Guys dont forget the effect of Moore's law. 10 years is 6 * 18 months ago. Computers were 1/(2^6) as powerful as they are today. 2^6=64, Hence the computers had just 1.5% of the computing power of today's computer. To do signature or handwriting analysis, you simply did not have the power. Facebook could not have existed in a dial up AOL connectivity era. Just have some historical perspective. The tablet PC dreamt up by Dick Brass would have just sucked. Or he could claim he was ahead of the time. Anyway think about it.
There is nothing to see here folks, move on. The bug kicks in only under certain circumstances. The circumstances are apparently running a Windows system with Internet Explorer as the default browser. Come on, how many slashdotters do that?
The standard charge against all government orgs, especially about the Post Office, is that they are staffed by morons who follow the rules and don't pay any attention to cost. They fly a charter plane 200 miles to deliver a single 43 cent first class letter.
I am glad in this instance they are paying attention to costs. Imagine how much it would cost to rotate the entire post office every time a fax comes in the wrong orientation and rotate it back when it comes in the correct orientation. Good for them they refuse to accept such upside down faxes.
To get in, first you open mspaint and click on the A button. The open an Excel spreadsheet and leave the cursor on the
cell B23. Then you move the mouse over the first letter o (for Obama) in the word Glorious. And click simultaneously control,PgUp,alt,scroll lock and del keys. That will open a dialog very similar to shutdown/reboot dialog. Select shutdown, but it is really a secret passage way. Then the site fully and give you full access to all the materials.
Sometimes the site will pretend to shut the machine off to fool the FBI and CIA. You may have to try three of four times before you could get in.
This map is not supposed to be posted on the internet. It is supposed to be taped to underside of bottom drawer of a filing cabinet in a disused toilet in the dark unlit basement without stairs guarded by a leopard in the municipal building in Alpha Centauri.
I got a verizon FiOS service. The router they gave me runs a web server and throws a username/password dialog to the WAN side. That part can not be disabled by the user. They claim it is used to push firmware upgrades and other service settings changes. But instead of making the device make outbound calls to specific servers, they are relying on a simple username/password dialog. Hope they are using some randomly generated password stored in tables in a secure location. Thus even if a password is compromised, the damage is limited to that router. If it is a formula based password generator, there is potential for widespread pwning of verizon routers.
The fundamental point of business operations is to get stuff done, not to run computers.
This is why companies such my software company use MS Office.
First point is well taken. Businesses just want to get stuff done. 90% of the users do not use more than a core 10% of the feature set of MsOffice. But the business model of forcing every one to pay some 150$ to 200$ a year purely for the sake of compatibility with the 10% that uses more advanced users is not flying anymore. The days when the companies confused IBM/Microsoft compatibility with true interoperability are gone. That is why businesses, such as my company, are moving to Google Apps for all and MsOffice is available for people who can demonstrate they need it.
This turns on its head, the most successful strategy MsOffice has used in the past
The successful strategy was to sell MsOffice in bulk to the HQ, and anyone wanting others pay for it from their budget. Now the manager thinks, do I want the bean counters to charge me 200$ a seat for WordPerfect? Or just use the free license I can get from the HQ? Now the very same weapon is being trained on Microsoft itself. In our company, if I user Google Apps, it does not count towards my budget. If anyone who reports to me wants MsOffice, I have to buy it from my budget.
Google is playing the card wisely. If it tries to define itself as an internet ad selling company and competes in that sphere alone, Microsoft will use its 25 billion dollar a year profit stream from the MsOffice and keep eating losses till the other side runs out of resources. The only way to fight back is to attack that revenue stream. Now Microsoft has to circle the wagon and protect MsOffice. Google too has its own profit stream to keep fighting. The track record is not good when the adversary has other revenue sources to fight back.
For a while it looked like Intuit will go under the assault of highly subsidized MicrosoftMoney. But Intuit found a rich source of revenue in TurboTax and it continued to fight back. MicrosoftMoney has been pulled.
