I agree with your general sentiment. It works in most cases. Most problems with programs aren't quite a show-stopper. You know, like my personal pet peve in the newest GiMP. You can't "save as..." any format other than XCF. It violates the continuity rule for user interfaces. I understand why they did it. And I agree it is probably more "correct" but the argument is that "professionals might lose their work!!!" Sorry, but if they are professionals, they know the difference between "save" (which is supposed to save out in the same format you opened the file in) and "save as..." which gives the user the chance to save the project out as a different name and format. Simple and elegant and decades old in terms of conventions. Oh yeah, all oither programs do this. Unless the latest versions of Adobe products are doing this (the newest I had was CS5.5) then "professionals" aren't demanding this. Anyway. Not a "show stopper." It's an annoyance. (Oh yeah, when you do a "save as..." it would allow you to see all the other image fomats... you know, like JPG and BMP and GIF and PNG and all that... just not SAVE in those formats. "Conveyance" is violated there. They called it a bug and said they would fix it. I haven't looked to notice.
Anyway, the things this Gilbert Gottfried wannabe ranted about were very entertaining. And "It's funny because it's true!" also rings true here.
Even before I played with Windows 8, I knew from the beginning that if Microsoft wanted to make a tablet UI, great! Just don't try to put it on the desktop!! I knew Microsoft would try this because they tried to put a Windows interface on mobile devices and wondered why people couldn't use it. But then someone woke up and said! AH HA! They didn't like it because the UI wasn't suited for the device type!!! Great!! Let's just do the opposite and put touch interfaces on desktops! That'll solve everything. People will love us again!
Nope.
People call me a hater or anti- whatever and that's fine. This time I'll come across as an apple fanboy. (This parenthetical comment should dispell that. I'm not, I hate that they "hate our freedom!" "The terrorists" don't hate our freedom! They hate what we do! To them!!! But if any group is openly hostile on freedom? It's Apple.) Apple gets UIs. Microsoft doesn't. I don't think they ever did. The best they ever did was make bad copies of MacOS elements and evolve from there. Departure from that evolution? Not so much.
Also, the 3 year old thing? He was taught and coached. The big complaint in the rant video is that if that none of the operations were in any way natural or intuitive. Try again. The second one? Once again, he knew what he was doing. And he was a paid actor. C'mon. It's like you're not even trying.
I'm sure you meant that in a way contrary to what you have written right? Apple, Microsoft and Oracle do not compete on thier merits. Apple "might" at the beginning of things because when they come up with something new, they get a lot of attention... or they did. Jobs is dead and I doubt they will have that magic any longer. But Microsoft? Oracle? No.... no way.
Many Apple fans rejoiced. There was a lot of "in your face" and "got what they deserved" in response to the rulings followed by desperate attempts to justify a dishonest juror and the major crap he pulled. He "sent a message" alright. Problem is, just like other 'bad guys' he was stupid enough to brag about it. Had he said "it was a tough decision, but I felt the evidence was in Apple's favor and the other jurors agreed" things might be a little different right now.
But let's say the judge in this case was shown to have a LOT of Apple stock. Her failure to recuse herself would result in another trial even after the verdict was presented. But this was a juror. Jurors need special treatment in nearly every case simply because it's hard enough to select and agree upon the constitutionally guaranteed jury for matters such as these. If they were not almost completely immune to charges of misconduct, people would be even LESS willing to be on the jury. So you have to understand that the system will tread lightly on matters such as these. But have a look at this if you want to know more about jury misconduct:
Interestingly, dishonesty in voir dire is at the top of the list and yet somehow, the judge in this case is willing to ignore that.
And you make a good point. After the trial, there was a spike in GS3 sales. Where I work, a LOT of iPhone users have managed to switch over to GS3 or other Androids... one of my co-workers, much to my disgust, even bought multiple Nexus 4s so he could make disgusting profits. People like him are the reason why many of us couldn't get one the first time around. "Thanks asshole" but I wasn't stupid enough to buy one from these pirates.
My point is that android is really taking over and Apple iThing fans are changing hearts. I see it everywhere. I know... I'm not a good sample observer. But it would be interesting to see what the current usage trends are. Anyone know where to look for data on the subject?
