I had a friend who couldn't return her powerbook after 12 days because, despite clear proof on the Apple Store homepage, the customer service reps claimed shipping time was included in the 14 day evaluation period. Slimy. Needlessly so. Guess what? She hates Apple with a passion now, and tells everyone who will listen about how they're a bunch of crooks and liars. She's right.
The dealers are on your side with this. The most recent class action lawsuit against Apple by its official dealers includes the "warrenty starts as soon as it leaves Apple" crap, which has made many dealers look bad and lose customers (if it takes 10 days to get to the store, and another 20 days for it to sell, that's 30 days off the advertised warrenty period)
Depends what kind of office you have. If you're spending most of your time in a word processor, doing documents that need to look a specific way, then Microsoft Office is not going to work well (i.e. the law industry is almost exclusively WordPerfect, because Word just isn't up to the task).
On the other hand, if you are running an office that works with a lot of numbers (as do most "offices" that act as the pencil pushing arm of a company that does something else), you'll need a spreadsheet program, and nothing currently beats Excel (with the exception of a few scientific setups).
So in general: If your office is your business, Office is probably not for you. If your office is what supports/manages your business, Office is probably just what you need.
Mod parent up. IBM has always been a service company. The hardware and software they sell is/was nothing but a vehicle for expensive long term service contracts. While they made a profit on that server they sold you, the real bread and butter was that extended warrenty they convinced you to add on. It's the main reason IBM never liked the home PC market, you just couldn't take customers out to play a round of golf while getting them to sign up for a bunch of service plans. Instead customers bought the hardware and went home, and those that actually used IBM's support expected to get it for free (the utter irony being that because their PC project was literally put down in the basement it resulted in an off the shelf design anyone could copy, leading the "IBM PC" to become the industry leader).
Correction - they cry about how evil OSS when applied to a commercial environment (i.e. "viral" licences, putting developers out of work, making support and ultimate responsiblity in limbo). In this case they don't seem to consider their police assisting child porn buster as being in the commercial realm - instead it's more along the line of some of their developer tools that are used to indirectly strengthen their platform. In this case they are trying to strengthen the Microsoft name brand among worldwide law enforcement. Since the software in question doesn't reveal the inner workings of their other software, and doesn't give up any competitive secrets, there is no need to keep it closed source.
While I can't speak for JSP (seen it do nice things, never worked with it), ASP.NET will, by default, filter HTML inserted by users (you can turn it off with a simple option in the page header). PHP could easily do it at some future date (it already can do it with single quotes), even though the developers would likely flip the install default setting between versions just for kicks.
So what?!?! Isn't the MAIN thing you want to see upon sending a bid to a business or government wether or not your business got the contract??? So what, you did the hard work, you submitted a quote, and now someone tells you you can find out if it paid off or not, hell yea i would look to see if i was accepted. wouldn't you?!?!?!
Nothing exists until Apple makes it. Obviously the small, cheap flash based player market didn't exist until the Apple Shuffle. Since the Shuffle didn't have it, any kind of display is a "new" feature. Same goes for an FM tuner.
With the iPod it's almost understandable how the Mac faithful believe all harddrive based players revolve around the iPod (while being years late, it did introduce harddrive players to a more friendly form factor).
With shuffle there is no excuse other then pure cult thinking. Thumbdrive mp3 players have existed for years, and cover all areas of the market (from ultra cheap with very limited features like the what the Shuffle copied, all the way up to full display with all kinds of extras like recording and tuners).
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Can someone please forward this to the good old folks at Mozilla. The written QA requirements (on Mozilla) are so cursory that whole features have dropped off the map simply because nobody bothered to check to see if they still worked (i.e. in 1.4 multiobject drag and drop stopped working). Might also help the parsing engine, which continues to have kruft from the Netscape days (like how is interpretted as instead of as a single broken tag to be ignored [and you can use any tags you want, the second one can even contain parameters, allowing you to really annoy people by adding extra HTML that only works in Firefox/Mozilla, not IE/Opera]). Though really as Slashdot has reported before, Mozilla could really use a more robust and systematically tested parser just to avoid potential buffer overrun exploits.
Bottom line: OSS could get way ahead of commercial software simply by doing proper QA and unit testing (not just the UNIX "it seems to work" test, the "are out of range inputs properly detected or does the program just choke and die") on par with what the best commercial developers have been doing. Just because you have to do all this paperwork and repetive checking when working for "The Man", doesn't mean it's an evil thing that should be thrown out. Sometimes the man actually has some good ideas, even if he spends most of his time shouting about how you didn't dot your i s on that last flowchart.
