We have 1 of three possible scenarios:
1) The Green Dam developers have fully reverse engineered Cybersitter to the point they can reuse pre-compiled binaries and snippets of code required to call them.
2) Cybersitter's development network has been thoroughly compromized to the point that the Chinese Green Dam developers have fully plagurized another companies proprietary code.
3) Cybersitter has contributed to the development of the Chinese Green Dam and was therefore paid for their effort.
I think the most likely scenario is that someone walked out of Cybersitter, Inc. with a thumb drive full of code. I guess you could call that (2), but I think it's more likely that a contractor (or even offshore development team) pinched the code via copy than a team of black hats in Hunan broke into Cybersitter's servers.
By the way, you might find google's toolbar, which spellchecks, helpful before you compromize and plagurize more posts;-)
What you say is often, but not exclusively, true. The main reason people buy SPARC:
The CoolThreads servers are genuinely different than others. Radically low power consumption and a bajillion threads. That doesn't mean they're good for everything, but in the app space they're marketed for, they're exceptional.
If I have millions of lines of code written for Solaris on SPARC, I might want to run SPARC. Sun has a large presence in many markets and compatibility (left over from the days when x86 was nowhere near SPARC) is important.
Above a certain level, x86 can't compete. You can say "yet" if you want. Sun, IBM, etc.'s high-end gear is the closest you can get to a mainframe, in terms of RAIDed memory (one bad chip doesn't bring down the system), hot-swapping CPUs, hardware partitioning, etc. There are a lot of people in love with clustered x86 boxes, but they do not scale as well. A single box with 32 CPUs will perform better than 16 boxes with 2 CPUs, every single time. The 16x2 might be cheaper, but there are a lot of apps that don't run as well that way. To take a very common example, Oracle RAC scales about as well as anything on "wide and small commodity," but Oracle certainly runs better on a 32-CPU box rather than 16x2.
I agree that in many cases, proprietary kit is overpriced and unnecessary. Which is why it's on the decline...
Maybe it's not "Iranian culture" as much as "Islamic culture".
I suspect as much, given that there is not a country on the planet with an Islamic majority and functioning democracy (and no, Turkey does not qualify).
Lets not forget that the National Socialist German Workers' Party was democratically elected by the Weimar Republic; a democratic state established by the Allies after The Great War (WW1).
According to Wikipedia, the Weimar Republic grew out of the November Revolution of 1918, not through any allied imposition.
Just so someone doesn't think this is untrue because you said "According to Wikipedia"...this actually is true.
You mean like in the 2nd world war where the Soviets crushed 3/4 of the Wermacht on the Eastern front before a single boat landed on Normandy's beaches?
I think he meant like in the 2nd world war where the Soviets carved up Poland and the Baltic states in cahoots with Hitler, then came running to the USA for supplies once the Germans invaded.
Or maybe he meant our invasion of North Africa. Or our invasion of Italy. Or all those tens of thousands of bombing runs over Germany. Or the way we propped up the Soviet economy. Or the British, for that matter. All of which happened before June 6, 1944.
No doubt, the Russians took the biggest hit and did the most lifting in their theater. But you make it sound like we sort of got in only around the edges.
And by the way, comrade, you seem to be forgetting about this whole other theater of war in the Pacific...
Our military was the 5th strongest and our airforce was the 3rd strongest. Iran was an awesome nation!.
Sorry, kid, there was no time when the Iranian airforce was the "3rd strongest". The USA and USSR were always #1 and #2, with Britain, France, China, Canada, perhaps Israel vying for #3. There were also a whole mess of Eastern European countries. Iran was never in the running.
You seem to be missing out the part when the US helped overthrow the democratically elected government in 1953 and installed a brutal despot. Nope, nothing to do with how that changed Iranian society at all.
That is such a tired old meme, usually repeated by people who've never read Iranian history. "The US helped overthrow a democratically elected government"...nonsense. The Soviets occupied parts of Iran until 1946. The "democratically elected" (in the crudest sense of the world) Mossadegh was the result of six failed governments, was appointed by the Shah. In return, he deported the Shah, who returned in 1953 with Anglo-American help.
The idea that there was some kind of strong Jeffersonian government in Iran is ridiculous.
Many parts of the world just are not ready for self-government. Iran is one of them.
I'm told on good authority that a few moments before he was struck by this meteorite, he said "EMACS is the best editor and may God strike me down if it isn't!"
Nope. They didn't just print more money for the coupons. The money came from the people that bought licenses for the freed up spectrum. Part of the fees paid for the license were set aside for the converter box program.
