Thanks to the wonders of the freeing "Patriot Act", they don't need warrants. Anybody suspected of "terrorism" (which can be anything from writing with chalk on sidewalks or speeding to killing thousands of people) can be arrested, and have assets seized without a warrant. Welcome to the People's Republic of America.
Your professor is an idealistic, ivory tower academic. Remember "Those who can't, teach". That tends to be true. The reality is that their software has a level of complexity that is relatively unmatched in computing. Add together the amount of things that their software does, for the amount of people, on all different kinds of hardware, and you have an insanely complex application/platform. Compare against, say, Oracle, which writes software that does very specific things, not for end users, and is optimized for only certain hardware and platforms. Even Oracle's stuff isn't bug free, or close to it.
The first and last bug I posted about Netscape (before it was Firefox or Mozilla) at the time) was a relatively serious DHTML problem. As far as I can tell, it was never fixed. I honestly don't remember when I posted it... 2000, maybe? 1999? Anyway, about once a year I get an email saying that the bug has been reassigned to somebody else. It's laughable how poorly the response to bugs have been with Mozilla/Fire*/Gecko/Netscape. I've long since given up keeping track of this one.
Didn't you know that beer snobbery went out with the microbrew craze of the 1990's?
But if you want to play that game, I think that all beer drinkers are pussies. If you want to get drunk, don't bother with beer. Beer makes you fat and sluggish. If you want alcohol, try a real drink with none of the bullshit.
Well, I really don't think that you can use "rabid" to describe IE users. I mean, if that's the case, then what are Mozilla/Firefox users? "Fanatical"? "Insane"? "Driven to a jihad by a bizarre mental condition centering around software"? You have to reserve some space for the insanity that is the Open Source fanclub that *easily* dwarfs what IE users and developers feel about IE.
When I got a new video card (Geforce FX 5700) all I had to do was "emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx" then "opengl-update nvidia" and change the chipset and videoram in my XF86Config. All of this took me about 1/2 hour, including installing the card.
And how'd you figure out how to do all of this? I would have *never* figured this out. I can't imagine a whole lot of other people would be able to figure this out, either.
Whatever. I'm not going to be burned again by Thunderbird, and I was offering information so others wouldn't. But hey, go right ahead and use it. I've already switched email clients to Eudora. In the meantime, y'all can go about blithely thinking that Thunderbird is secure until you get screwed. Good luck.
Well then it was a hell of a coincidence that 1 second after my virus scanner picked up on the email, that my inbox was empty. Complete and total coincidence. Of course, I've only been using email since about 1994. I could be wrong.
What you're seeing are the results of this program.. people are finding bugs, submitting them, and the bugs are being fixed before blackhats can exploit them.
That's not what I'm seeing. I had a spam with a.vbs file in it nuke my Thunderbird inbox lat night. And the email was never even opened, or previewed. Second time that happened. So much for Mozilla security.
I agree... the coaster up there isn't that impressive of a ride, but that free fall... holy shit. You go up to the 112th floor, THEN the free fall shoots you up a few hundred more feet, while playing "Viva Las Vegas". That has to be the most insane ride I've ever done. I love how they suggest that you remove your shoes...
nd the failures of all of the "automatic patch deployment"-type tools out there,
What failures? Does Automatic Updates from Windows not work? It works seamlessly on all of our machines. Or, you can use SUS. Can you not get that to work either?
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Oh, so Google are amateurs? Okay.
I'd be rolled in shit if Google really ran MySQL as their main database. Call me nuts, but I'd think that Google would need, or, I dunno... stored procedures, triggers, foreign keys, you know, the basics pieces of a RDBMS that MYSQL doesn't provide.
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Say you have a large company that depends on a free database app for your core. Like, say, MySQL...
No offense, but no large company would do this. The IT director would be summarily fired. This screams "amateur".
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That amateurs can contribute is, in large part, due to the steady price deflation of equipment, especially equipment based on semiconductors.
