"Gates, meanwhile, told gamers they would be able to download trial versions of games to their Xbox's hard drive to help them decide whether to buy a retail copy. The same promise is being made with Xbox 360."
This is like WinFS - which he promised ten years ago.
Guys, guys, Bill Gates is a LYING SACK OF SHIT! Period.
NOTHING that comes out of the mouth of ANYONE at Microsoft is to be taken seriously. You do NOT work at Microsoft (above peon level, that is) unless you are a liar and buy into that as a business method.
I agree with your observation in one respect - George is not to be called stupid because he can't speak well. He can't speak well - not because he's stupid - but because he's SO arrogant and disdainful of everyone else that he doesn't give a shit what he says to "the little people". He even told that reporter that in so many words: "I'm the President. I don't have to explain anything." So he just makes crap up and can't be bothered to do a good job of it in many instances.
My point about his stupidity goes deeper than that - his total attitude about life is so wrong (because of that major human flaw I mentioned) that he and those who think like him qualify as stupid. Irrational might be another term more precise than stupid. The bottom line is that people who think like that take actions which IN FACT end up causing the very problem - death - they were intent on avoiding. That's the irony.
THAT old canard! Does even Rush Limburger trot that one out anymore?
After 1,600 dead US troops, I'd say Iraq was a honeypot for Americans...
The notion of sending US troops to die in a foreign country to keep terrorists from attacking US civilians is not likely to go over well - especially after the next terrorist attack on US civilians...
Not exactly what you'd call a terribly effective tactic.
As Patton said, "Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor bastard die for his country."
NOTHING done in Iraq has improved the so-called "War on Terror" (which was a PR stunt anyway to cover alternative motivations such as oil pipelines and heroin in Afghanistan and oil pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa, and the like.)
The general consensus of intelligence experts is exactly the opposite.
"Having been accused of lacking imagination about potential terror attacks, they're using the exercise to better shape the government's roles in a variety of attack scenarios."
No - they're actually DEVELOPING these attack scenarios to see which ones they can use themselves on the US to justify more extensive "government roles."
This is what the CIA DOES, folks. That is their reason for existing.
We still aren't sure where Robert Morris got the nice, clean code (mixed in with his amateurish code) to develop the Morris worm. Hint: his father worked for the NSA as a computer security expert. Some people think the Worm was a tactic called "pulsing the system" in intelligence circles.
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Another idiot...
You sound like Marty Feldman in one of his old bits:
He goes into an insurance broker's office and starts grilling the guy about what his insurance will protect him from.
My favorite line:
"Am I protected from being struck by a meteorite whilst sunbathing at the beach?"
In other words, your prediction of consequences is on a par with the probability of being struck by a meteorite...
Obviously you have the life experience of a 10-year-old.
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Look, moron, working for others is being a peon.
You work for yourself. You make software, you OSS it, you make money installing, customizing, training, support, whatever. Hundreds of thousands of programmers do this NOW, idiot.
Where do these idiots come from? "Oooh, I'm a wage slave, what happens when the wage goes away?"
Fucking lame.
Okay, Linus! Want to defend this asshole now?
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He's saying EXACTLY what you accused Tridge of doing!
It made no sense when you said it and it makes no sense when he says it.
"Its not that M$ writes good software, its that everyone else's software is worse"
It's not that everyone else's software is worse, it's that most Windows people are too stupid to use any other software - because it's all they know and they're too short-sighted to use anything else despite ANY demonstrated benefits.
Humans will ALWAYS choose the wrong path given a choice. It's embedded in primate genetics.
"If you're right, I'm wrong, and if I'm wrong, I'm dead - and that can't be allowed. So you're wrong and I'm right!"
With this program embedded in their monkey skulls, what chance does anybody have of pointing out how stupid they are?
Right now, George Bush and his redneck moron followers are the poster boys for this kind of thinking.
Not exactly. Engineers tell management what the deadline SHOULD be, management tells engineers what the deadline IS.
That's the problem.
A poster says management makes deadlines based on finances, blah, blah - in other words, decisions made on non-technical bases which impact technical quality.
This is done because managers are morons and don't give a shit about product quality, customers, employees, or anything else but their stock options and office politics.
The WORST mistake the IT industry ever made was creating the concept of a "product manager". These people are FUCKING CLUELESS about anything. They do NOT know what the customer wants, they do NOT know anything about the technology, they do NOT know how to manage, they do NOT know how to test something until it works, they have absolutely NO comprehensible function except to be delegated work higher management is ALSO too clueless to perform.
I saw this at BofA in the late eighties and have used the results from plenty of software companies where such morons are in charge.