Sell out? Not sure what you mean by this. ARM sells (designs for) chips that can run Darwin, Linux, *BSD, RiscOS, Wince, Symbian, NewtonOS, and a host of others. If Microsoft chose to port Windows 7 to ARM, why would you regard this as ARM selling out?
Microsoft wont just agree to support ARM as is. It will have conditions attached to it. It won't be something so explicit as a requirement to stop supporting the other systems. It will be more insidious. One tack will be to nullify the advantage of other OSes. By requiring a cache large enough for Windows or memory requirement that will nullify cost advantage of Linux. Another tack would be to create a small variant of ARM that is incompatible with the others. Then due to the market dominance and/or shady undisclosed deals and pay backs, the window only version of ARM chips will be subsidized from the monopoly windfall in the MSOffice franchise.
Eventually everyone will be able to say, "we tried, but the market wants Microsoft. It is all free market you see!", while conveniently forgetting the backroom deals and tilting of the playing field done in smoke filled back rooms. The MsOffice franchise that is churning up some 25 billion dollars a year in profit, flowing through secret contracts wrapped inside non disclosure agreements, distorts the free-market continuum just like a black hole warps the space-time fabric.
Remember the original 150$ Linux netbook. How Microsoft suddenly extended the WinXP life by 10 years and strong armed Asus. How the one lap top per child project suddenly decided to add a 2GB memory chip, raised the price and foundered completely. Microsoft is not a 800 lb gorilla in the jungle clearing. It is a supermassive blackhole that influences everything in the galaxy.
What it means is, "If Microsoft is willing to buy, we are ready to sell out."
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silicon di oxide is a common ingredient in many things we ingest. Notably non dairy creamer. But I have seen it in so many common food items surprisingly.
I am probably asking a dumb question. Why is not there a product that will run IE6 inside a virtual machine? So all those companies that had written software specifically targetting IE6 will run this application, that will watch all the net connections and disk access and permit only very specific whitelisted activity to go on. A real modern browser will be available and slowly they can transition out of IE6. There is money to be made doing this. Why no body is doing this? Or are they doing it already without much publicity?
IBM has always shipped emulators for its previous versions. These emulators are so comprehensive they would run the entire emulator of the previous version in it. Thus there used to be codes written long ago, without source code, without original coders around, that will run inside an emulator for 360 running inside an emulator for 360/155 which runs inside an emulator for 3090 which runs inside an emulator for....
Why such a solution is impossible for ActiveX application using IE6 as its GUI?
I don't see why people are so obsessed with garbage collection. Automatic garbage collection should be used sparingly. If the "ownership" of an object is not clear, or could not be efficiently tracked, or if you cant be sure if all the entities holding the pointer or the reference have to release it then you should use garbage collection. But blindly using it for classes that will be instantiated in the millions of instances where the ownership and referers are clearly known and can be notified automatic garbage collection comes with severe performance penalty.
I grew up in really old Fortran codes where we obsessed with the number of square roots it takes to do this or how to reduce the number of trig function calls by two (not a factor of two, just two sin() calls are avoided in a tight loop). Eventually came to C++ and saw everyone using new and delete left right and center and I naturally assumed it would have trivial cost. Imagine my surprise when I actually ran the comparison benchmarks. With modern math coprocessors, a sqrt() is just three times mults, sin() is about 14, hyperbolic sine, logarithms are all about the same, inverse trig functions were around 25-30 times the cost of a mult. You know what? A simple push_back() or push_front() to an std::list is around 180 to 200 times as expensive as a mult. Throw in automatic garbage collection on top of this, you are looking at some serious performance degradation.
If you cant program without memory leaks in plain C, C++, I just won't hire you.
Once you can shoot down mosquitos with lasers you might not need a vaccine for malaria. Like this we should find technological solutions that make vaccines unnecessary. I am wondering why Bill Gates is funding both initiatives.
