If these bugs aren't publicly disclosed many software vendors see no reason to fix them. The reason for this is each time you fix a bug the product has to go back through a full QA cycle - which can cost lots of money.
On the low end of the 30m band there's two stations broadcasting numbers pretty much all day long - I want to say 9.8 mhz? Of course you have to know morse code:).
He does have a point. I was in the Apple store only a month ago where an Apple salesman was telling me they have a totally secure OS that doesn't get viruses and is hacker proof (his words). I don't have my own Mac (I have one at work), but I was doubtful to his claims. I can see however how an unsuspecting consumer might buy into that.
So no - I heard this from an actual Apple employee that OSX is "perfectly secure".
To be honest they only people I've heard this claim from are Apple sales people and Apple employees at conventions (I work for a software developer).
I have a friend who is blind. When I told him about this article he couldn't stop laughing and I'm not kidding.
He thinks those braille instructions in drive up atm's are funny too.
I think its wonderful that people of all kinds of disabilities want to do things, but lets face facts here - there are some things people shouldn't do because its not safe.
As someone who has hunted since junior high school I can tell you that firearms are nothing to be taken lightly. What you point them at and fire them at tends to die and if you can't see them... Well then.
If you ever have to do a client presentation at a trade show, or customer training Rob sounds like the kind of guy that presenters and trainers dread.
Its not because they are HARD questions, but because they are loaded and may be inappropriate for that person to answer (yes believe it or not there are people in the company who don't know or cannot give the answers to things).
I suspect this whole trip was more of a hey look were not so bad were/were real people working on these products sort of trip.
I know for activation schemes like flexnet such solutions do exist (usually involves a special client config file), and your right - its not very widely publicized.
The other day I was at Fred Meyers and some lady wanted a PS3, nope there out. Then she wanted a Wii - nope there out. Oh but whats this Xbox 360 thing - they've got like 15 of those? Yeah she ended up with one and a couple games. This really did happen.
I suspect similar scenarios are being played out all over the country.
Well for me - I really like to play it. I think about it at work etc - and if I have time I'll play it for 4 hours most nights - its fun what can I say?
I don't know of a single time though where I've refused to go somewhere to play wow instead. If its a nice day outside I'll be on the motorcycle tooling around town.
I'd like to know what serious Windows developer (cleary the kind that has money/time to do testing on virtual machines) doesn't have a msdn subscription... I used to work for a veritcal market software company (with like 20 employees) who made accounting apps for glass shops using VB6 and even we had one.
And lets face it - developers are the only ones who are going to want to virtualize Vista home in the first place. Corperations who are using it on vmware to run services (note - production, not testing) are clearly abusing the license - not that any corperation would be using Vista home for anything... - it can't even work on a domain with some hacking.
OTOH, whether you like it or not, XP in 2006 can run software made in 1995 without any problems whatsoever. All this means that businesses can get more mileage from their custom solutions and hence the market share disparity...
I beg to differ. Windows XP happens to run things like Microsoft Word 6 and FrameMaker 5 - both of which are Windows 3.1 apps. I found that I can even run the Windows file manager from Windows 2 and 3 on XP just fine.
Also when I worked at an accounting support company a lot of the poorly written apps I had to support were Windows 3.1 based and were running just fine on XP and 2000.
Microsoft has tons of tools that are pretty good at managing large enterprises with few people, but its helpful to know something about Windows scripting, and locking down Windows to prevent user misconfiguration.
Joe Sixpack isn't going to buy Vista though - to install on their current computer. Their going to get rid of the computer they have, and buy a new one with Vista on it.
The difference is Microsoft knowingly selling something for less than it cost to make it for the simple goal of putting Apple/iTunes out of business.
I never could get that of Microsoft - its not simple enough to make a product that people like and buy because its well made. They sometimes do that too, but often it seems their entire marketing/product strategy is geared towards putting people out of business. I've worked for several software companies - none of them MS and none of them operate like this.
I too used to support old software - often on novell 3.12 or Windows NT 4. The problem I've run into most of all is these people don't make regular backups and the machines and these file servers are running on are typically 386/486 pc's - not even server class hardware. I've never met anyone who takes their business seriously use antique hardware/software that few know how to maintain - least of which the shop/company owner.
The call that came in most often was the hard drive died and they lost all their data. Or they just bought some new pc's at worst buy and want to make them talk to the Novell machine (and on a side note: the built in Netware client for XP does a dandy job of talking to 3.x machines - its just no-one knows how to set it up anymore).
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If these bugs aren't publicly disclosed many software vendors see no reason to fix them. The reason for this is each time you fix a bug the product has to go back through a full QA cycle - which can cost lots of money.
On the low end of the 30m band there's two stations broadcasting numbers pretty much all day long - I want to say 9.8 mhz? Of course you have to know morse code :).
Should I be worried that I can't understand a single thing you have said?
Autocad is still used in laying out 2d designs quite a bit. I've also seen maps made with Land Desktop.
3D stuff? Thats really a different market - which Autodesk is trying to get into with Inventor.
