MS's newest/latest/greatest has a large learning curve as well. You old MCSE who knows Windows Domains will have just as much trouble learning Active Directory as he would have learning Samba 3.
I've trained MCSEs in open source technology - about 50% do just fine. The otheres were paper MCSEs and sucked at Windows too.
Ok, so you're saying techies trying the latest and greatest without any training fail more often than the users who received your training in OSS solutions? So, obviously, the parent still remains correct - whatever you are trained better in should be the solution that is adopted. Otherwise, the cost savings you get from OSS may never be reaped as their company experiences downtime, frustration, inexperience and getting the proper training they need.
I think it's fairly clear that with the proper training and proven, qualified individuals that any solution will work if properly implemented and maintained.
Starting Monday September 19, 8AM US Pacific Time: To be announced.
Starting Friday September 23, 8AM US Pacific Time: To be announced.
Starting Monday September 26, 8AM US Pacific Time: To be announced.
How retarded? So to compete and be competitive, I need to take off from work as I live in New York and this is right during the middle of the work day? This basically eliminates any US coder with a full-time position.
... George Ou, on numerous occassions infuriates me and his editorials. I am not the Linux zealot that most Slashdot readers are (in fact I'm a.Net developer), but his articles and conclusions offend many educated readers.
He recently published a PGP vs. PKI article (I would link the article, but I am not giving him another web hit) where he was continually debunked by posters and PKI implementers because he stated that PKI was "too difficult". He couldn't grasp the concept that each job requires a different tool and one that fits the requirements best.
He constantly replies back on his blog through the Talkback feature ZDNet has (not that responding to user input is a bad thing) and does so with a level of arrogance that drips off the page. I refuse to even read his columns anymore and refuse to +1 his counters. Many users have already commented - there are too many reports acting as technical experts disseminating information that is misleading.
I choose option A and have to develop for IE here at work:
From TFA:
Ferris has found bugs in Microsoft software before, including a yet-unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that Microsoft still has under investigation.
I work at a Windows based company and I can't even begin to describe my frustration over issues just like the one above. I spend a lot of unnecessary time as a networking guy as opposed to a programmer because the only way to protect my users from their insecure browser is to configure Websense to block everything on the web and create ACLs on all of routers to prevent any traffic from problem domains.
IE at this point takes away from my development time, forces me to code with rudimentary(sp?) CSS and only has the benefit of having me keep up to date with ACL policies and networking/security issues.
..., but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw...
Now, I'm not the Microsoft apologist of Slashdot, but I mean can we at least throw the names around of some other extremely bad abusers of this "sit on exploits/bugs and fix when we feel like it" policy?
Oracle and Cisco should also be admonished for their response time to fix exploits/bugs disclosed to them as well. Cisco and their Black Hat convention fiasco proves that MSFT isn't alone and really shouldn't be singled out (I don't want to debate the Lynn bug as being new or not).
Also, let's not forget that Zotob was patched before it was released in the wild, but users and admins failed to apply these patches in time even after SANS had raised the alert level to yellow the day before (and I don't want to argue about "we can't just blindly patch our machines", etc.)
Definitely, Linux, mySQL, Apache, the PHP CMS and forums community seem to be highly responsive to security threats and definitely, MSFT makes some very buggy, insecure software, but some impartiality would be nice every now and then.
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TrollTech to IPO?
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But don't go IPO, man. Keep it small, keep it lean, and don't let your eyes glaze over with dollar signs.
You're missing the financial reasons why companies who have offered public stcok fail and why succeed - business model, leadership, first to market and ability to keep and stregnthen market share.
Personally, I was friends with the creators of theglobe.com and they went public with a poorly formed business model (IMO), leadership that was highly inexperienced and during a time where anything ending in.com received huge amounts of private funding.
The act of going public alone doesn't doom a company so I definitely don't understand your concerns. Did going public hurt Google?
Like with any IPO, read through the prospectus offered, evaluate the industry and company specific risks, evaluate the company leadership, market share, the technologies involved and competition. Those things will determine the success or failure post-IPO.
