No, it doesn't mean that Microsoft will make ODF the default format. It does mean, however, that I could send an Office 2007 user an ODF document that I made with OpenOffice.org and they would be able to open it.
And render correctly, just like if you created a W3C-compliant HTML 4 document with a W3C-compliant CSS style sheet that displays correctly in every other browser other than IE, right?
Sadly, no, this is not the end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft. I guarantee that ODF will not be the default format and that Microsoft's implementation of ODF will clearly be some variation of 'embrace, extend, extinguish,' just like everything else they do.
Still, it feels good to hear a Microsoft employee admit that OOXML lost.
No, no. The curriculum I had covered databases (including normalization, tuning, SQL, UML etc.), networking, C programming, operating systems theory and practice, systems design and analysis, software development methodologies (SDLC, etc.). Yes there were some business courses, so it is kind of like a dual Business/IS major.
Much of this you do NOT get in CS coursework, which typically focuses on algorithms, languages, compiler development and so forth.
Any good CS course should equip someone with the knowledge (if not ability) to work on games programming - theres nothing special about it apart from perhaps a slightly greater emphasis on physics and thats only if you work on a physics engine anyway.
Sure, you're going to learn the science, but not necessarily the application. If you know the science, you should be able to learn the application, but CS does not prepare you for real-world coding.
It's like the difference between getting a degree in physics and a degree electrical engineering -- the physics degree gives you the science, but the EE degree gives you the the application.
There're no special accountancy programming degrees or degrees in insurance or banking programming so why games programming?
Yeah, there is. I have such a degree. It's called 'Computer Information Systems' or 'Business Information Systems' or 'Management Information Systems.' These courses teach coding and application development methodologies used in business. Again, CIS is the application, while CS is the science.
Actually, I have used fwbuilder, and I agree that it's very nice. But nothing beats the flexibility of a hand-tooled iptables script. I tried to use fwbuilder for some firewalls I had built at one place I worked and released it just didn't give me what I wanted.
Mind you what I wanted involved things like injecting latency on purpose based on certain route paths but not on others, but you get the idea. These were test routers used to simulate conditions for software performance and scalability testing.
Interesting. Do you claim to speak for Barack Obama? How do you know what Barack Obama's stance is on this particular bill? Has he said yet? I mean, we know that he voted against immunity in the past, but that was before this new compromise bill.
I wouldn't go around claiming that I knew something about what the presumptive nominee for the DNC is thinking without actually knowing what his stance is.
Every joe six pack runs that stupid cd that comes with the router, and it guides them through, step by step, VERY CLEARLY, how to configure, AND SECURE their router.
In most states as I understand it, it's the difference between breaking and entering and trespassing
Nope. There's a term for 'breaking and entering' without the 'breaking' part. Trespassing is entering onto someone's property without permission. The term your looking for is 'unlawful entry'. Still a misdemeanor, but a more punishable offense in most states than trespassing.
God, is it THAT hard to pay attention to our points or do you just ignore people that disagree with you and make up vile lies?
I confess to playing "Devil's Advocate" here. My point is that it is not so clear cut, especially for Joe Sixpack. Unfortunately, we don't have IT experts presiding as judges in our courtrooms, so it has to be clear-cut enough for Joe Sixpack.
Since everything that DHCP does is behind the scenes, Joe Sixpack doesn't know that an exchange between his router and your laptop took place. All he knows is that you access his router. If it gave permission, it was because he didn't know how to 'lock' it.
Well, I sasked your door permission to open by turning the handle, and when it did, since it was unlocked, I entered your house while you were gone today.
Since nothing was bolted to your floor, I proceeded to help myself to your TV and associated A/V equipment, your PVR, your Playstation 3, and your Wii. Additionally, your study door similarly allowed me to enter your study, where I noticed some computer equipment that wasn't chained to the desk, so I left with that, too.
Since your doors granted me permission to enter your house, and they were acting on your behelf since they are on your house, you have no reason to complain.
I've used all three (U, F, & S) and keep going back to SuSE because of the SuSEfirewall2 configuration feature. It gives you one straightforward (fairly) easy to understand text config file that governs how the iptables rules get set up.
