A *real* operating system like Windows doesn't need 17 partitions, just one. So you backup one partition and you're done.
I am really tempted to mod this up as Funny, but I am afraid that you are serious. There are so many things wrong with your statements that I don't know where to start. I guess I'll just have to assume that this was a joke, and you weren't really serious. If you *were* serious, then you really really need to educate yourself about these new fangled computer dealies.
Hey, son, I have been in the software development business for 9 years. Just because you miss a reference to the dancing monkey boy you don't have to lash out. And if you think it is all about finding someone to blame, then you have a lot more to learn.
Early on in the article, Larry mentions that he is learning Japanese. This is obvious in some of his later statements, where ends several of them with "I think", just like the panelists on Iron Chef.:-)
This could have used a little bit more salt, I think.
This is really good, I think.
It really depends on your curiosity level, I think.
Java was, in that sense, much less structured than Python, I think.
The current approach to.NET interoperability is a bit of a hack, I think.
But the real question is this: Why would someone do this? Certainly someone with a cool million lying around did something to make that money. What is to be gained by an individual donating that much money to a cause that has its roots in opposing the big corporation and "the man"? Likely, it isn't because it was just philosophically the "right thing to do".
I think the key is that to some people, a million dollars is not as much money as it is to you or me. And you have to wonder if this can be written off. I mean, it says the donation was anonymous, but that could very well mean that the university agreed to keep it anonymous. They could have written a receipt for it as an educational donation, and the donor could write it off as charity. The university may know who donated it, but agreed to keep it secret. Obviously there were specific things that this money was intended for, so there could have been stipulations with the donation.
I like the fact that someone is trying to do some good with the money, but you really have to wonder how far $1 million will go against all of the mega-millions that companies have invested in building copyright law.
A million dollars is a lot to you, me, and the university, but it probably isn't much to a Senator.;)
At this point in the economy, I think you should take whatever you can get. If you have that big of a choice where you can decide between one or the other, then you are doing better than most. Probably no matter what you choose, things will change in 5 years. Personally, I wouldn't want to work at the same place for life, but I don't want to be switching jobs every 2 years either. A lot can happen in 5 years, especially in the IT industry.
A great band once said:
Yes there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
Longer answer: He did. eBay was negotiating to buy his patents when they first started up, but instead just went right ahead with their site. This guy is a patent attorney (i.e. he IS a lawyer) so I am sure he is aware of the law surrounding this issue. And just because it made the news now doesn't mean it just happened.
From the looks of the article (you did read the article, didn't you?) it seems that he had the "online auction" idea patented before eBay went into business. There were even negotiations for eBay to buy his patents. But that fell through, and eBay went ahead infringing on his patents.
So LEGALLY, it appears that eBay is at fault. This doesn't address the fact that there is such a huge hole in the entire software patent/intellectual propterty concept.
Legally, this guy has a claim, but by all rights he shouldn't. This is exactly why patenting ideas and business models is stupid. This guy is a lawyer (patent attorney no less), and has gone after priceline.com and goto.com for infringements on some of his other patents.
As long as the system is broken, people will take advantage of it.
Hint: you don't have to go to a private school to get a good education.
I hear you. I went to junior college for 2 years to get an Associate degree (even lived at home), then on to Southern Illinois University for 3 more to get a BS-CS. SIUC isn't that expensive of a place. It took me 3 years because of pre-requisites and things like that not transferring. I don't think 5 years is too long for a BS, and I had to work during the summers in order to pay for things, so I couldn't take summer classes.
So unless you have parents that pay for it, or a trust fund, I still think it is tough to pay for college without taking out loans. I know it isn't impossible, but isn't the norm either.
I was actually considering joining, and I am confident I would have passed any physical test. I am 5'11" 175 lbs, and like working out. So maybe that disqualifies me as a true geek. Whatever. My aunt has worked for the FBI for the last 25 years, and after talking to her about it, and looking over the application books, no thanks.
Jeez, you guys are so paranoid about your privacy that you get all bent out of shape when Microsoft sneezes. How would you feel signing your entire private life over to the agency? Think they won't check out every single detail in your past, especially nowadays? My aunt told me that they were one big family, and that they stood behind each other like a family. Sorry, that didn't appeal to me, and kind of creeped me out. I am not of the "club" or "fraternity" mentality.
There are two areas in the FBI - support and agents. Agents are the ones who have to carry guns, and go through the more intense training. Support personnell can range from linguists to translators, to computer people. But the agents are what everyone aspires to be, even though they couldn't do their job with the massive amounts of support personnell.
You can get into the FBI and not be an agent. Just be prepared for what you would be signing away if you did join. I don't think most hackers/crackers/script kiddies would be willing to do it.
hello. I'm a college student who has refused loans. I make enough working hard at a real job to pay for my tuition and rent, so I don't need them. Plus, I don't want to start my adult life off in tons o' debt.
There, now you've met one of us. There are plent more.
