Increasing bandwidth does not decrease latency - and it's the latency which can be annoying with web-based apps; I prefer the idea of web-deployed apps.
Come on, my old Amiga took about a minute to open a large jpeg. Just a few years ago it was common to use specialised hardware just to watch high quality video. Perhaps we're moving to an age were most PCs will be the spiritual successors to dumb terminals. They'll still be a hell of a lot more powerful than desktops of 15 years ago.
Your car may be complex, but it has relatively few ways for the user to interact with, and is likely always used in the same environment, and fundamentally the same to most every other car on the road. It's been done. Lots.
This goes doubly for your TV and even more for your toaster.
Are you saying software bugs needn't exist because mechanical and electrical engineering can be done so well? That's asinine.
Most companies I've worked for expend considerable resource in keeping track of licences, it is worth it to mitigate the expense of being caught with your pants down.
Nuisance though, for sure.
After reading the patent, best I can tell is it's saying:
"Sometimes an application tries to do something whilst running under a non-privileged account. If an application tries this we could use [magic] to interrupt the process and present a dialogue allowing a user to assume permissions of another account which we know has appropriate permissions [by magic]. Alternatively, we could [do magic] to determine if the user can elevate privileges of their own account, and allow them to do so."
I'm not sure if such a system existed when this was filed in 2005 (it certainly does now, except the bits which this patent does by magic are fully fleshed out and publicly viewable in the source), but the only non-obvious part in going from the following scenario:
rj@laptop:/$ passwd root passwd: You may not view or modify password information for root. rj@laptop:/$ sudo passwd [sudo] password for rj: Enter new UNIX password:...to what they described is the bit which they've left to magic.
Most tellingly: "the specific features and steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed invention." they're trying to steal the feature of automatic privilege escalation from anyone who wants to build it without going through MS.
"Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological steps, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or steps described. Rather, the specific features and steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed invention."
Which I read as:
"Software patents are the corporate equivalent of jerking off"
Apologies for putting words in the fellows mouth, but he probably means to say that it is not harder to cheat on consoles by virtue of closed hardware, and so lauding the decision to ban modded boxes (with the implication being that modding the console renders this cheating difficulty moot) is folly.
Certainly there is ambiguity, but given the context it, assuming that interpretation is a safe enough bet.
I use 'Password Gorilla' at work (heterogeneous Windows/Linux environment) which is compatible with passwordsafe (found it by searching for passwordsafe in synaptic). I have noticed though that passwordsafe itself works just wind in Wine.
It sounds like what you want is some sort of system disk encryption that let's you use a key on a USB device or a suitably complex password - whichever is most handy. Yep, that sounds like it just about covers all the requirements with very few downsides.
I am not usually the one to yell "Mods on crack!" but I don't really think an 'explanation' this obvious should be marked insightful. Nothing personal.... unless somebody doesn't actually know that trawl is a pun on troll in this case?
It's ambiguous at best. If a text as venerated as the New Testament were to say:
Morons on Slashdot should not post comments
Many people would assume the text is giving tacit approval to the existence of morons on Slashdot, thinking that if it didn't approve of morons on Slashdot it'd have said:
Morons on slashdot should strive to stop being morons
But then, if the bible were unambiguous, it'd just be a quirky historical text.
There are huge, very expensive marketing campaigns behind the teen-pop successes. In a pro-piracy world, those type of campaigns wouldn't make sense, so those type of artists would suffer.
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Increasing bandwidth does not decrease latency - and it's the latency which can be annoying with web-based apps; I prefer the idea of web-deployed apps.
Isn't that a distributed vcs?
Come on, my old Amiga took about a minute to open a large jpeg. Just a few years ago it was common to use specialised hardware just to watch high quality video. Perhaps we're moving to an age were most PCs will be the spiritual successors to dumb terminals. They'll still be a hell of a lot more powerful than desktops of 15 years ago.
Your car may be complex, but it has relatively few ways for the user to interact with, and is likely always used in the same environment, and fundamentally the same to most every other car on the road. It's been done. Lots.
