Wouldn't it be better if they updated the *original* story with the correction, instead of posting a new one?
Anybody linking to this story on Slashdot is still linking to an uncorrected version. It's not enough to correct the article; you have to correct the article at the same URL.
That organization is used by, believe it or not, Microsoft. The reason it's not necessarily ideal is because the sections you create don't have much incentive to work together. On the contrary, Microsoft groups are always bickering and fighting each other.
It could be done as long as you ensure your sections are far divided from each other-- the Xbox group would be a good example at Microsoft. They have virtually nothing to do with the rest of the company, and they're one of the healthiest, most innovative, and most popular of Microsoft's products.
Basically, MS isn't providing enough value to justify charging for it.
Then don't pay for it. That doesn't make it "evil."
I mean, we're comparing this to a company that *removed* an advertised feature from the console. Xbox 360 *added* the Netflix feature. (And was by a full year the first console to have it.) Completely apples and oranges.
Ok, so the university lawyer says "request denied, here's the established definition and a list of cases defining it" and case over, yes? And there's no intimidation.
I'd say startups don't use.NET and Windows in general, because of licensing. Simple. They don't have to cash to do it.
You can use the Express versions of Visual Studio-- there are no restrictions on what you can do with the compiled program.
Frankly, the cost of payroll is going to outweigh *any* licensing cost by 100:1. So don't sweat it-- if the license lets you get the app out one month faster, it'll pay for itself 5 times over in payroll costs.
Unless your startup isn't paying its employees, but that's kind of illegal.
Not that you care, but yes. Yes Bing is different.
But even if they weren't, it doesn't change the fact that it's seedy as hell, and Google only gets away with it because very few people realize what they're doing. (Or, alternatively, they realize that Google does it, but don't realize how many of those searches occur.)
That was a BSOD. Newer versions of windows just reboot when they hit them.
Kind of true, but what he experienced wasn't a BSOD. Vista and Windows 7 can (most of the time) restart video drivers without affecting the stability of the rest of the system.
In a real BSOD, your screen goes blank and then a few seconds later you see the Windows boot screen, and a fresh log-on screen. When the video driver reboots, the screen goes blank, sometimes flickers the desktop image once or twice, then shows the desktop image normally again with a notification on the taskbar saying your video driver was restarted.
So you're technically correct, Mr. Anonymous Coward, but also being very misleading. If you don't know how Vista and Windows 7 handle video driver crashes, maybe you should read up on it before commenting here. I'm guessing by "newer windows" what you actually mean is "XP."
It seems Google doesn't want you searching your bookmarks at all, especially not from your browser locally. It seems like it wants to make you use their online services for something this basic.
Der. They sell search placements. It's in their best interest for users to search for a site, even if they already have the site bookmarked or already know the domain name.
And believe me, they don't lower their rates for the users who type "yourcompanyname.com" into the search box, you pay just as much in fees. It's "do no evil" Google's biggest scam running... and inflates search rates something like 30-40%.
This is why say Google, Microsoft or even Amazon quickly eliminate candidates that can't answer basic theoretical questions on algorithms (complexity analysis), data structures, finite state machines and applications (say regular expressions etc) and elements of programming languages.
I can't speak for Google or Amazon, but for Microsoft you're... well I won't say you're wrong, since Microsoft has so many groups that operate pretty much independently, but... you're not telling the whole story.
What you really want is the developers who know methodology, the ones who have used debuggers and source control (don't laugh-- there are developers who went through 4 years of college and never touched a debugger), the ones who understand the value of code reviews, the ones who understand the value of usability have can set up a basic "hallway usability" test without help, the ones who are good at working on a team, who are good at learning new tools, and (especially at Microsoft) the ones who are good at negotiating a political landscape.
If I had the choice between a developer with the skillset in the last paragraph, and a developer who mastered regular expressions-- well, guess which one I'd hire. (Of course I'm assuming basic overall competence, here.)
For every Google employee, there are thousands of CS graduates that could not get the job, let alone people without degrees.
IMO, Google focuses too much on this, and not enough on the skills I laid out above. For example, they spent God-knows how many man-hours creating Buzz, but they neglected to hire anybody to explain what it was or why you'd want to use it. They spent years building Wave, but neglected to hire anybody to make it usable. They got completely blindsided by Bing not-sucking, and have spent the last year trying to rip it off in subtle ways that don't look like ripping it off. (It's not working.)
Yes, Google needs people with the hard-core CS skills to create and maintain their data-chugging back-ends, but on the front-end they're really, really weak. And my personal opinion is that it's exactly due to misguided hiring policies.
