Of course, that limits your choice of hardware significantly, but then if you realyl are going to use ancient unsupported kernels, you won't be that worried, right?
Nope, 'fraid you are way off there. Just an average guy working 50 hours per week salaried (with no christmas bonus this year 'cos times is hard) who is glad to still have a job.
Still, you carry on trolling if it helps you get through the day.
"What did the CEO do that is so special that it creates his/her expectation of 6-figure salaries with use of company assets and a golden parachute regardless of the time of year?"
Nice try, but our CEO has drawn ZERO salary for the past 18 months, and will continue to draw ZERO salary until our company is back in profitability again.
So what makes you think you shoudl have the automatic right to DEMAND a Christmas "bonus"?
What exactly have you done that is so special and above what you are paid to do that justifies your expectation of extra pay purely because it is december?
Someone or other is ALWAYS saying that we are about to hit the end of Moore's so-called "Law".
Then again, they said it woudl be impossible to make semiconductors using geometries of less than 1 micron; they said that 8x was the fastest a CDROM could ever hope to read; they said that 14,400 baud was the fastest the telephone system could handle; and so on.
They were all wrong, just as Mr Grove most likely will be.
Still, I suppose if you prophecy doom often enough, you will eventually be right!
"I am willing to bet that most people don't like their cable company..."
Personally, I rather like my cable company.
For a nice low fee they provide me with telephone (at the cheapest rates in the country), my choice from their selection of TV channels, and a damned good broadband internet access (24/7).
They fulfil their part of the contract nicely.
Nope, I have no problems with my cable company's service or pricing, thanks.
I dunno, maybe we just have a better quality of company over here in the UK or something? *shrug*
You just KNOW that when someone uses that line, then you are in for a nice whacky conspiracy theory that doesn't stand up to more than half a second's scrutiny. And you just confirmed that.
Hint - IF Amazon were deliberately DOSing a site (as opposed to simply runing a link-checking robot written by a clueless moron as is the case here), THEN the site woudl be too slow for people to even GET to the Amazon links, and thus would not think to go to Amazon directly (why woudl they go to Amazon if they don't know there is something being recommended in the first place)?
"I'm no consipiracy theorist, but it's all a conspiracy, I tell you!"
" The problem is that we have come to *rely* on DNS lookups. My company's website will not really work without DNS. Why? Because our customers, in order to do things like making purchases, would have to copy and paste every link into their browser and change t
Then fire your "webmasters" for creating such a broken website.
Can they explain why EVERY single link includes the full URL of the he domain name to the IP address? Have they never heard of relative addressing?
There is, believe it or not, a diference between a nuclear attack and a DDoS attack.
If there is a direct nuclear strike on the location of one of the DNS roots, the others are unscathed. You need a whole lot of nuke strikes to fully disable the DNS servers.
However, although 7 of the DNS roots were down during the DDoS, the fact remains that SIX WERE UNAFFECTED.
I.e. the system behaved the way it is supposed to behave, and proved that it is relissialnt after all.
Hey, oh anonymous one too scared to stand by your own statement, who said anything about the include line, hmm? howeverr, I shall be sore to let the Mozilla developers know that you consider my browser (Mozilla at the moment) to be broken, I'm sure they will value the input of someone too scared to stand by their own statement.
As others have pointed out, there is no main() block, ergo the code will not compile into an executable as it stands. Ergo your claim to have achieved this is, in fact, nothing short of a lie.
Also, as others have rightly pointe out, you are talking from betwixt your buttocks when you claim that C compilers will always initialise unassigned variables to zero - there is absolutely no guarantee that this will happen as it is NOT a requirement of any accepted standard.
Som, that's a syntactically flawed "program" with scope for a bug based upon a rather majorly flawed assumption.
It is compatible with all existing Amiga software.
which isn't surprising as a fe years back when Gateway owned Amiga and wanted nothing to do with a new OS, the MorphOS crew started writing an Amiga-compatible next generation PPC-based OS.
Later, then Gateway sold Amiga to AmigaInc, and enough users pestered them, they decided to do a new AmigaOS. there was a possibility of them adopting MorphOS, but sadly internal politics (AmigaInc were friendly with Hyperion who hate the MorphOS crew, so AInc listened to Hyperion and gave them the contract instead) screwed it up.
Meanwhile, MorphOS has gone from strength to strength and advanced way beond a mere next-generation AmigaOS.
Shoudl be good!
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New and innovative?!
Under what rock have you been living for the past several years?!
Hell, even here in the backward UK we have had online grocery shopping for years.
When I signed up with my cable supplier, NTL here in teh UK, they arranged for the engineer to fit cable to my house. They asked if I wanted the enginer to install the modem or if I was happy to do it myself. I said I'd do it myself, they said "fine" and that was that.
