The analogy between computer virus and human virus breaks down at responsibility. MS software is incredibly susceptible to viruses (viri?) because of clear business decisions they made. Market domination is a secondary effect; opportunity plays a huge role in this.
annecodote: after a friends car was stolen with his keys, he asked the police officer if he should change the locks on his house. The officer replied "Not to worry, if they were that ambitious, they would have a job"
They must have known what they unleashed, to be generous, 12 years ago. They chose to do it anyways, probably using the Ford Pinto (4 wheel toaster) business model.
If MS wants the few of us who doesn't use their software to insulate their systems, they should at least bribe us. $50/year and an open source virus scanner would be fine. I shouldn't have to join the norton/symantec/... protection racket simply because I might forward a "funny video" to some poor shmuck who has to use Windows.
Arms length can include "by the throat". I'm pretty sure that Sparc International went to Sun (and maybe a few others) to vet this first, just in case it was a life raft for rats scurrying overboard.
Losing the last bit of goodwill is just what Sun needs right now.
I've been in situations that appear like this in companies before. Usually it is stage fright, the developers know they took outrageous short cuts to meet schedules, and don't want to publish it until SP1, when they have had time to remove the hacks and crap. These are the good guys. One company I worked for thought that the source was harder to understand than the (disassembled) binary; they had a point.
Sometimes I wonder how much of a role of embarrassment plays in the decision to keep the source code private. Happy Launch Day Windows 7!
oh you fanboy. You think you are so clever having a machine that actually works, but for 1/2 the price I could duct tape together a pile of old crap that would work 3/4 of the time (0.8 nines, in the jargon). It wouldn't have the fancy logo, which is the only reason you want this "working thing" anyways.
One of the first installments of that spaghetti code was the vote; one per person (ok, landowner), counted. Apparently, the best practices of information technology have yet to meet this as a deliverable. I can't wait to see what our advanced technology will do to murky concepts.
you misspelled shit; it is typically used with the prefix "little", as in "little shits". This is the semi-official moniker of a group of back-room schemers and front room puppets of the canadian neo-con group. It really is the "same old con" - transfer all the public assets to your buddies then sneak out the back door.
Their first major success was hoisting a notoriously drunken jerk to the position of Premier. There are lots of things said of politicians, but Canada does follow the British tradition of titling these people as "Right Honourable"; a reference to the greater responsibility they hold. Even the most prominent have been reduced to parroting the "little shits" press releases.
Van Loan has been associated with the "little shits" for quite some time.
I never did understand why a printer needed a "driver" as part of the OS. At the very worst, it takes an array of numbers, converts them to other numbers, and hands them to an actual "driver" which talks to some hardware. It isn't a "driver", it is a "filter".....
It could be interesting - when you wanted to use it as a book, turn it 90% and you have a familiar form factor. Everybody will whine about the touch keyboard, but pretty much all laptop keyboards are a poor compromise anyways (sorry Apple, we know you tried). Include a free bluetooth keyboard in the box to quiet them down.
Those reasons are exactly why we have helpful magazines, like Inflight, catering to the needs of the busy executive. Plainly written articles about the technological marvels that help drive great success stories, pithy cartoons filled with pointed humour, and puzzles designed to help unwind the harried mind.
Executives are the real grunts of this world, tirelessly pounding away with little reward or merit, to help ensure good jobs and healthy profits for everyone. Maybe Mr Moore will make a movie about them...
Elementary schools in the 70s used a different term than "gifted program"; but they did get to play lots of games too. They had "put the fries in the little box", and "sort the little metal disks". I'm sure that civilisation and quake are an improvement, but I can't imagine the sort of carnage we'll see in junk-food restaurants in 10 years...
On the first day I worked for Sun, an x86 implemented emulator of a SPARC ran at 2-5 % the speed of the SPARC of the day. Within 4 years, the same emulator on x86 of the day ran at about 50% the speed of SPARC of the day. By now, it may well be 1.2 times SPARC of the day. That is the nature of commodity electronics.
The story isn't SPARC vs x86; it is low-run specialized electronics vs huge commodity production. There is no craftsman-like advantage to the low-run specialty; this isn't furniture, it is etchings on polished sand.
Does anybody know what jurisdiction a telephone conversation is deemed to take place in? If I call from Canada to California, and record the conversation without notification or approval, am I in risk of arrest if I step foot in California? What if I record a cell phone conversation where my cell phone is "homed" in Canada?
What if I take dictation of a conversation; or more have a third party anonymously present on the line?
Was it at a systems company? I worked at one where the HR flak would ask stupid technical questions if s?he couldn't follow the conversation. Something to do with adding value or some such nonsense. Her favourite was "what is the difference between a union and a structure?". I was always hoping somebody would give a dissertation on the effects of organized labour vs bureaucratic incompetence on innovative organizations.
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That thing jumping over you is a web2 remnant....
I'm certain twitter will have an auto twat service for the dead. "This twit is no more" "He has ceased to be". .....
The analogy between computer virus and human virus breaks down at responsibility. MS software is incredibly susceptible to viruses (viri?) because of clear business decisions they made. Market domination is a secondary effect; opportunity plays a huge role in this.
annecodote: after a friends car was stolen with his keys, he asked the police officer if he should change the locks on his house. The officer replied "Not to worry, if they were that ambitious, they would have a job"
They must have known what they unleashed, to be generous, 12 years ago. They chose to do it anyways, probably using the Ford Pinto (4 wheel toaster) business model.