... from those buddies on your list. I really fail to see exactly what the "security" risk is here - if you're hypersensitive about the people messaging you, then you can choose to be hypersensitive, lose some functionality and turn off the "randomness" factor. Most people exchange IM names through some other means of communications, either verbally or written, so this loss of functionality can be sidestepped while maintaining your online secrecy.
INSTRUCTIONS (Y-N) Robert: Y wumpus.game: WELCOME TO 'HUNT THE WUMPUS'
THE WUMPUS LIVES IN A CAVE OF 20 ROOMS. EACH ROOM HAS 3 TUNNELS LEADING TO OTHER ROOMS. (LOOK AT A DODECAHEDRON TO SEE HOW THIS WORKS-IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A DODECAHEDRON IS, ASK SOMEONE)
HAZARDS:
BOTTOMLESS PITS - TWO ROOMS HAVE BOTTOMLESS PITS IN THEM
IF YOU GO THERE, YOU FALL INTO THE PIT (& LOSE)
SUPER BATS - TWO OTHER ROOMS HAVE SUPER BATS. IF YOU
GO THERE, A BAT GRABS YOU AND TAKES YOU TO SOME OTHER
ROOM AT RANDOM (WHICH MAY BE TROUBLESOME) TYPE AN E THEN RETURN
WUMPUS:
THE WUMPUS IS NOT BOTHERED BY HAZARDS (HE HAS SUCKER
FEET AND IS TOO BIG FOR A BAT TO LIFT). USUALLY
HE IS ASLEEP. TWO THINGS WAKE HIM UP: YOU SHOOTING AN ARROW OR YOU ENTERING HIS ROOM.
IF THE WUMPUS WAKES HE MOVES (P=.75) ONE ROOM
OR STAYS STILL (P=.25). AFTER THAT, IF HE IS WHERE YOU
ARE, HE EATS YOU UP AND YOU LOSE!
YOU:
EACH TURN YOU MAY MOVE OR SHOOT A CROOKED ARROW
MOVING: YOU CAN MOVE ONE ROOM (THRU ONE TUNNEL)
ARROWS: YOU HAVE 5 ARROWS. YOU LOSE WHEN YOU RUN OUT
EACH ARROW CAN GO FROM 1 TO 5 ROOMS. YOU AIM BY TELLING
THE COMPUTER THE ROOM#S YOU WANT THE ARROW TO GO TO.
IF THE ARROW CAN'T GO THAT WAY (IF NO TUNNEL) IT MOVES
AT RANDOM TO THE NEXT ROOM.
IF THE ARROW HITS THE WUMPUS, YOU WIN.
IF THE ARROW HITS YOU, YOU LOSE. TYPE AN E THEN RETURN
WARNINGS:
WHEN YOU ARE ONE ROOM AWAY FROM A WUMPUS OR HAZARD,
THE COMPUTER SAYS:
WUMPUS: 'I SMELL A WUMPUS'
BAT : 'BATS NEARBY'
PIT : 'I FEEL A DRAFT' HUNT THE WUMPUS
BATS NEARBY! I SMELL A WUMPUS YOU ARE IN ROOM 14 TUNNELS LEAD TO 4 13 15
This is just another example in the age old argument of which is better. IMO, the quality of the search results is what matters more than the sheer quantity of information. One relevant find is more valuable than 100 inaccurate results. A test of accuracy might be more valuable and one that would be difficult to engineer. For instance, if I type in a word that has a direct correlating.com domain, that should be the first result (assuming no other words in the title - i.e. "hagrin" brings me my home page as the first result). I am sure a test of accuracy could be further derived from such logic.
The other side of the argument probably relates back to something my fiancee once told me - "Size doesn't matter, but it's the great equalizer when it comes to two guys not knowing what they are doing". Yahoo!, especially since the researches couldn't perform queries on topics returning more than 1,000 results, may be indexing and crawling deeper into sites or it has a "double dipping" problem.
Either way, I don't see Yahoo! falsely reporting their numbers - I would tend to think that this "study" is highly flawed due to its exclusion of larger result topics, etc.
... are reader responses to an article like this. Some people just refuse to see the trees I guess.
