China: Total CO2 production=3,051,110,000 metric tons = 2,530 kg per person UK: Total CO2 production=535,290,000 metric tons = 9,030 kg per person US: Total CO2 production=5,584,760,000 metric tons = 19,910 kg per person
So what you're saying is that having a higher population density means that it's perfectly okay for them not to be a part of the Koyoto treaty?
Bit weird. I thought we were worrying about the planet here, not about the number of people stuffed into one country.
Come on. That's a cheap shot. There is no indication that Microsoft stole any code whatsoever for IE7.
Or that they stole any for Doublespace for that matter - that was a patent infringement dispute (and a very thorny one - both MS and Stacker had patents on the same technology) - not a copyright infringement one.
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If Linux has vulnerabilities, then Windows have even less excuse as a billion dollar corporation.
No, Linux has less excuse; after all, there are billions of eyes looking at the code. That's why the bazaar is better than the cathedral.
No, actually, I didn't. The time taken for the check is almost negligible. It doesn't do bounds checking; it just makes sure that the canary hasn't been overwritten when the function exits, and terminates the app if it has. Much better than allowing exploits.
Have you ever tried to connect a US laptop to a non-North American phone system? Will M$ foot the bill for an international phone call from the other side of the world because they've locked your computer up? How do you do this from an airplane?
How many times do you change the harddrive or CPU in your system while you're on an airplane?
There are specific triggers for activation in XP - none of which would trigger randomly while in flight.
Most normal users never upgrades their OS and a lot of geeks prefer 2k to XP.
Of course, those geeks tend to be the ones too stupid to figure out how to set the style into "Classic" mode. XP doesn't have to look like a fisherprice toy - and I don't know of any other reasons why one would want to run Windows 2000 instead of XP. Except maybe activation (oh, boo hoo).
I'm afraid you've been totally misinformed if you think this is baloney. Microsoft has exactly the intenation for XAML, with Avalon, replacing HTML within Internet Explorer.
Where the hell have you been?!
Actually using betas of the stuff, for a start, unlike you - you seem to be getting all of your info from the anti-Microsoft rumor mill instead of looking for it yourself.
Out of curiosity, when did you switch back to mozilla?
I use Firefox occasionally; for the most part I use IE. There's one specific piece of behavior in Firefox that I hate, that works great for me in IE - and that's when I create a new tab/page/whatever, I get the page that I was looking at duplicated in that window.
Until Firefox does that, I won't switch. Even then it depends. I mainly use it these days to test compatibility.
No Thanks. Microsoft is full of crap. They sit around and do NOTHING for the past 3-4 years (since they slaughtered Netscape). And now that finally there's competition they get off their lazy a$$es and steal other people's ideas once again.
A bit like when Firefox stole XP SP2's Warning Bar, huh?
Although I think Microsoft's concept of Avalon and XAML replacing HTML is shite (and it's been tried before), AJAX has proved the concept of better client-side support within browsers. For those of us who've been using Javascript to do things like confirm webforms, create dynamic menus and load Javascript arrays with useful data for fast access over the years, we're wondering what all the fuss is about of course
Microsoft doesn't have any kind of idea or concept of Avalon and XAML replacing HTML. It's meant to be for UI implementation in Longhorn.NET Client-Side UI applications. NOT to replace all the content on the web.
Microsoft's problem with respect to Java was that in extending it they were breaching a contract with Sun. Of course arguments about why they were doing it didn't help them; their contract didn't provide for any such exemptions. Mozilla have no contractual obligations, that I'm aware of, to implement JAvascript/ECMAscript in any particular way.
I don't care about the case; I care about the arguments that nearly everyone on Slashdot made at the time as to why Microsoft were in the wrong - namely that they were deliberately making it harder to write cross-platform code that worked the same way everywhere.
When asked why this was a problem when you can turn off the extensions using a command line switch, nearly everyone wrote back that it was still subverting standards, and that software developers wouldn't know the difference between writing Microsoft-specific Java code, and regular, Sun Java code.
The exact same argument applies here. If this goes ahead, developers won't know when they're writing Mozilla Javascript code, and when they're writing standards-correct ECMAScript code.
The amount of hypocrisy on slashdot is amazing. It seems to be like this:
When Microsoft subverts open standards in an embrace and extend manner, it's evil.
When Mozilla (or anyone else does it), it's great! It's good! It's expected! It's the way innovation goes forward!
At least you guys could discuss amongst yourselves and put out a consistent message at some point. Or heck, just be honest - if it hurts Microsoft, it's A-OK by us!
