Actually, outside of a couple of incidents and a parade of trojans (most of which require astounding stupidity to install, give admin password, then run)?
So yeah - I'd say OSX has a better record over its 12-year lifespan than Windows has had over that exact same lifespan.
My idea of stress only starts when, say, the Oracle DBA wails "...ohshitohshitohshit! Hey Guys? I umm, I need some help here... GUYS!?"...and that's only because I know that the little fucker is going to blame OS/SAN/Mercury-in-retrograde/anything-but-the-malformed-ASM-command-he-issued-as-grid for the resulting explosion.
You don't 'smile' at work unless you are a clown, and even then its usually just the makeup.
I dunno - I smile when I can identify and fix something in less than a day that others have banged their heads against for months. It's the thrill of the hunt, and why I actually love doing the admin thing.
I agree about the need for folks to do a head-check before reacting to something said off-the-cuff, but there's one sticking point......why did he use Twitter to verbally horse around with a buddy on such a touchy-assed subject? I mean, there are many, many less public means of doing that.
I play Devil's Advocate on a lot of subjects. I work with fellow sysadmins and developers, and I often say some incredibly crazy/provocative things (err, even at work) - usually to force someone into thinking through a blockage. But, what I don't do is use a publicly-viewable means to do any of that.
One other bit I should mention; it's not that the loudest gripers are bitching about the always-on aspect per se, but the unstated-yet obvious reason it torques them is that they want to retain control over the stuff they paid for. The always-on requirement implies that they won't have that control. When I was younger (I know...) I'd play Quake (1, 2 and 3, usually a CTF mod) at all hours, and between that plus goofing off on USENET, I practically never logged off.
I don't game anymore (well, almost never), but the very thought of keeping a connection open just to get permission to use a product I paid for? Hell, my skin crawls at the thought.
Little wonder the more passionate gamers are up in arms at the idea.
Actually, the safety is only there to prevent the gun from firing, period. It is not there to "ensure that it contains no bullets".
If the guy had an IQ anywhere north of ice, he would have locked the $#@! gun up if he was that worried about it but didn't know how to actually use the thing properly. The safety would have still functioned exactly as designed - the operator OTOH was a flaming moron.
I think that's where all the problem some folks have with guns comes into play - the gun, just like cars and boats, are built with the assumption that the operator and/or handler has enough brain cells to know how the thing works.
Well, there is some good news for EA - Zynga is poised to take the crown from 'em at the rate things are going there.
I mean seriously - ganking existing stock options out from under from employees, working them into the dirt, and then laying off a chunk of them almost at random?
EA must look like a frickin' workers' paradise from that kind of viewpoint.
I'm willing to bet that the big H1-B heavy corps (Microsoft, Intel, Infosys, and similar) had people sitting at the door waiting in line, metaphorically speaking. They likely snatched up their maximums in less than an hour after opening.
Good luck if you're a small operator, but at least the good news is the big guys made it easier to work with a lot of excellent-but-smaller companies.
If you fall into a big enough black hole, you die by running out of air in your spacesuit.
Depends on the speed you get up to, right before you cross it. If you travel fast enough, relativity accumulates its vigorish; while you will certainly die as you described, relative to the rest of us it'll take a few million years before your air tank runs dry.
Heck, considering what we know about the environments around black holes, not only will the gravitational tides kill you before you reach the event horizon, so will the radiation.
...if he doesn't collide with any of the other crap being sucked in at retina-rupturing speeds first...
I doubt the average american has lost intermet for less than 3 days in a year on average anymore. The issue with piracy isn't all that serious but as they switch to x86 the chance to break the OS increases dramatically. I understand their fears.
Well, not exactly... those in the big cities may see that kind of uptime, but I recall having Centurystink as an ISP out on the Oregon Coast. Outages would sometimes last from hours to days on end (and it wasn't always technical or weather-related either. When Centurylink merged with Qwest, their billing department got stupid, resulting in a 3-day outage for me until I could fax them a notarized bank statement proving that I was paid in full).
It was bad enough that I got sick of it, dropped them, and went with Charter (which had recently moved into the area.) While Charter was superb, I still had about 4 hours of downtime with them, on top of the 6 days that Centurystink stuck me with during the time I used their services.
