That's just standard behaviour of standard i-node based filesystems. If on OSX an app locked a file, and the user tried to delete it or rename it, the OS could very well popu an error saying the file is locked. In the UNIX world (where i-node FSes abound) it's standard procedure to allow a user to do anything with a file that is currently open; edit, rename, move, delete. It's because files are basically links. If you delete a link, whoever has that particular file open will continue to have it open. When all 'opens' of a particular file close, the file THEN goes away. Notice that if in Linux you have an app open, you can delete all it's files, and it will continue to run. Until you exit and restart the app. This MAY be a little dangerous, as when you have long-lived processes, and you change some library on your system, everything will seem fine until you restart that process, perhaps months later. Then suddenly it doesn't work. Still, the benefits of this scheme FAR outweigh any drawbacks, IMO.
You're getting awefully worked up about this... I spent CDN45 on this box set, that's $10/movie + extras. Seems like a good deal to me, as far a nice releases of old movies go, and I don't think it's a piece of shit. You'll easily spend that much money on an average Criterion Collection release. Now, the relative merits of each are arguable, and a matter of taste. Just relax, it's not even your money.
Well, as another poster mentioned, you circumvent and perfectly good system and then complain about it.
There are far better ways to remotely determine the version of something running on your network (as you seem to be trying to do with ssh -v and HEAD; do you not update any packages that do not listen to a socket and return version info?). You can either read the RPM database or execute rpm -qi and check out the exact version of what's installed, then push out the updated RPM if a newer one exists on your local repository. It's a poor man's RHN, but can easily get the job done just as well.
The GDI library is not a 'snippit' of code. It is a stock DLL file, free for developers to include with their app and distribute.
The analoguous situation you are looking for is:
Linus wroties some code, distributes it with standard applications he wrote. Someone found a bug in it. Linus wrote a tool to scan a system for his code and alert user that his copy is vulnerable. But only the copies of the code that came with his applications.
This is as far as MS went. With an extra couple of lines of code they could have had a tool that would go through the ENTIRE system looking for their vulnerable code, whether belonging to one of their apps or a 3rd party app.
Well, that was certainly a silly notion to begin with. I think more plausible path would be that THAT many thousands of years into the future, if we're still around, we won't have a problem handling that waste, should it become a problem. We'll probably be able to extract it, ship it out to orbit and put on a nice spiraling orbit towards sun. Or maybe put it to some use on the surface.
Why would we become resistant to radiation 200,000 years from now? Certainly, ambient levels of radiation ARE increasing, due to weapons testing, nuclear power plant leaks/contamination, and coal burning. Are we becoming resistant to radiation? I doubt it, but cancer rates are definitely on the rise. I think it's more likely we will develop technology that repairs mutated cells in our bodies, thus making (relatively) low levels of radiation exposure a moot point.
Is that all that Horde is? (I admit, I haven't kept up with eDonkey developments, having ditched it long ago for eMule.) In eMule you can set upload priority on specific files, as well as download priority. So share a file at Release priority, and download it at High priority, and you have the same effect.
Source exchange was the first break-through in eMule. Kademile is the latest development (as of 0.43), and now I get about half my sources from Kad searches (you can see whether your sources are discovered on a server, on Kad, via source exchange or vie people connecting to you).
Sub-dividing the file beyond the 9MB chunk size is interesting (quicker chunk sharing) but probably leads to lots of chatter as you're announcing which bits you've downloaded.
However, far more annoying than large chunk sizes are clients that CUT YOU OFF with mere kilobytes left before you complete your 9MB chunk. I don't know how they know, but it's 100% consistant (I forget which client does that exactly). Ok, great, I have 9MB (minus 10k) downloaded, but can't share it with anyone, YOU FUCKING DUMBASSES!
The other annoying thing, limited strickly to the Hybrid eDonkey client, is that, oh, about 99% of the clients will only upload like 10-50k at a time, then cut you off, and back in que you go. Fuck, is that ever annoying. I haven't been able to figure out the reasoning behind that one yet.