The funny thing is that all of those programs you mentioned also open.doc files. Interesting for a closed format.
Well, they open it by reverse engineering the doc file format. So they are vulnerable to lawsuits by Microsoft, claiming they are violating the DMCA. Right now Microsoft is not suing them because the adverse publicity would be more than the additional revenue it would gain. But, if the alternative products get a toe hold, and start biting into Microsoft sales, it would hit back with lawsuits.
You could wonder, "it is my data, it is my doc file so how can you claim copy right?". But even if you win in court you need to go there and spend money and defend. Just look at how Microsoft strong armed TomTom for its use of FAT format disks. How many roadblocks Microsoft has placed in the path of Samba servers. So the ability of OpenOffice and google docs to open doc files could be severely threatened by Microsoft.
No right thinking person would lock up his valuable data in some for profit company owned proprietary format. But most Fortune 500 companies have done precisely that. And they are wondering how to get out of the fix. ODF is a way to stop digging the hole, even if you are already in it.
It is exactly the same thing as it happened in PC. Apple makes an innovative product and makes it an expensive niche product. In 1980s, Microsoft brought a copycat product, it controlled the software, and let the hardware manufacturers duke it out for shrinking profit margins. In 2010s, Google will being Android, the MS-DOS of ultra portables, it controls the OS, the hardware manufacturers will duke it out again for ever shrinking profit margins. Once an installed base is large enough, Google brings out its own applications, and supplants all other competing apps, and it will consolidate its grip like Microsoft did back then.
Microsoft wanted money for its products. Google just wants to know a lot about you. Most people don't care about privacy. So Google is shaping up to be Microsoft+{Nielsen+Gallup}+{Madison Avenue} all rolled into one.
I am sorry I was needlessly nasty to you. Should not have been snarky like that. Very unprofessional of me to have said what I said.
But my main point stands. A mere programmer, be it Perl, be it C++, is not worth more than 60K a year in rust belt or 80K a year in CA/NY/NJ area. There must be another area of expertise and coding skills as an add on for steady high paying jobs.
I don't offer more than 60K in rust belt for C++ GUI coders, build engineers, etc. The next higher band is very good C/C++ and a Masters in fluid mechanics, electro magnetics or computational solid geometry. The higher band after that is PhD in the same fields.
So you might be right in saying 90K in NY is a lousy offer, but unless you have something other than Perl skills going for you, you have reached the top of the band for your skill set.
Please stop finding and posting evidence contrary to my preconceived notions! Enough already. As it is I am trying to contain my cognitive dissonance and I can do without all these pesky counter evidence, thank you. Next you will ask me to believe that Microsoft is not 100% evil and Apple is not 100% cool and Google is not 100% non-Evil (tm).
For a guy who does not even know how to take a taxi from the airport to the interview site and file an expense report to claim the taxi/air/hotel fare they are offering you oodles of money.
I am paying 120K for this highly unusual skill set combination
PhD in fluid mechanics,
very high C/C++ skills tested at 99+ at10 year C experience level
4 years of experience coding Spatial ACIS api
Getting 90K offer for a mere Perl programmer means only one thing, the job market has revived, and the economy is going to expand again at a good clip. Time to buy IVV, VO and VB. General market bets, not enough data to get into specific sectors.
Then, in your case, the creationists are right. If these are the types of things you hear from people, and you simply dismiss it, perhaps you aren't ready to discuss "science" things. You just want someone you don't like to be wrong.
These are not the only things I hear from the Creationists. The creationists have been discredited based on the other things they say and do. One simple example is their belief, "If I discredit theory A, that proves theory B". No it does not. Only gathering facts supporting theory B will support theory B. If A is gone, may be C will take its place, or D. There are hundred stupid things they do like that.
And in addition they resort to using some code words and phrases, that they think is very clever and demolishes science using science itself. All it does is to expose their own ignorance and stupidity. So it is fitting and proper he be ignored.