If an indepedent, third party security company were performing these web site audits, the company wouldn't be admonished, but readers would still attack the "unfinished product" which was Windows XP unpatched. However, how can you fault a company that is trying to correct tens of years of security ignorance with new pro-active efforts?
MSFT is basically performing external penetration testing of their software while security teams are writing vulnerability scanners and focusing on individual aspects of an application's design. In fact, one could argue that this is one of the more effective ways of performing security testing since exploits in the wild can exist in the wild for months before any security company diagnoses the vulnerability and this method will identify areas of the Internet that seem to disseminate these exploits between web sites.
If you want to comment on the lack of security focus in the past, definitely. Are they playing a major game of catch up? Definitely. Should IE be so tightly meshed with the OS? Of course not. But can some of you just grow up and get past the MSFT bias and stop doing childish crap like making fun of the "honeymonkey" term or accusing workers of just sitting in the room not doing anything?
The common phrase of "know your audience" should come to mind. Of course, the developers should have IE, Mozilla and Opera installed on their machine, but the users that they are deploying these applications to are almost 75% of the time (if not higher based on web browsing results) running IE exclusively.
So of course, enterprise wide deployment, patching through SUS and general user base familiarity are the exact reasons why companies who aren't "diehard supporters" are advantageous to business productivity on the user end. Of course, developers should use the best tools available, but your comments about "businesses" do not take into account the user base of these applications.
I think there will be a lawsuit. Gamers demand that the people running the games keep play within the rules.
Wrong. Look at the history of MMORPGs - Asheron's Call, EQ and UO that all had the same problem (if not worse since Ebay and the game developers didn't recognize the online auction threat) and there have not been any successful lawsuits against anyone. Items, that are deemed in the ToS of all these games, as to have no value, have no legal standing in US courts. There won't be any legislation against the game makers and if anything, the onus should be placed on auction sites to prevent this from happening (yes, there are other means like game message boards, etc).
What can a player do to get even, go to ebay and cheat too. Let the black market take over.
Shortsighted. Sure, a market exists as demand exists (simple supply and demand takes over here). However, as you can see with Asheron's Call (even with an expansion coming out), there is no demand anymore for in-game items since now most characters have "everything they need" so the demand shifts to the left and downward. The black market for in-game items, as history has shown us, only lasts for a certain amount of time until game knowledge increases, demand decreases and third party plugins are developed.
There should be some way of keeping track of human players honor. If someone is caught cheating at one game, they are not allowed in another.
This is already occurring. Many users/farmers have been banned from numerous games for game abuse, online selling, etc. and hopefully there will be an open line of communication between gaming companies to share this abuser information freely.
Uh...zero. Why would I want to answer work email at home. I don't, nor do I answer phone calls from work on my mobile when I've left work.
Small IT shops like the one I work for (buried within a financial investments firm that didn't even have a network as of 3 years ago) require individuals not only with a vast skill set, but with the drive and motivation to continue development.
My company provides me with 2 laptops, pays me $50 per month for cell phone usage and setup VPN access so that I can work from home. It is expected that although I need to be in the office between 9-5 (although very flexible), that I am reachable via cell phone if there is a network outage or applications stop working. As the senior programmer and database administrator (and the only person with any Cisco experience), I'm called in on basically every issue that occurs after hours.
Do I like it? Not particularly, but many small IT shops have to operate in this manner because of the need for 1) 100% uptime, 2) quick and efficient response to user demands and 3) the limited manpower to accomplish these tasks.
Stewart created his table in part because he remembered being deeply impressed, at the age of 12, by a similar one he saw at the science pavilion of the 1951 Festival of Britain. An impressionistic swirl in vivid colors created by the artist Edgar Longman, the table stood little hope of being adopted by classrooms, but it spurred Stewart to study science. He recalls being struck by nature's underlying order: "I realized that the atoms that make up a galaxy can be arranged in just the same form as the galaxy itself."
There's a few points from page 5 of the slideshow that really hit home.
1) First, he basically ripped this idea off from a previous chart built in 1951, modernized, gave it a better "UI" and is now shipping it out to the masses. Sound familiar?