Also, for those with satellite or wireless internet, you can get outages at the whim of weather or the local rural (or even suburban) power company.
Consider that most of the current crop of politicians got their jobs because of massive "get out the vote!!111zor!" efforts. Consider further that this new crop of voters don't exactly have a firm logical grasp on what the hell is going on (as opposed to "the issues", which the media happily uses and manipulates as distraction and drama-generators). Mind you, this goes for activists and media on *both* 'sides' of the ideological aisle.
So, well... we end up with a bunch of folks who vote based on something else entirely: emotion, the little letter after their names, whether the candidate said the right buzzwords in the right order, which one has the best commercials, is the best-looking, etc. You know, crap that really does nothing about fixing what's broke, let alone taking the country/state/locality in a good direction.
Wouldn't have to purchase all of them - just a couple of the big boys. Then have said big boys withdrawal from the MPAA cartel.
Problem is, once Google gets one of those, it's going to have to show some sort of profit, else the shareholders will rebel. This in turn leads to behavior designed to maximize profit, which is, well, what the MPAA members are doing.
Now if you can find a way to maximize profit with one of the companies, but without being a dick about it... but that's holy grail stuff.
A bigger pity still is that we get down on our knees and deepthroat the ??AA when we reelect their politicians over and over.
...or buy tickets to their movies, or buy the Blu-Ray, DVD, etc...
But yeah, you're mostly right. I do disagree about it being a case of starstruck behavior, though. I think it's because the vast majority of the population simply doesn't give a crap. They're either completely ignorant about it, know something about it but think it's "too geeky" and happily not care, or they know all about it but happily download movies anyway (thinking that the odds of getting caught are well below that of getting busted for illegal marijuana use in Northern California).
Either way, until you can get the population both cognizant and passionate about it, approximately nothing will happen. Problem is, most folks get their info from, oh, wait - the media. The same media who really, really, really don't want you to get in the way of the revenue streams from their respective entertainment divisions.
I'm just curious if they'll send takedown notices on the takedown notices on the... well, you know. After all, Google may have to append the original notice on the 2nd one so everyone knows what's being referred to...
I would have loved to see him write a review for something like Planescape: Torment.
Hell, I'd love to see just creative and competent un-paid-for review of a given video game. Between the thirst for ad money, and pressure from gaming companies? Damn, you know?
The "thumbs" rating setup was just a gimmick. From what I remember of the show (and I'm old enough to have watched the earliest ones when they were new), they usually went in-depth into the movie at hand, often in ways that challenged the viewer to think it through. Also, their show began in the age before most of you even knew what an Internet was, and the only other way to get a sneak peek at the movie were the (incredibly over-hyped) TV ads or the (ditto) upcoming movie trailers at the local theater (when everyone was getting popcorn or whatever at the last minute).
Besides, the intelligent person would forget the whole thumbs up/down stuff at the end anyway, and listen to what they were actually saying about the movie before then.
Overall, it was hit-or-miss as to what they liked versus what I liked, but I appreciated the way they approached the subject, and in the way they explained how they reached their respective conclusions.
Antagonising a rogues state into launching a nuclear attack?
This leads to a question: Does NK actually have a warhead that would 1) be small enough to fit on the top of a rocket, and 2) not be so heavy as to reduce their biggest rocket's range to a range that, say, the US couldn't care less about but Japan would still worry, etc?
It's one thing to toss around threats. It's less worrying when the threat maker has a bomb the size of a semi-trailer and a rocket that has a hard time lifting anything heavier than a large backpack, yanno?
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FWIW, in 2013, there have been 73 CVEs for all Linux distros and apps that go with those distros, 41 for Windows XP and 47 for Windows 7.
(additions mine).
Put in that light, it's 73 Linux (and a huge pile of binaries that are usually included), 88 Windows (just the OS).
Actually, outside of a couple of incidents and a parade of trojans (most of which require astounding stupidity to install, give admin password, then run)?
So yeah - I'd say OSX has a better record over its 12-year lifespan than Windows has had over that exact same lifespan.
OTOH, Linux beats 'em both.
