As a business, a label has to see it's artists as a product. If an artist doesnt have a certain charisma or display a lasting talent that can be utilized at the label's whim, the artist does not make a good product. If you look at all the top artists at the major labels, these are all highly motivated, talented (though not always musically), and dedicated individuals. The music itself only sells to music afficianados. Remember that people with 'taste' account for a small fraction of the population. This small fraction is not concerned entirely with the sex appeal of their favorite artist, they are interested mostly in the sound of the artist's music and the way it makes them feel. The majority of consumers are less concerned with the music and more interested in the image that listening or being seen listening to that music projects upon them. That is what sells the most, the artist's sex appeal and allowing the consumer absorb some of that appeal by being associated with the music.
There will always be the small percentage of filthy rich superstars out there, a somewhat less small percentage of successful middle ground artists, and a large percentage of ametuers. Hopefully, techology will provide a ballast to even out some of these percentages.
I would do what I always do when they sue me for money, tell them to ask me for it directly to my face. I throw my mail away if it has anything to do with litigation against me. This might sound stupid and brash, but it works. They give up. Not worth pursuing. The only way I would pay any attention is if they marched in with a warrant and enough police officers to detain me. At which point they usually find they have the wrong address.
What kind of message does that send to the developers who work for Gates?
A conflicting one. As said before, What does Gates know about security? Sure firewalls and applying patches may keep your system secure, as long as you apply the patches before a vulnerability is taken advantage of. Preemption is not always possible. What it appears Gates is (unintentionally) saying is that if security is a critical concern, stay away from Microsoft products, because security is not an important design aspect to us.
Moving forward with Gate's vision of a more transparent user experience:
"We're going to take that to a whole new level in terms of going out to get information, and yet be able to do it in such a way that you know you're getting secure information, that the right things can happen even as you go out to the internet."
This won't be possible until security is transparent. Automatic updates help a little, but they are still just a kludge for a lack of security in the first place.
"...the times between when the vulnerability was published and when somebody has exploited it have been going down..."
And will probably continue to as long as the holes are so incredibly easy to exploit. Might not be a problem if the patches are few and small, but recently we have not seen that.
Gates seems to be placing the blame mostly on 3rd party developers and applications, not the poorly designed APIs they are forced to use. This attitude will not likely lead to a more secure platform.
True, tracked vehicles are loud and more expensive to run/maintain. Stryker also gets decent mileage, considering its size. I guess its major flaw is it's lack of armor. Most troop transports suffer from that disadvantage.
Just take a look at it, big rubber air filled tires, can't track/hit targets while moving, weak armor and once again, tires are not a good idea. Our primary concern on the battlefield these days is 5.56 and 7.62 small arms (AK-47 and clones), and the all too common RPG. You would think that the Stryker would take that into account. It would take a much heavier vehicle to stand up to RPG attacks, and a lot more money to provide the ability to hit moving targets reliably (whats on the Stryker, a 20mm and a 14?).
Humvees are a joke in that situation, M1s are too expensive and heavy, the middle ground is tricky.
Thanks for the numbers, I didnt figure on oil running out that soon. Car sales in China especially are increasing every year, and with their economy leaning more towards global trade I would not be suprised if they became the second largest oil consumer.
You are confirming my second point, the US's primary concern is securing oil production and transport for itself, in order to protect it's economy (in the name of global security). I don't know if I made that clear.
some one went in and added 'iraq' to every directory just on principle, or out of laziness. or just in case. or just because. I dont see any 'afganistan' in there. Maybe they aren't as embarrassed about that one.
In light of France and Englands past personal encounters, I am guessing that there will be lots of flipping of the bird, showing of the buttocks, and shouting of personal insults. The last thing any Englishman wants to see is a Frenchman, and vice-versa.
I wonder if the human race can fit in the carbon cycle. If we did not use fossil fuels at all, would there be enough cheap energy to sustain such a huge population? Is there enough cheaply convertable biomass waste product available? Or would there be more leveling of jungles and forests for cash crops to feed the US's SUVs?
I think the article is meant to be taken in the context of carbon balance. No one wants you to cry for fallen plants, the suggestion is ludacris. Burning millions of barrels of oil per day releases into the air much more C02 than can be absorbed by the earth's plant coverage. It took millions of years to lock all that C02 under the earths surface, and just a century or two to release it into the atmosphere. Intentionally throwing off the carbon balance is probably one of the dumbest things humans have ever done.
