*bzzzzt* wrong. While I appreciate your rabid knee-jerk blame IE attitude, javascript -- like many dynamic languages -- uses a form of GC, it is not some magic memory handler. An object graph can only be freed if there are no other objects referencing it. Without getting too technical, it's possible to write JS code that cannot be GC'd. A circular reference, for example:
var x = new Object(); var y = new Object(); x.y = y;// add expando to reference y y.x = x;// add expando to reference x
The GC cannot free x because it references y, and vice-versa.
Well, if it won't die, at least let's agree to change the theme tune while we've got the chance.
- Oisin
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Aye, but there is a/3GB switch you can use in boot.ini:
"Increases the size of the user process address space from 2 GB to 3 GB (and therefore reduces the size of system space from 2 GB to 1 GB). Giving virtual-memory- intensive applications such as database servers a larger address space can improve their performance. For an application to take advantage of this feature, however, two additional conditions must be met: the system must be running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows NT 4 Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Datacenter Server and the application.exe must be flagged as a 3-GB-aware application. Applies to 32-bit systems only."
(take from sysinternals.com, a la Mark Russinovich)
pfff, someone should rape that Clinton hoe and murder her. Now, on to more important matters: does anyone know if the Jumbo Jet in GTA can destroy the large skyscraper towers downdown by crashing into them? Seriously though, after 9/11, some cheap-ass tabloid newspapers in London printed sensational articles explaining that MS flight sim let you pilot planes into buildings.
When does it ever end? Who draws the line? are we going to let the government ru(i)n our entertainment industry? Perhaps they should be more looking into why every single non-reality TV show is a f***ing cop show -- CSI here, CSI there, Law & Order, Cold Case, Medium, etc etc. Every time I turn on the TV I see someone being stabbed, shot, strangled or some other grisley death. That's where they should start first, the line between reality and fiction is a lot thinner on TV than it is with a animated character.
Bizzare -- I have 50, yes, fifty invites just sitting in my account for the last couple of weeks -- I had 6 for ages, then it just went up to fifty. I receive ~100 spam per day due to an old 1992 account.forward, so I wonder if it's related to my perceived activity? can't see why though...
> SMS is popular in the EU because it is CHEAPER then making a call.
Also, a large factor is that we have always -- since 1996 at least -- had SMS interconnect, meaning we could send text messages between rival carriers in _both_ directions. Here in Canada, where I live now, sms interconnect was only introduced about 3 years ago IIRC; and still some of the arrangements are one-way only, meaning I can text from carrier A to B, but not receive from B to A. I'm not living long in Montreal (Ireland-born), so I can't recall what the exact arrangements are here right now -- perhaps some other Canuck can name names?
Ok, understood. Where you get annoyed about people confusing "standard" for "open", I get annoyed about people bashing m$ for no good reason. There are plenty of things to bash them over; releasing the SSCLI is not one of them, so keep it relevant.
Behold the classic, utterly moronic Slashbot post:
A) Exclaim to the world that you have no idea what you're talking about, but lay the foundation for delivering an opinion that is not yours, but you like anyway:
Personally, I have no experience with.NET
B) Start by offering a view that is completely contradictory to your next view, but is a peace offering the M$ zealots, just in case you get flamed and you can say, "well, it's not my point of view"
NET may be very good at what it was designed for
C) And the Coup-de-Grace: a completely meaningless statement with zero interesting points.
The problem is, it's not really anything new. It's a rehashed wrapper around Win32.
??? and what's Win32? a wrapper around assembly code? and what's assembly code? a wrapper around hardware? what's next?
and:
One of these days someone is going to beat them to the punch on something vital and it will be very bad for them
Ohhhh! and what's going to happen then? ehhhh, let me tell you: nothing. They will buy them up, just like everything/one else they see as a competitor or just a good acquisition.
The only difference between these things being standards is that Microsoft can't change the interfaces and say they comply with the standard. Meanwhile Java can be changed at any time by Sun.
And all other differences aside, don't you think this is the best one? Especially given the state of Java's W.O.R.A.B.O.O.T.R.R.V.A.V. (Write Once, Run Anywhere But Only On The Right Runtime Version And Vendor).
And didn't MS release the source code to the first version of the CLR? That's a lot more than Sun ever did with the JVM.
In fact, the BBC is funded by the viewers, in the form of a "TV license" fee. In Ireland and England, viewers pay this tax of sorts once a year and it enables state-funded stations like the BBC to run without any advertisements and to a lesser extent the Irish national station, RTE (Radio Telefís Éireann) which is semi-state funded, to run with significantly less ads than any North American station.
