Nothing. Hell, the Model M lovers are a niche anyway. What percentage of keyboarders out there are Model M fanatics? where a soft-touch keyboard is a much safer bet for your wrists.
Interesting idea, but I don't buy it. The force needed to use a buckling spring keyboard is no different than most rubber dome keyboards, and the primary cause of carpal tunnel is incorrect wrist position anyway.
Errr...actually, we produce the CO2. Plants suck it up and produce O2.
Nah. All plants produce CO2 as part of their metabolic cycle. Green plants ALSO produce O2 during photosysnthesis, which of course only happens when the sun is shining.
You might want to talk to your local labor department. If you are a salaried employee, any company policy that states you will get your pay docked for being a few minutes late like this would probably cause you to become non-exempt and eligible for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
What the hell does 'toxic chemical' mean anyway? Isn't that something that can cause injury or death by definition? Doesn't this wording simply mean that any substance that can cause injury or death is a weapon of mass destruction?
Now, the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere can definitely cause injury or death. Now green plants definitely produce this weapon of mass destruction? Doesn't that mean all green plants are terrorists and must be destroyed? Huh?
perhaps the reduced emissions are worth more to the purchaser than the extra cost in money.
Maybe, but reduction in emissions is going to closely track gas consumption. An efficient gas powered car is going to give you most of that reduction.
The real question is whether the life cycle environmental impact of a hybrid vehicle is going to be better than a highly efficient gas only vehicle. When you consider the extra batteries (lead) etc. it becomes highly questionable.
The most efficient, practical hybrids on the road are the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid.
The Prius or Civic Hybrid get 48 MPG and cost 20K.
Why bother? The Toyota Corolla is $7,000 less, and gets 40 MPG highway. If you drive 20,000 miles per year the gas savings is on the order of $150 per year. You will NEVER come close to making back the price difference.
Give Linux the insane amount of marketshare Windows has and we'll see how many buffer overflows and remote code exploits we find in all the Linux distros after just a month.
Apache has 2x at least the marketshare IIS does, and I don't see any such activity.
Nicolas Boullis discovered two vulnerabilities in mah-jong.
You are kidding, right? Microsoft would have to disclose EVERY buffer overflow in every software product available for Windows to have something comparable to the list.
I really don't understand why they don't put this gag clause in the.NET framework download itself.
That would only gag the people downloading.Net. This gags EVERYONE.
Seriously, how can anyone criticize MS users who don't apply patches when MS pulls this sort of crap. It is totally ridiculous for a software vendor to throw in new EULA terms for security patches. In fact, it should be outright illegal to engage in this sort of activity.
The term bug when referring to a flaw in a mechanism does NOT originate in the coputer machinery of 1945. In fact, it is much older, and is traceable to as far back as Tom Edison:
On November 18, 1878, Edison wrote to Theodore Puskas, "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--"Bugs"--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and mo nths of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" (Matthew Josephson, Edison: A Biography, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, page 198).
There was an U.S. sponsored coup after, and then the most brutal regimem of the 20th century in americas took power.
Most brutal regime? I am not sure. There have been some pretty awful cases elsewhere. Certainly it was not good though. When I visited Chile during Pinochet's period in power, it was quite clear that it was a pretty repressive situation.
However the economy under the Unity government was a total basket case, and maybe Chileans were better off under Pinochet. If it hadn't been for the coup there probably would have been famines in Chile, much like what have occurred in most centrally managed economies like Russia, Korea and China.
Thankfully the end of Pinochet's regime occured relatively peacefully.
Gack. A monkey could handle the editorial duties here.
Let's see:
SCO Cold Fusion Software Patents Microsoft Security Problems Microsoft Conquers World Latest Version of Apache released Java suckage BSD is dying RIAA is stopping me from downloading Somebody shoots something into space Supression of video games Latest hardware iz kewl
Guess what, much like in the MASH episode where Hawkeye is told for the 2345th time in a row that he has to choose between liver and fish,
Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
On multiple levels, yet. The purpose of patents is to get people to publish complete descriptions of their inventions so people will not have to repeatedly redevelop the same technology, but rather be able to build on prior technologies. Where this is failing due to bad implemetation, it needs to be corrected.
The problem comes when things that are not real contributions are allowed patent status. "One Click" should not be patentable, etc.
The EPO has long held to a somewhat higher standard of patentability (and Japan a lower standard) - and if they are going to allow software patents they should adopt a very high standard at least initially to insure that they don't get junk patents. If it turns out that this is the correct approach they will be on firm ground to push America towards the same approach - although it will take legislation, changes in the law are the remedy to court interpitations that are leading towards an ineffective and potentially damaging patent system.
Whether or not this rosy scenario can happen is questionable, but one can hope.
In terms of the programming model I find that the unchecked exception model is a serious deficiency in.Net. It leads directly to runtime errors and loss of program reliability. In my opinion this design mistake outweighs by far all of the positives.Net has over Java.