Spend more time with him and be sure it is most definitely an inconvenient gift because giving time only when it is convenient doesn't mean quite the same thing. And it already seems like you have similar interests, so get him talking about the things he knows about which you may not fully know about. This work not just for older people, but ALL people. When people feel valued, they feel happy.
So, just go spend time with him and ask him for some kind of help. That'll be just about the best a father could ask for.
Point taken. I didn't look back that far on the graph. I did also see links to stories talking about the value dropping below $500 for the first time in a long time or something like that. Perhaps a 25% drop *is* something to be concerned about. If I were a shareholder, I think I would be upset.
That is what I was driving at. A design patent is essentially a copyright as far as I can tell. I know, they aren't the same, but still. We're talking about a design, in this case, which is essentially the most elementary implementation and application of the materials used to construct the thing. Glass is most often flat. How can that be part of a design patent? The shape is rectangular and necessarily has rounded corners of no specific design. However, rounded corners serves the function of durability, comfort and perhaps even safety. Hard to imagine that being patented anywhere, let along "...on a handheld mobile device." And black in color? Sorry, but whoever the patent examiner was on that patent needs to be examined.
Patents must be non-obvious. Ultra-simple designs would seem to fit neatly within that failure.
Yeah... I know... the style of writing is pretty identifiable even if it isn't littered with bold headings and a thousand links. The troll is Already Proven Krazy and is best left ignored.
I think you didn't understand the judge's rulings on the issue of design patents. They were all essentially ruled invalid. This, of course, will be appealed by Apple. But the judge's remarks on the matter make plain sense. The design elements essentially lack "design." Sure, the design of Apple's devices capitalize on simple, clean appearance and construction, but the other side of that approach is that it moves in the direction of "functional design" which is not patentable.
And because so much of Apple's case has been called into question (to put it mildly) the awards in the case will have to be reassessed. And given that the methods of calculation for the damage awards were so... well, "weird" and inconsistent, there will be no effective means to update the damages award to match the updated infringement rulings. This will then require a new trial.
The stock price has dipped according to Google's report when searching "AAPL" however I don't think it's an amount worthy of panic just yet. However the dip would seem to coincide with the news.
I hope every sane person will realize that both Apple and Samsung will appeal the rulings. And I agree with the concensus that the just was simply tired of dealing with both parties and the mess that this case had become.
The more interesting rulings over Apple's design patents, though, I hope remain. The matter of jury misconduct, I hope fails. Even if Samsung "should have known" in advance is irrelevant to the matter at hand. The juror did not properly answer the screening questions and thus had violated any oaths and qualifications for being a jurist. Further, the jurist provided his own evidence and became a biased party in the case. In my view, jury misconduct is clear and obvious.
A US ISP would find itself destroyed just in legal fees. To survive such an assault, the 'free[dom] lawyers groups' would have to be standing by to take up the defense of any rebelious ISP in the US.
It would all get real ugly real fast. And in the US, media companies are often also ISPs or are very closely connected to them as many offer TV services as well as telephone and internet. So any ISP who fits that profile would find themselves unable to offer TV services shortly thereafter.
I doubt I could have put it more plainly than I already did. Getting attention is the first step to being understood. After you have their attention, you can put out what you want understood. If they disagree after that? So what? Shocking that anyone would have to explain this to anyone really. It's why commercials are as they are, why political campaigns are as they are and why, fo example, picketers hold big colorful signs and why PETA chicks pose nude!!!
I have a white paper on the topic but no one ready white papers, so I printed it on hot-pink.
Yes... I too have noted the weakness of CFLs around certain environmental conditions.
1. I used silicone sealer for the CFLs in my fish tank... seemed to work very nicely. 2. I have taken to LED bulbs over CFLs. More expensive but more workable and flexible too.
Some time ago, some lights turned on with regards to the issue that a machine with Linux installed is more expensive than a machine with Windows installed when provided by an OEM.
To make sense of it, you have to recognize that bloatware/crapware is a revenue source for the OEMs. Linux machines will have less crapware. (Note that I didn't say "no crapware" because thanks to Ubuntu's apparent affiliation with Amazon, there's just a touch of commercial interest there as well.) By removing the opportunity to install crapware on a machine sold, they are losing an opportunity. The words "opportunity cost" emerge as the reason for the difference in cost between a Windows OEM PC and a Linux OEM PC.
