Not really, which is easier? Replacing your Win98 clunker with a Mac, or the process you have listed?
I assume that's a rhetorical question...but i'll answer it anyways. Like I said I would recommend switching to a Mac to anyone, I don't believe it's necessary, but I think Mac's are neat and fairly low maintenance. But for you to suggest that it is easier to buy an entirely new computer, new software and learn a new OS instead of "regular patching, defragging, spyware software", all of which can be setup to be performed automatically, for free, and in the background, is somewhat rediculous
People ask me all the time how to clean up their system. I tell them to switch to Linux or buy a Mac
This would be the last thing I would tell the average person who asks me how to clean up their system (usually women and the elderly). At least while they have Windows there are more "average people" that can help them with their problems. In the case of Mac, its getting better, but can you imagine your 65 year old aunt trying to deal with linux problems when she is unaware of how to prevent viruses and spam in windows? "Sonny, what is this root? Why won't Microsoft Office install? The guy at compusa said it would work on my computer". If I can recommend a computer to people starting out on computers for the first time, absolutely i would suggest mac or linux, but learning anything different for non tech savvy people is often much more of a headache then the ills of Windows that can be easily solved with regular patching, defragging, spyware software and anti-virus software (phew!).
Well from reading the comments on the redhat bugzilla that evidently led up to this, they do have a point that now you wait for a while before you login, and then you have to wait even longer once your logged in. This way at least you can turn on, login, then go get a cup of coffee. So even though total login time is not shortened, at least there is one long "commercial break" instead of two medium breaks
Furthermore why is he telling us all his methods if he is so paranoid? It's like those people that are so proud of their great passwords they brag about them "oh yeah, well i just take my kids middle names, spell them backwards and then switch the letters for numbers".
He seems to have the logical security locked down, but what about the physical security? His kids can still just unplug his firewalls, steal his smart card, and install key loggers on his laptop. He needs to take the next step and install biometrics. He should implement random polygraph tests on his wife and kids to see if they really have been changing their passwords every day to a different 14 character string.
Eh? To my knowledge Microsoft has not sued Mono over any patents. There has been lots of speculation, but if microsoft really didn't want people using C# and the CLR they would not have submited them to the ECMA.
Its already hard enough to get video game time with all the "Great" Lifetime TV movies on, the last thing I need to do is fight over who gets to use the console tonight.
Many people wonder why Ebay would have even used "negros" as a keyword, because many people associate the term with racism, but negro was actually a politically correct term in the 50s, and as such there are many collectors items on ebay that are called "negro" this and that. A good example are items from the negro league of baseball. But it really looks like ebay just bought up the spanish words for colors. Negro is "black" in spanish, you can test this by searching for "rojo" which brings:
# Rojo on eBay
Find rojo items at low prices. With over 5 million items for sale every day, you'll...
www.ebay.com
Obviously I can't know this, and the 100,000 isn't meant literally either. But I think it's pretty much common sense that the more people you have messing with your product the more likely bugs are to be found, in fact thats why you WANT so many people to test linux instead of just having 10 dudes in their basements giving it a whirl. Also once the user base starts to expand you're more likely to become a target for security exploits.
if I were a moderator today i'd give you all my points. Don't let the infantile MS bashers here bother you, the people that imply that microsoft has no testing are the same idiots who "hear" that MS products are insecure because NBC nightly news said so. If linux had the same user base as MS there would be 100,000 times as many patches, security holes etc. We may not all agree with MS's business practices, but its evident that they have a very serious testing regime, especially since products often get delayed for years because of minor things.
In the ever-present attempt to mirror Paul Graham's web site, the submitter forgot to check if this essay even has anything to do with technology, which it does not!
The current XBox has a hard drive in it, why wouldn't every XBox 360?
Because it's an extra expense that many people don't use. Most of the data I have stored on my xbox hard drive could fit on a memory card. Although I think if they don't give a hard drive by default, hardly anything will use it and it will be pointless (much like the PS2 hard drive, or the PSX mouse). I guess they figured they could sell the stripped one to some middle class hotspot price of $200 or something.
I had the original WebTV. It sucked. But maybe with a highdef version of WebTV, it may be useable. It seems like MS is trying slowly but surely to have Xp Media Center and Xbox converge into the "tv top Windows appliance" they have always wanted.