And of course, there was nothing else they could have done with the money. Pay down the national debt, pay unemployment, food for the poor, etc. - nyah, we better make sure everyone gets television.
Look: if you want to live in a place without a government, go to Somalia. Me, I'll welcome government programs that do good. And the DTV switchover is without question a good thing in the long run because it makes better use a finite natural resources, the EM spectrum.
Sure, the switchover is fine. But why is the government spending billions (yes, with a B, in the "stimulus package") to give adapters away. It's taking money from person A (via taxes) and using it to pay for person B's entertainment that is being objected to.
Enterprises support IE because it runs ActiveX controls. Until FF does this, it will not appear in desktop builds for the majority of Corporate America.
Actually, what SHOULD happen is that companies need to stop using those old ActiveX controls. Otherwise eventually companies are going to find themselves in a situation where they run one browser and the rest of the world runs something else!
I don't think they'd care. For most companies, the browser is just a UI into various enterprise apps. E.g., instead of having to install a Peoplesoft Win32 executable client, Peoplesoft has a built-in web server and users access PeopleSoft through the intranet. This is extremely common - in fact, it may be the most common way for users to interact with enterprise apps these days. For most desktops, what the rest of the world runs is immaterial - it's whether the browser talks to application X, Y, and Z hosted internally.
'This is ridiculous and slap in the face to long-time loyal iPhone customers like me who switched from T-Mobile and the only reason was the iPhone,' writes one unhappy iPhone customer.
Long-time? Even if you bought an iPhone the day it was released (June 29, 2007), you are not yet at the end of your initial 2-year contract. How "long-time loyal" can you be?
It blows my mind that they could use language like "homosexuality could be a security issue" in this day and age.
Here's the rationale: Let's say you're gay but in the closet. Now I blackmail you for national security secrets...
And yes, same thing if you're an adulterous hetero or a problem gambler or a drug user. The issue isn't being gay per se, it's the societal environment around you. "Could be" probably means that a closeted homosexual is a potential problem, while an openly gay one isn't. In other words, if you have something about yourself that you would want to hide, you're giving others leverage that could be exploited.
I think you got the wrong party there. It's the Democrats (as a party) that are trying to close tax loopholes and are worried about American jobs.
Worried about American jobs? LOL!
Son, they're just a different set of prostitutes sucking a different set of dicks. They don't care any more about the common man than their rivals. They simply have a different marketing campaign to win votes. Behind the scenes, they'd sell the average American out in exchange for cash just as quickly.
Which political party you vote for is perhaps the purest fashion choice you can make. With cars, shoes, clothes, music, etc. one can debate merit, but with politics it's just fashion.
They don't even have to do that, IE8 has a list of incompatible sites which can have updates forced to it through AD. Corporate IT puts the entire intranet zone in that list, pushes it out, and magic, everyone can use IE8 and have it render their broken-ass webpages designed by retarded fucksticks (yes I do have major anger issues against anyone building with IE6 as a target). Individual apps can be checked out by IT and/or adventurous users one by one and moved off the list if it works in IE8 mode.
In keeping with the GP's point, that is still work. A new web browser means testing all in-house apps against it, doing whatever Windowsy thing exists for pushing it out, managing the distribution, cleaning up the installs that fail for whatever reason, etc.
It sounds important to the IT guys. From from the business guys' point of view, it is a nonstarter. Can people still do their jobs without it? Yes. Well then, why spend 1,000 hours of IT time on it? At $50/hour in chargeback, that's - forget it!
Not saying I agree, but that's how managers think.
You're exactly correct. Most large IT shops are still adjusting to the idea that you may have to tweak your server output based on new clients.
Most shops haven't had to do that before...they wrote an app once and while the client might be upgraded periodically, they didn't need to rewrite the server code. This thinking goes back to the mainframe. And by the way, it's completely right - you shouldn't have to change your server output to work with a new client, but thanks to Microsoft, you do with IE. That's outside of the normal flow of corporate thinking/work, which is why IE6 refuses to die.
A GPS and a compass are two different things, with slightly different and complimentary features. A GPS tells you where you are. A compass tells you which direction is north.
No shit, Sherlock.
The parent was pointing out that he thought the iPhone already had a GPS. If you have a GPS, then you also have a compass, because any GPS can compute North. Hence, because he thought the iPhone had a GPS, he didn't understand why they were "adding" a compass.
We all know what the difference is between a GPS and a compass.
