"Risk-averse corporate users" are afraid of firefox because of no guaranteed support? Hello, isn't the last 10 years of evidence enough to suggest that IE is the riskiest browser out there?? I know when I use it at home, it's almost a guaranteed recipe for spyware, cookie snatching, and malicious websites thanks to the (in)security model of ActiveX.
I guess it proves the old adage... "better the devil you know!"
Now anyone who wants to write a rootkit has a much better set of test suites to test its non-detectability! I'm glad we're investing in the education and skill of malware writers...we may need those rich crack programmers for something someday.
Can somebody explain to me why it is better to spend days, weeks, and months fiddling with the low level details and problems in your linux installation to get it working to your satisfaction than it is to setup something that gives you 99% of what you wanted, out of the box?
Seriously. I used to be a gentoo user until I realized how much time I was spending fiddling with things to avoid package conflicts and keep my system up to date. I never noticed a qualitative improvement to my user experience, except the geek satisfaction of having survived the ordeal.
I'm far more interested in spending that time *using* my computer to create useful things...why is it nobler, cooler, or somehow more satisfying to waste time solving problems that others have already solved?
It's not that I can't do it... I've written device drivers in assembler for crying out loud, and architected highly distributed network applications. So I've got the stripes...I just can't figure out why I should bother spending the time & effort to decode something that can be made obvious.
It should be noted that carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years and should be fully decayed in ancient fossils.
No, C-14 should be decayed to 1/2 in fossils 5730 years old, 1/4 in fossils 11,460 years old,
1/8 in fossils 17,190 years old, etc.
In case you didn't notice, that sequence works to infinity, and C-14 never is "fully decayed".
That said, it is only reliable up to about 60,000 years (10 times the age of the "Christian" universe) due to our ability to measure it.
Maybe if we were all blessed with a bias for the written word over empirical evidence we wouldn't need additional dating methods.
Enemy? Let's see... Anyone who has unfettered rights to spy on me (regardless of whether I have anything to hide) and is not accountable to any body of american citizens for their actions, and does so at my expense as a taxpayer IS a direct threat to my freedom & security.
Not evil, amoral. Which in this day and age, is worse.
When you fail to take a stand, you still are taking a stand, and the result is a lower standard of freedom for all.
MSFT did not need to comply with this law immediately -- they could have: 1) Ignored it 2) Caved under intense visible pressure 3) Sought the backing of the US State Department
Instead we've missed another opportunity to define the Internet as bigger than any one country's limited perspective. Or maybe that was the point...
>If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
Sorry to say so, it's sad but true;
the market IS idiots 'cept me and, of course, you.
Just be thankful that Linux is rich enough to enable diversity of usage. That's a strength, not a weakness, and trying to kill a WM that makes Linux simple (perhaps too simple) is very un-linux!
Great, so when/if we develop the technology to correct the imbalance we have caused, and return the climate to "normal", there will be powerful economic interests to prevent us from doing so!
Just as Oil companies actively resist alternative energy projects, we will have wealthy shipping interests sowing FUD and creating obstacles for restoring the ice cap!
Actually, digitization of humans and electronic transport could be the future.
Either by jacking in to a virtual medium where full-bandwidth communication displaces travel, or actual digitization of humans and electronic transmission/re-hosting.
Actually, in 1975 the vast majority of collegs kids abandoned their computer science majors due to lack of career options... or never entered in the first place.
In 1995, everyone rushed the career field making it very likely your comp. sci or IT education was wasted and you'd bag groceries for a while waiting for an opening or to reinvent yourself.
You're describing the exceptions, not the rule. In 2005, there's a vibrant community willing to invest time and money in the hope of germinating something better than anything those previous college kids got rich creating... now I call that progress!
Both products strike me as solutions looking for problems... this small amount of VC is probably not going to go far in building the bridge required to achieve a sustainable model.
With LogicBlaze -- there are a lot of much bigger companies pitching the same story (including IBM and Microsoft) and LogicBlaze's product is too much of a pure infrastructure play to be compelling here.
Mergere has a different problem -- they had open-source appeal to niche groups ready to change their mental model of CI development, but there will be few commercial clients who will step up due to the change in thinking required UNLESS the product is bundled with process-wide integrative solutions and consulting a la Rational Suite. And again, there's the name!
You were a bush supporter because you thought bush was going to address these other problems? What gave you that silly idea?
Certainly not his political record, which has been one of kowtowing to corporate and religious priorities while brushing aside issues of consequence. This is entirely consistent with his behavior -- it's unfortunate that you're realizing it at this late stage.
Not at all. All I'm saying is that *nix does not force all applications and system processes to access a single file for settings and object registrations.
Sure, big changes never happen. That's why there are no horseless carriages, railroads, telephones, internets, interstates, and we're still listening to 8-tracks and using punch cards to operate our timeshare systems despite all these visionary ideas we can't seem to get past the inertial filters built into the stagnant pools of human commerce, right?
Who do they think *invented* their living room? Or celebrity-bug-eating?
Let's take a moment to contemplate the irony of judgements leveled from such a perch on the merits of another's time spent.
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"Risk-averse corporate users" are afraid of firefox because of no guaranteed support? Hello, isn't the last 10 years of evidence enough to suggest that IE is the riskiest browser out there?? I know when I use it at home, it's almost a guaranteed recipe for spyware, cookie snatching, and malicious websites thanks to the (in)security model of ActiveX.