Then, in your case, the creationists are right. If these are the types of things you hear from people, and you simply dismiss it, perhaps you aren't ready to discuss "science" things. You just want someone you don't like to be wrong.
You on the other hand are convinced by your verbal gymnastics you have me tied up in knots. But you cant escape from the fact, for 2000 years people believing in creationism did not invent anything great based on creationism! No cure for diseases no techniques to improve agriculture or animal husbandry. Common man sees Creationism as a completely discredited philosophy afflicted with an acute case of science envy. And all you can do is to play verbal games. Go ahead play the games and fool your believers. You got smashed in Dover PA. Will get smashed again next time you go to court.
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In other words, Windows doesn't suck - The users do. The drivers license analogy is being used to shift some of the blame from the OS to its users.
"If the steering wheel stops responding at 70mph, simply turn the engine off and back on!"
But first you have to close all windows.
Guys dont forget the effect of Moore's law. 10 years is 6 * 18 months ago. Computers were 1/(2^6) as powerful as they are today. 2^6=64, Hence the computers had just 1.5% of the computing power of today's computer. To do signature or handwriting analysis, you simply did not have the power. Facebook could not have existed in a dial up AOL connectivity era. Just have some historical perspective. The tablet PC dreamt up by Dick Brass would have just sucked. Or he could claim he was ahead of the time. Anyway think about it.
There is nothing to see here folks, move on. The bug kicks in only under certain circumstances. The circumstances are apparently running a Windows system with Internet Explorer as the default browser. Come on, how many slashdotters do that?
I am glad in this instance they are paying attention to costs. Imagine how much it would cost to rotate the entire post office every time a fax comes in the wrong orientation and rotate it back when it comes in the correct orientation. Good for them they refuse to accept such upside down faxes.
To get in, first you open mspaint and click on the A button. The open an Excel spreadsheet and leave the cursor on the cell B23. Then you move the mouse over the first letter o (for Obama) in the word Glorious. And click simultaneously control,PgUp,alt,scroll lock and del keys. That will open a dialog very similar to shutdown/reboot dialog. Select shutdown, but it is really a secret passage way. Then the site fully and give you full access to all the materials.
Sometimes the site will pretend to shut the machine off to fool the FBI and CIA. You may have to try three of four times before you could get in.
This map is not supposed to be posted on the internet. It is supposed to be taped to underside of bottom drawer of a filing cabinet in a disused toilet in the dark unlit basement without stairs guarded by a leopard in the municipal building in Alpha Centauri.
I got a verizon FiOS service. The router they gave me runs a web server and throws a username/password dialog to the WAN side. That part can not be disabled by the user. They claim it is used to push firmware upgrades and other service settings changes. But instead of making the device make outbound calls to specific servers, they are relying on a simple username/password dialog. Hope they are using some randomly generated password stored in tables in a secure location. Thus even if a password is compromised, the damage is limited to that router. If it is a formula based password generator, there is potential for widespread pwning of verizon routers.
The fundamental point of business operations is to get stuff done, not to run computers.
This is why companies such my software company use MS Office.
First point is well taken. Businesses just want to get stuff done. 90% of the users do not use more than a core 10% of the feature set of MsOffice. But the business model of forcing every one to pay some 150$ to 200$ a year purely for the sake of compatibility with the 10% that uses more advanced users is not flying anymore. The days when the companies confused IBM/Microsoft compatibility with true interoperability are gone. That is why businesses, such as my company, are moving to Google Apps for all and MsOffice is available for people who can demonstrate they need it.
This turns on its head, the most successful strategy MsOffice has used in the past
The successful strategy was to sell MsOffice in bulk to the HQ, and anyone wanting others pay for it from their budget. Now the manager thinks, do I want the bean counters to charge me 200$ a seat for WordPerfect? Or just use the free license I can get from the HQ? Now the very same weapon is being trained on Microsoft itself. In our company, if I user Google Apps, it does not count towards my budget. If anyone who reports to me wants MsOffice, I have to buy it from my budget.
