Not that it has anything to do with the arrest, because if those guys truely were a disturbance they might have deserved what they got, but you did hit a nail on the head. In so much as many lawyers spend time and resources defending acts that are in themselves economically wasteful (theft ect does not create anything, only uses up time and effort that could have been used to create something else) they further the waste. That said in some way they will always be necessary because I don't have the skill to defend myself in court when the defense really is warrented. Its one of those careful balancing acts that I think has swung to far in a destructive way.
These guys make it thier business to stand outside courtrooms and heckle lawyers and judges to demonstrate in advocacy for more open court rooms. I have no opinion on the issue but they may well have gone over the line and become a nusance. The article does a good job of not mentioning just how disruptive they might have been so its hard to say if thier arrest was warrented. I have seen quite a number of protestors go right to the edge of reasonable and beyond so its really hard to say.
I'm sure that by the time longhorn releases there will be a large number of sub $100 (actually there are now I believe) video cards that support this technology.
If they really cared about hiding the information in that buffer the cleanup code from each transaction would write zeros to the buffer before deallocating it or returning it to the "pool" whatever that might be. Unfortunately the prevention is almost always rejected as a "perf hit". As a software tester I get tired of hearing that.
IBM has more to gain here than they have to lose. They open up their admittedly large patent portfolio in the hopes that competitors open up thiers freeing some IP that IBM could really use.
Beings that humans seem to be thier own worst enemies, it would also seem that making them more powerful would make them stronger enemies for themselves and it might make them less likely to survive. Maybe moderately weak humanity is the key to its safe growth?
I wish I had points to mod this up. The parent is correct, sp2 pretty effectively stops auto installed components. Have you noticed the little yellow bar? Stuff that gets installed now is mostly people working hard to get it on thier machine. Most "free" programs today install with some sort of adware and most normal users (read as non/. savy users) install all sorts of "cool" free apps.
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That or they will insert google text ads inline with the mail. Wouldn't be hard to do at all.
The ROM chip itself is hardware, the contents of the ROM which was the toolbox is definitely software. Its not like the toolbox rom was a GUI coprocessor or some fancy type of bus or anything. If MS were to put the windows API on a ROM it would be the same as the toolbox ROM.
What it seems like is being said is that Free Software is Open Source whose derivatives are required to be Open Source. In which case there really does need to be a distinction between the two. For instance I care that my original source remains open but if you derive from it then so be it.
I don't know about you but on my SP2 box activeX controls are stopped at the door unless I click the yellow bar. Now there may be ways around that but I have not seen any spyware on my machine since I installed sp2.
Agreed, after I pressed submit I realized I didn't say exactly what I meant. I think the 90th percentile is probably what deserves an A but that isn't necessarily at 90% of questions answered correctly. On the other hand I don't like curves a lot of the time:P
I think a test where the expected grade is 50% and is graded as an A is important. The reason is that it ensures the prof can find out exactly where his class sits in ability. If your average is too high then you don't know where the upper end of knowledge lies. Of course if the test is too hard and everyone scores a 0 then you have the same problem in the opposite direction.
I think it depends on whether the libraries are commonly available and considered part of the language "framework". If they are then its not really cheating as the amount of work involved is installing the framework (which is necessary to do any development in the language) and writing 15 lines of code.
Of course multiple commands on the same line is cheating, especially in perl where you have to know all the magic to make things compact.
It depends. Ad tracking cookies and personalization cookies are often considered adware and I'd gladly let those be installed by certain companies. As far as an adware software application goes I rarely find benefit from them and certainly no benefit that outweighs the cost.
While I agree that the adware companies are taking giant leaps to make thier software uninstallable it is also a misconception that making software uninstallable is trivial. Its especially hard when the software decides to link into the network chain when it is well know that due to a bug in windows you bork things when you try to remove yourself from the chain.
The people that realy like AOL want to stay inside the walled garden. Selling the content and software without tieing the people into a particular ISP is probably a good strategy especially since providing broadband seems to be out of reach for anyone other than telcom corps.
I work in a multi cultural office and I think we might get in trouble on the discrimination front if we tried to enforce decent grammar with some of the people that work here. That said the people who are fully american, myself included, often have horrible grammar. Spelling isn't so much an issue as a result of outlook doing spell checking, though there is a stray homonym tends to sneak in.
Though its helpful to have another encyclopedic or book source to double-check the facts that are on the web source you are quoting if only the generalities.
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Not that it has anything to do with the arrest, because if those guys truely were a disturbance they might have deserved what they got, but you did hit a nail on the head. In so much as many lawyers spend time and resources defending acts that are in themselves economically wasteful (theft ect does not create anything, only uses up time and effort that could have been used to create something else) they further the waste. That said in some way they will always be necessary because I don't have the skill to defend myself in court when the defense really is warrented. Its one of those careful balancing acts that I think has swung to far in a destructive way.