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We have 1 of three possible scenarios: 1) The Green Dam developers have fully reverse engineered Cybersitter to the point they can reuse pre-compiled binaries and snippets of code required to call them. 2) Cybersitter's development network has been thoroughly compromized to the point that the Chinese Green Dam developers have fully plagurized another companies proprietary code. 3) Cybersitter has contributed to the development of the Chinese Green Dam and was therefore paid for their effort.
I think the most likely scenario is that someone walked out of Cybersitter, Inc. with a thumb drive full of code. I guess you could call that (2), but I think it's more likely that a contractor (or even offshore development team) pinched the code via copy than a team of black hats in Hunan broke into Cybersitter's servers.
By the way, you might find google's toolbar, which spellchecks, helpful before you compromize and plagurize more posts ;-)
What you say is often, but not exclusively, true. The main reason people buy SPARC:
I agree that in many cases, proprietary kit is overpriced and unnecessary. Which is why it's on the decline...
We should condemn Iranian culture and its people.
Maybe it's not "Iranian culture" as much as "Islamic culture".
I suspect as much, given that there is not a country on the planet with an Islamic majority and functioning democracy (and no, Turkey does not qualify).
According to Wikipedia, the Weimar Republic grew out of the November Revolution of 1918, not through any allied imposition.
Just so someone doesn't think this is untrue because you said "According to Wikipedia"...this actually is true.
You mean like in the 2nd world war where the Soviets crushed 3/4 of the Wermacht on the Eastern front before a single boat landed on Normandy's beaches?
I think he meant like in the 2nd world war where the Soviets carved up Poland and the Baltic states in cahoots with Hitler, then came running to the USA for supplies once the Germans invaded.
Or maybe he meant our invasion of North Africa. Or our invasion of Italy. Or all those tens of thousands of bombing runs over Germany. Or the way we propped up the Soviet economy. Or the British, for that matter. All of which happened before June 6, 1944.
No doubt, the Russians took the biggest hit and did the most lifting in their theater. But you make it sound like we sort of got in only around the edges.
And by the way, comrade, you seem to be forgetting about this whole other theater of war in the Pacific...
Our military was the 5th strongest and our airforce was the 3rd strongest. Iran was an awesome nation!.
Sorry, kid, there was no time when the Iranian airforce was the "3rd strongest". The USA and USSR were always #1 and #2, with Britain, France, China, Canada, perhaps Israel vying for #3. There were also a whole mess of Eastern European countries. Iran was never in the running.
The purpose of all governments, is to fool or force the majority into helping the leaders, to the detriment of the majority.
Yawn. Wake me up when the Pretentious Pseudophilosopher's Wanking Club meeting is over.
You seem to be missing out the part when the US helped overthrow the democratically elected government in 1953 and installed a brutal despot. Nope, nothing to do with how that changed Iranian society at all.
That is such a tired old meme, usually repeated by people who've never read Iranian history. "The US helped overthrow a democratically elected government"...nonsense. The Soviets occupied parts of Iran until 1946. The "democratically elected" (in the crudest sense of the world) Mossadegh was the result of six failed governments, was appointed by the Shah. In return, he deported the Shah, who returned in 1953 with Anglo-American help.
The idea that there was some kind of strong Jeffersonian government in Iran is ridiculous.
Many parts of the world just are not ready for self-government. Iran is one of them.
I'm told on good authority that a few moments before he was struck by this meteorite, he said "EMACS is the best editor and may God strike me down if it isn't!"
Let us all take note.
and the checks I was writing to my attorney.
Defending yourself against a felony charge would likely bankrupt most people.
Nope. They didn't just print more money for the coupons. The money came from the people that bought licenses for the freed up spectrum. Part of the fees paid for the license were set aside for the converter box program.
And of course, there was nothing else they could have done with the money. Pay down the national debt, pay unemployment, food for the poor, etc. - nyah, we better make sure everyone gets television.
Look: if you want to live in a place without a government, go to Somalia. Me, I'll welcome government programs that do good. And the DTV switchover is without question a good thing in the long run because it makes better use a finite natural resources, the EM spectrum.
Sure, the switchover is fine. But why is the government spending billions (yes, with a B, in the "stimulus package") to give adapters away. It's taking money from person A (via taxes) and using it to pay for person B's entertainment that is being objected to.
That's not a problem with homosexuality, that's a problem with American social tension
Yes. But so what? Security agencies have to operate in the "way things are" world, not the "way we would like things to be" world.
Actually, what SHOULD happen is that companies need to stop using those old ActiveX controls. Otherwise eventually companies are going to find themselves in a situation where they run one browser and the rest of the world runs something else!
