When the iTouch came out and was jailbreaked Apple released new firmware that blocked the hack.
Go on, scan Slashdot archive about Apple offerings, you will find article after article conveying the frustration of people daring to wish to use a device they paid for as they damn wish.
At some point, you should have a compiler that is consider clean. You use that to compile, from reviewed source code, the latest and greatest compiler and generate the rest from there.
You would expect they disclose what went wrong, that would save time and money to everybody.
Now, how can anybody running a Red Hat system know it is safe?
Openness is an advantage over closed systems, and it is why many of us buy from companies that are more open, in all the senses of the world.
Losing sight of what makes them different, and thus desirable, is a recipe for financial trouble (their lawyers will be paid in any way, so they should actually use them to ensure maximum disclosure).
I see very often this quoted without any substantiation.
I thought that the responsibility of a company was to stick to whatever they say they will do in their chapters of incorporation, then shareholders sharing that vision would finance the venture.
If the companies' own rules mandate that openness and accountability are part of how the company functions, and shareholders used their judgement and accepted that, profit may take a second seat in the view that in the long term, the business strategy of transparency is deemed to be necessary in turn to make the enterprise profitable.
The problem with many investors is their short-sighted, quarterly short termism and companies that do not ensure ways to handle that in a way that makes sense in a longer term.
You make it sound like all it was a complete success of a Windows implementation.
What do you talk about something you don't know?
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Learning Java is nothing.
Learning all the skills around Java technology to build a career path (which is what the poster is actually asking) is a completely different kettle of fish.
No wonder chaps in India (hello guys! Regards to Mumbai and Chennai) are eating your lunch.
Why should we care if Stassi like measures are enacted using as excuse (reasonable or not, that does not really matter) cost cutting?
What happens with such schemes is that they are abused. Have a grudge about somebody? Simple: report that person for any minor offences you can come up with it. If they are actually real ones much the better obviously, we are legislated so much to the tilt that is almost certain everybody is breaking the law at some point or another (the "ignorance is not excuse" when it comes to applying the law becomes hollower and hollower with each passing law that creates new criminal offences).
Yes, we are all for loving relationships and self esteem,
When that fails a woman should be able to decide if she wants to stop a pregnancy in proper sanitary conditions without the obstruction of Christian Talibans.
The ideological differences between both women will have the opposite effect: concentrate the minds of Mrs Clinton supporters, they will realize that a conservative, reactionary woman is not necessarily fighting the cause that Mrs Clinton was fighting for.
I can tell you all about any properly secured machine and reasonably expect most people will be unable to launch any successful attack.
Most security problems arise from insiders, clued up companies have procedures in place to make sure an insider stops being one pretty much the moment a working relationship ends.
... this debate would have been over long time ago.
A lot of religious people consider a human is such from the moment of conception, so your simplistic argument is far from reality (deplorably I have to add, religious nuts should not be influencing policy in a secular democracy).
It is not even funny that there are people out there still arguing about this.
Our knowledge about vaccination, antibiotics, genetically modified crops and pure dog breeds are firmly based in the fact that species evolve by natural selection.
This is something observable today, I will not even touch the fossil record since some people don't have the mental capacity to understand why this is fact as well.
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... using music players that use standards drivers that work with Linux.
I am missing both the Windows Vista and iTunes experience. I feel sooo excluded.
When people ask why standards should be followed, this is an excellent point in case.
You are obviously new around here.
When the iTouch came out and was jailbreaked Apple released new firmware that blocked the hack.
Go on, scan Slashdot archive about Apple offerings, you will find article after article conveying the frustration of people daring to wish to use a device they paid for as they damn wish.
Have a central Windows server and display back to your Linux workstations.
The day a solution comes you use it, in the meantime you don't really need anymore a Windows license for each desktop.
None whatsoever, so perhaps there is not much need as you thing they may be?
Competition is what keeps things moving. What we need is more desktop alternatives, not less.
Let the distros managers decide which ones they use.
Chearleading for a windows-like ecology can only be advocated by somebody that is not paying attention to computing history.
As for getting laid, poor sod, talk for yourself.
At some point, you should have a compiler that is consider clean. You use that to compile, from reviewed source code, the latest and greatest compiler and generate the rest from there.