Bah. Back when I started building Linux firewalls, we didn't have fancy firewall building scripts or GUIs. We had to know what we were doing with iptables and grok the difference between say, REJECTing a packet and DROPing a packet.
It gets worse once you start to involve statistics on ethnic and religious groups, because with equality of opportunity, an average white has double (in years) the education of the average black person. Given the same income, the same... the same everything. You can whine about this. On the other hand the chances of a caucasion winning the 100m sprint have been reduced from slim to none in the past few years.
Again, that's equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
Here's the thing: blacks don't attend school in the same numbers as whites because of cultural differences.
But here's the thing: it isn't all their fault, either. Think of an African American boy, bright though he may be, growing up in a ghetto. It's important to recognize that for many growing up in the ghetto, the ghetto is all they know. They simply don't know how they can get out of the ghetto or be lifted out of poverty -- they've been told by their peers that the ghetto is all there is and their experience in the ghetto shows this -- in the ghetto, you gotta be tough or be killed. That means valuing things like strength and skill over intellectual achievement.
To address the situation, you can't just throw money at it. Affirmative action doesn't work, either. The only solution to the problem is to try get the boy out of the ghetto mindset. Unfortunately, there's no magic bullet to do that -- education is clearly the key, but how to even get that boy interested in being educated?
Most blacks feel that the answer lies within their own communities, amongst themselves. And they're right -- change must come from within for a group, just as it must for an individual. But how to get the catalyst moving? Answer that and you'll solve at least half the problem.
I won't speak to the other groups, because I don't personally know any Muslims and I don't feel qualified to say anything in that regard, but what I do know is that there are Muslim groups in which education is highly valued, particularly in the realm of science, believe it or not. Much of what we know about science and math today comes from the ancient Muslims -- ever heard of 'Arabic numerals'?
Probably not. Competition between major distros doesn't really exist, because all features are available for all distros. Neither Ubuntu, nor Fedora nor SuSE specialize in anything in particular, so in the end, there's not much difference between them aside from package management and menu layout.
Well, with all your 'expert' experience, that should negate things like a 35,000+ deployment report on my desk that says otherwise?
Read what you wrote. "Deployment report". Deployments say nothing about reliability. A deployment is just that -- an installation of something new, be it hardware, software, whatever. Reliability is a long-term issue, not a short-term issue.
Ever consider maybe you are a crappy Administrator?
Ever consider maybe you just have a crappy, miserable outlook on life and that's why you have to pick on other people, to make you feel better about yourself?
Linux added in here would draw some serious questions as to your honesty. How many years do you run Linux servers without updates? (Even in closed environments?) Linux (until recently) is not condusive to hotpatching, especially any kernel level updates.
Updates are the same whether we're talking about Linux, HP-UX, Solaris or AIX. A 2-5 years ago, none of those OSes had support for hot kernel patching either.
Doing updates isn't always so critical in certain environments. In most cases, for, say, an Oracle server firewalled off from users and from outside connections, you don't want to do any kernel updates except for those that are critical to the reliable and secure operation of Oracle. Especially when said 96-CPU Oracle server running Solaris is running a mission-critical app that must be up 24x7 and, no, "three 9s" won't do. Willy-nilly applying updates is the mark of a droid who has no idea what he is doing.
The longest uptime I have personally seen in an 'active' installation is a NT 4.0 box from 1997 (No internet Access, just a large LAN of clients it served including IIS intranet software) and it ran until January of 1999 without a reboot.
Commendable, but I'll also wager that good capacity planning was in place, something you never see from point-and-drool MCSE monkeys.
So if you want to share anecdotal stories, I would be happy to add 'personal experience' to the dialog. (I Even have a 3yr old Win3.1 VM and a 4yr old XP VM that have never been rebooted... Oooh Awww...)
Not exactly the same thing.
or are really bad administrators that like to blame the Server/Software instead of admitting they feked up...
Or the only thing that has allowed them to have an income is their Microsoft MCxx, otherwise they'd be too stupid and miserable to make it in the real world.
