A thing may or may not be "secure", but you simplify human nature too much.
Some people are sneaky bastards, but others are just transiently meddlesome and choose to cause problems for people who don't suspect because it's often easy to do. Statistics show that if you make meddling easy, people will do it.
One can say specifically about operating systems that the easy vulnerability of previous versions of Redmondows OS is the reason there is a large software security industry today. The incidence of attacks and the costliness of these attacks has been very high; the techniques themselves are limited and most attackers are not especially clever.
Virtualisation is the best defence. Redmond doesn't want to be a guest OS in virtualisation, but putting them as a guest inside a strong OS host is one of the safest ways to open the door to the Web.
Squirts Ballboy said:
There will be a Vista plus one. There will be a Vista plus two, plus three. Yes, and it's official codename is "Vista Double Plus Good".
Squirts Ballboy said:
I don't think Apple or Microsoft should be imposing its will on folks The US DOJ certainly agrees with you on the subject of Monkeysoft, Mr Ballboy.
Squirts Ballboy said:
Really understanding the power of advertising as an Internet business model we came to later than I wish we had. That's the No. 1 thing I regret. We underinvested in some opportunities for a while. Translation: "GOOOOoooggggllllle! Maybe I'm NOT EVER going to f***ing KILL those guys!"
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And the CEO in a lot of ways becomes the icon for many things in the business. The CEO establishes culture. He's an icon for drivel-frothing, promoted-beyond-their-intelligence senior executives everywhere.
I hear that Google's HR team is a bunch of Actuarial Math PhDs who have done a complex analysis and figured out that as people grow older, they have probably done a complex analysis and figured out that HR teams have probably done a complex analysis (especially if they are all Actuarial Math PhDs) and realize that as people grow older, they are not going to put up with long hours and two-faced corporate BS and would rather spend evenings at home.
Friend, have you lost sleep worrying about whether you'll fail adapt to the stupendous User Interface innovations in the latest Monkeysoft Office?
How many times have you found yourself saying, "I could understand this global warming analysis model better if only I could see it on a Monkeysoft Powerpoint slide with those animated bullets that enter from the left or right of the slide"?
How many times have you found yourself thinking, "I don't even know what an OS is, I only need Monkeysoft Windows to run Monkeysoft Office, otherwise I could be using A Bantu or OS Ecstacy or whatever that piercing-faced kid in IS&T is using these days"?
How many times have you found yourself skipping a few StarCups coffees every week for a few months so you could buy yourself the latest version of Monkeysoft Office?
How many times have you found yourself thinking, "I don't get upset about viruses, they are an inevitable part of life even if they cost billions and are propagated by dimwits using Monkeysoft Office, soytenly not me"?
Don't worry, there's help. Join Slashdot's Monkeysoft Anonymous Forum, where people just like you are helping one another learn to live without Monkeysoft, one precious day at a time.
Oh come on. If it really were crap, then you wouldn't have 99% of major commercial software vendors targeting it as a primary platform. That is a poor, unthinking argument.
Commercial vendors target the most prevalent OS in the hope of selling their product. They don't really care if the target is good or not. In fact, some companies, such as anti-virus vendors and firewall makers, ~depend~ on the target OS being crap.
Popularity may be an indicator of possible quality, but it is not a proof. What popularity does usually indicate is a subject of reflection.
I would love to load BSD/ubuntu/etc... on my pops machine - I really would. But he's 60ish and NOT a geek and its just not there yet. I don't know about "etc", and I certainly would not recommend any BSD for your father except perhaps PC-BSD.
However, PC-BSD pales in comparison to Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a great OS experience. I'm interested in knowing what you think your father won't be able to do with it. Is he one of those World Of Warcraft obsessed sexagenarians?
If Adobe were to port its (excellent) studio to Linux, it would be a major event in software. "Catalytic", though?
Interesting.
I think Adobe is in the ideal position of being the leader in its field(s), with almost no serious competition. (Apple is trying, Redmond is bumbling.) Only a software maker in that position could afford to port to Linux. For this reason, I don't think we'd see a rush of ported Redmondows applications following such a move by Adobe.