Well hells bells, you need to tell your secret to the world, because I started working when I was 16, worked at a job during the summers that paid $13.50/hr (in 1988, mind you) and worked all throughout college and STILL had to take out loans. I only had to borrow about 7 grand, but I still had to do it to get by. And I had 2 roommates (sometimes 3) and maintained zero credit card debt. I agree with you on the debt thing, I know some people who came out with 30k+ in debt. Ouch.
And your typical college student surely has $1500 to toss around on a new computer. If I had ever had $1500 at one time while I was at college, I would have changed it into 20's and rolled around in it naked.
Now you can get student loans specifically for computers. I have yet to meet a college student who turns down loans. I have been out for 9 years, and mine are just about paid off.
I spent $2200 on a computer back then, from money I saved. It was a screamer for the time - 386DX-33 (not one of those wussy SX's). 80 MB hard drive, and I upgrade to 2 MB of RAM. It was worth the extra $100. And I had BOTH kinds of drives - 3.5 and 5.25. Sweet....
Then my roommate went out a year later and spent the same amount for a 486-25. Man, was I pissed, but I knew that he would never be able to use all that processing power. Ahh, the days of playing "drinking Links386" and "drinking Scorched Earth".
Yeah right. Science can supposedly prove anything. Give me good ol' fashioned dogma any day. We all know that AIDS was created by God to wipe out those who haven't been saved. How could these chimps have been wiped out 2 million years ago when the Earth is only 10,000 years old? Huh smart guy?
(dang, my sarcasm meter is pegged, I had better stop now)
I don't necessarily disagree with all of Mr. Ross's comments, but certainly he could have written his article without comparing Microsoft to a convicted killer, and not made any obvious comparison to Java and a the victim of such a murder. Shame on you, Mr. Ross.
You're right, it wasn't that good of a comparison. I am sure the murderer was worried about getting caught and punished, and had to constantly look over his shoulder. Microsoft does not. Yes, murder is worse that illegal monopolistic practices. Duh. That is not the point.
Paper seems to be a hell of a lot better long term storage medium than magnetic media.
It would seem so, but which is easier to backup and make copies of? I think that is where the real advantage to digital media lies (duh). While your 1GB of data may not exist on the same physical media in 50 years, you should be able to keep it around in some form or another. With paper, when it is gone, it is gone.
We're currently struggling with HIPPA where I work as well. I'm no expert, but a few things I'd look at:
- Your W2k workstations should not be exposed to the outside world. Firewall or NAT them (or both), and remove the WindowsUpdate icons from them and let your IT staff update them manually (or via pushed updates through your domain, if you have one).
- Ideally, the server with your HIPPA stuff on it should be hidden from view as well. Dedicate a server to nothing but HIPPA file serving if you have to. If it's absolutely necessary to access the information from remote locations (i.e., one's outside your lan/wan), consider serving that information up on a web page via an IIS/SQL type of solution of some kind, but with those services running on another server. I'm not sure if HIPPA guidelines provide for this sort of thing, though.
I agree with what you are saying, but I feel that these questions need to be asked. Well, they shouldn't need to be asked, because MS shouldn't be doing what they are doing, but I digress.
I work for a very large company and we are implementing HIPAA into our software now. We do all kinds of software for hospitals. The reason I think that this issue needs to be brought up is because most people don't even think about the holes that MS creates. I asked a very similar question to our director of operations a while ago, and he said basically that if the hospitals don't have firewalls, then they have bigger problems. While this may be true, I still think it is good to ask the question, so that people are aware of the "Microsoft issue". The people who maintain the firewall need to know about the autoupdate, so that they can block it at the firewall. They need to know about these vulnerabilitites, so they can plug them. I don't trust that they will be keeping up on these things. After all, who would have thought that the OS you run could create a huge gaping hole in your security and potentially hold you liable for violating federal regulations?
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I am really tempted to mod this up as Funny, but I am afraid that you are serious. There are so many things wrong with your statements that I don't know where to start. I guess I'll just have to assume that this was a joke, and you weren't really serious. If you *were* serious, then you really really need to educate yourself about these new fangled computer dealies.
Hey, son, I have been in the software development business for 9 years. Just because you miss a reference to the dancing monkey boy you don't have to lash out. And if you think it is all about finding someone to blame, then you have a lot more to learn.
This could have used a little bit more salt, I think.
This is really good, I think.
It really depends on your curiosity level, I think. .NET interoperability is a bit of a hack, I think.
Java was, in that sense, much less structured than Python, I think.
The current approach to
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I think the key is that to some people, a million dollars is not as much money as it is to you or me. And you have to wonder if this can be written off. I mean, it says the donation was anonymous, but that could very well mean that the university agreed to keep it anonymous. They could have written a receipt for it as an educational donation, and the donor could write it off as charity. The university may know who donated it, but agreed to keep it secret. Obviously there were specific things that this money was intended for, so there could have been stipulations with the donation.
I like the fact that someone is trying to do some good with the money, but you really have to wonder how far $1 million will go against all of the mega-millions that companies have invested in building copyright law.
A million dollars is a lot to you, me, and the university, but it probably isn't much to a Senator. ;)
Me me me me!
Oh wait... kitchen cabinet? I thought you were talking about porn. :-)
The karma, the karma, the karma's on fire.
