I find it interesting when people defend monopolies. Microsoft has strong-armed, manipulated and bullied companies and people. They have copied, johnny-come-lately'd and assimulated. They have threatened and smiled, obfuscated and inveigeled and practically capitalized upon the home computer phenomena since their beginnings much to the incredulousness of their contemporaries. They are most like United Oil and Gates most like Rockefeller its owner who, at his height, was worth 1/42 of the gross national product of the United States of America. Yet, you could find some snippet argument such as you make here to justify a narrowed point into the ethics of dealing with this company.
There are people with computers who can't pay their electric bills during this heat wave or even buy milk and groceries so their kids will have nutritious meals, or they're bouncing checks to do so and they're not sure how to make their next housing payment -- yes, they have home computers with "pirated" copies of XP (who came up with that term I wonder?). Should these people fork out their kid's next doctor's visit payment in order for this monstrosity of a company to get just a little bigger?
As Rockefeller said late in life when asked how much money he needed, he replied, "just a little more...."
When you're making their argument for them, they've won....
Russians take shit too far. Roulette is fun and all, but no, those russians had to take it one step further. How do you come up with a game like that anyways? Whatever they do, they do it with intensity. Who was in space first? I rest my case. -Mitch Hedberg
They won't let you have drinks back there. I like a Jack & Coke. One time, I saw a Jack & Coke and it had a lime floating in it, and I thought "That's good to know." Next time I'm on a boat and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime... I'll be water skiing without a life jacket and people will be like "What the hell?" and I'll pull out a lime. I'll pull out a lemon too, saved by the buoyancy of citrus! -Mitch Hedberg
I went to a restaurant and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress heard me 'cause she asked how I'd like my eggs. So I tried answering her anyways. "INCUBATED! Then hatched, then raised, then beheaded, then plucked, then cut up, then put onto a grill, then put onto a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have the time. Scrambled! -Mitch Hedberg
I am of the firm belief -- having a boss myself and then people under me that I delegate to -- that if someone produces the work I've requested in a timely manner, and that if I in turn produce for my boss, then I really don't care what else that person might be doing during the day. The best work environment is one where there is trust -- as in any human relationship. Whenever a marriage or a work place turns into one of distrust, where one is held accountable for all minutes and hours of the day -- where you were, what you were doing -- then the relationship simply isn't worth keeping. Give people tasks, give them a deadline, and then leave them alone. Take away the web and they'll do crossword puzzles, or do their nails or talk on their cell phones. If nothing else, they'll sit and stare. Someone who will not complete tasks will not complete tasks with or without the Internet. As a matter of fact, that same Internet just might help them do their job....
Where are the charges against the company who designed such a flawed operating system that would allow this exploit? NASA is investigated and while it is true that human life deserves the utmost attention, where is the committee examining why one single company and its OS have been responsible for such global meltdowns?
It is a crime to intentionally create malware causing harm to a system that was negligently and intentionally designed to be exploitable. This whole thing simply seems like another example of "the man" having power to be right and the little guy having nothing in response....
We vacationed every summer in FL. It was always part of the trip to visit Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy). I have fond memories of it. Hot faced from too much sun, beach clothes and sandals, and seeing those incredible rockets towering into the sky as my dad drove us onto the compound. Little did I know of the history, for I was born in 1968 and at the time was a child. My dad was really into it and took all the time to explain the details of the thing. To me, he was everything, and so was my country. He bought me a Space Shuttle model, and I remember clearly the towering building wherein it all was assembled -- labeled with our nation's flag. I remember the juggernaut machine that traveled at one or two miles an hour which moved the rockets into place. I remember the launch pad, the museum displaying the Apollo crafts and astronaut suits. My dad took lots of pictures. He taught me to believe in our country and in its projects. There was so much pride in me then. I was proud of my dad, our country, our achievements.
My dad is gone now, and I'm not sure what he would think about things now. I think he would be sad. We have angered countries, lost landmarks and shuttles have fallen. I would not want him to know these things, and I bear them now in his memory, but maybe, just maybe, we can regain our standing as a nation and in space....
Each neuron is like a tiny, slow analog DSP, feeding back FM around a base frequency (eg. about 40Hz in the brain's neural tract). The neurons have feedback among themselves locally, and send out some larger feedback in fiber bundles, signalling other clusters along the way. It's like a teeming kazoo symphony, without a conductor.
