Then try buying the low priced high quality photoediting software called Photoshop Elements ($99) or some of the cheaper but pretty good ones for $50! Or use GIMP for free! Geez, anything to justify stealing...
I don't think that in any way the guy should have had a huge fine or gone to jail over this. It's a firing offense, nothing more. He was wrong, I would have fired him. That would have been the end of it...
No, this means that as a trusted employee it's YOUR responsibility to make responsible descisions! Keeping all your machines on 100% CPU load and constantly degrading the network performance for no gain to the network itself are NOT responsible network admin descisions, pure and simple.
And did you know that every kernel from 2.4.0 to 2.4.10 has a security hole in it? That and dozens of other bugs including 2 versions that can destroy your file system? Is that what you REALLY want to have sitting on your company servers?
And this is different from Linux how? Is KDE 1.0 still being supported? How about old versions of Apache? Samba? Is RedHat still patching it's release of 5.1? No? How about those new kernel bugs with every new release of 2.4.x? This is not a Windows Vs Linux problem. It's a generic software problem and you bagging on about MS does nothing to contribute to the discussion of it.
Only if the govenmental bodies start out being crooked and/or sloppy! Is there actually something wrong with doing things right these days? Is lax application of laws now forgivable? "No one can be asked to maintain their software liscences, it's ok to just ignore it, they did nothing wrong! The BSA are a bunch of natzis!" Bullshit. If they can't keep track of something as trivial as software deployment, what hope do we have that they'll keep track of the million other things they're supposed to do?
Government relies on the private sector for MOST of its work and production. How is this any different? How is foisting a bad Linux kernel onto gov. computers that destroys years worth of records and better than MS software? Face it, you've just got another private adjenda that you plan on ramming down the throats of eveyone else, just like all the other polititions.
No but it CAN delete all UJoes's files (And user files are the ENTIRE reason a desktop computer exists) AND it can remail the virus out as UJoe's account permits. It can also install deamons running as UJoe and allow warez distribution to the limit of UJoe's account space. So what really is the difference?
Reinstalling an OS is minor work compared to the major damage of losing all your personal work data. (And yes I KNOW that you are SUPPOSED to back data up, but I can attest that I am the only person on the planet (or at least in my local vacinity) that does)
BIND is just ONE of hundreds of programs, demons and kernel(s) that are installed in a standard linux install. Of ALL of them there is about one security or catastrophic bug per week. About the same as Widnows taken in it's entirety. Do not compare "BIND" to "Windows". Compare the standard Linux install to the standard Windows install. Both have terrible bug records. Linux is a glass house and/. throwing stones at MS is completely absurd.
Perhapse you could also explain why Linux kernels are still being released with glaring security and system bugs in them? (Every single 2.4.x release)? Hm? Maybe it's the SAME reason?
You ARE right about the fuzzy math though. The study was for quarterly sales. PS2 selling time perion: 3 months. Gamecube and XBox selling time period: 1 month. YOU do the math...
There is a reason that people are bitching. The "FREE SOFTWARE" mantra is screamed at the top of nearly everyone's lungs here and suddenly any of "FREE SOFTWARE" that becomes useful at all becomes $99 a year to use. So suddenly the "FREE SOFTWARE" mantra looks like a lot of wishful thinking, failed hopes and dreams and maybe even downright FUD.
Now I actually believe that if software IS usefull that people SHOULD pay for it! A company that stays in buisness is more likely to create and maintain quality software than Joe Coder in his dorm room. But you got to understand that Ximian, a poster-child of late of the "FREE SOFTWARE" movement is certainly popping a lot of idealism ballons.
I personally HATE the subscription model though. People complain about MS's "subscrition" plan of upgrading the OS on a bi-annual cycle, but having to pay monthly leads to much higher costs overall. I'd rather pay once for one liscence and use it for as long as it benefits me, then upgrade when I'm ready. I deal with a couple of subscription software companies on Windows (as well as dozens of single purchace liscences) and I can tell you of the two, subscription services are more expensive in the end. Pay as you go, micropayments and subscription software services are WORSE than the old model of buying software liscences.