In contrast, school in Japan (to use one example) is highly competitive - students know that if they don't do well in high school they aren't going to get into their college of choice (which means a high paying job), and may not even get into a college at all are are relegated to trade school. This pressure starts early in their school life - by 7th or 8th grade a student better be on a college track or he/she is not going to make it. The school hours are long, with Saturday schooldays not being unheard of. Parents in turn push their children to do well in school.
Microsoft is probably just providing technical assistants to the Feds doing the raid, and the article and Slashdot summary are very poorly-written. Would be my guess.
The only difference is that most Linux distros will ask you to enter your password and click OK, whilst Windows 7 will display a big yellow-topped box and just ask you if you're sure.
Only if you're already running as Admin.
If you're really concerned about security, you should be running a normal User account, and then UAC will ask for a password to perform administrative tasks.
I believe that setup is identical in every OS-- I haven't tried every Linux, but Windows Vista/7 and OS X certainly behave the same. Not fair to give Windows 7 flak for doing the same thing everybody else is doing.
Yeah, partly the user and partly the malware author, but also quite a bit the OS insecurity too.
But... it's not "partly" the user, it's like 80% the user. And "OS insecurity" is more often insecurity in Adobe or JavaVM or QuickTime than it is in Windows itself. (Although there is some Windows in there, admittedly.)
So, I agree with the OP here. If it was a fair world, every software vendor on Windows whose software was full of security holes should be helping out with this... Adobe is responsible for a lot more attacks than Microsoft has been in the last decade. It's been a long while since Microsoft was the main cause of the problem.
Well, ok, but what if they don't have thousands? How long do you think it takes to build a robot capable of helping at the plant? How many do you think they have stockpiled around just doing nothing?
Ahem. Alien Swarm is free because it's not very good. It's probably more valuable as a "come-on" to get people to download Steam than it is as a retail game.
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How about we get a story when something is happening! I'm sick of things that "may be" happening...
Wouldn't it be better if they updated the *original* story with the correction, instead of posting a new one?
Anybody linking to this story on Slashdot is still linking to an uncorrected version. It's not enough to correct the article; you have to correct the article at the same URL.
That organization is used by, believe it or not, Microsoft. The reason it's not necessarily ideal is because the sections you create don't have much incentive to work together. On the contrary, Microsoft groups are always bickering and fighting each other.
It could be done as long as you ensure your sections are far divided from each other-- the Xbox group would be a good example at Microsoft. They have virtually nothing to do with the rest of the company, and they're one of the healthiest, most innovative, and most popular of Microsoft's products.
...he competed with, and beat the largest software company at its own game.
Either you're saying the "largest software company" is Yahoo/Altavista, or you're saying that search and web advertising is Microsoft's "own game".
Either way, DOES NOT COMPUTE.
And you never used Netflix to watch a Sony picture? I'm still not buying it.
Even Sony Pictures Entertainment? Including their TV shows and networks?
That's quite a trick, frankly.
Basically, MS isn't providing enough value to justify charging for it.
Then don't pay for it. That doesn't make it "evil."
I mean, we're comparing this to a company that *removed* an advertised feature from the console. Xbox 360 *added* the Netflix feature. (And was by a full year the first console to have it.) Completely apples and oranges.
If you want a cheap Netflix player, buy a Roku.
Ok, so the university lawyer says "request denied, here's the established definition and a list of cases defining it" and case over, yes? And there's no intimidation.
I'd say startups don't use .NET and Windows in general, because of licensing. Simple. They don't have to cash to do it.
You can use the Express versions of Visual Studio-- there are no restrictions on what you can do with the compiled program.
Frankly, the cost of payroll is going to outweigh *any* licensing cost by 100:1. So don't sweat it-- if the license lets you get the app out one month faster, it'll pay for itself 5 times over in payroll costs.
Unless your startup isn't paying its employees, but that's kind of illegal.
They also provide cloud services. Imagine how many IP addresses Amazon needs to keep EC2 going.
Not that you care, but yes. Yes Bing is different.
But even if they weren't, it doesn't change the fact that it's seedy as hell, and Google only gets away with it because very few people realize what they're doing. (Or, alternatively, they realize that Google does it, but don't realize how many of those searches occur.)
That was a BSOD. Newer versions of windows just reboot when they hit them.
Kind of true, but what he experienced wasn't a BSOD. Vista and Windows 7 can (most of the time) restart video drivers without affecting the stability of the rest of the system.
In a real BSOD, your screen goes blank and then a few seconds later you see the Windows boot screen, and a fresh log-on screen. When the video driver reboots, the screen goes blank, sometimes flickers the desktop image once or twice, then shows the desktop image normally again with a notification on the taskbar saying your video driver was restarted.
