Because the browser brings actual, visible new features, while the OS doesn't? (You can't *see* stability improvements, security improvements, more drivers, etc)
However, the problem with this powered exo-skeleton is that just the act of adding more weight, even if it is "self supporting", makes the soldier slower and less mobile (because of extra inertia).
Newton's Second Law states that F = ma - that is, the applied force and resultant acceleration are proportional. Increase the mass, and increase the force, and the acceleration remains the same.
No, a soldier couldn't hope to be as nimble laden down with all this crap if he had to rely on his muscles, but that's the point - he wouldn't ahve to. The exo-skeleton would provide the necessary power to drive the thing just as quickly.
No, it's anyone who dishes out justice or punishment without official power to do so. Just because there's no authority to combat spam doesn't mean that those who take it upon themselves to do so aren't vigilantes.
This is the emergence of a regulatory force in the absence of any. That is not vigilantism.
Actually, that's precisely what it is, until and unless such force becomes official, either by sanction from an appropriate body, or by default.
Indeed. IBM registers a couple of thousand of patents each year, and in the (relatively distant) past has been just as evil as MS is percieved to be today. MS, on the other hand, has not (to my knowledge) used a single patent offensively.
Besides which, yes it's a dumb patent, but is that MS's fault, or the patent office's? If I ask you for a thousand dollars and you give it to me, thus ending up unable to pay bills, isn't that your fault for being stupid enough to do it?
I would venture to guess that they speak in codes, or talk around the subject, or just plain don't send that sort of thing by mail.
Back in 2000 a couple of Acts were passed that allow various authorities the power to demand access to decryption keys; it's not like this is anything new.
I used to have a boss that would refer to you as a resource to your face
Where I work, it's the norm to speak of needing "a design resource" rather than "a designer", or that "there may be issues getting enough resource" rather than "we might not have enough people".
I try not to let it bother me; sometimes I even succeed.
No, that's talking about the Electronic Communications Act, not the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. From the article (towards the end):
He also points to the powers potentially available to the security services, the Police, the Courts and others under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, better known as RIPA.
"RIPA grants a power which allows certain authorities to force the disclosure of information that is stored in an encrypted form," said McGinty, "and in certain circumstances it can force the disclosure of the encryption key itself."
I'm assuming that this renewed call for these powers means that the RIP Act isn't available to enough authorities, or is too hard to invoke or something.
Why? Sure, it's not the world's greatest name, but it's no worse (to me) than say Mandriva (why, Mandrake, why?)
if I'm going to pay $30 for a digital movie, I would much rather have it on a DVD where I can play it wherever I want than a digital media file with so much DRM that I have to give my first born to get it to play on ONE computer, much less my 4 computers
I adore the irony of a person decrying an OS for supposed integration of DRM favouring DVDs with their CSS encryption, region-locking and associated law suits...
And I can just forget linux, because obviously those FSF people are too inconsiderate to give us "features" like trusted computing.
Hey, here's an idea - how about you wait until the OS has been released and reviewed (or at least previewed from a release candidate build) before ripping it to shreds for imagined undesirable features?
I currently have an old 2.4GHz P4 (the B revision, iirc), and am thinking of upgrading. I'd been drooling over the Athlon X2, mainly for the cool factor I admit (as I mostly do gaming on this box, with a little C# and Java development now and again). By "gaming" I mean Half Life 2, Doom 3, UT2k4, that sort of thing.
I have an AGP GeForce 6800GT, and would like to pair it with a suitable processor and RAM. So, the question is, is it worth holding out for DDR2, or should I just upgrade now? What are the real-life performance benefits of DDR2 over "normal" DDR? For that matter, will these systems even support AGP? (I'm going to have enough trouble convincing my gf to let me upgrade as it is, without having to replace a brand new graphics card at the same time...)
So on x86 when you think about upgrading that 2 year old CPU to something new, well the pin layout has changed and you need to buy a new motherboard, with new type of Ram, and now new components (SATA, PCI-X etc...)
I've had the same basic type of RAM in my machine for at least 4 years, and the same basic type of hard drive and optical drive for 7. I've had the same basic type of graphics card for at least 5 years. In that time I'm on at least my fourth new motherboard and processor.
Yes, new technologies are developed that replace the old ones - that's called progress. Or would you prefer that we were all still using 8bit machines like we were 20 years ago?
