Out of interest, are you against gay-marriage, against abortions, and stuff like that?
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I think you misunderstand how this works.
A manufacturer wouldn't release a motherboard that doesn't work under Windows, and then wait for Microsoft to find a work around. I can't imagine how you think that would work.
What happens is that Windows has a very buggy ACPI implementation, and so motherboard manufacturers simply make sure that their motherboard works with Windows. They hack at it until it works. The result is that works in Windows but doesn't work in Linux.
It is the same for IE. And yes, I do think Microsoft should be forced to document the behaviour of all the bugs in IE. In the past they've put some pretty horrible bugs in IE on purpose. The worst offence imho was breaking the tcp/ip protocol to make IE slow when connecting to Apache just so that they would win in benchmarks.
And malware can't just set the apple logo to be the logo on the dialog as well?
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What does Vista do differently? It doesn't sound like a bug that being able to 'sudo' can mean that you can become root...
Can you give an example of what Administrator wouldn't be allowed to do, but what SYSTEM would be allowed to do?
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Well then you have to study every piece of hardware that comes out.
But if you can replicate what windows does, bug for bug, then you would potentially work for every piece of hardware.
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I know you joke, but on average he merges four code bases (patches) per day. That is not trivial by any measure.
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Because it's a lot harder to do. Instead of following a spec, you now have to reverse engineer Windows and replicate its exact functionality, bug for bug.
How do you avoid overspending if you initially think it will cost $4 billion but then as you learn more you realise it will cost at least $12 billion ? You can't just cut a few corners to get the cost back down to $4 billion.
In this case it was more like the worked on project A for a few years, then project A was projected to go seriously over budget. Then project B, C, D, E, F, G and H came along and could _all_ be done for less money than project A with enough change left over to help find project X done by the europeans which is very similar to project A.
Btw I am a theoretical particle physicist, but I have to say that wall street _is_ more important than science. We all rely on the banking system working. The most direct link being that students are no longer able to get loans for university. So if this goes on, university funding will dry up, preventing research.
Are you serious about the american supercolider? It was only proposed because they wanted to show superiority over the Europeans. It's projected cost went from $4 billion up to $12 billion by the time it was cancelled.
The Americans did a very smart thing in cancelling the project and donating money to the LHC instead. Working with the Europeans instead of against.
I hate to be 'that' guy, but E=mc^2 means that energy _is_ mass. It's not about converting.
Matter is one form of energy, kinetic energy is another form of energy, potential energy is another form of energy and so on.
All these forms of energy has gravitational and inertia mass. If you heat something up (give it thermal energy) it becomes heavier (gains mass). If you raise something off the ground, you take away energy (gravitational potential is usually taken to be negative) and so that system loses gravitational and inertial mass.
Interesting the mass of the earth-moon system gravitational potential energy is of the order of billions of tons. The gravitational potential energy of just the earth is -2.7 trillion metric tons.
They could put the engine under the GPL or similar? That way they gets lots of fan mods, but companies would still have to pay to use the engine for a proprietary game.
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> (or with zero-memory-copy, wich can be achieved by the kernel easily)
The protocol supports shared memory when running locally, so the pixmaps are not copied.
1) 20 picoseconds is a half life (so it has a 50% chance of decaying every 20 picoseconds).
2) Time slows down for a fast moving particle. This was one of the first pieces of evidence for special relativity:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Relativ/muon.html
Your math is way off. Using google:
(20 picoseconds) * c = 0.599584916 centimeters
Given that
1) 20 picoseconds is a half-life
2) Time slows down for the muons.
It's not surprising that they travelled about 1cm.
Thanks!
Do you have any details on that?
You can buy support from Redhat as well
> Most said something along the lines of "JavaScript is a stripped-down version of Java for Web browsers."
What's wrong with that answer? Javascript was designed specifically to:
1) Have a similar syntax to java
2) Be a light scripting language
Firefox 3 even runs javascript JIT, just like java.
> Unless OH SH-
Negatively charged sulfuric acid? Ouch.
Wait .. the liberal view is _against_ globalization? When did this happen? WHY DID NOONE SEND ME A MEMO!
Out of interest, are you against gay-marriage, against abortions, and stuff like that?
I think you misunderstand how this works.
A manufacturer wouldn't release a motherboard that doesn't work under Windows, and then wait for Microsoft to find a work around. I can't imagine how you think that would work.
What happens is that Windows has a very buggy ACPI implementation, and so motherboard manufacturers simply make sure that their motherboard works with Windows. They hack at it until it works. The result is that works in Windows but doesn't work in Linux.
It is the same for IE. And yes, I do think Microsoft should be forced to document the behaviour of all the bugs in IE. In the past they've put some pretty horrible bugs in IE on purpose. The worst offence imho was breaking the tcp/ip protocol to make IE slow when connecting to Apache just so that they would win in benchmarks.
Right, but that doesn't make your comment any less invalid
And malware can't just set the apple logo to be the logo on the dialog as well?
What does Vista do differently? It doesn't sound like a bug that being able to 'sudo' can mean that you can become root...
Can you give an example of what Administrator wouldn't be allowed to do, but what SYSTEM would be allowed to do?
Well then you have to study every piece of hardware that comes out.
But if you can replicate what windows does, bug for bug, then you would potentially work for every piece of hardware.
I know you joke, but on average he merges four code bases (patches) per day. That is not trivial by any measure.
Because it's a lot harder to do. Instead of following a spec, you now have to reverse engineer Windows and replicate its exact functionality, bug for bug.
Opps, of course.
> Ii, ii, Ii and II (I=higher intelligence, i=lower intelligence)
If 'I' is recessive, then only 'II' has a high IQ. That's a 1/4 chance.
How do you avoid overspending if you initially think it will cost $4 billion but then as you learn more you realise it will cost at least $12 billion ? You can't just cut a few corners to get the cost back down to $4 billion.
In this case it was more like the worked on project A for a few years, then project A was projected to go seriously over budget. Then project B, C, D, E, F, G and H came along and could _all_ be done for less money than project A with enough change left over to help find project X done by the europeans which is very similar to project A.
Btw I am a theoretical particle physicist, but I have to say that wall street _is_ more important than science. We all rely on the banking system working. The most direct link being that students are no longer able to get loans for university. So if this goes on, university funding will dry up, preventing research.
Are you serious about the american supercolider? It was only proposed because they wanted to show superiority over the Europeans. It's projected cost went from $4 billion up to $12 billion by the time it was cancelled.
The Americans did a very smart thing in cancelling the project and donating money to the LHC instead. Working with the Europeans instead of against.
I'm sure that they could have screwed up Ubuntu too in the same way :)
Didn't someone else mention that that screen ASKING whether to download the additional content was added because people complained?
I hate to be 'that' guy, but E=mc^2 means that energy _is_ mass. It's not about converting.
Matter is one form of energy, kinetic energy is another form of energy, potential energy is another form of energy and so on.
All these forms of energy has gravitational and inertia mass. If you heat something up (give it thermal energy) it becomes heavier (gains mass). If you raise something off the ground, you take away energy (gravitational potential is usually taken to be negative) and so that system loses gravitational and inertial mass.
Interesting the mass of the earth-moon system gravitational potential energy is of the order of billions of tons. The gravitational potential energy of just the earth is -2.7 trillion metric tons.
They could put the engine under the GPL or similar? That way they gets lots of fan mods, but companies would still have to pay to use the engine for a proprietary game.