2) On a positive note, I believe that the visual upgrades to the chart (although, will color blind people have any issues getting the full content from the chart now?) will definitely help students remember and learn emelents easier. The visual separation should definitely increase the ability for students to remember how many different colors, how many elemnts per color per spiral, etc.
3) What I think is the most interesting point of all of this is the relation of the elements being able to be tied back together and done so in a shape that mirrors the overall shape of the galaxy. It's sort of like the movie "Pi" where we can see trends, shapes, circles and spirals all within our life and this would be just one more example.
Even setting up zombie bot machines to farm gold aren't enough in PvP worlds. When you can't account for all factors (distance, time, keystroke, monster PvM AI, etc.), accounting for player induced deaths throws a wrinkle into the equation.
Now, in games such as AC, numerous scripting tools were developed including ACTool and ACScript which logged out on death, etc. You could also strip your character down so that deaths don't adversely effect you.
However, with all PvP settings, you get your "newbie killers" that will spot these mules running back and forth and cause havok on these bots. Sure, on PvM servers (god, why would anyone play those) you could easily setup trade skill macros or gold runners without much interference, but PvM servers usually have a slightly worse ingame item to real money ratio than PvP servers, even with the higher subscriber base.
For every single dupefix, three new dupes are created. Goodbye, WoW economy..
Umm, you could have said goodbye to the in game and out of game economy a long time ago. There are reports and artciles of people in 3rd world countries who get paid to do nothing but farm gold in WoW. Don't believe me? Check out this article here.
MMORPGs such as Asheron's Call and EQ and UO have had rollbacks of up to 3 days worth of gameplay at great frustration to the user.
The consequences? Elimination of "most" of the bug's after effects and basically no drop is subscribers logged on. Most gamers of games such as MMORPGs aren't casual gamers due to the amount of time necessary to level, obtain items, complete quests and acquire the necessary in-game knowledge to actually enjoy these games. Therefore, the word addiction comes to mind and you won't leave no matter how much you bitch about rollbacks.
If you combine the conclusions of this article plus the/. article that stated a PC connected to the Internet on average gets infacted within 12 minutes, then we see:
Avg. rate of infection: 1 per 12 minutes
Avg. cost of new PC: $400
That would be 720 computers you would have to buy and then throw out (assuming 0 assembly and boot time) in every day.
Obviously, this article is bullshit and hopefully the/. denial of service on their website is enough punishment for such nonsense.
Forget about the fake watches, fake pocketbooks, fake luggage that they sell down by Canal Street.
The cops in NYC have turned a blind eye to DVD pirating in a big way. Now, just take the subway/LIRR into Penn Station and all around the surrounding blocks are filled with pirated DVDs on a blanket.
Unfortunately, from past experience, I know too much about this part of the Internet.
What everyone fails to recognize when these raids occur, is that it's just not teenagers stealing software.
The entire system is the problem and many of the same groups running the servers have carders and hackers/crackers associated with them.
Everyone would be up in arms about identity theft and credit card fraud so why doesn't the same outrage exist when these warez groups are operating.
How do you think these top sites buy their hardware? How do you think some groups get applications not available on pre-release / 0-day-minus?
Carders buy all the equipment and software (although some groups do get software/hardware donations in exchange for top site access) and the crackers/hackers are setting up zombie machines to run F-Serves on IRC. Taking out these warez groups is much more than just curtailing software privacy, but protecting the Internet as a whole.
As a close friend of the belated Nick Berg, whose fate has now become a/. catch phrase which gets you a 5, Funny, I'd like to remind people that the BitTorrent copies you downloaded of people being beheaded in Iraq are actually people who had friends and family back here.
The RIAA is "the man" but this joke was in bad taste. Piss on the scorer of this post.
Microsoft is currently a dividends machine in the equity market as they are trying to give back to shareholders using their 40 billion dollar cash reserve.
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MS's newest/latest/greatest has a large learning curve as well. You old MCSE who knows Windows Domains will have just as much trouble learning Active Directory as he would have learning Samba 3.
