Other forms of media do this also. Watch the Today Show or your local news. I have seen it in news papers also. Stories that are there as advertisments, but they do not represent themselves that way.
On the Today show, I usually use that as time to get coffee, breakfast, or go take a dump.
Truth: this crap isn't any more stable, it just looks a little prettier and sometimes survives a little longer before it goes belly-up. I don't know why I expected Microsoft apologists to actually tell the truth for once about its stability - I won't make that mistake again:)
You misunderstood what I said. I never said Windows was more stable that anything, I said it was stabil enough for the average user. I have used Win2k for over a year now and I have experienced very few problems.
As far as reboots are concered, Microsoft has gotten a lot better. I remember when windows saw that you turned your caps lock on it wanted to reboot (this is only minorly extreme.)
Is Windows the best solution out there? Well, it depends on your implementation. If you are going to honestly tell me that Linux is the most appropriate solution out for all applications, then I will tell you you are in a dream world.
Oh, how I dream of a day win Windows and Linux can coexist in the universe without causing agruments over which is better.
I partially agree with you, but I cannot tell you how many times I have seen users excede the limits of hardware causing an application to fail. ie. Print 30MB to a little bitty deskjet printer.
This indeed is not the developers fault, but is indeed the user's fault... I've seen it before...
My washing machine will do dishes too, but they'll probabally come out broken... Hey same with Word... it does versioning, but it'll probablly come out broken.
I disagree with you. Are you saying that if I develop an application to work with a piece of hardware and that hardware needs a specific configuration. I tell the user the configuration that is needed, and the user screws up and configures it wrong that it is my fault?
98-99% of application crashes are the developer's fault... the rest, either dumb user of dumb hardware.
All systems are going to have security issues. The framework has been out for some time now in various stages and this is the first real security flaw found in it.
I'm not going to say M$ is perfect by anymeans. They have thier good qualities and they have thier bad qualities.
Fact: For the average user, Microsoft products are a good, stable (enough for them), user friendly environment.
I know I'm not going to change your mind on Microsoft, but at least give them a break. I hear people say "Microsoft's security is crap.". True, it may not be the best and it could be better, but when you have a 90% marketshare, What system do you think the hackers are going to spend most of thier time trying to break? That is why so many viruses and security holes are exploited in Windows.
I'm sure, I've told nobody anything new, but just had to put in my 2 cents...
Christianity preaches for more fire-and-the-sword action than Islam ever did!
I'm not sure what Christian groups you have been around, but a true Christian has made the choice to have a relationship with the Christ, Jesus. In that relationship we strive to live our lives in a similar fashion to that which Jesus himself would live. "What Would Jesus Do?" has become a popular Christian motto. That stament prompts us to examine the situation that we are in, examine the example of how Jesus handled the situations that he was in and base our desicion on what He would have done. In Jesus' life, he taught us to love one another, even though we may be hated by those whom we show our love as Christians. God has loved us enough to forgive us and redeem us. How much more should we be willing to reciprocate that to our fellow person? I challenge you to find and show me one passage in the Bible where Jesus calls us to commit violent acts against others. Show me where Jesus calls us to the fire-and-the-sword action you were talking about. If you do find a passage please email me at tim_wags@hotmail.com
I don't know exactly what version of the Bible ou have been reading, but it is clearly not taken from the same writings that mine was. My Bible, in the Old Testiment, shows me a God who loved his people. He gave them a set of rules to live by called "Laws". These "Laws" were put into place to give a guideline as to how to improve your relationship with God and your fellow man. But, these laws were not obeyed, so they were punished by God.
The New Testiment shows a loving and forgiving God. A god who loved us so much, he send his son Jesus to die on the cross so that he may be resurected and our sins may be forgiven. God's own son tells us in
John 13:34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
1 John 4:7 "Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God."
1 John 4:12 "If we love on another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
So, I want you to tell me. With a God that wants us to love one another so much, do you really believe that he would send a plague like Aids? My answer is no, because when Jesus returns to Earth, we will all be judged and held accountable for the things in our lives. Those who are with Jesus at the time of his comeing will be forgiven and saved. Those who are not, I'm sorry to say, will not be so lucky.
So AC, Which side will you choose to be on.
(BTW: So that I don't get completely off topic, I think it was a great desicion. I say get rid of all drug patents. It's crazy... profits or lives, which would you choose?)
