Old news. SQL Slammer and its kin actually prompted Microsoft to start taking security more seriously. There have been very few major vulnerabilities in SQL Server since 2005. Not that a poorly secured server isn't still vulnerable. But that goes for Oracle, MySQL, or anything else as well.
There are plenty of bugs in iOS, even for low-permission apps. I've been messing around with the mach parser, and I've found several ways to crash the device (other people have reported similar things). The interface between userland and kernel is just complicated, and sandboxing has never been and never will be a magic bullet.
That said, your second point is a good one, why would it suddenly turn blue when ever other crash just causes it to turn black with a rotating circle? Doesn't really make sense.......
Because iPhone fanboys are also hipsters, and the blue screen is old enough to now qualify as "Retro". You're just not cool unless your device dies with a warm, blue glow!
Why can't they go even more retro and have a nice psychedelic fireworks display like my Commodore 64 did when it crashed? At least when it crashed you got some entertainment value out of it.
Delphi is basically object oriented pascal. Back in the early days of Windows it was as popular programming environment but its popularity began to wane as Visual Basic/C++ were much better suited for Windows 95 development.
Visual Basic better suited... you must be kidding !
Visual Basic is good for nothing, not even fast prototyping.
On Error : resume next
Thank you so much for bringing up bad memories of wrestling with the total lack of error handling in VBScript.
I particularly loathed how some things (e.g. working with active directory) required that error handling be turned off (the dreaded 'on error resume next') sometimes making something as simple as a syntax error extremely difficult to debug.
If there is one thing that I am thankful for it is the fact that despite all odds Powershell managed to break free of the part of Microsoft where great ideas go to die.
Delphi is basically object oriented pascal. Back in the early days of Windows it was as popular programming environment but its popularity began to wane as Visual Basic/C++ were much better suited for Windows 95 development.
that's nothing. I have a single DSL provider available to me. The cable company won't connect the subdivision until it is fully developed. There are 3 lots that are vacant and have been since the builder went bankrupt in '09. They service the next subdivision which is less than 100' from my house.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
This however is mostly forgotten I'm the corporate, and apparently academic world.
Buying 11,000 Microsoft Surface 2 tablets is not "gave it to us free".
Surface 2 release date is set for October 22, not two years, and these don't have to be certified.
Something that can show your flight maps and NOTAMS today will show the same in two years.
I'm sure they got a good deal on them, since nobody else seems to be buying them.
Didn't you get the memo? Apple and Google are hated on Slashdot almost as much as Microsoft now. But since its a bad idea its only a matter of time before Gnome adds this feature.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie
But if you teach a mouse to make cookies...
I don't know about mice, but rats are apparently capable of cooking gourmet French food.
Most readers looked at the headline and thought "Cool, 3D printed Metallica logos!"
Old news. SQL Slammer and its kin actually prompted Microsoft to start taking security more seriously. There have been very few major vulnerabilities in SQL Server since 2005. Not that a poorly secured server isn't still vulnerable. But that goes for Oracle, MySQL, or anything else as well.
And their "Unbreakable" OS. What is it based on again?
Oracle, put your money where your mouth is and write your own damn OS.
Do you get a refund on you fir insurance is there is no fire?
I personally have never insured my Christmas tree, I wasn't aware of such a policy.
There are plenty of bugs in iOS, even for low-permission apps. I've been messing around with the mach parser, and I've found several ways to crash the device (other people have reported similar things). The interface between userland and kernel is just complicated, and sandboxing has never been and never will be a magic bullet.
That said, your second point is a good one, why would it suddenly turn blue when ever other crash just causes it to turn black with a rotating circle? Doesn't really make sense.......
Because iPhone fanboys are also hipsters, and the blue screen is old enough to now qualify as "Retro". You're just not cool unless your device dies with a warm, blue glow!
Why can't they go even more retro and have a nice psychedelic fireworks display like my Commodore 64 did when it crashed? At least when it crashed you got some entertainment value out of it.
Damn aluminum robots!!!
It's worse than that. If they had copied the competition earlier they would probably be in a better position today.
Wrong. You aren't a real witch if you don't pass basic hex.
Delphi is basically object oriented pascal. Back in the early days of Windows it was as popular programming environment but its popularity began to wane as Visual Basic/C++ were much better suited for Windows 95 development.
Visual Basic better suited ... you must be kidding !
Visual Basic is good for nothing, not even fast prototyping.
On Error : resume next
Thank you so much for bringing up bad memories of wrestling with the total lack of error handling in VBScript.
I particularly loathed how some things (e.g. working with active directory) required that error handling be turned off (the dreaded 'on error resume next') sometimes making something as simple as a syntax error extremely difficult to debug.
If there is one thing that I am thankful for it is the fact that despite all odds Powershell managed to break free of the part of Microsoft where great ideas go to die.
set cylinders=12;
set displacement-liters=7;
set turbochargers=2;
m ake world
There, Now we have the world's fastest Geo Metro!
Delphi is basically object oriented pascal. Back in the early days of Windows it was as popular programming environment but its popularity began to wane as Visual Basic/C++ were much better suited for Windows 95 development.
1993 called and they want their software development platform back.
that's nothing. I have a single DSL provider available to me. The cable company won't connect the subdivision until it is fully developed. There are 3 lots that are vacant and have been since the builder went bankrupt in '09. They service the next subdivision which is less than 100' from my house.
Didn't he write The Iliad?
Notes and sanity are mutually exclusive.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
This however is mostly forgotten I'm the corporate, and apparently academic world.
Just replace it with an electronic one. A simple one should suffice. it just needs to be progrsmmed to say "what?" and "where's the tea?"
There are large evil corporations and there are small non-evil companies that are crushed and/or absorbed by large evil corporations.
And? Why do we have a routine business sales article instead of an article on hyper-local weather forecasting?
and it's not prediction, it's forecasting.
The accuracy of current weather forecasting technology is still technically considered to be in the "Wild-Assed Guess" category.
Day one server issues for a AAA release??? STOP THE PRESSES!
I'm sure that no matter how bad Rockstar messes this up it will be infinitely better than EA on a well-executed release.
Please. If I have to sit through another Alvin and the Chipmunks movie I'll scream!
Buying 11,000 Microsoft Surface 2 tablets is not "gave it to us free".
Surface 2 release date is set for October 22, not two years, and these don't have to be certified. Something that can show your flight maps and NOTAMS today will show the same in two years.
I'm sure they got a good deal on them, since nobody else seems to be buying them.
He's a graduate of the Todd Akin school of making up shit to to support your idealogoly.
Didn't you get the memo? Apple and Google are hated on Slashdot almost as much as Microsoft now. But since its a bad idea its only a matter of time before Gnome adds this feature.