Besides which, isn't the memory controller for AMD systems integrated into the CPU? It stands to reason then - new RAM, new CPU, new CPU with different features, new pin out...
Again, so what? So they know I go to amazon and slashdot and the BBC news site and tekheads and scarygoround etc etc - so what? What exactly are they going to do with that information that is detrimental to me or my interests? Target ads at me?
I have *never* bought a product due to an ad on a website; hell, I hardly even see them, let alone click on them.
Let them expend their time, energy and money tracking and targetting me, I don't care; why should I? What can they actually *do*?
I actually used Linux in 1999, and as far as I remember no such functionality existed in Mandrake or RedHat. RH was just starting to release Red Carpet iirc, but I don't remember any automatic update support.
But you got your +1, Bashes MS while Praising Linux mod, so congrats.
That said, here in the UK you cannot be forced or coerced into signing a contract; I cannot believe that the same is not the case in the US. Further, as others have pointed out, a contract is an agreement between two parties. If there is something you object to, tell them, tell them why, and suggest changes.
But really, there's only one thing you need to know (and others have said it already): speak to a lawyer NOW. It doesn't matter what your employer says (unless you get it on tape or witnessed, etc), it matters what you sign your name against.
Yeah, I've never understood that. Getting together with a few friends in a bar to drink and chat about sports is social, but getting together with a few friends to play a (non-sports, non-physical) game isn't? For that matter, playing a physical/sports game with them would be?
Why do you say that? IE is not integrated into the OS, other than by virtue of the fact that parts of the desktop shell use mshtml.dll to render HTML, as do third party apps (because it's guaranteed to exist on the system).
Privilege escalation exploits typically occur when a process starts with or obtains higher privileges (eg Apache on linux typically starts as root), and is then "tricked" into holding on to them longer than it should. IE doesn't do this, it runs as the invoking user. Unless you have a specific issue in mind, I don't think you have any reason to think that IE is more likely to offer a privilege escalation exploit than any other piece of software running under Windows.
(not that it matters, as the vast majority of Windows users run as admin anyway...)
For databases, it would make more sense to have a license for X thousand transactions, or Y amount of data.
So you continue paying over time? Or you licence your RDBMS for X thousand transactions, and when it hits that limit, it stops serving requests? Similarly, what if you licence it for Y GB of data, and your needs increase?
I've got an Oracle database that's more than 1GB in size but compresses down to 30MB! This pricing model will be the ideal excuse for them to take up even more disk space..
So? If you're paying for Oracle RDBMS, cost of disk space is the least of your worries. (I believe that the licensing for Oracle on my current project is around 12K/CPU, and the DB machine has 4 CPUs...)
Because I don't want to buy a whole new machine, and replace my software (where OS X versions or equivalents exist) or do without it (where they don't).
Even at full retail, Windows is a hell of a lot cheaper than even a Mac Mini, and I've never paid full retail for Windows.
Well, professional astronomers will almost certainly have a degree or higher qualification in physics, and will almost certainly have done a course in optics. I'd be amazed if any Phd or Masters in astro didn't include such a module, tailored specifically towards optical telescopes (and radio telescopes, etc).
On the other hand, I can't imagine that a PhD in CS would include advanced spyware removal technics, in much the same way as you probably wouldn't teach an astronomer how to clean glass, grind a lens or make a mirror.
Or, to keep everyone happy, how about doing the cd check on install?
No, because then you can install it on your friend's computer (or install his copy on yours) and play to your heart's content. Disc checking on installation is essentially the same as no checking at all.
Note that *I* would support this, but then I'm an end user, not a publisher. Frankly it annoys me that while I can have 20 or 30 games installed at once, I have to keep swapping the damn discs to play them. It annoys me even more that my 5 year old daughter has to keep swapping her discs, and scratching them, losing them, occasionally breaking them... You don't tend to get as many nocd cracks for kid's games, either.
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You'd be getting a +1 Funny from me now. As it is, I can't mod at all, let alone in a story I've already commented on.
Because the browser brings actual, visible new features, while the OS doesn't? (You can't *see* stability improvements, security improvements, more drivers, etc)
More to the point, I misread the comment I was replying to - I'm the exception he's talking about, who runs XP already.
And yet I get a +1 Insightful. I'd laugh, if I wasn't already.
Ah, you said "not running XP".
