Fudruckers was imbedding his game in their own web page. They made it look like they were providing the game when they were not providing the game. They just provided the low bandwidth and low skill set part - The web page wrapper sans game.
The review sites plot results in a way that make very small differences in benchmarks look huge.
These sites review boards from different companies with the same chip sets. They are all going to come out almost the same! Between innumerate reviewers and innumerate readers, a lot of people come away thinking there is a real difference in the performance of these boards.
Sounds like you've never worked at any company that actually develops stuff. It does take time to investigate the problem, fix it, figure out what's affected, roll up the patches, and issue them to customers once in a while. If you issue dozens of updates per month or don't test your patches thoroughly, nobody is going to install them.
It is tough to put out a real product. It is tough to get it into customer's hand and provide the support. It is a lot of work to make sure the fix does not break something else for some customers.
I have worked for companies that do this well and companies that do not do it well.
When a company gets large, often the ratio of engineering to talking about engineering gets very small. A patch that inolves 2 lines of code can take countless meetings of people from many departments. It can be a many week ordeal to do a very small change.
I find it very easy to believe the software vendors intend to be fast with the patches. I find it easy to see that they are peddling as fast as they can. I can also see that they may not be delivering the patches, and think that what goes on in their organizations is perfectly normal!
My employer owns it. They are in charge of what services run on it. If they wanted to, I would have to let them run Windows ME on it. Fortunately they are not that daft.
At home though I do not do Windows.
By using such despicable harassment techniques against these scientists, all Joe Barton has managed to accomplish here is to certify their findings.
After all, if their results could be disputed rationally, there would be no need for such underhanded tactics.
There is no doubt in the scientific community about global warming. In the early 1990s there was still some doubt. The only people who now think global warming is not real get their science from Rush Limbaugh.
The open source model has a very high ratio of code to Power Point. Much of code development done by large companies produce far more Power Point than code.
I tried to download Firefox 1.05 to my work computer. I got a pop up saying the firewall blocked me and that mirrors.playboy was not an appropriate site!
I prefer to use three products in combination. Microsoft Antispyware on a daily basis, and periodical runs of AdAware and SpyBot S&D seem to do the trick for now.
Those Windows boxes sure take a lot of work to keep going!
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Would it make sense to not even use the tape drive on the camera? Could you just plug a firewire to a laptop and dvgrab the video directly to a computer?
If the tape drive is the most frigile part of the camera, this would extend it's life.
I did not have a clear picture of what this guy experienced in Nagasaki. I do not think this guy was a very good writter.
Also he was very being very opinionated about things he did not know much about. Even though he saw hair falling out of children, he dicounted the idea of radiation sickness. He did come back to it in the end though, I would have preferred to just read the guys observations without reading his opinions.
He spent some time on the war stories of POWs too. This was a digression.
It is a shame this story was not printed after it was written. But I think the reason decades passed before it was published is that this just was not very good.
#1. The email client should NOT under ANY circumstances automatically run scripts or executables. This was a MAJOR problem with previous versions of Outlook.
#2. The regular user should NOT under ANY circumstances be able to run a program from his user directory/temp directory.
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Once you've implemented example #2, then the ONLY way for a trojan to get onto a system is if the user has the root password AND goes through the regular install process.
Not entirely correct, since you can still run things like this: /bin/sh ~/trojan.sh
or /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ~/trojan.bin
A quick solution would be a chron job to periodically clear the executable flags of all files in the home directories. Even I could write this script.
I have a hard time thinking Microsoft is that stipid. The only way Microsoft would do that is if they thought they were competing with the company Red Hat instead of a decentralised movement.
I think they are smart enough to know that Linux Distro companies are like heads of the hydra. If you kill off one, 10 others grow to take it's place. The barriers to entry are very low. Ubuntu has gone from non-existance to a major distro in less than a year.
But Microsoft may actually believe the only way good software could be developed is with a centralised bureaucracy. They may not believe the free wheeling open source methodology could deliver good results. People has this strange irrational faith in bureaucracy. Could they actually think Red Hat provides the central command and control they think is needed to get things done?
If Microsoft goes think this way, they may be willing to pay big bucks for Red Hat. If Microsoft does buy Red Hat, I hope they pay through the nose for it. It is money that will buy them very little.
I think Microsoft will be around and profitable for a long long time.