He does have a point. I was in the Apple store only a month ago where an Apple salesman was telling me they have a totally secure OS that doesn't get viruses and is hacker proof (his words). I don't have my own Mac (I have one at work), but I was doubtful to his claims. I can see however how an unsuspecting consumer might buy into that.
So no - I heard this from an actual Apple employee that OSX is "perfectly secure".
To be honest they only people I've heard this claim from are Apple sales people and Apple employees at conventions (I work for a software developer).
I have a friend who is blind. When I told him about this article he couldn't stop laughing and I'm not kidding.
He thinks those braille instructions in drive up atm's are funny too.
I think its wonderful that people of all kinds of disabilities want to do things, but lets face facts here - there are some things people shouldn't do because its not safe.
As someone who has hunted since junior high school I can tell you that firearms are nothing to be taken lightly. What you point them at and fire them at tends to die and if you can't see them... Well then.
I'm exciting about Vista, but I'm probably not going to run it until the licensing for it gets sorted out.
If you ever have to do a client presentation at a trade show, or customer training Rob sounds like the kind of guy that presenters and trainers dread.
Its not because they are HARD questions, but because they are loaded and may be inappropriate for that person to answer (yes believe it or not there are people in the company who don't know or cannot give the answers to things).
I suspect this whole trip was more of a hey look were not so bad were/were real people working on these products sort of trip.
As someone who works in software - those kinds of bugs fall into two categories > poor testing and system specific issues.
System specific issues are probably more common, and sometimes not even bugs.
This process actually works like a top on my IBM T42P with my docking station running Windows XP.
Does this hold true if I rip off code licensed under gpl?
I know for activation schemes like flexnet such solutions do exist (usually involves a special client config file), and your right - its not very widely publicized.
The other day I was at Fred Meyers and some lady wanted a PS3, nope there out. Then she wanted a Wii - nope there out. Oh but whats this Xbox 360 thing - they've got like 15 of those? Yeah she ended up with one and a couple games. This really did happen.
I suspect similar scenarios are being played out all over the country.
Well for me - I really like to play it. I think about it at work etc - and if I have time I'll play it for 4 hours most nights - its fun what can I say?
I don't know of a single time though where I've refused to go somewhere to play wow instead. If its a nice day outside I'll be on the motorcycle tooling around town.
I'd like to know what serious Windows developer (cleary the kind that has money/time to do testing on virtual machines) doesn't have a msdn subscription... I used to work for a veritcal market software company (with like 20 employees) who made accounting apps for glass shops using VB6 and even we had one.
And lets face it - developers are the only ones who are going to want to virtualize Vista home in the first place. Corperations who are using it on vmware to run services (note - production, not testing) are clearly abusing the license - not that any corperation would be using Vista home for anything... - it can't even work on a domain with some hacking.
Pegasos is an open system - including the schematics. This is similar architecture the Apple Macintosh used to be based on.
Besides with Linux it doesn't really matter what the architecture is. Linux runs just as well on Sparc, PPC, and X86.
OTOH, whether you like it or not, XP in 2006 can run software made in 1995 without any problems whatsoever. All this means that businesses can get more mileage from their custom solutions and hence the market share disparity...
I beg to differ. Windows XP happens to run things like Microsoft Word 6 and FrameMaker 5 - both of which are Windows 3.1 apps. I found that I can even run the Windows file manager from Windows 2 and 3 on XP just fine.
Also when I worked at an accounting support company a lot of the poorly written apps I had to support were Windows 3.1 based and were running just fine on XP and 2000.
Why can't there be illegal hackers? Just like there are good and bad people in every occupation.
I've met people who do seemingly illegal things, but use brilliant self made solutions.
Microsoft has tons of tools that are pretty good at managing large enterprises with few people, but its helpful to know something about Windows scripting, and locking down Windows to prevent user misconfiguration.
Joe Sixpack isn't going to buy Vista though - to install on their current computer. Their going to get rid of the computer they have, and buy a new one with Vista on it.
So say its a company laptop and has an encrypted disk and company policy forbids you from giving your passwords to anyone. What then?
How would you know a DVD used this scheme? I suspect the movie companies would hide it from you so you'd be purposefully duped into buying it.
Actually if you really want to you can order SP2 cd's from Microsoft for free from their site - assuming you have a legal version of XP.
The difference is Microsoft knowingly selling something for less than it cost to make it for the simple goal of putting Apple/iTunes out of business.
I never could get that of Microsoft - its not simple enough to make a product that people like and buy because its well made. They sometimes do that too, but often it seems their entire marketing/product strategy is geared towards putting people out of business. I've worked for several software companies - none of them MS and none of them operate like this.
I too used to support old software - often on novell 3.12 or Windows NT 4. The problem I've run into most of all is these people don't make regular backups and the machines and these file servers are running on are typically 386/486 pc's - not even server class hardware. I've never met anyone who takes their business seriously use antique hardware/software that few know how to maintain - least of which the shop/company owner.
The call that came in most often was the hard drive died and they lost all their data. Or they just bought some new pc's at worst buy and want to make them talk to the Novell machine (and on a side note: the built in Netware client for XP does a dandy job of talking to 3.x machines - its just no-one knows how to set it up anymore).