Simple - Google needed app developers to write for the platform, and phone app developers mostly speak Java. So Google came up with the Dalvik VM that can run recompiled Java code in a compatible environment.
PJ is still backing the site, and keeping an eye on things, but Mark Webbink (from Red Hat's general counsel) is doing the the articles.. and seems to be as impartial as PJ, though not with the same humour (so far, at least).
The articles there go into details about Oracles claims and Googles counters.
If the plural of an 'ius' form is 'ii', i.e. (mal)stating the rule as dropping the s and changing the u to an i, then the malconstructed plural form of virus would indeed viri - or if the rule is stated as drop the 'us' and double the i, viir.
For those who refuse to use normally constructed plurals like viruses, there's always virusen. Or virusoj.
I've found that NoScript doesn't give you the option of unblocking JS links that are dynamically created by the allowed JS. Some sites use JS that is taken from yet another site that is not referenced statically, and those break when using NoScript.
If, however, you look at the source for the page that doesn't work, you can find the reference in the source and manually whitelist it in NoScript. I have yet to find a site that this doesn't work for. Admitted, it's a pain, but it's a one-time pain. (Yanno, possibly sight the cite of the site.)
Not only does the new google groups beta refuse to work (cannot see a post even if the search works), but the old groups.google.com is now redirecting to the new (non-working) engine.
Grumble.
And what's with the tab for 'add a new group' - are they planning to any user to unilaterally create new usenet groups? Or are they planning to make usenet indistinguishable from their own (yet another bulletin board type) forums?
I hate explaining jokes - but it seems nobody recognized 'Hari Kari' (or more commonly hara kiri - or properly seppuku) as a joke.
Or Harry Carey. They did, however recognize a mispelling - it's Hannu, not Hanu and they did elucidate that Finnish for Harry and Hari is nothing like Hannu.
But I still wonder what the middle initial stands for.
If I recall correctly, Xenix was indeed produced by Microsoft at the time (the Santa Cruz Organization was to be a 'second source').
But the article mentioned a dislike of Xenix, which I recall as being a fairly well polished product compared to Venix, which had poor manuals (although it did have some real-time extensions), and may have been missing a number of utilities.
The main reason I recall for using Venix over Xenix on the LSI-11/23 type machines was that Xenix was priced to run on the full-blown systems like an 11/44 (competing with RSTS11 or MUMPS at about $5K a copy) while Venix was something like $500.
Then again, I seem to recall that Xenix on the X86 could be bought without any compilers as an almost useless 'run-time' package - I would imagine that using thie would be somewhat annoying.
I worked with PDP-11's for years, and never encountered Xenix running on any of them. As far as I recall, Xenix was solely for X86 machines (and would run on a '286 - the only X86 unix before the 386 came out).
Are you sure that wasn't Venix? I seem to recall a company called Venturecomm or something like that produced a stripped down version of BSD 'nix for the PDP-11 at relatively low cost.
Errm.. if a WinXP box has the default settings for 'System Restore', then all of the changes made to the hard drive (ever) are probably being stored as part of the drive contents (hidden away, sort-of) and the space that uses defaults to a percentage of the drive space. If somebody does something that uses intermediate files that stick around past the periodic mirroring of disk changes to that 'restore' space, such as a browser cache, then yes, a basic system can be using that much disk. And it won't show on a simple "dir/s c:\" (but it will show up as space used on the disk properties).
If the hard drive is 80Gb - common - then I'd expect to see that sort of usage after a few months of use.
I may be reading the impact risk table wrong, but right now it seems to say that the distance it will miss by on Jan 12, 2053 is.01 earth radius. I assume that this means that we are very near the center of the area of uncertainty about where it will impact, and that the areo of uncertainty is currently extremely large.
On the other hand, I seem to recall that most previous predicted near misses had us further out from the centroid, and as the orbital data was refined, the area of uncertainty shrank until we were no longer in it. I suspect that reducing the uncertainty without changing the orbital prediction would raise the calculated risk with time.