Most, if not all, Mozilla extensions use Javascript, so that's most likely what these changes are aimed at. I don't think you're supposed to use them on public webpages; if the Mozilla guys really care, then they'll also make sure that these extensions won't work in that case.
Funny... that exact same argument didn't work for Microsoft with their extensions to Java... why should we let Mozilla get away with it?
The reason IE won had nothing to do with it being better. Simply putting it on the desktop of every windows computer, and therefore every computer you buy from any major manufacturer, is what made it win. As long as this is true, there will never be another war. Even if IE had a timer to crash every 30 minutes, it would still have 80% market share.
Which misses one key point: I used Netscape up until version 4.2 or so - at which point, IE made leaps and bounds ahead of Netscape, was better, so I used that instead.
Well your tired old attitude of "entertainment" makes me sick. Entertainment should be made with the goal of seeing your dreams realized. An idea or GIFT to the human race as a whole. The sickness of our world is that these companies some how think they have a right to profit.
If you want to prevent people from playing and enjoying your game, dont release it. Go ahead, hog it all to yourself. This kind of blatent selfishness is what makes the world a sick place. Do you think the inventors of chess made any money on it? or did they make it because thats the kind of game they would like to enjoy with their friends.
theres more to life than money and profit. And don't give me that bull about how they need to put food on their tables. If your really dedicated and creative, (not just re releasing the same hockey game every year like its some revolution) then you will do what you love in the time you have. Does this mean some games would not be made? sure, but i for one can live with less corporate sponsored entertainment thank you.
You have no fucking clue how much it costs to make games, do you?
$20 MILLION is typical these days.
If you don't want Doom 3, Halflife 2, or anything that approaches the quality of those games, then your "they'll do what they love in the time they have" is fine - because I can tell you right now, you won't get games of that calibre.
Games today take upwards of 50 people to make. This isn't the old days. If you want the old days, go download a copy of Head Over Heels and be done with it.
Sorry. Apparently the modded down post you replied to vanished, but the rest of your thread didn't, so I thought you were replying to me. My apologies.
Uh... no. Hertz is cycles per second and the usage of it predates digital computers by quite a bit. As a result, it uses the decimal SI prefixes just like 1 kilometer is 1000 meters exactly, not 1024 meters. You'd screw up quite a bit of acoutic, light and other measurements if you were to try and use a binary-based prefix with hertz.
In other words, you agree with me that 2.4GHz is 2,400,000,000 cycles per second. Thanks for that. So, uh, no, I'm already right, and uh, thanks for the confirmation.
When both the journal and the data are in the write cache of the drive, the data on the platters is in an undefined state. Loss of power means filesystem corruption -- just the thing a JFS is supposed to avoid. ... except most drives use the angular momentum of the drive, the power left in the PSU and any spare voltage in the on-board capacitors to provide the power to finish writing and park the drive heads.
At least, that was the state of the art in the early 90s.
Ooops. Make that 2,400,000,000 not 2,400,000,000,000. That's the problem with big numbers - it's like spelling bananananananananananana - once you start you can't stop.
using the wrong definitions to make their products seem bigger. I bought a P4 2.4GHz CPU the other day, and was shocked to find it wasn't 2,576,980,377.6Hz like it should be! Lying thieves...
Sad to see this post being marked "insightful". 2.4GHz has always meant 2,400,000,000,000 cycles per second, and nothing else. No matter what speed your crystal clocks at.
The original poster was being... kind of sarcastic.
Non Trivial for Servers that may be running on 4 gigs of RAM, especially with earlier versions of NT where you can't partition your startup drive larger than 4 gigs.
Versions of NT which only support drive partitions up to 4Gb certainly don't support 4Gb of RAM. So it's not the problem you think it is.
Picassa needs to get its own camera download interface and replace Microsoft POS. Let's see, I've just downloaded images from a camera, what do you want to do? Thanks to Microsoft, you get two options:
1) Upload to web (Microsoft approved, of course) 2) Print online (Microsoft approved, of course)
What crap.
You could, of course, just edit the damn things on your PC.
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China: Total CO2 production=3,051,110,000 metric tons = 2,530 kg per person
UK: Total CO2 production=535,290,000 metric tons = 9,030 kg per person
US: Total CO2 production=5,584,760,000 metric tons = 19,910 kg per person
So what you're saying is that having a higher population density means that it's perfectly okay for them not to be a part of the Koyoto treaty?
Bit weird. I thought we were worrying about the planet here, not about the number of people stuffed into one country.
