MS's problems aren't because they don't understand security, or customer satisfaction, or that monopolies are held to a different standard..
It's because the people in charge live in a different universe!
You have something with almost zero marginal cost, and mark-up measured in thousands of percent, and he thinks the problem is because the *hardware* (which has a large marginal cost, and has mark-up measured in the single-digit percentages) is too expensive?
Sweet Jebus, software is pirated in third world nations because the software is too expensive.
If you want to pay your $600 to BusinessWire, you too can post a press release announcing that "monkeys will shoot out of my nether eye in my office at midnight tonight." Yahoo will pick it up and run it in its financial news section
Come on, if every/.er contributes a dollar, we can do this hundreds of times..
Lisa: "By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away." Homer: "Oh, how does it work?" Lisa: "It doesn't work! It's just a stupid rock!" Homer: "Uh-huh." Lisa: "But I don't see any tigers around, do you?" Homer: "I would like to buy your rock!"
Now that we know the IPSHwy works, we have the capability to launch cargo ANYWHERE in the solar system.
So now when I travel, instead of the airline sending my luggage to another city, it can end up anywhere in the *solar system*. Yeah, that's just what we need!
... Intel has announced that they will be ditching their 8mm training tapes, switching instead to VHS.
When asked about this move, an Intel spokesman said "As you can tell from our other directional changes, we have decided to step boldly into the 1980s!"
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selling spamware is unethical. But if it's that or starving to death...
Well, actually Canopy (his name is listed on a patent obtained by Canopy), but close enough.
Gentlemen, at this time, I ask that you don your tinfoil hats.
with BSD you don't
Exactly. Now, suppose you want to sell licenses to people for using your IP in Linux, but people tell you "hey, that's under GPL - you distributed it, so you can't charge a license fee."
Merkey's company wants to sell modified Linux without providing source code to the modifications.
Yes, yes it does. Think about that - think about the lawsuit - perhaps they were thinking that they could snow the kernel devs into selling them a "get out of jail free" (perhaps even in a literal sense) card for $50.000.
It's a good idea to include a referrer as well, just in case they start checking that.
Here is a simple script to do just that - it sets the referrer to the same page as the document - just remember to call it with the filename *first*, and any additional options after.
Unfortunately that wouldn't work in Firefox; even with the context-menu enabled, Firefox won't show the background image options if there's a foreground image on top of it (for "usability" reasons, according to the Firefox guys.)
The Google page puts a transparent gif over top of the background (the BG is what you want to print/display/save/etc.)
"What the?!" was pretty much hit-and-miss, even from the beginning.. I laughed myself silly when I saw "The Black Pantster" - althought he only appeared in one episode, but regular stuff like "Peter Porker, The Amazing Spider-Ham" was just dreck, right from the start.
IIRC they did a story about Superman, which I thought was pretty funny, although I don't remember very much about it except they were making fun of Byrne's "More real" Superman (growing a beard in a few minutes, etc.)
It reminded me a lot of SNL, some good bits, some bad, with the occasional guest star that seemed interesting.
have any of these large corporations (or even smaller ones) considered the personnel issues that may arise from a mass migration?
Of course they have - they include the cost of training or hiring personnel to work with the new technology.
the most technologically savvy user group--would have to know those architectures fairly well, right? what about the end users?
I already addressed the sysadmin/support people. Why do you think that *end users* would care what they run on their server? In large (and even decently run small) environments, *USERS DO NOT ADMIN THEIR OWN MACHINES*. Users are paid to do their job, and the computers are a tool. Management pays admins to do the admin work.
many of their MS knowledgeable IT staff may not know Unix systems, care to, or even be *capable* of learning them?
If your IT staff isn't *capable* of learning something new, they should be fired immediately, as they're completely useless. Nothing is static, change is constant.
If they don't "care to" learn, they'll get replaced by someone who *does*.
True. CLI is the equivalent of spoken or written language, and the GUI is the equivalent of pointing at something and grunting.
