...to just hang out with the US Government in your pocket, making laws n stuff. I mean, the MPAA, a private organization buying a law to give another government agency more power to constitutionalize their original law. Genious!
I'm a Linux zealot, or at least someone who uses it every day , and I don't claim that Windows machines get hacked every 5 minutes. I'm sure, that worldwide, 1 is hacked in some way every few seconds but with a proper firewall and a giant sticky note on the monitor that says: "Rememeber: don't open attachments from people with really bad english,anymore.", I think windows CAN be secure.
As a Linux user I just find it amusing that there are Windows software packages whose sole purpose is to find and delete programs that secretly installed themselves to spy on the user or send spam or whatever. Not only that, they find hundreds of them! I mean, your some guy, you buy a $1000 machine, and the Russia mafia is borrowing it without you knowing to send email about great prices on v|4grA and black dildos. Its just great.
His promise: Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge 'a thing of the past'.
Wow, really playing catchup with Mac and Linux there. Those things have been a 'thing' of the past for a lot of people for a long time.
Well, I can say for certain 99% of windows users are incompetent with computers, because computers are not the hobby/profession they have chosen. Super elite windows users like you with no spyware are rare.
You know, there used to be a saying about Linux at one point: Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing. This isn't a bash against Linux or OSS: _nothing_ is really free, not even a pirated copy of Windows.
There is a new saying now. WindowsXP is only $50 if your time is free because your going to be installing/patching/de-spyware-ing/virus scanning/rebooting/BSODing for the rest of your life.
You want them to be forced to unbundle their apps. Then after they unbundle their apps you complain that Windows doesn't come bundled with any apps.
I read the parent 3 times and he never mentioned unbundling apps.
I'd also like the point out that the OSS comminuity doesn't give a shit what MS bundles. Why would we? We don't use Windows remember. The people who complain about bundling are the people who are selling competing products.
Now a days, some bloggers are more real journalists than journalists. (in USA at least) Just checking facts and understanding the issue makes a blogger more qualfied than most of the press in this country.
Journalists/Press people have their job because they have the right face, hair, and name to be on TV. Other thant that, they are pretty much brain dead.
Haven't you noticed a lot of the big name news channels are actually reading news right from blogs now. CNN,MSNBC,etc have spots where they actually show the website and read the words off it. Its actually lame as shit. I think MSNBC has hot chicks that do it.
And the next day...Ogara is gone. I think the emails poeple sent had more of an effect than the other editors complaining. After all, the fear of OSS people rallying against something is just about as effective as OSS people rallying against something.
Has this problem. He is a really good programmer but he shits and pisses all over the bathroom and then leaves it there like noone will know its him. A VP had to send out a company wide email basically saying that if you shit and piss all over the bathroom to please clean up after yourself.
However, I do think there is an important lesson in here - a lot of open source advocates have set an unreasonable level of expectations by proclaiming the amazing magic of open source: A fantasy world where every line is thoroughly vetted by thousands of super-experts, and if the source is available that instantly disproves the existence of malicious intent (put a trojan out, mark in GPL and make the source available, and I'd bet a lot of the converted would immediately download and install blindly.
Please, name these magical advocates and provide some links or at least one quote from a well known advocate who preaches that. You can't. Why? Because they don't exist.
Maybe you have talked with a single person who has this view or whose only open source experience has been with large projects where thousands of people are hacking the code. I can assure you the OSS community is not trying to trick people into thinking Linus himself is reviewing every line. I will say peer review is a huge part of the open source development process and one of the biggest assets we have to help us create secure code. Case in point, Firefox developers knew about this bug long before the public found out about it its already been fixed. Name a time MS fixed something the same day.
With many projects, you can go right to the sourceforge.net page and see how many developers are actually working on the project and how many outside patches have come in. I don't even see how open source advocates could even hope to argue what you are suggesting.
That being said, I think that a lot of developers go out of their way to write clear, simple, and concise code when they plan on releasing it to the world. They code to the best of thier ability at the time and they are proud of every line.(even if it is crap) The point is to make a good enough program for people to actually use and to maybe attract one or two people interested in helping in any way possible. Thats hard to do if your putting out shit. What I'm saying is that a lot of people tend to put a little extra love and care into code because they want to recieve mad props from their peers and often times this alone leads to better, more secure code.
