That's how foreign aid mostly works. There's another trick, which is to put the aid in the form of loans. The third world country cannot afford to pay back the loans, so it remains in debt and under substantial control by first world countries (possibly indirectly through the IMF or World Bank) indefinitely.
That's simply not true. MS knows that business customers will resist upgrades that break applications. They go to great lengths to keep badly-written applications running. I know that MS has made deliberate decisions in the past to make the OS incompatible with software that competed with another MS product, but that's unusual. (The only examples I can think of are MS-DOS 2.0 vs Lotus 1-2-3 and Windows 3.1 (beta) vs DR-DOS. The latter incompatibility was somewhat justified in the fact that Windows needed to tweak the internals of DOS, but the way Windows reported it was extremely deceptive.)
No, they aren't. Word doesn't use formatting codes. It associates property bags with pieces of text (and other inline items, I assume). The properties are not ordered along with the text, like codes are in WordPerfect (and maybe OOWriter - I don't know). I suppose it is possible to display property differences as if they were formatting codes at the boundaries between pieces of text, but it would be impractical to make them editable because adding one formatting code could affect all property bags up to the end of the document. This model can't very well be changed because it is exposed to macros and add-ins.
Tell me about it. I wrote a simple script to munge a log file, extract some figures from it, and put them into a CSV file. I was intending to graph those figures with Excel. (GD or GNUplot would probably do a better job, but I was in a hurry and wanted to use the tools I'm already familiar with.) Since I was going through a log file it seemed to make more sense to generate one row for each time period, but that resulted in about 300 columns and I couldn't load the file into Excel. As it happened I could safely combine some of the columns and so reduce the number under the limit, but I don't see why I should have to.
Word and Excel are old applications creaking at the seams and user interface improvements can never quite hide that.
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The Berne Conventions don't specify consistent copyright periods. The most important things they specify are (a) copyright is automatic upon creation (contrary to old US copyright law) and (b) signatories will recognise and give equal protection to copyrights held by persons from other signatory countries as to copyrights held by their own people and corporations.
I disagree. Windows Me was that transition between 98SE which was released in 1999 and Windows XP release in 2001. Windows 2000 was not intended to be a home consumer OS so I won't count that.
As I understand it, Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) was originally intended to be suitable for home use as well. However, waiting for the necessary work on application compatibility and ease-of-use to be complete would have put 2000 further behind schedule, so that was put off to Windows XP (NT 5.1). Windows Me was just a stopgap.
For the rest: the Amiga had a graphics library layer that talked directly to the hardware. On top of that was built the "Layers" library which does what Gosling is talking about.
The implementation of clipping is built into the low-level graphics library. The layers library is just used for setting up and maintaining the layer and clip list information, if I rememebr correctly
Also, the Amiga used a single
message port to communicate with the application.
Actually, by default it allocated one message port per window. It is possible to share ports between windows, but it's a bit of a hack (albeit one that was officially documented and supported). See the CloseWindowSafely.c source file for the messy details.
If there's an issue with the IP stack then the firewall won't help you because the firewall is part of the IP stack! However I do see that a firewall is useful to restrict applications that can't be configured not to listen on certain interfaces.
"Steal" is used here to mean moving stealthily, as in the baseball term "stealing a base". (I believe the words steal and stealth have the same origin.)
I am waiting for the geeks to slap a programmable GUI onto it. I know there are several that I can mention here, but none comes even half close to what M$'s Jet engine has with Access.
There is no technical link between Access and Jet; they are just bundled together. You can use Access with pretty much any ODBC data source including PostgreSQL.
When that is done, business logic can be programmed at form level
Thast being said the pentium 5 is in works, and it will run between 6-10 ghz and absolutely smoke everything the opteron can do, except asm code.
The design intended to become the Pentium 5 (Tejas) was cancelled in favour of Pentium M derivatives. Intel basically had to give up on the Netburst micro-architecture and is now concentrating on increased parallelism (multiple cores) rather than extreme clock rates.
Under the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004, a computer used to receive TV broadcasts over the Internet is a TV receiver and requires a licence. However, this doesn't apply to receiving video on demand, which is what the BBC currently provides. Also the definition of TV set does not include general purpose computers so purchase of a computer does not have to be notified by the retailer to TV Licensing.
You have misunderstood. AIM on Windows registers a protocol handler so that it's possible to run various AIM commands by opening URLs beginning with "aim:". One of those commands is "goaway" which sets the status to Away and sets a message. The code that implements the command doesn't check the length of the message in the URL. Frankly I think it's a large security and privacy risk to register such a protocol handler in the first place.
I am the "parent poster". The weakness in democracy I see is not that two institutions would have to agree on legislation, which I see can be a good thing, but that in this case one of those two institutions is far removed from democratic control. (There is perhaps an interesting parallel with the original set-up of the US Senate which I believe was elected by state legislatures. I have no idea how well that worked.)
The House and the Senate are both made up of elected members, though. EU commissioners are appointed by national goverments and appear to be mainly politicians who are no longer popular at home but happen to be friends of their party leader (vide Peter Mandelson). They seem to have very little accountability. Yet the Commission has more power than the Parliament.
