It will be better since it should mean that video memory will exist in protected mode instead of real mode (since it will be part of the same protected address space as system memory), thus proscribing programs from reading data not belonging to them.
Actually they've got so many big projects going that they're waving their scientific instrumentation dick around and building important and useful infrastructure projects at the same time.
Linux is an OS kernel. Kernels come and go over the years; Linux has been around for a long time already. Eventually, its development will hit a wall created by some ancient design oversight and someone else will make something new to resolve it.
Version control systems have more staying power. The popular SVN was developed as a better CVS, which dates back to 1986 (according to Wikipedia), which itself was an improvement over something else from the 70's. Linux is roughly analogous to SVN's place in the chain of operating systems: it filled a broader need, but it wasn't really something totally new. Git came along and changed the whole version control landscape with its distributed model, since I guess it was the first DVCS to also be open source (although maybe Mercurial is a little older).
If Linux hadn't been invented, someone else would've created a UNIX-like system for the PC. We probably would be using BSD instead, and most of us wouldn't know the difference. Git, on the other hand, was the innovation that most people didn't even know they wanted.
You don't need to be paid to work in a topic to read a couple books on the subject. All those books college students read (and better ones than that) are available to be purchased and read by anyone, so if there's a subject you know little about, go for it! I majored in computer science, but since school I've managed to get a basic handle on continental philosophy, classical economics, medieval history, literary criticism, and psychoanalysis in just a few thousand pages. There's always more to know, and I'm looking forward to reading about edible plants in my region, organic farming techniques, and the status of women in former Soviet republics.
Is Linux really such a marginal part of a modern university environment?
No, IT just expects Linux users to sort out their own problems (since they were capable of installing in the first place) instead of calling help desk with issues that they have no idea how to solve. Most of the Linux users are CS majors anyway. When's the last time you heard of a CS student calling the help desk for anything that could possibly solved without help desk involvement?
Cricket has something called a Huawei Ascend, which looks to be the smallest Android phone on the market. I was still using my Razr until about a week ago, and I really can't stand that there is absolutely nothing available, smartphone or not (except maybe that Huawei), that isn't significantly larger or clumsier than the Razr.
What makes you think Apple is any better at it? I had XP going for years with no viruses or virus scanners, no need to reboot aside from updates and driver issues, and none of that extraneous reformatting so many dweebs talk about doing. The brand new Mac I use at work doesn't have any trouble with viruses either, but for some reason I can't use it for more than a week without needing to reboot because it becomes unusably slow. I don't know what the culprit is exactly, but my wife's Apple laptop has similar behavior and I'm inclined to think it's the operating system itself.
What I can say for sure is that XP never caused me so many problems and even when my current favorite OS (Arch Linux) has its occasional issues, they can be permanently fixed either by waiting a few days for an update or tweaking some config file.
Nah, caps should be easy to implement and have an immediate perceived money saving effect by postponing infrastructure upgrades. Filtering is a complicated bunch of work with less obvious payoff.
Not that I'd be surprised to see AT&T (or any company with an internet/TV cannibalization contradiction) eventually throttling or otherwise interfering with sites that compete with their TV business. Maybe a better warning sign for such a plan would be to see them creating something similar to the unlimited in-network calling features: limited to 2 gigs on the general internet, but unlimited data transfer to/from our websites and on-demand TV programming on your phone for subscribers to our phone/internet/tv combo deal (while Netflix and other competitors get left in the cold).
What ever it is used for, I don't believe the majority is for regular cell phones carried by private persons.
If that was the case, why would Koryolink, the cellular operator, claim them as normal 3G signups? If it was military capacity that they for some reason wanted to make public, surely they would state it as such. If it's military capacity that they want to keep secret, naturally they wouldn't report on it at all.
So, either they are proud enough of this small infrastructure achievement to announce to the world that they are not quite as poor as we had thought, or they are just making it up. But if it's a fabrication, 500k is a really small quantity to make up. If it's false, they could easily double the quantity they claim and not raise any (extra) eyebrows.
I can't reckon any sensible explanation for this announcement by Koryolink being anything but true.
The part of LinkedIn that creeps me out is whenever (strangers) people I have had zero professional contact with contact me out of the blue to add them to my network.
Direct Rendering Manager seems to be a more straightforward (and therefore honest) use of language than Digital Rights Management; so, it is the latter that really ought to change.
Actually the synthesizer is often a separate device from the controller, which is typically a keyboard or sequencer or sometimes something more novel like a specially equipped guitar.
So, they've got a new controller but the sounds are probably the same as any other synthetic instrument. I don't know what the point of this exercise is besides obvious self indulgence. The keyboard is the standard synth input because it is not only versatile for the virtuoso types, but anyone can sit down at one and make music without needing to learn loads of cumbersome technique. Of course, there is a correct technique for playing a piano, but its enforcement is not necessary for making pleasing sounds.
As a Linux/ATI user, I'm completely protected because there are no Linux browsers that currently support WebGL on ATI hardware with the official drivers.
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And of course pianos and organs with not only a full keyboard controlled by feet, but analog volume and iirc vibrato pedals as well
Tomorrow they'll post an article about a sysadmin at a big company clearing out old home directories and supplementing his income by finding bitcoins.
They're on the side of whoever has the money to pay them (most of the time), and I'm willing to bet those are not the good guys.
It will be better since it should mean that video memory will exist in protected mode instead of real mode (since it will be part of the same protected address space as system memory), thus proscribing programs from reading data not belonging to them.
Ha! If only that was true for CSS
Actually they've got so many big projects going that they're waving their scientific instrumentation dick around and building important and useful infrastructure projects at the same time.
