'Although the hole is somewhat smaller than usual, we cannot conclude from this that the ozone layer is recovering already.'
Couldn't the same logic be applied to global temperature averages?
'Although the temperature is somewhat higher than usual [this season/year/decade], we cannot conclude from this that global warming is real.'
There are relatively small recorded data sets for both the ozone layer condition and global temperatures, so I guess it's about which agenda you want to promote: changes either signify a pattern change, or are just abborations.
Based only on the people I know, there are 3 big reasons why they don't use Linux instead of Windows.
1) People are resistant to change. They've been using Windows for as long as they can remember and they think (whether right or wrong) that they won't be able to learn something new.
2) I have no idea why, but people trust "The world's richest company over a bunch of 14-year-old kids who just want to hack your machine" to write their OS. (No joke; that's a quote from my boss.)
If they offered.xxx domains and just made it voluntary, I'd totally get one. They might not offer any specific utility, but I think it might be kinda funny to have.
And how much do you think www.se.xxx would be worth? I'll race ya!:)
I was actually assuming they wouldn't manually verify things like that and just automate the lawsuits too, it's just that the first two things I thought of when reading that statement were legitimate uses.
A 'paper trail' is great, but it's kinda rediculous when your inbox is 1.2GB comprised of 130,000 emails spanning 10 years (I'm very much a hoarder:)).
Since we're almost entirely a Windows environment (we use FAI and various scripts for the Linux machines), we use a combination of GPO's and Ghost. The nice thing about Ghost's AI system is that it basically takes a snapshot of the system pre-installation and another post-installation, does a diff, then builds a package. You can also reboot inbetween snapshots and run the program inbetween snapshots to ensure all necessary registry keys are created and COM objects are registered. You can also edit the config file to do some custom calls from the package (call built-in's, reboot the system, etc...).
Don't get me wrong, there are many many problems with Ghost, but they did do a couple things pretty well.
Our users have only 'User' rights with a few custom restrictions set with security policies, but our images and logon scrips have some registry tweaks.
Yea, Oracle is a pain in the nuts; fortunately, it's not something that comes up for us all too often:).
As for it being the same old voodoo, proper permissions are something you run into on all OS's (it's just that some implement it differently than others). Windows certainly isn't well-designed as far as allowing functionality with severely restricted permissions, but a lot of the blame falls on bad programs also.
And as a Windows administrator (I don't know how typical), in order to be good at your job you're going to need to know your way around in the registry. You make time to ensure software being pushed out to thousands of machines is working properly, even if that takes looking at file/regmon readouts to see if things are bombing out anywhere. Permissions changes can be scripted.
Just a sidenote: about the worst program I've dealt with as far as packaging up and pushing out to machines was WordPerfect 11-. However, they've fixed many many problems in 12.
Per your O-faceXP issue, I don't know what to tell you. We push a package out that works just fine with (pretty heavily) restricted user privilages.
But hell yea, I think forcing M$ employees to run as regular ol' users instead of administrators is a great idea. 'Run as...' kinda sorta works, but they need to convert their entire OS model to something more compatable with the 'run with minimum necessary privilages' philosophy. Having a whole team of developers deal with what we have to go through all the time means (hopefully) something will get fixed.
We usually package up the install and throw a 'cacls' call at the end of it when necessary:). Programs with registry tweaks are far less common than the used to be; most prgrammers are learning that App Data exists for a reason...
And you still run into those programs that don't seem to understand the concept of environment variables or the fact that you don't really need to use the registry in many situations.
There are still many large companies that allow their users admin rights. My guess is that their IT staff doesn't want/can't afford to take the time to sit down and work out all of the necessary permissions on files, folders, and registry keys needed to run certain programs. OR, they've found the 'run as...' command an unsatisfactory substitute for sudo or su.
Just so you know, not all of these programs need admin rights to run; they need certain privs on certain folders (usually either write or modify to their program directory).
I like how many clamoured for M$ to include an anti-spyware solution and now, depending on how some people decide to act, litigation may keep it from being bundled. I'm not saying it will happen, or that anyone will even try, I just found it a little entertaining. And I'm also not saying that it should be bundled.
If you like Ubuntu, you could probably do pretty well with a Thinkpad x41. I have the tablet version dual-booting Ubuntu and WinXP with both OS's running great (with/home mounted under both). Most features work out of the box under Linux and the rest are pretty easy to set up.
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Couldn't the same logic be applied to global temperature averages?
'Although the temperature is somewhat higher than usual [this season/year/decade], we cannot conclude from this that global warming is real.'
There are relatively small recorded data sets for both the ozone layer condition and global temperatures, so I guess it's about which agenda you want to promote: changes either signify a pattern change, or are just abborations.
...if dude looks like a lady?
It's not really much of a choice if nobody releases movies in a particular format (that is, then customers have no real choice).
