Recall the story in Weinberg about the guy trying to debug a program that barfed when emulated on a faster system. He only figured it out after he took one of the original programmers out for a beer and heard the story about how one of the team members wanted to write the I/O section, but was assigned another piece... which was the clue the guy needed. Sure enough, the programmer wanting to do I/O rebelled by overwriting (pointers? interrupt vectors?) in his part of the code so that his I/O routines would be called, said overwriting barfing under emulation.
Why is it astonishing? Information is another front on which to fight; see the staged and Photoshopped photos that have come from the Middle East for examples. As in Vietnam, any victory by the Iraqi insurgents will come from demoralizing the American public...and also again, the US mainstream media are leading the effort.
The enemy doesn't need Axis Sally this time around; they have Katie Couric.
Isn't there an inherent conflict between the stated purpose of better W3 standards conformance for IE7 and the benefit to MS from IE not conforming to standards, to maintain an applications barrier to entry for other web browsers?
Of course, GNU/tar presented us with tar xzvf which bundles and compresses in one step.
I seriously doubt that that is the counterexample you think it is; it would be insane to replicate the guts of gzip in tar. Rather, with those options, I expect that tar popen()s gzip and uses that as its standard output--that is, tar does the moral equivalent of the pipe. Yes, it's hidden from the user. No, it is not contrary to the Unix philosophy.
...no more fiddling with stupid heat-sink clips...
That cinches the deal for me right there, along with AM2 supporting AM3.
Yeah, if you went with 939, there may not be much point in moving to AM2 now. I, OTOH, am sitting here with my Socket A systems, and AM2 and Athlon 64 X2 are sufficiently low in price to be very attractive to me. Is Core 2 Duo better? Yes, from what I've read. OTOH, whichever way I go will be a major improvement on the Sempron 2400+ box sitting before me, and it's not at all clear to me that Intel has a permanent advantage over AMD--indeed, if history is something to go by, Intel's dogged pushing of the Pentium 4 ("Oooh, look how fast our clock runs!") while AMD ate their lunch for performance doesn't speak well for Intel.
I take it that you haven't actually tried Second Life, or didn't ever click Edit>Search and select Classifieds, and then under categories, select "Employment."
Students will graduate a few years late, minus some promised features like English and math.
The valedictorian was chosen because he waited for a competitor to take the history final, offered to collaborate with him, then after breaking off the deal handed in copied answers.
The football coach screams "I'll fscking kill the coach at Foo High!"
The first aid class teaches how to cut off someone's air supply.
Non sequitur. They are (currently) winning, but that doesn't say anything about how. I think leveraging a monopoly had more to do with it than argument.
"...the embedded market didn't really exist in any meaningful way when Linux was created."
Ah. The interval from 1977, when Microware Systems Corporation started selling a real-time kernel for the Motorola 6800, through 1991, by which time they'd moved on to OS-9, which in various incarnations has been used in the Fairlight CMI, the Caltrans 2070 traffic controller, by NASA, for industrial control, as the basis of CD-i, etc., was all in my imagination.
>>Is this the start of better collaboration, or just a sign the Microsoft has learned its lesson from the antitrust battles?
>And why can't it be both?
I won't go so far as to say "can't," but... I've yet to hear of any Microsoft "collaboration" in which MS hasn't had a knife ready for the collaborator's back--vide Stac, Go Corporation, etc.--and, while David Hume did argue against induction (in the non-mathematical sense), to some extent it has, you should pardon the expression, worked so far. Or, as that great philosopher Ring Lardner put it, "The race may not always be to the swift, nor victory to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
In brief: because past experience has shown that it will be neither.
What I never understood is the whole browser wars thing, how does MS make money off IE?
They don't, directly, but browser dominance, combined with not conforming to w3 standards, maintains the applications barrier to entry.
(A while back there was someone who was pushing Mozilla to add XP-specific features. Do you suppose they're going to try that again, this time for Vista?)
Microsoft has earned that distrust and hatred over the decades through diligent work. What reason is there to suppose that they've changed their nature now?
I haven't watched it in a long time, and don't know what, if any, political indoctrination it may contain, but... I'm amused at the hypocrisy of all the nattering about Saturday morning cartoons as "half-hour commercials" when Sesame Street is an hour-long commercial for all the Sesame Street toys, ice skating shows, CDs, DVDs, sheets, T-shirts, ad inf. et naus..
I have a hard time believing that you're being intellectually honest in claiming not to see a problem. These two jerks were shamelessly conspiring, in front of the performers themselves, to trade copies of CDs so they each have two CDs while only paying for one.
None of the rationalizations put forth apply to this case; we aren't talking about a platinum-selling group, but about a very good regional bluegrass band directly selling their CDs at one of their many live performances around the state. These people knew the kind of music the band performed, so they weren't trying it out to see whether they wanted to buy it. The money from their CD sales, as far as I know, isn't mostly siphoned off into a sleazeball record company getting back their advance and taking off money for lacquer breakage, etc. These jerks just wanted to get something without paying for it.
