"It's because Microsoft-based tech people burn out more quickly, and often the companies they work for make politically-oriented tech decisions over what is practical and economical."
Based on what? You're just making this up, right? And you get +5 for this....
It would be interesting for the police to get a list of everyone who churns away within a few weeks of this happening and matches it up to a lsit of known or suspected paedophiles. I suspect there would be a statistically significant match...
I don't get all the spam comments. Since they made changes to their spam filters a while ago (4 or 5 months ago maybe?) I've had maybe 1 spam a week in my inbox, and a few a day in my junk mail folder. I used to get dozens a day in my inbox.
Don't like it? You run what is almost certainly the most spammed mail service in the world and do a better job.
Prior art? This isn't a patent. This is a trademark. The question is was the term generic, not was it in use. Doing the same doesn't matter. WAS IT GENERIC is all that matters. Had your mum heard of x-windows?
I'd like to see him appear as an inter-galactic travelling jester of some sort - he certainly has the musical background to pull of someone warbling in Klingon.
Study after study shows the upfront cost is only the small percentage of the cost of a computer over its lifetime. Please kill the "it doesn't cost a dime" meme once and for all.
You probably won't believe this, but the truth doesn't hurt.
I know the guy responsible for the "MSN Style sheet debacle". I know him well & trust him. The REAL truth? Like any other organisation, they can't test every single browser on the market, you well know there are hundreds. As any decent site does, they did their test matrix, with a defined cut off point, I think it was anything with more than.5% share (don't remember for sure if it was.5%) was in the matrix, if not, it was out. We all have finite test resources. Opera didn't even come close to.5% so it was off the test matrix. The guy who programmed it screwed it up, test didn't find it, it's that simple.
I think it was best said by cmdr taco himself:
'Never attribute to malice what can be more easily attributed to stupidity'
I heard they made another version of the software that would distinguish the sex of the person and alert the wearer when a female looked at them, useful in "social" situations. However, fields tests were unsuccessful as not a single female looked at the test subject during a 4 hour party.
It seems to be that no matter what MS does, it's got evil intentions, lacks sincerity somehow, "is merely a public relations move", or whatever.
That could be true if it were a few isolated incidents, but there are things up on/. pretty much weekly which, with your cynic-coloured glasses off, are actually positive. Blogging, releasing product source, increased participation in communities, relaxing licensing restrictions, WinXP SP2, etc.
Maybe the OSS community is the big lumbering beast which is slow to change while MS is getting on with changing what needs to be changed. Each small change by itself isn't ground breaking, but a trend, well, maybe that is.
No, I don't. I remember that Microsoft provided some level of funding to the group (and were quite open about it). Guess what? Microsoft fund a lot of people, doesn't mean they become Microsofts lackies. Microsoft owns 7% of comcast who made TechTV (RIP) which could hardly be called Microsoft friendly. There is no evidence at all that Microsoft funded this report, merely speculation.
So, basically, the/. editors report rumours as facts, and then misquote themselves to build further "facts" on top of that. Please try and get some crediblity.
Likely or not, it is a risk and could happen. Many companies are risk averse, and look for ways to mitigate risk. This company is providing a way for them to mitigate risk. Pretty much a straight insurance job, although the downside is that their business is really all around one issue, rather than the normal diversified portfolio insurance companies have (betting that not all 100,000 clients will crash their cars in the same year, but all will pay their premiums).
Your point doesn't hold at all. Your point was that it was rare. It's not.
My machine runs Office Pro. 100% of datapoints support my position.
BTW, you might want to read http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/pro dinfo/ technologies/xml.mspx#XSLTsection125121120120:
"Note In all Office 2003 Editions, Word 2003 documents and Excel 2003 spreadsheets can be saved in a native XML file format which can be manipulated and searched using any program that can process industry standard XML. With Office Professional Edition 2003, companies can also use customized XML formats--or schemas--to enable easier and more advanced information creation, capture, exchange, and reuse."
Another equally good analogy: "So, who expects their bikes to go forever without needing to put petrol in?" (no hands) "So cars are badly designed." Let's compare apples with apples here.
How many cars get used in an infinite number of unpredictable ways?
Cars drive on a limited number of surfaces, in a limited number of ways, all of which can be thoroughly tested. A complex piece of software has an effectively infinite number of variations of use & environment (hardware, other software), and no one can do an infinite number of tests. So, there will always be bugs without some sort of deep fundamental change (which will have downsides). It's a silly analogy.
Does the $5/month include training? Deployment? Hardware upgrades? TCO is a lot more complex than that, which is why everyone claims the best TCO - it's so hard to measure.
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I can see a crater that looks like Cowboy Neal.
"How long until that ability is either abused or hijacked?"
Maybe it will, and maybe it won't. How long till it helps catch criminals? Very quickly most likely.
Anyway, you are in a public place, there is no privacy.
"It's because Microsoft-based tech people burn out more quickly, and often the companies they work for make politically-oriented tech decisions over what is practical and economical."
Based on what? You're just making this up, right? And you get +5 for this....
They are changing the name!
It's now known as ThunderFox.
I doubt they would but...
It would be interesting for the police to get a list of everyone who churns away within a few weeks of this happening and matches it up to a lsit of known or suspected paedophiles. I suspect there would be a statistically significant match...
