"Users whose PCs are not patched against the Microsoft flaw this worm exploits will be infected just by viewing the message, as will protected users who click on the e-mail attachment."
PHP is not a true object-oriented programming environment. Take a look at the scope of class member functions and properties. In PHP, all variables in a class are accessible externally for both reading and writing, making it impossible to hide a class' implementation.
On top of that, the PHP language is not strongly typed, and you don't even need to declare variables. PHP has no structured exception handling.
Objects in PHP are language values. When performing operations like variable assignment and passing the object as a parameter to a function, the whole object is copied. That's a bad thing.
On the other hand, ASP.Net is a true OO language, with inheritance, polymorphism (overloading of methods) and encapsulation. ASP.Net is strongly typed. ASP.Net is compiled and JIT'd.
Ok, so Microsoft is involved (sorta) but this isn't really news... this has been going on for a while:
"According to Dick Merritt at the Department of Transportation, these are the other labs capable of federalizing Porsche's 959 ubercar:
JK Technologies LLC, Baltimore. Jonathan Weisheit of JK says they charge $25,000 to $50,000 to do the job. It takes 90 to 120 days and involves adding air injection, catalyst, changing the evaporative system and reprogramming the computer.
G&K Automotive Conversions, Los Angeles. George Gemayel of G&K says they charge $37,500 to federalize the 959 and $45,000 to legalize it for California use. The process takes three to four months and does not include a horsepower test. He "can't remember" exactly how many they've done. Phone (714) 545-9503.
Wallace Laboratories, Houston. Bill Wallace charges $30,000 for the process from "start to finish." This price includes all federal taxes, duties, U.S. Customs clearances, tuneup and conversion costs, plus test and certificate charges.
No matter how deep science delves, no matter which fancy new equation is popular this year, one problem still remains...
Why something instead of nothing?
Because we have something, and something can't arise from nothing, science can never find the "answer" in a formula.
I am not religious, but I consider myself deeply spiratual for the reasons mentioned above. And while I love science, this is one area it can only go so far in.
"The Microsoft representative also told me that XP SP2 would include no major new features but would instead consist of all the bug and security fixes Microsoft released since XP was issued in October 2001. That fact makes the schedule nonsensical, however. If XP SP2 is just updates, it should ship immediately, not in six months."
Well, I bet it contains those updates, and all the hidden DRM stuff you don't want to know about!
GPS is approved for "supplemental" navigation only. A primary system based on ground facilities must be installed in the aircraft as well. This requirement is found in FAA Part 91.205(d), by way of the following statement:
"Two-way radio communications system and navigational equipment appropriate to the ground facilities to be used."
Although, as a pilot who uses GPS heavily, I don't see them ever doing what this article states.
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for the original PlayStation is a great example of this. Everyone that I have showed this game to has become hopelessly addicted, yet it could easily be coded by a small team.
Even though it was released back in 1997, it consistently goes for good money on eBay, because it is so much fun and so hard to find.
kwrite decided it wouldn't display documents it opened and konqueror decided all pages should be 2000 pixels wide, even though the window was about 800.
Sound didn't work, and consequently the KDE bootup screen stalled for ages at the window manager stage while arts slowly died, then popped up a No Sound message box. None of the PPP connection tools worked when not used by root. None of the hard disk partitions were configured (even though they had been recognised by the piece of code that set up LILO). My CDRW at/dev/hdd wasn't set up, not even as a plain CD-ROM. The menus were all over the place. The fonts in GTK apps were hideously big. XftConfig wasn't set up to disable antialiasing for standard size fonts, nor were the workarounds for symbol and console fonts (mentioned here) included. Another bug.
Since gravity can be thought of as a "well" in the fabric of space, wouldn't all massive bodies have an attractive force?
When you roll a marble around a hole in a rubber matt, it will "orbit" the center, but eventually fall in. So whats the difference with our earth and our sun? Or our sun and the black hole at the center of our galaxy?
I've always thought it was obvious that super-massive blackholes lie at the center of galaxies. The intense gravity at the center should create one, and spiral galaxies are all just pinwheeling "down the drain".