I've trained MCSEs in open source technology - about 50% do just fine. The otheres were paper MCSEs and sucked at Windows too.
Ok, so you're saying techies trying the latest and greatest without any training fail more often than the users who received your training in OSS solutions? So, obviously, the parent still remains correct - whatever you are trained better in should be the solution that is adopted. Otherwise, the cost savings you get from OSS may never be reaped as their company experiences downtime, frustration, inexperience and getting the proper training they need.
I think it's fairly clear that with the proper training and proven, qualified individuals that any solution will work if properly implemented and maintained.
Starting Monday September 19, 8AM US Pacific Time: To be announced.
Starting Friday September 23, 8AM US Pacific Time: To be announced.
Starting Monday September 26, 8AM US Pacific Time: To be announced.
How retarded? So to compete and be competitive, I need to take off from work as I live in New York and this is right during the middle of the work day? This basically eliminates any US coder with a full-time position.
... George Ou, on numerous occassions infuriates me and his editorials. I am not the Linux zealot that most Slashdot readers are (in fact I'm a .Net developer), but his articles and conclusions offend many educated readers.
He recently published a PGP vs. PKI article (I would link the article, but I am not giving him another web hit) where he was continually debunked by posters and PKI implementers because he stated that PKI was "too difficult". He couldn't grasp the concept that each job requires a different tool and one that fits the requirements best.
He constantly replies back on his blog through the Talkback feature ZDNet has (not that responding to user input is a bad thing) and does so with a level of arrogance that drips off the page. I refuse to even read his columns anymore and refuse to +1 his counters. Many users have already commented - there are too many reports acting as technical experts disseminating information that is misleading.
I choose option A and have to develop for IE here at work:
From TFA:
Ferris has found bugs in Microsoft software before, including a yet-unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that Microsoft still has under investigation.
I work at a Windows based company and I can't even begin to describe my frustration over issues just like the one above. I spend a lot of unnecessary time as a networking guy as opposed to a programmer because the only way to protect my users from their insecure browser is to configure Websense to block everything on the web and create ACLs on all of routers to prevent any traffic from problem domains.
IE at this point takes away from my development time, forces me to code with rudimentary(sp?) CSS and only has the benefit of having me keep up to date with ACL policies and networking/security issues.
..., but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw ...
Now, I'm not the Microsoft apologist of Slashdot, but I mean can we at least throw the names around of some other extremely bad abusers of this "sit on exploits/bugs and fix when we feel like it" policy?
Oracle and Cisco should also be admonished for their response time to fix exploits/bugs disclosed to them as well. Cisco and their Black Hat convention fiasco proves that MSFT isn't alone and really shouldn't be singled out (I don't want to debate the Lynn bug as being new or not).
Also, let's not forget that Zotob was patched before it was released in the wild, but users and admins failed to apply these patches in time even after SANS had raised the alert level to yellow the day before (and I don't want to argue about "we can't just blindly patch our machines", etc.)
Definitely, Linux, mySQL, Apache, the PHP CMS and forums community seem to be highly responsive to security threats and definitely, MSFT makes some very buggy, insecure software, but some impartiality would be nice every now and then.
But don't go IPO, man. Keep it small, keep it lean, and don't let your eyes glaze over with dollar signs.
.com received huge amounts of private funding.
You're missing the financial reasons why companies who have offered public stcok fail and why succeed - business model, leadership, first to market and ability to keep and stregnthen market share.
Personally, I was friends with the creators of theglobe.com and they went public with a poorly formed business model (IMO), leadership that was highly inexperienced and during a time where anything ending in
The act of going public alone doesn't doom a company so I definitely don't understand your concerns. Did going public hurt Google?
Like with any IPO, read through the prospectus offered, evaluate the industry and company specific risks, evaluate the company leadership, market share, the technologies involved and competition. Those things will determine the success or failure post-IPO.
... from those buddies on your list. I really fail to see exactly what the "security" risk is here - if you're hypersensitive about the people messaging you, then you can choose to be hypersensitive, lose some functionality and turn off the "randomness" factor. Most people exchange IM names through some other means of communications, either verbally or written, so this loss of functionality can be sidestepped while maintaining your online secrecy.
