The difference with open source is that you have the source in hand now and so if the company disappears you don't have to sue a non-existant entity to get the code
Ok, but isn't the product protected under some kind of law even if the company that created it goes bancrupt? If the product you say was Open Source, then how was the company (that created it) originally going to make money then? But even if you had the source code, isn't there some kind of law that protects it from being changed at will? I think this article tries to OVERLAP two different types of business practises that cannot overlap under any circumstances. There is a purpose to have both Open and Closed source camps in existence. I think they key here is, if the product was Open Source would the company that created it have survived? Or is it the tough economic times that are bringing the demise of so many Tech companies. You know I still do not understand exactly what the Business model of the Open Source ideology is to try and generate revenue. Yes I understand as far as Linux goes, but what about Applications etc?
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well saying 'enough'and moving on is easier said than done. Just because I have a problem is that the reason to drop everything I know (basically my career) and start all over again at 30 years old? I do not see that as an easy thing to do. But then if I moved to *nix will it solve my problems? Probbably some, but I am sure I'll still have other problems. Bottom line? You have to come up with a solution. As a techie you should know that you'll always have computer problems. If windows cannot do something, then use Linux (it's free) and whatever Linux cannot do, then use Windows to accomplish that. Instead of extinction I see co-existence. Will the fate of both OSes eventually follow that of the Cro-magnon man(thought to have interbred with Neanderthals)? Time will tell.
The servers are updated with fairly current Windows patches, so this is not necessarily an easy task.
--Is this meant to reflect most Windows systems out there, without the most recent updated patches?
The difficulty is part of the point. The Project is studying how hackers think, called cognitive research, in an effort to better understand how future IDSs might identify the target of an attack during it's early stages.
--BS. Why didn't they choose a Unix system? Or a Linux System? I think they are just trying to prove a point other than "researching" how hackers "think". It's pretty obvious. Why don't people just come clean about their intentions?
The Project guarantees complete anonymity for those that want to participate without pay, or complete privacy protection to those that choose to get paid."
--Well, NOW should I really believe that? I am pretty sure if FBI or CIA are "interested in your hacking skills" your privacy is toast. Think b4 you act. Is it worth for a dirty $250? I don't think so.
Over all, I think a lot of people will be getting paid (or arrested for hacking)
If you count them, MS has paid well over 1 billion in court settlements this year alone. With the unpopularity of MS at this time I actually think that the only reason to have deep pockets is so they can pay bigger lawsuit settlements. (Not to be in MS's defence), but I think that neither MS nor any other company should pay up anytime some unknown bunch of punks claim their technology was stolen, just so they can make some quick cash. XEROX's PARC made great technology that if it wasn't for Steve Jobs and BG(stealing it) a lot of it might have never seen the light of day or probbably arrived too late. You can say whatever, but I give them props for stealing. It was a much needed thing to do. Smart tags might not be useful to you(they are optional in Office XP, you can either enable them or disable them), but they are a neat feature which you can use if you like that's all.
By using the service, Xbox Live, which you need to go out of your way to do (i.e. you need to buy the kit, fill out an account subscription form, supply a credit card number) you agree to it's limitations. Those limitations include accepting patches and not using/installing hardware/software that could potentially allow you to cheat at games over the service.
--Why do you dodge the ISSUE? Patching bugs is fine, the way the bug is patched is not. Noone is disputing the importance of patching bugs etc etc, what I am concentrating on is the way they are *patching* the *bugs*. Would you allow the company you bought your house from, come in at any time without your knowledge and make changes *they see* necessary to your home? I very much doubt it. Will you even buy the home if you had to agree to that term? Will you want a better explanation of the word *LIMITATIONS* at that point? I am sure you would. Are all the *limitations* explained to you when you buy the Xbox?
If you're not on XBox Live, this isn't an issue for you.
--What issues are for whom is not for you to decide or advise on. I can take part on any discussion I please. Like I said, this is not just about the Xbox. This can be applied to any other box that runs Microsoft software.
