I'm still waiting for motherboards to have enough PCIe slots to build clusters that use PCIe as a networking method.
Imagine having four to eight high-end Pentium Ms, with cooling fans out the back. Noisy monster, sure. But fast. Add in kernel-level support for treating them as CPUs, and you can build an extensible machine limited by your expansion slots, not by your DIMM slots and CPU sockets.
Visual Studio comes with several AVI files that represent copying, moving, deleting, etc. Imagine hubby or honey running this tool on those systems, and deleting the tagged files. Time to reinstall Visual Studio.
As an aside, I wonder if the EULA indemnifies the publishers of the software. If not, I can see lawsuits on the horizon for damages due to lost productivity.
OTOH, even if the EULA does indemnify them for damages, I can see how this might qualify as extortion...
MPAA: "Would you like to run our software?"
Parent: "No"
MPAA: "Nice life savings account. Wouldn't want something to...happen...to it."
The neat thing about water is that it doesn't get significantly radioactive; the impurities in it do. So if they keep the water pure enough, the radioactivity doesn't really spread.
That's interesting. Release a ton of patents under an OSI-approved license...but make sure the license is incompatible with the GPL. That way, your OS product can enjoy the licenses, and your competitor's OS can't.
Er...have you read any of the other posts? Chances are, the worm takes advantage of a default configuration. (i.e. "password" as the password, network access enabled, etc.) Any decent admin would at least secure the installation.
And in the case it takes advantage of something like a buffer overflow, then so what? IIS has had a long, fruitful history of exploits. And it's been considered as "fully developed" for years. And you're going to use a single example as an I Told You So?!
It's a long story, with heated opinions on all sides.
The jist of it is, nuclear power is "clean," is far as the atmosphere is concerned, but you have to find something to do with the nuclear waste. And you have to try to avoid heating up your secondary-loop coolant source. (Usually a lake or ocean.) The heat can screw up the local ecology.
Then you add on concerns about meltdowns and Three-Mile-Island-type accidents. How much you should worry about those generally depends on who you're asking. On one hand, a lot of redundancy and maintence measures have been put in place to prevent a repeat of the mistakes that lead to the steam release at Three Mile Island. On the other hand, such an accident is "still possibly, however unlikely, isn't it?"
There are probably others I'm forgetting about. But your post will surely bring those out in replies.
I once was able to tour the nuclear power plant in Charlevoix, MI, before they decommissioned. I was a little fella at the time.
Looks like that kind of educational oppertunity won't be happening as frequently, now. IIRC, that was the first tour they'd given since the plant was opened. That gives you a sense of perspective as to how common such oppertunities are.
Though other plants may perhaps hold more frequent tours, I doubt few outsiders will get to see the turbines and dynamos of an operational plant.
Have you looked at textbooks recently? They're stuffed with photos licensed from third parties. And with every copy of the book sold goes a royalty to the owner of the photo.
My Political Science 110 textbook costs more than $90, and it's got more page surface covered with photos than with text.
The scary part is, Bush isn't going to be up for a third term, and, last I heard, Cheney wasn't planning to run for President. So that leaves the two highest offices in the Executive Branch filled with people who have little to lose when it comes to politics.
A draft doesn't seem unlikely to me.
FYI, I tried to join the service while I was in high school. The recruiter I spoke to told me not to bother, because I'm autistic. (Aspergers is a form of autism.) Add to that the fact that I may not be able to function without one of my medications, and suddenly I'm not all that attractive from a military perspective.
Under most distros, you can update the library, and leave the app using it alone. If a bug is found in libc, you replace the libc library file, not all your apps.
Code reuse is actually extremely common under Linux. libkde, libgnome, xlib, libc, ncurses...
I can see x86 disappearing only if console-style computers become much more popular than they are now. If, for example, HDTV set-top boxes supported email, Word, and spreadsheets, it'd happen pretty quickly.
I've been working and taking classes at college for three years; I know why the sticker was on the box. But, considering the EULA didn't say anything about educational use, I'm not sure the presence of the sticker means anything.
On the box of a copy of pcAnywhere, there was a sticker that said, "For Educational Use Only." But, as I was installing the software, I read through the EULA. It didn't talk about "educational use" anywhere...
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There were rumors that Prescott had the hardware for IA32e. Something to do with the number of pins.
I read about it at Ars Technica. I'd link to the article, but I've really got to stop reading slashdot and go to my dinner theater performance.
I'm still waiting for motherboards to have enough PCIe slots to build clusters that use PCIe as a networking method.
Imagine having four to eight high-end Pentium Ms, with cooling fans out the back. Noisy monster, sure. But fast. Add in kernel-level support for treating them as CPUs, and you can build an extensible machine limited by your expansion slots, not by your DIMM slots and CPU sockets.
Unless you created it yourself, it might not be legal. IIRC, even porno clips are copyrighted.
