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  1. Windows Development has one *huge* advantage on How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers · · Score: 1

    VMWare.

    I do dev on both Windows and Mac, across multiple versions of each. The early versions of what I have to deal with can easily trash a system. On Windows, I have one box, problems happen, I click "revert", done. Win 2K, XP, Vista are all a click away.

    On the other hand, I have a pile of Macs, (ppc/intel/10.4/10.5). I'd like more (ones without dev tools, more patch variations, more installed app variations), but it's not feasible without more Macs and more bootable drives. Being able to run OS X in a VM without any hacks that change the environment would be a huge help.

  2. Re:Long Answer? on How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers · · Score: 1

    When did it get the filesystem? I thought that was one of the things that was dropped.

  3. Re:That's why Open-Source fails on the desktop on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All the Windows clients here use Pidgin for their IM, and it's one of the clients recommended by IT for the internal IM server.

  4. Re:Weird logical disconnect in the article on Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations · · Score: 1

    Then those developers lied. It's not needed at all for regular debugging. You already have full control over your own processes.

  5. Re:Weird logical disconnect in the article on Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations · · Score: 1

    You don't need special privileges to debug your programs unless they're running under a different user account. You had that many people debugging services?

  6. Re:Where have I heard this before? on Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations · · Score: 1

    things like registering COM interfaces just can't be done unless you are an admin.

    Nope, wrong.

    HKCU\Software\Classes\ works just fine (at least in XP, don't know about Vista)

  7. Re:Why should *everything* be GPL compatible? on iPhone SDK and Free Software Don't Match · · Score: 1

    Projects in general, I agree. If some particular project is not GPL compatible, so what. You can deal with it, work around the issue.

    Hardware on the other hand, not so much. What's needed to develop on hardware should be license agnostic.

  8. Re:hotmail ? on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    I've gotten almost no spam from hotmail. Hotmail addresses aplenty, but not through hotmail.

  9. Re:Pleeeese! on Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 1

    RTFQ

    ELDORADO, Texas (AP)

  10. Re:they can pass it all they want... on New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax' · · Score: 1

    suggest. I said quite clearly, "It's NOT FAIR". That is not a vague statement. It means that Corporation A has an unfair advantage over Corporation B.

    So no, Corporation A instead of not being taxed has to worry about taxes in thousands of tax zones (which is where this is going) instead of the one Corporation B has to worry about. How is this fair?

  11. Re:What's the distinguishing characteristic? on Judge In e360 Vs. Comcast Rules e360 a Spammer · · Score: 1

    There is NO DECENT FILTER for snail spam.

    yes, there is. Form 1500.

  12. Re:That's great, but this isn't a hardware problem on DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone · · Score: 1

    Many games don't even make it to the next windows release.

    And a lot of the time, that's no fault of the game, but rather of the copy protection. I have games that won't run on XP, but crack them, and then they work fine there.

  13. Re:No on Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    And most of the problems in Windows are from Trojans, not viruses. Users are stupid.

  14. Re:No on Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1
  15. Re:It's called a "Disk Image" on Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    An archive format that has had root holes exploited simply by opening. Mount it, and it's too late for the AV.

  16. Re:here phishie phishie on Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari · · Score: 1

    And all are defeated by "don't click financial links in an e-mail". No need to check the links, just don't do it, period.

  17. Re:first post! on Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software · · Score: 1

    Then I assume you don't have a problem with IE doing the same, since it's embeddable in any app?

  18. Re:Vista on minimal HW on Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista · · Score: 1

    Now, you can argue all day as to whether Macs don't get viruses because they're inherently better designed or because the market is too small, but the one thing you can't argue with is that there has not been one single self-replicating in-the-wild virus for Mac OS X in the (checks Wikipedia) seven years it has been out. Not one. Ever. Period. *

    Self replicating doesn't matter much. Some of the fastest spreading infections on Windows require user intervention.

  19. Re:Next up... on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably won't cut it, and if it does, there's some psychiatrists that are going to be out a job.

    He's had two evaluations, and supposedly passed both of them. One was recent, and after the first one, he claimed to be the only certified sane lawyer in Florida.

  20. Re:Got one phishing email attachment w/PDF on Adobe PDF Exploits In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Possibly infected, possibly not. That's one of the tricks to get around spam filters.

  21. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on Tainted Pills Hit US Mainland · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on Tainted Pills Hit US Mainland · · Score: 1

    OK, so 135 mg would go to approximately 13 mg of formaldehyde, assuming all the methyl esters were metabolized

    So, that is lesse here...

    A whopping .026% more than the body produces under normal conditions in one day. So, I would say, yes, we're evolved to handle it.

  23. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on Tainted Pills Hit US Mainland · · Score: 1

    And for aspartame you only need to know that it metabolizes to formaldehyde to know enough.

    And vitamin B12 metabolizes to free cyanide. Therefore, I assume you will stop ingesting food with it?

  24. Re:The point of copyright on Court Says You Can Copyright a Cease-And-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    I know, but by Eldred, it's supposed to stop sometime (yeah, right). Even then, how is something that's longer than people's lives considered, by any view, limited?

  25. Re:The point of copyright on Court Says You Can Copyright a Cease-And-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Let's for the moment assume extensions are done and over with.

    I have a child, today, and a movie is released, today. She will likely be dead before the copyright expires. How is that limited?