Anyhow, enough venting, I love eMule, great client, and hope the influx of Kazaa rejects doesn't pollute it too much.
You're not solving the problem. The parent specifically refers to cases where individual products with the same SKU differ in quality. That is sometimes the case with displays, where you just don't know what it'll look like until you open the box and hook it up, no matter how many of the same model you've seen before. Most other things are either cheap enough (most peripherals) and many can't be tested before purchase (like add-on cards, hard drives, etc), but displays (CRT and LCD) are complex enough, important enough, expensive enough, and easy enough to hook up for a quick demo before carting out of the store.
Ok, that's obviously configurable behaviour. I know if I mistype (happened only once by accident in over 2 years) the code, I have to wait for the next one. If I just type in the current one again, authentication will fail. Also, the SecurID code is prefixed with a 5 digit code of your own choosing (like a password).
Making people wait TWO turns is just retarded; preventing people from re-using the code is at least a pretense to security and makes some sense.
What is all this looking at your watch bullshit? Don't you have anything else to look at? Just because you wear one, doesn't mean you have to check it out every minute. I've worn a wristwatch for as long as I can remember, and maybe check it a couple times a day.
The watch is not stressing you out. You're stressing yourself out. The watch is just a symbol, a convinient something to express your stress or anxiety.
I'm sure that without the watch you've developed some other kind of response... a nervous tick, scratching, rubbing, facial expression, some sort of odd vocalization.
Either that, or you just like to look cool by throwing off the shackles of The Man. Hence constant references to freedom sans the jewlery. Hey, the watch is not keeping you down, you can be free and still tell time at a glance.
The link in the ZDNet article is not correct (big surprise). The link where you can find this verification tool is not at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ as per the article, but rather http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. If you were trying to actually give this thing a spin (like I did), that's there you find it. It's the big icon down the left side. Duh...
There's a lot that can be done with the waste heat from a combustion engine. You could distill water. Even regular passenger cars could have such a mechanism built in... every week pour regular water into one tank, at the end of the week take distilled water out of the other. In fact, any process that requires heat as input can be piggybacked on combustion engine heat waste. The problem is scale (there's only so many big combustion engines running for long periods of time), cost of integrating the processes, and economic value of an unreliable process.
But then again, wind and solar power is not very reliable either, however we will need to resort to it sooner or later as an energy crunch comes due to high oil prices.
Most US people do not go to university, or even college. Most just finish high school (if that). The point about American education being a joke refers to high schools, not ivy league colleges.
That's why they're no longer secretaries, but executive assistants and such. They can actually do quite a bit of work, anything clerical of course, as well as boss's paperwork, much of which can be delegated to anyone knowledgeble enough, and with enough 'authority'.
Why, do you believe foreign thieves have never seen a real US $20 bill? Or that they're so dumb as to fall for that trick more than once? In the end you're hurting people, by spreading forged currency, and by making thieves more aggressive against their targets in the future.
Ok then, how do you know (or prove) discrimination played a role? You eventually do have to show up in person, or talk over the phone. Do you look at trends and stats? Ex. 10% black population, but School A has only 5% black students. But that's just affirmative action and quotas all over again.
Well, I bet most of the European cities you can point out are fairly major. You can probably nail Berlin on the wall, do you know where Munich is? Dresden? Venice? Manchester? I'm sure most Europeans can correctly place New York, LA, Florida, maybe Washingotn (it's the capital after all). There you go, save for SF and maybe Seattle, that covers your major US locations that any European can be expected to locate on a map.
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Easy, just wait for all the ice to melt. According to globlal warming doomsdayers, should be any minute now.
Yeah, same with murder. What's your point? Just because it is illegal no one will do it or abuse it?
As in, if you don't like the way the Apple cases look, you're just shit out of luck.
Who cares that there are thousands of shitty PC cases... all you need is 1.
