And about opensource being better because people can look at it and find vulnerabilities. Have you ever looked at the Mozilla code? Lots of people have and yet regularly there are new exploits found, some that have been there since the browser was called Mozilla.
I would argue that they are found precisely because people are looking at the code.
You can't find them all at once, especially if you're focused on development. But I don't have to explain how much easier it is to patch the exploits when the application is open source — Firefox vs. IE record speaks for itself.
I always found it interesting that 1 billion seconds happened 2 days before 9/11.
I don't get it. What's the significance of 111011100110101100101000000000 binary seconds?
Well, for one, you have 13 ones and 17 zeroes.
These numbers add up to 30, and you'll notice that 9 is divisible by 3, while 11 is not, so it gets a zero.
Furthermore, 17-8==9; 13-2==11. 8+2==10, which falls right between 9 and 11. Coincidence?
What is the difference? What do you get by replacing VBA with VSTO or VSTA?
Is it just me, or are they pushing another ViSTA?
If it's not just me, then you get lots of incompatibilities, slow performance, slow adoption rate, users downgrading or migrating to other systems, and several people impressed with some shiny stuff most of us have had for years now.
actually not having to manage the licenses can be a really important point in a badly managed company....
I work for a company where they "forgot" the license number for a $10000 Software. (ok. in that category it is easy to call the support, and you are threted more kindly but nevertheless, it was annoying).
People who have an office can always find a conference room for collaboration (or a custom area just for collaboration, or even do it on-line these days), but people without an office can't go to a conference room to get some serious privacy to concentrate on a task they find difficult (the conference room just can't double for an office for everyone).
For some types of work, online collaboration just doesn't cut the mustard. Yeah, it's convenient, but I feel it cannot redily replace live meetings.
Not when you need creativity and attention to detail.
Of course, YMMV and all that.
I do agree that sometimes people need peace and quiet to work on something; maybe there should be a few small offices labeled "private space" for workers who occasionally need them?
This is BECTA's final report, the result of a two year study. Last year, they practically begged M$ for case studies and pilot projects to prove Vista's worth. There are only two reasons M$ failed to answer BECTA's concerns:
VISTA and Office 2007 are not cost justified.
The UK school system is too small a customer for M$ to worry about.
M$ does not care about the study and they can push their software onto the UK school system anyway. This one is really condition #1.
Well, it's a good thing you can count.
As for the UK school system being too small a customer... Excuse me?
If the Croatian school system isn't too small a customer for MS to worry about, I really can't see the UK system being considered irrelevant.
Especially since MS wants MS software in schools: "give me a child of seven" and all that jazz.
Really, twitter, your blind hatred of M$ even makes you blind to what they really are doing.
Chill out, why don't you?
There are two entire generations who have been disenfranchised from their society, and they won't have any connection to it in the foreseeable future because economics, politics and a population bust have seen to it that there is no peaceful way to have any influence or involvement.
I don't exactly live in the developed world, but it is much the same here as well.
Most people on any kind of influential position are way above 50, and in many cases above 60; quite a few people in the government are way past the retirement age, too. But people no longer allowed to run a business are apparently allowed to run whole countries.
Young people resent the system because in all material ways, it really does disempower them and keep them small and subservient.
Quite true.
As a future educator, I see the current school system as the root of today's children's problems, both what they perceive as such and what the society perceives as the "real" problems.
And what I see is that the legal age of 18 has led to the widespread perception of everone under that age as not only immature, but a moron, and their opinions are readily disregarded.
The education system does not help that situation at all; people are trained to become drones, and medicrity abounds. No wonder, since it is enticed quite strongly.
Then again, what is to be expected, now that working in education primarily means that you couldn't get a real job. I know way too many excellent teachers who have gone on to better paid and at the same time less stressful jobs (not to mention less risky; in a post-war society, both the parents and the children have ready access to weapons).
The older generation appreciate it because, for them, it does the opposite. For them, it is an expression of and mechanism for empowerment.
I could never understand the people who would steal from their own children.
That's why young people don't care about the systems that dominate our world, and why old people lend their support to increasingly totalitarian methods of controlling people.
