I have often wondered why windows is less secure. Could it be that a larger installed base means more exposure to security issues?? (ie. popularity = more exploits?)
If that is the case one would assume that if linux grows in popularity it will begin to get exponentially more volume as it's *unskilled* user base grows.
Is the difference between security merely a product of linux admins being more excellent or more fanatical than windows admins?
Until someone answers these questions I won't start *blaming* MSFT for bad security. It could simply be inevitable that a popular system has more exploits.
H1-Bs were intended not to provide "better" workers to American corporations. H1-Bs were created to provide workers that American corporations simply couldn't find. They were never intended to continue to exist if there was a tight labor market for employees.
We are currently experiencing an "employers" market. Yet H1-Bs are still coming into our country and filling up jobs that should be held by (now out of work) American citizens.
In addition to that H1-Bs were never intended to eventually convert into citizens. We wanted them to work and then go home. Well... they're working, staying (and working hard I might add) long enough to become citizens.
Congress needs to get it's act together and close the doors to H1-Bs.
~foooo But the truth is, we simply need to be more protective of our own citizenry and their jobs. We don't need people working for less for jobs that are now hard to come by.
VMWare works, but Microsoft is trying to make you buy a license for every virtual image on the machine.
so.... VMWare($300) on top of windows (at least $100) and on top of VMWare copies of windows (at least $100) and any copies of office or anything like that (X dollars) TIMES the number of virtual machines that you have saved.
Or you could run virtual images of linux or whatever.
But if you bought VMWare with the purpose of being able to inexpensively and quickly deal with multiple Images (for corporate imaging testing or what have you) or multiple MS operating systems.. then they try and rope you into a MSDN license.
Sure, it's too expensive to use the power of multiple power plants to eliminate the waste of only one power plant. That would be completely impractical!
But imagine if we had a Beowolf Cluster of Vulcan Lasers!
I was with you until you said "work with the Chinese"
Are you insane?
1) We shouldn't trust them because they've proven to be untrustworthy in the past.
2) Sharing space programs would require trust because of the need to share dual use technology.
3) Human rights violations mean that we shouldn't even be *trading* with China, let alone participating in a space program with them.
4) We have way cooler names for our rockets. Shenzhou IV? eh?? translation: Sacred Vessel IV?? How could this possibly compare with Enterprise or Discovery! Or even Saturn.
Anyways, working with the Chinese = bad. Buying products made in China/Hong Kong = bad.
Georgy is the only candidate courageous enough to put forward the tough decisions Californians will have to make to restore fiscal discipline to California.
For about 80%, the vast majority of Californians, the increased taxes necessary to fund universal health care would be less than their current costs for private health care. A new system would allow for much needed accountability for health coverage, and create competition based on quality of care rather than cost of care.
How can you (on the same web page) talk about your fiscal dicipline and introduce an idea for universal health care?
Additionally, in a single payer system there is *no* competition. Is your universal health care really universal or are you unsure of the meaning of competition??
Clearly you haven't thought a lot of this through. There are typos on your web pages and *worse* there are logical fallacies in your political rhetoric.
On the other hand I love your approach to gay marriage and marijuana. But that's the Libertarian in me... not the liberal.
Why should I vote for you?? (Aside from the fact that you're hella cute and also geeky?)
May I suggest a new sloagan for you??
Georgy for Govenor. The same political hot air... now tempered with good looks!
~foooo
PS. I don't live in Kalifornia, but if I did I'd spend my vote on someone less bleeding heart and opt for a more practical candidate.
The Washington State (US) already does this for tires... it's called the tire recycling tax and guess what! It costs more to administer the tax than it produces in tax revenue to cover the actual removal of tires!
What we *don't* need is more taxes. If anything require that computers be recycled and not just thrown in a landfill. But whomever decided that taxes were the solution (because that's what a government enforced deposit is... a tax) is blind to the fact that adding taxes is a huge negative, adding complexity to the tax system is a huge negative and in addition they are a horribly ineffective way of dealing with a problem.
I develop software for a living. You know... so I can eat. And if someone offers me more money than I'm making now to develop something that isn't proprietary then fine. But right now I make software that makes corporate america work. When we figure out a software solution to world hunger or war... I'll sign up for that. Until then...$$$$$$
When you are employed... you're entering into a (sometimes implied) contract between you and the people/person/corporation that you are working for.
