You wonder why is it that letter-writers do not quote large portions of whatever it is they are replying to, but I would argue that they do. However, the norm for doing this, is to paraphrase and include whatever pertinent quotes are required to address whatever your concern is with the post. Furthermore, the USENET quoting method is highly functional, and especially for unthreaded conversations between multiple readers and writers, it helps to remember who said what.
Although all of this is pretty far away from the topic at hand.
Wait a minute. You mean to tell us that you went out to dinner with folks from Canada Revenue Agency (tax collectors) and THEY paid? Something's fishy...
They eradicate the cancer, so the person can live. How is that not a cure? Sure, there is a high rate of relapse, but there is a big difference between a cure and an innoculation.
Perlmutter: Will we see eight cores in the client in the next two years? If someone chooses to do that, engineering-wise that is possible. But I doubt this is something the market needs.
In the next two years, we likely won't see eight cores, but he didn't claim anything past that. Reading comprehension is not a strong point of slashdot editors, it appears.
You don't have to actually subscribe to view what they have, and virtually everyone has a throw-away e-mail account or ten. As for 51,000 titles, Blockbuster.com is only advertising 55,000 titles. All the title counts are bogus, either way, because you never know how they were calculated. Some places split up 7-disc TV series seasons into 7 separate "titles", others don't.
IMHO, the whole Xen approach is not scalable - muck around with the base OS so badly that drivers require rewrite.
Given the fact that Xen is going to be a subarch in the base Linux kernel sooner or later, it's pretty inevitable that it will become stable.
VMWare is lot better as far as speed and stability goes.
Speed? In terms of ease of configuration and installation, VMWare wins quite easily. However, properly configured, Xen is much faster because it doesn't need to emulate the difficult i386 instructions VMWare/VPC/etc do. Improperly configured, you can ruin the performance of anything.
Because the pundits are getting older, and are looking back with their rose coloured glasses, distorting history. There were plenty of derrivative games dating back to the Atari and NES, but no one remembers anything but the classics. Here's one list of 20 really rotten NES games, and these are basically some of the worst of the worst. There were plenty of others that were merely bad.
I see you've never worked in support, have you? The sysadmins WILL be held responsible for all data on the network, even if they are not given access to it. Therefore, it's in the syadmin's best interest to make sure that they can acquire access to it in any type of emergency. Besides, with full access to all the workstations, do you think that bypassing encryption on files that are still accessable is terribly difficult? There are a lot of keyloggers out there, and I'm sure one of them would be able to sniff the password as it was entered. If you're unable to trust your system administrators, you've got bigger problems.
With that said, who is he to 'determine' the 'timeline' for the fix? What if the bug or exploit affects a vast amount of code and third party applications?
And who is Microsoft to 'determine' when he is or is not allowed to notify the world of this? What if the author has knowledge that people are falling victim to this vulnerability?
So if MS doesn't meet his timeline, then the consumers and industry gets screwed and put at risk.
Customers and industry are already at risk from the vulnerabilities themselves, and these vulnerabilities may already be in use by criminals. Indeed the summary suggests that this is the case.
I'm not saying he's right and Microsoft is wrong, but this isn't a simple issue. A combination of factors have left some sour tastes in people's mouths regarding Microsoft's current security practices. Microsoft's security advisories have become very terse/boilerplate with little or no details about what the vulnerability actually is. Their demand that people report the vulnerabilities in very specific ways (e.g. no proof of concept exploits, etc) in order to receive acknowledgement in the advisory is another. Add to this the fact it often takes months and months to get a patch to a reported vulnerability means that people are again thinking that Microsoft doesn't care about security other than as a bulletpoint on their sales literature.
How many Microsofts, Googles and Amazons do you think Alaska has? On the other hand, how many telecom workers do you think they have? There is more than one way to buy a politician, and employment for his constituents is one of them. Being a friend to local industry is often more important than receiving campaign contributions from outside sources.
It got renamed to something that only a marketroid could love. It's now the "Ultra-mobile PC", or UMPC for those who love acronyms. "Origami" would've been a bad brand name, but "Ultra-mobile PC" is even worse. If you have $1,100 burning a hole in your pocket, you can become the (proud?) owner of one.
So, for $1,100 you can have a slow, short battery life, and expensive laptop PC. Or for $600, you can give up the touch screen, get a faster CPU, faster hard drive and a bigger, higher resolution screen and get a basic notebook computer. Too much price for too little bang.
It used to be about providing content to people, Now it's just about making money.
I know the rose colored glasses can distort history pretty badly, but what plaent are you from? Magazine publishing has always been about making money. The difference is that people used to get upset when advertising started outweighing actual articles. As competition for advertising has increased (with the rise of the web), the prices payed out for carrying advertising has decreased. To make things worse, readership has declined. All of these have contibuted to the fact that magazines must now appeal to wider audiences, carry more pages of advertising, and generally have less actual content. The result is bland, short magazines overloaded with ads.
