Or you can pay a flat one-time fee of $1500. That also gives you the right to buy the next release, when it comes out, for half price. And since, as a dev, you want to keep the ownership of your toolset instead of leaving it in the hands of your boss, not only because you can take it with you when you leave, but also because you can tinker with it on your own time, it's better for you to buy it outright rather than let the company pay it.

After all, the day you're out of a job is not the day you want to fork out extra $$$ just so you can make a demo to show off your talents.

Then maybe you too should read the white paper.

However, that doesn't change the reality that the "many eyes" claim is a myth, like so many other software myths, such as "proprietary software is better because you get what you pay for."

If you had read both the article and the white paper, you would have known that the operators behind the infection purposefully keep the number low to stay under the radar. It has succeeded for at least 5 years (and possibly up to a decade). And who's to say that others won't copy the technique, now that the assembly code for the unpacker is also given in the white paper?

The reality is that the "many eyes" claim of open source is a myth, and gives a false sense of security.

Must be a significant amount, or we wouldn't hear so many complaints ... who knows - I don't get the whole tattoo thing ..

The GM cylinder problem was due to people overloading their keyrings with all sorts of extra junk, like laser pointers, mini flashlights, 2-3 remotes, etc. That comes under abuse.

In terms of percentages, the GM switch was a far lower percentage failure rate - and it can be argued that the switches were abused by people putting a wad of keys and remotes on the key chain, something that wasn't done in the past and still doesn't make sense today. The design worked fine for years until this recent trend of having a ton of keys for everything, several remotes, a laser pointer, a usb fob, a mini flashlight, a few RFID devices, and a swiss army knife all on the ring.

My point was that this was a design process defect. Nowadays, a failure rate of less than 1% in a mass market consumer product isn't rocket science, and it should be even more true to a "premium" product.

A while ago I decided to give in and follow the modern usage of apostrophes, Angry Flower be damned. Sometimes you can't beat the majority, even if they're "wrong" ...

Some animals "get it". I remember walking my dogs one night and taking out the laser pointer to get a skunk's attention. Wasn't fooling him for a second - he figured out where the beam was coming from and charged us. Good thing there was a fence between us. And it wasn't a coincidence, because he stopped when I turned it off - and started again when I turned it back on.

The address given is for the day care and other programs, not the transitional housing / shelter.

"Happiness is a warm puppy." Even Charlie Brown and Lucy knew this. An image of a dog is far from the real thing. Hopefully, virtual "reality" will never replace the real thing - though with the number of people living their lives on facebook and twitter, maybe it will help drop the birthrate well below zero when the only sex most people get is cyber.

I'm sure that "back in the days" trailer trash accounted for more than 1%.