...does Internet Explorer use any of these functions to load internet images?
We cal discuss all day about some local API exploit but there is a big difference between a local API bug and a remote bug.
Does IE use these functions to load images? Or does it handle these kind of primitive formats using his own code? After all, is not that hard to "parse" BMPs and ICOs and it would be much better to handle all file formats inside an internal library, thus avoiding conflicting API methodologies.
I'm really curious about this. Does anyone knows the answer for my question? Can anyone test the faulty BMPs and ICOs inside a HTML page?
More interesting is the actual value for 2004 - $15 billion.
That's a nice number, Note that in comparison, Microsoft's 2004 revenue is about $36 billion. Apple is around $10 billion.
The 15 billion figure is the *total* direct and indirect profits *related* to Linux. Including Hardware.
I believe they're just trying to piggyback on the Anti-trust law suite that was filed against MicroSoft by the US government.
Exactly. Nothing stopped them from writing a good text editor with no browser integration. It will be actually pretty easy for MS to attack their claim: Word 95 was the final winner but did not have the browser integration that Novell claimed WP was going to have.
Remote desktop is faster than VNC because Microsoft is able to perform tricks in kernel space. For example, if you fire up windows media player to view a video file, then that data doesn't have to be rendered at all on the remote machine. Microsoft simply streams it to your client machine using RDP. The same thing however won't work with Apple QuickTime or RealPlayer.
Actually, no. RD is faster than VNC because RD sends *high level* information about what's happening on the screen instead of sending every single pixel involved in the operation. Ex: When the server's GDI subsystem draws a gradient window caption, the other side just receives a "Gradient Caption" command, instead of a zillion bytes worth of pixels.
There is no kernel space conspiracy in this case. BTW, there is *no* kernel space conspiracy in *every single case* where Windows is better than (put your favorite open source project here). Slashdotters talk about kernel space like it's some kind of magical execution privilege where code is executed at 10GHz.
When you're dealing with networking software, you still have to properly format your data to send it across the network, and there is no kernel magic that will help you with that. The same thing also applies to most kinds of software: all the data processing that your application depends upon can not be replaced by any kind of "kernel-space magic", you still need an efficient implementation, and you will have to do it by yourself.
I'm also not entirely sure whether the windows are even drawn to video first. Microsoft may be pulling some redirection of GDI commands so that RD acts somewhat like X in that respect.
Well, if you're not sure about how stuff works, then... Well, nevermind.
Dell: P4 2.8GHz, 512 memory, 20G HD (5400 rpm), 24x CD, Win 2k, Ultrasharp 19inch Flat panel that is height adjustable, standard keyboard, wheel mouse, bottom line external speakers, DVI-VGA video adapter, mouse pad, no floppy, no consumer anti-virus software, no Microsoft Office offered.
Cost: $1,797 per unit
I just simulated the same configuration, with a 160GB HD and WinXP Pro and the *single unit* price was US$ 1,326. I'm pretty sure that 40 units would be cheaper.
Required Software: 40 licenses each of Norton Anti-Virus ($3,219.65) and Ghost (1,207.63), Corp Editions.
It's a very interesting PSU design. Big deal for me (including a lot of other people too), sorry.
* Posted by CmdrTaco
* by VL, viperlair, the company selling these PSU's
Almost every single hardware review website I know is also an on-line hardware supplier.
So/. should stop linking to hardware review websites or start ignoring their submissions?
NEWS for Nerds or STUFF for Nerds? If I need stuff for nerds I go to my local PC supplier or I go to thinkgeek but this is a lil bit over the top not ?
I don't want to go to my hardware supplier everytime I want to see something new. I'd rather do it from home, using my www browser.
You utterly moronic, politically-correct, spineless, ethically challenged, whiny fucktard. Where do you get off saying it should be a crime or an offense for me to state my personal opinion no matter how it makes you "feel?"
I have not said that stating your personal opinion should be a crime. What I said is that sometimes it might sound easy to diffamate someone, but it's still difamation and your words can have some serious impact on someone else's life.
