The sales, according to the article, have already increased, and that is most likely the root cause for the lawsuit. "His book sold more than ours and ours is similar!" So...Hey, lets get some "free" press and sue him!
Yeah, where can I turn off this "feature"? Or, better yet, why doesn't this "feature" release memory when the tab is closed? Either of those would make me much much happier with Firefox.
Something about how commercial software was superior to Free Software because it indemnified users against patent infringment?
And, if you RTFA, it goes on to say....
(In the license agreement) Microsoft promises to indemnify customers from third-party patent claims...
With additional note on some vagueness in how long the user has to apply the patch to keep this indemification. The license agreement says "immediatey" which is, in legal terms, fairly hard to define, but certainly isn't long.
Yes, someone always posts this when the death of the hubble is brought up, but what they never do is pay attention that the JWST can't see all that Hubble sees. They're built to look at different parts of the spectrum (yes, there is overlap), so one will never actually replace the capabilites of the other. They would however complement eachother's abilities.
Why didn't anyone a Microsoft think of this solution?
They did. The official patch has the same end effect as the unofficial one. The only difference is in method. Microsoft modified the source code to remove the vulnerability instead of removing it in memory.
Lets just hope it gets a speed increase before it comes out of beta. It's slow as hell on anything but IE.
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Unfortunately, there's no integration with the google homepage where you also setup your news/RSS feeds. The data has to be setup twice, when it should really be from the same place.
Google has a lot of nice stuff, but they've got a lot of work to do to integrate it and bring it to the most useful.
I find it more likely that these are people trying to AVOID the spammers (both internet, and other) that strip e-mail address, phone numbers, addresses, etc from whois and send them all kinds of crap.
What do you mean allow? They're already allowed to do it if they want. More like force.
The cable and sat companies are not fans of this and are already complaining that the less popular channels that are bundled with the ones people actually want to see aren't going to sell if they're not bundled. (ding! ding! ding! Perhaps if they don't sell it is because they suck and you should just rid of them! But that's a side point.)
Architect has all the features of Developer and Tester as well as the extra tools for architects to use. And while they may LOOK powerpoint-like, they're far more powerful.
Developer has all that Tester has and all that a developer needs, including the ability to SEE but not CHANGE the architecture of the project they are working on. Developers don't need to change the architecture, so they don't get the tools to do so.
Finally, Tester is just that, one meant for the person who is doing only testing. These people are often under appreciated, but are critical if you want to develop highly reliable software. Testers should write tests and test them, recording results, that's all they do, so that's the tools they're given.
As much as I like OSS, there's nothing comparable to Visual Studio.NET (especially 2005) available for OSS developers. Yes, you could probably use a dozen different tools and come out with something close, but it is the integration that is valuable.
While somewhat amusing, it's not at all accurate. The SCO lawyers stopped getting paid a while back. They, foolishly perhaps, agreed to a cap on legal fees which has been reached.
For those worried about the marine life.... It is unlikely that the soundwave from the defense system would do any more damage than say...detonating 100lbs of explosives underwater. Or, say, the effect of the target ship being sunk and releasing the various toxic chemicals, etc that are onboard.
The reason that Cogent is still blacked out from Level 3 customers is that the traffic routing's not being changed. There's still connections between the two networks (through other networks), but those aren't being used by choice. Cogent COULD fix it if they wanted to, but they rather have the blackout and try to blame Level 3 for it.
As to your first statement, that's exactly what I said. If they want "control" then they can set up their own root servers. And, frankly, if it is THAT critical to them, they should have already.
I view UNICEF as an organization that functions despite its parent. It is certainly a rarity within the UN.
As far as the EU.... The EU can rarely agree on anything and I highly doubt that they ever will do better. Military wise, the only reason they'd be able to come close to competing, militarily, is because we either provide them with the hardware, or provide them with the knowledge to build the hardware. Yes, the produce some very nice military hardware, but take a look at where all technology comes from.
