The key point about the Mozilla folks is in this sentence:
Mitchell Baker, president of the foundation, said earlier this year that its browsers were fundamentally more secure than IE.
This is misleading! Fundamentally more secure means there's something inherent in their technology that makes it more secure. There really isn't. They're both written in similar langauges, both support plugs-ins and extensions, both are susceptible to the same sort of exploits.
and that's why I got a D955XBK in my new dual-core P4 Extreme system. It's amazing how 99% of desktop computer users have NO IDEA if their memory flips a bit every now and then (let alone correcting it!). The Intel MOBO supports ECC memory.
Yes! We has all these Apple Hypercard applications, then Apple dumped us like a hot potato! However, I'm prohibited from the/. "terms of service" from saying anything bad about Apple, or comparing Apple to Microsoft.
That the bigger problem is the platform IE resides on.
Actually, I don't agree with that at all. Windows XP has a complete, robust security model. However, Microsoft made some bad choices, like letting the default account on XP Home have administrator rights; and granting execute permission by default (without having to explicity have an admin set the execute bit) to newly downloaded files. Most of the problems XP has are at the application level, not the core OS level. I can't remember ever seeing a privilege bug that had to do with core OS functionality.
Firefighters took possession of Clewer's jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.
If this is true, then I need to go back to college to re-learn physics!
I'm amazed the Mac heads are still agonizing over their "betrayal". Perhaps Apple will learn its lesson and not spend millions of dollars running televion spots with specious arguments about why Apple's "better".
I remember a few years ago at an Apple user group meeting here in Cupertino, CA. I asked someone if he every tried Photoshop on Windows. "EEEEW! Intel" he screeched. "It's thegmented! Everything is tho thlow." (The lisp was a result of a tongue piercing.)
So here was a computer user who should only care about ultimate usability of a system (something Apple may have been better at!) who was "brainwashed" by the Apple crowd into reciting silly half-truths about Intel whenever the subject came up. Face it, a CPU that only has an XOR and JNZ instruction and dealt in 64K memory blocks would work just fine if it ran fast enough. How the CPU works is of no concern to someone who just runs Photoshop all day long....
My experience running programs written in Java is poor, which leads me to believe either the language is fatally flawed, the implementations are, or the people who churn out Java code are...
I still use "vi" everywhere. I install gvim> on all my non-Unix machines and use Windows Gvim to do all my editing on windows.
Since most of my programming is in C++ and Intel Assembly language, I can't help the "professional sofware engineer" who posed the question. I imagine if I were an XML "programmer" as he indicated (whatever that is!), I'd want something that shows XML tag mismatches. GVIM tries, but I suspect emacs would do a better job.
Apple Good! Apple Bad! These/. people are having trouble making up their mind.
Microsoft, by concentrating on software, helped build an industry of interchangable hardware and software. They are to thank for low cost, reliable (mostly) PC components. Even Apple has benefited from the technology, leveraging low-cost chipsets for disk drives, USB, keyboard and mouse controllers, etc.
Apple, on the other hand, wants to control everything--hardware and software. If it were feasable, everything would be proprietary--even the CPU. (Ask old-time Apple insiders. There was once a project to develop their own CPU during the early Taligent years.)
They're no better than Microsoft, SUN or even SCO, but because they're considered an underdog in the hardware and OS wars, shenanigans like this are given a free pass.
Exactly right!/.'ers are inconsistent. If you like "free software", you can't like "free software and Apple" because that's just silly. There's nothing about Apple that's free or altruistic. They're simply a maker of generally high-quality computer hardware that's often well integrated with their custom software.
...and less "quality links pointing to it" based for search results. This means that the old (now useless) techniques of getting more search hits by simply putting "sexy cheerleader lesbian panties" or "free ipods" on your webpage will help you get hits on Google Blog search as well.
Rieser writes:
Hell will freeze over before Microsoft does a filesystem right. Besides, WinFS is likely almost in user mode anyway, ie mostly a library, rather like the gnome people are already doing with gnome storage. So there's really no point in trying to push your agenda by trying to scare people with MS activities. Linux kernel developers do what's right because it is _right_, not because somebody else does it."
