If you think a public school would restrict itself to revocation of computer privileges for breaking the contract, you haven't been to one. They keep as many punishment options as possible open.
And I'd be willing to wager a large amount of cash he didn't have to sign a "I will not host a web proxy server" document when he started to attend the school.
My public school required the signing of an Internet use contract before getting an account on the network. The bit about not doing anything to evade the school's blocking software would certainly apply in this case, and I would be very surprised to hear of a public school that didn't require a similar contract with their students.
As stated it's^H^H^H^H BAD PROGRAMMERS left thousands of sites vulnerable to SQL-injection hacks and it's certainly not as durable and reliable as other combinations.
And comparing a non-profit site like Wikipedia, which has significantly limited resources, to a hundred-billion-plus company like Google is so absurd it doesn't even deserve a response.
I know a lot of people who don't read slashdot who can handle a text editor.
Handling a text editor and figuring out a config file are two rather different things, and the people you know fall in the (perhaps a tad hyperbolic) 1% of non-Slashdotters who can use a config file just fine, as mentioned in the OP's post.
The fact remains that, for the average user, it is easier to use a GUI than it is to edit a config file. Arguing against that is a nonstarter.
Is typing a bunch of numbers into a box in a GUI easier than editing a text file? Is there something implicity more intuitive about having a window with little fill in boxes easier than editing a text file?
Absolutely, to both questions. That'd be the reason, for example, that your IRS 1040 form has fields just like a GUI instead of a "fill in all your tax information in the space below".
Try looking over the shoulder of a real computer neophyte (for example, one of my clients likes to double-click hyperlinks... drives me nuts) and you won't be asking such questions.
Workflow foundation is a set of services to provide workflow integration to applications.
Okay, but until you explain what that means, it's just a buzzword.
BitLocker and FileVault, while conceptually similar, are implemented very differently. BitLocker is a full drive encrypter, FileVault is more akin to the existing filesystem encryption in Windows, and only works for home directories.
I imagine FileVault could be easily adapted. Perhaps there's no market for it, or the third party apps are just fine.
Apple has NONE of Media Center's stuff by default. Oh, sure, it can play dvd's and mp3's, but not as a living room appliance.
How are you defining a living room appliance? I can hook an Intel mini up to a TV and use Front Row just fine.
Yes, there are third party apps, but that's beside the point, Apple didn't have to create this for Tiger, and thus expend more resources, thus they could get it out the door faster.
They've had five years to work on Longhorn/Vista. In that time, Apple has launched 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. The "we didn't have enough tiiiiime" argument just doesn't wash.
Your examples need some work. Workflow Foundation seems to be the same as OSX's Automator. BitLocker is OSX's FileVault. ReadyDrive is for a hard drive Samsung is working exclusively with Microsoft on. Apple has most of Media Center's stuff by default, and you can get the rest easily enough. etc., etc., etc.
The rest have slightly denser Wikipedia articles, and it's time for bed, but if they're anything like the rest of the examples you posted they're hardly unique to Windows.
I expect more than 61 Google results to consider a nation's reputation "in tatters"... especially when 90% of the results appear to be newsgroup archives and the rest all link to one not-particularly-reputable-looking site that cites no sources.
VonageIPO.com is on a different web host (abuse address abuse@savvis.net versus spam-police@vonage.com), has the old Vonage logo instead of the one on the Vonage.com site... hmm.
At the very least, it's suspicion inducing. If it's legit, Vonage should put something on their site - currently, a search for "IPO" comes up empty.
Titanic was divided into 16 compartments with doors that were held by a magnetic latch and would fall by moving a switch on the bridge; however, the watertight bulkheads did not reach the entire height of the decks (only going as far as E-Deck). Titanic could stay afloat with any two of its compartments flooded, eleven of fourteen possible combinations of three compartments flooding or the first/last four compartments flooded; any more and the ship would sink.
As in this case, maybe your boss should be wondering why so many of their employees are looking to get out.
Precisely.
I can see how an employer would be offended at an employee idly looking at other potential jobs if we had, say, the old Japanese job-for-life system... but when an employer can toss you out on your ear with little notice, why shouldn't the reverse be true?
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I have to say I hope we do a little exploring on Mars before we radically change the ecosystem.
I'm betting they're doing it to make Microsoft take their eye off Google's ball - search and contextual ads.
If you think a public school would restrict itself to revocation of computer privileges for breaking the contract, you haven't been to one. They keep as many punishment options as possible open.
It's quite clear that rules can be applied to them, and punishments enforced.
And I'd be willing to wager a large amount of cash he didn't have to sign a "I will not host a web proxy server" document when he started to attend the school.
My public school required the signing of an Internet use contract before getting an account on the network. The bit about not doing anything to evade the school's blocking software would certainly apply in this case, and I would be very surprised to hear of a public school that didn't require a similar contract with their students.
Microsoft is willing to spend years and years waiting for the Xbox to become properly profitable, so it wouldn't be particularly surprising.
Anyone around deluded enough to think that won't be the next step?
Anyone?
Nice of them? It's an absolute necessity. To not interoperate with it would be idiotic.
It'd be like making a web browser that won't work with HTML, just because you're pissed at the guy who made HTML.
Yahoo! uses it: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1 491221
o .php?products_id=1
They're using WordPress for their corp blogs nowadays, too, like http://yuiblog.com/.
