Let's get the terms right - this has nothing to do with protection but rather with authentication. Anybody who relies on something like this that's short of RSA would be fooling themselves. And what's the point of Dell signing their quotes - is it so that customers who say "see, you promised me this system for $29.95" can be proven to be lying? Don't they store copies of all quotes they send out?
If there is a 10% chance that SCO will win and end up worth $2.5B (i.e. 10x what it is now) then the current price makes sense if you like betting on long-shots. Isn't that the whole premise behind venture capitalism?
Appliance timer connected to a model train transformer (Lionel, etc, although various other power supplies would work too I guess) connected to a buzzer from a smoke alarm. That is ear-splittingly loud especially if you turn the transformer up to the highest voltage. I almost had a heart attack the first and only time I used it...
Or set something up that will pour water on you if you don't go into the other room and turn it off. Conditioning will take care of the rest.
Well, maybe a lot of system manufacturers don't do this kind of validation, but they should if they want the best performance. If nothing else one should be very careful about leaving off the side panels of a case, "for better airflow". This usually makes the airflow a lot worse because it's forced by the fans rather than natural convection.
If you build your own case you had better be careful that the fans and other components are positioned so that you get good airflow around the stuff that gets hot. Case designers spend a lot of time verifying that their boxes won't overheat and it's sometimes not at all obvious how the air is going to move.
Come on, it's not like George Lucas and Peter Jackson are some kind of totally unique artists whose work popped out of their heads with no outside influences. (I could see that argument for Eraserhead or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees, but...) Reusing some special sound effect like that seems like an in-joke they have, just part of being in the context of the broader filmmaking culture. Don't tell me you never named a variable "foo" in your programs...
Yeah, but who cares about the timestamps on CAD parts? "Oops, I guess my memory is faulty - I didn't design that gismo yesterday but 30 years ago. Better throw the model away and start over". Anyway, ProE is not the market leader any more - Catia and UG are where it's at.
I just saw one of his earlier movies, Bad Taste. I've also seen Dead Alive... These are among the grossest and silliest zombie movies ever. How in the world did he convince the studios that he was the best choice to make LOTR? I'd worry we'd be seeing close-ups of blood and brains spurting out of the orcs, people tripping over their own intestines, etc. He certainly did rise to the challenge but you'd expect the Hollywood types to go with a Lucas or Spielberg...
It's great that this compiler is available. For the people who want to use open source and/or free software, there's gcc. For those who don't care about that and want good code, there's icc. And now that the gcc authors can pore over the output of icc and get some ideas on how to generate better code, we can hopefully expect future versions of gcc to close the gap a bit.
Well, I found it in Stroustrup, 2nd Edition, item r.4.6.. If you compare a null pointer with the integer 0 it has to be true.
It doesn't say that the bit pattern of a null pointer has to be all 0's but I challenge you to find a system that exists or is even plausible where it would be something other than that.
That's one I have been making for 10+ years and now Win64 comes along and violates it for no apparent reason as far as I can tell... Sigh, now I have to go and fix all my sloppy code...
I think they just want to get RMS on the stand and hope he starts ranting about how IP is theft and code wants to be free, and prejudice the judge against the GPL and the free software movement.
I don't think that will work, though. If nothing else, he sticks to his principles, including never touching code that isn't open source. (He claims to have never used Word, for that reason). If asked "what do you think about proprietary source getting covered under the GPL" I think he'll give the right answer.
I would like to see RMS being cross-examined by a clueless lawyer... If there is anybody who is not about to get tripped up by somebody more clever playing on his own internal inconsistencies, it's him.
Seriously, this is way too much effort for an operating system that's "for the masses". Why can't they provide a good answer to the question "how do I protect myself against my disk getting fried and spending a week getting back up to speed?"
Don't make the mistake of assuming that these days IBM == good and SCO == evil. They are both for-profit corporations and the *single* goal of a for-profit corporation is to make money. IBM feels it's in its short-term best interest to be nice to the Open Source community. SCO has nothing to save itself from going out of business execpt the current FUD lawsuits. That doesn't mean that in the future IBM (or Novell, or any current "white hat" company) might turn "evil" if their $$$ interests dictate and use whatever patents they have to make a profit.
No, it just proves that whenever a company makes an announcement of some change they are making, a lot of people assume it's something good without considering the details. People who buy RH stock are probably not all home linux users.
Also 1.6% is nothing especially when the markets go up in general (as they did today)
People will think we're fans of Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"... Basically he claims that "everything's a cellular automaton" and Life is the best known example of those.
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Let's get the terms right - this has nothing to do with protection but rather with authentication. Anybody who relies on something like this that's short of RSA would be fooling themselves. And what's the point of Dell signing their quotes - is it so that customers who say "see, you promised me this system for $29.95" can be proven to be lying? Don't they store copies of all quotes they send out?
If there is a 10% chance that SCO will win and end up worth $2.5B (i.e. 10x what it is now) then the current price makes sense if you like betting on long-shots. Isn't that the whole premise behind venture capitalism?
