Because designers know that it costs time and energy to make a good font, and want to show respect for that. You really shouldn't get riled up about typography without learning about it first from the perspective of the people who actually do it.
Hmmm. Where have I seen other software that's works beautifully, was written by skilled people and is free?
Has anybody noticed that the fonts reside on Monotype's servers and the user's browser needs to go fetch them, and unlike all the standard browser fonts, these require a licence in order to use. The licence is currently free, however that doesn't mean it won't be $100,000 tomorrow.
And if their server goes down or you decide you don't want to pay, your site looks like crap.
Pardon my scepticism, but I'll stick to fonts that exist in the browser or even better CSS @font-face and download a freely distributable font from the client's site.
The part that's astonishing is that there are still companies that charge money for fonts. Why (how) are they still here?
Have you ever worked in a secure IT environment? Actually, have you ever worked in IT?
Unless your first computer came as a pinout diagram for a 4-bit processor, a soldering iron and an idea, I've been doing it longer than you have. I've been in banking since punch-cards and magnetic tape, UUCP over dial-up, thorough mainframes, dumb terminals, terminal emulators, PCs and the beginning of the web, then moved into web and application support for the federal government before starting my own company to go after mid-range businesses.
And as nostalgic as it makes me feel, my experience is irrelevant here. There was nobody in the entire city that he was willing to give the passwords to, which makes him a dick (and now a felon) not a conscientious employee.
For what it's worth, I blame his boss and his boss's boss as much as our pet head-case. They needed to have access restoration policies and procedures in place for exactly this situation. What did they plan on doing if he was hit by a bus or dropped dead from Burger-King and Jolt Cola? One guy holds all the keys? That's just stupid.
Your right... Childs thought the network was "his"... he was wrong. The passwords are intellectual property and as such he isnt allowed to keep it. He is however allowed to "forget" the passwords. Then there would have been nothing they could have done to him.
What possible up-side could there be to "forgetting" the passwords, except pissing everybody off and making it really hard to get another job?
I just don't see an up-side in that action for anybody. The city would be need to pay to have their passwords reset, he'd still be out of work (although probably not in jail), but would be publicly known as "the guy who boned his employer when given the chance".
Honestly, I'd hire someone who went to jail for his beliefs long before I'd hire someone with a "scorched earth" policy for job changes.
I would never hire anyone for a technical role who would give a password to an unauthorised person, including their boss (assuming they're not authorised to receive it).
That's nonsensical. If you're not required to do what your boss says, he's not your boss.
In any case, you're making an irrelevant distinction. If the boss wants the password, you give it to him. If the boss then blows up the network or sells the password to the Russians, that's his problem not yours. When law enforcement comes by, you say "It blew up right after my boss demanded the password"
Childs has ego issues. He was just an employee, not Superman, and was not tasked with saving the universe, just with keeping the hardware running. Keeping the password safe from hackers is prudent. Not giving it to his boss even after the city demanded it was just being a dick.
The original SCO is now Tarantella, who is now owned by Oracle.
This current litigious incarnation is what is left of Caldera.
It's actually really funny they chose that name, since a Caldera is actually the remains of a formerly-functional volcano. They occasionally emit smoke, but that's about it.
Ahhh, I finally got it, you win. IHBT. Congrats! Doesn't often happen.
Thanks! I even got points for it. 8-)
Actually I like video, although I do have a problem with Big Business whoring the internet and technology in general. People have been getting screwed for so long they don't actually understand that they've been used like the last girl in the bar at closing time.
My all-time favorite is that text messages are sent using empty space in network management packets that need to be sent anyway and cost nothing, but are billed as if they were made from bigfoot hair and moon rocks.
I remember those days. Finding websites was a nightmare because I mostly relied on user-built (and easily broken) webrings or link pages. All user maintained because no one was being paid for it, so maintainers could fall off the web and you were out of luck.
Actually, the links generally worked just fine, and if you couldn't find something, you could <GASP>"ask someone."
And they've got dozens of hours of full motion video, and a back archive of articles and forum posts going back years?