They're not going to let this guy grow into anything that might threaten them. They might use education to specialize and stunt his development until he's utterly dependent on them, then use him as a sort of pet/tool once he has no means by which to make use of any freedom, or they might just stunt and destroy him with confinement.
Has anyone noticed that, while anyone under 18 is not likely to be granted the rights granted to an adult, they are likely to be prosecuted as adults for certain offences?
Even in the ancient times, people would say that the decadent youth was going to be the bane of the society.
Nowadays, it is the decadent youth of the previous age that is going to ruin everything.
The downside to that approach is that emergency vehicles encounter cars stopped at a red light at every intersection. Where I live, drivers panic when an emergency vehicle approaches, move their car six inches towards the side of the road, and don't realize they should go through a red light to clear the roadway.
I've heard emergency drivers say: "If you don't know what to do and where to go when you see/hear an emergency vehicle, simply stop. It's much easier to manage your way around a halted vehicle than around one whose driver is panicking."
Doesnt surprise me that Microsoft doesnt want a competitor on the same machine in an Emerging market. I am really curious about this "high quality windows experience" though.....
Emerging market?
What the hell does Gentoo have to do with all this?
Ah, a fellow caps-lock hater. I customarily pop off a bunch of keys on my keyboards. It gets me a few odd looks at work, but it saves me lots of hassle. If I truly need one of those keys I can use a pencil to activate it. Here's the rest of my hate list:
I actually do have a use for CapsLock, though I do hate the overuse.
Insert - I've never had a use for "write over mode." Has anyone?
Yes.
Though I commonly activate it by pressing the R key, not Insert. (vi(m) FTW)
Windows - Almost useless, squeezed between useful keys. Fortunately my Linux systems ignore this key.
Menu - I'll just right-click, thanks.
Gentoo provides a nice keymap which uses the Windows and Menu keys to switch between consoles.
It has quite spoiled me.
Num lock - Why won't this go away? Why do I need a way for my numeric keypad stop to working? Are the arrow keys hard to find?
Yeah, that one's a puzler.
I see the point of NumLock on laptops, which generally have smaller/reduced keyboards (took me a while to get used to my MacBook Pro's keyboard, but now I want to re-create the layout for Linux), but on regular-sized keyboards...
Well, except for ADoM and several other roguelike games, which make quite good use of the numeric keypad.
Then again, ScrollLock is still around, and I don't think many people even remember what it was used for.
This shows that open source is here to stay, is going mainstream, and will not be stopped by any company's interests.
It also shows that open source has failed to use a common tool to self audit - it took a third party to do so.
Since an audit is usually an independent review, I see it as only logical for it to have been done by a third party.
The point is, it is open. Anyone may perform an audit at any time they wish to do so.
And everyone apart from the developers themslves and the users of the software is third party, by definition.
I was just about to post that;) Best idea ever.... quoting this from DomainState.com: someone could totally script this and run there credit through the roof with the registry hahahahaha.
Assuming it costs them SOMETHING (even pennies) to register a domain with the central registry then I think this is an absolutely awesome idea. I'll run such a script if someone writes it. In fact maybe I'll write one myself, because screwing over NSI sounds like a much better way to spend my afternoon then doing anything productive;)
Now, now, guys.
Do what SETI@Home people did, and make it a screensaver.
Not just a script, but a nice screensaver with a background program making people across the world access different domains enough times for NIS to actually pay money for them.
Would it be too much to ask for xscreensaver support as well? (I can't code that well.)
Well. It seems I won't be travelling to the US any time soon.
I wonder if customs officials are allowed to rummage through your luggage (well, of course they are, but bear with me), and when they find your diary, demand you to unlock it and then read it in detail.
And if they are, is it so everywhere in the world?
I like the concept, but, umm without the cover to protect the spinning CD (or you from it) that just seems like a HUGE design flaw.
I'd guess it isn't designed for mobility, at least in the sense of listening-while-U-walk.
Could be convenient and not too risky in an airplane, on the other hand.
Also the Apple remote is neat and really pays into the popularity of the Wii-mote for interaction? So you think Sony would really place people into that mind set?