Because Linux is a kernel, with no real knowledge or direct interaction with outside (remote) sources, while Windows is a kernel plus a GUI plus a ton of other services. Remote exploits aren't found in the Windows kernel, they're found in the application/service part of Windows, on the Linux side these buggy, infinitely exploitable services are given individual names like "sendmail" and "bind".
Good start. The main issues are that "1337", and "monopoly" may be confusing to your average consumer (they'll have no idea what "1337" is, and will be confused about why you are comparing your product to a board game)
A fundemental rule of marketing is that your commercials should be understandable by your entire demographic (sometimes ad campaigns will use "inside jokes" if the demographic they are targeting is tight enough, but it's still risky). By using special words or concepts only known or believed by a small number of people will mean you risk (or nearly guarantee) having your commercial coming across to your audiance like The Architect from The Matrix trying to sell them car insurance -..concordantly the 5% saved through a 2 driver plan inexorably causes a diminution of the overall non-fault accident premiums. Ergo those signing up before January 1st will...
Comparing your product to a specific competitor in a commercial suggests to the viewer that you are either neck and neck or more frequently that you're in the #2 position. If you are the actual market leader, or you want to be the leader, you *don't* want to send that kind of message. Negatively advertising about your competitor (talking about why their product is bad, rather then why yours is good) is bad no matter what position in the market you're in. Instead of saying you're the underdog but people should try you out, you're saying your competitor is bad, so you're all that's left. People aren't interested in leftovers and those winning by default. If Firefox wants to successfully advertise, it should be talking about "faster browsing" without actually mentioning what it is being compared to, let alone naming Microsoft or IE.
And that boys and girls is why the basement dwelling me too fanatics who crowd around OSS are doing far more harm to OSS adoption then good. No business is going to suddenly switch to open source as long as "OMG M$ IS TEH SUX0RS!!!!!!!" is the message crowding out any intelligent and level headed promotion of true technical and cost superiority.
Less then 5 hours is "not too shabby"?
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And with one of the features turned off too. PSP (like NDS and GBA SP) uses an internal rechargable battery. That means you can't replace the battery when it gets low, you need a power outlet and time to recharge. The old Gameboy (Pocket) offered about 8-9 on replacable AAAs. Gameboy Advance was near 14 hours (or about 9-10 using the rechargable battery pack).
Didn't anyone (at Sony) learn anything from Gamegear vs Gameboy? It didn't matter if your system was a monochrome sub-NES powered unit with a bezel speaker, it could still beat a full color portable that didn't give a full days use out of a charge. I'd say mistake #1 was even considering optical (mechanically read) media. Unless the whole dual screen/touch screen gamble flops, PSP will be going the same way as the Gamegear, in exactly the same way (large, high powered but battery killing unit that is mostly filled with ports from its larger brother)
Then why not use PostgreSQL? For companies it's cheaper (MySQL licence for commercial use is almost as much as the basic Windows 2003 Server Licence), and for open source lovers it's even more free.
And that of course ignores the fact that it's also technically superior - faster, proper data integrity, and real SQL (sorry, but for an SQL programmer, the kiddie pool syntax available in MySQL is The show stopper)
MySQL is the very thing open source is supposed to be against - software being used just because everyone else is using it, without regard for if it actually has any merit. MySQL is the Windows of the database world.
What is this with Apple releasing products with documentation verging on leaflet size (i.e. the original iMac "manual"). Just how much money does Jobs get from all the "missing manual" publications?
A lot of sub notebooks, which are designed for travel (i.e. Sony VAIOs, ASUS M5000 and S5000, some Fujitsus) have reasonable battery life, but also have the option of using higher capacity batteries without increasing the overall weight or size beyond an ordinary (usually they remain much less). These larger batteries boost the life of the laptop into the 8-12 hour range (or even more if you look at those powered by Crusoe or other exotic power savers).
But I don't get people like you, who all but say that everyone should just give up and move back to IE because Firefox has vulnerabilities.
When did I say people should go back to IE? It sounds like you trying to draw me as rooting for IE just so you have a straw man to burn down. What I pointed out is that the times are changing, and if Mozilla doesn't change with them, it will end up just like IE. Apache has been able to work as a mainstream piece of software, so has Linux itself. Mozilla just needs to realize that secret vulnerability lists (even of fixed vulnerabilities) won't work well for much longer. Security through obscurity doesn't work.
Alternative browsers have fewer and less serious vulnerabilities, and they are not exploited as often.
