In other news, the sun came up this morning. The sky is blue, and Microsoft bashers flocked to Slashdot all day.
Microsoft releases security patches nearly every damn week. When are we going to stop reporting non-news from companies just because we like to bitch about them in public?
Statistically speaking there is danger in allowing a car to exceed the speed limit, but that danger is difficult to quantify and it may very well be exceeded by the improvement in travel efficiency when folks speed.
OTOH a pistols generally tend to hurt more people than they help. Some people successfully defend themselves from other people (with guns), but the more frequent scenario is that someone carelessly leaves their gun unsecured and an inexperienced user hurts or kills themselves with it. C/C++ is more like that gun. There are systems programmers that really need the extra speed, but most people, like Homer Simpson, use it to turn off the lights or open a beer. They would be better served with a safer, more featureful language like Java.
I'm pretty sure the two 21" monitors running at 1600x1200 that I am borrowing from work are cheaper than one 3200x1200 monitor (if such a beast exists).
It has already been established that people think GUI wizards are more important than security. Until people change this emphasis by not spending on Windows then MS will continue to give customers what they deserve.
This implies that most people think their time is more important than their data. Maybe as people rely more on their data they will realize that security is worthwhile afterall.
I think most old ROMs have been available for free up until now because none of the copyright holders have had the commitment and a business plan to turn a profit. But if this website starts earning serious cash you better believe copyright holders will start cracking down on illegal downloads. It will be difficult since there are thousands (if not millions) of copies out there.
I appreciate the ability to administer a server over the serial port. But it sure is a pain in the ass to set up. You have to run a dedicated cable from every server box to a dedicated terminal server, and then if you want to actually access that server from anywhere besides the server room you end up hooking up that terminal server to your network. Why can't computer manufacturers come up with a system to allow console administration of a server directly over Ethernet? Most MBs have Ethernet built-in now, and every server already has this cable connected. Why must we continue to run a separate, slow network for remote administration?
SPDIF can be transmitted optically over Toslink fiber optic cable or electrically over RCA coaxial cable. Real professionals prefer AES/EBU transmitted over balanced XLR cables.
We're talking about lawyers and judges here. It's important to make simple pictures with bold colors to make sure they easily understand why SCO deserves a boatload of cash.
I'm sure at least a dozen people have written something like the above statement, but I wonder if anyone has actually tried this? I copied a cassette tape using similar technology and this is what I found:
1. It took 120 minutes to record the actual music, plus a decent amount of extra editing time. Ripping a CD takes a fraction of the play time of the album.
2. Some software can't record for that long continuously.
3. I had to edit a >1gig file to carve it up into the individual songs.
4. I wasn't able to use Gracenote to automatically name the artist, album and track.
5. I had to manually place the finished files in my MP3 archive.
6. The quality was poorer than a direct rip. I have a decent soundcard but the fidelity and noise floor of consumer sound cards is no where near that of commercial CDs.
You could record each track individually, which means you would need to sit around and do something every few minutes when each track finishes.
This was such a pain in the ass I never did it again. I don't think this is a viable solution for cracking DRM because of the required effort. Ripping a CD is a few clicks of the mouse for me now; I am not willing to go back to more painful methods.
Why waste all this money on processors? Instead let's spend five times as much on development by doing projects in assembly. That way we can spend more on the development CPU power required as well as the office space for more programmers. Don't forget the HVAC costs for those offices. And then add up the increased costs of supporting code that is more difficult to troubleshoot and add enhancements to.
Microsoft has never had a problem with open standards in markets that they don't control. Weren't they lobbying for an IM open standard a while ago? At the time AOL had the lion's share of the market. At this time no one controls the Web Services market, if there even is one.
Right now Web Services is all about standards, since there isn't much in the way of implementations yet. MSFT and IBM seem to be at odds with the other major players; seems like every major new standard is being duplicated. Can't we all just get along?
What a spectacular troll! Seems like a straightforward question, but the weakness of Unix has always been the standard windowing system, or more specifically the lack thereof.
Just about every Unix system has an X11 server, but few seem to know the dark arts of programming directly to X. Everyone picks the windowing toolkit flavor of the month and programs for that, apparently under the assumption that everyone will eventually see the light and pick their toolkit.
KDE, Gnome, CDE, OpenWindows, OS X, etc all have one OR MORE windowing toolkits! Even though the underlying OS is basically the same in all cases. I love Unix but I can see why folks prefer programming for Windows. The APIs may suck but at least there are fewer of them.