This has little to nothing to do with the cost of the license for the OS.
I am not saying that Windows 8 is even remotely similar to prison rape (though some might suggest there may be some similarities, I am not saying that) but the very notion that a party or group is getting used to something does not mean they like it or want it.
I supposed I could have said "taxes" or any other thing people generally don't like, but I wanted to be a little edgy... a little dramatic.
So yes. We acknowledge Microsoft is shoving their things [Windows 8 in this case] through our [choose an orifice] and we acknowledge that we presently don't have much choice in the matter.
Money is a medium that can be exchanged for goods and services. When government and, more significantly private enterprise, control who has access to money and by extension, goods and services, you will see right away the unbelievable amount of power that grants the parties who wield it.
So when someone points out that oil is traded in US dollars, it's a huge deal. It means the US and especially the private federal reserve bank along with the exclusive powers such as master card, visa and the like have enormous power over pretty much everything. It goes a long way to explain how things got the way they are and why governments around the world are bending to the will of the US and the businesses within.
This is only possible when the medium of exchange isn't based on something tangible... like gold or something like that.
If terrorism is defined as using fear and intimidation and a terrorist is a party who uses fear and intimidation to get their way, then I think the terrorists are most easily identified by looking at who and what inspires the most terror. "The control the money! All of it!" Controlling money controls everything and that's pretty terrifying.
Workstations? Okay look. Applications on the desktop is and was an evolution of computing when businesses were adopting computers for the workplace long ago. Mainframes and Unixes of the day were simply too expensive. Ironically, in the early days, businesses were adopting toys running DOS and the like to help useful applications to the endpoint. Those were primitive days of computing.
That Microsoft Windows had managed to keep their desktop OS going for so long is pretty amazing, but we've all been watching it stagnate under its own weight for a long time. Microsoft can't make it smaller and lighter. And the 64bit, 16GB monsters we are putting on desktops today are basically still doing the same things at the same performance levels of things we did 10 years ago on WindowsXP with a fraction of the power and resources.
Microsoft owes what it has to its practices, not its product quality. OS/2 would have been better had it not been squeezed out. But in case you hadn't noticed, applications are shifting back to servers these days. It is all but impossible to secure data on endpoints and that is increasingly been a huge problem lately. Windows desktops represent a huge liability for the enterprise.
As much as business currently depends on Linux for reliability, stability and the foundation of so many products at to many levels from the largest of enterprises to the tinyest of devices I have to wonder which direction you are looking if you are unable to see how Linux, to the exclusion of Windows, has been the choice of serious business for year and years now. VMWare is mostly Linux. Cisco is a whole lot of Linux. Some of the brands you trust the most are pushing Linux.
I don't get why people still think Linux is "only" a toy? That people *can* toy with Linux is a great and wonderful thing. It will certainly most always be able to do what it wasn't expected to be able to do. Microsoft has to work hard to make Windows do yet another trick and it often never quite works the same or as naturally. And Apple... yeah... don't need to bring that into the conversation since they actively work to keep people from doing anything they don't want people doing.
I suppose it might be okay to use the word "toy" in some ways. But to say it suggesting that it can't handle extremely large things? That it can't handle the responsibility of being reliable and secure? You'd have to be ignoring large parts of the enteprise industry to not see it.
OMFG:) Do you see what this guy does?! He goes absolutely nuts with commentary as if people live on slashdot and do nothing else! It's beyond imagination. The words "disproportionate response" and obsessive come to mind. I'll just back to pretending he doesn't exist and that I don't see what he writes. His style is pretty obvious so not hard to detect. I advise everyone else to do the same. Just pray that he doesn't resort to shooting up schools for attention.
1. You just responded to APK. I am really and truly sorry for what happens to people who respond to APK. His paranoid imagination and school-boy level of maturity does not allow him to understand that people simply don't care what he has to say. It is always a fight to him... most often to some imaginary form of death. 2. Yes. Linux can be insecure. But it actually takes work to MAKE it insecure these days. Have you ever wrestled with SELinux? It's on by default in most current Linux distros these days meaning that you can't even run a web server without explicitly allowing it through SELinux or without turning SELinux off. Either way, the user is the one who weakened the OS.