But they already know what happened.
You would expect they disclose what went wrong, that would save time and money to everybody.
Now, how can anybody running a Red Hat system know it is safe?
Openness is an advantage over closed systems, and it is why many of us buy from companies that are more open, in all the senses of the world.
Losing sight of what makes them different, and thus desirable, is a recipe for financial trouble (their lawyers will be paid in any way, so they should actually use them to ensure maximum disclosure).
I see very often this quoted without any substantiation.
I thought that the responsibility of a company was to stick to whatever they say they will do in their chapters of incorporation, then shareholders sharing that vision would finance the venture.
If the companies' own rules mandate that openness and accountability are part of how the company functions, and shareholders used their judgement and accepted that, profit may take a second seat in the view that in the long term, the business strategy of transparency is deemed to be necessary in turn to make the enterprise profitable.
The problem with many investors is their short-sighted, quarterly short termism and companies that do not ensure ways to handle that in a way that makes sense in a longer term.
... about the kind of people that posts here.
I never found a techie in the City of London or Canary Wharf that wasn't reading and/or posting here.
A techie rumour here has to be given some serious consideration because there are far more insiders that it would be apparent at first.
If he knew that in many big shops MS is beginning to be a brand with serious problems at the higest level, he would re-evaluate is position.
And what about security?
You make it sound like all it was a complete success of a Windows implementation.
Learning Java is nothing.
Learning all the skills around Java technology to build a career path (which is what the poster is actually asking) is a completely different kettle of fish.
No wonder chaps in India (hello guys! Regards to Mumbai and Chennai) are eating your lunch.
... my dog would program in java (honestly, it is that clever).
Somebody talking about something he does not know only manifests his ignorance (but no worries, the Internet is anonymous: nobody will find out).
Jeez ....
The US?
Pulease ...
At least in the UK the political system is not tainted by money and niche interests.
Why should we care if Stassi like measures are enacted using as excuse (reasonable or not, that does not really matter) cost cutting?
What happens with such schemes is that they are abused. Have a grudge about somebody? Simple: report that person for any minor offences you can come up with it. If they are actually real ones much the better obviously, we are legislated so much to the tilt that is almost certain everybody is breaking the law at some point or another (the "ignorance is not excuse" when it comes to applying the law becomes hollower and hollower with each passing law that creates new criminal offences).
Yes, we are all for loving relationships and self esteem,
When that fails a woman should be able to decide if she wants to stop a pregnancy in proper sanitary conditions without the obstruction of Christian Talibans.
Indian civilization as well as the Mayan and Aztecs would have laughed at the idea of a world 6000 years old.
Not governing a minor US state, not being a legislator.
At the end a politician aiming for such a job will make his intents known and then will gather a team around him to deliver.
The advantage in the experience stakes between this lady and Obama is so minimal that is splitting hairs to even talk about it frankly.
The ideological differences between both women will have the opposite effect: concentrate the minds of Mrs Clinton supporters, they will realize that a conservative, reactionary woman is not necessarily fighting the cause that Mrs Clinton was fighting for.
Or at least that is my hope.
Quelle surprise.
Pardon my Swahili.
"IT people are usually of higher than average IQ... "
don't understand how averages work.
Which makes the above sentence doubly ironic.
... all those problems are easily solvable by clued up people without lots of extra spending.
Firewalls, SSH, VPNs and other tools (often available for free) can mitigate very effectively all the problems you just described.
I can tell you all about any properly secured machine and reasonably expect most people will be unable to launch any successful attack.
Most security problems arise from insiders, clued up companies have procedures in place to make sure an insider stops being one pretty much the moment a working relationship ends.
... this debate would have been over long time ago.
A lot of religious people consider a human is such from the moment of conception, so your simplistic argument is far from reality (deplorably I have to add, religious nuts should not be influencing policy in a secular democracy).
It is not even funny that there are people out there still arguing about this.
Our knowledge about vaccination, antibiotics, genetically modified crops and pure dog breeds are firmly based in the fact that species evolve by natural selection.
This is something observable today, I will not even touch the fossil record since some people don't have the mental capacity to understand why this is fact as well.