Same story here.
My idea of stress only starts when, say, the Oracle DBA wails "...ohshitohshitohshit! Hey Guys? I umm, I need some help here... GUYS!?" ...and that's only because I know that the little fucker is going to blame OS/SAN/Mercury-in-retrograde/anything-but-the-malformed-ASM-command-he-issued-as-grid for the resulting explosion.
You don't 'smile' at work unless you are a clown, and even then its usually just the makeup.
I dunno - I smile when I can identify and fix something in less than a day that others have banged their heads against for months. It's the thrill of the hunt, and why I actually love doing the admin thing.
I agree about the need for folks to do a head-check before reacting to something said off-the-cuff, but there's one sticking point... ...why did he use Twitter to verbally horse around with a buddy on such a touchy-assed subject? I mean, there are many, many less public means of doing that.
I play Devil's Advocate on a lot of subjects. I work with fellow sysadmins and developers, and I often say some incredibly crazy/provocative things (err, even at work) - usually to force someone into thinking through a blockage. But, what I don't do is use a publicly-viewable means to do any of that.
One other bit I should mention; it's not that the loudest gripers are bitching about the always-on aspect per se, but the unstated-yet obvious reason it torques them is that they want to retain control over the stuff they paid for. The always-on requirement implies that they won't have that control. When I was younger (I know...) I'd play Quake (1, 2 and 3, usually a CTF mod) at all hours, and between that plus goofing off on USENET, I practically never logged off.
I don't game anymore (well, almost never), but the very thought of keeping a connection open just to get permission to use a product I paid for? Hell, my skin crawls at the thought.
Little wonder the more passionate gamers are up in arms at the idea.
Just food for thought.
If you are not here, you are not reading this.
Wait - we need to rename the site Schrödingerdot. Who do I yell at to get this done?
...don't most FPS pub servers have chatlogs?
It'd be easier to research if they did.
Actually, the safety is only there to prevent the gun from firing, period. It is not there to "ensure that it contains no bullets".
If the guy had an IQ anywhere north of ice, he would have locked the $#@! gun up if he was that worried about it but didn't know how to actually use the thing properly. The safety would have still functioned exactly as designed - the operator OTOH was a flaming moron.
I think that's where all the problem some folks have with guns comes into play - the gun, just like cars and boats, are built with the assumption that the operator and/or handler has enough brain cells to know how the thing works.
they still need the vote of the populace to actually get elected....
Not anymore they don't...
Well, there is some good news for EA - Zynga is poised to take the crown from 'em at the rate things are going there.
I mean seriously - ganking existing stock options out from under from employees, working them into the dirt, and then laying off a chunk of them almost at random?
EA must look like a frickin' workers' paradise from that kind of viewpoint.
Sad but true.
I'm willing to bet that the big H1-B heavy corps (Microsoft, Intel, Infosys, and similar) had people sitting at the door waiting in line, metaphorically speaking. They likely snatched up their maximums in less than an hour after opening.
Good luck if you're a small operator, but at least the good news is the big guys made it easier to work with a lot of excellent-but-smaller companies.
/facepalm
If you fall into a big enough black hole, you die by running out of air in your spacesuit.
Depends on the speed you get up to, right before you cross it. If you travel fast enough, relativity accumulates its vigorish; while you will certainly die as you described, relative to the rest of us it'll take a few million years before your air tank runs dry.
Heck, considering what we know about the environments around black holes, not only will the gravitational tides kill you before you reach the event horizon, so will the radiation.
...if he doesn't collide with any of the other crap being sucked in at retina-rupturing speeds first...
Pfft! Amateur - Dr. Neil deGrasse-Tyson would be the man to call!
After all, he eliminated the planet Pluto, so this black hole business should be only slightly more work for him to do.
I doubt the average american has lost intermet for less than 3 days in a year on average anymore. The issue with piracy isn't all that serious but as they switch to x86 the chance to break the OS increases dramatically. I understand their fears.
Well, not exactly... those in the big cities may see that kind of uptime, but I recall having Centurystink as an ISP out on the Oregon Coast. Outages would sometimes last from hours to days on end (and it wasn't always technical or weather-related either. When Centurylink merged with Qwest, their billing department got stupid, resulting in a 3-day outage for me until I could fax them a notarized bank statement proving that I was paid in full).