This is one reason OSS is better - there are NO product managers! (Except at large projects, presumably - and even then, I suspect THOSE project managers are techies who have been "promoted to their level of incompetence" - which means they interfere less than the usual product manager.)
Maybe they designed IE's XML handling so that no other browser can be installed without breaking it.
A new level in sneakiness.
Of course, we know FireFox and Opera don't do this, but maybe the bozos at Microsoft aren't smart enough to do their little trick right (maybe because they're still fixated on beating Netscape and AOL), so the other browsers snuck through.
I've yet to see a technical discussion of how this happened and why it was so EASY for Netscape to do this, OR why it happened without Netscape's testers discovering it.
I mean, is it a flaw in IE's design that it was easy to do this, or was it simple incompetence on the part of Netscape that allowed its developers to do it? Or both?
However, hundreds (indeed, thousands) of Registry keys are Bad (TM), because they are too complicated. There's large numbers of them, you need to open them in a specialized editor, find out where that setting is, etc. In other words, complex handling.
City College of San Francisco has a fairly well-rounded program (not that brilliant, it is only a community college, not a university) covering both Microsoft products and UNIX/Linux.
They have the usual business department courses in using Microsoft Office products.
The CS (Computer Science) department teaches C, C++, Java, Visual Basic.NET, C#, and in the fall, Python and PHP, and has taught Perl in the past, as well as UNIX/Linux systems administration, UNIX/Linux system programming, database courses on Oracle, database administration, SQL and PL/SQL, systems analysis and this fall, an AI course.
The CNIT (Computer Networking and Information Technology) teaches Cisco networking, Windows networking, wireless networking, UNIX network administration, security (both Windows and UNIX), and Web design and programming, as well as basic hardware and OS courses (A+ level).
City College is the largest community college district in the country with close to 80-90,000 students (counting credit and noncredit), multiple campuses around the city, and 4500 courses.
Quality of teachers vary widely, of course. You can get someone clueless, someone with a lot of experience who teaches badly, or someone with a lot of experience who teaches well. A lot of the IT teachers here work in the private sector as IT consultants or run their own IT consulting companies.
Open source doesn't get mentioned a lot except on the UNIX side, or in courses like Perl. I don't think anything about the breadth of OSS software available, or about how OSS development is done, is discussed anywhere. In that respect, some inroads by IBM and Red Hat would probably be valuable. Just talking about IBM and Red Hat products would not be particularly helpful. That would be as bad as just talking about Microsoft.
for three years. No problem yet. If anybody can get close enough to me to guess them, I'm screwed anyway. I've got my bank password written down sitting on my old Compaq machine as I write this. Break into my room to find it if you think $62 is worth the effort! Why did I write it down? Because the asshole bank sent me a message saying somebody from overseas had been probing the account (probably a phisher's email anyway), so on the off chance I went to the account and changed it to something else I've used, but might not remember I did so. Sure enough, I didn't until I remembered to look at the paper!
This stuff is WAY overblown (except for really secure places like banks).
The real issue is: do you have anything worth protecting? 99% of HOME users don't (unless it's their SSN or a bank account number with PIN, which is obtainable a hundred other ways.) Corporate users should be under a sophisticated single-sign-on/token/biometric/blah-blah system anyway.
So whether people write them down or not is totally irrelevant to real security issues.
when she's in Cambodia with her Cambodian adopted son, Maddox. She said they don't have electricity (except flashlights and maybe an emergency generator). You can't get to her place there except by helicopter, especially in the rainy season when the roads wash out.
Also, she has to watch the kid in case of tigers, supposedly.
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"Gates, meanwhile, told gamers they would be able to download trial versions of games to their Xbox's hard drive to help them decide whether to buy a retail copy. The same promise is being made with Xbox 360."
This is like WinFS - which he promised ten years ago.
Guys, guys, Bill Gates is a LYING SACK OF SHIT! Period.
NOTHING that comes out of the mouth of ANYONE at Microsoft is to be taken seriously. You do NOT work at Microsoft (above peon level, that is) unless you are a liar and buy into that as a business method.
"someone kept jingling change in his pocket so the camera zoomed in on his crotch every three minutes"
Now if we could get that to work with some of the female staff...
I'm an anarchist and Tranhumanist - so I don't any big-L Libertarianism crap either.
Ayn Rand was wrong on just about everything but the concept that values depend on being alive.
How you gonna get a bunch of pictures on one page without them being the size of screen icons?
You gotta have pictures! CEOs can't read!
a room where these two guys are riding up and down on something that looks like a seesaw with cameras on it...
