After installing this update, Airport fails to connect reliably, and when it does connect, it's very slow and unpredictable (ping times to the local access point, 6 feet away, vary from 30ms - 200ms).
... there's probably a more efficient way to write it, it might not bounds-check the way you want (e.g., overflows are zeroed), and I'm certainly going out on a limb posting C code here on/., but there you go.
Using the right datatype to begin with is better, of course.
I hope some bright I.T. reporter will write a story about how "Linux source code leaks" are not a security issue, but part of the development process, making Linux safer than Windows. I mean, if the Windows source is so full of bad code and bad design that releasing it represents a threat to national security (Jim Allchin's words), while Linux has always had its source code freely published -- it standsto reason that Open Source software is of higher quality.
This doesn't make them evil, and that's not why I was pointing out the Canopy affiliation. If fact, my post was pro-Trolltech, in that it promoted QTopia, a Trolltech product.
In this case, it's the hegemony of... Europe. The U.S. is not the leader in extensing the term of copyright. I think France was the first to go life + 70 years. The U.S. extended to life + 50 only when it ratified the Berne Convention, and extended to life + 70 (Sonny Bono Act) only after several other countries.
Right now, this may look like a case of "Australia conforming with the U.S.," but if you step back a little, it's "Australia conforming with Europe, as the U.S. did a few years ago."
It's all a crock, of course. I want copyright to last 14 years like it used to. Maybe less! Screw Mickey!
An excellent idea. This could work well for Google and Mozilla. They can pitch "GoogleBrowser" or "GoogleWeb" as more secure, more feature-rich, and easier to use. Luckily, these things are already true, and Google won't have to do all that much development, beyond branding and optionally adding some google-specific enhancements.
Hehe! A little touchy, aren't you? I said nothing about liking or not liking Bill Gates. I also said nothing about your clients (internal and external).
I just stated out the true raison d'etre of DotNet. it's role as a tool *is* secondary -- to Microsoft.
I notice that you did not contradict me.
MSFT created DotNet and C# to displace Java, maintain some measure of control over application development, and reinforce their OS monopoly. Please provide proof to the contrary -- you seem to feel strongly about it. Lay it out for us.
"Wonderfull [sic] logic."
Yes. You made arguments and assertions that I didn't, attributed them to me, then faulted me for them. Yes, truly wonderful.
Microsoft lobbies to avoid penalties under the law, to reduce governmental oversight of itself, and to reduce enforcement of judgements already handed down.
Duh.
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That C# takes ideas from java is irrelevant..Net and C# exist for exactly one reason: Bill Gates wanted to stop Java. Bill likes to have control. He couldn't tolerate Java, because it didn't allow him to have control.
Maybe you like C#, maybe you don't. maybe it's useful for your project, maybe it's not. Those are side issues -- its role as a tool is secondary.
DotNet performs the task for which it was designed very well. That task is, of course, to contain programming talent and effort within the Windows world. That DotNet better than VB and Win32 is fundamentally a testament to how awful VB and Win32 are.
I'm not bagging C# or DotNet on their technical merits. They are not bed in that respect. But C# and DotNet's utility as development tools for Windows are only secondary to their utility as a means for maintaining Microsoft's control of the market.
C# and DotNet are beautiful Gates on the prison of the computing world.
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Sun invents Java
Java turns out to be popular for writing applications, and is portable to boot.
Microsoft hates this
Microsoft tries to co-opt Java
Microsoft gets hat handed to them
Microsoft hates this
Microsoft decides to clone Java
Microsoft starts "project C.O.O.L." to develop their own "C Object Oriented Langauge" and runtime *cough*java
Microsoft hires away yet more Borland developers to do this for them
Microsoft rolls out.Not, their immature Windows-only java environment clone, to great fawning by the trade press and, especially, Paul Thurrott, MSFT lapdog and footstool.
Microsoft's marketing machine fucks up, calling anything and everything Something.Net
Microsoft starts trying to tell people that "OO is soo... yeasterday. You want Indigo."
Macs hold value better than PCs. Something to keep in mind -- you will be upgrading your hardware one day, after all. If you can get more for your old machine, your new one is effectively that much cheaper.
Your seller unloaded your CSX machine for $350, while iBooks in that performance range are going for about 2x that on eBay.
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Why do you spend your time defending Microsoft? Just curious.
After installing this update, Airport fails to connect reliably, and when it does connect, it's very slow and unpredictable (ping times to the local access point, 6 feet away, vary from 30ms - 200ms).
Sprint offers the Sony Ericsson T608.