Just reported in the Wall street journal today:
The WSJ's "Heard on the Street" column discusses Google, saying that the co's profit may increase from last year, thanks in part to an accounting move. Before its IPO, Google chose to speed up when it would recognize more than $750 mln in expense related to cheap stock options granted to employees. Using a technique known as "accelerated amortization," Google recognized the bulk of this expense in 2002, 2003 and 2004. The flip side: Now that it is a public co and must report to investors every 3 months, this portion of Google's expenses is declining. That will burnish Google's results when compared with last year's. The main impact will begin to appear when Google reports 1Q results tomorrow. This year, Google will record an expense related to those cheap options of $146 mln, according to regulatory filings. That is down from $279 mln last year, a guaranteed $133 mln improvement in Google's bottom line even before the first Internet user clicked on a Google search advertisement. Had Google not shifted the expense schedule and followed a "straight-line" amortization schedule, it would have had to book a $171 mln expense this year, it said in regulatory filings. The benefit to Google grows next year.
I agree, despite what all the fanatics say, Google hasn't ever really offered anything "new" persay. Yes, the way their map program works is neat and because of its speed it is better then other ones out there, but MapQuest and other came out with "internet mapping" years before, and even had satellite pix too. Google may have came out with a better search algorhythm but it was just as easy to find stuff on the web before they came along (Yahoo's old directory, though hell for them to maintain, was better then anything currently out today). In terms of search Google is now behind the curve as far as I'm concerned as it doesn't cluster results like clusty.com and some newer engines do. Their blogger as mentioned by the poster was not created by them, they only bought it. Gmail again uses a new type of technology to make it fast, but it still lacks what other basic free email services have had for years (out of office replys, etc). The way it threads messages was also already implemented by desktop based email programs. Google is neat, but I think it is a vast overstatement to say they are integrally important to the way the Internet is today. If they hadn't done it, one of the many tons of other sites that were like them even back 5 years ago would have stepped up. Indeed if anything Yahoo! was more important as this was the first largely recognized search engine. And they started 4 years before the punk kids at Google did.
If you scroll all the way to the left, you see the US maps, if you scroll to the right you see just water...kind of reverse Christopher Columbus. Doesn't seem to want to make a map from London to Washington, DC though.
There have been so many examples now of AdSense abuse, it seems that the ROI of AdSense ads is getting lower by the minute. As a webmaster who has tried AdSense, both from a generating money by putting it on my site and a paying to advertise on it point of view, neither gets you many results. Even on extremely popular sites you don't make more then a couple hundred advertising for them, while traditional banner ads brought my site in thousands. And from an advertiser point of view, you are much better off getting someone to "Google bomb" your site and get permanent good placement rather then 50% random people clicking your ad to make money off their blog and 50% "real" people.
I think the difference here is that the nuclear test treaty is wanted by Americans too. While the missle defense program has no downside for most Americans, a resumption of nuclear testing is really a hot button issue, and if the current president suggested it, it would no doubt cause 100 news stories about fetal mortality etc from nuclear fallout.
Um except that all the links you provided talked about how DANGEROUS those methods are, not how expensive they are. And none of those solutions describe a way to transport humans reliably to and from say Mars in a reasonable safe, repeatable manner. Furthermore, since all those ideas involve nuclear radiation, good luck getting them tested here on earth. We would rather use inefficient heavy polluting coal power plants instead nuclear power plants despite the fact that they only product steam as pollution (and nuclear waste). Would you propose a resumption of nuclear testing just to work on these ideas? Watching the original atomic testing on the Bikini Atoll already makes me sad, the odds of a ELE occuring in our lifetimes is extremely slim compared to the risks involved to life on earth in any of the methods you suggested.
Establishing an off planet colony isn't exactly the same as getting up to turn the TV off, even if we started really focusing on this idea now, without some new propulsion technology i doubt even by 2029 we will have this option.
Amen! There is a reason why some old Nintendo, Atari and Sega games are still fun to this day. They had to put effort into making the game fun itself back then, not just "super 3-d graphics + celebrity + music = profit!". Katamari Darmacy and Snood are two (fairly) recent games that have given me much more enjoyment and playtime then Halo 2.
To be fair there is a good chance he DID give Google quite a few pennies if he clicked on any of the AdWords that appeared in his email or other services. He may not have personally paid for them, but Google made a profit from his use, so if they want to continue getting pennies through him, his point is valid that they should stick to the original philosophys that probably made him sign up in the first place
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Not really, which is easier? Replacing your Win98 clunker with a Mac, or the process you have listed?