One huge difference between Linux [and others] and Windows is that with Windows, one hack pretty much fits all. This is not generally the case with Linux. Also, you really have to trust Microsoft to have a system which is not naturally vulnerable. That has not ever happened for any amount of time as far as I have seen. Linux puts people in control at a level Microsoft Windows will not. The user can even recompile the kernel in order to add or remove anything they need. Vulnerabilities can be patched on the same day problems are identified. Users of Windows have to wait until the patch is released most of the time and... well, sometimes Microsoft doesn't issue patches for known issues for a very long time for various reasons.
Indeed. This is the best answer. Sue in U.S. courts. Someone will pick up the story and the naming and shaming will be a part of the system. They will settle. If you get caught up in trying to do this 'on the cheap' (meaning outside of the courts) you may well find yourself in court as a defendant.
Out the multinational using the courts and make your case plainly and honestly.
Quite familiar with Diebold ATMs. I spent a few of years in the ATM industry where I learned all kinds of things I was better off not knowing.
The short here is that business people are invariably interested in rapid development and deployment. Those tools are most available under Windows. "Rapid development." Really? And rapid deployment too? Sounds like they would rather not bother with testing and QA.
And using the internet as transport? Back in the day, they used POTS... some still do. (yeah... dialtone generators and devices that answer "yes" to every transaction... one of the first tools I was exposed to when "troubleshooting" an ATM.) It's beyond stupid. But that's the thing. Business does not understand technology and so they love to imagine that since THEY can't understand it, neither can those 'stupid criminals' so they're safe right? One of the biggest problems is these geniuses trust brand names more than people. Another is that they simply do not know what they do not know. You can try to tell them, but they just read it as an attack or an insult.
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I agree with your general sentiment. It works in most cases. Most problems with programs aren't quite a show-stopper. You know, like my personal pet peve in the newest GiMP. You can't "save as..." any format other than XCF. It violates the continuity rule for user interfaces. I understand why they did it. And I agree it is probably more "correct" but the argument is that "professionals might lose their work!!!" Sorry, but if they are professionals, they know the difference between "save" (which is supposed to save out in the same format you opened the file in) and "save as..." which gives the user the chance to save the project out as a different name and format. Simple and elegant and decades old in terms of conventions. Oh yeah, all oither programs do this. Unless the latest versions of Adobe products are doing this (the newest I had was CS5.5) then "professionals" aren't demanding this. Anyway. Not a "show stopper." It's an annoyance. (Oh yeah, when you do a "save as..." it would allow you to see all the other image fomats... you know, like JPG and BMP and GIF and PNG and all that... just not SAVE in those formats. "Conveyance" is violated there. They called it a bug and said they would fix it. I haven't looked to notice.
Anyway, the things this Gilbert Gottfried wannabe ranted about were very entertaining. And "It's funny because it's true!" also rings true here.
Even before I played with Windows 8, I knew from the beginning that if Microsoft wanted to make a tablet UI, great! Just don't try to put it on the desktop!! I knew Microsoft would try this because they tried to put a Windows interface on mobile devices and wondered why people couldn't use it. But then someone woke up and said! AH HA! They didn't like it because the UI wasn't suited for the device type!!! Great!! Let's just do the opposite and put touch interfaces on desktops! That'll solve everything. People will love us again!
Nope.
People call me a hater or anti- whatever and that's fine. This time I'll come across as an apple fanboy. (This parenthetical comment should dispell that. I'm not, I hate that they "hate our freedom!" "The terrorists" don't hate our freedom! They hate what we do! To them!!! But if any group is openly hostile on freedom? It's Apple.) Apple gets UIs. Microsoft doesn't. I don't think they ever did. The best they ever did was make bad copies of MacOS elements and evolve from there. Departure from that evolution? Not so much.
Also, the 3 year old thing? He was taught and coached. The big complaint in the rant video is that if that none of the operations were in any way natural or intuitive. Try again. The second one? Once again, he knew what he was doing. And he was a paid actor. C'mon. It's like you're not even trying.
