It depends... in nature viruses silently reproduce before killing the host. There's no reason why computer viruses couldn't do the same - this would be very effective.
It's still got the whole WPA thing built in, and uses different keys to the XP Retail... sounds like they're set up for selling it. If it was going to be a free upgrade they'd have allowed you to use your 32bit key.
OTOH there is a 'Windows XP 64 Bit (Extended Systems)' key that's non-WPA... I can't match that to a product (it's not XP x64 or XP IA64).
It is in the UK... some shops advertise the credit card surgcharge then say 'the price you pay is the same'
IIRC there was some legal case over it and the courts said they had to sell at the advertised price. There are exceptions to this - for example if the sale is 'trade' related (similarly such stores are able to advertise ex-VAT prices, which is illegal for 'consumer' stores... for some reason computer equipment is advertised in this way).
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Subsidies are really the flipside of tariffs... one lowers your prices to give you and advantage over the competition, and the other raises everyone elses prices to give you and advantage.
The WTO is supposed to stop this kind of thing, but some contries get away with it (the french are major offenders.. something they have in common with the US at last!)
There's too much damned politics on slashdot already (although it seems to be a fixation with you on that side of the pond - we laugh about it over a beer, and you flame each other incessantly on slashdot. I know which I prefer.. I *like* beer. Especially free beer.).
by IWorkForMorons (679120) Alter Relationship on Sat April 02, 12:02 AM
How about the april 1st rule?
Will I have to stay away from slashdot until the 3rd until every last part of the globe has reached the 2nd? Or will slashdot stop posting this frikkin crap?
CVS is atomic at the file level - always has been, from its RCS roots. You can *not* corrupt your repository with a broken commit.
You may get a partial commit, but having played with atomic commits a bit (they're not exactly hard to add to CVS.. did it years ago then took them out again) I really don't like them.
The problem is if your network is that dodgy you want to be able to restart your commit when you left of, which file-level atomicity lets you do. With commit-level atomicity you have to start all over again, which is a pain.
The important one is checkout atomicity - ie. that you get a consistent checkout even if someone else starts committing at the same time as you're updating. Some versions of CVS have this.
Agree with you about the rename.. that's actually a hard problem to solve generically (I do this kind of thing for a living and it's taken me over a year to find a way to do it that didn't suck).
Ahh yes the CSM. A particular form of nutter apparently imported from the US.
Mostly they're in it for selling their own line of books, videos, etc. for which they make a pretty penny.
I had to steward for one of their conferences... they told us that they were going to get over 1000 people, and we setup for that many. 50 turned up.. I felt embarassed for the speakers.
Really they're just a fringe group, even amongst the christian groups.
Historically (up until relatively recently in fact) christians have been at the forefront of learning - a lot of the universities were founded by the belief that you could find out more about God by finding more about the universe.
In fact a *real* faith doesn't need to reject anything... because if you truly believe something to be true you're not afraid of real world observations. A faith that can only hold up by rejecting most of modern science is no faith at all... it's just blind belief.
This appears to be mostly a US phenomenon (not exclusively, such nutters exist here too) - the kind of christian who buries their head in the sand and pretends everything is black and white with no grey areas, who refuses to let anyone disagree with them.. because they don't *really* have any faith at all and they're scared to be proved wrong.
Faith without reason is unreasonable:)
Don't tar us all with the same brush... I watch the news reports from the US and have a good laugh just like you do.
I'd leave it overnight, come back in the morning and find it'd decided to use the wrong version of something and failed with some obscure error.. fdisk, start again. Gave up after a week.
It definately needs an installer... just getting the USE line right is half an hour with vi looking through the documentation, and I still never worked out a combination I was happy with.
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Only tenth?
Where where you yesterday!
It was a laugh a minute here. Really. Honest.
It depends... in nature viruses silently reproduce before killing the host. There's no reason why computer viruses couldn't do the same - this would be very effective.
It's still got the whole WPA thing built in, and uses different keys to the XP Retail... sounds like they're set up for selling it. If it was going to be a free upgrade they'd have allowed you to use your 32bit key.
OTOH there is a 'Windows XP 64 Bit (Extended Systems)' key that's non-WPA... I can't match that to a product (it's not XP x64 or XP IA64).
Oooohhhh.... you must mean x86-64!
But 86 minus 64 is only 22.
That's 10 bits less than my current processor!!!
Not at all.. they were clearly planning it. Most of us had this worked out 6 months ago... The betas haven't changed significantly in that time.
