A sweat soaked Steve Ballmer announced that many stores that sell Windows will also be opening car washes to compete with this most recent threat from Linux.
And thus, security flaws in Windows are blamed for soaked car interiors.
Maybe, but having a good understanding of spiritual and philosophical beliefs does not neccesarily mean you'll like this movie. I've seen it twice and have a hard time staying awake each time. I consider myself intouch with various philophies and have studied several religions back in school. it doesn't make this an interesting movie. I gave it a few chances. I give it the grade of C-
I'm no huge anime fan, but i like a good movie and I appreciate good animation. I've only seen a handfull of anime movies and some cartoon network stuff (cowboy beebop mostly). Akira was much more interesting to me than Ghost in the Shell. Everyone said, "if you like Akira, go see Ghost blabitty bla." Meh...
It isn't an unreasonable expectation that a machine connecting to a public network shouldn't have gaping security gaps. In fact, IMO, it is a public duty that it should not.
these sentences "make the baby jesus cry," to quote the flanders kids.
In fact, IMO
wha? "In fact, in my opinion.." contradictory?
gaping gaps? [head explodes]
"It is a reasonable expectation that a machine connecting to a public network has no security gaps." Much easier to read. "In my opinion, it is public duty to secure such a computer."
this has been a public service announcement from the People for Sane English Usage
so they are basically implementing a bait and switch spanning several years. not really, but it illustrates my point. they have what people consider a good product. they're changing all the hardware for it in the next version (not even just newer hardware from the same manufacturers, but new manufacturers), not using some of the features that make it popular, and not allowing you to play your old games. So while they will be riding on the fan base of the old system, the new system will not be a Version 2, but a new untested system in the saturated video game market.
add to that MS's inherant ability to fsck things up, and you've got a real winner.
Ok, mod this as troll bait if necessary and I know that email interviews can home in on minutae, but if this guy is a person of interest, aren't there better questions to ask? Was there no moderator screening the questions?
maybe you were just disappointed that he didn't respond with "portman" or "hot_grits"
OS zealotry is just (hopefully) a stage in the growth of a user. it's when they realize the OS is great for their use, they imagine how many other great uses it could have for them, and then think everyone must use this because it is so great for me. hopefully they realize eventually that other people use things that are great for themselves, and changing would be detrimental to what they want to accomplish. Eventually the zealot will come to terms with diversity and no longer be a zealot. the problem is there will always be zealots, but the people who are zealots may change.
there was once a long list comedically stepping through the progression of a linux user from newbie to guru. i tried finding it, but failed. i must be using the wrong keywords. google has failed me, and I have failed it.
jeebus. you call yourself a nerd? first of all, its a star wars reference. not knowing that is grounds for dismissal. second, regardless of Lucas not knowing what a parsec was and just using it because it sounded cool, imagine the ways in which a measure of distance could also indicate how quick you could complete something.
the targets are moving? so if they get further and further away, your doing a bad job?
He admits freely the possibility that combinations of improvements may yield this order-of-magnitude improvement -- he draws the line at single factors. So there is no one, single silver bullet.
There is no such thing as multiple silver bullets. "silver bullet" is a term derived from killing werewolves, where it takes a single silver bullet to kill the beast. not 2, not 3, but one. One thing and it's done.
The author of the article implies that there may be several silver bullets. that's how i read this section. saying "so there is no one, single silver bullet" is redundant and alludes to the fact that there is a concept of multiple silver bullets. that's wrong.
there is no silver bullet. just leave well enough alone.
oh man, if they released it free or even bundled it with the OS, expect another antitrust lawsuit. they have been found guilty of using their desktop OS monopoly to gain an advantage in other areas. This would be exactly the same situation.
microsoft should stay out of this software sector, or divide the company into completely seperate entities that have no advantage in interoperation over any other non-MS company.