I don't think so... basic operations are very easy to do with normal remotes; there is a problem with stuffing too many buttons on them, but that's a wholly different issue. Apple's remote (not Sony's Apple, but Apple's Mac remote) is simplicity itself, while still remaining a recognizable remote.
I dislike the keyless keyboards, though. Then again, I touch-type and type a lot and even own an IBM Model M-style keyboard.
These keyboards without tactile feedback look lovely, but are only useful for interfaces that are used sparsely, and when you can spare a moment to get visual feedback.
Still, no compassion for this girl you scared, and it's fairly clear that you scared her.
It isn't clear to me. To me, she only sounds enraged. And opening a door for someone cannot be considered a hostile act.
And I know girls like that as well. They consider every kind of help from a guy chauvinistic and overbearing.
What you should have done was announce yourself, saying perhaps 'let me get that for you'.
Or he should have been a self-centered bastard and left her to struggle with the door herself.
That girl, to put it mildly, overreacted. Should enough girls overreact like that, you'll find that men will have stopped holding the doors to women altogether.
Oh, BTW. I haven't attended any Women Studies courses, but I have friends in my classes who have. I know no rabid feminists outside those classes, and very few normal girls in those classes.
Oh, and no guys either. On gay guy allegedly enrolled in one of those classes, but then dropped out. Go figure.
Don't forget that most open source software comes with big warnings that there are absolutely no warranties. Do most consumers really expect the same from their hardware?
Have you actually read Microsoft's EULA? Any of them?
Besides, one could argue that the source code is a warranty unto itself: a warranty that nothing is hidden, and if it doesn't work, you can check it yourself. And if the development stops, you can pick it up yourself.
Therefore, Open Source software in itself warrants you the ability to check for spyware, to make provisions for continued development (what can you do when MS decides to EOL one of their products?) and the ability to fix bugs if you have or can afford the know-how.
And it seems to me that's much more than closed source software guarantees.
Side note: I'm excited about openmoko, the open hardware (and open source software) cell phone. Waiting for the second revision, which will include 802.11.
I'm buying it the moment it's ready for mass market as well.
Also, considering the effort that our bodies put into making sure that we could have vivid dreams and not move during them, dreaming itself seems to be something that was selected for.
I don't know about the amount of effort, but I do know there are limitations.
Last time I dreamt I was taking a piss, I woke up just in time to realize I was about to piss in my bed.
Just a few seconds later, and I would have had quite a spot of cleaning to do.
Oh, and several times my girlfriend told me I twitched; if I dream about catching something with my hand, that hand twitches -- movements may be reduced, but that's all.
At least I don't have my mother's luck -- she used to sleepwalk. Usully with an agenda, or so she tells me.
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I would argue that they are found precisely because people are looking at the code.
You can't find them all at once, especially if you're focused on development. But I don't have to explain how much easier it is to patch the exploits when the application is open source — Firefox vs. IE record speaks for itself.
Well, for one, you have 13 ones and 17 zeroes.
These numbers add up to 30, and you'll notice that 9 is divisible by 3, while 11 is not, so it gets a zero.
Furthermore, 17-8==9; 13-2==11. 8+2==10, which falls right between 9 and 11. Coincidence?
Is it just me, or are they pushing another ViSTA?
If it's not just me, then you get lots of incompatibilities, slow performance, slow adoption rate, users downgrading or migrating to other systems, and several people impressed with some shiny stuff most of us have had for years now.
Coding takes your mind off of problems better than alcohol ever could.
Find an interesting problem, or just a nagging one, and it will occupy you and let you forget that you should be depressed.
As long as you find that problem before the depression hits the hardest, you're home free.
Geez, I should hope OS X would have the whole binary thing down pretty good by now.
Oh, I don't know... They still seem to be stuck with Roman numerals.
Then again, since Microsoft patented ones and zeroes, I guess OS X is the best analog computing can offer today.
I'm sorry, was that treated or threatened?
For some types of work, online collaboration just doesn't cut the mustard. Yeah, it's convenient, but I feel it cannot redily replace live meetings.
Not when you need creativity and attention to detail.
Of course, YMMV and all that.
I do agree that sometimes people need peace and quiet to work on something; maybe there should be a few small offices labeled "private space" for workers who occasionally need them?
