The average Joe isn't going to know the difference between.08% and.05%
That's exactly right, and is exactly why people should not drive if they have been drinking at all. They feel fine, but are in no condition to gauge their ability to drive. A person's perception of his ability to drive is vastly different from his actual ability to drive at a point way below his ability to tell the difference.
If you're going to go out to dinner and have a glass of wine, you should bring a driver who is not going to be drinking at all. Otherwise, you should stay home. The rest of us would appreciate it.
Microsoft is being careful here to...license...its IP....
So what is Microsoft licensing, exactly? To the rest of the world, it looks like Microsoft is threatening to lock companies in a horribly expensive, frivolous set of patent lawsuits unless said companies pay Microsoft less than it costs to go to court in order to invalidate the trivially stupid patents that should never have issued to begin with.
Do you know something the rest of us don't? Because when Barns & Noble was going to take Microsoft to court, it really looked like Microsoft panicked.
...what sort of a relationship do you have with your family if you can't play a little prank on them from time to time[?]
One of trust, honesty, and respect. Playing pranks is a form of self hatred, and is projecting your own self-hatred onto the people you supposedly love.
Could anybody with real life experience answer my question about how it compares to VS and eclipse for example ?
This is my own opinion, and others' opinions may differ. I used KDevelop a lot when I was doing C++ programming in the KDE 3.x years.
It managed to save my entire project once, when I did something really stupid (outside of KDevelop) which destroyed most of the source files in my project. I had no version control back then, but KDevelop had a complete copy of my project in memory. I was able to re-save all of my source files from with KDevelop to reconstruct my project -whew-.
That said, my comparison is like this (for C++ only):
Visual Studio (it is one of the few things Microsoft does well). KDevelop (because it had/has at least a primitive form of GUI builder integration). Eclipse (last because it does not have a GUI builder at all).
KDevelop's gdb integration was hit and miss at the best of times, making it almost unusable for testing applications. It's GUI building capabilities were primitive at the best of times, and it created a gawd-awful mess of autoconf crap in the project tree. It was a wrapper around the very poor C++ development tools available for Linux, doing almost everything badly. It was generally easier to do C++ programming with makefiles, text editors, and the command line.
I have no idea how it performs with KDE 4.x, as it took an eternity for the KDevelop writers to rewrite it for KDE 4. The Qt 3 to 4 transition disaster is largely what pushed me back to Java, with its stable API's and massively improved performance as of Project Mustang.
I switched back to Java several years ago because desktop programming under Linux is absolutely horrendous. None of the Linux IDE's that support C++ are any good at all for desktop programming. KDevelop sucks at it, QtCreator sucks at it, Netbeans sucks at it, everything sucks at at.
For desktop Java development, though, Netbeans is far and away the single best IDE available on Linux. Eclipse is is a non-starter because, again, it lacks any kind of meaningful GUI builder integration.
* Excellent is defined here as "slow, ugly and memory hungry."
Java was very slow until Project Mustang, at which time it became very fast for most uses. Two excellent examples are JTable and the printing system. I've populated JTables with a few hundred thousand rows (typically seven or eight columns wide) in the blink of an eye, with scrolling being just as responsive as with just a few dozen rows. And printing, which was completely unusable prior to Mustang, became as fast as anything else. A bug in my program caused my print loop to never exit, a situation that occurred to me immediately after I started the program. I killed the program immediately, but it had already generated a dozen pages and delivered them to CUPS in that time.
Ugly is an entirely subjective term, so I'm not going to debate it here. My customers, however, are uniformly complimentary on the look and feel of my user interfaces.
Some of the computers my Java desktop software runs on had, until just recently, 512MB of RAM and were running XP. My software started immediately, and caused no more noticeable paging than was already happening. It ran continuously every day from the start of business until the close of business, causing no issues beyond Windows' normal problems.
It's understandable why these Java memes survive beyond their useful lifespans, as Java performance really sucked for a long time, but Sun did an absolutely fantastic job during Project Mustang. Most of these memes continue solely on their own inertia, despite no longer being based on reality.
Leave Java on the server side and be done with it.
Or learn to use Java properly on the client side, which means stop using it as a browser plugin. Java makes an excellent desktop application development platform, but an absolutely lousy browser plugin.
Every time I have to talk to AT&T tech support, I make sure I mention that I really, really, really hope that Google Fiber comes to my area so I can drop AT&T.