Who gives a crap about full-motion video? It's just a lead-in for extracting more of your money. Pay your cell phone company for a "data plan", pay you internet provider for a faster connection, pay the content provider, watch advertising, buy the crap they're shilling. Same shit, different day.
Archives are great, however. I've got stuff that goes back to the late 70's
And how does the business pay for the people who do the work that brings the people to the site?
By selling actual products and services, not just made-up internet nonsense.
You see, if enough people take up a site's bandwidth without generating ad impressions, the ad companies pay less for their ad-space, and each visitor, on average, produces less income for the site.
Shh. If you listen carefully, you can hear me playing sad music on the world's smallest violin
I know that most of you weren't even born yet, but there was a time when the internet had no advertising. And it did just fine.
"Monetizing your assets" is marketing bullshit-speak for "fleecing stupid people and annoying the rest". In fact, I own several websites right now that contain no advertising and get traffic. Any business that performs a service that's worth more than a pile of post-horse-oats can afford enough hardware and bandwidth to support thousands of users for less than they spend on getting the mats by the front door cleaned. And anybody who wants a personal site can do the same for less than the cost of a "value meal" at McDonalds.
And as bizarre as this seems, I could even post original content and have user interaction just like The Escapist and still charge nothing.
Not only do I recommend ad-block to my friends, I install ad-blocking proxy servers for businesses, because nowhere in the world is wasted time, money and bandwidth more apparent than in businesses that actually measure expenses and productivity. Employee wants to spend a little while looking for a new recipe for hummus? Great! Employee gets distracted and spends a half our down the rabbit hole with punch-the-monkey ads, not so great.
They can advertise all they want, but nobody is going to tell me that I have to:
If IBM stopped all of their FOSS activities, it would have very little effect on their bottom line - if any. It seems to be more of an alternative to Windows - if anything.
I can't even guess at the ongoing losses IBM costs Microsoft in lost Exchange and Outlook licenses by letting a handful of developers (one?) work on Postfix.
They're taking hundreds of millions of dollars (more?) away from their competitor for nearly nothing.
Postfix may not directly make IBM any money, but it sure as hell costs Microsoft big-time and gets customers to consider other solutions. Once you've made businesses realize that excellent non-Microsoft software exists, they start to consider other options. Maybe DB2 instead of SQL Server. Who knows? The possibilities are endless and the ROI is nearly infinite.
Terry
I'm not going to "convince" Oracle of anything. If they don't like Open Source, they can do whatever the hell they feel like.
FOSS existed long before Oracle and will continue to exist long after all the Oracle users are wondering how they managed to get boned so hard on licence fees from a company that then went broke.
You know debit cards are insecure. Get a credit card and get over it.
Debit cards are nothing more than a great way to screw you. The banks know this and now you know it.
If you have a credit card, you're protected by the Fair Credit Billing Act, which means you're liable for up to $50, although in practice, the banks often waive this as a "card benefit". I have absolutely no clue why any sane person would use a debit card since the liability is nearly infinite.
With 25 years of experience, then a major move and trying to get a new job I was asked over and over again - "Where did you get your degree?" When I told them that I had never finished it they told me "Thanks but no thanks, we require a degree here!" So after a 52 semester break I am now just 3 semesters short of my CIS/CJ BS. That is why it's worth the bother!
Yeah, that always blows. Depending on what your skill-set is and the job you're going for, "no degree" might be a problem. However, they're almost certainly using it as an easy and defensible way to reduce the pile of applicants, and not because it's actually necessary for the job.
If your special skill is writing non-buggy device drivers and you have a great track record, or you're really good at maintaining and enhancing unsupported truly mission-critical software (like old versions of Great Plains that are too expensive to upgrade) they won't care if the only degrees you have are on a thermometer. If your skill is another "me too" skill where there are millions of others competing for the same jobs, you're pretty much screwed, even with a degree.
