MicroSoft gladly doesn't want to update IE any more, so people have to wait for the next Windows to get an update to IE, which is due in 2005 I think
No, MS isnt producing standalone versions of IE anymore, they are still updating it. They never said anything about not updating it, updates are still provided, you jsut cant go grab "IE7.0" as it wont exist in a single form.
Because they were foolishly offering Microsoft a lot - hard core expertise that Microsoft obviously does not have themselves that could allow Microsoft to much better secure the X-box against what they claim they are trying to prevent, software piracy.
So you are saying that MS doesnt have the expertise that these people have, because theres a bug in some software? So does that mean some groups have more expertise than the Linux Kernel Team, everytime theres an exploit in that? OR BIND, Sendmail, one of a hundred.
MS paying these people off will only delay the inevitable. Paying them off would not make the exploit go away, and this team had already hinted that the exploit existed, therefor sparking others to look for it.
We're talking about a whole team of dedicated hard core experts here that offered to provide free labor and expertise to Microsoft to help secure their system
But they werent providing those services free of charge, look at the demands they were putting forward. They wanted paying for what they were offering, in both signed code and money for costs. They also wanted MS to protect them from 3rd parties.
I take it the concept of sarcasm has missed you totally. Have a nice day. (IE what i meant in my post was Nvidea had the same contract and their linux support got stronger during the same period. This has nothing to do with the xbox contract.)
This is obvious, as most businesses dont want developers to spend time on code that already works. If it doesnt work, then it gets rewritten. If the spec changes, then it gets rewritten. If its fine then you work on something else.
Opensource developers have to have a certain pride in their code almost by definition, as other people will be looking at it. Also if someone sees that a bit of code is not as efficient as it can be, then usually they rewrite it.
The one downside to opensource code that i have seen is that since many people contribute, and some of those contributions are not official, eg patches, then coding styles start to show through. In closed source business environments, coding styles are usually not a issue as we all have guidelines to work to, defining the use of the language so that anyone in our group can pick up code and instantly add to it, usually code written this way cannot be pinned to any one individual.
Rather the cup had to remain within the chamber, and you had to keep drinking from the cup to be immortal. No cup no immortality.
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Because its trivially easy to code for a apache/php/mysql combination on a Windows system, while the production server is running on linux/BSD. Usually it helps to have a quick and dirty test environment available, and thats where apache, php and mysql on windows comes in. Install it and you have a vastly similar environment to the production box, without going outside the development machine. Ofcourse you then test the code on a live-test server to ensure the cross platform hasnt introduced any obscure bugs, but it rarely does.
Not at all. Windows comes on one architecture, so binaries are perfectly acceptable as the default install medium. THere are compatable compilers that you can source if you want. Linux/BSD/Unix needs the default install medium to be sourcecode precisely because of the number of architectures that they run on. Elementary when you think about it, windows simply doesnt need sourcecode by default, yet its available if you really want it.
I can never see the problem, at my place the only support contract we have is for the AIX server. We have a liberal number of OpenBSD and linux boxes around the business, all running semi critical and critical systems, and we have no support contracts. All of it is handled inhouse by moi, we have redundant backup systems, and a good backup procedure. Any issues i get that i cant resolve, i can usually find a good answer from mailing lists, google or IRC. Seriously, how many of these same people have support contracts for their Windows systems?
Uhm, what the hell are you smoking? Businesses primarily are supposed to value their own best intrests first, otherwise what is the fucking point in starting a business? The fact that some businesses seem to value their customers is only a side effect of the fact that for them that brings in the most profit.
Individual freedoms must superceded any rights that corporations have. It's time that we really restructure the way business works.
Incase you hadnt noticed, this was the "basis" for marxism, communism and other similar political views. While people value money, this is never going to happen. If individual freedoms supercede any group rights, then why should Unions be ok at the same time?
If this negatively impacts you, you currently have little you can do about it unless you have a lot of money.
Stop shopping there or doing business with them. Simple. Just because they have wrong you according to your views doesnt give you the right to wreak heavenly vengeance on them, any more than I have the right to punish someone who breaks into my house.
Corporations need to answer to the citizens of the world for all the injustices that they have wrought upon us.