Can you actually back that up, or are you just making a blanket statement based on a zealots "alternative" viewpoint. A bank with a vault made of cardboard may have a better security record then a bank whose vault is made of steel, but that's only because the cardboard bank has less then $10 stored there. I suggest you actually read the admitted vulnerability list (I admit it's nested as deeply as possible on Mozilla homepage, but Google should be able to help you). While I won't make a blanket statement like yours, when you look at the facts, Mozilla does seem to be at least a healthy competitor for IE, the only difference is that Mozilla never bothered to tell you that another near monthly arbitrary code vulnerability had been patched. They simply let you browse in ignorence chanting how Mozilla is open source, there force it must be secure. That is what Mozilla needs to change if they want to succeed on the big stage.
You should really read the Mozilla vuln. list. While they only allow things that have been reported, *already fixed*, and *gone for 2 versions already*, it does provide a pretty scare look at Mozilla's "security", or lack there of. While I will be the first to admit this model of secrecy has worked in the past, it doesn't look like it will in the future. First, a lot of people are moving to Mozilla and Firefox, making it a viable target (I've already seen several instances xpi spyware/trojans ["please install me to make your clock run accurately"] being used in place of traditional ActiveX), and second, security reporting has been changing.
In the past Mozilla security bugs where reported directly to Mozilla, where they could be kept secret as long as it took Mozilla to fix them - I've only seen a few rare cases of someone actually taking their grievances about Mozilla's slow bug fixing public (like the 1 line Javascript exploit for taking down every Mozilla window and tab at once, which took a year to fix, finally being done when the vulnerability was reposted to a public board, which prompted it to be fixed silently shortly after 1.7 came out). With Mozilla and Firefox "mainstream" browsers now, real security experts are starting to look at them, and they don't play Mozilla's game. They want credit for their discovery, so they don't want to have it shuffled under the rug while Mozilla pretends it never existed. This means publicly announcing exploits, which not only forces Mozilla to radically change how quickly they respond to security bugs, but also forces them to publicly inform users that they should upgrade to the latest build (before of course they just kept fixes secret and let everyone who doesn't download a 12MB build everyday browse with arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, since saving their own face was more important).
The fact that Mozilla vulnerabilities are going to start getting announced within days or hours of them being patched means you're going to start getting exactly what you get in IE - hackers take the bug, make a working exploit, and deploy it a week or month later against the 90% of people who didn't download Mozilla's daily bugfix (perhaps a bigger problem then IE, since Mozilla demands you download the whole 12MB thing, instead of just a little 100KB patch file). Remember Blaster - easy, 56k friendly made available more then a month before it hit. Now try "easy, 12MB patch made available on a weekly basis" and see how few people are keeping ahead of the hackers.
Author seems to live in a vacuum
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On PHP and Scaling
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The only real argument I could really find was "Java doesn't do X well, therefore PHP must be great". The author seems to live in a universe with only two choices, his straw man Java, and his favorite web language, PHP. When he does try and argue PHP's merits on its own, it seems to collapse into a PHP is good because its good argument. I don't see any part of the article addressing how PHP can benefit the developer facing real issues of large scale web development (such as the need for caching systems on high volume websites, or the maintence challenge of larger code bases on complex sites). While good arguments may exist for PHP, they just don't seem to be here.
Turn on your firewall. There is no reason you need to have Terminal Services *and* MS SQL ports open at the same time. Finish updating, then open the port.
Andromeda canceled after 4 seasons? I thought they canceled it after 2 seasons and replaced it with the "Kevin Sorbo 'acts' out a script written by a 3 year old hour".
Season 1 was an ok Sci-fi show. Season 2 was bumpy but watchable. Season 3 Sorbo fired his good writer for writing episodes too complex for Hercules to follow. This resulted in the first time I have ever stopped watching a Sci-fi show mid episode because it was such total trash.
Jobs cuts to R&D and basic refusal to beta test stuff (both software and hardware) seems to be leading to this extreme failure rate. Buying an iBook (and even a Powerbook) seems more like a lottery of how many time you'll need to ship it across the country for repairs then a sound investment these days. Downloading updates from Apple the day they come out is just asking for your harddrive/partition to be deleted/corrupted (i.e. iTunes update, Panther update) or have half your systems components stop working.
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Ever use a Palm (outside of the low end Zire models) in the last 2-3 years?