Linux has arrived on the desktop. Cupertino and Redmond would suffer by such a move by Adobe, but Redmond's pockets are extremely deep. We can talk about their incompetence, but they are not weak. Even if they are "weaker than ever", they are much stronger than anyone else, except Google and IBM. (The latter two have claimed territory that is outside Redmond's traditional business.) Microsoft can buy their way into any market, except maybe Google's.
The sort of alliance that it would take to crush Redmond would still leave Redmond rich and hungry for a big meal. Redmondows is not going away anytime soon. Certainly not within the next five years.
if (they do X on Linux) { Microsoft would be dead in three years;} I say with no malice that this is the most naive statement I have read all week, and I follow President Bush's press announcements.
You don't dislike significant whitespace. Perhaps if Guido Van Nostrum repeats this to me 50 times I will be cured!
It's just a matter of getting over it, using it, and seeing that it is no big deal. Semi-colons can be used in Python, as you know. I believe I could live without them, but I consider them useful in some circumstances.
Ruby is just one example to show that a language can be readable without promoting Corporal Blankness to a three-star General.
Yes, you can write unindented code in Ruby, but why is this an advantage?
That's a lawyerly-phrased question. I still indent code. I don't like my indentation preferences determining the logic of the code.
If you're going to discuss advantages of Ruby over Python, anonymous blocks and Ruby's class system would be better choices.
I personally like Ruby more than Python and in particular like the class system, notation, and its implicit accessors. But I'd call these preferences just that, whereas I consider "significant whitespace" to be folly.
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What is the advantage of this language over PHP,python or Perl. Ruby > PHP because PHP is a mess to work, a mess to maintain, and a security liability. Ruby > Python because white space does not affect logical flow in Ruby, and because Ruby succeeds in being both familiar and readable. Ruby > Perl5 because Perl5 has a wretched implementation of OOP concepts. We don't even need to discuss how hard Perl can be to read... and I ~like~ Perl.
Ruby > Perl6 because we are all terrified that Perl6 will be so hideous that our eyeballs will explode.
I would rather use CGI with C:Still the performance king,Java comes in 2nd and Perl 3rd. CGI in C is too risky. CGI in C++ and STL strings is secure, scalable, and highly portable. I'd take Perl before Java for CGI. I prefer Python or Ruby to Java in just about every case, including UI development (WxWidgets).
Ruby is well designed. It will become faster as all dynamic languages do. It's weakness is that it just doesn't have good English documentation.
Is Bill Gates running for President in 2008? If so, I'm fleeing. It's hard to imagine that he will try. I mean, he'd have to find a better campaign slogan than "The Wow Starts Now."
Being misunderstood on Slashdot is such a terrible feeling, as though I can no longer rely on a common base of sympathy, compassion and impudent mockery with hundreds of thousands of nerds and Larry Wall quoters, Linux-Runs-My-Doorbell obsessives, General Custer-Bush's dwindling battalion, and Monoposoft shills around the world.
This is the evidence that we've been waiting for. Let's throw out the junk science telling us to wreck our economy to save the environment. It's as false as the rest of the liberal hand-wringing and weeping.
If God had ~not~ wanted us to have lung tumours, he would not have given us chemotherapy.
I have been using Ubuntu since Hedgehog on two different computers, each with an ATI card. I have never had a problem with ATI video cards. BUT I have not tried 3d or TV cards.
Linux with an ATI card is a fine experience. But with 3d or TV, you may have a problem.
I did not draw the comparison between St Torvalds (we're on/.) and Rich Guy Bill and I don't agree with doing so. However, since you did draw the comparison...
You don't have to "think" (as in "conjecture without a scrap of insight"): you can see Linus's code if you make an effort. You can make a real decision for yourself. No one can see anything that Bill has coded. Declaring him a "whiz" in programming has no substantiation.
Their leadership styles differ. Torvalds is in fact a good, unpretentious communicator with some wit.
As for areas in which Bill may perhaps be a whiz, cue all the ignorant/. participants who say that Money = Genius. Let simmer. Add salt and enjoy. Even Madonna, Trump, and Britney make that low grade.
Bill certainly isn't a genius when it comes to communicating with the public (when he talks, he is lame; when he hires ghost writers, the result is lame) or in picking a successor.