I am also finding that it is hard to implement many of the commonly used design patterns in.Net. The framework does not seem to support good architectures as well as Java does. Doing MVC in.Net just doesn't seem to be as natural as it is in Java..Net also has a long way to go in terms of scalability, portability and 3rd party support.
Windows alone has many, many times the number of lines of code that Red hat 9 has.
Also if you install Windows 2003 and know where to look you can actually find a C# compiler, email server, SQL database engine, etc. etc.
I have installed Windows Server 2003. It came with 0 lines of source code compared to over a GB of source code that came with Red Hat 9, so as far as I am concerned Windows has no source code at all.
2003 came with an SMTP service, but no mail server. Red Hat 9 came with both POP, IMAP mail servers and SMTP services. I haven't checked for the C# compiler, but I know MS gives that away free as part of the.Net SDK so I'll credit that. However I don't see revision control systems, IDE's, etc to match the 20 or so languages and related development tools that come with RedHat 9.
As far as a SQL database engine, maybe. But is that available for use in developing database backed applications? I sure haven't seen any indication of that.
Basically the number of patches issued is about as meaningless an indicator of code quality as number of lines of code per day is a measure of productivity.
Perhaps there is some validity to that statement. I will have to think about it.
Yet another explanation could be that more people use XP so more people find code paths that have bugs.
I think that if you argue that XP has many times the number of lines of source code that Red Hat has, you will have to accept that it also has many times the number of bugs unless you can convince me that MS somehow magically writes higher quality code than everyone else. Since we already know that products like Windows 95 have bug rates per LOC comparable to industry norms, I think you are going to have to come up with some pretty good arguments for this proposition.
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Whatever happened to diversity?
Nothing. Hell, the Model M lovers are a niche anyway. What percentage of keyboarders out there are Model M fanatics? where a soft-touch keyboard is a much safer bet for your wrists.
Interesting idea, but I don't buy it. The force needed to use a buckling spring keyboard is no different than most rubber dome keyboards, and the primary cause of carpal tunnel is incorrect wrist position anyway.
You have no application object model.
.Net, the answer is NOT PHP. You should be looking at Python or Ruby.
I agree completely.
If you want a GOOD open source alternative to J2EE or
Do a search on Ebay for 'clicky'.
IBM Model M is the keyboard of the Gods.
http://www.modelm.org/mboard.html
Errr...actually, we produce the CO2. Plants suck it up and produce O2.
Nah. All plants produce CO2 as part of their metabolic cycle. Green plants ALSO produce O2 during photosysnthesis, which of course only happens when the sun is shining.
You might want to talk to your local labor department. If you are a salaried employee, any company policy that states you will get your pay docked for being a few minutes late like this would probably cause you to become non-exempt and eligible for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
1. Bend Over
2. Place Head Between Legs
3. Pucker Up
4. ???????
5. Profit!!! (If you survive).
any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
What the hell does 'toxic chemical' mean anyway? Isn't that something that can cause injury or death by definition? Doesn't this wording simply mean that any substance that can cause injury or death is a weapon of mass destruction?
Now, the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere can definitely cause injury or death. Now green plants definitely produce this weapon of mass destruction? Doesn't that mean all green plants are terrorists and must be destroyed? Huh?
Too bad the people at PARC did't patent the idea of a graphic windowing operating system.
They did. They waited too long to enforce the patents. Xerox totally bungled their chance to become Microsoft.
perhaps the reduced emissions are worth more to the purchaser than the extra cost in money.
Maybe, but reduction in emissions is going to closely track gas consumption. An efficient gas powered car is going to give you most of that reduction.
The real question is whether the life cycle environmental impact of a hybrid vehicle is going to be better than a highly efficient gas only vehicle. When you consider the extra batteries (lead) etc. it becomes highly questionable.
Actually the death rate in SUVs is just as high, if not higher due to rollovers.
The most efficient, practical hybrids on the road are the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid.
The Prius or Civic Hybrid get 48 MPG and cost 20K.
Why bother? The Toyota Corolla is $7,000 less, and gets 40 MPG highway. If you drive 20,000 miles per year the gas savings is on the order of $150 per year. You will NEVER come close to making back the price difference.
Give Linux the insane amount of marketshare Windows has and we'll see how many buffer overflows and remote code exploits we find in all the Linux distros after just a month.
Apache has 2x at least the marketshare IIS does, and I don't see any such activity.
Read my sig.
From the list in your sig:
9/8/2003 12:08 - Debian: mah-jong multiple vulnerabilities
Nicolas Boullis discovered two vulnerabilities in mah-jong.
You are kidding, right? Microsoft would have to disclose EVERY buffer overflow in every software product available for Windows to have something comparable to the list.
Whatever. It's been working for me and all machines I administer.
.Net performance benchmarks?
How do you like the new EULA terms that prohibit disclosing
I really don't understand why they don't put this gag clause in the .NET framework download itself.