These guys make it thier business to stand outside courtrooms and heckle lawyers and judges to demonstrate in advocacy for more open court rooms. I have no opinion on the issue but they may well have gone over the line and become a nusance. The article does a good job of not mentioning just how disruptive they might have been so its hard to say if thier arrest was warrented. I have seen quite a number of protestors go right to the edge of reasonable and beyond so its really hard to say.
I'm sure that by the time longhorn releases there will be a large number of sub $100 (actually there are now I believe) video cards that support this technology.
If they really cared about hiding the information in that buffer the cleanup code from each transaction would write zeros to the buffer before deallocating it or returning it to the "pool" whatever that might be. Unfortunately the prevention is almost always rejected as a "perf hit". As a software tester I get tired of hearing that.
IBM has more to gain here than they have to lose. They open up their admittedly large patent portfolio in the hopes that competitors open up thiers freeing some IP that IBM could really use.
Lego is made by the Lego Group. The company was founded in Denmark and as far as I know is still headquartered there.
Beings that humans seem to be thier own worst enemies, it would also seem that making them more powerful would make them stronger enemies for themselves and it might make them less likely to survive. Maybe moderately weak humanity is the key to its safe growth?
I wish I had points to mod this up. The parent is correct, sp2 pretty effectively stops auto installed components. Have you noticed the little yellow bar? Stuff that gets installed now is mostly people working hard to get it on thier machine. Most "free" programs today install with some sort of adware and most normal users (read as non /. savy users) install all sorts of "cool" free apps.
That or they will insert google text ads inline with the mail. Wouldn't be hard to do at all.
Sounds fun, combating copyright infringement by releasing a device that will most likely play material that was obtained by infringing copyright :)
The ROM chip itself is hardware, the contents of the ROM which was the toolbox is definitely software. Its not like the toolbox rom was a GUI coprocessor or some fancy type of bus or anything. If MS were to put the windows API on a ROM it would be the same as the toolbox ROM.
What it seems like is being said is that Free Software is Open Source whose derivatives are required to be Open Source. In which case there really does need to be a distinction between the two. For instance I care that my original source remains open but if you derive from it then so be it.
Also helps to buy a new socket as often the fingers in the original socket got loose.
Yes, I think they got them up to 12mhz or so. The problem was not really an issue of the proc so much as an issue of the ISA bus timing.
I don't know about you but on my SP2 box activeX controls are stopped at the door unless I click the yellow bar. Now there may be ways around that but I have not seen any spyware on my machine since I installed sp2.
Don't worry, you can be sure that if the tax goes well on .net domains it will be coming soon to .com and .org near you.
Agreed, after I pressed submit I realized I didn't say exactly what I meant. I think the 90th percentile is probably what deserves an A but that isn't necessarily at 90% of questions answered correctly. On the other hand I don't like curves a lot of the time :P
I think a test where the expected grade is 50% and is graded as an A is important. The reason is that it ensures the prof can find out exactly where his class sits in ability. If your average is too high then you don't know where the upper end of knowledge lies. Of course if the test is too hard and everyone scores a 0 then you have the same problem in the opposite direction.
I think it depends on whether the libraries are commonly available and considered part of the language "framework". If they are then its not really cheating as the amount of work involved is installing the framework (which is necessary to do any development in the language) and writing 15 lines of code.
Of course multiple commands on the same line is cheating, especially in perl where you have to know all the magic to make things compact.
It depends. Ad tracking cookies and personalization cookies are often considered adware and I'd gladly let those be installed by certain companies. As far as an adware software application goes I rarely find benefit from them and certainly no benefit that outweighs the cost.
While I agree that the adware companies are taking giant leaps to make thier software uninstallable it is also a misconception that making software uninstallable is trivial. Its especially hard when the software decides to link into the network chain when it is well know that due to a bug in windows you bork things when you try to remove yourself from the chain.
The people that realy like AOL want to stay inside the walled garden. Selling the content and software without tieing the people into a particular ISP is probably a good strategy especially since providing broadband seems to be out of reach for anyone other than telcom corps.
I work in a multi cultural office and I think we might get in trouble on the discrimination front if we tried to enforce decent grammar with some of the people that work here. That said the people who are fully american, myself included, often have horrible grammar. Spelling isn't so much an issue as a result of outlook doing spell checking, though there is a stray homonym tends to sneak in.
Maybe you don't have enough phsyical ram to make XP happy? I had a gig and when I turned off the swap file it never came back.
Though its helpful to have another encyclopedic or book source to double-check the facts that are on the web source you are quoting if only the generalities.