I would bet there are black holes at the center of ALL spiral galaxies like our Milky Way. Other shaped galaxies may just be at earlier stages of evolution (such as elliptical) before their holes have formed.
The problem here is that Microsoft LOSES MONEY on the hardware and makes it up on software sales. They don't want to move hardware without selling the gaming software, because they will lose money.
So they don't want you to have a home entertainment device, or a linux box, or whatever you want. They want you to have a gaming machine, that plays gaming titles you purchased. Otherwise, they will lose huge sums of money.
People are missing this point.
This just proves how biased Slashdot really is against Microsoft.
"Yeah, Microsoft is being upfront about their privacy policies, and is publishing the API specs... but, we don't like to talk about the good things that Microsoft does. So here's a link to a tool to crash Windows machines. Enjoy!"
As an avid flight simulator user, I can tell you that Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2002 is still very much CPU-bound with my AMD 1.4 and Geforce4, even without the graphic detail pushed all the way up.
So these new processor announcements are very important to some of us.
With all this talk of heating foods, I was wondering what your feelings are on the World Health Organization calling an emergency meeting to discuss the recent studies on heating carbohydrates. These studies found high levels of the carcinogin acrylamide when carbohydrates are heated in a certain way, such as by frying potatoes or baking bread.
Do you think this will affect your cooking recommendations in anyway?
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Why are comments like this still getting modded up to +5?
It's 2003, the web has images, and noone uses Lynx to browse. Stop kidding yourselves.
RTFA
"Users whose PCs are not patched against the Microsoft flaw this worm exploits will be infected just by viewing the message, as will protected users who click on the e-mail attachment."
You can't compare PHP and ASP.Net.
PHP is not a true object-oriented programming environment. Take a look at the scope of class member functions and properties. In PHP, all variables in a class are accessible externally for both reading and writing, making it impossible to hide a class' implementation.
On top of that, the PHP language is not strongly typed, and you don't even need to declare variables. PHP has no structured exception handling.
Objects in PHP are language values. When performing operations like variable assignment and passing the object as a parameter to a function, the whole object is copied. That's a bad thing.
On the other hand, ASP.Net is a true OO language, with inheritance, polymorphism (overloading of methods) and encapsulation. ASP.Net is strongly typed. ASP.Net is compiled and JIT'd.
This isn't really a valid comparsion.
Up, apparently.
As it has for weeks as the bad news has continued to pile up. Manipulation, anyone?
Ok, so Microsoft is involved (sorta) but this isn't really news ... this has been going on for a while:
"According to Dick Merritt at the Department of Transportation, these are the other labs capable of federalizing Porsche's 959 ubercar:
JK Technologies LLC, Baltimore. Jonathan Weisheit of JK says they charge $25,000 to $50,000 to do the job. It takes 90 to 120 days and involves adding air injection, catalyst, changing the evaporative system and reprogramming the computer.
G&K Automotive Conversions, Los Angeles. George Gemayel of G&K says they charge $37,500 to federalize the 959 and $45,000 to legalize it for California use. The process takes three to four months and does not include a horsepower test. He "can't remember" exactly how many they've done. Phone (714) 545-9503.
Wallace Laboratories, Houston. Bill Wallace charges $30,000 for the process from "start to finish." This price includes all federal taxes, duties, U.S. Customs clearances, tuneup and conversion costs, plus test and certificate charges.
RTFA
This guy is running NO NEW SOFTWARE, only software created before the patent date (including the version of Windows he uses in the demo).
A brief skimming of the article before posting would be nice.
No matter how deep science delves, no matter which fancy new equation is popular this year, one problem still remains...
Why something instead of nothing?
Because we have something, and something can't arise from nothing, science can never find the "answer" in a formula.
I am not religious, but I consider myself deeply spiratual for the reasons mentioned above. And while I love science, this is one area it can only go so far in.
From this article...
"The Microsoft representative also told me that XP SP2 would include no major new features but would instead consist of all the bug and security fixes Microsoft released since XP was issued in October 2001. That fact makes the schedule nonsensical, however. If XP SP2 is just updates, it should ship immediately, not in six months."
Well, I bet it contains those updates, and all the hidden DRM stuff you don't want to know about!
All of this is doing wonders for SCO's stock price.