She should choose two of those 'Million Dollar Laptops' reported on a while back :).
Based only on the people I know, there are 3 big reasons why they don't use Linux instead of Windows.
1) People are resistant to change. They've been using Windows for as long as they can remember and they think (whether right or wrong) that they won't be able to learn something new.
2) I have no idea why, but people trust "The world's richest company over a bunch of 14-year-old kids who just want to hack your machine" to write their OS. (No joke; that's a quote from my boss.)
3) It's what their computer came with.
...they should pirate more stuff.
If they offered .xxx domains and just made it voluntary, I'd totally get one. They might not offer any specific utility, but I think it might be kinda funny to have.
:)
And how much do you think www.se.xxx would be worth? I'll race ya!
I was actually assuming they wouldn't manually verify things like that and just automate the lawsuits too, it's just that the first two things I thought of when reading that statement were legitimate uses.
"as little as a few sentences of text or a few seconds of audio or video"
Like quotations in a paper, or video snippets in an educational presentation?
And that's one of the reasons I like War3 (of course, I was also a big fan of Starcraft). To each their own I guess.
I wouldn't say that's a lot for an RTS; a good War3 player seems to have, on average, 100+ actions per minute.
A 'paper trail' is great, but it's kinda rediculous when your inbox is 1.2GB comprised of 130,000 emails spanning 10 years (I'm very much a hoarder :)).
Eh. They've already got Parallels to do that job, and it works nicely.
...think of it as serving the same function as an iMac.
As long as it's not a MMORPG I'll certainly be playing it.
Since we're almost entirely a Windows environment (we use FAI and various scripts for the Linux machines), we use a combination of GPO's and Ghost. The nice thing about Ghost's AI system is that it basically takes a snapshot of the system pre-installation and another post-installation, does a diff, then builds a package. You can also reboot inbetween snapshots and run the program inbetween snapshots to ensure all necessary registry keys are created and COM objects are registered. You can also edit the config file to do some custom calls from the package (call built-in's, reboot the system, etc...).
:).
Don't get me wrong, there are many many problems with Ghost, but they did do a couple things pretty well.
Our users have only 'User' rights with a few custom restrictions set with security policies, but our images and logon scrips have some registry tweaks.
Yea, Oracle is a pain in the nuts; fortunately, it's not something that comes up for us all too often
As for it being the same old voodoo, proper permissions are something you run into on all OS's (it's just that some implement it differently than others). Windows certainly isn't well-designed as far as allowing functionality with severely restricted permissions, but a lot of the blame falls on bad programs also.
And as a Windows administrator (I don't know how typical), in order to be good at your job you're going to need to know your way around in the registry. You make time to ensure software being pushed out to thousands of machines is working properly, even if that takes looking at file/regmon readouts to see if things are bombing out anywhere. Permissions changes can be scripted.
Just a sidenote: about the worst program I've dealt with as far as packaging up and pushing out to machines was WordPerfect 11-. However, they've fixed many many problems in 12.
Per your O-faceXP issue, I don't know what to tell you. We push a package out that works just fine with (pretty heavily) restricted user privilages.
But hell yea, I think forcing M$ employees to run as regular ol' users instead of administrators is a great idea. 'Run as...' kinda sorta works, but they need to convert their entire OS model to something more compatable with the 'run with minimum necessary privilages' philosophy. Having a whole team of developers deal with what we have to go through all the time means (hopefully) something will get fixed.
We usually package up the install and throw a 'cacls' call at the end of it when necessary :). Programs with registry tweaks are far less common than the used to be; most prgrammers are learning that App Data exists for a reason...
And you still run into those programs that don't seem to understand the concept of environment variables or the fact that you don't really need to use the registry in many situations.
There are still many large companies that allow their users admin rights. My guess is that their IT staff doesn't want/can't afford to take the time to sit down and work out all of the necessary permissions on files, folders, and registry keys needed to run certain programs. OR, they've found the 'run as...' command an unsatisfactory substitute for sudo or su.
Just so you know, not all of these programs need admin rights to run; they need certain privs on certain folders (usually either write or modify to their program directory).
I like how many clamoured for M$ to include an anti-spyware solution and now, depending on how some people decide to act, litigation may keep it from being bundled. I'm not saying it will happen, or that anyone will even try, I just found it a little entertaining. And I'm also not saying that it should be bundled.
If you like Ubuntu, you could probably do pretty well with a Thinkpad x41. I have the tablet version dual-booting Ubuntu and WinXP with both OS's running great (with /home mounted under both). Most features work out of the box under Linux and the rest are pretty easy to set up.
Man, if you're going to use a Dilbert (the TV show) joke, at least retain the elegant simplicity :).
"Spinning you say? We'll attach magnets to them [or, in this case, him] and generate electricity if it makes you feel any better!"
...Commie!
:)
Oh wait, I mean...Terrorist!