This makes me sick to my stomach. The real geniuses of Microsoft, the ones working in the money dept, have come up with a way to drip feed the poor with an operating system they couldn't afford before (instead of choosing one they can afford), reinforce the idea that you're only renting access to software, and come up with a way to get more data on peoples' computer usage, all in one fell swoop.
And cue the anti-Slashdot trolls bitching about how we see everything MS does as evil...
It's a vicious circle of Schrodinger's chickens and eggs. It gets worse and worse with seemingly no way out, and nobody can know which was the initial cause.
Which is why Steve Jobs isn't an OSS developer. Release early, release often. If distro maintainers are bundling nonworking software, it's their fault, not the developers'. And a user installing version 0.5 of something shouldn't be expecting it to work 100% either.
It was capicu, but I haven't been online since September last year. At some point the magic just died for me, and when I moved it wasn't worth jumping through all the (ISP) hoops to get my Xbox online. Turns out my new connection was too laggy anyway.
Looking at those stats, it seems I had one last binge of Team Snipers before I left. A nice way to say goodbye.
I'd noticed that noone on there had heard of Slashdot too. It was a weird little group of people. Lots of Microsoft fanboys in there, though a lot of them only by proxy (Bungie). I miss the days when I enjoyed Halo 2 online...
Aside from the boring argument that followed from this comment, there is another point to this. This "community value" might be the exact type of thing the Microsoft marketing drone was referring to, and his "dependability of the commercial model" might have been something completely different.
If this is the case, his point falls even harder because of the existence of commercial OSS companies like Red Hat and Novell. In fact, the very idea that Open Source isn't commercial is pretty retarded in itself.
Maybe his point was intended even more generally than that? Or am I having too much faith in his integrity? I suppose it's likely that it was just run-of-the-mill Microsoft mudslinging. By making that old distinction between OSS and commercial software, he perpetuates the myth that there is no money in 'Free' Software.
Congratulations on two consecutive posts of successful assertion of your intellectual dominance. Perhaps if you'd just provided the context missing from my post:
'if they wish to stay current with security practices as to maintain a practical level of safety on dangerous networks such as the Internet.
and pointed out that I was a little unclear, you wouldn't have come across as a condescending self-congratulatory prick, and I would have reacted better to your ideas.
if they wish to stay current with security practices as to maintain a practical level of safety on dangerous networks such as the Internet
Yeah, that's very impressive. I hope you're happy in your little word where you're Master of Logic by pretending not to see the obvious subtext and then pointing it out to people.
Meanwhile, out here in reality, people are honest enough not to pretend to see those two examples as 'declarative statements without conditional qualifiers that are to be true regardless of condition'.
Please. This isn't logic class, so use your common sense when interpreting what people say. If I say "Slashdotters are nerds", you don't 'disprove' what I said just by pointing out that you personally aren't a nerd, because I'm not setting some definite boolean slashdotters_are_nerds variable by saying that. It's supposed to be mutually understood what my actual idea is.
Actually it was a different part of the headline that got me. Someone at some stage of the chain has really made a cock of themselves with that 50% figure.
Paul Lee himself probably only said it as a ballpark indication that he want to innovate, and it isn't the title of the article, so maybe Zonk is the culprit.
Do you have any targets on what percentage of your business you want owned IP [intellectual property] to be?
Our goal is to get over 50%
Maybe it's the easiest way to express this for the headline, but it still sounds as stupid as shit.
Just because Microsoft stops officially supporting a product does not mean everyone has to run out and get the latest version
WRONG. You're one person. Arguments based on "you're full of shit because your point doesn't apply to me" tend not to work. There is a wider world of people out there who need security updates and other patches. Most important of all of these are the business and school networks, Microsoft's real source of money. They have to stay up to date, or they get owned.
Now, the real issue is whether or not the updates are the source of the exploits. If MS didn't reveal the flaws, maybe there wouldn't be so many exploits for the unpatched systems. You might have had an interesting post if you'd gone with this, instead of two long paragraphs of narcissistic swearing. Do you understand that, dickhead? I don't give one rat's ass how you use your computer, I'm using my vague knowledge of IT in general. Let me clue you in on something: YOU ARE NOT THE YARDSTICK BY WHICH THE REST OF THE WORLD IS TO BE MEASURED.
Heh, you're preaching to the born again nutter in the front row of the congregation. I have a modded Xbox, and I used it for Xbox Live for ages. I was one of the good boys, and turned it off (the length of the power button press determines if it's on or off) for Live, but lived in fear of one of them finally getting a clue and checking for the obvious basic files that would be a sign of mods.
Whenever you tell someone that you've got a modded box on Live, you have to follow it up with "But I'm not a modder" pretty quickly. The decisions made by the player reporting system for Halo 2 seemed to be practically random, so everyone is (was) pretty paranoid not to accumulate lots of bad feedback.
The worst thing in Bungie's case was that modding Halo 2 was absolutely fucking awesome. It was well worth the effort even for the sake of a bit of messing around offline. It's easy to imagine people pathetic enough to cross the line and take it online. And how hard would it have been to md5 the cached map files before loading them?
Your "adhering to a stricter interpretation of the standards" is my "lacking basic exception handling", and it's the exact same sort of thing that creates the copy/pasting issue cited by the original poster.
