Check out the last paragraph:
"In fact, I'm blaming the AAF for a wide-range of habits espoused by supposedly "creative people." I'll bet it's responsible for tattoos, piercings, and the wide-spread adoption of the phrase "no worries." In fact, I believe that most of today's societal ills can be either indirectly or directly attributed to Apple. Widespread hearing loss? Blame the iPod. Carpal tunnel? Blame the Newton. Upswing in hernias? That Infinite Loop idiot who decided to put a handle on the first iMac--and started the whole luggable trend. No, Boot Camp is just the latest diabolical piece of Steve Jobs's grand plan to dumb us down and mangle our bodies. ... So go ahead and Boot Camp if you must. But don't come running to me when your mind and body prematurely degenerate. I'll be smart, fit, and enjoying my real Windows computers, while you ooze slowly into the Pixar-Disney-ABC swamp of mindlessness. Chump."
I assume that he's trying to be funny here, but come on. How can anyone take this guy seriously?
I saw a similar experience at a seminar for work a few weeks ago. Part of the theme was datacenter security.
As a demonstration of how some people just didn't know about the risk, the presenter plugged his Windows laptop into a wall outlet and fired up Nessus.
It was a mess. Every staff computer was running Windows XP unsecured. You could see them in Network Neighborhood. He tried the main server with password "password" over virtual desktop and got in. This from some businessman with no CS training, just curiosity. I would imagine that someone with deeper experience and malicious intent could have raised hell, or worse, stolen information and never let anybody know about it.
He later told the hotel owners what had happened (pretty brave of him, I suppose, considering what's happened to whistle blowers in the past). I have no idea if they were impressed or intend to do anything. Or if they have even the slightest idea of how to fix the problem; I seriously doubt that your average hotel has an IT staff.
After all this, staying at any hotel is sounding a lot scarier. He's been able to pull this trick almost everywhere he lectures at.
Honestly, what defines the words "Liberal" and "Conservative?" I can't see any consistent difference anymore.
Republicans go after Janet Jackson's boob on TV. Democrats go after something analogous in GTA (and now The Sims?). Do their "morals" depend on the medium for some reason?
Can we please have a group of people who are consistently interested in defending my personal freedom? The ACLU has always impressed me for this reason, no matter how extraneous some of their projects are. At the end of the day, one of the few measurements I get to see of my government's effectiveness is how freely I am able to do what I want to do.
It's a question of whether the software itself is valuable, or whether the work done by the software is valuable.
Microsoft relies on their programs being a commodity, while OSS transforms software into a tool to achieve other goals.
On another note, I suspect that MORE jobs would be created if each customer ware required to deploy OSS solutions (or to have a vendor do it for them) rather than pay a few hundred Microsoft people to write the code that runs on millions of customers' systems.
I interviewed the unix administrater at a local university as part of some report I had to write this year, and he told me how he takes code from the net, debuggs it for his architecture/configuration, and deploys it on the school's webservers. That's his whole job! And this job wouldn't exist if he was using Microsoft's generic offerings.
The entire "library media center" at my high school recently upgraded all 30+ computers (for reasons inconceivable to me) from NT4 to XP. The computers are all 350MHz with 128 MB RAM.
They run pretty well, at least better than NT, when all you have to do is surf the web with IE. But as soon as more than one application opens, everything sloooows down pretty quickly, presumably as a function of the small physical memory.
So I guess that, even with the explorer shell, Windows can make due with the minimun.
I am definitely not a lawyer, so after months of SCO news I have this question when can we seriously expect this whole fiasco to end?
Is this going to be one of those court cases that takes years to be settled?
There must be some old-timers out there who have seen this type of thing in the past; how many series of filings -> hearings -> more filings -> more hearings ->... does it take?
but there are fewer and fewer forms to fill out these days that aren't automated.
I just finished applying to college, and I don't know what I would have done w/out my father's old typewriter.
As long as the electronic apps are so buggy (and believe me, I haven't yet come across one that isn't), there will be a need even for high-schoolers to make neat, consistently legible additions to pre-printed forms.
Maybe by the time my kids get to this point, things will finally have been straightened out...
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So go ahead and Boot Camp if you must. But don't come running to me when your mind and body prematurely degenerate. I'll be smart, fit, and enjoying my real Windows computers, while you ooze slowly into the Pixar-Disney-ABC swamp of mindlessness. Chump."
I assume that he's trying to be funny here, but come on. How can anyone take this guy seriously?
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As a demonstration of how some people just didn't know about the risk, the presenter plugged his Windows laptop into a wall outlet and fired up Nessus.
It was a mess. Every staff computer was running Windows XP unsecured. You could see them in Network Neighborhood. He tried the main server with password "password" over virtual desktop and got in. This from some businessman with no CS training, just curiosity. I would imagine that someone with deeper experience and malicious intent could have raised hell, or worse, stolen information and never let anybody know about it.
He later told the hotel owners what had happened (pretty brave of him, I suppose, considering what's happened to whistle blowers in the past). I have no idea if they were impressed or intend to do anything. Or if they have even the slightest idea of how to fix the problem; I seriously doubt that your average hotel has an IT staff.
After all this, staying at any hotel is sounding a lot scarier. He's been able to pull this trick almost everywhere he lectures at.
Honestly, what defines the words "Liberal" and "Conservative?" I can't see any consistent difference anymore.
Republicans go after Janet Jackson's boob on TV. Democrats go after something analogous in GTA (and now The Sims?). Do their "morals" depend on the medium for some reason?
Can we please have a group of people who are consistently interested in defending my personal freedom? The ACLU has always impressed me for this reason, no matter how extraneous some of their projects are. At the end of the day, one of the few measurements I get to see of my government's effectiveness is how freely I am able to do what I want to do.
What's the point of a democracy if not that?
Microsoft relies on their programs being a commodity, while OSS transforms software into a tool to achieve other goals.
On another note, I suspect that MORE jobs would be created if each customer ware required to deploy OSS solutions (or to have a vendor do it for them) rather than pay a few hundred Microsoft people to write the code that runs on millions of customers' systems.
I interviewed the unix administrater at a local university as part of some report I had to write this year, and he told me how he takes code from the net, debuggs it for his architecture/configuration, and deploys it on the school's webservers. That's his whole job! And this job wouldn't exist if he was using Microsoft's generic offerings.
They run pretty well, at least better than NT, when all you have to do is surf the web with IE. But as soon as more than one application opens, everything sloooows down pretty quickly, presumably as a function of the small physical memory.
So I guess that, even with the explorer shell, Windows can make due with the minimun.
What, you mean this?
Is this going to be one of those court cases that takes years to be settled?
There must be some old-timers out there who have seen this type of thing in the past; how many series of filings -> hearings -> more filings -> more hearings -> ... does it take?
It doesn't seem that complicated to me...
I just finished applying to college, and I don't know what I would have done w/out my father's old typewriter.
As long as the electronic apps are so buggy (and believe me, I haven't yet come across one that isn't), there will be a need even for high-schoolers to make neat, consistently legible additions to pre-printed forms.
Maybe by the time my kids get to this point, things will finally have been straightened out...