I'm sure somebody owns the copyright on "Here comes the Bride". That would be Richard Wagner. He's dead. He's been dead for 124 years. The copyright on that expired a very long time ago, if it ever was copyrighted in the first place. Does that mean that Disney can trademark it? Because apparently they can just take over works in the public domain.
I have met the guys from Unsanity. They are very nice, smart guys, but I was quite aware that APE opens security holes well before MOAB and this is one of two reasons I avoid things that do system-level patching on OS X (the other one being stability.)
What are you talking about? He pressed a button. There's nothing violent about pressing a button. What if the button launches a missile that actually kills people? How is the act of pushing a button different from the act of pulling a trigger?
John Hodgeman is great and people like him better than the Mac guy." At least he would have come off more sympathetically.
Speaking of Hodgeman and sympathy, did you see Gates on The Daily Show? The instant the interview was over, Gates did an about-face and high-tailed it out of there. Didn't even sit down and do the faux-chat thing during the transition to the commercial break. The guy couldn't generate sympathy if he tried, he has no social graces at all. He didn't even use any humor during the interview - he spoke like it was a advertisement for laundry detergent, not an interview with Jon Stewart.
I agree. A couple of years ago I heard him speak in person at WinHeck. At the beginning of the speech he did sort of a "light introduction" (for a normal person I would say "joke" but for Gates that would be aiming too high) where he talked about the story of him saying that people didn't need more than 64K. (Or was it 640K, I don't remember.) And basically I was waiting for the punch line - there wasn't one. He basically just said "I never said that". And the whole thing was so completely irrelevant that it was just stupid.
And then his keynote was so boring that I actually fell asleep.
I've been to WWDC several times and seen Steve Jobs speak and I have never fallen asleep. Steve Jobs may not be the best jokester in the world, but he is a very good communicator. In fact, I can't picture him going on Jon Steward's show because: Jobs isn't funny enough to do the show well, he doesn't do self deprecating humor well, AND he is smart enough to already be aware that he couldn't pull it off. Gates is the sort of nerd who just doesn't know/care that he is not funny or interesting or tasteful.
I think I heard the same thing when XP came out. I didn't. At the time I was working for a company that supplied technology to large 3rd party developers to help protect them against Microsoft (I don't want to go into specific because its just too jackass...), but major third parties were scared shitless by XP. They were convinced Microsoft was just going to come and take everything they had.
I haven't heard about all those Mac exploits he's referring to, have you? It's a thing called the Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB). Some guy found thirty places in software that comes with MacOS X (some of it is just application software) that has is suseptible to buffer overruns and the like. He's releasing it one bug at a time for thirty days. So far, most of the bugs are getting patched within a day or two of them being publicized.
These aren't exploits in the wild - they are researcher type stuff.
However, I think it is strange that Bill Gates has heard of MOAB, but hasn't seen Apple's television ads (but still comments on the television ads.) That seems weird. I think it would have gone over better if he had said something along the lines of "Of course I saw them. John Hodgeman is great and people like him better than the Mac guy." At least he would have come off more sympathetically.
I really think Microsoft has a corporate culture based around lying (including lying to themselves) and tackiness which comes straight from Gates and Ballmer.
Also, I think he is setting himself up to look stupid by daring people to find exploits in Windows.
Actually, if you quit with less than two weeks notice in Ontario your employer is entitled to report your termination as a firing. Is this the law only in Ontario, or in the entire People's Republic of Canada?
But the business model you describe of butchering your suppliers sounds like wal-mart. Actually, it sounds a lot like Commodore. They would pay their suppliers very slowly, and then if a supplier got into financial trouble, they would stop paying them altogether and let them go bankrupt, then swoop in and buy the supplier for cheap and then forgive their own debt. That's how Jack Tramiel destroyed the lower end of the personal computer industry.
