What party does he represent? I am definitely interested in "alternative" candidates. I consider myself "Green", but I don't think Nader is a particularly great candidate. I'll still vote for him, though, like I did in 1996.
What I saw in those screenshots looked essentially like Windows 95 Explorer with only one, maximized window, with two minor tweaks: content previews in the icons, and simple media players embedded in the window.
BTW, Windows 2000 (and I think 98) already supports media player previews. Windows 2000 also has some limited support for iconic content preview, but (I think) this functionality is limited to the "My Pictures" folder.
I was hoping for something a little more interesting, maybe like Jakob Nielsen's Anti-Mac Interface. The so-called "next generation" Nautilus interface is just a hackjob of the Windows Explorer. Why is this company worth $11 million in VC funding?
They will never be a "better Windows than Windows". OS/2 tried and failed. Then again this might not be surprising, if you consider that these are the people who created the horrible General Magic PDA interface.
or maybe these screenshots are just a cover-up for the really cool stuff their developing...:-)
For instance, the apache server is included in the Linux numbers, but the IIS web servers numbers are split apart from the NT numbers and Mr. Moody didn't trouble himself to add them into the list of NT vulnerabilities.
We consider a vulnerability to affect an application or operating system if the vulnerability affects a component that is part of the application or operating system when brought or downloaded. For example, this means that a vulnerability in IIS will also be considered a vulnerability in Windows NT at the later ships with the former.
but Napster doesn't allow searches by genre or "show me more bands like these". Yes, you can "hot list" someones Napster directory and browse all their mp3s, but the files still have no description or genre info.
Which is a better way for Chris Johnson to share his music: post his songs to a lonely Napster directory or post about his songs on some community web site for like-minded techno fans and musicians? Geeks read Slashdot as fanatically as music fans read their community sites!
1. No one knows the name of your unknown garage band. Therefore, no one will search for your songs on Napster.
2. The lawsuit against Napster does not prevent you from publishing your band's songs on your own web site. Your band's web site is arguably a better way to publish your mp3s than Napster. You can post band info, tour info, sell t-shirts, link to other bands you like, get fan feedback, and get other music sites to point to YOU! Napster does not allow you to do ANY of these community building functions.
Microsoft has sold SoftImage to Avid Technology for $285 million, four years after it bought the firm for $130 million. SoftImage specialises in creating special effects for the film industry, and has been bought by Avid to broaden its portfolio. The company makes video editing systems, which also sold to the film and to the TV industries.
The terms of the agreement are that Microsoft will receive $79 million in cash from Avid, will get $93 million of Avid's shares with a ten year option to buy more, and keep nine per cent of Avid's shares. Intel owns seven per cent of Avid shares. The other components of the deal include subordinate notes worth $5 million and sale of stock to ex-Microsoft employees.
the I/O performance varies from development kernel to development kernel and they're still tracking issues down (ie, someone reports 200% improvement on one kernel, but says it's worse in another.. really amazing actually).
What this means is that the Linux developers are playing with black magic and don't really know the effects of their performance tuning. Each dev kernel is a "hmm, does this fix the problem? or what about this fix?".
Many "Microsoft" games were not written by MSFT.
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Just like lots of great "Microsoft" applications (DOS, IE, Truetype fonts, ASP, SQL Server), many of these games were written by other companies. Actually make games companies are simply distributors for smaller companies' games.
Full-time Microsoft employees have blue badges.
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Contractors have yellow badges.. badges of shame. Blue badges will get you access to any Microsoft building, any day/time of the week. Yellow badges are only allowed in a few buildings during business hours.
Perl's text algorithms were designed and coded by experts and optmized over time. The adhoc regex function Joe Coder writes will NOT be nearly as smart. Thus Perl can be [much] faster than C in some instances.
I don't know which would be worse: A virus that merely does a backup of empty files, or one that is good at getting itself safely backed up.