Either party (in most states) can end this contract "at will" meaning anytime for any reason. This is a Good Thing(tm) employees can leave a job if they don't like it and employers can fire employees if they don't like the situation.
Employing *you* may be a privilege in *your* view... but if *YOU* subject *YOURSELF* to substandard employment conditions (wage/conditions/etc) then the onus is on you to improve *YOUR* situation
Likewise for the employer... if they're not happy with what they're getting from the contract they can either talk to you about it or fire you to fix things up.
At any rate there is no ENTITLEMENT. You don't have the right to super working conditions. You DO have the right to get out of most contracts of this type. Giving you the freedom to seek out better conditions if you so desire.
The United States Congress has passed a bill directing law enforcement officials to DO THEIR JOBS.
Seriously though, we should be asking our congressional representatives and senators to changes the laws. We'll never get anywhere asking them to stop enforcing existing laws.
if (this.MacImplementation.cost > this.EntirelyNewX86Implementation.cost) { BusinessRules.Check.CostVSBenefit(this); if (this.costVSBenefit.result == EntirelyNewX86Implementation); { this.implement.EntirelyNewX86Implementation("Stop questioning your Holy War Morals, because this is a business not a religion"); } else { this.implement.MacImplementation("Cheer Loudly"); } }
If stereo imaging is easy and trivial on one platform, and mind bending on another... I'm going to pick the trivial one everytime (given an unlimited budget)
For $1000-2000 you could have a decently fast computer that you won't have ANY difficulty running 3D applications with 3d goggles.
(This will of course be modded down as troll)
BUT if you are sharing this application with others, it may be worthwhile to set up a "shared" computer that can deal with things that are a pain in the butt at your Mac oriented office.
I completely agree. Being a left hander I watched my classmates excel in handwriting while I struggled and left smudges all over the page. I saw this article today and thought to myself... I should try that again... with my finely tuned adult motor skills I managed to produce the cursive handwriting of a 4th grader.
Cursive only works well when you are DRAGGING the pen accross the page, not pushing it. Either go back to forcing children to be right handed (bad idea) or allow lefties to print or type.
By the way, I practice calligraphy, generally using non cursive lettering. I can produce lettering that is very neato. But the Palmer system? BLECH.
Do a Cost/Benefit analysis and figure out if you can compete with the vendor. Remeber, you're not only competing on features and stabillity. You're also competing on budget issues.
90% of the problems that I've faced in this area can be resolved simply by coming up with a realistic apples to apples comparison. A lot of the time I've done the comparison and thought to myself... gawd! My manager WAS right!!
This isn't always the case, but managers aren't as stupid/stubborn/ignorant as we would first think.
Step into their budget constrained shoes for a while and see if you still dissagree with them.
User preference is best calculated by removing external factors like platform specific software and file/protocol compatibility, then find someone who has never used a computer before, give them Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and see which one they would like to use.
I don't use operating systems in a vacuum and don't expect that others do. Things like platform specific software and file/protocol compatibility are features, it is a feature that I can play the latest games right when they come out, that all my friends use it, that I use it at work... etc...
Also, I have used OS X, albeit not very much, but I didn't dig it enough to switch... Perhaps it just didn't like me. I do like the way Windows works. When I originally read the headline... I just didn't see Panther tearing up Longhorn, especially given that Longhorn will be released quite some time after Panther. Perhaps I'm just a wierdo, waiting until the OSs are released to compare them in a meaningful way....
PS. I never knew it would be this much fun to flame an I love Apple thread.
My personal opinion is that user preference is best determined by number of seats installed.
Boxed sales might be a meaningful measure if computers did not come with pre-installed OSs most of the time.
No amount of rabid Apple fandom is going to show that Apple has had more success in the OS department financially speaking.
We can debate quality of OS all night long, but the point of my original post was people vote with their dollars and what they're actually running on the desktop.
Apple is an excellent niche product right now, but ignoring the fact that perpetuated market share is a *huge* reason why many choose MS products is simply naive.
I should know better than to start a flamewar on apple.slashdot BUT the term "tearing up" IMHO would only be meaningful if Company X was going to dominate Company Y in actual market share and earnings.
It would be completely beyond my expectations if Panther began to dominate XP (and then Longhorn) in market share, quality, and gross/net earnings especially given the time gap between the products.
