I asked Douglas Adams sign a book for a friend. When he had asked about it, I said "it's for a friend"... he gave me a sad look and I felt like a heel.
Meanwhile my wife had him sign the Apple II version of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" Infocom game. His reaction to her was "oh, wow, I've never signed one of these".
From the Microsoft website: Thoroughness: Microsoft was the only vendor to have corrected 100% of the publicly known flaws during the study's time period.
Well of course! Microsoft has been known to not admit to flaws publicly. It is only AFTER a virus starts trashing systems they come out with a fix. It is like "oh, yeah, we were getting a round tuit".
For you old enough to remember, this is just like the Ford Pinto where Execs concluded it was far cheaper to settle lawsuits than to fix the thing in the first place.
Were Microsoft to be liable for all the damages caused by their lack of adequate Q/A and Q/C you might see a better product.
Mythical Man-Month A Myth. Nine women bear a child in one month through genetic engineering. When asked, the lead researcher shrugged and replied, "We just wanted to piss Fred Brooks off."
Seems like the Russians are becoming more Democratic and the Democratic (society) is becoming more Communistic.
Is it just me or do other/.'ers feel the same way ??
No, not at all.
If this were Russia we couldn't afford VCR's.
Before everyone begins to panic, remember that we ALL have the ability to create our own processors (through the miracle of VHDL). Lockdown, smockdown, we can create our OWN standards. If they don't like it, tough.
True, it means that more and more of us will have to depend on GPL'd code, but to be honest, I've gotten more value out of that than I have out of the big dollar code (although I must admit, I still while away a lot of time with GarageBand).
No, our hardware won't be as pretty, and maybe not as fast or cool, but it will be OUR hardware.
WE, are NOT dependent on Microsoft, or Sun, or Apple, or Dell, or AMD. It is not 1975 and more people know about the internals of microprocessors than they did in that long bygone era.
If we want to do a number on the computer industry, we would start using GPL'd hardware. THAT would scare them!
You can't create more energy from less fuel. You can do it more efficiently, but this going to the electric motor and back isn't that efficient.
Depends on what you call efficient. Standard automobiles are anything but efficient - they are what the industry knows and feels comfortable with.
One design that I have heard about (but is never talked about) is the electric/gasoline hybrid. Sounds the same but isn't. This uses a gasoline motor running at a constant speed to provide the juice. All the energy is then sent to four electric motors. Said to be FAR more fuel efficient.
I work for a company that does email marketing, and our server has had the same IP address for over a year, and all of our emails come from the same domain, with clear opt-out instructions (in addition, you had to have opted in directly to have received it to begin with)
No, your company is sending spam. This is according to the Federal Trade commission (for example you can find it really quick at "Unsolicited Commercial Email").
Unless I tell you "hey, send me email" by default I am BORN as Opted-Out. Spammers, such as your company, believe that the mere sake of my walking on this Earth means somehow I have "Opted-In". That is such bullshit. I don't have to tell you jack.
Perhaps next you will "assume" that I want you to take my car, my watch, my bank account and my identity? After all I didn't fucking "opt-out"?
Without IP laws, companies would be forced to do as good of a job designing and implementing the product for fear of a competitor coming along and doing it better than they.
Actually, the whole POINT of IP lawsuits in business is to slow down a potential competitor. Why do I know this? Because there was a time when I had to look over patents (aww, who am I kidding, I still do) to see if we are, in fact, really infringing.
Most of these Cease and Desist are pure bullshit. The only relevance they had to the projects I worked on is a) they had a microprocessor in them (the projects, not the C&D) and b) the pointy haired types don't understand the technology they're in charge of (which is why I had to look make this determination).
So what did it gain anyone? Nothing. The projects rolled out and I wasted valuable time and money.
If business spent MORE time on making BETTER products and LESS time on trying to figure out how to get something for nothing, perhaps we would ALL be better off.
(In MS Meeting Room 30 feet below Earth's surface)
PHG (pointy hair guy): Right. We killed the old plan. MSGurus: Hooray! PHG: Everyone gets a bonus. MSGurus: Hooray! PHG: We have a better plan. MSGurus: Hooray... we think. PHG: Because we spent so much time and money on the old plan... MSGurus: Booooo! PHG: We have to implement the new time in a fraction of the time. Bill thinks six weeks is plenty. Meeting adjourned.