I had a friend who couldn't return her powerbook after 12 days because, despite clear proof on the Apple Store homepage, the customer service reps claimed shipping time was included in the 14 day evaluation period. Slimy. Needlessly so. Guess what? She hates Apple with a passion now, and tells everyone who will listen about how they're a bunch of crooks and liars. She's right. The dealers are on your side with this. The most recent class action lawsuit against Apple by its official dealers includes the "warrenty starts as soon as it leaves Apple" crap, which has made many dealers look bad and lose customers (if it takes 10 days to get to the store, and another 20 days for it to sell, that's 30 days off the advertised warrenty period)
Depends what kind of office you have. If you're spending most of your time in a word processor, doing documents that need to look a specific way, then Microsoft Office is not going to work well (i.e. the law industry is almost exclusively WordPerfect, because Word just isn't up to the task).
On the other hand, if you are running an office that works with a lot of numbers (as do most "offices" that act as the pencil pushing arm of a company that does something else), you'll need a spreadsheet program, and nothing currently beats Excel (with the exception of a few scientific setups).
So in general: If your office is your business, Office is probably not for you. If your office is what supports/manages your business, Office is probably just what you need.
Mod parent up. IBM has always been a service company. The hardware and software they sell is/was nothing but a vehicle for expensive long term service contracts. While they made a profit on that server they sold you, the real bread and butter was that extended warrenty they convinced you to add on. It's the main reason IBM never liked the home PC market, you just couldn't take customers out to play a round of golf while getting them to sign up for a bunch of service plans. Instead customers bought the hardware and went home, and those that actually used IBM's support expected to get it for free (the utter irony being that because their PC project was literally put down in the basement it resulted in an off the shelf design anyone could copy, leading the "IBM PC" to become the industry leader).
Correction - they cry about how evil OSS when applied to a commercial environment (i.e. "viral" licences, putting developers out of work, making support and ultimate responsiblity in limbo). In this case they don't seem to consider their police assisting child porn buster as being in the commercial realm - instead it's more along the line of some of their developer tools that are used to indirectly strengthen their platform. In this case they are trying to strengthen the Microsoft name brand among worldwide law enforcement. Since the software in question doesn't reveal the inner workings of their other software, and doesn't give up any competitive secrets, there is no need to keep it closed source.
While I can't speak for JSP (seen it do nice things, never worked with it), ASP.NET will, by default, filter HTML inserted by users (you can turn it off with a simple option in the page header). PHP could easily do it at some future date (it already can do it with single quotes), even though the developers would likely flip the install default setting between versions just for kicks.
So what?!?! Isn't the MAIN thing you want to see upon sending a bid to a business or government wether or not your business got the contract??? So what, you did the hard work, you submitted a quote, and now someone tells you you can find out if it paid off or not, hell yea i would look to see if i was accepted. wouldn't you?!?!?!
Telix, after graduating
Nothing exists until Apple makes it. Obviously the small, cheap flash based player market didn't exist until the Apple Shuffle. Since the Shuffle didn't have it, any kind of display is a "new" feature. Same goes for an FM tuner.
With the iPod it's almost understandable how the Mac faithful believe all harddrive based players revolve around the iPod (while being years late, it did introduce harddrive players to a more friendly form factor).
With shuffle there is no excuse other then pure cult thinking. Thumbdrive mp3 players have existed for years, and cover all areas of the market (from ultra cheap with very limited features like the what the Shuffle copied, all the way up to full display with all kinds of extras like recording and tuners).
Can someone please forward this to the good old folks at Mozilla. The written QA requirements (on Mozilla) are so cursory that whole features have dropped off the map simply because nobody bothered to check to see if they still worked (i.e. in 1.4 multiobject drag and drop stopped working). Might also help the parsing engine, which continues to have kruft from the Netscape days (like how is interpretted as instead of as a single broken tag to be ignored [and you can use any tags you want, the second one can even contain parameters, allowing you to really annoy people by adding extra HTML that only works in Firefox/Mozilla, not IE/Opera]). Though really as Slashdot has reported before, Mozilla could really use a more robust and systematically tested parser just to avoid potential buffer overrun exploits.
Bottom line: OSS could get way ahead of commercial software simply by doing proper QA and unit testing (not just the UNIX "it seems to work" test, the "are out of range inputs properly detected or does the program just choke and die") on par with what the best commercial developers have been doing. Just because you have to do all this paperwork and repetive checking when working for "The Man", doesn't mean it's an evil thing that should be thrown out. Sometimes the man actually has some good ideas, even if he spends most of his time shouting about how you didn't dot your i s on that last flowchart.
