I agree with you 100%. Just 2 days ago I ran into this with our sysadmin. He had set up some computers (Windows) for my team in our secure space (SCIF) and I was unpacking our code. I had some tarballs I needed to open. Conversation:
Sysadmin: Didn't I install winzip?
Me: No, it's not on here.
Sysadmin: Ok, well let me put it on the machines.
Me: Did we buy it? Do we have a site license for these boxes?
Sysadmin: No, I just downloaded it.
Me: Well, don't bother installing it because it would look bad as a major defense contractor to get caught using it without registering it. Let me get a copy of 7-Zip and we can be legit.
Sysadmin: No, we're going to use winzip.
Me: But this is free and we'll be legal. I'm going to go burn it to a CD now (the computers aren't connected to the Internet, obviously).
Sysadmin: Well, I'm just going to install it on your machine and not the others.
Me: Fine, I'll put it on those myself.
I shouldn't have said that last bit because he decided we didn't need to keep the CD and shredded it (once it touches a classified machine it's classified, even if it's not re-writable).
Fortunately, I think I can just copy the 7-Zip directory to the other machine. I'll also probably be changing jobs in the next couple of months, though not over this.
It's been around a lot longer than your software. The earliest reference I found in Google groups was 1991.
Winzip is free. What's that you say? It's not? I think I've seen a registered copy once or twice at work in the last 15 years. Winzip allows you to use the trial version forever. Does your software allow that?
From what I've read, though, you may be in luck. To increase revenue the new owners of the WinZip product will be stricter about trial periods. I'm quite sure they don't have a multimillion dollar budget either. They have momentum; they have users. Search google for "use winzip" and see how many pages read, "to open the file, use winzip or other program..."
To start, why not put your URL with your name or in a sig? If you overlook such simple things how good can your software be?
...that I almost had a heart attack when I read it. Then I got to the part where it's not ready for humans, just mice, so I decided to wait on the heart attack.
I thought this was going to be a cool mod. Instead the guy bought a shredder from Wal-Mart and stuffed it in the printer shell. My hope was the guy tweaked the laser so it would cut paper. Oh well...
Is MS necessarily the fox? It seems to me that open source projects target MS products, not the other way around. Consider Firefox. Take a look at Firefox's lineage and you'll find Netscape Navigator, once upon a time a commercial product. To keep up with IE, NN became free and open source in 1998. The descendants of NN have been playing market share catch-up ever since, even taking out large ads in major newspapers.
I think in this case it's the hen opening a dialog with the fox.
...but we have the 4th amendment to protect us. I work as a contractor for a large information-gathering government agency. The rules regarding US citizens or people in the US are extremely rigid and don't allow for anything without a court order. Some of this is coming out in the pre 9/11 Able Danger allegations, where information was not freely shared because it concerned someone in the US.
There are many other choices in scripting languages, some of which have come after Perl and presumably improve on Perl's weaknesses. Other than for working with existing code or as a matter of personal preference, are there good reasons to choose Perl over other languages for new development? I've really worked very little with scripting languages so I'm not up on all the strengths and features of each. Given all the jokes about Perl (e.g. it's a write-only language) and all the raves Python, Ruby, etc seem to generate, I guess I'm surprised at any article that doesn't state "Perl is dying."
Microsoft says this virus has medium impact, not low as the submitter says. Is the submitter perhaps spreading some FUD of his own or did MS upgrade the threat?
So this guy is engaged in a commercial enterprise because he's using a.com domain for his site.
I went to fedex.org and up came the fedex website! Clearly fedex is not a commercial operation. I'm waiting to hear back from them on how to get my free or reduced-price shipping. By interacting with fedex.org I shouldn't have to pay the same price those crooks at fedex.com charge.
I was intruiged by this "Dvorak Prohpecy". I had never heard of it before. Could it be as signficant as Moore's Law? I clicked on the link and learned that Dvorak made his prophecy 3 days ago! He was able to see past the FUD, hype, marketing, and spam to clearly envision the road ahead...3 days out! Why don't we read more of this wizard's words?