Hmmm, though I was being sarcastic(in case you didn't notice), since it seems like you have read the EULA, and I do not own an Xbox, then I think it should say that: [you *agree* to all patches installed by Microsoft with or without your knowledge]. Then it's up to me to *agree* or *not agree*.
I am sure it says somewhere that: MS owns this box, even though you paid money for it, so we can do whatever we want with it, and we know you agree of course, so we'll fine print this and put it somewhere in the middle of this long paragraph in very small, very fine print so you never get to read it because we know it's extremely boring.
...I think it's safe to say that this is only because Linux has some 80% market penetration for serving web sites (Linux + Apache/Apollo/thttpd/etc), whereas Microsoft's IIS has dropped to about 17%.
-You are right, though it's less than 80%, Apache is the dominant Web server out there. I would not say IIS has "dropped", because it's never been dominant as Web Server, rather I'd say it's been lingering at around the same percentage for a while, with a bit of a gain since Windows 2000 came out. Still, it's not even close to Apache's dominance.
Of course, you can also make the case that Linux is more easily hacked - and lets face it, because Linux offers more services and is being installed by less competant sysadmins in many cases, it is full of holes.
-This is what the Real Windows Admins have been complaining for a long time. Installation and configuration of server software by incompetent Admins. With the popularity grows the user base, which means that not all Linux users are going to be GURUS as the OS catches on and the configuration and installations becomes easier. Hell, my grandma can install Mandrake. Welcome to the world of "stupid users and admins".
IIS by default is fairly secure, but doesn't offer alot of services. What is needed is a decent GUI front-end for managing and configuring Apache. I haven't seen any I'm happy with.
-I suspect that will change with the arrival of as I said above "stupid admins". They'll whine about how the Server doesn't have a decent GUI. MS will add services, Apache on the other hand will add a nice GUI and the war of Web Dominance will start all over again.
I'm too lazy to run the numbers, but I think you'll find that all things being equal, Linux is way more secure than Windows for any application when both are installed by competant sysadmins.
-I agree with your sentence, minus the word "way". It is more secure, but the question is: Can it stay that way for the long run. For the third time: With popularity comes stupidity. It's funny how most Linux companies will not try to "market" the amazing security that Linux has. It's mostly individuals that point it out. I have no idea why that is. Do they doubt it? MS has been estabilished on the desktop forever. I think if Linux manages to dominate in the server market, eventually it has a chance to dominate in the Desktop market as well. You cannot take the castle that easy from the outside. Try to find a backdoor and take it from the inside.
htdig?? Do you know one that works with Windows? Why is your solution going to "save" my company money? I mean I am open to suggestions, but I see yours as a useless rant rather than an actual solution.
Well first of all the management will not just spit $50,000.00 for an AS/400 just like that. Secondly, your statement Why are you wasting your time and your companies money is too blunt, when you do not even know the type of business, the infrastructure or anything else about the business. What you are telling me to do then is this:
My Solution:
Time it takes to build the search program: 5 working days
Time it takes to built the database to store the info: 1 day
Time it takes for the Interface, connectionts to the DB and testing: 5 working days
Two weeks for everything to work. We already have the SQL server and the tools to buld the programs. Company money spent? None. Flexibility to use the program by as many people as needed: Unlimited. Change it and modify it according to company's business rules: Extremely easy. Other benefits: Yes.
Your suggestion:
Buy an AS/400 with all the storage capacity needed and the power needed: $50,000.00
Hire an AS/400 Admin: $50,000.00 +
Unlimited Licences: I have no clue, but I'll say $5000.00(to leave it on the cheap side).
Flexibility of the custom made program: Not even close. These are only a few of the downsides
Summary: around $100,000.00 + unlimited headaches and not even near flexibility or power or ease of use or ease of maintenance as the custom written app.
