Sitting on that quantity of Unused IP adresses is just as criminal.
I do agree with you here, but... ever heard about natural selection ?
IPv4 addresses have been designed in a time when there were at most a dozen people expecting IP to be used by more than a million users in the future. Just like the w2k bug (failed to) prove, old things should eventually die so that new ones can take the free slot. Yup, just like spammers should die so that other people may use those IP slots, but I digress.
IPv6 is here and would resolve the problem. This requires a huge switch however, and people won't be ready for it unless natural selection proves IPv4 hopelessly doomed.
So let spammers accumulate IPv4 addresses just a little more;)
Not really, IMHO the smart move here would be for nVidia to adapt its "optimization strategy" to release a driver with various hacks available (and accessible to the end user) that can be used on many games to increase rendering speed while sacrificing quality or some features.
Of course, each hack would or would not work with any particular game, but trial and error can be used to detect the "best set of hacks" for any particular game on any particular card. And we all know how geeks love tweaking things to the metal, just look at gentoo's current popularity.
Then FutureMark would get themselves a name as *the* benchmark software to run on end users' machines to test the hacks.
Actually SearchKing got pissed after Google changed the rules in reaction to SearchKing abusing the ranking system in the first place.
It's like a crybaby screaming because his parents realized he found a way to the cookie jar and finally locked the cupboard door... and it's quite sad that complains like these are allowed to made it to court and waste justice time...
Good thing they lost anyway. Sorry SearchKing, go find another business model:)
Actually, I would say market dominance _is_ enough for Microsoft. What they're doing, and what I consider a smart move, is thinking of market share as an evolving variable instead of the numbers for the current year.
Linux, for instance, is an evolving force, in the ascending part of its life curve. Microsoft is at the top of its own curve right now (some may say that started falling already) and to them the concept of "market share" now involves an evironment working against them rather than towards them.
Thus their harsh move of self-preservation. This is not really different from recent moves by the RIAA, and it's actually smarter, but it probably won't work, because the ascending side of their curve is behind them now...
In our case the "next great surge" would be the handhelds and wireless technologies, which will represent the major IT knowledge investments in the upcoming years... until the bubble pops again.
Time to get back hacking this GBA again.
NTLM is good for some people
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Many people will consider NTLM support as superfluous pro-MS bloatware and another useless addition to Mozilla.
I'd like to point out this is just plain wrong. There are many developers that are forced to use IE to do their job just because the company's product runs on IIS and uses NTLM.
Mozilla supporting NTLM means better ways of testing software for these developers, as well as giving a better idea of the web homogeneity of the product.
Free myself from IE at work ! Go for NTLM, Mozilla !:)
Now you can buy all new software as nothing from prior to Longhorn will run as it will be missing all it's API calls.
Hmm, I don't think so, but you almost got it. I propose "nothing prior to W2K will run" instead.
Just look in the MSDN docs, and you'll find that many API functions fall into two categories:
* For compatibility only, use xxxEx (or xxx32, etc) in new applications, or
* This functions supports 437 state flags, 32 of which go back to W3.1, 12 available on NT4, 42 if you have IE4, but 10 more if you have IE5, 120 more on W2K, lather, rinse, repeat.
By cleaning these APIs only, they will reach their goal. Of course "old" W31 and maybe NT4 (since they seem to have abandoned support ahead of schedule) apps that rely on non-Ex, non-32 APIs won't run anymore.
I don't think there are many. When was the last time you used a LoadLibrary() or a Sleep() that wasn't #defined to LoadLibrary32W() or SleepEx() ?
So the first category is easy to remove quasi-seemlessly. The second category is tougher, though, and the XAML thingie is an answer as good as another, mainly putting the messaging and various (state, style, capabilities) flags into XML form so they can be supported (or not) without harm on platforms to come. This would allow future developers to use the TVIS_EXTRANEWCOOL state flag without breaking the app on a customer site which runs a lower version.
And be sure they will provide a "compatibility" mode, which requires no XAML. In fact, they already had it for years : today in the MS world you can access most of the APIs with only 4 (four) functions:
I spent about 1 month there last summer. What was amazing is that Japan doesn't have much of it's own culture.
Congratulations for your awesome sociologic conclusions, so quick after only one month spent there. Obviously you're an expert. Of the trollish kind. I'll bite however.
Tokyo is just like being in NYC except there are no beggars, crime, and everyone is Japanese. But as far as the music, movies, clothing, etc it's all western.
You actually have a point here, hence my reply. Japanese people tend to be affected by US culture and entertainment much faster than other countries. However traditions are still there, and only time will tell.
Additionally, Tokyo is safer than NYC.
Wadoku desaka eiga -where is the movie theatre. At least if I remember my japanese correctly.
You don't. You probably mean "Eigakan wa doko desu ka". Or maybe not.
It doesn't do you much good to learn how to ask questions because most of the time they respond in Japanese which you probably cant understand. The kanji is a bit hard to memorize as well.
Thank you very much for your concern. Don't you think your arrogance is not well suited here ? As well as posts like this one ? Welcome to my foe list, child.
