FYI: 100 MB is not "HUGE". It's less then 1/2000th of the last HD I bought. What are you, living in 1999?
Well, I don't think he meant it was large sitting on his HD, but rather large being downloaded. I have a 10Mbit line, so I would download it in ~80 seconds (assuming max speed), but for someone with a 256Kbit ADSL it would be almost an hour (3200 seconds, again assuming max speed, so in reality probably over an hour).
Can someone who knows these things better than me tell me what the difference is between XD/NX and the 'eXecute' flag available in MMUs since the dawn of time (or at least since 486, don't know if 386 had it too...)?
Who, aside from perhaps RMS, is calling MS evil for trying to make money? A business can be successful and ethical. People call MS evil for doing evil things in order to make money
A few years ago, a Swedish ISP (I think it was Telia, not sure though...) said they were planning to do just that: They would offer a "CheaperNet" (no, they didn't call it that) with access to newspapers, a few communities and web mails for a lower rate (think it was 1/3 or something), but I don't think anything ever came from it... Now that I think of it, they probably announced those plans just before Telia (POTS state-monopoly, now privatized) was forced to allow other ISPs to hook up ADSL customers via their land lines without overcharging them, so maybe it was the increased competition that stopped it all...
A felony is a major offense and in many cases is an indication that the person in question is opposed to the best interests of the community.
I'm not a USian, so I don't really know your legal system all that well, but I hope this example will work out...
Let's say you go to a bar, get pretty drunk, and get into a fight. You beat the other guy up pretty badly, so he has to spend a couple of weeks in a hospital before his injuries are healed. If you did that in Sweden (where I live), you would spend time in jail, which I guess makes it a felony. Is getting too drunk one night reason enough to be stripped of your voting rights for the rest of your life?
Yeah, and why do you think western media was saying so much about it? Because many westerners were spending their Christmas in Thailand. Otherwise, it would have been a small item on page 10...
But wasn't there a Susan Calvin short story about a robot that didn't have the three laws? some kid touring the plant modified its brain while it was being assembled, and it nearly broke the arm of a guy at the plant before Susan was contacted...
The problem with this is that fines are easier to pay for more wealthy individuals. Perhaps they could be set as a percentage of a person's financial net worth?
We have something similar to this in Sweden, we call it "dagsböter" (day fine). Basically, in the lawbooks the fine is specified as "so and so many day fines" instead of fixed amounts, so if you have a well-paid job you pay more than if you're a janitor or nurse. The idea is that no matter how much money you have, you should have to spend an equal time working off your "debt to society". Not sure how it works with assets though...
It's not only a matter of saving disk/memory space; you also have the question of what to do when a bug is found in the library... Should you download a new binary of each program that uses that library? And what if the developer is on a vacation when the bug is reported, most of your programs will be fixed, but that one is still vulnerable until he gets back?
I/O Model is one of the things that are definately right with UNIX, in my opinion. What you seem to forget is that the operating system is made for application programmers, and they should not have to worry about addressing specific blocks on a specific hard-drive to read a file, they should just tell the OS "I want to read from this file" and the OS will make sure that the appropriate blocks are read into memory. And the "treat everything as a file" philosophy means that it is trivial to connect programs together - instead of writing a word processor, you write the text in an editor that you like, then run the text through a spell checker that you like, then format and print it using tools that you like - rather than having to accept whatever tools the person who wrote the word processor liked.
Well, technically, I think DNA is binary too =) what matters isn't what base you have, but what base pair. Each of those four bases match with only one of the others (don't remember which ones though). It might be a bit weird to talk about "reasons" for why DNA is the way it is, but if I do it, then the reason for using base pairs instead of bases is that it's a lot easier to detect errors in copying - if one of the bases on the copy is wrong, the DNA will not match up.
I'm not saying that XP BSODs more often than Linux does... I think we can all agree that for both OSes it's seldom enough that it is hard to get any statistical certainty(sp?).
As for decent branded hardware, I consider Promise to be a 'decent' brand when it comes to IDE controllers, but since my bluescreens started to appear after I installed the drivers for my Ultra 100TX2 card (from Promise's homepage, but appareantly _not_ signed by Microsoft), I guess they're not... On the other hand, if I use XP's driver for that card, my 180gig drive only registers as a 128gig, so unrolling those drivers is not really an option...
Nobody who uses Win2k or XP has to keep pressing the beloved Ctrl-Alt-Delete-Vulcan-Nerve-Death-Grip key combination...
That's true, cause once it bluescreens you can't use CAD - you have to press the reset button on your case to restart the box... I'll agree that Win2K/XP is a great improvement, but it still isn't 100%... (not that Linux is either, although the only times I've gotten OOPSes myself were when I was writing my own drivers...)
... and please explain to me the difference between them hating me for my beliefs (different religion) and me hating them for their beliefs (that my religion is wrong)
When a "security measure" stops Grandma from syncing her iPod but doesn't effectively thwart Mr. Evil Hacker, I consider that both annoying and ineffective (or worse than ineffective, since it provides the illusion of security).
Of course, since this feature would be disabled by default, at least in the Home Edition, Grandma will probably never even know that it's in there...
Remember, this is something to help administrators keep their boxes running (and keep people from copying the latest warez d/l'd via the corporate pipe to their USB-rings)
IIRC, this has been present in MMUs since the 486 (maybe 386 too)... Don't know why it was never used... mem pages there had the classic "RWX" permissions... I can understand why that couldn't be used in Linux (since other CPUs might not support it), but why Windows ignores those bits is beyond me...