We're likely to run out of breathable air before we run out of fossil fuels. Running out of fuel should be the least of our concerns, unfortunately the superpowers are concerned primarily with just that.
is to work in a vacuum as well as zero gravity. There is no problem with a regular ball point pen (well, a modern one) inside a space craft at zero G, it's taking the pen outside (to do graffiti on the side of the ship of course!) that doesn't work. What generally happens in a vacuum is that the ink tries to force its way past the ball, for obvious reasons. Nasa probably never spent a dime developing such a pen, I'm not sure how often they anticipated needing to use a ballpoint pen during a space walk. I dont think astronauts carry clipboards with them outside the space craft. If there were a need, i'm sure they would do perfectly well with a large grease pencil, one large enough to grip with the cumbersome space suit gloves.
I'm working 40-50 hours a week, with 10 days of paid time off per year. That includes Days I Had The Flu (2), Days My Car Didnt Work (3). This would also include days I had to go to court for speeding tickets recieved while trying not to be late (0), but I just dont go to court. It would piss me off too much to think I could have saved that day for vacation.
There are 2 months left in the year to take a vacation now, and since I left early one friday to beat the traffic (mistakenly, traffic was worse)
I now have 4 1/2 days of vacation left after taking none.
I used to enjoy going on expeditions that would span months: kayaking, canoeing, hiking, biking, rock climbing, you name it. Now that I work all the time, I've spent a total of 2 days in the wilderness this entire year (illegal canoe trip on a polluted Illinois river). I'm completely burned out, have little interest in writing software anymore and have a bad case of insomnia.
All I have to say is you don't see people going postal too often in Canada. Or any other country for that matter.
Agreed. As a J2ee developer, I would have been completely stuck on some problems in the past if I didnt have access to the Java and J2ee sdk's source code. I simply would not have been able to pull off some of the things I did. Also, during development I've fixed bugs in open source packages as I needed to, contributed the fixes/bug reports back to the project and continued on my way. This is simply impossible with.NET and any closed source software. If it something doesnt work for some reason, your're screwed. There is no way in hell the.NET framework doesn't have it's fair share of bugs. If you are doing anything cutting edge, your're bound to run into them.
Your only option is to buy a support package (if available) which often is not much better than emailing a bug report and praying that someone fixes it in the next release. Which for most closed source software is every few years.
Last night, I ran into a bug after upgrading an open source package to make use of a new feature. I looked at their source code for 5 minutes, found the problem, and posted the bug on their bugzilla sight. 10 minutes later, I got a response saying they checked in a fix to their CVS repository for the next minor rev. I paid them no licensing fee to use the software, no support fee, and the fix was immediatly available, because I already had the source code and could fix and rebuild it. I have found this experience to be typical, provided I am using a package that has some vitality.
Many people seems to think that Microsoft will 'never close their doors'. Many people have said the same thing about countless successful companies that could not adapt to and embrace change and eventually fizzled out. Granted, Microsoft could probably survive for a long time on their assets alone, but it would be a sad waste. Eventually developers and consumers will demand better things from Microsoft, and they will have to change or be bled to death.
There are way too many people in this country who could care less. Like people who own Humvees, and drive them around ALONE, because what really matters is their prestige, security and comfort. Humvees are for soldiers in the desert, these people are not soldiers. They never will be, no matter how many Humvees they own.
What will happen to the 'oil economies' that thrive on petroleum production and trade? What the hell are they going to do in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. when no one is buying their oil anymore? Hopefully they can decline without too much bloodshed, or find something less destructive to base their economies on.
There needs to be a requirement on all transportation industry manufactures to be 100% carbon neutral by a certain date. Either figure it out or go out of business. Same goes for the power business. That my $.02
A Windows program that allows remote access to your machine without your consent? And its enabled by default? This is a 'feature'? Maybe for companies looking to increase the reach of their spam, but certainly not for users. How is this feature useful to a user at all? Yet another reason to use something (anything) besides Windows (and AOL for that matter). As long as most users are completely clueless as to what goes on inside that beige box under their desks, and what to do with it, companies will continue to decide how they use their computers, and what to use them for. (Gamble Online! Lose Weight! Enlarge your Genitals! BUY SOMETHING!!!)
90% of those lines are comments and whitespace.
Let me clarify my prev. post a bit, I am paid about $120 per day and have written thousands of lines of code without any sight of 4.3 million dollars. Thankfully I'm not writing thousands of lines per day, on a good day a thousand lines would be a whole lot for me, especially in an OO language. I like to space out for 2-3 hours a day and post meaninless, redundant comments on slashdot for my own amusement.
