Billg wrote parts of the MS Basic code, waaaay back in the day. One particular part that comes to mind was the "paint fill" function (whatever it was called). Turns out it was as slow as a pig's ass, too. Tee Hee.
How about
"This wall socket contains electricity. Electricity is a theory, not a fact, regarding the behavior of charged particles. The socket should be approached with an open mind, sutdied carfully and critically considered."
Evolution has been proven to be correct, bub. That's why it is called a (scientific) theory.
When the unwashed, sweaty cows hear the word "theory," they believe the speaker is really saying, "guess," which is incorrect. But then, those cows have never even bothered to read the Origin of Species (it is not a hard read), so WTF do they know?
"This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."
stickers put on school textbooks, we have lost a generation of future scientists.
The next science (and innovation) powerhouse will be somewhere else, maybe Japan or Europe. How ironic if it was Germany again?
Insert several new products in the pipe, but release no substantial information about them.
Stomp the hell out of people who really like your products when they release "premature" info even though they are really, really interested in your new products.
Just like Katz, the best way to deal with Mr. Simms is to exclude him from your front page stories....unless you like to bait 'n' troll him. In that case, be my guest.
What our beloved and svelt Mr. Simms doesn't understand (because he's never worked in any customer support capacity; ignorance=strength), is that this is not news. Calls have been recorded for um, a long, long time.
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Maybe mikey can post my new sumission: This just in: THE GOVERNMENT CAN NOW RECORD WHAT YOU SAY OVER YOUR PHONE LINE!!!!1111 8r4nd n3w tech' a110w5 government agents to tap your phone line & you won't 3v3n no it!!!11 WTF!!!!111 LOL!!!!11
These companies employ people ~. The BSA is lobying on behalf of all these people.
Let me guess: you have never worked for a corporation on any level higher than wage slave.
Corporations don't give a flip about their workers. All their care about is PE ratio. That's why sometimes they RIF a bunch of "logs" to pump the stock price.
Someone at Electronic Arts was really shortsighted not to have thought of hacked objects spreading this way.
Let's see, if you work your developers to death on the Bataan Coding Deathmarch 18/7 (with 2 hours off on Sunday for "good behaviour"), then how on earth are they supposed to write anything remotely resembling quality code, let alone manage risk?
Answer: you don't; instead you adopt the Slashdot style of code testing: Ship it! 503? Hacks spread like viruses? Oh, par for the course.
Sorry, but running code in a Sandbox (separated from the
DATA) makes it pretty much worth a pinch o' bat
guano.
The alternative, of course, is Active X, but that's like sharing
dirty needles.
There needs to be a happy medium where it is easy (i.e., happens
automatically) to have the program get access to the OS's API, but some
things are protected. Whoever can figure that one out will win a
prize.
Because, if I recall correctly, we had interdependent systems (one would pass off something to another, which would process and hand off to a third, etc.), so we needed a bit of time to get them all going. One minute wasn't enough.
Most of these tests were just to prove that the stuff worked. We'd already done the upgrades on systems we were going to keep, and pulled the plug on those we weren't.
That reminds me of one system we were going to pull: only one guy used it, and everyone was afraid to remove it. I asked him if he was still using it, and he said, "Yes, all the time." So, I checked the logs on the box and he hadn't logged in for something like 6 months.
We backed the data up on CD and then trashed the box. He never asked about it (if he did, we were going to tell him that it died on Y2K ), and then he got RIF'd during the Great Market Selloff of '01.
I worked at a major financial institution during the same time period. We had many back-end systems that were running on old POS hardware/OSs that were not going to work at all when the clock flipped. We spend many a weekend/night replacing every POS system, and were ready by early 1999. When the clock flip came, we'd already run several tests (manually setting the clocks to 23:45 1999-12-31 and waiting 15 minutes) on every system, so it was more of an anticlimax than anything else.
However, if we had not done any of that, critical systems would have gone down and we would have lost serious money (millions) on bad trades, fines for failure to settle properly, loss of business from negative publicity, etc.