That said, I think Microsoft sees themself on a precarious perch. They think they keep their domination of the desktop by denying the average customer freedom of choice. Go to a Best Buy or browse Dell.com. We only see Microsoft boxen.
Microsoft has been better at forcing us to use Microsoft products than geting us to want to use Microsoft products. As a result Microsoft is not exaclty loved by a large part of it's customer base. The Microsoft partisans see the resentment even though they attribute it to jealousy of Microsofts success instead of a reaction to Microsoft's actions.
So far Microsoft has been successful at killing potential threats. When Netscape and Java were seen as potential OS independent platform Microsoft cut off Netscape's "air supply."
When BeOS was around Microsoft prohibited the Box Makers from configuring dual boot boxes from being truely dual boot!
It has been easy for Micosoft to kill off these single company threats.
Why has has Microsoft been able to tell the box makers what to do. If 95% of the business of a box maker is Microsoft boxes, then they have to do an Microsoft says.
I am sure that Microsoft fears the possibility of an alternative such as Linux getting enough market share that some Box Makers could tell Microsoft to bugger off. I am sure they fear this scenario. And Linux can not be killed by cutting off a company's "air supply."
But I think the fear is unfounded. I think most people would stick with Windows even if they had Linux boxes next to the Windows boxes at Best Buy.
The only reason he pulled the article is the DDOS attacks.
These online SYS-CON rags must not be getting much traffic. The geek comunity has been avoiding SYS-CON for a while now.
For a brief while it looked like SYS-CON was doing the right thing so we all had a look see. They could not handle the traffic. They have no idea how much traffice they could have if they did the right thing on a regular basis.
She wrote these very inflammatory articles that were synchronised with SCO's media agenda. This got the penguinistas enraged as they went to the SYS-CON web sites to read the latest outrage.
In short she brought readers to the site. A lot of enraged penguinistas fell for the bait.
I think Microsoft is in trouble, and they are desparately seeking ways to stay in business for a decade more while their competitors eat their lunch.
I have a hard time seeing that Microsoft is "in trouble". The growth Microsoft thinks it is entitled to is over. I am sure people in Microsoft think double digit growth and triple digit margins are normal and anything less is "trouble".
But realisitically Microsoft will dominate the desktop for a long long time. Too long in fact for my tastes.
People will stick with Microsoft for the same reason they go to McDonalds when there is a great deli next to the golden arches. They will go with what is familiar. They will chose the path of least resistance.
Even though McDonalds is not growing, McDonalds is not in trouble.
The PC makers buy the processors from Intel (or AMD)
the hard drives from Maxtor or Seagate or WDC...
The software is mostly from Microsoft.
I could go on and on here.
the only real technology challange is the thermal design. How do you get the heat out.
IBM is not selling technology to China.
If someone is worried about security and back doors, their PC is going to be a major security risk regardless of the nationality of the Brand on the box. If someone wants security they should not be buying a PC with Windows.
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Fudruckers was imbedding his game in their own web page. They made it look like they were providing the game when they were not providing the game. They just provided the low bandwidth and low skill set part - The web page wrapper sans game.
These sites review boards from different companies with the same chip sets. They are all going to come out almost the same! Between innumerate reviewers and innumerate readers, a lot of people come away thinking there is a real difference in the performance of these boards.
You can download it from here. They have it in RPM and tarball form.
( I will probobly get modded down for "off topic". Well there goes my Karma!
Nearly all political ads on TV leave the viewer even less informed!
I am glad to see there is a theoretical basis for this in quantum mechanics.
It is tough to put out a real product. It is tough to get it into customer's hand and provide the support. It is a lot of work to make sure the fix does not break something else for some customers.
I have worked for companies that do this well and companies that do not do it well.
When a company gets large, often the ratio of engineering to talking about engineering gets very small. A patch that inolves 2 lines of code can take countless meetings of people from many departments. It can be a many week ordeal to do a very small change.
I find it very easy to believe the software vendors intend to be fast with the patches. I find it easy to see that they are peddling as fast as they can. I can also see that they may not be delivering the patches, and think that what goes on in their organizations is perfectly normal!
My employer owns it. They are in charge of what services run on it. If they wanted to, I would have to let them run Windows ME on it. Fortunately they are not that daft. At home though I do not do Windows.
After all, if their results could be disputed rationally, there would be no need for such underhanded tactics.
There is no doubt in the scientific community about global warming. In the early 1990s there was still some doubt. The only people who now think global warming is not real get their science from Rush Limbaugh.
