err.. if you don't get this, I fear for your children. me = geek = addicted to cocacola.. in space, you get no cocacola, thus I == irritated geek IFF you send my ass into space, thus, I no go.
hey.. I'm not going into space, astronauts are not allowed to drink carbonated drinks. You'd have a seriously irritated geek on your hands if you shot me into space.
err.. ok, maybe you got the point and you're just being sarcastic, but I'm gunna assume you're a simpleton. THAT WAS THE POINT! I'll explain this simply by quoting you:
It should also be mentioned that [Microsoft] do what they do extremly well. [Constantly degrading the quality of software and encouraging people to expect an inferior product in a market dominated by a billionair tyrant.]
Just because you don't like it (an neither do I, as it happens) doesn't make it worthless, and doesn't mean that nobody else likes it.
For the parallel (one more time, lets see it) the BSB could be said to constantly lowering the bar on musical talent whilst encouraging other "boy bands" to be manufactured by music spin doctors in a continuing effort to suck the money out of the wallets of rich daddies with 14 year old girls.
I don't get it, I've written a lot of programs using GTK+ and they recompile flawlessly on windoze using VC++. Occasionally I've had to do a #ifdef WIN32 here and there, but really it's about coding the thing portably in the first place. Hell, you can even get precompiled dll's for GTK from the web site! I guess GNOME has a lot of posix specific stuff in it. Whenever the requirements state that the program must run identically on windoze and *nix I always use GTK. Sometimes I'll do the actual development on the windoze box using VC++, sometimes I'll do it on linux, but I'll always make it a habit to do a compile on the other OS after I add each feature (every day or two). I mean really, that's the idea of the toolkit isn't it?
From what I've heard.. no. VMWare is a company that sells a product that runs on win32 and linux. You can download both off the net in evaluation version and then have the option to buy it. People who buy the win32 version make up most of their customer base. But obviously that isn't a good measure, there are more win32 users than linux users in the world.. however, per version of the product that is sold, a higher percentage of trail users turn into registered users on win32 than they do on linux. Could we put this down to the linux product sucking? No, actually the linux product is better! Their product depends on getting close to the kernel and that is a lot easier in linux (because it is open source) than in win32. There's even more legitimate reason to want to use the product under linux.. there's not that many people who want to run a virtualizer on win32. Apparently more poeple want to run win32 apps on linux, but they don't want to pay for it.
But the phenomonon of not wanting to pay for software is not isolated to linux.. no way! My brother is a prototypical user of win32 and he just the other day went to the Microsoft web site looking for a copy of Office. No, I'm serious. When I asked him if he honestly thought he could download Office for free, he said yes. I asked him why he thought the software should be free and he pointed at Internet Explorer, Real Jukebox (and a wealth of other too numerous to mention) and said "why shouldn't it be free? Everything else is". He got very bored but I tried to explain to him that these were "loss leaders", they were giving away their product to get it into the hands of more people so they could dominate a market. I tried to convince him that some time in the future they will either sell you something related or up the price on their "giveaway". He still doesn't beleive me.
spammers pay a fortune for "targeted" email lists.. I fail to see why an additional charge to get the phone numbers of all those email addresses would be unlikely.
Wow.. won't this make spamming people that much easier? Thanks for the email address, I'll just do an LDAP lookup and give you a call, see if you want to buy random good/service. What? I can use the Internet to make those telephone calls and all I have to pay for is bandwidth? It's just like email!