Most homeless people are homeless because they want to be homeless. People who are homeless by circumstance who don't want to be homeless will always find a way out of homelessness.
While I agree with you for the most part, what you and the parent are confusing is equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity.
We strive for a society in which everyone has the same opportunities. Such is difficult and may not be toally possible 100% of the time, but it's what we strive for and we can give people lots of opportunities to achieve and make something of themselves by offering extra educational help for the disabled, scholarships for the financially challenged and so forth.
Equality of outcome is completely impossible. There's no way to guarantee that everyone has a good career or makes a lot of money or gets good grades. It's simply not statistically possible -- at all.
So stating that there are homeless or poor people and that's why we need NCLB is just completely stupid, because no matter what you're going to have people who get left behind.
It's DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They do research. They don't do spying. The spooks all work for CIA, DIA (that's Defense Intelligence Agency), and NSA. And probably a few organizations we don't know about. But DARPA just ain't one of them.
Windows users don't see crashes, this is not the Win9x kernel era, the 'Windows crashes all the time' myth crap needs to stop once and for all...
Chill. Do you work on the Windows development team or do you work in PR?
Anyways, the thread's OP is saying Windows crashes ~10% of the time, which is fairly accurate, actually. Windows 9x crashed at least 30-50% of the time. No, I'm not exaggerating.
I've seen many, many XP and 200x Server crashes (I'm a sysadmin), and probably only 25% of those were due to hardware.
By comparison, I've seen Linux and HP-UX, Solaris and AIX servers with uptimes measured in years.
So I'd say you probably have no idea what you're talking about.
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Mods on crack. Overrated != "I don't agree with you". Fucking pussies.
And render correctly, just like if you created a W3C-compliant HTML 4 document with a W3C-compliant CSS style sheet that displays correctly in every other browser other than IE, right?
Sadly, no, this is not the end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft. I guarantee that ODF will not be the default format and that Microsoft's implementation of ODF will clearly be some variation of 'embrace, extend, extinguish,' just like everything else they do.
Still, it feels good to hear a Microsoft employee admit that OOXML lost.
No, no. The curriculum I had covered databases (including normalization, tuning, SQL, UML etc.), networking, C programming, operating systems theory and practice, systems design and analysis, software development methodologies (SDLC, etc.). Yes there were some business courses, so it is kind of like a dual Business/IS major.
Much of this you do NOT get in CS coursework, which typically focuses on algorithms, languages, compiler development and so forth.
It's like the difference between getting a degree in physics and a degree electrical engineering -- the physics degree gives you the science, but the EE degree gives you the the application.
Yeah, there is. I have such a degree. It's called 'Computer Information Systems' or 'Business Information Systems' or 'Management Information Systems.' These courses teach coding and application development methodologies used in business. Again, CIS is the application, while CS is the science.Actually, I have used fwbuilder, and I agree that it's very nice. But nothing beats the flexibility of a hand-tooled iptables script. I tried to use fwbuilder for some firewalls I had built at one place I worked and released it just didn't give me what I wanted.
Mind you what I wanted involved things like injecting latency on purpose based on certain route paths but not on others, but you get the idea. These were test routers used to simulate conditions for software performance and scalability testing.
Interesting. Do you claim to speak for Barack Obama? How do you know what Barack Obama's stance is on this particular bill? Has he said yet? I mean, we know that he voted against immunity in the past, but that was before this new compromise bill.
I wouldn't go around claiming that I knew something about what the presumptive nominee for the DNC is thinking without actually knowing what his stance is.
In most states as I understand it, it's the difference between breaking and entering and trespassing
Nope. There's a term for 'breaking and entering' without the 'breaking' part. Trespassing is entering onto someone's property without permission. The term your looking for is 'unlawful entry'. Still a misdemeanor, but a more punishable offense in most states than trespassing.
Since everything that DHCP does is behind the scenes, Joe Sixpack doesn't know that an exchange between his router and your laptop took place. All he knows is that you access his router. If it gave permission, it was because he didn't know how to 'lock' it.
Well, I sasked your door permission to open by turning the handle, and when it did, since it was unlocked, I entered your house while you were gone today.