All I have to say to the EU and UN is good luck. They can barely managed to manage themselves and they somehow think they can manage the Internet? The UN, as a body of managing anything, sucks. As a forumn to discuss and agree on things it works, sometimes. However, most anything that the UN "manages" fails miserably. Just what we want for the Internet that everyone sees as so critical to them.
If they (other countries) are so dependent on the Interent, then they should have set up redundancies LONG ago that would allow them to "survive" on their own. They should already be managing their own root servers, even though it is unlikely that the US will ever recognize them, or that software will without being manually changed. This is just moronic political positioning. They don't need to "wrestle control" from the US, and, frankly, they're not going to be able to. The US ignores most of the UN anyway, and only pays attention to the EU when it wants something from them. The whole point of this is the UN and EU trying to show some independence, and I suspect it will fail miserably.
In the end, this will fade from the media and the UN and EU will have another black eye of stupidity. Frankly, no one country has "control" over the internet anyway. Absolutely nothing stops any other country from setting up it's own networks (physical), root servers, dns servers, etc. If anyone decides to pay attention to what they set up is a completely different issue, and the real reason that they are trying to have the UN manage it.
As far as their statements on governments being invovled.... Uhm, duh? The UN is just a massive, dysfunctional collection of....you got it...GOVERNMENTS.
So how do you get experience without going and helping?
You start by working the small ones, a tornado, a small flood, something local. MASSIVE disasters like this don't need some greenhorn with no idea what they're doing in the middle of it. If you really want to help, go to your local Red Cross and get disaster training. That'll set you up for the local stuff. For things like this, there's another whole set of courses that are taught by the National level Red Cross.
Frankly, if you don't have this training, or you're not already a first responder (police, fire department, etc.) you're just in the way to those who do know what they're doin. The best help those without experience can be is to send money.
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The sales, according to the article, have already increased, and that is most likely the root cause for the lawsuit. "His book sold more than ours and ours is similar!" So...Hey, lets get some "free" press and sue him!
BSD actually, not Linux.
Yeah, where can I turn off this "feature"? Or, better yet, why doesn't this "feature" release memory when the tab is closed? Either of those would make me much much happier with Firefox.
SP2 Came out in August of 04, the MSRT didn't come out until January 05. I suspect they will use it, when SP3 eventually comes out.
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And, if you RTFA, it goes on to say....
With additional note on some vagueness in how long the user has to apply the patch to keep this indemification. The license agreement says "immediatey" which is, in legal terms, fairly hard to define, but certainly isn't long....for your opthamologist.
Yes, someone always posts this when the death of the hubble is brought up, but what they never do is pay attention that the JWST can't see all that Hubble sees. They're built to look at different parts of the spectrum (yes, there is overlap), so one will never actually replace the capabilites of the other. They would however complement eachother's abilities.
They did. The official patch has the same end effect as the unofficial one. The only difference is in method. Microsoft modified the source code to remove the vulnerability instead of removing it in memory.
The Feds are too busy spying on the the average citizen to worry about what their multi-million dollar campaign donors are doing.
Lets just hope it gets a speed increase before it comes out of beta. It's slow as hell on anything but IE.
Unfortunately, there's no integration with the google homepage where you also setup your news/RSS feeds. The data has to be setup twice, when it should really be from the same place.
Google has a lot of nice stuff, but they've got a lot of work to do to integrate it and bring it to the most useful.
I find it more likely that these are people trying to AVOID the spammers (both internet, and other) that strip e-mail address, phone numbers, addresses, etc from whois and send them all kinds of crap.
What do you mean allow? They're already allowed to do it if they want. More like force.
The cable and sat companies are not fans of this and are already complaining that the less popular channels that are bundled with the ones people actually want to see aren't going to sell if they're not bundled. (ding! ding! ding! Perhaps if they don't sell it is because they suck and you should just rid of them! But that's a side point.)
While funny, your comment is inaccurate.