As I read it the impact energy would be about equal to a 300Kiloton bomb. Not a particularly large hazard area if it came straight down (it probably won't), but it would certainly be big enough to mess up somebody's day. For that matter, has anyone actually run a prediction of what the effects (thermal, weather, etc.) would be from a grazing strike where it travelled parallel to the surface for a long way before breaking up or leaving the atmosphere?
Now the burden of proof is on TVi, to prove that they invented it and the patent is valid.
Not quite. According to the laws, the patent office has already accepted that TVi has provided that proof, and granted the patent.
TVi does indeed have to prove that Microsoft is indeed using the "invention" described by their patent, but the burden of proof is now on Microsoft to prove that the patent is invalid, such as by producing convincing prior art.
Now if indeed the law was changed such that any claim of patent infringement required that the patent be proven valid, rather than the current reversed situation, then you might have a point. But in that case, why not just ban software patents entirely?
Though since telephone exchanges have battery backup then during a blackout the phones still work
The power was out for long enough in some blackout areas (e.g. mine) that the battery backups failed - partly because the cell stations only had a few minutes of backup power if any, and some people must always be talking on the 'phone - which takes significantly more power than just 'on hook' standby current (though with modern voice switches, the idle load is nowhere near as low as it was with old relay based systems).
But PCs don't.
Except for those that do - like almost all laptops - and where there are UPS supplies or generators (again, like where I am)
The parent is modded as funny, but it does seem to reflect their actual business model.
On the other hand, they shut down Napster - and CD sales failed to increase. So they are going after the true P2P networks. Wanna bet that sales will drop again?
Pardon me while I rant, but on the griping hand, I've stopped buying albums (or CDs, or whatever) not because of price or new DRM inconveniences, but because I've heard so little new material that I like enough to even acquire for free. Where could I hear it? Radio stations? Sorry, but the local all-news station is the only one that doesn't play any of the annoying non-musical "music" that results in me changing the station. And none of them have an "compelling content". Music TV? Similar garbage, except even more interrupted by things like interviews, or even worse "The Osbornes" - and it's certainly not worth paying cable or satellite fees for. P2P? Generally 99% garbage, only useful when somebody who knows my (Dr Demento influenced) tastes recommends that I might like something - and I believe them enough to be willing to sift through the morass for a day or two to find a copy that's barely listenable. (Last time that worked, it turned out that the performer was selling their CD directly with no major labels involved. I bought.)
And when they improved their Exchange based filtering to completely reject all incoming mail, less than 3% of the rejected mail was legitimate mail incorrectly classified as spam.
Microsoft claimed "This is a much higher accuracy rate than any other measure that we've implemented to date - and the reduction in accepted messages [due to the improved filtering] reduces the load on the servers by almost 10%"
I'm not surprised that BG eventually got tired of spam - somebody with 'bill' 'gates' 'micro' and 'soft' in their e-mail address seems a prime target for financial, pay (pr0n) site, enlargement, and viagra spam.
If you are serious about where the jokes might be, why am I almost remembering something about header files necessary for compatibility being exempt from copyright protection? Now if only somebody would show this non-NDA viewer the jokes in the BSD header files - maybe he'd recognize them.
Aside from which, it sounds more and more like this is something that came into Linux via BSD, and SCO is trying to replay the original ATT vs BSD battle (and 10M$ M$ FUD)?.
It seems like this would be an ideal complement to a system that was built with mram - non-volatile (modernised 'core') memory since no battery backup would be required. But I'm sure you already had that in mind.:)
Right. Energy for free! Unfortunately the mythical +100% efficiency machine has yet to be built (and never will). This technology only recovers percentages of energy lost due to machine inefficiency and friction.
Well, in theory at least, it could recover almost (though not quite)100% of the energy output as a ringtone or vibration, at the expense of no longer radiating any of that energy as an audible ring or vibe.