If they can fix the problems that lead to exploits and release those fixes as AV software, why can't they just fix the problems in the operating system instead? then the neccesity of AV would diminish altogether. surely you weren't saying that anti-trust would be cried out if MS released a OS that resulted in no need for AV, were you?
My impression of this is that you don't have to have phone service from the same company you have DSL service from, but you still have to have phone service from someone.
and blatantly obvious stock scams they have been pulling
well if you are going to call him out on the fact that "The jury is still out" in regards to their IP claims, then I'll call you out on the stock scams.
I havn't seen anything from the SEC saying that the execs of SCO are practicing illegal trading. They might be, it looks like they are, but that has yet to be officially determined.
they are not at all mutually exclusive really, as far as applications go. If i have gnome libs installed and kde libs installed, I can run a gnome based app right alongside a kde based app.
hell, i have kde installed in slackware and never actually use kde as a desktop environment. there are a few apps that are built for kde that I use.
Yes, that's right, completely blank. I went to go configure X (XFree then) and realized I was going to have to type in everything myself.
Not the case at all for me when i installed 9.1. The only files that may have been blank, or non-existing, were the config files in my home directory, such as.xinitrc. Those however are easily copied from/etc/X11/whatever and then tailored.
also, i'm using not very standard or good hardware. no problems at all.
for what it's worth, todays slackware is easier to install than debian was 3 years ago, the last time i tried debian.
i for one don't know how debian's install has progressed. it was just different the first time through, and took some getting use to. Slack is pretty straight forward, more or less intuitive (to me).
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A sweat soaked Steve Ballmer announced that many stores that sell Windows will also be opening car washes to compete with this most recent threat from Linux.
And thus, security flaws in Windows are blamed for soaked car interiors.
(man, that Ballmer video is downright disturbing)
Maybe, but having a good understanding of spiritual and philosophical beliefs does not neccesarily mean you'll like this movie. I've seen it twice and have a hard time staying awake each time. I consider myself intouch with various philophies and have studied several religions back in school. it doesn't make this an interesting movie. I gave it a few chances. I give it the grade of C-
I'm no huge anime fan, but i like a good movie and I appreciate good animation. I've only seen a handfull of anime movies and some cartoon network stuff (cowboy beebop mostly). Akira was much more interesting to me than Ghost in the Shell. Everyone said, "if you like Akira, go see Ghost blabitty bla." Meh...
Ghost in the Shell (Score: 2, Overrated)
right... you havn't lost any perspective have you.
It isn't an unreasonable expectation that a machine connecting to a public network shouldn't have gaping security gaps. In fact, IMO, it is a public duty that it should not.
these sentences "make the baby jesus cry," to quote the flanders kids.
In fact, IMO
wha? "In fact, in my opinion.." contradictory?
gaping gaps? [head explodes]
"It is a reasonable expectation that a machine connecting to a public network has no security gaps." Much easier to read. "In my opinion, it is public duty to secure such a computer."
this has been a public service announcement from the People for Sane English Usage
lets watch your post get modded down for mom bang^H^Hshing.
what was the percentage before we had the results of the flight? i bet it was lower...
great so now we point out and make fun of the editors when they actually fix something?
good for you.
yep, that's it. thanks.
so they are basically implementing a bait and switch spanning several years. not really, but it illustrates my point. they have what people consider a good product. they're changing all the hardware for it in the next version (not even just newer hardware from the same manufacturers, but new manufacturers), not using some of the features that make it popular, and not allowing you to play your old games. So while they will be riding on the fan base of the old system, the new system will not be a Version 2, but a new untested system in the saturated video game market.
add to that MS's inherant ability to fsck things up, and you've got a real winner.
had retained a team of hardware emulation experts to work on the problem
i don't get it. Why emulate what you can do natively? this project will be late, over budget, broken, then forgotten.