In the last month alone the software patent bastards also gained patents on:
Network drives and folder mapping
The Photo Album Software that came with your digital camera
The clickable progressbar found in all video and music playing software
The "recent" menu
Because Linux is a kernel, with no real knowledge or direct interaction with outside (remote) sources, while Windows is a kernel plus a GUI plus a ton of other services. Remote exploits aren't found in the Windows kernel, they're found in the application/service part of Windows, on the Linux side these buggy, infinitely exploitable services are given individual names like "sendmail" and "bind".
Good start. The main issues are that "1337", and "monopoly" may be confusing to your average consumer (they'll have no idea what "1337" is, and will be confused about why you are comparing your product to a board game)
..concordantly the 5% saved through a 2 driver plan inexorably causes a diminution of the overall non-fault accident premiums. Ergo those signing up before January 1st will...
A fundemental rule of marketing is that your commercials should be understandable by your entire demographic (sometimes ad campaigns will use "inside jokes" if the demographic they are targeting is tight enough, but it's still risky). By using special words or concepts only known or believed by a small number of people will mean you risk (or nearly guarantee) having your commercial coming across to your audiance like The Architect from The Matrix trying to sell them car insurance -
Comparing your product to a specific competitor in a commercial suggests to the viewer that you are either neck and neck or more frequently that you're in the #2 position. If you are the actual market leader, or you want to be the leader, you *don't* want to send that kind of message.
Negatively advertising about your competitor (talking about why their product is bad, rather then why yours is good) is bad no matter what position in the market you're in. Instead of saying you're the underdog but people should try you out, you're saying your competitor is bad, so you're all that's left. People aren't interested in leftovers and those winning by default. If Firefox wants to successfully advertise, it should be talking about "faster browsing" without actually mentioning what it is being compared to, let alone naming Microsoft or IE.
And that boys and girls is why the basement dwelling me too fanatics who crowd around OSS are doing far more harm to OSS adoption then good. No business is going to suddenly switch to open source as long as "OMG M$ IS TEH SUX0RS!!!!!!!" is the message crowding out any intelligent and level headed promotion of true technical and cost superiority.
And with one of the features turned off too.
PSP (like NDS and GBA SP) uses an internal rechargable battery. That means you can't replace the battery when it gets low, you need a power outlet and time to recharge. The old Gameboy (Pocket) offered about 8-9 on replacable AAAs. Gameboy Advance was near 14 hours (or about 9-10 using the rechargable battery pack).
Didn't anyone (at Sony) learn anything from Gamegear vs Gameboy? It didn't matter if your system was a monochrome sub-NES powered unit with a bezel speaker, it could still beat a full color portable that didn't give a full days use out of a charge. I'd say mistake #1 was even considering optical (mechanically read) media. Unless the whole dual screen/touch screen gamble flops, PSP will be going the same way as the Gamegear, in exactly the same way (large, high powered but battery killing unit that is mostly filled with ports from its larger brother)
Then why not use PostgreSQL? For companies it's cheaper (MySQL licence for commercial use is almost as much as the basic Windows 2003 Server Licence), and for open source lovers it's even more free.
And that of course ignores the fact that it's also technically superior - faster, proper data integrity, and real SQL (sorry, but for an SQL programmer, the kiddie pool syntax available in MySQL is The show stopper)
MySQL is the very thing open source is supposed to be against - software being used just because everyone else is using it, without regard for if it actually has any merit. MySQL is the Windows of the database world.
You only need a 128 page book to teach you how.
What is this with Apple releasing products with documentation verging on leaflet size (i.e. the original iMac "manual"). Just how much money does Jobs get from all the "missing manual" publications?
Jurys expecting the physical evidence to match up with false testimony and coerced confessions...just imagine the horror.
A lot of sub notebooks, which are designed for travel (i.e. Sony VAIOs, ASUS M5000 and S5000, some Fujitsus) have reasonable battery life, but also have the option of using higher capacity batteries without increasing the overall weight or size beyond an ordinary (usually they remain much less). These larger batteries boost the life of the laptop into the 8-12 hour range (or even more if you look at those powered by Crusoe or other exotic power savers).
But I don't get people like you, who all but say that everyone should just give up and move back to IE because Firefox has vulnerabilities.
When did I say people should go back to IE? It sounds like you trying to draw me as rooting for IE just so you have a straw man to burn down. What I pointed out is that the times are changing, and if Mozilla doesn't change with them, it will end up just like IE. Apache has been able to work as a mainstream piece of software, so has Linux itself. Mozilla just needs to realize that secret vulnerability lists (even of fixed vulnerabilities) won't work well for much longer. Security through obscurity doesn't work.