This goes doubly for your TV and even more for your toaster.
Are you saying software bugs needn't exist because mechanical and electrical engineering can be done so well? That's asinine.
And last I checked, most cars can still crash.
Only amateurs take their iPhone out robbing.
Ahh come on. This could be more about there pride than trying to hide their crimes.
Most companies I've worked for expend considerable resource in keeping track of licences, it is worth it to mitigate the expense of being caught with your pants down. Nuisance though, for sure.
After reading the patent, best I can tell is it's saying:
"Sometimes an application tries to do something whilst running under a non-privileged account. If an application tries this we could use [magic] to interrupt the process and present a dialogue allowing a user to assume permissions of another account which we know has appropriate permissions [by magic]. Alternatively, we could [do magic] to determine if the user can elevate privileges of their own account, and allow them to do so."
I'm not sure if such a system existed when this was filed in 2005 (it certainly does now, except the bits which this patent does by magic are fully fleshed out and publicly viewable in the source), but the only non-obvious part in going from the following scenario:
rj@laptop:/$ passwd root ...to what they described is the bit which they've left to magic.
passwd: You may not view or modify password information for root.
rj@laptop:/$ sudo passwd
[sudo] password for rj:
Enter new UNIX password:
Most tellingly: "the specific features and steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed invention." they're trying to steal the feature of automatic privilege escalation from anyone who wants to build it without going through MS.
The patent says:
"Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological steps, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or steps described. Rather, the specific features and steps are disclosed as preferred forms of implementing the claimed invention."
Which I read as:
"Software patents are the corporate equivalent of jerking off"
Perhaps my reading comprehension needs some work.
Apologies for putting words in the fellows mouth, but he probably means to say that it is not harder to cheat on consoles by virtue of closed hardware, and so lauding the decision to ban modded boxes (with the implication being that modding the console renders this cheating difficulty moot) is folly.
Certainly there is ambiguity, but given the context it, assuming that interpretation is a safe enough bet.
I use 'Password Gorilla' at work (heterogeneous Windows/Linux environment) which is compatible with passwordsafe (found it by searching for passwordsafe in synaptic). I have noticed though that passwordsafe itself works just wind in Wine.
It sounds like what you want is some sort of system disk encryption that let's you use a key on a USB device or a suitably complex password - whichever is most handy. Yep, that sounds like it just about covers all the requirements with very few downsides.
Anyone know any systems like that?
I am not usually the one to yell "Mods on crack!" but I don't really think an 'explanation' this obvious should be marked insightful. Nothing personal. ... unless somebody doesn't actually know that trawl is a pun on troll in this case?
Just move into a studio apartment. Problem solved.
No, but Wall-mart might have them on sale
It's ambiguous at best. If a text as venerated as the New Testament were to say:
Morons on Slashdot should not post comments
Many people would assume the text is giving tacit approval to the existence of morons on Slashdot, thinking that if it didn't approve of morons on Slashdot it'd have said:
Morons on slashdot should strive to stop being morons
But then, if the bible were unambiguous, it'd just be a quirky historical text.
Has anyone used/liked/hated DjangoCMS?
I think in the case of PNGs, the workaround for IE^'s quirks are worth it.
in the web you have to wait 5 years for the crap old technologies to drain out after the new better one comes out.
Pah! Optimists...
Capital! Socket to the Yanks, dear countryman.
Just imagine the amount of bashers if the news would had read;
There'd be almost exactly the same number of bashers that Vista had.
<\trollfeeding>
I installed Karmic from the RC, didn't upgrade though. Backup, clean install, restore. No complaints. Didn't use the disk encryption
So if I own the rights to the characters, would I get anything at all from the continued popularity of the two good films?
There are huge, very expensive marketing campaigns behind the teen-pop successes. In a pro-piracy world, those type of campaigns wouldn't make sense, so those type of artists would suffer.
Indeed, this seems more like naive design decisions than computers sucking at math.
Sound like you just had a "laughably mild cold, without the annoyance of a stuffy nose". Seriously, it's a rare flu that doesn't bed you.