An associate reviewed Adobe Acrobat version 6. She said she did not like it as well as version 5.
Sometimes in a software company, the good, creative, technically knowledgeable people leave. The company that remains is not able to continue in a competent fashion, but they don't want the customers to know that.
I know of two software companies that went out of business by releasing one bad version.
Treating ALL of your customers as though they are criminals to stop the pirates is all war, all the time. The basic thinking seems familiar. Is Adobe learning something from the U.S. government?
Of course, if Adobe REALLY wants to be self-destructive, it will invade Iraq.
Yes, and I have spent time doing business in Taipei. My understanding is that there is a big likelihood that there will be an earthquake larger than 7 on the Richter scale. Not only that, but I doubt their ability to know every technical problem of having an earthquake of 7 on the scale.
The article says, "Some have worried that the building would be dangerous in earthquake -prone Taiwan. But the skyscraper's developers have said the closest fault line is 660 feet from the building, and the fault hasn't been active in 45,000 years."
This is utter nonsense. An earthquake does not need to be close to a building to destroy it.
Earthquakes close to 7 are not rare. The Bay Area quake was 6.9. California is part of the same earthquake system, the Pacific basin.
I tried to go to the URL you referenced: Gotcha: Pushing
The Limits of Due Diligence
with Firebird. I got the message at the bottom. This is Forbes' way of
saying, "Our Corporation is as out of touch as the writer of the story
referenced in the Slashdot article, Daniel Lyons."
What is the cost to Forbes of being known as a dinosaur on Slashdot? Will Forbes lose the opportunity to
hire knowledgeable people, who might rather work elsewhere?
Anyhow, the article you referenced is prescription only, and I don't even have a doctor. What does the article say, in general?
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There's never a substitute for troubleshooting the problem. What artifacts? Why? Once you solve those problems, it may be irrelevant what printer you use for proofing.
In this case, it was what you would expect, since PivX was presenting a database. Microsoft would fix some bugs, but there would be new ones. Microsoft fixed only a few bugs at a time.
The user doesn't know to do this. There is no package insert that educates him or her. A penny's worth of printed paper could do a lot to solve the problem.
If you want a permanent copy of the unpatched vulnerabilities, get it now, because Google's cache does not last forever. See the parent post for a link. Since Microsoft has stopped improving IE, we may be living with those vulnerabilities for a long time.
Just guessing, but did Microsoft make Pivx take down their web page discussing 31 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer? If so, it is good that Microsoft decided not to buy a billion dollars of bad publicity by asking Google to erase the cache.
It seems to me that the important measure is the speed per unit of CPU power, not the speed alone.
Even if you have a single-user workstation, you don't want to just sit there while the computer completes a previous operation. That's what would happen if the CPU utilization were high.
So, the most important number is the Work/CPU % column. That column shows the true efficiency.
Second, fully journalling file systems cannot be compared with those that do less work and offer little safety.
We'll give you 0.01%. We keep 99.99%.
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To me, the "competition" seems to say, "We've been given $2,500,000 by Microsoft to find security vulnerabilities in Windows. Give us $25,000 worth of information about how to improve Windows and we will give you $250."
Okay, here is my contribution: Unpatched IE security holes -- 11 September 2003: There are currently 31 unpatched vulnerabilities. Okay, where's my money?
The usual reason someone becomes a destructive hacker is that he or she feels abused by adults. Isn't this more abuse?
IBM wanted people to think OS/2 was "cool", so the company began calling it
"Warp", which to the people at the time who were likely to be old enough and
powerful enough to make big purchases meant "bend out of shape in such a way
as to possibly render useless".
Well, I'm here to report that it worked. IBM did in fact succeed in
associating the word "cool" with OS/2. IBM lost a "cool" billion dollars on
OS/2. In the years immediately following, IBM lost another "cool" billion
dollars. That's positively frigid.
OS/2 is still "cool" in the sense that, because it is dead, it is no longer
warm.
So, that's a story about a big company trying to be cool.
Addition to my parent post: This article on a U.S. military web site implies that ALL U.S. military personnel are vaccinated against smallpox: Smallpox Research Project Data Presented
Apparently they were doing what I suggested in my parent post, although the research report doesn't say that: GMU, GW in Patent, Ethics Dispute. The Washington Post article is badly reported, because it doesn't mention the scientific basis for believing smallpox vaccine could stop AIDS.
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Exactly right.
Hardware locks cost maybe $32 in quantity. A software company's accountants don't want to lose $32,000,000 on a million copies.
Protected USB ports are no problem. They can be inside the case.
An associate reviewed Adobe Acrobat version 6. She said she did not like it as well as version 5.
Sometimes in a software company, the good, creative, technically knowledgeable people leave. The company that remains is not able to continue in a competent fashion, but they don't want the customers to know that.
I know of two software companies that went out of business by releasing one bad version.
Treating ALL of your customers as though they are criminals to stop the pirates is all war, all the time. The basic thinking seems familiar. Is Adobe learning something from the U.S. government?
Of course, if Adobe REALLY wants to be self-destructive, it will invade Iraq.
Yes, and I have spent time doing business in Taipei. My understanding is that there is a big likelihood that there will be an earthquake larger than 7 on the Richter scale. Not only that, but I doubt their ability to know every technical problem of having an earthquake of 7 on the scale.
The article says, "Some have worried that the building would be dangerous in earthquake -prone Taiwan. But the skyscraper's developers have said the closest fault line is 660 feet from the building, and the fault hasn't been active in 45,000 years."
This is utter nonsense. An earthquake does not need to be close to a building to destroy it.
Earthquakes close to 7 are not rare. The Bay Area quake was 6.9. California is part of the same earthquake system, the Pacific basin.
No one seems to have mentioned that Taipei is in an earthquake zone, a very serious one.
