That thing about antivirus software caught my eye also.
What I was wondering was: why should a virus scanner be "integrated" with a browser? The only thing I could conceive was that it would scan all downloaded files, but the file system virus scanners have that covered pretty well already (well, except for buffer-overrun-style exploits, but presumably Mozilla will just fix those in the browser).
The other thing about virus protection: there's an enormous effort involved to keep up with new viruses, and the for-profit antivir guys are pretty competitive. They might have a lot of ongoing work just to keep their scanner up with the latest attacks.
Rodney was an inspiration to those of us who climb Colorado's 14,000' peaks. Last summer, a number of us from a climbing website took a cardboard cutout of Rodney (with his permission) to about 25 Colorado high summits. We were all saddened by his illness and death.
Here is a picture of him on Mount Harvard, 14,420'.
This ties in nicely with the "BBC Writer Tries PC Repair" thread. Most people don't understand their computer's software, even if they're criminals trying to hide evidence, apparently.
I found this kind of interesting, even if it just suggests a way to pay for my lift tickets after my next layoff.
I've occasionally taken a look at some non-technical friend's computer, and I can usually do enough good that they're very grateful afterward (even if it's just reinstalling some DLL so their spellchecker starts working again). Picking up $100/week or so for this kind of weeks sounds like a reasonable hobby for an unemployed techie.
Yes, and I'm sure if some Google employee came up with some great idea that he spent his 20% free time on, and Google made an assload of money on it, they would give that employee a cut. NOT!
Here's a clue for you, young fella: all employers do this, not just Google. You have to make lots of money off the good ideas to pay for the 90% of your employees that are mostly dead weight.
Good companies will recognize their productive employees with promotions and pay increases. Bad companies will lose these people. In either case, the good people tend to wind up making more money in the long run, so just do your best and trust that things will work out in the long run.
Or if you aren't the trusting type, start your own company, and then you can be the evil one exploiting your employees. You will wind up doing this, or you'll fail.
Wow, they seem to actually have code reuse company-wide!
My personal experience with this: when I was working for a big multinational corporation a few years ago, the VP of my group declared that we would henceforth be reusing software components. A place was designated for placing the reusable pieces that would be reused in the future.
Needless to say, the "reuse repository" sat their empty, until it was finally forgotten and presumably disposed of.
I worked on a number of projects there, and I tended to copy useful bits from one to the other. I think I probably reused more software than the whole rest of the organization put together.
My conclusion from this: reuse is really hard to implement, unless you trust the source of the code you're reusing.
I suspect that Google can get it to work, mostly, because they get the cream of the crop programmers, so the stuff they have to share is really, really good. I kind of wish I could work somewhere like that...sigh...
I guess building spaceships is old-hat for rich techies now, so he's going to blow his millions on AI. I don't expect anything tangible to come from this.
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That's also the standard sci-fi authors' response to this problem.
That sounds like a hardware problem to me. Therefore, most computer scientists will ignore it.
Maybe Marvin the Martian will blow it up for us, using the Illudium Q-32 Space Modulator!
I hope they've already gotten the deed to the property, otherwise somebody else might get there first and snap up all the good land.
Good riddance, if you ask me.
What I was wondering was: why should a virus scanner be "integrated" with a browser? The only thing I could conceive was that it would scan all downloaded files, but the file system virus scanners have that covered pretty well already (well, except for buffer-overrun-style exploits, but presumably Mozilla will just fix those in the browser).
The other thing about virus protection: there's an enormous effort involved to keep up with new viruses, and the for-profit antivir guys are pretty competitive. They might have a lot of ongoing work just to keep their scanner up with the latest attacks.
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Thank god he didn't sell off the Omega 13!
Posting something that looks fake but isn't.
Check out the "iPod socks" story.
because it's not a joke.
Rodney was an inspiration to those of us who climb Colorado's 14,000' peaks. Last summer, a number of us from a climbing website took a cardboard cutout of Rodney (with his permission) to about 25 Colorado high summits. We were all saddened by his illness and death. Here is a picture of him on Mount Harvard, 14,420'.
True, but think what this implies: 5% of development groups never deliver a project that is late. Amazing...
Thanks! I was wondering if they'd have the monkey dance!
Bloat then becomes a consequence of the user's choices and not something forced upon the user by the developer.
This sounds somewhat like the defense fast-food restaurant chains use against charges that they promote obesity.
Now you can get power and protection from UFOs with one convenient hat!
Or just remove punctuation (like apostrophes).
(Sorry....couldnt resist :)
This ties in nicely with the "BBC Writer Tries PC Repair" thread. Most people don't understand their computer's software, even if they're criminals trying to hide evidence, apparently.
I've occasionally taken a look at some non-technical friend's computer, and I can usually do enough good that they're very grateful afterward (even if it's just reinstalling some DLL so their spellchecker starts working again). Picking up $100/week or so for this kind of weeks sounds like a reasonable hobby for an unemployed techie.
Good companies will recognize their productive employees with promotions and pay increases. Bad companies will lose these people. In either case, the good people tend to wind up making more money in the long run, so just do your best and trust that things will work out in the long run.
Or if you aren't the trusting type, start your own company, and then you can be the evil one exploiting your employees. You will wind up doing this, or you'll fail.
My personal experience with this: when I was working for a big multinational corporation a few years ago, the VP of my group declared that we would henceforth be reusing software components. A place was designated for placing the reusable pieces that would be reused in the future.
Needless to say, the "reuse repository" sat their empty, until it was finally forgotten and presumably disposed of.
I worked on a number of projects there, and I tended to copy useful bits from one to the other. I think I probably reused more software than the whole rest of the organization put together.
My conclusion from this: reuse is really hard to implement, unless you trust the source of the code you're reusing.
I suspect that Google can get it to work, mostly, because they get the cream of the crop programmers, so the stuff they have to share is really, really good. I kind of wish I could work somewhere like that...sigh...
Wow, cluetrain plus blogging expert. This guy really rides the stupid trends, doesn't he?
If by "pretty well", you mean "forty years behind the government space programs", then yes, that's what I meant.
Nice hobby, but except for maybe DOD/Homeland Security I don't see it getting any funds. Maybe they can use it to recognize hit TV shows. :)
I guess building spaceships is old-hat for rich techies now, so he's going to blow his millions on AI. I don't expect anything tangible to come from this.