It's sad that Linux seems to be rocketing this direction rather than just selling the damn software!
"If you want more than many thousands of users on various lists or newsgroups, many of whom actually KNOW what they are talking about, then you can pay for support from RedHat or even Mandrake"
and
If you want more than many thousands of users on various [Microsoft] lists or newsgroups, many of whom actually KNOW what they are talking about, then you can pay for support from [Microsoft].
This situation is IDENTICAL. Just because YOU'VE never actually looked at a Microsoft news group or private support list doesn't mean they don't exist.
Actually it's a screaming "NO" on both accounts. It is not "news" any more than anything in the Inquirer is "News". And does such an obvious hoax qualify as something that matters? It's pure yellow journalism at it's best. Sensationalist crap, and/. eats it up like candy. The emotional age of this site goes down month by month...
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Oh yeah, I'd LOVE to see a command line only Photoshop. I bet that'd just be GREAT. Or how about commandline only games? THose are the nest. See what people like you amazingle fail to realise over and over again is that a lot of us actually use our computers to do things. Not just ftp files around and write scripts to ftp files around. We create CG, we create music, we do all kinds of things that require software that IS NOT COMMAND LINE BASED.
Different people need different things from their machines. For a lot of us the CL is completely unnessesary, even useless. For others it's indespensible. But if it's indespensible for YOU, don't try to tell me it's indespensible for ME becuase it's just not so.
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Then try buying the low priced high quality photoediting software called Photoshop Elements ($99) or some of the cheaper but pretty good ones for $50! Or use GIMP for free! Geez, anything to justify stealing...
No shit, sounds like a HARDWARE problem at that point. He just argued himself out of an argument!
I don't think that in any way the guy should have had a huge fine or gone to jail over this. It's a firing offense, nothing more. He was wrong, I would have fired him. That would have been the end of it...
No, this means that as a trusted employee it's YOUR responsibility to make responsible descisions! Keeping all your machines on 100% CPU load and constantly degrading the network performance for no gain to the network itself are NOT responsible network admin descisions, pure and simple.
Ha. funny. Tell that to the Linux kernel. It gets BSODs too! Only the B stands for Black. No need to code in any MORE kernel panics please...
If the entire use of a processor was crunching SpecInt tests...
And did you know that every kernel from 2.4.0 to 2.4.10 has a security hole in it? That and dozens of other bugs including 2 versions that can destroy your file system? Is that what you REALLY want to have sitting on your company servers?
This actually happens to printers all the time. It will soon be happening to your microwave and toaster as well...
(BTW some microwaves WILL allow you to enter 99 minues)
And this is different from Linux how? Is KDE 1.0 still being supported? How about old versions of Apache? Samba? Is RedHat still patching it's release of 5.1? No? How about those new kernel bugs with every new release of 2.4.x? This is not a Windows Vs Linux problem. It's a generic software problem and you bagging on about MS does nothing to contribute to the discussion of it.
Only if the govenmental bodies start out being crooked and/or sloppy! Is there actually something wrong with doing things right these days? Is lax application of laws now forgivable? "No one can be asked to maintain their software liscences, it's ok to just ignore it, they did nothing wrong! The BSA are a bunch of natzis!" Bullshit. If they can't keep track of something as trivial as software deployment, what hope do we have that they'll keep track of the million other things they're supposed to do?
Government relies on the private sector for MOST of its work and production. How is this any different? How is foisting a bad Linux kernel onto gov. computers that destroys years worth of records and better than MS software? Face it, you've just got another private adjenda that you plan on ramming down the throats of eveyone else, just like all the other polititions.
And installing distiller on Windows allows you to print from any app to PDF as well...
So I gotta ask... What would you suggest as a course of action if Microsoft announced a product called "Winux" that ran Linux software on Windows?
If you can't turn the tables and keep the same philosophy, then you have no philosophy.
Well maybe if Holland comes over for a visit and demonstrates currently illegal activity at a hackers convention, then we'll arrest it...