And yes, Caveat Emptor, I was on the XP development team... I like Windows and abandoned Macs somewhere around '91 for many reasons but mainly value for the dollar.
What do you mean Panther will tear up Longhorn? Apple to suddenly have 90% market share?
Shiny spinny stuff is cool and all that, but windows doesn't have huge market share because of an amazing interface.
It is because they arrived at market at the right time, with the right product, with the right marketing strategies. (Perhaps not morally right.. but the proof is in the pudding as far as $$ go)
1) It's incredibly common to describe people who are republicans or libertarians (or somewhere inbetween as I am) as conservatives. Fiscal conservatives generally approve of smaller government and more local control. Distrust of government and local government being better than federal government because it's harder to watch.
On the other hand most republicans are social conservatives, where as I am a social liberal. Which makes more sense really, less government (fiscal conservatism) generally leads to more personal freedom (social liberalism).
www.lp.org has a link to "the worlds shortest political quiz." I think that it's pretty well in line with the common definitions for political stances and that's what I generally use to categorize people based on their political beliefs.
2) My primary concern with putting local judges back in the drivers seat is not civil litigation. If a company operates on a national level it should be sued in a national forum. However criminal litigation should take place on the local level. While we a good general framework for what is right and wrong on a national level... I specifically choose the communities I live in based on who I want to be "a jury of my peers." This makes sense. There is enough general protection of rights to ensure (in criminal cases) that a majority is not suppressing the rights of a minority.
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The Canadians have silly regulations.
More obvious news later today. Stay tuned.
~foooo
I have often wondered why windows is less secure. Could it be that a larger installed base means more exposure to security issues?? (ie. popularity = more exploits?)
If that is the case one would assume that if linux grows in popularity it will begin to get exponentially more volume as it's *unskilled* user base grows.
Is the difference between security merely a product of linux admins being more excellent or more fanatical than windows admins?
Until someone answers these questions I won't start *blaming* MSFT for bad security. It could simply be inevitable that a popular system has more exploits.
~fooo
H1-Bs were intended not to provide "better" workers to American corporations. H1-Bs were created to provide workers that American corporations simply couldn't find. They were never intended to continue to exist if there was a tight labor market for employees.
We are currently experiencing an "employers" market. Yet H1-Bs are still coming into our country and filling up jobs that should be held by (now out of work) American citizens.
In addition to that H1-Bs were never intended to eventually convert into citizens. We wanted them to work and then go home. Well... they're working, staying (and working hard I might add)
long enough to become citizens.
Congress needs to get it's act together and close the doors to H1-Bs.
~foooo
But the truth is, we simply need to be more protective of our own citizenry and their jobs. We don't need people working for less for jobs that are now hard to come by.
VMWare works, but Microsoft is trying to make you buy a license for every virtual image on the machine.
so.... VMWare($300) on top of windows (at least $100) and
on top of VMWare copies of windows (at least $100) and any copies of office or anything like that (X dollars) TIMES the number of virtual machines that you have saved.
Or you could run virtual images of linux or whatever.
But if you bought VMWare with the purpose of being able to inexpensively and quickly deal with multiple Images (for corporate imaging testing or what have you) or multiple MS operating systems.. then they try and rope you into a MSDN license.
It's nutty
Sure, it's too expensive to use the power of multiple power plants to eliminate the waste of only one power plant. That would be completely impractical!
But imagine if we had a Beowolf Cluster of Vulcan Lasers!
~foooo
I was with you until you said "work with the Chinese"
Are you insane?
1) We shouldn't trust them because they've proven to be untrustworthy in the past.
2) Sharing space programs would require trust because of the need to share dual use technology.
3) Human rights violations mean that we shouldn't even be *trading* with China, let alone participating in a space program with them.
4) We have way cooler names for our rockets. Shenzhou IV? eh?? translation: Sacred Vessel IV?? How could this possibly compare with Enterprise or Discovery! Or even Saturn.
Anyways, working with the Chinese = bad. Buying products made in China/Hong Kong = bad.
~foooo
Finale by Coda Software.
www.finalemusic.com
I live and die by it. Albeit on a PC but I they offer a Mac version.
~foooo
Georgy is the only candidate courageous enough to put forward the tough decisions Californians will have to make to restore fiscal discipline to California.