Google is playing the card wisely. If it tries to define itself as an internet ad selling company and competes in that sphere alone, Microsoft will use its 25 billion dollar a year profit stream from the MsOffice and keep eating losses till the other side runs out of resources. The only way to fight back is to attack that revenue stream. Now Microsoft has to circle the wagon and protect MsOffice. Google too has its own profit stream to keep fighting. The track record is not good when the adversary has other revenue sources to fight back.
For a while it looked like Intuit will go under the assault of highly subsidized MicrosoftMoney. But Intuit found a rich source of revenue in TurboTax and it continued to fight back. MicrosoftMoney has been pulled.
Sell out? Not sure what you mean by this. ARM sells (designs for) chips that can run Darwin, Linux, *BSD, RiscOS, Wince, Symbian, NewtonOS, and a host of others. If Microsoft chose to port Windows 7 to ARM, why would you regard this as ARM selling out?
Microsoft wont just agree to support ARM as is. It will have conditions attached to it. It won't be something so explicit as a requirement to stop supporting the other systems. It will be more insidious. One tack will be to nullify the advantage of other OSes. By requiring a cache large enough for Windows or memory requirement that will nullify cost advantage of Linux. Another tack would be to create a small variant of ARM that is incompatible with the others. Then due to the market dominance and/or shady undisclosed deals and pay backs, the window only version of ARM chips will be subsidized from the monopoly windfall in the MSOffice franchise.
Eventually everyone will be able to say, "we tried, but the market wants Microsoft. It is all free market you see!", while conveniently forgetting the backroom deals and tilting of the playing field done in smoke filled back rooms. The MsOffice franchise that is churning up some 25 billion dollars a year in profit, flowing through secret contracts wrapped inside non disclosure agreements, distorts the free-market continuum just like a black hole warps the space-time fabric.
Remember the original 150$ Linux netbook. How Microsoft suddenly extended the WinXP life by 10 years and strong armed Asus. How the one lap top per child project suddenly decided to add a 2GB memory chip, raised the price and foundered completely. Microsoft is not a 800 lb gorilla in the jungle clearing. It is a supermassive blackhole that influences everything in the galaxy.
What it means is, "If Microsoft is willing to buy, we are ready to sell out."
silicon di oxide is a common ingredient in many things we ingest. Notably non dairy creamer. But I have seen it in so many common food items surprisingly.
Verizon's ad campaign featuring an army of tower workers following customers around was hyperbolic. Sorry if you got confused.
The joke's on you pal. All those cell towers use Yagi dipole antennae. They are neither parabolic not hyperbolic.
Toyota tech is shouting: "Found it! Found it. I know what is causing the problem. The driver is named Woz"
IBM has always shipped emulators for its previous versions. These emulators are so comprehensive they would run the entire emulator of the previous version in it. Thus there used to be codes written long ago, without source code, without original coders around, that will run inside an emulator for 360 running inside an emulator for 360/155 which runs inside an emulator for 3090 which runs inside an emulator for ....
Why such a solution is impossible for ActiveX application using IE6 as its GUI?
I grew up in really old Fortran codes where we obsessed with the number of square roots it takes to do this or how to reduce the number of trig function calls by two (not a factor of two, just two sin() calls are avoided in a tight loop). Eventually came to C++ and saw everyone using new and delete left right and center and I naturally assumed it would have trivial cost. Imagine my surprise when I actually ran the comparison benchmarks. With modern math coprocessors, a sqrt() is just three times mults, sin() is about 14, hyperbolic sine, logarithms are all about the same, inverse trig functions were around 25-30 times the cost of a mult. You know what? A simple push_back() or push_front() to an std::list is around 180 to 200 times as expensive as a mult. Throw in automatic garbage collection on top of this, you are looking at some serious performance degradation.
If you cant program without memory leaks in plain C, C++, I just won't hire you.
