The same holds true for doing your computing today... regardless of what hardware is available a year from now. Personally, I'd rather have a slow program that could keep running than one that was really fast, but crashed before I could save my work.
That may be true for you, but the success of MS proves that most people prefer a slow program that crashes before they can save their work.
I once heard of a similar problem with a NT server running Terminal Server and several users accessing it from a UNIX machine. The CPU usage of Excel would suddenly go to 100% and stay there.
Apparently, users used Shift + arrow key to switch to another virtual desktop. Unfortunately Excel went into a busy loop after the Shift key was pressed (it was busy waiting for the next key) and stayed there until the user switched back to the Terminal Server window. This resulted in Excel taking the entire CPU.
From the article: PKWare no longer sells its products as shareware.
Is this a good idea? I believe that shareware is the only way to get your product known to all computer users (apart from bundeling it with Microsoft Office). There are not that many computer users that still known PKWare, and when this strategy is followed, that won't change.
First, to answer your question: remote keyless entry has become a lot safer in the last years.
However, this is not so relevant. When people want to steal your car, they will steal it. No anti-theft system is completely safe. Even when it is impossible to open your car, they will simply wait for you to open it. This means that the best solution is to discourage people from stealing your car. Buy a model that is not too attractive. Don't leave your car in unsafe neighbourhoods.
One last suggestion: if someone shows up and threatens you, just give him the keys. Your life is worth much more than your car.
A better solution would be to change the business model instead of trying to prevent people to copy CD's.
What are the reasons people currently make illegal copies of music: 1) CD's are too expensive. 2) The artist only sees a fraction of the price of a CD. 3) It is illegal, which makes it more attractive. 4) It is possible.
CD manufactures currently try to attack only the fourth reason instead of focusing on the other three (well, perhaps the third reason is hard to remove). Besides, when my ordinary CD player can read the disk, the CD player in my computer can do it as well, but maybe it requires a firmware upgrade.
A better solution would be to focus on the other reasons and change the business model used to sell CD's. For instance, I think it would be really great to surf the net, download music from the artist's website, pay a honest fee for it and burn it to CD myself. I believe there are many other people who download music in this fassion if a fair price was asked.
Of course, you still have the problem that music can be copied, but it is impossible to change that. The only thing that can be done is make it more difficult, but once someone circumvents the copy protection, it is totally worthless. Instead, music makers should focus on bringing the prices of music down and improve the experience people get while buying music.
There is one big rule: do not draw too much attention.
Microsoft is a big company that is known to play its business a bit dirty from time to time. When you criticise them too much, they might just try their next trick on you. Since they are bigger and have more money, you can be sure you won't like this.
A bug has been discovered in Bugzilla, which caused it to count every reported bug 5 times. This brings the total number of reported bugs in BugZilla to 83240.
The biggest problem with biometrics - as I see it - is that you only have one set of biometric data. This means that when a handscan is used to identify you at both the gym and at the place you work, this data can be linked. It will be possible for two organisations to cooperate and see if they have any members in common. A big brother-like environment is not far away, when the government starts getting interested in the biometric data collected by various organisations.
Of course, you have the same problem when you give your home address or phone number, but these things can be changed, while changing your handscan is not easy to do.
In the future, this will give great opportunies to remove "unwanted" persons from society. Just launch a few satellites, containing a powerful laser, and bye, bye Saddam (if he is stupid enough to show his head).
I have been working at a university for a couple of years and have noticed there that it is impossible to teach students about every product (commercial or open source) that is available. Instead it is better to give them a broad basis (showing them types of products: a database, an IDE, a web server,...), instead of giving a course on the difference between Oracle and MySQL. When this broad basis is given in the correct way, they will later be able to use new products when they are presented with them.
To improve their ability to adjust themselves to a different software environment, a number of assignments can be given in which they have to build some software solution using the tools given to them. This will also teach them that in some situations they cannot choose what to use. Maybe this type of assignment is not yet given enough to students. However, I don't believe the rest of the teaching methodology should be changed.
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The same holds true for doing your computing today... regardless of what hardware is available a year from now. Personally, I'd rather have a slow program that could keep running than one that was really fast, but crashed before I could save my work.
That may be true for you, but the success of MS proves that most people prefer a slow program that crashes before they can save their work.
What about a flamewar?
With *REAL* flamethrowers, of course!
... is install Apache on it.
/. a Brain Surgeon Robot.
That way we could finally
I once heard of a similar problem with a NT server running Terminal Server and several users accessing it from a UNIX machine. The CPU usage of Excel would suddenly go to 100% and stay there.