Recently, my UVerse modem died, requiring a replacement. After it was installed, I had to call tech support to get my static IP address reinstated. At one point, I said I was using Linux, and AT&T said they would have to stop the tech support call right there. I then said I was running Windows XP, and the tech support guy resumed being just as useless as he was before I said I was running Linux.
Isn't that what is supposed to happen to CEOs when things go this wrong this fast?
That hasn't happened in a very long time. Expect Ballmer to get a massive end of year bonus.
Frankly, Ballmer has been the best to happen to the computing industry in decades. With the loosening of Microsoft's grip, we actually get to see a competitive landscape start to form again.
...there are people like me who are not buying a machine because of Win 8.
And here is why I think you're right:
Until Windows 8, none of Microsoft's customer base cared whether the newest version of Windows was substantially better than the last (and it wasn't). It was a new version of Windows, and they knew they had to upgrade or face mountains of difficulty down the road. So they upgraded with every new version of Windows, with Vista being the first time in Microsoft's history that customers balked in huge numbers. Even Windows M.E. sold in huge quantities, and it had absolutely nothing useful over Windows 98.
Nothing has changed in that regard.
However, now people are consciously deciding to not upgrade to the newest version of Windows. Even with the thread of force obsolescence, Microsoft's normally loyal customer base is saying no to what they are being given no other choice but to accept. That is a phenomenal change, and is due almost entirely to just how bad Windows 8 is.
As is usually the case, both the C64 and the CoCo had their strengths and weaknesses. I was envious of my C64-owning friends' game catalog and sprite hardware, and they were envious of the my CoCo 3's cassette and disk drive speed, and its multi-tasking abilities (which far, far exceeded those of the C64 and the IBM clones of the time). OS/9 Level 2 was really the best reason for owning a CoCo.
And the 6809 was the most pleasurable CPU I've ever programmed, especially for its addressing modes, though I think the 6502 had some (it not many) of the same great instructions.
inc [,x++] was one of my favorite instructions. When I eventually had to move to Intel, I was shocked to see how primitive its assembly language was. The Intel equivalent is something like:
(assume some address is in the bx register)
mov ax,[bx] add ax,1 mov [bx],ax add bx,2
(correct me if I'm wrong. It has been many years since I did assembly language.)
For game playing, the C64 won by a large margin. For productivity, the CoCo 3 had a big advantage.
Hopefully, the managers and developers who thought that tying their business processes to a specific version of Internet Explorer was a good idea cause such incredible expenses to their companies that they get fired for being the incompetent idiots that they are.
I know you said that ear plugs don't block human voices well, but my experience has been the opposite. I work in a cubicle in what amounts to a hallway, and I use foam earplugs when I need silence. When I get them inserted correctly, they block out everything in my work environment. My breathing is the loudest thing I hear, with my heartbeat being a close second.
The trick to foam earplugs is compacting them enough so they slip into your ear canals before expanding. Once they expand in my ear canals, I hear nothing but my own heart and breathing.
The issue is the Chinese government (national level) is not based upon any principles of openness.
You can replace the word "Chinese" with "American", "British", or any other national government without changing the message, the message would still be true.
I was almost laughing when I read the summary, as its tone was derogatory against the Chinese government (and rightfully so), but we have the exact same problems in our own countries.
I run NoScript, and I had no problem copying and pasting. I'm sure the people who actually implemented the copy/paste Javascript were secretly feeling dirty implementing something they knew wasn't going to work, but that management told them they had to do.
virt-manager even has support built-in to perform this task.
I tried virt-manager under Kubuntu, but it kept dying after just a few mouse clicks. I've since moved all of my virtualization to 64-bit Debian (under VirtualBox), but didn't think to try virt-manager there. When I get some time, I'll try it. Thanks.
I wanted to ditch VirtualBox in favor of KVM, but ran into a huge stumbling block. I wanted to virtualize my servers, so I need to have KVM's network adapter in bridge mode.
After following the KVM instructions, which had me manually changing many kernel settings, and a lot of trial and error for several days, I threw my hands up and went back to VirtualBox. I reverted all the kernel settings back to stock values, and I had VirtualBox bridging the network adapters in just a few seconds.
Getting KVM set up and running with virtual machines on their own private network wasn't a big deal. But getting them talking to my LAN was a no-go. That's unfortunate, as I would vastly prefer to stay Free.