The following has already happened, so it's a bit late to add to your commercial save as a re-enactment:
A local, independent group had just finished a performance, and people were queueing up to buy CDs and T-shirts, get on the mailing list, etc. One of the group members was handling CD sales, and about to sell a CD to a person, when his friend piped up: "Hey, don't buy that CD. I already have it, and I'll burn you a copy. Buy that other one, and then we can burn each other a copy."
Sorry, but you're not just sticking it to The Man.
Actually, I was in line at the local CompUSA for the Windows 98 debut. I was hoping that I would win the copy they were giving away... so that I could take the CD from the box and grind it into the parking lot pavement in front of any cameras that might have been present. Alas, that didn't happen.
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...Adobe is committed to getting Flash Player 9 on Linux released this fall, probably around October.
"We expect to make a pre-release version available on Adobe Labs for early feedback and testing before the end of the year, with the full release expected in early 2007*."
and even then the asterisk points you at a disclaimer saying that those dates may change... and do you really think that they'd change in the good direction, i.e. earlier?
If you look at the blog done by a fellow working on Flash for Linux, you'll see that as of late July, they're still at the "which libraries should we use?" stage (and in at least one case, the choice is rather disturbing, i.e. v4l version 1, which is about to be obsolete if I understand the discussion).
Something "whets your appetite," and that's probably what the author intended to write. To "wet your whistle" is to moisten your dry mouth (not necessarily to slake your thirst--wetting your whistle doesn't go that far), and has nothing to do with making someone eager for anything... but maybe the author was thinking of something like
"After a long day of coding, I like to kick back and sip an ice-cold bottle of Mozilla..."?
They know, don't they, that a representative can have arbitrary text inserted in CR as if it had been read?
Also, if you watch CSPAN while Congress is in session, in the evenings you'll see long stretches with just a few people who are delivering their rants into a nearly empty room. Can that be separated from the rest of the text?
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Recall the story in Weinberg about the guy trying to debug a program that barfed when emulated on a faster system. He only figured it out after he took one of the original programmers out for a beer and heard the story about how one of the team members wanted to write the I/O section, but was assigned another piece... which was the clue the guy needed. Sure enough, the programmer wanting to do I/O rebelled by overwriting (pointers? interrupt vectors?) in his part of the code so that his I/O routines would be called, said overwriting barfing under emulation.
Why is it astonishing? Information is another front on which to fight; see the staged and Photoshopped photos that have come from the Middle East for examples. As in Vietnam, any victory by the Iraqi insurgents will come from demoralizing the American public...and also again, the US mainstream media are leading the effort.
The enemy doesn't need Axis Sally this time around; they have Katie Couric.
Isn't there an inherent conflict between the stated purpose of better W3 standards conformance for IE7 and the benefit to MS from IE not conforming to standards, to maintain an applications barrier to entry for other web browsers?
That's Elizabethan-influenced music; Bill Conti quotes an anonymous Elizabethan fanfare at the beginning of "Gonna Fly Now."
Of course, GNU/tar presented us with tar xzvf which bundles and compresses in one step.
I seriously doubt that that is the counterexample you think it is; it would be insane to replicate the guts of gzip in tar. Rather, with those options, I expect that tar popen()s gzip and uses that as its standard output--that is, tar does the moral equivalent of the pipe. Yes, it's hidden from the user. No, it is not contrary to the Unix philosophy.
Consider this: If you lose 7.5% of these jobs a year in ten years, 75% of them are gone.
.925**n) * 100 percent after n years, so with n = 10, that's a hair over 54 percent.
Ummm...actually, you lose (1 -
Of course, politicians have spinsters...working hard...
As an aging male nerd, I feel discriminated against; I guess a career in politics is out for me.
...no more fiddling with stupid heat-sink clips...
That cinches the deal for me right there, along with AM2 supporting AM3.
Yeah, if you went with 939, there may not be much point in moving to AM2 now. I, OTOH, am sitting here with my Socket A systems, and AM2 and Athlon 64 X2 are sufficiently low in price to be very attractive to me. Is Core 2 Duo better? Yes, from what I've read. OTOH, whichever way I go will be a major improvement on the Sempron 2400+ box sitting before me, and it's not at all clear to me that Intel has a permanent advantage over AMD--indeed, if history is something to go by, Intel's dogged pushing of the Pentium 4 ("Oooh, look how fast our clock runs!") while AMD ate their lunch for performance doesn't speak well for Intel.
I take it that you haven't actually tried Second Life, or didn't ever click Edit>Search and select Classifieds, and then under categories, select "Employment."
Students will graduate a few years late, minus some promised features like English and math.
The valedictorian was chosen because he waited for a competitor to take the history final, offered to collaborate with him, then after breaking off the deal handed in copied answers.
The football coach screams "I'll fscking kill the coach at Foo High!"
