Try to calculate the cost involved in maintaining there own code wrt the changing public code base. Offset that cost to the added revenue by keeping their own code secret. If the numbers make sence, managers will at least contemplate it. Be sure to have a viable test program setup for this. Finally, bundle it up in a nice report, ask your direct superior for approval and put it in peoples inboxes.
I wish I could say the same but our winter weather is starting about a month later than when I was a kid (late 60's early 70's). We haven't had a real winter (ground completely snowcovered for more than a month) in probably close to 7 years.
Thats because "winter" was a communist conspiracy!
Can we all please agree to stop using those stupid analogies? (to parent, sorry... I had to click somewhere)
It is not a house/dog/pizza/street_hooker, it's a wireless router with internet connection. This is the reason those idiotic polliticians get confused. Because their technical advisers keep telling them it is like: [insert_stupid_analogy]. It isn't like anything, it's the internet, nothing before it even comes close (sociologically at least, flame about the technical side later).
... and only the test of time and/or the strength of collective memory prevents an entertainment product from sliding into total obscurity after a few years have passed.
You forgot: endless TV rerun season. For some reason, picking the good films from the bad is an impossible task, for anyone who was ever employed by a television station.
I now of one way to get a lot more female linux users... being able to play the Sims2. My gf will switch from xp the same day that happens (without knowing about it for the first few months).
There's this one line the evil hacker has that I just love. Can't remember it exactly, so I'll paraphrase:
The file's encrypted, but a gigabyte of RAM and a terrabyte of disk space should do the trick...
JACK: OK, we captured the data, now can you decode it?
CHLOE: It seems to be 512-bit encryption, that shouldn't be a problem, but it's that damned NTFS file system. Only Bill Gates can help us now..... [clock moves to the next whole hour]
A comment both funny and informative. You, good sir, are the epiphany of all that is good about Slashdot. I applaud you. Thank god you posted as you did, I allmost lost faith in humanity in its entirety.
Good point - you're quite right. But, while virus writing has become a multi-million dollar industry recently, many of the people writing exploits are not the ones directly making money off them.
Those who write exploits, which gives them a sufficiently large botnet, are not in it for the money. Is that what you're saying? Because, that doesn't seem logical to me.
I totally agree, now to te rest of you: Since the trojan writer / spammer alliance, writing viruses has become a business worth millions of dollars. If you still think that a virus writer won't buy a couple of powerbooks, if he thinks he can make a profit, you're dead wrong.
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Try to calculate the cost involved in maintaining there own code wrt the changing public code base. Offset that cost to the added revenue by keeping their own code secret. If the numbers make sence, managers will at least contemplate it. Be sure to have a viable test program setup for this. Finally, bundle it up in a nice report, ask your direct superior for approval and put it in peoples inboxes.
It's late here, give, me, a, break. :)
It doesn't. But closing valves, while everything is still operational, might make the length of pipe, that is affected, a lot smaller.
If he could carry the entire RAID system out of the building by himself, then it was nowhere near the limit of practical offsite backups,
There are companies which provide this service in their own bunkers. There's allways a way to have an offsite backup.
For every problem, you only need 1.
I wish I could say the same but our winter weather is starting about a month later than when I was a kid (late 60's early 70's). We haven't had a real winter (ground completely snowcovered for more than a month) in probably close to 7 years.
Thats because "winter" was a communist conspiracy!
Can we all please agree to stop using those stupid analogies? (to parent, sorry ... I had to click somewhere)
It is not a house/dog/pizza/street_hooker, it's a wireless router with internet connection. This is the reason those idiotic polliticians get confused. Because their technical advisers keep telling them it is like: [insert_stupid_analogy]. It isn't like anything, it's the internet, nothing before it even comes close (sociologically at least, flame about the technical side later).
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I feel so much better now....
Please tell me at least the backend runs on something more trustworthy...
The thoroughly tested Window 95. Does that put your mind at ease?
... a bugfix for an bizarre race condition emerging from the interaction of several components during booting.
There, fixed that for you....
I believe, it's because the Maxis games do their own hardware check. Obviously the game has no knowledge of a graphics card called "Cedega".
Based on the Sims2, various posts on the transgaming forums and a little bit of investigation.
You forgot: endless TV rerun season. For some reason, picking the good films from the bad is an impossible task, for anyone who was ever employed by a television station.
Obviously, you're not married ...
geekgangbangs.com doesn't count ....
I now of one way to get a lot more female linux users... being able to play the Sims2. My gf will switch from xp the same day that happens (without knowing about it for the first few months).
That's what you get with sodomy laws...
Prison is just school for criminals.
Someone get me Jack Thompson, we need a man of religious convictions that will secure the sanctity of this nation!
Channeling Jack at your request:
Marriage is a sacret institution between a man and a woman, NOT between a night-elf and an orc.
And the military will start using the technology at Area 51.
... 2 ... 1
We allready are using it, one of our assasination teams will be with him in 3
Naming your kid "Mr. Ed" might have been pushing it a bit.
There's this one line the evil hacker has that I just love. Can't remember it exactly, so I'll paraphrase:
The file's encrypted, but a gigabyte of RAM and a terrabyte of disk space should do the trick...
JACK: OK, we captured the data, now can you decode it?
CHLOE: It seems to be 512-bit encryption, that shouldn't be a problem, but it's that damned NTFS file system. Only Bill Gates can help us now..... [clock moves to the next whole hour]
A comment both funny and informative. You, good sir, are the epiphany of all that is good about Slashdot. I applaud you. Thank god you posted as you did, I allmost lost faith in humanity in its entirety.
:)
I don't think we should ever underestimate the value a community can create for an operating system.: Yes, I get that, no arguments here.
I think the Mac is a great example of this.: Now you've lost me, please explain.
Good point - you're quite right. But, while virus writing has become a multi-million dollar industry recently, many of the people writing exploits are not the ones directly making money off them.
Those who write exploits, which gives them a sufficiently large botnet, are not in it for the money. Is that what you're saying? Because, that doesn't seem logical to me.
I totally agree, now to te rest of you: Since the trojan writer / spammer alliance, writing viruses has become a business worth millions of dollars. If you still think that a virus writer won't buy a couple of powerbooks, if he thinks he can make a profit, you're dead wrong.
I do: User Agent Switcher 0.6.8, but you're right, we shouldn't have to do this stuff.