We focused on web developers' real world problems.
The real goal here is interoperability - something that Microsoft product teams believe in (remember, Microsoft has more than one product that works with HTML, CSS, and other web standards, and they have to interoperate too) and something that benefits customers (end-users, developers, IT Pros, et al.) across the board. The work in Windows Vista around IPv6 as well as the work we've done in IE7 with OpenSearch, RSS and with Certificate Authorities and other browser vendors on Extended Validation certificates are good examples of following through on that belief in interoperability.
The guy is good with words, that much is for sure. Of course, being a web developer, if he thinks that RSS support IE7 and ipv6 support in Vista is more important to a web developer than supporting CSS standards that other browsers have supported for years, all I'm getting from this interview is that MS devs need to get out more. Please don't try and act like adding RSS support to a browser is anything other than trivial. Of course, I certainly don't think that MS devs are truely that incapable. What it comes down to however, is the fact that a web developers loss is Microsoft's gain, and they know that. You have "the" standard, as set forth by the CSS standards, and you have the de facto standard, as in, 90% of the browser share. So, as a result, an IE capable website is always first priority, whereas a standards-based website is an after thought. So really, the sad truth is that IE is the standard, they know that, and they want to keep it that way.
All it takes is some searching on the internet to find out how to easily bypass any windows based lock-down or security mechanism. You're not running enterprise level business, you're running a computer lab at a high school. This isn't the typical "Windoze sux use Linux" argument. What does a student learn from using Windows? Nothing, they already know it. From a learning standpoint, many linux distros provide an ease-of-use similar to Windows while exposing them to a side of computing they've likely never seen before. This exposure may lead people into the IT industry who may never have done so otherwise. As an added bonus, linux is built from the ground up and a multi-user OS, where you can easily set access restrictions without the need for thousand dollar licenses to do what an OS should already be capable of doing.
Proprietary or not, software used in something so critical as our democratic process *should* be under the scrutiny of some sort of bipartisan government software auditing group. Whether or not its completely open, doesn't matter. The fact that democrats haven't attacked this issue further convinces me of their incompetence.
I dual boot OS X and windows on my macbook pro, and run ubuntu on a web development box that also serves as a file server and desktop machine.
I like ubuntu because it runs efficiently on cheap and standard hardware. It does what I need it to do, and it does it well. I have a pretty advanced setup with it, and it was really not difficult at all. This includes a LAMP server, NFS file server, and Remote Desktop using X11 forwarding. Awesome support through the community forums.
I like os x because of its Unix core with a clean and sleek desktop. 3rd party applications aside, it beats windows in every aspect. It's configuration applications are more simplistic than windows, but allow for great flexibility at the same time. One of many examples, is the ability to use DHCP with a manually entered local IP address. The hardware is top notch and is very well designed (once the thermal paste is reapplied, which is more of a manufacturing issue). With 2gigs ram, i have no problem running everything that is involved in a web design project, which includes adobe running via rosetta, parallels running windows for IE testing, a text editor, firefox, opera and safari with multiple tabs, and whatever misc stuff i may have open.
I like windows simply because it is the easiest of all operating systems to get 3rd party applications up and running. This is not so much a compliment of the design of windows, but is a positive side-effect of being the defacto standard.
One thing you have to remember: Perception > Reality. Speaking intellegently and writing intellegently is usually enough to convince someone that you actually know what you're talking about, if you're audience is ignorant or naive. That makes for a lot of percieved experts in the field of technology. Take the example of an internet born initiative to ban dihydrogen oxide in some county California http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html. Read this. If you haven't already heard of this, well, dihydrogen oxide is water. See how easy it is to convince a bunch of soccer moms they need to ban water? (Or that apple needs to abandon hardware... hehe)
I think Ted Stevens has done a fine job educating the government and the people about the internet, how it works, and it's importance. Of course, if you think that techies still need more influence on the government, you could always write an internets to your senator. Allow 2-3 days for arrival though, the tubes are pretty clogged.
I'm one of the brave souls who took apart their MBP and reapplied the thermal paste in reasonable quantities. Problem was, with the stock application heat wasn't transferring properly to the copper tubing from the processors. Unfortunatly, the thermal sensors are on this copper tubing so the problem becomes two-fold. Heat isn't being properly dissipated from the processors, and the computer thinks it is cooler than it really is, so the fans don't kick in when they should. Once the thermal paste was reapplied and everything was put back togother, I noticed my fans would come on more often or even come on full speed at times, which is a noticable sound. As a result, the MBP noticibly cooler to the touch and CoreDuoTemp reports a much cooler cpu.