Differentiation is a great thing, but I'm not sure a degree will do it. (it might, but there's no guarantee)
I've done the contract route, and in good economic times, it's awesome. These days, it would be suicide. A good consultant can certainly keep a solid list of clients and a solid rep, but those clients tend to not need you when they're belt-tightening. As mentioned by sibling, your high hourly rate will have to last you in-between contracts, and clients will only pay so much.
If you're raping your clients, they'll kick you out as soon as possible. If you taking care of the systems that must work and previously took five FTEs, and you're charging them what they paid two FTEs, you're a bargain and they'll keep you for as long as you want to be there.
On the other hand, I can see that grabbing your own destiny by the balls isn't high on the "to do" list around here, so I'll leave you all alone. Please feel free to return to whatever you were doing (or not doing as the case may be), and I'll continue to do what I do.
hahaha, what a bunch of BS! Apparently, you've never been a contractor/consultant long term in IT. Trust me, as a contractor or consultant you're shown the door quite often and the supposed big money you've made all dries up in bills and expenses while you seek another spot as you're between gigs. I've been there for many years after the.com explosion in 2002 and trust me it was no picknick. You'll be no better off than a migrant farmer in that field right now. When the economy is humming along then you can play that musical chairs game but now isn't the right time.
All you need to do is be (or get) really good at supporting the systems that had been maintained by people who were laid off, and you'll have more work than you can handle.
If you're trotting out a dog-and-pony-show and trying to sell businesses new ways to "cultivate holistic technologies" or "reintermediate broad-based paradigms" you're completely SOL.
However if you don't mind enhancing 15 year old ERP system to handle a new business process, and you're good at making all the stuff they bought during the "boom" (that never actually worked) do what they need, you'll have to hire more help just to answer the phones.
Amazingly enough, "Providing services that are actually needed, to companies that can actually pay for them" still works really well as a business plan. In fact, I haven't changed my business model in the last 20 year and see no reason to do so now. However if you're happier doing something else, don't let me discourage you.
Even in my own corner of the working world (IT), I find myself increasingly wishing that I'd taken more business courses as I leave behind being a server monkey (and in one previous job, code monkey). Nowadays I'm routinely running my own budgets, doing the politics dance, and overseeing both people and projects. Mind you, I have no desire to get an MBA, but having to handle vendors, routinely run RFP's of six figures (one this year approached seven), while handling/syncing various execs' ideas of project management... ? Well, more and more these days, some of the subjects in an MBA course would damned sure come in handy right about now.
After 20 years, an MBA would be really useful. After 20 years of not needing them, calculus and trig are a waste unless the OP is trying to switch careers or just wants the satisfaction.
FWIW, it's much more profitable to go into consulting and do/manage whatever it is that you're good at and happy doing, than try to maintain a dead-end job as one of the "cogs." Businesses are much happier to pay someone a good rate for services that they need, when they need them, as long as the consultant will happily vanish when the need vanishes.
If you haven't needed a degree or calculus in 20 years, why bother now?
If you're job hunting, your time would be better spent making yourself relevant to current employers or starting a consulting business than trying to match your calc and trig skills with a recent grad and get a degree.
A degree is a nice "filter" when hiring new applicants, since it proves that they were able to deal with BS for at least 4 years, however with 20 years of actual job experience, you'll do much better off trying to differentiate yourself from the recent grads than you will if you try to "look better on paper."
That said, if you want to do this just because it's "unfinished business" lots of community colleges have entire departments dedicated to getting us old folks "up to speed". Just stop by and talk to someone.
Block all outbound (to the internet) connections to any ports except 443 and 80 from any machines that don't have a legitimate business need. (This won't help you much but will save the rest of us when you do get hit)
Block all incoming email that isn't plain text.
Require authentication on your outbound mail server
Install a filtering web proxy and block everything except plain HTML and images. (this actually isn't foolproof, since there are actually some image rendering vulnerabilities).
Your users will be really pissed off but the infection rate will be way down.
Yeah, that's just what I was going to say. He stole my idea!
You just have to wrap the secret bit-thingies in double-secret bit-thingies and before you know it's you're a tenured professor because nobody knows what the hell you're actually doing.
