It's not forced on users; you can say "no". But you won't get any Windows freebies if you say no (Security Essentials, IE8, etc, etc) - patches will come regardless of your answer.
Bzzzt. My lovely wife would be insulted by your comments. Melinda Gates is quite good-looking but my wife is prettier, and I didn't 10 figures in the bank.
Yeah, I think I remember him. He thought the Internet was a passing fad, claimed he'd single-handedly defeat spam, promised Microsoft was taking security seriously in 2000, all kinds of nonsense like that. Had a really dorky haircut too.
Having spent better part of the last decade engaged in a sysephian struggle to clean a house inhabited by three children and two working adults, you might notice that I've given this issue a lot of thought already.
Us, too. Although we have four kids. We're losing to entropy. How about you?
I wonder what shape the planet is in, i.e., how much this constant redistribution of mass would overcome the gravitational tendency to pull the whole planet into a sphere. Unlike Earth and the gas giants, there wouldn't be centrifugal force squeezing the equator out. I imagine this planet has the kind of geological activity that makes Io look placid.
Run as a limited user, locked down. You'd be surprised how safe you'll be. Every version of Windows NT, back to NT 3.1, had this feature. Of course, most users can't be bothered.
Including the users that write software for Windows. Running as a limited user is a real pain when you constantly have to switch to administrator mode to perform basic operations or run certain software. I'm not sure how much Microsoft is to blame here. They allowed the situation to get as bad as it is, but the lazy software developers are the ones that really made the problem, going all the way back to the Windows 3 days when installers had no compunctions about dumping everything in the \windows directory.
A good hiring manager will think this way. Most are just grepping for keywords. Corporations are moving towards treating employees as commodities, not the other way around.
I've found that 3/4 of them were things I either figured out myself or learned form other people before the term "design patterns" had ever been invented.
The thing is, a preponderance of managers are stupid, and it's getting _worse_ not better, so these kinds of decisions are being made more and more often.
It works great. The default Sansa firmware is decent, but all my CDs are ripped to OGG, and RockBox supports so many formats, they have stuff that I've never even heard of. The display options are very flexible and the video handling is much better because the Sansa software encoded videos to a really huge format compared to DivX.
And ultimately, the battery life is great. It lasts so long I often completely forget I need to charge the thing and get surprised when I finally do run out of juice. Probably 20 hours worth.
On the other hand, the huge quantity of government regulation and tort liability could be a far bigger hurdle to any improvements in keeping costs down or improving people's lives. It almost always is.
This is why the so-called health care reform being considered by Congress is doomed to fail. They are enacting more of what is often the worst cause of problems (huge masses of regulations, which always have intended side effects) without addressing what is often the second worst (hugely expensive "defensive" medicine), all the while promising to eliminate the third worst (fraud, etc) despite showing absolutely no track record of ever having accomplished it before.
No, I don't watch Fox. I get my news from a number of diverse sources.
But feel free to stereotype me. It seems to make you happy. On the other hand, the NYT's credibility is shot and no one with any objectivity believes they still have objectivity.
I've been living with Windows for close to 20 years and I've _never_ upgraded a version of Windows. I've always done a fresh install. Frankly, in the old days, I never thought it would work, and nowadays... well, I haven't upgraded a Windows OS in about 10 years because there's never been a reason to. I did a fresh install periodically when things started getting a little wonky, but most of my non-work stuff is done on a Linux box anyway.
I would use my Rockbox'ed Sansa. If a user of this kind of phone wants to allow the corporations to control him like that, then that's his problem. Frankly, I don't want to hear anyone complain about it. There are always options. If you play by their rules, then you can't complain.
I make it a point to only deal with non-DRM music, and I pay for everything that I use. No one can take that from me. I have nothing to fear, unless open and hackable devices become illegal and the ones I now own all die... but if it comes to that extreme, I'll learn to build my own.
This is a ridiculous situation, but the best way to fight the rules of the game is simply not to play. As a private person, you often don't have any other choice. The government is a bitch of the corporations.
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I would expect any reasonable supporter of Obama to feel this way. This award makes a typical Onion headline look tame in comparison.
It's not forced on users; you can say "no". But you won't get any Windows freebies if you say no (Security Essentials, IE8, etc, etc) - patches will come regardless of your answer.
So you're saying there's no down side...
Not only that but the 10 figures I thought I had suddenly.
Bzzzt. My lovely wife would be insulted by your comments. Melinda Gates is quite good-looking but my wife is prettier, and I didn't 10 figures in the bank.
