one major security failure in a software suite is not nearly as bad as IE which i have been forced to completely disabled on my windoze machines (lots of virii use IE to talk back to the internet, or at least one virus that fucked up another machine of mine about a year ago kept trying to start up IE and get out to the WAN).
I didn't say that open source was immune from attacks, just that the OSS philosophy of small simple tools working in concert makes it much more difficult to find a security hole than M$ monolithic OS where everything is tied into everything else (fight features!!).
As an added bonus small simple tools are easy to fix/update/change so security won't be such an endemic problem.
i'm not a hacker but my understanding of WHY windows is so insecure is because of the tight integration of apps and the OS. I doubt that firefox will ever have the insecurity of internet explorer because IE has all kinds of weird system entanglements that let malicious code get executed. Same with outlook and office, etc.
Linux on the other hand generally will not let information flow freely between different apps and the OS, you have to tell it to do something like that, its (infinitely) more transparent.
So while we will see linux virii, they might only work on mandrake 8.2 and red hat 83.42.19, and only if you have the right library installed in the right place and were logged in as root to read your email.
in short, i'd say focus on the following:
1. Patience, don't speak until they finish speaking to you.
2. Politeness, yes sir, no sir, i'm not sure, sir.
3. Directness, once they have their say, politely offer your own opinion, then HANDS OFF, let them decide.
Remember, its not your job to add to the company value, its YOUR job to do what they say.
Computer games are infinitely more akin to chess than to soccer or badmitton. Whereas the spectator is a large component of the latter events (which means that people are making money selling tickets) but at a chess tournament only interests an aficianado of the game who can appreciate the sublime situations that are developing on the board, or computer screen. Thats why chess tournaments aren't held in stadiums and they charge the players and admit the fans for free. I suspect that the FPS competition will survive in this form for perpetuity as the game companies will also support it for marketing purposes.
"have to redecorate"... ? The whole point is that you *could* redecorate every day. Besides, if one wall had OLED wallpaper I doubt anyone would have all of them on all the time. I'm thinking a couple of central panels that could double as a tv and a monitor ($ savings there) and the rest i'd turn on and run psychotic screen savers maybe once a month when I threw a party (or when i was shrooming, but 10,000 hours of shrooming is more than i'll do in five lifetimes).
As it stands though this is just vapor, i'm hoping to see amorphous walls in my lifetime though.
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I didn't say that open source was immune from attacks, just that the OSS philosophy of small simple tools working in concert makes it much more difficult to find a security hole than M$ monolithic OS where everything is tied into everything else (fight features!!).
As an added bonus small simple tools are easy to fix/update/change so security won't be such an endemic problem.
Linux on the other hand generally will not let information flow freely between different apps and the OS, you have to tell it to do something like that, its (infinitely) more transparent.
So while we will see linux virii, they might only work on mandrake 8.2 and red hat 83.42.19, and only if you have the right library installed in the right place and were logged in as root to read your email.
1. Patience, don't speak until they finish speaking to you.
2. Politeness, yes sir, no sir, i'm not sure, sir.
3. Directness, once they have their say, politely offer your own opinion, then HANDS OFF, let them decide.
Remember, its not your job to add to the company value, its YOUR job to do what they say.
Computer games are infinitely more akin to chess than to soccer or badmitton. Whereas the spectator is a large component of the latter events (which means that people are making money selling tickets) but at a chess tournament only interests an aficianado of the game who can appreciate the sublime situations that are developing on the board, or computer screen. Thats why chess tournaments aren't held in stadiums and they charge the players and admit the fans for free. I suspect that the FPS competition will survive in this form for perpetuity as the game companies will also support it for marketing purposes.
"have to redecorate" ... ? The whole point is that you *could* redecorate every day. Besides, if one wall had OLED wallpaper I doubt anyone would have all of them on all the time. I'm thinking a couple of central panels that could double as a tv and a monitor ($ savings there) and the rest i'd turn on and run psychotic screen savers maybe once a month when I threw a party (or when i was shrooming, but 10,000 hours of shrooming is more than i'll do in five lifetimes).
As it stands though this is just vapor, i'm hoping to see amorphous walls in my lifetime though.
My favorite idea: OLED wallpaper! Now your wall is a tv/blackboard/psychedelic background. What more do you want from your livingroom?