You can't sue anybody. This is a trojan inside a pirated game. The only way it spreads is for you to deliberately install it. There's no way to differentiate it from a piece of legitimate software that sends text messages.
Jeremy Paxman said he was going to give up after about three attempts (which is what interviewers normally do - you just pursue the point long enough to show the interviewee is a weasely slime ball). Unfortunately, as he was about to wrap up the director asked him to spin it out a bit because the next segment wasn't ready. Paxman said he couldn't think of anything else to say and so had to plough on.
Except, being British, he'd have thought "rubbish bin" not "garbage can".:-)
A friend of mine had a theory that the whole upside down rubbish bin/garbage can thing was crucial to the popularity(?!) of the daleks. Any kid could put a bin on their head and *be* a dalek.
Your approach is far too naive. I can see how you could emulate a card reader, but what about a paper tape reader? You can't easily emulate that with a scanner. Or if my client has a jukebox full of 5.2Gb optical discs, how do I emulate that? Can't be done without real hardware. Or a half inch reel tape drive?
It's fine emulating those if the data is not on the associated media (but then why bother?) On the other hand if you have 200 quarter inch tapes, no qmount of emulation is going to help.
BTW big iron is not dead, it's bigger, and a VAX 11/780 was never counted as big iron. Even when new it was only a mini-computer.
I have an iPod and you know what, I really regret the fact that it isn't two ounces lighter.
Why is there such a big deal about whether something weighs three ounces or five ounces? It's irrelevant and in fact may count against the Sony offering. If you pick up two similar sized objects, your perception is that the heavier one has the higher quality.
And size. For size to be important, it would have to be significantly smaller than the current iPod for me. i.e. something that would fit comfortably into my trouser pocket. A few millimetres isn't good enough.
The success of the iPod is all about look and feel. Unless you get that right, the iPod wins.
Battery life is a bitch though. My iPod has a claimed 8 hours, which is probably long enough for a flight to San Fransisco (from London) bearing in mind I won't be listening to it all the time, but it does mean I have to make sure it is fully charged before any long journey.
'scuse my ignorance, but we are talking binary executable format aren't we? What has that got to do with the architecture of the operating system?
Sure the OS has to know how to load the binary and where to start executing from, and how to load dynamic libraries. And the app has to know how to make system calls, but these are not insurmountable issues and don't require architectural changes to the OS.
The God of the Old Testament and that of the New Testament are clearly not the same person (if that is the right word). There are many stories in the OT that show the God of it as a lying vindictive vicious bastard.
The God of the NT, we are taught is all loving and gave his only son to save us from our sins. This is clearly a different attitude from drowning everybody except Noah and his family or zapping ancient cities because there are some gay people in them or "hardening Pharoah's heart" to give you more opportunities to visit nasty plagues on the Egyptians. Do you want me to go on? The OT has literally hundreds of stories of God's nastiness.
"There's nowhere else to go. He is, as it were, the only game in town."
Err, that'll be news to the Budhists, Hindhus, humanists, atheists etc etc etc.
Unless we dismiss Christian and other religion as mere folklore (which they are), we will miss out on some critical insight into the nature of the Universe.
Christianity has always had a downer on critical thinking and learning.
The British Empire could have been a lot worse than it actually was.
For the most part it was fairly benign to the conquered people - certainly in comparison to a lot of the alternatives (thinking of the Conquistadors etc). I think the worst thing that happened was dropping the ball over the bit of land between Canada and Mexico where the British lost control of the colonists who went on to murder a lot of the natives and continue to use slave labour for fifty years after the Brits recognised it to be abhorrent.
The install process could be as simple as dragging the executable into the location you want it installed. The stuff that's done by an installer could easily happen the first time you run it. Most games I've installed recently only ask one question when you install them: "where do you want to install me?" The answer is implicit with drag and drop.
If the game does need to get stuff off the CD, it could put a message up on first run saying "put the CD back in the drive, I need the maps and graphics".
GSM is better because virtually the whole World uses it except the US. It's not technically superior but who cares about that as long as you can make a phone call?
Most of your complaints have nothing to do with the technical quality of GSM anyway, more to do with the fact that it is not very popular in the US.
I still don't think the US should move to GSM - it's old technology and things are beginning to move on at last and as you say, phone rental works.
It might be more efficient for people like Red Hat in that they don't have to pay for the labour, but that doesn't mean the labour didn't happen.
I would argue that, purely in terms of effort put in, Microsoft is vastly more efficient than OSS in that it has produced something with similar functionality to your average Linux distro with the resources of only a few thousand programmers. Before I get flamed: the main reason for this is that it only develops one of everything and what it does develop has to be saleable which must concentrate the mind somewhat. Open Source is mainly done for fun so why shouldn't there be more than one windowing system, database, word processor etc.