Ok, mod this as troll bait if necessary and I know that email interviews can home in on minutae, but if this guy is a person of interest, aren't there better questions to ask? Was there no moderator screening the questions?
maybe you were just disappointed that he didn't respond with "portman" or "hot_grits"
OS zealotry is just (hopefully) a stage in the growth of a user. it's when they realize the OS is great for their use, they imagine how many other great uses it could have for them, and then think everyone must use this because it is so great for me. hopefully they realize eventually that other people use things that are great for themselves, and changing would be detrimental to what they want to accomplish. Eventually the zealot will come to terms with diversity and no longer be a zealot. the problem is there will always be zealots, but the people who are zealots may change.
there was once a long list comedically stepping through the progression of a linux user from newbie to guru. i tried finding it, but failed. i must be using the wrong keywords. google has failed me, and I have failed it.
porn industry will be pushing the envelope of that "25 years" section.
...no comment.
microgravity research?
jeebus. you call yourself a nerd? first of all, its a star wars reference. not knowing that is grounds for dismissal. second, regardless of Lucas not knowing what a parsec was and just using it because it sounded cool, imagine the ways in which a measure of distance could also indicate how quick you could complete something.
the targets are moving? so if they get further and further away, your doing a bad job?
He admits freely the possibility that combinations of improvements may yield this order-of-magnitude improvement -- he draws the line at single factors. So there is no one, single silver bullet.
There is no such thing as multiple silver bullets. "silver bullet" is a term derived from killing werewolves, where it takes a single silver bullet to kill the beast. not 2, not 3, but one. One thing and it's done.
The author of the article implies that there may be several silver bullets. that's how i read this section. saying "so there is no one, single silver bullet" is redundant and alludes to the fact that there is a concept of multiple silver bullets. that's wrong.
there is no silver bullet. just leave well enough alone.
Another trust issue:
Will it consider software in directories that have a GPL license to be a virus?
Will it consider the device driver i wrote for an old graphics card to be a virus?
Will it consider IBM's web based office productivity suite a virus?
oh man, if they released it free or even bundled it with the OS, expect another antitrust lawsuit. they have been found guilty of using their desktop OS monopoly to gain an advantage in other areas. This would be exactly the same situation.
microsoft should stay out of this software sector, or divide the company into completely seperate entities that have no advantage in interoperation over any other non-MS company.
I think you are misunderstanding the parent.
If they can fix the problems that lead to exploits and release those fixes as AV software, why can't they just fix the problems in the operating system instead? then the neccesity of AV would diminish altogether. surely you weren't saying that anti-trust would be cried out if MS released a OS that resulted in no need for AV, were you?
My impression of this is that you don't have to have phone service from the same company you have DSL service from, but you still have to have phone service from someone.
no?
i don't have a land line, so I don't have DSL.
and blatantly obvious stock scams they have been pulling
well if you are going to call him out on the fact that "The jury is still out" in regards to their IP claims, then I'll call you out on the stock scams.
I havn't seen anything from the SEC saying that the execs of SCO are practicing illegal trading. They might be, it looks like they are, but that has yet to be officially determined.
sorry, IBM holds all those patents too.
they are not at all mutually exclusive really, as far as applications go. If i have gnome libs installed and kde libs installed, I can run a gnome based app right alongside a kde based app.
hell, i have kde installed in slackware and never actually use kde as a desktop environment. there are a few apps that are built for kde that I use.
Yes, that's right, completely blank. I went to go configure X (XFree then) and realized I was going to have to type in everything myself.
.xinitrc. Those however are easily copied from /etc/X11/whatever and then tailored.
Not the case at all for me when i installed 9.1. The only files that may have been blank, or non-existing, were the config files in my home directory, such as
also, i'm using not very standard or good hardware. no problems at all.
for what it's worth, todays slackware is easier to install than debian was 3 years ago, the last time i tried debian.
i for one don't know how debian's install has progressed. it was just different the first time through, and took some getting use to. Slack is pretty straight forward, more or less intuitive (to me).
With all this convergence, will my possessions need me anymore?
...best quote of the day