Come on. That's a cheap shot. There is no indication that Microsoft stole any code whatsoever for IE7.
Or that they stole any for Doublespace for that matter - that was a patent infringement dispute (and a very thorny one - both MS and Stacker had patents on the same technology) - not a copyright infringement one.
If Linux has vulnerabilities, then Windows have even less excuse as a billion dollar corporation.
No, Linux has less excuse; after all, there are billions of eyes looking at the code. That's why the bazaar is better than the cathedral.
*rolls eyes and laughs*
You mispelled something, I fixed it for you.
No, actually, I didn't. The time taken for the check is almost negligible. It doesn't do bounds checking; it just makes sure that the canary hasn't been overwritten when the function exits, and terminates the app if it has. Much better than allowing exploits.
Because all of the executable files and DLLs in the OS were recompiled with buffer overflow checks turned on, so it's a lot more secure.
Have you ever tried to connect a US laptop to a non-North American phone system? Will M$ foot the bill for an international phone call from the other side of the world because they've locked your computer up? How do you do this from an airplane?
How many times do you change the harddrive or CPU in your system while you're on an airplane?
There are specific triggers for activation in XP - none of which would trigger randomly while in flight.
Most normal users never upgrades their OS and a lot of geeks prefer 2k to XP.
Of course, those geeks tend to be the ones too stupid to figure out how to set the style into "Classic" mode. XP doesn't have to look like a fisherprice toy - and I don't know of any other reasons why one would want to run Windows 2000 instead of XP. Except maybe activation (oh, boo hoo).
I'm afraid you've been totally misinformed if you think this is baloney. Microsoft has exactly the intenation for XAML, with Avalon, replacing HTML within Internet Explorer.
Where the hell have you been?!
Actually using betas of the stuff, for a start, unlike you - you seem to be getting all of your info from the anti-Microsoft rumor mill instead of looking for it yourself.
Out of curiosity, when did you switch back to mozilla?
I use Firefox occasionally; for the most part I use IE. There's one specific piece of behavior in Firefox that I hate, that works great for me in IE - and that's when I create a new tab/page/whatever, I get the page that I was looking at duplicated in that window.
Until Firefox does that, I won't switch. Even then it depends. I mainly use it these days to test compatibility.
No Thanks. Microsoft is full of crap. They sit around and do NOTHING for the past 3-4 years (since they slaughtered Netscape). And now that finally there's competition they get off their lazy a$$es and steal other people's ideas once again.
A bit like when Firefox stole XP SP2's Warning Bar, huh?
Didn't hear you complaining about that.
They don't have to add Adblock - they only need a programming interface like Firefox's extensions so that Adblock can be ported to it.
They already have something like that. It's called COM. It's how Google Toolbar, MSN Toolbar, etc are implemented.
Although I think Microsoft's concept of Avalon and XAML replacing HTML is shite (and it's been tried before), AJAX has proved the concept of better client-side support within browsers. For those of us who've been using Javascript to do things like confirm webforms, create dynamic menus and load Javascript arrays with useful data for fast access over the years, we're wondering what all the fuss is about of course
.NET Client-Side UI applications. NOT to replace all the content on the web.
Microsoft doesn't have any kind of idea or concept of Avalon and XAML replacing HTML. It's meant to be for UI implementation in Longhorn
Where on earth do you get this baloney?
Microsoft's problem with respect to Java was that in extending it they were breaching a contract with Sun. Of course arguments about why they were doing it didn't help them; their contract didn't provide for any such exemptions. Mozilla have no contractual obligations, that I'm aware of, to implement JAvascript/ECMAscript in any particular way.
I don't care about the case; I care about the arguments that nearly everyone on Slashdot made at the time as to why Microsoft were in the wrong - namely that they were deliberately making it harder to write cross-platform code that worked the same way everywhere.
When asked why this was a problem when you can turn off the extensions using a command line switch, nearly everyone wrote back that it was still subverting standards, and that software developers wouldn't know the difference between writing Microsoft-specific Java code, and regular, Sun Java code.
The exact same argument applies here. If this goes ahead, developers won't know when they're writing Mozilla Javascript code, and when they're writing standards-correct ECMAScript code.
The amount of hypocrisy on slashdot is amazing. It seems to be like this:
When Microsoft subverts open standards in an embrace and extend manner, it's evil.
When Mozilla (or anyone else does it), it's great! It's good! It's expected! It's the way innovation goes forward!