Formatted (easier to read) instructions can be found here.
wumpus.game: Welcome hagrin@gmail.com/Talk.v64E5DFD1CB
INSTRUCTIONS (Y-N)
Robert: Y
wumpus.game: WELCOME TO 'HUNT THE WUMPUS'
THE WUMPUS LIVES IN A CAVE OF 20 ROOMS. EACH ROOM
HAS 3 TUNNELS LEADING TO OTHER ROOMS. (LOOK AT A
DODECAHEDRON TO SEE HOW THIS WORKS-IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT A DODECAHEDRON IS, ASK SOMEONE)
HAZARDS:
BOTTOMLESS PITS - TWO ROOMS HAVE BOTTOMLESS PITS IN THEM
IF YOU GO THERE, YOU FALL INTO THE PIT (& LOSE)
SUPER BATS - TWO OTHER ROOMS HAVE SUPER BATS. IF YOU
GO THERE, A BAT GRABS YOU AND TAKES YOU TO SOME OTHER
ROOM AT RANDOM (WHICH MAY BE TROUBLESOME)
TYPE AN E THEN RETURN
WUMPUS:
THE WUMPUS IS NOT BOTHERED BY HAZARDS (HE HAS SUCKER
FEET AND IS TOO BIG FOR A BAT TO LIFT). USUALLY
HE IS ASLEEP. TWO THINGS WAKE HIM UP: YOU SHOOTING AN
ARROW OR YOU ENTERING HIS ROOM.
IF THE WUMPUS WAKES HE MOVES (P=.75) ONE ROOM
OR STAYS STILL (P=.25). AFTER THAT, IF HE IS WHERE YOU
ARE, HE EATS YOU UP AND YOU LOSE!
YOU:
EACH TURN YOU MAY MOVE OR SHOOT A CROOKED ARROW
MOVING: YOU CAN MOVE ONE ROOM (THRU ONE TUNNEL)
ARROWS: YOU HAVE 5 ARROWS. YOU LOSE WHEN YOU RUN OUT
EACH ARROW CAN GO FROM 1 TO 5 ROOMS. YOU AIM BY TELLING
THE COMPUTER THE ROOM#S YOU WANT THE ARROW TO GO TO.
IF THE ARROW CAN'T GO THAT WAY (IF NO TUNNEL) IT MOVES
AT RANDOM TO THE NEXT ROOM.
IF THE ARROW HITS THE WUMPUS, YOU WIN.
IF THE ARROW HITS YOU, YOU LOSE.
TYPE AN E THEN RETURN
WARNINGS:
WHEN YOU ARE ONE ROOM AWAY FROM A WUMPUS OR HAZARD,
THE COMPUTER SAYS:
WUMPUS: 'I SMELL A WUMPUS'
BAT : 'BATS NEARBY'
PIT : 'I FEEL A DRAFT'
HUNT THE WUMPUS
BATS NEARBY!
I SMELL A WUMPUS
YOU ARE IN ROOM 14
TUNNELS LEAD TO 4 13 15
SHOOT OR MOVE (S-M)
This is just another example in the age old argument of which is better. IMO, the quality of the search results is what matters more than the sheer quantity of information. One relevant find is more valuable than 100 inaccurate results. A test of accuracy might be more valuable and one that would be difficult to engineer. For instance, if I type in a word that has a direct correlating .com domain, that should be the first result (assuming no other words in the title - i.e. "hagrin" brings me my home page as the first result). I am sure a test of accuracy could be further derived from such logic.
The other side of the argument probably relates back to something my fiancee once told me - "Size doesn't matter, but it's the great equalizer when it comes to two guys not knowing what they are doing". Yahoo!, especially since the researches couldn't perform queries on topics returning more than 1,000 results, may be indexing and crawling deeper into sites or it has a "double dipping" problem.
Either way, I don't see Yahoo! falsely reporting their numbers - I would tend to think that this "study" is highly flawed due to its exclusion of larger result topics, etc.
... are reader responses to an article like this. Some people just refuse to see the trees I guess.