I like this analogy better: each neuron is like Gallagher, smashing watermelons with a big hammer. The audience has feedback among itself locally, and as the watermelon pieces are sent out, they laugh causing other people to laugh, but the people up front have tarps and umbrellas and do not get as sticky. People further back do not, but still think its funny. It's like a bunch of 30-somethings who need more alcohol and jackass in their life....
I'm not sure Christ made any claim -- others claimed to have seen him do these things. "Dubious" is neither proven nor disproven since, now, we cannot prove anything.
Your second point is entropic. The logic set is the same as: "dogs bite/I have a dog/he will bite" when the truth is he might just as well not bite. It's equivalent to stating since something can happen it will always happen, and that's murphian negativism and nothing more....
We have pretty good evidence that the concept of "Jedi" was fairly recently created by a man named George Lucas. Anything is possible, but I doubt there is really a Jedi religion alive and well in a galaxy far, far away. Even if there is (spare me alternate universe discussions) I think chances are even much smaller that that religion made it here. More likely, this fellow is responding to popular films -- ya think?
Christianity, on the other hand, cannot be, necessarily, linked to a popular theatrical play or cultural, entertainment phenomenon of its day. Sure, there are those arguments which tie it to the Egyptian Phoenix myth (later made known by Alexander the Great who attempted to apply it to himself), et al., but none of this is proven either. As a matter of fact, there is more evidence that this concept of dying/rising god is represented in all major civilization centers in the world. Baldur, Mythra, Phoenix, etc. These seemingly unconnected cultures all came up with the same concept -- a god dying and rising. No historian or literary scholar has yet proven how this is so -- maybe they will. Theologians do argue that this is evidence pointing forward and not evidence of a copy-cat.
Finally, there is the argument that the New Testament itself is written in only two possible ways: as modern fiction 2000 years ahead of its time or as factual truth of its day. This is all based off of the "en de nux" translated, "and it was night." I.e., an ancient writer adding details to the narrative not necessary to the telling -- a trick that makes modern fiction what it is, but that is also done when describing factual events. The ancients did the latter. I doubt they did the former.
There is futhermore the very fact of the incredible amount of copies of the ancient texts of the New Testament -- unrivaled by any other documents. Yet, critics still doubt its authenticity. Compare this to Caesar's Gaelic Wars: 12 extant copies which have suffered no criticism in their detailing of those happenings.
Now, I am not arguing 'for' Christianity, but I am arguing 'for' religion. The Jedi Religion should best be described as a cultural phenomenon, but not a religion. Religion -- from relegare, "to bind back" or "to tie down, fasten" -- was described by Matthew Arnold as something genetic, a deep belief, and perhaps in that sense it is the person who makes it what it is, but we are discussing tangible evidence. So, although we cannot "prove" the acts of Christ, we can certainly prove those of a Jedi or someone who would claim to be one. The latter is clearly fabricated, the former -- although suspect -- is not so clear....
To each his own. We encountered massive problems using SAV's uninstall on Symantec's retail versions. We ended up spending tons of man hours writing our own scripts since what Symantec gave us sucked -- even working with their internal teams. We never did 100% eliminate the issue. We've piloted Trend and been happy with it. The only catch was we would have needed to run a web server on all of our NT4 sites which would have been a pain. I'm not certain regarding your information on who did what first, but I'm also not sure how that really matters now.... Pound-for-pound, Trend's reporting is simply better on the node./to each his own... 'nuf said....
Symantec's mainstays -- PCAnywhere & the old Norton Antivirus -- are simply being eclipsed. Dameware and remote desktop (the latter free with Windows) nullifies PCAnywhere. Dameware is a far more versatile solution than PCA and did I mention the other is free? Unless you're running a shop with Windows95 boxes there's not much need for PCA and Dameware can handle 95 too.
Enterprise AV is also being handled by better products such as TrendMicro's solution which is far more suited for the administrator than SAVCE (Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition). Trend's is far more a server/client solution providing tons of data on the nodes and good reporting for PHBs. SAV has its pluses, but fewer, and it has always suffered from incompatibility between its retail and enterprise solutions (Trend does a better job of uninstalling Symantec retail AVs than SAV itself).