Yup, most modern and good anime have not-so-good endings indeed. Older anime like Harlock, Grendizer or *shrug* DBZ did have more happy endings.
IMHO this also applies to most of Japanese art, including good movies like Unagi for instance. Of course, as another poster said, this kind of trick is not appreciated by some people, to whom entertainment should rhyme with happy endings.
This is probably linked to the fact that Manga and Anime are recognized as high-level media in Japan. Most of the good novels I've read don't have happy endings. Most of the classics have awful endings. This, also, is part of entertainment.
One thing I liked in Cowboy Bebop was the sad ending. No happy ending, no hollywood crap, good japanese drama:)
Re:Isn't this the problem with Linux?
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In the current trend of free software, "release early, release often" is actually the thing to do. They don't force anyone to use their code, they just released it.
Plus, one needs some overkill hacker spirit to perform such a feat, it's been only four days since source code was released after all. The kind of people that do such things go for score first, and perfection second, because that's what it takes to endure the lack of sleep;)
In other news, criminals are now able to use "cars", new transportation means that allow them to quickly escape after perpetrating crimes. FBI is looking for a way to monitor all cars in order to ensure security.
You can tell high-level languages are the standard when someone proposes to switch a whole architecture to the x86 platform.
Remember the times the x86 was pointed at because of its lack of registers ? Recently read an pentium to-the-metal optimization guide, and discovered you had to recode your optimizations backwards to port them from p3 to p4 ?
I can't possibly understand how a switch to intel processors can possibly benefit Apple...
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Indeed. A nasty typo escaped the previewing. The beer is to blame ;)
I guess I woudn't happen if I used MS beer, though.
Sitting on that quantity of Unused IP adresses is just as criminal.
;)
I do agree with you here, but... ever heard about natural selection ?
IPv4 addresses have been designed in a time when there were at most a dozen people expecting IP to be used by more than a million users in the future. Just like the w2k bug (failed to) prove, old things should eventually die so that new ones can take the free slot. Yup, just like spammers should die so that other people may use those IP slots, but I digress.
IPv6 is here and would resolve the problem. This requires a huge switch however, and people won't be ready for it unless natural selection proves IPv4 hopelessly doomed.
So let spammers accumulate IPv4 addresses just a little more
They may finally be able to avoid too many civilian casualties and "friendly fire", wouldn't they ?
Not really, IMHO the smart move here would be for nVidia to adapt its "optimization strategy" to release a driver with various hacks available (and accessible to the end user) that can be used on many games to increase rendering speed while sacrificing quality or some features.
Of course, each hack would or would not work with any particular game, but trial and error can be used to detect the "best set of hacks" for any particular game on any particular card. And we all know how geeks love tweaking things to the metal, just look at gentoo's current popularity.
Then FutureMark would get themselves a name as *the* benchmark software to run on end users' machines to test the hacks.
Or maybe I'm just dreaming.
Actually SearchKing got pissed after Google changed the rules in reaction to SearchKing abusing the ranking system in the first place.
:)
It's like a crybaby screaming because his parents realized he found a way to the cookie jar and finally locked the cupboard door... and it's quite sad that complains like these are allowed to made it to court and waste justice time...
Good thing they lost anyway. Sorry SearchKing, go find another business model
I'm suprised they didn't try to pull this feat on Emacs first though.
:)
Next in line, "sendmail configuration files used as crypto keys"
"View selection source" in Mozilla shows (quite) instantly that he's used the following elements :
;)
<b> <ol></ol></b><br>
This is probably one of many ways to fool the system
I don't think BT is such a good shortcut for BitTorrent... especially since you live in the UK ;)
I am in google, therefore I am.
Actually, I would say market dominance _is_ enough for Microsoft. What they're doing, and what I consider a smart move, is thinking of market share as an evolving variable instead of the numbers for the current year.
Linux, for instance, is an evolving force, in the ascending part of its life curve. Microsoft is at the top of its own curve right now (some may say that started falling already) and to them the concept of "market share" now involves an evironment working against them rather than towards them.
Thus their harsh move of self-preservation. This is not really different from recent moves by the RIAA, and it's actually smarter, but it probably won't work, because the ascending side of their curve is behind them now...
In our case the "next great surge" would be the handhelds and wireless technologies, which will represent the major IT knowledge investments in the upcoming years... until the bubble pops again.
Time to get back hacking this GBA again.
Many people will consider NTLM support as superfluous pro-MS bloatware and another useless addition to Mozilla.
:)
I'd like to point out this is just plain wrong. There are many developers that are forced to use IE to do their job just because the company's product runs on IIS and uses NTLM.
Mozilla supporting NTLM means better ways of testing software for these developers, as well as giving a better idea of the web homogeneity of the product.
Free myself from IE at work ! Go for NTLM, Mozilla !
Now you can buy all new software as nothing from prior to Longhorn will run as it will be missing all it's API calls.
:
:)
Hmm, I don't think so, but you almost got it. I propose "nothing prior to W2K will run" instead.