Looks like the future may be an abstracted or even interpreted language, like Java or Dflat. At least a developer has a chance of writing multiplatform code in one sitting.
We have Java 2 Standard Edition versions 1.2 through 1.4.2. Don't forget Java 2 Enterprise Edition versions 1.2 and 1.3, or Java 2 Micro Edition (no clue what versions). J2EE includes Java Enterprise Beans with at least versions 1 and 2, and J2ME includes MIDP with at least versions 1 and 2 as well. Actually there are more Java specs than you can shake a stick at.
Java 3 may require several megabytes just to store the version numbers of all the included components:)
What an interesting comment, I had to think about that one for a second. Generally Indo-European text reads across rather than up and down, so if a paragraph is horizontally larger than your window you have to pan twice to read each line, which is very annoying. However if a paragraph extends vertically a single scroll is sufficient for each page of text.
Everything "used to be better" or "is better over there". The reason is that the crappy stuff made in the past or overseas never makes it to us; we only see the cream of the crop that has stood the test of time or been judged worthy for export.
I'm sure there is plenty of crappy manga, but only the good stuff gets exported because there is limited shelf space and marketing dollars for this genre here in the States.
You mean like choosing to be born into a broken home? Or having poor and/or uneducated parents? Or choosing to have a chemical inbalance in their brain that prevents them from seeing the world the same way most do? Or perhaps choosing not to be a white male?
Are you implying that people choose careers in industries that suddenly collapse? Or that people choose to become victims of natural disasters? Or get robbed?
There are many decisions we make every day. However even the ancient Greeks knew that we are basically at the whim of fate. If you think a few choices you made during your privileged life give you the right to tell everyone else to go suck eggs then think again.
Mental illness is by definition the inability to cope with society. There is no absolute reference point for mental illness; it is always relative to one's society. Behavior that is perfectly sane here is insane in other cultures. By this definition the homeless are all mentally ill. They cannot or will not play by the rules of our society.
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In other news, the sun came up this morning. The sky is blue, and Microsoft bashers flocked to Slashdot all day.
Microsoft releases security patches nearly every damn week. When are we going to stop reporting non-news from companies just because we like to bitch about them in public?
Statistically speaking there is danger in allowing a car to exceed the speed limit, but that danger is difficult to quantify and it may very well be exceeded by the improvement in travel efficiency when folks speed.
OTOH a pistols generally tend to hurt more people than they help. Some people successfully defend themselves from other people (with guns), but the more frequent scenario is that someone carelessly leaves their gun unsecured and an inexperienced user hurts or kills themselves with it. C/C++ is more like that gun. There are systems programmers that really need the extra speed, but most people, like Homer Simpson, use it to turn off the lights or open a beer. They would be better served with a safer, more featureful language like Java.
I'm pretty sure the two 21" monitors running at 1600x1200 that I am borrowing from work are cheaper than one 3200x1200 monitor (if such a beast exists).
It has already been established that people think GUI wizards are more important than security. Until people change this emphasis by not spending on Windows then MS will continue to give customers what they deserve.
This implies that most people think their time is more important than their data. Maybe as people rely more on their data they will realize that security is worthwhile afterall.
I think most old ROMs have been available for free up until now because none of the copyright holders have had the commitment and a business plan to turn a profit. But if this website starts earning serious cash you better believe copyright holders will start cracking down on illegal downloads. It will be difficult since there are thousands (if not millions) of copies out there.
I appreciate the ability to administer a server over the serial port. But it sure is a pain in the ass to set up. You have to run a dedicated cable from every server box to a dedicated terminal server, and then if you want to actually access that server from anywhere besides the server room you end up hooking up that terminal server to your network. Why can't computer manufacturers come up with a system to allow console administration of a server directly over Ethernet? Most MBs have Ethernet built-in now, and every server already has this cable connected. Why must we continue to run a separate, slow network for remote administration?
SPDIF can be transmitted optically over Toslink fiber optic cable or electrically over RCA coaxial cable. Real professionals prefer AES/EBU transmitted over balanced XLR cables.
We're talking about lawyers and judges here. It's important to make simple pictures with bold colors to make sure they easily understand why SCO deserves a boatload of cash.
I'm sure at least a dozen people have written something like the above statement, but I wonder if anyone has actually tried this? I copied a cassette tape using similar technology and this is what I found:
1. It took 120 minutes to record the actual music, plus a decent amount of extra editing time. Ripping a CD takes a fraction of the play time of the album.