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Men can stay at home, and women can work. Is that generally the case? No... but thats not my fault. It's not my fault that, by nature, men have higher levels of testerone that, when taken artificially, is considered a performance enhancing drug. It's also not my fault that women are, by nature, the ones who give birth to children, and go through a week period every month in which they become emotionally instable due to an increase in estrogen. And queue the accusation of sexism. But guess what... I don't give a fuck. It is only natural that men and women fall into different roles in society. Does this mean that women can't break the mold, and say, become CEO of a big company like say.. Ebay? Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart... both self-made billionaires. So really... don't give me this shit about equality. There is inequality going both ways. That's nature. Deal with it.
It's issues like these that really give me a bad taste in my mouth with it comes to women's rights and equality and such. Not that I want to bring the discussion off-topic, but in order for there to be true equality, women would infact have to give up certain rights. One of these being the fact that women are almost always given custody of children in a divorce. I went through this, not as the parent, but as the child. The issue itself is really independant of your job. By default, my mom was awarded full custody. My dad threatened to take the issue to court to fight for custody. I don't know your overall financial situation, but the thought of hiring a lawyer and going through more legal process than already required by a divorce was enough for my mom give up half custody. As far as any advise I could offer, if it is possible to live close to your ex, try and do so. I constantly moved every other week, across town. It was hard to maintain friends. It was hard to get to school on time living way outside my district, and it was held against me when I would be late so often. To be honest, it was tough not have one place to call home. But at the same time I feel like having the influence of both parents in my life was a positive thing. Hope things work out for you.
I have plenty of reasons to dislike Microsoft...
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This is a pretty bogus test. Obviously they didn't install security updates before going about their business, made apparent by the fact that the system was vulnerable to viruses that came out over 3 years ago. And IIRC, this is the first thing Windows will do upon connecting to the internet. They also mention IIS.... does home version even ship with IIS???
Heh... the review makes a good point. The website for the book is incomplete and done in FrontPage 5. I'm serious when I say this... I'm gonna write him an e-mail and tell him how much his website sucks. Perhaps others should follow his advise and do the same.
Of course, if I argue with a republican I'm accused of being a hippy liberal. If I argue with a democrat, I'm accused of being a nazi conservative. My point is that the current state of politics is a joke. If we saw children acting the way politicians do (most notably the garbage that goes on in attack ads) we would scold them for acting innapropriatly. The current administration is full of constitution wrecking republicans and the democrats sit by and act like they're completely helpless.
Of course I realized the typo immediatly after it was submitted.... thats what happens when you're watching your back at work hoping nobody see's you posting on a forum.
Thats why I hate politics. Bipartisanship causes one side to oppose the other simply because they are on the other side. I applaud a republican taking steps to get rid of electronic voting. Democrats are once again showing their incompetance. Instead of a steady effort to hold the current administration accountable for violating the law (according to the supreme court, no less), they are playing devils advocate or passing laws against violent video games. Since when was being a douche bag a requirment for holding office?
Slashdot Mirror
Like many things that headline slashdot, will the layperson notice, or really even care?
All it takes is some searching on the internet to find out how to easily bypass any windows based lock-down or security mechanism. You're not running enterprise level business, you're running a computer lab at a high school. This isn't the typical "Windoze sux use Linux" argument. What does a student learn from using Windows? Nothing, they already know it. From a learning standpoint, many linux distros provide an ease-of-use similar to Windows while exposing them to a side of computing they've likely never seen before. This exposure may lead people into the IT industry who may never have done so otherwise. As an added bonus, linux is built from the ground up and a multi-user OS, where you can easily set access restrictions without the need for thousand dollar licenses to do what an OS should already be capable of doing.
Proprietary or not, software used in something so critical as our democratic process *should* be under the scrutiny of some sort of bipartisan government software auditing group. Whether or not its completely open, doesn't matter. The fact that democrats haven't attacked this issue further convinces me of their incompetence.
I dual boot OS X and windows on my macbook pro, and run ubuntu on a web development box that also serves as a file server and desktop machine. I like ubuntu because it runs efficiently on cheap and standard hardware. It does what I need it to do, and it does it well. I have a pretty advanced setup with it, and it was really not difficult at all. This includes a LAMP server, NFS file server, and Remote Desktop using X11 forwarding. Awesome support through the community forums. I like os x because of its Unix core with a clean and sleek desktop. 3rd party applications aside, it beats windows in every aspect. It's configuration applications are more simplistic than windows, but allow for great flexibility at the same time. One of many examples, is the ability to use DHCP with a manually entered local IP address. The hardware is top notch and is very well designed (once the thermal paste is reapplied, which is more of a manufacturing issue). With 2gigs ram, i have no problem running everything that is involved in a web design project, which includes adobe running via rosetta, parallels running windows for IE testing, a text editor, firefox, opera and safari with multiple tabs, and whatever misc stuff i may have open. I like windows simply because it is the easiest of all operating systems to get 3rd party applications up and running. This is not so much a compliment of the design of windows, but is a positive side-effect of being the defacto standard.
Yeah guys username is a bit wierd... but I understand the frustration of trying to pick a username that is not already in use.
