Obviously this man cannot read and comprehend a single sentence. 80% of Microsoft employees who own an MP3 player cannot be quantified with knowing the number of Microsoft employees who own MP3 players. The article makes no claim that 80% of ALL Microsoft employees own iPods.
Did he say inconvenience or insecurity? Score it as off topic but why when I install programs as the all mighty administrator in Windows XP does it take an extra hour to work around the severe lacking for multi-user support. Just why in the hell do programs made for Windows (some by Microsoft) store the preferences in the same folder as the program? Does it not seem obvious to you Windows developers that maybe two users might have different preferences? I guess choice is something to which Windows users are not accustomed.
That's my two cents as someone who has administered both environments.
If you were to consider it a business, could you deduct a fair hourly wage as loss? That is to say: If you should be earning $30/hr for writing code, and donations received for writing the open source program total only about $5/hr, could you actually claim a $25/hr loss against your real income?
Separately:
In my experience, people don't donate to open source projects often nor largely enough for that to be the reason for doing the project. The real reason for working on open source code is: non-monetary self benefit. Like having something to put on a resume, creating/bettering a program for personal use, etc...
More money, more problems. That's just the way it is.
I keep a piece of black construction paper next to my fax machine. Granted this does not work for all my spam messages, but anyone who is bold enough to send unsolicited order forms that are to be faxed to their fax machine will be running out of toner daily.
Economic solutions to SPAM do exist!
It may not be now as the hardware more than meets the demands of software. What if the demands of software one day catch up with the hardware again? Hopefully programmers will still know how to optimize software when that happens. I think that the matter is definitely perennial. Used to be the hardware could not meet the needs of the software, now the software cannot fully utilize the hardware. It is only a matter of time before that changes again.
...publish the info about the exploit when you publish the patch. Even if you do not publish any info with a patch, the patch itself is what is reverse engineered to create an exploit. The descriptions that come along with patches are largely ignored because they do not provide nearly as much info as just reverse engineering the patch.
This could be a great idea, although I would change one thing. Instead of the fine going into Microsoft's pocket, put it in the pocket of the poor soul who had to read the spam message. His time was wasted and he should be compensated for it.
Dark Helmet: 1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life. That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
President Skroob: 1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage.
I see that fear and panic has ensued over Apple's latest updates. Well it went well on my 10.3.3 system and has not yet affected any other programs.
I think, therefore iMac. - Highly unoriginal
The operating system provides some security for your data on your hard disk and other things (let's not start a windows security argument here). It would have to be a pretty damned trustworthy game developer for me to give them total access to my computer without any protection.
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Obviously this man cannot read and comprehend a single sentence. 80% of Microsoft employees who own an MP3 player cannot be quantified with knowing the number of Microsoft employees who own MP3 players. The article makes no claim that 80% of ALL Microsoft employees own iPods.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
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I might as well do something nice in return for all the sex I have had with her.
Sometimes I play my music real loud so everyone near me can hear. Those bastards need to put on earmuffs and stop stealing my music!
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Someone was bound to say it.
enough said
Did he say inconvenience or insecurity? Score it as off topic but why when I install programs as the all mighty administrator in Windows XP does it take an extra hour to work around the severe lacking for multi-user support. Just why in the hell do programs made for Windows (some by Microsoft) store the preferences in the same folder as the program? Does it not seem obvious to you Windows developers that maybe two users might have different preferences? I guess choice is something to which Windows users are not accustomed.
That's my two cents as someone who has administered both environments.
...scavenger hunts?
Nifty
...he can read his email from beyond the grave?
And so am I
If you were to consider it a business, could you deduct a fair hourly wage as loss? That is to say: If you should be earning $30/hr for writing code, and donations received for writing the open source program total only about $5/hr, could you actually claim a $25/hr loss against your real income?
Separately:
In my experience, people don't donate to open source projects often nor largely enough for that to be the reason for doing the project. The real reason for working on open source code is: non-monetary self benefit. Like having something to put on a resume, creating/bettering a program for personal use, etc...
More money, more problems. That's just the way it is.
800 is always toll free. 899 or something like that might be a toll number. that is the scam you heard about.
I keep a piece of black construction paper next to my fax machine. Granted this does not work for all my spam messages, but anyone who is bold enough to send unsolicited order forms that are to be faxed to their fax machine will be running out of toner daily. Economic solutions to SPAM do exist!
It may not be now as the hardware more than meets the demands of software. What if the demands of software one day catch up with the hardware again? Hopefully programmers will still know how to optimize software when that happens. I think that the matter is definitely perennial. Used to be the hardware could not meet the needs of the software, now the software cannot fully utilize the hardware. It is only a matter of time before that changes again.
This post was written with O(1) complexity.
...publish the info about the exploit when you publish the patch. Even if you do not publish any info with a patch, the patch itself is what is reverse engineered to create an exploit. The descriptions that come along with patches are largely ignored because they do not provide nearly as much info as just reverse engineering the patch.
I think, therefore iMac.
This could be a great idea, although I would change one thing. Instead of the fine going into Microsoft's pocket, put it in the pocket of the poor soul who had to read the spam message. His time was wasted and he should be compensated for it.
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Dark Helmet: 1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life. That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage. President Skroob: 1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage.
I see that fear and panic has ensued over Apple's latest updates. Well it went well on my 10.3.3 system and has not yet affected any other programs. I think, therefore iMac. - Highly unoriginal
The operating system provides some security for your data on your hard disk and other things (let's not start a windows security argument here). It would have to be a pretty damned trustworthy game developer for me to give them total access to my computer without any protection.
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you must be a vfr pilot