29k? You were lucky, why I had to walk 10 miles in snow to punch my cards then walk back with them to put them in the reader (etc.)
The first Sinclair PCs had a massive 1k. And that was shared with the graphics chip too. If you were rich you could add a 16K RAM pack. Which wobbled and lost everything in memory. Ah those were the days.
it's just Microsoft's guerrilla PR tactics aimed at discouraging linux use
I hope you meant that as +1 funny; the sad thing is some people will believe it anyway. Which kind of proves the point about some linux users being idiotic enough to call someone they don't know who swapped one distro for another and call them idiots.
Now they want to put it on a single button, surrounded by other tiny buttons?
This isn't a new idea; tablet PCs have had a dedicated Ctrl-Alt-Del button since the beginning, because you can't assume the user actually has a physical keyboard and you need some way to enter the login screen.
sms.ac did exactly the same thing; but didn't ask permission to email people. Whilst you'd think people would know better even Joi Ito got caught by this, what's worse is they spammed before the signup process was complete. Joi immediately quit using the service and blogged a public apology, referring to sms.ac as spammers. Next thing you know they sent him a cease and desist demanding Joi stopped calling them spammers.
Don't look now, your bias is showing. I've seen a lot of systems, *nix and Windows where proper partitioning of drives hasn't happened. Even then the article only states that the drive containing the data was erased; it mentions nothing about the OS being on the same drive. And of courser RAID doesn't help in this, unless you have a very delayed snapshot mirroring system; identical mirrored drives don't help when you delete a file because, guess what, mirrors stay the same, so it's deleted everywhere.
Heck my pathetic excuse for an ISP in the UK managed to blow away 3 months worth of mail and that was on a NetApp, moving to a Sun NAS. Admin stupidity happens on all platforms; pretending it doesn't on your chosen one is more stupid than deleting a crucial file.
But it's not about that; and, as is often the case the slashdot headline is an anti-windows line.
With Boot Camp students at the Pennsylvania liberal arts college will be able to switch between Windows and OSX, choosing which applications and OS to use at any given time.
They are standardising on hardware, not an operating system. Which makes sense in terms of cost and hardware management.
There's a special arrangement between the UK and Ireland which means you don't need a passport to travel between the two countries. Even now. Getting into the UK from any other EU country does take a passport or a national identity card
I'm in the process of applying for an Irish passport, as I was born in Northern Ireland. I won't be renewing my UK passport this time around.
the more people Apple shares their secrets to, the bigger the possibility of an exploit being found.
Oh please, when people argue that Windows is targeted more because it's popular slashdot dismisses that, but suddenly it's acceptable when it refers to Apple's DRM scheme. Microsoft's DRM is licensed, and used by numerous third party players (both hardware and software) and it has stood up better to cracks than FairPlay
I wasn't attempting to; I was pointing out that the majority of free software out there was not licensed under GPL3, which I took your contention of "the same license as the majority" as meaning.
How is GPL3 "the same license as the majority"? Utter tosh; you see far more people rejected the drafts because of the political DRM restrictions than are accepting it.
And making it GPL3 will cut down interaction with GPL2 code. Looks more like bandwagon jumping and a rush for the patent protection coverage rather than a drive to "play nice" with anything else.
Apple says it's not practical (or even possible) to adequately DRM music and license the technology to others, because that necessarily means sharing "secrets," and the more people that you share the secret with, the harder it is to keep the secret.
Except Microsoft managed it with WMDRM; that was cracked a couple of times (one outstanding right now); and it took a lot longer than FairPlay. If the labels were really going to pull their music when FairPlay got hacked and not fixed then how come iTunes has music when there are a bunch of outstanding cracks out there? Don't forget that OSX has the biggest DRM of all, it can't be run on an non-Apple machine. I view Job's statement as playing to the crowd and passing the buck, instead of an honest intention to stop DRM if he could.
Interesting to note that the article focusses on the less sinister uses for this, customised advertising, whilst bypassing any mention of privacy aside from a nod to saying it could take place "without the knowledge or participation of the subject". So whose money will talk fastest, advertisers or Homeland Security?
Actually you should be able to get the CPU information via WMI calls, the WIN32_Processor tree exists for that very reason. And that would work on 64bit windows too.
It's a two way thing; OpenID will support CardSpace as an identity selector. This is a "good thing", as it will stop the man in the middle attacks OpenID is very prone to. Of course the OpenID identity providers need to add support, like MEX endpoints and WS-Trust, which are all open specs.
CardSpace itself doesn't care what's on the identity provider side, they just need to talk the right talk.
That said, I believe if someone knowing commits an infraction, they should be able to sustain the punishment
Why knowingly? Ignorance is not an excuse; you can be done for receiving stolen goods in the UK and simply claiming you did not know they were stolen is not a valid defence. Certainly this appears heavy handed because of the possible punishment, but that's not Microsoft's fault or problem.
Actually if you look at where it appears it's right off the root of the File menu. So it stands out more than Save As, which needs to be chosen; then subtype chosen. It looks (to my mind) to be more important in the menu structure.
Hell even sourceforge does that; my last email to the subtext discussion list had
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29k? You were lucky, why I had to walk 10 miles in snow to punch my cards then walk back with them to put them in the reader (etc.)