If an indepedent, third party security company were performing these web site audits, the company wouldn't be admonished, but readers would still attack the "unfinished product" which was Windows XP unpatched. However, how can you fault a company that is trying to correct tens of years of security ignorance with new pro-active efforts?
MSFT is basically performing external penetration testing of their software while security teams are writing vulnerability scanners and focusing on individual aspects of an application's design. In fact, one could argue that this is one of the more effective ways of performing security testing since exploits in the wild can exist in the wild for months before any security company diagnoses the vulnerability and this method will identify areas of the Internet that seem to disseminate these exploits between web sites.
If you want to comment on the lack of security focus in the past, definitely. Are they playing a major game of catch up? Definitely. Should IE be so tightly meshed with the OS? Of course not. But can some of you just grow up and get past the MSFT bias and stop doing childish crap like making fun of the "honeymonkey" term or accusing workers of just sitting in the room not doing anything?
You're missing the point entirely.
The common phrase of "know your audience" should come to mind. Of course, the developers should have IE, Mozilla and Opera installed on their machine, but the users that they are deploying these applications to are almost 75% of the time (if not higher based on web browsing results) running IE exclusively.
So of course, enterprise wide deployment, patching through SUS and general user base familiarity are the exact reasons why companies who aren't "diehard supporters" are advantageous to business productivity on the user end. Of course, developers should use the best tools available, but your comments about "businesses" do not take into account the user base of these applications.
I think there will be a lawsuit. Gamers demand that the people running the games keep play within the rules.
Wrong. Look at the history of MMORPGs - Asheron's Call, EQ and UO that all had the same problem (if not worse since Ebay and the game developers didn't recognize the online auction threat) and there have not been any successful lawsuits against anyone. Items, that are deemed in the ToS of all these games, as to have no value, have no legal standing in US courts. There won't be any legislation against the game makers and if anything, the onus should be placed on auction sites to prevent this from happening (yes, there are other means like game message boards, etc).
What can a player do to get even, go to ebay and cheat too. Let the black market take over.
Shortsighted. Sure, a market exists as demand exists (simple supply and demand takes over here). However, as you can see with Asheron's Call (even with an expansion coming out), there is no demand anymore for in-game items since now most characters have "everything they need" so the demand shifts to the left and downward. The black market for in-game items, as history has shown us, only lasts for a certain amount of time until game knowledge increases, demand decreases and third party plugins are developed.
There should be some way of keeping track of human players honor. If someone is caught cheating at one game, they are not allowed in another.
This is already occurring. Many users/farmers have been banned from numerous games for game abuse, online selling, etc. and hopefully there will be an open line of communication between gaming companies to share this abuser information freely.
Uh...zero. Why would I want to answer work email at home. I don't, nor do I answer phone calls from work on my mobile when I've left work.
Small IT shops like the one I work for (buried within a financial investments firm that didn't even have a network as of 3 years ago) require individuals not only with a vast skill set, but with the drive and motivation to continue development.
My company provides me with 2 laptops, pays me $50 per month for cell phone usage and setup VPN access so that I can work from home. It is expected that although I need to be in the office between 9-5 (although very flexible), that I am reachable via cell phone if there is a network outage or applications stop working. As the senior programmer and database administrator (and the only person with any Cisco experience), I'm called in on basically every issue that occurs after hours.
Do I like it? Not particularly, but many small IT shops have to operate in this manner because of the need for 1) 100% uptime, 2) quick and efficient response to user demands and 3) the limited manpower to accomplish these tasks.
Stewart created his table in part because he remembered being deeply impressed, at the age of 12, by a similar one he saw at the science pavilion of the 1951 Festival of Britain. An impressionistic swirl in vivid colors created by the artist Edgar Longman, the table stood little hope of being adopted by classrooms, but it spurred Stewart to study science. He recalls being struck by nature's underlying order: "I realized that the atoms that make up a galaxy can be arranged in just the same form as the galaxy itself." There's a few points from page 5 of the slideshow that really hit home. 1) First, he basically ripped this idea off from a previous chart built in 1951, modernized, gave it a better "UI" and is now shipping it out to the masses. Sound familiar?