That's just standard behaviour of standard i-node based filesystems. If on OSX an app locked a file, and the user tried to delete it or rename it, the OS could very well popu an error saying the file is locked. In the UNIX world (where i-node FSes abound) it's standard procedure to allow a user to do anything with a file that is currently open; edit, rename, move, delete. It's because files are basically links. If you delete a link, whoever has that particular file open will continue to have it open. When all 'opens' of a particular file close, the file THEN goes away. Notice that if in Linux you have an app open, you can delete all it's files, and it will continue to run. Until you exit and restart the app. This MAY be a little dangerous, as when you have long-lived processes, and you change some library on your system, everything will seem fine until you restart that process, perhaps months later. Then suddenly it doesn't work. Still, the benefits of this scheme FAR outweigh any drawbacks, IMO.
You're getting awefully worked up about this... I spent CDN45 on this box set, that's $10/movie + extras. Seems like a good deal to me, as far a nice releases of old movies go, and I don't think it's a piece of shit. You'll easily spend that much money on an average Criterion Collection release. Now, the relative merits of each are arguable, and a matter of taste. Just relax, it's not even your money.
Unless you're buying it for the first time....
Well, as another poster mentioned, you circumvent and perfectly good system and then complain about it.
There are far better ways to remotely determine the version of something running on your network (as you seem to be trying to do with ssh -v and HEAD; do you not update any packages that do not listen to a socket and return version info?). You can either read the RPM database or execute rpm -qi and check out the exact version of what's installed, then push out the updated RPM if a newer one exists on your local repository. It's a poor man's RHN, but can easily get the job done just as well.
The GDI library is not a 'snippit' of code. It is a stock DLL file, free for developers to include with their app and distribute.
The analoguous situation you are looking for is:
Linus wroties some code, distributes it with standard applications he wrote.
Someone found a bug in it.
Linus wrote a tool to scan a system for his code and alert user that his copy is vulnerable. But only the copies of the code that came with his applications.
This is as far as MS went. With an extra couple of lines of code they could have had a tool that would go through the ENTIRE system looking for their vulnerable code, whether belonging to one of their apps or a 3rd party app.
Well, that was certainly a silly notion to begin with. I think more plausible path would be that THAT many thousands of years into the future, if we're still around, we won't have a problem handling that waste, should it become a problem. We'll probably be able to extract it, ship it out to orbit and put on a nice spiraling orbit towards sun. Or maybe put it to some use on the surface.
Why would we become resistant to radiation 200,000 years from now? Certainly, ambient levels of radiation ARE increasing, due to weapons testing, nuclear power plant leaks/contamination, and coal burning. Are we becoming resistant to radiation? I doubt it, but cancer rates are definitely on the rise. I think it's more likely we will develop technology that repairs mutated cells in our bodies, thus making (relatively) low levels of radiation exposure a moot point.
Is that all that Horde is? (I admit, I haven't kept up with eDonkey developments, having ditched it long ago for eMule.) In eMule you can set upload priority on specific files, as well as download priority. So share a file at Release priority, and download it at High priority, and you have the same effect.
Source exchange was the first break-through in eMule. Kademile is the latest development (as of 0.43), and now I get about half my sources from Kad searches (you can see whether your sources are discovered on a server, on Kad, via source exchange or vie people connecting to you).
Sub-dividing the file beyond the 9MB chunk size is interesting (quicker chunk sharing) but probably leads to lots of chatter as you're announcing which bits you've downloaded.
However, far more annoying than large chunk sizes are clients that CUT YOU OFF with mere kilobytes left before you complete your 9MB chunk. I don't know how they know, but it's 100% consistant (I forget which client does that exactly). Ok, great, I have 9MB (minus 10k) downloaded, but can't share it with anyone, YOU FUCKING DUMBASSES!
The other annoying thing, limited strickly to the Hybrid eDonkey client, is that, oh, about 99% of the clients will only upload like 10-50k at a time, then cut you off, and back in que you go. Fuck, is that ever annoying. I haven't been able to figure out the reasoning behind that one yet.