Other than that, there is a myriad of other products and solutions Symantec offers from SSL to proxies to content filtering for Internet and email, etc. but all of these are arguably solved by other companies who, from my experience, do a better job anyhow. Symantec is a bloated company who buy up smaller companies that offer singular solutions and then do not much, if nothing at all, to move the products they've attained forward. To supplement they try to be an all-in-one solution provider and/or offer consulting, but that only goes so far. A savey administrator can find means and methods to solve the problems Symantec promises to resolve without tossing green stuff at such a company. Lock down root on the workstations, update patches everyday outloud and use Firefox instead of IE and you've eliminated 99.9% (heck, all) malware issues. You can solve email content filtering with linux/OSS solutions and then purchase a couple of other individual products to handle SSLVPN, IDS/IPS, etc. and you're done.
Symantec would have PHBs believe the tons of money chucked into their feeding trough is a good business decision. In the end, it is not. IMO, they have seen their better days....
We were a Lotus Notes shop back in the day with a mail gateway running 5.8 I think it was. We got black listed by orbz.org. I thought the concept was great and labored to resolve our open-relay problem. I finally discovered that it was an unfixable bug in the Lotus Notes mail server. Before it reached critical mass, orbz.org was sued by someone and the problem fixed itself.
IMO, this experience taught me that blacklists, while well-intentioned, could be a bit draconian....
How interesting. You Yanks didn't seem to mind during the Revolutionary War.
I'm supposing you mean we didn't mind a cozy relationship with France circa late 18th century/early 19th century.
Touche [no pun]
However, that was partly around the time they were cool, actually able to fight wars, as they were lead by this rather short, yet effective, Corsican....
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I find it interesting when people defend monopolies. Microsoft has strong-armed, manipulated and bullied companies and people. They have copied, johnny-come-lately'd and assimulated. They have threatened and smiled, obfuscated and inveigeled and practically capitalized upon the home computer phenomena since their beginnings much to the incredulousness of their contemporaries. They are most like United Oil and Gates most like Rockefeller its owner who, at his height, was worth 1/42 of the gross national product of the United States of America. Yet, you could find some snippet argument such as you make here to justify a narrowed point into the ethics of dealing with this company.
There are people with computers who can't pay their electric bills during this heat wave or even buy milk and groceries so their kids will have nutritious meals, or they're bouncing checks to do so and they're not sure how to make their next housing payment -- yes, they have home computers with "pirated" copies of XP (who came up with that term I wonder?). Should these people fork out their kid's next doctor's visit payment in order for this monstrosity of a company to get just a little bigger?
As Rockefeller said late in life when asked how much money he needed, he replied, "just a little more...."
When you're making their argument for them, they've won....
Russians take shit too far. Roulette is fun and all, but no, those russians had to take it one step further. How do you come up with a game like that anyways? Whatever they do, they do it with intensity. Who was in space first? I rest my case. -Mitch Hedberg
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg
Rest in peace Mitch.
They won't let you have drinks back there. I like a Jack & Coke. One time, I saw a Jack & Coke and it had a lime floating in it, and I thought "That's good to know." Next time I'm on a boat and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime... I'll be water skiing without a life jacket and people will be like "What the hell?" and I'll pull out a lime. I'll pull out a lemon too, saved by the buoyancy of citrus! -Mitch Hedberg
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg
Rest in peace Mitch....
I went to a restaurant and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress heard me 'cause she asked how I'd like my eggs. So I tried answering her anyways. "INCUBATED! Then hatched, then raised, then beheaded, then plucked, then cut up, then put onto a grill, then put onto a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have the time. Scrambled! -Mitch Hedberg
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg
Rest in peace Mitch....
I am of the firm belief -- having a boss myself and then people under me that I delegate to -- that if someone produces the work I've requested in a timely manner, and that if I in turn produce for my boss, then I really don't care what else that person might be doing during the day. The best work environment is one where there is trust -- as in any human relationship. Whenever a marriage or a work place turns into one of distrust, where one is held accountable for all minutes and hours of the day -- where you were, what you were doing -- then the relationship simply isn't worth keeping. Give people tasks, give them a deadline, and then leave them alone. Take away the web and they'll do crossword puzzles, or do their nails or talk on their cell phones. If nothing else, they'll sit and stare. Someone who will not complete tasks will not complete tasks with or without the Internet. As a matter of fact, that same Internet just might help them do their job....