Quite unfortunate that my broker didn't have any shares available for me to short.
The summary says it has 287,853 lines of code, but the site says 287,853,430!
That's quite a difference.
"This could be useful for those cases where Google just refuses to return the search results you want."
That has really never happened to me. Google is fast and extremely accurate, especially when you do a more advanced search, + this and - that.
I'm not sure I would want to take the time to "rate" search engine results and re-search when I can just fine-tune my search from the start.
Isn't Acrobat VECTOR based? That's why the fonts don't pixelate no matter how far you zoom in or enlarge the document.
How do you plan on doing that with HTML?
GPS is approved for "supplemental" navigation only. A primary system based on ground facilities must be installed in the aircraft as well. This requirement is found in FAA Part 91.205(d), by way of the following statement:
"Two-way radio communications system and navigational equipment appropriate to the ground facilities to be used."
Although, as a pilot who uses GPS heavily, I don't see them ever doing what this article states.
"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom."
- Thomas Paine
Sometimes the simple games are the best.
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for the original PlayStation is a great example of this. Everyone that I have showed this game to has become hopelessly addicted, yet it could easily be coded by a small team.
Even though it was released back in 1997, it consistently goes for good money on eBay, because it is so much fun and so hard to find.
There have been a lot of reports of people getting neurological injuries on coasters already.
I wonder how much more they can push these things before the human limits are reached (at least the human limits the insurance companies will allow!).
This sure seems like an ad to me. It's definetly not "news for nerds" or even "stuff that matters".
Is Slashdot selling out quietly?
Well, I'm an Adelphia subscriber and I haven't noticed any problems so f
This about sums it up:
/dev/hdd wasn't set up, not even as a plain CD-ROM. The menus were all over the place. The fonts in GTK apps were hideously big. XftConfig wasn't set up to disable antialiasing for standard size fonts, nor were the workarounds for symbol and console fonts (mentioned here) included. Another bug.
kwrite decided it wouldn't display documents it opened and konqueror decided all pages should be 2000 pixels wide, even though the window was about 800.
Sound didn't work, and consequently the KDE bootup screen stalled for ages at the window manager stage while arts slowly died, then popped up a No Sound message box. None of the PPP connection tools worked when not used by root. None of the hard disk partitions were configured (even though they had been recognised by the piece of code that set up LILO). My CDRW at
It was a mess.
Since gravity can be thought of as a "well" in the fabric of space, wouldn't all massive bodies have an attractive force?
When you roll a marble around a hole in a rubber matt, it will "orbit" the center, but eventually fall in. So whats the difference with our earth and our sun? Or our sun and the black hole at the center of our galaxy?
Where is the repulsive force that prevents this?
I've always thought it was obvious that super-massive blackholes lie at the center of galaxies. The intense gravity at the center should create one, and spiral galaxies are all just pinwheeling "down the drain".
I would bet there are black holes at the center of ALL spiral galaxies like our Milky Way. Other shaped galaxies may just be at earlier stages of evolution (such as elliptical) before their holes have formed.
The problem here is that Microsoft LOSES MONEY on the hardware and makes it up on software sales. They don't want to move hardware without selling the gaming software, because they will lose money. So they don't want you to have a home entertainment device, or a linux box, or whatever you want. They want you to have a gaming machine, that plays gaming titles you purchased. Otherwise, they will lose huge sums of money. People are missing this point.
This just proves how biased Slashdot really is against Microsoft.
"Yeah, Microsoft is being upfront about their privacy policies, and is publishing the API specs... but, we don't like to talk about the good things that Microsoft does. So here's a link to a tool to crash Windows machines. Enjoy!"
Blah.
As an avid flight simulator user, I can tell you that Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2002 is still very much CPU-bound with my AMD 1.4 and Geforce4, even without the graphic detail pushed all the way up.
So these new processor announcements are very important to some of us.
With all this talk of heating foods, I was wondering what your feelings are on the World Health Organization calling an emergency meeting to discuss the recent studies on heating carbohydrates. These studies found high levels of the carcinogin acrylamide when carbohydrates are heated in a certain way, such as by frying potatoes or baking bread.
Do you think this will affect your cooking recommendations in anyway?