The link above is from last yeat, and I don't see the T608 on the sprintpcs website, but a friend in Atlanta just got one and loves it.
I keep asking Verizon, "When will you have a bluetooh-data phone?" I guess they can just come out and say "never," now.
Using the right datatype to begin with is better, of course.
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Welcome, Microsofties!
Finally, Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" exercise begins in earnest.
Hehe
I hope some bright I.T. reporter will write a story about how "Linux source code leaks" are not a security issue, but part of the development process, making Linux safer than Windows. I mean, if the Windows source is so full of bad code and bad design that releasing it represents a threat to national security (Jim Allchin's words), while Linux has always had its source code freely published -- it standsto reason that Open Source software is of higher quality.
Think about not abusing your +1 bonus to post lame AOL "mee too" shit
Canopy currently owns 4.1% of TrollTech. SCO Group owns 1.6%.
http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/investors.html
This doesn't make them evil, and that's not why I was pointing out the Canopy affiliation. If fact, my post was pro-Trolltech, in that it promoted QTopia, a Trolltech product.
You got your Karma points, though. Be happy.
That other Canopy company has a very nice small-system interface an application toolkit available for Linux. In fact, a certain top-selling Japanese PDA is based on it.
Linux + QTopia would certainly be better than, say, BREW. I hope it takes off.
In this case, it's the hegemony of... Europe. The U.S. is not the leader in extensing the term of copyright. I think France was the first to go life + 70 years. The U.S. extended to life + 50 only when it ratified the Berne Convention, and extended to life + 70 (Sonny Bono Act) only after several other countries.
Right now, this may look like a case of "Australia conforming with the U.S.," but if you step back a little, it's "Australia conforming with Europe, as the U.S. did a few years ago."
It's all a crock, of course. I want copyright to last 14 years like it used to. Maybe less! Screw Mickey!
An excellent idea. This could work well for Google and Mozilla. They can pitch "GoogleBrowser" or "GoogleWeb" as more secure, more feature-rich, and easier to use. Luckily, these things are already true, and Google won't have to do all that much development, beyond branding and optionally adding some google-specific enhancements.
Was iPhoto really based on Picasa? Or is Picasa just the closest thing to iPhoto-for-Windows?
Just because it's in the U.S. doesn't mean it's not corruption and acceptable. I'd say their intentions and methods are clear.
Ah, the sweet voice of reason. I didn't realize ACs could mark people as Foes. Malakai.
I'm sure you're familiar with "Nested Mode." No? Try it.
IHBTA.
I know you are. I wasn't poking fun at you. Re-read my reply. I appreciate your posting.
Are you having a nice conversation with yourself? I post with my name.
IHBT.
Hi! Thanks for the corroboration! Malakai will be by later to give you your tin-foil hat and foil polish, and perform the indoctrination ritual.
Hehe! A little touchy, aren't you? I said nothing about liking or not liking Bill Gates. I also said nothing about your clients (internal and external).
I just stated out the true raison d'etre of DotNet. it's role as a tool *is* secondary -- to Microsoft.
I notice that you did not contradict me.
MSFT created DotNet and C# to displace Java, maintain some measure of control over application development, and reinforce their OS monopoly. Please provide proof to the contrary -- you seem to feel strongly about it. Lay it out for us.
"Wonderfull [sic] logic."
Yes. You made arguments and assertions that I didn't, attributed them to me, then faulted me for them. Yes, truly wonderful.
Microsoft lobbies to avoid penalties under the law, to reduce governmental oversight of itself, and to reduce enforcement of judgements already handed down.
Duh.
That C# takes ideas from java is irrelevant.
Maybe you like C#, maybe you don't. maybe it's useful for your project, maybe it's not. Those are side issues -- its role as a tool is secondary.
DotNet performs the task for which it was designed very well. That task is, of course, to contain programming talent and effort within the Windows world. That DotNet better than VB and Win32 is fundamentally a testament to how awful VB and Win32 are.
I'm not bagging C# or DotNet on their technical merits. They are not bed in that respect. But C# and DotNet's utility as development tools for Windows are only secondary to their utility as a means for maintaining Microsoft's control of the market.
C# and DotNet are beautiful Gates on the prison of the computing world.
*sigh*
Control freaks.
Macs hold value better than PCs. Something to keep in mind -- you will be upgrading your hardware one day, after all. If you can get more for your old machine, your new one is effectively that much cheaper.
Your seller unloaded your CSX machine for $350, while iBooks in that performance range are going for about 2x that on eBay.