Before Dave Cutler [wikipedia.org] designed the kernel for Windows NT, he had previously lead the VAX VMS kernel design team. He produces tight and beautiful code,
Have you seen his code? Is it available somewhere?
Why was he not being watched ? Because the Tories have cut the police force's budget by over 25% in recent years leaving Britain (and London in particular) with a massive shortage of cops.
The point is that if you're going to try to decide if this will hurt the company or not, you should look at either income before tax, current assets, or cash flow. Those numbers are easy to find and will give you a much more accurate picture of how much it will hurt the company. I'll even link to them for you, to make your life easier, here you go, enjoy.
At a large company like Anthem, the CTO needs to be assertive. He needs to make it clear to the CEO what the options are, and what it will cost to make things secure.
They wrote a crappy operating system that was painful to use, and through illegal and unethical business techniques made it the most popular OS around (not because it was a good OS). Because it was popular, I was forced to use it at work.
Heck if it wasn't for Microsoft, there wouldn't be PC gaming or cheap computers that are powerful.
No that's totally wrong lol. PCs took years to catch up to what was already on the market in terms of gaming computers. Amiga danced circles around them. The IBM PC was heavily targeted towards business users.
Doesn't WannaCry spread over SMB? If you did happen to use Windows for some weird reason, why on earth would you leave the SMB port open?
Actually I've worked with people using Windows for embedded, so I can imagine what the whole system looks like. It's mainly image recognition stuff, so it was probably built by computer scientists who really don't have a clue about system building.
Any OS that IBM had chosen. The crucial decision was the one to modularize the PC........so anyone could build one with generic parts. From there the OS was less important and didn't even matter until a decade later when people wanted backwards compatibility.
Who do you think was using VisiCalc? As soon as the hardware was cheap enough for average people (and small businesses) to buy, they did. It was a drop in hardware prices.
A lot of corporations just install the office suite on every computer by default.
Mainly I'm frustrated that over the last decade, with incremental improvements, OO could have completely matched and surpassed MSOffice, even in Excel, but they haven't.
He's a smart guy, he aced the SAT, and that kind of thinking skill is exactly what was needed in the late 70s and early 80s, when programming was more of a puzzle, where you try to fit as much functionality as possible onto the 2048 bytes of RAM on your computer.
OF course, going into the late 90s, code readability and organization became more important, and that style of programming (which got adopted everywhere in Microsoft) fell flat on its face. From that perspective, the code looks awful.
Yeah, you're right, we don't know how things would have changed if things were different.
But I DO know that Microsoft has inflicted quite a bit of pain on me, and I resent them greatly for it. For example, if I gave you a swift kick in the balls, you would resent me greatly for it. Even if I told you the alternative might have been worse.
Without Microsoft, we may not actually have had the computer revolution that we had.
No, we would have. And it demonstrably would have been better at many points in the history.
If Microsoft hadn't used unfair practices (and they had to pay because of it), DrDos would have replaced Microsoft.
If they hadn't used 'sharp' business practices, OS2/Warp would have replaced Windows. It was a much better OS.
If they hadn't used their Monopolistic practices to keep alternative OSes off, then maybe Linux might not have won anyway, but it would have had a better chance. For comparison, we can see that Android turned out alright.
In the 80s, everyone and their dog was writing an OS. There would have definitely been another one if Microsoft hadn't done it.
At the time, IBM felt aware of being a 'slow' bureaucratic company, so they started a small project on the side which became the IBM PC. The person in charge had the opposite of NIH, and contracted out every part. He was widely reviled for many years as having 'ruined' IBM.
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Before Dave Cutler [wikipedia.org] designed the kernel for Windows NT, he had previously lead the VAX VMS kernel design team. He produces tight and beautiful code,
Have you seen his code? Is it available somewhere?
Why was he not being watched ? Because the Tories have cut the police force's budget by over 25% in recent years leaving Britain (and London in particular) with a massive shortage of cops.
Weak on crime.
Doesn't anyone find that odd? Describing the U.S. as "heartland?"
Heartland is a term commonly used to describe a geographical region of the United States. People on the coasts tend to call it "flyover country," but of course the residents themselves don't seem to like that term.
So what? What's your point?