Just look in the MSDN docs, and you'll find that many API functions fall into two categories:
* For compatibility only, use xxxEx (or xxx32, etc) in new applications, or
* This functions supports 437 state flags, 32 of which go back to W3.1, 12 available on NT4, 42 if you have IE4, but 10 more if you have IE5, 120 more on W2K, lather, rinse, repeat.
By cleaning these APIs only, they will reach their goal. Of course "old" W31 and maybe NT4 (since they seem to have abandoned support ahead of schedule) apps that rely on non-Ex, non-32 APIs won't run anymore.
I don't think there are many. When was the last time you used a LoadLibrary() or a Sleep() that wasn't #defined to LoadLibrary32W() or SleepEx() ?
So the first category is easy to remove quasi-seemlessly. The second category is tougher, though, and the XAML thingie is an answer as good as another, mainly putting the messaging and various (state, style, capabilities) flags into XML form so they can be supported (or not) without harm on platforms to come. This would allow future developers to use the TVIS_EXTRANEWCOOL state flag without breaking the app on a customer site which runs a lower version.
And be sure they will provide a "compatibility" mode, which requires no XAML. In fact, they already had it for years : today in the MS world you can access most of the APIs with only 4 (four) functions
- CoCreateInstanceEx()
- IUnknown::QueryInterface()
- IDispatch::GetIdsOfNames()
- IDispatch::Invoke()
Yes, it is a pity. Yes, even DirectX works that way, and they can hide the whole DirectX API (which is huge) under those 4 functions if they want to.
I can't see how they can't succeed. However if the MSDN docs get thinner afterwards I'll consider myself happy
I spent about 1 month there last summer. What was amazing is that Japan doesn't have much of it's own culture.
Congratulations for your awesome sociologic conclusions, so quick after only one month spent there. Obviously you're an expert. Of the trollish kind. I'll bite however.
Tokyo is just like being in NYC except there are no beggars, crime, and everyone is Japanese. But as far as the music, movies, clothing, etc it's all western.
You actually have a point here, hence my reply. Japanese people tend to be affected by US culture and entertainment much faster than other countries. However traditions are still there, and only time will tell.
Additionally, Tokyo is safer than NYC.
Wadoku desaka eiga -where is the movie theatre. At least if I remember my japanese correctly.
You don't. You probably mean "Eigakan wa doko desu ka". Or maybe not.
It doesn't do you much good to learn how to ask questions because most of the time they respond in Japanese which you probably cant understand. The kanji is a bit hard to memorize as well.
Thank you very much for your concern. Don't you think your arrogance is not well suited here ? As well as posts like
this one ? Welcome to my foe list, child.
Yup, most modern and good anime have not-so-good endings indeed. Older anime like Harlock, Grendizer or *shrug* DBZ did have more happy endings.
IMHO this also applies to most of Japanese art, including good movies like Unagi for instance. Of course, as another poster said, this kind of trick is not appreciated by some people, to whom entertainment should rhyme with happy endings.
This is probably linked to the fact that Manga and Anime are recognized as high-level media in Japan. Most of the good novels I've read don't have happy endings. Most of the classics have awful endings. This, also, is part of entertainment.
One thing I liked in Cowboy Bebop was the sad ending. No happy ending, no hollywood crap, good japanese drama :)
In the current trend of free software, "release early, release often" is actually the thing to do. They don't force anyone to use their code, they just released it.
;)
Plus, one needs some overkill hacker spirit to perform such a feat, it's been only four days since source code was released after all. The kind of people that do such things go for score first, and perfection second, because that's what it takes to endure the lack of sleep
So let's say, good job, wait and see ?
In other news, "April Fools Day proved to have same effect as Full Moon on schizophrenetic individuals".
Bah.
In other news, criminals are now able to use "cars", new transportation means that allow them to quickly escape after perpetrating crimes. FBI is looking for a way to monitor all cars in order to ensure security.
This is getting boring. Really.
"Since P2P consumes our bandwidth anyway, we may as well provide the games ourselves and make a buck in the process".
Smart move though.
You can tell high-level languages are the standard when someone proposes to switch a whole architecture to the x86 platform.
Remember the times the x86 was pointed at because of its lack of registers ? Recently read an pentium to-the-metal optimization guide, and discovered you had to recode your optimizations backwards to port them from p3 to p4 ?
I can't possibly understand how a switch to intel processors can possibly benefit Apple...
Ham says he plans to equip police cars with handheld computers from Symbol Technologies.
Please ensure the handhelds are soldered to the car. If they're lost or stolen our state-of-the-art cops will have trouble saving face.
This is interesting indeed, since what you say is a carbon copy of
this post from the duped story.
Dupe stories, dupe posts. I guess you just had it the slashdot way...
...by having the satellites deliberately and randomly return inaccurate information on where they are.
;)
Isn't that supposed to be terrorism ?
It is often hard to derive Japanese art and not lose that something that made the movie enjoyable.
I hope Hollywood does a better job with Lupin than with The Ring... I don't have much hope, touch, since Lupin is 1) animation and 2) based on humor.
Maybe it will be better than scooby-doo...