Finally, an online 'cyberpunk' game that comes close to
portraying computing as depicted in classic cyberpunk
works like Neuromancer by William Gibson. In this game
the player is a NetRunner, an arrogant and bold futur-
istic hacker. Armed with his cyberdeck and an arsenal
of offensive, defensive and analysis software he's
ready to invade corporate systems in the grid and raid
their credits, for fame and fortune! It's no cakewalk
though! Waiting for the unwary are Intrusion Counter-
measures (IC). Machine controlled defenses that can
inflict damage to hardware and software, steal the
players own credits and even cause... death.
wow.. I remember the days.. just last week I wasted a few hours playing NetRunner.. Man that was a cool game.. There are utils for windoze which give you a fossil driver connected to the telnet port which you can use to run the old bbs programs unchanged. They don't work too well however.
werd.. the tag line is truely to my friends who seem to always send me.exe's. Mind you, I honestly wish they would just not send me "funny stuff" at all. Guess that makes me old, thinking that you shouldn't use email for anything you wouldn't use mail or the telephone for.
in.au you need a CC and ANY expiry date after today. Luckily, if you loose more than $50 you don't have to pay it. bwahahahahaha.. now that's funny, lots of luck trying to convince a bank that it wasn't you.
yes.. please do keep developing buggy software and while you're at it, why not enact the recent Cyber Crime Treaty and make security analysis and "exploits" illegal. Because when exploits are outlawed only outlaws will have exploits.
Just because a certain ammount of sites are getting hit just recently doesn't mean that extra precaution should be made now.
Actually I'd figure that an increase in illicit activity is precisely a call for caution. Unfortunately when it comes to IIS you don't have too many ways to ensure that the patches you have applied have actually fixed the problem or even that you havn't undone the patch by installing a further patch.
I know you're an anonymous troll but if look at people who actually have the ballz to log in you will notice a little number. You will note that my little number is smaller than everyone else's little number (well, except for about 50 thousand other people that is). That says that I've been here for a long time and I aint goin' away. Oh, and by the way, I'm not your friend.
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err.. if you don't get this, I fear for your children. me = geek = addicted to cocacola.. in space, you get no cocacola, thus I == irritated geek IFF you send my ass into space, thus, I no go.
hey.. I'm not going into space, astronauts are not allowed to drink carbonated drinks. You'd have a seriously irritated geek on your hands if you shot me into space.
hey! Can you see me through this thing?
like the charter for WinNT?
err.. ok, maybe you got the point and you're just being sarcastic, but I'm gunna assume you're a simpleton. THAT WAS THE POINT! I'll explain this simply by quoting you:
It should also be mentioned that [Microsoft] do what they do extremly well. [Constantly degrading the quality of software and encouraging people to expect an inferior product in a market dominated by a billionair tyrant.]
Just because you don't like it (an neither do I, as it happens) doesn't make it worthless, and doesn't mean that nobody else likes it.
For the parallel (one more time, lets see it) the BSB could be said to constantly lowering the bar on musical talent whilst encouraging other "boy bands" to be manufactured by music spin doctors in a continuing effort to suck the money out of the wallets of rich daddies with 14 year old girls.
There's an irony here.. have you captured it yet?
I don't get it, I've written a lot of programs using GTK+ and they recompile flawlessly on windoze using VC++. Occasionally I've had to do a #ifdef WIN32 here and there, but really it's about coding the thing portably in the first place. Hell, you can even get precompiled dll's for GTK from the web site! I guess GNOME has a lot of posix specific stuff in it. Whenever the requirements state that the program must run identically on windoze and *nix I always use GTK. Sometimes I'll do the actual development on the windoze box using VC++, sometimes I'll do it on linux, but I'll always make it a habit to do a compile on the other OS after I add each feature (every day or two). I mean really, that's the idea of the toolkit isn't it?
well MSFT is definitely the #1 by sales alone.. but maybe we should mention that The Backstreet Boys can make the same claim.
From what I've heard.. no. VMWare is a company that sells a product that runs on win32 and linux. You can download both off the net in evaluation version and then have the option to buy it. People who buy the win32 version make up most of their customer base. But obviously that isn't a good measure, there are more win32 users than linux users in the world.. however, per version of the product that is sold, a higher percentage of trail users turn into registered users on win32 than they do on linux. Could we put this down to the linux product sucking? No, actually the linux product is better! Their product depends on getting close to the kernel and that is a lot easier in linux (because it is open source) than in win32. There's even more legitimate reason to want to use the product under linux.. there's not that many people who want to run a virtualizer on win32. Apparently more poeple want to run win32 apps on linux, but they don't want to pay for it.
