Anybody else curious about what 'spacer balls' are, and why it's a good thing to get rid of them? I did a quick search and found some intersting info about LCDs at flatpanel.com
That's about right for Canada. I've mostly seen between $38k and $48k CAD.
But salary's only a part of your compensation. Comparing benefits packages is much more difficult. What do their retirement benefits look like? Stock options? Discounted stock?
Cunning! They've switched the Y and Z keys on the keyboard so that only a properly trained operator will be able to encrypt/decrypt messages. Those Nazis thought of everything!
Now lets think what would happen if MS was reorganized into a smaller browser company, a OS company, a server company, a whatever else company. Kinda scary huh? They might be able to produce some good, stable, small company products which would be better for the non-computer literate masses, but would put more pressure on linux.
This trial isn't about helping Linux out. If MS becomes more competitive as a result of the trial, and produces better software, great!
The judge stating MS has a monopoly. We all know the definition, no compitition. Does this mean that linux isn't worthy of competing with windows?
It wasn't a viable competitor four years ago. This trial isn't about the state of the industry today. It's about MS' behaviour four years ago.
Nobody would do anything illegal like break kneecaps, but I know I would try to develop better products and keep current customers in any way possible.
But breaking kneecaps is (metaphorically) what MS did. You suggest making better products. But that's hard. It's easier to tell your competitor's distributors not to sell the product or you'll double the price they pay for yours.
This trial is not about MS being a big, rich company. It's about them being a big, rich thug.
The rules are set out ahead of time, and they're not that vague. You might be able to argue that Microsoft didn't know for sure that what they were doing was in violation of the anti-trust laws, but they must have known that, if not violating the laws, they were stretching them.
Microsoft acted unethically in the way that they dealt with their customers and competitors. Whether they knew they had violated the letter of the law or not, the spirit of the law is clear and Microsoft knew they were violating that. They just thought they could get away with it.
I believe that they meant the announcement of the formation of the Hamilton Group. This was the group formed to create OS/F. Unix had the opportunity to take over the corporate desktop a long time ago, but this industry consortium fscked it up royally. Basically, CDE sucks. They needed something like GNOME or KDE but, being a big committee, were unable to come up with anything elegant.
I really think that redundant shouldn't be an option for moderation.
The only times I've moderated a comment as redundant is when there were two identical or near identical comments from the same person. This is usually a mistake on the poster's part. I think that 'Redundant' should be replaced with 'Duplicate'. Moderating a comment as Duplicate would lower the comment's score, but not affect the user's Karma. This would allow moderators to clean up the duplicates without punishing the author.
What do these cover that the existing categories don't already? I'm not criticizing you -- I think that we probably do need more categories, but I don't really understand what these new categories would be used for.
Too clever same as humorous? Stupid same as off topic or flamebait? URL informative. Complimentary I don't know what you mean by this one at all.
What makes you think that the NSA can't break strong crypto? Just because you don't know how to factor products of two large prime numbers doesn't mean that they don't. The biggest problem with strong crypto is that it's based on a big unproven assumption about the difficulty of factoring large numbers.
If the NSA did know how to break strong crypto quickly, they would probably try to hide that fact by vocally opposing any attempts to make its use more prevalent, thus encouraging the belief that it's secure. Just like they're doing.
(Question for crypto gurus and math geeks: obviously not all 1024 bit numbers are products of two large primes. In fact, most of them aren't. So how many (approximately) are there? Are there few enough that it might be feasible to actually find them all and just store them (in a compressed format in some multi-exabyte database)? My guess is that there are way too many, but I'd like to know for sure.)
Colour would be very cool, but I'd be happy if they'd just put a backlight behind the damn silkscreen (the area where you draw graffiti, etc). It's really hard to find in the dark!
The screenshot looked like they might have actually done this, but since it's just POSEr and not a real device it's hard to tell.
Models up to and including the III series use two AAA batteries. The battery life is quite impressive. The Palm V and VII have a built-in rechargeable battery. I'm not sure how good the life is on that.
I read about an old exploit which actually did something a bit like this. I think it was a password hack for TOPS(?). I can't remember where I read about it, but here's the story, anyway.