Yes, it has been a failure, but, considering the underlying theory of killing to stop violence, that should be expected.
"Marketing is a black art."
Lies are a black art.
If Microsoft knows anything about marketing, why do so many people hate the company?
The facts fit this theory better: Microsoft is a badly managed company that can stay in business because of having a virtual monopoly.
It amazes me how bad technically oriented people are at marketing. What's next, Redfoot?
Please post his answer, or ask him to post it.
I tried to go to the URL you referenced: Gotcha: Pushing The Limits of Due Diligence with Firebird. I got the message at the bottom. This is Forbes' way of saying, "Our Corporation is as out of touch as the writer of the story referenced in the Slashdot article, Daniel Lyons."
What is the cost to Forbes of being known as a dinosaur on Slashdot? Will Forbes lose the opportunity to hire knowledgeable people, who might rather work elsewhere?
Anyhow, the article you referenced is prescription only, and I don't even have a doctor. What does the article say, in general?
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There's never a substitute for troubleshooting the problem. What artifacts? Why? Once you solve those problems, it may be irrelevant what printer you use for proofing.
In this case, it was what you would expect, since PivX was presenting a database. Microsoft would fix some bugs, but there would be new ones. Microsoft fixed only a few bugs at a time.
A short history of vulnerabilities reported by PivX:
- June 18, 2002: 18 vulnerabilities
- August 8, 2002: 22 vulnerabilities
- September 9, 2002: 19 vulnerabilities
- November 19, 2002: 32 vulnerabilities
- December 9, 2002: 19 vulnerabilities. (Microsoft fixed 15 on Nov. 20, but two new ones were found.)
(From my article: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.The user doesn't know to do this. There is no package insert that educates him or her. A penny's worth of printed paper could do a lot to solve the problem.
If you want a permanent copy of the unpatched vulnerabilities, get it now, because Google's cache does not last forever. See the parent post for a link. Since Microsoft has stopped improving IE, we may be living with those vulnerabilities for a long time.
Just guessing, but did Microsoft make Pivx take down their web page discussing 31 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer? If so, it is good that Microsoft decided not to buy a billion dollars of bad publicity by asking Google to erase the cache.
The page is gone: Unpatched IE security holes, but lives on in Google's cache.
Google's cache: 11 September 2003: There are currently 31 unpatched vulnerabilities..
It seems to me that the important measure is the speed per unit of CPU power, not the speed alone.
Even if you have a single-user workstation, you don't want to just sit there while the computer completes a previous operation. That's what would happen if the CPU utilization were high.
So, the most important number is the Work/CPU % column. That column shows the true efficiency.
Second, fully journalling file systems cannot be compared with those that do less work and offer little safety.
To me, the "competition" seems to say, "We've been given $2,500,000 by Microsoft to find security vulnerabilities in Windows. Give us $25,000 worth of information about how to improve Windows and we will give you $250."
Okay, here is my contribution: Unpatched IE security holes -- 11 September 2003: There are currently 31 unpatched vulnerabilities. Okay, where's my money?
The usual reason someone becomes a destructive hacker is that he or she feels abused by adults. Isn't this more abuse?
IBM wanted people to think OS/2 was "cool", so the company began calling it "Warp", which to the people at the time who were likely to be old enough and powerful enough to make big purchases meant "bend out of shape in such a way as to possibly render useless".
Well, I'm here to report that it worked. IBM did in fact succeed in associating the word "cool" with OS/2. IBM lost a "cool" billion dollars on OS/2. In the years immediately following, IBM lost another "cool" billion dollars. That's positively frigid.
OS/2 is still "cool" in the sense that, because it is dead, it is no longer warm.
So, that's a story about a big company trying to be cool.
All the Beowulfed clustered Natalie Portman hot grits belong to Signal 11.
Okay, moderators, do your duty. This is all off-topic.
Ever have nostalgia for the old Slashdot? Here you are:
What do training bras teach?
War is God's way of teaching George Bush to find Iraq on the map.
50% of everything is below average.
The Thesaurus was prehistoric reptile with a great vocabulary.
How do they get Teflon to stick to the pans?
How do you know if you run out of invisible ink?
The cost of living is high, but it remains popular.
"Why does everyone always overgeneralize?"
Any attempt to brew coffee with a USB teapot should result in the error code "418: I'm a teapot".
Ethernet - A device for catching the Ether Bunny.
Why do hippies like Oregon? Because there are no jobs.
I'd like to back up my hard drive, but I don't know how to put it into reverse.
Flying Rule #1: Keep the pointy end forward.
The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
I've lost my faith in nihilism.
"Ah yes, the Tomahawk Cruise missle... the rich country's car bomb."
I'm in search of myself. If you find me before I arrive, please have me wait.
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
AAATMA - American Association Against Too Many Acronyms
The metric system is the tool of the devil!! i get forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way i likes it!!
Moderating trolls and flames as "Offtopic" is Unfair and will be metamoderated as such.
It all started when I thought that inflammable was the opposite of flammable...
If you are angry with someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
Addition to my parent post: This article on a U.S. military web site implies that ALL U.S. military personnel are vaccinated against smallpox: Smallpox Research Project Data Presented
Apparently they were doing what I suggested in my parent post, although the research report doesn't say that: GMU, GW in Patent, Ethics Dispute. The Washington Post article is badly reported, because it doesn't mention the scientific basis for believing smallpox vaccine could stop AIDS.
Recently those in the U.S. military were vaccinated against smallpox. It seems easy to track whether they have a lower incidence of AIDS infection.
Okay, contact me. We can talk. I might have something.
Yes, but the result is still very wet.
"... a mere teaspoon of the stuff can absorb a gallon of water"
Somebody has been pulling a reporter's leg.