Easy enough except it totally upset windows so I deleted it again and now windows opens a search window instead of opening the directory in explorer.
I no longer can edit the file associations and windows has been borked like this for months.
That is actually pretty easy to fix. Open Registry Editor, and navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell and set the default value to "none". Not blank, or (value not set), but litterally the four letter word, "none". If Open is missing in the right click menu, you might also need to rebuild the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open (usually easiest to simply export it from a working system, and import it into the non-working system).
No, I don't work for Microsoft, and I have no documentation to show that this is the 'fix'. I simply work at a computer store, and always find computers whose owners have found new and exciting ways to break them. This was discovered simply with a comparison of the two associations for directories/folders between a broken machine and a functional system.
That's not really surprising, is it? Windows XP was more of a cosmetic makeover of Windows 2000. It's not like the transition between NT 4.0 and NT 5.0/Windows 2000, where they added an entire directory service and integrated all the other existing services into it. The big features of XP were the accelerated boot-up, skins (if you use the new ComCtl32.dll version 6), remote desktop (terminal services that takes over the console) and somewhat improved compatibility with old Win9x software. All of this would take time, but it's hardly a huge advancement. The real advancement came from getting rid of the Win9x architecture and getting folks on the improved NT architecture.
Sure, a lot of people choke on the $600 price tag but most analysts figure it still doesn't cover the manufacturing costs.
The only analyst figure I've ever seen is this one:
Merrill Lynch Japan estimates that the machine's main components - namely its Cell chip, NVIDIA RSX graphics processor and BD-ROM drive - will cost about $101 each. After adding the other electronics that will be used in the PlayStation 3, the machine's production cost goes up to around $500.
Very little is clear from those figures. Is that the price to produce them today or when the system will be sold? Is that the cost for cranking out the first 100,000 consoles? The first million? How did they come up with the estimates that the CPU, GPU and BD-ROM each cost $100? Is that with or without taking into account Sony can likely use the same BD-ROM drives in their Blu-ray players?
re: High Fructose Corn Syrup Twenty years ago (or so) it didn't exist, but now it's nearly impossible to avoid unless you prepare all of your food from scratch. The government says it's safe, but obesity has skyrocketed over the same period.
Want to get rid of corn syrup? End government subsidies on corn. If corn becomes more expensive to purchase (somewhere in the neighbourhood of the price of what it costs to produce), HFCS will become uneconomical. There's not much chance it'll solve the obesity problem as the producers of these foods would simply switch to sugar and raise their prices a bit.
No, the problem isn't in the corn syrup. It's prepared or fast foods and junk foods. Stop eating McDonald's food, TV dinners, and soft drinks and I'm pretty sure most people would lose weight. It's not rocket science.
The federal government of the US operated for over 100 years on trade tariffs alone.
Which is a form of taxation. Not to mention it's protectionistic, and discourages international trade. Perhaps you're just xenophobic, but any type of taxation has some kind of damage on business, but that doesn't mean we can just avoid all taxation.
I suppose one could argue that sale taxes are a form of trade tariffs, too, but I won't.
Re:Nostalgia for the Sounds of the Early Computer
on
2.5" Drives On the Desktop
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
Gone is the inquisitive thuka-thuka-thuka of a floppy disk scan on bootup.
If you're lucky, you can turn this back in the BIOS setup program.
If the POST BEEP ever dissapears, I think the beauty and mystique of a computer coming to life will have been lost forever.
Other than charitable contributions (where the 'return' is the nice feeling you get), no one hands out money for nothing.
That's not even true. There can be a big return for charitable donations. You can get tax reductions, public "good will" (warm fuzzy feelings about your Brand because you donate), etc. Take a look at those who rave over Bill Gates charitable donations. Even if you assume that he's doing it for completely philanthropic reasons, no doubt he personally recieves tax benefits from it, and his corporation, Microsoft, certainly gets a certain amount of publicity from it.
check out DropMyRights, by Michael Howard, a security guy at Microsoft.
A word of warning about that program. The program works fine so long as you only access things via the dedicated drive letters. As soon as you start accessing files and directories through the administrative UNC shares on the local machine, all the protection DropMyRights gives you is lost. If you run a command prompt with DropMyRights, you may not be able to delete C:\ntldr, but you will be able to delete \\computer\c$\ntldr. All other network operations will also work as if you had not dropped the administrator token. Be very, very careful.
Also ask Google about the.Net Framework's security model - in particular "code access security."
Then make sure you ask someone who has ever tried to use it. The only major use for CAS these days is for Microsoft's answer to Java Web Start - ClickOnce. Most.NET programs never bother trying to use it, because they're installed locally. To make things worse, if your.NET program needs to make use of a native Win32 API (there are plenty of gaps in the.NET framework), you need to request a permission that basically results in full permission.
