Hey, if I told you that one in every two Ferrari F-40's explode for no reason, but only 1 in every 1000 Honda Civics explode for no reason, which explosions are going to be more noticed?Obviously Honda, as there are more of them on the road... so...
Linux may or may not be as bad for security, but when Windows gets exploited, it's felt... and it's felt HUGE!
XL97? Let me get this straight... as in Excel 97? From office 97? That would mean it's older than Windows 98, which IIRC, is NOT supported by microsoft... can't they just pull the same crap with the office suite? I can see it now...
We no longer support that old insecure file format, that's why we have this new file format (and it just happens to break OpenSource compatability... bonus!), so upgrade for a mere $400 a license, and all will be well again.
So how long before Microsoft chanages Excel to be totally incompatable with their old file format and/or functionality, just to screw the open source community yet again?
It damn well will happen... It's just a matter of how long.
It may not have been an amazingly good movie... but it had next to no effects, and I found it very entertaining and worth the $10 I paid for admission.
Three year olds don't have the lobbying power to get Federal laws enacted.
Obviously you've never stood in line at a grocery store with a 3 year old wanting a candy bar... half the people in the line offer to buy the entire damn candy isle, just to shut the litte snot up. That kind of power can go a loooooong way in lobbying Federal laws...;)
Ok, hold on... what I meant to say was, if it were implemented like the internet was supposed to be implemented. If the entire world was on one power grid, then a failure could be averted by pushing excess power to other locations, with multiple failsafe routes. Obviously the cause of the power failure was that transmission lines became over saturated, and generators could not pump their power anywhere (Electricity must be consumed the instant it's generated, unlike other commodities like gas and water). So if we had a better connected system, the generators could stay up, and just reroute their power to other locations while simultaneously having the other plants reduce output slightly, thus keeping the grid powered while a small section of transmission lines would have gone down.
Instead, we had a few lines go down, and because of the lack of proper interconnectivity in the power grid, and the fact that demand for the power the generators were generating disappeared (due to lack of transmission paths), they had to shut them down, thus cascading.
The fault that the 'experts' will eventually find is that the system cascaded because of lack of alternate transmission lines. So a global power grid, interconnected properly would never have a mass blackout happen.
Border, n: in C64, area of screen where no graphics can be displayed. Therefore it's the favourite place for all Commodore demoscene coders to display various graphics, causing engineers who designed it rip their hair from their heads and jump out through the windows, yelling "THIS CAN'T BE WORKING".
The C64 wasn't restrictive. It allowed hackers (as in coders) to do whatever they could think of with the hardware. There were crazy optimizations where two instructions executed at once, 27 sprites could be displayed at once (the hardware is limited to 8), 240 colors could be displayed (the hardware was limited to 16), and not once did the commodore engineers come and say, "Stop doing that! It wasn't designed for that!"
Fast forward 20 years, and take a look at major console manufacturers bitching if we exploit the hardware or software to install something they didn't intend.
Heck, even being a developer, you can't do to modern consoles that you could do to the C64... To get an XDK, or PDK, you have to adhere to all sorts of restrictions about what you can and cannot do in your code (no fancy ASM hacking to do cool stuff)... what's the point? No wonder all we have is cookie-cutter games... Developers aren't allowed to innovate, unless it meets with Sony or Microsoft's predetermined vision... bah, gimme a modern day C64 dammit!
Holy shit! Being a former employee of RIM, while I was there, they suggested that we give honest good word of mouth for the blackberry (back when the 950 came out), but this is seriously overkill... I'm truely curious if this guy works for Rim, or at the very least has some massive amount of money in their stock and is trying to inflate the value so he can recoup his loses after the negative patent ruling...
But what really bakes my noodle, is why the hell this made it to the front page... Are there any slashdot editors left? Or is story acceptance simply based on the number of links in the text?
Microsoft inked a deal with IBM that they would never manufacture chips... now obviously we have microsoft hardware, keyboards, routers, etc... but I don't think they can create CPU's, GPU's, or anything of that nature.
Oh, ok... so what you're saying is we no longer have outlook express... it's now part of the OS and we can't de-couple them... it's an integral part of the OS... honest your honor!
Seriously... They're doing with outlook express, what they did with Internet Explorer... except this time, they are bundling outlook functionality with their Web business, instead of their OS... Same shit different pile...
"who the hell needs more than 266 MHz!!! christ it is so damn fast!!!"