The particular system had an OS call (or trap, or whatever) to change privilege levels. The call took a password string as an argument, and reported success or failure. The interesting thing about the routine was that it checked the password one character at a time, from left to right. As soon as it detected an incorrect character it returned a failure code.
To exploit this, the crackers allocated two consecutive pages of memory, and marked the second page as unreadable, so that a fault would occur if it was read. They installed an exception handler to catch the read fault. Then they stored a single character at the very end of the first page of memory, and passed its address in as the password to the mode change call. If the call failed, then it must have failed on the first character. If the call faulted, then it must have accepted the first character and tried to read the second character from the unreadable page.
Once you've determined the first character it's pretty simple to move the password back one byte and guess the second character, etc.
Um, I don't want to look like a Microsoft booster, but even Linux (The Great and Powerful, yada, yada, yada) can't handle bad memory! If you got memory errors then you probably had a bad chip.
But in answer to your question, no. I have to reboot my NT box at work about once a week because it runs out of memory (256MB physical, about the same swap). Closing all apps doesn't help. The memory just disappears. I suspect windbg is to blame.
I was a bit concerned about the grammar/spelling on that page, too. I just hope is that it's actually an example of a alpha version of the translator and not a flesh and blood author.
They didn't tell us. They released a technical errata for manufacturers of G4 systems. The is normal operating procedure for a chip manufacture. They need to do this to keep their (Motorola's) customers informed about what's happening with the chip. This errata was not intended for the end customer. (Oh, and if they had covered it up Apple would have sued Motorola, and Motorola's shareholders would have sued the board.)
Why MacWeek decided to publish it is another question. They did so because it appears that this will delay Apple's plans to ship 500MHz G4 systems. Obviously Apple can't ship these until the bug is fixed, and that's not scheduled to happen until after Apple's planned shipping date. Thus it looks like Apple will be forced to delay the introduction of the new systems.
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That's about right for Canada. I've mostly seen between $38k and $48k CAD.
But salary's only a part of your compensation. Comparing benefits packages is much more difficult. What do their retirement benefits look like? Stock options? Discounted stock?
/peter
Nope, it's perfectly cromulent.
main(){
for(;;fork());
}
says:
- to initialize the loop, do nothing
- don't check any condition on each iteration (loop forever)
- at the end of each iteration fork()
/peter
Makes sense, actuallz, since Y isn't used much in German (in fact, if I remember correctly, it's only used for foreign words).
/peter
Cunning! They've switched the Y and Z keys on the keyboard so that only a properly trained operator will be able to encrypt/decrypt messages. Those Nazis thought of everything!
/peter
This trial isn't about helping Linux out. If MS becomes more competitive as a result of the trial, and produces better software, great!
The judge stating MS has a monopoly. We all know the definition, no compitition. Does this mean that linux isn't worthy of competing with windows?
It wasn't a viable competitor four years ago. This trial isn't about the state of the industry today. It's about MS' behaviour four years ago.
Nobody would do anything illegal like break kneecaps, but I know I would try to develop better products and keep current customers in any way possible.
But breaking kneecaps is (metaphorically) what MS did. You suggest making better products. But that's hard. It's easier to tell your competitor's distributors not to sell the product or you'll double the price they pay for yours.
This trial is not about MS being a big, rich company. It's about them being a big, rich thug.
Ok.
The government should stop purchasing MS software, nullify MS patents and quit enforcing MS copyrights on people who pirate MS software.
Sorry? I thought you wanted them left alone? Do you want the government to stop protecting the IP of other companies, too, or just MS?
Microsoft acted unethically in the way that they dealt with their customers and competitors. Whether they knew they had violated the letter of the law or not, the spirit of the law is clear and Microsoft knew they were violating that. They just thought they could get away with it.
Aaargghh! If you're going to flame his grammer(sic) at least learn to spell!
I believe that they meant the announcement of the formation of the Hamilton Group. This was the group formed to create OS/F. Unix had the opportunity to take over the corporate desktop a long time ago, but this industry consortium fscked it up royally. Basically, CDE sucks. They needed something like GNOME or KDE but, being a big committee, were unable to come up with anything elegant.