I find this to be very unlikely. If you had any memory of Microsoft's behavior (past, present, and future), seeing Microsoft hit with this relatively insignificant (compared to the damage Microsoft has done) fine would warrant nothing more than a, "it's about time someone did something, anything." statement.
I'm beginning to feel sorry for MS.
Don't. The Commission should have moved the decimal point over a couple places to the right to even begin to adequately punish Microsoft for its criminal behavior. Microsoft is getting off way too easy.
Consider the context of the sentence: "[A]ttackers exploiting the flaw were able to..."
They were able to...what? Uploading and downloading are terms used within the context of who is doing what. When a file is being transferred, uploading and downloading are occurring simultaneously. One side of the transmission is downloading, and the other side of the transmission is uploading. The side of the transmission that is receiving the data is downloading, and the side of the transmission that is sending the data is uploading. It doesn't matter if it's client/server, peer to peer, or Morse code through flashlights; the rule is the same: the sender is uploading, and the receiver is downloading. It similarly doesn't matter who initiated the transfer.
The article was not in any way misleading about who was doing what. The victims were downloading, and the attackers were uploading.
When someone is transferring something to your computer, they are uploading. They managed to upload the McRAT trojan. They did not manage to download the McRAT trojan; They already had it, and weren't trying to get it from the victims' computers.
Please don't try learning your computer terminology from Hollywood, as they get it wrong 99% of the time. I think in all seven years of STTNG, they got it right only once.
I helped create a job for both a surgeon and an orthodontist.
And a cop, a lawyer, a bailiff, a judge, a tax assessor, a tax collector (to pay the cop, lawyer, bailiff, and judge), and the many people to whom they pay minimum wage.
You, sir, are providing for the American nightma...err..dream.
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I find you in violation of the TOS, your app must be pulled until you can show it complies.
Or if we apply the laws for Microsoft as they are applied to everyone else (such as Aaron Swartz):
"I I find you in violation of the ToS. Your company will be shut down for up to 30 years for violating the CFAA."
The average Joe isn't going to know the difference between .08% and .05%
That's exactly right, and is exactly why people should not drive if they have been drinking at all. They feel fine, but are in no condition to gauge their ability to drive. A person's perception of his ability to drive is vastly different from his actual ability to drive at a point way below his ability to tell the difference.
If you're going to go out to dinner and have a glass of wine, you should bring a driver who is not going to be drinking at all. Otherwise, you should stay home. The rest of us would appreciate it.
Microsoft is being careful here to...license...its IP....
So what is Microsoft licensing, exactly? To the rest of the world, it looks like Microsoft is threatening to lock companies in a horribly expensive, frivolous set of patent lawsuits unless said companies pay Microsoft less than it costs to go to court in order to invalidate the trivially stupid patents that should never have issued to begin with.
Do you know something the rest of us don't? Because when Barns & Noble was going to take Microsoft to court, it really looked like Microsoft panicked.
...what sort of a relationship do you have with your family if you can't play a little prank on them from time to time[?]
One of trust, honesty, and respect. Playing pranks is a form of self hatred, and is projecting your own self-hatred onto the people you supposedly love.
Could anybody with real life experience answer my question about how it compares to VS and eclipse for example ?
This is my own opinion, and others' opinions may differ. I used KDevelop a lot when I was doing C++ programming in the KDE 3.x years.
It managed to save my entire project once, when I did something really stupid (outside of KDevelop) which destroyed most of the source files in my project. I had no version control back then, but KDevelop had a complete copy of my project in memory. I was able to re-save all of my source files from with KDevelop to reconstruct my project -whew-.
That said, my comparison is like this (for C++ only):
Visual Studio (it is one of the few things Microsoft does well).
KDevelop (because it had/has at least a primitive form of GUI builder integration).
Eclipse (last because it does not have a GUI builder at all).
KDevelop's gdb integration was hit and miss at the best of times, making it almost unusable for testing applications. It's GUI building capabilities were primitive at the best of times, and it created a gawd-awful mess of autoconf crap in the project tree. It was a wrapper around the very poor C++ development tools available for Linux, doing almost everything badly. It was generally easier to do C++ programming with makefiles, text editors, and the command line.
I have no idea how it performs with KDE 4.x, as it took an eternity for the KDevelop writers to rewrite it for KDE 4. The Qt 3 to 4 transition disaster is largely what pushed me back to Java, with its stable API's and massively improved performance as of Project Mustang.
