Should it be an operating system feature to force all user applications to run in a sandbox by default?
Yes, it is called user privilege separation and available in current modern and older sensible systems (i.e. users).
Sample session for future system featured with UAC and every process in its own sahara:
% cp oldfile newfile
> Do you wish user (i.e. YOU) to execute 'cp' (Y/N)? Y
> Do you wish cp to read oldfile (Y/N)? Y
> Do you wish cp to write newfile (Y/N)? Y
> captcha: confirm this is not a script: "#$#!?!"? #$#!?!
- cp: not enough disk space
This completely avoids the non-issue that TFA is grumbling about, even for innumerate consumers, since the numbers represent fuel used in a trip of 100km.
I don't agree. The mpg method is far more practical on a day to day basis (because I want to know how much I can drive when fueling), where as gpm method only counts at purchase.
When buying, it's a more "complicated" calculation, but when fueling the car or looking at the meter, you simply multiply the amount of fuel times mpg.
Besides that, the study (or TFA) considers only fuel consumption as a green standard. There are several other factors to consider such as production, durability etc.
..with an insanely complex load of crap (but it's "graphical" so it must be better).
Not only graphical, but they finally got int 18h working!
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People walk around scratching head wondering what the fuck just happened while trying to explore their own meaning in a story which never had any meaning from the beginning
All personal meaning is strictly coincidental as Abrams never delivered anything.
Although there might be advantages of having other data encoded in a consistent fashion for people writing debug tools, when it comes to general software, as long as the CODEC software provides a standard set of accessor functions that return the data in a consistent way across all CODECs,
Not gonna happen.
Same problem since SGI's times, same shoddy solution. Generic access work badly for audio, video codecs.
However, from a business standpoint Java was basically a disaster, because it required quite a lot of support from Sun while at the same time not giving them something they could sell. To become a standard, they had to give away the basic tools and describe the standard so that other people could make JVMs.
Pardon?
The compiler market dumped about 10 yrs ago. I remember Java in its first days (1996/97( being regarded as the next best thing -- compilers everywhere (Symantec Café that seemed to produce faster code on a P100 than anything nowadays), open-source in its infancy, Universities adopting java, businesses adopting java, appliances adopting java, embedded JVM hardware, everything JVM (check your latest smartcard).
Applets, etc, java triggered a revolution in the development of the web and computing as it is today -- other than Java, each innovative technology developed at Sun (and there are pretty much) could sustain a healthy company.
The business and management departments wasted this company, lack of vision, lack of leadership, unable to make a gold-laying goose profitable; that's Sun the last 10 years.
To Gosling et al., all the best and good luck!
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The problem is that the kilo, mega, giga etc. are base-10 orders of magnitude that were used incorrectly for base-2 numbers in computers. It should never have been 1 kilobyte means 1024 bytes. This is just the move to fix a long standing problem.
By coincidence you reveal the true flaw in human perception.
Decipedals, decicycles, decinoculars, decisexual?
Surely you jest.
Join the petition for accepting the number 2 as a prime now!
If the 10-base system is allowed to proceed, coreutils will be shifted to bloatware!
I'm not an expert and not sure if I'm missing something obvious here but what is confusing me is the part about "swap everything out except the scanner". Wouldn't you then just be moving the malware too?
What I find interesting is that this opens up at least the possibility of that old sci-fi standby (really old - I haven't seen a reference to it in modern sci-fi) of polywater.
Polywater is so last century... cat food is the future!
kdawson obviously skimmed the article for a few seconds and attributed the flaw to Math.random and Microsoft.
Of course, hindsight is always twenty-twenty. We now know a shuffling algorithm should have been used and Microsoft could have evaded prosecution by including a random^H^H^H^H^H^Hshuffled list of browsers for shuffling the list of browsers instead of IE only to run the browser selection process.
I don't know. However, if I had to guess I would say no. If you look at the state of 3d video drivers, and gimp, the closed source version is typically better. Windows drivers are almost better for video cards.
People who write windows drivers are usually given specs for the hardware.
Given the additional difficulty of reverse engineering, it's a miracle open source drivers work at all.
Working drivers for Creative cards is a miracle.
Some drivers I'm very fond of like the bt848 which I use for years now without any problems.
Anyway, it's harder nowadays to upgrade your proprietary system and find drivers than upgrading your linux kernel.
Like I said, I work in the field. To do a very small -- SMALL -- experiment with only half a dozen volunteers who will have a temporary brain implant for two weeks, the non-recoverable costs are about $500,000. That's just for the hospital stays, the costs of the operating room, and paying support staff and the like, and assumes that the surgeon's time is donated, along with all of the important hardware.
That's a no-brainer: with a brain implant, everyone is a volunteer.
