10 years ago how well did Netscape 4.7 do CSS compared to IE 6?
10 years ago Netscape 4.7 had been abandoned several years: Netscape 6, on the other hand wiped the floor with IE 6 on CSS, although admittedly, it sucked in numerous other ways.
What I want to know is what advantage HP gets by sticking with the good ship Itanic instead of just switching their kit over to say Ivy Bridge Xeon chips...
They will use a proportion of their HP-UX and OpenVMS customers during the port, just as they did when they abandoned Alpha and PA-RISC. It's a profitable business for them to take the support money, and do the occasional hardware refresh.
Even if HP did do the ports, third party suppliers aren't going to be rushing to port to HP-UX/OpenVMS on x64. What would Larry say about a port of Oracle do you think?
Though I wouldn't be keen on the council monitoring it all I would certainly keep CCTV in my cab if I were a taxi driver as a deterrent.
I'm not sure where you got the idea the council was monitoring it all; that seems very unlikely to me. Also, the main part of the ICO ruling was that *audio* recording was a disproportionate breach of privacy.
If the government gives them out "free", it means that the taxpayers pay for them.
Why not force the 4G providers, who are causing the interference, to foot the bill . . . ?
£180 million is top-sliced from the 4G auction; the government will make up the rest, if any. They probably bring in more money for the taxpayer that way, than if the bandwidth came with an unknown liability,.
Blizzard has banned people in WoW for using "exploits" like buying NPC vendor items and reselling them back to the same NPC for a higher price.
I've not played WoW, and don't know exactly what their T&C's say, but that would be a clear exploit in most of the game I do. Harsh to hit someone with a ban for, perhaps.
Mind-blowingly bad. Billions wasted. It's always been this way no matter who has been in government.
And if the best story they Computerworld can come up with is, 'software ships in May, when they promised April', then things are going a lot better than usual.
Seems foolish in hindsight for PLC makers to adopt any General Purpose OS for dedicated, safety-critical, hard-realtime applications.
SCADA isn't hard realtime, almost by definition. It's the bit that provides the human view of what all the individual PLCs are doing (fault monitoring, trends, and slow control). The flexibility of a general purpose OS is well suited for that part.
These minimum sentences should not exist. It's bad enough that peoples lives can easily be ruined by hacking in general but it's even worse if they lose 2 years of their life.
Bad article, worse summary. The EU doesn't do laws, it does directives which are sort of meta-laws; the individual States actually pass the laws. In this case, the EU is proposing that each member state should have a law making hacking punishable by two or more years in prison. That does not imply a minimum sentence in any form.
My understanding is that what he did was legal in his own country. It was only illegal in the US. Therefore, he gets extradited to a foreign country.
You understand incorrectly. The extradition requires dual criminality: by allowing the extradition the judge is implicitly saying that is illegal in the UK. However, other people have been acquitted in the UK for similar actions, so it's a bit of a gray area.
It was so one-sided there seemed to be no point actually reading it through; I wouldn't learn whether the book was worth reading or not. All I took away was "this book is popular with people with limited critical thinking skills", which is hardly the best advertizement.
On the BBC website (the link posted in the summary), and it was quite a prominent story - however, I went back to find it this morning and it's nowhere to be found, you have to use a direct link to get to it. Interesting...
Well, yesterday's local news is less prominent today, not a big surprise. And it's fairly straightforward to navigate to by drilling down through the regional pages: News/England/Humberside.
Yes, it's not terribly surprising that you aren't seriously impaired driving when at the legal limit for alcohol. It just means that the limit is set at a reasonable value.
Like many, I took the Internet for granted as a geek-only thing and was surprised when it caught on with the general public in the mid-90's. One explanation I've heard for its sudden adoption...
By the mid-90's, the Internet had been (very roughly) doubling in the number of nodes every year or two for the previous 20 years. If you plotted the growth on a log scale, I think it would be hard to spot a sudden take off.
There's a lot of "feeding them fish" instead of "teaching them to fish" going on that's creating codependence, not self-reliance.
Whilst I largely agree with you, it's an unfortunate choice of metaphor, since overfishing by foreign trawlers is often cited as one of the things that has made Somalia less self-reliant.
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And how much longer is 11.4 supported? Quick google of wiki suggests that ends next month...
2 later releases + 2 months -> 5th November 2012.
Everyone would just whine that Valve were wasting their time on remakes, instead of getting on with HL 3.
I'm thinking the Canadian remake of Goldfinger myself, with Conrad Black as Maple Syrupfinger.
10 years ago how well did Netscape 4.7 do CSS compared to IE 6?
10 years ago Netscape 4.7 had been abandoned several years: Netscape 6, on the other hand wiped the floor with IE 6 on CSS, although admittedly, it sucked in numerous other ways.