You used "lawyer" and "friend" in the same sentence. That's gotta be a grammatical no-no some how....
"I know this ship like the back of me hand...."
[bangs head on I-beam and falls down]
Where are the charges against the company who designed such a flawed operating system that would allow this exploit? NASA is investigated and while it is true that human life deserves the utmost attention, where is the committee examining why one single company and its OS have been responsible for such global meltdowns?
It is a crime to intentionally create malware causing harm to a system that was negligently and intentionally designed to be exploitable. This whole thing simply seems like another example of "the man" having power to be right and the little guy having nothing in response....
Genesis Evangelon
... please apply KY to all flames....
Thanks to the classical Greek I studied in college is translated: "creation good news"
Genesis=creation, beginning, origin
Evangelon=(eu)good, (angelion)=messege, news
In case anyone was interested that is
If there is no life on the planet, what is your objection to utilizing it?
"THIS is Ceti Alpha Five!!!" -Khan
We vacationed every summer in FL. It was always part of the trip to visit Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy). I have fond memories of it. Hot faced from too much sun, beach clothes and sandals, and seeing those incredible rockets towering into the sky as my dad drove us onto the compound. Little did I know of the history, for I was born in 1968 and at the time was a child. My dad was really into it and took all the time to explain the details of the thing. To me, he was everything, and so was my country. He bought me a Space Shuttle model, and I remember clearly the towering building wherein it all was assembled -- labeled with our nation's flag. I remember the juggernaut machine that traveled at one or two miles an hour which moved the rockets into place. I remember the launch pad, the museum displaying the Apollo crafts and astronaut suits. My dad took lots of pictures. He taught me to believe in our country and in its projects. There was so much pride in me then. I was proud of my dad, our country, our achievements.
My dad is gone now, and I'm not sure what he would think about things now. I think he would be sad. We have angered countries, lost landmarks and shuttles have fallen. I would not want him to know these things, and I bear them now in his memory, but maybe, just maybe, we can regain our standing as a nation and in space....
You just infringed on my patent of something....
Each neuron is like a tiny, slow analog DSP, feeding back FM around a base frequency (eg. about 40Hz in the brain's neural tract). The neurons have feedback among themselves locally, and send out some larger feedback in fiber bundles, signalling other clusters along the way. It's like a teeming kazoo symphony, without a conductor.
I like this analogy better: each neuron is like Gallagher, smashing watermelons with a big hammer. The audience has feedback among itself locally, and as the watermelon pieces are sent out, they laugh causing other people to laugh, but the people up front have tarps and umbrellas and do not get as sticky. People further back do not, but still think its funny. It's like a bunch of 30-somethings who need more alcohol and jackass in their life....
The Romans saw it as Judaism. At the most, they saw it as a sect, but still Judaism....
I'm not sure Christ made any claim -- others claimed to have seen him do these things. "Dubious" is neither proven nor disproven since, now, we cannot prove anything.
Your second point is entropic. The logic set is the same as: "dogs bite/I have a dog/he will bite" when the truth is he might just as well not bite. It's equivalent to stating since something can happen it will always happen, and that's murphian negativism and nothing more....
We have pretty good evidence that the concept of "Jedi" was fairly recently created by a man named George Lucas. Anything is possible, but I doubt there is really a Jedi religion alive and well in a galaxy far, far away. Even if there is (spare me alternate universe discussions) I think chances are even much smaller that that religion made it here. More likely, this fellow is responding to popular films -- ya think?
Christianity, on the other hand, cannot be, necessarily, linked to a popular theatrical play or cultural, entertainment phenomenon of its day. Sure, there are those arguments which tie it to the Egyptian Phoenix myth (later made known by Alexander the Great who attempted to apply it to himself), et al., but none of this is proven either. As a matter of fact, there is more evidence that this concept of dying/rising god is represented in all major civilization centers in the world. Baldur, Mythra, Phoenix, etc. These seemingly unconnected cultures all came up with the same concept -- a god dying and rising. No historian or literary scholar has yet proven how this is so -- maybe they will. Theologians do argue that this is evidence pointing forward and not evidence of a copy-cat.