This all gets back to the point that I was trying to get accross. We need to hold the parents responsible to (at minimum) educate thier kids. Call me a stick in the mud, but when/if I have children, they will NOT be allowed unattended access to the web. I work with teens in the youth group at my church, and I have had them tell me thier stories of how they were alone one night, so they got on the computer and started surfing the net.... and they got curious about a web site... blah blah blah. I have heard different versions of that same story hundereds of times.
Look, a lot of the posts I see out here are saying well, what about www.sexwith.kids but wouldn't it be just as easy for a child pornographer to register www.sexwithkids.com if he really wanted to. Don't tell be those 3 extra keystrokes make a difference. Don't get me wrong, I think that if kids are on the web, they should be on the web with thier parents. Let's give the parents in this society some responsability (something they have been lacking in the last few decades). If you let the computer be a babysitter, then what can you really excpect. Your kids are going to go to the same "How-to make a bomb and kill all of your friends" websites even if there is a.kids TLD. Parents, pay attention to your kids, take some responsibility yourself (you know you chose to have kids), and quit blamming the government for your apathy for your kids, and asking them to pass more laws further restricting our rights in this country.
It's pretty sad really when you think about it. We have so many diseases that have no cure... but these companies are willing to put out this kind of money to make sure thier encryption is really secure...
I'm sorry, I forgot I am not a medical researcher. What am I doing wasting my time posting this message, I'd better get cracking...
I don't see what is wrong with IIS. I also don't understand all these security patches they keep putting on thier web site. I just don't bother with them though, I mean all that time to download and install.
I would much rather have M$ email the patch to me so I can easily open it through Outlook, I mean I open all of my attachments through Outlook anyway even if I don't know the person......Wait...I'm growing a brain!!!
Please disregaurd everything I said about IIS and Outlook. I think I will start using Apache...
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Other forms of media do this also. Watch the Today Show or your local news. I have seen it in news papers also. Stories that are there as advertisments, but they do not represent themselves that way.
On the Today show, I usually use that as time to get coffee, breakfast, or go take a dump.
Because, the worst I see is that damn X10 ad.
Has anyone else seen this? If not, I think that this AC readr should win Troll of the Year for 2002. Way to fool the editors...
Truth: this crap isn't any more stable, it just looks a little prettier and sometimes survives a little longer before it goes belly-up. I don't know why I expected Microsoft apologists to actually tell the truth for once about its stability - I won't make that mistake again :)
You misunderstood what I said. I never said Windows was more stable that anything, I said it was stabil enough for the average user. I have used Win2k for over a year now and I have experienced very few problems.
As far as reboots are concered, Microsoft has gotten a lot better. I remember when windows saw that you turned your caps lock on it wanted to reboot (this is only minorly extreme.)
Is Windows the best solution out there? Well, it depends on your implementation. If you are going to honestly tell me that Linux is the most appropriate solution out for all applications, then I will tell you you are in a dream world.
Oh, how I dream of a day win Windows and Linux can coexist in the universe without causing agruments over which is better.
I partially agree with you, but I cannot tell you how many times I have seen users excede the limits of hardware causing an application to fail. ie. Print 30MB to a little bitty deskjet printer.
This indeed is not the developers fault, but is indeed the user's fault... I've seen it before...
My washing machine will do dishes too, but they'll probabally come out broken... Hey same with Word... it does versioning, but it'll probablly come out broken.
I disagree with you. Are you saying that if I develop an application to work with a piece of hardware and that hardware needs a specific configuration. I tell the user the configuration that is needed, and the user screws up and configures it wrong that it is my fault?
98-99% of application crashes are the developer's fault... the rest, either dumb user of dumb hardware.
All systems are going to have security issues. The framework has been out for some time now in various stages and this is the first real security flaw found in it.
I'm not going to say M$ is perfect by anymeans. They have thier good qualities and they have thier bad qualities.
Fact: For the average user, Microsoft products are a good, stable (enough for them), user friendly environment.
I know I'm not going to change your mind on Microsoft, but at least give them a break. I hear people say "Microsoft's security is crap.". True, it may not be the best and it could be better, but when you have a 90% marketshare, What system do you think the hackers are going to spend most of thier time trying to break? That is why so many viruses and security holes are exploited in Windows.