I've got a solaris machine that runs 64bit and it was made in 1999. I believe it ran 64bit even earlier than that.
MS are a little late...
It is in the UK... some shops advertise the credit card surgcharge then say 'the price you pay is the same'
IIRC there was some legal case over it and the courts said they had to sell at the advertised price. There are exceptions to this - for example if the sale is 'trade' related (similarly such stores are able to advertise ex-VAT prices, which is illegal for 'consumer' stores... for some reason computer equipment is advertised in this way).
Subsidies are really the flipside of tariffs... one lowers your prices to give you and advantage over the competition, and the other raises everyone elses prices to give you and advantage.
The WTO is supposed to stop this kind of thing, but some contries get away with it (the french are major offenders.. something they have in common with the US at last!)
Yes, actually.
There's too much damned politics on slashdot already (although it seems to be a fixation with you on that side of the pond - we laugh about it over a beer, and you flame each other incessantly on slashdot. I know which I prefer.. I *like* beer. Especially free beer.).
Stop taking the piss, Taco.
Late, unfunny *and* anti-EU.
Can they get any worse?
(No, don't answer that.. please..)
Are you serious????????
Have you even *read* slashdot in the last 24 hours?
No really, there's nothing.
At all.
Zip.
Nada.
you can have so much negative information you form a kind of singularity where not even CmdrTaco can escape?
Don't give them any more ideas.
1 or 2 jokes is funny. 30 is not funny, it's tedious. Especially on April 2nd.
Must....kill...slashdot....editors...
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Someone take the slashdot editors away and shoot them.
This ceased to be funny 12 hours ago. It's april 2nd now and they're still at it.
by IWorkForMorons (679120) Alter Relationship on Sat April 02, 12:02 AM
How about the april 1st rule?
Will I have to stay away from slashdot until the 3rd until every last part of the globe has reached the 2nd? Or will slashdot stop posting this frikkin crap?
by chill (34294) Alter Relationship on Sat April 02, 12:29 AM
Especially as it isn't april fools day any more.
GIVE IT A REST PEOPLE!!!
That's simply untrue.
CVS is atomic at the file level - always has been, from its RCS roots. You can *not* corrupt your repository with a broken commit.
You may get a partial commit, but having played with atomic commits a bit (they're not exactly hard to add to CVS.. did it years ago then took them out again) I really don't like them.
The problem is if your network is that dodgy you want to be able to restart your commit when you left of, which file-level atomicity lets you do. With commit-level atomicity you have to start all over again, which is a pain.
The important one is checkout atomicity - ie. that you get a consistent checkout even if someone else starts committing at the same time as you're updating. Some versions of CVS have this.
Agree with you about the rename.. that's actually a hard problem to solve generically (I do this kind of thing for a living and it's taken me over a year to find a way to do it that didn't suck).
by cplusplus (782679) Alter Relationship on Fri April 01, 11:26 PM
Nearly...
Ahh yes the CSM. A particular form of nutter apparently imported from the US.
Mostly they're in it for selling their own line of books, videos, etc. for which they make a pretty penny.
I had to steward for one of their conferences... they told us that they were going to get over 1000 people, and we setup for that many. 50 turned up.. I felt embarassed for the speakers.
Really they're just a fringe group, even amongst the christian groups.
Historically (up until relatively recently in fact) christians have been at the forefront of learning - a lot of the universities were founded by the belief that you could find out more about God by finding more about the universe.
:)
In fact a *real* faith doesn't need to reject anything... because if you truly believe something to be true you're not afraid of real world observations. A faith that can only hold up by rejecting most of modern science is no faith at all... it's just blind belief.
This appears to be mostly a US phenomenon (not exclusively, such nutters exist here too) - the kind of christian who buries their head in the sand and pretends everything is black and white with no grey areas, who refuses to let anyone disagree with them.. because they don't *really* have any faith at all and they're scared to be proved wrong.
Faith without reason is unreasonable
Don't tar us all with the same brush... I watch the news reports from the US and have a good laugh just like you do.
This one's been knocking around email for weeks... it's not even an April fools joke, just a poor one.
I've never got one to install...
I'd leave it overnight, come back in the morning and find it'd decided to use the wrong version of something and failed with some obscure error.. fdisk, start again. Gave up after a week.
It definately needs an installer... just getting the USE line right is half an hour with vi looking through the documentation, and I still never worked out a combination I was happy with.