And a ramp coming down from the entrance into the room.
And a big desk in the middle.
And wall screens - lots of walls screens - most of which are showing music videos of The Corrs...
And some bald-headed geeky-looking guy you can give orders to.
I agree with your observation in one respect - George is not to be called stupid because he can't speak well. He can't speak well - not because he's stupid - but because he's SO arrogant and disdainful of everyone else that he doesn't give a shit what he says to "the little people". He even told that reporter that in so many words: "I'm the President. I don't have to explain anything." So he just makes crap up and can't be bothered to do a good job of it in many instances.
My point about his stupidity goes deeper than that - his total attitude about life is so wrong (because of that major human flaw I mentioned) that he and those who think like him qualify as stupid. Irrational might be another term more precise than stupid. The bottom line is that people who think like that take actions which IN FACT end up causing the very problem - death - they were intent on avoiding. That's the irony.
Bwahahahahahah!!!
THAT old canard! Does even Rush Limburger trot that one out anymore?
After 1,600 dead US troops, I'd say Iraq was a honeypot for Americans...
The notion of sending US troops to die in a foreign country to keep terrorists from attacking US civilians is not likely to go over well - especially after the next terrorist attack on US civilians...
Not exactly what you'd call a terribly effective tactic.
As Patton said, "Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor bastard die for his country."
NOTHING done in Iraq has improved the so-called "War on Terror" (which was a PR stunt anyway to cover alternative motivations such as oil pipelines and heroin in Afghanistan and oil pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa, and the like.)
The general consensus of intelligence experts is exactly the opposite.
"Having been accused of lacking imagination about potential terror attacks, they're using the exercise to better shape the government's roles in a variety of attack scenarios."
No - they're actually DEVELOPING these attack scenarios to see which ones they can use themselves on the US to justify more extensive "government roles."
This is what the CIA DOES, folks. That is their reason for existing.
We still aren't sure where Robert Morris got the nice, clean code (mixed in with his amateurish code) to develop the Morris worm. Hint: his father worked for the NSA as a computer security expert. Some people think the Worm was a tactic called "pulsing the system" in intelligence circles.
Another idiot...
You sound like Marty Feldman in one of his old bits:
He goes into an insurance broker's office and starts grilling the guy about what his insurance will protect him from.
My favorite line:
"Am I protected from being struck by a meteorite whilst sunbathing at the beach?"
In other words, your prediction of consequences is on a par with the probability of being struck by a meteorite...
Obviously you have the life experience of a 10-year-old.
Look, moron, working for others is being a peon.
You work for yourself. You make software, you OSS it, you make money installing, customizing, training, support, whatever. Hundreds of thousands of programmers do this NOW, idiot.
Where do these idiots come from? "Oooh, I'm a wage slave, what happens when the wage goes away?"
Fucking lame.
He's saying EXACTLY what you accused Tridge of doing!
It made no sense when you said it and it makes no sense when he says it.
End of story.
George Bush will be invading France next week (on orders from Ann Coulter) to insure "democracy" prevails!
No one will miss 10,000 French judges massacred by US troops in "accidental" checkpoint shootings...
Britney Spears (she "trusts our President") will be appointed Consul in charge of the Occupation.
Unfortunately, ten or twenty people already have...
Your "Score:1" will shortly be "-20:Redundant"...
"Its not that M$ writes good software, its that everyone else's software is worse"
It's not that everyone else's software is worse, it's that most Windows people are too stupid to use any other software - because it's all they know and they're too short-sighted to use anything else despite ANY demonstrated benefits.
Humans will ALWAYS choose the wrong path given a choice. It's embedded in primate genetics.
"If you're right, I'm wrong, and if I'm wrong, I'm dead - and that can't be allowed. So you're wrong and I'm right!"
With this program embedded in their monkey skulls, what chance does anybody have of pointing out how stupid they are?
Right now, George Bush and his redneck moron followers are the poster boys for this kind of thinking.
And in IT, Bill Gates is the poster boy.
Not exactly. Engineers tell management what the deadline SHOULD be, management tells engineers what the deadline IS.
That's the problem.
A poster says management makes deadlines based on finances, blah, blah - in other words, decisions made on non-technical bases which impact technical quality.
This is done because managers are morons and don't give a shit about product quality, customers, employees, or anything else but their stock options and office politics.
The WORST mistake the IT industry ever made was creating the concept of a "product manager". These people are FUCKING CLUELESS about anything.
They do NOT know what the customer wants, they do NOT know anything about the technology, they do NOT know how to manage, they do NOT know how to test something until it works, they have absolutely NO comprehensible function except to be delegated work higher management is ALSO too clueless to perform.