While it would be a generally useless misfeature, there are many times when I (and probably many others) wish that all the cell phones in the room (or on the road) were configured that way.:)
it is unlikely that many businesses are going to be willing to convert their workstations from Win XP to Linux.
This may be true for many businesses, but I get the impression that Whil was looking to create a zero-added-cost database application client on non-XP-capable (i.e. inexpensive) hardware, which will certainly appeal to the accountants when a general purpose Windows PC is not required - or wanted, e.g. the machine is network connected - but doesn't have IE (pronounced aaaiiiyeeee) installed.
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Simple - Google needed app developers to write for the platform, and phone app developers mostly speak Java. So Google came up with the Dalvik VM that can run recompiled Java code in a compatible environment.
PJ is still backing the site, and keeping an eye on things, but Mark Webbink (from Red Hat's general counsel) is doing the the articles.. and seems to be as impartial as PJ, though not with the same humour (so far, at least).
The articles there go into details about Oracles claims and Googles counters.
If the plural of an 'ius' form is 'ii', i.e. (mal)stating the rule as dropping the s and changing the u to an i, then the malconstructed plural form of virus would indeed viri - or if the rule is stated as drop the 'us' and double the i, viir.
For those who refuse to use normally constructed plurals like viruses, there's always virusen. Or virusoj.
I've found that NoScript doesn't give you the option of unblocking JS links that are dynamically created by the allowed JS. Some sites use JS that is taken from yet another site that is not referenced statically, and those break when using NoScript.
If, however, you look at the source for the page that doesn't work, you can find the reference in the source and manually whitelist it in NoScript. I have yet to find a site that this doesn't work for. Admitted, it's a pain, but it's a one-time pain. (Yanno, possibly sight the cite of the site.)
Not only does the new google groups beta refuse to work (cannot see a post even if the search works), but the old groups.google.com is now redirecting to the new (non-working) engine.
Grumble.
And what's with the tab for 'add a new group' - are they planning to any user to unilaterally create new usenet groups? Or are they planning to make usenet indistinguishable from their own (yet another bulletin board type) forums?
I hate explaining jokes - but it seems nobody recognized 'Hari Kari' (or more commonly hara kiri - or properly seppuku) as a joke.
Or Harry Carey. They did, however recognize a mispelling - it's Hannu, not Hanu and they did elucidate that Finnish for Harry and Hari is nothing like Hannu.
But I still wonder what the middle initial stands for.
Is Hanu the Finnish version of "Harry" or "Hari"
No, you're not.
If I recall correctly, Xenix was indeed produced by Microsoft at the time (the Santa Cruz Organization was to be a 'second source').
But the article mentioned a dislike of Xenix, which I recall as being a fairly well polished product compared to Venix, which had poor manuals (although it did have some real-time extensions), and may have been missing a number of utilities.
The main reason I recall for using Venix over Xenix on the LSI-11/23 type machines was that Xenix was priced to run on the full-blown systems like an 11/44 (competing with RSTS11 or MUMPS at about $5K a copy) while Venix was something like $500.
Then again, I seem to recall that Xenix on the X86 could be bought without any compilers as an almost useless 'run-time' package - I would imagine that using thie would be somewhat annoying.
I worked with PDP-11's for years, and never encountered Xenix running on any of them. As far as I recall, Xenix was solely for X86 machines (and would run on a '286 - the only X86 unix before the 386 came out).
Are you sure that wasn't Venix? I seem to recall a company called Venturecomm or something like that produced a stripped down version of BSD 'nix for the PDP-11 at relatively low cost.
Errm.. if a WinXP box has the default settings for 'System Restore', then all of the changes made to the hard drive (ever) are probably being stored as part of the drive contents (hidden away, sort-of) and the space that uses defaults to a percentage of the drive space. If somebody does something that uses intermediate files that stick around past the periodic mirroring of disk changes to that 'restore' space, such as a browser cache, then yes, a basic system can be using that much disk. And it won't show on a simple "dir /s c:\" (but it will show up as space used on the disk properties).