It was bad enough that I got sick of it, dropped them, and went with Charter (which had recently moved into the area.) While Charter was superb, I still had about 4 hours of downtime with them, on top of the 6 days that Centurystink stuck me with during the time I used their services.
Also, for those with satellite or wireless internet, you can get outages at the whim of weather or the local rural (or even suburban) power company.
Parent comment, please mod it up.
Consider that most of the current crop of politicians got their jobs because of massive "get out the vote!!111zor!" efforts. Consider further that this new crop of voters don't exactly have a firm logical grasp on what the hell is going on (as opposed to "the issues", which the media happily uses and manipulates as distraction and drama-generators). Mind you, this goes for activists and media on *both* 'sides' of the ideological aisle.
So, well... we end up with a bunch of folks who vote based on something else entirely: emotion, the little letter after their names, whether the candidate said the right buzzwords in the right order, which one has the best commercials, is the best-looking, etc. You know, crap that really does nothing about fixing what's broke, let alone taking the country/state/locality in a good direction.
Wouldn't have to purchase all of them - just a couple of the big boys. Then have said big boys withdrawal from the MPAA cartel.
Problem is, once Google gets one of those, it's going to have to show some sort of profit, else the shareholders will rebel. This in turn leads to behavior designed to maximize profit, which is, well, what the MPAA members are doing.
Now if you can find a way to maximize profit with one of the companies, but without being a dick about it... but that's holy grail stuff.
A bigger pity still is that we get down on our knees and deepthroat the ??AA when we reelect their politicians over and over.
...or buy tickets to their movies, or buy the Blu-Ray, DVD, etc...
But yeah, you're mostly right. I do disagree about it being a case of starstruck behavior, though. I think it's because the vast majority of the population simply doesn't give a crap. They're either completely ignorant about it, know something about it but think it's "too geeky" and happily not care, or they know all about it but happily download movies anyway (thinking that the odds of getting caught are well below that of getting busted for illegal marijuana use in Northern California).
Either way, until you can get the population both cognizant and passionate about it, approximately nothing will happen. Problem is, most folks get their info from, oh, wait - the media. The same media who really, really, really don't want you to get in the way of the revenue streams from their respective entertainment divisions.
Long story short? Good luck with that, sadly.
I'm just curious if they'll send takedown notices on the takedown notices on the... well, you know. After all, Google may have to append the original notice on the 2nd one so everyone knows what's being referred to...
I liked Harry Truman's description of the usual critic the best: "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay."
I would have loved to see him write a review for something like Planescape: Torment.
Hell, I'd love to see just creative and competent un-paid-for review of a given video game. Between the thirst for ad money, and pressure from gaming companies? Damn, you know?
The "thumbs" rating setup was just a gimmick. From what I remember of the show (and I'm old enough to have watched the earliest ones when they were new), they usually went in-depth into the movie at hand, often in ways that challenged the viewer to think it through. Also, their show began in the age before most of you even knew what an Internet was, and the only other way to get a sneak peek at the movie were the (incredibly over-hyped) TV ads or the (ditto) upcoming movie trailers at the local theater (when everyone was getting popcorn or whatever at the last minute).
Besides, the intelligent person would forget the whole thumbs up/down stuff at the end anyway, and listen to what they were actually saying about the movie before then.
Overall, it was hit-or-miss as to what they liked versus what I liked, but I appreciated the way they approached the subject, and in the way they explained how they reached their respective conclusions.
123456 ...doesn't anybody remember Spaceballs?
(My lawn, you, vacate it, etc.)
Antagonising a rogues state into launching a nuclear attack?
This leads to a question: Does NK actually have a warhead that would 1) be small enough to fit on the top of a rocket, and 2) not be so heavy as to reduce their biggest rocket's range to a range that, say, the US couldn't care less about but Japan would still worry, etc?
It's one thing to toss around threats. It's less worrying when the threat maker has a bomb the size of a semi-trailer and a rocket that has a hard time lifting anything heavier than a large backpack, yanno?