Let the virus sit idle for 1.5 weeks (assuming companies backup once a week?). Once the infected files have been "safely" backed up, then the virus awakens, zeros all files, then backs up the zeroed files.:-o
This is real. There is a French lingere company that made some underwear called "microsoft" (small m). Microsoft (big M) was unhappy, but allowed them to use the name with a small m. I don't have a reference off hand, though..
I'm a C/C++ kinda guy, but I just finished reading "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". In school, I never bothered to learn Lisp, so I decided to do it myself. I can appreciate some of the bigger ideas, but some of "cool techniques" in the SICP book felt more like cruft to get around the functional language properties. I'd love to read a functional language intro, especially one that wasn't as brain heavy as SICP.
Motif is a clone of Windows. Windows was a clone of the Mac. According to this Windows timeline, Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985 and even Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990. According to the Motif FAQ, Motif 1.1.3 was released in August 1991. How then could Windows be a copy of Motif?
The "Unix Haters Handbook" claims that a "stated design goal" of Motic was to copy Windows. Look at the "Motif Self-Abuse Kit" section of "The X-Windows Disaster".
A stated design goal of Motif was to give the X Window System the window management capabilities of HP's circa-1988 window manager and the visual elegance of Microsoft Windows. We kid you not. Recipe for disaster: start with the Microsoft Windows metaphor, which was designed and hand coded in assembler. Build something on top of three or four layers of X to look like Windows. Call it "Motif."
If you want to make these activities freely avaible, _fine_, just don't expect the government to spend MY MONEY developing treatements or clinics for these idiots.
If you want to make these activities illegal, _fine_, just don't expect the government to spend MY MONEY developing more prisons.
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What party does he represent? I am definitely interested in "alternative" candidates. I consider myself "Green", but I don't think Nader is a particularly great candidate. I'll still vote for him, though, like I did in 1996.
From the linux-kernel list:
David Miller: "make no mistake, for transmit we will at some point have a zero copy scheme available. And you can be certain that when it does happen, the end to end latency will not suffer like it does on other systems for the cases where zero copy makes no sense at all."
Linus Torvalds: "So don't fall into the trap of thinking that zero-copy is always obviously a win. It isn't."
Ingo Molnar: "zero-copy makes a RL difference only in a small part of those uses. I very much dislike zero-copy-maniac designs which give up just about everything to get nice bandwith numbers."
Just some more corroborating evidence that AOL doesn't care about Navigator.
What I saw in those screenshots looked essentially like Windows 95 Explorer with only one, maximized window, with two minor tweaks: content previews in the icons, and simple media players embedded in the window.
BTW, Windows 2000 (and I think 98) already supports media player previews. Windows 2000 also has some limited support for iconic content preview, but (I think) this functionality is limited to the "My Pictures" folder.
I was hoping for something a little more interesting, maybe like Jakob Nielsen's Anti-Mac Interface . The so-called "next generation" Nautilus interface is just a hackjob of the Windows Explorer. Why is this company worth $11 million in VC funding?
:-)
They will never be a "better Windows than Windows". OS/2 tried and failed. Then again this might not be surprising, if you consider that these are the people who created the horrible General Magic PDA interface.
or maybe these screenshots are just a cover-up for the really cool stuff their developing...
Having worked in QA at Microsoft, I solemnly swear that this story is 110% accurate!!
US + Asia?
You said:
For instance, the apache server is included in the Linux numbers, but the IIS web servers numbers are split apart from the NT numbers and Mr. Moody didn't trouble himself to add them into the list of NT vulnerabilities.
WRONG. Here is a quote from the SecurityFocus.com article:
We consider a vulnerability to affect an application or operating system if the vulnerability affects a component that is part of the application or operating system when brought or downloaded. For example, this means that a vulnerability in IIS will also be considered a vulnerability in Windows NT at the later ships with the former.
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but Napster doesn't allow searches by genre or "show me more bands like these". Yes, you can "hot list" someones Napster directory and browse all their mp3s, but the files still have no description or genre info.
Which is a better way for Chris Johnson to share his music: post his songs to a lonely Napster directory or post about his songs on some community web site for like-minded techno fans and musicians? Geeks read Slashdot as fanatically as music fans read their community sites!