I think I'll stick with my solution.
on something that is based on that same idea. It's based on Windows blah(do not flame me pls) using SQL server. Our company has scanned all their paper work into.jpg files and I've stored them in a large HD. Right now we are at about 35GB worth of files, with a directory structure that's getting deeper and more difficult to deal with. When employees want to access some information, they have to go browse through directories and directories to get to that file. People are complaining that not only can they not locate files(some do not know how to), but it takes them up to 5 minutes to locate one file, while the customer is on hold. Now in a slow day it's ok, but when you have a lot of calls on queue it's not good. So what I did is I wrote a program that searches through all the directories and adds the path of the file to a database, adds the file name to another field and any other file info to a third field. A simple interface will let you search the DB and list any matching files, where you can click on it and open it up. Now is it easier to find 'John Doe 123456.jpg' buried amongst 30,000 directories or just type John Doe and get your file?? Windows search crashes or takes forever to iterate through all the direcories. What Gnome is doing would make the life of so many people so much easier. Probbably convert quite a few Closed Source customers to Open Source ones as well I am sure
I for one have 60 GB worth of files in one of my hard drives. Collected withing the last 5 years, most of them are programming files, html articles, pdf files, text files, database files, Office files etc etc etc. The hierarchy of directories is almost unmanageable. Last count I had over 50,000 files stores there, and a lot of them are entire compressed directories with even more files inside. I assume there's a lot more people that have probbably 10 times more files than me. I think this would be an amazing thing to have.
I still do not believe 100% that MS is specifically *targeting* open source, but I would not be surprised. I think they, first and foremost are trying to come up with a way to cash in on their new upgrades and products they roll out every 2-3 years. I think they are in a way trying to "force" the customer into upgrading by knocking out the compatibility feature, or most likely get companies that are in the software business to pay if they want to use the compatibility feature in their Apps. So basically they are trying to cash in on every possbile way they can. Secondly this does work against Open Source. So MS will in a way try to kill two birds with one stone. What I think will happen is that big Open Source companies will be able to afford licencing the technology also when it comes to business survival certain ethics are sidelined and the business will do whatever it takes to survive. Licencing the technology so you can be more appealing and diverse to users doesn't automatically make you MS's bitch, it just helps you grow.
I am not so sure I agree with you in all the points. When I read the piece it really pisses me off that Microsoft doesn't do a better job at writing more secure software, but then I do not know of any company that doesn't have issues with security. Flaws in routers, flaws in firewalls and different third party software are common, and flaws in the OS of course.
Over all however I think we have to look at the bottom line. The virus creator. Also a lot of sysadmins should be held as responsible as anyone for not patching up properly when they should/could have. Yeah the flaw was there, but the virus came months after the flaw was discovered. It should have been a piece of cake. It's like having a vaccine for a disease that was discovered a while ago. Now do you blame the scientists who created the vaccine for not applying it? Or do you blame the people for not voluntarily going to the clinic and those put in charge for not doing enough to get everyone protected? I think Windows has the locks, but I am not sure everyone is using them properly. Think about it. There are more that 500,000 Windows machines in the world. There are roughly 500,000,000. Why the hell didn't all or most of them get affected? Because most did their job properly. And then there's the delinquent, who IS a criminal. He should be punished for what he did. There are many more skilled programmers in the world than that 18 year old, who could have done the same, but they didn't. Would you do it? I would not, and I know many other programmer friends who wouldn't. It takes a criminal, evil mind to do such damage. The 18 year old is a danger to the society, in a digital form of 0s and 1s of course. Anyone who takes joy out of any form of destruction is dangerous. With that said, Microsoft should have never allowed such a flaw in their system in the first place. It always made me wonder, how a company with so much capital screws up so easily in their flagship product(s)
Between different platform only. You should not have to go through hell to find out what platform you want to use, then once you chose it, go through even more hassle to have to choose what environments you want to use, and once you have chosen that, go through even more hassle to choose the type of applications, and this and that...etc etc. It should not take you 6 months to finally purchase a Home Computer. The choices should be simple, clear and easy to make.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/ 158214&mode=thread&tid=179&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201
So far MS doesn't seem to want to make VirtualPC available to Mac users. Anyway I think you missed the point the previous poster was making.
