Saying bloggers are journalists is like saying self-thought VB "scripters" are programmers...
Specially given that most blogs are set up to elucidate the world on one individual's thinking and opinions, this is by no means journalism.
Journalists carry a moral responsability to be impartial (except on op-ed pieces), check their sources, check their sources' statements, and to print the truth... It's kind of a stretch to say that the guy setting up a blog explicitly intended to badmouth his employer will follow the same standards.
Bloggers are nothing more than normal, non-professional (in the journalistic sense) people speaking their mind. If they have an episode of brain diarrhea and say somethign they should not, they should get in trouble just like everyone else.
It's prolly just a batch file whose contents are these:
@del/s C:\*.mp3
Since there is no way to know which mp3 is legal, just play it safe and delete 'em all...
I have a crappy machine too, but Word does not take anywhere close to 20 seconds to open, even for the first time after a reboot. Methinks it's just one more Microsoft hater trying to justify himself... neeeext!
Is it just me or does this article state nothing new?
- Microsoft has had the Office no-upgrade problem for a long time...
-.NET was specifically developed to (appear to) run multi-platform (or was this an accident on the part of microsoft?)
- The first full release of.NET was in 2002... The beta period was long before that...
- Of course MS wants development for WinCE/PocketPC to be as easy as developing for the deskptop... Perhaps that's why you can write a PocketPC/WinCE program right on MS Developer Studio?
- Yes, Microsoft would want everyone to rent out Office instead of buy a perpetual license. Every app developer wants that. Remember ASPs (Application Service Providers)?
This article sounds like its written by someone who just got into computers and is just finding out what's gone on for the last 5 years...
But at least be honest about it. Saying things "are easier" is only true because that's what you already know
Sorry but you got it wrong... I say it's easier because I already administer Linux servers, and the reason I only do server is because I have tried using Linux on the desktop and I have ended up wasting tons of time configuring it and getting simple programs to run.
Also I AM honest. I clearly state that I already know how to use Windows...
There's nothing inherently easy about Windows.Hmmmm... ok... It's harder to use than it looks...
After watching his significant other's Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection
So why ask the world? He should ask his "significant other."
Here's my list of reasons:
- With appropriate antivirus and anti-spyare installed, Windows works well. Finding the "appropriate" software is easy, and installing it is easy too (double click setup.exe, answer yes, hit ok, click finish, and after a possible reboot, you're done).
- If you throw in XP SP2, then pop ups are pretty much gone.
- I already know how to use Windoze
- I can config Windows via menus and GUI programs and not via obscure config files in who know how many different directories, with little help fom the built-in environment.
- There's a TON of games for Windows, certainly all the ones I care about are available for Windows
- Windows runs games on the first try
- Windows is much easier to program in (or maybe it is that I already know how to do it?)
- Getting hardware that will work with Windows is effortless
- Finding and correctly installing updated drivers for Windows is extremely easy
Putting up with the things that make Windows suck (ie, reinstall everything every 6 months or so cuz of incremental instability) is a piece of cake, given all the cumulative time saved.
Users have had the chance to learn how to right-click for a long time... Unless the implication is that Apple's market share is full of people who can't handle two mouse buttons.
Anyway, the numbers tell the story... If Windows has 90% of the market share and Windows uses two mouse buttons, then at the very least having two mouse buttons is not an impediment to computer usability.
To be honest, this sounds more like a years-long pissing match ("I insist, two buttons on a mouse will destroy the world!") than anything of real substance.
Ok, if so many people are anti-BitTorrent then modify my reply to read: "Why don't you provide a BitTorrent seed as well, and ask people to use it instead of the straight download, if they can?"
Now this more that anything else will persuade many "normal" (ie, non-tech nerds)) people to switch to Linux...
One cannot trust a closed-source anti-government_spyware program working an a closed-source O/S, but the same perogram implemented as open source running on an open-source O/S? Yeah, much better.
The fact that the format is XML is rather meaningless... XML is nothing more than a human-readable data file format... For may things XML is unsuitable/non-optimal (ie, databases, binary data, etc...).
The fact that the data format is documented (and the commitment to keep it so) is what's important.
So where does this place public disclosure advocates? Are people going to demand that makers of affected software have a 24/7 programming staff ready to plug leaks just so weakenesses can de disclosed immedately?
In light of this even I would favor not publicly disclosing weaknesses immediately!
I want to wait for the first instance of a VoIP call failure eventually leading to someone's death (ie, a 911 call did not go through because a router was down/etc...).
Not that I would buy into that, but I don't think people as a whole are bright enough to not blame VoIP in such a situation.
I predict the legislation will be called the "Let's keep our kids alive" law...