I assume that's a rhetorical question...but i'll answer it anyways. Like I said I would recommend switching to a Mac to anyone, I don't believe it's necessary, but I think Mac's are neat and fairly low maintenance. But for you to suggest that it is easier to buy an entirely new computer, new software and learn a new OS instead of "regular patching, defragging, spyware software", all of which can be setup to be performed automatically, for free, and in the background, is somewhat rediculous
People ask me all the time how to clean up their system. I tell them to switch to Linux or buy a Mac
This would be the last thing I would tell the average person who asks me how to clean up their system (usually women and the elderly). At least while they have Windows there are more "average people" that can help them with their problems. In the case of Mac, its getting better, but can you imagine your 65 year old aunt trying to deal with linux problems when she is unaware of how to prevent viruses and spam in windows? "Sonny, what is this root? Why won't Microsoft Office install? The guy at compusa said it would work on my computer". If I can recommend a computer to people starting out on computers for the first time, absolutely i would suggest mac or linux, but learning anything different for non tech savvy people is often much more of a headache then the ills of Windows that can be easily solved with regular patching, defragging, spyware software and anti-virus software (phew!).
Seems more like a "rant to slashdot" then an ask slashdot.
Well from reading the comments on the redhat bugzilla that evidently led up to this, they do have a point that now you wait for a while before you login, and then you have to wait even longer once your logged in. This way at least you can turn on, login, then go get a cup of coffee. So even though total login time is not shortened, at least there is one long "commercial break" instead of two medium breaks
Furthermore why is he telling us all his methods if he is so paranoid? It's like those people that are so proud of their great passwords they brag about them "oh yeah, well i just take my kids middle names, spell them backwards and then switch the letters for numbers".
He seems to have the logical security locked down, but what about the physical security? His kids can still just unplug his firewalls, steal his smart card, and install key loggers on his laptop. He needs to take the next step and install biometrics. He should implement random polygraph tests on his wife and kids to see if they really have been changing their passwords every day to a different 14 character string.
Eh? To my knowledge Microsoft has not sued Mono over any patents. There has been lots of speculation, but if microsoft really didn't want people using C# and the CLR they would not have submited them to the ECMA.
Its already hard enough to get video game time with all the "Great" Lifetime TV movies on, the last thing I need to do is fight over who gets to use the console tonight.
Many people wonder why Ebay would have even used "negros" as a keyword, because many people associate the term with racism, but negro was actually a politically correct term in the 50s, and as such there are many collectors items on ebay that are called "negro" this and that. A good example are items from the negro league of baseball. But it really looks like ebay just bought up the spanish words for colors. Negro is "black" in spanish, you can test this by searching for "rojo" which brings:
# Rojo on eBay
Find rojo items at low prices. With over 5 million
items for sale every day, you'll...
www.ebay.com
Obviously I can't know this, and the 100,000 isn't meant literally either. But I think it's pretty much common sense that the more people you have messing with your product the more likely bugs are to be found, in fact thats why you WANT so many people to test linux instead of just having 10 dudes in their basements giving it a whirl. Also once the user base starts to expand you're more likely to become a target for security exploits.
What does the programming language have to do with anything? I've seen pay programs using php and perl, and open source in java...
if I were a moderator today i'd give you all my points. Don't let the infantile MS bashers here bother you, the people that imply that microsoft has no testing are the same idiots who "hear" that MS products are insecure because NBC nightly news said so. If linux had the same user base as MS there would be 100,000 times as many patches, security holes etc. We may not all agree with MS's business practices, but its evident that they have a very serious testing regime, especially since products often get delayed for years because of minor things.
In the ever-present attempt to mirror Paul Graham's web site, the submitter forgot to check if this essay even has anything to do with technology, which it does not!
Because it's an extra expense that many people don't use. Most of the data I have stored on my xbox hard drive could fit on a memory card. Although I think if they don't give a hard drive by default, hardly anything will use it and it will be pointless (much like the PS2 hard drive, or the PSX mouse). I guess they figured they could sell the stripped one to some middle class hotspot price of $200 or something.
I had the original WebTV. It sucked. But maybe with a highdef version of WebTV, it may be useable. It seems like MS is trying slowly but surely to have Xp Media Center and Xbox converge into the "tv top Windows appliance" they have always wanted.