Governments first. Then all political parties. Then religion. THose three groups have "wronged humanity" in more ways than corporations ever will. Corporations have never wrought injustices on citizens, they may not do stuff as you see fit, but then my neighbour dresses with no color sense. Should i hold him responsable and be allowed to make him answer for this?
In all instances where business negatively affects citizens, the business should be called to task and made to answer for it's wrongs.
Businesses are there to make money. Dont like that? go to some place where they arent allowed to. As i said earlier, they may not precisely follow your own moral rules, but the worlds a big wide place, and if i were you, id stop having a tantrum, and grow up. The worlds not perfect, and neither, it seems, are you.
Nope, no explosion. During a test, the capsule was pressurised using pure o2. An electrical fire started fueled by the o2, which burnt ferociously. Nothing went bang.
3. Concorde: blew up during takeoff
Nope. Concorde hit a peice of metal on the runway which peirced the underwing fueltank. It actually took off with flames spouting from the back of the craft, and flew for a further 5 minutes like this before crashing. At no point prior to it hitting the ground did it explode.
4. Columbia - blew up landing
Again, no explosion. Columbia tumbled for some reason and as such was ripped apart by stresses. Nothing went bang.
Calling the dictatorships in the middle east "international terrorists" is accurate. Saddam attempted to assassinate Bush (version 1.0). He also manufactured WMD (whether or not they are still there is irrelevant, there are numerous reports throughout the 90s that showed they were). Iraq = terrorists. Iran isn't much better.
By the same vein the CIA has tried to assassinate many a foreign national and leader. Also by the same vein the US has manufacturered and use WOMD. Also going one further, the US uses economic and military threat as means to ends. Does this make them terrorists? You cant say that one is and the other isnt when they have used the same methods.
I will agree that we liberated iraq, but only because the people under his rule were suffering, not because of the excuses we used to go there. It IS important that we find the weapons that we said were there, and it is important that we find them in the condition that we claimed they were there, IE ready for use in 45 minutes. If we do not find anything then we invaded a sovereign foreign country on false pretenses.
It looks very likely that Iran will be next, with all the dirt throwing the US and its allies have been doing over the past few weeks. "You are harbouring iraqi people we want." "The weapons we are searching for are being smuggled over your borders." "You are now interfering in iraqi internal politics." Where is the evidence for these accusations? Granted Iran expelled a number of iraqis when it was pointed out to them, but the other two? Give it a rest.
at both of my (different) ISPs email addresses. The spam turns up with only those ISPs customers addresses in the CC, usually several dozen at the same time.
I know the ISPs dont sell my addresses, as I have friends at both who have confirmed that they do not sell them, and I trust these people. As far as Im concerned, its just spammers with a list which has been sorted into ISPs and they are targetting each ISP at a time, maybe with different offers or something.
This is basically what my current employer does. We have a team of 3 developers, plus the development manager plus the IT director. Both the manager and director develop on the team as well. We are embedded into the company, working closely with those who use the software, and are available 24/7 (not literally) to add features our customers need. THis has worked for 15 years, and the department has only ever gotten bigger, noone has ever been laid off because of industry downturns.
Because both levels of management above us develop with us, we do not have any effect of "clueless management", ever. Its a simple fact, they do the ysame job as us, so they know what we can deliver. None of the other management in the company pushes us at all, and stuff gets done anyway, because of the closeness we work with the customers. We code to exactly what they *need*, nothing more, nothing less.
right? Whatever happened to the millions of cases the FBI solved, or prevented crimes, or caught murderers? You never hear about them, so you only get this picture of a bumbling group of people wearing FBI coats.
Entirely. If you are a religious based company that is. Lets face it, the vast majority of business people do not view body art in the same manner as those who partake in body art. If they visited your company and spotted all these people with multitudes of facial tattoos, facial peircings, and stuff, then it has the same effect on their business relationship as if your trading premises were a rundown bedsit in the local redlight district.
Now with religious discrimination, if you are a religious company, then having a muslim, or a hindu working in a baptist church would portray the same thing, and people will start to doubt you. Thats why in a majority of countries, discrimination on grounds of race or sex is entirely legitimate if done for a religious body or company.
