Yes, as discussed in the previous article, these types of applications will need to use the VirtualProtect() API to tell Windows to make their pages executable.
Unfortunately, this will mean patches will have to be released to just about everything that does this. Presumably, MS will include a patch for.NET along with SP2 (?), but if you need Java you'll probably have to wait for your JVM vendor to issue an upgrade...
Probably because they are a classic series of stories that deserve consideration any time anyone mentions robots...?
But if the Japanese have all the robots, that means they'll go all weird and we'll inherit the galaxy and build an empire that'll last for 10,000 years, right?
Of course if Earth->orbit costs come down by a couple of orders of magnitude, for instance with an elevator, then it's a different game entirely, but I think we're probably 20-30 years away from that, if we're lucky.
I'm not sure about this, but would it be viable to construct a space elevator on the moon? Lunar gravity is much lower, so the elevator wouldn't need to be anywhere near as big, and its own weight to support would be lower. The only question is whether the economics of it would be viable. Also, is geo-stationary (selino-stationary?) orbit possible around the moon?
No - the point is that much of the material can actually come from the moon rather than being shipped up from Earth at all.
Also, once you've reached orbit, getting to the moon will only add another 50% or so to the cost, if my figures are right, and a lot of that 50% is recoverable when you travel onwards, as it is maintained in the form of kinetic energy... the loss from going to the moon is likely to be only around 10-20%, I think.
> could the president really allow a (communist) foreign power unlimited access to the moon?
What's that going to get them?
SERIOUSLY.., - what's that going to get them?
Unlimited access to all of the moon's mineral wealth which, when combined with its low gravity, provides an easier way of building useful large scale space structures than transporting the material from Earth?
The reference is due to the fact that for a few months some years ago, AOL's subscription form would not allow anyone from Scunthorpe to sign up for an AOL account, because it thought they were being offensive...
Search for scunthorpe on the register, you should find a number of stories regarding this...
The only problem with penny e-mail postage stamps is when you need to send a newsletter to 100,000 subscribers.
RSS solves that...
No it doesn't. In this situation, you'd have 100,000 users checking your RSS feeds every hour, so you'd be burning up 2,400,000 connections to your web server every day, each one using something like 0.5K of your data transfer allowance, so 1.2Gb per day = about 35Gb per month, which on most ISP packages would probably cost you about $50-$100 per month in excess "bandwidth" charges. Doesn't work for me; the e-mail is still the most effective method of pushing content to readers because it does actually push to them, rather than relying on them periodically pulling...
I don't think Netsacpe was based on Mosaic. My understanding, in fact, was that Netscape was written with the specific intention of being a clean-room reimplementation that would forever rid the world of Mosaic. And then IE went and saved it...
It's from 'navigator'. The earliest example I know of a program named in this fashion (other, of course, than programs actually called 'navigator', e.g. Netscape's web browser) is 'napigator', which was a program that allowed you to find & use alternate servers with the official napster client.
Early PC programming was always to the metal, using every trick in the book.
What gets me is the way IBM designed the PC so that it used interrupts that were clearly labelled in the dev. documentation as 'reserved for future use by Intel', leading to future clashes between IRQs, BIOS interrupts and exceptions... it was clearly nuts.
the functionality of something like Word 4.0 (which ran on a 1MB Mac Plus) compares to modern word processors (which need 50MB of RAM and a Pentium II).
Yeah, right. I'll admit I haven't used Word 4 for Mac, but I did use the DOS version, which I assume had similar features (except I'd expect the Mac version to have WYSIWYG graphics).
The following are the features of modern word processors that use the most processor time and memory:
- Spellcheck as you type - Autoformat as you type - Automatic help (e.g. clippy pop-ups) - Grammar check - Macro programming languages - Automatic hyphenation
I'm not certain about the last couple, but I think Word 4 had none of these features.
Oh, and Word 97 copes perfectly adequately in 16Mb of RAM if you don't try to use any of the above features.
Fortunately, I think most ATL applications use ATL as a DLL, so just upgrading the DLL when MS release a fixed version should work.
Note: I just checked my copy of Visual Studio, and it seems the only ATL lib supplied links your application to the DLL, so perhaps _all_ ATL applications use the DLL?
In some countries [...] there's no notion of private copying (UK). In these places also downloading is illegal.
Sorry, you're wrong there. Private copying is allowed in the UK. From the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c. 29 paragraph 1:
Fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purposes of research or private study does not infringe any copyright in the work or, in the case of a published edition, in the typographical arrangement. [emphasis mine]
As somebody who writes code that interfaces with the OS on a low level (which, these days, basically means I'm not using MFC or.NET), I consider that access to the source code of Windows could be remarkably useful in order to clear up the little undocumented quirks of the API.