And this is due to massive multinational corporations spending billions on R&D and infrastructure. The amateur computer geeks would be virtually nonexistent if giants like MS, Intel, and various Asian chipmakers weren't commoditizing the industry. I don't think that I've ever seen anybody making semiconductors in their garage...
Rap has been a slick, professional and tightly-controlled form of expression for almost two fucking decades now.
This doesn't make sense... how can it be "slick, professional, and tightly-controlled", yet still be a "Form of expression"? I'd argue that rap hasn't been used as a "form of expression" for a good 20 years or so. Rappers don't express themselves any more than Britney Spears does.
I would go so far as to say that the case did its job just fine, and coupled with Microsoft's recent security problems, a door is opening for free market enterprise once more.
What does the case have to do with Firefox usage? I'd say none. In fact, I'd say that Firefox's up and coming status is *proof* that MS did not, and still does not have any kind of strangle hold on the browser "market".
I don't understand what Red Hat is trying to do. It's ancient software. The brand "Netscape" is now. They already sell a competing product.
The schizophrenia that Red Hat is displaying makes Sun & Oracle look sane by comparison.
This just amounts to FUD, trying to make Linux look like it has some involvement with piracy. It's the people who pirate, not the software.
Using basic logic wouldn't lead a normal, intelligent thinking to believe this. A logical conclusion would actually be that people want to use Windows, even when Linux is already pre-installed on their machines. If anything, this shows that not only can Linux not be given away, but even when somebody pays for it, they would still rather throw it out, then use it. You are the one spreading FUD.
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Thanks to the wonders of the freeing "Patriot Act", they don't need warrants. Anybody suspected of "terrorism" (which can be anything from writing with chalk on sidewalks or speeding to killing thousands of people) can be arrested, and have assets seized without a warrant. Welcome to the People's Republic of America.
Your professor is an idealistic, ivory tower academic. Remember "Those who can't, teach". That tends to be true. The reality is that their software has a level of complexity that is relatively unmatched in computing. Add together the amount of things that their software does, for the amount of people, on all different kinds of hardware, and you have an insanely complex application/platform. Compare against, say, Oracle, which writes software that does very specific things, not for end users, and is optimized for only certain hardware and platforms. Even Oracle's stuff isn't bug free, or close to it.
i hope he starts off his new show at sirius with the dirtiest joke ever told on any broadcast medium.
And that would be from one of the all time geek classic movies: "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school" - Fight Club
The first and last bug I posted about Netscape (before it was Firefox or Mozilla) at the time) was a relatively serious DHTML problem. As far as I can tell, it was never fixed. I honestly don't remember when I posted it... 2000, maybe? 1999? Anyway, about once a year I get an email saying that the bug has been reassigned to somebody else. It's laughable how poorly the response to bugs have been with Mozilla/Fire*/Gecko/Netscape. I've long since given up keeping track of this one.
Didn't you know that beer snobbery went out with the microbrew craze of the 1990's?
But if you want to play that game, I think that all beer drinkers are pussies. If you want to get drunk, don't bother with beer. Beer makes you fat and sluggish. If you want alcohol, try a real drink with none of the bullshit.
By the look of the attendees, it was probably all of them...
Well, I really don't think that you can use "rabid" to describe IE users. I mean, if that's the case, then what are Mozilla/Firefox users? "Fanatical"? "Insane"? "Driven to a jihad by a bizarre mental condition centering around software"? You have to reserve some space for the insanity that is the Open Source fanclub that *easily* dwarfs what IE users and developers feel about IE.
When I got a new video card (Geforce FX 5700) all I had to do was "emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx" then "opengl-update nvidia" and change the chipset and videoram in my XF86Config. All of this took me about 1/2 hour, including installing the card.
And how'd you figure out how to do all of this? I would have *never* figured this out. I can't imagine a whole lot of other people would be able to figure this out, either.
wonder if walmart has looked into opensource options?
Largest retailer on the planet? I'm thinking that somebody might have mentioned it to them...