Appearance is everything. Would you buy a car from a trader on te backstreets of a large city, who trades from a rundown shack that looks as if its going to fall down 10 minutes after you leave? I know i wouldnt, youcant trust them. But I would purchase a car from a clean clothed dealer who had a forcourt full of cars, and a good trading premises.
What about clients with prejudices against black, female and/or homosexual people? Do you also support those prejudices for the sake of business?
For the most part, those 'features' that you are presenting can not be decided via self choice (although homosexuality is debatable). Body "art" is entirely your decision, and thus you must accept when you make that choice that not everyone will have the same views and beliefs as yourself.
Body art is very similar to dress sense, we all have it, we all make choices. Some of us have dress sense which is wholely unacceptable to the majority of us, and if that makes us feel uneasy, tehn so be it.
Depends on the mission, as there is usually a Soyuz already docked at the ISS. Sometimes the mission includes rotation of that soyuz, and the return crew come down in that one, while the new one remains, or sometimes the return crew return in the one that jsut docked.
The record labels could have cut the head right off of file sharing years ago by putting their catalog online and letting users pay a reasonable fee ($.50 - $1) to download an MP3. In fact, if they would have done it before MP3 caught on they probably could have introduced their own format with reasonable DRM and that format would have caught on instead of MP3(provided the DRM wasn't too limited). They didn't do that. Instead they continued selling CD's priced between $16 - $20 dollars and it has come back to bit them in the butt. There was, and still is, cleary a demand for cheap music downloads and when the labels themselves wouldn't fill that demand, others did.
Just because the copyright owners do not give you what you want in the manner that you want it, does not mean that you have the right to goand take it anyway. Its called morals, and jsut because the person who you are "stealing" from doesnt follow the same morals as you, doesnt mean its ok.
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MicroSoft gladly doesn't want to update IE any more, so people have to wait for the next Windows to get an update to IE, which is due in 2005 I think
No, MS isnt producing standalone versions of IE anymore, they are still updating it. They never said anything about not updating it, updates are still provided, you jsut cant go grab "IE7.0" as it wont exist in a single form.
Because they were foolishly offering Microsoft a lot - hard core expertise that Microsoft obviously does not have themselves that could allow Microsoft to much better secure the X-box against what they claim they are trying to prevent, software piracy.
So you are saying that MS doesnt have the expertise that these people have, because theres a bug in some software? So does that mean some groups have more expertise than the Linux Kernel Team, everytime theres an exploit in that? OR BIND, Sendmail, one of a hundred.
MS paying these people off will only delay the inevitable. Paying them off would not make the exploit go away, and this team had already hinted that the exploit existed, therefor sparking others to look for it.
We're talking about a whole team of dedicated hard core experts here that offered to provide free labor and expertise to Microsoft to help secure their system
But they werent providing those services free of charge, look at the demands they were putting forward. They wanted paying for what they were offering, in both signed code and money for costs. They also wanted MS to protect them from 3rd parties.
That on the front or the back of the shirt?
If the engine can survive a frozen bird, it can survive a live one. Thats why they use frozen birds.
I take it the concept of sarcasm has missed you totally. Have a nice day. (IE what i meant in my post was Nvidea had the same contract and their linux support got stronger during the same period. This has nothing to do with the xbox contract.)
This is obvious, as most businesses dont want developers to spend time on code that already works. If it doesnt work, then it gets rewritten. If the spec changes, then it gets rewritten. If its fine then you work on something else.
Opensource developers have to have a certain pride in their code almost by definition, as other people will be looking at it. Also if someone sees that a bit of code is not as efficient as it can be, then usually they rewrite it.
The one downside to opensource code that i have seen is that since many people contribute, and some of those contributions are not official, eg patches, then coding styles start to show through. In closed source business environments, coding styles are usually not a issue as we all have guidelines to work to, defining the use of the language so that anyone in our group can pick up code and instantly add to it, usually code written this way cannot be pinned to any one individual.
Just the same way Nvidea dropped linux support when they got the same contract..........
Rather the cup had to remain within the chamber, and you had to keep drinking from the cup to be immortal. No cup no immortality.