I realize, your a Windows developer. I'm sure you get into arguments about open source with people all the time. Have you ever released something open source? I also don't understand why people who believe in the open source development model are 'evangelists'.
whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine
If by 'tracking', you mean parking your pickup truck on the side of the road and releasing some dogs to flush deer into the open while down a case of Shlitz...yeah, thats tracking.
I don't care if Windows is faster, I won't use it. Just because its faster is some benchmark doesn't mean jack because I would still have to administrate the POS. I'd rather just buy a faster system.
I just want to say that I went to catholic school more than public school duing my 1st grade through high school years, mainly because the public schools in California were really bad.
Anyway. I think its interesting to point out that even in a Catholic Jr High and High school, Biology teachers taught only evolution. I took regular Biology and AP Bio II in cathloic school and the only time I ever heard about creation was during freshmean year in theology I.
My theology teacher was also quick to point out that the Old Testament was basically a collection of stories and fables passed down via oral tradition and used teach people how to be good people and follow God, not real. Even the Israelites who told the stories didn't believe they actually happened but each story has a teaching or two you should come away with.
So, maybe public schools can just offer a theology class. You don't have to take it, have it cover all types of religion, and teach about creation. Theology is actually quite interesting and I think this whole fundamentalist problem we have now is due to that the only theological education these people are getting is from crooked priests and pastors.
I thought the problem Netscape had with MS was not the price but the fact that starting with Win98, IE4 was basically the whole Windows Shell. The web browser was basically part of the OS, effectively shutting out Netscape.
In an extreme case (and this has been documented to happen in grocery stores... and other businesses as well) a chain of stores will drop the price of all of their products (at some stores) to below cost in order to drive out competition on the philosophy that eventually you can raise prices once the cometition has gone out of business. This sort of practice is generally illegal.
Do you happen to have any case law, state, of federal laws to back this up because it can't be true. Selling at a loss to gain market share is not illegal. It happens all the time, whole business models are built around it. DSL, gaming consoles,browser wars (MS vs Netscape),etc.
Also, price fixing laws specfically state collusion between two or more parties to artifically keep prices higher than the market demand. Here we have PC hobbist writing software and licensing it for free, as long as you donate your chages back to the common pool if you distribute. I mean, price fixing laws are there to protect the consumer from aritfically HIGH prices, they are not there to protect corporations who have to lower their prices to compete.
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Microsoft will patent some small thing about tabbed browsing that 100 Firefox pluings will have done for years.
I don't care, I just want SoundStorm back!!! Give it to me!!
AJAX.NET!!
- completely incompatable with Mozilla and FireFox
- executes arbitrary code on the client machine!
- embraced AND extended
No shit Sherlock Holmes.
You don't have to run the application to pre-load parts it it into memory. In fact, does't the whole windows shell share a lot of components with IE?
MS does the same thing with office to make it start faster.
...to just hang out with the US Government in your pocket, making laws n stuff. I mean, the MPAA, a private organization buying a law to give another government agency more power to constitutionalize their original law. Genious!
I'm a Linux zealot, or at least someone who uses it every day , and I don't claim that Windows machines get hacked every 5 minutes. I'm sure, that worldwide, 1 is hacked in some way every few seconds but with a proper firewall and a giant sticky note on the monitor that says: "Rememeber: don't open attachments from people with really bad english,anymore.", I think windows CAN be secure.
As a Linux user I just find it amusing that there are Windows software packages whose sole purpose is to find and delete programs that secretly installed themselves to spy on the user or send spam or whatever. Not only that, they find hundreds of them! I mean, your some guy, you buy a $1000 machine, and the Russia mafia is borrowing it without you knowing to send email about great prices on v|4grA and black dildos. Its just great.
Wow, really playing catchup with Mac and Linux there. Those things have been a 'thing' of the past for a lot of people for a long time.
Well, I can say for certain 99% of windows users are incompetent with computers, because computers are not the hobby/profession they have chosen. Super elite windows users like you with no spyware are rare.
There is a new saying now. WindowsXP is only $50 if your time is free because your going to be installing/patching/de-spyware-ing/virus scanning/rebooting/BSODing for the rest of your life.
You want them to be forced to unbundle their apps. Then after they unbundle their apps you complain that Windows doesn't come bundled with any apps.
I read the parent 3 times and he never mentioned unbundling apps.
I'd also like the point out that the OSS comminuity doesn't give a shit what MS bundles. Why would we? We don't use Windows remember. The people who complain about bundling are the people who are selling competing products.
Now a days, some bloggers are more real journalists than journalists. (in USA at least) Just checking facts and understanding the issue makes a blogger more qualfied than most of the press in this country.