And yes, I am horribly underpaid. The folks upstairs are aware, I'm sure. They like to use the excuse that the 'economy' is not so 'good' these days and that there are many folks out there not working at all. Mmm Hmm. Meanwhile they have just posted their best quarter ever and spend most of their time flying around in company jets and improving their golf game... All I have to say is 'shoulder launched surface to air missiles'. Oo, probably can't say that.
But beyond all that, which is better designed from a programming point of view? Put the language and platform issues aside, which one is the most intuative, powerful, elegent, etc...NET Remoting does not appear to be a mirror image to RMI (which has been around for a relativly long time). Does it improve on the concepts or just attempt to provide the same/similar functionality like most of.NET?
this is about. or why I posted this response. I dont think i really care what this is about either, i'm just not sure why this was posted at all. This is probably the first time I can remember having absolutely no clue what story on slashdot is about.
on 2 lines of java script code? Where do I sign up? I can think of a million annoying things to do with a few lines of java script. And here i've been writing thousands of lines of code for $120 per day.
Can I claim ownership of the idea of flashing banners?
Does SCO plan to do software audits on these fortune 1000 companies? I didnt RTFA, but if they are ever planning to collect licence fees from anyone, they're going to have to spend the cash to do the audits. If they contacted me at my company, I'd just say 'Linux? Whats that? Have a nice day.' Click. I pity the fool that purchases a license from SCO.
Which has a better API? Higher performance? More reliable? Easy to develop/debug? Most developers will avoid using RMI directly if they can, lots of J2ee stuff uses it underneath the interfaces though.
liquid metal heat exchangers? Whats it running, molten lead? Well, we can build satellites with computer controlled reactors, so I guess the japanese can build on that doesn't need a team of engineers to run. What will H. Simpson do for a living now?
I always have to laugh when the windows users in the office are complaining about their computers taking half an hour to reboot. Every time something crashes (or they just reboot because it's been a few hours since the last reboot..) they have to wait for patches/updates to be applied. Then sometimes, they have to reboot again! Everyone else on linux boxes are not interrupted by the need (or the feeling that its time) to reboot. There is something wrong with an OS when its users feel compelled to reboot and re-install periodically. (OS 9 and most windows versions seem to have this effect on people)
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As a business, a label has to see it's artists as a product. If an artist doesnt have a certain charisma or display a lasting talent that can be utilized at the label's whim, the artist does not make a good product. If you look at all the top artists at the major labels, these are all highly motivated, talented (though not always musically), and dedicated individuals. The music itself only sells to music afficianados. Remember that people with 'taste' account for a small fraction of the population. This small fraction is not concerned entirely with the sex appeal of their favorite artist, they are interested mostly in the sound of the artist's music and the way it makes them feel. The majority of consumers are less concerned with the music and more interested in the image that listening or being seen listening to that music projects upon them. That is what sells the most, the artist's sex appeal and allowing the consumer absorb some of that appeal by being associated with the music.
There will always be the small percentage of filthy rich superstars out there, a somewhat less small percentage of successful middle ground artists, and a large percentage of ametuers. Hopefully, techology will provide a ballast to even out some of these percentages.
I would do what I always do when they sue me for money, tell them to ask me for it directly to my face. I throw my mail away if it has anything to do with litigation against me. This might sound stupid and brash, but it works. They give up. Not worth pursuing. The only way I would pay any attention is if they marched in with a warrant and enough police officers to detain me. At which point they usually find they have the wrong address.
What kind of message does that send to the developers who work for Gates?
A conflicting one. As said before, What does Gates know about security? Sure firewalls and applying patches may keep your system secure, as long as you apply the patches before a vulnerability is taken advantage of. Preemption is not always possible. What it appears Gates is (unintentionally) saying is that if security is a critical concern, stay away from Microsoft products, because security is not an important design aspect to us.
Moving forward with Gate's vision of a more transparent user experience: "We're going to take that to a whole new level in terms of going out to get information, and yet be able to do it in such a way that you know you're getting secure information, that the right things can happen even as you go out to the internet."
This won't be possible until security is transparent. Automatic updates help a little, but they are still just a kludge for a lack of security in the first place.
"...the times between when the vulnerability was published and when somebody has exploited it have been going down..."
And will probably continue to as long as the holes are so incredibly easy to exploit. Might not be a problem if the patches are few and small, but recently we have not seen that.
Gates seems to be placing the blame mostly on 3rd party developers and applications, not the poorly designed APIs they are forced to use. This attitude will not likely lead to a more secure platform.