Then you installed the next version of Windows and realized that your new machine is actually slower at booting windows, than your old machine is at booting the previous version... Damn Microsoft... I swear each new version of windows has a programmed delay in it to force people to upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware...
Most people really don't need anything as fast as a 266Mhz system... all they do is surf the web and check email, and maybe some minor personal financial stuff and documents... So why does it take Window XP 2 minutes to boot up, only to have to wait for Office to start in another 2 minutes, and God forbid Quicken or Money start any faster than an entire minute, and I'm talking a P4 3GHz system... What the hell is it doing?
whatever, as long as it is light, long lasting, and easily refilled... and prefereably doesn't explode or kill people at will.
So, you want, light weight, long lasting, easy refills and no explosions? I was going to say choose any three, but even that's too much... I'm sorry, but you can choose anything you want, but the explosions are a packaged deal, I just can't seperate them from the other features you want, or I'll lose my volume discount... Sorry...
I still don't understand what the heck the reason is for doing this, but perhaps microsoft has some real reason (other than increased system stability, which ironically wasn't an issue for me until they changed it).
Funny, a few days ago I had my XP system exhibit the same problem (after using windowsupdate)... but I checked the event log and it told me that 0x70/0x71 was accessed by the BIOS unexpectedly.
After doing a bit of research I discovered that at some point, microsoft decided that ACPI needs to behave differently, and forced all BIOS's to be upgraded to work with XP. After getting a new version of my BIOS, the problem disappeared... but the symptoms were identical to what is described with this bug... Bad timing I guess... But if you have this problem, check the event log, it may be your now non-compliant BIOS, rather than an infection/attack.
Umm... no matter what you think number 2 should be in that list, it cannot lead to profit, since number 1 says write FREE software... It could lead to profit for a company that does to it as RedHat did to Linux, or a bunch of support guys who make a killing supporting this new product... but the poor dumbass that wrote it for free will get recognition, and that's the best scenario...
I'm all for free software, but to assume that writing free software will lead to Profit? Ummm... You've got a few screws loose.;)
I come here to forget about how horribly lonely I feel... I'm a grade 'A', by the books, no bloody doubt, computer nerd. And as such, I have NO love life... so why must you speak of marriage? I can't even get a damn girlfriend... I'm sitting here reading slashdot to try and forget how miserable an existance I have writing code for a living, with absolutely no social life... and you have the nerve to post a marriage story???
I left my comment too ambiguous... What I was trying to say is that *HE* wants much needed respect from the international community, so they don't make him into the next Sadam... not that he is owed respect, or that he has concern for his citizens (outside the fact he needs more money for to feed his citizens, well at least his army)... big difference... obviously you interpretted it differently than I intended... None the less, my original point wasn't so much about Kim Jong-Il, as it was about how it has very little to do with SCO, even if you are trying to draw some sort of humorous political parallel...
And as you helped prove my point... political commentary, even if meant jokingly can cause a whole lot of unintended ill will...;)
Political humor can be very funny if done properly... or it can be like a car accident... so horrible, yet you just can't help but try and figure out what could have caused it.
Where did you connect SCO and North Korea? Linux and Nuclear war? A bunch of crazed executives looking at a get rich quick scheme, and a brutal dictator trying to elbow himself (and his country) some much need aid and respect from the international community?
Heck, unless SCO is trying to keep it's competitors from a take over, I don't see the parallel, nor the joke. (for those of you who don't see it... North Korea is simply trying to force the US into a non-aggression pact, so they won't suffer from a 'regime change'...)
The real punchline would have been, "Do these SCO folks remind anyone else of Microsoft?"... See it's slashdot, and a joke at Microsoft's expense is worth a +5 funny automagically...;)
First off, it was truely meant as a joke... I don't do any stock market trading..
As for the Long distance service, I don't know about you, but I am a Bell customer, and I had to cancel my Long distance service with them, since they introduced a monthly surcharge of $5.95 just for the privelage... and I NEVER make long distance calls... I had no trouble getting ADSL service from them... mind you, I subscribe to one of their 'packages' for callerID and Call Answer, so I'm sure they're making their money from that... But paying $75 a month for ADSL is pretty expensive, and I doubt they're losing money on me...
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Hey, if I told you that one in every two Ferrari F-40's explode for no reason, but only 1 in every 1000 Honda Civics explode for no reason, which explosions are going to be more noticed?Obviously Honda, as there are more of them on the road... so...
Linux may or may not be as bad for security, but when Windows gets exploited, it's felt... and it's felt HUGE!