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Eh? Doesn't that export ban just cover algorithms to encrypt/decrypt/verify? Does it also cover encrypted data? Please enlighten me ...
Where is the "+0, RMS Clone" moderation option? =)
Couldn't they just include a "Hello, World" written in Java?
It's a "Ministry of Defence" as spelled by a USian
OK, thanks for telling me =)
FYI: 100 MB is not "HUGE". It's less then 1/2000th of the last HD I bought. What are you, living in 1999?
Well, I don't think he meant it was large sitting on his HD, but rather large being downloaded. I have a 10Mbit line, so I would download it in ~80 seconds (assuming max speed), but for someone with a 256Kbit ADSL it would be almost an hour (3200 seconds, again assuming max speed, so in reality probably over an hour).
Can someone who knows these things better than me tell me what the difference is between XD/NX and the 'eXecute' flag available in MMUs since the dawn of time (or at least since 486, don't know if 386 had it too ...)?
Who, aside from perhaps RMS, is calling MS evil for trying to make money? A business can be successful and ethical. People call MS evil for doing evil things in order to make money
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It might be a good idea to read ALL he wrote
While obviously a blind person has trouble *watching* telly, they can certainly have no problem *listening* to the thing.
Hence the 50% discount rather than 100%
Laugh, it's funny
A few years ago, a Swedish ISP (I think it was Telia, not sure though ...) said they were planning to do just that: They would offer a "CheaperNet" (no, they didn't call it that) with access to newspapers, a few communities and web mails for a lower rate (think it was 1/3 or something), but I don't think anything ever came from it ... Now that I think of it, they probably announced those plans just before Telia (POTS state-monopoly, now privatized) was forced to allow other ISPs to hook up ADSL customers via their land lines without overcharging them, so maybe it was the increased competition that stopped it all ...
I'm not a USian, so I don't really know your legal system all that well, but I hope this example will work out
Let's say you go to a bar, get pretty drunk, and get into a fight. You beat the other guy up pretty badly, so he has to spend a couple of weeks in a hospital before his injuries are healed. If you did that in Sweden (where I live), you would spend time in jail, which I guess makes it a felony. Is getting too drunk one night reason enough to be stripped of your voting rights for the rest of your life?
Yeah, and why do you think western media was saying so much about it? Because many westerners were spending their Christmas in Thailand. Otherwise, it would have been a small item on page 10 ...
What, we have these things in Sweden? Where do I sign up? =)
Ehm ..... USA, socialist welfare-state? Give me some of that weed you're smoking, mon .... =)
But wasn't there a Susan Calvin short story about a robot that didn't have the three laws? some kid touring the plant modified its brain while it was being assembled, and it nearly broke the arm of a guy at the plant before Susan was contacted ...
The problem with this is that fines are easier to pay for more wealthy individuals. Perhaps they could be set as a percentage of a person's financial net worth?
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We have something similar to this in Sweden, we call it "dagsböter" (day fine). Basically, in the lawbooks the fine is specified as "so and so many day fines" instead of fixed amounts, so if you have a well-paid job you pay more than if you're a janitor or nurse. The idea is that no matter how much money you have, you should have to spend an equal time working off your "debt to society". Not sure how it works with assets though
It's not only a matter of saving disk/memory space; you also have the question of what to do when a bug is found in the library ... Should you download a new binary of each program that uses that library? And what if the developer is on a vacation when the bug is reported, most of your programs will be fixed, but that one is still vulnerable until he gets back?
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The same goes for improving algorithms
I/O Model is one of the things that are definately right with UNIX, in my opinion. What you seem to forget is that the operating system is made for application programmers, and they should not have to worry about addressing specific blocks on a specific hard-drive to read a file, they should just tell the OS "I want to read from this file" and the OS will make sure that the appropriate blocks are read into memory. And the "treat everything as a file" philosophy means that it is trivial to connect programs together - instead of writing a word processor, you write the text in an editor that you like, then run the text through a spell checker that you like, then format and print it using tools that you like - rather than having to accept whatever tools the person who wrote the word processor liked.
Well, technically, I think DNA is binary too =) what matters isn't what base you have, but what base pair. Each of those four bases match with only one of the others (don't remember which ones though). It might be a bit weird to talk about "reasons" for why DNA is the way it is, but if I do it, then the reason for using base pairs instead of bases is that it's a lot easier to detect errors in copying - if one of the bases on the copy is wrong, the DNA will not match up.
As for decent branded hardware, I consider Promise to be a 'decent' brand when it comes to IDE controllers, but since my bluescreens started to appear after I installed the drivers for my Ultra 100TX2 card (from Promise's homepage, but appareantly _not_ signed by Microsoft), I guess they're not
That's true, cause once it bluescreens you can't use CAD - you have to press the reset button on your case to restart the box
... and please explain to me the difference between them hating me for my beliefs (different religion) and me hating them for their beliefs (that my religion is wrong)
When a "security measure" stops Grandma from syncing her iPod but doesn't effectively thwart Mr. Evil Hacker, I consider that both annoying and ineffective (or worse than ineffective, since it provides the illusion of security).
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Of course, since this feature would be disabled by default, at least in the Home Edition, Grandma will probably never even know that it's in there
Remember, this is something to help administrators keep their boxes running (and keep people from copying the latest warez d/l'd via the corporate pipe to their USB-rings)
IIRC, this has been present in MMUs since the 486 (maybe 386 too) ... Don't know why it was never used ... mem pages there had the classic "RWX" permissions ... I can understand why that couldn't be used in Linux (since other CPUs might not support it), but why Windows ignores those bits is beyond me ...
No no no ... that's a solution in Perl, not a solution in Peril =)