True, tracked vehicles are loud and more expensive to run/maintain. Stryker also gets decent mileage, considering its size. I guess its major flaw is it's lack of armor. Most troop transports suffer from that disadvantage.
Just take a look at it, big rubber air filled tires, can't track/hit targets while moving, weak armor and once again, tires are not a good idea. Our primary concern on the battlefield these days is 5.56 and 7.62 small arms (AK-47 and clones), and the all too common RPG. You would think that the Stryker would take that into account. It would take a much heavier vehicle to stand up to RPG attacks, and a lot more money to provide the ability to hit moving targets reliably (whats on the Stryker, a 20mm and a 14?). Humvees are a joke in that situation, M1s are too expensive and heavy, the middle ground is tricky.
Thanks for the numbers, I didnt figure on oil running out that soon. Car sales in China especially are increasing every year, and with their economy leaning more towards global trade I would not be suprised if they became the second largest oil consumer.
You are confirming my second point, the US's primary concern is securing oil production and transport for itself, in order to protect it's economy (in the name of global security). I don't know if I made that clear.
some one went in and added 'iraq' to every directory just on principle, or out of laziness. or just in case. or just because. I dont see any 'afganistan' in there. Maybe they aren't as embarrassed about that one.
In light of France and Englands past personal encounters, I am guessing that there will be lots of flipping of the bird, showing of the buttocks, and shouting of personal insults. The last thing any Englishman wants to see is a Frenchman, and vice-versa.
I wonder if the human race can fit in the carbon cycle. If we did not use fossil fuels at all, would there be enough cheap energy to sustain such a huge population? Is there enough cheaply convertable biomass waste product available? Or would there be more leveling of jungles and forests for cash crops to feed the US's SUVs?
I think the article is meant to be taken in the context of carbon balance. No one wants you to cry for fallen plants, the suggestion is ludacris. Burning millions of barrels of oil per day releases into the air much more C02 than can be absorbed by the earth's plant coverage. It took millions of years to lock all that C02 under the earths surface, and just a century or two to release it into the atmosphere. Intentionally throwing off the carbon balance is probably one of the dumbest things humans have ever done.
We're likely to run out of breathable air before we run out of fossil fuels. Running out of fuel should be the least of our concerns, unfortunately the superpowers are concerned primarily with just that.
is to work in a vacuum as well as zero gravity. There is no problem with a regular ball point pen (well, a modern one) inside a space craft at zero G, it's taking the pen outside (to do graffiti on the side of the ship of course!) that doesn't work. What generally happens in a vacuum is that the ink tries to force its way past the ball, for obvious reasons. Nasa probably never spent a dime developing such a pen, I'm not sure how often they anticipated needing to use a ballpoint pen during a space walk. I dont think astronauts carry clipboards with them outside the space craft. If there were a need, i'm sure they would do perfectly well with a large grease pencil, one large enough to grip with the cumbersome space suit gloves.
I'm working 40-50 hours a week, with 10 days of paid time off per year. That includes Days I Had The Flu (2), Days My Car Didnt Work (3). This would also include days I had to go to court for speeding tickets recieved while trying not to be late (0), but I just dont go to court. It would piss me off too much to think I could have saved that day for vacation. There are 2 months left in the year to take a vacation now, and since I left early one friday to beat the traffic (mistakenly, traffic was worse) I now have 4 1/2 days of vacation left after taking none.
I used to enjoy going on expeditions that would span months: kayaking, canoeing, hiking, biking, rock climbing, you name it. Now that I work all the time, I've spent a total of 2 days in the wilderness this entire year (illegal canoe trip on a polluted Illinois river). I'm completely burned out, have little interest in writing software anymore and have a bad case of insomnia.
All I have to say is you don't see people going postal too often in Canada. Or any other country for that matter.
Agreed. As a J2ee developer, I would have been completely stuck on some problems in the past if I didnt have access to the Java and J2ee sdk's source code. I simply would not have been able to pull off some of the things I did. Also, during development I've fixed bugs in open source packages as I needed to, contributed the fixes/bug reports back to the project and continued on my way. This is simply impossible with .NET and any closed source software. If it something doesnt work for some reason, your're screwed. There is no way in hell the .NET framework doesn't have it's fair share of bugs. If you are doing anything cutting edge, your're bound to run into them.
Your only option is to buy a support package (if available) which often is not much better than emailing a bug report and praying that someone fixes it in the next release. Which for most closed source software is every few years.