After the usual bashing of Intel's chips they have a little paragraph in fine print:
"World's fastest" based on SPEC(R) CPU 2000 benchmark results and leading professional application performance tests against 3 GHz Pentium 4-based Dell Dimension 8300 and 3.06 GHz Dual Xeon-based Dell Precision 650. SPEC(R) CPU 2000 benchmarks run with GCC 3.3 and independently tested, full report available from Veritest; professional applications tested by Apple, June 2003."..professional application tested by Apple....
Will we ever see unbiased benchmarks?
With a rock like that, no woman will say no. Try the same thing, but instead of the 4 grand Diamond, get a $50 ring from SEARS. I have never found someone who's done that. I doubt it's ever been tempted. I always wondered what would happen. If anyone knows, please share tha story.
agree that this is a disgusting act of vandalism and the person who wrote and/or spread the worm should be punished heavily if caught. This worm knows no boundaries, and unlike a email virus, it could cause tremendous damage and is far more malignant, therefore the intentions of its creator. RPC flaws are not new, they have existen in the Unix world for a long time, and now Windows is the next victim. I used to have respect for hackers who deserved respect, but as someone who's life are computers, I have lost respect for these people completly, and I hope they get caught and punished. This new breed of hacker is neither truly intelligent nor has any intentions to teach people a lesson. All they care about is do damage. Assholes.
I heard that the chances of a Winmodem to work under any Linux flavor, is 1/1000000. On the other hand, I have had no problem getting the MS Mice working with Linux(Actually I think I had to tweak something in Mandrake to make the IntelliEye mouse work properly). I never understood why Linux drivers do not work with Winmodems. Is it that they do not care about dial up so they do not write proper drivers, or does it have to do with hardware specifically made for Windows platforms?
What really baffles me is that Microsoft Research has some of the brightest minds working for it. Also, MS research is highly regarded as one of the best research centers in the world. Yet,on one hand I agree with you that some of the innovations they are working on, aren't "pure Microsoft innovations". Indeed, anyone can work on someone else's innovation and take it further or improve upon it, but with all the think tanks, why would they need to do that? On the other hand, I believe Microsoft Research works on so many projects, that it's impossible to talk about them all, and maybe a big number of projects or ideas gets scrapped. Still, I think that Microsoft Research is the best thing(dare I say "the only" good thing????) to have come out of Microsoft, for the sole reason that the people who work for it are people that innovate, and are interested in innvation rather than making money for a company. I read way back, an interview with one of the senior researchers, who said that they are free to work on anything at the Research center. What MS (the company) does, apparently, it only grabs certain things("innovations or improvements") that it sees as useful, money making or features that they could use on their next version of their updated product, be it the OS, Office, or Databases. I think that updates and new products have very little to do with the research centre and more with in-house teams working on deadlines, trying to fatten MS's pockets.
I wouldn't be surprised if MS started to make microwaves. I agree, that if you are putting food in the microwave, you won't need a remote control to set the timing up, but there will be occasions when you'd need suck thing. You can always put food in there, but not heat it right away, frozen food for example, or yoru lunch, or something similiar. Or you can use that robot MS made to put the food in there for you and hope it OS won't crash in the process. lol.
I doubt he's been living under a rock at all. The point was not just a simple combined remote, that will turn on your tv and vcr, I think the meaning was broader(though not properly explained), to having your PDA turn on your microwave, or use it to enter your floor number in an elevator, to setting up printing or scanning, to going home and turning on your lights, then the tv and dvd player, to probbably even starting your car in the winter. I'd love it if my PDA would be able to do something like that in my lifetime.
a lot of other companies start projects that fail, but probbably MS's get a lot more media coverage and publicity, since they are so huge. Also MS has a tendency to boast about new products and projects like there's no tomorrow. I guess they coined the term vaporware for a long time.
