Yes, but the point given was "It's completely unreasonable to expect users to master so many different patch mechanisms and spend so much time patching". With the same logic applied users of Linux-distributions that automate Aptitude updates are even more likely to miss important security updates?
Windows Update is fine (and so is Ubuntu, despite it actually being a little bit more annoying).
Boooohooo, you had to use Microsoft programming environments. Quitting your job for that, what are you, a moron?
Please start complaining when all you do is repetitive bullshit, same thing day out and day in for year after year (I really don't care in which environment) - then get a new job _before_ you leave the one you're at.
Sheees... guess the Linux Envangelics run a bit too deep in some people - please don't confuse ideals with reality.
True, to some extent. The obvious solution is: less taxes on companies and workers, as well as lower salary expectations of unqualified or unexperienced labour.
Personally I think outsourcing is a powerful political tool, more outsourcing please - especially from european high-tax companies.
To make the bleeding heart socialists happy, there are some drawbacks to outsourcing though, especially technical outsourcing; and that is that you literarlly never know what you get. I know of several Swedish companies who have outsourced large parts of the coding of their products to India - only to receive bug-infested unusable code that didn't conform to the specs given, and which ultimately took their swedish programmers twice as long time (and cost more than twice as much) just to clean up and get on track again.
Outsourcing on the right technical level is great though. Remember: You're not a unique and beautiful snowflake. Going to school for four years doesn't automatically qualify you a salary of $100K a year.
Vote for lower taxes and get in line in the Darwinian marketplace - how things should be./In vino veritas
Bollocks. Neither my XP install nor my Linux install fail. Average session length is about 4 months for XP and 6 months for Linux.
FUD or crap behind the keyboard.
The conviction rate in Japan is so high because of several factors, not least of them are things that separates the japanese culturally from us. For instance, nearly 99% of all who are charged with a crime in Japan readily confess once they get caught. You know, honor, and such stuff.
Their overall crime rate is also much lower than in most western countries.
...so it's not so much a "fascist" legal system (as you seem to imply) as it is the japanese culture.
We advise that this is simply a milestone release and is not for general use, nor is it any indication of a final release. Our goal with this release is to start out slowly with a base set of functionality and gather some initial feedback that we can incorporate into future milestones.
Release early. Release often.
- Which not only is the Microsoft motto, it's also a very good motto that I wished more OS projects would use. Then maybe, just maybe, we would start seeing software written for users, and not as it is today, software written for the fun of writing something no matter how inconsistent and crappy (see: basically every OS project in existence except maybe the Linux kernel, Mozilla and OpenOffice).
There are lots of volunteer and open source projects for you to get involved with and where you can show that you have skill, dedication and that you are productive.
No one's gonna care to hire you over someone skilled who also has prior experience, so your only way out of this slump is getting a track record for work completed.
Head over to SourceForge/FreshMeat and get your hands dirty, or start something up yourself.
Just because a trend can be established doesn't, IMO, warrant that the conclusion that herding or flocking is in effect.
If one person realizes that baseball for instance (since such an example was given) has lost some of the appeal that this person watched baseball for, you can assume that more people will make that same realization.
So they all stop attending... on individual merit, not because other people did so.
I applaud the accuracy of prediction, but I wouldn't make any more assumptions from it.
So if the majority of a people are bashing gays, gay bashing should be legal?
File-sharers are knowingly breaking the law. These lawsuits are just what you'd expect if you'd ever heard of causality.
I.e. if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The fact that RIAA's business model is outdated, and that they never will win this fight until they realize this is a completely different question; but the fact is that they are right by law and by any decent morals.
Why not learn a language to a level of proficiency that you can use it well and adopt to the problems?
Maybe math programming is different from regular application programming, but few developers switch languages until they're forced to (i.e. when they get a job that only allows VB in-shop, or such).
It's not the tools, it's the wielder.
Seriously, if you have to ask... maybe it's time you started to learn _one_ language well....and if you're a non-programmer kind of guy, go with the flow - chose the language with the most support available - that way you can ask your way through....
I work for a _large_ games and betting company, somewhere in Europe. Apart from having firewalls in front and behind the Internet-servers, we also have firewalls that separate the employers network from the databases. I.e. we have three layers of security, and the only way to get through to the databases (where we have even more protection, just like AOL) would be to get access to a internet server and then try to get through three layers of passwords just to be able to _read specific_ user accounts.
More or less impossible. And I can't imagine that AOL (stupid as their users may be) don't have something like this aswell... WHY ON EARTH would the internal network go staight to their extremely valuable databases?
Most companies keep "mock up" systems for development, the actual production systems aren't accessible to anyone, basically...
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14,000 CPUs haven't cracked RC5-72 in over 2 600 days. http://distributed.net/
Wow, how quaintly naive.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Samuel Clemens
Yes, but the point given was "It's completely unreasonable to expect users to master so many different patch mechanisms and spend so much time patching". With the same logic applied users of Linux-distributions that automate Aptitude updates are even more likely to miss important security updates? Windows Update is fine (and so is Ubuntu, despite it actually being a little bit more annoying).
