But most people would be in the logic of "I already have XP, I'll wait the extra month to get Vista and probably a better run for my money hardware-wise too" so I'm not sure its going to help them out anyway.
This is possibly a good thing (tm). Lets stop being so cocky about Firefox, and admit that IE is good too. And lets get a 4-5 browser market out there; this will lessen the impact of a vulnerability on any one of them, and encourage competition between them.
Doesn't resolve the fundamental problem of a hole in the core API.
However, agreed that the open source model provides two advantages:
- quicker fixes to such problems (with X vendors concerned, even without community support this will be FAST
- not necessarily the same APIs everywhere; let crackers crack 5% of the market. Wahey, wahoo! Anyone is going to be more motivated if they can take out 80% of the market. This is true in nature; diversity lives longest.
forcing Microsoft to stop doing business in member states as long as they remain noncompliant
Well, effectively removing any profit from MS on the EU market (can't see them making much more than 2 Million a day) is effectively the same is it not? Reducing the EU market to "not interesting" for MS. MS has the choice of clearing the market (Shiaaa right! And monkeys might fly out of my butt!), losing 2.3 M per day, or complying with existing legislation.
The EU can of course not ban MS from the market, because
1. this would put all the employees on the dole
2. MS could effectively declare void any present contracts, including maintenace, which would be more harmful to MS customers than MS themselves
3. Let's face it; 800 million a year revenue for the EU is good money!
1. They stick a MS logo on the product. Once this logo is on the product, MS is in the same boat as OEMs over product quality. If the driver is no good, why do MS accept the cash that OEMs pay for this log... oops. 2. Do OEMs have the access to MS internals that are required to develop good drivers? 3. Can MS not in some way improve the OS driver platform to ease good driver development?
If MS wants a good end-user experience, and at the same time allow for a plethora of hardware, it is up to them to ensure these objectives are compatible.
IIRC, RedHat & co do not sell server solutions on any old hardware, so when you buy this from them, you can expect hardware to work.
Swedes have a lot of extraordinary qualities, but they are not (compared to say the Brits) a hugely funny people. Which is not the same as not having a sense on humour: Swedes are huge fans of humour, they're just not very good at making it themselves.
There's globalisation for you: export trucks and import humour.
You are forgetting that the function f(t) is only defined in the interval
Tset < t < Tnec
where Tset = time of start of elected term and Tnec = time of next election campaign. Thus every 4 or so years (depending on local legislation) you have a singularity where nothing happens (a.k.a. campaign) followed by a different curve depending on the outcome of aforementioned campaign.
You'd definately need to incorporate some probability density function on election outcome into the equation.
Any country using Diebold voting machines can consider f(t) to be continuous without interval restrictions.
Never mind that porn is as old as the human species
Yes but then it was basic drawings of firtility godesses, bless them the poor pagans. Colors wrong and all. AND they didn't have google to look up other drawings!
Slashdot Mirror
m2 of what?
I'd rather search for CO2 in a volume , not on an area.
But most people would be in the logic of "I already have XP, I'll wait the extra month to get Vista and probably a better run for my money hardware-wise too" so I'm not sure its going to help them out anyway.
Do the specs state that one needs at least one friend or family member? A schizophrene with 2 computers is absolute minimum.
I blame the texas accent.
You would also have discovered that there is a prototype that has been displaying the same page for 3 years.
That's exactly why you need screensavers!
This is possibly a good thing (tm). Lets stop being so cocky about Firefox, and admit that IE is good too. And lets get a 4-5 browser market out there; this will lessen the impact of a vulnerability on any one of them, and encourage competition between them.
The multi-player or RPG versions of that are my favourite.
Doesn't resolve the fundamental problem of a hole in the core API.
However, agreed that the open source model provides two advantages:
- quicker fixes to such problems (with X vendors concerned, even without community support this will be FAST
- not necessarily the same APIs everywhere; let crackers crack 5% of the market. Wahey, wahoo! Anyone is going to be more motivated if they can take out 80% of the market. This is true in nature; diversity lives longest.
I am very glad your personal experience differs from mine and that you express such divergences with tact, grace, maturity and wit.
Darn. Did it again. Surfing the net, typing letters, playing some games, watching videos, and the darned thing isn't even turned on!
How silly of me.
Sheesh I must be getting old! I understood sentences 1 and 4 in that!
Question : will it do gvim OK?
You don't use them right?
Give credit where credit due; XP doesn't crash often. But, linux box at home doesn't crash ever.
and your first born for an eye
:)
This is slashdot, not somewhere where people who reproduce go, you insensitive clod!
forcing Microsoft to stop doing business in member states as long as they remain noncompliant
Well, effectively removing any profit from MS on the EU market (can't see them making much more than 2 Million a day) is effectively the same is it not? Reducing the EU market to "not interesting" for MS. MS has the choice of clearing the market (Shiaaa right! And monkeys might fly out of my butt!), losing 2.3 M per day, or complying with existing legislation.
The EU can of course not ban MS from the market, because
1. this would put all the employees on the dole
2. MS could effectively declare void any present contracts, including maintenace, which would be more harmful to MS customers than MS themselves
3. Let's face it; 800 million a year revenue for the EU is good money!
Can anyone compare US vs Europe?
I never have any problems in Lyon (underground), rarely (once-twice a year) even in very rural areas.
Will it keep track of all the cleavages I oogle at? I for one won't be letting my wife near the recordings...
You can not assume that every 18+ male is a pervert.
:)
Ehm... yes you can.
You can't assume that every 18+ male is a rapist. Subtle difference, but us perverts are touchy on the details
Can I sue Victorias Secrets for making panties that encourage sexual arousal and thereby rape too?
Wouldn't copylefting it be better?
1. They stick a MS logo on the product. Once this logo is on the product, MS is in the same boat as OEMs over product quality. If the driver is no good, why do MS accept the cash that OEMs pay for this log... oops.
2. Do OEMs have the access to MS internals that are required to develop good drivers?
3. Can MS not in some way improve the OS driver platform to ease good driver development?
If MS wants a good end-user experience, and at the same time allow for a plethora of hardware, it is up to them to ensure these objectives are compatible.
IIRC, RedHat & co do not sell server solutions on any old hardware, so when you buy this from them, you can expect hardware to work.
Swedes have a lot of extraordinary qualities, but they are not (compared to say the Brits) a hugely funny people. Which is not the same as not having a sense on humour: Swedes are huge fans of humour, they're just not very good at making it themselves.
There's globalisation for you: export trucks and import humour.
Disclaimer: I'm Swedish myself
You'd definately need to incorporate some probability density function on election outcome into the equation.
Any country using Diebold voting machines can consider f(t) to be continuous without interval restrictions.
Never mind that porn is as old as the human species
Yes but then it was basic drawings of firtility godesses, bless them the poor pagans. Colors wrong and all. AND they didn't have google to look up other drawings!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_goddess
kind of like:
get-objects -class | while read day dow hour ms min mo qu se wim yr
do
echo "Day: " $day
echo "Day Of Week: " $dow
echo "Hour: " $hour
echo "Milliseconds: " $ms
echo "Minute: " $min
echo "Month: " $mo
echo "Quarter: " $qu
echo "Second: " $se
echo "Week In Month: " $wim
echo "Year: " $yr
echo ""
done
Yeah, I followed the link to the article only because I thought there would be nekkid people.