If you are sitting behind a corporate firewall, then why do you need the ability to post anonymously? Why aren't you doing your job (whatever it may be), and if you must say negative things about your employeer (which is the only reason I can think anyone would want to post anonymously while behind a corporate firewall), why not do it from home?
Why not do it yourself? Its not all that hard to mask your IP, or pull a couple of the same tricks spammers use to spam people... anonymously at that...
Programming is less difficult than building a bridge or an airplane and yet software companies have hoodwinked the public into making it seem that badly made software is a fact of life.
Hold on a second... Building a bridge is pretty simple compared to programming. First, with the bridge, you can design it for 'x' number of cars/people per day, 'x' amount of wind, 'x' amount of earth movement per year, and design and build it based on principles layed out over hundreds of years.
With programming on the other hand, you can design all you want... The end user's hardware configuration alone can be so unique that there is no way you could plan for it. With a bridge, all the parameters aren't changing, hence you can work out anything that can go wrong, and prepare/design for it. Not so with programming, especially when it's going to be an off the shelf software package that is going to be installed in all sorts of configurations.
And I haven't even begun to describe the billions of ways the end user can be a complete idiot and delete half your config files and then run the software, etc... Going back to the bridge, if a person drives a car bomb onto it, and blows it up, the engineers aren't blamed for the bridge's collapse. And yet everyone is blaming the programmer when the end user does the equivelent to the software...
Better the Xbox kiosk than a bank machine (I'm sure you've all seen the pictures)... or airport arrival/departure screens... or on ad billboards... or...
Its really difficult to spam when you must be logging onto their (MS's) server and provide user authentication to get at the POP3 mailboxes. IIRC, spammers like to get on POP3 servers, and attempt to get a list of valid mailboxes for their spamming use. I believe MS is actually trying to stop this from happening, but are going about it in a very lousy way IMO.
How exactly is this enforced? I'm sure there has got to be someway to get around it, if they allow Outlook to use it, then there has to be some way to fool the system into thinking whatever you are using is outlook... isn't there?
What difference does it make, you either pay for the closed source company to spoon feed you the latest bug fixes in their newer software, or you pay someone on your staff to stay up to date, and keep all your open source software up to date... End result you still have to pay lots of money to get the bug fixes. (Arguably, the bigger the company is, the more specialists it will need to pay salary, to keep up with the open source fixes...).
I don't think using Microsoft products is an option for them... They aren't on very good terms to begin with (since their dispute over Microsoft's EULA).
Well, fancy that, SCSI harddrives... Why do I need SCSI? I'm not running a search engine off my machine... So, can someone tell me why I need SCSI harddrives? It's sooo much more expensive, and I rarely notice the difference between taking 4 minutes to relink my kernel or 4 and a half...
Any word on the price of X-Plane? Is there a chance it may be GPLed? Or at least priced lower than the Win/Mac versions?
The price won't be lowered... They are not going to sell even one tenth of what they do on the other platforms... Yet developement (or even just porting) has probably cost them quite a bit, and they need to recover the costs somehow...
IANAL but perhaps if the price for the linux version was dropped, we would see Microsoft sue for anti-competitive pricing...:)
Hey, I'm a Canadian too, and I for one have noticed that most stupid laws passed in the US, somehow get a carbon copy with a little Canadian flag stamped on it passed in our parliment... Usually about 6 months after it passes down in the US...
At this point, I'm pretty worried that Canada will pass something very similiar... Oh JOY!
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"Anybody who has bright ideas or cash burning a hole in your pocket..."
Oh yeah, we're a dime a dozen... I'm happy I'm employeed, I don't have money to throw away...
And if you do have money to burn, please put it in Swiss bank account #144232422, and I'll make sure it gets to the folks over at... ummm... well you know who they are...
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Sure the aquapad looks nice, but we can't put an AMD in the case... can we??? If so, put me on pre-order for 10!
Even easier, (for those without easy access to tinfoil) is to not shower for a few days... that always works for me... :P
If you are sitting behind a corporate firewall, then why do you need the ability to post anonymously? Why aren't you doing your job (whatever it may be), and if you must say negative things about your employeer (which is the only reason I can think anyone would want to post anonymously while behind a corporate firewall), why not do it from home?
Why not do it yourself? Its not all that hard to mask your IP, or pull a couple of the same tricks spammers use to spam people... anonymously at that...
You can thank the US government for its biological warfare research in the early 50's to late 60's for giving terrorists so many good ideas...
I can see it now, millions die after infected musquitos unleashed on the US...
BAH!