2. Some software can't record for that long continuously.
3. I had to edit a >1gig file to carve it up into the individual songs.
4. I wasn't able to use Gracenote to automatically name the artist, album and track.
5. I had to manually place the finished files in my MP3 archive.
6. The quality was poorer than a direct rip. I have a decent soundcard but the fidelity and noise floor of consumer sound cards is no where near that of commercial CDs.
You could record each track individually, which means you would need to sit around and do something every few minutes when each track finishes.
This was such a pain in the ass I never did it again. I don't think this is a viable solution for cracking DRM because of the required effort. Ripping a CD is a few clicks of the mouse for me now; I am not willing to go back to more painful methods.
Why waste all this money on processors? Instead let's spend five times as much on development by doing projects in assembly. That way we can spend more on the development CPU power required as well as the office space for more programmers. Don't forget the HVAC costs for those offices. And then add up the increased costs of supporting code that is more difficult to troubleshoot and add enhancements to.
I'm glad someone is willing to stick up for the rights of Americans to spend >$30000 on a pickup truck that gets 12 MPG so they can look cool.
Microsoft has never had a problem with open standards in markets that they don't control. Weren't they lobbying for an IM open standard a while ago? At the time AOL had the lion's share of the market. At this time no one controls the Web Services market, if there even is one.
Right now Web Services is all about standards, since there isn't much in the way of implementations yet. MSFT and IBM seem to be at odds with the other major players; seems like every major new standard is being duplicated. Can't we all just get along?
Sounds like your needs would be met by 40 VT100s and Pine, which are all free. Instead you spent a truckload of cash on hardware.
What a spectacular troll! Seems like a straightforward question, but the weakness of Unix has always been the standard windowing system, or more specifically the lack thereof.
Just about every Unix system has an X11 server, but few seem to know the dark arts of programming directly to X. Everyone picks the windowing toolkit flavor of the month and programs for that, apparently under the assumption that everyone will eventually see the light and pick their toolkit.
KDE, Gnome, CDE, OpenWindows, OS X, etc all have one OR MORE windowing toolkits! Even though the underlying OS is basically the same in all cases. I love Unix but I can see why folks prefer programming for Windows. The APIs may suck but at least there are fewer of them.
Looks like the future may be an abstracted or even interpreted language, like Java or Dflat. At least a developer has a chance of writing multiplatform code in one sitting.
We have Java 2 Standard Edition versions 1.2 through 1.4.2. Don't forget Java 2 Enterprise Edition versions 1.2 and 1.3, or Java 2 Micro Edition (no clue what versions). J2EE includes Java Enterprise Beans with at least versions 1 and 2, and J2ME includes MIDP with at least versions 1 and 2 as well. Actually there are more Java specs than you can shake a stick at.
:)
Java 3 may require several megabytes just to store the version numbers of all the included components
Like Good and Bad or Light and Dark there can be no Wood if there is no Limp.
What an interesting comment, I had to think about that one for a second. Generally Indo-European text reads across rather than up and down, so if a paragraph is horizontally larger than your window you have to pan twice to read each line, which is very annoying. However if a paragraph extends vertically a single scroll is sufficient for each page of text.
Sucks for The Thing. How can he sport a stiffie if he is hard as rock already?
Everything "used to be better" or "is better over there". The reason is that the crappy stuff made in the past or overseas never makes it to us; we only see the cream of the crop that has stood the test of time or been judged worthy for export.
I'm sure there is plenty of crappy manga, but only the good stuff gets exported because there is limited shelf space and marketing dollars for this genre here in the States.
No system is secure if key to the lock is compromised.
Maybe he was trying to divert attention away from his homemade fusion bomb.
You mean like choosing to be born into a broken home? Or having poor and/or uneducated parents? Or choosing to have a chemical inbalance in their brain that prevents them from seeing the world the same way most do? Or perhaps choosing not to be a white male?
Are you implying that people choose careers in industries that suddenly collapse? Or that people choose to become victims of natural disasters? Or get robbed?
There are many decisions we make every day. However even the ancient Greeks knew that we are basically at the whim of fate. If you think a few choices you made during your privileged life give you the right to tell everyone else to go suck eggs then think again.
Mod parent up! I foresee the day when the most complete source of personal information on every individual in the US is Safeway :)
Mental illness is by definition the inability to cope with society. There is no absolute reference point for mental illness; it is always relative to one's society. Behavior that is perfectly sane here is insane in other cultures. By this definition the homeless are all mentally ill. They cannot or will not play by the rules of our society.
Both of which are being stifled by the cloak of security!