Apparently, users used Shift + arrow key to switch to another virtual desktop. Unfortunately Excel went into a busy loop after the Shift key was pressed (it was busy waiting for the next key) and stayed there until the user switched back to the Terminal Server window. This resulted in Excel taking the entire CPU.
Does this mean this can will keep my drink cool at all times?
Or am I just expecting too much?
There has been an earlier article on /. about a guy who did that: look here.
It is a conference AGAINST spam instead of a spammer conference.
Lucky I didn't fire my nuke yet...
It is amazing how many of the searches that are described in the article I have executed myself.
I guess that you can really find out what is going on in the world by looking at the logs of Google.
From the article:
PKWare no longer sells its products as shareware.
Is this a good idea? I believe that shareware is the only way to get your product known to all computer users (apart from bundeling it with Microsoft Office). There are not that many computer users that still known PKWare, and when this strategy is followed, that won't change.
Aren't those ants something to put into the compost bin?
Since when I look up the SOA record for the root domain, it gives a serial number of 2002110700 instead of 2002220501.
First, to answer your question: remote keyless entry has become a lot safer in the last years.
However, this is not so relevant. When people want to steal your car, they will steal it. No anti-theft system is completely safe. Even when it is impossible to open your car, they will simply wait for you to open it. This means that the best solution is to discourage people from stealing your car. Buy a model that is not too attractive. Don't leave your car in unsafe neighbourhoods.
One last suggestion: if someone shows up and threatens you, just give him the keys. Your life is worth much more than your car.
... once wrote:
Never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
The latency is terrible, though.
Apparently, if this star was located as far away as the moon, it could demag floppy disks and suck change right out of your pocket.
<SARCASM>
When this star was located as far away as the moon, losing the change in my pockets would be the least of my problems.
</SARCASM>
A better solution would be to change the business model instead of trying to prevent people to copy CD's.
What are the reasons people currently make illegal copies of music:
1) CD's are too expensive.
2) The artist only sees a fraction of the price of a CD.
3) It is illegal, which makes it more attractive.
4) It is possible.
CD manufactures currently try to attack only the fourth reason instead of focusing on the other three (well, perhaps the third reason is hard to remove). Besides, when my ordinary CD player can read the disk, the CD player in my computer can do it as well, but maybe it requires a firmware upgrade.
A better solution would be to focus on the other reasons and change the business model used to sell CD's. For instance, I think it would be really great to surf the net, download music from the artist's website, pay a honest fee for it and burn it to CD myself. I believe there are many other people who download music in this fassion if a fair price was asked.
Of course, you still have the problem that music can be copied, but it is impossible to change that. The only thing that can be done is make it more difficult, but once someone circumvents the copy protection, it is totally worthless. Instead, music makers should focus on bringing the prices of music down and improve the experience people get while buying music.
There is one big rule: do not draw too much attention .
Microsoft is a big company that is known to play its business a bit dirty from time to time. When you criticise them too much, they might just try their next trick on you. Since they are bigger and have more money, you can be sure you won't like this.
A bug has been discovered in Bugzilla, which caused it to count every reported bug 5 times. This brings the total number of reported bugs in BugZilla to 83240.
The biggest problem with biometrics - as I see it - is that you only have one set of biometric data. This means that when a handscan is used to identify you at both the gym and at the place you work, this data can be linked. It will be possible for two organisations to cooperate and see if they have any members in common. A big brother-like environment is not far away, when the government starts getting interested in the biometric data collected by various organisations.
Of course, you have the same problem when you give your home address or phone number, but these things can be changed, while changing your handscan is not easy to do.
Found on Google: the official website.
Well, one thing you get in return is some extra heat and the certainty that you just helped change the climate by using more energy.
In the future, this will give great opportunies to remove "unwanted" persons from society. Just launch a few satellites, containing a powerful laser, and bye, bye Saddam (if he is stupid enough to show his head).
(This also reminds me of Ant City.)
I have been working at a university for a couple of years and have noticed there that it is impossible to teach students about every product (commercial or open source) that is available. Instead it is better to give them a broad basis (showing them types of products: a database, an IDE, a web server, ...), instead of giving a course on the difference between Oracle and MySQL. When this broad basis is given in the correct way, they will later be able to use new products when they are presented with them.
To improve their ability to adjust themselves to a different software environment, a number of assignments can be given in which they have to build some software solution using the tools given to them. This will also teach them that in some situations they cannot choose what to use. Maybe this type of assignment is not yet given enough to students. However, I don't believe the rest of the teaching methodology should be changed.
Use Google or look here
By then, most processors will use a few kW of electricity, so this would be great for discotheques. No more disco lights would be required.
It seems to be the ideal system to run the next Microsoft operating system.
To quote someone else: "16 trillion bytes should be enough for everyone."