By selecting a sutable font size (big), you will be able to see quite wel on any resolution.
I know of managers you dumpt there beautiful portable for a less nice one because of the resolution that was set too high. Not thinking they could change the font size too.
Unless the operating system is designed to refuse to run unless TCPA is enabled.
Big deal. You can still choose not to use it! I haven't used windows at home since quite a while now. At work I have little choice, but there DRM is less of a problem (the system manager is the problem, even legal stuff is illegal in his eyes).
The only real problem would be if it couldn't be switched off at all.
Even then, I wouldn't be too worried. Somebody will figure out a way to disable it
Viruses have never had to corrupt/attack the BIOS before to get in to the system. I get the feeling this would be far to cumbersum to do. What would be the point ? The OS is easier to attack as it has far more entry points.
So what is actually the point in securing the BIOS in this way ? The only virus this system would prevent is the boot block virus (great!).
OSes now a day are so complex that there is just _NO_ way to have them 100% secure without constant (daily) updates. MS isn't about to offer that, so why are they promoting this ?
No, this is not, and has never been, meant to protect the user agains viruses/crackers.
I suspect they would not allow you to actually reconfigure the GPS.
imagine:
gov : OK, this is the gps. Please put it on your dash board. No, please don't press that big Green OFF button! and don't touch the big Yellow 'Enable Simulator Mode' button either. And will you please remember to replace the batteries every day ? At the end of the month please drop it off at your local taxation office.
the computer denied the pilot's command to go to full throttle !
The story went mostly like you said, full throttle would not have worked in that position. And so the computer (programmers) aware of the danger would not apply full power to the plane, even though the pilot asked for it.
Why is somebody building humonguous drives that can store more data than a small to average business will generate in its entire corporate lifetime?
This sounds a lot like: "640K is more than anybody would ever need".
The need to store information is growing. The biggest data requirement for the public is probably 2D movies. Nobody can as yet display 3D movies correctly, but imagine if somebody would manage that, and we had only floppies to store the data.
Indeed, and also if anybody's patent happen to have a prior art, they should be VERY heavely fined for not finding it them selfs and for wasting the time of the patent office.
The reason we are doing this is because the only law that applies is the law of the jungle. Not some fancy moralistic feeling of superiority. I know many people claim humanity to be superior somehow, but even if that where the case, it does not apply here.
the fact remain: the Tsee-tsee fly kills humans (actually the parasite inside it). So to protect itself, humans try to kill the tsee-tsee fly (and thus the parasite).
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I dont particularly care of they go for NetBSD or Linux.
Both are better than SCO.
I've been wondering about this too. This is usually how I present it too others when this discusion crops up.
Some of it must have come through, as their stock dropped quite a bit when IBM sued.
Don't know how the stock stands now though.
By selecting a sutable font size (big), you will be able to see quite wel on any resolution.
I know of managers you dumpt there beautiful portable for a less nice one because of the resolution that was set too high. Not thinking they could change the font size too.
And yet they didn't do the job.
Hopefully this will backfire on them, as other businesses requiring a cd duplication will now go somewhere else.
cost maybe ?
mmh, mumble, mumble, Ah yes : 25.3 micro peanuts (with an error of 2.9 nano peanuts)
This means the earth will still be rotating until after the sun goes nova! (pffff)
Shit! is Slashdot really going the way of the sensationalism I so despise in so many newspapers who are out of real news ?
yuk!
Ah yes, I thought as much. But can they do so retroactively ?
I mean, as a member they granted all necessary patent licences to OpenGL ARB. Can they invalidate those licences after pulling out ?
Or would they only sue on new stuff (not yet licenced)?
Unless the operating system is designed to refuse to run unless TCPA is enabled.
Big deal. You can still choose not to use it! I haven't used windows at home since quite a while now. At work I have little choice, but there DRM is less of a problem (the system manager is the problem, even legal stuff is illegal in his eyes).
The only real problem would be if it couldn't be switched off at all.
Even then, I wouldn't be too worried. Somebody will figure out a way to disable it
Of course it cannot be the bloody DMCS's fault! Only the person (if you can call a bunch of lawers people) who wrote the piece of shit can be blamed.
But that's the only reason! If it hadn't been written in the first place it would never have been invoqued.
Viruses have never had to corrupt/attack the BIOS before to get in to the system. I get the feeling this would be far to cumbersum to do. What would be the point ? The OS is easier to attack as it has far more entry points.
So what is actually the point in securing the BIOS in this way ? The only virus this system would prevent is the boot block virus (great!).
OSes now a day are so complex that there is just _NO_ way to have them 100% secure without constant (daily) updates.
MS isn't about to offer that, so why are they promoting this ?
No, this is not, and has never been, meant to protect the user agains viruses/crackers.
I suspect they would not allow you to actually reconfigure the GPS.
:
imagine
gov : OK, this is the gps. Please put it on your dash board. No, please don't press that big Green OFF button! and don't touch the big Yellow 'Enable Simulator Mode' button either. And will you please remember to replace the batteries every day ? At the end of the month please drop it off at your local taxation office.
Thank you.
Usualy, when something sounds too good to be true...
... then it is.
I'm facinated by the idea though.
As many of you C-ers out there are aware, a semicolon following a for() statement will not execute the subsequent code block in the loop!
I hope you're not into programing anymore.
for (...;...;...);
statement;
will actually execute statement; once!
I seem to remember the opposite :
the computer denied the pilot's command to go to full throttle !
The story went mostly like you said, full throttle would not have worked in that position. And so the computer (programmers) aware of the danger would not apply full power to the plane, even though the pilot asked for it.
journalists aren't always very carefull about the numbers in their stories.
wouldn't 3 times the solar system be about 17 light hours ?
Which happen to be the size ot the orbit of the star they were tracking.
not the size of the black hole.
I'm not smart enough to be able to verify this info, but have a look here :
s ag es4/59.html
http://superstringtheory.com/forum/eluboard/mes
Chers,
Security is so tight here, that the only way to exchange data (that is not text) that everybody ends up using is the floppy drive.
My company would stop functioning if it wasn't for the floppy drive.
Yea, but circumventing the patent would show you agree with their ridiculous claim.
And I don't think that's a good idea.
Why is somebody building humonguous drives that can store more data than a small to average business will generate in its entire corporate lifetime?
This sounds a lot like: "640K is more than anybody would ever need".
The need to store information is growing. The biggest data requirement for the public is probably 2D movies. Nobody can as yet display 3D movies correctly, but imagine if somebody would manage that, and we had only floppies to store the data.
This should stop a few opportunists.
The agricultural industry has never used radiation to produce mutations.
Too random, no control. They use selection or gene grafting.
I agree about your last statement though, that this is much better than pesticide.
The reason we are doing this is because the only law that applies is the law of the jungle. Not some fancy moralistic feeling of superiority.
I know many people claim humanity to be superior somehow, but even if that where the case, it does not apply here.
the fact remain: the Tsee-tsee fly kills humans (actually the parasite inside it). So to protect itself, humans try to kill the tsee-tsee fly (and thus the parasite).
That is the law of the jungle.
Mutations happen all the time anyway (nature does that just as wel as we do).
Radiation just adds the extra bonus that survivabily is trimed down.
Indeed, there is no reason Aussies should be the only ones having fun with the cane toads !!