I switched back to Java several years ago because desktop programming under Linux is absolutely horrendous. None of the Linux IDE's that support C++ are any good at all for desktop programming. KDevelop sucks at it, QtCreator sucks at it, Netbeans sucks at it, everything sucks at at.
For desktop Java development, though, Netbeans is far and away the single best IDE available on Linux. Eclipse is is a non-starter because, again, it lacks any kind of meaningful GUI builder integration.
* Excellent is defined here as "slow, ugly and memory hungry."
Java was very slow until Project Mustang, at which time it became very fast for most uses. Two excellent examples are JTable and the printing system. I've populated JTables with a few hundred thousand rows (typically seven or eight columns wide) in the blink of an eye, with scrolling being just as responsive as with just a few dozen rows. And printing, which was completely unusable prior to Mustang, became as fast as anything else. A bug in my program caused my print loop to never exit, a situation that occurred to me immediately after I started the program. I killed the program immediately, but it had already generated a dozen pages and delivered them to CUPS in that time.
Ugly is an entirely subjective term, so I'm not going to debate it here. My customers, however, are uniformly complimentary on the look and feel of my user interfaces.
Some of the computers my Java desktop software runs on had, until just recently, 512MB of RAM and were running XP. My software started immediately, and caused no more noticeable paging than was already happening. It ran continuously every day from the start of business until the close of business, causing no issues beyond Windows' normal problems.
It's understandable why these Java memes survive beyond their useful lifespans, as Java performance really sucked for a long time, but Sun did an absolutely fantastic job during Project Mustang. Most of these memes continue solely on their own inertia, despite no longer being based on reality.
Leave Java on the server side and be done with it.
Or learn to use Java properly on the client side, which means stop using it as a browser plugin. Java makes an excellent desktop application development platform, but an absolutely lousy browser plugin.
When will Google Fiber come to my city!
Every time I have to talk to AT&T tech support, I make sure I mention that I really, really, really hope that Google Fiber comes to my area so I can drop AT&T.
Recently, my UVerse modem died, requiring a replacement. After it was installed, I had to call tech support to get my static IP address reinstated. At one point, I said I was using Linux, and AT&T said they would have to stop the tech support call right there. I then said I was running Windows XP, and the tech support guy resumed being just as useless as he was before I said I was running Linux.
I want Google to come to my city soooooooo badly.
Isn't that what is supposed to happen to CEOs when things go this wrong this fast?
That hasn't happened in a very long time. Expect Ballmer to get a massive end of year bonus.
Frankly, Ballmer has been the best to happen to the computing industry in decades. With the loosening of Microsoft's grip, we actually get to see a competitive landscape start to form again.
This is fantastic.
...there are people like me who are not buying a machine because of Win 8.
And here is why I think you're right:
Until Windows 8, none of Microsoft's customer base cared whether the newest version of Windows was substantially better than the last (and it wasn't). It was a new version of Windows, and they knew they had to upgrade or face mountains of difficulty down the road. So they upgraded with every new version of Windows, with Vista being the first time in Microsoft's history that customers balked in huge numbers. Even Windows M.E. sold in huge quantities, and it had absolutely nothing useful over Windows 98.
Nothing has changed in that regard.
However, now people are consciously deciding to not upgrade to the newest version of Windows. Even with the thread of force obsolescence, Microsoft's normally loyal customer base is saying no to what they are being given no other choice but to accept. That is a phenomenal change, and is due almost entirely to just how bad Windows 8 is.
You know how chimpanzees share something like 98% of their DNA with humans?
I'm always having to tell the chimpanzees to keep their DNA to themselves, thank you very much.
As is usually the case, both the C64 and the CoCo had their strengths and weaknesses. I was envious of my C64-owning friends' game catalog and sprite hardware, and they were envious of the my CoCo 3's cassette and disk drive speed, and its multi-tasking abilities (which far, far exceeded those of the C64 and the IBM clones of the time). OS/9 Level 2 was really the best reason for owning a CoCo.
And the 6809 was the most pleasurable CPU I've ever programmed, especially for its addressing modes, though I think the 6502 had some (it not many) of the same great instructions.
inc [,x++] was one of my favorite instructions. When I eventually had to move to Intel, I was shocked to see how primitive its assembly language was. The Intel equivalent is something like:
(assume some address is in the bx register)
mov ax,[bx]
add ax,1
mov [bx],ax
add bx,2
(correct me if I'm wrong. It has been many years since I did assembly language.)