At least you guys could discuss amongst yourselves and put out a consistent message at some point. Or heck, just be honest - if it hurts Microsoft, it's A-OK by us!
Most, if not all, Mozilla extensions use Javascript, so that's most likely what these changes are aimed at. I don't think you're supposed to use them on public webpages; if the Mozilla guys really care, then they'll also make sure that these extensions won't work in that case.
Funny... that exact same argument didn't work for Microsoft with their extensions to Java... why should we let Mozilla get away with it?
The reason IE won had nothing to do with it being better. Simply putting it on the desktop of every windows computer, and therefore every computer you buy from any major manufacturer, is what made it win. As long as this is true, there will never be another war. Even if IE had a timer to crash every 30 minutes, it would still have 80% market share.
Which misses one key point: I used Netscape up until version 4.2 or so - at which point, IE made leaps and bounds ahead of Netscape, was better, so I used that instead.
Explain that one.
... and not something that the Mozilla guys could futz around with on a whim.
Mind you, we are talking about the people who brought you the BLINK tag.
Well your tired old attitude of "entertainment" makes me sick. Entertainment should be made with the goal of seeing your dreams realized. An idea or GIFT to the human race as a whole. The sickness of our world is that these companies some how think they have a right to profit.
If you want to prevent people from playing and enjoying your game, dont release it. Go ahead, hog it all to yourself. This kind of blatent selfishness is what makes the world a sick place. Do you think the inventors of chess made any money on it? or did they make it because thats the kind of game they would like to enjoy with their friends.
theres more to life than money and profit. And don't give me that bull about how they need to put food on their tables. If your really dedicated and creative, (not just re releasing the same hockey game every year like its some revolution) then you will do what you love in the time you have. Does this mean some games would not be made? sure, but i for one can live with less corporate sponsored entertainment thank you.
You have no fucking clue how much it costs to make games, do you?
$20 MILLION is typical these days.
If you don't want Doom 3, Halflife 2, or anything that approaches the quality of those games, then your "they'll do what they love in the time they have" is fine - because I can tell you right now, you won't get games of that calibre.
Games today take upwards of 50 people to make. This isn't the old days. If you want the old days, go download a copy of Head Over Heels and be done with it.
So, parking heads, fine. Writing out the cache? I'd wager there are cases where there simply isn't the time.
The drive could simply write all 8Mb to a known block near to the parking area, and then on next power up, write the data in the correct place.
Sorry. Apparently the modded down post you replied to vanished, but the rest of your thread didn't, so I thought you were replying to me. My apologies.
Uh... no. Hertz is cycles per second and the usage of it predates digital computers by quite a bit. As a result, it uses the decimal SI prefixes just like 1 kilometer is 1000 meters exactly, not 1024 meters. You'd screw up quite a bit of acoutic, light and other measurements if you were to try and use a binary-based prefix with hertz.
In other words, you agree with me that 2.4GHz is 2,400,000,000 cycles per second. Thanks for that. So, uh, no, I'm already right, and uh, thanks for the confirmation.
jeeeeeezus cheerist.
When both the journal and the data are in the write cache of the drive, the data on the platters is in an undefined state. Loss of power means filesystem corruption -- just the thing a JFS is supposed to avoid. ... except most drives use the angular momentum of the drive, the power left in the PSU and any spare voltage in the on-board capacitors to provide the power to finish writing and park the drive heads.
At least, that was the state of the art in the early 90s.
Ooops. Make that 2,400,000,000 not 2,400,000,000,000. That's the problem with big numbers - it's like spelling bananananananananananana - once you start you can't stop.
using the wrong definitions to make their products seem bigger. I bought a P4 2.4GHz CPU the other day, and was shocked to find it wasn't 2,576,980,377.6Hz like it should be! Lying thieves...
... kind of sarcastic.
Sad to see this post being marked "insightful". 2.4GHz has always meant 2,400,000,000,000 cycles per second, and nothing else. No matter what speed your crystal clocks at.
The original poster was being
Non Trivial for Servers that may be running on 4 gigs of RAM, especially with earlier versions of NT where you can't partition your startup drive larger than 4 gigs.
Versions of NT which only support drive partitions up to 4Gb certainly don't support 4Gb of RAM. So it's not the problem you think it is.
Picassa needs to get its own camera download interface and replace Microsoft POS. Let's see, I've just downloaded images from a camera, what do you want to do? Thanks to Microsoft, you get two options:
1) Upload to web (Microsoft approved, of course)
2) Print online (Microsoft approved, of course)
What crap.
You could, of course, just edit the damn things on your PC.