If the hard drive is 80Gb - common - then I'd expect to see that sort of usage after a few months of use.
Yep 30 Kilo-millimeters. Same thing.
Oh, and put a warning on the wall outlets - "Caution 115,000 millivolts" while you're at it.
According to the Linear impact risk page, the total impact energy for 2004FH would be 380Kilotons of TNT, i.e. about 30 Hiroshima bombs.
High in the atmosphere - Hmm, is the EMP effect from a nuclear airburst actually dependent on the energy source being nuclear?
I may be reading the impact risk table wrong, but right now it seems to say that the distance it will miss by on Jan 12, 2053 is .01 earth radius. I assume that this means that we are very near the center of the area of uncertainty about where it will impact, and that the areo of uncertainty is currently extremely large.
On the other hand, I seem to recall that most previous predicted near misses had us further out from the centroid, and as the orbital data was refined, the area of uncertainty shrank until we were no longer in it. I suspect that reducing the uncertainty without changing the orbital prediction would raise the calculated risk with time.
As I read it the impact energy would be about equal to a 300Kiloton bomb. Not a particularly large hazard area if it came straight down (it probably won't), but it would certainly be big enough to mess up somebody's day. For that matter, has anyone actually run a prediction of what the effects (thermal, weather, etc.) would be from a grazing strike where it travelled parallel to the surface for a long way before breaking up or leaving the atmosphere?
TVi does indeed have to prove that Microsoft is indeed using the "invention" described by their patent, but the burden of proof is now on Microsoft to prove that the patent is invalid, such as by producing convincing prior art.
Now if indeed the law was changed such that any claim of patent infringement required that the patent be proven valid, rather than the current reversed situation, then you might have a point. But in that case, why not just ban software patents entirely?
Oh yeah, IANAL, IDEPOOTV but IDRG
The parent is modded as funny, but it does seem to reflect their actual business model.
On the other hand, they shut down Napster - and CD sales failed to increase. So they are going after the true P2P networks. Wanna bet that sales will drop again?
Pardon me while I rant, but on the griping hand, I've stopped buying albums (or CDs, or whatever) not because of price or new DRM inconveniences, but because I've heard so little new material that I like enough to even acquire for free. Where could I hear it? Radio stations? Sorry, but the local all-news station is the only one that doesn't play any of the annoying non-musical "music" that results in me changing the station. And none of them have an "compelling content". Music TV? Similar garbage, except even more interrupted by things like interviews, or even worse "The Osbornes" - and it's certainly not worth paying cable or satellite fees for. P2P? Generally 99% garbage, only useful when somebody who knows my (Dr Demento influenced) tastes recommends that I might like something - and I believe them enough to be willing to sift through the morass for a day or two to find a copy that's barely listenable. (Last time that worked, it turned out that the performer was selling their CD directly with no major labels involved. I bought.)
And when they improved their Exchange based filtering to completely reject all incoming mail, less than 3% of the rejected mail was legitimate mail incorrectly classified as spam.
Microsoft claimed "This is a much higher accuracy rate than any other measure that we've implemented to date - and the reduction in accepted messages [due to the improved filtering] reduces the load on the servers by almost 10%"
I'm not surprised that BG eventually got tired of spam - somebody with 'bill' 'gates' 'micro' and 'soft' in their e-mail address seems a prime target for financial, pay (pr0n) site, enlargement, and viagra spam.
Aside from which, it sounds more and more like this is something that came into Linux via BSD, and SCO is trying to replay the original ATT vs BSD battle (and 10M$ M$ FUD)?.
It seems like this would be an ideal complement to a system that was built with mram - non-volatile (modernised 'core') memory since no battery backup would be required. But I'm sure you already had that in mind. :)
While it would be a generally useless misfeature, there are many times when I (and probably many others) wish that all the cell phones in the room (or on the road) were configured that way.