He insists on Windows being the driving force at MS and he is the reason that it took MS so long to get their products into a vertical integration....
Erm... correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Windows (their operating system business) the actual part of their business that ensures their continued survival? Their Office line of products may bring in more actual cash, I have no idea, but absolutely nobody can compete in the operating system space in the foreseeable future... even if certain niches can be carved out.
I do have a question for you though... What do you mean by "a vertical integration"?
I tend to agree with him. I have yet to find a Linux DE that has the right balance between having too many options (KDE) or too few options (GNOME).
I have been dying to ask this of someone for quite some time. I guess you get to be the lucky one:
What is "too many options"? How is it a problem? Do you feel forced to investigate and test all of the options? Are the defaults bad and you do not feel like you can choose properly? I would honestly like to understand the problem here.
I have used KDE. Some of the stuff I wanted to tweak was a bit difficult to find. I considered my difficulties to be an organization problem, not a problem with too many options.
I guess I just do not understand. Please help me understand. Thank you.
Erm... they explicitly did NOT have any critical infrastructure connected to the Internet. That is why no damage was done despite 30k business computers being infected.
Of course, if there was ANY reasonable choice other than an operating system put out by a company that only cares about maximizing profit, those 30k computers might have been safe too.
a attack can still jump the network by copying it self to the remove media used to make the jump.
Only Microsoft made that automatic, even though Gnome and Apple both tried very hard to emulate that incredibly stupid behavior. Can we just shoot whoever thought that automatically running things was ever a good idea?
Bogus. Your argument boils down to: Americans do not pay as much tax on gas as quite a few other folks do; therefore, Americans complaining about higher gas prices should shut the fuck up.
Guess what Mr Self Absorbed, in the country I am currently in, gas has no taxes at all... and guess what else? It is worth roughly 60 American cents a gallon for high quality gas.
More taxes? Meh. To do what with? Not clean up the environment like you seem to think.
CAPTCHA is transit. Not always, but frequently, the CAPTCHA is mildly disturbing.
Meh. Compositing is much more efficient than rasterizing. You get pretty 3D effects essentially for free once you are compositing. Just turn off the distractions and stop complaining.
And please do not put part of your post in your subject, it makes it a pain in the ass to quote the relevant portions.
Good luck with the Apple thing. I tried it, got burned numerous times, found out it was a certified Unix but did things "differently" just to be different, and then came the WiFi problems.
Oh. My. God. Seriously, there are threads thousands of posts long spanning numerous (5+?) years concerning issues with WiFi. In my experience, maybe 15% of all Apple users ever see this problem, but once an Apple computer has it, it -never- goes away. Even worse, it is intermittent. You might stay connected for a few weeks but then, when it hits again, every 3 to 5 minutes, you are getting disconnected.
The way to solve it when running Linux on the same hardware is to disable the power saving features entirely on the Broadcom chipsets. There is no way to do that on Apple products. I strongly suspect they "activate" this problem if they feel you have not spent enough money on Apple products recently.
Hm. I was kind of thinking the same thing when I had an epiphany of sorts...
Copyright is so important that the tools to easily mark off a name on a list in a PDF just are not there. If the list is printed, a marker, pencil, or pen works just fine.
Go ahead and tell me that if you do not use Adobe Reader, there are dozens of PDF tools to do it. I am not aware of any and I am fairly tech savvy. I just opened Adobe Reader and did not find any such tools...
So yeah, OF COURSE they printed it out. It is the only way to mark off the names. Utter PDF fail.
I know quite a bit about VMs and such. I have used VMWare, Virtualbox, and Hyper V... but I am still here reading the fucking article and comments.
Why?
Because in a discussion like this, new stuff can be learned. If you REALLY didn't want to fucking participate in the discussion, how hard would it have for you to NOT click on it?
Sadly, I learned nothing new this time. Maybe next time... if you did not scare everyone off.
Contracting with the DoD will require you to have certain certifications. This is known as 8570, which is the regulation number. A+ is a basic requirement for Help Desk work under 8570.
I fully agree with your assessment of how it should have been handled. I would have expected an officer, no matter how junior, to handle it in that manner. I would prefer that a junior enlisted person handle it the same way, but honestly, it is expecting a bit much to expect someone that young and that uneducated to handle it properly.
The real crime here is that nobody else decided to handle the problem before a junior enlisted member did. Shameful.