I will not post to slashdot while drunk. I will not post to slashdot while drunk. I will not...
The kind of people not running XP aren't the kind of people who care about upgrading their browser either.
Mmmm, I love sweeping generalisations...
(This comment posted from Firefox 1.0.6 on XP SP2)
However, the problem with this powered exo-skeleton is that just the act of adding more weight, even if it is "self supporting", makes the soldier slower and less mobile (because of extra inertia).
Newton's Second Law states that F = ma - that is, the applied force and resultant acceleration are proportional. Increase the mass, and increase the force, and the acceleration remains the same.
No, a soldier couldn't hope to be as nimble laden down with all this crap if he had to rely on his muscles, but that's the point - he wouldn't ahve to. The exo-skeleton would provide the necessary power to drive the thing just as quickly.
No, it's anyone who dishes out justice or punishment without official power to do so. Just because there's no authority to combat spam doesn't mean that those who take it upon themselves to do so aren't vigilantes.
This is the emergence of a regulatory force in the absence of any. That is not vigilantism.
Actually, that's precisely what it is, until and unless such force becomes official, either by sanction from an appropriate body, or by default.
Indeed. IBM registers a couple of thousand of patents each year, and in the (relatively distant) past has been just as evil as MS is percieved to be today. MS, on the other hand, has not (to my knowledge) used a single patent offensively.
Besides which, yes it's a dumb patent, but is that MS's fault, or the patent office's? If I ask you for a thousand dollars and you give it to me, thus ending up unable to pay bills, isn't that your fault for being stupid enough to do it?
I would venture to guess that they speak in codes, or talk around the subject, or just plain don't send that sort of thing by mail.
Back in 2000 a couple of Acts were passed that allow various authorities the power to demand access to decryption keys; it's not like this is anything new.
I used to have a boss that would refer to you as a resource to your face
Where I work, it's the norm to speak of needing "a design resource" rather than "a designer", or that "there may be issues getting enough resource" rather than "we might not have enough people".
I try not to let it bother me; sometimes I even succeed.
No, that's talking about the Electronic Communications Act, not the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. From the article (towards the end):
He also points to the powers potentially available to the security services, the Police, the Courts and others under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, better known as RIPA.
"RIPA grants a power which allows certain authorities to force the disclosure of information that is stored in an encrypted form," said McGinty, "and in certain circumstances it can force the disclosure of the encryption key itself."
I'm assuming that this renewed call for these powers means that the RIP Act isn't available to enough authorities, or is too hard to invoke or something.
I steadfastly REFUSE to call it vista
Why? Sure, it's not the world's greatest name, but it's no worse (to me) than say Mandriva (why, Mandrake, why?)
if I'm going to pay $30 for a digital movie, I would much rather have it on a DVD where I can play it wherever I want than a digital media file with so much DRM that I have to give my first born to get it to play on ONE computer, much less my 4 computers
I adore the irony of a person decrying an OS for supposed integration of DRM favouring DVDs with their CSS encryption, region-locking and associated law suits...
And I can just forget linux, because obviously those FSF people are too inconsiderate to give us "features" like trusted computing.
Maybe the FSF won't, but IBM are working on it.
Hey, here's an idea - how about you wait until the OS has been released and reviewed (or at least previewed from a release candidate build) before ripping it to shreds for imagined undesirable features?
I currently have an old 2.4GHz P4 (the B revision, iirc), and am thinking of upgrading. I'd been drooling over the Athlon X2, mainly for the cool factor I admit (as I mostly do gaming on this box, with a little C# and Java development now and again). By "gaming" I mean Half Life 2, Doom 3, UT2k4, that sort of thing.
I have an AGP GeForce 6800GT, and would like to pair it with a suitable processor and RAM. So, the question is, is it worth holding out for DDR2, or should I just upgrade now? What are the real-life performance benefits of DDR2 over "normal" DDR? For that matter, will these systems even support AGP? (I'm going to have enough trouble convincing my gf to let me upgrade as it is, without having to replace a brand new graphics card at the same time...)
So on x86 when you think about upgrading that 2 year old CPU to something new, well the pin layout has changed and you need to buy a new motherboard, with new type of Ram, and now new components (SATA, PCI-X etc...)
I've had the same basic type of RAM in my machine for at least 4 years, and the same basic type of hard drive and optical drive for 7. I've had the same basic type of graphics card for at least 5 years. In that time I'm on at least my fourth new motherboard and processor.
