"pass a law making it a crime not to hand over the keys"
Unfortunatley we already have this law in the UK - it's called the RIP Act. The penalty for not handing over a key, even if you have forgotten it, is a two year jail sentence.
Games are not really a good measure of the speed of an O/S GUI combination. When you are running a game, you are really bypassing the window manager and using a very minimal set of the O/S (saving and loading files, things like that). It's more of a test of DirectX, OpenGL or what have you, which are pretty hardware dependant anyway.
A better test would be, say: compare Windows 2000 and Office 2000 against the latest KDE and Koffice. Open 3 copies of a 50M file, and set each one to search for a word in the middle of the document, then maximise and minimise the windows in turn. That way you are testing things like task switching and widget drawing under a load.
Yes, but if you look here about 5 million Microsoft shares were sold in August alone.
So by your logic, M$ must be doing about 30 times worse than Redhat.
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That's interesting, but there's probably a reason why it's only used on vending machines - if you lose your phone, it would take a very long time to drain your account by buying stuff from a vending machine !
The system I was working on could handle much larger transactions, and thus had to be protected by a pin number - in other words, you were actually running an application on the bank's servers rather than sending an SMS message.
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I worked on an application for IBM, which would have allowed people to pay for goods in shops using just a WAP phone - no need to carry cash or credit cards around any more. The money would be transferred instantly, and the shop would straight away receive an email informing them that the transaction had gone through.
However, it never got past the demo stage, I think because banks were worried about upsetting the card companies. It's a shame really, I thought that could have been a killer app for WAP.
You can also bet that if any planes deviate from their preset flight paths over the US, a couple of F-15's will be up in the air to escort the plane in to landing.
Yes, so silly that people like IBM, who have 'spent decades running software markets' wouldn't touch it with a bargepole...oh wait, hang on a minute...;-)
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Presumably you have a source for this and aren't just making it up ?
MacDonalds ? Wow...you must really hate those guys.
When we're winning
We'll be singing
I get knocked down
But I dont give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"We could walk for ever
walking on
walking on the moon..."
I get knocked down
But I don't give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times:
"This is ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pill and put your helmet on..."
I get knocked down
But I don't give a shit
Cos in space there ain't no up or down
We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing
It's 'copyright', not 'copywright'.
Unfortunatley we already have this law in the UK - it's called the RIP Act. The penalty for not handing over a key, even if you have forgotten it, is a two year jail sentence.
"He who has the gold makes the rules"
A better test would be, say: compare Windows 2000 and Office 2000 against the latest KDE and Koffice. Open 3 copies of a 50M file, and set each one to search for a word in the middle of the document, then maximise and minimise the windows in turn. That way you are testing things like task switching and widget drawing under a load.
Sorry, I am rambling.
Not only did they lie, they also falsified evidence.
Yes and remember they even tried to sue /. because somebody posted their *copyrighted* amendments here...
Yes and of course, it will only run with Windows 2000 as the server, and Win XP as the client.
Yeah, or playing quake...imagine the FPS...;-)
So by your logic, M$ must be doing about 30 times worse than Redhat.
The system I was working on could handle much larger transactions, and thus had to be protected by a pin number - in other words, you were actually running an application on the bank's servers rather than sending an SMS message.
I have reported you to the FBI.
;-)
Just kidding
However, it never got past the demo stage, I think because banks were worried about upsetting the card companies. It's a shame really, I thought that could have been a killer app for WAP.
I just checked www.internnettraficreport.com. All their indices are down at zero. Very odd.
Hehe, I noticed that too :-)
C### ?? Is that a new language from Microsoft ;-) ?
Erm...websphere, visual age, DB2...I don't think they are 'rarely used'.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with Linux.
You can also bet that if any planes deviate from their preset flight paths over the US, a couple of F-15's will be up in the air to escort the plane in to landing.
- the International Court of Human Rights, which the US opposed since it believed its own soldiers could be called to trial there.
- the recent UN Racism conference, which the US pulled out of because of the suggestion that Israel might be racist towards the Palestinians.