I'm sure you meant that in a way contrary to what you have written right? Apple, Microsoft and Oracle do not compete on thier merits. Apple "might" at the beginning of things because when they come up with something new, they get a lot of attention... or they did. Jobs is dead and I doubt they will have that magic any longer. But Microsoft? Oracle? No.... no way.
Many Apple fans rejoiced. There was a lot of "in your face" and "got what they deserved" in response to the rulings followed by desperate attempts to justify a dishonest juror and the major crap he pulled. He "sent a message" alright. Problem is, just like other 'bad guys' he was stupid enough to brag about it. Had he said "it was a tough decision, but I felt the evidence was in Apple's favor and the other jurors agreed" things might be a little different right now.
But let's say the judge in this case was shown to have a LOT of Apple stock. Her failure to recuse herself would result in another trial even after the verdict was presented. But this was a juror. Jurors need special treatment in nearly every case simply because it's hard enough to select and agree upon the constitutionally guaranteed jury for matters such as these. If they were not almost completely immune to charges of misconduct, people would be even LESS willing to be on the jury. So you have to understand that the system will tread lightly on matters such as these. But have a look at this if you want to know more about jury misconduct:
http://www.capdefnet.org/hat/contents/constitutional_issues/jury_misconduct/jury_misconduct.htm
Interestingly, dishonesty in voir dire is at the top of the list and yet somehow, the judge in this case is willing to ignore that.
And you make a good point. After the trial, there was a spike in GS3 sales. Where I work, a LOT of iPhone users have managed to switch over to GS3 or other Androids... one of my co-workers, much to my disgust, even bought multiple Nexus 4s so he could make disgusting profits. People like him are the reason why many of us couldn't get one the first time around. "Thanks asshole" but I wasn't stupid enough to buy one from these pirates.
My point is that android is really taking over and Apple iThing fans are changing hearts. I see it everywhere. I know... I'm not a good sample observer. But it would be interesting to see what the current usage trends are. Anyone know where to look for data on the subject?
Spend more time with him and be sure it is most definitely an inconvenient gift because giving time only when it is convenient doesn't mean quite the same thing. And it already seems like you have similar interests, so get him talking about the things he knows about which you may not fully know about. This work not just for older people, but ALL people. When people feel valued, they feel happy.
So, just go spend time with him and ask him for some kind of help. That'll be just about the best a father could ask for.
Point taken. I didn't look back that far on the graph. I did also see links to stories talking about the value dropping below $500 for the first time in a long time or something like that. Perhaps a 25% drop *is* something to be concerned about. If I were a shareholder, I think I would be upset.
The software patent on bounce-back was ruled invalid in other courts. It will likely fail in any appeals.
The design patents were argued down by the judge in her commentary regarding the non-specific language describing the patent.
That is what I was driving at. A design patent is essentially a copyright as far as I can tell. I know, they aren't the same, but still. We're talking about a design, in this case, which is essentially the most elementary implementation and application of the materials used to construct the thing. Glass is most often flat. How can that be part of a design patent? The shape is rectangular and necessarily has rounded corners of no specific design. However, rounded corners serves the function of durability, comfort and perhaps even safety. Hard to imagine that being patented anywhere, let along "...on a handheld mobile device." And black in color? Sorry, but whoever the patent examiner was on that patent needs to be examined.
Patents must be non-obvious. Ultra-simple designs would seem to fit neatly within that failure.
Yeah... I know... the style of writing is pretty identifiable even if it isn't littered with bold headings and a thousand links. The troll is Already Proven Krazy and is best left ignored.
I think you didn't understand the judge's rulings on the issue of design patents. They were all essentially ruled invalid. This, of course, will be appealed by Apple. But the judge's remarks on the matter make plain sense. The design elements essentially lack "design." Sure, the design of Apple's devices capitalize on simple, clean appearance and construction, but the other side of that approach is that it moves in the direction of "functional design" which is not patentable.
And because so much of Apple's case has been called into question (to put it mildly) the awards in the case will have to be reassessed. And given that the methods of calculation for the damage awards were so... well, "weird" and inconsistent, there will be no effective means to update the damages award to match the updated infringement rulings. This will then require a new trial.
No. She is female and asian. For some that means smokin hot. But when you place her within the spectrum of asian woman? She scores rather low.
http://www.macworld.com.au/news/apple-vs-samsung-patent-trial-judge-wants-court-to-stay-awake-69231/
She is a 4 at best.