I'm willing to accept the assertion that he knows how to program. But I think we had all best withhold proclaiming Mr Gates a "whiz" until we see his CVS check-ins.
Here's an exercise for the reader. Go start or join a band that plays live original music. Go try to make money at it. Then, and only then, can you spout off on the Internet about how wonderful the world will be when no one can make money off selling recordings anymore. Then, and only then, do you have the experience to talk about how wonderful a life of slogging through gigs will be.
Sir, this is whining. If there is no money to be made doing X, then you aren't wise to continue struggling to make money doing X.
The fact that so many people became millionaires pounding out two or three chords is the anomaly here.
Very few people do what they love for money, or make their money doing what they love.
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But there is a 60% probability that in his article Dvorak will recommend that Apple be bought or do the buying.
Unless he has already written that article this month. In which case, the probability drops to 40%.
Yes, if I, as a lawyer, see a chance to extend my bill to you.
A thing may or may not be "secure", but you simplify human nature too much.
Some people are sneaky bastards, but others are just transiently meddlesome and choose to cause problems for people who don't suspect because it's often easy to do. Statistics show that if you make meddling easy, people will do it.
One can say specifically about operating systems that the easy vulnerability of previous versions of Redmondows OS is the reason there is a large software security industry today. The incidence of attacks and the costliness of these attacks has been very high; the techniques themselves are limited and most attackers are not especially clever.
Virtualisation is the best defence. Redmond doesn't want to be a guest OS in virtualisation, but putting them as a guest inside a strong OS host is one of the safest ways to open the door to the Web.
I like QEMU.
Squirts Ballboy said: I don't think Apple or Microsoft should be imposing its will on folks The US DOJ certainly agrees with you on the subject of Monkeysoft, Mr Ballboy.
Squirts Ballboy said: Really understanding the power of advertising as an Internet business model we came to later than I wish we had. That's the No. 1 thing I regret. We underinvested in some opportunities for a while. Translation: "GOOOOoooggggllllle! Maybe I'm NOT EVER going to f***ing KILL those guys!"
Squirts Ballboy said: And the CEO in a lot of ways becomes the icon for many things in the business. The CEO establishes culture. He's an icon for drivel-frothing, promoted-beyond-their-intelligence senior executives everywhere.
I hear that Google's HR team is a bunch of Actuarial Math PhDs who have done a complex analysis and figured out that as people grow older, they have probably done a complex analysis and figured out that HR teams have probably done a complex analysis (especially if they are all Actuarial Math PhDs) and realize that as people grow older, they are not going to put up with long hours and two-faced corporate BS and would rather spend evenings at home.
Friend, have you lost sleep worrying about whether you'll fail adapt to the stupendous User Interface innovations in the latest Monkeysoft Office?
How many times have you found yourself saying, "I could understand this global warming analysis model better if only I could see it on a Monkeysoft Powerpoint slide with those animated bullets that enter from the left or right of the slide"?
How many times have you found yourself thinking, "I don't even know what an OS is, I only need Monkeysoft Windows to run Monkeysoft Office, otherwise I could be using A Bantu or OS Ecstacy or whatever that piercing-faced kid in IS&T is using these days"?
How many times have you found yourself skipping a few StarCups coffees every week for a few months so you could buy yourself the latest version of Monkeysoft Office?
How many times have you found yourself thinking, "I don't get upset about viruses, they are an inevitable part of life even if they cost billions and are propagated by dimwits using Monkeysoft Office, soytenly not me"?
Don't worry, there's help. Join Slashdot's Monkeysoft Anonymous Forum, where people just like you are helping one another learn to live without Monkeysoft, one precious day at a time.
Commercial vendors target the most prevalent OS in the hope of selling their product. They don't really care if the target is good or not. In fact, some companies, such as anti-virus vendors and firewall makers, ~depend~ on the target OS being crap.
Popularity may be an indicator of possible quality, but it is not a proof. What popularity does usually indicate is a subject of reflection.
However, PC-BSD pales in comparison to Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a great OS experience. I'm interested in knowing what you think your father won't be able to do with it. Is he one of those World Of Warcraft obsessed sexagenarians?
If you take the blue pill, there is no other world.