Yes, that's right, people who watch BBC have no interruptions to their viewing. No advertisements at all. Nada, zilch. The station, although funded by the government, is paid for by the people. It's worked flawlessly so far -- the BBC is world renowned as a fair, balanced and insightful news organization. I can say this truthfully as an Dublin-born Irishman living in Canada for the last few years -- anytime there has been trouble in the North [of Ireland] and I needed a truthful report, I went to the BBC, a British station. CBC -- a Canadian station -- would always show inaccurate and plainly wrong reports, heavily biased toward in favour of the crown. Whether this has anything to do with Canada's membership in the Commonwealth, I don't know.
Regardless, any change in the running of the BBC should have a watchful eye kept on it. Just my 2 [euro]cents.
Yes, but nothing stops user apps from ignoring segment descriptors -- and the operating system cannot easily check the type flag before executing the code. On the other hand, the NX (no execute) flag causes a _hardware_ interrupt which cannot be ignored by the user app if the O/S decides to act on it.
If he had just taken it on the chin and laughed about it with his mates, it wouldn't have been such a big deal.
All joking aside, I think the crux of the problem is that he hadn't any mates in the first place. That kind of escapism -- pretending you are a jedi, and almost believing it -- typically is carried out by bullied, sometimes chubby and usually socially inept kids. Now consider all the free stuff he got (new computer, signed pictures, autographs etc) for his suffering via the collective shadenfreude of those who laughed so hard, I think he's got more friends than he thinks.
The moral? There's a little bit of Ghylsain in us all.;)
When I was 6 years old -- I'm 30 now -- my wise old headmaster noticed that I had an interest in all things electrical and he promised me that exact book (the 1979 edition) if I "pulled my socks up" in my studies. As hard as it was, I stopped acting like a 6 year old for a week (throwing stuff, joking, laughing, ignoring lessons), and I was rewarded. I thought I'd never see it again; that headmaster and his gift of that book put me on track for a long and fascinating career in programming. I started coding on a zx80 barely two years later, basic of course. Nostalgia overload... I'm going to mirror and burn those pages and images onto a CD straight away!
It's just a project file buddy, the msvc 2003 compiler/linker is free. Yes, free.
John Carmack uses VS.NET because it is by far the best IDE available on any platform, by his own words, and many others'. No, I'm not trolling, it's just plain true, unfortunately. But there are still many very good free IDEs you can use with the ms compiler.
After reading the article (!), I got the distinct impression that Verizon required custom crippled firmware from Motorola themselves in order the secure their order.
3) Bad dude performs another scan with a spoofed IP (conveniently provided as an option by the popular nmap)
You are clearly not very network savvy at all. NMAP does not allow you to spoof your IP; The option...
-S [your_IP]/-e [devicename] Specify source address or network interface
...does not allow you to specify an arbitrary IP for "spoofing" -- it is, as the syntax implies, a alternate way to choose which NIC to originate the scanning from, as each NIC has a different IP.
While modern scanning techniques do not require a full TCP connection, this does not have anything to do with spoofing. If you were to perform a SYN scan with a spoofed IP, it is no longer a scan, but a standard syn-flood DOS (denial of service) attempt. You cannot directly learn open ports (e.g. portscan) while using spoofed a IP.
But in effect what you say could happen, but it wouldn't be a portscan, but rather a malicious DOS attempt.
My biggest argument against laptop is that the graphic drivers aren't updated. nVidia specifically states on their driver pages that laptop users should get updated drivers from their manufacturers. Maybe this issue is limited to Toshiba, but my graphics card's drivers have not been updated once by Toshiba since I bought my laptop a year ago.
Yep, i've got a HP Pavilion ze4400, and the drivers are updated about every 6 months, however... the main reason they ask you to get the drivers from the OEM is because often a laptop's display runs at a weird custom resolution, e.g. 1280 x 600 or something strange like that. But, my laptop's max resolution is a standard 1024 x 768 and as such I can use the latest catlyst drivers from ATI -- they work perfectly. Right now, I'm running 4.9 and my card is an IGP320 (radeon 7000) . So if your laptop's resolution is either 640x480,800x600,1024x768 or one of the other standard multiples, you should be able to install the latest Nvidia drivers. If the setup executable detects your laptop, you can add the drivers manually by using the INF file instead via the standard "update driver" dialogue.
If that is actually you Garcia, I haven't stopped laughing yet. In fact, I think I just pissed myself. If this is someone else trolling as him, even funnier.
