To many people the fair outcome of an election is more important than whether some waitor is scanning a credit card behind their back.
Elections need to assume fraud to avoid it, just like reliable computers (not PCs) assume failure modes to avoid them. Disks break...make a RAID. Elections can be rigged...make a paper trail.
I dropped my cable subscription a while ago and haven't watched Fox News in at least a year. This week, I was at a restaurant where Fox News was on the TV, and it's amazing just how bad it is. There is no debate. It's just one-sided hosts shoving opinions down the viewers' throats. Even the guests were tools. Almost as annoying were the regular news summaries, which were like watching Celebrity Justice.
At least between the WWW and PBS, I can get at least a little decent news. The problem with the WWW is that the signal-to-noise ratio is still low--but it's infinitely better than cable news.
There are a lot of real gems among the PS1 games. The Spyro series were the precursers to Ratchet and Clank, there were some really corny racing games, some decent horror/thriller games, etc.
Because the incremental cost of providing emulation is probably compensated by the increased sales resulting from that emulation. It gives the console a huge initial boost in games, it gives future XBox owners access to fun games that haven't been remade for the 360, and it provides "investment protection" for existing XBox owners who don't want to have both consoles hooked up.
I'd bet the market for PS1 games on the PS2 was huge. I'm responsible for at least a half-dozen PS1 game purchases, which multiplied by potentially millions of similar buyers, is not chump change. Even though I bought them all on sale, it drives volume at the stores, at the manufacturers, etc. Everybody wins.
Without even referencing the book or the BBC series, the movie itself wasn't assembled very well. There was some individual talent in the movie, but it was drained by the audio sounding like it was recorded in a gymnasium and the combined actors had no chemistry at all. It was like watching a high school film project. If this was the intent of the director, then the initial big-budget dolphin musical and the first-rate hollywood effects failed entirely to set the mood. I also wonder how much the actors struggled with green screens, as was the case in the Star Wars prequels.
How many of the H2G2 reviews were bought? I saw the movie this afternoon and can't see how anyone at Yahoo! or wherever could give it an 'A' (yet there were several such reviews).
There is often a thousand ways to describe the same thing. There's a USPTO way, there's a college textbook way, etc. Just because someone is so proud of their work they vomit pride all over their peers when they speak doesn't mean they are some god or something. Sometimes, it just means they are just an asshole.
For the random schmuck coming out with a B.S. degree in some IT field, it's hard enough to even keep the acronyms and platforms du jour straight. Trying to add reading journals would cause many thousands of brains to explode needlessly.
For the super-star designers out there, of course keeping up with journals could be helpful.
Perhaps the biggest problem with Windows is that it's the lamest vulnerabilities costing billions of dollars in lost productivity across the world. I mean having bots all over scanning my system and being able to hijack it over some stupid messenging or filesharing setup is just insane.
It'd be like a UNIX system exporting / as read-write with root access over NFS to the whole freaking planet.
Actually, I think a better analogy would be it's like putting money into a bank, and, then, the bank charges extra to actually lock the doors at night. Money, Data, they're both valuable.
I'm not sure it has to be illegal, but it would be clearly anti-competitive if they started bundling AV into their operating systems. They already do a firewall, which is excusable (every good OS for years has had a firewall). But there is already a large independent AV industry in McAfee, Norton, etc. Bundling AV into Windows would be similar to what they did to Stac in the 90s.
I 100% agree that there is a conflict of interest in Microsoft entering the AV business, as if the current conflict of interest in the other companies wasn't enough already (meaning they could also write the viruses they protect against).
Anti-virus just sucks all around, anyway. That's why I use UNIX and Linux, have an independent firewall, and harden my systems beyond the defaults. Sigh, it's 2005, and I still have to manually harden my systems (though Solaris is getting better w/ SMF).
This is no longer true. They chucked a huge amount last year for dividends and lawsuits. At Yahoo, they list Microsoft's cash/short-term investments balance last quarter at about 35 billion. Their total "current assets" are about 45 billion.
If he gets it, that means he found a job in three months technically without looking for a job. Not a bad strategy for people who can pull it off (but people like this tend to _not_ be unemployed, unless they got hit by a beancounter somewhere).
Yeah, but using IE is like diving right into that cesspool of herpes while thinking that imagining a peaceful field of flowers with fluffy bunnies hopping around will somehow protect you.
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To many people the fair outcome of an election is more important than whether some waitor is scanning a credit card behind their back.
Elections need to assume fraud to avoid it, just like reliable computers (not PCs) assume failure modes to avoid them. Disks break...make a RAID. Elections can be rigged...make a paper trail.
I dropped my cable subscription a while ago and haven't watched Fox News in at least a year. This week, I was at a restaurant where Fox News was on the TV, and it's amazing just how bad it is. There is no debate. It's just one-sided hosts shoving opinions down the viewers' throats. Even the guests were tools. Almost as annoying were the regular news summaries, which were like watching Celebrity Justice.