For game playing, the C64 won by a large margin. For productivity, the CoCo 3 had a big advantage.
Why on earth would you want to watch it on your computer?
Because I choose to.
Hopefully, the managers and developers who thought that tying their business processes to a specific version of Internet Explorer was a good idea cause such incredible expenses to their companies that they get fired for being the incompetent idiots that they are.
I know you said that ear plugs don't block human voices well, but my experience has been the opposite. I work in a cubicle in what amounts to a hallway, and I use foam earplugs when I need silence. When I get them inserted correctly, they block out everything in my work environment. My breathing is the loudest thing I hear, with my heartbeat being a close second.
The trick to foam earplugs is compacting them enough so they slip into your ear canals before expanding. Once they expand in my ear canals, I hear nothing but my own heart and breathing.
Clearly Samsung is traveling 50 years into the future, and stealing ideas from the then-state-of-the-art Apple phones and tablets.
The issue is the Chinese government (national level) is not based upon any principles of openness.
You can replace the word "Chinese" with "American", "British", or any other national government without changing the message, the message would still be true.
I was almost laughing when I read the summary, as its tone was derogatory against the Chinese government (and rightfully so), but we have the exact same problems in our own countries.
How about we levy a $10,000 "tax" for politicians that introduce stupid legislation.
We could levy a two cent tax for the same, and no government on Earth would never have to worry about insolvency again.
I run NoScript, and I had no problem copying and pasting. I'm sure the people who actually implemented the copy/paste Javascript were secretly feeling dirty implementing something they knew wasn't going to work, but that management told them they had to do.
virt-manager even has support built-in to perform this task.
I tried virt-manager under Kubuntu, but it kept dying after just a few mouse clicks. I've since moved all of my virtualization to 64-bit Debian (under VirtualBox), but didn't think to try virt-manager there. When I get some time, I'll try it. Thanks.
I wanted to ditch VirtualBox in favor of KVM, but ran into a huge stumbling block. I wanted to virtualize my servers, so I need to have KVM's network adapter in bridge mode.
After following the KVM instructions, which had me manually changing many kernel settings, and a lot of trial and error for several days, I threw my hands up and went back to VirtualBox. I reverted all the kernel settings back to stock values, and I had VirtualBox bridging the network adapters in just a few seconds.
Getting KVM set up and running with virtual machines on their own private network wasn't a big deal. But getting them talking to my LAN was a no-go. That's unfortunate, as I would vastly prefer to stay Free.
Even as a Microsoft hater of old...
I find this to be very unlikely. If you had any memory of Microsoft's behavior (past, present, and future), seeing Microsoft hit with this relatively insignificant (compared to the damage Microsoft has done) fine would warrant nothing more than a, "it's about time someone did something, anything." statement.
I'm beginning to feel sorry for MS.
Don't. The Commission should have moved the decimal point over a couple places to the right to even begin to adequately punish Microsoft for its criminal behavior. Microsoft is getting off way too easy.
Consider the context of the sentence: "[A]ttackers exploiting the flaw were able to..."
They were able to...what? Uploading and downloading are terms used within the context of who is doing what. When a file is being transferred, uploading and downloading are occurring simultaneously. One side of the transmission is downloading, and the other side of the transmission is uploading. The side of the transmission that is receiving the data is downloading, and the side of the transmission that is sending the data is uploading. It doesn't matter if it's client/server, peer to peer, or Morse code through flashlights; the rule is the same: the sender is uploading, and the receiver is downloading. It similarly doesn't matter who initiated the transfer.
The article was not in any way misleading about who was doing what. The victims were downloading, and the attackers were uploading.
When someone is transferring something to your computer, they are uploading. They managed to upload the McRAT trojan. They did not manage to download the McRAT trojan; They already had it, and weren't trying to get it from the victims' computers.
Please don't try learning your computer terminology from Hollywood, as they get it wrong 99% of the time. I think in all seven years of STTNG, they got it right only once.
I helped create a job for both a surgeon and an orthodontist.
And a cop, a lawyer, a bailiff, a judge, a tax assessor, a tax collector (to pay the cop, lawyer, bailiff, and judge), and the many people to whom they pay minimum wage.
You, sir, are providing for the American nightma...err..dream.