As to the question "does OSS destroy jobs". I think in theory it could do. If Red Hat had wanted to develop a commercial Unix clone they would have to employ hundreds of people for years. In real life I don't think it has destroyed any jobs. Bill Gates makes the mistake of assuming that without OSS the software would have got written anyway. This is clearly not the case. In a World in which OSS had not been written, the people who in our World run OSS would buy or pirate their software from probably Microsoft. Microsoft without the competition from OSS would make more money, but there would be less incentive to improve their products. They would probably employ fewer programmers.
Well any atom with three protons is lithium in my book. That makes it a metal according to my school chemistry.
Tritium, having one proton and two neutrons, is extra heavy hydrogen and might well have some metallic properties when it is a solid . Would anybody who knows what they are talking about like to comment?
Java does not have operator overloading, but it does have overloading in general. i.e. you can define multiple implementations of the equals function depending on argument types if you like. So we're really arguing about notation.
Although I miss it in Java, I do have one issue with operator overloading:
cheeseDoodle == thingamajig
and
thingamajig == cheeseDoodle
conceptually should be equivalent. If you've overloaded the == operator on cheeseDoodle but not thingamajig, this can clearly not be the case. The equivalent in Java
cheeseDoodle.equals (thingamajig)
whilst theoretically having the same problem does have an asymmetry that might get the programmer thinking about it.
If you have evidence that they have been using the electoral roll to do marketing campaigns you should report them to the Government because they would be breaking the law.
However, getting lots of junk mail does not constitute evidence. There are any number of sources they could have got that info from.
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This is complete BS.
You think a unit of distance that derives directly from the method used to measure it is arbitrary? Find me a unit that isn't arbitrary then.
NB the term parsec was coined in 1913 and the unit was used before that. It therefore had quite a lot of use before anybody even considered orbital telescopes.
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You can't sue anybody. This is a trojan inside a pirated game. The only way it spreads is for you to deliberately install it. There's no way to differentiate it from a piece of legitimate software that sends text messages.
I ran software update straight after rebooting with 10.3.5 and immediately picked up an iSync update. It might help.
Jeremy Paxman said he was going to give up after about three attempts (which is what interviewers normally do - you just pursue the point long enough to show the interviewee is a weasely slime ball). Unfortunately, as he was about to wrap up the director asked him to spin it out a bit because the next segment wasn't ready. Paxman said he couldn't think of anything else to say and so had to plough on.
Except, being British, he'd have thought "rubbish bin" not "garbage can". :-)
A friend of mine had a theory that the whole upside down rubbish bin/garbage can thing was crucial to the popularity(?!) of the daleks. Any kid could put a bin on their head and *be* a dalek.
My PC doesn't have a 3.5inch drive.
I'd like to say that is going to be an issue, but I have had a laptop without a floppy drive for four years and never missed it.
OK....
What if all my data is *on* one of those old discs? How do I get it off if the hardware's packed it in?
Your approach is far too naive. I can see how you could emulate a card reader, but what about a paper tape reader? You can't easily emulate that with a scanner. Or if my client has a jukebox full of 5.2Gb optical discs, how do I emulate that? Can't be done without real hardware. Or a half inch reel tape drive?
It's fine emulating those if the data is not on the associated media (but then why bother?) On the other hand if you have 200 quarter inch tapes, no qmount of emulation is going to help.
BTW big iron is not dead, it's bigger, and a VAX 11/780 was never counted as big iron. Even when new it was only a mini-computer.
I have an iPod and you know what, I really regret the fact that it isn't two ounces lighter.
Why is there such a big deal about whether something weighs three ounces or five ounces? It's irrelevant and in fact may count against the Sony offering. If you pick up two similar sized objects, your perception is that the heavier one has the higher quality.
And size. For size to be important, it would have to be significantly smaller than the current iPod for me. i.e. something that would fit comfortably into my trouser pocket. A few millimetres isn't good enough.
The success of the iPod is all about look and feel. Unless you get that right, the iPod wins.
Battery life is a bitch though. My iPod has a claimed 8 hours, which is probably long enough for a flight to San Fransisco (from London) bearing in mind I won't be listening to it all the time, but it does mean I have to make sure it is fully charged before any long journey.
Pi radians is 180 degrees. By visiting all the degree confluences you also visit all the interesting radian confluences.
'scuse my ignorance, but we are talking binary executable format aren't we? What has that got to do with the architecture of the operating system?
Sure the OS has to know how to load the binary and where to start executing from, and how to load dynamic libraries. And the app has to know how to make system calls, but these are not insurmountable issues and don't require architectural changes to the OS.