... "better the devil you know!"
I guess it proves the old adage
Now anyone who wants to write a rootkit has a much better set of test suites to test its non-detectability! I'm glad we're investing in the education and skill of malware writers...we may need those rich crack programmers for something someday.
Can somebody explain to me why it is better to spend days, weeks, and months fiddling with the low level details and problems in your linux installation to get it working to your satisfaction than it is to setup something that gives you 99% of what you wanted, out of the box?
... I've written device drivers in assembler for crying out loud, and architected highly distributed network applications. So I've got the stripes...I just can't figure out why I should bother spending the time & effort to decode something that can be made obvious.
Seriously. I used to be a gentoo user until I realized how much time I was spending fiddling with things to avoid package conflicts and keep my system up to date. I never noticed a qualitative improvement to my user experience, except the geek satisfaction of having survived the ordeal.
I'm far more interested in spending that time *using* my computer to create useful things...why is it nobler, cooler, or somehow more satisfying to waste time solving problems that others have already solved?
It's not that I can't do it
Must be nice to be created with a set of immutable views ... saves all that tedious thinking!
It should be noted that carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years and should be fully decayed in ancient fossils.
No, C-14 should be decayed to 1/2 in fossils 5730 years old, 1/4 in fossils 11,460 years old, 1/8 in fossils 17,190 years old, etc.
In case you didn't notice, that sequence works to infinity, and C-14 never is "fully decayed".
That said, it is only reliable up to about 60,000 years (10 times the age of the "Christian" universe) due to our ability to measure it.
Maybe if we were all blessed with a bias for the written word over empirical evidence we wouldn't need additional dating methods.
Now I can find out what I was *really* thinking when I bought that El Camino on Ebay!
Yeah ... the article says that ....
disclaimer: I disdain msft as much as the next guy, but I'm all for fair commentary.
Enemy?
Let's see...
Anyone who has unfettered rights to spy on me (regardless of whether I have anything to
hide) and is not accountable to any body of american citizens for their actions, and does so at my expense as a taxpayer IS a direct threat to my freedom & security.
So tell me, who's my enemy again?
When you fail to take a stand, you still are taking a stand, and the result is a lower standard of freedom for all.
MSFT did not need to comply with this law immediately -- they could have:
1) Ignored it
2) Caved under intense visible pressure
3) Sought the backing of the US State Department
Instead we've missed another opportunity to define the Internet as bigger than any one country's limited perspective. Or maybe that was the point...
Sorry to say so, it's sad but true;
the market IS idiots 'cept me and, of course, you.
Just be thankful that Linux is rich enough to enable diversity of usage. That's a strength, not a weakness, and trying to kill a WM that makes Linux simple (perhaps too simple) is very un-linux!
Just as Oil companies actively resist alternative energy projects, we will have wealthy shipping interests sowing FUD and creating obstacles for restoring the ice cap!
Actually, digitization of humans and electronic transport could be the future.
Either by jacking in to a virtual medium where full-bandwidth communication displaces travel, or actual digitization of humans and electronic transmission/re-hosting.
Now that's "packetized" transport!
In 1995, everyone rushed the career field making it very likely your comp. sci or IT education was wasted and you'd bag groceries for a while waiting for an opening or to reinvent yourself.
You're describing the exceptions, not the rule. In 2005, there's a vibrant community willing to invest time and money in the hope of germinating something better than anything those previous college kids got rich creating... now I call that progress!
With LogicBlaze -- there are a lot of much bigger companies pitching the same story (including IBM and Microsoft) and LogicBlaze's product is too much of a pure infrastructure play to be compelling here.
Mergere has a different problem -- they had open-source appeal to niche groups ready to change their mental model of CI development, but there will be few commercial clients who will step up due to the change in thinking required UNLESS the product is bundled with process-wide integrative solutions and consulting a la Rational Suite. And again, there's the name!
Windows on a ferrari will always be faster than apache on a scooter in an unbiased timed trial.
You were a bush supporter because you thought bush was going to address these other problems? What gave you that silly idea? Certainly not his political record, which has been one of kowtowing to corporate and religious priorities while brushing aside issues of consequence. This is entirely consistent with his behavior -- it's unfortunate that you're realizing it at this late stage.
Not at all. All I'm saying is that *nix does not force all applications and system processes to access a single file for settings and object registrations.
They have more than one ....
Plus, it will swap everything out to disk even when there's terabyte of free RAM no matter how hard you plead with it not to!
Seriously, when will Redmond stop eutrophycating and start engineering this platform, that once showed so much promise?
Sure, big changes never happen. That's why there are no horseless carriages, railroads, telephones, internets, interstates, and we're still listening to 8-tracks and using punch cards to operate our timeshare systems despite all these visionary ideas we can't seem to get past the inertial filters built into the stagnant pools of human commerce, right?
Who do they think *invented* their living room? Or celebrity-bug-eating? Let's take a moment to contemplate the irony of judgements leveled from such a perch on the merits of another's time spent.
Which do we need more? Morals or Scruples?
Actually, what really happened was that 5,000 years ago everyone was created as a creationist and then evolved to become evolutionists.
Wouldn't that be a "Bonanza Split" ??? Sorry.... mod me out if you need to.