Photoshop won't let you move the images onto another monitor, but I guarantee you that the MDI interface doesn't stop you from moving the tools there. Even that much doesn't have to be the case, considering that you can implement it however you wish. Don't count your features before they're hatched.
In any case, there's no reason why this couldn't simply be an option. When a lot of people like things both ways, you add an option. That's how you get happy users.
Is it? I thought the MBR was only the first sector (512 bytes), although Windows always leaves (left?) the entire first track unused. But then I'm not sure how meaningful that would be with LBA.
There is a reason that they put "place stamp here" on envelopes, and it's not because they think you don't know where it goes. This is to reinforce that they won't recieve mail "postage due," to draw a contrast to the envelopes that say "postage will be paid by the addressee" in the same place. (what, has everyone forgotten those?)
Basically it cuts down on the costs that the post office has to pay making it very clear to everyone that the addressee will NOT be paying for it. Otherwise they may have to get it halfway across the country before throwing it out.
The "Lesser" LGPL license lets you make proprietary software by screwing over free software developers and using their libraries without giving anything back to the community that provided the entire platform you are developing on.
How are you screwing them over if they CHOSE to allow this?
And you are giving something back, just not in the form of source code. If the application you create has some unique value, then the platform is more valuable because of it. If it doesn't, then who cares about the source anyway?
Never mind writes from a computer, that's not absolutely critical. NTFS is a lot more complex than FAT and you're talking about writing to it in an embedded device. I don't think that's going to happen unless you bought a Microsoft camera.
Ya know, at one point there was a virus that did that -- it would encrypt your files in the background and decrypt them for you until its payload went off. Then if you removed the virus without copying off the files you were screwed.
Of course it was fairly easy to get around, iirc it didn't encrypt files written to floppies. This would obviously have to be different.
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XML is just text!
So is this post, but how slow and complicated do you think a program would have to be to correctly parse and accurately represent all of the semantic information contained within it?
And never mind all the complicated structure XML layers on top of it, TEXT IS SLOW.
If you want a fast data structure, go for packet-based binary, like what JPEG 2000 and PNG use. You check the first few bytes and can decide to quickly skip the entire packet if it's not important to you. In a text file you can't give a packet length, because you don't even know how many base storage units each character is going to take.
Making up obscure acronymns could be interpreted as a way to prompt people to ask you for the meaning, providing you with an ego stroke as you 'educate' them. It could be the result of a low self-esteem.
Well, ok, you're right... I expect that people would not want trojans to be traced back to them (because that's STUPID), but apparently I trust people to care about their reputation too much.:/
Autorun is and always was a security hole. Microsoft should have known already when they implemented it, that it was a security hole. A similar but more subtle hole was fixed in AmigaOS five years earlier. That hole was used by multiple viruses, and caused the computer to get affected as soon as an infected floppy was inserted in the drive.
It's about as much of a security hole as allowing binaries to be installed on the machine at all.
The difference between autorun on a floppy and on a CD is that floppies are RW, while CDs are either read-only or read/erase/write. For a virus to spread via CDs, it would have to detect a CD burning operation and infect the CD image before it was written. This is an extremely complex task, and it would still only allow infection during a regular burn operation.
Combine that with the fact that people don't tend to use CDs to trade data as much as people used to use floppies and the infection rate is MUCH lower. A lower infection rate means more time for a virus to be detected and stopped, so the virus writer would have to go to a lot more effort to get a much less effective virus.
So yes, it is a security hole. It's not really a security hole worth worrying about though, since an attacker would almost have to have physical access to the machine in the first place.
It is true that any system can have unintentional bugs that lead to security vulnerabilities.
The problem Microsoft is bashed for having poor security is when their system is insecure in its design.
It's not necessarily fair to contrast these two, insecure by design can also be unintentional. (and probably was in this case, I don't think companies understood exactly how they could take advantage of these things when NT was designed)
The fact is, UNIX is also insecure by design, but much less so than Windows.
In a properly designed system (and I have ideas for such a system, but this post is too small to contain them), the only thing that a bug in sendmail could affect is sending mail. (or perhaps DoS due to resource usage, but that would require bugs in multiple services before it was a real issue)
If the vast majority of current writers and editors say that "begs the question" means "provokes us to ask", then it does, no matter what some huffy dictionary author may try to convince you.
If the vast majority of current writers and editors say that "begs the question" means "provokes us to ask", then I think that says something about the vast majority of current writers and editors. (not that that would be surprising.)
Seriously, most readers would understand "squirgles the question" to mean "provokes us to ask." Which squirgles the question, why bother with the existing meaning of words at all? Isn't getting your mudgin across all that's foobly about communication? Or is not sounding like a total grubt foobly as well?
So Japan, Korea, China share the need for coherent Unicode support in their software at OS and application level.
I suspect that word "coherent" is the key to answering my question, but what's wrong with Unicode support in Windows? Modern versions (NT-based) all use Unicode internally, and Unicode applications are arguably supported more efficiently than ANSI. (although afaik most applications still tend to be ANSI for now)
Before the "destroying value and US jobs" mob get here, I'll just add my voice saying it's a good thing and all success to them.
