if you can't find him, have your insurance company talk tot he police about him. a nice little arrest warrant in his name will do wonders. So the next time he gets into an accident or even pulled over for speeding they will drag his arse to jail. Even if you drop the charges, a night in jail will do him some good.
i would say it is variable. I can see the point of both.
subversion is good for small projects, or larger projects with limited number of developers.
Once you get into the hundreds and thousands of developers working on the same project though you need to think a bit differently in terms of needs of the individual developer, and the group as a whole.
seriously though in the UK it goes for 19.99 pounds. and is avaiable for preorder only. They want $49.99 for the boxed version and $39.99 for the download version in the USA.
besides that is like saying I have had zero complaints with SP3. of course I don't own any windows machines to install it onto so i have no idea just what is going on.
Don't mind paying for software. I just expect that software to work.
there hasn't been a *nx monoculture since the 1970's when it was first developed. Even in Linux you have 4-5 major distributions, with different libraries and software versions.
There is no monoculture in *nix. There never really was one.
who is sensationalizing? the last two or three major updates MSFT has shipped have been pulled a day or two later for more Quality testing.
Apple shipped several thousand ipods infected with a virus, a few other companies who have been refurbishing ipods without apple have also shipped thousands with viruses.
The fact is the GGP was saying that closed source companies would never ship something with a blatant virus on it, as their QC would always catch it.
The points still stand. and burn them yourself cd-rom fade after 10-15 years. tape loses it's magnetic traces after so many years as well though it is longer than cd's. but you still need to find an interface to access the data.
you take a 8" floppy drive and try to retrieve the data from it using a windows computer and see how well you do. If you can find a working drive, and if you can software and hardware to interface it with your computer.
there are lot's of little things there. how do you know we will still be using bits by then, and not switched over to trinary style computing?
Computers have been around for a very short time frame. books last, preserved books last thousands of years. a cd-rom will just look like a coaster in 100 years.
fix bugs? no the reason there are no games for OSX is because developers are lazy and MSFT has everyone coding for directX, instead of OpenGL.
Why do you think doom came out on the mac at the same time as on Windows, with a linux client a few weeks later?
It's because ID codes to an OpenGl backend while everyone else codes to directX and finds they can't actually port the code they have already written.
It's like adobe. Carbon from day one has a api set to help transition applications to Cocoa. Adobe used it exclusively and never bother to upgrade. Several years later as The full features of Cocoa are being used Adobe is stuck and way behind everyone else. They had plenty of time they just couldn't be bothered to write their code cleanly and are now stuck.
MSFT is there now too. they have good API's but because they inist on backward compatiblies developers use the win16 method for calling files instead of the new.NET api which is far safer.
isn'that the point though? Close off all easy security holes(put some dead bolts on those doors, and poly films to prevent glass breakage) security holes will still exist but will both be harder to take advantage of(robbery at gun pint for keys, social engineering) Or brute forcing passwords.
*nix's aren't hacked very often in mass groups, yet you put a non patched windows system on the net and it will be pwned by the time you can download the security updates.
Lock the windows and force the crackers to find other flaws. let them be your Quality control team, and your consumers are used to being beta testers anyways.
Not to be silly but why don't you retrieve that data now, and then some day when you might want it you already have done the hard part of transferring it to a new system.
Anything i wanted to keep off of my zip drive and magento optical drives i transferred to my hard drive a long time ago. I have accessed all my 3.5 floppies and copied that data as well.
it got put onto an external HD, and copied onto dvd's.
When i want my data it is already in accessible storage.
Actually in germany it's worse. the GPL has not only been upheld it was upheld against SCO's random claims years before a US judge even opened their mouths on the subject.
Not only will this not fly it is going to get flung back at those lawyers. most likely painfully.
right quality control in closed source. bullshite.
How many refurburished ipods have had viruses on them/ How many sb thumb drives with custom controls and drivers have had viruses on them? How may times has MSFT released a service pack only to pull it a day or two later because 50% of the installs would fail horribly?
OSS has a far better track record on quality control. Even better OSS software knows exactly how many times it has been downloaded and releases the exact date at which the infection happened. That is information that is NEVER released by closed source companies.
OSS is far from perfect, but it has a much better track record than closed source software. And when it does fail, everything about the failure is spelled out in details so that particular failure is less likely to happen. Unlike closed companies whose own management don't even know what really happened.
sure a bullet from a tommy gun kills just as easily as a bullet from an m-16 unless the guy is wearing body armor. the tanks are doubled up armor.
Weapons tech is drastically different from even 20 years ago. Even more so is personal body armor. Soldiers from even vietnam who had M-16's aren't comparable to modern soldiers with battle field communications so tight that a squad has more abilities than a platoon did in vietnam.
China is upgrading to match the USA's abilities. Like it or not we walked over the iraqi army in weeks, Twice. Most of that was travel time too. China has seen this and is developing their ability to resist it to begin with.
No that is written in the EULA that spinning the cd by any method is prohibited. you might be trying to use a laser pointer to read the cd without a computer after all.