And if that isn't enough astoundment in one day, I think the grilled cheese sandwich I got at the deli today has Dvorak's image on it. Good thing I decided to type this reply instead of eating the sandwich. Clearly we're at the cusp of a new age.
Most people picked up on the sarcasm in ZDNet's response, though it seemed to escape the story's submitter. After looking at the submitter's site it appears that english is not his native language (go to the root level, above the blog). As good as his english is, I guess sarcasm is a subtlety that is perhaps only heard by native or long-time speakers.
This is not a knock on the submitter; I just find it interesting. Children below a certain age can't pick up on sarcasm either (something I've noticed in my own kids when they were younger).
It seems to me that's pushing the definition of robot a bit much. It's a grabber that closes when something approaches it. The ball is thrown straight at it. It seems more like the doors at the supermarket that open when you approach. Of course, the doors won't open fast enough for people moving at 186 mph but it's the same general principle.
The impressive thing about all this is that I was able to download the 9+MB video, first try, using the link on Slashdot's front page, in about 15 seconds. Now that's technology!
Wake me when someone builds a working pusher robot...don't bother me with this "hand robot" jibber jabber.
Wow, vulgarity, name-calling, "words" inserted randomly "in" quotation marks, and an excerpt from the faq, with emphasis. You really do care.
Joke, repetitions 1-20: funny
Joke, repetitions 21+ : not funny.
I'm not surprised this escapes you. Looking through your recent posts it looks like you try for the joke but never seem to get that "funny" mod. I weep for you.
Yawn. If you were really clever or really had knowledge of what's going on in the IT world you'd have come up with an legitimate question.
As it is you just went along with the crowd...and you even screwed that up by using "ducks" instead of "penguins". Perhaps you should stick to reading and leave contributing to others.
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I agree with you 100%. Just 2 days ago I ran into this with our sysadmin. He had set up some computers (Windows) for my team in our secure space (SCIF) and I was unpacking our code. I had some tarballs I needed to open. Conversation:
Sysadmin: Didn't I install winzip?
Me: No, it's not on here.
Sysadmin: Ok, well let me put it on the machines.
Me: Did we buy it? Do we have a site license for these boxes?
Sysadmin: No, I just downloaded it.
Me: Well, don't bother installing it because it would look bad as a major defense contractor to get caught using it without registering it. Let me get a copy of 7-Zip and we can be legit.
Sysadmin: No, we're going to use winzip.
Me: But this is free and we'll be legal. I'm going to go burn it to a CD now (the computers aren't connected to the Internet, obviously).
Sysadmin: Well, I'm just going to install it on your machine and not the others.
Me: Fine, I'll put it on those myself.
I shouldn't have said that last bit because he decided we didn't need to keep the CD and shredded it (once it touches a classified machine it's classified, even if it's not re-writable).
Fortunately, I think I can just copy the 7-Zip directory to the other machine. I'll also probably be changing jobs in the next couple of months, though not over this.
From what I've read, though, you may be in luck. To increase revenue the new owners of the WinZip product will be stricter about trial periods. I'm quite sure they don't have a multimillion dollar budget either. They have momentum; they have users. Search google for "use winzip" and see how many pages read, "to open the file, use winzip or other program..."
To start, why not put your URL with your name or in a sig? If you overlook such simple things how good can your software be?
If you suck, why are you grumbling? Hire someone who's better or learn to do a better job yourself.
...that I almost had a heart attack when I read it. Then I got to the part where it's not ready for humans, just mice, so I decided to wait on the heart attack.
I thought this was going to be a cool mod. Instead the guy bought a shredder from Wal-Mart and stuffed it in the printer shell. My hope was the guy tweaked the laser so it would cut paper. Oh well...
Is MS necessarily the fox? It seems to me that open source projects target MS products, not the other way around. Consider Firefox. Take a look at Firefox's lineage and you'll find Netscape Navigator, once upon a time a commercial product. To keep up with IE, NN became free and open source in 1998. The descendants of NN have been playing market share catch-up ever since, even taking out large ads in major newspapers.
I think in this case it's the hen opening a dialog with the fox.
What happens when they demand reparations? Each individually won't want much but together? Watch out!
