Saddam put in power aided by the US and allies to fight a proxy war. The Taliban and Bin Laden aided into power by the US and allies to fight a proxy war.
When someone considered a bad guy cops it, people usually say "what goes around comes around" or "you reap what you sow".
Wiping isn't necessarily going to help. The BIOS could have been compromised and the virtualization taking place there.
Many a BIOS already contains a pile of crap :
ACPI USB IPMI 2.0 SATA Infiniband
On the GX2, the BIOS is a message-passing microkernel that lives in SMI !
Wonder how your USB keyboard can be used before the OS is loaded :
> The implementation is chipset dependent. Often what happens is > that the chipset recognizes an I/O request to port 0x60 or 0x64 and > aborts the request with an SMI (system management interrupt). This > is a *very* non-maskable interrupt (more non-maskable than NMI...) > that causes the processor to save pretty much all its register state > in a special memory area, and jump to a handler in the system BIOS. > The BIOS SMI handler examines the saved register state, figures out > what the OS was trying to do, runs a software model of the PS/2 > keyboard controller's state, chats with the USB keyboard, formulates > an appropriate response, emulates the I/O instruction the OS was > trying to do, and resumes execution of the OS at the instruction > following the I/O instruction. > > Some chipsets might do it directly in hardware rather than using > the SMI+BIOS strategy.
At the OS level, a decent scheduler and not using giant locking will get you most of the way.
To get the most out of it though, the applications need to be multi-threaded and multi-threaded programming in (standard) C/C++ is not straight forward, in fact it can be almost downright impossible to debug.
Other programming languages are much more suited to multi threaded programming, particularly those that use the CSP model.
Certain colors have common associations in society, such as red with warning or green with go. Use these color associations to illustrate your point, but proceed with caution, because these associations can differ depending on the nationality of the audience.
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Saddam put in power aided by the US and allies to fight a proxy war.
The Taliban and Bin Laden aided into power by the US and allies to fight a proxy war.
When someone considered a bad guy cops it, people usually say "what goes around comes around" or "you reap what you sow".
Isreal - put into power by US and allies.
Am I making my point ?
If you'd been around for a while you'd know how old the special olympics jibe is.
There is no "fair use" in the UK.
No-one tell Darl
Here in the UK, my friend got the "you may have been a victim of fraud" for a month and then one friday he's locked out.
His shares still work but there's no login screen just a Windows logo.
I couldn't stop laughing.
He's running Knoppix on it now so he can still play his mp3s etc.
er, "shoplifters will be prosecuted" signs
I've got a nice collection of "shoplifters will be prosecuted signs" that I have shoplifted, that's an amusing diversion.
for once, wikipedia to the rescue
y stem_support
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire#Operating_s
Wiping isn't necessarily going to help. The BIOS could have been compromised and the virtualization taking place there.
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Many a BIOS already contains a pile of crap :
ACPI
USB
IPMI 2.0
SATA
Infiniband
On the GX2, the BIOS is a message-passing microkernel that lives in SMI !
Wonder how your USB keyboard can be used before the OS is loaded :
> The implementation is chipset dependent. Often what happens is
> that the chipset recognizes an I/O request to port 0x60 or 0x64 and
> aborts the request with an SMI (system management interrupt). This
> is a *very* non-maskable interrupt (more non-maskable than NMI...)
> that causes the processor to save pretty much all its register state
> in a special memory area, and jump to a handler in the system BIOS.
> The BIOS SMI handler examines the saved register state, figures out
> what the OS was trying to do, runs a software model of the PS/2
> keyboard controller's state, chats with the USB keyboard, formulates
> an appropriate response, emulates the I/O instruction the OS was
> trying to do, and resumes execution of the OS at the instruction
> following the I/O instruction.
>
> Some chipsets might do it directly in hardware rather than using
> the SMI+BIOS strategy.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/brow
While you're at it, remember that the music cartels have been prosecuted mutliple times for price fixing CDs
> Do most people feel that stealing from Walmart is wrong, since they are a huge mega-corp?
Most people feel stealing is wrong, how could they not.
I enjoy stealing, but I'd be hard pushed to convince anyone I was doing the right thing.
Dragon Naturally Speaking 8 Standard
System requirements :
256Mb RAM (512Mb preferred)
500Mb Free DIsk space
1Gb > 64Mb
so what ?
You, like some other posters, seem to think that PayPal's prices are fixed in stone forever.
Yeah, I'm sure eBay will let that happen.
At the OS level, a decent scheduler and not using giant locking will get you most of the way.
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To get the most out of it though, the applications need to be multi-threaded and multi-threaded programming in (standard) C/C++ is not straight forward, in fact it can be almost downright impossible to debug.
Other programming languages are much more suited to multi threaded programming, particularly those that use the CSP model.
Construction of Concurrent Systems Software
http://www.herpolhode.com/rob/lec1.pdf
http://www.herpolhode.com/rob/lec3.pdf
http://www.herpolhode.com/rob/lec5.pdf
My favourite, of course, is Limbo but I only know of one environment where that is implemented : Inferno
here's another discussion on a similar theme
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164547&cid
Daikatana showed the world that there is more to making a good game than knowing how to make good levels for someone else's engine.
:)
It was a lesson to the industry so not a total disaster
> Think of it like a farmer caring for his soil. Sure, he might squeeze a little more yield out in the short term, but he'll pay down the road.
Yeah, imagine if they used gallons of Monsanto insectiside, fertilizer and GM seeds instead of the organic systems they use now!
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA01
One needs 100Mb to the desktop to advertise BT and Cisco's superiority in press releases.
What is this ./ ? I don't know how reliable ./ is, do you ?
If you want spite then we can ban your products from being sold in the EU. No skin off our nose.
Money grab, nah $2.5 mill is a drop in the Mediterranean to the EU
We can change that to unlimited fines if MS don't play ball, and/or expulsion from trading in the EU.
Hmm, we'll take your $2*10^6 and raise it to unlimited fines and being barred from trading in Europe.
Or, could we talk that API specification over, maybe ?
(It's fun to be a trading bloc, ain't it?)
The $2.5mil is arbitrary. An amount to decided to be appropriate to the infraction.
Continued wilfull non-compliance can result in unlimited fines and being barred from trading in the EU.
I think they might notice expulsion from Europe.
It's $2.5mil per day now, that can change to an unlimited amount should we decide it is continued willful non-compliance.
So MS, bring it on, Turkey needs some inward investment!