I wouldn't say that the existance of exploits is better than how often they are exploited. I mean, if they exist, they are bad and Apple should see to it that they are fixed. The good thing is that these exploits are complicated and rely on a lot of factors before they can be exploited. The cracker has to get into your network (bypass a firewall perhaps?) then mess around with a DHCP server, then this, then that. That's a lot of indirection and a lot of planets that need to be aligned in order for that to work. MS, well, all you need to do is plug the ethernet in and BAM, you have something before you can download the patches.
But, it's still bad that it exists, because someday, those planets will align and something will get cracked. Then, it won't matter how often the exploit is taken advantage of, but that is was.
You have no proof that what you claim is true. How do you know that the non-voters today would be split 50/50 on all issues? That depends on many factors, not the least of which is the economic and financial conditions of most non-voters.
I would guess (and this is a guess so it's not worth much more than your blind conjecture) that many non-voters are low income to poor. Thus they might be more inclined to vote for democrats. If this were the case, not that many votes would have shoved Gore in the White House (I'm not saying this is good or bad, but that more democrat votes would have had this effect).
So before you go assuming that the non-voting public is split right down the middle, you might want to consider the multitude of factors that make up political differences in America.
Less than half the people in the US utilize their right to vote (38% voted in our last local election). Maybe they all think their votes are insignificant, maybe they did the math like you did? But the thing is, those people could change the course of any election in this country if they decided to vote.
It's not about a single vote, but about the millions of potential votes that don't get cast.
But you're right, this is a "pie in the sky" perspective. From an individual point of view, one or two votes does not make a difference in any election. But what about millions of millions of people ignoring their rights as Americans to vote? Imagine what history would be like if those people voted? I bet, historically, the world would be a different place all together.
You're right, they don't work here. Problem is that our owner is ego is the size of Australia and he believes the "golden one" is the only true programmer left in the world. Any discussion on this topic results in a timely pink slip and 1 weeks pay.
Oh well. Good idea though, it might work were rationality is practiced!:)
Yea, tell me about it. At least it fuels my job searching to an almost frenzied state!
This will really wack your mind...
Early on in my career here (7 months ago) I asked why we would be so bold as to develop our own webserver and not use apache (after all, we aren't in the webserver business) and I actually got yelled at. "It's way more secure if we write it" they screamed. I laughed inside, especially now that I have scene the code.
One guy suggested the use of signal handling in our app. This made our "golden boy" programmer (the one and only developer of the web server) mad and the suggester got fired the next week.
My company reinvented the wheel. In this case we are talking about a webserver. It was done with such ingenuity that it could serve up page after page on a single thread. It also taught users patience as they waited for their GETs to be fuffilled and there was a certian "flow" to the pages as one could watch each graphic pop up one after the other.
I see what you are saying, but sometimes, even a wheel is complex.
I agree totally. The java market is littered with frameworks with cool names, but they are all generally overkill that cost a lot of money. You need something to do A, and the product does A, B, C, D, E and a little bit of F. Well, are you going to pay for that, or roll your own to do A and be done with it.
Aside from the app server, we never used all these fancy frameworks.
I'll agree with that. Personal impressions of Ellison aside, Oracle is the innovator in the relational database world. There are a lot of things you can do in Oracle that you can't in other DBs.
Personally, I wonder if Oracle has done any research and development into the Object Oriented database field?
Put the commercials in product placement so we can't strip the commercials out, ala Macs for good guys and PCs for bad guys in 24. Macs in alias, Gateway boxes on ER.
Or, just offer the files up high quality with commercials left in and I'd watch them...
Well now, if the networks just put copies of their shows up on the internet to download, people wouldn't pirate them. How is watching a show on TV, different than if you watch it on the computer? I mean, it's like sharing a tape on a larger scale. Remember when we used to pause while recording a show to get rid of the commercials? Shouldn't the networks be happy we are watching their stuff?
