It seems to me that they want to avoid allowing demagogues to promote themselves Reality check here. When I lived in Tokyo, the mayor made quite an uproar by saying that foreigners in Japan could be expected to start rioting and looting if a disaster occurred. Also you may not be aware that NHK also doubles as a Japanese C-Span during certain debates which gives elected demagogues free publicity.
Laws limiting political campaigning have only one purpose - to keep outsiders out.
The only way Youtube can possibly satisfy every set of laws is by turning it into a country-specific site Google already does this. www.google.com gets redirected in Japan to a Japanese version. It gets redirected to a different localize site in the Philippines (the only two places I've tried it). So does Yahoo! for that matter. Do you really think the Japanese government is unaware of this?
its you-may-do-nothing-but-this approach does (or at least did, pre-Internet) work well to preserve a level playing field Limiting access to the voters guarantees that incumbents and relatives of incumbents have an unfair advantage in starting off with better name recognition. Japan hasn't had 1 party rule since the occupation for nothing.
Japanese elections may be overly restrictive, but are they as corrupt and nasty as American ones have become? I don't know about the nasty part, but I'm of the distinct opinion that feudal Japan never really was reformed. Daimyos are just called members of the Diet now. Organized crime in Japan certainly owns as many politicians as it does in the USA.
If Japan's laws say speeches can't be broadcast except through government-controlled TV, then I'm sorry, but that's the law. And if Google wants to do business in Japan (as they do), then they need to respect local laws. A US company should not be trying to impose US law or US cultural norms on Japan. Very true. I have a fairly low opinion of Japanese election laws, but it's their country and they make the rules, for better or for worse. (Far, far worse is that they preempt Sumo, oh no!)
Think of this one as one of the silly McCain campaign finance "reform" laws.
All they want to be provided is the documentation. You didn't RTFA either. The rejection came about because Microsoft was requesting 5.95% of revenues for royalty fees. There's no way anyone can compete against that.
They were convicted of being a monopoly. They're under fire now because they're using their monopoly to drive everyone else out of the market. Gee, I wonder where I've heard that before.
And, of course, if your userbase platform is not Windows, your Exchange client options are either a joke (Entourage on the Mac) or non-existent (Linux, BSD). And, of course, if your userbase platform is not Windows, your Exchange client options are a joke - Entourage on the Mac or Scalix (Linux, BSD, etc.).
Keep in mind: how do you know what they are selling is going to be accurate? You don't, unless they open source it. For those of you who are new, malware has been open sourced before. Remember SATAN, the Unix network penetrator posted to Usenet 20 years ago?
Killing the messenger isn't going to change the fact that major software companies are still releasing software with basic security flaws in it. Somebody, somewhere is going to take advantage of that.
I don't distinguish between "doesn't need" and "doesn't want", but OK.
Can you imagine the arrogance of an operating system that actually builds in DRM to protect content other than the users? I'd rather spend my time on something more fun.
I'm currently contracting for a company in an MS Windows development group and I've been trying hard to appreciate it, but it's hard. Shutting down the computer is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer -- it feels *so good* when you stop. And "Enterprise Microsoft Windows XP Professional" isn't very professional, at least it would be nice if it were as stable as any version of Unix 20 years ago.
So by your definition every single OS that comes out should use less resources than it's predecessor? I think that's generally a fair assessment for any piece of software. Smaller, faster and the feature set should be designed such that the user can make things go away that he doesn't need. Doable if you have capable programmers as in the XEmacs development community.
Equip: Allows the wearer to see "the truth." May lead to an incontrollable urge to share "the truth" with others.
Use: Grants the wearer immunity to all forms of mind control for the next 10 sec...or does it?
"On behalf of the International Gnomish Conspiracy, I've got to inform you that we're almost out of tinfoil."
Requires Tin Bar (99), Fused Wiring (4), Troll Tears (8), Heavy Leather (4), Star Ruby I'd like one just for the joke value, but that's going to be too expensive to buy in the AH. Bummer.
In one college class around 95-96 we built a preprocessor that used a symbol table. The symbol table was a hash table of linked-list buckets. A separate list of linked-lists was used to denote scope. I did exactly the same thing for compiler class in 1982. I don't remember whether I got the idea from the Dragon Book or Davie and Morrison's S-Algol compiler book.
On a serious note: isn't the existance of the programming language LISP a good example of prior art in this case. No. Cons cells have only one pointer. I suppose an implementation could put in another pointer for garbage collection, but I'm not aware of any that do.
I'm guessing that either a lot of IBM folk were in the "unknown" categories, or that lots of IBM work is now going into stuff other than just the kernel I would guess the latter. When I was employed Linux kernel hacking for NEC we were mainly supporting kernel debugging tools and not making patches and the largest group of people we were working with was an IBM group in India.
That's interesting and what you describe is certainly fraud, but this article is about Konami. Every single Konami GBA title I have either crashes or has some kind of a lock up that I've found within only a few hours of play. Based on my experiences, I am certainly willing to believe that this was a bug, just as they said. Konami QA is lacking.
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Laws limiting political campaigning have only one purpose - to keep outsiders out.
Think of this one as one of the silly McCain campaign finance "reform" laws.
Yeah. An unused instruction if executed killed the processor. Ugly bug.
They were convicted of being a monopoly. They're under fire now because they're using their monopoly to drive everyone else out of the market. Gee, I wonder where I've heard that before.
There. Fixed that for you.
Killing the messenger isn't going to change the fact that major software companies are still releasing software with basic security flaws in it. Somebody, somewhere is going to take advantage of that.
I'm currently contracting for a company in an MS Windows development group and I've been trying hard to appreciate it, but it's hard. Shutting down the computer is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer -- it feels *so good* when you stop. And "Enterprise Microsoft Windows XP Professional" isn't very professional, at least it would be nice if it were as stable as any version of Unix 20 years ago.
WoW with Vista? WoW runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Apples and Linux with Wine. You don't need Vista for WoW.
- too busy playing WoW to watch TV
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Equip: Allows the wearer to see "the truth." May lead to an incontrollable urge to share "the truth" with others.
Use: Grants the wearer immunity to all forms of mind control for the next 10 sec...or does it?
"On behalf of the International Gnomish Conspiracy, I've got to inform you that we're almost out of tinfoil."
Requires Tin Bar (99), Fused Wiring (4), Troll Tears (8), Heavy Leather (4), Star Ruby I'd like one just for the joke value, but that's going to be too expensive to buy in the AH. Bummer.
The Z-shell and it's been doing it for a long time.
4 and 4.0 are not equal or eq, but they are = (in lisp).
When you can
main()
{
char *p=0;
for (;;) *p++=0;
}
who needs exploits?
MS-DOS 2.0 had plenty of bugs, but given the hardware it had to run on, I can't count that as one of them.
So I got to take the poll only to be rewarded by a "Dell recommends Vista for Business" ad when I was done. Great!
NEC does too, or at least they used to.
I don't know about that. Last night WoW microsofted on me twice. Had to reboot the computer to get it going again.
That's interesting and what you describe is certainly fraud, but this article is about Konami. Every single Konami GBA title I have either crashes or has some kind of a lock up that I've found within only a few hours of play. Based on my experiences, I am certainly willing to believe that this was a bug, just as they said. Konami QA is lacking.