Upon further reflection, your charge is fair, and the temptation for a cheap pun late at night was better resisted.
OTOH, time will judge whether CERT loses objectivity.
Established in 1988, the CERT® Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is a center of Internet security expertise, located at the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
Now, if 20,000 large doesn't freshen your breath to CERT, dunno what will.
If you don't like the news, buy the press.
Maybe these were distortion-free dollars, or something...
The important thing is to educate the politicians.
More important still is to educate the electorate to vote for educated politicians.
A younger me thought politicians were the horse, and the electorate the cart.
We do far too little to promote leadership of any kind in _any_ party, as evidenced by the lack of any substantial debate from anyone in the US presidential farc^H^H^H^Helection.
See, now, you're way wide of the mark.
Once the integration of the PDA and the cel phone is complete, (the camera is so problematic in a lot of workplaces, I would never buy anything with a CCD embedded), and the MP3 player is everywhere, we'll need new functionality to drive upgrades.
The next upgrade driver will be the keyboard and, (?) video system, as the portable gadget starts to target the ultra-portable market...
Fear.
If the market reacts unfavorably, they'll change course.
Money is to MicroSoft as votes are to politicians.
Or, paraphrasing a bumper sticker I saw the other day, 'Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat, and non-market considerations drove a Microsoft decision'.
See, now, your cart and your horse are transposed. Specifically, the horse in this example is the chip, and the cart is, of course, emacs.
The C compiler is foundational. Now, we need to figure out an interface using the cable kit for a keyboard, and the relentless march of the One True Editor shall take yet another step.
Mwahahahahah...
Don't make me laugh at your naivity,
Now, it's only Summer; we'll laugh at grandparent's nativity around Christmas time.
For the moment, let's focus on grandparent's naïveté, OK?;)
Worst as in 'insult to the intelligence':
Beastmaster
Worst as in 'shoddiest pile of celluloid': No Retreat, No Surrender
The review in the newspaper agreed that even the miking on this film was poor. IMDB reviews are no' so glowing, either.
Licenses have to fit on a single page in a 12 point font with reasonable margins and no words above three syllables.
Less is more, and greater is (baroque|broke).
Feed ye not the sharks.
You've an assertion within your statement that the individual desires such growth. Not a bad one, but one that is subjective and not generalizable.
Too, some people just aren't equipped for such non-technical roles.
Consider RMS.
'Doze services for Unix. But why? Just get MinGW. Heck I even compiled emacs from source, which was something of a tooth extraction.
Granted, Cygwin would've been easier, but it ain't called easemacs...
What irritates me is the plethora of tools involved. The whole automake/autoconf thing is made huge and complex because of its requirement to be a lowest common denominator.
IMHO, a robust, easy to learn, well documented, got-everything-you-need system needs to gulp all of that automake/autoconf (and why not make, itself, while we're after reductionism?) noise down. I nominate Python.
You have to consider security, usability, maintainability, stability, and maybe a few other -ities.
On one painful project with Oracle 8i on the backend, ASP/ADO on the server, and requiring IE on the client, I actually spanned the logic across all three tiers for the heavy reporting.
All of the criteria for a heavy report were gathered in JavaScript in hidden form fields, and the VBScript arranged it all through a clever use of the ROWNUM and MINUS features of Oracle to select just a small piece of a huge dataset.
Even though the code was well factored, and I put great tracing in all of the code, turned on with a simple DEBUG flag, I couldn't ever explain the idea well enough to the colleagues...
The upshot of this was that the otherwise impossible reporting became do-able on that project, because of judicious resource leveling across all tiers.
We're talking about systems whose value equate into literally millions of dollars lost if there is downtime at an inopportune time.
The previous poster was right about legal threat - Lockheed probably doens't give a damn about SCO's now-crumbled lawsuits. They would eat SCO alive and crap them out as a new subsidiary if they even tried to put a suit on them.
Though Linux has been more or less viable in the small to mid size server arena for a few years now, I never once heard that LM would consider ditching Solaris.
I think this has the ring of truth about it.
For all vast piles of money are lost to the Virus Du Jour, Veeps Don't Jump, Violently Dumping Jackassware, as long as they can go home and salve their wounds with the thought of the MSFT in their portfolio.
No, it's going to take a CEO with Mad Skilz making an even bigger pile of money not using MSFT to prove that the fat lady has sung, in the world where money is the only metric mattering.
All those Certified Microsoft Tecnicians wouldn't need to run around updating antivirus software anymore.
Maybe.
Wildly oversimplifying, I'll float the statement that MS traded security for market share throughout the '90s, and the worm has turned sufficiently chtorran to be a problem.
I've been experiencing 'interesting' times with XP, the firewall, and the multi-function printer driver. Suddenly, the ambiguous administrator/plebian account model, the graphical interface (how counter-intuitively can we arrange the dialog boxes separating you and the 'system' tree view), and the hardware drivers becomes a total bore. I don't scan often, and it's easier to become the administrator and do that, than try to grasp WTF is going on with the configuration.
Back on thread, there will be plenty of work for these Microsoft Certified Types, running about, keeping the emperor's new clothes tucked in.
But my theory of the market is that there is a standard normal distribution of users, and no bulldozer exists that can push the lump over into the right tail, where they can bask in the glow of emacs. Gates knows this, and sleeps comfortably most nights. The real question then, is, how to market security without wiping out the usability. Mixed with the right new features, it shakes loose the upgraders...
