Rewriting is sometimes necessary for old code - it gets crusty, and the design parameters change.
I'd argue that any company that *didn't* rewrite would be heading for self destruction - it'd just be taken over by competitors with newer code.
You don't do it all at once... you rewrite bits of it progressively until the whole code has been refreshed (from experience it'll be smaller and faster... devs always write better code the second time around).
I don't like it either.. doesn't feel as polished as Firefox or Safari.
My wife (who's into web design) was delighted it was now free, but immediately pointed out the rendering errors (it doesn't support z-ordering, which made several of her pages look like crap as she tends to use every CSS tag she can (that work on both IE and Firefox, anyway)).
Using multiple hashes is a known way to increase security (some protocols use it) - it *does* work because the number of potential collisions is reduced - if you can create a collission with the MD5 (far from simple, in fact) it's extremely unlikely to *also* collide with the SHA1 hash - the number of plaintexts where they both collide is significantly lower.
Not just children, but adults have can airway problems to if they are knocked unconcious that fast - it all depends on how you fall and how your head lands etc.
I think the moscow experience showed that it won't work except in the most extreme circumstances.
Planes fly over cities routinely... especially those with airports nearby. Crashing into a building (and remember this has only happened *once* - all other hijacks were to reach a specific destination and demand money etc.) is very difficult to prevent.
Compared to the ugly brown shuffle it's an oil painting...
The shuffle was apple's big mistake... no LCD screen and random play only, combined with the trademark apple high price - they didn't exactly fly off the shelves. The Nano makes up for most of that and is what they should have released in the first place.
One or two have been reported (probably generic viruses that happen to work on openbsd)... however it's a brave person that would ever post such on an openbsd list... one guy got flamed to a crisp and *nobody* took his report seriously even though it looked perfectly legit (although he didn't know how to use some of the tracing commands, spamming 'go back to your MCSE' is not a useful response.. nor is taking the piss).
Unfortunately openbsd are so sure that there are no viruses that run on it any report is not believed.. classic circular reasoning - there are no viruses on openbsd, therefore any reports of viruses are incorrect...
There's also the problem that it would be *far* cheaper to buy the book in the first place.
ie. the book I have on my desk has 200 pages. At 10p a page that's £20 (it's rare for even libraries to charge less.. the bigger ones round here charge 15p/page). The price of the book is £12.99
At an office I sometimes go to they have RFID cards like that. The door unlocks when you're about a foot away from it.. there's a scanner panel but nobody ever uses it.
If they started using credit cards like that I'd definately invest in some kind of RF shielding.
A pickpocket who gets your card can also get your PIN and clean you out... no cloning needed (that's actually quite hard although not impossible). The whole point of C&P was to shift responsibility - if someone uses your pin to make a transaction *you* are liable even if the card was stolen.. there's a basic assumption that only you know your pin.
I *really* hate the way they limited it to 4 digit pins. I'd rather have a 10 digit one - much less chance of a casual thief being able to memorise it on the first shot. Leave it at 4 for the AOL users, but I'd rather have some security thanks.
Signatures were way better in many ways... everywhere round here was really strict about checking them.
The worst of course are the supermarket 'self service' checkouts - they don't ask for a signature *or* a pin - no security at all... you swipe the card and walk away.
That's where people like the RIAA want it both ways.
On the one hand, they say you haven't bought the media you've only bought the rights to play it (so can't do anything you like with it eg. Play a DVD under Linux).
On the other hand if you lose the media you lose the right to listen to it any must pay again.
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Aliens don't make science fiction.
Science fiction needs two elements - *science* and *fiction*. Everything else is just fluff.
Superman and Buffy have no science elements. They are merely fiction.
Earth: final conflict at 50?
It deserved better than that... well the first series did. Let's forget about the later series shall we...
Rewriting is sometimes necessary for old code - it gets crusty, and the design parameters change.
I'd argue that any company that *didn't* rewrite would be heading for self destruction - it'd just be taken over by competitors with newer code.
You don't do it all at once... you rewrite bits of it progressively until the whole code has been refreshed (from experience it'll be smaller and faster... devs always write better code the second time around).
That's true AFAIK.... that's why they wrote the Team System stuff.
That's the great thing about standards... there's so many of them to choose from!
I don't like it either.. doesn't feel as polished as Firefox or Safari.
My wife (who's into web design) was delighted it was now free, but immediately pointed out the rendering errors (it doesn't support z-ordering, which made several of her pages look like crap as she tends to use every CSS tag she can (that work on both IE and Firefox, anyway)).