I saw this at BofA in the late eighties and have used the results from plenty of software companies where such morons are in charge.
This is one reason OSS is better - there are NO product managers! (Except at large projects, presumably - and even then, I suspect THOSE project managers are techies who have been "promoted to their level of incompetence" - which means they interfere less than the usual product manager.)
JUST SAY 'NO!' TO PRODUCT MANAGERS!
And if your job is on the line because your management are assholes, it's time to find another job.
Granted, ALL management are assholes - SO better yet, start an OSS project and find some funding so you don't need assholes telling you what to do.
Maybe they did.
Maybe they designed IE's XML handling so that no other browser can be installed without breaking it.
A new level in sneakiness.
Of course, we know FireFox and Opera don't do this, but maybe the bozos at Microsoft aren't smart enough to do their little trick right (maybe because they're still fixated on beating Netscape and AOL), so the other browsers snuck through.
I've yet to see a technical discussion of how this happened and why it was so EASY for Netscape to do this, OR why it happened without Netscape's testers discovering it.
I mean, is it a flaw in IE's design that it was easy to do this, or was it simple incompetence on the part of Netscape that allowed its developers to do it? Or both?
However, hundreds (indeed, thousands) of Registry keys are Bad (TM), because they are too complicated. There's large numbers of them, you need to open them in a specialized editor, find out where that setting is, etc. In other words, complex handling.
See how easy that was?
Cut-and-paste works great!
Heh, heh. How about the MSN Opera buster and the "bork,bork" Opera response?
That was fun.
City College of San Francisco has a fairly well-rounded program (not that brilliant, it is only a community college, not a university) covering both Microsoft products and UNIX/Linux.
They have the usual business department courses in using Microsoft Office products.
The CS (Computer Science) department teaches C, C++, Java, Visual Basic.NET, C#, and in the fall, Python and PHP, and has taught Perl in the past, as well as UNIX/Linux systems administration, UNIX/Linux system programming, database courses on Oracle, database administration, SQL and PL/SQL, systems analysis and this fall, an AI course.
The CNIT (Computer Networking and Information Technology) teaches Cisco networking, Windows networking, wireless networking, UNIX network administration, security (both Windows and UNIX), and Web design and programming, as well as basic hardware and OS courses (A+ level).
City College is the largest community college district in the country with close to 80-90,000 students (counting credit and noncredit), multiple campuses around the city, and 4500 courses.
Quality of teachers vary widely, of course. You can get someone clueless, someone with a lot of experience who teaches badly, or someone with a lot of experience who teaches well. A lot of the IT teachers here work in the private sector as IT consultants or run their own IT consulting companies.
Open source doesn't get mentioned a lot except on the UNIX side, or in courses like Perl. I don't think anything about the breadth of OSS software available, or about how OSS development is done, is discussed anywhere. In that respect, some inroads by IBM and Red Hat would probably be valuable. Just talking about IBM and Red Hat products would not be particularly helpful. That would be as bad as just talking about Microsoft.
Now here's a bullshit story if I ever heard one...
Take it down the road, Microsoft troll (and, no, I don't for an instant believe you know shit about either Solaris or Linux.)
for three years. No problem yet. If anybody can get close enough to me to guess them, I'm screwed anyway. I've got my bank password written down sitting on my old Compaq machine as I write this. Break into my room to find it if you think $62 is worth the effort! Why did I write it down? Because the asshole bank sent me a message saying somebody from overseas had been probing the account (probably a phisher's email anyway), so on the off chance I went to the account and changed it to something else I've used, but might not remember I did so. Sure enough, I didn't until I remembered to look at the paper!
This stuff is WAY overblown (except for really secure places like banks).
The real issue is: do you have anything worth protecting? 99% of HOME users don't (unless it's their SSN or a bank account number with PIN, which is obtainable a hundred other ways.) Corporate users should be under a sophisticated single-sign-on/token/biometric/blah-blah system anyway.
So whether people write them down or not is totally irrelevant to real security issues.
when she's in Cambodia with her Cambodian adopted son, Maddox. She said they don't have electricity (except flashlights and maybe an emergency generator). You can't get to her place there except by helicopter, especially in the rainy season when the roads wash out.
Also, she has to watch the kid in case of tigers, supposedly.
I don't think Brad's been up there...:-)
H.R. 29 makes it 'unlawful for any person who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer to engage in deceptive acts or practices'.
I can see into Angelina and Brad's bedroom?
Where's my vidcam?
"Satellite images with 45-degree-angle views of buildings"