If you're really convinced it's so easy, you must have implemented it yourself before. So please provide an example or quit trolling. I myself have worked on EMC Centera in the past, and monitoring a cluster and recovering automatically from errors is no trivial task.
Stuttering happens because digital TV uses lossy compression algorithms that are able to show a reasonable image as long as the algorithms' underlying assumptions hold, i.e. not too much will change from one image to the next.
For keeping a collection of papers, Mendeley is great! It's possible to annotate the papers with notes and a yellow marker. The yellow marker can behave a little bit erratic at times though -- Xournal behaves better in that regard, but it doesn't keep track of a collection of papers.
The best tablet IMO is a Thinkpad X230t (t for tablet): you can use it as a regular laptop to do real work, but fold it over and with its pen, you have the ideal user interface to take notes just as you would on paper. I still regret that I chickened out a few years ago and bought a "regular" Thinkpad X201 instead of a X201t...
The figures mentioned in the article are that 12% of the calls related to Android are hardware-related, vs. 7% for iPhones. From this, I could just as well draw any of the following conclusions:
a/ software problems take up a smaller portion of the issues related to Android phones than in iPhones; hence, Android phones are more user-friendly. -> headline: "Apple is losing out against Google on its traditional strength: user-friendliness"
b/ software problems take up a smaller portion of the issues related to Android phones than in iPhones; hence, assuming both user interfaces are more or less equally user-friendly, we can conclude that iPhone users are not as tech-savvy as Android users. -> headline: "iPhone users dumber than Android users, study shows"
What kind of reporting is this if they make blunt statements without ANY real basis to back things up.
When you're looking into a linux laptop, the MacBook trackpad has always exactly been a big downside of Apple hardware, because of the absence of 2nd & 3rd buttons. (I have edge scrolling on my current laptop, and I doubt any other mouse gestures would be very useful: pinch to zoom may be useful to people working with photographs, but other than that I think it's more of a gizmo.) It was the reason that I've most always used my MacBook Pro with an external mouse to get anything done. Also, it doesn't have a full keyboard: page down/up, delete, probably others are missing. I'm a programmer, so the keyboard and mouse issue are real issues. And if you need to give a presentation, beware of forgetting your dongle, because without it you'll have to hope your audience has one, or you'll have to present on a colleague's laptop. Also, booting linux using the Mac bootloader is a bit more of a challenge than booting linux using PC hardware. Add to that that the MacBook Pro usually gets very hot and when compiling stuff usually has to be cooled by a loud fan, and I think there are much better choices out there.
Currently I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad X201. It's got a full keyboard, 3 mouse buttons, a connector that can directly be attached to projectors using standard VGA cable. And it works perfectly with linux.
I agree. Corporations will only partner with entities/communities they trust. Not honouring an NDA is throwing away your trustworthiness. No corporation in their right mind will ever want to divulge confidential information with them.
If it's trade secret, then the grandparent post does make sense. Trade secrets are defend or lose.
You're confusing trade secrets with trademarks. You should defend trademarks against dilution, or lose them. (That's why Phoenix BIOS had to inform the Mozilla/Firebird team they should stop using the Phoenix name, lest every company would have the legal right to start using that name.)
You can't defend trade secrets. If you've got NDA's with the people who've had access to your trade secrets you can sue the people who disclosed those secrets to oblivion, but once the genie is out of the (coca cola) bottle, everyone and their brother can bottle the original coca cola.
It wasn't just the red colour. (That has gone away by now.)
But I've disabled icons in my profile, so that the page doesn't get cluttered with graphical cuteness. But I see a puzzle-icon next to this article nevertheless. And that still hasn't gone away after the red colour went.
AFAIK QuickTime for OS X doesn't allow (real) fullscreen viewing, whereas Media Player does (again, AFAIK), so it would be unfair towards Media Player to compare it with QuickTime.
For ordinary users (who don't use the authoring functionality but will want to view films fullscreen) it's more adequate to compare Media Player with QuickTime Pro.
Well, obviously. The question about backwards-compatibility is closely related to the quality of the design used.
With good design, there shouldn't be a need for breaking backwards-compatibility, and it can be kept as-is for years. If however the design was flawed from the start, you'll need to start over again sooner or later.
Whether a design is good depends on the designer, but perhaps even more on marketing needs: good design takes time, and marketing often prefers short time-to-market rather than quality products.
DOS, being more like a feature-rich bootloader rather than an OS, obviously had a flawed design from the start.
Actually a few days ago, when I was looking for something on Google, I came across an old/. page with nothing but empty posts. The only thing there was were subject lines.
So there's quite a few comments gone missing.