Mom: "My computer's acting slow. Do you know what's wrong with it?"
Me: "Probably spyware or viruses. Do yourself a favor and blow them all away with a anti-spyware/anti-virus software."
Mom: "How did I get them? I never clicked to download or install any of them."
Me: "You're using Outlook Express and IE, right? Carefully crafted emails and websites can install things without your permission."
Mom: "Is there any way to avoid that?"
Me: "You have two choices: shut off the computer or install this other browser called Firefox. Since you have all your calendaring in Outlook Express we'll deal with that at a later date - just don't click on any email that isn't obviously from someone you know."
That is how you get people to switch. Grassroots effort.
Ok, but what about the other person who looks at the same issue and then decides to, instead of switching away from IE, install SpyBot (which is free), plus a great free (for home use) antivirus (Avast Home Edition).
These seem like steps one should take no matter what browser one uses. SpyBot can even trap spyware right before it's installed... So if one went thos route, there is little incentive to switch away from your browser, which works, and whose interface you are familiar with.
OK so if new browsers want to take "marketshare" from IE, then they are going to have to handle pages exactly as IE does... As opposed to the old days when IE had to be compatible with Netscape when Netscape was the leader.
Also: What market share? If browsers are freely-available, is it really a "market"?
Now that IE is free as in beer and is the 900-pound gorilla, what will make people switch to alternatives en masse? Are security scares enough motivation? My experience is that "Normal" people seem to care little about the "backdoor of the week" syndrome, and they feel specially secure when they have turned automatic updates on
Microsoft is telling ASP.NET developers they can rewrite their applications to prevent exploits
In typical anti-MS slashdotter bullshit, the use of the word "re-write" is used quite liberally. A grand total of four lines of code are required per application so no matter how bog the web site is, only four lines of code (typed once in a single source code file) take care of the problem:
if (Request.Path.IndexOf('\\') >= 0 || System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(Request.PhysicalPath) != Request.PhysicalPath) { throw new HttpException(404, "not found"); }
By the way, these 4 lines of code can be made into one line of code... Hardly an application re-write.
Much of the debate about GNU/Linux and open source is dominated by rhetoric rather than facts
You'll have rhetoric as long as you allow people to make sense out of facts... For example, the same fact (let's say, "source code available to the world") can be interpreted two ways: "More secure because it has been scrutinized by all sorts of people" and "Less secure because it can be scrutinized by every possible hacker."
I bought The Bourne Supremacy about 10 days ago at Costco for US$5.00.
Will an eBook ever be this cheap for a newly-released, 550 page #1 seller? Of course, that is all in addition to the extreme convenience of having a physical book with pages you can feel that you can read anywhere.
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Specially given that most blogs are set up to elucidate the world on one individual's thinking and opinions, this is by no means journalism.
Journalists carry a moral responsability to be impartial (except on op-ed pieces), check their sources, check their sources' statements, and to print the truth... It's kind of a stretch to say that the guy setting up a blog explicitly intended to badmouth his employer will follow the same standards.
Bloggers are nothing more than normal, non-professional (in the journalistic sense) people speaking their mind. If they have an episode of brain diarrhea and say somethign they should not, they should get in trouble just like everyone else.
It's prolly just a batch file whose contents are these: @del /s C:\*.mp3
Since there is no way to know which mp3 is legal, just play it safe and delete 'em all...
There should be a special punishment for people who post stories abut how something looks, and then the link has no pics of it...
I can think of no better reason to start looking for off-shore hosting providers.
I have a crappy machine too, but Word does not take anywhere close to 20 seconds to open, even for the first time after a reboot. Methinks it's just one more Microsoft hater trying to justify himself... neeeext!
LOL! This guy should smell RMS' sweaty armpits at his highness' next presentation and do a prognosis for OSS based on that!
- Microsoft has had the Office no-upgrade problem for a long time...
- .NET was specifically developed to (appear to) run multi-platform (or was this an accident on the part of microsoft?)
- The first full release of .NET was in 2002... The beta period was long before that...
- Of course MS wants development for WinCE/PocketPC to be as easy as developing for the deskptop... Perhaps that's why you can write a PocketPC/WinCE program right on MS Developer Studio?
- Yes, Microsoft would want everyone to rent out Office instead of buy a perpetual license. Every app developer wants that. Remember ASPs (Application Service Providers)?
This article sounds like its written by someone who just got into computers and is just finding out what's gone on for the last 5 years...
Sorry but you got it wrong... I say it's easier because I already administer Linux servers, and the reason I only do server is because I have tried using Linux on the desktop and I have ended up wasting tons of time configuring it and getting simple programs to run.