The stock price has dipped according to Google's report when searching "AAPL" however I don't think it's an amount worthy of panic just yet. However the dip would seem to coincide with the news.
I hope every sane person will realize that both Apple and Samsung will appeal the rulings. And I agree with the concensus that the just was simply tired of dealing with both parties and the mess that this case had become.
The more interesting rulings over Apple's design patents, though, I hope remain. The matter of jury misconduct, I hope fails. Even if Samsung "should have known" in advance is irrelevant to the matter at hand. The juror did not properly answer the screening questions and thus had violated any oaths and qualifications for being a jurist. Further, the jurist provided his own evidence and became a biased party in the case. In my view, jury misconduct is clear and obvious.
A US ISP would find itself destroyed just in legal fees. To survive such an assault, the 'free[dom] lawyers groups' would have to be standing by to take up the defense of any rebelious ISP in the US.
It would all get real ugly real fast. And in the US, media companies are often also ISPs or are very closely connected to them as many offer TV services as well as telephone and internet. So any ISP who fits that profile would find themselves unable to offer TV services shortly thereafter.
I doubt I could have put it more plainly than I already did. Getting attention is the first step to being understood. After you have their attention, you can put out what you want understood. If they disagree after that? So what? Shocking that anyone would have to explain this to anyone really. It's why commercials are as they are, why political campaigns are as they are and why, fo example, picketers hold big colorful signs and why PETA chicks pose nude!!!
I have a white paper on the topic but no one ready white papers, so I printed it on hot-pink.
The next few lines explain that too. Sorry I wrote more than two sentences. Must be a challenge for you.
Yes... I too have noted the weakness of CFLs around certain environmental conditions.
1. I used silicone sealer for the CFLs in my fish tank... seemed to work very nicely.
2. I have taken to LED bulbs over CFLs. More expensive but more workable and flexible too.
Some time ago, some lights turned on with regards to the issue that a machine with Linux installed is more expensive than a machine with Windows installed when provided by an OEM.
To make sense of it, you have to recognize that bloatware/crapware is a revenue source for the OEMs. Linux machines will have less crapware. (Note that I didn't say "no crapware" because thanks to Ubuntu's apparent affiliation with Amazon, there's just a touch of commercial interest there as well.) By removing the opportunity to install crapware on a machine sold, they are losing an opportunity. The words "opportunity cost" emerge as the reason for the difference in cost between a Windows OEM PC and a Linux OEM PC.
This has little to nothing to do with the cost of the license for the OS.
"...something something something Dark Side! Something something something complete!"
I am not saying that Windows 8 is even remotely similar to prison rape (though some might suggest there may be some similarities, I am not saying that) but the very notion that a party or group is getting used to something does not mean they like it or want it.
I supposed I could have said "taxes" or any other thing people generally don't like, but I wanted to be a little edgy... a little dramatic.
So yes. We acknowledge Microsoft is shoving their things [Windows 8 in this case] through our [choose an orifice] and we acknowledge that we presently don't have much choice in the matter.
Money is a medium that can be exchanged for goods and services. When government and, more significantly private enterprise, control who has access to money and by extension, goods and services, you will see right away the unbelievable amount of power that grants the parties who wield it.
So when someone points out that oil is traded in US dollars, it's a huge deal. It means the US and especially the private federal reserve bank along with the exclusive powers such as master card, visa and the like have enormous power over pretty much everything. It goes a long way to explain how things got the way they are and why governments around the world are bending to the will of the US and the businesses within.
This is only possible when the medium of exchange isn't based on something tangible... like gold or something like that.
If terrorism is defined as using fear and intimidation and a terrorist is a party who uses fear and intimidation to get their way, then I think the terrorists are most easily identified by looking at who and what inspires the most terror. "The control the money! All of it!" Controlling money controls everything and that's pretty terrifying.
Workstations? Okay look. Applications on the desktop is and was an evolution of computing when businesses were adopting computers for the workplace long ago. Mainframes and Unixes of the day were simply too expensive. Ironically, in the early days, businesses were adopting toys running DOS and the like to help useful applications to the endpoint. Those were primitive days of computing.
