stages: denial (Ballmer jabbering about how he's not worried about Linux) anger (IT'S A CANCER!!! AND COMMUNIST!!!) bargaining (The sit down?) depression (All the Halloween documents!) acceptance (Come sit down with us...let's just do something together.)
Maybe something like this...but it's all in messed-up order. Any sugestions?
What is this? Could this be serious? They did recently acknowledge Linux as an operating system, instead of a cancer (they included support for it in VirtualPC). A very fine move on their part, but perhaps they are onto the final stage (Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Sadness, finally Acceptance?) Though they are not dying, perhaps they see an opportunity to "Accept" the fact that Open Source Software has been around and will be around much longer than anything else.
We must be wary though - could this be a wolf in sheep's clothing? Could this be a false branch? Might they trap the OSS developers at the meeting-place and hold them ransom?!
The point isn't that they can steal your fingerprint and make fake thumbs.
The point is, what we believe to be security is complete shit. ChoicePoint, LexisNexis, etc, to name a few - social security numbers, bank numbers, dates of birth, credit card numbers, all floating out there. What IF my gym starts using thumbprints? What IF someone sees this as a weakness, and decides to go there, get my thumbprint, then go to my bank (which, in the future, all use my thumbprint since it's "secure") and take out all my money. How is this even close to a good idea?
True, if only gyms use it, fine, whatever. But when anyone more important than a gym uses it, and a gym does too, bad things will happen. It's like saying "hey, my system's secure, i can run this untrusted application that i don't know anything about" - then it opens a backdoor.
At Hopkins, we're changing the Sun side over to Fedora Core 3. Right now, there are only two test machines for people to use. There's a form online to submit bug reports, so it's a pretty smooth transition that everyone seems to be in favor of! Couple problems here and there, but nothing serious that can't be fixed!
"et al" is generally used for authoring of a work: e.g. (whee! another acronym.) "Jones, et al" meaning "Jones, Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe wrote this book/paper/magazine article/instruction manual".
"etc." is used to talk about a large group of items without mentioning each item!
These are two distinct things here...keep that straight!:-D
What is your response to me saying that your TCO studied you keep publishing everywhere (just saw three in Information Week) are full of lies, misrepresentations, and utter stupiditiy? For example, you give many examples that are absurd - your distribution of users, premium service packs, support, etc, are nowhere near equal for each piece of the comparison.
I think there should be a website defending each part of OSS - a link to this story would be the first thing posted, since perhaps one day someone (*koff koff* Microsoft) might bring the legality of Linux's ability to play MP3s into question. We all need somewhere that we can fight back with.
Can I have a link to this bit of info, if anyone has it? I'd love to start a site like this...
The response from tech press and analysts was immediate and damning. Reports referred to XP Starter Edition as "cut-rate," "cheap," "crippled," and even "futile." All of those reports, however, are completely wrong. And it's a sad statement on the state of modern tech reporting and analysis that so many people could be so cynical about a product they have never seen and don't know a thing about.
And yet he wasn't allowed to USE it himself - it was DEMONSTRATED for him.
Well GTA's the obvious one....but I remember two other times.
One was this one time after a very long Max Payne session - I needed to go do laundry, so instead of *walking* into the laundry room, I bullet-timed into it. I realized the stupidity of this about halfway down to the ground.
Another time was after a very long D&D session. I was riding my bike home and I was like "Wow, I could really go for a sprinkler on the ride home" (it was a long ride, in addition to being hot, and I was freaking tired). Instinctively (or not-instictively, in this case, really) I expected my DM, Pete, to "roll for sprinkler". This was one of those moments that makes you stop your bike in the middle of an intersection and wonder how you could be that stupid.
Does he think there's any valid basis for this? I can't seem to find a (eigen)value for this....perhaps it's non-diagonalizable...
i dnno, ran out of jokes really.
Heisenbugs are those bugs whose position in the source file you can see, and whose effects you can see, but never at the same time.
God, it's like a bad pthread project....
yeah, it's a great town! just...the museum's sorta a joke, y'know? i mean it's a good shot for a local, small museum...but "global, cultural mecca"? nahh....:-)
Jeez, a "vibrant educational and cultural center in New Jersey"? I live ~5 minutes from there...went to church right around the corner for a while...
I'd hardly call it a "vibrant" anything! Well, they did have a Harley exhibit once, it was pretty cool....but it's such a small place. I guess then it's fitting that they have these small objects for show:-)
I like this! This is a good idea, perhaps even transparently tie in an open-source message....using bittorrent, etc...
This could be something good. We need some experienced Windows programmers (although any kind of programmer will do).
This happened with lavasoft too, right? They started some consortium on spyware and then left it when it was evident that evil practices were going on...
Perhaps there needs to be a legal definition of spyware before vendors will keep constant as to their aims? The problem is with defining it is that the somewhat arbitrary nature that's necessary will backfire and be abused *cough cough DMCA cough cough*.
Exactly! and the fact that an exploit on a Linux system might be one user getting hacked, losing their password via social engineering, stupidity, etc.
If you're into a windows box, there's no telling what you can do to the box itself.
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I'll throw in a free mini mac!
*avoids things thrown at my head*
stages:
denial (Ballmer jabbering about how he's not worried about Linux)
anger (IT'S A CANCER!!! AND COMMUNIST!!!)
bargaining (The sit down?)
depression (All the Halloween documents!)
acceptance (Come sit down with us...let's just do something together.)