...but we have the 4th amendment to protect us. I work as a contractor for a large information-gathering government agency. The rules regarding US citizens or people in the US are extremely rigid and don't allow for anything without a court order. Some of this is coming out in the pre 9/11 Able Danger allegations, where information was not freely shared because it concerned someone in the US.
There are many other choices in scripting languages, some of which have come after Perl and presumably improve on Perl's weaknesses. Other than for working with existing code or as a matter of personal preference, are there good reasons to choose Perl over other languages for new development? I've really worked very little with scripting languages so I'm not up on all the strengths and features of each. Given all the jokes about Perl (e.g. it's a write-only language) and all the raves Python, Ruby, etc seem to generate, I guess I'm surprised at any article that doesn't state "Perl is dying."
Accusation? RTFP. I asked (a) or (b). Others already answered (b). No need for you to jump in.
Microsoft says this virus has medium impact, not low as the submitter says. Is the submitter perhaps spreading some FUD of his own or did MS upgrade the threat?
How do you make a small fortune giving away free Internet access?
First, start with a large fortune...
I'd step up to the plate and give you a hand if I could, but sadly the wheels haven't been set in motion yet.
My favorite part is when the submitter reviews his own review:
A solid reference for those shopping for a new drive.
In other news, Rob Schneider says "Deuce Bigalow 2" is "a comedic tour-de-force that will leave you wanting more."
Dan Brown, author of "The DaVinci Code", further chimed in saying, "My book is 100% factual, and the Catholic Church is teh suX0r!!!1!!"
And here it is!
So this guy is engaged in a commercial enterprise because he's using a
I went to fedex.org and up came the fedex website! Clearly fedex is not a commercial operation. I'm waiting to hear back from them on how to get my free or reduced-price shipping. By interacting with fedex.org I shouldn't have to pay the same price those crooks at fedex.com charge.
I was intruiged by this "Dvorak Prohpecy". I had never heard of it before. Could it be as signficant as Moore's Law? I clicked on the link and learned that Dvorak made his prophecy 3 days ago! He was able to see past the FUD, hype, marketing, and spam to clearly envision the road ahead...3 days out! Why don't we read more of this wizard's words?
And if that isn't enough astoundment in one day, I think the grilled cheese sandwich I got at the deli today has Dvorak's image on it. Good thing I decided to type this reply instead of eating the sandwich. Clearly we're at the cusp of a new age.
Most people picked up on the sarcasm in ZDNet's response, though it seemed to escape the story's submitter. After looking at the submitter's site it appears that english is not his native language (go to the root level, above the blog). As good as his english is, I guess sarcasm is a subtlety that is perhaps only heard by native or long-time speakers.
This is not a knock on the submitter; I just find it interesting. Children below a certain age can't pick up on sarcasm either (something I've noticed in my own kids when they were younger).
It seems to me that's pushing the definition of robot a bit much. It's a grabber that closes when something approaches it. The ball is thrown straight at it. It seems more like the doors at the supermarket that open when you approach. Of course, the doors won't open fast enough for people moving at 186 mph but it's the same general principle.
The impressive thing about all this is that I was able to download the 9+MB video, first try, using the link on Slashdot's front page, in about 15 seconds. Now that's technology!
Wake me when someone builds a working pusher robot...don't bother me with this "hand robot" jibber jabber.
I myself try to stay with DD-cup or smaller.
The "preview" button is your friend.
You come to the table 30 minutes after the story was posted with a joke that 20 others had already made and you want love for it? Denied.
Wow, vulgarity, name-calling, "words" inserted randomly "in" quotation marks, and an excerpt from the faq, with emphasis. You really do care.
Joke, repetitions 1-20: funny
Joke, repetitions 21+ : not funny.
I'm not surprised this escapes you. Looking through your recent posts it looks like you try for the joke but never seem to get that "funny" mod. I weep for you.
Yawn. If you were really clever or really had knowledge of what's going on in the IT world you'd have come up with an legitimate question.
As it is you just went along with the crowd...and you even screwed that up by using "ducks" instead of "penguins". Perhaps you should stick to reading and leave contributing to others.
How does it feel to be an idiot mindlessly repeating the group-think of the minority?