Once you can shoot down mosquitos with lasers you might not need a vaccine for malaria. Like this we should find technological solutions that make vaccines unnecessary. I am wondering why Bill Gates is funding both initiatives.
The funny thing is that all of those programs you mentioned also open .doc files. Interesting for a closed format.
Well, they open it by reverse engineering the doc file format. So they are vulnerable to lawsuits by Microsoft, claiming they are violating the DMCA. Right now Microsoft is not suing them because the adverse publicity would be more than the additional revenue it would gain. But, if the alternative products get a toe hold, and start biting into Microsoft sales, it would hit back with lawsuits.
You could wonder, "it is my data, it is my doc file so how can you claim copy right?". But even if you win in court you need to go there and spend money and defend. Just look at how Microsoft strong armed TomTom for its use of FAT format disks. How many roadblocks Microsoft has placed in the path of Samba servers. So the ability of OpenOffice and google docs to open doc files could be severely threatened by Microsoft.
No right thinking person would lock up his valuable data in some for profit company owned proprietary format. But most Fortune 500 companies have done precisely that. And they are wondering how to get out of the fix. ODF is a way to stop digging the hole, even if you are already in it.
He is going to say, "aw! Shucks. Guys, just buy Denmark and close it down. Those pesky gadflies!".
Microsoft wanted money for its products. Google just wants to know a lot about you. Most people don't care about privacy. So Google is shaping up to be Microsoft+{Nielsen+Gallup}+{Madison Avenue} all rolled into one.
But my main point stands. A mere programmer, be it Perl, be it C++, is not worth more than 60K a year in rust belt or 80K a year in CA/NY/NJ area. There must be another area of expertise and coding skills as an add on for steady high paying jobs.
I don't offer more than 60K in rust belt for C++ GUI coders, build engineers, etc. The next higher band is very good C/C++ and a Masters in fluid mechanics, electro magnetics or computational solid geometry. The higher band after that is PhD in the same fields.
So you might be right in saying 90K in NY is a lousy offer, but unless you have something other than Perl skills going for you, you have reached the top of the band for your skill set.
Please stop finding and posting evidence contrary to my preconceived notions! Enough already. As it is I am trying to contain my cognitive dissonance and I can do without all these pesky counter evidence, thank you. Next you will ask me to believe that Microsoft is not 100% evil and Apple is not 100% cool and Google is not 100% non-Evil (tm).
I am paying 120K for this highly unusual skill set combination
Getting 90K offer for a mere Perl programmer means only one thing, the job market has revived, and the economy is going to expand again at a good clip. Time to buy IVV, VO and VB. General market bets, not enough data to get into specific sectors.
Let there be light.
Then, in your case, the creationists are right. If these are the types of things you hear from people, and you simply dismiss it, perhaps you aren't ready to discuss "science" things. You just want someone you don't like to be wrong.
These are not the only things I hear from the Creationists. The creationists have been discredited based on the other things they say and do. One simple example is their belief, "If I discredit theory A, that proves theory B". No it does not. Only gathering facts supporting theory B will support theory B. If A is gone, may be C will take its place, or D. There are hundred stupid things they do like that.
And in addition they resort to using some code words and phrases, that they think is very clever and demolishes science using science itself. All it does is to expose their own ignorance and stupidity. So it is fitting and proper he be ignored.
Then, in your case, the creationists are right. If these are the types of things you hear from people, and you simply dismiss it, perhaps you aren't ready to discuss "science" things. You just want someone you don't like to be wrong.
You on the other hand are convinced by your verbal gymnastics you have me tied up in knots. But you cant escape from the fact, for 2000 years people believing in creationism did not invent anything great based on creationism! No cure for diseases no techniques to improve agriculture or animal husbandry. Common man sees Creationism as a completely discredited philosophy afflicted with an acute case of science envy. And all you can do is to play verbal games. Go ahead play the games and fool your believers. You got smashed in Dover PA. Will get smashed again next time you go to court.