"True-Colour GIF" is a hack. It appears to work by putting multiple tiled bitmaps in an image, each with its own palette. Since the palettes are not compressed, this is terribly inefficient.
I have a scan-doubler on my Amiga which reads the RGB video output to the RAMDAC into a separate frame-buffer from which it generates a higher frequency display. The video output should be 24-bit, but the frame-buffer is 16-bit (R5G6B5). This can result in weird-looking greyscales - if you try to get more than 32 grey levels then some of them will be greenish.
Actually, there is crude memory protection. Only one application is running at a time, so you cannot interfere with another application's working memory. To write to a storage heap (database) you have to use the DmWrite function, which temporarily disables this protection when writing. I don't know quite how this works, but I guess that it relies on an external chip with a control register or which checks whether the CPU is in supervisor state. (The 68000 family and presumably the Dragonball indicate this for each bus cycle.)
Another issue is interrupts. Some SMP systems let interrupts go to any CPU. Some force all interrupts to go to one CPU. Obviously, the former is more complex.
Symmetric means that interrupts can be handled by any CPU. Otherwise it's just plain multiprocessing.
It's not an error in labelling; it's an error in design. The design called for "Show Me" to be implemented by scripting in so-called HTML-help pages. This required the Office Assistant to be marked as safe for scripting.
No, IE is correct to do this. This is exactly what the %-sign is for - escaping characters that have special meanings. For instance, a Mac web server could have a slash in its filenames, and you would have to write this slash as %2F in the URL for that file so that it isn't interpreted as a directory separator. (Of course, there's no real use for this when it comes to hostnames.) But it should pass exactly the same host string to the resolver, and yet it appears not to have done so. This, I think, is the real bug that leads to this security hole.
On the only occasion that I've contributed a significant patch to a GNU program, the maintainer accepted a simple e-mailed consent to assignment of copyright. There was no need for me to sign any physical papers.
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Popularity and speed are no excuse for correctness. Linux went through several MAJOR revisions (until 2.2 I would argue) to compensate for a bad initial design.
Details, please. The fact that there are a lot of programmers interested in working on the kernel means that it's possible to experiment with major changes in private side-branches to improve performance and functionality and to fold in those that work, rather than avoiding them for fear of breaking things. Just because earlier versions were sub-optimal and can be improved through major changes, doesn't mean that those earlier versions were bad.
No disrespect for Linus, it was an impressive one man operations, and all the hobbyists did an impressive job, but there is no exuse for writing incorrect code.
"Hobbyists"? Please take time to learn how Linux development really works.
Operating System theory has solved many of the problems plaguing Linux, and solved them 10+ years before Linux was began. All the "modern" work on the Microkernel, etc, and we still don't have it? Even NT has a microkernel architecture, and they were able to support 4 platforms with minimal effort, they dropped to one for marketing, not technical reasons.
Linus explicitly rejected micro-kernels as beign inefficient - which they are. The design of NT pays lip-service to the micro-kernel concept, but it really isn't a micro-kernel OS. Even the GDI is part of the kernel since NT 4.0.
If you are doing REAL database work you need the atomic transactions and transaction rollbacks.
Say I go to work for company X, and they dig up a 3 year old list of speeding tickets on me (hey, it's a misdemeanor in many US States). So now I'm getting rejected a because of some arbitrary crap that doesn't even matter to my work performace?
Doesn't matter?! If you make a habit of speeding, you're running an increased risk of ending up in jail, hospital or maybe the morgue because of your selfish stupidity. This would be bad news for your employer.
Don't call this discrimination, because we're talking about a choice you make.
Yes, but this is part of an IDE, so you get a list of recent queries and search locations, the output goes to a pane, and you can double-click an output line to load the file into the editor and put the cursor on that line.
Emacs/XEmacs can do the same thing, though without the recent lists (something that would really be quite useful).
No, Hotmail doesn't sell its lists to spammers. (At list, I really don't hink so.) However, it does expire unused accounts and allow their names to be reused.