I don't think they'd care. For most companies, the browser is just a UI into various enterprise apps. E.g., instead of having to install a Peoplesoft Win32 executable client, Peoplesoft has a built-in web server and users access PeopleSoft through the intranet. This is extremely common - in fact, it may be the most common way for users to interact with enterprise apps these days. For most desktops, what the rest of the world runs is immaterial - it's whether the browser talks to application X, Y, and Z hosted internally.
'This is ridiculous and slap in the face to long-time loyal iPhone customers like me who switched from T-Mobile and the only reason was the iPhone,' writes one unhappy iPhone customer.
Long-time? Even if you bought an iPhone the day it was released (June 29, 2007), you are not yet at the end of your initial 2-year contract. How "long-time loyal" can you be?
Yep, gotta cut science, engineering and exploration from the budget so we can use the money to fund GM and Chrysler....
Fixed it for you.
According to TFA, he plans to get a 4 year degree after taking 6-12 months off, though he doesn't specify a major.
That a boy...go to college on the six year plan just like real twentysomethings.
If Gore were elected in 2000 instead of Bush, I think everyone agrees that the country would not be as messed up right now as it is.
I would answer your question, but I'm just too stunned by the breadth of your research facilities to speak.
It blows my mind that they could use language like "homosexuality could be a security issue" in this day and age.
Here's the rationale: Let's say you're gay but in the closet. Now I blackmail you for national security secrets...
And yes, same thing if you're an adulterous hetero or a problem gambler or a drug user. The issue isn't being gay per se, it's the societal environment around you. "Could be" probably means that a closeted homosexual is a potential problem, while an openly gay one isn't. In other words, if you have something about yourself that you would want to hide, you're giving others leverage that could be exploited.
And where is the latest SCOTUS nominee from? The 2nd Circuit. Gee, great.
The 2nd and the 9th are the wackiest circuits. Not surprisingly, they represent California and New York, respectively.
Sorry, but no. Federal employees do have rights, as the court has ruled. If the matter were settled, it wouldn't have ruled that way, would it?
I see you're unfamiliar with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Those loons are usually in a completely separate orbit from reason.
I think you got the wrong party there. It's the Democrats (as a party) that are trying to close tax loopholes and are worried about American jobs.
Worried about American jobs? LOL!
Son, they're just a different set of prostitutes sucking a different set of dicks. They don't care any more about the common man than their rivals. They simply have a different marketing campaign to win votes. Behind the scenes, they'd sell the average American out in exchange for cash just as quickly.
Which political party you vote for is perhaps the purest fashion choice you can make. With cars, shoes, clothes, music, etc. one can debate merit, but with politics it's just fashion.
They don't even have to do that, IE8 has a list of incompatible sites which can have updates forced to it through AD. Corporate IT puts the entire intranet zone in that list, pushes it out, and magic, everyone can use IE8 and have it render their broken-ass webpages designed by retarded fucksticks (yes I do have major anger issues against anyone building with IE6 as a target). Individual apps can be checked out by IT and/or adventurous users one by one and moved off the list if it works in IE8 mode.
In keeping with the GP's point, that is still work. A new web browser means testing all in-house apps against it, doing whatever Windowsy thing exists for pushing it out, managing the distribution, cleaning up the installs that fail for whatever reason, etc.
It sounds important to the IT guys. From from the business guys' point of view, it is a nonstarter. Can people still do their jobs without it? Yes. Well then, why spend 1,000 hours of IT time on it? At $50/hour in chargeback, that's - forget it!
Not saying I agree, but that's how managers think.
You're exactly correct. Most large IT shops are still adjusting to the idea that you may have to tweak your server output based on new clients. Most shops haven't had to do that before...they wrote an app once and while the client might be upgraded periodically, they didn't need to rewrite the server code. This thinking goes back to the mainframe. And by the way, it's completely right - you shouldn't have to change your server output to work with a new client, but thanks to Microsoft, you do with IE. That's outside of the normal flow of corporate thinking/work, which is why IE6 refuses to die.
...it had a GPS (thus making a compas possible).
A GPS and a compass are two different things, with slightly different and complimentary features. A GPS tells you where you are. A compass tells you which direction is north.
No shit, Sherlock.
The parent was pointing out that he thought the iPhone already had a GPS. If you have a GPS, then you also have a compass, because any GPS can compute North. Hence, because he thought the iPhone had a GPS, he didn't understand why they were "adding" a compass.
We all know what the difference is between a GPS and a compass.