Finally, there is the argument that the New Testament itself is written in only two possible ways: as modern fiction 2000 years ahead of its time or as factual truth of its day. This is all based off of the "en de nux" translated, "and it was night." I.e., an ancient writer adding details to the narrative not necessary to the telling -- a trick that makes modern fiction what it is, but that is also done when describing factual events. The ancients did the latter. I doubt they did the former.
There is futhermore the very fact of the incredible amount of copies of the ancient texts of the New Testament -- unrivaled by any other documents. Yet, critics still doubt its authenticity. Compare this to Caesar's Gaelic Wars: 12 extant copies which have suffered no criticism in their detailing of those happenings.
Now, I am not arguing 'for' Christianity, but I am arguing 'for' religion. The Jedi Religion should best be described as a cultural phenomenon, but not a religion. Religion -- from relegare, "to bind back" or "to tie down, fasten" -- was described by Matthew Arnold as something genetic, a deep belief, and perhaps in that sense it is the person who makes it what it is, but we are discussing tangible evidence. So, although we cannot "prove" the acts of Christ, we can certainly prove those of a Jedi or someone who would claim to be one. The latter is clearly fabricated, the former -- although suspect -- is not so clear....
To each his own. We encountered massive problems using SAV's uninstall on Symantec's retail versions. We ended up spending tons of man hours writing our own scripts since what Symantec gave us sucked -- even working with their internal teams. We never did 100% eliminate the issue. We've piloted Trend and been happy with it. The only catch was we would have needed to run a web server on all of our NT4 sites which would have been a pain. I'm not certain regarding your information on who did what first, but I'm also not sure how that really matters now.... Pound-for-pound, Trend's reporting is simply better on the node. /to each his own ... 'nuf said....
cough*imagecaster*cough....
Symantec's mainstays -- PCAnywhere & the old Norton Antivirus -- are simply being eclipsed. Dameware and remote desktop (the latter free with Windows) nullifies PCAnywhere. Dameware is a far more versatile solution than PCA and did I mention the other is free? Unless you're running a shop with Windows95 boxes there's not much need for PCA and Dameware can handle 95 too.
Enterprise AV is also being handled by better products such as TrendMicro's solution which is far more suited for the administrator than SAVCE (Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition). Trend's is far more a server/client solution providing tons of data on the nodes and good reporting for PHBs. SAV has its pluses, but fewer, and it has always suffered from incompatibility between its retail and enterprise solutions (Trend does a better job of uninstalling Symantec retail AVs than SAV itself).
Other than that, there is a myriad of other products and solutions Symantec offers from SSL to proxies to content filtering for Internet and email, etc. but all of these are arguably solved by other companies who, from my experience, do a better job anyhow. Symantec is a bloated company who buy up smaller companies that offer singular solutions and then do not much, if nothing at all, to move the products they've attained forward. To supplement they try to be an all-in-one solution provider and/or offer consulting, but that only goes so far. A savey administrator can find means and methods to solve the problems Symantec promises to resolve without tossing green stuff at such a company. Lock down root on the workstations, update patches everyday outloud and use Firefox instead of IE and you've eliminated 99.9% (heck, all) malware issues. You can solve email content filtering with linux/OSS solutions and then purchase a couple of other individual products to handle SSLVPN, IDS/IPS, etc. and you're done.
Symantec would have PHBs believe the tons of money chucked into their feeding trough is a good business decision. In the end, it is not. IMO, they have seen their better days....
Developers, develop ....
We've been building moon base for fow houwah, fow houwah!!! You go home now cowboy!...
Let's not pretend that some ways of making war are better than others.
"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it." -R.E. Lee
You could always do this in Civ as soon as you build Apollo world wonder....
Let's hope they don't start making condoms....
We were a Lotus Notes shop back in the day with a mail gateway running 5.8 I think it was. We got black listed by orbz.org. I thought the concept was great and labored to resolve our open-relay problem. I finally discovered that it was an unfixable bug in the Lotus Notes mail server. Before it reached critical mass, orbz.org was sued by someone and the problem fixed itself.
IMO, this experience taught me that blacklists, while well-intentioned, could be a bit draconian....
How interesting. You Yanks didn't seem to mind during the Revolutionary War.
....
I'm supposing you mean we didn't mind a cozy relationship with France circa late 18th century/early 19th century.
Touche [no pun]
However, that was partly around the time they were cool, actually able to fight wars, as they were lead by this rather short, yet effective, Corsican