The fact that scientists in a lab had limited success producing a combination of chemicals that could produce a small explosion (enough of a pop to make people panic, not take down a plane or kill anyone onboard) when they were asked to determine the "safe quantities" for TSA, shows that the plot was never realistic in the first place. Its a draconian restriction for an unrealistic threat.
From about 8 years ago, when demand for 4GL and AS400 developers fell off, to now, with.NET close to even if listings on jobserve.com and monster.com are to be beleived.
I see this less as about the development tools and more about the environments in which they run. MS tools are an all MS proposition. If you're developing using MSVC, then you're developing for Windows, most likely using.NET, and probably MS SQL Server. If you're using Eclipse, you're probably developing Java, and quite possibly running on Linux, and using MySQL, PostgreSQL or in a commercial environment Oracle.
This is definitely about setting the standard for which plentiful developers are available, and thus the "industry standard" which for the past 8 years has been Java.
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Are you sure that the destruction is caused by communism itself, and not the US sanctions that result from that?
Not to mention that artificial intelligence at human level has been 20 years away for at least 40 years now, along with flying cars and other such contraptions of science fiction.
I also have a problem with all the popular attention directed at the difference between a Hummer and Prius when there are uncontrollable underground coal fires in China producing just as much CO2
Perhaps because the choice between a Prius and a Hummer is controllable.
"It seems that that Linux Networx, the pioneering Linux supercomputing company, has gone belly up."
What causes you to think that? Have they filed for bankruptcy? Is there some indication they were failing?
The fact that the employees turned up to find the doors locked and received their final paychecks suggests that the company was wound down and the assets sold, rather than being sold as a going concern.
* They might have a convincing legal argument to overturn some of the judgements against them--for example they might be able to retain copyright to at least portions of UNIX
f you combine that with the first point, that would mean MSFT could end up with some UNIX copyright ownership
You have been smoking too much Maureen O'Gara. SCO never had the UNIX copyrights to start with. There is nothing to retain.
It depends. Is the vulnerability in the view-source: method, or have the developers just not bothered to protect resource:/// since, as you say, it is all standard stuff that people can get by downloading firefox themselves? The way the exploit code has been posted, it is difficult to tell, because you need a javascript file that consists of lots of calls to a single function so you can override that function to print out the parameters instead.
Not if you type it in the URL bar. I can't seem to get the resource:/// hack to work from an http:/// page though, so I'm not sure about whether file:/// gets through under the same circumstances.
I have a feeling there just aren't that many different kinds of printers (driver-wise).
Or maybe the fact that they have been around longer than a lot of other peripherals, and the protocol changes are incremental, as no manufacturer wants to throw out their old dot-matrix era protocol and start from scratch, so they just keep extending them to support higher resolutions etc.
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XPath. 'Nuff said. Ok, one thing: this should have replaced SAX/DOM years ago.
SAX is a parser. DOM is a data representation. XPath is a query language. None can replace the others, in many implementations, they are different levels of the same stack (DOM trees are built by the SAX parser, and XPath works on the DOM tree - though a subset of XPath could as easily work on the SAX output on the fly if you are using it as a filter and don't want to use memory on the data you're not interested in).
If it was about objectivity, why are the images being included anyway? They all postdate Mohammed's life by hundreds of years, so are unlikely to be a likeness. They have no place in an encyclopedia, and that has nothing to do with whether Muslim groups want them there or not.
Why should copyright holders' families be entitled to anything after their death? If they want to provide for their families, why can't they buy life insurance and invest the money they make while they are alive, like the rest of us?
IM is another area of concern. While AIM is still popular in the US, and Korea and Eastern Europe have their own local IM providers doing well, the rest of the world is split almost 50/50 between Yahoo and MSN. Yeah, jabber, gtalk etc exist, but then so did OS/2.
Yahoo are a significant competitor to Google, coming a close second in almost everything they do, and leading them on others. MSN is third in most of those areas, and combined with Yahoo will jump into first place for almost everything except search, where Google maintains a very slim lead and advertising where Google has ensured its dominance by buying up competitors before Microsoft can.
Given Microsoft's past abuse of its dominant market position, and its failure to satisfactorily remedy that, I can't see the regulators allowing it to obtain a close to dominant market position in more market segments. Perhaps though, this will be a catalyst for breaking up Microsoft. Let the sale through on the condition that they spin off parts of the business.
Full screen should definitely hide everything. That's the way every other mobile browser works. The bottom toolbar is only useful for telling you what the bottom 2 or 3 softkeys are used for, once you've used the browser a couple of times, it's just using up valuable screen real estate.