Nah, for an Ubuntu-style name you'd need to bump a few letters to maybe Lugubrious Llama or Morose Macaque.
She looks like Jerry O'Connell with make-up on to me: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm167155968/nm0005278
Yeah, I think I remember him. He thought the Internet was a passing fad, claimed he'd single-handedly defeat spam, promised Microsoft was taking security seriously in 2000, all kinds of nonsense like that. Had a really dorky haircut too.
Having spent better part of the last decade engaged in a sysephian struggle to clean a house inhabited by three children and two working adults, you might notice that I've given this issue a lot of thought already.
Us, too. Although we have four kids. We're losing to entropy. How about you?
I suggest you look up the word "fungible".
I wonder what shape the planet is in, i.e., how much this constant redistribution of mass would overcome the gravitational tendency to pull the whole planet into a sphere. Unlike Earth and the gas giants, there wouldn't be centrifugal force squeezing the equator out. I imagine this planet has the kind of geological activity that makes Io look placid.
Run as a limited user, locked down. You'd be surprised how safe you'll be. Every version of Windows NT, back to NT 3.1, had this feature. Of course, most users can't be bothered.
Including the users that write software for Windows. Running as a limited user is a real pain when you constantly have to switch to administrator mode to perform basic operations or run certain software. I'm not sure how much Microsoft is to blame here. They allowed the situation to get as bad as it is, but the lazy software developers are the ones that really made the problem, going all the way back to the Windows 3 days when installers had no compunctions about dumping everything in the \windows directory.
A good hiring manager will think this way. Most are just grepping for keywords. Corporations are moving towards treating employees as commodities, not the other way around.
I've found that 3/4 of them were things I either figured out myself or learned form other people before the term "design patterns" had ever been invented.
I've never heard of mannose before. Sounds like a bad movie about a guy with lumpy knees.
The thing is, a preponderance of managers are stupid, and it's getting _worse_ not better, so these kinds of decisions are being made more and more often.
Welcome to $lashdot.
I know I'm being pedantic, but am I the only person on /. that knows the word is "jibe", not "jive"?
I can't help but look at the term "Microsoft Reciprocal License" and think:
Under the MSRL, Microsoft screws you, and you, in turn, are screwed by Microsoft.
I'm watching Microsoft to see how long they can survive _without_ reputation capital...
The only implied slur was that _that_ particular farmer is stupid. I don't know what orifice you pulled your interpretation from.
You sound like the Democrats, trying to paint perfectly reasonable statements as bigotry.
It works great. The default Sansa firmware is decent, but all my CDs are ripped to OGG, and RockBox supports so many formats, they have stuff that I've never even heard of. The display options are very flexible and the video handling is much better because the Sansa software encoded videos to a really huge format compared to DivX.
And ultimately, the battery life is great. It lasts so long I often completely forget I need to charge the thing and get surprised when I finally do run out of juice. Probably 20 hours worth.
On the other hand, the huge quantity of government regulation and tort liability could be a far bigger hurdle to any improvements in keeping costs down or improving people's lives. It almost always is.
This is why the so-called health care reform being considered by Congress is doomed to fail. They are enacting more of what is often the worst cause of problems (huge masses of regulations, which always have intended side effects) without addressing what is often the second worst (hugely expensive "defensive" medicine), all the while promising to eliminate the third worst (fraud, etc) despite showing absolutely no track record of ever having accomplished it before.
No, I don't watch Fox. I get my news from a number of diverse sources.
But feel free to stereotype me. It seems to make you happy. On the other hand, the NYT's credibility is shot and no one with any objectivity believes they still have objectivity.
I've been living with Windows for close to 20 years and I've _never_ upgraded a version of Windows. I've always done a fresh install. Frankly, in the old days, I never thought it would work, and nowadays... well, I haven't upgraded a Windows OS in about 10 years because there's never been a reason to. I did a fresh install periodically when things started getting a little wonky, but most of my non-work stuff is done on a Linux box anyway.
I would use my Rockbox'ed Sansa. If a user of this kind of phone wants to allow the corporations to control him like that, then that's his problem. Frankly, I don't want to hear anyone complain about it. There are always options. If you play by their rules, then you can't complain.
I make it a point to only deal with non-DRM music, and I pay for everything that I use. No one can take that from me. I have nothing to fear, unless open and hackable devices become illegal and the ones I now own all die... but if it comes to that extreme, I'll learn to build my own.
This is a ridiculous situation, but the best way to fight the rules of the game is simply not to play. As a private person, you often don't have any other choice. The government is a bitch of the corporations.
But they can't stop the individuals... yet.