Since nothing was bolted to your floor, I proceeded to help myself to your TV and associated A/V equipment, your PVR, your Playstation 3, and your Wii. Additionally, your study door similarly allowed me to enter your study, where I noticed some computer equipment that wasn't chained to the desk, so I left with that, too.
Since your doors granted me permission to enter your house, and they were acting on your behelf since they are on your house, you have no reason to complain.
Right?
Any reason you can't install AppArmor into Red Hat and SELinux into SuSE?
No, didn't think so.
So iptables is iptables is iptables to me.
You kids and your fancy configurators.
Now get off of my lawn!
Here's the thing: blacks don't attend school in the same numbers as whites because of cultural differences.
But here's the thing: it isn't all their fault, either. Think of an African American boy, bright though he may be, growing up in a ghetto. It's important to recognize that for many growing up in the ghetto, the ghetto is all they know. They simply don't know how they can get out of the ghetto or be lifted out of poverty -- they've been told by their peers that the ghetto is all there is and their experience in the ghetto shows this -- in the ghetto, you gotta be tough or be killed. That means valuing things like strength and skill over intellectual achievement.
To address the situation, you can't just throw money at it. Affirmative action doesn't work, either. The only solution to the problem is to try get the boy out of the ghetto mindset. Unfortunately, there's no magic bullet to do that -- education is clearly the key, but how to even get that boy interested in being educated?
Most blacks feel that the answer lies within their own communities, amongst themselves. And they're right -- change must come from within for a group, just as it must for an individual. But how to get the catalyst moving? Answer that and you'll solve at least half the problem.
I won't speak to the other groups, because I don't personally know any Muslims and I don't feel qualified to say anything in that regard, but what I do know is that there are Muslim groups in which education is highly valued, particularly in the realm of science, believe it or not. Much of what we know about science and math today comes from the ancient Muslims -- ever heard of 'Arabic numerals'?
Doing updates isn't always so critical in certain environments. In most cases, for, say, an Oracle server firewalled off from users and from outside connections, you don't want to do any kernel updates except for those that are critical to the reliable and secure operation of Oracle. Especially when said 96-CPU Oracle server running Solaris is running a mission-critical app that must be up 24x7 and, no, "three 9s" won't do. Willy-nilly applying updates is the mark of a droid who has no idea what he is doing. Commendable, but I'll also wager that good capacity planning was in place, something you never see from point-and-drool MCSE monkeys. Not exactly the same thing. Or the only thing that has allowed them to have an income is their Microsoft MCxx, otherwise they'd be too stupid and miserable to make it in the real world.
While I agree with you for the most part, what you and the parent are confusing is equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity.
We strive for a society in which everyone has the same opportunities. Such is difficult and may not be toally possible 100% of the time, but it's what we strive for and we can give people lots of opportunities to achieve and make something of themselves by offering extra educational help for the disabled, scholarships for the financially challenged and so forth.
Equality of outcome is completely impossible. There's no way to guarantee that everyone has a good career or makes a lot of money or gets good grades. It's simply not statistically possible -- at all.
So stating that there are homeless or poor people and that's why we need NCLB is just completely stupid, because no matter what you're going to have people who get left behind.
It's DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They do research. They don't do spying. The spooks all work for CIA, DIA (that's Defense Intelligence Agency), and NSA. And probably a few organizations we don't know about. But DARPA just ain't one of them.
Chill. Do you work on the Windows development team or do you work in PR?
Anyways, the thread's OP is saying Windows crashes ~10% of the time, which is fairly accurate, actually. Windows 9x crashed at least 30-50% of the time. No, I'm not exaggerating.
I've seen many, many XP and 200x Server crashes (I'm a sysadmin), and probably only 25% of those were due to hardware.
By comparison, I've seen Linux and HP-UX, Solaris and AIX servers with uptimes measured in years.
So I'd say you probably have no idea what you're talking about.
Does anybody have this game? Maybe they have a "References" screen!
Slashwooded. (Ouch!)
Hint to Steve Jobs genuflecting tards: No, life is not all about Apple. No go outside and get some fresh air. Now.