I see your point, and would agree with you if the security hole that was left would just let the server crash your browser or lock up your machine. It doesn't though, it opens up a huge hole.
Look at it this way, if you have a server that is RAID protected, the chances of you loosing data is small, but does that mean you shouldn't do backups? The risk is low, but the damage could be huge.
The point that needs to be driven home is that Microsoft does NOT take security seriously. It appears that they are just now beginning to take it more seriously than ever, but they have a bunch of code out there that needs fixed. Please remember that.NET was in final beta (RC?) when Microsoft formed their security team to start taking security seriously. What this tells you is that 99.99% of the code of.NET was written before they formed this team, and that this code will probably suffer all the same security problems that their old code has had.
I realize that the chance of a problem is incredibly small but the damage possiblity is huge. Imagine a few thoughsand "bots" out there that are now running Windows2k, and they can now spoof their IP address... That is going to suck.
Your company is in the vast minority here. I am going to guess here but I bet you that well over 99.9% of the companies that do development on and for Winodows are not allowed to view the source code.
My question to you is this. If you find that you need to "fix" their code to work with your wireless device, how good are they at implementing you bugfix. I say this because we found an issue with their C compiler that had a serious bug in it and they didn't give a rats ass about it. Who cares is your optimizer chews up some of your code! For the record I will say that this was a long time ago and mabe they have changed.
I agree but from what I have been told hydrogen fuel cells won't work because of the energy (heat) needed to make them work, and Geothermal won't produce enough power. I believe that the only way to go is nuclear.
I personally would love to see the middle east die when all their cash cows dry up. I hope to live that long. I would imagine that most of the fighting would soon stop also, becuase of lack of funds.
Dude there is a good reason that RedHat has issues with Oracle. RedHat offers a fully supported database edition that competes directly with Oracle. They sell that version for around 2 grand U.S. Needless to say that pissed off Oracle big time, however they don't want to kill themselves by not supporting RedHat. They just won't go out of their way to get it certified quickly.
I run Oracle 9i or RedHat Linux 7.1 and have been getting great support from Oracle for around a year now, and think that they work great. I do realize that Oracle and IBM love SUSE, and thought of going with them, but if IBM wouldn't have given them $50 million U.S. they probably would be dead by now. RedHat appears to be in the black now and growing slowly.
Also, from what I have experienced if you want to run Oracle on a brand new version of RedHat that Oracle hasn't certified yet, they will still support you to a large degree. They might have you downgrade some packages (like binutils), but you still get good support. You can't expect them to cert every brand new version of Linux the day it is out, unless they develop Oracle on that version (Like SUSE)
Steve Michael Network Architect Performance Strategies Inc.
If you are a programmer type. Java 2 Cert for Programmer. Java 2 Cert for Web Developer Java 2 Cert for Analyst Java 2 Cert for Arhitect.
If you are a data guy. Get Oracle DBA Cert.
If you are a LAN guy. Get MCSE AND RedHat Cert. I am a CNE, but not to many people wanting CNE's these days. Even though NetWare 6 looks great. Possibly look at the Cisco cert. I don't know much about that one.
When I hire people I do look at these things, and to be honest when it comes down to two resume's that are similar, the one with the cert gets the nod. If anything it shows that the person is capable of completing something.
Having said that, I need to get my act together and get my Java2 cert.:-)
Now the downside.... Programmers are moving to India fast. I don't think that this will be a long term hit, but it will hurt you in looking for programming jobs that are hiring now. In the long run there WILL be UNIONS to prevent this type of stuff, but it will take a while. I am not a fan of UNIONS, but I know that history repeats itself.
DBA's - There are currently a lot of DBA's in the market now, and your competition will be tough, however you might have an edge if you get the newest Cert with some other i.e. Oracle 9i DBA AND RedHat. This would be a great combo, however it will take a LOT of work.
