Why not X == 1 then yes else no. There. Then they wouldn't have everybody suddenly "opting in". Microsoft must be getting desperate to drum up revenue;)
For guiding the economy, I've gotta agree with you. Too much time lag, and more important, no good idea of what the GNP would have been otherwise.
Programming a neural net armed with only goto might be workable. Essentially you program a Finite State Automaton and you have long cryptic labels which actually define the state. Kinda, sorta does not work.
Not 3 weeks, but 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds of continuous operation. Microsoft now acknowledges the existence of a bug in tens of millions of copies of Windows 95 and Windows 98 that will cause your computer to "stop responding (hang)" -- you know, what you call crash -- after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds of continuous operation. Well not exactly like that for Windows. The RedHat bug was found and fixed in something like five days, fast enough so that it is unlikely that anyone ever got bit by it. The Windows bug took nearly 4 years before discovery, probably as a result of some Y2K testing.
So would we be drinking the Kool*Aid out of a Slackware cup? Or a Debian cup? Or a SuSE cup? Hehe, that'll keep the Linux crowd alive and healthy. The BSD crowd aren't about to drink poison from a Linux cup. That leaves the Microsoft crowd and I for one am not about to drink anything strange from a Microsoft cup. Hmmph, well it might take out a few astroturfers;)
certainly, a number of/. users actually use IE. You have to realize that/. is probably the only source for unbiased technical information about Microsoft products. (I know there's bias too, plenty of bias, but have you noticed that useful technical information comes from the bashers not the astoturfers;)
"...Remember "Code Red" ? It was just like any other worm attack..." I sympathize, but he's right. Predictive, not historical. Even if Microsoft does manage to get all the Code Red/Nimda boxes patched, there's plenty more holes to exploit. Melissa was the first. Code Red was the second. I'd worry about the third.
Yeah. Notice also that these dialogs are also extremely short on *any* useful information. This is when you discover that OpenBSD is really the epitome of User Friendliness (ducks and runs for cover;)
Problem with measuring only PART of the picture. Over all, government spends less on roads, and GNP goes up with increased mechanic work. (but dosen't the general citizenry of the country get screwed?) The whole picture is more like: The general citizenry gets screwed and spends a little less here, a little less there. The GNP picks up the decrease in ALL those other places and would show an overall decrease in spite of the increased mechanic work. The GNP has a handle on value received for money spent only to the extent that the market can shift to putting more money into places where the value is greater. Things like the Irish potato famine, where people are spending more and getting less, can give anomalous results.
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To complete the irony, the $80.00 StarOffice is a much better product with the free OpenOffice running around. Seems like Tech Support is designed to handle "user error" not things like bug fixes.
That's the one thing you always get with StarOffice that you can't get with OpenOffice. I wonder how many corporation will buy StarOffice and use OpenOffice. It's not really as crazy as it sounds.
It's not the Linux community urging Microsoft retaliation, it's the Microsoft community urging Microsoft retaliation, or at least those of us in the process of moving from the Microsoft community to the Linux community.
Among other things it is the difference between murder and accidental homicide. Every piece of evidence that shows Microsoft's intentions is interesting.
If you have a separation between fantasy and reality, and the violence is in the fantasy instead of the reality, you tend to have a better world. I suspect that the Japanese games are actually more mentally healthy than Disney.
What confuses me about this strategy is that Sun has never been known as a company that would do what's right for the consumer That is the necessary paradigm shift. More and more computer systems will be interconnected and the various suppliers had better play nice or the customers will be looking elsewhere.
Undermining competition is what keeps businesses alive That's like messing up your neighbors' lawns makes yours look better. Tends to spoil the whole industry and everything else connected to it.
shiny new SUV if the manufacturer also released the blueprints? Well, I'd figure those blueprints were there for a reason. So that if there was any problem, I would be in as good a position as posible to fix it myself. I doubt that the blueprints would eliminate manufacturer liability, but seems like they would go a long way in that direction.
This is the primary problem with Open Source advocacy, it relies a lot upon blind faith. Methinks blind faith applies to Closed Source. With Open Source you get to use your eyes.
For facts, with Open Source edge and corner cases can be diagnosed and debugged AFTER release. Effectively you tend to get 1 or 2 more 9's more reliable product with minimal cost. There's no magic bullet and not even Open Source will make everything bug-free, but Open Source is probably the only effective way to deal with "scissors, paper, stone" scenarios where the is no a priori solution.
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Why not X == 1 then yes else no. There.
Then they wouldn't have everybody suddenly "opting in". Microsoft must be getting desperate to drum up revenue;)
For guiding the economy, I've gotta agree with you. Too much time lag, and more important, no good idea of what the GNP would have been otherwise.
Programming a neural net armed with only goto might be workable. Essentially you program a Finite State Automaton and you have long cryptic labels which actually define the state. Kinda, sorta does not work.