The God of the Old Testament and that of the New Testament are clearly not the same person (if that is the right word). There are many stories in the OT that show the God of it as a lying vindictive vicious bastard.
The God of the NT, we are taught is all loving and gave his only son to save us from our sins. This is clearly a different attitude from drowning everybody except Noah and his family or zapping ancient cities because there are some gay people in them or "hardening Pharoah's heart" to give you more opportunities to visit nasty plagues on the Egyptians. Do you want me to go on? The OT has literally hundreds of stories of God's nastiness.
"There's nowhere else to go. He is, as it were, the only game in town."
Err, that'll be news to the Budhists, Hindhus, humanists, atheists etc etc etc.
Unless we dismiss Christian and other religion as mere folklore (which they are), we will miss out on some critical insight into the nature of the Universe.
Christianity has always had a downer on critical thinking and learning.
How did they know that disobeying God was evil before they ate from from the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
The British Empire could have been a lot worse than it actually was.
For the most part it was fairly benign to the conquered people - certainly in comparison to a lot of the alternatives (thinking of the Conquistadors etc). I think the worst thing that happened was dropping the ball over the bit of land between Canada and Mexico where the British lost control of the colonists who went on to murder a lot of the natives and continue to use slave labour for fifty years after the Brits recognised it to be abhorrent.
The install process could be as simple as dragging the executable into the location you want it installed. The stuff that's done by an installer could easily happen the first time you run it. Most games I've installed recently only ask one question when you install them: "where do you want to install me?" The answer is implicit with drag and drop.
If the game does need to get stuff off the CD, it could put a message up on first run saying "put the CD back in the drive, I need the maps and graphics".
GSM is better because virtually the whole World uses it except the US. It's not technically superior but who cares about that as long as you can make a phone call?
Most of your complaints have nothing to do with the technical quality of GSM anyway, more to do with the fact that it is not very popular in the US.
I still don't think the US should move to GSM - it's old technology and things are beginning to move on at last and as you say, phone rental works.
It might be more efficient for people like Red Hat in that they don't have to pay for the labour, but that doesn't mean the labour didn't happen.
I would argue that, purely in terms of effort put in, Microsoft is vastly more efficient than OSS in that it has produced something with similar functionality to your average Linux distro with the resources of only a few thousand programmers. Before I get flamed: the main reason for this is that it only develops one of everything and what it does develop has to be saleable which must concentrate the mind somewhat. Open Source is mainly done for fun so why shouldn't there be more than one windowing system, database, word processor etc.
As to the question "does OSS destroy jobs". I think in theory it could do. If Red Hat had wanted to develop a commercial Unix clone they would have to employ hundreds of people for years. In real life I don't think it has destroyed any jobs. Bill Gates makes the mistake of assuming that without OSS the software would have got written anyway. This is clearly not the case. In a World in which OSS had not been written, the people who in our World run OSS would buy or pirate their software from probably Microsoft. Microsoft without the competition from OSS would make more money, but there would be less incentive to improve their products. They would probably employ fewer programmers.
Well any atom with three protons is lithium in my book. That makes it a metal according to my school chemistry. Tritium, having one proton and two neutrons, is extra heavy hydrogen and might well have some metallic properties when it is a solid . Would anybody who knows what they are talking about like to comment?
I think he meant the non discount shops treat you like a human being.
Java does not have operator overloading, but it does have overloading in general. i.e. you can define multiple implementations of the equals function depending on argument types if you like. So we're really arguing about notation.
Although I miss it in Java, I do have one issue with operator overloading:
cheeseDoodle == thingamajig
and
thingamajig == cheeseDoodle
conceptually should be equivalent. If you've overloaded the == operator on cheeseDoodle but not thingamajig, this can clearly not be the case. The equivalent in Java
cheeseDoodle.equals (thingamajig)
whilst theoretically having the same problem does have an asymmetry that might get the programmer thinking about it.
Because Rendezvous is currently next to useless in the situation I find myself in where none of the other computers on the network support it.
If it were adopted for Linux and especially Windows I could finally see if it is any good.
I have to get my soldering iron out and hard wire my comments.
If you have evidence that they have been using the electoral roll to do marketing campaigns you should report them to the Government because they would be breaking the law.
However, getting lots of junk mail does not constitute evidence. There are any number of sources they could have got that info from.
This is complete BS.
You think a unit of distance that derives directly from the method used to measure it is arbitrary? Find me a unit that isn't arbitrary then.
NB the term parsec was coined in 1913 and the unit was used before that. It therefore had quite a lot of use before anybody even considered orbital telescopes.
GPS is already accurate enough for most of what you are suggesting.