SYSADMINS/LANGUYS - Like DBA's there are a LOT of these guys out of work, mostly because of all the consolodation and dot.com disaster. Your salary won't be what it could have been 3 years ago, but you will make a living. Your living might require you to be on call 24 X 7, and work an unreasonable amount of hours, but you should be able to find a job. Also you will probably get stuck on all the crappy jobs, so you better get use to dealing with email issues.
All this said, you have two main options. 1. Focus on one product/skill and hope that it is what employers are looking for. 2. Get a broad skillset and hope that employers are willing to hire someone who isn't a perfect fit.
Lastly when I graduated with a BS degree, and wanted a computer job in the late 80's, it was almost impossible to find a job for a white computer GUY. I had to take a job for $6.50 an hour, and start working my way up. I could have made more than that if I stayed at my old job pumping gas. You have to ask yourself, do you REALLY want to do this for a living. If so then you will make some sacrifices. I make a heck of a lot more than $6.50 an hour now.
Steve Michael Network Architect smichael@netcapade.net
1. If Unreal Championship is released for only the XBOX then they are going to cut off ~90% of the people that would possibly buy the game. They may do that for this ONE game, but it would be suicide to try and do that type of stuff for long. 2. If they release it for the XBOX and the PC, then people with high end PC's will beat the crap out of the XBOX owners (better video and control). If/When that happens, people will start to only buy the PC version. 3. Do you think that any other major game company will want to go with Microsoft now? I can just imagine going to upper management and saying "I think we should go with Microsoft's online service", and a VP saying "Didn't EA not go with them because of some serious security issues, and that Microsoft will control everything". Short of Microsoft buying the business for ONE or TWO games, this probably won't happen.
Sorry, what I ment was:
JDK Standard Edition 1.4 and
JDK Standard Edition 1.5.
I just saw that 1.4 has been released, but I don't know much about it yet....
(5 min later...)
Just looked at their site and 1.4 does not appear to support more operator overloads. My GOD did they add a bunch of other stuff though...
My hunch is that they will add more operator overloads in 1.5 (or call it JAVA 3 Standard Edition).
I do know this, if enough people wanted it, it would be in there. Sun has been good about adding items to the language that people need, and their community process seems to be working well enough.
I believe that more operator overloads will be available in the future 1.4? or 1.5.
My question is why do you HAVE to have them?
First I don't belive this post. I belive that it is a slow news day and somebody wanted to start a holy war, but I believe that your boss should have each criteria weighted on how much of an importance it is to the project. Then evaluate all the current languages and pick one.
This kinda reminds me of an idiot that I worked for that made the coders work night and day on integrating Java with Windows. In our case it would have made sense to either program in VB and commit to Microsoft totally, or do it right with Java.
I don't agree. Although I am in the U.S.A and have seen a LOT of programming jobs lost to Indians'; most of those jobs come back to local coders, because of the language barriar and the poor quality of code. It takes a couple of years, but eventually the people that made the decisions to outsource, are "no longer with the company", and the company brings the development back in house.
Also, the job market here in Indiana suck's now, and with that I have noticed that most of the Indian programmers are no longer around here like they were two years ago.
The good is that people will refine the code for everyone, as you stated above. Although I will argue that people can and do do this now.
The bad is that the day that Java goes open source, you will see Microsoft put a poor JVM that would lock you in to Windows API's. It would then be on ~90% of the desktops and then almost every business I.T. person would be forced to code to that JVM, or at least 95% of the coders out there. It would be like almost every other language is now. Write for Windows first then everything else...
The day I see.Net run a full blown business application with NO Microsoft software is the day.... well Satan has a better chance of mending his relationship with God.
A better question to ask Microsoft is
"Why don't you just ship the JVM supplied by Sun?"
Gates wasn't joking when he said that they will "piss all over Java2", and making Java open source would allow him to start acting like a race horse on drugs...
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I couldn't agree more, however NetWare 6 doesn't require a Novell Client to be installed any more. So that argument goes away. My gripe is with the Novell kernel. It kinda sucks compared to Linux and NT. There are still way to many times a process abends and it locks the console.