But the phenomonon of not wanting to pay for software is not isolated to linux.. no way! My brother is a prototypical user of win32 and he just the other day went to the Microsoft web site looking for a copy of Office. No, I'm serious. When I asked him if he honestly thought he could download Office for free, he said yes. I asked him why he thought the software should be free and he pointed at Internet Explorer, Real Jukebox (and a wealth of other too numerous to mention) and said "why shouldn't it be free? Everything else is". He got very bored but I tried to explain to him that these were "loss leaders", they were giving away their product to get it into the hands of more people so they could dominate a market. I tried to convince him that some time in the future they will either sell you something related or up the price on their "giveaway". He still doesn't beleive me.
spammers pay a fortune for "targeted" email lists.. I fail to see why an additional charge to get the phone numbers of all those email addresses would be unlikely.
So maybe the spammer has to pay a yearly access fee to the database. It would be worth it.
Wow.. won't this make spamming people that much easier? Thanks for the email address, I'll just do an LDAP lookup and give you a call, see if you want to buy random good/service. What? I can use the Internet to make those telephone calls and all I have to pay for is bandwidth? It's just like email!
Finally, an online 'cyberpunk' game that comes close to
portraying computing as depicted in classic cyberpunk
works like Neuromancer by William Gibson. In this game
the player is a NetRunner, an arrogant and bold futur-
istic hacker. Armed with his cyberdeck and an arsenal
of offensive, defensive and analysis software he's
ready to invade corporate systems in the grid and raid
their credits, for fame and fortune! It's no cakewalk
though! Waiting for the unwary are Intrusion Counter-
measures (IC). Machine controlled defenses that can
inflict damage to hardware and software, steal the
players own credits and even cause... death.
wow.. I remember the days.. just last week I wasted a few hours playing NetRunner.. Man that was a cool game.. There are utils for windoze which give you a fossil driver connected to the telnet port which you can use to run the old bbs programs unchanged. They don't work too well however.
"Sure Apu, kids pretty much raise themselves these days, what with the Internet and all..."
I think this troll has a good point. At least the word "might" should be in there somewhere.
werd.. the tag line is truely to my friends who seem to always send me .exe's. Mind you, I honestly wish they would just not send me "funny stuff" at all. Guess that makes me old, thinking that you shouldn't use email for anything you wouldn't use mail or the telephone for.
in .au you need a CC and ANY expiry date after today. Luckily, if you loose more than $50 you don't have to pay it. bwahahahahaha.. now that's funny, lots of luck trying to convince a bank that it wasn't you.
yes.. please do keep developing buggy software and while you're at it, why not enact the recent Cyber Crime Treaty and make security analysis and "exploits" illegal. Because when exploits are outlawed only outlaws will have exploits.
More exploits == less breakins?
Just because a certain ammount of sites are getting hit just recently doesn't mean that extra precaution should be made now.
Actually I'd figure that an increase in illicit activity is precisely a call for caution. Unfortunately when it comes to IIS you don't have too many ways to ensure that the patches you have applied have actually fixed the problem or even that you havn't undone the patch by installing a further patch.
hmm.. for some reason I dont think Slashdot is the only place you can gain fans (especially 5 fans) by toting class superiority.
I know you're an anonymous troll but if look at people who actually have the ballz to log in you will notice a little number. You will note that my little number is smaller than everyone else's little number (well, except for about 50 thousand other people that is). That says that I've been here for a long time and I aint goin' away. Oh, and by the way, I'm not your friend.
well if that aint the pot calling the kettle black.. What pisses you off is that when I troll I get +1 bonus.
well at least we know where the next Baywatch series is to be shot.
sweet.. guess there is some reason to go to mars.