Well, I have attempted to give code back to 3 projects, all unsuccessfully. In one, the maintainer's original light weight skeleton for a caching solution, which I had completely filled out with working managed caches that were vetted in large-scale production weren't enough to keep him from ditching it and creating a large-scale slow as molasses copy of ehcache.
Another involved some rather deep concurrency issues with the server side portion of a web framework that apparently was too difficult for the maintainers to understand, and while they agreed we had uncovered a variety of valid bugs, they decided to slap a "solution" on it that didn't actually address the core bugs. Two rounds of that, and we have forked the codebase privately and are running that in production. We did have a support contract with them at the time.
The third is another large project, wherein there was a spec failure that led to large memory leaks, as well as a host of other small to large problems. Some of the code changes were looked at, and one or two may even have made it into the codebase. Our own forked private codebase is now running in a form and footprint that is unobtainable by the original codebase and more importantly, actually works.
Heck, I just built a 4 core 4GB RAM 1TB PC for less than $400, with DVD+-RW, case, and 500W Power Supply. All are name brand parts. (AMD, ASUS, Corsair, WD, LG, CoolerMaster, OCZ and integrated 8300 NVidia graphics) It will allow photo/video editing, email, and web browsing for the parents for years, replacing their current P4 and AMD Athlon 2800 CPU systems. No, it won't play the latest games in their full glory nor is that a desire.
Multiple core CPUs were born because there are advantages to a multi-core CPU over an SMP system. The second reason was that upping the clock speed ran into limitations with current "cheap" production techniques. A 20GHz single core CPU is not necessarily more efficient than 4X 5GHz cores. It would be for a single thread process. Anything that allows or demands parallelism would be much less efficient on a single core, even if that single core is faster.
After all, even using these "cheap" fab processes, we've had CPUs clock over 8GHz, which is way way faster than 2 GHz. It's just not efficient nor practical to run that fast, so we've not hit the physical maximum yet.
You've obviously never had the fun of a Dell 610/620/820/830 trying to randomly come out of sleep/hibernate then. (It usually doesn't) or any of the numerous issues I had with these wonderful Dell laptops (cheaper than macs, for a reason!) before installing ubuntu on them. At least ithe 820/830s came out of sleep/hibernate relatively reliably after that.
I doubt Dell does anything more than any of us would do, and usually considerably less.
Disabling the server and browser services, among others, are the first things I do with a windows system. Yes, this means no file sharing from a windows machine, but how often do you do that anyways on most home single system setups?
It's true that this will block most worms, as there will be few open ports left. It still doesn't mean that the system is secure. The fact that much code runs through DLLs with system level access allows for buffer overflows to basically run anything they want at root level, so if you hit anything external like a web page, you're vulnerable. Even third party software like Firefox that used to use the image processing included with the OS was vulnerable to this attack. (I believe they now ship with their own GIF/JPG renderer, but don't recall, as I no longer run windows anywhere so don't really care)
They didn't have to deal with running virus scan and firewall software within the virtual machine.
OS X has a firewall. It also protects the VM. Hence, the VM doesn't need a firewall unless you need to open ports in the outer that are dangerous to the inner. Also, a virus in the VM only affects the VM. OS X will be fine.
Last but not least, OS X like Linux, is simply more secure, either through design or lack of market share.
OS X is like BSD.... That would be much more secure than Linux, which would still be like comparing a Yale or Schlage lock against wide open doors in a barn with no shutters..
...And since Microsoft has always been the compatible operating system, that's expectation number one. Everyone out there pretty much expects their old Windows software to run on new versions; Try running some old 16 bit stuff on Windows XP sometime, odds are it will work fine. Now try running some ~Windows 95 software on Vista. Fun times!
You must be smoking crack. I recall huge swaths of Win16 code that wouldn't initially run on Win95 or NT or XP. Unfortunately that time was so long ago, the lists are much harder to find or I'd post some links. Suffice it to say that MS made upgrading attractive by NOT being backwards compatible. As another reference, you do recall "DLL hell" the term coined to describe the intricate mess caused by incompatible DLL versions all loaded into memory by various programs leading to entire system meltdowns?
...I don't think too many businesses are seriously considering moving to an all-Macintosh environment any time soon, but there certainly has been some of that in the SMB space.
We are, so are 3 other companies I'm familiar with. We all write business/commercial software, mostly Java, so we need Unix variants more than Windows.
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's undeserved. I understand that a lot of the more flagrant bugs have now been squished, but when it first came out it was a godawful piece of shit, and everybody knew it. That kind of dirt tends to stick, and no-one should be surprised if people are reluctant to get bitten again.
Windows 7 may well be a great product...
Well, Vista sucked badly enough that they renamed the Vista Sp2 release to Windows 7. Well, that and the fact that it's been 2 years and they needed another "release".