Appliance timer connected to a model train transformer (Lionel, etc, although various other power supplies would work too I guess) connected to a buzzer from a smoke alarm. That is ear-splittingly loud especially if you turn the transformer up to the highest voltage. I almost had a heart attack the first and only time I used it...
Or set something up that will pour water on you if you don't go into the other room and turn it off. Conditioning will take care of the rest.
Well, maybe a lot of system manufacturers don't do this kind of validation, but they should if they want the best performance. If nothing else one should be very careful about leaving off the side panels of a case, "for better airflow". This usually makes the airflow a lot worse because it's forced by the fans rather than natural convection.
If you build your own case you had better be careful that the fans and other components are positioned so that you get good airflow around the stuff that gets hot. Case designers spend a lot of time verifying that their boxes won't overheat and it's sometimes not at all obvious how the air is going to move.
Come on, it's not like George Lucas and Peter Jackson are some kind of totally unique artists whose work popped out of their heads with no outside influences. (I could see that argument for Eraserhead or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees, but...) Reusing some special sound effect like that seems like an in-joke they have, just part of being in the context of the broader filmmaking culture. Don't tell me you never named a variable "foo" in your programs...
Yeah, but who cares about the timestamps on CAD parts? "Oops, I guess my memory is faulty - I didn't design that gismo yesterday but 30 years ago. Better throw the model away and start over". Anyway, ProE is not the market leader any more - Catia and UG are where it's at.
I just saw one of his earlier movies, Bad Taste. I've also seen Dead Alive... These are among the grossest and silliest zombie movies ever. How in the world did he convince the studios that he was the best choice to make LOTR? I'd worry we'd be seeing close-ups of blood and brains spurting out of the orcs, people tripping over their own intestines, etc. He certainly did rise to the challenge but you'd expect the Hollywood types to go with a Lucas or Spielberg ...
Don't worry, he fixed it in the DVD version - it's longer
It's great that this compiler is available. For the people who want to use open source and/or free software, there's gcc. For those who don't care about that and want good code, there's icc. And now that the gcc authors can pore over the output of icc and get some ideas on how to generate better code, we can hopefully expect future versions of gcc to close the gap a bit.
That web site lists a few 20-year old machines that used non-0 bit patterns for a NULL pointer. So maybe it is sloppy usage to do :
size_t foo = 0;
char* ptr = *(char **)
assert(ptr == 0);
but nobody in their right mind would design a modern computer where it will fail...
Well, I found it in Stroustrup, 2nd Edition, item r.4.6 .. If you compare a null pointer with the integer 0 it has to be true.
It doesn't say that the bit pattern of a null pointer has to be all 0's but I challenge you to find a system that exists or is even plausible where it would be something other than that.
That's one I have been making for 10+ years and now Win64 comes along and violates it for no apparent reason as far as I can tell... Sigh, now I have to go and fix all my sloppy code...
Where the heck is this assumption wrong? It's in the ANSI C standard.
How about non-Intel platforms? SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC, HPPA? At least one of those is definitely not going away any time soon.
I think they just want to get RMS on the stand and hope he starts ranting about how IP is theft and code wants to be free, and prejudice the judge against the GPL and the free software movement.
I don't think that will work, though. If nothing else, he sticks to his principles, including never touching code that isn't open source. (He claims to have never used Word, for that reason). If asked "what do you think about proprietary source getting covered under the GPL" I think he'll give the right answer.
I would like to see RMS being cross-examined by a clueless lawyer... If there is anybody who is not about to get tripped up by somebody more clever playing on his own internal inconsistencies, it's him.
Maybe because if they came out with a toy called Legolas it would be a trademark infringement of Legoblocks ?
Got a lot of free time on your hands, huh?
Seriously, this is way too much effort for an operating system that's "for the masses". Why can't they provide a good answer to the question "how do I protect myself against my disk getting fried and spending a week getting back up to speed?"
Does this work if your disk dies?
Don't make the mistake of assuming that these days IBM == good and SCO == evil. They are both for-profit corporations and the *single* goal of a for-profit corporation is to make money. IBM feels it's in its short-term best interest to be nice to the Open Source community. SCO has nothing to save itself from going out of business execpt the current FUD lawsuits. That doesn't mean that in the future IBM (or Novell, or any current "white hat" company) might turn "evil" if their $$$ interests dictate and use whatever patents they have to make a profit.
No, it just proves that whenever a company makes an announcement of some change they are making, a lot of people assume it's something good without considering the details. People who buy RH stock are probably not all home linux users.
Also 1.6% is nothing especially when the markets go up in general (as they did today)
People will think we're fans of Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"... Basically he claims that "everything's a cellular automaton" and Life is the best known example of those.
Ahh, baloney...
Ha ha, you call that old? I use rocks.
Actually... I have this special algorithm based on the patterns in the cosmic background radiation so that's about, what, 15 billion years old?
.... to monkies.