I may be guilty of some personal ad hominem, but you/garcia imparts his on everyone with his comments.
Garcia, you are making me laugh here. Honestly. I'm not trying to debate the inability of users to understand things. This is a clear truth, and your continued mouthing about this fact is the clearest example of a Strawman I've ever read.
I mean what is your point? The modding of your original post down to a Troll is the clearest example I can find of your continued silliness.
Thank you for thanking me about my troll about your troll about my troll about your flamebait etc.
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The GC cannot free x because it references y, and vice-versa.
- Oisin
Well, if it won't die, at least let's agree to change the theme tune while we've got the chance.
- Oisin
Aye, but there is a /3GB switch you can use in boot.ini:
.exe must be flagged as a 3-GB-aware application. Applies to 32-bit systems only."
"Increases the size of the user process address space from 2 GB to 3 GB (and therefore reduces the size of system space from 2 GB to 1 GB). Giving virtual-memory- intensive applications such as database servers a larger address space can improve their performance. For an application to take advantage of this feature, however, two additional conditions must be met: the system must be running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows NT 4 Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Datacenter Server and the application
(take from sysinternals.com, a la Mark Russinovich)
- Oisin
pfff, someone should rape that Clinton hoe and murder her. Now, on to more important matters: does anyone know if the Jumbo Jet in GTA can destroy the large skyscraper towers downdown by crashing into them? Seriously though, after 9/11, some cheap-ass tabloid newspapers in London printed sensational articles explaining that MS flight sim let you pilot planes into buildings.
When does it ever end? Who draws the line? are we going to let the government ru(i)n our entertainment industry? Perhaps they should be more looking into why every single non-reality TV show is a f***ing cop show -- CSI here, CSI there, Law & Order, Cold Case, Medium, etc etc. Every time I turn on the TV I see someone being stabbed, shot, strangled or some other grisley death. That's where they should start first, the line between reality and fiction is a lot thinner on TV than it is with a animated character.
- Oisin
Bizzare -- I have 50, yes, fifty invites just sitting in my account for the last couple of weeks -- I had 6 for ages, then it just went up to fifty. I receive ~100 spam per day due to an old 1992 account .forward, so I wonder if it's related to my perceived activity? can't see why though...
- Oisin
> SMS is popular in the EU because it is CHEAPER then making a call.
Also, a large factor is that we have always -- since 1996 at least -- had SMS interconnect, meaning we could send text messages between rival carriers in _both_ directions. Here in Canada, where I live now, sms interconnect was only introduced about 3 years ago IIRC; and still some of the arrangements are one-way only, meaning I can text from carrier A to B, but not receive from B to A. I'm not living long in Montreal (Ireland-born), so I can't recall what the exact arrangements are here right now -- perhaps some other Canuck can name names?
- Oisin
Ok, understood. Where you get annoyed about people confusing "standard" for "open", I get annoyed about people bashing m$ for no good reason. There are plenty of things to bash them over; releasing the SSCLI is not one of them, so keep it relevant.
- Oisin
A) Exclaim to the world that you have no idea what you're talking about, but lay the foundation for delivering an opinion that is not yours, but you like anyway:
Personally, I have no experience with .NET
B) Start by offering a view that is completely contradictory to your next view, but is a peace offering the M$ zealots, just in case you get flamed and you can say, "well, it's not my point of view"
NET may be very good at what it was designed for
C) And the Coup-de-Grace: a completely meaningless statement with zero interesting points.
The problem is, it's not really anything new. It's a rehashed wrapper around Win32.
??? and what's Win32? a wrapper around assembly code? and what's assembly code? a wrapper around hardware? what's next?
and:
One of these days someone is going to beat them to the punch on something vital and it will be very bad for them
Ohhhh! and what's going to happen then? ehhhh, let me tell you: nothing. They will buy them up, just like everything/one else they see as a competitor or just a good acquisition.
boooorrrring.
- Oisin
And all other differences aside, don't you think this is the best one? Especially given the state of Java's W.O.R.A.B.O.O.T.R.R.V.A.V. (Write Once, Run Anywhere But Only On The Right Runtime Version And Vendor).
And didn't MS release the source code to the first version of the CLR? That's a lot more than Sun ever did with the JVM.