.Net. This gags EVERYONE.
That would only gag the people downloading
Seriously, how can anyone criticize MS users who don't apply patches when MS pulls this sort of crap. It is totally ridiculous for a software vendor to throw in new EULA terms for security patches. In fact, it should be outright illegal to engage in this sort of activity.
The term bug when referring to a flaw in a mechanism does NOT originate in the coputer machinery of 1945. In fact, it is much older, and is traceable to as far back as Tom Edison:
On November 18, 1878, Edison wrote to Theodore Puskas, "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--"Bugs"--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and mo nths of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" (Matthew Josephson, Edison: A Biography, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, page 198).
There was an U.S. sponsored coup after, and then the most brutal regimem of the 20th century in americas took power.
Most brutal regime? I am not sure. There have been some pretty awful cases elsewhere. Certainly it was not good though. When I visited Chile during Pinochet's period in power, it was quite clear that it was a pretty repressive situation.
However the economy under the Unity government was a total basket case, and maybe Chileans were better off under Pinochet. If it hadn't been for the coup there probably would have been famines in Chile, much like what have occurred in most centrally managed economies like Russia, Korea and China.
Thankfully the end of Pinochet's regime occured relatively peacefully.
Gack. A monkey could handle the editorial duties here.
Let's see:
SCO
Cold Fusion
Software Patents
Microsoft Security Problems
Microsoft Conquers World
Latest Version of Apache released
Java suckage
BSD is dying
RIAA is stopping me from downloading
Somebody shoots something into space
Supression of video games
Latest hardware iz kewl
Guess what, much like in the MASH episode where Hawkeye is told for the 2345th time in a row that he has to choose between liver and fish,
WE WANT SOMETHING ELSE!
Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
On multiple levels, yet. The purpose of patents is to get people to publish complete descriptions of their inventions so people will not have to repeatedly redevelop the same technology, but rather be able to build on prior technologies. Where this is failing due to bad implemetation, it needs to be corrected.
The problem comes when things that are not real contributions are allowed patent status. "One Click" should not be patentable, etc.
The EPO has long held to a somewhat higher standard of patentability (and Japan a lower standard) - and if they are going to allow software patents they should adopt a very high standard at least initially to insure that they don't get junk patents. If it turns out that this is the correct approach they will be on firm ground to push America towards the same approach - although it will take legislation, changes in the law are the remedy to court interpitations that are leading towards an ineffective and potentially damaging patent system.
Whether or not this rosy scenario can happen is questionable, but one can hope.
They have a point on this one. Having to compete with governments is not a proposition that any company would feel is fair.
Because of the vast popularity and many weaknesses of the Windows operating system, most of the damage is done to Windows users, Tsai said.
Department of Hoeland Security, take note.
You know, July. A whole month before.
o so ft.worm.ap/
Right - Microsoft itself can't keep up with all the patching required to keep it's systems clean.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/01/28/micr
VS is just an awesome IDE
Maybe, but I like Eclipse better. The lack of software engineering tools like refactoring support in VS is a real drawback in my opinion.
Exactly what do you find to be inferior?
.Net. It leads directly to runtime errors and loss of program reliability. In my opinion this design mistake outweighs by far all of the positives .Net has over Java.
.Net. The framework does not seem to support good architectures as well as Java does. Doing MVC in .Net just doesn't seem to be as natural as it is in Java. .Net also has a long way to go in terms of scalability, portability and 3rd party support.
In terms of the programming model I find that the unchecked exception model is a serious deficiency in
I am also finding that it is hard to implement many of the commonly used design patterns in
Windows alone has many, many times the number of lines of code that Red hat 9 has.
.Net SDK so I'll credit that. However I don't see revision control systems, IDE's, etc to match the 20 or so languages and related development tools that come with RedHat 9.
Also if you install Windows 2003 and know where to look you can actually find a C# compiler, email server, SQL database engine, etc. etc.
I have installed Windows Server 2003. It came with 0 lines of source code compared to over a GB of source code that came with Red Hat 9, so as far as I am concerned Windows has no source code at all.
2003 came with an SMTP service, but no mail server. Red Hat 9 came with both POP, IMAP mail servers and SMTP services. I haven't checked for the C# compiler, but I know MS gives that away free as part of the
As far as a SQL database engine, maybe. But is that available for use in developing database backed applications? I sure haven't seen any indication of that.
Basically the number of patches issued is about as meaningless an indicator of code quality as number of lines of code per day is a measure of productivity.
Perhaps there is some validity to that statement. I will have to think about it.
Yet another explanation could be that more people use XP so more people find code paths that have bugs.
I think that if you argue that XP has many times the number of lines of source code that Red Hat has, you will have to accept that it also has many times the number of bugs unless you can convince me that MS somehow magically writes higher quality code than everyone else. Since we already know that products like Windows 95 have bug rates per LOC comparable to industry norms, I think you are going to have to come up with some pretty good arguments for this proposition.