In other news, Tribbin graduated to nerd level 49 today, after responding to a light-hearted joke with a long-winded description of the technical specifications of the technology in question. In a long press conference drawn out by his insistence on correcting the grammar of each question asked, he told reporters "lol wikipedia ftw!"
From your tone, you seem to be against this. Back when I was playing Halo 2 on Live, modders were the most hated adversary you could meet. I remember a few members of my clan being disgraced and kicked out for doing it. So for the most part, anything that hurts modders is welcomed by players.
While I'm not an IT expert, so I can't say anything particularly clever, there is one difference even a lowly dickhead such as myself can see.
When someone stops supporting an Open Source product, it's still available to be updated by the community. When Microsoft decides that it's time for you to buy the latest version of their OS, you have NO FUCKING CHOICE. That's not dependability.
I doubt he's disappointed. I imagine he's been invited to every IT conference, gathering and conversation since the late nineties. When he says "I don't go", I think it means just that.
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Cool. Two Microsoft-bashes, one rebuking the other.
An office suite, a standards compliant browswer, maybe a simple image editor, and maybe a couple of small utility programs.
Yeah, I guess that would be worth paying for....
I mean, it's not like people are giving it away for free.
And cue the anti-Slashdot trolls bitching about how we see everything MS does as evil...
It's a vicious circle of Schrodinger's chickens and eggs. It gets worse and worse with seemingly no way out, and nobody can know which was the initial cause.
I too found your first comment to be lacking. I hereby ridicule you.
Which is why Steve Jobs isn't an OSS developer. Release early, release often. If distro maintainers are bundling nonworking software, it's their fault, not the developers'. And a user installing version 0.5 of something shouldn't be expecting it to work 100% either.
Looking at those stats, it seems I had one last binge of Team Snipers before I left. A nice way to say goodbye.
I'd noticed that noone on there had heard of Slashdot too. It was a weird little group of people. Lots of Microsoft fanboys in there, though a lot of them only by proxy (Bungie). I miss the days when I enjoyed Halo 2 online...
If this is the case, his point falls even harder because of the existence of commercial OSS companies like Red Hat and Novell. In fact, the very idea that Open Source isn't commercial is pretty retarded in itself.
Maybe his point was intended even more generally than that? Or am I having too much faith in his integrity? I suppose it's likely that it was just run-of-the-mill Microsoft mudslinging. By making that old distinction between OSS and commercial software, he perpetuates the myth that there is no money in 'Free' Software.
Meanwhile, out here in reality, people are honest enough not to pretend to see those two examples as 'declarative statements without conditional qualifiers that are to be true regardless of condition'.
Please. This isn't logic class, so use your common sense when interpreting what people say. If I say "Slashdotters are nerds", you don't 'disprove' what I said just by pointing out that you personally aren't a nerd, because I'm not setting some definite boolean slashdotters_are_nerds variable by saying that. It's supposed to be mutually understood what my actual idea is.
Paul Lee himself probably only said it as a ballpark indication that he want to innovate, and it isn't the title of the article, so maybe Zonk is the culprit.
Maybe it's the easiest way to express this for the headline, but it still sounds as stupid as shit.Now, the real issue is whether or not the updates are the source of the exploits. If MS didn't reveal the flaws, maybe there wouldn't be so many exploits for the unpatched systems. You might have had an interesting post if you'd gone with this, instead of two long paragraphs of narcissistic swearing. Do you understand that, dickhead? I don't give one rat's ass how you use your computer, I'm using my vague knowledge of IT in general. Let me clue you in on something: YOU ARE NOT THE YARDSTICK BY WHICH THE REST OF THE WORLD IS TO BE MEASURED.
Whenever you tell someone that you've got a modded box on Live, you have to follow it up with "But I'm not a modder" pretty quickly. The decisions made by the player reporting system for Halo 2 seemed to be practically random, so everyone is (was) pretty paranoid not to accumulate lots of bad feedback.
The worst thing in Bungie's case was that modding Halo 2 was absolutely fucking awesome. It was well worth the effort even for the sake of a bit of messing around offline. It's easy to imagine people pathetic enough to cross the line and take it online. And how hard would it have been to md5 the cached map files before loading them?
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In other news, Tribbin graduated to nerd level 49 today, after responding to a light-hearted joke with a long-winded description of the technical specifications of the technology in question. In a long press conference drawn out by his insistence on correcting the grammar of each question asked, he told reporters "lol wikipedia ftw!"
From your tone, you seem to be against this. Back when I was playing Halo 2 on Live, modders were the most hated adversary you could meet. I remember a few members of my clan being disgraced and kicked out for doing it. So for the most part, anything that hurts modders is welcomed by players.
It is because of people like you can't distinguish a monkey from a profet that we've ended up with the world we have now.
When someone stops supporting an Open Source product, it's still available to be updated by the community. When Microsoft decides that it's time for you to buy the latest version of their OS, you have NO FUCKING CHOICE. That's not dependability.
Call me when the text editor can handle new lines consistently.
I doubt he's disappointed. I imagine he's been invited to every IT conference, gathering and conversation since the late nineties. When he says "I don't go", I think it means just that.