We don't need no +1 let the mutha fucka burn.
Burn mutha fucka, burn!
A great band once said:
Yes there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
Longer answer: He did. eBay was negotiating to buy his patents when they first started up, but instead just went right ahead with their site. This guy is a patent attorney (i.e. he IS a lawyer) so I am sure he is aware of the law surrounding this issue. And just because it made the news now doesn't mean it just happened.
So LEGALLY, it appears that eBay is at fault. This doesn't address the fact that there is such a huge hole in the entire software patent/intellectual propterty concept.
Legally, this guy has a claim, but by all rights he shouldn't. This is exactly why patenting ideas and business models is stupid. This guy is a lawyer (patent attorney no less), and has gone after priceline.com and goto.com for infringements on some of his other patents.
As long as the system is broken, people will take advantage of it.
This seems to be happening more recently, but at least the editors are admitting it. Maybe it is time for a "duplicate story" category and icon.
Don't you mean Jar Jar Ballmer .
Damn, this video gets funnier and funnier every time I watch it.
I hear you. I went to junior college for 2 years to get an Associate degree (even lived at home), then on to Southern Illinois University for 3 more to get a BS-CS. SIUC isn't that expensive of a place. It took me 3 years because of pre-requisites and things like that not transferring. I don't think 5 years is too long for a BS, and I had to work during the summers in order to pay for things, so I couldn't take summer classes.
So unless you have parents that pay for it, or a trust fund, I still think it is tough to pay for college without taking out loans. I know it isn't impossible, but isn't the norm either.
Jeez, you guys are so paranoid about your privacy that you get all bent out of shape when Microsoft sneezes. How would you feel signing your entire private life over to the agency? Think they won't check out every single detail in your past, especially nowadays? My aunt told me that they were one big family, and that they stood behind each other like a family. Sorry, that didn't appeal to me, and kind of creeped me out. I am not of the "club" or "fraternity" mentality.
There are two areas in the FBI - support and agents. Agents are the ones who have to carry guns, and go through the more intense training. Support personnell can range from linguists to translators, to computer people. But the agents are what everyone aspires to be, even though they couldn't do their job with the massive amounts of support personnell.
You can get into the FBI and not be an agent. Just be prepared for what you would be signing away if you did join. I don't think most hackers/crackers/script kiddies would be willing to do it.
Well hells bells, you need to tell your secret to the world, because I started working when I was 16, worked at a job during the summers that paid $13.50/hr (in 1988, mind you) and worked all throughout college and STILL had to take out loans. I only had to borrow about 7 grand, but I still had to do it to get by. And I had 2 roommates (sometimes 3) and maintained zero credit card debt. I agree with you on the debt thing, I know some people who came out with 30k+ in debt. Ouch.
Now you can get student loans specifically for computers. I have yet to meet a college student who turns down loans. I have been out for 9 years, and mine are just about paid off.
I spent $2200 on a computer back then, from money I saved. It was a screamer for the time - 386DX-33 (not one of those wussy SX's). 80 MB hard drive, and I upgrade to 2 MB of RAM. It was worth the extra $100. And I had BOTH kinds of drives - 3.5 and 5.25. Sweet....
Then my roommate went out a year later and spent the same amount for a 486-25. Man, was I pissed, but I knew that he would never be able to use all that processing power. Ahh, the days of playing "drinking Links386" and "drinking Scorched Earth".
Stuff that matters. Uh huh.
(dang, my sarcasm meter is pegged, I had better stop now)
You're right, it wasn't that good of a comparison. I am sure the murderer was worried about getting caught and punished, and had to constantly look over his shoulder. Microsoft does not. Yes, murder is worse that illegal monopolistic practices. Duh. That is not the point.
Not a problem, just click on "I Accept" in this EULA...
It would seem so, but which is easier to backup and make copies of? I think that is where the real advantage to digital media lies (duh). While your 1GB of data may not exist on the same physical media in 50 years, you should be able to keep it around in some form or another. With paper, when it is gone, it is gone.
I agree with what you are saying, but I feel that these questions need to be asked. Well, they shouldn't need to be asked, because MS shouldn't be doing what they are doing, but I digress.
I work for a very large company and we are implementing HIPAA into our software now. We do all kinds of software for hospitals. The reason I think that this issue needs to be brought up is because most people don't even think about the holes that MS creates. I asked a very similar question to our director of operations a while ago, and he said basically that if the hospitals don't have firewalls, then they have bigger problems. While this may be true, I still think it is good to ask the question, so that people are aware of the "Microsoft issue". The people who maintain the firewall need to know about the autoupdate, so that they can block it at the firewall. They need to know about these vulnerabilitites, so they can plug them. I don't trust that they will be keeping up on these things. After all, who would have thought that the OS you run could create a huge gaping hole in your security and potentially hold you liable for violating federal regulations?
Well, not exactly a check, more like 75 pennies.
In an envelope
Postage due
(In college once I paid a $2 [total BS] parking ticket in change, in one of those "postage will be paid by addressee" envelopes.)
If you had to prove your religious beliefs existed, say goodbye to all organized religion.
Not that it would be a bad thing.