Last night, I ran into a bug after upgrading an open source package to make use of a new feature. I looked at their source code for 5 minutes, found the problem, and posted the bug on their bugzilla sight. 10 minutes later, I got a response saying they checked in a fix to their CVS repository for the next minor rev. I paid them no licensing fee to use the software, no support fee, and the fix was immediatly available, because I already had the source code and could fix and rebuild it. I have found this experience to be typical, provided I am using a package that has some vitality. Many people seems to think that Microsoft will 'never close their doors'. Many people have said the same thing about countless successful companies that could not adapt to and embrace change and eventually fizzled out. Granted, Microsoft could probably survive for a long time on their assets alone, but it would be a sad waste. Eventually developers and consumers will demand better things from Microsoft, and they will have to change or be bled to death.
There are way too many people in this country who could care less. Like people who own Humvees, and drive them around ALONE, because what really matters is their prestige, security and comfort. Humvees are for soldiers in the desert, these people are not soldiers. They never will be, no matter how many Humvees they own.
What will happen to the 'oil economies' that thrive on petroleum production and trade? What the hell are they going to do in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. when no one is buying their oil anymore? Hopefully they can decline without too much bloodshed, or find something less destructive to base their economies on.
There needs to be a requirement on all transportation industry manufactures to be 100% carbon neutral by a certain date. Either figure it out or go out of business. Same goes for the power business. That my $.02
A Windows program that allows remote access to your machine without your consent? And its enabled by default? This is a 'feature'? Maybe for companies looking to increase the reach of their spam, but certainly not for users. How is this feature useful to a user at all? Yet another reason to use something (anything) besides Windows (and AOL for that matter). As long as most users are completely clueless as to what goes on inside that beige box under their desks, and what to do with it, companies will continue to decide how they use their computers, and what to use them for. (Gamble Online! Lose Weight! Enlarge your Genitals! BUY SOMETHING!!!)
I'm beginning to think this has something to do with the oscars and piracy. At which point my eyes glassed over and I returned to work.
90% of those lines are comments and whitespace. Let me clarify my prev. post a bit, I am paid about $120 per day and have written thousands of lines of code without any sight of 4.3 million dollars. Thankfully I'm not writing thousands of lines per day, on a good day a thousand lines would be a whole lot for me, especially in an OO language. I like to space out for 2-3 hours a day and post meaninless, redundant comments on slashdot for my own amusement. And yes, I am horribly underpaid. The folks upstairs are aware, I'm sure. They like to use the excuse that the 'economy' is not so 'good' these days and that there are many folks out there not working at all. Mmm Hmm. Meanwhile they have just posted their best quarter ever and spend most of their time flying around in company jets and improving their golf game... All I have to say is 'shoulder launched surface to air missiles'. Oo, probably can't say that.
But beyond all that, which is better designed from a programming point of view? Put the language and platform issues aside, which one is the most intuative, powerful, elegent, etc.. .NET Remoting does not appear to be a mirror image to RMI (which has been around for a relativly long time). Does it improve on the concepts or just attempt to provide the same/similar functionality like most of .NET?
this is about. or why I posted this response. I dont think i really care what this is about either, i'm just not sure why this was posted at all. This is probably the first time I can remember having absolutely no clue what story on slashdot is about.
on 2 lines of java script code? Where do I sign up? I can think of a million annoying things to do with a few lines of java script. And here i've been writing thousands of lines of code for $120 per day. Can I claim ownership of the idea of flashing banners?
Does SCO plan to do software audits on these fortune 1000 companies? I didnt RTFA, but if they are ever planning to collect licence fees from anyone, they're going to have to spend the cash to do the audits. If they contacted me at my company, I'd just say 'Linux? Whats that? Have a nice day.' Click. I pity the fool that purchases a license from SCO.
Which has a better API? Higher performance? More reliable? Easy to develop/debug? Most developers will avoid using RMI directly if they can, lots of J2ee stuff uses it underneath the interfaces though.
liquid metal heat exchangers? Whats it running, molten lead? Well, we can build satellites with computer controlled reactors, so I guess the japanese can build on that doesn't need a team of engineers to run. What will H. Simpson do for a living now?
I always have to laugh when the windows users in the office are complaining about their computers taking half an hour to reboot. Every time something crashes (or they just reboot because it's been a few hours since the last reboot..) they have to wait for patches/updates to be applied. Then sometimes, they have to reboot again! Everyone else on linux boxes are not interrupted by the need (or the feeling that its time) to reboot. There is something wrong with an OS when its users feel compelled to reboot and re-install periodically. (OS 9 and most windows versions seem to have this effect on people)