You might think that doing stuff like saying all around that you think your neighbour is gay is something innocent and "just your personal opinion". Ok, you might think that. But it doesn't change the fact that by doing this you might do some real damage on this person's life.
Your right to "feel good" is not guarenteed in the United States, nor anywhere else as far as I know. I feel that your defense of this shyster and swindler of good persons hard earned money is offensive to me and makes me physically ill contemplating the fact that there are individuals in the world who subscribe to your point of view.
The right to have a good reputation (wich can be sometimes protected in court as a "private property" in some cases) is pretty well guaranteed by the US legal system. You cannot damage something that it is not yours. It's that simple.
Should I have the right to sue slashdot.org or you for that?
Well, I said three times that I think his suit is stupid. It seems that you're just trolling for attention and flames.
NO! I should have the "grown (sometimes mentally) up" attitude of "GETTING OVER IT!"
Sometimes you just can't forget a crowd screaming that you're "unscrupulous" and humiliating you because it might have changed the way people around you see your existance. That's covered under what the law calls "damage".
In real life I would usually get over it with a polite discussion or even some kind of agression ("give a lesson"), but when you're dealing with anonymous cowards, this is just not possible.
In fact, let's think about people who thinks that bothering someone on the internet is easy and fun. Really. Would they act the same on real life communications? I bet they would not.
While it may be rude to call someone names, but it should never be illegal to say something derogatory about someone else as long as it is obvious that you are stating an opinion - and by that I mean someone with a grain of common sense (look it up, you may have a close friend or family member with some since you seem to be lacking) can realize someone is stating the thoughts in their own mind not by typing/saying IMHO.
It doesn't matter what you meant with your words. What matters is what interpretations people can extract from your words.
The law does not judge what you meant to say, but how your words can be able to cause damage to the "victim".
And with all that said "Fatty Fatty Two By Four Can't Get Through The Courtroom Door... NAH NAH NAH BOO BOO!"
Well, that would be self-difamation. Acting like this is proving to the world that the person has now grown up yet.:o)
Hey, people: I'm not saying that just calling people names is directly a crime. It just depends on the situation, plain simple. You cannot call someone a "delicate fag" in the middle of a public speech and expect it to be treated as "just your opinion about him". It doesn't matter if you say it is just your opinion, what matter is if other people can interpretate that your affirmation means more than just bad words directed to a person.
And, about the "right to not be humiliated", that's a "right" indirectly covered by injury law, and it does not relates only to your words, your actions (posting a message to difamate him) and intentions can be punished too.
I know it does sound stupid, but "fat" and "ugly" are direct affirmations, clearly crossing the line between your opinion and false statement. But they are just a minor issue here. Saying someone is fat might not give you a suit, but saying someone is a "shyster" can be interpreted as a direct affirmation that the said person is unethical and unscrupulous.
You cannot just say someone is a "unscrupulous and corrupt son of a bitch". You're directly asserting that this person is corrupt. It doesn't matter if his mother is a "bitch" or not, because your statement that the person is corrupt has already given him enough reason to sue you.
I still think his suit was very, very, stupid. But calling him names, using very large groups of people, can give him very good legal arguments.
Whereas if your story makes the slashdot front page, you can take it as a given that sooner or later someone is going to google about looking for you, find a photo of you, and link to it for all the world to see that you really do look like "overly robust geezer that makes a living walking behind the elephant with a shovel."
Man, if I looked like that, I'd be busy keeping my self out of public view, not inspiring the whole planet to take a look at my fat, ugly, shyster mug!
While I think the said lawyer clearly exaggerated on his answer to the name-calling situation, I must say to you that every single action you take in real life might be associated to a price you are not willing to pay.
I'm very serious about that. While it sounds (and it actually is) easy to say these kind of things about someone, using your computer, it does not mean that what you just did is not something serious.