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The difference with open source is that you have the source in hand now and so if the company disappears you don't have to sue a non-existant entity to get the code
Ok, but isn't the product protected under some kind of law even if the company that created it goes bancrupt? If the product you say was Open Source, then how was the company (that created it) originally going to make money then? But even if you had the source code, isn't there some kind of law that protects it from being changed at will? I think this article tries to OVERLAP two different types of business practises that cannot overlap under any circumstances. There is a purpose to have both Open and Closed source camps in existence. I think they key here is, if the product was Open Source would the company that created it have survived? Or is it the tough economic times that are bringing the demise of so many Tech companies. You know I still do not understand exactly what the Business model of the Open Source ideology is to try and generate revenue. Yes I understand as far as Linux goes, but what about Applications etc?
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well saying 'enough'and moving on is easier said than done. Just because I have a problem is that the reason to drop everything I know (basically my career) and start all over again at 30 years old? I do not see that as an easy thing to do. But then if I moved to *nix will it solve my problems? Probbably some, but I am sure I'll still have other problems. Bottom line? You have to come up with a solution. As a techie you should know that you'll always have computer problems. If windows cannot do something, then use Linux (it's free) and whatever Linux cannot do, then use Windows to accomplish that. Instead of extinction I see co-existence. Will the fate of both OSes eventually follow that of the Cro-magnon man(thought to have interbred with Neanderthals)? Time will tell.
The servers are updated with fairly current Windows patches, so this is not necessarily an easy task. --Is this meant to reflect most Windows systems out there, without the most recent updated patches? The difficulty is part of the point. The Project is studying how hackers think, called cognitive research, in an effort to better understand how future IDSs might identify the target of an attack during it's early stages. --BS. Why didn't they choose a Unix system? Or a Linux System? I think they are just trying to prove a point other than "researching" how hackers "think". It's pretty obvious. Why don't people just come clean about their intentions? The Project guarantees complete anonymity for those that want to participate without pay, or complete privacy protection to those that choose to get paid." --Well, NOW should I really believe that? I am pretty sure if FBI or CIA are "interested in your hacking skills" your privacy is toast. Think b4 you act. Is it worth for a dirty $250? I don't think so. Over all, I think a lot of people will be getting paid (or arrested for hacking)
If you count them, MS has paid well over 1 billion in court settlements this year alone. With the unpopularity of MS at this time I actually think that the only reason to have deep pockets is so they can pay bigger lawsuit settlements. (Not to be in MS's defence), but I think that neither MS nor any other company should pay up anytime some unknown bunch of punks claim their technology was stolen, just so they can make some quick cash. XEROX's PARC made great technology that if it wasn't for Steve Jobs and BG(stealing it) a lot of it might have never seen the light of day or probbably arrived too late. You can say whatever, but I give them props for stealing. It was a much needed thing to do. Smart tags might not be useful to you(they are optional in Office XP, you can either enable them or disable them), but they are a neat feature which you can use if you like that's all.
This is not getting anywhere, but either way, I think you should be adivsed on the patch, what it is and what they are updating, at the very least.
By using the service, Xbox Live, which you need to go out of your way to do (i.e. you need to buy the kit, fill out an account subscription form, supply a credit card number) you agree to it's limitations. Those limitations include accepting patches and not using/installing hardware/software that could potentially allow you to cheat at games over the service. --Why do you dodge the ISSUE? Patching bugs is fine, the way the bug is patched is not. Noone is disputing the importance of patching bugs etc etc, what I am concentrating on is the way they are *patching* the *bugs*. Would you allow the company you bought your house from, come in at any time without your knowledge and make changes *they see* necessary to your home? I very much doubt it. Will you even buy the home if you had to agree to that term? Will you want a better explanation of the word *LIMITATIONS* at that point? I am sure you would. Are all the *limitations* explained to you when you buy the Xbox? If you're not on XBox Live, this isn't an issue for you. --What issues are for whom is not for you to decide or advise on. I can take part on any discussion I please. Like I said, this is not just about the Xbox. This can be applied to any other box that runs Microsoft software.
