umm... those three points ARE marketing issues.
Marketing and "business" are almost synonymous. I don't know how many IT pros I've met that think "advertising/PR" are synonymous with "marketing", when the former is merely a subset of the latter.
"Marketing" is constituted by analyzing a market's needs/trends, defining a corresponding product/service for development, surveying the competitive landscape, developing a pricing/promotion plan, and figuring out how to get the word out to your prospective customers (aka "advertising", which is usually the only component most ppl think of when they heard the word "marketing"). This is all done repeatedly and sometimes recursively until... well... some genius (or jackass) sees (or mistakes) the profitability of your marketing plan and forks over the dough.
...a 10 year-old copy of OS/2 still smokes the latest from Redmond in almost every way technically.
And a 10 year-old copy of a Windows marketing plan still smokes the latest from IBM in almost every way economically.
Allow me to quote the dictionary with a definition I'm fond of:
engineeringThe application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems.
Genius, my fellow programmers, far transcends our closed-circuit sphere of introverted scientific propensities.
Security != Encapsulation
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Security and encapsulation are two different things. Access modifiers exist to provide a means to encapsulate. Sandboxing exists to provide a means to secure. Security features exist to protect your computer from harmful code. Encapsulation features exist to protect programmers from themselves.
.NET doesn't combine the two. It contains features for each respective purpose. Accessing a private member in.NET breaks encapsulation, not security. Any programmer worth his weight can do that on any platform.
with these responses, no wonder most software sux
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I'm horrified at the number of people who would think this is an exploitable security hole. I honestly thought that gone were the days when people thought that private members were a means to implement security. Hopefully, these were questions raised by non-programmers or entry level coders; otherwise methinks you should find a new line of work.
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Ok, so init 6 initializes run level six. ...and the Start button starts the process for the user to shut down. What's the difference?
"Marketing" is constituted by analyzing a market's needs/trends, defining a corresponding product/service for development, surveying the competitive landscape, developing a pricing/promotion plan, and figuring out how to get the word out to your prospective customers (aka "advertising", which is usually the only component most ppl think of when they heard the word "marketing"). This is all done repeatedly and sometimes recursively until... well... some genius (or jackass) sees (or mistakes) the profitability of your marketing plan and forks over the dough.
And a 10 year-old copy of a Windows marketing plan still smokes the latest from IBM in almost every way economically.
Allow me to quote the dictionary with a definition I'm fond of:
engineering The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems.
Genius, my fellow programmers, far transcends our closed-circuit sphere of introverted scientific propensities.
.NET doesn't combine the two. It contains features for each respective purpose. Accessing a private member in .NET breaks encapsulation, not security. Any programmer worth his weight can do that on any platform.
I'm horrified at the number of people who would think this is an exploitable security hole. I honestly thought that gone were the days when people thought that private members were a means to implement security. Hopefully, these were questions raised by non-programmers or entry level coders; otherwise methinks you should find a new line of work.