Several times in the past I have resorted to reading Wine code to work out why my code doesn't behave as expected... but Wine isn't 100% compatible and sometimes things just don't work on Windows that really ought to according to all available documentation.
Maybe in the future I'll be able to look up the Windows source code when something doesn't work. Although my understanding is that USER and GDI (the worst parts of Windows for this kind of shite, IMHO) aren't actually in the leaked code.
Because Microsoft doesn't accept code updates from people who know better than they, so any bugs that are revealed are not going to be fixed through the increased visibility of the code.
Microsoft as a corporation might not, but I'll bet you that every source file in that tarball has the last modifier's username at the top, which can almost certainly have '@microsoft.com' appended to it to turn it into an e-mail address. I doubt individual programmers would entirely ignore a bug report that landed in their inbox...
Source code is the... lifeblood of any software company
This sounds like it came straight out of a Microsoft publicist. It is an emotional appeal statement, designed to imply a henious threat to the alleged victim, Microsoft (and by implication, SCO).
The statement is factually inaccurate, even as metaphore. Source code is a principle part of the products manufactured by most software companies, but expertise in the creation of source code is more properly the "lifeblood" of the company.
Yep, I agree. Looking around my company's server hard disks, I think I could liken source code more to that disgusting icky stuff that smokers get in their arteries...
I find it particularly surprising, as its clear from the structure of PalmOS development environment that the entire platform was heavily Mac influenced from ground up, probably even extending down to the original choice of Motorola 68k processors.
Or we could just make it like a giant fishing hook and reel it in! A new moon anyone?
Yeesh. The tides would be horrendous. Not to mention the fact that for every unit of distance we moved Mars towards us, we'd move a substantial fraction of one towards it. Things would get pretty cold pretty quick...
I've been saying this for a long time. Rocket science isn't rocket science. You heat up gases to high temperatures so they come out of the bottom quickly. Your rocket goes up. Simple.
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Yes, as discussed in the previous article, these types of applications will need to use the VirtualProtect() API to tell Windows to make their pages executable.
.NET along with SP2 (?), but if you need Java you'll probably have to wait for your JVM vendor to issue an upgrade...
Unfortunately, this will mean patches will have to be released to just about everything that does this. Presumably, MS will include a patch for
Probably because they are a classic series of stories that deserve consideration any time anyone mentions robots...?
But if the Japanese have all the robots, that means they'll go all weird and we'll inherit the galaxy and build an empire that'll last for 10,000 years, right?
Of course if Earth->orbit costs come down by a couple of orders of magnitude, for instance with an elevator, then it's a different game entirely, but I think we're probably 20-30 years away from that, if we're lucky.
I'm not sure about this, but would it be viable to construct a space elevator on the moon? Lunar gravity is much lower, so the elevator wouldn't need to be anywhere near as big, and its own weight to support would be lower. The only question is whether the economics of it would be viable. Also, is geo-stationary (selino-stationary?) orbit possible around the moon?
No - the point is that much of the material can actually come from the moon rather than being shipped up from Earth at all.
Also, once you've reached orbit, getting to the moon will only add another 50% or so to the cost, if my figures are right, and a lot of that 50% is recoverable when you travel onwards, as it is maintained in the form of kinetic energy... the loss from going to the moon is likely to be only around 10-20%, I think.
> could the president really allow a (communist) foreign power unlimited access to the moon?
What's that going to get them?
SERIOUSLY.., - what's that going to get them?
Unlimited access to all of the moon's mineral wealth which, when combined with its low gravity, provides an easier way of building useful large scale space structures than transporting the material from Earth?
The reference is due to the fact that for a few months some years ago, AOL's subscription form would not allow anyone from Scunthorpe to sign up for an AOL account, because it thought they were being offensive...
Search for scunthorpe on the register, you should find a number of stories regarding this...
I think the entire 'revenues down $2million, $2.25million net loss this quarter' announcement has more to do with that.
Is the UML patch even accepted by Linus yet?
Yes. It's an official 2.6 feature.
The only problem with penny e-mail postage stamps is when you need to send a newsletter to 100,000 subscribers.
RSS solves that...
No it doesn't. In this situation, you'd have 100,000 users checking your RSS feeds every hour, so you'd be burning up 2,400,000 connections to your web server every day, each one using something like 0.5K of your data transfer allowance, so 1.2Gb per day = about 35Gb per month, which on most ISP packages would probably cost you about $50-$100 per month in excess "bandwidth" charges. Doesn't work for me; the e-mail is still the most effective method of pushing content to readers because it does actually push to them, rather than relying on them periodically pulling...
I don't think Netsacpe was based on Mosaic. My understanding, in fact, was that Netscape was written with the specific intention of being a clean-room reimplementation that would forever rid the world of Mosaic. And then IE went and saved it...