For about 80%, the vast majority of Californians, the increased taxes necessary to fund universal health care would be less than their current costs for private health care. A new system would allow for much needed accountability for health coverage, and create competition based on quality of care rather than cost of care.
How can you (on the same web page) talk about your fiscal dicipline and introduce an idea for universal health care?
Additionally, in a single payer system there is *no* competition. Is your universal health care really universal or are you unsure of the meaning of competition??
Clearly you haven't thought a lot of this through. There are typos on your web pages and *worse* there are logical fallacies in your political rhetoric.
On the other hand I love your approach to gay marriage and marijuana. But that's the Libertarian in me... not the liberal.
Why should I vote for you?? (Aside from the fact that you're hella cute and also geeky?)
May I suggest a new sloagan for you??
Georgy for Govenor. The same political hot air... now tempered with good looks!
~foooo
PS. I don't live in Kalifornia, but if I did I'd spend my vote on someone less bleeding heart and opt for a more practical candidate.
I own a TiVo ... and fuck SCO!
on a regular basis?
I hope you didn't catch anything, god knows who SCO has been sleeping with.
~foooo
The Washington State (US) already does this for tires... it's called the tire recycling tax and guess what! It costs more to administer the tax than it produces in tax revenue to cover the actual removal of tires!
What we *don't* need is more taxes. If anything require that computers be recycled and not just thrown in a landfill. But whomever decided that taxes were the solution (because that's what a government enforced deposit is... a tax) is blind to the fact that adding taxes is a huge negative, adding complexity to the tax system is a huge negative and in addition they are a horribly ineffective way of dealing with a problem.
~foooo
Windows Embedded and Windows CE would compare just fine. (sorry to dash your hopes, but it's in use too... just not a monopoly in that market yet)
~foooo
I develop software for a living. You know... so I can eat. And if someone offers me more money than I'm making now to develop something that isn't proprietary then fine. But right now I make software that makes corporate america work. When we figure out a software solution to world hunger or war... I'll sign up for that. Until then ...$$$$$$
~foooo
When you are employed... you're entering into a (sometimes implied) contract between you and the people/person/corporation that you are working for.
Either party (in most states) can end this contract "at will" meaning anytime for any reason. This is a Good Thing(tm) employees can leave a job if they don't like it and employers can fire employees if they don't like the situation.
Employing *you* may be a privilege in *your* view... but if *YOU* subject *YOURSELF* to substandard employment conditions (wage/conditions/etc) then the onus is on you to improve *YOUR* situation
Likewise for the employer... if they're not happy with what they're getting from the contract they can either talk to you about it or fire you to fix things up.
At any rate there is no ENTITLEMENT. You don't have the right to super working conditions. You DO have the right to get out of most contracts of this type. Giving you the freedom to seek out better conditions if you so desire.
~foooo
I for one am sick of hearing people go on about their job like it's their birthright to have a good job at good pay.
If your job stinks... look for a better one.
If your job doesn't pay well... look for a better one.
Your boss isn't required (nor should be) by law to provide you with cake and also let you eat it.
The ball is in your court.
~foooo
In other news:
The United States Congress has passed a bill directing law enforcement officials to DO THEIR JOBS.
Seriously though, we should be asking our congressional representatives and senators to changes the laws. We'll never get anywhere asking them to stop enforcing existing laws.
~foooo
if (this.MacImplementation.cost > this.EntirelyNewX86Implementation.cost)
/.'s fault... not mine.
{
BusinessRules.Check.CostVSBenefit(this);
if (this.costVSBenefit.result == EntirelyNewX86Implementation);
{
this.implement.EntirelyNewX86Implementation("Stop questioning your Holy War Morals, because this is a business not a religion");
}
else
{
this.implement.MacImplementation("Cheer Loudly");
}
}
the extra semicolon is
~foooo
I'm happy with my situational ethics =)
If stereo imaging is easy and trivial on one platform, and mind bending on another... I'm going to pick the trivial one everytime (given an unlimited budget)
~fooo
For $1000-2000 you could have a decently fast computer that you won't have ANY difficulty running 3D applications with 3d goggles.
(This will of course be modded down as troll)
BUT if you are sharing this application with others, it may be worthwhile to set up a "shared" computer that can deal with things that are a pain in the butt at your Mac oriented office.
