For example, every modern RISC requires that the programmer issue cache flush instructions when modifying executable code.
Even Motorola decided to require this for later 68K processors too, which in the short term did cause compatibility issues (remember when the MC68040-based Mac Quadra was released and the programs incompatible with it?).
or go back to the saner architecture of nt 3.0/3.1/3.5, where only the kernel and its designated MS helpers ran at level 0 to start with. the world started to go to hell when they allowed the video driver into level 0.
That would have been useless, as the rootkit had nothing to do with the Win32 subsystem. It involved the file system, which has been in kernel mode from the beginning of NT.
It is a lot easier to deny knowing about some product defect if it is just talked about in a meeting. However, if there are chat or email records then the company is more likely to get into trouble. It depends on what sort of logs they keep and how often everything is erased.
Not that it is a good idea in the first place to do this, especially in this day and age.
I am trying to avoid actually dropping bombs if at all possible.
Short of that, citizens need to start getting their heads out of asses, do some real research on the actual issues that matter, and then not vote based on a letter next to a name.
Sounds like a good idea, personally my favorite US president would be Ron Paul.
I wonder how On2 shareholders will react to open sourcing of VP8. Seems that the increase of $26.5 million to the offer was a major victory for them. Any activists willing to comment?
I know, and I can understand sometimes there is real reason such things are needed.
That, & the fact that most employers don't generally like people who run around publicly trashing their former employer, even if they have fully legitimate reasons to do so.
Microsoft abandoned that at about the NT 4.0 point.
Actually after NT 4.0 over the service packs before 2000. By the time of NT 4.0 SP6 and Windows 2000 RC1, only x86 and Alpha was supported, then Compaq decided to drop Alpha NT and by Windows 2000 RTM, only x86 was supported.
You apparently do not understand how senior manager are paid in a public corporation - their rewards are DIRECTLY tied to the performance of the company's stock.
Yep, I know, and it is far from good! We need to move away from maximizing shareholder value! The good news is from what I read, there seems to be a movement to change the MBA curriculum to fix the problems. I read the http://blogs.hbr.org/ every day now, and it has some articles on these problems, some of which I have even submitted to Slashdot.
Yea, as I said, the fight against mainframe emulators and other clone mainframes has a long history. It was once the topic of anti-trust lawsuits against IBM. Amdahl has to fight with IBM in order to allow their OSes to run on mainframes. And if you think x86 was bad enough, look at how many undocumented instructions are in IBM mainframes and used by IBM mainframe operating systems. Amdahl had to sign a often expensive TIDA with IBM in order to obtain documentation, and I think it took a fight before even that was possible.
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And Apple has it's own extension to ISO 9660 too.
On this issue, here is some threads from Ars Technica's forums:
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20687&hilit=actiblizzard
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=50015&hilit=actiblizzard
Yea, I know, the problems of shareholder value and the quarterly earnings game and the problem of top-down command and control.
For example, every modern RISC requires that the programmer issue cache flush instructions when modifying executable code.
Even Motorola decided to require this for later 68K processors too, which in the short term did cause compatibility issues (remember when the MC68040-based Mac Quadra was released and the programs incompatible with it?).
Stop allowing the creation of the next Microsoft, guys.
Ha? MS tried to abuse their monopoly to illegally kill competition, for one thing.
What do you think of Ron Paul?
or go back to the saner architecture of nt 3.0/3.1/3.5, where only the kernel and its designated MS helpers ran at level 0 to start with. the world started to go to hell when they allowed the video driver into level 0.
That would have been useless, as the rootkit had nothing to do with the Win32 subsystem. It involved the file system, which has been in kernel mode from the beginning of NT.
On the other hand, being too out-of-touch is not a good idea either.
It is a lot easier to deny knowing about some product defect if it is just talked about in a meeting. However, if there are chat or email records then the company is more likely to get into trouble. It depends on what sort of logs they keep and how often everything is erased.
Not that it is a good idea in the first place to do this, especially in this day and age.
Drop a bomb on the shit and start over.
I am trying to avoid actually dropping bombs if at all possible.
Short of that, citizens need to start getting their heads out of asses, do some real research on the actual issues that matter, and then not vote based on a letter next to a name.
Sounds like a good idea, personally my favorite US president would be Ron Paul.
Which was a based on an older dump of VP3.
I wonder how On2 shareholders will react to open sourcing of VP8. Seems that the increase of $26.5 million to the offer was a major victory for them. Any activists willing to comment?
Yea, I know. The real problem is how to fix this.
It would be much better for them to try and get permission to disclose.
If any Googlers want to leak me s3cr3t information, I promise anonymity
Looks like a very questionable idea, would probably break NDA, for one thing
Nondisclosure agreements & non-compete clauses.
I know, and I can understand sometimes there is real reason such things are needed.
That, & the fact that most employers don't generally like people who run around publicly trashing their former employer, even if they have fully legitimate reasons to do so.
This needs to be fixed, though.
How and why?
just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.
Any ideas why? And how to fix at least some of them?
Microsoft abandoned that at about the NT 4.0 point.
Actually after NT 4.0 over the service packs before 2000. By the time of NT 4.0 SP6 and Windows 2000 RC1, only x86 and Alpha was supported, then Compaq decided to drop Alpha NT and by Windows 2000 RTM, only x86 was supported.
Yea, Steve Jobs personally said it publicly.
You apparently do not understand how senior manager are paid in a public corporation - their rewards are DIRECTLY tied to the performance of the company's stock.
I know, and an important step in moving away from maximizing shareholder value and the quarterly earnings game is to move away from that. This article from HBR talks about it:
http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/how-to-fix-executive-pay/2009/07/scrap-stock-based-compensation.html
Yep, I know, and it is far from good! We need to move away from maximizing shareholder value! The good news is from what I read, there seems to be a movement to change the MBA curriculum to fix the problems. I read the http://blogs.hbr.org/ every day now, and it has some articles on these problems, some of which I have even submitted to Slashdot.
Yea, as I said, the fight against mainframe emulators and other clone mainframes has a long history. It was once the topic of anti-trust lawsuits against IBM. Amdahl has to fight with IBM in order to allow their OSes to run on mainframes. And if you think x86 was bad enough, look at how many undocumented instructions are in IBM mainframes and used by IBM mainframe operating systems. Amdahl had to sign a often expensive TIDA with IBM in order to obtain documentation, and I think it took a fight before even that was possible.
Incomplete.
Makes me sad that schestowitz don't comment on slashdot anymore.