I don't get all the spam comments. Since they made changes to their spam filters a while ago (4 or 5 months ago maybe?) I've had maybe 1 spam a week in my inbox, and a few a day in my junk mail folder. I used to get dozens a day in my inbox.
Don't like it? You run what is almost certainly the most spammed mail service in the world and do a better job.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/28/198242
Prior art? This isn't a patent. This is a trademark. The question is was the term generic, not was it in use. Doing the same doesn't matter. WAS IT GENERIC is all that matters. Had your mum heard of x-windows?
I'd like to see him appear as an inter-galactic travelling jester of some sort - he certainly has the musical background to pull of someone warbling in Klingon.
"And the best part? It doesnt cost a dime!"
Study after study shows the upfront cost is only the small percentage of the cost of a computer over its lifetime. Please kill the "it doesn't cost a dime" meme once and for all.
I know the guy responsible for the "MSN Style sheet debacle". I know him well & trust him. The REAL truth? Like any other organisation, they can't test every single browser on the market, you well know there are hundreds. As any decent site does, they did their test matrix, with a defined cut off point, I think it was anything with more than .5% share (don't remember for sure if it was .5%) was in the matrix, if not, it was out. We all have finite test resources. Opera didn't even come close to .5% so it was off the test matrix. The guy who programmed it screwed it up, test didn't find it, it's that simple.
I think it was best said by cmdr taco himself: 'Never attribute to malice what can be more easily attributed to stupidity'
I heard they made another version of the software that would distinguish the sex of the person and alert the wearer when a female looked at them, useful in "social" situations. However, fields tests were unsuccessful as not a single female looked at the test subject during a 4 hour party.
It seems to be that no matter what MS does, it's got evil intentions, lacks sincerity somehow, "is merely a public relations move", or whatever.
/. pretty much weekly which, with your cynic-coloured glasses off, are actually positive. Blogging, releasing product source, increased participation in communities, relaxing licensing restrictions, WinXP SP2, etc.
That could be true if it were a few isolated incidents, but there are things up on
Maybe the OSS community is the big lumbering beast which is slow to change while MS is getting on with changing what needs to be changed. Each small change by itself isn't ground breaking, but a trend, well, maybe that is.
"Remember who funded the same group's report on open source security?"
/. editors report rumours as facts, and then misquote themselves to build further "facts" on top of that. Please try and get some crediblity.
No, I don't. I remember that Microsoft provided some level of funding to the group (and were quite open about it). Guess what? Microsoft fund a lot of people, doesn't mean they become Microsofts lackies. Microsoft owns 7% of comcast who made TechTV (RIP) which could hardly be called Microsoft friendly. There is no evidence at all that Microsoft funded this report, merely speculation.
So, basically, the
Likely or not, it is a risk and could happen. Many companies are risk averse, and look for ways to mitigate risk. This company is providing a way for them to mitigate risk. Pretty much a straight insurance job, although the downside is that their business is really all around one issue, rather than the normal diversified portfolio insurance companies have (betting that not all 100,000 clients will crash their cars in the same year, but all will pay their premiums).
Make him explain to my mother what a worm is, what he made it, and how to enable a firewall. That'd be punishment enough.
Your point doesn't hold at all. Your point was that it was rare. It's not.
o dinfo/ technologies/xml.mspx#XSLTsection125121120120:
My machine runs Office Pro. 100% of datapoints support my position.
BTW, you might want to read
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/pr
"Note In all Office 2003 Editions, Word 2003 documents and Excel 2003 spreadsheets can be saved in a native XML file format which can be manipulated and searched using any program that can process industry standard XML. With Office Professional Edition 2003, companies can also use customized XML formats--or schemas--to enable easier and more advanced information creation, capture, exchange, and reuse."
The "rare" version that most large companies license? Moron...
Another equally good analogy:
"So, who expects their bikes to go forever without needing to put petrol in?" (no hands) "So cars are badly designed." Let's compare apples with apples here.
How many cars get used in an infinite number of unpredictable ways?
Cars drive on a limited number of surfaces, in a limited number of ways, all of which can be thoroughly tested. A complex piece of software has an effectively infinite number of variations of use & environment (hardware, other software), and no one can do an infinite number of tests. So, there will always be bugs without some sort of deep fundamental change (which will have downsides). It's a silly analogy.
'I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream'.
If we had bacon, we could have bacon and eggs if we had eggs.
Does the $5/month include training? Deployment? Hardware upgrades? TCO is a lot more complex than that, which is why everyone claims the best TCO - it's so hard to measure.
640 Terabytes ought to be enough for anyone. ;)
(yeah, I know Bill never said the original quote)
I don't understand all this stuff about quantam cryptography. Let's get to the core of the issue:
Can it help me download pr0n faster or not?
"In a move reminiscent of the 1997 MSFT/Borland Lawsuits..."
This is *nothing* like the Borland lawsuit. Your own link says that's about hiring a large number of key staff thus draining the business.
This is about hiring one key person. Apart from hiring from a competitor (standard practice) there is no resemblance at all.
This is the classiest joke I've ever seen. Cover everything in a friends apartment in aluminium foil. Everything. Individually.