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That's how foreign aid mostly works. There's another trick, which is to put the aid in the form of loans. The third world country cannot afford to pay back the loans, so it remains in debt and under substantial control by first world countries (possibly indirectly through the IMF or World Bank) indefinitely.
That's simply not true. MS knows that business customers will resist upgrades that break applications. They go to great lengths to keep badly-written applications running. I know that MS has made deliberate decisions in the past to make the OS incompatible with software that competed with another MS product, but that's unusual. (The only examples I can think of are MS-DOS 2.0 vs Lotus 1-2-3 and Windows 3.1 (beta) vs DR-DOS. The latter incompatibility was somewhat justified in the fact that Windows needed to tweak the internals of DOS, but the way Windows reported it was extremely deceptive.)
No, they aren't. Word doesn't use formatting codes. It associates property bags with pieces of text (and other inline items, I assume). The properties are not ordered along with the text, like codes are in WordPerfect (and maybe OOWriter - I don't know). I suppose it is possible to display property differences as if they were formatting codes at the boundaries between pieces of text, but it would be impractical to make them editable because adding one formatting code could affect all property bags up to the end of the document. This model can't very well be changed because it is exposed to macros and add-ins.
Tell me about it. I wrote a simple script to munge a log file, extract some figures from it, and put them into a CSV file. I was intending to graph those figures with Excel. (GD or GNUplot would probably do a better job, but I was in a hurry and wanted to use the tools I'm already familiar with.) Since I was going through a log file it seemed to make more sense to generate one row for each time period, but that resulted in about 300 columns and I couldn't load the file into Excel. As it happened I could safely combine some of the columns and so reduce the number under the limit, but I don't see why I should have to.
Word and Excel are old applications creaking at the seams and user interface improvements can never quite hide that.
The Berne Conventions don't specify consistent copyright periods. The most important things they specify are (a) copyright is automatic upon creation (contrary to old US copyright law) and (b) signatories will recognise and give equal protection to copyrights held by persons from other signatory countries as to copyrights held by their own people and corporations.
As I understand it, Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) was originally intended to be suitable for home use as well. However, waiting for the necessary work on application compatibility and ease-of-use to be complete would have put 2000 further behind schedule, so that was put off to Windows XP (NT 5.1). Windows Me was just a stopgap.
Not harm, ham. Non-spam.
The implementation of clipping is built into the low-level graphics library. The layers library is just used for setting up and maintaining the layer and clip list information, if I rememebr correctly
Actually, by default it allocated one message port per window. It is possible to share ports between windows, but it's a bit of a hack (albeit one that was officially documented and supported). See the CloseWindowSafely.c source file for the messy details.
The RIAA doesn't sue. Its members do.
Was there any ham?
Where are you going to get security updates for your 5-year-old version of Linux? Unless it's Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you're probably not.
If there's an issue with the IP stack then the firewall won't help you because the firewall is part of the IP stack! However I do see that a firewall is useful to restrict applications that can't be configured not to listen on certain interfaces.
"Steal" is used here to mean moving stealthily, as in the baseball term "stealing a base". (I believe the words steal and stealth have the same origin.)
That's an extremely optimistic view. I really don't think farmers are that mobile.
There is no technical link between Access and Jet; they are just bundled together. You can use Access with pretty much any ODBC data source including PostgreSQL.
Not a great idea.
The design intended to become the Pentium 5 (Tejas) was cancelled in favour of Pentium M derivatives. Intel basically had to give up on the Netburst micro-architecture and is now concentrating on increased parallelism (multiple cores) rather than extreme clock rates.
Yes, like the crops that you and I rely on for food. But hey, I guess you think we all need to lose a little weight... sheesh.
Under the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004, a computer used to receive TV broadcasts over the Internet is a TV receiver and requires a licence. However, this doesn't apply to receiving video on demand, which is what the BBC currently provides. Also the definition of TV set does not include general purpose computers so purchase of a computer does not have to be notified by the retailer to TV Licensing.
Most Flash formats are around the same price as PC2100 SDRAM and a little less than PC3200 SDRAM. Much more expensive than HDs, of course.
You have misunderstood. AIM on Windows registers a protocol handler so that it's possible to run various AIM commands by opening URLs beginning with "aim:". One of those commands is "goaway" which sets the status to Away and sets a message. The code that implements the command doesn't check the length of the message in the URL. Frankly I think it's a large security and privacy risk to register such a protocol handler in the first place.
The not-really-a-CD logo was introduced a couple of years back and I have seen it on a few discs.
The piggy bank is called Hamm, which was the code name for Debian 2.0.
I am the "parent poster". The weakness in democracy I see is not that two institutions would have to agree on legislation, which I see can be a good thing, but that in this case one of those two institutions is far removed from democratic control. (There is perhaps an interesting parallel with the original set-up of the US Senate which I believe was elected by state legislatures. I have no idea how well that worked.)
The House and the Senate are both made up of elected members, though. EU commissioners are appointed by national goverments and appear to be mainly politicians who are no longer popular at home but happen to be friends of their party leader (vide Peter Mandelson). They seem to have very little accountability. Yet the Commission has more power than the Parliament.
I don't even own the card. I was really just pointing out that there are unofficial routes to get hold of drivers.