"Worse then that, Adobe against splash screens. Welcome to Photoshop, please stare at this logo while we load plugins and filters you wont be using
Isn't it possible for the app to save it's state, instead of having to load the plugins and filters each time. Except loading plugins involves copying a DLL into memory, so we should be blaming the designer of the Operating System.
"I work for an IT company that has a steady stream of projects.. our development resources are not sufficient to cover the amount of projects. As a result, our delivery dates are slipping.. How does your company deal with this inflation of priorities?"
Fire whoever compiles the project list and then have the technical staff choose a single project and work on it until completion, then move onto the next one.
"I need a break. I need to walk away from it, and want to look at doing something that doesn't focus heavily on the IT industry day in, day out. Unfortunately, I'm locked to a regional city and I've just spent the majority of my adult life coding, with no other major skills to fall back on"
As someone who spent the majority of your working life in coding you will find a reluctance to hire you on in other areas, regardless of what skills you would bring to the task. The usual way out for aging IT techies is to become, but then again you probably don't display the necessary Machiavellian mentality to be a successive PHB. A realistic solution is to go into teaching coding.
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"Good call. You're right. If you actually look into this thing, you'll see that the lawsuit represents only 60 farmers . ChromeAeonium
"The large group of 83 Plaintiffs in OSGATA v. Monsanto is comprised of individual family farmers, independent seed companies and agricultural organizations. The total number of members within the plaintiff group exceeds 300,000 and includes many thousands of certified organic farmers.
The Plaintiffs are not seeking any monetary compensation. Instead, the farmers are pre-emptively suing Monsanto and seeking court protection under the Declaratory Judgment Act, from Monsanto-initiated patent infringement lawsuits.
co-plaintiff Food Democracy Now! has collected over 100,000 signatures on it’s petition supporting the rights of family farmers against Monsanto" link
"nortel built a plant over there with the promise of getting some of the chinese telecom market share. the chinese sold them a plot of land in a flood plain so they could not use the first floor for about half the year..
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have any verifiable source for that?
"The Associated Press is reporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has won the Maine Republican caucuses to defeat rival Ron Paul by a small margin. According to Reuters, 95 percent of the votes have been counted, and Mr. Romney has 39 percent of the votes thus far with Mr. Paul currently sitting at 36 percent."
“In addition to making instructional data more manageable and useful, this open-license technology, provisionally called the Shared Learning Infrastructure (SLI), will also support a large market for vendors of learning materials and application developers to deliver content and tools that meet the Common Core State Standards and are interoperable with each other and the most popular student information systems” link
"The government's case also contained potentially embarrassing allegations that top Google executives, including co-founder Larry Page, were told about legal problems with the drug ads.
Mr. Page, now Google's chief executive, knew about the illicit conduct, said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island.. Mr. Neronha declined to detail the evidence, which was presented in secret to a federal grand jury"
"Its sad that they nowadays refuse Linux as a platform for browser testing. I can agree its pretty boring to have one platform that wont be broken so easily, but its a good benchmark against Windows and its abundance of security issues".
Where does it say you can't use Linux for browser testing?
"Investigators discovered two Internet access locations, or IP addresses, for the intruders on Dec. 1 and a third on Dec. 2, the document noted, but it does not say in which country they were located".
Who in their right minds connect a railway signals control system directly to the Internet?
This sounds like a rehash of the 'fragmentation` issue. There are only so many ways you can configure the look and feel of the platform itself. Besides the real money is not in the handsets but in the apps and online services.
"Because Metro-style apps are written using...Net-managed code, it may even be possible to run the exact same apps on any Microsoft-powered device".
As I suspected this is a disguised advert for the Microsoft mobile platform.
"yet another way in which the mobile development market is becoming increasingly fragmented"
Yep, without even reading this far I could even see 'fragmented` coming..
The rst one is that it creates a new thread with a keylogger routine. The code is very basic, it stores the window name and the keys pressed under a le named MSF5F0.dat on an unencrypted format, example:
Title:Internet Explorer
www.google.es
Title:My Computer
It uses the WIN32 APIs functions [GetKeyState, GetAsyncKeyState,
GetForegroundWindow, GetWindowTextA].
"The real question here is, how is Android profiting from Microsoft's R&D? Maybe it would help if Microsoft ever actually said which patents were being violated, and how. Have they?
The answer to that being NOT AT ALL, which is why Microsoft won't sue Google directly. Instead engages in a campaigh of EXTORTION against its customer base.
Slashdot Mirror
Warrantless snooping on the Internet
Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
I'm on a Mac, where do I click for a working example?
"Worse then that, Adobe against splash screens. Welcome to Photoshop, please stare at this logo while we load plugins and filters you wont be using
Isn't it possible for the app to save it's state, instead of having to load the plugins and filters each time. Except loading plugins involves copying a DLL into memory, so we should be blaming the designer of the Operating System.
"I work for an IT company that has a steady stream of projects .. our development resources are not sufficient to cover the amount of projects. As a result, our delivery dates are slipping .. How does your company deal with this inflation of priorities?"
Fire whoever compiles the project list and then have the technical staff choose a single project and work on it until completion, then move onto the next one.