My cellular provider (BT Cellnet) just gave me an email address I didn't ask for, which converts incoming mail to SMS messages. They'll charge me every time I accept messages that way, and not just 1 or 2 pence. Hopefully I can tell them to cancel the address. If not, then I'm really going to vent at them when someone spams me this way.
Napster and now Gnutella have started a revolution.
Yes, they make mass copyright infringement even easier!
Music artists will give their recordings away for free in the future via the Net. They will then make their money through live, in person concerts.
There aren't a lot of artists earning a living from concerts now. They seem to be used mostly to promote sales of recorded music. Why do you think concerts are suddenly going to become really profitable?
This type of market will level the playing field for artists. Everyone will be a headliner, and the bullsh*t machines of the record companies become extinct.
So how exactly do we pick out the few good artists from the 90% (no, more like 99%) crap?
Easy entry for new artists, and direct connection to fans for established artists.
What if they don't actually want the hassle of dealing with fans? Have you ever thought that middle-men might not be wholly evil?
MDI has become deprecated since Windows 95. Supposedly, the UI should now be document-centric - hence the introduction of Explorer and the Start>Documents sub-menu.
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We do have cable TV, you know. It can often take several minutes to find out that there's nothing worth watching.
In Britain, those 7 banned words can all be heard on broadcast TV, though not before the "watershed" of 9pm.
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Then, although you can get tri-band GSM phones that work in the U.S., Europe, or most of Asia with just a change of SIM card; these GSM phones don't work in Japan!
They don't require a change of SIM card; I can use my phone and card on any network that has a roaming arrangement with my provider once I've arranged that with them. Looking at the network operators listing, I don't see any entry for Japan, so I don't believe the current version of GSM is used there at all. They say that tri-band phones cover all current GSM networks.
So I bought another Sprint PCS dual band phone.:(
PCS is GSM on a 1900MHz band. So there is no such thing as "PCS dual band". There might be phones that can do PCS and some analogue standard, of course.
Alternatively, if you replaced the GNU tools of a Linux distribution with the FreeBSD tools and libraries (after making appropriate changes to accomodate the kernel differences), you'd have something that you could justifiably call FreeBSD/Linux (that would be a much more constructive use of Tom's time, I think).
That's exactly what he is doing. I think the project is called something like Demon Penguin.
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There is no standard C library under Win32. (However, the Microsoft C/C++ library is sort of standard under Windows CE.)
"True-Colour GIF" is a hack. It appears to work by putting multiple tiled bitmaps in an image, each with its own palette. Since the palettes are not compressed, this is terribly inefficient.
Because Slashdot isn't an NY Times partner, perhaps?
I have a scan-doubler on my Amiga which reads the RGB video output to the RAMDAC into a separate frame-buffer from which it generates a higher frequency display. The video output should be 24-bit, but the frame-buffer is 16-bit (R5G6B5). This can result in weird-looking greyscales - if you try to get more than 32 grey levels then some of them will be greenish.
Actually, there is crude memory protection. Only one application is running at a time, so you cannot interfere with another application's working memory. To write to a storage heap (database) you have to use the DmWrite function, which temporarily disables this protection when writing. I don't know quite how this works, but I guess that it relies on an external chip with a control register or which checks whether the CPU is in supervisor state. (The 68000 family and presumably the Dragonball indicate this for each bus cycle.)
Symmetric means that interrupts can be handled by any CPU. Otherwise it's just plain multiprocessing.
It's not an error in labelling; it's an error in design. The design called for "Show Me" to be implemented by scripting in so-called HTML-help pages. This required the Office Assistant to be marked as safe for scripting.
No, IE is correct to do this. This is exactly what the %-sign is for - escaping characters that have special meanings. For instance, a Mac web server could have a slash in its filenames, and you would have to write this slash as %2F in the URL for that file so that it isn't interpreted as a directory separator. (Of course, there's no real use for this when it comes to hostnames.) But it should pass exactly the same host string to the resolver, and yet it appears not to have done so. This, I think, is the real bug that leads to this security hole.
