Queue the open source apologists who will downplay this and praise the quick response (that may not have happened yet) of open source teams to fix this vulnerability. How are you going to patch embedded devices that have hardware vulnerabilities?
I'm not flaming FLAC, but let's try to have a discussion that isn't a skewed, auto-defense of FLAC just because it's open source.
Java is slow, has 10^6 different versions, is very slow, is inferior to C++, is extremely slow, takes up too much memory, is abominably slow, is a programming language that no real programmer uses any more, and in general is teh sux0rz.
There, just proved your point.
The revealing backstory about the Googleplex's custom-made toilet paper. The technical term is actual 'bathroom tissue', and it's more complicated to design than you'd think. For the first time, Sergey Brin discusses the choices of materials and the unparalleled softness, and how often he gets thanked by Google employees after they wipe their asses.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Leopard fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a fresh install of Leopard (on a iMac w/ 2 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another network folder. 20 minutes. And it lost my files after my cat decided to pee on my Airport base station. At home, on my ancient Alienware Quad-Core running Vista, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this machine, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. And not lose my data. In addition, during this file transfer, Finder will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even iTunes is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various file transfers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Leopard that has run faster than its Longhorn counterpart, despite the Leopards's faster leg architecture. My Vista box with 8 gigs of ram copies files without data loss better than this 4000 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Leopard is a superior operating system. Leopard lovers, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Leopard over other faster, cheaper, not-going-to-lose-my-files-during-a-transfer systems.
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Queue the open source apologists who will downplay this and praise the quick response (that may not have happened yet) of open source teams to fix this vulnerability. How are you going to patch embedded devices that have hardware vulnerabilities?
I'm not flaming FLAC, but let's try to have a discussion that isn't a skewed, auto-defense of FLAC just because it's open source.
Java is slow, has 10^6 different versions, is very slow, is inferior to C++, is extremely slow, takes up too much memory, is abominably slow, is a programming language that no real programmer uses any more, and in general is teh sux0rz. There, just proved your point.
The revealing backstory about the Googleplex's custom-made toilet paper. The technical term is actual 'bathroom tissue', and it's more complicated to design than you'd think. For the first time, Sergey Brin discusses the choices of materials and the unparalleled softness, and how often he gets thanked by Google employees after they wipe their asses.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Leopard fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a fresh install of Leopard (on a iMac w/ 2 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another network folder. 20 minutes. And it lost my files after my cat decided to pee on my Airport base station. At home, on my ancient Alienware Quad-Core running Vista, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this machine, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. And not lose my data. In addition, during this file transfer, Finder will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even iTunes is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various file transfers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Leopard that has run faster than its Longhorn counterpart, despite the Leopards's faster leg architecture. My Vista box with 8 gigs of ram copies files without data loss better than this 4000 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Leopard is a superior operating system. Leopard lovers, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Leopard over other faster, cheaper, not-going-to-lose-my-files-during-a-transfer systems.
Maybe they ought to look into a cyclogyro server cooling device in order to outmaneuver a slashdotting?