Why use a new kludge when ftp has been around for a long time? 3 reasons. First, I'm not the IT guy - I'm a developer. So, someone else ( a guy who is heavily overworked) would have to setup an FTP site, give everyone passwords, etc. Second, the guy I'm sending it to doesn't know how to use FTP. (Yes, he could be trained, but I'm not the training guy - I'm a developer.) Third, I need to send the file now, not later.
Microsoft has done a damn good job of exclusively promoting its products to Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, and other Lenovo-compatible PC manufacturers such that nobody else's home OS products are advertised in mainstream media. Er, doesn't the phrase "Hi, I'm a Mac" sound familiar to you? No. I've seen Mac commercials on YouTube, but I hardly ever see them on cable television compared to Dell, Gateway, and HP commercials. That's because Apple doesn't advertise on porn channels.
How about people who just want to get their work done?
I started using the Mac long before Windows even existed and I haven't found any reason to switch away from it. Although I was tempted to switch to the Amiga at one time, Windows never seemed like it was better.
I'm -really- tired of people saying how well OpenOffice works when it doesn't. Just because it -is- an alternative doesn't mean it's superior, or even on an even footing with its competition. Open Office works fine for me. My company switched to it over a year ago because they didn't want to pay for MS Office and I haven't heard any complaints.
NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE forces ANYONE to use windows. My daughter is forced to use Windows at school even though she has offered to bring her Mac laptop in and use it instead. I suppose you could make the argument that I could put her into another school, but without my consent SHE doesn't have that option.
Let me clue you in: the multi-year disinformation campaign against OpenGL didn't help Microsoft's reputation. Neither did stealing the code for QuickTime for Windows via Canyon software and then adding it to Video for Windows. Neither did going around saying "DOS isn't done until Lotus 1-2-3 won't run."
We all find it easy to bash Microsoft, their products, and their practices, and quite rightly so, but you can't really argue with Gates's way of using his riches. Even the most cynical would have to admit his heart is in the right place. I think you underestimate how cynical people can be.
that you're one of those imbeciles who believes the Moon landings were fake.
As for Amtrak, we need a reliable, cheap, fast national rail system, if for no other reason than rail travel is much more efficient than either automobile or airplane travel. Unfortunately, Amtrak has been the victim of bad management and underfunding for many, many years. First, I disagree that we need a passanger rail sysem. If we did need such a system, it would exist because it would be economical to run it. And you are right that Amtrak is poorly managed like most government programs including NASA.
I think it is ridiculous that our government is so big and wastes so much money.
The last time I checked the constitution, the purpose of the federal government didn't including space exploration.
on how to prevent the email I sent to an individual person from not being thrown away by their spam filter.
For example, yesterday I needed to send a debug build of my software to another guy who works for my company but who is at a customer's site. The purpose was so that he could reproduce a bug that he was seeing over there.
Since he didn't have access to our internal network and he isn't very technical, I decided to email him the file. However, it was too large and over the limit for our Exchange server. So, I used yousendit.com.
An hour later, he still didn't have email and it turns out it was filtered into the spam folder and he didn't see it. I regularly use two different spam filters. One is on our company's Exchange server and the other is with my.mac account and Apple's Mail client. Both are worthless. They let spam through and filter email from friends.
Fair enough - and when Mac users stop saying things like that, I'll stop saying they're pretentious.
Though, I do actually have a macbook pro, so I guess that includes me too.
We all know that owning an object automatically causes you to have certain personality traits. And it makes you cool and gives you a whole set of new friends, membership in a secret society, etc.
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She was a big fan of punk (like me) and had seen Fugazi several times. That was important to me.
We disagree on some music though. She likes U2 and I don't. I like Aimee Mann and she doesn't.
I have met the guys from Unsanity. They are very nice, smart guys, but I was quite aware that APE opens security holes well before MOAB and this is one of two reasons I avoid things that do system-level patching on OS X (the other one being stability.)
Speaking of Hodgeman and sympathy, did you see Gates on The Daily Show? The instant the interview was over, Gates did an about-face and high-tailed it out of there. Didn't even sit down and do the faux-chat thing during the transition to the commercial break. The guy couldn't generate sympathy if he tried, he has no social graces at all. He didn't even use any humor during the interview - he spoke like it was a advertisement for laundry detergent, not an interview with Jon Stewart.