~foooo
I completely agree. Being a left hander I watched my classmates excel in handwriting while I struggled and left smudges all over the page. I saw this article today and thought to myself... I should try that again... with my finely tuned adult motor skills I managed to produce the cursive handwriting of a 4th grader.
Cursive only works well when you are DRAGGING the pen accross the page, not pushing it. Either go back to forcing children to be right handed (bad idea) or allow lefties to print or type.
By the way, I practice calligraphy, generally using non cursive lettering. I can produce lettering that is very neato. But the Palmer system? BLECH.
~foooo
Do a Cost/Benefit analysis and figure out if you can compete with the vendor. Remeber, you're not only competing on features and stabillity. You're also competing on budget issues.
90% of the problems that I've faced in this area can be resolved simply by coming up with a realistic apples to apples comparison. A lot of the time I've done the comparison and thought to myself... gawd! My manager WAS right!!
This isn't always the case, but managers aren't as stupid/stubborn/ignorant as we would first think.
Step into their budget constrained shoes for a while and see if you still dissagree with them.
foooo
User preference is best calculated by removing external factors like platform specific software and file/protocol compatibility, then find someone who has never used a computer before, give them Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and see which one they would like to use.
I don't use operating systems in a vacuum and don't expect that others do. Things like platform specific software and file/protocol compatibility are features, it is a feature that I can play the latest games right when they come out, that all my friends use it, that I use it at work... etc...
Also, I have used OS X, albeit not very much, but I didn't dig it enough to switch... Perhaps it just didn't like me. I do like the way Windows works. When I originally read the headline... I just didn't see Panther tearing up Longhorn, especially given that Longhorn will be released quite some time after Panther. Perhaps I'm just a wierdo, waiting until the OSs are released to compare them in a meaningful way....
PS. I never knew it would be this much fun to flame an I love Apple thread.
~foooo
My personal opinion is that user preference is best determined by number of seats installed.
Boxed sales might be a meaningful measure if computers did not come with pre-installed OSs most of the time.
No amount of rabid Apple fandom is going to show that Apple has had more success in the OS department financially speaking.
We can debate quality of OS all night long, but the point of my original post was people vote with their dollars and what they're actually running on the desktop.
Apple is an excellent niche product right now, but ignoring the fact that perpetuated market share is a *huge* reason why many choose MS products is simply naive.
I should know better than to start a flamewar on apple.slashdot BUT the term "tearing up" IMHO would only be meaningful if Company X was going to dominate Company Y in actual market share and earnings.
It would be completely beyond my expectations if Panther began to dominate XP (and then Longhorn) in market share, quality, and gross/net earnings especially given the time gap between the products.
And yes, Caveat Emptor, I was on the XP development team... I like Windows and abandoned Macs somewhere around '91 for many reasons but mainly value for the dollar.
~foooo
What do you mean Panther will tear up Longhorn? Apple to suddenly have 90% market share?
Shiny spinny stuff is cool and all that, but windows doesn't have huge market share because of an amazing interface.
It is because they arrived at market at the right time, with the right product, with the right marketing strategies. (Perhaps not morally right.. but the proof is in the pudding as far as $$ go)
I tried to switch... but the letters written in Sharpie ink rubbed off to quickly =(
~foooo
Ok, two quick points.
1) It's incredibly common to describe people who are republicans or libertarians (or somewhere inbetween as I am) as conservatives. Fiscal conservatives generally approve of smaller government and more local control. Distrust of government and local government being better than federal government because it's harder to watch.
On the other hand most republicans are social conservatives, where as I am a social liberal. Which makes more sense really, less government (fiscal conservatism) generally leads to more personal freedom (social liberalism).
www.lp.org has a link to "the worlds shortest political quiz." I think that it's pretty well in line with the common definitions for political stances and that's what I generally use to categorize people based on their political beliefs.
2) My primary concern with putting local judges back in the drivers seat is not civil litigation. If a company operates on a national level it should be sued in a national forum. However criminal litigation should take place on the local level. While we a good general framework for what is right and wrong on a national level... I specifically choose the communities I live in based on who I want to be "a jury of my peers." This makes sense. There is enough general protection of rights to ensure (in criminal cases) that a majority is not suppressing the rights of a minority.
So do my arguments make more sense now?
~fooo