At least between the WWW and PBS, I can get at least a little decent news. The problem with the WWW is that the signal-to-noise ratio is still low--but it's infinitely better than cable news.
Why do all the people who use UNIX and Linux for these things use UNIX and Linux and not Windows?
There are a lot of real gems among the PS1 games. The Spyro series were the precursers to Ratchet and Clank, there were some really corny racing games, some decent horror/thriller games, etc.
Because the incremental cost of providing emulation is probably compensated by the increased sales resulting from that emulation. It gives the console a huge initial boost in games, it gives future XBox owners access to fun games that haven't been remade for the 360, and it provides "investment protection" for existing XBox owners who don't want to have both consoles hooked up.
I'd bet the market for PS1 games on the PS2 was huge. I'm responsible for at least a half-dozen PS1 game purchases, which multiplied by potentially millions of similar buyers, is not chump change. Even though I bought them all on sale, it drives volume at the stores, at the manufacturers, etc. Everybody wins.
Without even referencing the book or the BBC series, the movie itself wasn't assembled very well. There was some individual talent in the movie, but it was drained by the audio sounding like it was recorded in a gymnasium and the combined actors had no chemistry at all. It was like watching a high school film project. If this was the intent of the director, then the initial big-budget dolphin musical and the first-rate hollywood effects failed entirely to set the mood. I also wonder how much the actors struggled with green screens, as was the case in the Star Wars prequels.
How many of the H2G2 reviews were bought? I saw the movie this afternoon and can't see how anyone at Yahoo! or wherever could give it an 'A' (yet there were several such reviews).
There is often a thousand ways to describe the same thing. There's a USPTO way, there's a college textbook way, etc. Just because someone is so proud of their work they vomit pride all over their peers when they speak doesn't mean they are some god or something. Sometimes, it just means they are just an asshole.
For the random schmuck coming out with a B.S. degree in some IT field, it's hard enough to even keep the acronyms and platforms du jour straight. Trying to add reading journals would cause many thousands of brains to explode needlessly.
For the super-star designers out there, of course keeping up with journals could be helpful.
I think BMW dumped MS in their cars in favor of a Java-based solution. Remember the "crashing" 7-series stories a while ago?
Perhaps the biggest problem with Windows is that it's the lamest vulnerabilities costing billions of dollars in lost productivity across the world. I mean having bots all over scanning my system and being able to hijack it over some stupid messenging or filesharing setup is just insane.
It'd be like a UNIX system exporting / as read-write with root access over NFS to the whole freaking planet.
Actually, I think a better analogy would be it's like putting money into a bank, and, then, the bank charges extra to actually lock the doors at night. Money, Data, they're both valuable.
I'm not sure it has to be illegal, but it would be clearly anti-competitive if they started bundling AV into their operating systems. They already do a firewall, which is excusable (every good OS for years has had a firewall). But there is already a large independent AV industry in McAfee, Norton, etc. Bundling AV into Windows would be similar to what they did to Stac in the 90s.
I 100% agree that there is a conflict of interest in Microsoft entering the AV business, as if the current conflict of interest in the other companies wasn't enough already (meaning they could also write the viruses they protect against).
Anti-virus just sucks all around, anyway. That's why I use UNIX and Linux, have an independent firewall, and harden my systems beyond the defaults. Sigh, it's 2005, and I still have to manually harden my systems (though Solaris is getting better w/ SMF).
This is no longer true. They chucked a huge amount last year for dividends and lawsuits. At Yahoo, they list Microsoft's cash/short-term investments balance last quarter at about 35 billion. Their total "current assets" are about 45 billion.
That's why new PCs come with those absorbant pads for your desk.
It was a model made on a very early process. It's 1 gigagram.
If he gets it, that means he found a job in three months technically without looking for a job. Not a bad strategy for people who can pull it off (but people like this tend to _not_ be unemployed, unless they got hit by a beancounter somewhere).
Yes, I know I misspelled tounge.
Real geeks stick their tounge on a frayed Ethernet cable.
Yeah, but using IE is like diving right into that cesspool of herpes while thinking that imagining a peaceful field of flowers with fluffy bunnies hopping around will somehow protect you.
I'm waiting for the absense of GPL fanboy trolls, which proves that Slashdot doesn't care about GPL-compatibility, they just like to bitch about Sun.
The FSF website says APSL is not compatible with the GPL. Oh, you don't care, because your iPod is so damn cool.
Whatever.
Using IE instead of Firefox over security concerns is like keeping your eyes closed when hooking up with a drugged up bag of herpes prostitute.
Just stick with Firefox. It's like using a rubber, which at least is 90+% effective at keeping out the herpes.
I blame MS for allowing applications to crash their OS kernel.
Wow, Linux applications must make perfect use of pointers. Linux applications programmers must be so good that they never overstep an array bounds.
The hints being dropped here and there indicate free equipment with the subscription. Like getting free DSL modems or free cell phones.