The point is that if you're going to try to decide if this will hurt the company or not, you should look at either income before tax, current assets, or cash flow. Those numbers are easy to find and will give you a much more accurate picture of how much it will hurt the company. I'll even link to them for you, to make your life easier, here you go, enjoy.
Market capitalization is only vaguely related to a company's actual value, and even less to their day-to-day cash flow, revenue and profits.
At a large company like Anthem, the CTO needs to be assertive. He needs to make it clear to the CEO what the options are, and what it will cost to make things secure.
What pain did Microsoft inflict on you?
They wrote a crappy operating system that was painful to use, and through illegal and unethical business techniques made it the most popular OS around (not because it was a good OS). Because it was popular, I was forced to use it at work.
Heck if it wasn't for Microsoft, there wouldn't be PC gaming or cheap computers that are powerful.
No that's totally wrong lol. PCs took years to catch up to what was already on the market in terms of gaming computers. Amiga danced circles around them. The IBM PC was heavily targeted towards business users.
Doesn't WannaCry spread over SMB? If you did happen to use Windows for some weird reason, why on earth would you leave the SMB port open?
Actually I've worked with people using Windows for embedded, so I can imagine what the whole system looks like. It's mainly image recognition stuff, so it was probably built by computer scientists who really don't have a clue about system building.
A generic piece of crap lifted from another company!
Any OS that IBM had chosen. The crucial decision was the one to modularize the PC........so anyone could build one with generic parts. From there the OS was less important and didn't even matter until a decade later when people wanted backwards compatibility.
One of the way to tie a sill plate to concrete is to use a powder-actuated nailer.
Super fun tool to use if you ever get a chance. Also, it's not super loud.
Who do you think was using VisiCalc? As soon as the hardware was cheap enough for average people (and small businesses) to buy, they did. It was a drop in hardware prices.
A lot of corporations just install the office suite on every computer by default.
Mainly I'm frustrated that over the last decade, with incremental improvements, OO could have completely matched and surpassed MSOffice, even in Excel, but they haven't.
No, I've seen Bill Gates' code. It was good code.
He's a smart guy, he aced the SAT, and that kind of thinking skill is exactly what was needed in the late 70s and early 80s, when programming was more of a puzzle, where you try to fit as much functionality as possible onto the 2048 bytes of RAM on your computer.
OF course, going into the late 90s, code readability and organization became more important, and that style of programming (which got adopted everywhere in Microsoft) fell flat on its face. From that perspective, the code looks awful.
That's true, for non-corporate use, people have no reason to pay for Word.
I know its cool to hate on Bill Gates but really he's neither a bad guy, neither a bad CEO
Sure.
he did advance computing in more ways than you can probably think of.
No lol.
I would disagree with you if you were a protoss, but since you're a zergling you're alright
I will happily do so. Come over here........
Yeah, you're right, we don't know how things would have changed if things were different.
But I DO know that Microsoft has inflicted quite a bit of pain on me, and I resent them greatly for it. For example, if I gave you a swift kick in the balls, you would resent me greatly for it. Even if I told you the alternative might have been worse.
Without Microsoft, we may not actually have had the computer revolution that we had.
No, we would have. And it demonstrably would have been better at many points in the history.
If Microsoft hadn't used unfair practices (and they had to pay because of it), DrDos would have replaced Microsoft.
If they hadn't used 'sharp' business practices, OS2/Warp would have replaced Windows. It was a much better OS.
If they hadn't used their Monopolistic practices to keep alternative OSes off, then maybe Linux might not have won anyway, but it would have had a better chance. For comparison, we can see that Android turned out alright.
In the 80s, everyone and their dog was writing an OS. There would have definitely been another one if Microsoft hadn't done it.
Not just overloaded. It's all generated by Javascript, too. This is the first post that made me think there might be advantages.
Two-factor authentication based on SMS texts can be less secure than just a password because the SMSes can be redirected by the attacker.
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At the time, IBM felt aware of being a 'slow' bureaucratic company, so they started a small project on the side which became the IBM PC. The person in charge had the opposite of NIH, and contracted out every part. He was widely reviled for many years as having 'ruined' IBM.
If OpenOffice can ever match Excel, then you might be right. But until then, it's not a replacement.......