Hmmm. That's pretty much what I do when I build a PC "from scratch". What do you do? Fire up Protel and design a motherboard, then think of a nifty new northbridge/southbridge design?
This is not really a surprise. It's pure fact. The original NT was not designed with security in mind, it was added as an afterthought. (And close to the repeatedly missed deadlines too).
I know that everyone is down on the BSD and up on the GPL, but we owe a tremendous amount to the BSD license.. Companys (like microsoft) took up stuff like the TCP/IP stack, BIND, etc..
and I believe OGG will achieved the same popularity and extension that it's other BSD Licensed bretheren enjoy. It's gotta be the freedom of the BSD license that encourages companys to pick up on this stuff, rather than re-inventing the wheel with yet another standard because they don't like a particular clause or so in the license..
Deja vu? This is a test to see if I'll get credit for yesterday's highest modded post. The real credit goes to TechnoVooDooDaddy.
I agree to a certain extent, but is that beginniners course on EM going to be at all relevant 5 years later when you graduate? The fundamentals, yes, but nothing you'd truly use in your job. In my opinion, school can't really teach you anything you need for a job, OTHER than how to learn.
The book is more about the people aspect of creating NT than the software itself. The personal relationships of many of the developers were ripped apart.
For example, there's no way to sync with Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X, except through the clunky Classic compatibility environment. Ironically, the Windows version still works with Microsoft's latest operating systems, 2000 or XP.
In the US, "a high percentage of residents are located in several largish populution [sic] centers.
" Read: NY, LA, Chicago, Washington, San Fran, all bigger than Toronto.
You are quite wrong about the rest of Canada. That is the remarkable thing. As someone else put it, "You can get cablemodem access in the town of Didsbury in Alberta, a town so small that practically everyone in town knows each other." Broadband access is comprehensive in Alberta and many other provinces as well.
It's not South Korea and Japan, it's South Korea and Canada.
Broadband is very cheap and reaonable here in Canada. Same price or cheaper, before exchange. First 6 months are $30 CDN with Shaw where I am, then $40 after that. That's somewhere around 7 cents USD.;)
I don't think this is an Urban legend at all. Straight from the horses mouth:
The bureau said that the Jedi response was categorized as "not defined" for census purposes. The criteria for recognizing a religion go "beyond the number of responses a particular answer receives in the census," it said.
The question of whether it's an urban legend or not is irrelevant. I put Jedi on my Canadian census, and the very best thing I could have hoped for was coverage on CNN and a Slashdot story full of hilarious posts.
Wasn't humour the point of this, instead of getting recognized as an official religion?
I don't think it's that funny. First of all, it's my employers computer, not mine. Mine has 4X as much ram and 0.5X the processor speed and does a much better job with Mozilla.
But in the bigger picture, how about the average PC you buy from the store? Is it going to consistently have more than 128 MB RAM? One of those shiny new eMachines that cheap people like? I'm if I was Joe Consumer with my 'awesome' eMachines PC, I would be apalled at Mozilla performance when restoring windows. It's a little thing but it's enough to make me use IE at work, and it's probably enough for Joe.
The one thing that is holding me back from using Mozilla as my primary browser at work is how SLOW it is to restore the window in Windows. Open up, browse for a while, open some tabs. Boss is coming, minimize it. Do some work;)... then when you click on it to restore, it takes like 5 or 6 seconds on a fast machine! 1.6 Ghz P4.... only 128 MB of RAM though. By comparison, IE6 is almost instantaneous. Is this because of Mozilla's massive memory footprint? Just having the Quicklaunch tray loaded takes over 13000 K in Task Manager without even firing up a window.
Does anyone else share these concerns? Oddly I've never seen this mentioned before.
Well, there is one other thing preventing me from using it at work. Our intranet requires NT Authentication which I believe is proprietary and IE only.
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Hmmm. That's pretty much what I do when I build a PC "from scratch". What do you do? Fire up Protel and design a motherboard, then think of a nifty new northbridge/southbridge design?
I think he qualifies as an "extreme case".
Read about it in Show-Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows Nt and the Next Generation at Microsoft
OK, stupid question: Where dot hese jokes come from?? I see it all the time on /. now. Thanks!
and I believe OGG will achieved the same popularity and extension that it's other BSD Licensed bretheren enjoy. It's gotta be the freedom of the BSD license that encourages companys to pick up on this stuff, rather than re-inventing the wheel with yet another standard because they don't like a particular clause or so in the license.. Deja vu? This is a test to see if I'll get credit for yesterday's highest modded post. The real credit goes to TechnoVooDooDaddy.
And screenshots are??
I agree to a certain extent, but is that beginniners course on EM going to be at all relevant 5 years later when you graduate? The fundamentals, yes, but nothing you'd truly use in your job. In my opinion, school can't really teach you anything you need for a job, OTHER than how to learn.
The book is more about the people aspect of creating NT than the software itself. The personal relationships of many of the developers were ripped apart.
It all depends what is important to you.
Good call. As they say, no one ever says on their deathbed that they wished they had spent more time at work.
You are quite wrong about the rest of Canada. That is the remarkable thing. As someone else put it, "You can get cablemodem access in the town of Didsbury in Alberta, a town so small that practically everyone in town knows each other." Broadband access is comprehensive in Alberta and many other provinces as well.
To boot, its probably a pretty safe bet that 99% of that printer was manufactured off shore.
Broadband is very cheap and reaonable here in Canada. Same price or cheaper, before exchange. First 6 months are $30 CDN with Shaw where I am, then $40 after that. That's somewhere around 7 cents USD. ;)
I regularly get 400k/sec download speeds.
The question of whether it's an urban legend or not is irrelevant. I put Jedi on my Canadian census, and the very best thing I could have hoped for was coverage on CNN and a Slashdot story full of hilarious posts.
Wasn't humour the point of this, instead of getting recognized as an official religion?
By the same logic, aren't nearly all Linux distributions doing a terrible thing by shipping a totally usable system with hundreds of bundled apps?
That was a haiku.
I screwed up the formatting.
Forgot br tags.
Post only Haikus? What a massive waste of time. Who thought of that one?
SOLID GOLD.
- Dual 1.6Ghz Athlon.
- 512MB RAM for standard definition.
- 1GB RAM for high definition.
- 200 GB storage for movie files.
- Gigabit ethernet
Ouch.F*** you!
But in the bigger picture, how about the average PC you buy from the store? Is it going to consistently have more than 128 MB RAM? One of those shiny new eMachines that cheap people like? I'm if I was Joe Consumer with my 'awesome' eMachines PC, I would be apalled at Mozilla performance when restoring windows. It's a little thing but it's enough to make me use IE at work, and it's probably enough for Joe.
Does anyone else share these concerns? Oddly I've never seen this mentioned before.
Well, there is one other thing preventing me from using it at work. Our intranet requires NT Authentication which I believe is proprietary and IE only.
Interesting, I'd never heard of Mt. Rainier before today. Then all in one day I see your post, this article about DVD authoring with Mt. Rainier support in the next version of Windows and this MS article containing info on Mt. Rainier in XP. It sounds like just the ticket.
Yes, aren't CD-RWs wonderful!?