No software they tried to install, no software they tried to get me to install.
but then again, given the cable modem simply plugs into an ethernet port, why shoudl there be any software required anyway?
However, you did overlook one obvious problem with your statement - it is irrelevant. The discussion was not "does Dell impose the M$ tax", but "ALL PCs impose the M$ tax and it is impossible to buy a desktop system without M$ Windows".
Here it is in its entirity for those who miss it because of incompetant moderation -
"sorry for bringing this up but...
Does it not strike anyone else that this community freaks out everytime some gov't or other official entity even *hints* at limiting someone's GPL half-baked scheme, yet the same community practically screams for blood when one of those half-baked schemes involves spam?"
He makes a perfectly valid point. Deal with it.
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"Please tell me, enlightened one, what should we use for broadband net access outside our homes if it's not wireless?"
How about some form of access for which you pay or, at the very least, where you ASK THE PERMISSION OF THOSE WHO DO PAY before you just steal their bandwidth?
Or is that too radical an idea for you?
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Let's try your argument but making a change to the object...
"Driving around and finding unsecured front doors in homes is not illegal. There's no reason to make it illegal. If you don't want people accessing your home, secure it.
For those of us looking for home acess, we just want to watch TV and drink a few beers. There's no way of telling whether a unsecured froont door was deliberately unsecured to allow people to access the house, (like many people and some businesses - notably, Starbucks - do) or whether it was left unguarded due to ignorance, laziness, or boneheadedness."
Presumably you have no problem with me going door to door, trying every door to find a house I can walk into, right? Same for cars, right?
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Actually, no it doesn't.
You need to download it seperately.
Then just use open drivers - problem solved.
Of course, that limits your choice of hardware significantly, but then if you realyl are going to use ancient unsupported kernels, you won't be that worried, right?
*sigh*
*gently sweeps hand from right to left*
No it can't. This isn't the eaxmple you are looking for, move along.
" You sound like a business major to me."
LOL!!!
Nope, 'fraid you are way off there.
Just an average guy working 50 hours per week salaried (with no christmas bonus this year 'cos times is hard) who is glad to still have a job.
Still, you carry on trolling if it helps you get through the day.
"What did the CEO do that is so special that it creates his/her expectation of 6-figure salaries with use of company assets and a golden parachute regardless of the time of year?"
Nice try, but our CEO has drawn ZERO salary for the past 18 months, and will continue to draw ZERO salary until our company is back in profitability again.
So what makes you think you shoudl have the automatic right to DEMAND a Christmas "bonus"?
What exactly have you done that is so special and above what you are paid to do that justifies your expectation of extra pay purely because it is december?
Genuine question.
"Amiga does work on its own operating system and related technologies (AmigaDE/AA)."
Actually, Mike, as you perfectly well know, AmigaDE is merely TAO's software repackaged. NOTHING more.
Fact of the matter is, AInc do NOT do any of their own OS development. Period.
Someone or other is ALWAYS saying that we are about to hit the end of Moore's so-called "Law".
Then again, they said it woudl be impossible to make semiconductors using geometries of less than 1 micron; they said that 8x was the fastest a CDROM could ever hope to read; they said that 14,400 baud was the fastest the telephone system could handle; and so on.
They were all wrong, just as Mr Grove most likely will be.
Still, I suppose if you prophecy doom often enough, you will eventually be right!
" if you are paying for Star Office, why not pay for MS Office, especially if it runs on Linux ? "
Price of M$ Office - $499.99
Price of StarOffice - $ 59.99
You do the maths...
(Sourcfe - www.amazon.com - ymmv but not by HTAT much!)
True.
However, they can just call it "Linucks" or "Linuk" or even "Winux".
Problem solved from their point of view.
After all, if such confusing nomenclature is good enough for the Lindows crew...
"I am willing to bet that most people don't like their cable company..."
Personally, I rather like my cable company.
For a nice low fee they provide me with telephone (at the cheapest rates in the country), my choice from their selection of TV channels, and a damned good broadband internet access (24/7).
They fulfil their part of the contract nicely.
Nope, I have no problems with my cable company's service or pricing, thanks.
I dunno, maybe we just have a better quality of company over here in the UK or something? *shrug*
"I'm no consipiracy theorist, but..."
You just KNOW that when someone uses that line, then you are in for a nice whacky conspiracy theory that doesn't stand up to more than half a second's scrutiny. And you just confirmed that.
Hint - IF Amazon were deliberately DOSing a site (as opposed to simply runing a link-checking robot written by a clueless moron as is the case here), THEN the site woudl be too slow for people to even GET to the Amazon links, and thus would not think to go to Amazon directly (why woudl they go to Amazon if they don't know there is something being recommended in the first place)?
"I'm no consipiracy theorist, but it's all a conspiracy, I tell you!"