Google uses PHP for their store, where they sell their Google Minis etc.: http://www.google-store.com/appliance/product_inf
As stated it's^H^H^H^H BAD PROGRAMMERS left thousands of sites vulnerable to SQL-injection hacks and it's certainly not as durable and reliable as other combinations.
And comparing a non-profit site like Wikipedia, which has significantly limited resources, to a hundred-billion-plus company like Google is so absurd it doesn't even deserve a response.
GUIs aren't always nice when your graphics card is acting up ... or you're not at the box.
I'd rather remote admin/config a box through SSH then through VNC or rdesktop [neither of which have any security.
Is there some part of "average user" that you're not comprehending?
The average user doesn't install SSH or VNC, and they take it back to the store when the graphics card dies.
I know a lot of people who don't read slashdot who can handle a text editor.
Handling a text editor and figuring out a config file are two rather different things, and the people you know fall in the (perhaps a tad hyperbolic) 1% of non-Slashdotters who can use a config file just fine, as mentioned in the OP's post.
The fact remains that, for the average user, it is easier to use a GUI than it is to edit a config file. Arguing against that is a nonstarter.
Is typing a bunch of numbers into a box in a GUI easier than editing a text file? Is there something implicity more intuitive about having a window with little fill in boxes easier than editing a text file?
Absolutely, to both questions. That'd be the reason, for example, that your IRS 1040 form has fields just like a GUI instead of a "fill in all your tax information in the space below".
Try looking over the shoulder of a real computer neophyte (for example, one of my clients likes to double-click hyperlinks... drives me nuts) and you won't be asking such questions.
Read the fecking post you're repllying to.
Editing config files is fine for the typical slashdot user, but an absolute stopping point for 99% of normal computer users.
Assuming your comment wasn't posted by a Magical Keyboard Genie for you, you are a Slashdot user.
Workflow foundation is a set of services to provide workflow integration to applications.
Okay, but until you explain what that means, it's just a buzzword.
BitLocker and FileVault, while conceptually similar, are implemented very differently. BitLocker is a full drive encrypter, FileVault is more akin to the existing filesystem encryption in Windows, and only works for home directories.
I imagine FileVault could be easily adapted. Perhaps there's no market for it, or the third party apps are just fine.
Apple has NONE of Media Center's stuff by default. Oh, sure, it can play dvd's and mp3's, but not as a living room appliance.
How are you defining a living room appliance? I can hook an Intel mini up to a TV and use Front Row just fine.
Yes, there are third party apps, but that's beside the point, Apple didn't have to create this for Tiger, and thus expend more resources, thus they could get it out the door faster.
They've had five years to work on Longhorn/Vista. In that time, Apple has launched 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. The "we didn't have enough tiiiiime" argument just doesn't wash.
Your examples need some work. Workflow Foundation seems to be the same as OSX's Automator. BitLocker is OSX's FileVault. ReadyDrive is for a hard drive Samsung is working exclusively with Microsoft on. Apple has most of Media Center's stuff by default, and you can get the rest easily enough. etc., etc., etc.
The rest have slightly denser Wikipedia articles, and it's time for bed, but if they're anything like the rest of the examples you posted they're hardly unique to Windows.
There's a vid on YouTube with Microsoft's Vista presentation, but with the visuals replaced with a screencast of OSX. Here it is, in three parts:
http://www.maclive.net/sid/134
http://www.maclive.net/sid/135
http://www.maclive.net/sid/136
I expect more than 61 Google results to consider a nation's reputation "in tatters"... especially when 90% of the results appear to be newsgroup archives and the rest all link to one not-particularly-reputable-looking site that cites no sources.
Yeah, I saw that one (the BK flash ad) come up on one of the sites I admin. Ugh.
Freedom of speech/press had nothing to do with freedom from facing consequences for what you say, but rather freedom from prior censorship.
So "you can pray, but if you do, we'll shoot you in the head and rape your corpse afterwards" is freedom of religion?
Riiiiiiight.
Holy shit, I do believe that's what I've been looking for lately!
But in a couple of years, when the whole "Web 2.0 Soft Gradients" thing loses its sheen, the site is going to look dated yet again.
Yes, let's halt all progress until we're done progressing. Brilliant.
Regardless, they should really have some way of verifying that it's legit. A link to a press release on Vonage.com would be simple.
VonageIPO.com is on a different web host (abuse address abuse@savvis.net versus spam-police@vonage.com), has the old Vonage logo instead of the one on the Vonage.com site... hmm.
At the very least, it's suspicion inducing. If it's legit, Vonage should put something on their site - currently, a search for "IPO" comes up empty.
You're both right. Per Wikipedia:
Titanic was divided into 16 compartments with doors that were held by a magnetic latch and would fall by moving a switch on the bridge; however, the watertight bulkheads did not reach the entire height of the decks (only going as far as E-Deck). Titanic could stay afloat with any two of its compartments flooded, eleven of fourteen possible combinations of three compartments flooding or the first/last four compartments flooded; any more and the ship would sink.
As in this case, maybe your boss should be wondering why so many of their employees are looking to get out.
Precisely.
I can see how an employer would be offended at an employee idly looking at other potential jobs if we had, say, the old Japanese job-for-life system... but when an employer can toss you out on your ear with little notice, why shouldn't the reverse be true?