XP on my work PC and will upgrade to fiesty fawn at home.
$45 a month? Where are you exactly? I am in downtown Tokyo and pay around $30 for 50M/s connection.
when a publicly traded company does anything that can be construed as falsely painting a picture of business prospects that might impact the value of a share in the company.
Tell that to Microsoft
Mine has Amnesia, which is what it gets if you buy cheap RAM.
micro soft?
Security through obscurity. Yeah, that works every time.
Are you implying that a word which originates in one language can never truly become a part of another language? Sheikh is a word very commonly used in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati and Farsi as well. When I wrote that "mat/maat" is common to Hindi and Urdu it by definition means that it is the same word but belongs in different languages. By your logic, English does not have any words of its own. It's all Latin!
Nope. it means the King has been defeated. "Mat", which is a word common to Urdu and Hindi as well, means defeat, while "Shah", of course, means King
RTFA...err...whatever
Hey, don't bash bash.