Seriously, low key product placement to replace commercials would satisify the costs. And if they could estimate the millions of extra watchers that have downloaded the show, they could even charge more! What's up?
I agree. I use styles extensivly, mostly because Word keeps trying to do weird stuff to my documents if I dont, and I love the automatic table of contents generation feature (anything like that in OO?).
But I agree, 95% of causal users could use OO and not be inconvinienced at all.
I don't think this article was intended as a joke... If so, it's not that funny, or even moderatly funny. Heck, it's just plain unfunny.
Rather I believe this was a legitimate attempt at writing an article that is now being tagged as satire since people here (and at newsforge) have pointed out the biased slant and incorrect conclusions.
The only retort is, "Oh, yea, well it's a damn joke!"
I have used XP at home for some time and I got the same impression, especially the part where it just downloaded stuff and installed it without telling him what it was installing.
It doesn't take too much time to get the auto-updateer thing to give you more info about what critical updates it's downloading and installing (just click on it and see the updates). I believe that you can even obtain more detailed information and links to the bug reports if you wanted via the same facility. I get the impression that he didn't even bother to look into the options. If you aren't going to learn about software you are using, how can you write an objective article on it???
A lot of his article is just about how he was inconvinienced by the lack of this app or that app, what does that have to do with the Windows OS? An Outlook Express v. Mozilla Mail article would have been more appropriate for some of the content.
If the spam filter spidered links, wouldn't that cause the hit count of the target page to go up? If so, what's to stop Spammy McSpammer from using his incredible hit count to convince people to buy ads on the site? We don't want to make these bastards more money.
Or, it could very well be that I'm misunderstanding the whole thing...
I'm a firm maintainer that one should use the right tool for the job. In many cases, expensive java application servers and over-engineered applications are built when a simple and sturdy PHP app running on Apache would do the job. I've seen this first hand. But that's not to say that sometimes Java is the right tool.
In this case, he says all projects in java could be done cheaper with PHP or Perl and that just because the Genome Project used VB that VB is an adequate replacement for Java. This may be true in cases, but not always.
Maybe toyenbee.net does this, but it's slashdotted.
But has anyone investigated if the actual locations of the tiles are meaningful? You know how on murder mysteries, they connect the dots of the locations the killer struck and it is always a clue?
Also, why can't they figure out what this stuff is made from? I mean, can't they go get a chunk of one and figure it out? Clearly it holds up better than the current paving solutions...
I use office regularly now. While I think that these features could cause people to upgrade their office suit, this is still functionality that is needed in an office suite that has been stagnating. I use Office 2K every day, yet have never been compelled to upgrade to Office XP.
However if documents can now be encrypted and privilages can be set (read only ala pdf/acrobat) then I think this would be a valuable addition, especially when doctors and lawyers are now dealing with stringent privacy laws (Hippa).
This is a good thing, and if it's turned off be default, only people requiring this functionality will use it. (hopefully:-)
I would like to see them make a reader available for free like acrobat reader however. One shouldn't have to pay 500 badogins in order to read one of these files.
I think what we are seeing here is an attack on Adobe's text publishing empire.
Frankly, I would rather have a CD than a MP3. I use MP3's a lot, but there is something to be said for having an entire album complete with cover art and a disc that has the intended design on it.
I use mp3s today for checking out a band to make sure I'm not going to buy a CD that I don't like.
Now if CD prices could just come down a bit and I don't have to look at a CD rack full of white CD cases labeled with a sharpie... I'd be happy...
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I wouldn't say that the existance of exploits is better than how often they are exploited. I mean, if they exist, they are bad and Apple should see to it that they are fixed. The good thing is that these exploits are complicated and rely on a lot of factors before they can be exploited. The cracker has to get into your network (bypass a firewall perhaps?) then mess around with a DHCP server, then this, then that. That's a lot of indirection and a lot of planets that need to be aligned in order for that to work. MS, well, all you need to do is plug the ethernet in and BAM, you have something before you can download the patches.