Well, it's good for them, yes, and why should they care about US jobs? Whether or not it's good for Americans is a much more complex and irrelevant issue:P
If a file ends in.exe,.vbs,.bat,.scr, or one of lots of other extensions, Windows assumes it's executable and will load and run it when the user clicks on it. Or a "shell" command references it, etc.
Not only that, it goes and hides that part of the name by default, so most people won't get a warning that the file will be executed.
it's even possible to deny the "execute" permission to an entire filesystem
You can actually deny execute permission on a drive (or any file/folder) in Windows as well, but since that's shared with folder traversal it may not be feasable. (and I doubt that's available in "Home" editions...) It might work if you go and enable it for all folders specifically (and not thier content), but that would get extremely tedious.
And we all remember a few years ago that California had rolling blackouts because the grid couldn't handle the power.
Apparently, however, no one can remember the far more similar outage on the west coast in 1996. Nine states, several hours without power, the same cascade failure effect. Of course, I don't know if the media dealt with it the same way, since I had no electricity at the time.
So if it'll run on a C64, will it run on a 1541 disk drive? A GUI would obviously be out, but the processor is essentially the same as the C64 (6502 vs 6510), and it would be amusing to have a web server running on a floppy drive.
We can expand this sentence to "a car is going 60 miles per 5 billion resonances of a cesium atom".
hm, interesting. Works for me.
Can you tell me how time is measured without referring to change?
Well ok, but can you measure space without referring to matter/energy? Does that mean that space only exists in our minds to differenciate pieces of matter?
You can measure across time, and this measurement cannot be expressed in terms of other dimensions. It's not the same as spacial dimensions, but there is a time dimension.
Our most accurate clocks are based on the rate of decay of an atom, or the rate of spin of an electron. A wind-up clock simply runs at a speed that we have determined will keep a reasonable account of time relative to other clocks.
So what is "rate"? What is "speed"? Can you define both of these without referring to time?
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Photoshop won't let you move the images onto another monitor, but I guarantee you that the MDI interface doesn't stop you from moving the tools there. Even that much doesn't have to be the case, considering that you can implement it however you wish. Don't count your features before they're hatched.
In any case, there's no reason why this couldn't simply be an option. When a lot of people like things both ways, you add an option. That's how you get happy users.
The MBR is only 5000 bytes and change.
Is it? I thought the MBR was only the first sector (512 bytes), although Windows always leaves (left?) the entire first track unused. But then I'm not sure how meaningful that would be with LBA.
There is a reason that they put "place stamp here" on envelopes, and it's not because they think you don't know where it goes. This is to reinforce that they won't recieve mail "postage due," to draw a contrast to the envelopes that say "postage will be paid by the addressee" in the same place. (what, has everyone forgotten those?)
Basically it cuts down on the costs that the post office has to pay making it very clear to everyone that the addressee will NOT be paying for it. Otherwise they may have to get it halfway across the country before throwing it out.
Smurfs are poisonous, thus don't count.
Until a pack of them attacks and tries to eat you.
The "Lesser" LGPL license lets you make proprietary software by screwing over free software developers and using their libraries without giving anything back to the community that provided the entire platform you are developing on.
How are you screwing them over if they CHOSE to allow this?
And you are giving something back, just not in the form of source code. If the application you create has some unique value, then the platform is more valuable because of it. If it doesn't, then who cares about the source anyway?
Suppose my digital camera's memory card was NTFS.
Never mind writes from a computer, that's not absolutely critical. NTFS is a lot more complex than FAT and you're talking about writing to it in an embedded device. I don't think that's going to happen unless you bought a Microsoft camera.
Ya know, at one point there was a virus that did that -- it would encrypt your files in the background and decrypt them for you until its payload went off. Then if you removed the virus without copying off the files you were screwed.
Of course it was fairly easy to get around, iirc it didn't encrypt files written to floppies. This would obviously have to be different.
Arrive 5 minutes before departure.
Wow, that must be a really fast train!
XML is just text!
So is this post, but how slow and complicated do you think a program would have to be to correctly parse and accurately represent all of the semantic information contained within it?
And never mind all the complicated structure XML layers on top of it, TEXT IS SLOW.
If you want a fast data structure, go for packet-based binary, like what JPEG 2000 and PNG use. You check the first few bytes and can decide to quickly skip the entire packet if it's not important to you. In a text file you can't give a packet length, because you don't even know how many base storage units each character is going to take.
Making up obscure acronymns could be interpreted as a way to prompt people to ask you for the meaning, providing you with an ego stroke as you 'educate' them. It could be the result of a low self-esteem.
It's the epitome of E:mp's
Ok... so what is an "E:mp"?
Well, ok, you're right... I expect that people would not want trojans to be traced back to them (because that's STUPID), but apparently I trust people to care about their reputation too much. :/
Autorun is and always was a security hole. Microsoft should have known already when they implemented it, that it was a security hole. A similar but more subtle hole was fixed in AmigaOS five years earlier. That hole was used by multiple viruses, and caused the computer to get affected as soon as an infected floppy was inserted in the drive.