If Adobe were to port its (excellent) studio to Linux, it would be a major event in software. "Catalytic", though?
Interesting.
I think Adobe is in the ideal position of being the leader in its field(s), with almost no serious competition. (Apple is trying, Redmond is bumbling.) Only a software maker in that position could afford to port to Linux. For this reason, I don't think we'd see a rush of ported Redmondows applications following such a move by Adobe.
Linux has arrived on the desktop. Cupertino and Redmond would suffer by such a move by Adobe, but Redmond's pockets are extremely deep. We can talk about their incompetence, but they are not weak. Even if they are "weaker than ever", they are much stronger than anyone else, except Google and IBM. (The latter two have claimed territory that is outside Redmond's traditional business.) Microsoft can buy their way into any market, except maybe Google's.
The sort of alliance that it would take to crush Redmond would still leave Redmond rich and hungry for a big meal. Redmondows is not going away anytime soon. Certainly not within the next five years.
I mnogaja ljeta!
is the case of Serbian slivovica found in the same mine.
Ruby is just one example to show that a language can be readable without promoting Corporal Blankness to a three-star General.
That's a lawyerly-phrased question. I still indent code. I don't like my indentation preferences determining the logic of the code.
I personally like Ruby more than Python and in particular like the class system, notation, and its implicit accessors. But I'd call these preferences just that, whereas I consider "significant whitespace" to be folly.
Ruby > Perl6 because we are all terrified that Perl6 will be so hideous that our eyeballs will explode. I would rather use CGI with C:Still the performance king,Java comes in 2nd and Perl 3rd. CGI in C is too risky. CGI in C++ and STL strings is secure, scalable, and highly portable. I'd take Perl before Java for CGI. I prefer Python or Ruby to Java in just about every case, including UI development (WxWidgets).
Ruby is well designed. It will become faster as all dynamic languages do. It's weakness is that it just doesn't have good English documentation.
Sites should provide a "whole article" link. But as has been mentioned, they get money for exposing their sponsors to you.
You could save URLs that interest you and use wget or curl to grab your interests from a list.
Being misunderstood on Slashdot is such a terrible feeling, as though I can no longer rely on a common base of sympathy, compassion and impudent mockery with hundreds of thousands of nerds and Larry Wall quoters, Linux-Runs-My-Doorbell obsessives, General Custer-Bush's dwindling battalion, and Monoposoft shills around the world.
Oh wait...
This is the evidence that we've been waiting for. Let's throw out the junk science telling us to wreck our economy to save the environment. It's as false as the rest of the liberal hand-wringing and weeping.
If God had ~not~ wanted us to have lung tumours, he would not have given us chemotherapy.
AWSA! Another Wretched Slashdot Analogy.
:o)
But a rather useful acronym is born.
You need to qualify your declaration.
I have been using Ubuntu since Hedgehog on two different computers, each with an ATI card. I have never had a problem with ATI video cards. BUT I have not tried 3d or TV cards.
Linux with an ATI card is a fine experience. But with 3d or TV, you may have a problem.
I did not draw the comparison between St Torvalds (we're on /.) and Rich Guy Bill and I don't agree with doing so. However, since you did draw the comparison...
/. participants who say that Money = Genius. Let simmer. Add salt and enjoy. Even Madonna, Trump, and Britney make that low grade.
You don't have to "think" (as in "conjecture without a scrap of insight"): you can see Linus's code if you make an effort. You can make a real decision for yourself. No one can see anything that Bill has coded. Declaring him a "whiz" in programming has no substantiation.
Their leadership styles differ. Torvalds is in fact a good, unpretentious communicator with some wit.
As for areas in which Bill may perhaps be a whiz, cue all the ignorant
Bill certainly isn't a genius when it comes to communicating with the public (when he talks, he is lame; when he hires ghost writers, the result is lame) or in picking a successor.
I'm willing to accept the assertion that he knows how to program. But I think we had all best withhold proclaiming Mr Gates a "whiz" until we see his CVS check-ins.
Sir, this is whining. If there is no money to be made doing X, then you aren't wise to continue struggling to make money doing X.
The fact that so many people became millionaires pounding out two or three chords is the anomaly here.
Very few people do what they love for money, or make their money doing what they love.