4. Japan's fastest network maxes out at 2.4Mbs (and is not symmetric: 2.4 down, 144kbps up)
I guess you mean KDDI. EMobile offers 7.2Mbps down, 384kbps up, Softbank and Docomo both offer at least 3.6Mbps down on their HSDPA networks, so you picked Japan's slowest network.
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The fact that scientists in a lab had limited success producing a combination of chemicals that could produce a small explosion (enough of a pop to make people panic, not take down a plane or kill anyone onboard) when they were asked to determine the "safe quantities" for TSA, shows that the plot was never realistic in the first place. Its a draconian restriction for an unrealistic threat.
From about 8 years ago, when demand for 4GL and AS400 developers fell off, to now, with .NET close to even if listings on jobserve.com and monster.com are to be beleived.
sed to the rescue...
s/when I am in another room/when I am browsing a webpage that is not slashdot/s/in the bedroom/in the bedroom that is being displayed on my monitor/
Got it now?
I see this less as about the development tools and more about the environments in which they run. MS tools are an all MS proposition. If you're developing using MSVC, then you're developing for Windows, most likely using .NET, and probably MS SQL Server. If you're using Eclipse, you're probably developing Java, and quite possibly running on Linux, and using MySQL, PostgreSQL or in a commercial environment Oracle.
This is definitely about setting the standard for which plentiful developers are available, and thus the "industry standard" which for the past 8 years has been Java.
Are you sure that the destruction is caused by communism itself, and not the US sanctions that result from that?
That should read: Just because it's UTF-8 doesn't mean it's human-compatible.
Not to mention that artificial intelligence at human level has been 20 years away for at least 40 years now, along with flying cars and other such contraptions of science fiction.
Perhaps because the choice between a Prius and a Hummer is controllable.
The fact that the employees turned up to find the doors locked and received their final paychecks suggests that the company was wound down and the assets sold, rather than being sold as a going concern.
It means the future of Linux supercomputing will be backed by SGI. You don't think SGI bought an already dead company just to kill it, do you?
You have been smoking too much Maureen O'Gara. SCO never had the UNIX copyrights to start with. There is nothing to retain.
It depends. Is the vulnerability in the view-source: method, or have the developers just not bothered to protect resource:/// since, as you say, it is all standard stuff that people can get by downloading firefox themselves? The way the exploit code has been posted, it is difficult to tell, because you need a javascript file that consists of lots of calls to a single function so you can override that function to print out the parameters instead.
Not if you type it in the URL bar. I can't seem to get the resource:/// hack to work from an http:/// page though, so I'm not sure about whether file:/// gets through under the same circumstances.
Or maybe the fact that they have been around longer than a lot of other peripherals, and the protocol changes are incremental, as no manufacturer wants to throw out their old dot-matrix era protocol and start from scratch, so they just keep extending them to support higher resolutions etc.
SAX is a parser. DOM is a data representation. XPath is a query language. None can replace the others, in many implementations, they are different levels of the same stack (DOM trees are built by the SAX parser, and XPath works on the DOM tree - though a subset of XPath could as easily work on the SAX output on the fly if you are using it as a filter and don't want to use memory on the data you're not interested in).
If it was about objectivity, why are the images being included anyway? They all postdate Mohammed's life by hundreds of years, so are unlikely to be a likeness. They have no place in an encyclopedia, and that has nothing to do with whether Muslim groups want them there or not.
Why should copyright holders' families be entitled to anything after their death? If they want to provide for their families, why can't they buy life insurance and invest the money they make while they are alive, like the rest of us?
IM is another area of concern. While AIM is still popular in the US, and Korea and Eastern Europe have their own local IM providers doing well, the rest of the world is split almost 50/50 between Yahoo and MSN. Yeah, jabber, gtalk etc exist, but then so did OS/2.
Given Microsoft's past abuse of its dominant market position, and its failure to satisfactorily remedy that, I can't see the regulators allowing it to obtain a close to dominant market position in more market segments. Perhaps though, this will be a catalyst for breaking up Microsoft. Let the sale through on the condition that they spin off parts of the business.
Microsoft expanding their monopoly into new areas? I can't see it getting past the regulators myself.
Full screen should definitely hide everything. That's the way every other mobile browser works. The bottom toolbar is only useful for telling you what the bottom 2 or 3 softkeys are used for, once you've used the browser a couple of times, it's just using up valuable screen real estate.
FOMA is not GSM, nor is it even UMTS, though it is compatible with the latter.
I guess you mean KDDI. EMobile offers 7.2Mbps down, 384kbps up, Softbank and Docomo both offer at least 3.6Mbps down on their HSDPA networks, so you picked Japan's slowest network.
I'm glad you don't design routers.
Its a 20% increase. 28 - 23.2 / 23.2 is approximately 0.2 (20%).