Yes, and even when they do detect it I wonder why they would select the picocell (which may well require roaming) rather than a normal land-based cell. Perhaps the system involves blocking signals from the cells on the ground?
They have been accused of using undocumented Windows APIs in Office to gain some kind of advantage. However, I never saw any details along with such accusations. Office may be using undocumented features, but probably only the sort of implementation details that many developers accidentally rely on.
Yup. Cognitive dissonance hurts, so we tend to treat information sources that challenge our beliefs as being bad and wrong. Some people are better than others at overcoming this tendency. Right-brainers (left-handers) tend to be more open to accepting the new information whereas left-brainers tend to deny it. FWIW I'm right-handed but try to keep an open mind anyway.
You might enjoy Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a book that includes this as a plot device. It's available as a free e-book. One of the points it brings up is that you can't remember your own experience of death, though you can watch your final moments as recorded by others.
Saving fuel is all well and good, but the cost of a new car is likely to outweigh the money saved over anything less than a decade. As for the pollution from old engines, we must also consider the pollution resulting from manufacturing of new cars. The better airbags I won't dispute.
Drugging of children (ritalin)
Drugging of adults (prozac)
Because everyone knows that those drugs turn you into a conformist robot. Do you have any clue at all about mental illness?
Enforced Birth control (RU486)
Now you're just trolling.
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I work for a small development house, and we were certainly able to afford it. $1550 is less than two weeks' salary (and that's before counting expenses on the top of the payroll) so if Qt can save that much developer time it's worth buying. Note that the price includes good technical support.
Looks like you don't entirely deserve your bad karma.
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You apparently don't understand phase changes. It actually takes a lot of heat to change ice at 32 degF into water at 32 degF (yes, same temperature). What should really worry you is that a change in average temperature around the globe doesn't mean an even change in the temperature everywhere. There are convection currents in the air and oceans that carry huge amounts of heat and have a huge effect on the climate of the areas they cover. These currents are chaotic and so while they seem stable and regular there are other attractors that they could switch to, given changes in heat input, with consequent drastic changes to those climates.
There is no obvious delay because of the Time-slicing/Multiplexing technology built-in. Each user gets an exact and extremely short defined moment to access to the PC system, devices, applications and Windows itself.
Wow! It has multitasking!
Resources are only claimed for nanoseconds at a time.
Windows Installer doesn't impose things like that. However, installer creation tools such as InstallShield and Wise's Install* products usually generate a standard set of steps which includes coercing the user into agreeing to a so-called licence (if it takes rights away, surely it's not a licence).
I used to use the official AIM client (ugh) and I can assure you that it is capable of saving logs (even though it doesn't by default). So either that isn't the test, or the test was wrongly applied. What amuses me is that the detective took a screenshot rather than saving a log file. Perhaps he thought that this would seen to be less easily faked than a text file, but of course either could be faked.
It's not being reintroduced. As in most legislative bodies, the EU has two assemblies that deal with legislation - the Council of Ministers, whose members represent national governments and which is advised by the Commission, and the Parliament, whose members are directly elected. Directives must be passed back and forth between these two several times before being passed into law. The Parliament did not reject the directive outright last time, but amended it so that it really would rule out software patents. The Council/Commission undid most of this. Now it's the Parliament's second turn. See the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament for a detailed explanation of the stages.
No, it wasn't an ordinary XT clone. It had non-standard video cards (similar to MDA/CGA/EGA but not quite compatible), a non-standard combined keyboard/mouse interface and a slightly non-standard floppy drive interface. It also ran the ISA bus at a non-standard frequency (4 MHz instead of 4.77 MHz, I think).
But I'm still wondering if all this permissions stuff isn't defeated by the fact that most users have Admin privileges by default.
This may be true of developers [*] and home users but I don't believe it's true in general. You're certainly unlikely to be a local administrator as a worker outside of IT in any large company.
Or are the permission levels more fine-grained than that? If not, then it would seem that making users/software have Admin privileges defeats goal of Registry permissions.
Allowing users to be local administrators defeats all such protections. It should not be done. If you do need to administer your own machine, it's probably safer to run as a Power User most of the time and then when installing software switch to Administrator or use "runas".
[*] Firstly because developers want to be able to install software without asking permission (perhaps due to arrogance but maybe also necessary as part of development). Secondly because debugging another process is a privilege that normally only Administrators can have, though it can be granted to the Power Users group or to the specific developer(s).
GDI and USER are still 16-bit, hence the limitation to 16-bit coordinates in GDI and something like ~16000 windows (I think the window table indexed by window handles contains 32-bit far pointers and is itself limited to 64K). The Windows 9x architecture is really not that different from Windows 3.11 plus Win32s, though Win32 programs can be preempted in 9x.
I think this may have improved a little in version 1.1 but I'm not sure. On my PC (similar to yours but 2000+ and 80 GB) it takes 15 seconds to start and then 5 seconds to start again after closing it. So that's at least 10 seconds spent just loading files.
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Yes, and even when they do detect it I wonder why they would select the picocell (which may well require roaming) rather than a normal land-based cell. Perhaps the system involves blocking signals from the cells on the ground?
