You just bit, my friend. The troll most likely was hoping to watch as nerds battle over Linux vs. BSD. Sort of like starting a bar brawl and slipping out the back door.
If the latest version of Windows weren't the latest and greatest, I'd be very surprised to hear Microsoft say otherwise. Picture yourself with a failed product and a ton of very grouchy shareholders that are wondering where your progress is and what you've been doing with all their money. You have two options:
1. Tell them "Sorry, things didn't pan out." and get your ass fired, watch your company go down in flames
2. Announce to the public just how AWESOME your new steaming pile of a product is and cover its failures in any way you can.
The unintentionally implied claim is that Vista is a failure - I'm not saying that, but I'm saying if it was we certainly couldn't expect honesty about it from Microsoft. Let's not be naive.
Don't attack someone when they recognize their wrong doings and attempt to correct them I think what's being attacked is their convenient timing for recognizing their wrongs. A few years ago these were not acknowledged faults, and were often defended and justified. They're only admitting fault when it's convenient for their bottom line, and they're being called on it.
Expect every one of Vista's faults to be downplayed or denied until Windows 7 comes out. Then they'll be highlighted.
The parent isn't off topic at all. They seem a bit trollish, but they are definitely not off topic. Talking about rigged elections in another country in a "rigged election in country X" article is far from off topic. Mod troll if you really think it's applicable - I don't - but "off topic" is far from accurate.
I'd say that's an accurate correction. That's what happens when I drink and talk politics. I meant to point out that fear of making a mistake (and doing nothing) is a bigger evil at this point than just making a few mistakes, not insinuate weakness in anybody's platform.
Dude, that doesn't even parse. By definition, a bad thing is, well, bad. It is not better than nothing. If it is better than nothing, it is good, by the definition of the words "good" and "bad." Actually, it's funny how that works - change tends to spawn more change. If bad change happens then we'll do something about it and replace it with good change. If nothing happens it tends to continue happening. If someone jumps into office and fucks things up royally it'll be fixed quickly. I fear the "everything's fine... nothing to see here..." (while the world spirals) deadlock more than making a few mistakes.
The world of politics is full of foul play. Sometimes it's on the part of the obvious culprit, sometimes its framing. I don't care in this case.
When I looked up Ron Paul's actual stances and policies I thought, for the first time in a long time, "he actually wants to change something". Say what you will about whatever candidates, but Ron Paul seems to be the only fairly-popular candidate I know of that actually plans on making changes, and we need changes badly. Even bad changes at this point would be better than no change.
I remember a case a few years back about a death row inmate arguing he should be allowed to hang, but the courts said he couldn't agree to it because it's cruel and unusual It was dubbed 'cruel and unusual' because he was 400+ lbs, so it was likely his head would pop off. No, I'm not making this up.
a) New version of Nero are compatible with Vista He specifically mentions that this was just one (the most recent) example - it isn't the point. The point is that his dad wasn't even listening to himself as he claimed that 'vista has no problems' and then without so much as batting an eye said 'yeah that doesn't work with Vista'. Nero wasn't the point - the behavior of his dad was the point.
b) That is a problem with his version of Nero, not Vista. OS upgrades tend to break compatability with older software, be it in Ubuntu, OS X or Windows. It doesn't matter whose fault it was, what matters is that X worked before and doesn't in Vista. Yes it's normal, but yes it's still a problem.
This is also one great thing about OSS, it doesn't have to appease to money for the most part. vs.
This is also one great thing about OSS, it doesn't tend to appease to money for the most part. Big difference. I think you responded to the latter, not the former. Yes, money impacts open source, but the difference is that open source projects can always choose not to listen to the money -- or get forked. You can't just fork Microsoft the moment their shareholders get annoying.
The most noticeable difference to me is that it's built on Qt 4, which is much faster, uses less RAM, and has stellar Windows, OSX, and X11 compatibility.
Most Qt4 programs (all that I've written for that matter) don't need a line of code changed to work on OSX or Windows.
I see a lot of comments about how, since this attack requires access to the file both before and after signing, this is a non-issue. In most cases you're right, but get creative.
You have a lengthy verification process for new software - you check it over thoroughly to make sure it can be trusted, and after you certify it as trustworthy you sign it and only need to re-certify if the signature changes next time you download it from me.
I deliver a new version of the software to you (the "good" version), you certify and sign it (using MD5, unfortunately for you). I swap out the "evil" one, and next time you download it -- sure enough, the signature verifies it's fine.
What if you even had a virus scanner that used MD5's on executables for lazy re-scanning when they'd been modified?
I'm not sounding the "holy crap we're doomed" alarms, just pointing out that if you can take two different files and get the same "signature" from them, it's not a very good "signature", now is it?