A lot of crimes are very easy to commit, but they will not give the society less reasons to punish you for what you did. And they are still crimes, and still wrong, no matter how innocent they might seem to you.
No matter what you think about how this guy looks like, he is still have his right to care about his reputation and not be publicy ridiculized
by a bunch of people who has not grown (sometimes mentally) up yet. Your freedom to say things about him stops exactly at the start of his rights to a fair treatment and to not be humiliated.
And again, no matter what do you think about him, he still have his rights, and they should be respected.
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is the latest version of Internet Explorer and includes a full installation of the Web browser.
This is not a patch, not even a service pack, it's a whole browser package with happens to be updated with the patch you wanted. That's useful when... Well, you want a full install with that specific patch, without having to install the latest build.
ACPI is hairy and complicated. It is notoriously flaky and a major source of computer failures.
Sources...?
Adding $50-100 per machine to a large installation == you are fired.
Makes sense, but... I wasn't complaining about ethernet boot (wich means I don't use CF cards in these situations, I just use ethernet boot without complaining), I just pointed an easy solution to the guy's problem with ethernet boot loaders.
BTW, an 8-16MB CF Card costs 15 dollars at the hardware store, and less (than half) in large quantities.
Acting all bitchy about non-fatal (wich means they only bother you as an admin, but won't stop the system from working) problems in your existing or future installation == you are fired.
Read above to know what I think about existing complaints related to ethernet boot.:o)
The nightmare that is ACPI and its support under free OSes could be fixed with free BIOS/firmware replacements
Ok, so if you can't follow one standard, you'll simply drop it and make one from scratch? That does not make sense. In fact, it's much easier to support the existing standard than creating a whole new BIOS.
Hardly any BIOS supports booting from USB devices (external drives or USB memory sticks), this could be easily fixed as well
Almost every single P4 and newer XP motherboards come with a USBDisk-aware BIOS. With flaws, but they do support USB Disks. Again, it's much easier to wait one/two months for these technologies to mature than building a whole new BIOS.
A free BIOS/firmware could implement a generic way of booting computers from the network, without the need of onboard boot ROMs (and proprietary net boot schemes) in Ethernet adapters
You can just put your network bootloader on a CF disk.
A free BIOS/firmware could even implement interfaces to access and set up the BIOS remotely via network or serial consoles. This would remove a big showstopper that makes x86 commodity hardware with Linux/*BSD still inferior to the proprietary RISC/Unix systems of Sun et.al.
That would be nice, but you can already do that using hardware solutions.
Older BIOSes (for Pentium I/II/K6 motherboards) don't recognize harddisks above 30 GB, forcing owners to throw away hardware that can would still perform reasonably under Linux or *BSD.
The BIOS won't recognise, but the OS will. Who cares about bios disk access anyway? We all use 32 bit OSes, and people who are still stuck in 16 bit don't need BIOS (because you can just use your own driver in your customized 16 bit solution) access to 120GB disks anyway.
Other older BIOSes don't support booting from CD, thus making OS installations or use of rescue CDs difficult
Well, my old P166MMX boots from CD. Most old computers will do that too.
The quality of IRQ management and fine-tuning options for hardware parameters, for example, vastly differs between current BIOS implementations, getting a good BIOS is thus a lottery.
Who guarantees that the OSS BIOS would have the best UI for hardware fine-tuning?
I dunno, but this strikes me as the acts of a desperate company: http://afr.com/articles/2004/01/23/1074732570036.h tml
From the same article:
Excluding restructuring and other one-time items, however, earnings were $US199 million ($258 million), or US70 a share. That beat the consensus forecast of US52 a share among analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.
Sales rose 10 per cent to $US3.78 billion ($4.9 billion) from $US3.44 billion ($4.46 billion).
That company is going downhill so fast, it's no real surprise they're turning to other sources for revenue.
Hum. No, it is not: Kodak profits $122 million a year. It's not much (at least for such a well known company) but it's definitely not a sign of a company going downhill. In fact, both profits and icome grow each year.