Many years ago (mid 90's) a friend I worked with (in a building full of PC's) would be humming along on his lone Mac. This was back in the pre-OS X days.
I would be cursing and he would be happy. I would be cranky and he would be... well you get the drift. Finally I said "yeah, it is a nice machine, but it costs so much!"
He said, "Buy one and you will never complain about the cost again."
So I did. And guess what? I stopped worrying so much about "Why does this no longer work?". I just worked.
Today I have five (including the iBook). And NOW I can spend the time to install things because I WANT to, not because the piece of dreck won't work like I want it to without it.
Everyone with a Windows machine should sign up for MS's monthly security e-mail or religiously check Windows Update on the second Tuesday of each month.
Now some IT guys may get off on knowing every frikkin' worm and virus and what stops them, but you know what REALLY stops them?
Good software in the first place.
Why does this make me mad? Because it is yet another goddam thing I have to worry about because someone is too goddam lazy to do QC PRIOR to the release of the software.
If you don't create the opportunity for virus writers, then you don't get viruses. Simple as that.
MS Windows is like the human body that has been overexposed to the sun, smoking cigerettes for its entire life, drinking constantly, and sleeps on two hours a day. Opportunity for illness? You bet!!!
Frankly, I don't think you can argue any ONE thing is responsible.
I think it is a combination of factors. The first, I would argue, is the 401K. That may make zero sense to the layman (and to those who have never heard of a pension) but the reality is that we now have people worrying over shit that they have no skills in. That is why pensions were a good thing - the folks that managed them were SUPPOSED to be knowlegable and not thieves. Now everyone is worried about finances.
Another aspect IS the role of the sciences. Or rather the attack on the sciences. When they prove that there is global warming (and yes, it IS proven), hacks in DC (who have zip knowledge) say no-no-no-don't-worry-your-pretty-head. Other hacks say listen-to-the-DC-hacks-and-by-the-way-Clintons-pen is -was-involved. So people have slowly (surprisingly) begun to distrust the scientists (after all what do they do?).
There is also a barrage of hack-crap of "creation science" which has less to do with science than theological argument. As a consequence adults, children, and the public at large get confused as to what science it. Is it opinion? If that is all it is, it can't be that important.
Face it folks, we let this happen. We wanted it to happen (argue what you want, technology don't happen without science). We wanted what we thought was "flexibility". We wanted our kids to be taught in a more God-like school. We wanted to believe our beloved SUV was not killing the planet.
WE are the ones that took the 30 pieces of silver and nailed Science to a piece of wood.
We just didn't notice that those pieces were in fact slugs.
I can tell you the password I use, but it is unlikely that you will ever type it out right (ah, the advantage of phonetic data hiding). Unlike silly stuff like >
"Kaan Yoo Heere Mi Mnowe?"
Everyone is taking the wrong attitude. We need to LISTEN to the spammers and do what they say. That way we'll end up with a nation of large breasted, large d**k, people, having sedated sex while watching everyone else on the net having sedated sex.
Slashdot Mirror
I asked Douglas Adams sign a book for a friend. When he had asked about it, I said "it's for a friend"... he gave me a sad look and I felt like a heel.
Meanwhile my wife had him sign the Apple II version of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" Infocom game. His reaction to her was "oh, wow, I've never signed one of these".
(sigh)
Last thing I need is a laptop that pees in my lap. That's what my cat is for.
From the Microsoft website: Thoroughness: Microsoft was the only vendor to have corrected 100% of the publicly known flaws during the study's time period.
Well of course! Microsoft has been known to not admit to flaws publicly. It is only AFTER a virus starts trashing systems they come out with a fix. It is like "oh, yeah, we were getting a round tuit".
For you old enough to remember, this is just like the Ford Pinto where Execs concluded it was far cheaper to settle lawsuits than to fix the thing in the first place.