Just wait until he replaces the dilithium crystals with Folgers, then we'll really be in trouble.
How convenient of you to use the excuse "I can't comment, because I don't know anything about their systems." You could quite easily list several steps you'd take to harden your systems; the theory will be the same no longer the system. This is just basically you speaking about some rhetoric without knowing the underlying topic at hand.
It's easy. All you need is huge pipes scattered around the world, feeding high-performance networking components and servers, and a couple of 24x7x365 NOCs staffed with highly trained, experienced personnel, with a good working relationship with the techs at your upstream provider.
However I'm guessing that a paranoid little game manufacturer probably can't pull this off.
Somehow Internet has made people to forget that creating quality content costs money.
In The Beginning, shortly after God said "Let There Be Light," great content was created by users because they wanted to share it, not because publishing companies saw that slices of dead trees were becoming less profitable.
If every site on the planet that requires advertising for survival closed, the world would not be a significantly worse place and in many aspects would be better. People would run their own websites (which can cost less every month than a "value meal" at Burger King), continue to create wonderful content and the internet would become what few current users ever experienced: truly ad-free.
Let me be the first to bring out The World's Tiniest Violin and play a sad little tune for all the leeches being hurt by Ad Blocking.
If your business can't survive without advertising revenue, it's time to figure out what you can do for a living that actually benefits humanity, quit your job and move on.
But the elderly, who live on fixed incomes... poor families who depend on food stamps... or just a college student burdened with debt who wants to be able to take his girlfriend to a steakhouse for a special occasion... all of these people are seriously impacted.
Americans who can't afford beef can do the same thing the rest of the world does (at least those parts of the world that aren't starving). Eat something else.
Chicken is cheaper than beef, eggs are cheaper than chicken, and rice and beans is cheaper still. The cost of one dinner at a steakhouse for two will buy a huge sack of rice and huge sack of beans, including a bunch of stuff to make it taste good. This will easily last a month, even for a family.
Slashdot Mirror
so how will you be controlling who sees what, unless you're planning to make everybody register on your site, which doesn't really work anyway?
You can never control "who sees what."
If something is private, keep it off the net.
By "vendor," I don't mean that guy on the sidewalk who sells you pirated copies of Windows.
Who the hell would pirate Windows? That's like stealing a broken film camera.
Because designers know that it costs time and energy to make a good font, and want to show respect for that. You really shouldn't get riled up about typography without learning about it first from the perspective of the people who actually do it.
Hmmm. Where have I seen other software that's works beautifully, was written by skilled people and is free?
<cough>Slashdot</cough><cough>Postfix</cough><cough>Linux</cough>
By your reasoning, software shouldn't be free either.
Has anybody noticed that the fonts reside on Monotype's servers and the user's browser needs to go fetch them, and unlike all the standard browser fonts, these require a licence in order to use. The licence is currently free, however that doesn't mean it won't be $100,000 tomorrow.
And if their server goes down or you decide you don't want to pay, your site looks like crap.
Pardon my scepticism, but I'll stick to fonts that exist in the browser or even better CSS @font-face and download a freely distributable font from the client's site.
The part that's astonishing is that there are still companies that charge money for fonts. Why (how) are they still here?
Have you ever worked in a secure IT environment? Actually, have you ever worked in IT?
Unless your first computer came as a pinout diagram for a 4-bit processor, a soldering iron and an idea, I've been doing it longer than you have. I've been in banking since punch-cards and magnetic tape, UUCP over dial-up, thorough mainframes, dumb terminals, terminal emulators, PCs and the beginning of the web, then moved into web and application support for the federal government before starting my own company to go after mid-range businesses.
And as nostalgic as it makes me feel, my experience is irrelevant here. There was nobody in the entire city that he was willing to give the passwords to, which makes him a dick (and now a felon) not a conscientious employee.
For what it's worth, I blame his boss and his boss's boss as much as our pet head-case. They needed to have access restoration policies and procedures in place for exactly this situation. What did they plan on doing if he was hit by a bus or dropped dead from Burger-King and Jolt Cola? One guy holds all the keys? That's just stupid.