But, it's still bad that it exists, because someday, those planets will align and something will get cracked. Then, it won't matter how often the exploit is taken advantage of, but that is was.
Alberto Huber
hmmm, something about that name. WAIT!
it's Rebuh Otrebla backwards! AH-HA!
That's okay (and interesting), like I said it was just a guess. Nevertheless, if they had voted, history might be different.
So how in the world did that bunch of terrorists from SD6 get posh jobs in the CIA if government security jobs are this hard to get into?
Oh, and Kombat, I forgot to mention...
I looked at your web site. You're a good photographer. Nice cars too.
Ahh, if only math were so easy!
You have no proof that what you claim is true. How do you know that the non-voters today would be split 50/50 on all issues? That depends on many factors, not the least of which is the economic and financial conditions of most non-voters.
I would guess (and this is a guess so it's not worth much more than your blind conjecture) that many non-voters are low income to poor. Thus they might be more inclined to vote for democrats. If this were the case, not that many votes would have shoved Gore in the White House (I'm not saying this is good or bad, but that more democrat votes would have had this effect).
So before you go assuming that the non-voting public is split right down the middle, you might want to consider the multitude of factors that make up political differences in America.
Less than half the people in the US utilize their right to vote (38% voted in our last local election). Maybe they all think their votes are insignificant, maybe they did the math like you did? But the thing is, those people could change the course of any election in this country if they decided to vote.
It's not about a single vote, but about the millions of potential votes that don't get cast.
But you're right, this is a "pie in the sky" perspective. From an individual point of view, one or two votes does not make a difference in any election. But what about millions of millions of people ignoring their rights as Americans to vote? Imagine what history would be like if those people voted? I bet, historically, the world would be a different place all together.
-troy
You're right, they don't work here. Problem is that our owner is ego is the size of Australia and he believes the "golden one" is the only true programmer left in the world. Any discussion on this topic results in a timely pink slip and 1 weeks pay.
:)
Oh well. Good idea though, it might work were rationality is practiced!
Thanks!
Yea, tell me about it. At least it fuels my job searching to an almost frenzied state!
This will really wack your mind...
Early on in my career here (7 months ago) I asked why we would be so bold as to develop our own webserver and not use apache (after all, we aren't in the webserver business) and I actually got yelled at. "It's way more secure if we write it" they screamed. I laughed inside, especially now that I have scene the code.
One guy suggested the use of signal handling in our app. This made our "golden boy" programmer (the one and only developer of the web server) mad and the suggester got fired the next week.
So in closing... anyone need a computer guy?
My company reinvented the wheel. In this case we are talking about a webserver. It was done with such ingenuity that it could serve up page after page on a single thread. It also taught users patience as they waited for their GETs to be fuffilled and there was a certian "flow" to the pages as one could watch each graphic pop up one after the other.
I see what you are saying, but sometimes, even a wheel is complex.
I agree totally. The java market is littered with frameworks with cool names, but they are all generally overkill that cost a lot of money. You need something to do A, and the product does A, B, C, D, E and a little bit of F. Well, are you going to pay for that, or roll your own to do A and be done with it.
Aside from the app server, we never used all these fancy frameworks.
Great, now instead of stealing my credit cards, people are going to start chopping off my thumbs? damn technology.
I'll agree with that. Personal impressions of Ellison aside, Oracle is the innovator in the relational database world. There are a lot of things you can do in Oracle that you can't in other DBs.
Personally, I wonder if Oracle has done any research and development into the Object Oriented database field?
that's what I'm saying...
Put the commercials in product placement so we can't strip the commercials out, ala Macs for good guys and PCs for bad guys in 24. Macs in alias, Gateway boxes on ER.
Or, just offer the files up high quality with commercials left in and I'd watch them...