1. No one knows the name of your unknown garage band. Therefore, no one will search for your songs on Napster.
2. The lawsuit against Napster does not prevent you from publishing your band's songs on your own web site. Your band's web site is arguably a better way to publish your mp3s than Napster. You can post band info, tour info, sell t-shirts, link to other bands you like, get fan feedback, and get other music sites to point to YOU! Napster does not allow you to do ANY of these community building functions.
Here's the story: "Microsoft sells SoftImage to Avid buyer: Deal worth a total of $285 million"
Microsoft has sold SoftImage to Avid Technology for $285 million, four years after it bought the firm for $130 million. SoftImage specialises in creating special effects for the film industry, and has been bought by Avid to broaden its portfolio. The company makes video editing systems, which also sold to the film and to the TV industries.
The terms of the agreement are that Microsoft will receive $79 million in cash from Avid, will get $93 million of Avid's shares with a ten year option to buy more, and keep nine per cent of Avid's shares. Intel owns seven per cent of Avid shares. The other components of the deal include subordinate notes worth $5 million and sale of stock to ex-Microsoft employees.
the I/O performance varies from development kernel to development kernel and they're still tracking issues down (ie, someone reports 200% improvement on one kernel, but says it's worse in another.. really amazing actually).
What this means is that the Linux developers are playing with black magic and don't really know the effects of their performance tuning. Each dev kernel is a "hmm, does this fix the problem? or what about this fix?".
Just like lots of great "Microsoft" applications (DOS, IE, Truetype fonts, ASP, SQL Server), many of these games were written by other companies. Actually make games companies are simply distributors for smaller companies' games.
Contractors have yellow badges.. badges of shame. Blue badges will get you access to any Microsoft building, any day/time of the week. Yellow badges are only allowed in a few buildings during business hours.
Perl's text algorithms were designed and coded by experts and optmized over time. The adhoc regex function Joe Coder writes will NOT be nearly as smart. Thus Perl can be [much] faster than C in some instances.
I don't know which would be worse: A virus that merely does a backup of empty files, or one that is good at getting itself safely backed up.
:-o
Let the virus sit idle for 1.5 weeks (assuming companies backup once a week?). Once the infected files have been "safely" backed up, then the virus awakens, zeros all files, then backs up the zeroed files.
./
This is real. There is a French lingere company that made some underwear called "microsoft" (small m). Microsoft (big M) was unhappy, but allowed them to use the name with a small m. I don't have a reference off hand, though..
I'm a C/C++ kinda guy, but I just finished reading "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". In school, I never bothered to learn Lisp, so I decided to do it myself. I can appreciate some of the bigger ideas, but some of "cool techniques" in the SICP book felt more like cruft to get around the functional language properties. I'd love to read a functional language intro, especially one that wasn't as brain heavy as SICP.
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The 386 Experience claims to have have Windows 1.0 and MS DOS 1.10 for download. I have NOT tried them, so don't blaim me if they nuke your computer.
Motif is a clone of Windows. Windows was a clone of the Mac. According to this Windows timeline, Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985 and even Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990. According to the Motif FAQ, Motif 1.1.3 was released in August 1991. How then could Windows be a copy of Motif?
The "Unix Haters Handbook" claims that a "stated design goal" of Motic was to copy Windows. Look at the "Motif Self-Abuse Kit" section of "The X-Windows Disaster".
A stated design goal of Motif was to give the X Window System the window management capabilities of HP's circa-1988 window manager and the visual elegance of Microsoft Windows. We kid you not. Recipe for disaster: start with the Microsoft Windows metaphor, which was designed and hand coded in assembler. Build something on top of three or four layers of X to look like Windows. Call it "Motif."
If you want to make these activities freely avaible, _fine_, just don't expect the government to spend MY MONEY developing treatements or clinics for these idiots.
If you want to make these activities illegal, _fine_, just don't expect the government to spend MY MONEY developing more prisons.
:-)