A hostile takeover is far more expensive than a 'merger'... I bet the multipliers on google are shy high - I bet even MS couldn't afford it.
Not to mention some of the major shareholders wouldn't sell.
Using multiple hashes is a known way to increase security (some protocols use it) - it *does* work because the number of potential collisions is reduced - if you can create a collission with the MD5 (far from simple, in fact) it's extremely unlikely to *also* collide with the SHA1 hash - the number of plaintexts where they both collide is significantly lower.
Time warner didn't publicly vow to destroy AOL.
Ebay didn't publicly vow to destroy Skype.
Microsoft *did* publicly vow to destroy google.
Not just children, but adults have can airway problems to if they are knocked unconcious that fast - it all depends on how you fall and how your head lands etc.
I think the moscow experience showed that it won't work except in the most extreme circumstances.
Planes fly over cities routinely... especially those with airports nearby. Crashing into a building (and remember this has only happened *once* - all other hijacks were to reach a specific destination and demand money etc.) is very difficult to prevent.
Compared to the ugly brown shuffle it's an oil painting...
The shuffle was apple's big mistake... no LCD screen and random play only, combined with the trademark apple high price - they didn't exactly fly off the shelves. The Nano makes up for most of that and is what they should have released in the first place.
Hmm.. wonder why. It's not entirely useless.. I can see a use for it.
OTOH cygwin is good enough for most people.
One or two have been reported (probably generic viruses that happen to work on openbsd)... however it's a brave person that would ever post such on an openbsd list... one guy got flamed to a crisp and *nobody* took his report seriously even though it looked perfectly legit (although he didn't know how to use some of the tracing commands, spamming 'go back to your MCSE' is not a useful response.. nor is taking the piss).
Unfortunately openbsd are so sure that there are no viruses that run on it any report is not believed.. classic circular reasoning - there are no viruses on openbsd, therefore any reports of viruses are incorrect...
Amazon? Do they have this? Not on the US or UK stores that I can find.
There's also the problem that it would be *far* cheaper to buy the book in the first place.
ie. the book I have on my desk has 200 pages. At 10p a page that's £20 (it's rare for even libraries to charge less.. the bigger ones round here charge 15p/page). The price of the book is £12.99
CMD has some oddities though.
Mine has just developed an allergy to batch files.. you can run any batch *once* then you have to shut down the command line and start a new one.
Damnedest thing I've ever seen.. this is on a nearly new install too.
D:\>echo @echo batch test >batch_test.bat
D:\>batch_test
batch test
D:\>batch_test
D:\>
Second time it ignores it.
It's a real git when I'm trying to run my test scripts...
Hmm different graph to the one I can see.
1964 - 3.85% of federal budget.
2002 - 0.68% of federal budget.
OTOH it isn't dropping linearly.. it fluctuates, presumably according to the will of the incumbent president.
Anyone who made a centralised adblock list would be at risk of getting sued by the advertisers.
OTOH making your own list doesn't take long and is perfectly OK.
There are none.
It's a VPN. Nothing more.
At an office I sometimes go to they have RFID cards like that. The door unlocks when you're about a foot away from it.. there's a scanner panel but nobody ever uses it.
If they started using credit cards like that I'd definately invest in some kind of RF shielding.
A pickpocket who gets your card can also get your PIN and clean you out... no cloning needed (that's actually quite hard although not impossible). The whole point of C&P was to shift responsibility - if someone uses your pin to make a transaction *you* are liable even if the card was stolen.. there's a basic assumption that only you know your pin.
I *really* hate the way they limited it to 4 digit pins. I'd rather have a 10 digit one - much less chance of a casual thief being able to memorise it on the first shot. Leave it at 4 for the AOL users, but I'd rather have some security thanks.
Signatures were way better in many ways... everywhere round here was really strict about checking them.
The worst of course are the supermarket 'self service' checkouts - they don't ask for a signature *or* a pin - no security at all... you swipe the card and walk away.
Packages can be set to autorun on download... seen it happen once or twice.
I'd love to work out how they did it, though.
OMFG do they have an attitude problem or what?
That's where people like the RIAA want it both ways.
On the one hand, they say you haven't bought the media you've only bought the rights to play it (so can't do anything you like with it eg. Play a DVD under Linux).
On the other hand if you lose the media you lose the right to listen to it any must pay again.