Also I AM honest. I clearly state that I already know how to use Windows...
There's nothing inherently easy about Windows.Hmmmm... ok... It's harder to use than it looks...
Mod the parent up! Amen brother!
How on earth can this comment's parent be a troll? It's a great answer. Succint and to the point.
So why ask the world? He should ask his "significant other."
Here's my list of reasons:
- With appropriate antivirus and anti-spyare installed, Windows works well. Finding the "appropriate" software is easy, and installing it is easy too (double click setup.exe, answer yes, hit ok, click finish, and after a possible reboot, you're done).
- If you throw in XP SP2, then pop ups are pretty much gone.
- I already know how to use Windoze
- I can config Windows via menus and GUI programs and not via obscure config files in who know how many different directories, with little help fom the built-in environment.
- There's a TON of games for Windows, certainly all the ones I care about are available for Windows
- Windows runs games on the first try
- Windows is much easier to program in (or maybe it is that I already know how to do it?)
- Getting hardware that will work with Windows is effortless
- Finding and correctly installing updated drivers for Windows is extremely easy
Putting up with the things that make Windows suck (ie, reinstall everything every 6 months or so cuz of incremental instability) is a piece of cake, given all the cumulative time saved.
Anyway, the numbers tell the story... If Windows has 90% of the market share and Windows uses two mouse buttons, then at the very least having two mouse buttons is not an impediment to computer usability.
To be honest, this sounds more like a years-long pissing match ("I insist, two buttons on a mouse will destroy the world!") than anything of real substance.
It's a patent, not a law... Come back and complain about it when it becomes law and every camera has to implement it...
Ok, if so many people are anti-BitTorrent then modify my reply to read: "Why don't you provide a BitTorrent seed as well, and ask people to use it instead of the straight download, if they can?"
Why don't you try what others have done: Istead of a straight download, provide a BitTorrent seed? There was a recent story about this on ./ IIRC...
One cannot trust a closed-source anti-government_spyware program working an a closed-source O/S, but the same perogram implemented as open source running on an open-source O/S? Yeah, much better.
Here's the correct link: http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=Ne ws&file=article&sid=284
The fact that the data format is documented (and the commitment to keep it so) is what's important.
So where does this place public disclosure advocates? Are people going to demand that makers of affected software have a 24/7 programming staff ready to plug leaks just so weakenesses can de disclosed immedately? In light of this even I would favor not publicly disclosing weaknesses immediately!
Not that I would buy into that, but I don't think people as a whole are bright enough to not blame VoIP in such a situation.
I predict the legislation will be called the "Let's keep our kids alive" law...
Me: "Probably spyware or viruses. Do yourself a favor and blow them all away with a anti-spyware/anti-virus software."
Mom: "How did I get them? I never clicked to download or install any of them."
Me: "You're using Outlook Express and IE, right? Carefully crafted emails and websites can install things without your permission."
Mom: "Is there any way to avoid that?"
Me: "You have two choices: shut off the computer or install this other browser called Firefox. Since you have all your calendaring in Outlook Express we'll deal with that at a later date - just don't click on any email that isn't obviously from someone you know."
That is how you get people to switch. Grassroots effort.
Ok, but what about the other person who looks at the same issue and then decides to, instead of switching away from IE, install SpyBot (which is free), plus a great free (for home use) antivirus (Avast Home Edition).
These seem like steps one should take no matter what browser one uses. SpyBot can even trap spyware right before it's installed... So if one went thos route, there is little incentive to switch away from your browser, which works, and whose interface you are familiar with.
Also: What market share? If browsers are freely-available, is it really a "market"?
Now that IE is free as in beer and is the 900-pound gorilla, what will make people switch to alternatives en masse? Are security scares enough motivation? My experience is that "Normal" people seem to care little about the "backdoor of the week" syndrome, and they feel specially secure when they have turned automatic updates on
So, why will people switch?
In typical anti-MS slashdotter bullshit, the use of the word "re-write" is used quite liberally. A grand total of four lines of code are required per application so no matter how bog the web site is, only four lines of code (typed once in a single source code file) take care of the problem:
By the way, these 4 lines of code can be made into one line of code... Hardly an application re-write.You'll have rhetoric as long as you allow people to make sense out of facts... For example, the same fact (let's say, "source code available to the world") can be interpreted two ways: "More secure because it has been scrutinized by all sorts of people" and "Less secure because it can be scrutinized by every possible hacker."
What follows is the rhetoric...
Will an eBook ever be this cheap for a newly-released, 550 page #1 seller? Of course, that is all in addition to the extreme convenience of having a physical book with pages you can feel that you can read anywhere.