Yes, new technologies are developed that replace the old ones - that's called progress. Or would you prefer that we were all still using 8bit machines like we were 20 years ago?
Besides which, isn't the memory controller for AMD systems integrated into the CPU? It stands to reason then - new RAM, new CPU, new CPU with different features, new pin out...
Again, so what? So they know I go to amazon and slashdot and the BBC news site and tekheads and scarygoround etc etc - so what? What exactly are they going to do with that information that is detrimental to me or my interests? Target ads at me?
I have *never* bought a product due to an ad on a website; hell, I hardly even see them, let alone click on them.
Let them expend their time, energy and money tracking and targetting me, I don't care; why should I? What can they actually *do*?
How about, argon is a noble gas, xenon is a noble gas, argon is not xenon?
I actually used Linux in 1999, and as far as I remember no such functionality existed in Mandrake or RedHat. RH was just starting to release Red Carpet iirc, but I don't remember any automatic update support.
But you got your +1, Bashes MS while Praising Linux mod, so congrats.
IANAL, IANAUSCitizen, etc etc etc etc.
That said, here in the UK you cannot be forced or coerced into signing a contract; I cannot believe that the same is not the case in the US. Further, as others have pointed out, a contract is an agreement between two parties. If there is something you object to, tell them, tell them why, and suggest changes.
But really, there's only one thing you need to know (and others have said it already): speak to a lawyer NOW. It doesn't matter what your employer says (unless you get it on tape or witnessed, etc), it matters what you sign your name against.
Yeah, I've never understood that. Getting together with a few friends in a bar to drink and chat about sports is social, but getting together with a few friends to play a (non-sports, non-physical) game isn't? For that matter, playing a physical/sports game with them would be?
Whatever.
Why do you say that? IE is not integrated into the OS, other than by virtue of the fact that parts of the desktop shell use mshtml.dll to render HTML, as do third party apps (because it's guaranteed to exist on the system).
Privilege escalation exploits typically occur when a process starts with or obtains higher privileges (eg Apache on linux typically starts as root), and is then "tricked" into holding on to them longer than it should. IE doesn't do this, it runs as the invoking user. Unless you have a specific issue in mind, I don't think you have any reason to think that IE is more likely to offer a privilege escalation exploit than any other piece of software running under Windows.
(not that it matters, as the vast majority of Windows users run as admin anyway...)
For databases, it would make more sense to have a license for X thousand transactions, or Y amount of data.
So you continue paying over time? Or you licence your RDBMS for X thousand transactions, and when it hits that limit, it stops serving requests? Similarly, what if you licence it for Y GB of data, and your needs increase?
I've got an Oracle database that's more than 1GB in size but compresses down to 30MB! This pricing model will be the ideal excuse for them to take up even more disk space..
So? If you're paying for Oracle RDBMS, cost of disk space is the least of your worries. (I believe that the licensing for Oracle on my current project is around 12K/CPU, and the DB machine has 4 CPUs...)
Because I don't want to buy a whole new machine, and replace my software (where OS X versions or equivalents exist) or do without it (where they don't).
Even at full retail, Windows is a hell of a lot cheaper than even a Mac Mini, and I've never paid full retail for Windows.
As an astute slashdot reader, I want an X2; as an astute slashdot reader with a family to support, I can't afford one.
Well, professional astronomers will almost certainly have a degree or higher qualification in physics, and will almost certainly have done a course in optics. I'd be amazed if any Phd or Masters in astro didn't include such a module, tailored specifically towards optical telescopes (and radio telescopes, etc).
On the other hand, I can't imagine that a PhD in CS would include advanced spyware removal technics, in much the same way as you probably wouldn't teach an astronomer how to clean glass, grind a lens or make a mirror.
Or, to keep everyone happy, how about doing the cd check on install?
No, because then you can install it on your friend's computer (or install his copy on yours) and play to your heart's content. Disc checking on installation is essentially the same as no checking at all.
Note that *I* would support this, but then I'm an end user, not a publisher. Frankly it annoys me that while I can have 20 or 30 games installed at once, I have to keep swapping the damn discs to play them. It annoys me even more that my 5 year old daughter has to keep swapping her discs, and scratching them, losing them, occasionally breaking them... You don't tend to get as many nocd cracks for kid's games, either.