Alternative browsers have fewer and less serious vulnerabilities, and they are not exploited as often.
Can you actually back that up, or are you just making a blanket statement based on a zealots "alternative" viewpoint. A bank with a vault made of cardboard may have a better security record then a bank whose vault is made of steel, but that's only because the cardboard bank has less then $10 stored there. I suggest you actually read the admitted vulnerability list (I admit it's nested as deeply as possible on Mozilla homepage, but Google should be able to help you). While I won't make a blanket statement like yours, when you look at the facts, Mozilla does seem to be at least a healthy competitor for IE, the only difference is that Mozilla never bothered to tell you that another near monthly arbitrary code vulnerability had been patched. They simply let you browse in ignorence chanting how Mozilla is open source, there force it must be secure. That is what Mozilla needs to change if they want to succeed on the big stage.
You should really read the Mozilla vuln. list. While they only allow things that have been reported, *already fixed*, and *gone for 2 versions already*, it does provide a pretty scare look at Mozilla's "security", or lack there of. While I will be the first to admit this model of secrecy has worked in the past, it doesn't look like it will in the future. First, a lot of people are moving to Mozilla and Firefox, making it a viable target (I've already seen several instances xpi spyware/trojans ["please install me to make your clock run accurately"] being used in place of traditional ActiveX), and second, security reporting has been changing. In the past Mozilla security bugs where reported directly to Mozilla, where they could be kept secret as long as it took Mozilla to fix them - I've only seen a few rare cases of someone actually taking their grievances about Mozilla's slow bug fixing public (like the 1 line Javascript exploit for taking down every Mozilla window and tab at once, which took a year to fix, finally being done when the vulnerability was reposted to a public board, which prompted it to be fixed silently shortly after 1.7 came out). With Mozilla and Firefox "mainstream" browsers now, real security experts are starting to look at them, and they don't play Mozilla's game. They want credit for their discovery, so they don't want to have it shuffled under the rug while Mozilla pretends it never existed. This means publicly announcing exploits, which not only forces Mozilla to radically change how quickly they respond to security bugs, but also forces them to publicly inform users that they should upgrade to the latest build (before of course they just kept fixes secret and let everyone who doesn't download a 12MB build everyday browse with arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, since saving their own face was more important). The fact that Mozilla vulnerabilities are going to start getting announced within days or hours of them being patched means you're going to start getting exactly what you get in IE - hackers take the bug, make a working exploit, and deploy it a week or month later against the 90% of people who didn't download Mozilla's daily bugfix (perhaps a bigger problem then IE, since Mozilla demands you download the whole 12MB thing, instead of just a little 100KB patch file). Remember Blaster - easy, 56k friendly made available more then a month before it hit. Now try "easy, 12MB patch made available on a weekly basis" and see how few people are keeping ahead of the hackers.
The only real argument I could really find was "Java doesn't do X well, therefore PHP must be great". The author seems to live in a universe with only two choices, his straw man Java, and his favorite web language, PHP. When he does try and argue PHP's merits on its own, it seems to collapse into a PHP is good because its good argument. I don't see any part of the article addressing how PHP can benefit the developer facing real issues of large scale web development (such as the need for caching systems on high volume websites, or the maintence challenge of larger code bases on complex sites). While good arguments may exist for PHP, they just don't seem to be here.
Turn on your firewall. There is no reason you need to have Terminal Services *and* MS SQL ports open at the same time. Finish updating, then open the port.
Andromeda canceled after 4 seasons? I thought they canceled it after 2 seasons and replaced it with the "Kevin Sorbo 'acts' out a script written by a 3 year old hour".
Season 1 was an ok Sci-fi show. Season 2 was bumpy but watchable. Season 3 Sorbo fired his good writer for writing episodes too complex for Hercules to follow. This resulted in the first time I have ever stopped watching a Sci-fi show mid episode because it was such total trash.
What is that big "sideways capital I" shaped bulge on the top of the unit? Some sort of sound damping layer so you can't hear any clicks?
Jobs cuts to R&D and basic refusal to beta test stuff (both software and hardware) seems to be leading to this extreme failure rate. Buying an iBook (and even a Powerbook) seems more like a lottery of how many time you'll need to ship it across the country for repairs then a sound investment these days. Downloading updates from Apple the day they come out is just asking for your harddrive/partition to be deleted/corrupted (i.e. iTunes update, Panther update) or have half your systems components stop working.