On my primary machine WinXP crashes pretty regularly and the only app I've installed and use is Flash CS3. When I use Linux on the same machine I can put it under much heavier loads and while it may slow down (understandable with only 512 MB of ram) it doesn't crash. I think the reason the GP's XP machine doesn't crash often is because it (by his/her admission) isn't used often.
One way to fix this: I think Slashdot should give IQ tests to all would-be moderators. It's called "meta-moderation". If others didn't agree with the mods that modded you down, the mods would be undone and your karma would be restored. Just find insightful or informative things to say and your karma will be restored over time. As an added bonus, if the mods that modded you down were wrong, you'll get your karma back when they're meta-modded as incorrect.
Companies spend about double your salary on you if you're an employee (after taxes, benefits, building rent, etc), so they're willing to give you more money as a freelancer. Consequently you can also charge for each and every hour you work - if they want 80 hours a week from you by God they'll pay you for 80 hours.
Top it off with the fact that you can work from home or whatever random cafe you want.
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You're mixing windmills up with fans. Fans use power to strengthen wind. Windmills weaken wind to create power.
You just bit, my friend. The troll most likely was hoping to watch as nerds battle over Linux vs. BSD. Sort of like starting a bar brawl and slipping out the back door.
Remember, kids: Don't feed the trolls!
You have two options:
1. Tell them "Sorry, things didn't pan out." and get your ass fired, watch your company go down in flames
2. Announce to the public just how AWESOME your new steaming pile of a product is and cover its failures in any way you can.
The unintentionally implied claim is that Vista is a failure - I'm not saying that, but I'm saying if it was we certainly couldn't expect honesty about it from Microsoft. Let's not be naive.
Expect every one of Vista's faults to be downplayed or denied until Windows 7 comes out. Then they'll be highlighted.
I'm going to be a pedant. There are varieties of penguin that live in the tropics.
Just stay away from iTunes or Quicktime, unless your diabolical scheme doesn't involve nuclear or chemical weapons. The kitten thing should be fine.
The parent isn't off topic at all. They seem a bit trollish, but they are definitely not off topic. Talking about rigged elections in another country in a "rigged election in country X" article is far from off topic. Mod troll if you really think it's applicable - I don't - but "off topic" is far from accurate.
I'd say that's an accurate correction. That's what happens when I drink and talk politics. I meant to point out that fear of making a mistake (and doing nothing) is a bigger evil at this point than just making a few mistakes, not insinuate weakness in anybody's platform.
Oh, and I'll look up Dennis Kucinich.
... you just remembered you don't have an iPhone?
The link above got blocked by my stuff, but very little research reveals it's something you don't want to click on anywhere, especially not work.
The world of politics is full of foul play. Sometimes it's on the part of the obvious culprit, sometimes its framing. I don't care in this case.
When I looked up Ron Paul's actual stances and policies I thought, for the first time in a long time, "he actually wants to change something". Say what you will about whatever candidates, but Ron Paul seems to be the only fairly-popular candidate I know of that actually plans on making changes, and we need changes badly. Even bad changes at this point would be better than no change.
Not me. I would look like a freak if I had boobs. I have facial hair.
I'm sure soon enough we would have figured out how to disable it for ourselves anyway.
The most noticeable difference to me is that it's built on Qt 4, which is much faster, uses less RAM, and has stellar Windows, OSX, and X11 compatibility.
Most Qt4 programs (all that I've written for that matter) don't need a line of code changed to work on OSX or Windows.
I see a lot of comments about how, since this attack requires access to the file both before and after signing, this is a non-issue. In most cases you're right, but get creative.
You have a lengthy verification process for new software - you check it over thoroughly to make sure it can be trusted, and after you certify it as trustworthy you sign it and only need to re-certify if the signature changes next time you download it from me.
I deliver a new version of the software to you (the "good" version), you certify and sign it (using MD5, unfortunately for you). I swap out the "evil" one, and next time you download it -- sure enough, the signature verifies it's fine.
What if you even had a virus scanner that used MD5's on executables for lazy re-scanning when they'd been modified?
I'm not sounding the "holy crap we're doomed" alarms, just pointing out that if you can take two different files and get the same "signature" from them, it's not a very good "signature", now is it?
My system doesn't know what a "regedit" is. Maybe that's your problem?
On my primary machine WinXP crashes pretty regularly and the only app I've installed and use is Flash CS3. When I use Linux on the same machine I can put it under much heavier loads and while it may slow down (understandable with only 512 MB of ram) it doesn't crash. I think the reason the GP's XP machine doesn't crash often is because it (by his/her admission) isn't used often.
Patience.
Companies spend about double your salary on you if you're an employee (after taxes, benefits, building rent, etc), so they're willing to give you more money as a freelancer. Consequently you can also charge for each and every hour you work - if they want 80 hours a week from you by God they'll pay you for 80 hours.
Top it off with the fact that you can work from home or whatever random cafe you want.
Programming doesn't have to be a sucky job.