However, I think that Linux kinda blows for a file and print server in a med-large environment. Linux needs "access control list" built in to a typical Red Hat or other major distro. The idea of only having ONE owner, group or "other", for file permissions kinda sucks for most businesses. It would be nice if Linux also supported inherited rights mask, like NetWare also.
To answer your question about how easy it is to develop for different application servers. It is easy. The code ports great. Now that is not to say that deploying your EJB will be easy. Each app server has it's own weird way of doing that.
To answer your question about everyone wanting Websphere experience... A lot of shops use IBM mainframes and IBM is pushing very hard with JAVA and Websphere. Soooo upper management says that they need WebSphere guys. Understand that there are two types of people that they may be looking for
1. Developers - If you have done EJB development, you should have no problem. Although using Visual Age is a bit different.
2. LAN Guys - These are the guys who will maintain/tune the box. If this is what they are looking for then you should know Websphere and the O.S. it runs on, and it makes sense that they want someone who knows that particualar product.
Yeah and don't ship a product that causes me to spend all weekend capturing data to send to IBM to look at... (OS/390 patches).
Yeah, and don't cause me look ALL over your web site for 8 or 9 patches just to get Oracle to be stable on my server (Solaris).
Yeah, and don't force me to try and run applications in ring 3 just to debug Abends (Novell)
Yeah and don't force me to call you to get some undocumented patch that is called a "hot fix" even though I am only running YOUR software on the machine... (Microsoft)
Hmmm seems like no operating system is ready for prime time to me.
I have ran all of the above and they all have their issues. I now run Red Hat Linux 7.1. It runs well for what we do. Do I upgrade to the latest kernel every time? NO! Do I test new kernels? Yes.
For us it comes down to money.
Solaris - Intel version sucks, Sun hardware is expensive and propritary.
Novell - NDS is awesome, but way to expensive. The Novell kernel sucks to run apps. Oracle is dropping them.
Windows 2k - Security is bad, expensive, and vendor tries everything to lock you in to their product. Who wants to be FORCED to upgrade every three years?
IBM - Way too proprietary and expensive
Apple - Version 10.x looks good, but has same issues as Sun.
The #$%#@ quicktime installer just blew chunks on my somewhat clean Windows2k development system. If they hope to survive against Microsoft (and they won't), they have to do a much better job with their player.
The idea that I have to register two different times is also lame.
I use to do some serious development with SWING and would love to see some real comparisons of a SWING designed application v.s. one done with C or C++. My experience is that on ANY modern hardware SWING performs well. Does this mean that I expect to see Quake IV in JAVA and using SWING? No. Does it mean that this guys application would probably run just fine with SWING and JAVA... HELL YES! I am willing to bet just about anything that the application that these two guys will code would perform just fine under JAVA and SWING.
As for you comments about arrays being made 1st class objects. My first thought is who the hell cares... you just use the array. Does the array work? Is it fast enough?
I generally like the best tool for the job, but in this case he has a point. Java does make a lot of sense. However you statement about "slow enough to bring tears to your eyes" is ignorant.
I will argue that 99% of the business applications out there could easily be written in Java, by good coders and perform as well or better than C or C++ code.
Lastly, I am a little confused about you rant. Do you want coders to be lathargic COBOL coders, who don't give a rats ass about anything, or do you want people who are excited about a language?
great question. I have to add that my wife hates most cartoons and liked the cartoon of the tick. We use to laugh at most of the stuff. However, her quote last night after watching the show.
"I didn't laugh", I sadly agreed. It just wasn't funny. I hope that they get better.
My hope for future epsiodes...
1. Be less edgey, the tick would have NEVER said "BITCH". Unfortunately, that comment alone probably killed a lot of familes from watching it.
2. Don't cram the hispanic mouse guys love of women down our throats.
And yes I realize that most of the episodes have allready been shot...
It is true that McNealy says that privacy is dead, but that has nothing to do with a smart card that would replace your social security number. Where did he say that the card would protect your privacy? The card would have nothing to do with privacy, but would have a lot to do with identification.