And cut to nuclear explosion montage
Thanks, John Madden, I don't think anyone realized that.
One thing you have to remember: Perception > Reality. Speaking intellegently and writing intellegently is usually enough to convince someone that you actually know what you're talking about, if you're audience is ignorant or naive. That makes for a lot of percieved experts in the field of technology. Take the example of an internet born initiative to ban dihydrogen oxide in some county California http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html. Read this. If you haven't already heard of this, well, dihydrogen oxide is water. See how easy it is to convince a bunch of soccer moms they need to ban water? (Or that apple needs to abandon hardware... hehe)
The fact that Apple now makes computers that run Windows is even more evidence that they are infact a hardware company first and foremost.
We've had calorie burning coke for a while. Apparently this new product isn't as hard on the nose.
I think Ted Stevens has done a fine job educating the government and the people about the internet, how it works, and it's importance. Of course, if you think that techies still need more influence on the government, you could always write an internets to your senator. Allow 2-3 days for arrival though, the tubes are pretty clogged.
I wish I had mod points, because that was damn funny.
Actually FreeBSD has a ports collection whereas Gentoo's implementation is called Portage. They are two similar, yet very different systems.
True, but threeaxis isn't a palindrome and therefore couldn't be made into a super-sweet logo.
I'm one of the brave souls who took apart their MBP and reapplied the thermal paste in reasonable quantities. Problem was, with the stock application heat wasn't transferring properly to the copper tubing from the processors. Unfortunatly, the thermal sensors are on this copper tubing so the problem becomes two-fold. Heat isn't being properly dissipated from the processors, and the computer thinks it is cooler than it really is, so the fans don't kick in when they should. Once the thermal paste was reapplied and everything was put back togother, I noticed my fans would come on more often or even come on full speed at times, which is a noticable sound. As a result, the MBP noticibly cooler to the touch and CoreDuoTemp reports a much cooler cpu.
Men can stay at home, and women can work. Is that generally the case? No... but thats not my fault. It's not my fault that, by nature, men have higher levels of testerone that, when taken artificially, is considered a performance enhancing drug. It's also not my fault that women are, by nature, the ones who give birth to children, and go through a week period every month in which they become emotionally instable due to an increase in estrogen. And queue the accusation of sexism. But guess what... I don't give a fuck. It is only natural that men and women fall into different roles in society. Does this mean that women can't break the mold, and say, become CEO of a big company like say.. Ebay? Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart... both self-made billionaires. So really... don't give me this shit about equality. There is inequality going both ways. That's nature. Deal with it.
It's issues like these that really give me a bad taste in my mouth with it comes to women's rights and equality and such. Not that I want to bring the discussion off-topic, but in order for there to be true equality, women would infact have to give up certain rights. One of these being the fact that women are almost always given custody of children in a divorce. I went through this, not as the parent, but as the child. The issue itself is really independant of your job. By default, my mom was awarded full custody. My dad threatened to take the issue to court to fight for custody. I don't know your overall financial situation, but the thought of hiring a lawyer and going through more legal process than already required by a divorce was enough for my mom give up half custody. As far as any advise I could offer, if it is possible to live close to your ex, try and do so. I constantly moved every other week, across town. It was hard to maintain friends. It was hard to get to school on time living way outside my district, and it was held against me when I would be late so often. To be honest, it was tough not have one place to call home. But at the same time I feel like having the influence of both parents in my life was a positive thing. Hope things work out for you.
This is a pretty bogus test. Obviously they didn't install security updates before going about their business, made apparent by the fact that the system was vulnerable to viruses that came out over 3 years ago. And IIRC, this is the first thing Windows will do upon connecting to the internet. They also mention IIS.... does home version even ship with IIS???
Not to get prophetic on dat ass, but code name "revolution" is starting to make a little more sense, with the way wii may affect the industry.
Heh... the review makes a good point. The website for the book is incomplete and done in FrontPage 5. I'm serious when I say this... I'm gonna write him an e-mail and tell him how much his website sucks. Perhaps others should follow his advise and do the same.
Of course, if I argue with a republican I'm accused of being a hippy liberal. If I argue with a democrat, I'm accused of being a nazi conservative. My point is that the current state of politics is a joke. If we saw children acting the way politicians do (most notably the garbage that goes on in attack ads) we would scold them for acting innapropriatly. The current administration is full of constitution wrecking republicans and the democrats sit by and act like they're completely helpless.
Of course I realized the typo immediatly after it was submitted.... thats what happens when you're watching your back at work hoping nobody see's you posting on a forum.
Thats why I hate politics. Bipartisanship causes one side to oppose the other simply because they are on the other side. I applaud a republican taking steps to get rid of electronic voting. Democrats are once again showing their incompetance. Instead of a steady effort to hold the current administration accountable for violating the law (according to the supreme court, no less), they are playing devils advocate or passing laws against violent video games. Since when was being a douche bag a requirment for holding office?