What I want to know is what advantage HP gets by sticking with the good ship Itanic instead of just switching their kit over to say Ivy Bridge Xeon chips...
They will use a proportion of their HP-UX and OpenVMS customers during the port, just as they did when they abandoned Alpha and PA-RISC. It's a profitable business for them to take the support money, and do the occasional hardware refresh.
Even if HP did do the ports, third party suppliers aren't going to be rushing to port to HP-UX/OpenVMS on x64. What would Larry say about a port of Oracle do you think?
Though I wouldn't be keen on the council monitoring it all I would certainly keep CCTV in my cab if I were a taxi driver as a deterrent.
I'm not sure where you got the idea the council was monitoring it all; that seems very unlikely to me. Also, the main part of the ICO ruling was that *audio* recording was a disproportionate breach of privacy.
So, "typographically rich" is the new buzzword, yes?
Give us $1 million or WE WILL USE BLOCK CAPS EVERYWHERE.
A modest proposal?
If the reference passed you by, Google it.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/11/0435231/mit-fusion-researchers-answer-your-questions
Question 21.
If the government gives them out "free", it means that the taxpayers pay for them.
Why not force the 4G providers, who are causing the interference, to foot the bill . . . ?
£180 million is top-sliced from the 4G auction; the government will make up the rest, if any. They probably bring in more money for the taxpayer that way, than if the bandwidth came with an unknown liability,.
Blizzard has banned people in WoW for using "exploits" like buying NPC vendor items and reselling them back to the same NPC for a higher price.
I've not played WoW, and don't know exactly what their T&C's say, but that would be a clear exploit in most of the game I do. Harsh to hit someone with a ban for, perhaps.
"xhost +"
Sorted.
Except that current distros tend to have -nolisten tcp by default.
Mind-blowingly bad. Billions wasted. It's always been this way no matter who has been in government.
And if the best story they Computerworld can come up with is, 'software ships in May, when they promised April', then things are going a lot better than usual.
In the default engine, not by going to someone else and getting InnoDB.
InnoDB is the default engine.
Seems foolish in hindsight for PLC makers to adopt any General Purpose OS for dedicated, safety-critical, hard-realtime applications.
SCADA isn't hard realtime, almost by definition. It's the bit that provides the human view of what all the individual PLCs are doing (fault monitoring, trends, and slow control). The flexibility of a general purpose OS is well suited for that part.
These minimum sentences should not exist. It's bad enough that peoples lives can easily be ruined by hacking in general but it's even worse if they lose 2 years of their life.
Bad article, worse summary. The EU doesn't do laws, it does directives which are sort of meta-laws; the individual States actually pass the laws. In this case, the EU is proposing that each member state should have a law making hacking punishable by two or more years in prison. That does not imply a minimum sentence in any form.
My understanding is that what he did was legal in his own country. It was only illegal in the US. Therefore, he gets extradited to a foreign country.
You understand incorrectly. The extradition requires dual criminality: by allowing the extradition the judge is implicitly saying that is illegal in the UK. However, other people have been acquitted in the UK for similar actions, so it's a bit of a gray area.
It was so one-sided there seemed to be no point actually reading it through; I wouldn't learn whether the book was worth reading or not. All I took away was "this book is popular with people with limited critical thinking skills", which is hardly the best advertizement.
On the BBC website (the link posted in the summary), and it was quite a prominent story - however, I went back to find it this morning and it's nowhere to be found, you have to use a direct link to get to it. Interesting...
Well, yesterday's local news is less prominent today, not a big surprise. And it's fairly straightforward to navigate to by drilling down through the regional pages: News/England/Humberside.
WAIT! It's a story from Fox News.
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17270822
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/06/cyber-arrests-idUSL2E8E62WV20120306
Yes, it's not terribly surprising that you aren't seriously impaired driving when at the legal limit for alcohol. It just means that the limit is set at a reasonable value.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Stanley+Sacks+%2B+Christopher+Drew
Like many, I took the Internet for granted as a geek-only thing and was surprised when it caught on with the general public in the mid-90's. One explanation I've heard for its sudden adoption...
By the mid-90's, the Internet had been (very roughly) doubling in the number of nodes every year or two for the previous 20 years. If you plotted the growth on a log scale, I think it would be hard to spot a sudden take off.
There's a lot of "feeding them fish" instead of "teaching them to fish" going on that's creating codependence, not self-reliance.
Whilst I largely agree with you, it's an unfortunate choice of metaphor, since overfishing by foreign trawlers is often cited as one of the things that has made Somalia less self-reliant.
Not banned, but covered up:
http://censorshipinamerica.com/2010/10/25/pablo-picassos-guernica-censored-at-u-n/