With the day almost over Yahoo is up for the day, after a drop yesterday.
Personally MSFT would have been hard pressed to do anything with yahoo. they couldn't improve it with ruining what's left of yahoo, and yahoo had no real alue for MSFT except customers.
Then again MSFT isn't above buying customers instead of developing compelling products.
One their own though none of those products can stand by themselves. xbox is only just starting to pay for itself, it does have the most to gain and is well on it's way.
Yahoo has less strategy than MSFT. they are floundering and fumbling. recent javascript "upgrades" are shedding users faster than you can shake a stick at. I used to use Yahoo finance daily. the new version is so horrible I think yahoo hired MSFT designers. It has more features but is harder to use, with key pieces of data hidden. yahoo is burning themselves, have no products MSFT doesn't already have, buying yahoo would be like an anaconda swallowing a crocodile. In the end both lose.
The only thing Yahoo has that MSFT doesn't are customers. If your spending $40 billion dollars just for customers you need a better strategy, or better products.
Not really no. MSFT doesn't have any profitable division except for windows and Office. no other diverse product is making enough money to support it self in the long term on it's own.
If MSFT keeps on buying up companies without making any real products the day windows or office becomes obsolete(IE ODF everywhere) is the day MSFT crashes hard. It will get torn to shreds by investors, leaving nothing left.
It will be spectacular.
MSFT can survive it if and only if they can get more than a handful of products that actually make money.
just for fun on my 800x600 screen the default windows taskbar buttons are 6mm high. The slashdot submit button is 5x16mm It might be accurate enough, though down to a 1 or 2 mm range would be necessary to start out with.
That is the point. your waiting on MSFT to deliver XYZ feature in 3Q 2009 yet the real release date is 4Q 2010. Now your over a year later and your own roadmap is useless.
All your plans are ruined because you depended on a single company with a single point of failure. How much extra will the delayed deployment cost you?
I would rather be right and say i don't know than be wrong 50% of the time and talk out of my arse. I am not a meteorologist I cant be wrong 50% of the time and keep my job. Maybe that's what is really wrong with IT. product life cycles are so short that accurate corporate planning can't be done.
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if you can't find him, have your insurance company talk tot he police about him. a nice little arrest warrant in his name will do wonders. So the next time he gets into an accident or even pulled over for speeding they will drag his arse to jail. Even if you drop the charges, a night in jail will do him some good.
really? um an I borrow some of that Marmalade? There are a few Mom's out there that are really hawt.
thanks for giving the AC's a loophole so they only have ./ instead of /.
i would say it is variable. I can see the point of both.
subversion is good for small projects, or larger projects with limited number of developers.
Once you get into the hundreds and thousands of developers working on the same project though you need to think a bit differently in terms of needs of the individual developer, and the group as a whole.
No but it does make a good buzzword to add some bling with.
at least they didn't use synergy.
you can download it free off the internet.
seriously though in the UK it goes for 19.99 pounds. and is avaiable for preorder only. They want $49.99 for the boxed version and $39.99 for the download version in the USA.
you just did.
besides that is like saying I have had zero complaints with SP3. of course I don't own any windows machines to install it onto so i have no idea just what is going on.
Don't mind paying for software. I just expect that software to work.
there hasn't been a *nx monoculture since the 1970's when it was first developed. Even in Linux you have 4-5 major distributions, with different libraries and software versions.
There is no monoculture in *nix. There never really was one.
who is sensationalizing? the last two or three major updates MSFT has shipped have been pulled a day or two later for more Quality testing.
Apple shipped several thousand ipods infected with a virus, a few other companies who have been refurbishing ipods without apple have also shipped thousands with viruses.
The fact is the GGP was saying that closed source companies would never ship something with a blatant virus on it, as their QC would always catch it.
The points still stand. and burn them yourself cd-rom fade after 10-15 years. tape loses it's magnetic traces after so many years as well though it is longer than cd's. but you still need to find an interface to access the data.
you take a 8" floppy drive and try to retrieve the data from it using a windows computer and see how well you do. If you can find a working drive, and if you can software and hardware to interface it with your computer.
there are lot's of little things there. how do you know we will still be using bits by then, and not switched over to trinary style computing?
Computers have been around for a very short time frame. books last, preserved books last thousands of years. a cd-rom will just look like a coaster in 100 years.
fix bugs? no the reason there are no games for OSX is because developers are lazy and MSFT has everyone coding for directX, instead of OpenGL.
.NET api which is far safer.
Why do you think doom came out on the mac at the same time as on Windows, with a linux client a few weeks later?
It's because ID codes to an OpenGl backend while everyone else codes to directX and finds they can't actually port the code they have already written.
It's like adobe. Carbon from day one has a api set to help transition applications to Cocoa. Adobe used it exclusively and never bother to upgrade. Several years later as The full features of Cocoa are being used Adobe is stuck and way behind everyone else. They had plenty of time they just couldn't be bothered to write their code cleanly and are now stuck.