XL97? Let me get this straight... as in Excel 97? From office 97? That would mean it's older than Windows 98, which IIRC, is NOT supported by microsoft... can't they just pull the same crap with the office suite? I can see it now...
We no longer support that old insecure file format, that's why we have this new file format (and it just happens to break OpenSource compatability... bonus!), so upgrade for a mere $400 a license, and all will be well again.
Sincerly,
Microsoft.
So how long before Microsoft chanages Excel to be totally incompatable with their old file format and/or functionality, just to screw the open source community yet again?
It damn well will happen... It's just a matter of how long.
Anyone else think this sounds like a bad hollywood plot ?
;)
BAD??? You gotta be kidding... That would beat the snot out of most 'good' hollywood plots...
Two words: Phone Booth.
It may not have been an amazingly good movie... but it had next to no effects, and I found it very entertaining and worth the $10 I paid for admission.
Three year olds don't have the lobbying power to get Federal laws enacted.
;)
Obviously you've never stood in line at a grocery store with a 3 year old wanting a candy bar... half the people in the line offer to buy the entire damn candy isle, just to shut the litte snot up. That kind of power can go a loooooong way in lobbying Federal laws...
If it were implemented like the internet...
Ok, hold on... what I meant to say was, if it were implemented like the internet was supposed to be implemented. If the entire world was on one power grid, then a failure could be averted by pushing excess power to other locations, with multiple failsafe routes. Obviously the cause of the power failure was that transmission lines became over saturated, and generators could not pump their power anywhere (Electricity must be consumed the instant it's generated, unlike other commodities like gas and water). So if we had a better connected system, the generators could stay up, and just reroute their power to other locations while simultaneously having the other plants reduce output slightly, thus keeping the grid powered while a small section of transmission lines would have gone down.
Instead, we had a few lines go down, and because of the lack of proper interconnectivity in the power grid, and the fact that demand for the power the generators were generating disappeared (due to lack of transmission paths), they had to shut them down, thus cascading.
The fault that the 'experts' will eventually find is that the system cascaded because of lack of alternate transmission lines. So a global power grid, interconnected properly would never have a mass blackout happen.
Border, n: in C64, area of screen where no graphics can be displayed. Therefore it's the favourite place for all Commodore demoscene coders to display various graphics, causing engineers who designed it rip their hair from their heads and jump out through the windows, yelling "THIS CAN'T BE WORKING".
The C64 wasn't restrictive. It allowed hackers (as in coders) to do whatever they could think of with the hardware. There were crazy optimizations where two instructions executed at once, 27 sprites could be displayed at once (the hardware is limited to 8), 240 colors could be displayed (the hardware was limited to 16), and not once did the commodore engineers come and say, "Stop doing that! It wasn't designed for that!"
Fast forward 20 years, and take a look at major console manufacturers bitching if we exploit the hardware or software to install something they didn't intend.
Heck, even being a developer, you can't do to modern consoles that you could do to the C64... To get an XDK, or PDK, you have to adhere to all sorts of restrictions about what you can and cannot do in your code (no fancy ASM hacking to do cool stuff)... what's the point? No wonder all we have is cookie-cutter games... Developers aren't allowed to innovate, unless it meets with Sony or Microsoft's predetermined vision... bah, gimme a modern day C64 dammit!
Holy shit! Being a former employee of RIM, while I was there, they suggested that we give honest good word of mouth for the blackberry (back when the 950 came out), but this is seriously overkill... I'm truely curious if this guy works for Rim, or at the very least has some massive amount of money in their stock and is trying to inflate the value so he can recoup his loses after the negative patent ruling...
But what really bakes my noodle, is why the hell this made it to the front page... Are there any slashdot editors left? Or is story acceptance simply based on the number of links in the text?
Microsoft inked a deal with IBM that they would never manufacture chips... now obviously we have microsoft hardware, keyboards, routers, etc... but I don't think they can create CPU's, GPU's, or anything of that nature.
Oh, ok... so what you're saying is we no longer have outlook express... it's now part of the OS and we can't de-couple them... it's an integral part of the OS... honest your honor!
Seriously... They're doing with outlook express, what they did with Internet Explorer... except this time, they are bundling outlook functionality with their Web business, instead of their OS... Same shit different pile...
"who the hell needs more than 266 MHz!!! christ it is so damn fast!!!"
Then you installed the next version of Windows and realized that your new machine is actually slower at booting windows, than your old machine is at booting the previous version... Damn Microsoft... I swear each new version of windows has a programmed delay in it to force people to upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware...