That Microsoft Windows had managed to keep their desktop OS going for so long is pretty amazing, but we've all been watching it stagnate under its own weight for a long time. Microsoft can't make it smaller and lighter. And the 64bit, 16GB monsters we are putting on desktops today are basically still doing the same things at the same performance levels of things we did 10 years ago on WindowsXP with a fraction of the power and resources.
Microsoft owes what it has to its practices, not its product quality. OS/2 would have been better had it not been squeezed out. But in case you hadn't noticed, applications are shifting back to servers these days. It is all but impossible to secure data on endpoints and that is increasingly been a huge problem lately. Windows desktops represent a huge liability for the enterprise.
As much as business currently depends on Linux for reliability, stability and the foundation of so many products at to many levels from the largest of enterprises to the tinyest of devices I have to wonder which direction you are looking if you are unable to see how Linux, to the exclusion of Windows, has been the choice of serious business for year and years now. VMWare is mostly Linux. Cisco is a whole lot of Linux. Some of the brands you trust the most are pushing Linux.
I don't get why people still think Linux is "only" a toy? That people *can* toy with Linux is a great and wonderful thing. It will certainly most always be able to do what it wasn't expected to be able to do. Microsoft has to work hard to make Windows do yet another trick and it often never quite works the same or as naturally. And Apple... yeah... don't need to bring that into the conversation since they actively work to keep people from doing anything they don't want people doing.
I suppose it might be okay to use the word "toy" in some ways. But to say it suggesting that it can't handle extremely large things? That it can't handle the responsibility of being reliable and secure? You'd have to be ignoring large parts of the enteprise industry to not see it.
OMFG :) Do you see what this guy does?! He goes absolutely nuts with commentary as if people live on slashdot and do nothing else! It's beyond imagination. The words "disproportionate response" and obsessive come to mind. I'll just back to pretending he doesn't exist and that I don't see what he writes. His style is pretty obvious so not hard to detect. I advise everyone else to do the same. Just pray that he doesn't resort to shooting up schools for attention.
Two problems:
1. You just responded to APK. I am really and truly sorry for what happens to people who respond to APK. His paranoid imagination and school-boy level of maturity does not allow him to understand that people simply don't care what he has to say. It is always a fight to him... most often to some imaginary form of death.
2. Yes. Linux can be insecure. But it actually takes work to MAKE it insecure these days. Have you ever wrestled with SELinux? It's on by default in most current Linux distros these days meaning that you can't even run a web server without explicitly allowing it through SELinux or without turning SELinux off. Either way, the user is the one who weakened the OS.
One huge difference between Linux [and others] and Windows is that with Windows, one hack pretty much fits all. This is not generally the case with Linux. Also, you really have to trust Microsoft to have a system which is not naturally vulnerable. That has not ever happened for any amount of time as far as I have seen. Linux puts people in control at a level Microsoft Windows will not. The user can even recompile the kernel in order to add or remove anything they need. Vulnerabilities can be patched on the same day problems are identified. Users of Windows have to wait until the patch is released most of the time and ... well, sometimes Microsoft doesn't issue patches for known issues for a very long time for various reasons.
Indeed. This is the best answer. Sue in U.S. courts. Someone will pick up the story and the naming and shaming will be a part of the system. They will settle. If you get caught up in trying to do this 'on the cheap' (meaning outside of the courts) you may well find yourself in court as a defendant.
Out the multinational using the courts and make your case plainly and honestly.
Quite familiar with Diebold ATMs. I spent a few of years in the ATM industry where I learned all kinds of things I was better off not knowing.
The short here is that business people are invariably interested in rapid development and deployment. Those tools are most available under Windows. "Rapid development." Really? And rapid deployment too? Sounds like they would rather not bother with testing and QA.
And using the internet as transport? Back in the day, they used POTS... some still do. (yeah... dialtone generators and devices that answer "yes" to every transaction... one of the first tools I was exposed to when "troubleshooting" an ATM.) It's beyond stupid. But that's the thing. Business does not understand technology and so they love to imagine that since THEY can't understand it, neither can those 'stupid criminals' so they're safe right? One of the biggest problems is these geniuses trust brand names more than people. Another is that they simply do not know what they do not know. You can try to tell them, but they just read it as an attack or an insult.