The general rule is the first time you want to use your Three Letter Acronym (TLA), you spell it out and put the TLA in parenthesis afterwards. From then on, you can use your TLA to your heart's content.
This is one of the things an EDITOR (the real kind) will point out to the author. This being the Dot, you get what you get, so SDSUAFO.
...but FOSS folks make some pretty dumb moves that hamper their own
success. Open Office isn't popular because of the cost. It isn't popular
becuase it has a steeper learning curve than the next version
of MS Office to an existing MS office user (i.e.,
everyone).
Unfortunately, the OOo evangelists think their UI is superior, so
they have no inclination to change...thus shooting themselves in the
foot.
The difference between Le
Bernadin and McDonalds is that the latter has commoditized their
food. This means that you can walk into any McD's in the world, order a
Big Mac and it will be prepared the same way, every time. This is done
so they can hire unskilled labor, give them instructions with lots of
pretty pictures and the product will always be the same. On the other
hand, there is only one Chef Eric Ripert, and he makes things without
instructions. If you wanted to open another Le Bernadin, it would not be
the same.
The key here is the quality level of the service and
food at Le Bernadin surpasses (by a very wide margin) that of McDonalds,
in food quality, preparation, presentation, service, atmosphere, etc.
Again, there's only one Le Bernadin, but thousands (and thousands) of
McDonald's.
Most users have no desire to be the system administrators of
their machines, and would gladly turn that task over to someone else
for a nominal fee. As bandwidth increases, telcos, cable companies,
and others will be in the perfect position to become application
service providers for the average home user, and said average home
user will gladly accept this, as long as the price isnt too
high. I see this as almost inevitable.
In order to move to that model, you will have to accept the
McDonald's plan: mediocre service, mediocre applications, and a barely
palatable experience. For Gramps who only checks email and surfs maybe
once a week, that will probably be fine.
Most people (especially people who use their computers as part of
their job) use a highly-specialized set of applications. They also
demand better-than-mediocre service. The types of support they require
are along the Le Bernardin model. The McDonald's model cannot support custom configurations and still turn a profit.
Any ASP that will provide services will have to do a 'generic setup'
and probably specify the hardware/software mix; this is the only way
they can make money. If you blow up your computer, they will send you a
boot CD and restore an image. If you want a special application, you
either pay a lot more (to pay for the time of the unskilled tech to load
the software onto your image) or you're SOL.
~ the time of the personal computer as we know it will soon be
at an end, I think.
You seriously need to check yourself into rehab. PCs aren't going
anywhere. Any solution that is more expensive (not just money, but
effort/lost productivity) will not work.
IDs do nothing for security at all, except lure gullible people into believing they do something to promote security. The proposed Federal IDs can tell you if a known terrorist is trying to get a job in the government. If a person is a "known terrorist" why in god's green earth hasn't she/he been picked up yet? Oh wait...
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Billg wrote parts of the MS Basic code, waaaay back in the day. One particular part that comes to mind was the "paint fill" function (whatever it was called). Turns out it was as slow as a pig's ass, too. Tee Hee.
"This wall socket contains electricity. Electricity is a theory, not a fact, regarding the behavior of charged particles. The socket should be approached with an open mind, sutdied carfully and critically considered."
That open enough for you, Jebuslander?
When the unwashed, sweaty cows hear the word "theory," they believe the speaker is really saying, "guess," which is incorrect. But then, those cows have never even bothered to read the Origin of Species (it is not a hard read), so WTF do they know?
The next science (and innovation) powerhouse will be somewhere else, maybe Japan or Europe. How ironic if it was Germany again?
What our beloved and svelt Mr. Simms doesn't understand (because he's never worked in any customer support capacity; ignorance=strength), is that this is not news. Calls have been recorded for um, a long, long time.
.
Maybe mikey can post my new sumission: This just in: THE GOVERNMENT CAN NOW RECORD WHAT YOU SAY OVER YOUR PHONE LINE!!!!1111 8r4nd n3w tech' a110w5 government agents to tap your phone line & you won't 3v3n no it!!!11 WTF!!!!111 LOL!!!!11
Corporations don't give a flip about their workers. All their care about is PE ratio. That's why sometimes they RIF a bunch of "logs" to pump the stock price.