Well now, if the networks just put copies of their shows up on the internet to download, people wouldn't pirate them. How is watching a show on TV, different than if you watch it on the computer? I mean, it's like sharing a tape on a larger scale. Remember when we used to pause while recording a show to get rid of the commercials? Shouldn't the networks be happy we are watching their stuff?
Seriously, low key product placement to replace commercials would satisify the costs. And if they could estimate the millions of extra watchers that have downloaded the show, they could even charge more! What's up?
I agree. I use styles extensivly, mostly because Word keeps trying to do weird stuff to my documents if I dont, and I love the automatic table of contents generation feature (anything like that in OO?).
But I agree, 95% of causal users could use OO and not be inconvinienced at all.
-troy
I don't think this article was intended as a joke... If so, it's not that funny, or even moderatly funny. Heck, it's just plain unfunny.
Rather I believe this was a legitimate attempt at writing an article that is now being tagged as satire since people here (and at newsforge) have pointed out the biased slant and incorrect conclusions.
The only retort is, "Oh, yea, well it's a damn joke!"
No flames here, I agree...
I have used XP at home for some time and I got the same impression, especially the part where it just downloaded stuff and installed it without telling him what it was installing.
It doesn't take too much time to get the auto-updateer thing to give you more info about what critical updates it's downloading and installing (just click on it and see the updates). I believe that you can even obtain more detailed information and links to the bug reports if you wanted via the same facility. I get the impression that he didn't even bother to look into the options. If you aren't going to learn about software you are using, how can you write an objective article on it???
A lot of his article is just about how he was inconvinienced by the lack of this app or that app, what does that have to do with the Windows OS? An Outlook Express v. Mozilla Mail article would have been more appropriate for some of the content.
You are right, complete waste of time...
thanks!
If the spam filter spidered links, wouldn't that cause the hit count of the target page to go up? If so, what's to stop Spammy McSpammer from using his incredible hit count to convince people to buy ads on the site? We don't want to make these bastards more money.
Or, it could very well be that I'm misunderstanding the whole thing...
-troy
I'm a firm maintainer that one should use the right tool for the job. In many cases, expensive java application servers and over-engineered applications are built when a simple and sturdy PHP app running on Apache would do the job. I've seen this first hand. But that's not to say that sometimes Java is the right tool.
In this case, he says all projects in java could be done cheaper with PHP or Perl and that just because the Genome Project used VB that VB is an adequate replacement for Java. This may be true in cases, but not always.
Maybe toyenbee.net does this, but it's slashdotted.
But has anyone investigated if the actual locations of the tiles are meaningful? You know how on murder mysteries, they connect the dots of the locations the killer struck and it is always a clue?
Also, why can't they figure out what this stuff is made from? I mean, can't they go get a chunk of one and figure it out? Clearly it holds up better than the current paving solutions...
T.
I use office regularly now. While I think that these features could cause people to upgrade their office suit, this is still functionality that is needed in an office suite that has been stagnating. I use Office 2K every day, yet have never been compelled to upgrade to Office XP.
:-)
However if documents can now be encrypted and privilages can be set (read only ala pdf/acrobat) then I think this would be a valuable addition, especially when doctors and lawyers are now dealing with stringent privacy laws (Hippa).
This is a good thing, and if it's turned off be default, only people requiring this functionality will use it. (hopefully
I would like to see them make a reader available for free like acrobat reader however. One shouldn't have to pay 500 badogins in order to read one of these files.
I think what we are seeing here is an attack on Adobe's text publishing empire.
true enough. I mis-typed. Please accept my apologies regarding you're comment....
DAMN! I did it again.
Frankly, I would rather have a CD than a MP3. I use MP3's a lot, but there is something to be said for having an entire album complete with cover art and a disc that has the intended design on it.
I use mp3s today for checking out a band to make sure I'm not going to buy a CD that I don't like.
Now if CD prices could just come down a bit and I don't have to look at a CD rack full of white CD cases labeled with a sharpie... I'd be happy...