Were Microsoft to be liable for all the damages caused by their lack of adequate Q/A and Q/C you might see a better product.
Mythical Man-Month A Myth. Nine women bear a child in one month through genetic engineering. When asked, the lead researcher shrugged and replied, "We just wanted to piss Fred Brooks off."
Seems like the Russians are becoming more Democratic and the Democratic (society) is becoming more Communistic. Is it just me or do other /.'ers feel the same way ??
No, not at all.
If this were Russia we couldn't afford VCR's.
I liken it to my toolbox in the garage. I have hundreds of tools that are great in their own right.
Yah, but only the chainsaw is that King of tools!
Feloneous
Before everyone begins to panic, remember that we ALL have the ability to create our own processors (through the miracle of VHDL). Lockdown, smockdown, we can create our OWN standards. If they don't like it, tough.
True, it means that more and more of us will have to depend on GPL'd code, but to be honest, I've gotten more value out of that than I have out of the big dollar code (although I must admit, I still while away a lot of time with GarageBand).
No, our hardware won't be as pretty, and maybe not as fast or cool, but it will be OUR hardware.
WE, are NOT dependent on Microsoft, or Sun, or Apple, or Dell, or AMD. It is not 1975 and more people know about the internals of microprocessors than they did in that long bygone era.
If we want to do a number on the computer industry, we would start using GPL'd hardware. THAT would scare them!
Feloneous
You can't create more energy from less fuel. You can do it more efficiently, but this going to the electric motor and back isn't that efficient.
Depends on what you call efficient. Standard automobiles are anything but efficient - they are what the industry knows and feels comfortable with.
One design that I have heard about (but is never talked about) is the electric/gasoline hybrid. Sounds the same but isn't. This uses a gasoline motor running at a constant speed to provide the juice. All the energy is then sent to four electric motors. Said to be FAR more fuel efficient.
I work for a company that does email marketing, and our server has had the same IP address for over a year, and all of our emails come from the same domain, with clear opt-out instructions (in addition, you had to have opted in directly to have received it to begin with)
No, your company is sending spam. This is according to the Federal Trade commission (for example you can find it really quick at "Unsolicited Commercial Email").
Unless I tell you "hey, send me email" by default I am BORN as Opted-Out. Spammers, such as your company, believe that the mere sake of my walking on this Earth means somehow I have "Opted-In". That is such bullshit. I don't have to tell you jack.
Perhaps next you will "assume" that I want you to take my car, my watch, my bank account and my identity? After all I didn't fucking "opt-out"?
Without IP laws, companies would be forced to do as good of a job designing and implementing the product for fear of a competitor coming along and doing it better than they.
Actually, the whole POINT of IP lawsuits in business is to slow down a potential competitor. Why do I know this? Because there was a time when I had to look over patents (aww, who am I kidding, I still do) to see if we are, in fact, really infringing.
Most of these Cease and Desist are pure bullshit. The only relevance they had to the projects I worked on is a) they had a microprocessor in them (the projects, not the C&D) and b) the pointy haired types don't understand the technology they're in charge of (which is why I had to look make this determination).
So what did it gain anyone? Nothing. The projects rolled out and I wasted valuable time and money.
If business spent MORE time on making BETTER products and LESS time on trying to figure out how to get something for nothing, perhaps we would ALL be better off.
Except for the lawyers.
(In MS Meeting Room 30 feet below Earth's surface)
PHG (pointy hair guy): Right. We killed the old plan.
MSGurus: Hooray!
PHG: Everyone gets a bonus.
MSGurus: Hooray!
PHG: We have a better plan.
MSGurus: Hooray... we think.
PHG: Because we spent so much time and money on the old plan...
MSGurus: Booooo!
PHG: We have to implement the new time in a fraction of the time. Bill thinks six weeks is plenty. Meeting adjourned.
Many years ago (mid 90's) a friend I worked with (in a building full of PC's) would be humming along on his lone Mac. This was back in the pre-OS X days.
I would be cursing and he would be happy. I would be cranky and he would be... well you get the drift. Finally I said "yeah, it is a nice machine, but it costs so much!"
He said, "Buy one and you will never complain about the cost again."