The earliest version you can both find and put up with.
Of course it's unpatched and a lot of holes are widely known.
Then there's the Russian Roulette with the latest and greatest. And the latest and greatest patches. And the latest and greatest exploits.
Not 3 weeks, but 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds of continuous operation.
Microsoft now acknowledges the existence of a bug in tens of millions of copies of Windows 95 and Windows 98 that will cause your computer to "stop responding (hang)" -- you know, what you call crash -- after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds of continuous operation.
Well not exactly like that for Windows. The RedHat bug was found and fixed in something like five days, fast enough so that it is unlikely that anyone ever got bit by it. The Windows bug took nearly 4 years before discovery, probably as a result of some Y2K testing.
So would we be drinking the Kool*Aid out of a Slackware cup? Or a Debian cup? Or a SuSE cup?
Hehe, that'll keep the Linux crowd alive and healthy. The BSD crowd aren't about to drink poison from a Linux cup. That leaves the Microsoft crowd and I for one am not about to drink anything strange from a Microsoft cup. Hmmph, well it might take out a few astroturfers;)
certainly, a number of /. users actually use IE. /. is probably the only source for unbiased technical information about Microsoft products. (I know there's bias too, plenty of bias, but have you noticed that useful technical information comes from the bashers not the astoturfers;)
You have to realize that
"...Remember "Code Red" ? It was just like any other worm attack..."
I sympathize, but he's right. Predictive, not historical. Even if Microsoft does manage to get all the Code Red/Nimda boxes patched, there's plenty more holes to exploit. Melissa was the first. Code Red was the second. I'd worry about the third.
Yeah. Notice also that these dialogs are also extremely short on *any* useful information. This is when you discover that OpenBSD is really the epitome of User Friendliness (ducks and runs for cover;)
4. Exactly what does this update do. (What someone want me to believe it does doesn't count;)
Problem with measuring only PART of the picture.
Over all, government spends less on roads, and GNP goes up with increased mechanic work.
(but dosen't the general citizenry of the country get screwed?)
The whole picture is more like:
The general citizenry gets screwed and spends a little less here, a little less there. The GNP picks up the decrease in ALL those other places and would show an overall decrease in spite of the increased mechanic work.
The GNP has a handle on value received for money spent only to the extent that the market can shift to putting more money into places where the value is greater. Things like the Irish potato famine, where people are spending more and getting less, can give anomalous results.
To complete the irony, the $80.00 StarOffice is a much better product with the free OpenOffice running around. Seems like Tech Support is designed to handle "user error" not things like bug fixes.
That's the one thing you always get with StarOffice that you can't get with OpenOffice.
I wonder how many corporation will buy StarOffice and use OpenOffice. It's not really as crazy as it sounds.
It's not the Linux community urging Microsoft retaliation, it's the Microsoft community urging Microsoft retaliation, or at least those of us in the process of moving from the Microsoft community to the Linux community.
Among other things it is the difference between murder and accidental homicide.
Every piece of evidence that shows Microsoft's intentions is interesting.
If you have a separation between fantasy and reality, and the violence is in the fantasy instead of the reality, you tend to have a better world. I suspect that the Japanese games are actually more mentally healthy than Disney.
What confuses me about this strategy is that Sun has never been known as a company that would do what's right for the consumer
That is the necessary paradigm shift. More and more computer systems will be interconnected and the various suppliers had better play nice or the customers will be looking elsewhere.
Undermining competition is what keeps businesses alive
That's like messing up your neighbors' lawns makes yours look better.
Tends to spoil the whole industry and everything else connected to it.
on what's in that $5.00 hot dog.
Always nice to know where your money went.
shiny new SUV if the manufacturer also released the blueprints?
Well, I'd figure those blueprints were there for a reason. So that if there was any problem, I would be in as good a position as posible to fix it myself. I doubt that the blueprints would eliminate manufacturer liability, but seems like they would go a long way in that direction.
This is the primary problem with Open Source advocacy, it relies a lot upon blind faith.
Methinks blind faith applies to Closed Source. With Open Source you get to use your eyes.
For facts, with Open Source edge and corner cases can be diagnosed and debugged AFTER release. Effectively you tend to get 1 or 2 more 9's more reliable product with minimal cost. There's no magic bullet and not even Open Source will make everything bug-free, but Open Source is probably the only effective way to deal with "scissors, paper, stone" scenarios where the is no a priori solution.
This has nothing to do with MS, and everything to do with a failed/flawed concept.
There's a difference?
Ah, finally an explanation for Microsoft Windows random behavior.
Oh yeah, and Linux/FreeBSD/MacOSX has never had an exploit or bug.
Not like Code Red, Nimda, Klez or whatever it's called.
Installed RedHat from two years ago, unpatched.
For a lot of configurations it would be immune.