Your right... Childs thought the network was "his"... he was wrong. The passwords are intellectual property and as such he isnt allowed to keep it. He is however allowed to "forget" the passwords. Then there would have been nothing they could have done to him.
What possible up-side could there be to "forgetting" the passwords, except pissing everybody off and making it really hard to get another job?
I just don't see an up-side in that action for anybody. The city would be need to pay to have their passwords reset, he'd still be out of work (although probably not in jail), but would be publicly known as "the guy who boned his employer when given the chance".
Honestly, I'd hire someone who went to jail for his beliefs long before I'd hire someone with a "scorched earth" policy for job changes.
I would never hire anyone for a technical role who would give a password to an unauthorised person, including their boss (assuming they're not authorised to receive it).
That's nonsensical. If you're not required to do what your boss says, he's not your boss.
In any case, you're making an irrelevant distinction. If the boss wants the password, you give it to him. If the boss then blows up the network or sells the password to the Russians, that's his problem not yours. When law enforcement comes by, you say "It blew up right after my boss demanded the password"
Childs has ego issues. He was just an employee, not Superman, and was not tasked with saving the universe, just with keeping the hardware running. Keeping the password safe from hackers is prudent. Not giving it to his boss even after the city demanded it was just being a dick.
Rule #3. "Don't be a dick."
IMO, he got what he deserved, and nobody else has anything to worry about unless they plan on breaking the above rules. (Especially #3)
The original SCO is now Tarantella, who is now owned by Oracle.
This current litigious incarnation is what is left of Caldera.
It's actually really funny they chose that name, since a Caldera is actually the remains of a formerly-functional volcano. They occasionally emit smoke, but that's about it.
Ahhh, I finally got it, you win. IHBT. Congrats! Doesn't often happen.
Thanks! I even got points for it. 8-)
Actually I like video, although I do have a problem with Big Business whoring the internet and technology in general. People have been getting screwed for so long they don't actually understand that they've been used like the last girl in the bar at closing time.
My all-time favorite is that text messages are sent using empty space in network management packets that need to be sent anyway and cost nothing, but are billed as if they were made from bigfoot hair and moon rocks.
Oh well.
I remember those days. Finding websites was a nightmare because I mostly relied on user-built (and easily broken) webrings or link pages. All user maintained because no one was being paid for it, so maintainers could fall off the web and you were out of luck.
Actually, the links generally worked just fine, and if you couldn't find something, you could <GASP>"ask someone."
And they've got dozens of hours of full motion video, and a back archive of articles and forum posts going back years?
Who gives a crap about full-motion video? It's just a lead-in for extracting more of your money. Pay your cell phone company for a "data plan", pay you internet provider for a faster connection, pay the content provider, watch advertising, buy the crap they're shilling. Same shit, different day.
Archives are great, however. I've got stuff that goes back to the late 70's
And how does the business pay for the people who do the work that brings the people to the site?
By selling actual products and services, not just made-up internet nonsense.
Shh. If you listen carefully, you can hear me playing sad music on the world's smallest violin
I know that most of you weren't even born yet, but there was a time when the internet had no advertising. And it did just fine.
"Monetizing your assets" is marketing bullshit-speak for "fleecing stupid people and annoying the rest". In fact, I own several websites right now that contain no advertising and get traffic. Any business that performs a service that's worth more than a pile of post-horse-oats can afford enough hardware and bandwidth to support thousands of users for less than they spend on getting the mats by the front door cleaned. And anybody who wants a personal site can do the same for less than the cost of a "value meal" at McDonalds.
And as bizarre as this seems, I could even post original content and have user interaction just like The Escapist and still charge nothing.
Not only do I recommend ad-block to my friends, I install ad-blocking proxy servers for businesses, because nowhere in the world is wasted time, money and bandwidth more apparent than in businesses that actually measure expenses and productivity. Employee wants to spend a little while looking for a new recipe for hummus? Great! Employee gets distracted and spends a half our down the rabbit hole with punch-the-monkey ads, not so great.
