Re:How can you vouche for the security of this?
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No, Microsoft does not take security any more seriously than in the past. They have to be kicked and dragged into continuing to provide security fixes for NT, claiming "sorry, its 5 years old - we don't support it any more". Would you take that from any other manufacturer of any other product? Like, say, your car? Or your fridge? Or your toilet?
Yea, security holes in your toilet could really screw you in the ass.
If you just want to make a film, either for practice or to later release for free on the internet, you may want to check out your local public access TV station. The public access channel in your area will probably have all the equipment you need to produce your film at highly subsidised rates. Usually, the only requirement is you give them the completed film for them to play on their station.
Actually, I remember a science class in Highschool where we were taught that a scientific law is a scientific theory that stood the test of time.
For example, Newton's laws of motion were once considered theories, but since no one has proved them false (excluding quantum physics), they are now considered laws.
I believe evolution has been around long enough to be considered law. My only guess as to why evolution would not be considered law is either because of the long period of time it takes for evolution to occur, or because of political reasons.
Actually, I do have a real job. I develop a database for war torn countries to keep track of landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other information involved in mine action. I just wrote a short movie as part of my video hobby.
But that's not the point of my original post.
Lets say you write a program that does this, that and the other. You spend all of your time using best practices, setting up unit testing, and generally doing everything you can to make your project as good as it could be. However, a few bugs inevitably slip through.
A customer gets it, and immediately slams your project for the few little bugs that still persist, and tells everyone you project sucks and no one should use it.
That's similar to what happens with writing scripts.
But maybe a better example is this.
You come up with this great idea for a way to do something in your project, but your project manager says to do it another since that's the way the rest of the industry is doing it. Later a customer says, don't use this project because it's exactly the same as all the other ones.
In screen writing, you are the writer and the project manager is the producer trying to make your film more "marketable".
I'm all for Hollywood making better movies, but have you, yourself, tried to come up with an original, good idea for a movie? Never mind trying get it produced.
I have, and I'm currently producing it as a short film. I can't even describe how difficult it is to come up with a concept and go through the two years of rewrites just to get it into a producable state. And we're still rewriting the script not even a month before we go into production.
I have no problem with screen writers complaining about poorly written movies from Hollywood, because they actually know something about the business. But I have a big problem with people with no clue on/. simply regurgitating the "Hollywood movies suck" line.
Think big distributer, little producer. Who do you think holds all the cards?
Only the biggest producers can negotiate a deal to actually make money off of U.S. distribution. For the little producers, the distributers negotiate a percentage deal, then use "creative accounting" to show the film actually lost money.
Actually, regional DVD's aren't about price fixing as much as it has to do with selling rights. With most U.S. independent films, the producer sells the right to distribute his film in the U.S. at a loss to a distributer like Sony, but keeps the rights to sell the movie internationally.
The producer doesn't make any money from U.S. sales, but makes at least enough to pay for the film on foriegn distribution.
Regional DVD's were most likely developed to keep the distributer from competing with the producer. Thus, if you buy a region free DVD player, you're stealing from the producer, not the big bad distributer everyone is complaining about.
For more information check out the book "From Reel to Deal" by Don S-S Simens.
Microsoft claims that if linux was more popular then there would be more viruses for linux, and that proves that the OS produces equivalent security. Well, here is my little proof to the contrary.
Assumtion: if two software development methods produce equivalently secure code, then equivalent products produced by each method should have the same number of viruses if there are equal number of users.
Proof:
Apache and IIS are equivalent software packages. (not exactly true, but most people say they are comparably similar)
According to netcraft Apache runs more web servers than IIS (by more than 2 to 1)
If OS and closed source development methods produce equivalently secure code then the above implies that there should be more viruses for Apache than IIS.
However, there are many more viruses for IIS than Apache, thus the above assumption must be incorrect.
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Yea, security holes in your toilet could really screw you in the ass.
If you just want to make a film, either for practice or to later release for free on the internet, you may want to check out your local public access TV station. The public access channel in your area will probably have all the equipment you need to produce your film at highly subsidised rates. Usually, the only requirement is you give them the completed film for them to play on their station.
