I'm not worried about the virus slowing down my computer, I'm worried about it storing kiddie porn on my computer, or stealing documents, or blowing a bunch of bandwidth for a DDOS attack.
That's only if you recompile in 64 bits. If you take the 32-bit executable and just run it on the 64-bit OS it should work fine. You can even continue compiling in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit OS if you want, so long as you don't want more than 2GB of memory everything should be fine.
I think history shows that the large companies will more often purchase a startup than kill it in court. A long court battle is an ongoing, never-ending cost with no guarantee of success. Even when MS was playing evil it was 'embrace, extend, extinguish', not sue out of existence.
Facebook is a great, big, popular walled garden. AOL was a great, big, popular walled garden. There's probably at least a few patents in the bunch that FB steps on that they would prefer to own, even if they are half way to expired by now.
You don't vote out the bureaucracy, only the politicians. And local bureaucracies are usually the most incompetent because they have the least oversight, the smallest pool of candidates to draw from, and the lowest budgets.
More like 2400 baud for the late 1980s. About an hour per megabyte. And yet there was a lot of downloading from BBSes. Things were a lot smaller then, and at least when you pirated some 10MB game you knew it had a fair chance of it running versus finding out that disk 7 of the split archive from the sneakernet was corrupted.
No, antibiotics are reactive, they are given after a problem already exists. Birth control is preventative, it prevents a 'problem' from occurring. Birth control could be better compared to hand sanitizer, it helps to prevent something. Most health care is reactive rather than preventative, it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the fact that reactive care provides metrics that are easy to measure short-term, and preventative care can be a never-ending money pit where results are only able to be calculated after years of funding.
Consider even the case where you're not changing mediums. I set up a free streaming radio station at mysite.com. You can receive this, and route it within your house or devices however you want. But what you can't do is rebroadcast my radio stream from yoursite.com, and certainly not rebroadcast it and then sell subscriptions to yoursite.com's rebroadcast of my radio station!
But I probably can set up a proxy server so that my friend can get to your content through my connection. This is no different from me running a coax wire from my antenna to my neighbor so that only one of us has to have a butt-ugly mast antenna outside to get the signal. I can probably charge them for the connection as well, since it's charging for a wire, not the data on the wire.
They almost certainly ran the numbers, and came to the conclusion that the higher returns are in having developers work on new versions, rather than keep working on security patches for old ones. Oracle plays the 'pay us more every year to keep using the old version' game. The amount you have to pay them goes up very, very quickly. A large company could afford an extra year, maybe 2, but after that you'll find yourself paying more to keep using something out of date than you do for the yearly license (which you're still paying).
I don't think I've seen anything that indicates that steady population growth is likely, most of the predictions I've seen show leveling off and shrinking population somewhere between 9 and 12 billion people, within the next 10-50 years. I tend to trust the UN population experts over some PhDs at MIT who have probably never stepped foot outside of their labs.
The US restricts speech as well. Try telling a police officer that you'll pay them a million dollars to kill someone for you and see how things turn out. All you did was talk, so your much-loved first amendment should protect you, right?
The medical ingredient is the same, the distribution within the pill (for pill splitting) and the binders used are often different. The binders are important for people who have certain allergies or disorders like Celiac disease, since common cheap binders often involve wheat.
Even if cable were advertisement free there would still be value in knowing what people watch. If people don't watch a channel then the company can drop it from a package without losing customers, saving money. Similar with stores, if you regularly buy 3 products from the same aisle they may want to split them up so you browse more of the store. Advertising increases the value of your information, but it is not worthless without it.
I had ice cream on a plane about 20 years ago. It was a pre-packaged sunday. They have ice for the drinks, where are they getting that if they don't have freezers or refrigeration of some sort?
If it's only for a hardware button then which BlackBerry do they claim infringes? BBM has a emoticon button, but it's software. Software emoticon buttons have been around for nearly as long as emoticons. Adding 'on a cell phone' does not make it novel.
You aren't talking about the debugger, you're talking about static code analysis, or the compiler. The debugger is the thing that attaches to the code as it's running and gives you the value of variables at the time, call stack, thread info, etc. Debuggers are pretty similar for all major languages these days.
Most IDEs will check a function call for number of arguments, although they will only give a warning if it's wrong since the code will still run (and in something like Perl you may actually intend to send extra arguments). PHP has type hinting and a good IDE will attempt to check that the last thing a variable was initialized to matches the type hint, if there is one. Even in a statically-typed language you can do stupid things that will pass the compile stage fine. You can have arguments that are Object in java, or void* in C++. Not much the compiler can do, other than warn you that you're probably doing something stupid. You can take a base class and then attempt to cast to the wrong type of object.
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So all we need is to develop walls that can keep out gravity. Brilliant!
I'm not worried about the virus slowing down my computer, I'm worried about it storing kiddie porn on my computer, or stealing documents, or blowing a bunch of bandwidth for a DDOS attack.