So let me get this straight. Microsoft comes out with a true Microkernel architecture, where the Filesystem doesn't run in Kernel mode and that's "bad." Apple (and others) push their "Microkernel" and that's good. And monolithic operating systems are bad, unless they're Linux.
There's another instance of Gmail, too! Ghirardelli Chocolate has a Gmail service! As of two weeks ago, they were still calling it G-MAIL, and their use of the term goes back several years. I don't know if they've ever registered the trademark.
On one side there are people who say, we need to learn C++, PHP, and XML in school.
WHen I was in college, there was no C++, PHP, and XML. The "intro to computer programming" course I took as a Math major used IBM 370 assembly language, on punch cards!
And yet, I've managed to have been employed continuously (though now I'm self employed), working on some very large, well-known software progjects written in C++, Objective-C (a true horror!), C#, and even assembly langauge (embedded software for a popular toy). I think teaching specific languages in a "Computer Science" curriculum is a waste of time.
I don't do any "web stuff", so I can't comment on PHP and other web technologies. My perception is that those jobs tend to be in a lower tier. However, this is unfortunate---if companies hired real "computer scientists" they may get web sites that work better with fewer people working on it. I'll cite on example for this theory--Google Maps. For years, all the map sites were clunky things that just showed a GIF on the screen with your map. Navigating was click-wait for refresh.
Then along came Google, who's able to hire just the best and brightest from Stanford, etc. All of a sudden, web based maps work smoothly and look nice. I can't imagine why anyone would even look at MapQuest any more.
...go to a Trade School. If you want to be well-rounded, go to a University.
As someone who has made a nice living developing computer software, overseeing software projects, *and* playing the piano (!), my liberal arts education (math major, music minor) came in very handy. If you want to specialize, to it in your graduate degree.
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Sorry! I was confusing them with Yahoo! All these dotcoms are the same.
Mitchell Baker, president of the foundation, said earlier this year that its browsers were fundamentally more secure than IE.
This is misleading! Fundamentally more secure means there's something inherent in their technology that makes it more secure. There really isn't. They're both written in similar langauges, both support plugs-ins and extensions, both are susceptible to the same sort of exploits.
...because I'll probably be able to get Google's Wi-Fi here, if anywhere.
Well put!
It may be useful to have a "rightopedia" and a "leftopedia" which don't make any claims to a lack of bias.
Does "Jens of Sweden" hang out with Tom of Finland? They're right next door!
The article is much better in the original Swedish (Bork! Bork!)
That Hexus site is one of the most anoying I've ever seen. Every other word is highlighted with a sponsored link that's often not related at all to the subject at hand. It seems to me that the whole point of that site is to have mildly-useful content simply as click fodder.
and that's why I got a D955XBK in my new dual-core P4 Extreme system. It's amazing how 99% of desktop computer users have NO IDEA if their memory flips a bit every now and then (let alone correcting it!). The Intel MOBO supports ECC memory.
I've realized, after wasting time with Java, that if I want platform independence, I need to program in Perl!
Yes! We has all these Apple Hypercard applications, then Apple dumped us like a hot potato! However, I'm prohibited from the /. "terms of service" from saying anything bad about Apple, or comparing Apple to Microsoft.
Actually, I don't agree with that at all. Windows XP has a complete, robust security model. However, Microsoft made some bad choices, like letting the default account on XP Home have administrator rights; and granting execute permission by default (without having to explicity have an admin set the execute bit) to newly downloaded files. Most of the problems XP has are at the application level, not the core OS level. I can't remember ever seeing a privilege bug that had to do with core OS functionality.
If this is true, then I need to go back to college to re-learn physics!
I remember a few years ago at an Apple user group meeting here in Cupertino, CA. I asked someone if he every tried Photoshop on Windows. "EEEEW! Intel" he screeched. "It's thegmented! Everything is tho thlow." (The lisp was a result of a tongue piercing.)