" The problem is that we have come to *rely* on DNS lookups. My company's website will not really work without DNS. Why? Because our customers, in order to do things like making purchases, would have to copy and paste every link into their browser and change t
Then fire your "webmasters" for creating such a broken website.
Can they explain why EVERY single link includes the full URL of the he domain name to the IP address?
Have they never heard of relative addressing?
There is, believe it or not, a diference between a nuclear attack and a DDoS attack.
If there is a direct nuclear strike on the location of one of the DNS roots, the others are unscathed. You need a whole lot of nuke strikes to fully disable the DNS servers.
However, although 7 of the DNS roots were down during the DDoS, the fact remains that SIX WERE UNAFFECTED.
I.e. the system behaved the way it is supposed to behave, and proved that it is relissialnt after all.
I offer no comment oin the rest of the article.
Hey, oh anonymous one too scared to stand by your own statement, who said anything about the include line, hmm? howeverr, I shall be sore to let the Mozilla developers know that you consider my browser (Mozilla at the moment) to be broken, I'm sure they will value the input of someone too scared to stand by their own statement.
As others have pointed out, there is no main() block, ergo the code will not compile into an executable as it stands. Ergo your claim to have achieved this is, in fact, nothing short of a lie.
Also, as others have rightly pointe out, you are talking from betwixt your buttocks when you claim that C compilers will always initialise unassigned variables to zero - there is absolutely no guarantee that this will happen as it is NOT a requirement of any accepted standard.
Som, that's a syntactically flawed "program" with scope for a bug based upon a rather majorly flawed assumption.
You were saying?
There is no security flaw primarily because your code is fataly flawed in terms of syntax and won't even compile.
Kinda tricky to exploiut security flaws in something that won't even compile, let alone run.
Same here.
"What's your name and address sir?"
"I'm not giving out that information"
"OK".
Where's the problem? Does CT *really* find it that hard to say "no"?!
It is compatible with all existing Amiga software.
which isn't surprising as a fe years back when Gateway owned Amiga and wanted nothing to do with a new OS, the MorphOS crew started writing an Amiga-compatible next generation PPC-based OS.
Later, then Gateway sold Amiga to AmigaInc, and enough users pestered them, they decided to do a new AmigaOS. there was a possibility of them adopting MorphOS, but sadly internal politics (AmigaInc were friendly with Hyperion who hate the MorphOS crew, so AInc listened to Hyperion and gave them the contract instead) screwed it up.
Meanwhile, MorphOS has gone from strength to strength and advanced way beond a mere next-generation AmigaOS.
Shoudl be good!
New and innovative?!
http://www.sainsbury.co.uk
Under what rock have you been living for the past several years?!
Hell, even here in the backward UK we have had online grocery shopping for years.
http://www.tesco.com
http://www.iceland.co.uk
http://www.asda.co.uk
http://www.marksandspencer.com
the list goes on and on.
So what exactly is new about this story?!
When I signed up with my cable supplier, NTL here in teh UK, they arranged for the engineer to fit cable to my house. They asked if I wanted the enginer to install the modem or if I was happy to do it myself. I said I'd do it myself, they said "fine" and that was that.
No software they tried to install, no software they tried to get me to install.
but then again, given the cable modem simply plugs into an ethernet port, why shoudl there be any software required anyway?
No shit, Sherlock!
However, you did overlook one obvious problem with your statement - it is irrelevant. The discussion was not "does Dell impose the M$ tax", but "ALL PCs impose the M$ tax and it is impossible to buy a desktop system without M$ Windows".
Learn to read before commenting, hmmm?
"See for your self, choose any desktop or workstation line and try to configure it without windows... you can't!"
That's strange, because my G4 Mac didn't come with Windows...
No, dumbass moderator, his post was NOT a troll.
Here it is in its entirity for those who miss it because of incompetant moderation -
"sorry for bringing this up but...
Does it not strike anyone else that this community freaks out everytime some gov't or other official entity even *hints* at limiting someone's GPL half-baked scheme, yet the same community practically screams for blood when one of those half-baked schemes involves spam?"
He makes a perfectly valid point. Deal with it.
"Please tell me, enlightened one, what should we use for broadband net access outside our homes if it's not wireless?"
How about some form of access for which you pay or, at the very least, where you ASK THE PERMISSION OF THOSE WHO DO PAY before you just steal their bandwidth?
Or is that too radical an idea for you?
Let's try your argument but making a change to the object...
"Driving around and finding unsecured front doors in homes is not illegal. There's no reason to make it illegal. If you don't want people accessing your home, secure it.
For those of us looking for home acess, we just want to watch TV and drink a few beers. There's no way of telling whether a unsecured froont door was deliberately unsecured to allow people to access the house, (like many people and some businesses - notably, Starbucks - do) or whether it was left unguarded due to ignorance, laziness, or boneheadedness."
Presumably you have no problem with me going door to door, trying every door to find a house I can walk into, right?
Same for cars, right?