I'm sure, I've told nobody anything new, but just had to put in my 2 cents...
Hey, if they can get someone to actually paythem for this, more power to them.
Christianity preaches for more fire-and-the-sword action than Islam ever did!
I'm not sure what Christian groups you have been around, but a true Christian has made the choice to have a relationship with the Christ, Jesus. In that relationship we strive to live our lives in a similar fashion to that which Jesus himself would live. "What Would Jesus Do?" has become a popular Christian motto. That stament prompts us to examine the situation that we are in, examine the example of how Jesus handled the situations that he was in and base our desicion on what He would have done. In Jesus' life, he taught us to love one another, even though we may be hated by those whom we show our love as Christians. God has loved us enough to forgive us and redeem us. How much more should we be willing to reciprocate that to our fellow person? I challenge you to find and show me one passage in the Bible where Jesus calls us to commit violent acts against others. Show me where Jesus calls us to the fire-and-the-sword action you were talking about. If you do find a passage please email me at tim_wags@hotmail.com
I don't know exactly what version of the Bible ou have been reading, but it is clearly not taken from the same writings that mine was. My Bible, in the Old Testiment, shows me a God who loved his people. He gave them a set of rules to live by called "Laws". These "Laws" were put into place to give a guideline as to how to improve your relationship with God and your fellow man. But, these laws were not obeyed, so they were punished by God.
The New Testiment shows a loving and forgiving God. A god who loved us so much, he send his son Jesus to die on the cross so that he may be resurected and our sins may be forgiven. God's own son tells us in
John 13:34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
1 John 4:7 "Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God."
1 John 4:12 "If we love on another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."
So, I want you to tell me. With a God that wants us to love one another so much, do you really believe that he would send a plague like Aids? My answer is no, because when Jesus returns to Earth, we will all be judged and held accountable for the things in our lives. Those who are with Jesus at the time of his comeing will be forgiven and saved. Those who are not, I'm sorry to say, will not be so lucky.
So AC, Which side will you choose to be on.
(BTW: So that I don't get completely off topic, I think it was a great desicion. I say get rid of all drug patents. It's crazy... profits or lives, which would you choose?)
I'm jelous. I can't even pickup local radio in my car! And here you guys across the country could be listening to my local radio. Life is so unfair.
I wonder how they could steal my identity... I'm always told that I am nobody, and how/why would you steal nobody's identity?
This all gets back to the point that I was trying to get accross. We need to hold the parents responsible to (at minimum) educate thier kids. Call me a stick in the mud, but when/if I have children, they will NOT be allowed unattended access to the web. I work with teens in the youth group at my church, and I have had them tell me thier stories of how they were alone one night, so they got on the computer and started surfing the net.... and they got curious about a web site... blah blah blah. I have heard different versions of that same story hundereds of times.
Look, a lot of the posts I see out here are saying well, what about www.sexwith.kids but wouldn't it be just as easy for a child pornographer to register www.sexwithkids.com if he really wanted to. Don't tell be those 3 extra keystrokes make a difference. Don't get me wrong, I think that if kids are on the web, they should be on the web with thier parents. Let's give the parents in this society some responsability (something they have been lacking in the last few decades). If you let the computer be a babysitter, then what can you really excpect. Your kids are going to go to the same "How-to make a bomb and kill all of your friends" websites even if there is a .kids TLD. Parents, pay attention to your kids, take some responsibility yourself (you know you chose to have kids), and quit blamming the government for your apathy for your kids, and asking them to pass more laws further restricting our rights in this country.
[Stepping off of soap box]
Thank you and good night!
Although my original post was merely a joke, your reply is indeed insightful, and all the more inspiring to find said algorithm.
It's pretty sad really when you think about it. We have so many diseases that have no cure... but these companies are willing to put out this kind of money to make sure thier encryption is really secure... I'm sorry, I forgot I am not a medical researcher. What am I doing wasting my time posting this message, I'd better get cracking...
I don't see what is wrong with IIS. I also don't understand all these security patches they keep putting on thier web site. I just don't bother with them though, I mean all that time to download and install. I would much rather have M$ email the patch to me so I can easily open it through Outlook, I mean I open all of my attachments through Outlook anyway even if I don't know the person... ...Wait...I'm growing a brain!!!
Please disregaurd everything I said about IIS and Outlook. I think I will start using Apache...