So here was a computer user who should only care about ultimate usability of a system (something Apple may have been better at!) who was "brainwashed" by the Apple crowd into reciting silly half-truths about Intel whenever the subject came up. Face it, a CPU that only has an XOR and JNZ instruction and dealt in 64K memory blocks would work just fine if it ran fast enough. How the CPU works is of no concern to someone who just runs Photoshop all day long....
You have more security at a McDonald's than at some of these facilities.'"
At my local McDonald's there are plenty of mice! Perhaps the missing lab mice are among them.
Well, knowing the proclivities of the designers of the Java "language", I really don't want to hear about your wet dreams!
My experience running programs written in Java is poor, which leads me to believe either the language is fatally flawed, the implementations are, or the people who churn out Java code are...
It's nice to have an old-school PC monochrome card and mono monitor plugged in so you can run SoftIce on a separate screen.
Since most of my programming is in C++ and Intel Assembly language, I can't help the "professional sofware engineer" who posed the question. I imagine if I were an XML "programmer" as he indicated (whatever that is!), I'd want something that shows XML tag mismatches. GVIM tries, but I suspect emacs would do a better job.
Does this mean that AOL will never complete its planned switch from IE to the browser it owns (Netscape)?
Microsoft, by concentrating on software, helped build an industry of interchangable hardware and software. They are to thank for low cost, reliable (mostly) PC components. Even Apple has benefited from the technology, leveraging low-cost chipsets for disk drives, USB, keyboard and mouse controllers, etc.
Apple, on the other hand, wants to control everything--hardware and software. If it were feasable, everything would be proprietary--even the CPU. (Ask old-time Apple insiders. There was once a project to develop their own CPU during the early Taligent years.)
They're no better than Microsoft, SUN or even SCO, but because they're considered an underdog in the hardware and OS wars, shenanigans like this are given a free pass.
Exactly right! /.'ers are inconsistent. If you like "free software", you can't like "free software and Apple" because that's just silly. There's nothing about Apple that's free or altruistic. They're simply a maker of generally high-quality computer hardware that's often well integrated with their custom software.
...and less "quality links pointing to it" based for search results. This means that the old (now useless) techniques of getting more search hits by simply putting "sexy cheerleader lesbian panties" or "free ipods" on your webpage will help you get hits on Google Blog search as well.
So let me get this straight. Microsoft comes out with a true Microkernel architecture, where the Filesystem doesn't run in Kernel mode and that's "bad." Apple (and others) push their "Microkernel" and that's good. And monolithic operating systems are bad, unless they're Linux.
I'm just trying to understand the /. POV.
There's another instance of Gmail, too! Ghirardelli Chocolate has a Gmail service! As of two weeks ago, they were still calling it G-MAIL, and their use of the term goes back several years. I don't know if they've ever registered the trademark.
WHen I was in college, there was no C++, PHP, and XML. The "intro to computer programming" course I took as a Math major used IBM 370 assembly language, on punch cards!
And yet, I've managed to have been employed continuously (though now I'm self employed), working on some very large, well-known software progjects written in C++, Objective-C (a true horror!), C#, and even assembly langauge (embedded software for a popular toy). I think teaching specific languages in a "Computer Science" curriculum is a waste of time.
I don't do any "web stuff", so I can't comment on PHP and other web technologies. My perception is that those jobs tend to be in a lower tier. However, this is unfortunate---if companies hired real "computer scientists" they may get web sites that work better with fewer people working on it. I'll cite on example for this theory--Google Maps. For years, all the map sites were clunky things that just showed a GIF on the screen with your map. Navigating was click-wait for refresh.
Then along came Google, who's able to hire just the best and brightest from Stanford, etc. All of a sudden, web based maps work smoothly and look nice. I can't imagine why anyone would even look at MapQuest any more.
As someone who has made a nice living developing computer software, overseeing software projects, *and* playing the piano (!), my liberal arts education (math major, music minor) came in very handy. If you want to specialize, to it in your graduate degree.