So if some thug rapes your sister, kills your pets, and burns your house, because his ideology is "What is yours belongs to me" are you still going to respect his integrity?
No, I would not, he crossed the line between ideas and physical violence.
Do you have any example that doesn't quote physical violence?
It's interesting becuase it doesn't pretend to have everything and the kitchen sink like a Web Browser, media player, CD burner, instant messenger, *cough*Windows*cough*. It's just a program for controlling the hardware.
Nor will there ever be IMO. But this combined with good practices like not running as admin when we don't need to (reading email, web browsing, game playing for example) will be a huge leap forward.
Right, because a regular user can't send e-mails and will not have access to the computer's most important files (your personal files, not the ones you can just reinstall).
Oh yeah, running as a restricted user will stop worms.
While you're correct that you won't get any special licenses to use MS formats through MSDN, and that most of the documentation is available through the MSDN website, an MSDN subscription includes licenses to basically every piece of software Microsoft is currently supporting.
You're absolutely right, an Universal MSDN subscription will give you a alot of MS licenses. But they are normal licenses, the kind that says "you are allowed to use this software".
The problems started to show up immediately. First, there was a limited supply, so the parents would try to stretch the formula. Second, there isn't usually a source of purified water in the middle of poverty stricken 3rd world, so they would use water that often had bacteria.
What kind of place doesn't have clean water and at the same time holds a relevant consumer base? None. When you live in an African country (that's the kind of third world country with no clean water) you don't have money to buy Nestle products. And when you have that money, you also have clean water.
No you won't. MSDN is just a developer network with documents, tutorials, articles and support.
If you know how to work with the formats, you don't need MSDN, even for this kind of "MSDN permission" you're talking about.
When you subscribe MSDN you don't receive any special MS authorization.
You are asking me to drool over backwards compatibility that shouldn't have to exist in the first place, a second rate solution. It is just a hack to fix bad software distribution practices that were largely popularized by microsoft.
I'm sorry, but M$ sux today because they have backwards compatibility? I thought you people were saying that they're always breaking compatibility to "smash competitors".
I think you really need to decide why do you hate them or at least why they suck..
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...does Internet Explorer use any of these functions to load internet images?
We cal discuss all day about some local API exploit but there is a big difference between a local API bug and a remote bug.
Does IE use these functions to load images? Or does it handle these kind of primitive formats using his own code? After all, is not that hard to "parse" BMPs and ICOs and it would be much better to handle all file formats inside an internal library, thus avoiding conflicting API methodologies.
I'm really curious about this. Does anyone knows the answer for my question? Can anyone test the faulty BMPs and ICOs inside a HTML page?
There is no kernel space conspiracy in this case. BTW, there is *no* kernel space conspiracy in *every single case* where Windows is better than (put your favorite open source project here). Slashdotters talk about kernel space like it's some kind of magical execution privilege where code is executed at 10GHz.
When you're dealing with networking software, you still have to properly format your data to send it across the network, and there is no kernel magic that will help you with that. The same thing also applies to most kinds of software: all the data processing that your application depends upon can not be replaced by any kind of "kernel-space magic", you still need an efficient implementation, and you will have to do it by yourself. Well, if you're not sure about how stuff works, then... Well, nevermind.
Full cost: US$54,858, wich is 70% of your original price, not including volume discounts.
So
You might think that doing stuff like saying all around that you think your neighbour is gay is something innocent and "just your personal opinion". Ok, you might think that. But it doesn't change the fact that by doing this you might do some real damage on this person's life. The right to have a good reputation (wich can be sometimes protected in court as a "private property" in some cases) is pretty well guaranteed by the US legal system. You cannot damage something that it is not yours. It's that simple. Well, I said three times that I think his suit is stupid. It seems that you're just trolling for attention and flames. Sometimes you just can't forget a crowd screaming that you're "unscrupulous" and humiliating you because it might have changed the way people around you see your existance. That's covered under what the law calls "damage".