The particular example in Unsafe at Any Speed was the Chevrolet Corvair (which was quite rapidly fixed). The Pinto came later.
They have been accused of using undocumented Windows APIs in Office to gain some kind of advantage. However, I never saw any details along with such accusations. Office may be using undocumented features, but probably only the sort of implementation details that many developers accidentally rely on.
Yup. Cognitive dissonance hurts, so we tend to treat information sources that challenge our beliefs as being bad and wrong. Some people are better than others at overcoming this tendency. Right-brainers (left-handers) tend to be more open to accepting the new information whereas left-brainers tend to deny it. FWIW I'm right-handed but try to keep an open mind anyway.
You might enjoy Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a book that includes this as a plot device. It's available as a free e-book. One of the points it brings up is that you can't remember your own experience of death, though you can watch your final moments as recorded by others.
Saving fuel is all well and good, but the cost of a new car is likely to outweigh the money saved over anything less than a decade. As for the pollution from old engines, we must also consider the pollution resulting from manufacturing of new cars. The better airbags I won't dispute.
No, but I understand that the drugs in THX1138 are sedatives.
Because everyone knows that those drugs turn you into a conformist robot. Do you have any clue at all about mental illness?
Now you're just trolling.
I work for a small development house, and we were certainly able to afford it. $1550 is less than two weeks' salary (and that's before counting expenses on the top of the payroll) so if Qt can save that much developer time it's worth buying. Note that the price includes good technical support.
Looks like you don't entirely deserve your bad karma.
You apparently don't understand phase changes. It actually takes a lot of heat to change ice at 32 degF into water at 32 degF (yes, same temperature). What should really worry you is that a change in average temperature around the globe doesn't mean an even change in the temperature everywhere. There are convection currents in the air and oceans that carry huge amounts of heat and have a huge effect on the climate of the areas they cover. These currents are chaotic and so while they seem stable and regular there are other attractors that they could switch to, given changes in heat input, with consequent drastic changes to those climates.
Wow! It has multitasking!
OK, now they're just lying.
Windows Installer doesn't impose things like that. However, installer creation tools such as InstallShield and Wise's Install* products usually generate a standard set of steps which includes coercing the user into agreeing to a so-called licence (if it takes rights away, surely it's not a licence).
In Britain I believe he would have to nominate (or implicitly choose) one as his legal wife. For instance, see paragraph 278 of the immigration rules.
Practically every AUP says that. That doesn't mean they actually stop people doing it.
I used to use the official AIM client (ugh) and I can assure you that it is capable of saving logs (even though it doesn't by default). So either that isn't the test, or the test was wrongly applied. What amuses me is that the detective took a screenshot rather than saving a log file. Perhaps he thought that this would seen to be less easily faked than a text file, but of course either could be faked.
Move along now, there's nothing to see.
It's not being reintroduced. As in most legislative bodies, the EU has two assemblies that deal with legislation - the Council of Ministers, whose members represent national governments and which is advised by the Commission, and the Parliament, whose members are directly elected. Directives must be passed back and forth between these two several times before being passed into law. The Parliament did not reject the directive outright last time, but amended it so that it really would rule out software patents. The Council/Commission undid most of this. Now it's the Parliament's second turn. See the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament for a detailed explanation of the stages.
No, it wasn't an ordinary XT clone. It had non-standard video cards (similar to MDA/CGA/EGA but not quite compatible), a non-standard combined keyboard/mouse interface and a slightly non-standard floppy drive interface. It also ran the ISA bus at a non-standard frequency (4 MHz instead of 4.77 MHz, I think).
So that they can oppress the Sunnis and Kurds, and ally Iraq with Iran? Great plan.
In case you hadn't noticed, NT also runs on IA64 and will be back on the PowerPC in the X-Box 2.
This may be true of developers [*] and home users but I don't believe it's true in general. You're certainly unlikely to be a local administrator as a worker outside of IT in any large company.
Allowing users to be local administrators defeats all such protections. It should not be done. If you do need to administer your own machine, it's probably safer to run as a Power User most of the time and then when installing software switch to Administrator or use "runas".
[*] Firstly because developers want to be able to install software without asking permission (perhaps due to arrogance but maybe also necessary as part of development). Secondly because debugging another process is a privilege that normally only Administrators can have, though it can be granted to the Power Users group or to the specific developer(s).
Your bunny has a trident? Looks like a mace to me. This site uses ISO 8859-1, not ISO 8859-15.
GDI and USER are still 16-bit, hence the limitation to 16-bit coordinates in GDI and something like ~16000 windows (I think the window table indexed by window handles contains 32-bit far pointers and is itself limited to 64K). The Windows 9x architecture is really not that different from Windows 3.11 plus Win32s, though Win32 programs can be preempted in 9x.
I think this may have improved a little in version 1.1 but I'm not sure. On my PC (similar to yours but 2000+ and 80 GB) it takes 15 seconds to start and then 5 seconds to start again after closing it. So that's at least 10 seconds spent just loading files.