Because its trivially easy to code for a apache/php/mysql combination on a Windows system, while the production server is running on linux/BSD. Usually it helps to have a quick and dirty test environment available, and thats where apache, php and mysql on windows comes in. Install it and you have a vastly similar environment to the production box, without going outside the development machine. Ofcourse you then test the code on a live-test server to ensure the cross platform hasnt introduced any obscure bugs, but it rarely does.
Not at all. Windows comes on one architecture, so binaries are perfectly acceptable as the default install medium. THere are compatable compilers that you can source if you want. Linux/BSD/Unix needs the default install medium to be sourcecode precisely because of the number of architectures that they run on. Elementary when you think about it, windows simply doesnt need sourcecode by default, yet its available if you really want it.
Dude, i have jsut spent the last 30 hours installing gentoo, xfree and kde. It may be simple to do, but it shouldnt take a lifetime to finish :P
I can never see the problem, at my place the only support contract we have is for the AIX server. We have a liberal number of OpenBSD and linux boxes around the business, all running semi critical and critical systems, and we have no support contracts. All of it is handled inhouse by moi, we have redundant backup systems, and a good backup procedure. Any issues i get that i cant resolve, i can usually find a good answer from mailing lists, google or IRC. Seriously, how many of these same people have support contracts for their Windows systems?
Uhm, what the hell are you smoking? Businesses primarily are supposed to value their own best intrests first, otherwise what is the fucking point in starting a business? The fact that some businesses seem to value their customers is only a side effect of the fact that for them that brings in the most profit.
Individual freedoms must superceded any rights that corporations have. It's time that we really restructure the way business works.
Incase you hadnt noticed, this was the "basis" for marxism, communism and other similar political views. While people value money, this is never going to happen. If individual freedoms supercede any group rights, then why should Unions be ok at the same time?
If this negatively impacts you, you currently have little you can do about it unless you have a lot of money.
Stop shopping there or doing business with them. Simple. Just because they have wrong you according to your views doesnt give you the right to wreak heavenly vengeance on them, any more than I have the right to punish someone who breaks into my house.
Corporations need to answer to the citizens of the world for all the injustices that they have wrought upon us.
Governments first. Then all political parties. Then religion. THose three groups have "wronged humanity" in more ways than corporations ever will. Corporations have never wrought injustices on citizens, they may not do stuff as you see fit, but then my neighbour dresses with no color sense. Should i hold him responsable and be allowed to make him answer for this?
In all instances where business negatively affects citizens, the business should be called to task and made to answer for it's wrongs.
Businesses are there to make money. Dont like that? go to some place where they arent allowed to. As i said earlier, they may not precisely follow your own moral rules, but the worlds a big wide place, and if i were you, id stop having a tantrum, and grow up. The worlds not perfect, and neither, it seems, are you.
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1. Apollo1 - blew up on the launchpad
Nope, no explosion. During a test, the capsule was pressurised using pure o2. An electrical fire started fueled by the o2, which burnt ferociously. Nothing went bang.
3. Concorde: blew up during takeoff
Nope. Concorde hit a peice of metal on the runway which peirced the underwing fueltank. It actually took off with flames spouting from the back of the craft, and flew for a further 5 minutes like this before crashing. At no point prior to it hitting the ground did it explode.
4. Columbia - blew up landing
Again, no explosion. Columbia tumbled for some reason and as such was ripped apart by stresses. Nothing went bang.
Calling the dictatorships in the middle east "international terrorists" is accurate. Saddam attempted to assassinate Bush (version 1.0). He also manufactured WMD (whether or not they are still there is irrelevant, there are numerous reports throughout the 90s that showed they were). Iraq = terrorists. Iran isn't much better.
By the same vein the CIA has tried to assassinate many a foreign national and leader. Also by the same vein the US has manufacturered and use WOMD. Also going one further, the US uses economic and military threat as means to ends. Does this make them terrorists? You cant say that one is and the other isnt when they have used the same methods.
I will agree that we liberated iraq, but only because the people under his rule were suffering, not because of the excuses we used to go there. It IS important that we find the weapons that we said were there, and it is important that we find them in the condition that we claimed they were there, IE ready for use in 45 minutes. If we do not find anything then we invaded a sovereign foreign country on false pretenses.