4. Profit!!!!
Answer: you don't; instead you adopt the Slashdot style of code testing: Ship it!
503? Hacks spread like viruses? Oh, par for the course.
Sorry, but running code in a Sandbox (separated from the DATA) makes it pretty much worth a pinch o' bat guano.
The alternative, of course, is Active X, but that's like sharing dirty needles.
There needs to be a happy medium where it is easy (i.e., happens automatically) to have the program get access to the OS's API, but some things are protected. Whoever can figure that one out will win a prize.
Most of these tests were just to prove that the stuff worked. We'd already done the upgrades on systems we were going to keep, and pulled the plug on those we weren't.
That reminds me of one system we were going to pull: only one guy used it, and everyone was afraid to remove it. I asked him if he was still using it, and he said, "Yes, all the time." So, I checked the logs on the box and he hadn't logged in for something like 6 months. We backed the data up on CD and then trashed the box. He never asked about it (if he did, we were going to tell him that it died on Y2K ), and then he got RIF'd during the Great Market Selloff of '01.
However, if we had not done any of that, critical systems would have gone down and we would have lost serious money (millions) on bad trades, fines for failure to settle properly, loss of business from negative publicity, etc.
American: Drink beery, watery-tasting piss.
Canadian: Drink watery, beery-tasting piss.
Australian: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
I'm waiting for the keychain 50 gig driveto be available RSN; just copy the film and go. You can keep your plastic wafers.
My heart weeps for your lack of worldly experience.
This is one of the things an EDITOR (the real kind) will point out to the author. This being the Dot, you get what you get, so SDSUAFO.
...but FOSS folks make some pretty dumb moves that hamper their own success. Open Office isn't popular because of the cost. It isn't popular becuase it has a steeper learning curve than the next version of MS Office to an existing MS office user (i.e., everyone).
Unfortunately, the OOo evangelists think their UI is superior, so they have no inclination to change...thus shooting themselves in the foot.
The difference between Le Bernadin and McDonalds is that the latter has commoditized their food. This means that you can walk into any McD's in the world, order a Big Mac and it will be prepared the same way, every time. This is done so they can hire unskilled labor, give them instructions with lots of pretty pictures and the product will always be the same. On the other hand, there is only one Chef Eric Ripert, and he makes things without instructions. If you wanted to open another Le Bernadin, it would not be the same.
The key here is the quality level of the service and food at Le Bernadin surpasses (by a very wide margin) that of McDonalds, in food quality, preparation, presentation, service, atmosphere, etc. Again, there's only one Le Bernadin, but thousands (and thousands) of McDonald's.
In order to move to that model, you will have to accept the McDonald's plan: mediocre service, mediocre applications, and a barely palatable experience. For Gramps who only checks email and surfs maybe once a week, that will probably be fine.
Most people (especially people who use their computers as part of their job) use a highly-specialized set of applications. They also demand better-than-mediocre service. The types of support they require are along the Le Bernardin model. The McDonald's model cannot support custom configurations and still turn a profit.
Any ASP that will provide services will have to do a 'generic setup' and probably specify the hardware/software mix; this is the only way they can make money. If you blow up your computer, they will send you a boot CD and restore an image. If you want a special application, you either pay a lot more (to pay for the time of the unskilled tech to load the software onto your image) or you're SOL.
You seriously need to check yourself into rehab. PCs aren't going anywhere. Any solution that is more expensive (not just money, but effort/lost productivity) will not work.
Timothy McVeigh had ID, too.
IDs do nothing for security at all, except lure gullible people into believing they do something to promote security. The proposed Federal IDs can tell you if a known terrorist is trying to get a job in the government. If a person is a "known terrorist" why in god's green earth hasn't she/he been picked up yet? Oh wait...
His lineage is one of blue-blooded Nazi-collaborators from New England.