Do I think that the card is a bad idea? Yes. But I also think that Social Security is a bad idea also.
I think a point that everyone is missing is that no matter what security levels you put in; if a person is willing to die for their cause, it will be almost impossible to stop them from doing acts of terrorisim. Would it have stopped anything on the 11'th if these guys would have had Oracle/Sun/Microsoft/Linux smart cards? Nope.
Would an armed person at the front of the plane have stopped them? Yes.
I'll try not to digress to your level of profanity...
The core difference between previous versions of Windows and the XP stuff is that you OWNED those versions. You lease the new versions. While I agree that the price has remained around $100.00 for an upgrade, that upgrade now will only be good for three years. So what this gives Microsoft is guarenteed cash from you every three years. Kinda sucks if your company is going through some hard times in year number three...
But I love that fact that they are doing this. I hope that they keep up the "good work". Because of this type of stuff, I now have upper managements interest in looking at alternatives. I would have NEVER had that opportunity before.
While I don't agree that Microsoft is going down like Netscape; his point is valid. Most of the new applications being developed are NOT client server but web enabled. Linux will see continued growth in that market. I believe that since most of the new applications will be web enabled, the client becomes less and less of an issue.
Obviously Microsoft knows this and will try very hard to wrap as many proprietary extensions around web development as possible.
Lastly, in lean times people will start looking more and more at free software to get things done. This will also add to the Linux growth.
I just wish that someone would develop a filesystem that doesn't just have "owner", "group" and "other". If you have ever worked with NetWare or NT, this sucks.
OpenSource also needs a competitor to Exchange/Groupwise/Domino-Notes.
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I see your point, and would agree with you if the security hole that was left would just let the server crash your browser or lock up your machine. It doesn't though, it opens up a huge hole.
.NET was in final beta (RC?) when Microsoft formed their security team to start taking security seriously. What this tells you is that 99.99% of the code of .NET was written before they formed this team, and that this code will probably suffer all the same security problems that their old code has had.
Look at it this way, if you have a server that is RAID protected, the chances of you loosing data is small, but does that mean you shouldn't do backups? The risk is low, but the damage could be huge.
The point that needs to be driven home is that Microsoft does NOT take security seriously. It appears that they are just now beginning to take it more seriously than ever, but they have a bunch of code out there that needs fixed. Please remember that
I realize that the chance of a problem is incredibly small but the damage possiblity is huge. Imagine a few thoughsand "bots" out there that are now running Windows2k, and they can now spoof their IP address... That is going to suck.
Your company is in the vast minority here. I am going to guess here but I bet you that well over 99.9% of the companies that do development on and for Winodows are not allowed to view the source code.
My question to you is this.
If you find that you need to "fix" their code to work with your wireless device, how good are they at implementing you bugfix. I say this because we found an issue with their C compiler that had a serious bug in it and they didn't give a rats ass about it. Who cares is your optimizer chews up some of your code! For the record I will say that this was a long time ago and mabe they have changed.
I agree but from what I have been told hydrogen fuel cells won't work because of the energy (heat) needed to make them work, and Geothermal won't produce enough power. I believe that the only way to go is nuclear.
I personally would love to see the middle east die when all their cash cows dry up. I hope to live that long. I would imagine that most of the fighting would soon stop also, becuase of lack of funds.
Dude there is a good reason that RedHat has issues with Oracle. RedHat offers a fully supported database edition that competes directly with Oracle. They sell that version for around 2 grand U.S. Needless to say that pissed off Oracle big time, however they don't want to kill themselves by not supporting RedHat. They just won't go out of their way to get it certified quickly.
I run Oracle 9i or RedHat Linux 7.1 and have been getting great support from Oracle for around a year now, and think that they work great. I do realize that Oracle and IBM love SUSE, and thought of going with them, but if IBM wouldn't have given them $50 million U.S. they probably would be dead by now. RedHat appears to be in the black now and growing slowly.