Linux is an OS kernel. Kernels come and go over the years; Linux has been around for a long time already. Eventually, its development will hit a wall created by some ancient design oversight and someone else will make something new to resolve it.
Version control systems have more staying power. The popular SVN was developed as a better CVS, which dates back to 1986 (according to Wikipedia), which itself was an improvement over something else from the 70's. Linux is roughly analogous to SVN's place in the chain of operating systems: it filled a broader need, but it wasn't really something totally new. Git came along and changed the whole version control landscape with its distributed model, since I guess it was the first DVCS to also be open source (although maybe Mercurial is a little older).
If Linux hadn't been invented, someone else would've created a UNIX-like system for the PC. We probably would be using BSD instead, and most of us wouldn't know the difference. Git, on the other hand, was the innovation that most people didn't even know they wanted.
it's impressive what people can do ...with a limited budget.
When's the CIA is behind you, budget is not really an issue.
You don't need to be paid to work in a topic to read a couple books on the subject. All those books college students read (and better ones than that) are available to be purchased and read by anyone, so if there's a subject you know little about, go for it! I majored in computer science, but since school I've managed to get a basic handle on continental philosophy, classical economics, medieval history, literary criticism, and psychoanalysis in just a few thousand pages. There's always more to know, and I'm looking forward to reading about edible plants in my region, organic farming techniques, and the status of women in former Soviet republics.
Get some books!
Is Linux really such a marginal part of a modern university environment?
No, IT just expects Linux users to sort out their own problems (since they were capable of installing in the first place) instead of calling help desk with issues that they have no idea how to solve. Most of the Linux users are CS majors anyway. When's the last time you heard of a CS student calling the help desk for anything that could possibly solved without help desk involvement?
Cricket has something called a Huawei Ascend, which looks to be the smallest Android phone on the market. I was still using my Razr until about a week ago, and I really can't stand that there is absolutely nothing available, smartphone or not (except maybe that Huawei), that isn't significantly larger or clumsier than the Razr.
Not to mention that Droid Eris is the only decent Android phone available on Verizon that isn't fucking gigantic
What makes you think Apple is any better at it? I had XP going for years with no viruses or virus scanners, no need to reboot aside from updates and driver issues, and none of that extraneous reformatting so many dweebs talk about doing. The brand new Mac I use at work doesn't have any trouble with viruses either, but for some reason I can't use it for more than a week without needing to reboot because it becomes unusably slow. I don't know what the culprit is exactly, but my wife's Apple laptop has similar behavior and I'm inclined to think it's the operating system itself.
What I can say for sure is that XP never caused me so many problems and even when my current favorite OS (Arch Linux) has its occasional issues, they can be permanently fixed either by waiting a few days for an update or tweaking some config file.
Kudos to Apple for doing what Microsoft has been doing for many years: the monthly updated malicious software removal tool included in Windows Update.
If they still do that. I haven't run Windows in a couple years...
Nah, caps should be easy to implement and have an immediate perceived money saving effect by postponing infrastructure upgrades. Filtering is a complicated bunch of work with less obvious payoff.
Not that I'd be surprised to see AT&T (or any company with an internet/TV cannibalization contradiction) eventually throttling or otherwise interfering with sites that compete with their TV business. Maybe a better warning sign for such a plan would be to see them creating something similar to the unlimited in-network calling features: limited to 2 gigs on the general internet, but unlimited data transfer to/from our websites and on-demand TV programming on your phone for subscribers to our phone/internet/tv combo deal (while Netflix and other competitors get left in the cold).
Institutionalized prostitution and general pederasty give you hope for mankind? I wish the world really had been destroyed this past weekend.
What ever it is used for, I don't believe the majority is for regular cell phones carried by private persons.
If that was the case, why would Koryolink, the cellular operator, claim them as normal 3G signups? If it was military capacity that they for some reason wanted to make public, surely they would state it as such. If it's military capacity that they want to keep secret, naturally they wouldn't report on it at all.
So, either they are proud enough of this small infrastructure achievement to announce to the world that they are not quite as poor as we had thought, or they are just making it up. But if it's a fabrication, 500k is a really small quantity to make up. If it's false, they could easily double the quantity they claim and not raise any (extra) eyebrows.
I can't reckon any sensible explanation for this announcement by Koryolink being anything but true.
Gimme a break. A persistent problem in the food supply doesn't mean that everyone is starving.
The part of LinkedIn that creeps me out is whenever (strangers) people I have had zero professional contact with contact me out of the blue to add them to my network.
I think they call that a "sales personality"
Direct Rendering Manager seems to be a more straightforward (and therefore honest) use of language than Digital Rights Management; so, it is the latter that really ought to change.
NEA is way too small for that type of thing to work. Think big: road construction, weapons, and finance.
Actually the synthesizer is often a separate device from the controller, which is typically a keyboard or sequencer or sometimes something more novel like a specially equipped guitar.
So, they've got a new controller but the sounds are probably the same as any other synthetic instrument. I don't know what the point of this exercise is besides obvious self indulgence. The keyboard is the standard synth input because it is not only versatile for the virtuoso types, but anyone can sit down at one and make music without needing to learn loads of cumbersome technique.
Of course, there is a correct technique for playing a piano, but its enforcement is not necessary for making pleasing sounds.
As a Linux/ATI user, I'm completely protected because there are no Linux browsers that currently support WebGL on ATI hardware with the official drivers.
Suck it, Windows users.
Nah bro it's literary. The character "Tribble" is who you don't think knows what that word means.
Well yeah, Germany is a rich country and supposedly has always had a love for gadgetry, so it makes perfect sense.