It's about as much of a security hole as allowing binaries to be installed on the machine at all.
The difference between autorun on a floppy and on a CD is that floppies are RW, while CDs are either read-only or read/erase/write. For a virus to spread via CDs, it would have to detect a CD burning operation and infect the CD image before it was written. This is an extremely complex task, and it would still only allow infection during a regular burn operation.
Combine that with the fact that people don't tend to use CDs to trade data as much as people used to use floppies and the infection rate is MUCH lower. A lower infection rate means more time for a virus to be detected and stopped, so the virus writer would have to go to a lot more effort to get a much less effective virus.
So yes, it is a security hole. It's not really a security hole worth worrying about though, since an attacker would almost have to have physical access to the machine in the first place.
It is, however, extremely annoying.
Would an author with a more extensive vocabulary and bigger words have a higher or lower score?
I don't know, let's ask the postercomment compression filter.
It is true that any system can have unintentional bugs that lead to security vulnerabilities.
The problem Microsoft is bashed for having poor security is when their system is insecure in its design.
It's not necessarily fair to contrast these two, insecure by design can also be unintentional. (and probably was in this case, I don't think companies understood exactly how they could take advantage of these things when NT was designed)
The fact is, UNIX is also insecure by design, but much less so than Windows.
In a properly designed system (and I have ideas for such a system, but this post is too small to contain them), the only thing that a bug in sendmail could affect is sending mail. (or perhaps DoS due to resource usage, but that would require bugs in multiple services before it was a real issue)
Ooh, you're good. Now can you tell me where my keys are?
Never underestimate the power of 0d!!!
You have a point there.
If the vast majority of current writers and editors say that "begs the question" means "provokes us to ask", then it does, no matter what some huffy dictionary author may try to convince you.
If the vast majority of current writers and editors say that "begs the question" means "provokes us to ask", then I think that says something about the vast majority of current writers and editors. (not that that would be surprising.)
Seriously, most readers would understand "squirgles the question" to mean "provokes us to ask." Which squirgles the question, why bother with the existing meaning of words at all? Isn't getting your mudgin across all that's foobly about communication? Or is not sounding like a total grubt foobly as well?
So Japan, Korea, China share the need for coherent Unicode support in their software at OS and application level.
:P
I suspect that word "coherent" is the key to answering my question, but what's wrong with Unicode support in Windows? Modern versions (NT-based) all use Unicode internally, and Unicode applications are arguably supported more efficiently than ANSI. (although afaik most applications still tend to be ANSI for now)
Before the "destroying value and US jobs" mob get here, I'll just add my voice saying it's a good thing and all success to them.
Well, it's good for them, yes, and why should they care about US jobs? Whether or not it's good for Americans is a much more complex and irrelevant issue
If a file ends in .exe, .vbs, .bat, .scr, or one of lots of other extensions, Windows assumes it's executable and will load and run it when the user clicks on it. Or a "shell" command references it, etc.
Not only that, it goes and hides that part of the name by default, so most people won't get a warning that the file will be executed.
it's even possible to deny the "execute" permission to an entire filesystem
You can actually deny execute permission on a drive (or any file/folder) in Windows as well, but since that's shared with folder traversal it may not be feasable. (and I doubt that's available in "Home" editions...) It might work if you go and enable it for all folders specifically (and not thier content), but that would get extremely tedious.
And we all remember a few years ago that California had rolling blackouts because the grid couldn't handle the power.
Apparently, however, no one can remember the far more similar outage on the west coast in 1996. Nine states, several hours without power, the same cascade failure effect. Of course, I don't know if the media dealt with it the same way, since I had no electricity at the time.
Good luck finding a functional 1541, though.
Actually, I have two. I haven't used them in quite some time though, so it's possible that they've died of dust poisoning.
So if it'll run on a C64, will it run on a 1541 disk drive? A GUI would obviously be out, but the processor is essentially the same as the C64 (6502 vs 6510), and it would be amusing to have a web server running on a floppy drive.
Well ok, but can you measure space without referring to matter/energy?
Perhaps I can: space is a placeholder for matter.
So can I say that time is a placeholder for change?
A finite amount of matter can fit within a finite amount of space.
Given a finite amount of matter, a finite amount of change can fit within a finite amount of time.
You can measure space with a ruler.
And you can measure time with a steady sequence of changes.
Our perception of space would seem to be defined by the matter contained within it.
Sounds suspiciously like our perception of time. Are you doing that on purpose?
We can expand this sentence to "a car is going 60 miles per 5 billion resonances of a cesium atom".
hm, interesting. Works for me.
Can you tell me how time is measured without referring to change?
Well ok, but can you measure space without referring to matter/energy? Does that mean that space only exists in our minds to differenciate pieces of matter?
There is no time dimension
You can measure across time, and this measurement cannot be expressed in terms of other dimensions. It's not the same as spacial dimensions, but there is a time dimension.
Our most accurate clocks are based on the rate of decay of an atom, or the rate of spin of an electron. A wind-up clock simply runs at a speed that we have determined will keep a reasonable account of time relative to other clocks.
So what is "rate"? What is "speed"? Can you define both of these without referring to time?