Also, from what I have experienced if you want to run Oracle on a brand new version of RedHat that Oracle hasn't certified yet, they will still support you to a large degree. They might have you downgrade some packages (like binutils), but you still get good support. You can't expect them to cert every brand new version of Linux the day it is out, unless they develop Oracle on that version (Like SUSE)
Steve Michael
Network Architect
Performance Strategies Inc.
So I guess that when you go to a doctor you don't care if he/she is certified.
Hell, if he has 20 years experience then he must be good!
If you are a programmer type.
:-)
Java 2 Cert for Programmer.
Java 2 Cert for Web Developer
Java 2 Cert for Analyst
Java 2 Cert for Arhitect.
If you are a data guy.
Get Oracle DBA Cert.
If you are a LAN guy.
Get MCSE AND RedHat Cert. I am a CNE, but not to many people wanting CNE's these days. Even though NetWare 6 looks great.
Possibly look at the Cisco cert. I don't know much about that one.
When I hire people I do look at these things, and to be honest when it comes down to two resume's that are similar, the one with the cert gets the nod. If anything it shows that the person is capable of completing something.
Having said that, I need to get my act together and get my Java2 cert.
Now the downside....
Programmers are moving to India fast. I don't think that this will be a long term hit, but it will hurt you in looking for programming jobs that are hiring now. In the long run there WILL be UNIONS to prevent this type of stuff, but it will take a while. I am not a fan of UNIONS, but I know that history repeats itself.
DBA's - There are currently a lot of DBA's in the market now, and your competition will be tough, however you might have an edge if you get the newest Cert with some other i.e. Oracle 9i DBA AND RedHat. This would be a great combo, however it will take a LOT of work.
SYSADMINS/LANGUYS - Like DBA's there are a LOT of these guys out of work, mostly because of all the consolodation and dot.com disaster. Your salary won't be what it could have been 3 years ago, but you will make a living. Your living might require you to be on call 24 X 7, and work an unreasonable amount of hours, but you should be able to find a job. Also you will probably get stuck on all the crappy jobs, so you better get use to dealing with email issues.
All this said, you have two main options.
1. Focus on one product/skill and hope that it is what employers are looking for.
2. Get a broad skillset and hope that employers are willing to hire someone who isn't a perfect fit.
Lastly when I graduated with a BS degree, and wanted a computer job in the late 80's, it was almost impossible to find a job for a white computer GUY. I had to take a job for $6.50 an hour, and start working my way up. I could have made more than that if I stayed at my old job pumping gas. You have to ask yourself, do you REALLY want to do this for a living. If so then you will make some sacrifices. I make a heck of a lot more than $6.50 an hour now.
Steve Michael
Network Architect
smichael@netcapade.net
There are two problems with this.
1. If Unreal Championship is released for only the XBOX then they are going to cut off ~90% of the people that would possibly buy the game. They may do that for this ONE game, but it would be suicide to try and do that type of stuff for long.
2. If they release it for the XBOX and the PC, then people with high end PC's will beat the crap out of the XBOX owners (better video and control). If/When that happens, people will start to only buy the PC version.
3. Do you think that any other major game company will want to go with Microsoft now? I can just imagine going to upper management and saying "I think we should go with Microsoft's online service", and a VP saying "Didn't EA not go with them because of some serious security issues, and that Microsoft will control everything". Short of Microsoft buying the business for ONE or TWO games, this probably won't happen.
Sorry, what I ment was:
JDK Standard Edition 1.4 and
JDK Standard Edition 1.5.
I just saw that 1.4 has been released, but I don't know much about it yet....
(5 min later...)
Just looked at their site and 1.4 does not appear to support more operator overloads. My GOD did they add a bunch of other stuff though...
My hunch is that they will add more operator overloads in 1.5 (or call it JAVA 3 Standard Edition).
I do know this, if enough people wanted it, it would be in there. Sun has been good about adding items to the language that people need, and their community process seems to be working well enough.
Steve Michael
Kinda like...
int i=0;
System.out.println("hello" + i);
hmm....
I believe that more operator overloads will be available in the future 1.4? or 1.5.
My question is why do you HAVE to have them?