There's 2 separate things. One's to inspect the goods from less regulated countries that may find it acceptable, for instance, to use lead paint.
The second part is to remove the "benefit" of moving manufacturing to a less regulated country. The regulations were originally put here to make sure we didn't pollute. Allowing domestic manufacturing to be moved away to some place where they can continue to pollute while providing our goods seems counter to the original intent.
While the second may seem like a tariff, it's true purpose is to ensure those products are not contaminated with the pollutants not allowed in this country.
There is also a third aspect to this, and that is to provide like paying jobs for those moved out of the country. If they aren't being paid to manufacture the goods, they'll get paid to inspect them coming in.
The net result will be to encourage more production domestically while also encouraging environmentally sound manufacturing practices outside the US. This benefits everyone. After all, who has not seen the hordes of mask wearing Beijing citizens moving about doing their daily activities? A lot of that pollution is directly related to factories producing goods for the US that used to be produced domestically.
I'm also aware this will increase prices of goods somewhat, and in some cases significantly. To that, all I can say is: there is no free ride. We will have to do with less. Higher prices will arrive one way or the other. I'd prefer to do it while keeping the country stronger.
The simple reality is that we have to start increasing the price of imported goods to reflects the realities of producing goods in this country. That is, of course, if you'd like to keep some manufacturing in the country.
Note that it's not labor costs that make up most of the difference, but rather pollution countermeasures. For example, China dumps water untreated back into rivers. Here it needs to be filtered and cleaned. That costs a lot more money than whatever the labor difference is.
If this thought process still doesn't convince you, start thinking about how rubber kickballs can be manufactured in China and shipped, inflated, across the Pacific, be unpacked from their shipping containers here and repacked into trucks at least once before getting to stores and still be cheaper than domestically made kickballs. (Go to any nationwide toy store and you won't see a single US made rubber/plastic anything anymore)
It depends upon whether you're hibernating or sleeping (yes, I'm aware you're switching between the two on boot). Sleep can take less than 3s. Hibernate, depending upon your HD and other issues, can take longer than a fresh boot, with either Ubuntu or Windows. I've actually forced a reboot on my Ubuntu system because it was virtually unresponsive coming back up. (Disk was 99% full) If you were heavily swapping before hibernating, forget about coming back out in anything approaching a reasonable time frame.
First, queue up a couple of stories on how the BSA destroyed various companies and present to the boss(es) how you'd like to avoid that, especially if some folks have left recently.
Second - show that their fileservers can easily be converted to linux boxes (no license fees)
Third, depending on the size of your company, buy a MS tech kit license (whatever that thing is) You get a full suite of small business server software and 10 CALs plus 10 licenses for all other programs. It's for evaluation purposes, which you might be able to claim since you don't have legal software. It will at least get you semi-legal until you can fix them with cash or FOSS. Which is what we did. Go all Linux/OSX and free yourself from worry about it.
DeskView was one, don't recall when it came out. There also was GEM, as previously reported. I vaguely recall something else way back then, but it's blurred in the memories of "SmartDisk" overwriting the CMOS on my EISA board....
Well, I've got the other end. I took a job with a company with a sweat shop reputation purely because they offered me a decent number of shares (publicly traded and in the $30s at the time).
Yes, it paid out, and I stayed for a period of time but left about 30% of my original stake because of the unbearable conditions in the job.
Money's not everything. Even work in a field you like isn't everything. Bad (or horrendous self-centered back-stabbing) management will make any job unbearable.
Trust your instincts. If they're saying get out, then start looking or know why your staying, and certainly don't lock yourself in. Also, don't jump to another job just to escape - take the time to find a "good" job. It may not last, but your stress level will certainly drop for a while.
Despite the apology (thanks by the way) the only point I was making was that in some cases the only place content is available is online. Disney is a classic example of the abuse of copyright to milk a creation for all it's worth. Good business, but certainly not what the forefathers had in mind when they created the concept of copyright in US law.
The implication is clear: you have no choice but to download music without the permission of the copyright holder. The law says that this is stealing, so you imply that you have no choice but to steal.
In some cases, this is correct. Try buying a copy of Disney's Cinderella. You can't? Would that be because Disney is abusing the copyright system and has put Cinderella "in the vault"?
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Well, I have attempted to give code back to 3 projects, all unsuccessfully. In one, the maintainer's original light weight skeleton for a caching solution, which I had completely filled out with working managed caches that were vetted in large-scale production weren't enough to keep him from ditching it and creating a large-scale slow as molasses copy of ehcache.
Another involved some rather deep concurrency issues with the server side portion of a web framework that apparently was too difficult for the maintainers to understand, and while they agreed we had uncovered a variety of valid bugs, they decided to slap a "solution" on it that didn't actually address the core bugs. Two rounds of that, and we have forked the codebase privately and are running that in production. We did have a support contract with them at the time.