Architect has all the features of Developer and Tester as well as the extra tools for architects to use. And while they may LOOK powerpoint-like, they're far more powerful.
Developer has all that Tester has and all that a developer needs, including the ability to SEE but not CHANGE the architecture of the project they are working on. Developers don't need to change the architecture, so they don't get the tools to do so.
Finally, Tester is just that, one meant for the person who is doing only testing. These people are often under appreciated, but are critical if you want to develop highly reliable software. Testers should write tests and test them, recording results, that's all they do, so that's the tools they're given.
As much as I like OSS, there's nothing comparable to Visual Studio .NET (especially 2005) available for OSS developers. Yes, you could probably use a dozen different tools and come out with something close, but it is the integration that is valuable.
While somewhat amusing, it's not at all accurate. The SCO lawyers stopped getting paid a while back. They, foolishly perhaps, agreed to a cap on legal fees which has been reached.
Don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out. Asia already has a high penetration of Linux, if Microsoft leaves....all the better for Linux.
For those worried about the marine life.... It is unlikely that the soundwave from the defense system would do any more damage than say...detonating 100lbs of explosives underwater. Or, say, the effect of the target ship being sunk and releasing the various toxic chemicals, etc that are onboard.
The reason that Cogent is still blacked out from Level 3 customers is that the traffic routing's not being changed. There's still connections between the two networks (through other networks), but those aren't being used by choice. Cogent COULD fix it if they wanted to, but they rather have the blackout and try to blame Level 3 for it.
As to your first statement, that's exactly what I said. If they want "control" then they can set up their own root servers. And, frankly, if it is THAT critical to them, they should have already.
I view UNICEF as an organization that functions despite its parent. It is certainly a rarity within the UN.
As far as the EU.... The EU can rarely agree on anything and I highly doubt that they ever will do better. Military wise, the only reason they'd be able to come close to competing, militarily, is because we either provide them with the hardware, or provide them with the knowledge to build the hardware. Yes, the produce some very nice military hardware, but take a look at where all technology comes from.
All I have to say to the EU and UN is good luck. They can barely managed to manage themselves and they somehow think they can manage the Internet? The UN, as a body of managing anything, sucks. As a forumn to discuss and agree on things it works, sometimes. However, most anything that the UN "manages" fails miserably. Just what we want for the Internet that everyone sees as so critical to them.
If they (other countries) are so dependent on the Interent, then they should have set up redundancies LONG ago that would allow them to "survive" on their own. They should already be managing their own root servers, even though it is unlikely that the US will ever recognize them, or that software will without being manually changed. This is just moronic political positioning. They don't need to "wrestle control" from the US, and, frankly, they're not going to be able to. The US ignores most of the UN anyway, and only pays attention to the EU when it wants something from them. The whole point of this is the UN and EU trying to show some independence, and I suspect it will fail miserably.
In the end, this will fade from the media and the UN and EU will have another black eye of stupidity. Frankly, no one country has "control" over the internet anyway. Absolutely nothing stops any other country from setting up it's own networks (physical), root servers, dns servers, etc. If anyone decides to pay attention to what they set up is a completely different issue, and the real reason that they are trying to have the UN manage it.
As far as their statements on governments being invovled.... Uhm, duh? The UN is just a massive, dysfunctional collection of....you got it...GOVERNMENTS.
You start by working the small ones, a tornado, a small flood, something local. MASSIVE disasters like this don't need some greenhorn with no idea what they're doing in the middle of it. If you really want to help, go to your local Red Cross and get disaster training. That'll set you up for the local stuff. For things like this, there's another whole set of courses that are taught by the National level Red Cross.
Frankly, if you don't have this training, or you're not already a first responder (police, fire department, etc.) you're just in the way to those who do know what they're doin. The best help those without experience can be is to send money.
More like: "As a result of Episode I and Episode II SUCKING, Episode III only managed to earn $380 million at the box office."
Leave it to hollywood to blame everyone but themselves for a movie not doing as well as they wanted it to.