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If the or something involves a cup of Earl Grey and some serious thought of the meaning of life, I'm game.
Upon further reflection, your charge is fair, and the temptation for a cheap pun late at night was better resisted.
OTOH, time will judge whether CERT loses objectivity.
If you don't like the news, buy the press.
Maybe these were distortion-free dollars, or something...
More important still is to educate the electorate to vote for educated politicians.
A younger me thought politicians were the horse, and the electorate the cart.
We do far too little to promote leadership of any kind in _any_ party, as evidenced by the lack of any substantial debate from anyone in the US presidential farc^H^H^H^Helection.
However, the Southern engineering observation:applies.
See, now, you're way wide of the mark.
Once the integration of the PDA and the cel phone is complete, (the camera is so problematic in a lot of workplaces, I would never buy anything with a CCD embedded), and the MP3 player is everywhere, we'll need new functionality to drive upgrades.
The next upgrade driver will be the keyboard and, (?) video system, as the portable gadget starts to target the ultra-portable market...
Fear.
If the market reacts unfavorably, they'll change course.
Money is to MicroSoft as votes are to politicians.
Or, paraphrasing a bumper sticker I saw the other day, 'Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat, and non-market considerations drove a Microsoft decision'.
See, now, your cart and your horse are transposed.
Specifically, the horse in this example is the chip, and the cart is, of course, emacs.
The C compiler is foundational. Now, we need to figure out an interface using the cable kit for a keyboard, and the relentless march of the One True Editor shall take yet another step.
Mwahahahahah...
Don't make me laugh at your naivity, ;)
Now, it's only Summer; we'll laugh at grandparent's nativity around Christmas time.
For the moment, let's focus on grandparent's naïveté, OK?
Worst as in 'insult to the intelligence':
Beastmaster
Worst as in 'shoddiest pile of celluloid':
No Retreat, No Surrender
The review in the newspaper agreed that even the miking on this film was poor. IMDB reviews are no' so glowing, either.
Kinda reminds me of me.
--Icarus
Yeah, and Gnus is a nice information manager, lacking only a decent news reader/email client.
OK, maybe Firefox.
Licenses have to fit on a single page in a 12 point font with reasonable margins and no words above three syllables.
Less is more, and greater is (baroque|broke).
Feed ye not the sharks.
You've an assertion within your statement that the individual desires such growth. Not a bad one, but one that is subjective and not generalizable.
Too, some people just aren't equipped for such non-technical roles.
Consider RMS.
Ah, but the engineer who eschewed "engineering and management" courses would sneer at this, pointing out the overall subjectivity of conversation...
Urf?
The real engineers I've met are passionate about engineering, and care not fig #1 for the managerial aspects of starting a company.
Ah, these sand lines...blown about by the wind...
Emacs, emacs, emacs.
'Doze services for Unix. But why? Just get MinGW. Heck I even compiled emacs from source, which was something of a tooth extraction.
Granted, Cygwin would've been easier, but it ain't called easemacs...
How about a fundamental question: how can you dynamically tweak an interface using without opening up the possibility that Bad Things will creep in?
What irritates me is the plethora of tools involved. The whole automake/autoconf thing is made huge and complex because of its requirement to be a lowest common denominator.
IMHO, a robust, easy to learn, well documented, got-everything-you-need system needs to gulp all of that automake/autoconf (and why not make, itself, while we're after reductionism?) noise down. I nominate Python.
You have to consider security, usability, maintainability, stability, and maybe a few other -ities.
On one painful project with Oracle 8i on the backend, ASP/ADO on the server, and requiring IE on the client, I actually spanned the logic across all three tiers for the heavy reporting.
All of the criteria for a heavy report were gathered in JavaScript in hidden form fields, and the VBScript arranged it all through a clever use of the ROWNUM and MINUS features of Oracle to select just a small piece of a huge dataset.
Even though the code was well factored, and I put great tracing in all of the code, turned on with a simple DEBUG flag, I couldn't ever explain the idea well enough to the colleagues...
The upshot of this was that the otherwise impossible reporting became do-able on that project, because of judicious resource leveling across all tiers.
For all vast piles of money are lost to the Virus Du Jour, Veeps Don't Jump, Violently Dumping Jackassware, as long as they can go home and salve their wounds with the thought of the MSFT in their portfolio.
No, it's going to take a CEO with Mad Skilz making an even bigger pile of money not using MSFT to prove that the fat lady has sung, in the world where money is the only metric mattering.
Wildly oversimplifying, I'll float the statement that MS traded security for market share throughout the '90s, and the worm has turned sufficiently chtorran to be a problem.
I've been experiencing 'interesting' times with XP, the firewall, and the multi-function printer driver. Suddenly, the ambiguous administrator/plebian account model, the graphical interface (how counter-intuitively can we arrange the dialog boxes separating you and the 'system' tree view), and the hardware drivers becomes a total bore. I don't scan often, and it's easier to become the administrator and do that, than try to grasp WTF is going on with the configuration.
Back on thread, there will be plenty of work for these Microsoft Certified Types, running about, keeping the emperor's new clothes tucked in.
But my theory of the market is that there is a standard normal distribution of users, and no bulldozer exists that can push the lump over into the right tail, where they can bask in the glow of emacs.
Gates knows this, and sleeps comfortably most nights. The real question then, is, how to market security without wiping out the usability. Mixed with the right new features, it shakes loose the upgraders...