This is BECTA's final report, the result of a two year study. Last year, they practically begged M$ for case studies and pilot projects to prove Vista's worth. There are only two reasons M$ failed to answer BECTA's concerns:
Well, it's a good thing you can count.
As for the UK school system being too small a customer... Excuse me?
If the Croatian school system isn't too small a customer for MS to worry about, I really can't see the UK system being considered irrelevant.
Especially since MS wants MS software in schools: "give me a child of seven" and all that jazz.
Really, twitter, your blind hatred of M$ even makes you blind to what they really are doing.
Chill out, why don't you?
A friend of mine has this interesting theory that God is a woman, and has also a nice proof. Observe:
Therefore, the apparent lack of God's benevolence is merely due to the fact that She has PMS.
The upside is that aye, there shall indeed come an end to all the atrocities present in our world.
The downside, of course, is the fact that there will be rains of blood for a few thousand years beforehand.
I don't exactly live in the developed world, but it is much the same here as well.
Most people on any kind of influential position are way above 50, and in many cases above 60; quite a few people in the government are way past the retirement age, too. But people no longer allowed to run a business are apparently allowed to run whole countries.
Young people resent the system because in all material ways, it really does disempower them and keep them small and subservient.Quite true.
As a future educator, I see the current school system as the root of today's children's problems, both what they perceive as such and what the society perceives as the "real" problems.
The older generation appreciate it because, for them, it does the opposite. For them, it is an expression of and mechanism for empowerment.And what I see is that the legal age of 18 has led to the widespread perception of everone under that age as not only immature, but a moron, and their opinions are readily disregarded.
The education system does not help that situation at all; people are trained to become drones, and medicrity abounds. No wonder, since it is enticed quite strongly.
Then again, what is to be expected, now that working in education primarily means that you couldn't get a real job. I know way too many excellent teachers who have gone on to better paid and at the same time less stressful jobs (not to mention less risky; in a post-war society, both the parents and the children have ready access to weapons).
I could never understand the people who would steal from their own children.
That's why young people don't care about the systems that dominate our world, and why old people lend their support to increasingly totalitarian methods of controlling people.They're not going to let this guy grow into anything that might threaten them. They might use education to specialize and stunt his development until he's utterly dependent on them, then use him as a sort of pet/tool once he has no means by which to make use of any freedom, or they might just stunt and destroy him with confinement.
Has anyone noticed that, while anyone under 18 is not likely to be granted the rights granted to an adult, they are likely to be prosecuted as adults for certain offences?
Even in the ancient times, people would say that the decadent youth was going to be the bane of the society.
Nowadays, it is the decadent youth of the previous age that is going to ruin everything.
I've heard emergency drivers say: "If you don't know what to do and where to go when you see/hear an emergency vehicle, simply stop. It's much easier to manage your way around a halted vehicle than around one whose driver is panicking."
Emerging market?
What the hell does Gentoo have to do with all this?
I actually do have a use for CapsLock, though I do hate the overuse.
Insert - I've never had a use for "write over mode." Has anyone?Yes.
Though I commonly activate it by pressing the R key, not Insert. (vi(m) FTW)
Windows - Almost useless, squeezed between useful keys. Fortunately my Linux systems ignore this key.Menu - I'll just right-click, thanks.
Gentoo provides a nice keymap which uses the Windows and Menu keys to switch between consoles.
Num lock - Why won't this go away? Why do I need a way for my numeric keypad stop to working? Are the arrow keys hard to find?It has quite spoiled me.
Yeah, that one's a puzler.
I see the point of NumLock on laptops, which generally have smaller/reduced keyboards (took me a while to get used to my MacBook Pro's keyboard, but now I want to re-create the layout for Linux), but on regular-sized keyboards...
Well, except for ADoM and several other roguelike games, which make quite good use of the numeric keypad.
Then again, ScrollLock is still around, and I don't think many people even remember what it was used for.
It also shows that open source has failed to use a common tool to self audit - it took a third party to do so.
Since an audit is usually an independent review, I see it as only logical for it to have been done by a third party.
The point is, it is open. Anyone may perform an audit at any time they wish to do so.