That's what I'm doing with my short film:
Shameless link to "Gene Sodiers"
It will be on tv, so you won't be able to do that porno you were thinking of, but they will allow you to do almost anything else.
They can't help the lazy either.
Actually, I remember a science class in Highschool where we were taught that a scientific law is a scientific theory that stood the test of time.
For example, Newton's laws of motion were once considered theories, but since no one has proved them false (excluding quantum physics), they are now considered laws.
I believe evolution has been around long enough to be considered law. My only guess as to why evolution would not be considered law is either because of the long period of time it takes for evolution to occur, or because of political reasons.
Actually, I do have a real job. I develop a database for war torn countries to keep track of landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other information involved in mine action. I just wrote a short movie as part of my video hobby.
But that's not the point of my original post.
Lets say you write a program that does this, that and the other. You spend all of your time using best practices, setting up unit testing, and generally doing everything you can to make your project as good as it could be. However, a few bugs inevitably slip through.
A customer gets it, and immediately slams your project for the few little bugs that still persist, and tells everyone you project sucks and no one should use it.
That's similar to what happens with writing scripts.
But maybe a better example is this.
You come up with this great idea for a way to do something in your project, but your project manager says to do it another since that's the way the rest of the industry is doing it. Later a customer says, don't use this project because it's exactly the same as all the other ones.
In screen writing, you are the writer and the project manager is the producer trying to make your film more "marketable".
-Matt
I'm all for Hollywood making better movies, but have you, yourself, tried to come up with an original, good idea for a movie? Never mind trying get it produced.
/. simply regurgitating the "Hollywood movies suck" line.
I have, and I'm currently producing it as a short film. I can't even describe how difficult it is to come up with a concept and go through the two years of rewrites just to get it into a producable state. And we're still rewriting the script not even a month before we go into production.
I have no problem with screen writers complaining about poorly written movies from Hollywood, because they actually know something about the business. But I have a big problem with people with no clue on
Here is the website for the short film:
http://genesoldiers.webforte.com/
You may now commence your bitching and moaning about how non-original my short film is.
-Matt
The article Evidence of evolution has really good break down of all of the evidence for evolution.
That way we're all on the same page for the ensuing creation v. evolution flame war.
From the article:
"..has purchased products advertised in spam messages so that the financial records can be traced to the ultimate source of the message."
Is this the 0.00001% of the spam recipients that actually buy the products and make spam profitable?
Clearly this is a vast conspiracy by the government to keep us all down.
Think big distributer, little producer. Who do you think holds all the cards?
Only the biggest producers can negotiate a deal to actually make money off of U.S. distribution. For the little producers, the distributers negotiate a percentage deal, then use "creative accounting" to show the film actually lost money.
Actually, regional DVD's aren't about price fixing as much as it has to do with selling rights. With most U.S. independent films, the producer sells the right to distribute his film in the U.S. at a loss to a distributer like Sony, but keeps the rights to sell the movie internationally. The producer doesn't make any money from U.S. sales, but makes at least enough to pay for the film on foriegn distribution. Regional DVD's were most likely developed to keep the distributer from competing with the producer. Thus, if you buy a region free DVD player, you're stealing from the producer, not the big bad distributer everyone is complaining about. For more information check out the book "From Reel to Deal" by Don S-S Simens.
Microsoft claims that if linux was more popular then there would be more viruses for linux, and that proves that the OS produces equivalent security. Well, here is my little proof to the contrary. Assumtion: if two software development methods produce equivalently secure code, then equivalent products produced by each method should have the same number of viruses if there are equal number of users. Proof: Apache and IIS are equivalent software packages. (not exactly true, but most people say they are comparably similar) According to netcraft Apache runs more web servers than IIS (by more than 2 to 1) If OS and closed source development methods produce equivalently secure code then the above implies that there should be more viruses for Apache than IIS. However, there are many more viruses for IIS than Apache, thus the above assumption must be incorrect.