Then there's the widely held notion among critics that Microsoft is essentially unchanged after its antitrust settlement with the federal government. Earlier this month, competitors alleged in a complaint to the European Union that the company is still using its monopoly on PC operating systems to shoulder into new markets. ...
Customers are less likely to praise the company's software than to gripe about its prices, aggressive sales tactics and stranglehold on their machines even as it changes its practices as a result of the antitrust case.
It doesn't sound like MS has changed much at all. Or am I missing something?
Gates said he plans to retire "somewhere in my late 50s" but will probably remain associated with the company, perhaps in an advisory capacity, a role he described as "ongoing support."
"He takes the air out and he doesn't get the long-range hydrophobic force. It doesn't nail the hydrophobic force down, but now we have something to work on," says James Quirk, a chemist at the University of Western Australia in Perth..."
Hydrophobic, eh? So that's the reason they don't mix: the oil is afraid of the water. Neat.
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Many of these reputation managers involve rating methods, from Epinions.com's Web of Trust, to eBay's ratings (and huge anti-fraud department), to Slashdot.org's highly-evolved Meta Moderation system.
To form an opinion based on reading Epinions or Slashdot takes a lot more work than soaking up a
newspaper headline or drooling in front of the six o'clock news. On Epinions you have to read the
various reviews and weigh them against each other. On Slashdot one has to read the original article, and think, or at least wade through the posts. (my emphasis)
Suppose passengers were permitted to use mobiles in flight: how easy would it be to have a conversation when 60% of the people on-board are shouting into their mobiles? How easy would it be to do ANYTHING when 60% of the people on-board are shouting into their mobiles? For some reason a lot of people think they need to TALK on their phones vice talk or even (talk). These people are annoying in public places; imagine sitting three feet away from six of them on a cross-country flight. Scary, eh?
Incidentally, I think this is the reason the airphones are so expensive: it's not that it costs so much to operate the service, but it is a deterrent to the dorks who would use it just for the novelty value. You know who you are.:-)
You're seriously trying to base an argument around similarity of wording, without addressing the subjects of the arguments at all?!
In the security community, there are two general schools of thought:
vulnerability info should be disclosed immediately, even if 'the bad guys' can gain something through the disclosure
vulnerability info should not be disclosed until a patch is released/available
First, often security holes are not immediately disclosed. The discoverer will instead contact the company responsible for fixing the holes and give them a certain amount of time to acknowledge, examine, and then fix the hole. Only if the company involved ignores the problem or doesn't fix it in a timely manner is the hole publicly revealed without a fix in-hand.
*sigh* You should try reading bugtraq some time; it often does not work that way.
Without getting into the relative merits of the two approaches, the debate is similar to that mentioned in the article:
should information be disclosed to 'the bad guys' if they can gain from it? That is the similarity, full stop.
Where's my patch from God that makes me immune to anthrax?
Was anyone else reminded of that SNL skit with the Obnoxious tech-support guy? I can't remember the name, ah well.
I didn't see these until last year, but found them mildly amusing. Jackie Chan was funny as Burns' protege.
In one skit Burns said he was going to get his MCSE and get out of that [what looked to be an Apple] outfit. The MCSE, of course, is now part of the punchline.:-)
This sort of comment pops up all the time on/. and elsewhere. Just because you don't want something doesn't mean that someone else must be crazy to want it. Not everyone thinks like you do (or I do, or anyone else does).
If you don't want one, or think it's a dumb idea, then don't buy one. Problem solved.
This is not meant to be a troll or flamebait, though it will probably be modded as such.
The Oxford English Dictionary
on
A Word a Day
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
site has a Word of the Day function:
http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
Today's word is 'mutton', which isn't very interesting until you read the the archaic forms. There is one from 1518: "And from thens to the halfe strete, To get vs there some freshe mete. Why, is there any store of
rawe motton? "
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From the article:
Then there's the widely held notion among critics that Microsoft is essentially unchanged after its antitrust settlement with the federal government. Earlier this month, competitors alleged in a complaint to the European Union that the company is still using its monopoly on PC operating systems to shoulder into new markets.
...
Customers are less likely to praise the company's software than to gripe about its prices, aggressive sales tactics and stranglehold on their machines even as it changes its practices as a result of the antitrust case.
It doesn't sound like MS has changed much at all. Or am I missing something?
From the article:
Gates said he plans to retire "somewhere in my late 50s" but will probably remain associated with the company, perhaps in an advisory capacity, a role he described as "ongoing support."
So when will he be EOL-ed?
It's no the complexity or simplicity of the track, that is unimportant.
Yes, those ovals can certainly be tricky, what with all the turning left and going straight...
*boggle*
To ensure you always have a beer at hand, hang a six-pack of cans from your belt using the plastic retaining loops - Porta-Beer(tm)!
There is an interesting book called 200% of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy.
