No, Mr. Brown is being proud to be the one apologizing. A politician's way of bragging to the other politicians that he got to do it and they didn't. Peacocks are all the same.
First I don't blame MS for doing what they did, I do thank them, though I don't use or benefit from their code.
Second, how can anyone actually defend MS actions here. They got caught benefiting from public efforts and were forced to release the minimum code. They put little effort into the task and delivered crap (as usual). So Good on you MS, now can you please clean up the pile of $%# you left in the corner, thank you.
Yes but I'm fluent in both 6502/x86 and if I get access to a piece of executable memory that I can stuff with a program, I just have to put numbers there and figure out how to cause it to be executed. Not that hard actually. Nothing is safe with enough time and resources.
Most actually don't and MS certification is at best barely useful without a complete windows infrastructure. Using only Linux is a bit of a handicap after you graduate unless you stay in academia for the rest of your career but that doesn't hold true for some of the Major schools around here that are either Mac OS X or Windows entrenched. Exposure to all of the systems is something I recommend because you are sure to get a job if you know at least the basics of all of them. It's catch as catch can in the real world. In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they rarely are.
Wow, how original, a mishmash of two very tired metaphors er I mean stories er I mean allegories er well doesn't anyone actually want to do something original?
Thanks for the info but as an iPhone developer I'll keep Apple's current formula. Allows me to still make money and reduces the competition. Sorry if it thwarts the public's desire for better software for free but I gotta eat too.
Done finished raising my young 'un, now have to put up with the job (or lack thereof) that other people have done with theirs. Yeah "We" you think you're in this alone there Tonto! "Takes a village to raise a child", isn't just a platitude!
Do we really need another class of uneducated hippy children. Or even barely educated yuppy spawn. I would have thought that we had learned this lesson already. Most but not all of the home schooled kids i know were home schooled by bible (or religious book of your choice) thumping fundys that were upset that their precious spawn couldn't pray in school. Alternately they were too sick to attend school. Some of them were even home schooled so that they could be slave labor for their parents business. Some of them were yuppy spawn that had parents that were just fringers and believed that no one could educate their precious better than they could but they were wrong too.
Now here comes "Unschooling" yeah we just let them do what comes naturally and they somehow absorb an education by osmosis. Sorry, if that worked we would never have invented school in the first place. Charlemagne was right, get over it.
We have enough problems... We always have enough problems, there is never a better time than now and when you think like that you wind up dying a bitter old man who never got out and did anything because you always had enough problems for now.
There are far more things to die for than you seem willing to admit. There are many things to learn. I see value in sacrifice for knowledge's sake. Many other people have as well.
While I really would rather send them with some hope of survival if not return, sending them may indeed spur the very discovery that will save them in the long run. Humans seem to do their best work under extreme pressure. These discussions are actually very useful in finding these things out and nay saying automatically is useless.
Yeah, last time I tried to fabricate a steak, it got a little out of hand and I had to flush the whole project down the sink with lots of sulfuric acid. They really are easier to grow but ya got to get them there first. Sending lots of food as seeds might be a good bootstrap. finding water and other necessary organic substances to keep them growing might be tricky but I believe we already established that there is viable soil there.
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Harnessing the Streisand effect is genius. It's almost on a level with exploiting Murphy.
No, Mr. Brown is being proud to be the one apologizing. A politician's way of bragging to the other politicians that he got to do it and they didn't. Peacocks are all the same.
I'd say since about 24 hours ago or however long it was. Seems to have worked.
First I don't blame MS for doing what they did, I do thank them, though I don't use or benefit from their code.
Second, how can anyone actually defend MS actions here. They got caught benefiting from public efforts and were forced to release the minimum code. They put little effort into the task and delivered crap (as usual). So Good on you MS, now can you please clean up the pile of $%# you left in the corner, thank you.
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Seconded!
Please do, we'll contact you when the product ships!
Wrong only two, Man Vs himself and Man Vs Nature.
Yes but I'm fluent in both 6502/x86 and if I get access to a piece of executable memory that I can stuff with a program, I just have to put numbers there and figure out how to cause it to be executed. Not that hard actually. Nothing is safe with enough time and resources.
Most actually don't and MS certification is at best barely useful without a complete windows infrastructure. Using only Linux is a bit of a handicap after you graduate unless you stay in academia for the rest of your career but that doesn't hold true for some of the Major schools around here that are either Mac OS X or Windows entrenched. Exposure to all of the systems is something I recommend because you are sure to get a job if you know at least the basics of all of them. It's catch as catch can in the real world. In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they rarely are.
Wow, how original, a mishmash of two very tired metaphors er I mean stories er I mean allegories er well doesn't anyone actually want to do something original?
Ironically it was Microsoft that actually did exploit Firefox to auto install a plugin!
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it hasn't happened!
Yup and I like it that way. At least one company knows how to protect it's developers income stream. Keeps me in beans and bullets. So there!
This is why they pulled it this morning I bet!
Thanks for the info but as an iPhone developer I'll keep Apple's current formula.
Allows me to still make money and reduces the competition.
Sorry if it thwarts the public's desire for better software for free but I gotta eat too.
I suspected this thread would have very little to offer /. users and I was correct!
Done finished raising my young 'un, now have to put up with the job (or lack thereof) that other people have done with theirs. Yeah "We" you think you're in this alone there Tonto! "Takes a village to raise a child", isn't just a platitude!
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Wow, such deep knowledge you must have absorbed from all those movies.
Do we really need another class of uneducated hippy children. Or even barely educated yuppy spawn. I would have thought that we had learned this lesson already. Most but not all of the home schooled kids i know were home schooled by bible (or religious book of your choice) thumping fundys that were upset that their precious spawn couldn't pray in school. Alternately they were too sick to attend school. Some of them were even home schooled so that they could be slave labor for their parents business. Some of them were yuppy spawn that had parents that were just fringers and believed that no one could educate their precious better than they could but they were wrong too.
Now here comes "Unschooling" yeah we just let them do what comes naturally and they somehow absorb an education by osmosis. Sorry, if that worked we would never have invented school in the first place. Charlemagne was right, get over it.
We have enough problems... We always have enough problems, there is never a better time than now and when you think like that you wind up dying a bitter old man who never got out and did anything because you always had enough problems for now.
There are far more things to die for than you seem willing to admit. There are many things to learn. I see value in sacrifice for knowledge's sake. Many other people have as well.
While I really would rather send them with some hope of survival if not return, sending them may indeed spur the very discovery that will save them in the long run. Humans seem to do their best work under extreme pressure. These discussions are actually very useful in finding these things out and nay saying automatically is useless.
Yeah, last time I tried to fabricate a steak, it got a little out of hand and I had to flush the whole project down the sink with lots of sulfuric acid. They really are easier to grow but ya got to get them there first. Sending lots of food as seeds might be a good bootstrap. finding water and other necessary organic substances to keep them growing might be tricky but I believe we already established that there is viable soil there.
Seeing as how diamonds are the most common substance on earth I doubt that diamonds are worth the attempt.
I actually don't think there is a profitable resource in the universe that won't be exploited by us. Just takes a kick in the pants is all.