If MS wants the few of us who doesn't use their software to insulate their systems, they should at least bribe us. $50/year and an open source virus scanner would be fine. I shouldn't have to join the norton/symantec/... protection racket simply because I might forward a "funny video" to some poor shmuck who has to use Windows.
Arms length can include "by the throat". I'm pretty sure that Sparc International went to Sun (and maybe a few others) to vet this first, just in case it was a life raft for rats scurrying overboard.
Losing the last bit of goodwill is just what Sun needs right now.
I've been in situations that appear like this in companies before. Usually it is stage fright, the developers know they took outrageous short cuts to meet schedules, and don't want to publish it until SP1, when they have had time to remove the hacks and crap. These are the good guys. One company I worked for thought that the source was harder to understand than the (disassembled) binary; they had a point.
Sometimes I wonder how much of a role of embarrassment plays in the decision to keep the source code private. Happy Launch Day Windows 7!
oh you fanboy. You think you are so clever having a machine that actually works, but for 1/2 the price I could duct tape together a pile of old crap that would work 3/4 of the time (0.8 nines, in the jargon). It wouldn't have the fancy logo, which is the only reason you want this "working thing" anyways.
One of the first installments of that spaghetti code was the vote; one per person (ok, landowner), counted. Apparently, the best practices of information technology have yet to meet this as a deliverable. I can't wait to see what our advanced technology will do to murky concepts.
But, being a whore, where do I catch this train?
you misspelled shit; it is typically used with the prefix "little", as in "little shits". This is the semi-official moniker of a group of back-room schemers and front room puppets of the canadian neo-con group. It really is the "same old con" - transfer all the public assets to your buddies then sneak out the back door.
Their first major success was hoisting a notoriously drunken jerk to the position of Premier. There are lots of things said of politicians, but Canada does follow the British tradition of titling these people as "Right Honourable"; a reference to the greater responsibility they hold. Even the most prominent have been reduced to parroting the "little shits" press releases.
Van Loan has been associated with the "little shits" for quite some time.
I never did understand why a printer needed a "driver" as part of the OS. At the very worst, it takes an array of numbers, converts them to other numbers, and hands them to an actual "driver" which talks to some hardware. It isn't a "driver", it is a "filter".....
Everyone said Oracle had no experience in the hardware and systems business. This pretty much proves they can run with the big boys.
.... and the iPhone fixed that. Is there anything that phone can't do?
yes, except it will be pictures, with arrows, and small words arranged as digestible catch phrases. Perhaps a pie chart.
Agreed, it is more like fancy name for a mainframe with RJE.
but does it run OSX?
It could be interesting - when you wanted to use it as a book, turn it 90% and you have a familiar form factor. Everybody will whine about the touch keyboard, but pretty much all laptop keyboards are a poor compromise anyways (sorry Apple, we know you tried). Include a free bluetooth keyboard in the box to quiet them down.
Those reasons are exactly why we have helpful magazines, like Inflight, catering to the needs of the busy executive. Plainly written articles about the technological marvels that help drive great success stories, pithy cartoons filled with pointed humour, and puzzles designed to help unwind the harried mind.
Executives are the real grunts of this world, tirelessly pounding away with little reward or merit, to help ensure good jobs and healthy profits for everyone. Maybe Mr Moore will make a movie about them...
What did they use for the control group in the study? Dead fish heads? C-level executives? Former presidents?
What is that in carrier pigeon per metre per second?
Why is there no CSI Hillsboro? There are no dental records and everybody has the same DNA.....
Elementary schools in the 70s used a different term than "gifted program"; but they did get to play lots of games too. They had "put the fries in the little box", and "sort the little metal disks". I'm sure that civilisation and quake are an improvement, but I can't imagine the sort of carnage we'll see in junk-food restaurants in 10 years...
On the first day I worked for Sun, an x86 implemented emulator of a SPARC ran at 2-5 % the speed of the SPARC of the day. Within 4 years, the same emulator on x86 of the day ran at about 50% the speed of SPARC of the day. By now, it may well be 1.2 times SPARC of the day. That is the nature of commodity electronics.
The story isn't SPARC vs x86; it is low-run specialized electronics vs huge commodity production. There is no craftsman-like advantage to the low-run specialty; this isn't furniture, it is etchings on polished sand.
Does anybody know what jurisdiction a telephone conversation is deemed to take place in? If I call from Canada to California, and record the conversation without notification or approval, am I in risk of arrest if I step foot in California? What if I record a cell phone conversation where my cell phone is "homed" in Canada?
What if I take dictation of a conversation; or more have a third party anonymously present on the line?
| And I speak as an AI researcher.
Which speaks to your fine sense of humour.
The telco should have to deliver lunch as well. mmmm pidgeon.
on an apple tablet ?
Was it at a systems company? I worked at one where the HR flak would ask stupid technical questions if s?he couldn't follow the conversation. Something to do with adding value or some such nonsense. Her favourite was "what is the difference between a union and a structure?". I was always hoping somebody would give a dissertation on the effects of organized labour vs bureaucratic incompetence on innovative organizations.