Maybe something like this...but it's all in messed-up order. Any sugestions?
What is this? Could this be serious? They did recently acknowledge Linux as an operating system, instead of a cancer (they included support for it in VirtualPC). A very fine move on their part, but perhaps they are onto the final stage (Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Sadness, finally Acceptance?) Though they are not dying, perhaps they see an opportunity to "Accept" the fact that Open Source Software has been around and will be around much longer than anything else.
We must be wary though - could this be a wolf in sheep's clothing? Could this be a false branch? Might they trap the OSS developers at the meeting-place and hold them ransom?!
Who knows...
The point isn't that they can steal your fingerprint and make fake thumbs.
The point is, what we believe to be security is complete shit. ChoicePoint, LexisNexis, etc, to name a few - social security numbers, bank numbers, dates of birth, credit card numbers, all floating out there. What IF my gym starts using thumbprints? What IF someone sees this as a weakness, and decides to go there, get my thumbprint, then go to my bank (which, in the future, all use my thumbprint since it's "secure") and take out all my money. How is this even close to a good idea?
True, if only gyms use it, fine, whatever. But when anyone more important than a gym uses it, and a gym does too, bad things will happen. It's like saying "hey, my system's secure, i can run this untrusted application that i don't know anything about" - then it opens a backdoor.
Right. Nada.
this site won't last a minute under the weight of our collective, nerdy asses
....so? :-P
At Hopkins, we're changing the Sun side over to Fedora Core 3. Right now, there are only two test machines for people to use. There's a form online to submit bug reports, so it's a pretty smooth transition that everyone seems to be in favor of! Couple problems here and there, but nothing serious that can't be fixed!
Do you bleed paint-based sheep?
Last I checked, PETA threw red paint at people with furs.
"et al" is generally used for authoring of a work: e.g. (whee! another acronym.) "Jones, et al" meaning "Jones, Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe wrote this book/paper/magazine article/instruction manual".
:-D
"etc." is used to talk about a large group of items without mentioning each item!
These are two distinct things here...keep that straight!
That's metagaming.
Jeez.
no, it's "the six". rtfa.
What is your response to me saying that your TCO studied you keep publishing everywhere (just saw three in Information Week) are full of lies, misrepresentations, and utter stupiditiy? For example, you give many examples that are absurd - your distribution of users, premium service packs, support, etc, are nowhere near equal for each piece of the comparison.
I think there should be a website defending each part of OSS - a link to this story would be the first thing posted, since perhaps one day someone (*koff koff* Microsoft) might bring the legality of Linux's ability to play MP3s into question. We all need somewhere that we can fight back with. Can I have a link to this bit of info, if anyone has it? I'd love to start a site like this...
The response from tech press and analysts was immediate and damning. Reports referred to XP Starter Edition as "cut-rate," "cheap," "crippled," and even "futile." All of those reports, however, are completely wrong. And it's a sad statement on the state of modern tech reporting and analysis that so many people could be so cynical about a product they have never seen and don't know a thing about.
And yet he wasn't allowed to USE it himself - it was DEMONSTRATED for him.
Yeah, that sounds a bit hypocritical. Ass.
Well GTA's the obvious one....but I remember two other times.
One was this one time after a very long Max Payne session - I needed to go do laundry, so instead of *walking* into the laundry room, I bullet-timed into it. I realized the stupidity of this about halfway down to the ground.
Another time was after a very long D&D session. I was riding my bike home and I was like "Wow, I could really go for a sprinkler on the ride home" (it was a long ride, in addition to being hot, and I was freaking tired). Instinctively (or not-instictively, in this case, really) I expected my DM, Pete, to "roll for sprinkler". This was one of those moments that makes you stop your bike in the middle of an intersection and wonder how you could be that stupid.
Does he think there's any valid basis for this? I can't seem to find a (eigen)value for this....perhaps it's non-diagonalizable... i dnno, ran out of jokes really.
required a "soul-sucking" or "invasive" or "evil communistic fascist nazi" registration? Guess they've changed?
Heisenbugs are those bugs whose position in the source file you can see, and whose effects you can see, but never at the same time. God, it's like a bad pthread project....
yeah, it's a great town! just...the museum's sorta a joke, y'know? i mean it's a good shot for a local, small museum...but "global, cultural mecca"? nahh....:-)
Jeez, a "vibrant educational and cultural center in New Jersey"? I live ~5 minutes from there...went to church right around the corner for a while...
:-)
I'd hardly call it a "vibrant" anything! Well, they did have a Harley exhibit once, it was pretty cool....but it's such a small place. I guess then it's fitting that they have these small objects for show
I owe it all to a little friend I call "Yes-I-Cannibus"....WE HAVE A KITCHEN????
They don't like stupid people. Proof? They can't stand us!
I like this! This is a good idea, perhaps even transparently tie in an open-source message....using bittorrent, etc... This could be something good. We need some experienced Windows programmers (although any kind of programmer will do).
This happened with lavasoft too, right? They started some consortium on spyware and then left it when it was evident that evil practices were going on... Perhaps there needs to be a legal definition of spyware before vendors will keep constant as to their aims? The problem is with defining it is that the somewhat arbitrary nature that's necessary will backfire and be abused *cough cough DMCA cough cough*.
Exactly! and the fact that an exploit on a Linux system might be one user getting hacked, losing their password via social engineering, stupidity, etc. If you're into a windows box, there's no telling what you can do to the box itself.
Why not?