They can advertise all they want, but nobody is going to tell me that I have to:
If IBM stopped all of their FOSS activities, it would have very little effect on their bottom line - if any. It seems to be more of an alternative to Windows - if anything.
"My enemy's enemy is my friend."
I can't even guess at the ongoing losses IBM costs Microsoft in lost Exchange and Outlook licenses by letting a handful of developers (one?) work on Postfix.
They're taking hundreds of millions of dollars (more?) away from their competitor for nearly nothing.
Postfix may not directly make IBM any money, but it sure as hell costs Microsoft big-time and gets customers to consider other solutions. Once you've made businesses realize that excellent non-Microsoft software exists, they start to consider other options. Maybe DB2 instead of SQL Server. Who knows? The possibilities are endless and the ROI is nearly infinite. Terry
I'm not going to "convince" Oracle of anything. If they don't like Open Source, they can do whatever the hell they feel like.
FOSS existed long before Oracle and will continue to exist long after all the Oracle users are wondering how they managed to get boned so hard on licence fees from a company that then went broke.
This rates a big shiny "Who cares?"
You know debit cards are insecure. Get a credit card and get over it.
Debit cards are nothing more than a great way to screw you. The banks know this and now you know it.
If you have a credit card, you're protected by the Fair Credit Billing Act, which means you're liable for up to $50, although in practice, the banks often waive this as a "card benefit". I have absolutely no clue why any sane person would use a debit card since the liability is nearly infinite.
With 25 years of experience, then a major move and trying to get a new job I was asked over and over again - "Where did you get your degree?" When I told them that I had never finished it they told me "Thanks but no thanks, we require a degree here!" So after a 52 semester break I am now just 3 semesters short of my CIS/CJ BS. That is why it's worth the bother!
Yeah, that always blows. Depending on what your skill-set is and the job you're going for, "no degree" might be a problem. However, they're almost certainly using it as an easy and defensible way to reduce the pile of applicants, and not because it's actually necessary for the job.
If your special skill is writing non-buggy device drivers and you have a great track record, or you're really good at maintaining and enhancing unsupported truly mission-critical software (like old versions of Great Plains that are too expensive to upgrade) they won't care if the only degrees you have are on a thermometer. If your skill is another "me too" skill where there are millions of others competing for the same jobs, you're pretty much screwed, even with a degree. Differentiation is a great thing, but I'm not sure a degree will do it. (it might, but there's no guarantee)
I've done the contract route, and in good economic times, it's awesome. These days, it would be suicide. A good consultant can certainly keep a solid list of clients and a solid rep, but those clients tend to not need you when they're belt-tightening. As mentioned by sibling, your high hourly rate will have to last you in-between contracts, and clients will only pay so much.
If you're raping your clients, they'll kick you out as soon as possible. If you taking care of the systems that must work and previously took five FTEs, and you're charging them what they paid two FTEs, you're a bargain and they'll keep you for as long as you want to be there.
On the other hand, I can see that grabbing your own destiny by the balls isn't high on the "to do" list around here, so I'll leave you all alone. Please feel free to return to whatever you were doing (or not doing as the case may be), and I'll continue to do what I do.
hahaha, what a bunch of BS! Apparently, you've never been a contractor/consultant long term in IT. Trust me, as a contractor or consultant you're shown the door quite often and the supposed big money you've made all dries up in bills and expenses while you seek another spot as you're between gigs. I've been there for many years after the .com explosion in 2002 and trust me it was no picknick. You'll be no better off than a migrant farmer in that field right now. When the economy is humming along then you can play that musical chairs game but now isn't the right time.
All you need to do is be (or get) really good at supporting the systems that had been maintained by people who were laid off, and you'll have more work than you can handle.
If you're trotting out a dog-and-pony-show and trying to sell businesses new ways to "cultivate holistic technologies" or "reintermediate broad-based paradigms" you're completely SOL.
However if you don't mind enhancing 15 year old ERP system to handle a new business process, and you're good at making all the stuff they bought during the "boom" (that never actually worked) do what they need, you'll have to hire more help just to answer the phones.