On the only occasion that I've contributed a significant patch to a GNU program, the maintainer accepted a simple e-mailed consent to assignment of copyright. There was no need for me to sign any physical papers.
Details, please. The fact that there are a lot of programmers interested in working on the kernel means that it's possible to experiment with major changes in private side-branches to improve performance and functionality and to fold in those that work, rather than avoiding them for fear of breaking things. Just because earlier versions were sub-optimal and can be improved through major changes, doesn't mean that those earlier versions were bad.
"Hobbyists"? Please take time to learn how Linux development really works.
Linus explicitly rejected micro-kernels as beign inefficient - which they are. The design of NT pays lip-service to the micro-kernel concept, but it really isn't a micro-kernel OS. Even the GDI is part of the kernel since NT 4.0.
Oh, I agree. But why drag Linux into this?
PCS is GSM by another name, so actually there is GSM in the US. However, GSM is not very suitable for sparsely populated areas, i.e. most of the US.
The UK supposedly went metric in 1901, but has been changing so slowly that the US seems to be catching up now!
I think NTSC is older than PAL, so you can't really blame the US for having their own standard.
Doesn't matter?! If you make a habit of speeding, you're running an increased risk of ending up in jail, hospital or maybe the morgue because of your selfish stupidity. This would be bad news for your employer.
Don't call this discrimination, because we're talking about a choice you make.
And those that use SH3, and SH4, oh, or PowerPC or even x86.
Here are some example power figures I found. They all assume that power is supplied at 3.3V; the actual voltage will be lower than this.
Processor___Freq___Max power (mW)____________(MHz)__run idle sleep
MC68EZ328_____16____66___?__0.066
SA-1110______133__24 0__75__0.165
_____________206___400_100__0.165
(Whatever happened to <pre>?)
I hope the StrongARM has good power management...
Yes, but this is part of an IDE, so you get a list of recent queries and search locations, the output goes to a pane, and you can double-click an output line to load the file into the editor and put the cursor on that line.
Emacs/XEmacs can do the same thing, though without the recent lists (something that would really be quite useful).
No, Hotmail doesn't sell its lists to spammers. (At list, I really don't hink so.) However, it does expire unused accounts and allow their names to be reused.
You wish.
My cellular provider (BT Cellnet) just gave me an email address I didn't ask for, which converts incoming mail to SMS messages. They'll charge me every time I accept messages that way, and not just 1 or 2 pence. Hopefully I can tell them to cancel the address. If not, then I'm really going to vent at them when someone spams me this way.
Yes, they make mass copyright infringement even easier!
There aren't a lot of artists earning a living from concerts now. They seem to be used mostly to promote sales of recorded music. Why do you think concerts are suddenly going to become really profitable?
So how exactly do we pick out the few good artists from the 90% (no, more like 99%) crap?
What if they don't actually want the hassle of dealing with fans? Have you ever thought that middle-men might not be wholly evil?
MDI has become deprecated since Windows 95. Supposedly, the UI should now be document-centric - hence the introduction of Explorer and the Start>Documents sub-menu.
We do have cable TV, you know. It can often take several minutes to find out that there's nothing worth watching.
In Britain, those 7 banned words can all be heard on broadcast TV, though not before the "watershed" of 9pm.
That was a hoax.
They don't require a change of SIM card; I can use my phone and card on any network that has a roaming arrangement with my provider once I've arranged that with them. Looking at the network operators listing, I don't see any entry for Japan, so I don't believe the current version of GSM is used there at all. They say that tri-band phones cover all current GSM networks.
PCS is GSM on a 1900MHz band. So there is no such thing as "PCS dual band". There might be phones that can do PCS and some analogue standard, of course.
And Ghostview and xpdf will apply these restrictions too, will they? PDF isn't a proprietary format, you know.
That's exactly what he is doing. I think the project is called something like Demon Penguin.