Get the $199 Xtacy Everything (ti-200+TV in/out/pvr) and free up that TV wonder slot! :) But then what do you do about USB2 :(
No but it CAN delete all UJoes's files (And user files are the ENTIRE reason a desktop computer exists) AND it can remail the virus out as UJoe's account permits. It can also install deamons running as UJoe and allow warez distribution to the limit of UJoe's account space. So what really is the difference?
Reinstalling an OS is minor work compared to the major damage of losing all your personal work data. (And yes I KNOW that you are SUPPOSED to back data up, but I can attest that I am the only person on the planet (or at least in my local vacinity) that does)
BIND is just ONE of hundreds of programs, demons and kernel(s) that are installed in a standard linux install. Of ALL of them there is about one security or catastrophic bug per week. About the same as Widnows taken in it's entirety. Do not compare "BIND" to "Windows". Compare the standard Linux install to the standard Windows install. Both have terrible bug records. Linux is a glass house and /. throwing stones at MS is completely absurd.
Who does the code review on all those buggy 2.4.x kernels?
Answer: No one!
Perhapse you could also explain why Linux kernels are still being released with glaring security and system bugs in them? (Every single 2.4.x release)? Hm? Maybe it's the SAME reason?
You ARE right about the fuzzy math though. The study was for quarterly sales. PS2 selling time perion: 3 months. Gamecube and XBox selling time period: 1 month. YOU do the math...
There is a reason that people are bitching. The "FREE SOFTWARE" mantra is screamed at the top of nearly everyone's lungs here and suddenly any of "FREE SOFTWARE" that becomes useful at all becomes $99 a year to use. So suddenly the "FREE SOFTWARE" mantra looks like a lot of wishful thinking, failed hopes and dreams and maybe even downright FUD.
Now I actually believe that if software IS usefull that people SHOULD pay for it! A company that stays in buisness is more likely to create and maintain quality software than Joe Coder in his dorm room. But you got to understand that Ximian, a poster-child of late of the "FREE SOFTWARE" movement is certainly popping a lot of idealism ballons.
I personally HATE the subscription model though. People complain about MS's "subscrition" plan of upgrading the OS on a bi-annual cycle, but having to pay monthly leads to much higher costs overall. I'd rather pay once for one liscence and use it for as long as it benefits me, then upgrade when I'm ready. I deal with a couple of subscription software companies on Windows (as well as dozens of single purchace liscences) and I can tell you of the two, subscription services are more expensive in the end. Pay as you go, micropayments and subscription software services are WORSE than the old model of buying software liscences.
It's sad that Linux seems to be rocketing this direction rather than just selling the damn software!
"If you want more than many thousands of users on various lists or newsgroups, many of whom actually KNOW what they are talking about, then you can pay for support from RedHat or even Mandrake"
and
If you want more than many thousands of users on various [Microsoft] lists or newsgroups, many of whom actually KNOW what they are talking about, then you can pay for support from [Microsoft].
This situation is IDENTICAL. Just because YOU'VE never actually looked at a Microsoft news group or private support list doesn't mean they don't exist.
Oh yes, the millions of windows developers and users are all named "Bill". And everyone on /. is named "Linus". Now it all makes sense...
Actually it's a screaming "NO" on both accounts. It is not "news" any more than anything in the Inquirer is "News". And does such an obvious hoax qualify as something that matters? It's pure yellow journalism at it's best. Sensationalist crap, and /. eats it up like candy. The emotional age of this site goes down month by month...
Oh yeah, I'd LOVE to see a command line only Photoshop. I bet that'd just be GREAT. Or how about commandline only games? THose are the nest. See what people like you amazingle fail to realise over and over again is that a lot of us actually use our computers to do things. Not just ftp files around and write scripts to ftp files around. We create CG, we create music, we do all kinds of things that require software that IS NOT COMMAND LINE BASED.
Different people need different things from their machines. For a lot of us the CL is completely unnessesary, even useless. For others it's indespensible. But if it's indespensible for YOU, don't try to tell me it's indespensible for ME becuase it's just not so.
You mean like new kernels and new GUIs on Linux?