The first Sinclair PCs had a massive 1k. And that was shared with the graphics chip too. If you were rich you could add a 16K RAM pack. Which wobbled and lost everything in memory. Ah those were the days.
I hope you meant that as +1 funny; the sad thing is some people will believe it anyway. Which kind of proves the point about some linux users being idiotic enough to call someone they don't know who swapped one distro for another and call them idiots.
But will it run Vista?
*snicker*
This isn't a new idea; tablet PCs have had a dedicated Ctrl-Alt-Del button since the beginning, because you can't assume the user actually has a physical keyboard and you need some way to enter the login screen.
sms.ac did exactly the same thing; but didn't ask permission to email people. Whilst you'd think people would know better even Joi Ito got caught by this, what's worse is they spammed before the signup process was complete. Joi immediately quit using the service and blogged a public apology, referring to sms.ac as spammers. Next thing you know they sent him a cease and desist demanding Joi stopped calling them spammers.
Actually they do use Transitional by default; the parent of your parent is wrong.
Don't look now, your bias is showing. I've seen a lot of systems, *nix and Windows where proper partitioning of drives hasn't happened. Even then the article only states that the drive containing the data was erased; it mentions nothing about the OS being on the same drive. And of courser RAID doesn't help in this, unless you have a very delayed snapshot mirroring system; identical mirrored drives don't help when you delete a file because, guess what, mirrors stay the same, so it's deleted everywhere.
Heck my pathetic excuse for an ISP in the UK managed to blow away 3 months worth of mail and that was on a NetApp, moving to a Sun NAS. Admin stupidity happens on all platforms; pretending it doesn't on your chosen one is more stupid than deleting a crucial file.
You're new to slashdot then?
But it's not about that; and, as is often the case the slashdot headline is an anti-windows line.
They are standardising on hardware, not an operating system. Which makes sense in terms of cost and hardware management.
I'm in the process of applying for an Irish passport, as I was born in Northern Ireland. I won't be renewing my UK passport this time around.
(Give me a break, in all my years here I don't think I've *ever* posted about overlords, Soviet Russia, or hot grits on petrified Natalie Portman)
You're new here then?
the more people Apple shares their secrets to, the bigger the possibility of an exploit being found.
Oh please, when people argue that Windows is targeted more because it's popular slashdot dismisses that, but suddenly it's acceptable when it refers to Apple's DRM scheme. Microsoft's DRM is licensed, and used by numerous third party players (both hardware and software) and it has stood up better to cracks than FairPlay
What you wouldn't vote for someone that would remove myspace from the internet? Geez
The submitter tried to search for the story using google but couldn't find it.
I wasn't attempting to; I was pointing out that the majority of free software out there was not licensed under GPL3, which I took your contention of "the same license as the majority" as meaning.
How is GPL3 "the same license as the majority"? Utter tosh; you see far more people rejected the drafts because of the political DRM restrictions than are accepting it.
And making it GPL3 will cut down interaction with GPL2 code. Looks more like bandwagon jumping and a rush for the patent protection coverage rather than a drive to "play nice" with anything else.
Apple says it's not practical (or even possible) to adequately DRM music and license the technology to others, because that necessarily means sharing "secrets," and the more people that you share the secret with, the harder it is to keep the secret.
Except Microsoft managed it with WMDRM; that was cracked a couple of times (one outstanding right now); and it took a lot longer than FairPlay. If the labels were really going to pull their music when FairPlay got hacked and not fixed then how come iTunes has music when there are a bunch of outstanding cracks out there? Don't forget that OSX has the biggest DRM of all, it can't be run on an non-Apple machine. I view Job's statement as playing to the crowd and passing the buck, instead of an honest intention to stop DRM if he could.
Interesting to note that the article focusses on the less sinister uses for this, customised advertising, whilst bypassing any mention of privacy aside from a nod to saying it could take place "without the knowledge or participation of the subject". So whose money will talk fastest, advertisers or Homeland Security?
Actually you should be able to get the CPU information via WMI calls, the WIN32_Processor tree exists for that very reason. And that would work on 64bit windows too.
It's a two way thing; OpenID will support CardSpace as an identity selector. This is a "good thing", as it will stop the man in the middle attacks OpenID is very prone to. Of course the OpenID identity providers need to add support, like MEX endpoints and WS-Trust, which are all open specs.
CardSpace itself doesn't care what's on the identity provider side, they just need to talk the right talk.
That said, I believe if someone knowing commits an infraction, they should be able to sustain the punishment
Why knowingly? Ignorance is not an excuse; you can be done for receiving stolen goods in the UK and simply claiming you did not know they were stolen is not a valid defence. Certainly this appears heavy handed because of the possible punishment, but that's not Microsoft's fault or problem.
Actually if you look at where it appears it's right off the root of the File menu. So it stands out more than Save As, which needs to be chosen; then subtype chosen. It looks (to my mind) to be more important in the menu structure.
Hell even sourceforge does that; my last email to the subtext discussion list had
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier.
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
URL snipped, as they're tracking clickthroughs. And the separating dashed line snipped because of the lame "lameness" filter.
That's probably more to do with MS's entry into IPTV with the BT Fusion project than anything else.