The techniques of meditation are for affecting/effecting mental tension states. Drugs affect/effect mental tension states. That is as far as the similarities between meditation and drugs go. Any other similarities are merely coincidental.
To be fair to those "professionals", user initiated actions are the problem they see the most. I used quotes because knowing one thing does not prevent extension of that knowledge by other things.
Look, you or I can be reasonable. The people pushing the agendas are NEVER reasonable. Extremism begets extremism. I predict that in 200 years, Stallman will be considered a full on Saint of the Digital Revolution.
For the longest time, I thought Stallman was swatting at non-lucid dreams. I have frequently been caught out in "OMG the world is ending" type thinking and I resisted it for the longest time.
Make no mistake what Trusted Computing will end up being realized as: There will be absolutely NO computing devices that are not fully monitored and controlled to ensure that you can not run arbitrary code within 30 years.
The end really is near and it could be realized within a single year on all new devices. Of course, it will not happen for at least 30 years due to technical and political reasons, but it will happen. Stallman is right. And the common user WILL be affected.
Concerning Linux, I feel your pain my friend. I am getting ready to buy a new laptop from a Linux laptop dealer and just give up any hope of playing any serious games. With the hardware all being supported and the intel video chipset drivers being fully documented, I expect few problems until I reach the GUI level. I will be using the GUI only for web browsing, I can do everything else in sexy high-res consoles. I am sure for your type of work or pleasure. consoles are not sufficient, but for me, they are.
Meh. Almost everything that we can see with our unaided eyes is within our own galaxy. Only telescopes and such will ever notice the diminished twinkling. I doubt anyone will care until our own galaxy (or merged galaxies) start to go dark.
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He insists on Windows being the driving force at MS and he is the reason that it took MS so long to get their products into a vertical integration....
Erm... correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Windows (their operating system business) the actual part of their business that ensures their continued survival? Their Office line of products may bring in more actual cash, I have no idea, but absolutely nobody can compete in the operating system space in the foreseeable future... even if certain niches can be carved out.
I do have a question for you though... What do you mean by "a vertical integration"?
I tend to agree with him. I have yet to find a Linux DE that has the right balance between having too many options (KDE) or too few options (GNOME).
I have been dying to ask this of someone for quite some time. I guess you get to be the lucky one:
What is "too many options"? How is it a problem? Do you feel forced to investigate and test all of the options? Are the defaults bad and you do not feel like you can choose properly? I would honestly like to understand the problem here.
I have used KDE. Some of the stuff I wanted to tweak was a bit difficult to find. I considered my difficulties to be an organization problem, not a problem with too many options.
I guess I just do not understand. Please help me understand. Thank you.
You made me laugh. I am glad I was not drinking anything. Hell, I am still chuckling as I write this. lol
I just made that my sig. Fuckin awesome. :)
Erm... they explicitly did NOT have any critical infrastructure connected to the Internet. That is why no damage was done despite 30k business computers being infected.
Of course, if there was ANY reasonable choice other than an operating system put out by a company that only cares about maximizing profit, those 30k computers might have been safe too.
a attack can still jump the network by copying it self to the remove media used to make the jump.
Only Microsoft made that automatic, even though Gnome and Apple both tried very hard to emulate that incredibly stupid behavior. Can we just shoot whoever thought that automatically running things was ever a good idea?
It *IS* arbitrary. Gas is roughly 60 cents a gallon here in Kuwait. Go ahead and convince me the huge markup is all distribution. :(
Gas is worth 60 cents a gallon before shipping. Shipping is not that expensive; therefore, someone is making an obscenely huge profit.
Bogus. Your argument boils down to: Americans do not pay as much tax on gas as quite a few other folks do; therefore, Americans complaining about higher gas prices should shut the fuck up.
Guess what Mr Self Absorbed, in the country I am currently in, gas has no taxes at all... and guess what else? It is worth roughly 60 American cents a gallon for high quality gas.
More taxes? Meh. To do what with? Not clean up the environment like you seem to think.
CAPTCHA is transit. Not always, but frequently, the CAPTCHA is mildly disturbing.
Meh. Compositing is much more efficient than rasterizing. You get pretty 3D effects essentially for free once you are compositing. Just turn off the distractions and stop complaining.
And please do not put part of your post in your subject, it makes it a pain in the ass to quote the relevant portions.
Good luck with the Apple thing. I tried it, got burned numerous times, found out it was a certified Unix but did things "differently" just to be different, and then came the WiFi problems.