Unfortunately I haven't got the link handy any more, and I don't know the search terms for Google any more.:( (Probably something related with X on the TiBook, or dual-head support on the TiBook.)
Its important to remember that popularity and market share do not mean monopoly. Even if 99.99% of all computer users used IE it still wouldn't necessarily mean MS had a monopoly in browsers.
Where did you get that idea ? Of course 99.99% marketshare means monopoly. It doesn't necessarily imply a problem, though it most often will.
And btw, if MS ditched RFC 822 and did their own e-mail thing then yes, it would be their perrogative. They could do ANYTHING they want with THEIR software, and I will do ANYTHING I want with my computer.
If a car company would suddenly decide to make their cars twice as large and half the length do you think they would be allowed on the roads ?
There are standards for cars, because they use a common infrastructure. In the case of cars these standards are made explicit in laws.
E-mail over the internet also shares a common infrastructure, detailed in RFCs. Historically, these RFCs have been designed by technical committees and are not enforced by law. However, for better or worse, at some point government will probably want to make sure everyone is playing by the rules on the internet as well as on the road, because the internet is playing an increasingly important role in people's lives.
Most trademarks only apply within their own domain. I suppose exceptions to that would be names of supermarkets that sell things with a broad range of domains.
But since a Ford Contour is a car, unless Kontour is in the car selling business, they shouldn't have a problem IMHO. But IANAL.
Of course it makes the CPU run hotter than when it's idle !
A NOP (No-Operation) makes quite a few less transistors switch per second than real operations. And since the number of transistor switching that occurs per second is directly related to the power consumed, hence the power dissipated, a CPU does run quite a bit hotter when running dnetc instead of running the kernel idle loop. (Which even executes a HALT instead of a NOP on most kernels, for even less power consumption.)
IIRC the people from dnetc have even come up with a calculation of how much energy production from a nuclear power plant goes into rc5 cracking on a world-scale.
But this doesn't mean this case is valid IMHO. Which arguments could the state of Georgia have in this case ?
* Wear-and-tear: since computers are usually replaced long before they're worn out I don't think this would be a valid argument.
* Bandwidth consumption: at 5bps (60kB/day max) this seems like nitpicking.
* Power consumption: now this probably is substantial. Then again, if they're leaving their computers on during the night (as most companies do), I fail to see how Georgia might make a point here.
* Using someone else's computers for personal benefit: now that's something. That's a good argument. But I'd propose to settle out of court for that by offering to donate the prize to some good cause, or if the state of Georgia wouldn't be satisfied by that, by donating it to the state itself.
But $415.000 ? They're making fools out of themselves !
You clearly haven't played xtux, have you ? Those disks can be pretty deadly, you know ! If the MSCPs, bugs, Borgs etc. that crossed my path were still alive, they'd tell you...
Co-location sites have *huge* batteries which take over when an outage occurs. If the outage lasts for a long time, they have diesel generators kick in to supply the entire data-center with electricity.
The dimension of the batteries, and the heat dissipation problem, is why data-centers will only provide a certain amount of power per square foot.
If your racks are high-density, like Google's, you'll have to buy extra floorspace just to get enough electricity, only to leave it empty.
The cheap data-centers of course provide less power per square foot, which means there's a trade-off between buying useless floorspace and moving to a more expensive, but also more efficient, data-center.
Duh ! I suppose OpenBSD disabled the equivalent for/dev/mem &/proc/kcore for security reasons as well then ? Otherwise your argument doesn't really make sense, does it ?
Not from/. ! I know an Anonymous Coward (hi Gaetan.;-)) who also got this junk-mail, and I didn't. So it's not/. members that were targeted.
How one could go about collecting a list of/. readers: * arrange with Hemos to place an innocent-looking ad on/. * log all people that click through the ad * now use that list for spamming purposes Anybody still fill in their correct address in netscape ?
Oh, and if you don't know how to interpret the "Received:"-headers on e-mails, please don't complain about spam-mails. You're likely to mail-bomb an innocent person. I bet Rob was mailbombed because of this spam.
Talking about ethernet, you could mention everyone can tap into your communications very easily. Backbones are less straightforward, but they too can be tapped. You could mention both the security issues involved (passwords out in the open), as well as privacy issues. You could conclude with a strong argument for the use of encryption, and the release of the export laws involved.
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It only takes a very few morons, criminals or MBAs to unleash that risk.
Please, enough already with the pleonasms!
If you're really convinced it's so easy, you must have implemented it yourself before. So please provide an example or quit trolling.
I myself have worked on EMC Centera in the past, and monitoring a cluster and recovering automatically from errors is no trivial task.
Stuttering happens because digital TV uses lossy compression algorithms that are able to show a reasonable image as long as the algorithms' underlying assumptions hold, i.e. not too much will change from one image to the next.