Most people really don't need anything as fast as a 266Mhz system... all they do is surf the web and check email, and maybe some minor personal financial stuff and documents... So why does it take Window XP 2 minutes to boot up, only to have to wait for Office to start in another 2 minutes, and God forbid Quicken or Money start any faster than an entire minute, and I'm talking a P4 3GHz system... What the hell is it doing?
whatever, as long as it is light, long lasting, and easily refilled... and prefereably doesn't explode or kill people at will.
So, you want, light weight, long lasting, easy refills and no explosions? I was going to say choose any three, but even that's too much... I'm sorry, but you can choose anything you want, but the explosions are a packaged deal, I just can't seperate them from the other features you want, or I'll lose my volume discount... Sorry...
Yeah, but the time with your sister when you were 2 years old, that doesn't count.
Here's more info BIOS AML .
I still don't understand what the heck the reason is for doing this, but perhaps microsoft has some real reason (other than increased system stability, which ironically wasn't an issue for me until they changed it).
Funny, a few days ago I had my XP system exhibit the same problem (after using windowsupdate)... but I checked the event log and it told me that 0x70/0x71 was accessed by the BIOS unexpectedly.
After doing a bit of research I discovered that at some point, microsoft decided that ACPI needs to behave differently, and forced all BIOS's to be upgraded to work with XP. After getting a new version of my BIOS, the problem disappeared... but the symptoms were identical to what is described with this bug... Bad timing I guess... But if you have this problem, check the event log, it may be your now non-compliant BIOS, rather than an infection/attack.
Umm... no matter what you think number 2 should be in that list, it cannot lead to profit, since number 1 says write FREE software... It could lead to profit for a company that does to it as RedHat did to Linux, or a bunch of support guys who make a killing supporting this new product... but the poor dumbass that wrote it for free will get recognition, and that's the best scenario...
;)
I'm all for free software, but to assume that writing free software will lead to Profit? Ummm... You've got a few screws loose.
No problem, I'm sure someone will fix that minor flaw, and cause it to propogate using just one command...
That's impressive. Now when are they launching a radio controlled rocket to the moon? Obviously it's the next step.
Damn slashdot!
I come here to forget about how horribly lonely I feel... I'm a grade 'A', by the books, no bloody doubt, computer nerd. And as such, I have NO love life... so why must you speak of marriage? I can't even get a damn girlfriend... I'm sitting here reading slashdot to try and forget how miserable an existance I have writing code for a living, with absolutely no social life... and you have the nerve to post a marriage story???
...is the GPS software running linux?
whoa... slow down...
;)
I left my comment too ambiguous... What I was trying to say is that *HE* wants much needed respect from the international community, so they don't make him into the next Sadam... not that he is owed respect, or that he has concern for his citizens (outside the fact he needs more money for to feed his citizens, well at least his army)... big difference... obviously you interpretted it differently than I intended... None the less, my original point wasn't so much about Kim Jong-Il, as it was about how it has very little to do with SCO, even if you are trying to draw some sort of humorous political parallel...
And as you helped prove my point... political commentary, even if meant jokingly can cause a whole lot of unintended ill will...
Political humor can be very funny if done properly... or it can be like a car accident... so horrible, yet you just can't help but try and figure out what could have caused it.
;)
Where did you connect SCO and North Korea? Linux and Nuclear war? A bunch of crazed executives looking at a get rich quick scheme, and a brutal dictator trying to elbow himself (and his country) some much need aid and respect from the international community?
Heck, unless SCO is trying to keep it's competitors from a take over, I don't see the parallel, nor the joke. (for those of you who don't see it... North Korea is simply trying to force the US into a non-aggression pact, so they won't suffer from a 'regime change'...)
The real punchline would have been, "Do these SCO folks remind anyone else of Microsoft?"... See it's slashdot, and a joke at Microsoft's expense is worth a +5 funny automagically...
We spent so much time, money and effort fixing it, why not spend some more and upgrade it for another decade of use?
First off, it was truely meant as a joke... I don't do any stock market trading..
As for the Long distance service, I don't know about you, but I am a Bell customer, and I had to cancel my Long distance service with them, since they introduced a monthly surcharge of $5.95 just for the privelage... and I NEVER make long distance calls... I had no trouble getting ADSL service from them... mind you, I subscribe to one of their 'packages' for callerID and Call Answer, so I'm sure they're making their money from that... But paying $75 a month for ADSL is pretty expensive, and I doubt they're losing money on me...