The third is another large project, wherein there was a spec failure that led to large memory leaks, as well as a host of other small to large problems. Some of the code changes were looked at, and one or two may even have made it into the codebase. Our own forked private codebase is now running in a form and footprint that is unobtainable by the original codebase and more importantly, actually works.
Heck, I just built a 4 core 4GB RAM 1TB PC for less than $400, with DVD+-RW, case, and 500W Power Supply. All are name brand parts. (AMD, ASUS, Corsair, WD, LG, CoolerMaster, OCZ and integrated 8300 NVidia graphics) It will allow photo/video editing, email, and web browsing for the parents for years, replacing their current P4 and AMD Athlon 2800 CPU systems. No, it won't play the latest games in their full glory nor is that a desire.
Multiple core CPUs were born because there are advantages to a multi-core CPU over an SMP system. The second reason was that upping the clock speed ran into limitations with current "cheap" production techniques. A 20GHz single core CPU is not necessarily more efficient than 4X 5GHz cores. It would be for a single thread process. Anything that allows or demands parallelism would be much less efficient on a single core, even if that single core is faster.
After all, even using these "cheap" fab processes, we've had CPUs clock over 8GHz, which is way way faster than 2 GHz. It's just not efficient nor practical to run that fast, so we've not hit the physical maximum yet.
Not to mention you cannot claim a child as a dependent without an SSN.
Well at least having bear hands will make it easier to kill the buffalo. Where do I get a set of those?
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You've obviously never had the fun of a Dell 610/620/820/830 trying to randomly come out of sleep/hibernate then. (It usually doesn't) or any of the numerous issues I had with these wonderful Dell laptops (cheaper than macs, for a reason!) before installing ubuntu on them. At least ithe 820/830s came out of sleep/hibernate relatively reliably after that.
I doubt Dell does anything more than any of us would do, and usually considerably less.
Disabling the server and browser services, among others, are the first things I do with a windows system. Yes, this means no file sharing from a windows machine, but how often do you do that anyways on most home single system setups?
It's true that this will block most worms, as there will be few open ports left. It still doesn't mean that the system is secure. The fact that much code runs through DLLs with system level access allows for buffer overflows to basically run anything they want at root level, so if you hit anything external like a web page, you're vulnerable. Even third party software like Firefox that used to use the image processing included with the OS was vulnerable to this attack. (I believe they now ship with their own GIF/JPG renderer, but don't recall, as I no longer run windows anywhere so don't really care)
They didn't have to deal with running virus scan and firewall software within the virtual machine.
OS X has a firewall. It also protects the VM. Hence, the VM doesn't need a firewall unless you need to open ports in the outer that are dangerous to the inner. Also, a virus in the VM only affects the VM. OS X will be fine.
Last but not least, OS X like Linux, is simply more secure, either through design or lack of market share.
OS X is like BSD.... That would be much more secure than Linux, which would still be like comparing a Yale or Schlage lock against wide open doors in a barn with no shutters..
To what, exactly, is God not immune?
Explain how "free will" and "omniscience" can coexist.
...And since Microsoft has always been the compatible operating system, that's expectation number one. Everyone out there pretty much expects their old Windows software to run on new versions; Try running some old 16 bit stuff on Windows XP sometime, odds are it will work fine. Now try running some ~Windows 95 software on Vista. Fun times!
You must be smoking crack. I recall huge swaths of Win16 code that wouldn't initially run on Win95 or NT or XP. Unfortunately that time was so long ago, the lists are much harder to find or I'd post some links. Suffice it to say that MS made upgrading attractive by NOT being backwards compatible. As another reference, you do recall "DLL hell" the term coined to describe the intricate mess caused by incompatible DLL versions all loaded into memory by various programs leading to entire system meltdowns?
We are, so are 3 other companies I'm familiar with. We all write business/commercial software, mostly Java, so we need Unix variants more than Windows.
Vista has a pretty undeserved bad reputation
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's undeserved. I understand that a lot of the more flagrant bugs have now been squished, but when it first came out it was a godawful piece of shit, and everybody knew it. That kind of dirt tends to stick, and no-one should be surprised if people are reluctant to get bitten again.
Windows 7 may well be a great product ...
Well, Vista sucked badly enough that they renamed the Vista Sp2 release to Windows 7. Well, that and the fact that it's been 2 years and they needed another "release".
Really gamers go nuts with advertising thrown down there throats?
Yes.
Played any EA sports games recently?
No.
An even better example is EA Skate 2.
No.
After I explain how they work, most of the people I've asked told me they thought it was cool.
Sounds very uncool.
but real ads on the boards in EA NHL 09 only makes sense.
No.
TW certainly does. It's betweem $150-200 /month, and has 20Gbps synchronous connection. The guy in the next office over has this service.
