"we've done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base."
Last I checked, being dramatic in an interview (though I really felt like this was more of a press release) has absolutely no effect on code security.
Your code base? As far as the Windows code base (past, present & I'll bet future), I have one comment: "All your bases belong to us".
I've thought for along time that the Internet (search engines in particular) is screaming for the equiv. of a Dewey Decimal system. I think the blog categorization taxonomy is an extension of that need...
Not all extinctions are sad. I for one will celebrate the day when the segment of the Earth's biosphere that writes code without abstracting dependencies is no more.
Sidenote to above comment: Last Chance to See is one of my fav books too; a lovely tragi-comic collaboration between Mr. Adams & some Zoologist penned as a travelogue in typical Adams' style. God rest his soul.
I'm planning on using my next generation storage to hold video files of Three Stooges episodes and hopefully there'll be an open source video application that'll leverage the extra CPU power of next generation computers to enable me to create all new Three Stooges episodes. But that's just me.
"It is one of the special beauties of science that points of view which seem diametrically opposed turn out later, in a broader perspective, to both be right." - Emilio Segre, 1905-1989, Italian Physicist who studied under Fermi and worked at Los Alamos
Is anybody else as exhausted as I am resisting the urge to respond sarcastically to posts announcing MS bugs or delays? I want to be constructive but I do have my limits.
Let me preface my comment by saying that I'm probably the most irresponsible citizen on the planet as far as participation in the process of being a citizen. That being said, I suspect if more people invested as much effort into participating (ie. self-ducation on the issues, voting responsibly, providing feedback to politicians and our government agencies) as would be required to transplant to an alternate country/culture, it's likely that we could fix whatever bothers us about our own country and remain in our native countries.
To bring it home for our listening audience, perhaps it's analagous to the difference between doing the work necessary to learn & support some inherited code base versus taking the easy route and replacing it with something we wrote ourselves.
I was at a technology conference in San Jose a few years back and happened to share lunch with a South African who was in America to get an education so that he could return to his own country and use that education to contribute for its betterment. His conviction was very impressive to me and something I think is rarer in the my own country.
I never got hurt playing tag but while they're at it they should ban those frickin see-saws, I don't know how many times I jammed my damn spine and nearly ended up in a wheel chair because of see-saw antics.
You need a refresher on units. 160 cores would be a Duo Terra.
It's disconcertingto me how much Latin and general linquistics I am now burdened with to understand contemporary branding. How long before we start seeing IMG SOURCE="icon128.gif" ALT="The Ancient Rune Previously Known as Intel" ?
If my conversations with "average" purchasers of hardware are any indication, real world performance is not a closely examined metric. How many of us know somebody that spent a metric butt ton of cash on a Duo laptop for browsing the web and word processing? I wish I had a block diagram (like the old old von Neumann architecture picture from early comp sci text books) that shows how insanely out of wack the interconnecting lines have gotten between modern computer sub components and especially including the dotted line to the internet cloud.
Does this take into account the greenness of the outsourced companies that provide any infrastructure services for Dell? I'm assuming from the conversations (accents, phone lag) that I've had with Dell tech support on behalf of my friends/family that have purchased Dell hardware that a big part of their call center op's are non-US based and not owned by them.
If somebody does figure out a system that provides a surplus of energy by harvesting energy from an alternate universe, is that ok? Do we need to care about trans-dimensional ethics? Reminds me of the letter Steven Wright got from the woman in Germany saying "Cut it out." : )
Really, the gaming industry is dying? Huh, I'm always pleasantly surprised by the new, healthy growth I see over in the petri dish known as the Happy Penguin. The games there don't always have the faces of professional sports players or feature length cinametics staring Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, but there's always interesting things going as far as concepts and playability.
Somebody should develop a proprietary scripting language embedded inside flash embedded inside dhtml/javascript. Cause as we all know, the more nested layers of closed-architecture, write once, run one-place, functional redundancy a page has the cooler it is.
Of *course* I don't see OSS vs. non-OSS as Us v. Them but rather everybody working together for the good of the s/w industry, but IF it was, I sure am glad this guy's on the other side.
Damn, I'm tempted to jump on plane. If we the/. readers all let the Museum of Science know of our interest (information@mos.org) maybe we can make something happen.
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Last I checked, being dramatic in an interview (though I really felt like this was more of a press release) has absolutely no effect on code security. Your code base? As far as the Windows code base (past, present & I'll bet future), I have one comment: "All your bases belong to us".
I've thought for along time that the Internet (search engines in particular) is screaming for the equiv. of a Dewey Decimal system. I think the blog categorization taxonomy is an extension of that need...