2) On a positive note, I believe that the visual upgrades to the chart (although, will color blind people have any issues getting the full content from the chart now?) will definitely help students remember and learn emelents easier. The visual separation should definitely increase the ability for students to remember how many different colors, how many elemnts per color per spiral, etc. 3) What I think is the most interesting point of all of this is the relation of the elements being able to be tied back together and done so in a shape that mirrors the overall shape of the galaxy. It's sort of like the movie "Pi" where we can see trends, shapes, circles and spirals all within our life and this would be just one more example.
Please tell me you don't work in Redmond. Now, THAT would be a mod up funny.
You're missing the point.
Even setting up zombie bot machines to farm gold aren't enough in PvP worlds. When you can't account for all factors (distance, time, keystroke, monster PvM AI, etc.), accounting for player induced deaths throws a wrinkle into the equation.
Now, in games such as AC, numerous scripting tools were developed including ACTool and ACScript which logged out on death, etc. You could also strip your character down so that deaths don't adversely effect you.
However, with all PvP settings, you get your "newbie killers" that will spot these mules running back and forth and cause havok on these bots. Sure, on PvM servers (god, why would anyone play those) you could easily setup trade skill macros or gold runners without much interference, but PvM servers usually have a slightly worse ingame item to real money ratio than PvP servers, even with the higher subscriber base.
For every single dupefix, three new dupes are created. Goodbye, WoW economy..
Umm, you could have said goodbye to the in game and out of game economy a long time ago. There are reports and artciles of people in 3rd world countries who get paid to do nothing but farm gold in WoW. Don't believe me? Check out this article here.
Fact is, you won't leave.
MMORPGs such as Asheron's Call and EQ and UO have had rollbacks of up to 3 days worth of gameplay at great frustration to the user.
The consequences? Elimination of "most" of the bug's after effects and basically no drop is subscribers logged on. Most gamers of games such as MMORPGs aren't casual gamers due to the amount of time necessary to level, obtain items, complete quests and acquire the necessary in-game knowledge to actually enjoy these games. Therefore, the word addiction comes to mind and you won't leave no matter how much you bitch about rollbacks.
If you combine the conclusions of this article plus the /. article that stated a PC connected to the Internet on average gets infacted within 12 minutes, then we see:
/. denial of service on their website is enough punishment for such nonsense.
Avg. rate of infection: 1 per 12 minutes
Avg. cost of new PC: $400
That would be 720 computers you would have to buy and then throw out (assuming 0 assembly and boot time) in every day.
Obviously, this article is bullshit and hopefully the
Obviously, Netscape also built Wall Street.
Forget about the fake watches, fake pocketbooks, fake luggage that they sell down by Canal Street.
The cops in NYC have turned a blind eye to DVD pirating in a big way. Now, just take the subway/LIRR into Penn Station and all around the surrounding blocks are filled with pirated DVDs on a blanket.
Unfortunately, from past experience, I know too much about this part of the Internet.
What everyone fails to recognize when these raids occur, is that it's just not teenagers stealing software.
The entire system is the problem and many of the same groups running the servers have carders and hackers/crackers associated with them.
Everyone would be up in arms about identity theft and credit card fraud so why doesn't the same outrage exist when these warez groups are operating.
How do you think these top sites buy their hardware? How do you think some groups get applications not available on pre-release / 0-day-minus?
Carders buy all the equipment and software (although some groups do get software/hardware donations in exchange for top site access) and the crackers/hackers are setting up zombie machines to run F-Serves on IRC. Taking out these warez groups is much more than just curtailing software privacy, but protecting the Internet as a whole.
As a close friend of the belated Nick Berg, whose fate has now become a /. catch phrase which gets you a 5, Funny, I'd like to remind people that the BitTorrent copies you downloaded of people being beheaded in Iraq are actually people who had friends and family back here.
The RIAA is "the man" but this joke was in bad taste. Piss on the scorer of this post.
Answer: A very long time.
Microsoft is currently a dividends machine in the equity market as they are trying to give back to shareholders using their 40 billion dollar cash reserve.