What they're really pissed about is the fact that the pricing situation is reversed for them right now. Apple currently sets the price for music, and they're none too pleased about that. They'd far rather there be competition on online music sales, because that way the cartel (oligopoly, whatever) can set the prices instead. So, yes, they're all "pro-consumer" right now. If they got their way, and were given the opportunity to dictate terms, I'd bet that attitude would change.
Slashdot Mirror
Although all of this is pretty far away from the topic at hand.
Wait a minute. You mean to tell us that you went out to dinner with folks from Canada Revenue Agency (tax collectors) and THEY paid? Something's fishy...
They eradicate the cancer, so the person can live. How is that not a cure? Sure, there is a high rate of relapse, but there is a big difference between a cure and an innoculation.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."
You don't have to actually subscribe to view what they have, and virtually everyone has a throw-away e-mail account or ten. As for 51,000 titles, Blockbuster.com is only advertising 55,000 titles. All the title counts are bogus, either way, because you never know how they were calculated. Some places split up 7-disc TV series seasons into 7 separate "titles", others don't.
Because the pundits are getting older, and are looking back with their rose coloured glasses, distorting history. There were plenty of derrivative games dating back to the Atari and NES, but no one remembers anything but the classics. Here's one list of 20 really rotten NES games, and these are basically some of the worst of the worst. There were plenty of others that were merely bad.
I see you've never worked in support, have you? The sysadmins WILL be held responsible for all data on the network, even if they are not given access to it. Therefore, it's in the syadmin's best interest to make sure that they can acquire access to it in any type of emergency. Besides, with full access to all the workstations, do you think that bypassing encryption on files that are still accessable is terribly difficult? There are a lot of keyloggers out there, and I'm sure one of them would be able to sniff the password as it was entered. If you're unable to trust your system administrators, you've got bigger problems.
I'm not saying he's right and Microsoft is wrong, but this isn't a simple issue. A combination of factors have left some sour tastes in people's mouths regarding Microsoft's current security practices. Microsoft's security advisories have become very terse/boilerplate with little or no details about what the vulnerability actually is. Their demand that people report the vulnerabilities in very specific ways (e.g. no proof of concept exploits, etc) in order to receive acknowledgement in the advisory is another. Add to this the fact it often takes months and months to get a patch to a reported vulnerability means that people are again thinking that Microsoft doesn't care about security other than as a bulletpoint on their sales literature.
How many Microsofts, Googles and Amazons do you think Alaska has? On the other hand, how many telecom workers do you think they have? There is more than one way to buy a politician, and employment for his constituents is one of them. Being a friend to local industry is often more important than receiving campaign contributions from outside sources.
So, for $1,100 you can have a slow, short battery life, and expensive laptop PC. Or for $600, you can give up the touch screen, get a faster CPU, faster hard drive and a bigger, higher resolution screen and get a basic notebook computer. Too much price for too little bang.
No, I don't work for Microsoft, and I have no documentation to show that this is the 'fix'. I simply work at a computer store, and always find computers whose owners have found new and exciting ways to break them. This was discovered simply with a comparison of the two associations for directories/folders between a broken machine and a functional system.
No, it's Jack Thompson. His alter ego, Banman, has been exterminating them one by one. The man must be stopped before he kills again!
Yes, and they're often the same exact ones who've never served in the military and never even considered enlisting. 'Strange', don't ya think?
About as often as you hear about aspects of Microsoft Bob making an appearance in future versions of Windows.
That's not really surprising, is it? Windows XP was more of a cosmetic makeover of Windows 2000. It's not like the transition between NT 4.0 and NT 5.0/Windows 2000, where they added an entire directory service and integrated all the other existing services into it. The big features of XP were the accelerated boot-up, skins (if you use the new ComCtl32.dll version 6), remote desktop (terminal services that takes over the console) and somewhat improved compatibility with old Win9x software. All of this would take time, but it's hardly a huge advancement. The real advancement came from getting rid of the Win9x architecture and getting folks on the improved NT architecture.
No, the problem isn't in the corn syrup. It's prepared or fast foods and junk foods. Stop eating McDonald's food, TV dinners, and soft drinks and I'm pretty sure most people would lose weight. It's not rocket science.
I suppose one could argue that sale taxes are a form of trade tariffs, too, but I won't.
What they're really pissed about is the fact that the pricing situation is reversed for them right now. Apple currently sets the price for music, and they're none too pleased about that. They'd far rather there be competition on online music sales, because that way the cartel (oligopoly, whatever) can set the prices instead. So, yes, they're all "pro-consumer" right now. If they got their way, and were given the opportunity to dictate terms, I'd bet that attitude would change.