And everyone apart from the developers themslves and the users of the software is third party, by definition.
I was just about to post that ;) Best idea ever.... quoting this from DomainState.com: someone could totally script this and run there credit through the roof with the registry hahahahaha.
Assuming it costs them SOMETHING (even pennies) to register a domain with the central registry then I think this is an absolutely awesome idea. I'll run such a script if someone writes it. In fact maybe I'll write one myself, because screwing over NSI sounds like a much better way to spend my afternoon then doing anything productive ;)
Now, now, guys.
Do what SETI@Home people did, and make it a screensaver.
Not just a script, but a nice screensaver with a background program making people across the world access different domains enough times for NIS to actually pay money for them.
Would it be too much to ask for xscreensaver support as well? (I can't code that well.)
Well. It seems I won't be travelling to the US any time soon.
I wonder if customs officials are allowed to rummage through your luggage (well, of course they are, but bear with me), and when they find your diary, demand you to unlock it and then read it in detail.
And if they are, is it so everywhere in the world?
You can set Linux to sync your hardware clock to kernel clock.
And usually it's a hardware issue; hardware clocks are quite often rather crappy.
It could certainly rip holes in your pockets.
The rest is optional.
Aw, come on!
Just imagine sticking Toast-Its to all your co-workers' screens...
I'd guess it isn't designed for mobility, at least in the sense of listening-while-U-walk.
Also the Apple remote is neat and really pays into the popularity of the Wii-mote for interaction? So you think Sony would really place people into that mind set?Could be convenient and not too risky in an airplane, on the other hand.
I don't think so... basic operations are very easy to do with normal remotes; there is a problem with stuffing too many buttons on them, but that's a wholly different issue. Apple's remote (not Sony's Apple, but Apple's Mac remote) is simplicity itself, while still remaining a recognizable remote.
I dislike the keyless keyboards, though. Then again, I touch-type and type a lot and even own an IBM Model M-style keyboard.
These keyboards without tactile feedback look lovely, but are only useful for interfaces that are used sparsely, and when you can spare a moment to get visual feedback.
It isn't clear to me. To me, she only sounds enraged. And opening a door for someone cannot be considered a hostile act.
And I know girls like that as well. They consider every kind of help from a guy chauvinistic and overbearing.
What you should have done was announce yourself, saying perhaps 'let me get that for you'.Or he should have been a self-centered bastard and left her to struggle with the door herself.
That girl, to put it mildly, overreacted. Should enough girls overreact like that, you'll find that men will have stopped holding the doors to women altogether.
Oh, BTW. I haven't attended any Women Studies courses, but I have friends in my classes who have. I know no rabid feminists outside those classes, and very few normal girls in those classes.
Oh, and no guys either. On gay guy allegedly enrolled in one of those classes, but then dropped out. Go figure.
Have you actually read Microsoft's EULA? Any of them?
Besides, one could argue that the source code is a warranty unto itself: a warranty that nothing is hidden, and if it doesn't work, you can check it yourself. And if the development stops, you can pick it up yourself.
Therefore, Open Source software in itself warrants you the ability to check for spyware, to make provisions for continued development (what can you do when MS decides to EOL one of their products?) and the ability to fix bugs if you have or can afford the know-how.
And it seems to me that's much more than closed source software guarantees.
Side note: I'm excited about openmoko, the open hardware (and open source software) cell phone. Waiting for the second revision, which will include 802.11.I'm buying it the moment it's ready for mass market as well.
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Why don't you use a real signature? I don't mind seeing them, but I do mind having to edit them out.
That's why it is called a best case scenario.
I don't know about the amount of effort, but I do know there are limitations.
Last time I dreamt I was taking a piss, I woke up just in time to realize I was about to piss in my bed.
Just a few seconds later, and I would have had quite a spot of cleaning to do.
Oh, and several times my girlfriend told me I twitched; if I dream about catching something with my hand, that hand twitches -- movements may be reduced, but that's all.
At least I don't have my mother's luck -- she used to sleepwalk. Usully with an agenda, or so she tells me.
Doom is so hi-tech.
Back in the day, I used to have ADoM dreams.
And sure enough, I solved many a quest that way.