Except if i recall it was in their dorm room, not a garage
Just reported in the Wall street journal today: The WSJ's "Heard on the Street" column discusses Google, saying that the co's profit may increase from last year, thanks in part to an accounting move. Before its IPO, Google chose to speed up when it would recognize more than $750 mln in expense related to cheap stock options granted to employees. Using a technique known as "accelerated amortization," Google recognized the bulk of this expense in 2002, 2003 and 2004. The flip side: Now that it is a public co and must report to investors every 3 months, this portion of Google's expenses is declining. That will burnish Google's results when compared with last year's. The main impact will begin to appear when Google reports 1Q results tomorrow. This year, Google will record an expense related to those cheap options of $146 mln, according to regulatory filings. That is down from $279 mln last year, a guaranteed $133 mln improvement in Google's bottom line even before the first Internet user clicked on a Google search advertisement. Had Google not shifted the expense schedule and followed a "straight-line" amortization schedule, it would have had to book a $171 mln expense this year, it said in regulatory filings. The benefit to Google grows next year.
I agree, despite what all the fanatics say, Google hasn't ever really offered anything "new" persay. Yes, the way their map program works is neat and because of its speed it is better then other ones out there, but MapQuest and other came out with "internet mapping" years before, and even had satellite pix too. Google may have came out with a better search algorhythm but it was just as easy to find stuff on the web before they came along (Yahoo's old directory, though hell for them to maintain, was better then anything currently out today). In terms of search Google is now behind the curve as far as I'm concerned as it doesn't cluster results like clusty.com and some newer engines do. Their blogger as mentioned by the poster was not created by them, they only bought it. Gmail again uses a new type of technology to make it fast, but it still lacks what other basic free email services have had for years (out of office replys, etc). The way it threads messages was also already implemented by desktop based email programs. Google is neat, but I think it is a vast overstatement to say they are integrally important to the way the Internet is today. If they hadn't done it, one of the many tons of other sites that were like them even back 5 years ago would have stepped up. Indeed if anything Yahoo! was more important as this was the first largely recognized search engine. And they started 4 years before the punk kids at Google did.
If you scroll all the way to the left, you see the US maps, if you scroll to the right you see just water...kind of reverse Christopher Columbus. Doesn't seem to want to make a map from London to Washington, DC though.
There have been so many examples now of AdSense abuse, it seems that the ROI of AdSense ads is getting lower by the minute. As a webmaster who has tried AdSense, both from a generating money by putting it on my site and a paying to advertise on it point of view, neither gets you many results. Even on extremely popular sites you don't make more then a couple hundred advertising for them, while traditional banner ads brought my site in thousands. And from an advertiser point of view, you are much better off getting someone to "Google bomb" your site and get permanent good placement rather then 50% random people clicking your ad to make money off their blog and 50% "real" people.
I think the difference here is that the nuclear test treaty is wanted by Americans too. While the missle defense program has no downside for most Americans, a resumption of nuclear testing is really a hot button issue, and if the current president suggested it, it would no doubt cause 100 news stories about fetal mortality etc from nuclear fallout.
Um except that all the links you provided talked about how DANGEROUS those methods are, not how expensive they are. And none of those solutions describe a way to transport humans reliably to and from say Mars in a reasonable safe, repeatable manner. Furthermore, since all those ideas involve nuclear radiation, good luck getting them tested here on earth. We would rather use inefficient heavy polluting coal power plants instead nuclear power plants despite the fact that they only product steam as pollution (and nuclear waste). Would you propose a resumption of nuclear testing just to work on these ideas? Watching the original atomic testing on the Bikini Atoll already makes me sad, the odds of a ELE occuring in our lifetimes is extremely slim compared to the risks involved to life on earth in any of the methods you suggested.
Establishing an off planet colony isn't exactly the same as getting up to turn the TV off, even if we started really focusing on this idea now, without some new propulsion technology i doubt even by 2029 we will have this option.
Amen! There is a reason why some old Nintendo, Atari and Sega games are still fun to this day. They had to put effort into making the game fun itself back then, not just "super 3-d graphics + celebrity + music = profit!". Katamari Darmacy and Snood are two (fairly) recent games that have given me much more enjoyment and playtime then Halo 2.
To be fair there is a good chance he DID give Google quite a few pennies if he clicked on any of the AdWords that appeared in his email or other services. He may not have personally paid for them, but Google made a profit from his use, so if they want to continue getting pennies through him, his point is valid that they should stick to the original philosophys that probably made him sign up in the first place