I think the article was written by a fuckwit.
I tried to download Firefox 1.05 to my work computer. I got a pop up saying the firewall blocked me and that mirrors.playboy was not an appropriate site!
Those Windows boxes sure take a lot of work to keep going!
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If the tape drive is the most frigile part of the camera, this would extend it's life.
Also he was very being very opinionated about things he did not know much about. Even though he saw hair falling out of children, he dicounted the idea of radiation sickness. He did come back to it in the end though, I would have preferred to just read the guys observations without reading his opinions.
He spent some time on the war stories of POWs too. This was a digression.
It is a shame this story was not printed after it was written. But I think the reason decades passed before it was published is that this just was not very good.
Just bring a Knoppix CD and one of those USB flash memory "drives". Boot Knoppix so you do not have to worry about the spyware on the computer.
Not entirely correct, since you can still run things like this:
or
A quick solution would be a chron job to periodically clear the executable flags of all files in the home directories. Even I could write this script.
Well Mr Spy der Mann,
Obviously you care!
I think they are smart enough to know that Linux Distro companies are like heads of the hydra. If you kill off one, 10 others grow to take it's place. The barriers to entry are very low. Ubuntu has gone from non-existance to a major distro in less than a year.
But Microsoft may actually believe the only way good software could be developed is with a centralised bureaucracy. They may not believe the free wheeling open source methodology could deliver good results. People has this strange irrational faith in bureaucracy. Could they actually think Red Hat provides the central command and control they think is needed to get things done?
If Microsoft goes think this way, they may be willing to pay big bucks for Red Hat. If Microsoft does buy Red Hat, I hope they pay through the nose for it. It is money that will buy them very little.
That said, I think Microsoft sees themself on a precarious perch. They think they keep their domination of the desktop by denying the average customer freedom of choice. Go to a Best Buy or browse Dell.com. We only see Microsoft boxen.
Microsoft has been better at forcing us to use Microsoft products than geting us to want to use Microsoft products. As a result Microsoft is not exaclty loved by a large part of it's customer base. The Microsoft partisans see the resentment even though they attribute it to jealousy of Microsofts success instead of a reaction to Microsoft's actions.
So far Microsoft has been successful at killing potential threats. When Netscape and Java were seen as potential OS independent platform Microsoft cut off Netscape's "air supply."
When BeOS was around Microsoft prohibited the Box Makers from configuring dual boot boxes from being truely dual boot!
It has been easy for Micosoft to kill off these single company threats.
Why has has Microsoft been able to tell the box makers what to do. If 95% of the business of a box maker is Microsoft boxes, then they have to do an Microsoft says.
I am sure that Microsoft fears the possibility of an alternative such as Linux getting enough market share that some Box Makers could tell Microsoft to bugger off. I am sure they fear this scenario. And Linux can not be killed by cutting off a company's "air supply."
But I think the fear is unfounded. I think most people would stick with Windows even if they had Linux boxes next to the Windows boxes at Best Buy.
Using McBride as a mouthpiece is an act of desparation. They were both doing this at the same time.
These online SYS-CON rags must not be getting much traffic. The geek comunity has been avoiding SYS-CON for a while now.
For a brief while it looked like SYS-CON was doing the right thing so we all had a look see. They could not handle the traffic. They have no idea how much traffice they could have if they did the right thing on a regular basis.
In short she brought readers to the site. A lot of enraged penguinistas fell for the bait.
But as a result SYS-CON had no credibility.
* more complicated and less secure than what it is copying.
I have a hard time seeing that Microsoft is "in trouble". The growth Microsoft thinks it is entitled to is over. I am sure people in Microsoft think double digit growth and triple digit margins are normal and anything less is "trouble".
But realisitically Microsoft will dominate the desktop for a long long time. Too long in fact for my tastes.
People will stick with Microsoft for the same reason they go to McDonalds when there is a great deli next to the golden arches. They will go with what is familiar. They will chose the path of least resistance.
Even though McDonalds is not growing, McDonalds is not in trouble.
the hard drives from Maxtor or Seagate or WDC
The software is mostly from Microsoft.
I could go on and on here.
the only real technology challange is the thermal design. How do you get the heat out.
IBM is not selling technology to China.
If someone is worried about security and back doors, their PC is going to be a major security risk regardless of the nationality of the Brand on the box. If someone wants security they should not be buying a PC with Windows.