Visual Studio comes with several AVI files that represent copying, moving, deleting, etc. Imagine hubby or honey running this tool on those systems, and deleting the tagged files. Time to reinstall Visual Studio.
As an aside, I wonder if the EULA indemnifies the publishers of the software. If not, I can see lawsuits on the horizon for damages due to lost productivity.
OTOH, even if the EULA does indemnify them for damages, I can see how this might qualify as extortion...
MPAA: "Would you like to run our software?"
Parent: "No"
MPAA: "Nice life savings account. Wouldn't want something to...happen...to it."
The neat thing about water is that it doesn't get significantly radioactive; the impurities in it do. So if they keep the water pure enough, the radioactivity doesn't really spread.
That's interesting. Release a ton of patents under an OSI-approved license...but make sure the license is incompatible with the GPL. That way, your OS product can enjoy the licenses, and your competitor's OS can't.
Not flaws in MySQL, flaws in the administrators. The worm attempts to get into systems by entering the default password.
Er...have you read any of the other posts? Chances are, the worm takes advantage of a default configuration. (i.e. "password" as the password, network access enabled, etc.) Any decent admin would at least secure the installation.
And in the case it takes advantage of something like a buffer overflow, then so what? IIS has had a long, fruitful history of exploits. And it's been considered as "fully developed" for years. And you're going to use a single example as an I Told You So?!
*whoosh*
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It was a joke. To me, it was an obvious typo. Pronounced phoneticly, it doesn't even sound like "nukular"
You also need some JibJab...
It's a long story, with heated opinions on all sides.
The jist of it is, nuclear power is "clean," is far as the atmosphere is concerned, but you have to find something to do with the nuclear waste. And you have to try to avoid heating up your secondary-loop coolant source. (Usually a lake or ocean.) The heat can screw up the local ecology.
Then you add on concerns about meltdowns and Three-Mile-Island-type accidents. How much you should worry about those generally depends on who you're asking. On one hand, a lot of redundancy and maintence measures have been put in place to prevent a repeat of the mistakes that lead to the steam release at Three Mile Island. On the other hand, such an accident is "still possibly, however unlikely, isn't it?"
There are probably others I'm forgetting about. But your post will surely bring those out in replies.
I once was able to tour the nuclear power plant in Charlevoix, MI, before they decommissioned. I was a little fella at the time.
Looks like that kind of educational oppertunity won't be happening as frequently, now. IIRC, that was the first tour they'd given since the plant was opened. That gives you a sense of perspective as to how common such oppertunities are.
Though other plants may perhaps hold more frequent tours, I doubt few outsiders will get to see the turbines and dynamos of an operational plant.
Have you looked at textbooks recently? They're stuffed with photos licensed from third parties. And with every copy of the book sold goes a royalty to the owner of the photo.
My Political Science 110 textbook costs more than $90, and it's got more page surface covered with photos than with text.
The scary part is, Bush isn't going to be up for a third term, and, last I heard, Cheney wasn't planning to run for President. So that leaves the two highest offices in the Executive Branch filled with people who have little to lose when it comes to politics.
A draft doesn't seem unlikely to me.
FYI, I tried to join the service while I was in high school. The recruiter I spoke to told me not to bother, because I'm autistic. (Aspergers is a form of autism.) Add to that the fact that I may not be able to function without one of my medications, and suddenly I'm not all that attractive from a military perspective.
Not that I'd refuse the offer.
Under most distros, you can update the library, and leave the app using it alone. If a bug is found in libc, you replace the libc library file, not all your apps.
Code reuse is actually extremely common under Linux. libkde, libgnome, xlib, libc, ncurses...
I used to type commandlines into PuTTY in ROT13, to fool keyloggers at work triggered by certain non-work-safe phrases.
...this is just a trick post to lure me out.
Did you forget the coverage of the Evil Bit on April Fools last year? I think that one went up to four articles.
I can see x86 disappearing only if console-style computers become much more popular than they are now. If, for example, HDTV set-top boxes supported email, Word, and spreadsheets, it'd happen pretty quickly.
You wouldn't be in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area, would you? I made and sold eight of those for 50 cents each as a kid.
Did they violate the terms of their contract? If so, you might be able to sue.
A series of smaller component prizes would work better, and be more sustainable.
Neat idea, though.
I've been working and taking classes at college for three years; I know why the sticker was on the box. But, considering the EULA didn't say anything about educational use, I'm not sure the presence of the sticker means anything.
On the box of a copy of pcAnywhere, there was a sticker that said, "For Educational Use Only." But, as I was installing the software, I read through the EULA. It didn't talk about "educational use" anywhere...
I loved that game. If you ran out of time in a drive, just keep jumping. Until you stop coasting, the game won't end.
The CVS Book is a free download. You can order a dead-tree version, as well.