First I don't belive this post. I belive that it is a slow news day and somebody wanted to start a holy war, but I believe that your boss should have each criteria weighted on how much of an importance it is to the project. Then evaluate all the current languages and pick one.
This kinda reminds me of an idiot that I worked for that made the coders work night and day on integrating Java with Windows. In our case it would have made sense to either program in VB and commit to Microsoft totally, or do it right with Java.
Steve Michael
I don't agree. Although I am in the U.S.A and have seen a LOT of programming jobs lost to Indians'; most of those jobs come back to local coders, because of the language barriar and the poor quality of code. It takes a couple of years, but eventually the people that made the decisions to outsource, are "no longer with the company", and the company brings the development back in house.
Also, the job market here in Indiana suck's now, and with that I have noticed that most of the Indian programmers are no longer around here like they were two years ago.
Lets see.
.Net run a full blown business application with NO Microsoft software is the day.... well Satan has a better chance of mending his relationship with God.
Java goes open source.
The good is that people will refine the code for everyone, as you stated above. Although I will argue that people can and do do this now.
The bad is that the day that Java goes open source, you will see Microsoft put a poor JVM that would lock you in to Windows API's. It would then be on ~90% of the desktops and then almost every business I.T. person would be forced to code to that JVM, or at least 95% of the coders out there. It would be like almost every other language is now. Write for Windows first then everything else...
The day I see
A better question to ask Microsoft is
"Why don't you just ship the JVM supplied by Sun?"
Gates wasn't joking when he said that they will "piss all over Java2", and making Java open source would allow him to start acting like a race horse on drugs...
I couldn't agree more, however NetWare 6 doesn't require a Novell Client to be installed any more. So that argument goes away. My gripe is with the Novell kernel. It kinda sucks compared to Linux and NT. There are still way to many times a process abends and it locks the console.
However, I think that Linux kinda blows for a file and print server in a med-large environment. Linux needs "access control list" built in to a typical Red Hat or other major distro. The idea of only having ONE owner, group or "other", for file permissions kinda sucks for most businesses. It would be nice if Linux also supported inherited rights mask, like NetWare also.
web-based "remote systems administration"...
like webmin for example. Great tool that is free for Apache.
Try to think of something else.
To answer your question about how easy it is to develop for different application servers. It is easy. The code ports great. Now that is not to say that deploying your EJB will be easy. Each app server has it's own weird way of doing that.
To answer your question about everyone wanting Websphere experience... A lot of shops use IBM mainframes and IBM is pushing very hard with JAVA and Websphere. Soooo upper management says that they need WebSphere guys. Understand that there are two types of people that they may be looking for
1. Developers - If you have done EJB development, you should have no problem. Although using Visual Age is a bit different.
2. LAN Guys - These are the guys who will maintain/tune the box. If this is what they are looking for then you should know Websphere and the O.S. it runs on, and it makes sense that they want someone who knows that particualar product.
Yeah and don't ship a product that causes me to spend all weekend capturing data to send to IBM to look at... (OS/390 patches).
Yeah, and don't cause me look ALL over your web site for 8 or 9 patches just to get Oracle to be stable on my server (Solaris).
Yeah, and don't force me to try and run applications in ring 3 just to debug Abends (Novell)
Yeah and don't force me to call you to get some undocumented patch that is called a "hot fix" even though I am only running YOUR software on the machine... (Microsoft)
Hmmm seems like no operating system is ready for prime time to me.
I have ran all of the above and they all have their issues. I now run Red Hat Linux 7.1. It runs well for what we do. Do I upgrade to the latest kernel every time? NO! Do I test new kernels? Yes.
For us it comes down to money.
Solaris - Intel version sucks, Sun hardware is expensive and propritary.
Novell - NDS is awesome, but way to expensive. The Novell kernel sucks to run apps. Oracle is dropping them.
Windows 2k - Security is bad, expensive, and vendor tries everything to lock you in to their product. Who wants to be FORCED to upgrade every three years?