Anyhow, enough venting, I love eMule, great client, and hope the influx of Kazaa rejects doesn't pollute it too much.
You're not solving the problem. The parent specifically refers to cases where individual products with the same SKU differ in quality. That is sometimes the case with displays, where you just don't know what it'll look like until you open the box and hook it up, no matter how many of the same model you've seen before. Most other things are either cheap enough (most peripherals) and many can't be tested before purchase (like add-on cards, hard drives, etc), but displays (CRT and LCD) are complex enough, important enough, expensive enough, and easy enough to hook up for a quick demo before carting out of the store.
It'll probably just be WMA wrapped in Yahoo's own DRM scheme.
Ok, that's obviously configurable behaviour. I know if I mistype (happened only once by accident in over 2 years) the code, I have to wait for the next one. If I just type in the current one again, authentication will fail. Also, the SecurID code is prefixed with a 5 digit code of your own choosing (like a password).
Making people wait TWO turns is just retarded; preventing people from re-using the code is at least a pretense to security and makes some sense.
What is all this looking at your watch bullshit? Don't you have anything else to look at? Just because you wear one, doesn't mean you have to check it out every minute. I've worn a wristwatch for as long as I can remember, and maybe check it a couple times a day.
The watch is not stressing you out. You're stressing yourself out. The watch is just a symbol, a convinient something to express your stress or anxiety.
I'm sure that without the watch you've developed some other kind of response... a nervous tick, scratching, rubbing, facial expression, some sort of odd vocalization.
Either that, or you just like to look cool by throwing off the shackles of The Man. Hence constant references to freedom sans the jewlery. Hey, the watch is not keeping you down, you can be free and still tell time at a glance.
The link in the ZDNet article is not correct (big surprise). The link where you can find this verification tool is not at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ as per the article, but rather http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. If you were trying to actually give this thing a spin (like I did), that's there you find it. It's the big icon down the left side. Duh...
http://a9.com/-/company/whatsCool.jsp
There's a lot that can be done with the waste heat from a combustion engine. You could distill water. Even regular passenger cars could have such a mechanism built in... every week pour regular water into one tank, at the end of the week take distilled water out of the other. In fact, any process that requires heat as input can be piggybacked on combustion engine heat waste. The problem is scale (there's only so many big combustion engines running for long periods of time), cost of integrating the processes, and economic value of an unreliable process.
But then again, wind and solar power is not very reliable either, however we will need to resort to it sooner or later as an energy crunch comes due to high oil prices.
Yeah, what the hell are all these tax incentives to offshore everyone is complaining about?
Most US people do not go to university, or even college. Most just finish high school (if that). The point about American education being a joke refers to high schools, not ivy league colleges.
That's why they're no longer secretaries, but executive assistants and such. They can actually do quite a bit of work, anything clerical of course, as well as boss's paperwork, much of which can be delegated to anyone knowledgeble enough, and with enough 'authority'.
Not just memory sticks, but any generic Mass Storage device will do. ATA-USB2 drive enclosures work fine.
Your order is not submitted until payment is made. Obviously you've never been in a fast food joint, good for you.
Why, do you believe foreign thieves have never seen a real US $20 bill? Or that they're so dumb as to fall for that trick more than once? In the end you're hurting people, by spreading forged currency, and by making thieves more aggressive against their targets in the future.
Ok then, how do you know (or prove) discrimination played a role? You eventually do have to show up in person, or talk over the phone. Do you look at trends and stats? Ex. 10% black population, but School A has only 5% black students. But that's just affirmative action and quotas all over again.
Well, I bet most of the European cities you can point out are fairly major. You can probably nail Berlin on the wall, do you know where Munich is? Dresden? Venice? Manchester? I'm sure most Europeans can correctly place New York, LA, Florida, maybe Washingotn (it's the capital after all). There you go, save for SF and maybe Seattle, that covers your major US locations that any European can be expected to locate on a map.