Oh. My. God. Seriously, there are threads thousands of posts long spanning numerous (5+?) years concerning issues with WiFi. In my experience, maybe 15% of all Apple users ever see this problem, but once an Apple computer has it, it -never- goes away. Even worse, it is intermittent. You might stay connected for a few weeks but then, when it hits again, every 3 to 5 minutes, you are getting disconnected.
The way to solve it when running Linux on the same hardware is to disable the power saving features entirely on the Broadcom chipsets. There is no way to do that on Apple products. I strongly suspect they "activate" this problem if they feel you have not spent enough money on Apple products recently.
Bizarre. I saw your comment like this:
"Luckily the CCP has no say in the Linux Scene, or I would be starting to re-learning to use Moscowsoft Windoze."
The perception only lasted for a second, but very weird. Heh.
Hm. I was kind of thinking the same thing when I had an epiphany of sorts...
Copyright is so important that the tools to easily mark off a name on a list in a PDF just are not there. If the list is printed, a marker, pencil, or pen works just fine.
Go ahead and tell me that if you do not use Adobe Reader, there are dozens of PDF tools to do it. I am not aware of any and I am fairly tech savvy. I just opened Adobe Reader and did not find any such tools...
So yeah, OF COURSE they printed it out. It is the only way to mark off the names. Utter PDF fail.
You know what? Byte me.
I know quite a bit about VMs and such. I have used VMWare, Virtualbox, and Hyper V... but I am still here reading the fucking article and comments.
Why?
Because in a discussion like this, new stuff can be learned. If you REALLY didn't want to fucking participate in the discussion, how hard would it have for you to NOT click on it?
Sadly, I learned nothing new this time. Maybe next time... if you did not scare everyone off.
If you do any work with information systems, then you are out of compliance.
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/857001m.pdf
Contracting with the DoD will require you to have certain certifications. This is known as 8570, which is the regulation number. A+ is a basic requirement for Help Desk work under 8570.
lol, even more meaningful would be pitting Samsung's entire lineup against Apple's entire lineup. :)
As long as the data is not being uploaded, you have control over how long it is kept and can edit it to remove personally identifying information.
There is a checkbox under settings->interface that says whether or not you should be notified of a number of things, including ads for upcoming games.
I fully agree with your assessment of how it should have been handled. I would have expected an officer, no matter how junior, to handle it in that manner. I would prefer that a junior enlisted person handle it the same way, but honestly, it is expecting a bit much to expect someone that young and that uneducated to handle it properly.
The real crime here is that nobody else decided to handle the problem before a junior enlisted member did. Shameful.
The techniques of meditation are for affecting/effecting mental tension states. Drugs affect/effect mental tension states. That is as far as the similarities between meditation and drugs go. Any other similarities are merely coincidental.
I hope that you received a few "Insightful" mods before you hit +5 Funny.
To be fair to those "professionals", user initiated actions are the problem they see the most. I used quotes because knowing one thing does not prevent extension of that knowledge by other things.
Look, you or I can be reasonable. The people pushing the agendas are NEVER reasonable. Extremism begets extremism. I predict that in 200 years, Stallman will be considered a full on Saint of the Digital Revolution.
For the longest time, I thought Stallman was swatting at non-lucid dreams. I have frequently been caught out in "OMG the world is ending" type thinking and I resisted it for the longest time.
Make no mistake what Trusted Computing will end up being realized as: There will be absolutely NO computing devices that are not fully monitored and controlled to ensure that you can not run arbitrary code within 30 years.
The end really is near and it could be realized within a single year on all new devices. Of course, it will not happen for at least 30 years due to technical and political reasons, but it will happen. Stallman is right. And the common user WILL be affected.
Concerning Linux, I feel your pain my friend. I am getting ready to buy a new laptop from a Linux laptop dealer and just give up any hope of playing any serious games. With the hardware all being supported and the intel video chipset drivers being fully documented, I expect few problems until I reach the GUI level. I will be using the GUI only for web browsing, I can do everything else in sexy high-res consoles. I am sure for your type of work or pleasure. consoles are not sufficient, but for me, they are.
Meh. Almost everything that we can see with our unaided eyes is within our own galaxy. Only telescopes and such will ever notice the diminished twinkling. I doubt anyone will care until our own galaxy (or merged galaxies) start to go dark.