IBM - Way too proprietary and expensive
Apple - Version 10.x looks good, but has same issues as Sun.
Steve Michael
The #$%#@ quicktime installer just blew chunks on my somewhat clean Windows2k development system. If they hope to survive against Microsoft (and they won't), they have to do a much better job with their player.
The idea that I have to register two different times is also lame.
I use to do some serious development with SWING and would love to see some real comparisons of a SWING designed application v.s. one done with C or C++. My experience is that on ANY modern hardware SWING performs well. Does this mean that I expect to see Quake IV in JAVA and using SWING? No. Does it mean that this guys application would probably run just fine with SWING and JAVA ... HELL YES! I am willing to bet just about anything that the application that these two guys will code would perform just fine under JAVA and SWING.
As for you comments about arrays being made 1st class objects. My first thought is who the hell cares... you just use the array. Does the array work? Is it fast enough?
I generally like the best tool for the job, but in this case he has a point. Java does make a lot of sense. However you statement about "slow enough to bring tears to your eyes" is ignorant.
I will argue that 99% of the business applications out there could easily be written in Java, by good coders and perform as well or better than C or C++ code.
Lastly, I am a little confused about you rant. Do you want coders to be lathargic COBOL coders, who don't give a rats ass about anything, or do you want people who are excited about a language?
great question. I have to add that my wife hates most cartoons and liked the cartoon of the tick. We use to laugh at most of the stuff. However, her quote last night after watching the show.
"I didn't laugh", I sadly agreed. It just wasn't funny. I hope that they get better.
My hope for future epsiodes...
1. Be less edgey, the tick would have NEVER said "BITCH". Unfortunately, that comment alone probably killed a lot of familes from watching it.
2. Don't cram the hispanic mouse guys love of women down our throats.
And yes I realize that most of the episodes have allready been shot...
Just my 2 cents...
Does OpenMail have scheduling?
Your points don't make sense.
It is true that McNealy says that privacy is dead, but that has nothing to do with a smart card that would replace your social security number. Where did he say that the card would protect your privacy? The card would have nothing to do with privacy, but would have a lot to do with identification.
Do I think that the card is a bad idea? Yes. But I also think that Social Security is a bad idea also.
I think a point that everyone is missing is that no matter what security levels you put in; if a person is willing to die for their cause, it will be almost impossible to stop them from doing acts of terrorisim. Would it have stopped anything on the 11'th if these guys would have had Oracle/Sun/Microsoft/Linux smart cards? Nope.
Would an armed person at the front of the plane have stopped them? Yes.
How much natural gas do we have available in the U.S.A?
I'll try not to digress to your level of profanity...
The core difference between previous versions of Windows and the XP stuff is that you OWNED those versions. You lease the new versions. While I agree that the price has remained around $100.00 for an upgrade, that upgrade now will only be good for three years. So what this gives Microsoft is guarenteed cash from you every three years. Kinda sucks if your company is going through some hard times in year number three...
But I love that fact that they are doing this. I hope that they keep up the "good work". Because of this type of stuff, I now have upper managements interest in looking at alternatives. I would have NEVER had that opportunity before.
While I don't agree that Microsoft is going down like Netscape; his point is valid. Most of the new applications being developed are NOT client server but web enabled. Linux will see continued growth in that market. I believe that since most of the new applications will be web enabled, the client becomes less and less of an issue.
Obviously Microsoft knows this and will try very hard to wrap as many proprietary extensions around web development as possible.
Lastly, in lean times people will start looking more and more at free software to get things done. This will also add to the Linux growth.
I just wish that someone would develop a filesystem that doesn't just have "owner", "group" and "other". If you have ever worked with NetWare or NT, this sucks.
OpenSource also needs a competitor to Exchange/Groupwise/Domino-Notes.
Lets see.
I can take your C app that is 100k and do it in machine code for around 5k. I have done this before just to prove it to people!
Time to scrap C! Oh yeah, your C app will take a heck of a lot more processor to run also.
Understand the argument?
Steve Michael
Network Architect
steve.michael@performancestrategies.com