Journalists/Press people have their job because they have the right face, hair, and name to be on TV. Other thant that, they are pretty much brain dead.
Haven't you noticed a lot of the big name news channels are actually reading news right from blogs now. CNN,MSNBC,etc have spots where they actually show the website and read the words off it. Its actually lame as shit. I think MSNBC has hot chicks that do it.
And the next day...Ogara is gone. I think the emails poeple sent had more of an effect than the other editors complaining. After all, the fear of OSS people rallying against something is just about as effective as OSS people rallying against something.
If someone had the balls to kill O'Gara, I doubt they would be reading Slashdot.
Has this problem. He is a really good programmer but he shits and pisses all over the bathroom and then leaves it there like noone will know its him. A VP had to send out a company wide email basically saying that if you shit and piss all over the bathroom to please clean up after yourself.
Please, name these magical advocates and provide some links or at least one quote from a well known advocate who preaches that. You can't. Why? Because they don't exist.
Maybe you have talked with a single person who has this view or whose only open source experience has been with large projects where thousands of people are hacking the code. I can assure you the OSS community is not trying to trick people into thinking Linus himself is reviewing every line. I will say peer review is a huge part of the open source development process and one of the biggest assets we have to help us create secure code. Case in point, Firefox developers knew about this bug long before the public found out about it its already been fixed. Name a time MS fixed something the same day.
With many projects, you can go right to the sourceforge.net page and see how many developers are actually working on the project and how many outside patches have come in. I don't even see how open source advocates could even hope to argue what you are suggesting.
That being said, I think that a lot of developers go out of their way to write clear, simple, and concise code when they plan on releasing it to the world. They code to the best of thier ability at the time and they are proud of every line.(even if it is crap) The point is to make a good enough program for people to actually use and to maybe attract one or two people interested in helping in any way possible. Thats hard to do if your putting out shit. What I'm saying is that a lot of people tend to put a little extra love and care into code because they want to recieve mad props from their peers and often times this alone leads to better, more secure code.
I realize, your a Windows developer. I'm sure you get into arguments about open source with people all the time. Have you ever released something open source? I also don't understand why people who believe in the open source development model are 'evangelists'.
If by 'tracking', you mean parking your pickup truck on the side of the road and releasing some dogs to flush deer into the open while down a case of Shlitz...yeah, thats tracking.
Use all the on board stuff anyway. It keeps the inside of your case much cleaner, lower power consumption, better air flow, etc.
I don't care if Windows is faster, I won't use it. Just because its faster is some benchmark doesn't mean jack because I would still have to administrate the POS. I'd rather just buy a faster system.
Maybe he really tried to make good movies and he failed so he came up with this "I'm telling a story" excuse.
I just want to say that I went to catholic school more than public school duing my 1st grade through high school years, mainly because the public schools in California were really bad.
Anyway. I think its interesting to point out that even in a Catholic Jr High and High school, Biology teachers taught only evolution. I took regular Biology and AP Bio II in cathloic school and the only time I ever heard about creation was during freshmean year in theology I.
My theology teacher was also quick to point out that the Old Testament was basically a collection of stories and fables passed down via oral tradition and used teach people how to be good people and follow God, not real. Even the Israelites who told the stories didn't believe they actually happened but each story has a teaching or two you should come away with.
So, maybe public schools can just offer a theology class. You don't have to take it, have it cover all types of religion, and teach about creation. Theology is actually quite interesting and I think this whole fundamentalist problem we have now is due to that the only theological education these people are getting is from crooked priests and pastors.
I thought the problem Netscape had with MS was not the price but the fact that starting with Win98, IE4 was basically the whole Windows Shell. The web browser was basically part of the OS, effectively shutting out Netscape.
So I guess symantec is into writing virii and spyware now.
You mean zip, rared, and arjed, otherwise known as "the warez method".
Do you happen to have any case law, state, of federal laws to back this up because it can't be true. Selling at a loss to gain market share is not illegal. It happens all the time, whole business models are built around it. DSL, gaming consoles,browser wars (MS vs Netscape),etc.
Also, price fixing laws specfically state collusion between two or more parties to artifically keep prices higher than the market demand. Here we have PC hobbist writing software and licensing it for free, as long as you donate your chages back to the common pool if you distribute. I mean, price fixing laws are there to protect the consumer from aritfically HIGH prices, they are not there to protect corporations who have to lower their prices to compete.