Hmmm, though I was being sarcastic(in case you didn't notice), since it seems like you have read the EULA, and I do not own an Xbox, then I think it should say that: [you *agree* to all patches installed by Microsoft with or without your knowledge]. Then it's up to me to *agree* or *not agree*.
I am sure it says somewhere that: MS owns this box, even though you paid money for it, so we can do whatever we want with it, and we know you agree of course, so we'll fine print this and put it somewhere in the middle of this long paragraph in very small, very fine print so you never get to read it because we know it's extremely boring.
...I think it's safe to say that this is only because Linux has some 80% market penetration for serving web sites (Linux + Apache/Apollo/thttpd/etc), whereas Microsoft's IIS has dropped to about 17%. -You are right, though it's less than 80%, Apache is the dominant Web server out there. I would not say IIS has "dropped", because it's never been dominant as Web Server, rather I'd say it's been lingering at around the same percentage for a while, with a bit of a gain since Windows 2000 came out. Still, it's not even close to Apache's dominance. Of course, you can also make the case that Linux is more easily hacked - and lets face it, because Linux offers more services and is being installed by less competant sysadmins in many cases, it is full of holes. -This is what the Real Windows Admins have been complaining for a long time. Installation and configuration of server software by incompetent Admins. With the popularity grows the user base, which means that not all Linux users are going to be GURUS as the OS catches on and the configuration and installations becomes easier. Hell, my grandma can install Mandrake. Welcome to the world of "stupid users and admins". IIS by default is fairly secure, but doesn't offer alot of services. What is needed is a decent GUI front-end for managing and configuring Apache. I haven't seen any I'm happy with. -I suspect that will change with the arrival of as I said above "stupid admins". They'll whine about how the Server doesn't have a decent GUI. MS will add services, Apache on the other hand will add a nice GUI and the war of Web Dominance will start all over again. I'm too lazy to run the numbers, but I think you'll find that all things being equal, Linux is way more secure than Windows for any application when both are installed by competant sysadmins. -I agree with your sentence, minus the word "way". It is more secure, but the question is: Can it stay that way for the long run. For the third time: With popularity comes stupidity. It's funny how most Linux companies will not try to "market" the amazing security that Linux has. It's mostly individuals that point it out. I have no idea why that is. Do they doubt it? MS has been estabilished on the desktop forever. I think if Linux manages to dominate in the server market, eventually it has a chance to dominate in the Desktop market as well. You cannot take the castle that easy from the outside. Try to find a backdoor and take it from the inside.
htdig?? Do you know one that works with Windows? Why is your solution going to "save" my company money? I mean I am open to suggestions, but I see yours as a useless rant rather than an actual solution.
Well first of all the management will not just spit $50,000.00 for an AS/400 just like that. Secondly, your statement Why are you wasting your time and your companies money is too blunt, when you do not even know the type of business, the infrastructure or anything else about the business. What you are telling me to do then is this: My Solution: Time it takes to build the search program: 5 working days Time it takes to built the database to store the info: 1 day Time it takes for the Interface, connectionts to the DB and testing: 5 working days Two weeks for everything to work. We already have the SQL server and the tools to buld the programs. Company money spent? None. Flexibility to use the program by as many people as needed: Unlimited. Change it and modify it according to company's business rules: Extremely easy. Other benefits: Yes. Your suggestion: Buy an AS/400 with all the storage capacity needed and the power needed: $50,000.00 Hire an AS/400 Admin: $50,000.00 + Unlimited Licences: I have no clue, but I'll say $5000.00(to leave it on the cheap side). Flexibility of the custom made program: Not even close. These are only a few of the downsides Summary: around $100,000.00 + unlimited headaches and not even near flexibility or power or ease of use or ease of maintenance as the custom written app. I think I'll stick with my solution.