That's only if you recompile in 64 bits. If you take the 32-bit executable and just run it on the 64-bit OS it should work fine. You can even continue compiling in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit OS if you want, so long as you don't want more than 2GB of memory everything should be fine.
I think history shows that the large companies will more often purchase a startup than kill it in court. A long court battle is an ongoing, never-ending cost with no guarantee of success. Even when MS was playing evil it was 'embrace, extend, extinguish', not sue out of existence.
Facebook is a great, big, popular walled garden. AOL was a great, big, popular walled garden. There's probably at least a few patents in the bunch that FB steps on that they would prefer to own, even if they are half way to expired by now.
You don't vote out the bureaucracy, only the politicians. And local bureaucracies are usually the most incompetent because they have the least oversight, the smallest pool of candidates to draw from, and the lowest budgets.
More like 2400 baud for the late 1980s. About an hour per megabyte. And yet there was a lot of downloading from BBSes. Things were a lot smaller then, and at least when you pirated some 10MB game you knew it had a fair chance of it running versus finding out that disk 7 of the split archive from the sneakernet was corrupted.
Because they're the norm, so they're not newsworthy. It's far easier for a raving idiot to make the news than an average person.
No, antibiotics are reactive, they are given after a problem already exists. Birth control is preventative, it prevents a 'problem' from occurring. Birth control could be better compared to hand sanitizer, it helps to prevent something. Most health care is reactive rather than preventative, it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the fact that reactive care provides metrics that are easy to measure short-term, and preventative care can be a never-ending money pit where results are only able to be calculated after years of funding.
That's only a problem in the winter. The other 3 months of the year are great!
Consider even the case where you're not changing mediums. I set up a free streaming radio station at mysite.com. You can receive this, and route it within your house or devices however you want. But what you can't do is rebroadcast my radio stream from yoursite.com, and certainly not rebroadcast it and then sell subscriptions to yoursite.com's rebroadcast of my radio station!
But I probably can set up a proxy server so that my friend can get to your content through my connection. This is no different from me running a coax wire from my antenna to my neighbor so that only one of us has to have a butt-ugly mast antenna outside to get the signal. I can probably charge them for the connection as well, since it's charging for a wire, not the data on the wire.
Or just toss the keys out the window...
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They almost certainly ran the numbers, and came to the conclusion that the higher returns are in having developers work on new versions, rather than keep working on security patches for old ones. Oracle plays the 'pay us more every year to keep using the old version' game. The amount you have to pay them goes up very, very quickly. A large company could afford an extra year, maybe 2, but after that you'll find yourself paying more to keep using something out of date than you do for the yearly license (which you're still paying).
You don't need to be admin to be a botnet member, a user process will work just fine.
I don't think I've seen anything that indicates that steady population growth is likely, most of the predictions I've seen show leveling off and shrinking population somewhere between 9 and 12 billion people, within the next 10-50 years. I tend to trust the UN population experts over some PhDs at MIT who have probably never stepped foot outside of their labs.
So other countries don't respect medical patents and go right to generic day 1? Which countries are those exactly?
The US restricts speech as well. Try telling a police officer that you'll pay them a million dollars to kill someone for you and see how things turn out. All you did was talk, so your much-loved first amendment should protect you, right?
The medical ingredient is the same, the distribution within the pill (for pill splitting) and the binders used are often different. The binders are important for people who have certain allergies or disorders like Celiac disease, since common cheap binders often involve wheat.
Even if cable were advertisement free there would still be value in knowing what people watch. If people don't watch a channel then the company can drop it from a package without losing customers, saving money. Similar with stores, if you regularly buy 3 products from the same aisle they may want to split them up so you browse more of the store. Advertising increases the value of your information, but it is not worthless without it.
I had ice cream on a plane about 20 years ago. It was a pre-packaged sunday. They have ice for the drinks, where are they getting that if they don't have freezers or refrigeration of some sort?
This is pretty much first class today. Only there are 3 selections usually, I suppose they added the vegetarian one since the 70s.
If it's only for a hardware button then which BlackBerry do they claim infringes? BBM has a emoticon button, but it's software. Software emoticon buttons have been around for nearly as long as emoticons. Adding 'on a cell phone' does not make it novel.
Followed by "What do you mean we weren't taking backups of the production environment?"
You aren't talking about the debugger, you're talking about static code analysis, or the compiler. The debugger is the thing that attaches to the code as it's running and gives you the value of variables at the time, call stack, thread info, etc. Debuggers are pretty similar for all major languages these days.
Most IDEs will check a function call for number of arguments, although they will only give a warning if it's wrong since the code will still run (and in something like Perl you may actually intend to send extra arguments). PHP has type hinting and a good IDE will attempt to check that the last thing a variable was initialized to matches the type hint, if there is one. Even in a statically-typed language you can do stupid things that will pass the compile stage fine. You can have arguments that are Object in java, or void* in C++. Not much the compiler can do, other than warn you that you're probably doing something stupid. You can take a base class and then attempt to cast to the wrong type of object.