- Oisin
Yes, that's right, people who watch BBC have no interruptions to their viewing. No advertisements at all. Nada, zilch. The station, although funded by the government, is paid for by the people. It's worked flawlessly so far -- the BBC is world renowned as a fair, balanced and insightful news organization. I can say this truthfully as an Dublin-born Irishman living in Canada for the last few years -- anytime there has been trouble in the North [of Ireland] and I needed a truthful report, I went to the BBC, a British station. CBC -- a Canadian station -- would always show inaccurate and plainly wrong reports, heavily biased toward in favour of the crown. Whether this has anything to do with Canada's membership in the Commonwealth, I don't know.
Regardless, any change in the running of the BBC should have a watchful eye kept on it. Just my 2 [euro]cents.
- Oisin
No I'm not, you insensitive clod.
- Mumsy
Yes, but nothing stops user apps from ignoring segment descriptors -- and the operating system cannot easily check the type flag before executing the code. On the other hand, the NX (no execute) flag causes a _hardware_ interrupt which cannot be ignored by the user app if the O/S decides to act on it.
- Oisin
_one_ of, but not _the_ creator(s), right? I do see IBM names on the TR too along with others'.
I'll look a little deeper -- if you mean they started the ball rolling, then I get you.
- Oisin
Since when has SOAP been a Microsoft creation?
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
- Oisin
All joking aside, I think the crux of the problem is that he hadn't any mates in the first place. That kind of escapism -- pretending you are a jedi, and almost believing it -- typically is carried out by bullied, sometimes chubby and usually socially inept kids. Now consider all the free stuff he got (new computer, signed pictures, autographs etc) for his suffering via the collective shadenfreude of those who laughed so hard, I think he's got more friends than he thinks.
The moral? There's a little bit of Ghylsain in us all. ;)
If Google embraces firefox, they also embrace:
c om/palm
http://www.google.com/linux
http://www.google.
http://www.google.com/bsd
and
http://www.google.com/microsoft
Aren't you all a bit hot in those tinfoil hats?
- Oisin
When I was 6 years old -- I'm 30 now -- my wise old headmaster noticed that I had an interest in all things electrical and he promised me that exact book (the 1979 edition) if I "pulled my socks up" in my studies. As hard as it was, I stopped acting like a 6 year old for a week (throwing stuff, joking, laughing, ignoring lessons), and I was rewarded. I thought I'd never see it again; that headmaster and his gift of that book put me on track for a long and fascinating career in programming. I started coding on a zx80 barely two years later, basic of course. Nostalgia overload... I'm going to mirror and burn those pages and images onto a CD straight away!
- Oisin
John Carmack uses VS.NET because it is by far the best IDE available on any platform, by his own words, and many others'. No, I'm not trolling, it's just plain true, unfortunately. But there are still many very good free IDEs you can use with the ms compiler.
After reading the article (!), I got the distinct impression that Verizon required custom crippled firmware from Motorola themselves in order the secure their order.
- Ois
Ok, hands in the air. I sounded like a stuck-up idiot. I apologize, sincerely. You are correct of course.
- Oisin
You are clearly not very network savvy at all. NMAP does not allow you to spoof your IP; The option...
- Oisin
While modern scanning techniques do not require a full TCP connection, this does not have anything to do with spoofing. If you were to perform a SYN scan with a spoofed IP, it is no longer a scan, but a standard syn-flood DOS (denial of service) attempt. You cannot directly learn open ports (e.g. portscan) while using spoofed a IP.
But in effect what you say could happen, but it wouldn't be a portscan, but rather a malicious DOS attempt.
- Ois
Yep, i've got a HP Pavilion ze4400, and the drivers are updated about every 6 months, however... the main reason they ask you to get the drivers from the OEM is because often a laptop's display runs at a weird custom resolution, e.g. 1280 x 600 or something strange like that. But, my laptop's max resolution is a standard 1024 x 768 and as such I can use the latest catlyst drivers from ATI -- they work perfectly. Right now, I'm running 4.9 and my card is an IGP320 (radeon 7000) . So if your laptop's resolution is either 640x480,800x600,1024x768 or one of the other standard multiples, you should be able to install the latest Nvidia drivers. If the setup executable detects your laptop, you can add the drivers manually by using the INF file instead via the standard "update driver" dialogue.
- Oisin
If that is actually you Garcia, I haven't stopped laughing yet. In fact, I think I just pissed myself. If this is someone else trolling as him, even funnier.
I may be guilty of some personal ad hominem, but you/garcia imparts his on everyone with his comments.
- Oisin
I mean what is your point? The modding of your original post down to a Troll is the clearest example I can find of your continued silliness.
Thank you for thanking me about my troll about your troll about my troll about your flamebait etc.
- Oisin