The first aid class teaches how to cut off someone's air supply.
I'll be here all week...try the veal.
An MS Security expert - that's a contradiction!
I think the term you are looking for is oxymoron (OTOH, maybe these days that refers to the shouting guy on the Oxy-Clean ads?).
Non sequitur. They are (currently) winning, but that doesn't say anything about how. I think leveraging a monopoly had more to do with it than argument.
"...the embedded market didn't really exist in any meaningful way when Linux was created."
Ah. The interval from 1977, when Microware Systems Corporation started selling a real-time kernel for the Motorola 6800, through 1991, by which time they'd moved on to OS-9, which in various incarnations has been used in the Fairlight CMI, the Caltrans 2070 traffic controller, by NASA, for industrial control, as the basis of CD-i, etc., was all in my imagination.
If Firefox does collaborate, what will they do to avoid setting themselves up for an IP lawsuit?
>>Is this the start of better collaboration, or just a sign the Microsoft has learned its lesson from the antitrust battles?
>And why can't it be both?
I won't go so far as to say "can't," but... I've yet to hear of any Microsoft "collaboration" in which MS hasn't had a knife ready for the collaborator's back--vide Stac, Go Corporation, etc.--and, while David Hume did argue against induction (in the non-mathematical sense), to some extent it has, you should pardon the expression, worked so far. Or, as that great philosopher Ring Lardner put it, "The race may not always be to the swift, nor victory to the strong, but that's the way to bet."
In brief: because past experience has shown that it will be neither.
What I never understood is the whole browser wars thing, how does MS make money off IE?
They don't, directly, but browser dominance, combined with not conforming to w3 standards, maintains the applications barrier to entry.
(A while back there was someone who was pushing Mozilla to add XP-specific features. Do you suppose they're going to try that again, this time for Vista?)
Microsoft has earned that distrust and hatred over the decades through diligent work. What reason is there to suppose that they've changed their nature now?
Thank heaven we (in the US) don't live in a democracy.
I haven't watched it in a long time, and don't know what, if any, political indoctrination it may contain, but... I'm amused at the hypocrisy of all the nattering about Saturday morning cartoons as "half-hour commercials" when Sesame Street is an hour-long commercial for all the Sesame Street toys, ice skating shows, CDs, DVDs, sheets, T-shirts, ad inf. et naus..
I have a hard time believing that you're being intellectually honest in claiming not to see a problem. These two jerks were shamelessly conspiring, in front of the performers themselves, to trade copies of CDs so they each have two CDs while only paying for one.
None of the rationalizations put forth apply to this case; we aren't talking about a platinum-selling group, but about a very good regional bluegrass band directly selling their CDs at one of their many live performances around the state. These people knew the kind of music the band performed, so they weren't trying it out to see whether they wanted to buy it. The money from their CD sales, as far as I know, isn't mostly siphoned off into a sleazeball record company getting back their advance and taking off money for lacquer breakage, etc. These jerks just wanted to get something without paying for it.
The following has already happened, so it's a bit late to add to your commercial save as a re-enactment:
A local, independent group had just finished a performance, and people were queueing up to buy CDs and T-shirts, get on the mailing list, etc. One of the group members was handling CD sales, and about to sell a CD to a person, when his friend piped up: "Hey, don't buy that CD. I already have it, and I'll burn you a copy. Buy that other one, and then we can burn each other a copy."
Sorry, but you're not just sticking it to The Man.
Actually, I was in line at the local CompUSA for the Windows 98 debut. I was hoping that I would win the copy they were giving away... so that I could take the CD from the box and grind it into the parking lot pavement in front of any cameras that might have been present. Alas, that didn't happen.
...Adobe is committed to getting Flash Player 9 on Linux released this fall, probably around October.
I'm curious about your source; Emmy Huang's blog says
"We expect to make a pre-release version available on Adobe Labs for early feedback and testing before the end of the year, with the full release expected in early 2007*."
and even then the asterisk points you at a disclaimer saying that those dates may change... and do you really think that they'd change in the good direction, i.e. earlier?
If you look at the blog done by a fellow working on Flash for Linux, you'll see that as of late July, they're still at the "which libraries should we use?" stage (and in at least one case, the choice is rather disturbing, i.e. v4l version 1, which is about to be obsolete if I understand the discussion).
Something "whets your appetite," and that's probably what the author intended to write. To "wet your whistle" is to moisten your dry mouth (not necessarily to slake your thirst--wetting your whistle doesn't go that far), and has nothing to do with making someone eager for anything... but maybe the author was thinking of something like
"After a long day of coding, I like to kick back and sip an ice-cold bottle of Mozilla..."?
They know, don't they, that a representative can have arbitrary text inserted in CR as if it had been read?
Also, if you watch CSPAN while Congress is in session, in the evenings you'll see long stretches with just a few people who are delivering their rants into a nearly empty room. Can that be separated from the rest of the text?