It looks very likely that Iran will be next, with all the dirt throwing the US and its allies have been doing over the past few weeks. "You are harbouring iraqi people we want." "The weapons we are searching for are being smuggled over your borders." "You are now interfering in iraqi internal politics." Where is the evidence for these accusations? Granted Iran expelled a number of iraqis when it was pointed out to them, but the other two? Give it a rest.
at both of my (different) ISPs email addresses. The spam turns up with only those ISPs customers addresses in the CC, usually several dozen at the same time.
I know the ISPs dont sell my addresses, as I have friends at both who have confirmed that they do not sell them, and I trust these people. As far as Im concerned, its just spammers with a list which has been sorted into ISPs and they are targetting each ISP at a time, maybe with different offers or something.
This is basically what my current employer does. We have a team of 3 developers, plus the development manager plus the IT director. Both the manager and director develop on the team as well. We are embedded into the company, working closely with those who use the software, and are available 24/7 (not literally) to add features our customers need. THis has worked for 15 years, and the department has only ever gotten bigger, noone has ever been laid off because of industry downturns.
Because both levels of management above us develop with us, we do not have any effect of "clueless management", ever. Its a simple fact, they do the ysame job as us, so they know what we can deliver. None of the other management in the company pushes us at all, and stuff gets done anyway, because of the closeness we work with the customers. We code to exactly what they *need*, nothing more, nothing less.
My security is so tight, even my webpage is restricted to me only :P (damn, better fix that !)
right? Whatever happened to the millions of cases the FBI solved, or prevented crimes, or caught murderers? You never hear about them, so you only get this picture of a bumbling group of people wearing FBI coats.
Entirely. If you are a religious based company that is. Lets face it, the vast majority of business people do not view body art in the same manner as those who partake in body art. If they visited your company and spotted all these people with multitudes of facial tattoos, facial peircings, and stuff, then it has the same effect on their business relationship as if your trading premises were a rundown bedsit in the local redlight district.
Now with religious discrimination, if you are a religious company, then having a muslim, or a hindu working in a baptist church would portray the same thing, and people will start to doubt you. Thats why in a majority of countries, discrimination on grounds of race or sex is entirely legitimate if done for a religious body or company.
Appearance is everything. Would you buy a car from a trader on te backstreets of a large city, who trades from a rundown shack that looks as if its going to fall down 10 minutes after you leave? I know i wouldnt, youcant trust them. But I would purchase a car from a clean clothed dealer who had a forcourt full of cars, and a good trading premises.
I think the biggest market share for any desktop computing activity these days is Windows. Doesnt mean a thing :)
What about clients with prejudices against black, female and/or homosexual people? Do you also support those prejudices for the sake of business?
For the most part, those 'features' that you are presenting can not be decided via self choice (although homosexuality is debatable). Body "art" is entirely your decision, and thus you must accept when you make that choice that not everyone will have the same views and beliefs as yourself.
Body art is very similar to dress sense, we all have it, we all make choices. Some of us have dress sense which is wholely unacceptable to the majority of us, and if that makes us feel uneasy, tehn so be it.
Depends on the mission, as there is usually a Soyuz already docked at the ISS. Sometimes the mission includes rotation of that soyuz, and the return crew come down in that one, while the new one remains, or sometimes the return crew return in the one that jsut docked.
The record labels could have cut the head right off of file sharing years ago by putting their catalog online and letting users pay a reasonable fee ($.50 - $1) to download an MP3. In fact, if they would have done it before MP3 caught on they probably could have introduced their own format with reasonable DRM and that format would have caught on instead of MP3(provided the DRM wasn't too limited). They didn't do that. Instead they continued selling CD's priced between $16 - $20 dollars and it has come back to bit them in the butt. There was, and still is, cleary a demand for cheap music downloads and when the labels themselves wouldn't fill that demand, others did.
Just because the copyright owners do not give you what you want in the manner that you want it, does not mean that you have the right to goand take it anyway. Its called morals, and jsut because the person who you are "stealing" from doesnt follow the same morals as you, doesnt mean its ok.