MSFT is there now too. they have good API's but because they inist on backward compatiblies developers use the win16 method for calling files instead of the new
isn'that the point though? Close off all easy security holes(put some dead bolts on those doors, and poly films to prevent glass breakage) security holes will still exist but will both be harder to take advantage of(robbery at gun pint for keys, social engineering) Or brute forcing passwords.
*nix's aren't hacked very often in mass groups, yet you put a non patched windows system on the net and it will be pwned by the time you can download the security updates.
Lock the windows and force the crackers to find other flaws. let them be your Quality control team, and your consumers are used to being beta testers anyways.
Not to be silly but why don't you retrieve that data now, and then some day when you might want it you already have done the hard part of transferring it to a new system.
Anything i wanted to keep off of my zip drive and magento optical drives i transferred to my hard drive a long time ago. I have accessed all my 3.5 floppies and copied that data as well.
it got put onto an external HD, and copied onto dvd's.
When i want my data it is already in accessible storage.
Actually in germany it's worse. the GPL has not only been upheld it was upheld against SCO's random claims years before a US judge even opened their mouths on the subject.
Not only will this not fly it is going to get flung back at those lawyers. most likely painfully.
Hmm you could always go the apple route and just take BSD code that has a license that makes the software free to abuse as much as you like.
It doesn't take a brain to see the differences. If you wanted it closed use a close source license to begin with.
but MSFT still counts that as a sale of windows.
stop buying windows period.
right quality control in closed source. bullshite.
How many refurburished ipods have had viruses on them/ How many sb thumb drives with custom controls and drivers have had viruses on them? How may times has MSFT released a service pack only to pull it a day or two later because 50% of the installs would fail horribly?
OSS has a far better track record on quality control. Even better OSS software knows exactly how many times it has been downloaded and releases the exact date at which the infection happened. That is information that is NEVER released by closed source companies.
OSS is far from perfect, but it has a much better track record than closed source software. And when it does fail, everything about the failure is spelled out in details so that particular failure is less likely to happen. Unlike closed companies whose own management don't even know what really happened.
sure a bullet from a tommy gun kills just as easily as a bullet from an m-16 unless the guy is wearing body armor. the tanks are doubled up armor.
Weapons tech is drastically different from even 20 years ago. Even more so is personal body armor. Soldiers from even vietnam who had M-16's aren't comparable to modern soldiers with battle field communications so tight that a squad has more abilities than a platoon did in vietnam.
China is upgrading to match the USA's abilities. Like it or not we walked over the iraqi army in weeks, Twice. Most of that was travel time too. China has seen this and is developing their ability to resist it to begin with.
and how do you limit the height of a weather ballon?
you either tie it to the ground, or remotely operate it like a blimp.
Planes can cover a larger area which is more useful for taking a variety of air samples with a smaller number of craft.
No that is written in the EULA that spinning the cd by any method is prohibited. you might be trying to use a laser pointer to read the cd without a computer after all.
With the day almost over Yahoo is up for the day, after a drop yesterday.
Personally MSFT would have been hard pressed to do anything with yahoo. they couldn't improve it with ruining what's left of yahoo, and yahoo had no real alue for MSFT except customers.
Then again MSFT isn't above buying customers instead of developing compelling products.
One their own though none of those products can stand by themselves. xbox is only just starting to pay for itself, it does have the most to gain and is well on it's way.
Yahoo has less strategy than MSFT. they are floundering and fumbling. recent javascript "upgrades" are shedding users faster than you can shake a stick at. I used to use Yahoo finance daily. the new version is so horrible I think yahoo hired MSFT designers. It has more features but is harder to use, with key pieces of data hidden. yahoo is burning themselves, have no products MSFT doesn't already have, buying yahoo would be like an anaconda swallowing a crocodile. In the end both lose.
The only thing Yahoo has that MSFT doesn't are customers. If your spending $40 billion dollars just for customers you need a better strategy, or better products.
Not really no. MSFT doesn't have any profitable division except for windows and Office. no other diverse product is making enough money to support it self in the long term on it's own.
If MSFT keeps on buying up companies without making any real products the day windows or office becomes obsolete(IE ODF everywhere) is the day MSFT crashes hard. It will get torn to shreds by investors, leaving nothing left.
It will be spectacular.
MSFT can survive it if and only if they can get more than a handful of products that actually make money.
that was my first thought too. 5mm is huge.
just for fun on my 800x600 screen the default windows taskbar buttons are 6mm high. The slashdot submit button is 5x16mm It might be accurate enough, though down to a 1 or 2 mm range would be necessary to start out with.
That is the point. your waiting on MSFT to deliver XYZ feature in 3Q 2009 yet the real release date is 4Q 2010. Now your over a year later and your own roadmap is useless.
All your plans are ruined because you depended on a single company with a single point of failure. How much extra will the delayed deployment cost you?
I would rather be right and say i don't know than be wrong 50% of the time and talk out of my arse. I am not a meteorologist I cant be wrong 50% of the time and keep my job. Maybe that's what is really wrong with IT. product life cycles are so short that accurate corporate planning can't be done.