It's from 'navigator'. The earliest example I know of a program named in this fashion (other, of course, than programs actually called 'navigator', e.g. Netscape's web browser) is 'napigator', which was a program that allowed you to find & use alternate servers with the official napster client.
Early PC programming was always to the metal, using every trick in the book.
What gets me is the way IBM designed the PC so that it used interrupts that were clearly labelled in the dev. documentation as 'reserved for future use by Intel', leading to future clashes between IRQs, BIOS interrupts and exceptions... it was clearly nuts.
the functionality of something like Word 4.0 (which ran on a 1MB Mac Plus) compares to modern word processors (which need 50MB of RAM and a Pentium II).
Yeah, right. I'll admit I haven't used Word 4 for Mac, but I did use the DOS version, which I assume had similar features (except I'd expect the Mac version to have WYSIWYG graphics).
The following are the features of modern word processors that use the most processor time and memory:
- Spellcheck as you type
- Autoformat as you type
- Automatic help (e.g. clippy pop-ups)
- Grammar check
- Macro programming languages
- Automatic hyphenation
I'm not certain about the last couple, but I think Word 4 had none of these features.
Oh, and Word 97 copes perfectly adequately in 16Mb of RAM if you don't try to use any of the above features.
Fortunately, I think most ATL applications use ATL as a DLL, so just upgrading the DLL when MS release a fixed version should work.
Note: I just checked my copy of Visual Studio, and it seems the only ATL lib supplied links your application to the DLL, so perhaps _all_ ATL applications use the DLL?
Creative is a common word in the "ad biz" that refers to a design for an advert.
Yep, that's still Warwick Castle. I think I'm definitely in Great Britain.
In some countries [...] there's no notion of private copying (UK). In these places also downloading is illegal.
Sorry, you're wrong there. Private copying is allowed in the UK. From the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c. 29 paragraph 1:
Fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purposes of research or private study does not infringe any copyright in the work or, in the case of a published edition, in the typographical arrangement. [emphasis mine]
As somebody who writes code that interfaces with the OS on a low level (which, these days, basically means I'm not using MFC or .NET), I consider that access to the source code of Windows could be remarkably useful in order to clear up the little undocumented quirks of the API.
Several times in the past I have resorted to reading Wine code to work out why my code doesn't behave as expected... but Wine isn't 100% compatible and sometimes things just don't work on Windows that really ought to according to all available documentation.
Maybe in the future I'll be able to look up the Windows source code when something doesn't work. Although my understanding is that USER and GDI (the worst parts of Windows for this kind of shite, IMHO) aren't actually in the leaked code.
Everyone knows how to cheat at solitaire. Hold control while clicking on the deck and it'll give you 1 card rather than 3.
That RulesForUse site's very informative:
[INLINE] [INLINE]
[1][LINK] [2][LINK] [3][LINK] [4][LINK] [5][LINK] [6][LINK] [7][LINK]
[8][LINK]
[INLINE]
and then a menu of links to other countries - in case you're wondering, the text of the page is in the last [INLINE]...
Because Microsoft doesn't accept code updates from people who know better than they, so any bugs that are revealed are not going to be fixed through the increased visibility of the code.
Microsoft as a corporation might not, but I'll bet you that every source file in that tarball has the last modifier's username at the top, which can almost certainly have '@microsoft.com' appended to it to turn it into an e-mail address. I doubt individual programmers would entirely ignore a bug report that landed in their inbox...
Source code is the ... lifeblood of any software company
This sounds like it came straight out of a Microsoft publicist. It is an emotional appeal statement, designed to imply a henious threat to the alleged victim, Microsoft (and by implication, SCO).
The statement is factually inaccurate, even as metaphore. Source code is a principle part of the products manufactured by most software companies, but expertise in the creation of source code is more properly the "lifeblood" of the company.
Yep, I agree. Looking around my company's server hard disks, I think I could liken source code more to that disgusting icky stuff that smokers get in their arteries...
I find it particularly surprising, as its clear from the structure of PalmOS development environment that the entire platform was heavily Mac influenced from ground up, probably even extending down to the original choice of Motorola 68k processors.
Or we could just make it like a giant fishing hook and reel it in! A new moon anyone?
Yeesh. The tides would be horrendous. Not to mention the fact that for every unit of distance we moved Mars towards us, we'd move a substantial fraction of one towards it. Things would get pretty cold pretty quick...
I've been saying this for a long time. Rocket science isn't rocket science. You heat up gases to high temperatures so they come out of the bottom quickly. Your rocket goes up. Simple.
Viola! Two planets terrarformed for the price of one!
:-)
What have stringed musical instruments to do with terraforming?