My Ubuntu installation updates and patches way more often than my Windows installs do. Newsworthy? Didn't think so /.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
Good timing with the debt issue climaxing.
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Boooohooo, you had to use Microsoft programming environments. Quitting your job for that, what are you, a moron? Please start complaining when all you do is repetitive bullshit, same thing day out and day in for year after year (I really don't care in which environment) - then get a new job _before_ you leave the one you're at. Sheees... guess the Linux Envangelics run a bit too deep in some people - please don't confuse ideals with reality.
True, to some extent. The obvious solution is: less taxes on companies and workers, as well as lower salary expectations of unqualified or unexperienced labour.
/In vino veritas
Personally I think outsourcing is a powerful political tool, more outsourcing please - especially from european high-tax companies.
To make the bleeding heart socialists happy, there are some drawbacks to outsourcing though, especially technical outsourcing; and that is that you literarlly never know what you get. I know of several Swedish companies who have outsourced large parts of the coding of their products to India - only to receive bug-infested unusable code that didn't conform to the specs given, and which ultimately took their swedish programmers twice as long time (and cost more than twice as much) just to clean up and get on track again.
Outsourcing on the right technical level is great though. Remember: You're not a unique and beautiful snowflake. Going to school for four years doesn't automatically qualify you a salary of $100K a year.
Vote for lower taxes and get in line in the Darwinian marketplace - how things should be.
Bollocks. Neither my XP install nor my Linux install fail. Average session length is about 4 months for XP and 6 months for Linux. FUD or crap behind the keyboard.
Amen.
They're obviously trolling. Don't feed.
The conviction rate in Japan is so high because of several factors, not least of them are things that separates the japanese culturally from us. For instance, nearly 99% of all who are charged with a crime in Japan readily confess once they get caught. You know, honor, and such stuff.
...so it's not so much a "fascist" legal system (as you seem to imply) as it is the japanese culture.
Their overall crime rate is also much lower than in most western countries.
Can it be?
We advise that this is simply a milestone release and is not for general use, nor is it any indication of a final release. Our goal with this release is to start out slowly with a base set of functionality and gather some initial feedback that we can incorporate into future milestones.
Release early. Release often.
- Which not only is the Microsoft motto, it's also a very good motto that I wished more OS projects would use. Then maybe, just maybe, we would start seeing software written for users, and not as it is today, software written for the fun of writing something no matter how inconsistent and crappy (see: basically every OS project in existence except maybe the Linux kernel, Mozilla and OpenOffice).
There are lots of volunteer and open source projects for you to get involved with and where you can show that you have skill, dedication and that you are productive.
No one's gonna care to hire you over someone skilled who also has prior experience, so your only way out of this slump is getting a track record for work completed.
Head over to SourceForge/FreshMeat and get your hands dirty, or start something up yourself.
And still well over 90% of all users use IE.
Deployment, deployment, deployment is what matters.
.NET compability will help Linux get that deployment, and only then can it start making the rules.
Amen.
The GPL, its underlying politics and intentions sux0rs BFT.
Just because a trend can be established doesn't, IMO, warrant that the conclusion that herding or flocking is in effect.
If one person realizes that baseball for instance (since such an example was given) has lost some of the appeal that this person watched baseball for, you can assume that more people will make that same realization.
So they all stop attending... on individual merit, not because other people did so.
I applaud the accuracy of prediction, but I wouldn't make any more assumptions from it.
I don't know a _single_ person who uses it. Most people I know disable it and the MS Passport first thing they do after a fresh install.
Is it only in Sweden (or only in my circle of aquaintances) that ICQ and Jabber reigns supreme?
How stupid is that reasoning?
So if the majority of a people are bashing gays, gay bashing should be legal?
File-sharers are knowingly breaking the law. These lawsuits are just what you'd expect if you'd ever heard of causality.
I.e. if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The fact that RIAA's business model is outdated, and that they never will win this fight until they realize this is a completely different question; but the fact is that they are right by law and by any decent morals.
Socialist DRIVEL
Why not learn a language to a level of proficiency that you can use it well and adopt to the problems?
...and if you're a non-programmer kind of guy, go with the flow - chose the language with the most support available - that way you can ask your way through....
Maybe math programming is different from regular application programming, but few developers switch languages until they're forced to (i.e. when they get a job that only allows VB in-shop, or such).
It's not the tools, it's the wielder.
Seriously, if you have to ask... maybe it's time you started to learn _one_ language well.
I work for a _large_ games and betting company, somewhere in Europe. Apart from having firewalls in front and behind the Internet-servers, we also have firewalls that separate the employers network from the databases. I.e. we have three layers of security, and the only way to get through to the databases (where we have even more protection, just like AOL) would be to get access to a internet server and then try to get through three layers of passwords just to be able to _read specific_ user accounts.
More or less impossible. And I can't imagine that AOL (stupid as their users may be) don't have something like this aswell... WHY ON EARTH would the internal network go staight to their extremely valuable databases?
Most companies keep "mock up" systems for development, the actual production systems aren't accessible to anyone, basically...