Amazingly enough, "Providing services that are actually needed, to companies that can actually pay for them" still works really well as a business plan. In fact, I haven't changed my business model in the last 20 year and see no reason to do so now. However if you're happier doing something else, don't let me discourage you.
Even in my own corner of the working world (IT), I find myself increasingly wishing that I'd taken more business courses as I leave behind being a server monkey (and in one previous job, code monkey). Nowadays I'm routinely running my own budgets, doing the politics dance, and overseeing both people and projects. Mind you, I have no desire to get an MBA, but having to handle vendors, routinely run RFP's of six figures (one this year approached seven), while handling/syncing various execs' ideas of project management... ? Well, more and more these days, some of the subjects in an MBA course would damned sure come in handy right about now. After 20 years, an MBA would be really useful. After 20 years of not needing them, calculus and trig are a waste unless the OP is trying to switch careers or just wants the satisfaction.
FWIW, it's much more profitable to go into consulting and do/manage whatever it is that you're good at and happy doing, than try to maintain a dead-end job as one of the "cogs." Businesses are much happier to pay someone a good rate for services that they need, when they need them, as long as the consultant will happily vanish when the need vanishes.
If you haven't needed a degree or calculus in 20 years, why bother now?
If you're job hunting, your time would be better spent making yourself relevant to current employers or starting a consulting business than trying to match your calc and trig skills with a recent grad and get a degree.
A degree is a nice "filter" when hiring new applicants, since it proves that they were able to deal with BS for at least 4 years, however with 20 years of actual job experience, you'll do much better off trying to differentiate yourself from the recent grads than you will if you try to "look better on paper."
That said, if you want to do this just because it's "unfinished business" lots of community colleges have entire departments dedicated to getting us old folks "up to speed". Just stop by and talk to someone.
Your users will be really pissed off but the infection rate will be way down.
Yeah, that's just what I was going to say. He stole my idea!
You just have to wrap the secret bit-thingies in double-secret bit-thingies and before you know it's you're a tenured professor because nobody knows what the hell you're actually doing.
Just wait until he replaces the dilithium crystals with Folgers, then we'll really be in trouble.
How convenient of you to use the excuse "I can't comment, because I don't know anything about their systems." You could quite easily list several steps you'd take to harden your systems; the theory will be the same no longer the system. This is just basically you speaking about some rhetoric without knowing the underlying topic at hand. It's easy. All you need is huge pipes scattered around the world, feeding high-performance networking components and servers, and a couple of 24x7x365 NOCs staffed with highly trained, experienced personnel, with a good working relationship with the techs at your upstream provider.
However I'm guessing that a paranoid little game manufacturer probably can't pull this off.
Somehow Internet has made people to forget that creating quality content costs money.
In The Beginning, shortly after God said "Let There Be Light," great content was created by users because they wanted to share it, not because publishing companies saw that slices of dead trees were becoming less profitable.
If every site on the planet that requires advertising for survival closed, the world would not be a significantly worse place and in many aspects would be better. People would run their own websites (which can cost less every month than a "value meal" at Burger King), continue to create wonderful content and the internet would become what few current users ever experienced: truly ad-free.
Let me be the first to bring out The World's Tiniest Violin and play a sad little tune for all the leeches being hurt by Ad Blocking.
If your business can't survive without advertising revenue, it's time to figure out what you can do for a living that actually benefits humanity, quit your job and move on.
But the elderly, who live on fixed incomes... poor families who depend on food stamps... or just a college student burdened with debt who wants to be able to take his girlfriend to a steakhouse for a special occasion... all of these people are seriously impacted.
Americans who can't afford beef can do the same thing the rest of the world does (at least those parts of the world that aren't starving). Eat something else.
Chicken is cheaper than beef, eggs are cheaper than chicken, and rice and beans is cheaper still. The cost of one dinner at a steakhouse for two will buy a huge sack of rice and huge sack of beans, including a bunch of stuff to make it taste good. This will easily last a month, even for a family.