Were you authorised to show these people CutePDF? Who gave you permission to to install CutePDF on their machines? Did you fully evaluate CutePDF to certify that it is the Best of Breed? Are their security implications to using CutePDF? Who is now responible for maintaining CutePDF? Who is going to train users on its use? Has it been fully documented? Are change control and the standard image build team aware of this?
Your intentions are clearly well meant. But in the case I'd be responsible for IT infrastructure, licenses, hardware, I'd like you to at least drop me a line so we can talk about it before acting as a cowboy and installing it. It's my ass on the line, I don't like people installing IncrediMail etc. because it's just too darn handy and I don't want to treat colleagues as hostile and lock down their machines.
That's way faster to read than anything on a bleed-your-yeys white background.
The only downside is that the rest of the apps have white background, which strains the eyes even more when switching between a dark workspace (your editor) and other windows (like a webbrowser).
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I'll bite. Any competent programmer who thinks C++ is peanuts never tried to implement a parser for C++.
I remember one commenter on this site referring to C++ as the AK47 of languages.
That said, I only use (a subset of) c++ when exection speed and OO is favored over extensibility, development time and stability.
Yes, it is called user privilege separation and available in current modern and older sensible systems (i.e. users).
Sample session for future system featured with UAC and every process in its own sahara:
mmz. wouldn't picasa be the most pleasant?
Pretty good I'd say, the boob login more than compensates the bad pay of today's sys admins.
I don't agree. The mpg method is far more practical on a day to day basis (because I want to know how much I can drive when fueling), where as gpm method only counts at purchase. When buying, it's a more "complicated" calculation, but when fueling the car or looking at the meter, you simply multiply the amount of fuel times mpg.
Besides that, the study (or TFA) considers only fuel consumption as a green standard. There are several other factors to consider such as production, durability etc.
Not only graphical, but they finally got int 18h working!
Abrams delivered .. everyone feels lost, don't they?
Not gonna happen.
Same problem since SGI's times, same shoddy solution. Generic access work badly for audio, video codecs.
Perhaps it's too painful.
Word on the street is they changed the office machines to roasted grain beverage.
Pardon?
The compiler market dumped about 10 yrs ago. I remember Java in its first days (1996/97( being regarded as the next best thing -- compilers everywhere (Symantec Café that seemed to produce faster code on a P100 than anything nowadays), open-source in its infancy, Universities adopting java, businesses adopting java, appliances adopting java, embedded JVM hardware, everything JVM (check your latest smartcard).
Applets, etc, java triggered a revolution in the development of the web and computing as it is today -- other than Java, each innovative technology developed at Sun (and there are pretty much) could sustain a healthy company.
The business and management departments wasted this company, lack of vision, lack of leadership, unable to make a gold-laying goose profitable; that's Sun the last 10 years.
To Gosling et al., all the best and good luck!
Dude, dont dig the fag lingo, but the smoking sounds awesome!!!
By coincidence you reveal the true flaw in human perception.
Decipedals, decicycles, decinoculars, decisexual?
Surely you jest.
Join the petition for accepting the number 2 as a prime now!
If the 10-base system is allowed to proceed, coreutils will be shifted to bloatware!
No. Symantec is the scanner.
TeX version 4 has problems with rendering circles, stick with the current version for ever.
Polywater is so last century ... cat food is the future!
kdawson obviously skimmed the article for a few seconds and attributed the flaw to Math.random and Microsoft.
Of course, hindsight is always twenty-twenty. We now know a shuffling algorithm should have been used and Microsoft could have evaded prosecution by including a random^H^H^H^H^H^Hshuffled list of browsers for shuffling the list of browsers instead of IE only to run the browser selection process.
Hm-m-m-m, let's see ...
You disregarded the EULA and neglected the 'Free as in beer' statement.
Working drivers for Creative cards is a miracle.
Some drivers I'm very fond of like the bt848 which I use for years now without any problems. Anyway, it's harder nowadays to upgrade your proprietary system and find drivers than upgrading your linux kernel.
How do you prove the clock is more accurate than the reference clock?
That's a no-brainer: with a brain implant, everyone is a volunteer.
Yes. However, for these purposes I recommend the OpenPC Titillation Edition(tm) with TitLocker to ensure maximum privacy.
Your intentions are clearly well meant. But in the case I'd be responsible for IT infrastructure, licenses, hardware, I'd like you to at least drop me a line so we can talk about it before acting as a cowboy and installing it. It's my ass on the line, I don't like people installing IncrediMail etc. because it's just too darn handy and I don't want to treat colleagues as hostile and lock down their machines.
It was bundled with Leisure Suit Larry 4.
The only downside is that the rest of the apps have white background, which strains the eyes even more when switching between a dark workspace (your editor) and other windows (like a webbrowser).