/peter
The only times I've moderated a comment as redundant is when there were two identical or near identical comments from the same person. This is usually a mistake on the poster's part. I think that 'Redundant' should be replaced with 'Duplicate'. Moderating a comment as Duplicate would lower the comment's score, but not affect the user's Karma. This would allow moderators to clean up the duplicates without punishing the author.
Too clever same as humorous?
Stupid same as off topic or flamebait?
URL informative.
Complimentary I don't know what you mean by this one at all.
If the NSA did know how to break strong crypto quickly, they would probably try to hide that fact by vocally opposing any attempts to make its use more prevalent, thus encouraging the belief that it's secure. Just like they're doing.
(Question for crypto gurus and math geeks: obviously not all 1024 bit numbers are products of two large primes. In fact, most of them aren't. So how many (approximately) are there? Are there few enough that it might be feasible to actually find them all and just store them (in a compressed format in some multi-exabyte database)? My guess is that there are way too many, but I'd like to know for sure.)
Big deal. The Palms have backlighting, too. My beef is that the silkscreen isn't backlit (only the LCD). Do the Visor's backlight the silkscreen?
/peter
Colour would be very cool, but I'd be happy if they'd just put a backlight behind the damn silkscreen (the area where you draw graffiti, etc). It's really hard to find in the dark!
The screenshot looked like they might have actually done this, but since it's just POSEr and not a real device it's hard to tell.
/peter
I don't know what kind of parties you go to, but if they involve encyclopædias they're either really boring or really weird.
Models up to and including the III series use two AAA batteries. The battery life is quite impressive. The Palm V and VII have a built-in rechargeable battery. I'm not sure how good the life is on that.
/peter
I read about an old exploit which actually did something a bit like this. I think it was a password hack for TOPS(?). I can't remember where I read about it, but here's the story, anyway.
The particular system had an OS call (or trap, or whatever) to change privilege levels. The call took a password string as an argument, and reported success or failure. The interesting thing about the routine was that it checked the password one character at a time, from left to right. As soon as it detected an incorrect character it returned a failure code.
To exploit this, the crackers allocated two consecutive pages of memory, and marked the second page as unreadable, so that a fault would occur if it was read. They installed an exception handler to catch the read fault. Then they stored a single character at the very end of the first page of memory, and passed its address in as the password to the mode change call. If the call failed, then it must have failed on the first character. If the call faulted, then it must have accepted the first character and tried to read the second character from the unreadable page.
Once you've determined the first character it's pretty simple to move the password back one byte and guess the second character, etc.
/peter
But in answer to your question, no. I have to reboot my NT box at work about once a week because it runs out of memory (256MB physical, about the same swap). Closing all apps doesn't help. The memory just disappears. I suspect windbg is to blame.
/peter
I don't know, but I've seen Cowpland's COREL-1 license plate on his white Lamborghini Diablo, and it lookes pretty nice to me :)
/peter
I was a bit concerned about the grammar/spelling on that page, too. I just hope is that it's actually an example of a alpha version of the translator and not a flesh and blood author.
/peter
Yup, but if you don't have an umlaut on your keyboard the closest spelling is Guenter.
/peter
Oops, I take it back. Obviously /.'s filtering works pretty well. I had my threshold set to '1', and missed all of the ignorant China bashing.
/peter
Um, you're the first one to bring these points up. Nobody who posted before you was China bashing at all as far as I could see.
/peter
They didn't tell us. They released a technical errata for manufacturers of G4 systems. The is normal operating procedure for a chip manufacture. They need to do this to keep their (Motorola's) customers informed about what's happening with the chip. This errata was not intended for the end customer. (Oh, and if they had covered it up Apple would have sued Motorola, and Motorola's shareholders would have sued the board.)
Why MacWeek decided to publish it is another question. They did so because it appears that this will delay Apple's plans to ship 500MHz G4 systems. Obviously Apple can't ship these until the bug is fixed, and that's not scheduled to happen until after Apple's planned shipping date. Thus it looks like Apple will be forced to delay the introduction of the new systems.
/peter