Not all extinctions are sad. I for one will celebrate the day when the segment of the Earth's biosphere that writes code without abstracting dependencies is no more.
Sidenote to above comment: Last Chance to See is one of my fav books too; a lovely tragi-comic collaboration between Mr. Adams & some Zoologist penned as a travelogue in typical Adams' style. God rest his soul.
I'm planning on using my next generation storage to hold video files of Three Stooges episodes and hopefully there'll be an open source video application that'll leverage the extra CPU power of next generation computers to enable me to create all new Three Stooges episodes. But that's just me.
"It is one of the special beauties of science that points of view which seem diametrically opposed turn out later, in a broader perspective, to both be right."
- Emilio Segre, 1905-1989, Italian Physicist who studied under Fermi and worked at Los Alamos
I had to check my calendar, for a moment I thought it was April already. We did just change the clocks.
Is anybody else as exhausted as I am resisting the urge to respond sarcastically to posts announcing MS bugs or delays? I want to be constructive but I do have my limits.
Let me preface my comment by saying that I'm probably the most irresponsible citizen on the planet as far as participation in the process of being a citizen. That being said, I suspect if more people invested as much effort into participating (ie. self-ducation on the issues, voting responsibly, providing feedback to politicians and our government agencies) as would be required to transplant to an alternate country/culture, it's likely that we could fix whatever bothers us about our own country and remain in our native countries.
To bring it home for our listening audience, perhaps it's analagous to the difference between doing the work necessary to learn & support some inherited code base versus taking the easy route and replacing it with something we wrote ourselves.
I was at a technology conference in San Jose a few years back and happened to share lunch with a South African who was in America to get an education so that he could return to his own country and use that education to contribute for its betterment. His conviction was very impressive to me and something I think is rarer in the my own country.
I never got hurt playing tag but while they're at it they should ban those frickin see-saws, I don't know how many times I jammed my damn spine and nearly ended up in a wheel chair because of see-saw antics.
It was less bloated, even normalizing for added functionality in later versions of Windows.
If any of you do have plans for besting the 800lb gorilla, the domain 1E101.com is available. Let us know how it goes.
- p
I expect we're going to need some progress from the fan guys.
It's disconcertingto me how much Latin and general linquistics I am now burdened with to understand contemporary branding. How long before we start seeing IMG SOURCE="icon128.gif" ALT="The Ancient Rune Previously Known as Intel" ?
If my conversations with "average" purchasers of hardware are any indication, real world performance is not a closely examined metric. How many of us know somebody that spent a metric butt ton of cash on a Duo laptop for browsing the web and word processing? I wish I had a block diagram (like the old old von Neumann architecture picture from early comp sci text books) that shows how insanely out of wack the interconnecting lines have gotten between modern computer sub components and especially including the dotted line to the internet cloud.
I'd appreciate a little slack- That's how some people deal with sad truths, by making light of them.
Thanks, othere's pointed that out to me. I just started reading it. Solid book, Hugo/Nebula award winner BTW.
"The following message brought to you courtesy of X?"
Fine print: The previous statements represent what X would like to happen and have nothing to do with what might happen.
Does this take into account the greenness of the outsourced companies that provide any infrastructure services for Dell? I'm assuming from the conversations (accents, phone lag) that I've had with Dell tech support on behalf of my friends/family that have purchased Dell hardware that a big part of their call center op's are non-US based and not owned by them.
Right, so NOT the International Space Station then ... that would have been weird.
If somebody does figure out a system that provides a surplus of energy by harvesting energy from an alternate universe, is that ok? Do we need to care about trans-dimensional ethics? Reminds me of the letter Steven Wright got from the woman in Germany saying "Cut it out." : )
Really, the gaming industry is dying? Huh, I'm always pleasantly surprised by the new, healthy growth I see over in the petri dish known as the Happy Penguin. The games there don't always have the faces of professional sports players or feature length cinametics staring Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, but there's always interesting things going as far as concepts and playability.
Somebody should develop a proprietary scripting language embedded inside flash embedded inside dhtml/javascript. Cause as we all know, the more nested layers of closed-architecture, write once, run one-place, functional redundancy a page has the cooler it is.
Of *course* I don't see OSS vs. non-OSS as Us v. Them but rather everybody working together for the good of the s/w industry, but IF it was, I sure am glad this guy's on the other side.
Damn, I'm tempted to jump on plane. If we the /. readers all let the Museum of Science know of our interest (information@mos.org) maybe we can make something happen.
It's been said that people use OSS because it's free, more secure, performs better, architected better
However I think I like OSS most because there's no marketing department intruding into my life and in many cases lying to me.
Let's all raise our glasses to this wonderful phenomenon.