on something that is based on that same idea. It's based on Windows blah(do not flame me pls) using SQL server. Our company has scanned all their paper work into .jpg files and I've stored them in a large HD. Right now we are at about 35GB worth of files, with a directory structure that's getting deeper and more difficult to deal with. When employees want to access some information, they have to go browse through directories and directories to get to that file. People are complaining that not only can they not locate files(some do not know how to), but it takes them up to 5 minutes to locate one file, while the customer is on hold. Now in a slow day it's ok, but when you have a lot of calls on queue it's not good. So what I did is I wrote a program that searches through all the directories and adds the path of the file to a database, adds the file name to another field and any other file info to a third field. A simple interface will let you search the DB and list any matching files, where you can click on it and open it up. Now is it easier to find 'John Doe 123456.jpg' buried amongst 30,000 directories or just type John Doe and get your file?? Windows search crashes or takes forever to iterate through all the direcories. What Gnome is doing would make the life of so many people so much easier. Probbably convert quite a few Closed Source customers to Open Source ones as well I am sure
I for one have 60 GB worth of files in one of my hard drives. Collected withing the last 5 years, most of them are programming files, html articles, pdf files, text files, database files, Office files etc etc etc. The hierarchy of directories is almost unmanageable. Last count I had over 50,000 files stores there, and a lot of them are entire compressed directories with even more files inside. I assume there's a lot more people that have probbably 10 times more files than me. I think this would be an amazing thing to have.
I still do not believe 100% that MS is specifically *targeting* open source, but I would not be surprised. I think they, first and foremost are trying to come up with a way to cash in on their new upgrades and products they roll out every 2-3 years. I think they are in a way trying to "force" the customer into upgrading by knocking out the compatibility feature, or most likely get companies that are in the software business to pay if they want to use the compatibility feature in their Apps. So basically they are trying to cash in on every possbile way they can. Secondly this does work against Open Source. So MS will in a way try to kill two birds with one stone. What I think will happen is that big Open Source companies will be able to afford licencing the technology also when it comes to business survival certain ethics are sidelined and the business will do whatever it takes to survive. Licencing the technology so you can be more appealing and diverse to users doesn't automatically make you MS's bitch, it just helps you grow.
I am not so sure I agree with you in all the points. When I read the piece it really pisses me off that Microsoft doesn't do a better job at writing more secure software, but then I do not know of any company that doesn't have issues with security. Flaws in routers, flaws in firewalls and different third party software are common, and flaws in the OS of course. Over all however I think we have to look at the bottom line. The virus creator. Also a lot of sysadmins should be held as responsible as anyone for not patching up properly when they should/could have. Yeah the flaw was there, but the virus came months after the flaw was discovered. It should have been a piece of cake. It's like having a vaccine for a disease that was discovered a while ago. Now do you blame the scientists who created the vaccine for not applying it? Or do you blame the people for not voluntarily going to the clinic and those put in charge for not doing enough to get everyone protected? I think Windows has the locks, but I am not sure everyone is using them properly. Think about it. There are more that 500,000 Windows machines in the world. There are roughly 500,000,000. Why the hell didn't all or most of them get affected? Because most did their job properly. And then there's the delinquent, who IS a criminal. He should be punished for what he did. There are many more skilled programmers in the world than that 18 year old, who could have done the same, but they didn't. Would you do it? I would not, and I know many other programmer friends who wouldn't. It takes a criminal, evil mind to do such damage. The 18 year old is a danger to the society, in a digital form of 0s and 1s of course. Anyone who takes joy out of any form of destruction is dangerous. With that said, Microsoft should have never allowed such a flaw in their system in the first place. It always made me wonder, how a company with so much capital screws up so easily in their flagship product(s)
Between different platform only. You should not have to go through hell to find out what platform you want to use, then once you chose it, go through even more hassle to have to choose what environments you want to use, and once you have chosen that, go through even more hassle to choose the type of applications, and this and that...etc etc. It should not take you 6 months to finally purchase a Home Computer. The choices should be simple, clear and easy to make.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/ 158214&mode=thread&tid=179&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201
So far MS doesn't seem to want to make VirtualPC available to Mac users. Anyway I think you missed the point the previous poster was making.