Programming is less difficult than building a bridge or an airplane and yet software companies have hoodwinked the public into making it seem that badly made software is a fact of life.
Hold on a second... Building a bridge is pretty simple compared to programming. First, with the bridge, you can design it for 'x' number of cars/people per day, 'x' amount of wind, 'x' amount of earth movement per year, and design and build it based on principles layed out over hundreds of years.
With programming on the other hand, you can design all you want... The end user's hardware configuration alone can be so unique that there is no way you could plan for it. With a bridge, all the parameters aren't changing, hence you can work out anything that can go wrong, and prepare/design for it. Not so with programming, especially when it's going to be an off the shelf software package that is going to be installed in all sorts of configurations.
And I haven't even begun to describe the billions of ways the end user can be a complete idiot and delete half your config files and then run the software, etc... Going back to the bridge, if a person drives a car bomb onto it, and blows it up, the engineers aren't blamed for the bridge's collapse. And yet everyone is blaming the programmer when the end user does the equivelent to the software...
SHEESH!
5 miles of cables? I hope they labled them... :)
But, because of storage issues on the camera, he will have to delete some of those images as he goes along.
Umm, what if you run out of film using a conventional camera... same diff...
How are we supposed to comment on it, if it costs money to read?
So in other words, if I drop the thing, the cache will probably still work, but the harddrive would be toast... ???
What makes this any better than the Nomad?
What happens when I drop it? Is it solid state? If not, it doesn't make it note worthy in my books.
Better the Xbox kiosk than a bank machine (I'm sure you've all seen the pictures)... or airport arrival/departure screens... or on ad billboards... or...
Its really difficult to spam when you must be logging onto their (MS's) server and provide user authentication to get at the POP3 mailboxes. IIRC, spammers like to get on POP3 servers, and attempt to get a list of valid mailboxes for their spamming use. I believe MS is actually trying to stop this from happening, but are going about it in a very lousy way IMO.
How exactly is this enforced? I'm sure there has got to be someway to get around it, if they allow Outlook to use it, then there has to be some way to fool the system into thinking whatever you are using is outlook... isn't there?
What difference does it make, you either pay for the closed source company to spoon feed you the latest bug fixes in their newer software, or you pay someone on your staff to stay up to date, and keep all your open source software up to date... End result you still have to pay lots of money to get the bug fixes. (Arguably, the bigger the company is, the more specialists it will need to pay salary, to keep up with the open source fixes...).
I don't think using Microsoft products is an option for them... They aren't on very good terms to begin with (since their dispute over Microsoft's EULA).
Great... Ever notice the easier it is to use a computer program, the harder it is for the programmer to write it...
This begs the question, is this new more 'self operated' type of computer programs going to put us programmers out of a job?
Did you ever secretly want to be an open-source software developer instead of an actor?
I see, but was Microsoft's OS preemptible when executing inside its kernel?
I'm trying to determine if Windows has/had a better kernel design than linux.
Can someone fill me in... Hasn't Microsoft been claiming windows has been preemptive since win95??? Is this some other form of 'preemptiveness'?
What is this 'preemptive' thing refering to? Task scheduling?
Well, fancy that, SCSI harddrives... Why do I need SCSI? I'm not running a search engine off my machine... So, can someone tell me why I need SCSI harddrives? It's sooo much more expensive, and I rarely notice the difference between taking 4 minutes to relink my kernel or 4 and a half...
Any word on the price of X-Plane? Is there a chance it may be GPLed? Or at least priced lower than the Win/Mac versions?
:)
The price won't be lowered... They are not going to sell even one tenth of what they do on the other platforms... Yet developement (or even just porting) has probably cost them quite a bit, and they need to recover the costs somehow...
IANAL but perhaps if the price for the linux version was dropped, we would see Microsoft sue for anti-competitive pricing...
Today, I shall announce an award of $5 (CDN) to who ever can write a virus for a Mac...
So start coding... There is a lot of competition out there...
Hey, I'm a Canadian too, and I for one have noticed that most stupid laws passed in the US, somehow get a carbon copy with a little Canadian flag stamped on it passed in our parliment... Usually about 6 months after it passes down in the US...
At this point, I'm pretty worried that Canada will pass something very similiar... Oh JOY!
"Anybody who has bright ideas or cash burning a hole in your pocket..."
Oh yeah, we're a dime a dozen... I'm happy I'm employeed, I don't have money to throw away...
And if you do have money to burn, please put it in Swiss bank account #144232422, and I'll make sure it gets to the folks over at... ummm... well you know who they are...