Fortunately you aren't storing your data on the physical device, you're storing it on the virtual device that the hard drive presents via the interface to the computer. If the virtual device has a statistically insignificant error rate, who cares if the error rate of the physical device is much higher?
Next thing you'll be complaining that even though your DVD plays without any visual glitches, there are hundreds of errors in the raw data being read off the disc before error correction.
The bottom line is: absolute reliability at the hardware level is NOT profitable, but reliability at the software level IS.
Thank goodness Cisco finally got its source code back! Now the source code is safe and sound, never to be seen again by anyone outside Cisco.
At least they can continue development on it. It must have been costly to have to put development on hold while the source code was missing.
Or maybe the code wasn't stolen, rather copied.
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There seems to be a widespread confusion between a copy of something and the original:
Is an unrealized danger of OSS that others may take your project in a direction you didn't intend?
Apple is taking their copy of the code in a particular direction. The original code is untouched by Apple.
This seems to be the same confusion behind common statements of theft of information, when the information was really merely copied and the copy used for some undesired purpose.
x86 hardware has this all-in-one approach, so I'd say you're pretty much out of luck. Which is a shame because the more they put on the board, the more can go wrong.
Apple builds a lot into a tiny space as well, but their hardware and software is a lot more reliable. That's why most professionals and experts are switching to them.
Even though I like Apple, I'm not going to spout bullshit logic like this in support of them. First you say that with all-in-one designs, more can go wrong, then go on to say that Apple uses all-in-one designs that are more reliable (must be the Jobs-reality-distortion-field effect).
How about this for a counter-argument: having an empty motherboard which must be filled with cards also poses reliability problems at the hundreds of connections made between the PCI slots ant the cards.
I had to remove it from my system. It hijacked my browser, and I was not able to browse my companies internal websites because it over-rode our proxy. Bummer too...it worked great
Sounds like a usenet forsale posting I saw once for a "Mitsubishi 17" color monitor in new condition but doesn't work."
Why not take it a step further and use a graphical keyboard/numeric keypad to enter the information? You could even have the placement of the buttons vary a bit within the display. This way a logger connected to the mouse would be next to useless, and a logger at the OS level would still have to be pretty sophisticated to pick these clicks out of the noise.
This is just Red Hat attempting to cash in on the PR surrounding this while looking like a good guy.
Yep. If Red Hat were interested in merely helping Apple (assuming they are even in trouble), they would have quietly contacted them with the offer. Public generosity is never genuine.
A trademark used in one indstry has nothing to do with a trademark used in another industry; this is how Apple Computers can call itself "Apple", much to the displeasure of Apple Record Label.
I bet Apple Computer will be pretty pissed, though!
The flexibility of modern computer peripherals makes for seemingly endless combinations of hardware and existing software. Microsoft attempts to support quite a few of those combinations, with the mixed results we see today.
But cars are a different beast. I bet it's possible to get good test coverage of this car software through test driving.
It's not the car that's complex, it's the situations occuring around it.
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Fortunately you aren't storing your data on the physical device, you're storing it on the virtual device that the hard drive presents via the interface to the computer. If the virtual device has a statistically insignificant error rate, who cares if the error rate of the physical device is much higher?
Next thing you'll be complaining that even though your DVD plays without any visual glitches, there are hundreds of errors in the raw data being read off the disc before error correction.
The bottom line is: absolute reliability at the hardware level is NOT profitable, but reliability at the software level IS.
Thank goodness Cisco finally got its source code back! Now the source code is safe and sound, never to be seen again by anyone outside Cisco.
At least they can continue development on it. It must have been costly to have to put development on hold while the source code was missing.
Or maybe the code wasn't stolen, rather copied.
There seems to be a widespread confusion between a copy of something and the original:
Is an unrealized danger of OSS that others may take your project in a direction you didn't intend?
Apple is taking their copy of the code in a particular direction. The original code is untouched by Apple.
This seems to be the same confusion behind common statements of theft of information, when the information was really merely copied and the copy used for some undesired purpose.
Just slap DRM or old-school copy-protection on them. The RIAA is probably behind that PSA.
Suddenly they'll want to know how to get x,y, and z done in their code.
Or if they're old-school 2D gamers, they'll just need x and y.
What if I work on a feature with the expectation of getting the bounty, only to find it claimed before I'm done?
I'm assuming this is an attempt to speed development of some features, nothing more
Don't worry; it only gets near infinite brightness when you're watching a movie of an atomic bomb blast.
The solution is to turn off "Open 'Safe' downloads" in Safari's Options.
I guess that's why they put "safe" in quotes.
The installer is nearly 5MB, which means it's too big for most to download on 56k or GPRS
Fifteen minutes is too long for a download?
I tried that but I got an unexpected message before I was even done typing:
> Forward 4 meters
> Turn lef
Fragged
Did I type something wrong?
x86 hardware has this all-in-one approach, so I'd say you're pretty much out of luck. Which is a shame because the more they put on the board, the more can go wrong.
Apple builds a lot into a tiny space as well, but their hardware and software is a lot more reliable. That's why most professionals and experts are switching to them.
Even though I like Apple, I'm not going to spout bullshit logic like this in support of them. First you say that with all-in-one designs, more can go wrong, then go on to say that Apple uses all-in-one designs that are more reliable (must be the Jobs-reality-distortion-field effect).
How about this for a counter-argument: having an empty motherboard which must be filled with cards also poses reliability problems at the hundreds of connections made between the PCI slots ant the cards.
Your ISP could do the same stuff people claim google can do (as far as tracking).
Except my ISP is much smaller and is in the internet service business rather than the advertising business.
I had to remove it from my system. It hijacked my browser, and I was not able to browse my companies internal websites because it over-rode our proxy. Bummer too...it worked great
Sounds like a usenet forsale posting I saw once for a "Mitsubishi 17" color monitor in new condition but doesn't work."
The problem is that all of these things make it more and more difficult for the blind, and others, to access these services.
So let the user decide whether to use the normal input method or one less susceptible to middleman logging techniques.
Why not take it a step further and use a graphical keyboard/numeric keypad to enter the information? You could even have the placement of the buttons vary a bit within the display. This way a logger connected to the mouse would be next to useless, and a logger at the OS level would still have to be pretty sophisticated to pick these clicks out of the noise.
I think someone rearranged them back normally when you weren't looking.
Dude, it's just for the fucking humor. Not funny, doesn't get modded up. I'm not here to grade anyone.
This is just Red Hat attempting to cash in on the PR surrounding this while looking like a good guy.
Yep. If Red Hat were interested in merely helping Apple (assuming they are even in trouble), they would have quietly contacted them with the offer. Public generosity is never genuine.
A trademark used in one indstry has nothing to do with a trademark used in another industry; this is how Apple Computers can call itself "Apple", much to the displeasure of Apple Record Label.
I bet Apple Computer will be pretty pissed, though!
The flexibility of modern computer peripherals makes for seemingly endless combinations of hardware and existing software. Microsoft attempts to support quite a few of those combinations, with the mixed results we see today.
But cars are a different beast. I bet it's possible to get good test coverage of this car software through test driving.
It's not the car that's complex, it's the situations occuring around it.
Oh sure, ignore all the work the little bit people have to do when you abandon a virtual shopping cart.
here must be a bug in my implementation of pi. It's not random at all, I always get 3.14159.
You need to seed it first! (I suggest apple seeds)
While it is doubtful that anyone would want a brain transplant from a human-sheep chimera [...]
I think you mean a body transplant.
The US dwarfs the rest of the world in production of IP.
s/production/claims
As an American, I accept your rejection of our rejection or your rejection of our lame-ass DMCA.