From their business model its clear they value how much things cost...
And doesn't *not* choosing open source say something?
Whatever. I'm not going to be burned again by Thunderbird, and I was offering information so others wouldn't. But hey, go right ahead and use it. I've already switched email clients to Eudora. In the meantime, y'all can go about blithely thinking that Thunderbird is secure until you get screwed. Good luck.
Nope. My virus scanner said specifically that it didn't touch that file because it was my inbox. Thunderbird did it.
Nope, I've been around enough to know not to use Norton. I was fixing things that Norton was breaking back in '96.
Thunderbird cannot execute .VBS (Microsoft VB Script) files.
Well then it was a hell of a coincidence that 1 second after my virus scanner picked up on the email, that my inbox was empty. Complete and total coincidence. Of course, I've only been using email since about 1994. I could be wrong.
What you're seeing are the results of this program.. people are finding bugs, submitting them, and the bugs are being fixed before blackhats can exploit them.
.vbs file in it nuke my Thunderbird inbox lat night. And the email was never even opened, or previewed. Second time that happened. So much for Mozilla security.
That's not what I'm seeing. I had a spam with a
I agree... the coaster up there isn't that impressive of a ride, but that free fall... holy shit. You go up to the 112th floor, THEN the free fall shoots you up a few hundred more feet, while playing "Viva Las Vegas". That has to be the most insane ride I've ever done. I love how they suggest that you remove your shoes...
nd the failures of all of the "automatic patch deployment"-type tools out there,
What failures? Does Automatic Updates from Windows not work? It works seamlessly on all of our machines. Or, you can use SUS. Can you not get that to work either?
Oh, so Google are amateurs? Okay.
I'd be rolled in shit if Google really ran MySQL as their main database. Call me nuts, but I'd think that Google would need, or, I dunno... stored procedures, triggers, foreign keys, you know, the basics pieces of a RDBMS that MYSQL doesn't provide.
Say you have a large company that depends on a free database app for your core. Like, say, MySQL...
No offense, but no large company would do this. The IT director would be summarily fired. This screams "amateur".
That amateurs can contribute is, in large part, due to the steady price deflation of equipment, especially equipment based on semiconductors.
And this is due to massive multinational corporations spending billions on R&D and infrastructure. The amateur computer geeks would be virtually nonexistent if giants like MS, Intel, and various Asian chipmakers weren't commoditizing the industry. I don't think that I've ever seen anybody making semiconductors in their garage...
Rap has been a slick, professional and tightly-controlled form of expression for almost two fucking decades now.
This doesn't make sense... how can it be "slick, professional, and tightly-controlled", yet still be a "Form of expression"? I'd argue that rap hasn't been used as a "form of expression" for a good 20 years or so. Rappers don't express themselves any more than Britney Spears does.
I would go so far as to say that the case did its job just fine, and coupled with Microsoft's recent security problems, a door is opening for free market enterprise once more.
What does the case have to do with Firefox usage? I'd say none. In fact, I'd say that Firefox's up and coming status is *proof* that MS did not, and still does not have any kind of strangle hold on the browser "market".
so you're saying windows is fine in it's current state
Well then, 1. What's wrong with it? and 2. Who's doing it better?
I use Linux because it makes me feel happy.
That's nice. Unfortunately, "feeling happy" doesn't pay the bills. Those of us who have to work for a living don't have that luxury.
I don't understand what Red Hat is trying to do. It's ancient software. The brand "Netscape" is now. They already sell a competing product.
The schizophrenia that Red Hat is displaying makes Sun & Oracle look sane by comparison.
This just amounts to FUD, trying to make Linux look like it has some involvement with piracy. It's the people who pirate, not the software.
Using basic logic wouldn't lead a normal, intelligent thinking to believe this. A logical conclusion would actually be that people want to use Windows, even when Linux is already pre-installed on their machines. If anything, this shows that not only can Linux not be given away, but even when somebody pays for it, they would still rather throw it out, then use it. You are the one spreading FUD.