Wikipedia agrees with you. The main problem with error injection was the proliferation of commercial-grade GPS receivers among military personnel: the US Army couldn't afford to equip everyone with a military-grade receiver, so the soldiers started buying them themselves.
And if I'm not mistaken, they were considering to enable it again, but the FAA asked them not to, since aircraft use it to better state their position (I'm sorry for any factual inaccuracy, but I'm just a Spaniard with a limited understanding of how the system works and the US agencies involved).
And I, as a man, fear anything and anyone that can handle more than the 16 colors I can differentiate and all the marital skirmished derived from that fact.
I think we're both generalizing and 'if'-fing a little too much. Every case should be examined separately. We can safely assume Qcad is not a real replacement for AutoCAD, whereas OOo will be more than enough for the majority of MSOffice users. The problem with companies such as the one TFA mentions is that they seem to be trying to sell the same thing you can get somewhere else for free, without any noticeable quality difference, and then bitching about it and crying "the communists are destroying my business!". Ask ice-sellers what they think of the price drop in refrigerators.
My experience is that buyers at all levels won't do that when there's a cost-free alternative.
If that were true, most places where employees only use email, web browsing and office software would be installing Linux instead of the almost ubiquitous Windows.
Otherwise, imagine the havoc an external attacker could create just by imitating this supposedly XP SP3's new behaviour (unless it only affects the internal LAN ports somehow and, still, a router should know better than letting others take it down...). Besides, were it to be XP's fault, I wonder how secure any network using this routers could be, since a random virus infection could render all its neighbours connectionless, just by imitating Windows's "strategy".
Yes, I was only trying to be "funny". I completely agree with you: this is a blatant slashvertishment about two big companies taking advantage of the many buzzword-loving pointy-haired bosses out there, who are willing to puke huge piles of money into anything 'enterprisey'.
I think we should celebrate the fact that there was no link to begin with;)
- Can't connect to eduroam (mixed WPA2+AES & WPA+TKIP... I can choose which one to use in Ubuntu, but Vista just won't connect). Actually, I can hardly connect to open and WEPped access points.
- Explorer windows are annoying and hard to understand (where's my "Go up" button?)
- Configuring _anything_ is hard as hell. The interface tends to remind the user of the previous Windows versions', but the process is almost completely different.
- So many [cripped] flavors (Why shouldn't I be able to edit the system's security policy just because I'm using Home Premium? It took me an hour and a half to get my Vista machine to talk to Samba)
- UAC (thank god you can easily disable it, but what kind of security model is that? I spent my first couple of hours clicking accept buttons away).
And I must have booted it about 10 times in more than a month (and because of a couple of apps that won't run under Wine). And I won't downgrade to XP until I can find the proper audio drivers for my card (a friend of mine is on a permanent hunt for them, both of us have HP laptops).
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If only I hadn't erased Jack Bauer's cell from my contact list after the last season...
Wikipedia agrees with you. The main problem with error injection was the proliferation of commercial-grade GPS receivers among military personnel: the US Army couldn't afford to equip everyone with a military-grade receiver, so the soldiers started buying them themselves.
And if I'm not mistaken, they were considering to enable it again, but the FAA asked them not to, since aircraft use it to better state their position (I'm sorry for any factual inaccuracy, but I'm just a Spaniard with a limited understanding of how the system works and the US agencies involved).
On an unrelated note, I also fear spellcheckers....
And I, as a man, fear anything and anyone that can handle more than the 16 colors I can differentiate and all the marital skirmished derived from that fact.
I think we're both generalizing and 'if'-fing a little too much. Every case should be examined separately. We can safely assume Qcad is not a real replacement for AutoCAD, whereas OOo will be more than enough for the majority of MSOffice users. The problem with companies such as the one TFA mentions is that they seem to be trying to sell the same thing you can get somewhere else for free, without any noticeable quality difference, and then bitching about it and crying "the communists are destroying my business!". Ask ice-sellers what they think of the price drop in refrigerators.
If that were true, most places where employees only use email, web browsing and office software would be installing Linux instead of the almost ubiquitous Windows.
Tragedy? That's free market in its purest form!
Extra, extra! Better, cheaper tools make worse, more expensive ones unsellable! Film at 11.
FTFY. HAND.
Otherwise, imagine the havoc an external attacker could create just by imitating this supposedly XP SP3's new behaviour (unless it only affects the internal LAN ports somehow and, still, a router should know better than letting others take it down...). Besides, were it to be XP's fault, I wonder how secure any network using this routers could be, since a random virus infection could render all its neighbours connectionless, just by imitating Windows's "strategy".
I was about to jump into the debate, but since my opinion would have been, word by word, exactly what you wrote, I'd merely like to adhere to it.
Clearly, you whooshed...
Let me be the first one to say welcome to Slashdot.
Man, I'm in trouble, I'm neither a network provider nor an organization.
+1 Sadism
Between two or three *whoos*es per square inch. Per fortnight.
Why not? I'm certain it's just as good a method as any.
Yes, I was only trying to be "funny". I completely agree with you: this is a blatant slashvertishment about two big companies taking advantage of the many buzzword-loving pointy-haired bosses out there, who are willing to puke huge piles of money into anything 'enterprisey'.
;)
I think we should celebrate the fact that there was no link to begin with
You must be new here ;)
No, please, stupid always seems to win those...
Well, I guess they're safe until they get to the "Do no evil" one!
Your timing.
Or install MAME or some other emulator and Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, you got yourself a console.
My experience so far:
- Can't connect to eduroam (mixed WPA2+AES & WPA+TKIP... I can choose which one to use in Ubuntu, but Vista just won't connect). Actually, I can hardly connect to open and WEPped access points.
- Explorer windows are annoying and hard to understand (where's my "Go up" button?)
- Configuring _anything_ is hard as hell. The interface tends to remind the user of the previous Windows versions', but the process is almost completely different.
- So many [cripped] flavors (Why shouldn't I be able to edit the system's security policy just because I'm using Home Premium? It took me an hour and a half to get my Vista machine to talk to Samba)
- UAC (thank god you can easily disable it, but what kind of security model is that? I spent my first couple of hours clicking accept buttons away).
And I must have booted it about 10 times in more than a month (and because of a couple of apps that won't run under Wine). And I won't downgrade to XP until I can find the proper audio drivers for my card (a friend of mine is on a permanent hunt for them, both of us have HP laptops).
Well, pal, I'm sorry for you.
These gentlemen will escort you to the nearest exit.
yu maie alzo understend dis, but that doesn't make my spelling any better.