Spoken/written communication is much more powerful (easier, faster, more effective) when both parties understand the language, and the idea is a complex one ("I would like a job at your pie shop.")
Rudimentary communication is easier with point-and-grunt (answering the question "which pie would you like to purchase?" - you point to the one you want)
If the parties don't understand the same language, complex concepts are *much* harder. Learning to communicate by pointing is easier, but the true power of communication comes from spoken/written languages.
Think I'm wrong? Write a detailed response *without* using your keyboard.
No, the best scene was in the diner, with the cast of Alien, when the alien pops out of John Hurt, and sings "Hello My Baby" while dancing across the counter..
We all know the outcome of a celebrity deathmatch between Bill and Linus:
From pictures, I'd say that Linus has a physical advantage over Gates; but Bill would probably play dirty and get someone else (Balmer, perhaps) to fight for him (he never doesn anything for himself.) That would give Linus the excuse to play tag-team with Tove, and she'd kick the ass of Bill, Melinda, *and* Balmer (remember Tove is a six-time Finnish National karate champ!)
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MS's problems aren't because they don't understand security, or customer satisfaction, or that monopolies are held to a different standard..
It's because the people in charge live in a different universe!
You have something with almost zero marginal cost, and mark-up measured in thousands of percent, and he thinks the problem is because the *hardware* (which has a large marginal cost, and has mark-up measured in the single-digit percentages) is too expensive?
Sweet Jebus, software is pirated in third world nations because the software is too expensive.
I wonder what color the sky is in his world?
I haven't come across the case where onexit does anything but annoying things, though
:o)
My bank uses onexit to log the user out if they forget.
Which I suppose can be classified as 'annoying' if you routinely open links in new windows, and then close one of those windows
If you want to pay your $600 to BusinessWire, you too can post a press release announcing that "monkeys will shoot out of my nether eye in my office at midnight tonight." Yahoo will pick it up and run it in its financial news section
/.er contributes a dollar, we can do this hundreds of times..
Come on, if every
We *have* to do this!
Lisa: "By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away."
Homer: "Oh, how does it work?"
Lisa: "It doesn't work! It's just a stupid rock!"
Homer: "Uh-huh."
Lisa: "But I don't see any tigers around, do you?"
Homer: "I would like to buy your rock!"
Now that we know the IPSHwy works, we have the capability to launch cargo ANYWHERE in the solar system.
So now when I travel, instead of the airline sending my luggage to another city, it can end up anywhere in the *solar system*. Yeah, that's just what we need!
... Intel has announced that they will be ditching their 8mm training tapes, switching instead to VHS.
When asked about this move, an Intel spokesman said "As you can tell from our other directional changes, we have decided to step boldly into the 1980s!"
selling spamware is unethical. But if it's that or starving to death...
s/spamware/crack to schoolkids/g
I can see you trying that one on a judge.
Well, actually Canopy (his name is listed on a patent obtained by Canopy), but close enough.
Gentlemen, at this time, I ask that you don your tinfoil hats.
with BSD you don't
Exactly. Now, suppose you want to sell licenses to people for using your IP in Linux, but people tell you "hey, that's under GPL - you distributed it, so you can't charge a license fee."
Merkey's company wants to sell modified Linux without providing source code to the modifications.
Yes, yes it does. Think about that - think about the lawsuit - perhaps they were thinking that they could snow the kernel devs into selling them a "get out of jail free" (perhaps even in a literal sense) card for $50.000.
how does it do the whole time travel thing? Is it Quantum?
:o)
Yes and no.
The largest resaon so much was found in IE was so much attention was given to IE since it is the largest browser by far
Bullshit. If the number of exploits scaled by popularity, why are there more bugs for IIS than for Apache?
Try again.
chared is something in between caring and charring
:o)
I thought 'chared' was being hit with a large blueback trout.
Here is a simple script to do just that - it sets the referrer to the same page as the document - just remember to call it with the filename *first*, and any additional options after.
Unfortunately that wouldn't work in Firefox; even with the context-menu enabled, Firefox won't show the background image options if there's a foreground image on top of it (for "usability" reasons, according to the Firefox guys.)