For keeping a collection of papers, Mendeley is great! It's possible to annotate the papers with notes and a yellow marker. The yellow marker can behave a little bit erratic at times though -- Xournal behaves better in that regard, but it doesn't keep track of a collection of papers.
The best tablet IMO is a Thinkpad X230t (t for tablet): you can use it as a regular laptop to do real work, but fold it over and with its pen, you have the ideal user interface to take notes just as you would on paper. I still regret that I chickened out a few years ago and bought a "regular" Thinkpad X201 instead of a X201t...
Another case of misleading statistics...
The figures mentioned in the article are that 12% of the calls related to Android are hardware-related, vs. 7% for iPhones. From this, I could just as well draw any of the following conclusions:
a/ software problems take up a smaller portion of the issues related to Android phones than in iPhones; hence, Android phones are more user-friendly. -> headline: "Apple is losing out against Google on its traditional strength: user-friendliness"
b/ software problems take up a smaller portion of the issues related to Android phones than in iPhones; hence, assuming both user interfaces are more or less equally user-friendly, we can conclude that iPhone users are not as tech-savvy as Android users. -> headline: "iPhone users dumber than Android users, study shows"
What kind of reporting is this if they make blunt statements without ANY real basis to back things up.
When you're looking into a linux laptop, the MacBook trackpad has always exactly been a big downside of Apple hardware, because of the absence of 2nd & 3rd buttons. (I have edge scrolling on my current laptop, and I doubt any other mouse gestures would be very useful: pinch to zoom may be useful to people working with photographs, but other than that I think it's more of a gizmo.) It was the reason that I've most always used my MacBook Pro with an external mouse to get anything done. Also, it doesn't have a full keyboard: page down/up, delete, probably others are missing. I'm a programmer, so the keyboard and mouse issue are real issues. And if you need to give a presentation, beware of forgetting your dongle, because without it you'll have to hope your audience has one, or you'll have to present on a colleague's laptop. Also, booting linux using the Mac bootloader is a bit more of a challenge than booting linux using PC hardware. Add to that that the MacBook Pro usually gets very hot and when compiling stuff usually has to be cooled by a loud fan, and I think there are much better choices out there.
Currently I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad X201. It's got a full keyboard, 3 mouse buttons, a connector that can directly be attached to projectors using standard VGA cable. And it works perfectly with linux.
I agree. Corporations will only partner with entities/communities they trust. Not honouring an NDA is throwing away your trustworthiness. No corporation in their right mind will ever want to divulge confidential information with them.
Sounds like management...
Stella Artois is indeed not a French beer, but Belgian, and while it's the best-selling Belgian beer, it's definitely not our best beer.
...
Leffe Tripel's indeed a lot better. Personally however, my favourite beers are Tripel Westmalle and Duvel (the one Mandrake is compared with).
And then there are the "Trappists" of course: Chimay, Orval,
If it's trade secret, then the grandparent post does make sense. Trade secrets are defend or lose.
You're confusing trade secrets with trademarks. You should defend trademarks against dilution, or lose them. (That's why Phoenix BIOS had to inform the Mozilla/Firebird team they should stop using the Phoenix name, lest every company would have the legal right to start using that name.)
You can't defend trade secrets. If you've got NDA's with the people who've had access to your trade secrets you can sue the people who disclosed those secrets to oblivion, but once the genie is out of the (coca cola) bottle, everyone and their brother can bottle the original coca cola.
It wasn't just the red colour. (That has gone away by now.)
But I've disabled icons in my profile, so that the page doesn't get cluttered with graphical cuteness. But I see a puzzle-icon next to this article nevertheless. And that still hasn't gone away after the red colour went.
AFAIK QuickTime for OS X doesn't allow (real) fullscreen viewing, whereas Media Player does (again, AFAIK), so it would be unfair towards Media Player to compare it with QuickTime.
For ordinary users (who don't use the authoring functionality but will want to view films fullscreen) it's more adequate to compare Media Player with QuickTime Pro.
Well, obviously. The question about backwards-compatibility is closely related to the quality of the design used.
With good design, there shouldn't be a need for breaking backwards-compatibility, and it can be kept as-is for years. If however the design was flawed from the start, you'll need to start over again sooner or later.
Whether a design is good depends on the designer, but perhaps even more on marketing needs: good design takes time, and marketing often prefers short time-to-market rather than quality products.
DOS, being more like a feature-rich bootloader rather than an OS, obviously had a flawed design from the start.
Actually a few days ago, when I was looking for something on Google, I came across an old /. page with nothing but empty posts. The only thing there was were subject lines.