After the usual bashing of Intel's chips they have a little paragraph in fine print: "World's fastest" based on SPEC(R) CPU 2000 benchmark results and leading professional application performance tests against 3 GHz Pentium 4-based Dell Dimension 8300 and 3.06 GHz Dual Xeon-based Dell Precision 650. SPEC(R) CPU 2000 benchmarks run with GCC 3.3 and independently tested, full report available from Veritest; professional applications tested by Apple, June 2003." ..professional application tested by Apple....
Will we ever see unbiased benchmarks?
With a rock like that, no woman will say no. Try the same thing, but instead of the 4 grand Diamond, get a $50 ring from SEARS. I have never found someone who's done that. I doubt it's ever been tempted. I always wondered what would happen. If anyone knows, please share tha story.
agree that this is a disgusting act of vandalism and the person who wrote and/or spread the worm should be punished heavily if caught. This worm knows no boundaries, and unlike a email virus, it could cause tremendous damage and is far more malignant, therefore the intentions of its creator. RPC flaws are not new, they have existen in the Unix world for a long time, and now Windows is the next victim. I used to have respect for hackers who deserved respect, but as someone who's life are computers, I have lost respect for these people completly, and I hope they get caught and punished. This new breed of hacker is neither truly intelligent nor has any intentions to teach people a lesson. All they care about is do damage. Assholes.
I heard that the chances of a Winmodem to work under any Linux flavor, is 1/1000000. On the other hand, I have had no problem getting the MS Mice working with Linux(Actually I think I had to tweak something in Mandrake to make the IntelliEye mouse work properly). I never understood why Linux drivers do not work with Winmodems. Is it that they do not care about dial up so they do not write proper drivers, or does it have to do with hardware specifically made for Windows platforms?
What really baffles me is that Microsoft Research has some of the brightest minds working for it. Also, MS research is highly regarded as one of the best research centers in the world. Yet,on one hand I agree with you that some of the innovations they are working on, aren't "pure Microsoft innovations". Indeed, anyone can work on someone else's innovation and take it further or improve upon it, but with all the think tanks, why would they need to do that? On the other hand, I believe Microsoft Research works on so many projects, that it's impossible to talk about them all, and maybe a big number of projects or ideas gets scrapped. Still, I think that Microsoft Research is the best thing(dare I say "the only" good thing????) to have come out of Microsoft, for the sole reason that the people who work for it are people that innovate, and are interested in innvation rather than making money for a company. I read way back, an interview with one of the senior researchers, who said that they are free to work on anything at the Research center. What MS (the company) does, apparently, it only grabs certain things("innovations or improvements") that it sees as useful, money making or features that they could use on their next version of their updated product, be it the OS, Office, or Databases. I think that updates and new products have very little to do with the research centre and more with in-house teams working on deadlines, trying to fatten MS's pockets.
I wouldn't be surprised if MS started to make microwaves. I agree, that if you are putting food in the microwave, you won't need a remote control to set the timing up, but there will be occasions when you'd need suck thing. You can always put food in there, but not heat it right away, frozen food for example, or yoru lunch, or something similiar. Or you can use that robot MS made to put the food in there for you and hope it OS won't crash in the process. lol.
I doubt he's been living under a rock at all. The point was not just a simple combined remote, that will turn on your tv and vcr, I think the meaning was broader(though not properly explained), to having your PDA turn on your microwave, or use it to enter your floor number in an elevator, to setting up printing or scanning, to going home and turning on your lights, then the tv and dvd player, to probbably even starting your car in the winter. I'd love it if my PDA would be able to do something like that in my lifetime.
a lot of other companies start projects that fail, but probbably MS's get a lot more media coverage and publicity, since they are so huge. Also MS has a tendency to boast about new products and projects like there's no tomorrow. I guess they coined the term vaporware for a long time.