That could be... But if I was the prosecutor for Aventis, I would have argued that the cost to fix the accounts was actually what they paid to IBM to get it fixed...
Only a matter of time until each American has had their credit card info compromised at least once.
Once everyone's identity is by default stolen, we might be able to make a case to use something other than your retirement account number as the key that gives someone access to your whole life, the universe and everything.
2) Developers who write software that absolutely requires Administrative rights for common use, and the program is not designed to alter fundamental hardware or OS configuration (such as a registry editor or a graphics driver tweak utility) are incompetent and should be killed.
Well, open-sourcing a distributed software client is not easy because it's very hard, if not impossible, to make sure nobody spoofs a client that returns bogus results. For more information, see this document on the distributed.net site. (incidentally, I am part of distributed.net staff).
So the burden of creating and testing other platforms lies with the makers of the grid software, in IBM's case this is United Devices (incidentally, I work for United Devices). And since the ROI on a non-window client is just very low (there are only few non-windows machines possibly joining these types of grid vs. the enormous costs of testing the correct working of such a client), there will not be any non-windows client anytime soon. Do not forget it's not just the client that has to work, the actual task module that does the work (the Human Genome program) also needs to be available on other platforms
There's also a commercial product that United Devices sells (see its product page), which is based on the same codebase that runs the World Community Grid and also grid.org and cellcomputing.jp, and this product has a windows, linux, aix, solaris and macosx client.
Disclaimer: my views are my personal ones and not necessarily endorsed by my company!
Firefox starts up as fast as IE does (like Mozilla, it has the resident memory thingy in the systray)
Firefox gets native Windows proxy profiles support (so I don't have to set my proxy through 20 screens everytime I connect to a VPN connection)
Firefox supports the ActiveX applet that my company's support-site requires for my job
Firefox can enlarge my browsing real-estate (in IE I can hide the File/Edit/View/Help menubar that I never use, and in IE I can make the icons really small)
Firefox can display my flight reservations on http://www.continental.com without a screwed-up layout
... I'm not going to switch.
IE is the only way for me to do my job. And I like my job a lot, too.
So in my country, the Netherlands, the most right-wing conservative party (the VVD) are called "the liberals", as opposed to left-wing Labor and central-spectrum Christian parties.
I saw the resulting Daily Show episode, it was Scott Richter (completely left making a fool of himself by Rob Corddry) against some woman from Capitol Hill, who, despite attempts by Corddry, kept her cool and did a very good job defending why spamming was bad.
It's same reason that Electrical Engineers can easily pick up on a Computer Science job (about 20% of the workforce in my company is EE), while I would never ever allow a CS graduate near a powergrid, microchip-factory, or soldering-irons in general.
Maybe BSD users are just smarter and better at picking up / understanding other technologies than Linux users.
P.S. Insert obligatory comment on how my Karma will go down the drain, just so that I'll end up getting modded up +5 Funny.
P.P.S. I think the real reason is that a lot of BSD users started out using Linux back in '95 or so, and then over the course of the years switched to BSD. That's how I did it.
P.P.P.S. I'm a EE graduate, in case you hadn't figured that out
P.P.P.P.S. I haven't used this many/[P.]+S./ since I wrote walkthroughs for Sierra's King's Quest and Police Quests games.
msaulters, for completeness, since you seem to be intimately knowledgeable on the RFCs, can you paste the relevant sections from these three RFCs that apply to Verisign's wildcarding?
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We're definitely in a low-probable universe. After all, Slashdot is still around (drumroll).
"new" elevator system? How is this "new"? I've seen this for many many years throughout European office-buildings.
It's probably just as "new" as the US thinks direct-water-heaters (instead of hot-water-tanks aka boilers) are "innovative"...
That could be... But if I was the prosecutor for Aventis, I would have argued that the cost to fix the accounts was actually what they paid to IBM to get it fixed...
I'd like to know where Aventis found IBM consultants that only charge $50/hr...
I'm feeling saturdayded with speling mistakes! This thread definately needs bombarded with more crappy grammar!
Actually, he spelled it corectly. You just don't know how to spell your nick...
Only a matter of time until each American has had their credit card info compromised at least once. Once everyone's identity is by default stolen, we might be able to make a case to use something other than your retirement account number as the key that gives someone access to your whole life, the universe and everything.
You mean like Firefox...
That sounds like a possibly tainted discussion...
So the burden of creating and testing other platforms lies with the makers of the grid software, in IBM's case this is United Devices (incidentally, I work for United Devices). And since the ROI on a non-window client is just very low (there are only few non-windows machines possibly joining these types of grid vs. the enormous costs of testing the correct working of such a client), there will not be any non-windows client anytime soon. Do not forget it's not just the client that has to work, the actual task module that does the work (the Human Genome program) also needs to be available on other platforms
There's also a commercial product that United Devices sells (see its product page), which is based on the same codebase that runs the World Community Grid and also grid.org and cellcomputing.jp, and this product has a windows, linux, aix, solaris and macosx client.
Disclaimer: my views are my personal ones and not necessarily endorsed by my company!
Hey they exist!!!!! I was one for eight (8) friggin' years. (and I have no clue how to read that paper, by the way, it's all Greek to me)
You might even want to look up if it knows the right spelling to "reference".
So in my country, the Netherlands, the most right-wing conservative party (the VVD) are called "the liberals", as opposed to left-wing Labor and central-spectrum Christian parties.
I invoke Russ's Paradox
I saw the resulting Daily Show episode, it was Scott Richter (completely left making a fool of himself by Rob Corddry) against some woman from Capitol Hill, who, despite attempts by Corddry, kept her cool and did a very good job defending why spamming was bad.
Ascension Day in English. And Monday 31 May is Pentacoste, aka "Pinksteren" in Dutch. Also christian, and unrelated to Memorial Day in the US.
It's same reason that Electrical Engineers can easily pick up on a Computer Science job (about 20% of the workforce in my company is EE), while I would never ever allow a CS graduate near a powergrid, microchip-factory, or soldering-irons in general.
/[P.]+S./ since I wrote walkthroughs for Sierra's King's Quest and Police Quests games.
Maybe BSD users are just smarter and better at picking up / understanding other technologies than Linux users.
P.S. Insert obligatory comment on how my Karma will go down the drain, just so that I'll end up getting modded up +5 Funny.
P.P.S. I think the real reason is that a lot of BSD users started out using Linux back in '95 or so, and then over the course of the years switched to BSD. That's how I did it.
P.P.P.S. I'm a EE graduate, in case you hadn't figured that out
P.P.P.P.S. I haven't used this many
The Windows GUI does exactly what you are saying...
You mean 1,00,000 :)
Bose does the same thing, no matter where you buy your noise-reduction (QuietComfort) headphones, they're always, always $299.
What do you think would've happened if Linus would have released Linux under a BSD style license...
msaulters, for completeness, since you seem to be intimately knowledgeable on the RFCs, can you paste the relevant sections from these three RFCs that apply to Verisign's wildcarding?
I've had a picture of this ATM for the past 5 years on my website :)
So, for all us non-native English speakers, what is this rule about?