I believe it is out of print, but it is available from Alibris.
(The parallelism between 'illiteracy' and 'innumeracy' is interesting.)
"He takes the air out and he doesn't get the long-range hydrophobic force. It doesn't nail the hydrophobic force down, but now we have something to work on," says James Quirk, a chemist at the University of Western Australia in Perth..."
Hydrophobic, eh? So that's the reason they don't mix: the oil is afraid of the water. Neat.
PS I wonder if the chemist's middle initial is T.
Reasoning, which sells automated software inspection services, scrutinized part of the code of the Linux and five operating systems,
Including the Solaris, the Windows, the AIX, and the HP/UX.
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Why I Gave This Book An 9
Because it would not be a
Many of these reputation managers involve rating methods, from Epinions.com's Web of Trust, to eBay's ratings (and huge anti-fraud department), to Slashdot.org's highly-evolved Meta Moderation system.
It's a very brief mention, but it's there.
From the linked story:
To form an opinion based on reading Epinions or Slashdot takes a lot more work than soaking up a newspaper headline or drooling in front of the six o'clock news. On Epinions you have to read the various reviews and weigh them against each other. On Slashdot one has to read the original article, and think, or at least wade through the posts. (my emphasis)
Which
The IEEE Wireless Standards Zone overview is here.
Recent news from the IEEE re: 802.11 is available here.
Suppose passengers were permitted to use mobiles in flight: how easy would it be to have a conversation when 60% of the people on-board are shouting into their mobiles? How easy would it be to do ANYTHING when 60% of the people on-board are shouting into their mobiles? For some reason a lot of people think they need to TALK on their phones vice talk or even (talk). These people are annoying in public places; imagine sitting three feet away from six of them on a cross-country flight. Scary, eh?
Incidentally, I think this is the reason the airphones are so expensive: it's not that it costs so much to operate the service, but it is a deterrent to the dorks who would use it just for the novelty value. You know who you are.
In the security community, there are two general schools of thought:
vulnerability info should be disclosed immediately, even if 'the bad guys' can gain something through the disclosure
vulnerability info should not be disclosed until a patch is released/available
First, often security holes are not immediately disclosed. The discoverer will instead contact the company responsible for fixing the holes and give them a certain amount of time to acknowledge, examine, and then fix the hole. Only if the company involved ignores the problem or doesn't fix it in a timely manner is the hole publicly revealed without a fix in-hand.
*sigh* You should try reading bugtraq some time; it often does not work that way.
Without getting into the relative merits of the two approaches, the debate is similar to that mentioned in the article:
should information be disclosed to 'the bad guys' if they can gain from it? That is the similarity, full stop.
Where's my patch from God that makes me immune to anthrax?
You'll have to take it up with Him. Good luck!
and the argument that rages around security vulnerabilities.
From the article:
"Open publication brings benefits not only to public health but also in efforts to combat terrorism," the statement said.
Tweak it a bit and we have
Open publication of vulnerabilities brings benefits not only to the security of public networks but also in efforts to combat malicious intrusions.
Sound familiar?
It's just a rather large typo.
if you were under the plane when it went down, you would die in the crash, too.
Glad I could help. &:-)
[homer]
Mmmmm... la-a-amb... *drool*
[/homer]
Sorry - I don't know how to spell the 'raaghchchgh' Homer makes at drool time. D'oh.
(Yes, I know 'bury' was misspelled, but 'cury' just wouldn't have worked.)
Read the RH press release here.
you get TOIL instead
TOIL for everyone! Woohoo!
Oh, wait...
Yes, it means Time-Off-In-Lieu [of $$$]. (At least I think it does.)
You could ask Saturn. They have building cars that way for ~10 years.
Was anyone else reminded of that SNL skit with the Obnoxious tech-support guy? I can't remember the name, ah well.
I didn't see these until last year, but found them mildly amusing. Jackie Chan was funny as Burns' protege.
In one skit Burns said he was going to get his MCSE and get out of that [what looked to be an Apple] outfit. The MCSE, of course, is now part of the punchline.
(No, this is not a dig at competent MCSEs.)
This sort of comment pops up all the time on
If you don't want one, or think it's a dumb idea, then don't buy one. Problem solved.
This is not meant to be a troll or flamebait, though it will probably be modded as such.
site has a Word of the Day function:
http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
Today's word is 'mutton', which isn't very interesting until you read the the archaic forms. There is one from 1518: "And from thens to the halfe strete, To get vs there some freshe mete. Why, is there any store of rawe motton? "
Okay, I find the archaic bits interesting. YMMV.
"Faster, more expandible, and more affordable than ever"
I thought 'expandible' was misspelled, but dictionary.com says otherwise:
expandible
adj 1: able to expand or be expanded [syn: expandable, expansible] 2: (of gases) capable of expansion [syn: expandable, expansible, expansile]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
I'll be darned: Apple was just thinking different.