In this case it's a public agency that's keeping private the fact that they're censoring... maybe you.
That's what comes from writing too late at night.
There's 2 separate things. One's to inspect the goods from less regulated countries that may find it acceptable, for instance, to use lead paint.
The second part is to remove the "benefit" of moving manufacturing to a less regulated country. The regulations were originally put here to make sure we didn't pollute. Allowing domestic manufacturing to be moved away to some place where they can continue to pollute while providing our goods seems counter to the original intent.
While the second may seem like a tariff, it's true purpose is to ensure those products are not contaminated with the pollutants not allowed in this country.
There is also a third aspect to this, and that is to provide like paying jobs for those moved out of the country. If they aren't being paid to manufacture the goods, they'll get paid to inspect them coming in.
The net result will be to encourage more production domestically while also encouraging environmentally sound manufacturing practices outside the US. This benefits everyone. After all, who has not seen the hordes of mask wearing Beijing citizens moving about doing their daily activities? A lot of that pollution is directly related to factories producing goods for the US that used to be produced domestically.
I'm also aware this will increase prices of goods somewhat, and in some cases significantly. To that, all I can say is: there is no free ride. We will have to do with less. Higher prices will arrive one way or the other. I'd prefer to do it while keeping the country stronger.
This isn't raising tariffs. Tariffs are a tax. This is inspecting goods imported to be certain that they meet our standards.
You know, like no lead in kids toys, little things like that that have been outlawed in this country for a couple of decades or more.
But you can keep the buggy whip analogy, because it really exemplifies your point.
The simple reality is that we have to start increasing the price of imported goods to reflects the realities of producing goods in this country. That is, of course, if you'd like to keep some manufacturing in the country.
Note that it's not labor costs that make up most of the difference, but rather pollution countermeasures. For example, China dumps water untreated back into rivers. Here it needs to be filtered and cleaned. That costs a lot more money than whatever the labor difference is.
If this thought process still doesn't convince you, start thinking about how rubber kickballs can be manufactured in China and shipped, inflated, across the Pacific, be unpacked from their shipping containers here and repacked into trucks at least once before getting to stores and still be cheaper than domestically made kickballs. (Go to any nationwide toy store and you won't see a single US made rubber/plastic anything anymore)
It's called the "law".
It depends upon whether you're hibernating or sleeping (yes, I'm aware you're switching between the two on boot). Sleep can take less than 3s. Hibernate, depending upon your HD and other issues, can take longer than a fresh boot, with either Ubuntu or Windows. I've actually forced a reboot on my Ubuntu system because it was virtually unresponsive coming back up. (Disk was 99% full) If you were heavily swapping before hibernating, forget about coming back out in anything approaching a reasonable time frame.
First, queue up a couple of stories on how the BSA destroyed various companies and present to the boss(es) how you'd like to avoid that, especially if some folks have left recently.
Second - show that their fileservers can easily be converted to linux boxes (no license fees)
Third, depending on the size of your company, buy a MS tech kit license (whatever that thing is) You get a full suite of small business server software and 10 CALs plus 10 licenses for all other programs. It's for evaluation purposes, which you might be able to claim since you don't have legal software. It will at least get you semi-legal until you can fix them with cash or FOSS. Which is what we did. Go all Linux/OSX and free yourself from worry about it.
DeskView was one, don't recall when it came out. There also was GEM, as previously reported. I vaguely recall something else way back then, but it's blurred in the memories of "SmartDisk" overwriting the CMOS on my EISA board....
Doesn't bother me at all.... Of course, I run FF on Linux and OSX....
Well, I've got the other end. I took a job with a company with a sweat shop reputation purely because they offered me a decent number of shares (publicly traded and in the $30s at the time).
Yes, it paid out, and I stayed for a period of time but left about 30% of my original stake because of the unbearable conditions in the job.
Money's not everything. Even work in a field you like isn't everything. Bad (or horrendous self-centered back-stabbing) management will make any job unbearable.
Trust your instincts. If they're saying get out, then start looking or know why your staying, and certainly don't lock yourself in. Also, don't jump to another job just to escape - take the time to find a "good" job. It may not last, but your stress level will certainly drop for a while.
Despite the apology (thanks by the way) the only point I was making was that in some cases the only place content is available is online. Disney is a classic example of the abuse of copyright to milk a creation for all it's worth. Good business, but certainly not what the forefathers had in mind when they created the concept of copyright in US law.
The implication is clear: you have no choice but to download music without the permission of the copyright holder. The law says that this is stealing, so you imply that you have no choice but to steal.
In some cases, this is correct. Try buying a copy of Disney's Cinderella. You can't? Would that be because Disney is abusing the copyright system and has put Cinderella "in the vault"?
You can build an entire house or castle, if you wish. The timelines are somewhat extended beyond what most will tolerate, however.