"We typically fire the entire IT staff every couple of years and try to hire replacements at 70% salary under threat of outsourcing.
Haaaaaa !
The usual way out for aging IT techies is to become a manager
"I need a break. I need to walk away from it, and want to look at doing something that doesn't focus heavily on the IT industry day in, day out. Unfortunately, I'm locked to a regional city and I've just spent the majority of my adult life coding, with no other major skills to fall back on"
As someone who spent the majority of your working life in coding you will find a reluctance to hire you on in other areas, regardless of what skills you would bring to the task. The usual way out for aging IT techies is to become, but then again you probably don't display the necessary Machiavellian mentality to be a successive PHB. A realistic solution is to go into teaching coding.
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definition: PHB
I don't think so, piracy is piracy whether movies, books or software. It's not a big deal unless they go after sites like Project Gutenberg.
"Good call. You're right. If you actually look into this thing, you'll see that the lawsuit represents only 60 farmers . ChromeAeonium
"The large group of 83 Plaintiffs in OSGATA v. Monsanto is comprised of individual family farmers, independent seed companies and agricultural organizations. The total number of members within the plaintiff group exceeds 300,000 and includes many thousands of certified organic farmers.
The Plaintiffs are not seeking any monetary compensation. Instead, the farmers are pre-emptively suing Monsanto and seeking court protection under the Declaratory Judgment Act, from Monsanto-initiated patent infringement lawsuits.
co-plaintiff Food Democracy Now! has collected over 100,000 signatures on it’s petition supporting the rights of family farmers against Monsanto" link
Fox News And Ron Paul`s Video Deception
Why Does Fox News Hate Ron Paul?
"In my experience, it's just as bad, if not worse, developing add-ons for open source projects as it is for open APIs, y _merlin
What open source projects that you have experience writing add-ons for are you referring to here?
"By the time you get close to matching iOS, Apple will have moved on to the next level of fashionable semi-functionality" link
..
And I stopped reading this MS puff-piece right there
iPad with external monitor and mouse
"nortel built a plant over there with the promise of getting some of the chinese telecom market share. the chinese sold them a plot of land in a flood plain so they could not use the first floor for about half the year ..
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have any verifiable source for that?
Mitt Romney wins the Maine Republican caucuses
"The Associated Press is reporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has won the Maine Republican caucuses to defeat rival Ron Paul by a small margin. According to Reuters, 95 percent of the votes have been counted, and Mr. Romney has 39 percent of the votes thus far with Mr. Paul currently sitting at 36 percent."
“In addition to making instructional data more manageable and useful, this open-license technology, provisionally called the Shared Learning Infrastructure (SLI), will also support a large market for vendors of learning materials and application developers to deliver content and tools that meet the Common Core State Standards and are interoperable with each other and the most popular student information systems” link
A total non-issue ..
once you download an app from an unknown source, then it's game over !!!
"The government's case also contained potentially embarrassing allegations that top Google executives, including co-founder Larry Page, were told about legal problems with the drug ads.
.. Mr. Neronha declined to detail the evidence, which was presented in secret to a federal grand jury"
Mr. Page, now Google's chief executive, knew about the illicit conduct, said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island
"Its sad that they nowadays refuse Linux as a platform for browser testing. I can agree its pretty boring to have one platform that wont be broken so easily, but its a good benchmark against Windows and its abundance of security issues".
Where does it say you can't use Linux for browser testing?
"Investigators discovered two Internet access locations, or IP addresses, for the intruders on Dec. 1 and a third on Dec. 2, the document noted, but it does not say in which country they were located".
Who in their right minds connect a railway signals control system directly to the Internet?
This sounds like a rehash of the 'fragmentation` issue. There are only so many ways you can configure the look and feel of the platform itself. Besides the real money is not in the handsets but in the apps and online services.
.. .Net-managed code, it may even be possible to run the exact same apps on any Microsoft-powered device".
..
"Because Metro-style apps are written using
As I suspected this is a disguised advert for the Microsoft mobile platform.
"yet another way in which the mobile development market is becoming increasingly fragmented"
Yep, without even reading this far I could even see 'fragmented` coming
"A new research report says variants of the Sykipot Trojan have been found that can steal Dept. of Defense smartcard credentials. link
Here is more detail on the attack:
Smartcard access
The rst one is that it creates a new thread with a keylogger routine. The code is very basic, it stores the window name and the keys pressed under a le named MSF5F0.dat on an unencrypted format, example:
Title:Internet Explorer
www.google.es
Title:My Computer
It uses the WIN32 APIs functions [GetKeyState, GetAsyncKeyState, GetForegroundWindow, GetWindowTextA].
The US patent system is totally broken.
link
link
"The real question here is, how is Android profiting from Microsoft's R&D? Maybe it would help if Microsoft ever actually said which patents were being violated, and how. Have they?
The answer to that being NOT AT ALL, which is why Microsoft won't sue Google directly. Instead engages in a campaigh of EXTORTION against its customer base.
"We discover that remote exploitation is feasible via a broad range of attack vectors"
.. Just don't run remote code on your car ...
I don't think so