In real life I would usually get over it with a polite discussion or even some kind of agression ("give a lesson"), but when you're dealing with anonymous cowards, this is just not possible.
In fact, let's think about people who thinks that bothering someone on the internet is easy and fun. Really. Would they act the same on real life communications? I bet they would not. It doesn't matter what you meant with your words. What matters is what interpretations people can extract from your words.
The law does not judge what you meant to say, but how your words can be able to cause damage to the "victim". Well, that would be self-difamation. Acting like this is proving to the world that the person has now grown up yet.
Hey, people: I'm not saying that just calling people names is directly a crime. It just depends on the situation, plain simple. You cannot call someone a "delicate fag" in the middle of a public speech and expect it to be treated as "just your opinion about him". It doesn't matter if you say it is just your opinion, what matter is if other people can interpretate that your affirmation means more than just bad words directed to a person.
And, about the "right to not be humiliated", that's a "right" indirectly covered by injury law, and it does not relates only to your words, your actions (posting a message to difamate him) and intentions can be punished too.
I know it does sound stupid, but "fat" and "ugly" are direct affirmations, clearly crossing the line between your opinion and false statement. But they are just a minor issue here. Saying someone is fat might not give you a suit, but saying someone is a "shyster" can be interpreted as a direct affirmation that the said person is unethical and unscrupulous.
You cannot just say someone is a "unscrupulous and corrupt son of a bitch". You're directly asserting that this person is corrupt. It doesn't matter if his mother is a "bitch" or not, because your statement that the person is corrupt has already given him enough reason to sue you.
I still think his suit was very, very, stupid. But calling him names, using very large groups of people, can give him very good legal arguments.
I'm very serious about that. While it sounds (and it actually is) easy to say these kind of things about someone, using your computer, it does not mean that what you just did is not something serious.
A lot of crimes are very easy to commit, but they will not give the society less reasons to punish you for what you did. And they are still crimes, and still wrong, no matter how innocent they might seem to you.
No matter what you think about how this guy looks like, he is still have his right to care about his reputation and not be publicy ridiculized by a bunch of people who has not grown (sometimes mentally) up yet. Your freedom to say things about him stops exactly at the start of his rights to a fair treatment and to not be humiliated.
And again, no matter what do you think about him, he still have his rights, and they should be respected.
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is the latest version of Internet Explorer and includes a full installation of the Web browser.
This is not a patch, not even a service pack, it's a whole browser package with happens to be updated with the patch you wanted. That's useful when... Well, you want a full install with that specific patch, without having to install the latest build.
BTW, an 8-16MB CF Card costs 15 dollars at the hardware store, and less (than half) in large quantities.
Acting all bitchy about non-fatal (wich means they only bother you as an admin, but won't stop the system from working) problems in your existing or future installation == you are fired.
Read above to know what I think about existing complaints related to ethernet boot.
Excluding restructuring and other one-time items, however, earnings were $US199 million ($258 million), or US70 a share. That beat the consensus forecast of US52 a share among analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.
Sales rose 10 per cent to $US3.78 billion ($4.9 billion) from $US3.44 billion ($4.46 billion).
How to I know that? Got it from http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=EK.
Do you have any example that doesn't quote physical violence?
Oh yeah, running as a restricted user will stop worms.
Oops, someone sent them an attached virus file. Ooops, they opened it.
Ooops, your migration did not make sense.
That's why they're not "special".
I'm sorry, what you said is pure nonsense.
Free ? You will need to pay the MSDN License.
No you won't. MSDN is just a developer network with documents, tutorials, articles and support.
If you know how to work with the formats, you don't need MSDN, even for this kind of "MSDN permission" you're talking about.
When you subscribe MSDN you don't receive any special MS authorization.
I think you really need to decide why do you hate them or at least why they suck..
Windows and Office are essentially just repackaged and made incompatible every 3-4 years
Tell that to my Windows XP, wich will run any Windows 1.0 app.
Now pick up a 10 year old Linux binary.