So you're technically correct, Mr. Anonymous Coward, but also being very misleading. If you don't know how Vista and Windows 7 handle video driver crashes, maybe you should read up on it before commenting here. I'm guessing by "newer windows" what you actually mean is "XP."
It seems Google doesn't want you searching your bookmarks at all, especially not from your browser locally. It seems like it wants to make you use their online services for something this basic.
Der. They sell search placements. It's in their best interest for users to search for a site, even if they already have the site bookmarked or already know the domain name.
And believe me, they don't lower their rates for the users who type "yourcompanyname.com" into the search box, you pay just as much in fees. It's "do no evil" Google's biggest scam running... and inflates search rates something like 30-40%.
Forget that, tell us more about the sirloin steak!
This is why say Google, Microsoft or even Amazon quickly eliminate candidates that can't answer basic theoretical questions on algorithms (complexity analysis), data structures, finite state machines and applications (say regular expressions etc) and elements of programming languages.
I can't speak for Google or Amazon, but for Microsoft you're ... well I won't say you're wrong, since Microsoft has so many groups that operate pretty much independently, but... you're not telling the whole story.
What you really want is the developers who know methodology, the ones who have used debuggers and source control (don't laugh-- there are developers who went through 4 years of college and never touched a debugger), the ones who understand the value of code reviews, the ones who understand the value of usability have can set up a basic "hallway usability" test without help, the ones who are good at working on a team, who are good at learning new tools, and (especially at Microsoft) the ones who are good at negotiating a political landscape.
If I had the choice between a developer with the skillset in the last paragraph, and a developer who mastered regular expressions-- well, guess which one I'd hire. (Of course I'm assuming basic overall competence, here.)
For every Google employee, there are thousands of CS graduates that could not get the job, let alone people without degrees.
IMO, Google focuses too much on this, and not enough on the skills I laid out above. For example, they spent God-knows how many man-hours creating Buzz, but they neglected to hire anybody to explain what it was or why you'd want to use it. They spent years building Wave, but neglected to hire anybody to make it usable. They got completely blindsided by Bing not-sucking, and have spent the last year trying to rip it off in subtle ways that don't look like ripping it off. (It's not working.)
Yes, Google needs people with the hard-core CS skills to create and maintain their data-chugging back-ends, but on the front-end they're really, really weak. And my personal opinion is that it's exactly due to misguided hiring policies.
In contrast, school in Japan (to use one example) is highly competitive - students know that if they don't do well in high school they aren't going to get into their college of choice (which means a high paying job), and may not even get into a college at all are are relegated to trade school. This pressure starts early in their school life - by 7th or 8th grade a student better be on a college track or he/she is not going to make it. The school hours are long, with Saturday schooldays not being unheard of. Parents in turn push their children to do well in school.
And then they go out into a forest and hang themselves.
You can tell something's aiming for maximum readability when its description uses the word "cogent."
Note to Slashdot pedants: that's a joke. Please do not define "cogent" in the response because I do not give a crap.
Microsoft is probably just providing technical assistants to the Feds doing the raid, and the article and Slashdot summary are very poorly-written. Would be my guess.
The only difference is that most Linux distros will ask you to enter your password and click OK, whilst Windows 7 will display a big yellow-topped box and just ask you if you're sure.
Only if you're already running as Admin.
If you're really concerned about security, you should be running a normal User account, and then UAC will ask for a password to perform administrative tasks.
I believe that setup is identical in every OS-- I haven't tried every Linux, but Windows Vista/7 and OS X certainly behave the same. Not fair to give Windows 7 flak for doing the same thing everybody else is doing.
Yeah, partly the user and partly the malware author, but also quite a bit the OS insecurity too.
But... it's not "partly" the user, it's like 80% the user. And "OS insecurity" is more often insecurity in Adobe or JavaVM or QuickTime than it is in Windows itself. (Although there is some Windows in there, admittedly.)
So, I agree with the OP here. If it was a fair world, every software vendor on Windows whose software was full of security holes should be helping out with this... Adobe is responsible for a lot more attacks than Microsoft has been in the last decade. It's been a long while since Microsoft was the main cause of the problem.
Well, ok, but what if they don't have thousands? How long do you think it takes to build a robot capable of helping at the plant? How many do you think they have stockpiled around just doing nothing?
Ahem. Alien Swarm is free because it's not very good. It's probably more valuable as a "come-on" to get people to download Steam than it is as a retail game.
If only quality were the determining factor. It's not and rarely ever is.
Maybe not, but it would be nice if the open source community actually produced better software anyway.
Not the point. The point is that they should, and Stallman is trying to make that happen.
I'll bite. Why should I care? Give me the elevator pitch. Try not to use any lies or paranoid delusions.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.