So I did. And guess what? I stopped worrying so much about "Why does this no longer work?". I just worked.
Today I have five (including the iBook). And NOW I can spend the time to install things because I WANT to, not because the piece of dreck won't work like I want it to without it.
Everyone with a Windows machine should sign up for MS's monthly security e-mail or religiously check Windows Update on the second Tuesday of each month.
Now some IT guys may get off on knowing every frikkin' worm and virus and what stops them, but you know what REALLY stops them?
Good software in the first place.
Why does this make me mad? Because it is yet another goddam thing I have to worry about because someone is too goddam lazy to do QC PRIOR to the release of the software.
If you don't create the opportunity for virus writers, then you don't get viruses. Simple as that.
MS Windows is like the human body that has been overexposed to the sun, smoking cigerettes for its entire life, drinking constantly, and sleeps on two hours a day. Opportunity for illness? You bet!!!
Notably, Janus is the god of gates and doors
We've already had "The Doors"... granted it wasn't an OS, but man, talk about the freedom...
Purple Haze!!!!
Feloneous "Make that TWO tabs" Cat
Frankly, I don't think you can argue any ONE thing is responsible.
n is -was-involved. So people have slowly (surprisingly) begun to distrust the scientists (after all what do they do?).
I think it is a combination of factors. The first, I would argue, is the 401K. That may make zero sense to the layman (and to those who have never heard of a pension) but the reality is that we now have people worrying over shit that they have no skills in. That is why pensions were a good thing - the folks that managed them were SUPPOSED to be knowlegable and not thieves. Now everyone is worried about finances.
Another aspect IS the role of the sciences. Or rather the attack on the sciences. When they prove that there is global warming (and yes, it IS proven), hacks in DC (who have zip knowledge) say no-no-no-don't-worry-your-pretty-head. Other hacks say listen-to-the-DC-hacks-and-by-the-way-Clintons-pe
There is also a barrage of hack-crap of "creation science" which has less to do with science than theological argument. As a consequence adults, children, and the public at large get confused as to what science it. Is it opinion? If that is all it is, it can't be that important.
Face it folks, we let this happen. We wanted it to happen (argue what you want, technology don't happen without science). We wanted what we thought was "flexibility". We wanted our kids to be taught in a more God-like school. We wanted to believe our beloved SUV was not killing the planet.
WE are the ones that took the 30 pieces of silver and nailed Science to a piece of wood.
We just didn't notice that those pieces were in fact slugs.
Feloneous
Well, I'm slowly going deaf and frankly the only sense that I've noticed getting sharper is the ability to smell the litter box before my mate.
Frankly, I think that kinda' sucks as a super-power.
I mean, frankly, what does this buy them? Anything?
I'm more puzzled than angered.
Objective-C really beats the pants off of C++ (or as I put it, makes programming fun again).
The only downside to Objective-C is that you DO take a slight (very slight according to those in the know) performance hit.
Other than that, I love it.
I've seen theologists write PhD thesis' about how D&D is not sacreligious.
Then what am I doing with this blood drenched head of a goat?
We DID use trained pigeons...
Then we found out how poorly payed our IT guy was.
Apparently, they taste just like chicken. So do the pigeons.
... can it be too far behind?
"Medic! Medic"
"Inaminute, I'm almost to the 15th level!"
feloneous
When do I get my wings so I can "Fly, my pretty's, fly, bwaahahahahaha".
That and the fact that the fez hat is kewl!
feloneous
I can tell you the password I use, but it is unlikely that you will ever type it out right (ah, the advantage of phonetic data hiding). Unlike silly stuff like >
"Kaan Yoo Heere Mi Mnowe?"
feloneous
I'm guessing most university libraries still don't stock porn mags in the periodicals section.
Playboy was regularly stocked at my college library when I was a student. And that was during the Reagan "anti-porn" years.
Granted, most people don't consider it to be porn (just us old people!).
Everyone is taking the wrong attitude. We need to LISTEN to the spammers and do what they say. That way we'll end up with a nation of large breasted, large d**k, people, having sedated sex while watching everyone else on the net having sedated sex.
feloneous