I agree. A couple of years ago I heard him speak in person at WinHeck. At the beginning of the speech he did sort of a "light introduction" (for a normal person I would say "joke" but for Gates that would be aiming too high) where he talked about the story of him saying that people didn't need more than 64K. (Or was it 640K, I don't remember.) And basically I was waiting for the punch line - there wasn't one. He basically just said "I never said that". And the whole thing was so completely irrelevant that it was just stupid.And then his keynote was so boring that I actually fell asleep.
I've been to WWDC several times and seen Steve Jobs speak and I have never fallen asleep. Steve Jobs may not be the best jokester in the world, but he is a very good communicator. In fact, I can't picture him going on Jon Steward's show because: Jobs isn't funny enough to do the show well, he doesn't do self deprecating humor well, AND he is smart enough to already be aware that he couldn't pull it off. Gates is the sort of nerd who just doesn't know/care that he is not funny or interesting or tasteful.
The same is NOT true with Vista.
These aren't exploits in the wild - they are researcher type stuff.
However, I think it is strange that Bill Gates has heard of MOAB, but hasn't seen Apple's television ads (but still comments on the television ads.) That seems weird. I think it would have gone over better if he had said something along the lines of "Of course I saw them. John Hodgeman is great and people like him better than the Mac guy." At least he would have come off more sympathetically.
I really think Microsoft has a corporate culture based around lying (including lying to themselves) and tackiness which comes straight from Gates and Ballmer.
Also, I think he is setting himself up to look stupid by daring people to find exploits in Windows.
I'm not sure why you are saying yousendit.com is a kludge. It seems to work OK for me.
I wonder why everyone assumes the choices are CFLs or incandescents? They have these new things called LEDs.
It is threads like this that keep me coming back to Slashdot.
Windows isn't worth stealing either. Get Linux.
How about people who just want to get their work done?
I started using the Mac long before Windows even existed and I haven't found any reason to switch away from it. Although I was tempted to switch to the Amiga at one time, Windows never seemed like it was better.
Let me clue you in: the multi-year disinformation campaign against OpenGL didn't help Microsoft's reputation. Neither did stealing the code for QuickTime for Windows via Canyon software and then adding it to Video for Windows. Neither did going around saying "DOS isn't done until Lotus 1-2-3 won't run."
As for Amtrak, we need a reliable, cheap, fast national rail system, if for no other reason than rail travel is much more efficient than either automobile or airplane travel. Unfortunately, Amtrak has been the victim of bad management and underfunding for many, many years. First, I disagree that we need a passanger rail sysem. If we did need such a system, it would exist because it would be economical to run it. And you are right that Amtrak is poorly managed like most government programs including NASA.
I think it is ridiculous that our government is so big and wastes so much money.
The last time I checked the constitution, the purpose of the federal government didn't including space exploration.
on how to prevent the email I sent to an individual person from not being thrown away by their spam filter.
.mac account and Apple's Mail client. Both are worthless. They let spam through and filter email from friends.
For example, yesterday I needed to send a debug build of my software to another guy who works for my company but who is at a customer's site. The purpose was so that he could reproduce a bug that he was seeing over there.
Since he didn't have access to our internal network and he isn't very technical, I decided to email him the file. However, it was too large and over the limit for our Exchange server. So, I used yousendit.com.
An hour later, he still didn't have email and it turns out it was filtered into the spam folder and he didn't see it. I regularly use two different spam filters. One is on our company's Exchange server and the other is with my
Fair enough - and when Mac users stop saying things like that, I'll stop saying they're pretentious.
Though, I do actually have a macbook pro, so I guess that includes me too.
We all know that owning an object automatically causes you to have certain personality traits. And it makes you cool and gives you a whole set of new friends, membership in a secret society, etc.Wait..was I being sarcastic?