:( (Probably something related with X on the TiBook, or dual-head support on the TiBook.)
So there's quite a few comments gone missing.
Unfortunately I haven't got the link handy any more, and I don't know the search terms for Google any more.
Its important to remember that popularity and market share do not mean monopoly. Even if 99.99% of all computer users used IE it still wouldn't necessarily mean MS had a monopoly in browsers.
Where did you get that idea ? Of course 99.99% marketshare means monopoly. It doesn't necessarily imply a problem, though it most often will.
And btw, if MS ditched RFC 822 and did their own e-mail thing then yes, it would be their perrogative. They could do ANYTHING they want with THEIR software, and I will do ANYTHING I want with my computer.
If a car company would suddenly decide to make their cars twice as large and half the length do you think they would be allowed on the roads ?
There are standards for cars, because they use a common infrastructure. In the case of cars these standards are made explicit in laws.
E-mail over the internet also shares a common infrastructure, detailed in RFCs. Historically, these RFCs have been designed by technical committees and are not enforced by law. However, for better or worse, at some point government will probably want to make sure everyone is playing by the rules on the internet as well as on the road, because the internet is playing an increasingly important role in people's lives.
... this is a case of Elcomsoft's money vs. Adobe's money, ...
No, it's a case of Adobe's money vs. a real person's freedom !
Most trademarks only apply within their own domain. I suppose exceptions to that would be names of supermarkets that sell things with a broad range of domains.
But since a Ford Contour is a car, unless Kontour is in the car selling business, they shouldn't have a problem IMHO. But IANAL.
Of course it makes the CPU run hotter than when it's idle !
A NOP (No-Operation) makes quite a few less transistors switch per second than real operations. And since the number of transistor switching that occurs per second is directly related to the power consumed, hence the power dissipated, a CPU does run quite a bit hotter when running dnetc instead of running the kernel idle loop. (Which even executes a HALT instead of a NOP on most kernels, for even less power consumption.)
IIRC the people from dnetc have even come up with a calculation of how much energy production from a nuclear power plant goes into rc5 cracking on a world-scale.
But this doesn't mean this case is valid IMHO. Which arguments could the state of Georgia have in this case ?
* Wear-and-tear: since computers are usually replaced long before they're worn out I don't think this would be a valid argument.
* Bandwidth consumption: at 5bps (60kB/day max) this seems like nitpicking.
* Power consumption: now this probably is substantial. Then again, if they're leaving their computers on during the night (as most companies do), I fail to see how Georgia might make a point here.
* Using someone else's computers for personal benefit: now that's something. That's a good argument. But I'd propose to settle out of court for that by offering to donate the prize to some good cause, or if the state of Georgia wouldn't be satisfied by that, by donating it to the state itself.
But $415.000 ? They're making fools out of themselves !
You clearly haven't played xtux, have you ? Those disks can be pretty deadly, you know ! If the MSCPs, bugs, Borgs etc. that crossed my path were still alive, they'd tell you...
Co-location sites have *huge* batteries which take over when an outage occurs. If the outage lasts for a long time, they have diesel generators kick in to supply the entire data-center with electricity.
The dimension of the batteries, and the heat dissipation problem, is why data-centers will only provide a certain amount of power per square foot.
If your racks are high-density, like Google's, you'll have to buy extra floorspace just to get enough electricity, only to leave it empty.
The cheap data-centers of course provide less power per square foot, which means there's a trade-off between buying useless floorspace and moving to a more expensive, but also more efficient, data-center.
Actually the place is air-conditioned, so it's pretty cold there.
Wouldn't that rather be the superiority of the Tru64 SMP code, combined with the definite superiority of the Compaq C compiler ?
Duh ! I suppose OpenBSD disabled the equivalent for /dev/mem & /proc/kcore for security reasons as well then ? Otherwise your argument doesn't really make sense, does it ?
Not from /. ! I know an Anonymous Coward (hi Gaetan. ;-)) who also got this junk-mail, and I didn't. So it's not /. members that were targeted.
/. readers: /.
How one could go about collecting a list of
* arrange with Hemos to place an innocent-looking ad on
* log all people that click through the ad
* now use that list for spamming purposes
Anybody still fill in their correct address in netscape ?
Oh, and if you don't know how to interpret the "Received:"-headers on e-mails, please don't complain about spam-mails. You're likely to mail-bomb an innocent person. I bet Rob was mailbombed because of this spam.
Talking about ethernet, you could mention everyone can tap into your communications very easily. Backbones are less straightforward, but they too can be tapped.
You could mention both the security issues involved (passwords out in the open), as well as privacy issues.
You could conclude with a strong argument for the use of encryption, and the release of the export laws involved.