The Google page puts a transparent gif over top of the background (the BG is what you want to print/display/save/etc.)
Mozilla suite has no such problem, though.
I'm just waiting for step 3 when more of my few remaining rights have been taken away.
If you're right about steps 1 and 2, then this *was* step 3.
"What the?!" was pretty much hit-and-miss, even from the beginning.. I laughed myself silly when I saw "The Black Pantster" - althought he only appeared in one episode, but regular stuff like "Peter Porker, The Amazing Spider-Ham" was just dreck, right from the start.
IIRC they did a story about Superman, which I thought was pretty funny, although I don't remember very much about it except they were making fun of Byrne's "More real" Superman (growing a beard in a few minutes, etc.)
It reminded me a lot of SNL, some good bits, some bad, with the occasional guest star that seemed interesting.
have any of these large corporations (or even smaller ones) considered the personnel issues that may arise from a mass migration?
Of course they have - they include the cost of training or hiring personnel to work with the new technology.
the most technologically savvy user group--would have to know those architectures fairly well, right? what about the end users?
I already addressed the sysadmin/support people. Why do you think that *end users* would care what they run on their server? In large (and even decently run small) environments, *USERS DO NOT ADMIN THEIR OWN MACHINES*. Users are paid to do their job, and the computers are a tool. Management pays admins to do the admin work.
many of their MS knowledgeable IT staff may not know Unix systems, care to, or even be *capable* of learning them?
If your IT staff isn't *capable* of learning something new, they should be fired immediately, as they're completely useless. Nothing is static, change is constant.
If they don't "care to" learn, they'll get replaced by someone who *does*.
My money would be on McBride. Not only is he too stupid to know when he's lost, his head is so thick it would be impossible to knock him out.
:o)
Hmm maybe the two are related?
True. CLI is the equivalent of spoken or written language, and the GUI is the equivalent of pointing at something and grunting.
Spoken/written communication is much more powerful (easier, faster, more effective) when both parties understand the language, and the idea is a complex one ("I would like a job at your pie shop.")
Rudimentary communication is easier with point-and-grunt (answering the question "which pie would you like to purchase?" - you point to the one you want)
If the parties don't understand the same language, complex concepts are *much* harder. Learning to communicate by pointing is easier, but the true power of communication comes from spoken/written languages.
Think I'm wrong? Write a detailed response *without* using your keyboard.
gesundheit means good health
:o)
Really? And here I was all along thinking it meant the opposite of "comes out loose".
Best scene in the film:
No, the best scene was in the diner, with the cast of Alien, when the alien pops out of John Hurt, and sings "Hello My Baby" while dancing across the counter..
That just had me in stitches.
We all know the outcome of a celebrity deathmatch between Bill and Linus:
From pictures, I'd say that Linus has a physical advantage over Gates; but Bill would probably play dirty and get someone else (Balmer, perhaps) to fight for him (he never doesn anything for himself.) That would give Linus the excuse to play tag-team with Tove, and she'd kick the ass of Bill, Melinda, *and* Balmer (remember Tove is a six-time Finnish National karate champ!)
Funny how they've got all that money for what they did
Yes, because we all know that having money is the sole determining factor of competancy and honesty.
The greatest security advantage that Linux offers is that it is a relatively small target.
Yes, that's why there are so many exploits for Apache, and so few for IIS - because Apache has such a large market share, right?
Market segment has nothing to do with security.
please do not spread this joke any more, despite how funny it is. It is scientifically incorrect.
Yes, because we know that all jokes must be scientifically correct, right?
Tell you what, you come up with a *better* Heisenberg joke, and I'll stop telling this one (note that I am the sole arbiter of which one is better.)
I played with an AI program called Eliza on a teletype machine [...] AI programs have only gotten more convincing.
:o)
Thing is, it doesn't *need* to be more convincing:
Eliza is still pretty good at fooling people who weren't expecting it.
I guess one might say that Artificial Intelligence (AI) beats real stupidity (AOLusers.)