If the metaphor is a tablet you should be using your finger, not a stylus right? I mean when I use a real tablet I write with my finger not a pencil or pen, right?
How many companies can survive on selling a commodity that people can acquire for free? If Linux were to become commonplace even Red Hat might have trouble getting customers to cough up for support they don't really need anymore.
You didn't produce any real proof that most XP users use IE6 rather than a newer version. Even if "many large companies" do, that doesn't automatically prove that the majority of users do.
Sure, if IT had stuck to VAXs we wouldn't have all those pesky unsophisticated users to make the Internet a marketplace and a popular communications medium. We wouldn't have spam, or malware because there wouldn't be enough people on the Internet to buy things or to steal credit cards from.
Around here I don't hear a lot of comments about what the users want, but what web developers want. Do you really think that users will be better off if MS switched IE's core to WebKit? Sounds like a real bugfest to me.
Ubuntu's upgrade approach is terrible. If your version is older than 6 months you have to do a double-upgrade. For every 6 months between your version and the current version you have to do an upgrade (if the intervening releases are still available).
In general, you might be better off just saving your data, wipe your Ubuntu release and just start over with the latest version.
I agree. There ought to be a law that says the small fish can't be punished more than the big fish. There are plenty of cases where a criminal involved their girlfriend in a crime and then turned state's evidence against her while she "stood by her man". It sucks.
I know it doesn't put food on the table but you did good. Sometimes the satisfaction you get from doing the right thing is all you get for your efforts.
So you can get the untested version now which may or may not fix the vulnerability and potentially botch-up your system. This is better than waiting until March 30th in what way?
The truth (or lack of it) in what RMS says and people's reaction to it wasn't my point. Rather, the other way round. The success of FOSS may lead him to believe that more people follow his "ideals" when many are just interested in the no cost aspects. This belief can lead to further pronouncements from on high and an exaggerated confidence that people care what he says.
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I wasn't aware that Novell or Red Hat offered a service where they do system administration for your in-house servers.
If the metaphor is a tablet you should be using your finger, not a stylus right? I mean when I use a real tablet I write with my finger not a pencil or pen, right?
So you're saying you know the direction that the reality distortion field is pointing and it's not oriented on us?
"They single handed created the mobile music market."
I wondered why I could never play music on the go with my Walkman - Apple hadn't created mobile music yet.
"By refrigerator has a built-in water dispenser."
Yes, I hated having that separate water dispenser.
"A typical TV is the convergence of a monitor, sound system, and receiver."
Right, I hated those old 1960s TVs that didn't have sound and couldn't receive TV signals.
How many companies can survive on selling a commodity that people can acquire for free? If Linux were to become commonplace even Red Hat might have trouble getting customers to cough up for support they don't really need anymore.
You didn't produce any real proof that most XP users use IE6 rather than a newer version. Even if "many large companies" do, that doesn't automatically prove that the majority of users do.
Sure, if IT had stuck to VAXs we wouldn't have all those pesky unsophisticated users to make the Internet a marketplace and a popular communications medium. We wouldn't have spam, or malware because there wouldn't be enough people on the Internet to buy things or to steal credit cards from.
"IE needs newer OS support in order to support HTML5? I call bullshit on this."
You're right. It's bullshit to talk about supporting HTML5 until it's a real standard.
Around here I don't hear a lot of comments about what the users want, but what web developers want. Do you really think that users will be better off if MS switched IE's core to WebKit? Sounds like a real bugfest to me.
Ubuntu's upgrade approach is terrible. If your version is older than 6 months you have to do a double-upgrade. For every 6 months between your version and the current version you have to do an upgrade (if the intervening releases are still available).
In general, you might be better off just saving your data, wipe your Ubuntu release and just start over with the latest version.
I don't know why you assume that most XP users are still using IE6 if they use IE.
Actually there's little connection between IE and the .NET framework these days.
"XP users savvy enough to upgrade to IE8 probably also have another browser."
How "savvy" do you have to be to follow MS's suggestion to upgrade to IE8 when it appears on your home page (which was never changed from msn.com)?
Programming in Landscape, Porn pictures in Portrait.
"I can program for Windows 98 or DOS without flinching, because I've got the low-level knowledge."
I can develop for the Atari 2600 without flinching, but like Windows 98, there's not much of a market for that skill.
I think Apple would like to stay in the Mac business. Perhaps if customers would be willing to pay 2-3K for their "open" OSX, Apple would go for it.
If they wrote the fraudulent code but released it under the GPL, is it still "evil"?
"...where all the choices are made for you"
Including sexual orientation?
"As engineers and software developers, we generally feel obliged to do what we are told."
Shut your mouth! You are going to ruin it for the rest of us!
I agree. There ought to be a law that says the small fish can't be punished more than the big fish. There are plenty of cases where a criminal involved their girlfriend in a crime and then turned state's evidence against her while she "stood by her man". It sucks.
I know it doesn't put food on the table but you did good. Sometimes the satisfaction you get from doing the right thing is all you get for your efforts.
Let's hope there really is Karma.
Hiding the patch doesn't really make any sense. I suspect they just didn't want to do the work to make its location more obvious.
So you can get the untested version now which may or may not fix the vulnerability and potentially botch-up your system. This is better than waiting until March 30th in what way?
The truth (or lack of it) in what RMS says and people's reaction to it wasn't my point. Rather, the other way round. The success of FOSS may lead him to believe that more people follow his "ideals" when many are just interested in the no cost aspects. This belief can lead to further pronouncements from on high and an exaggerated confidence that people care what he says.