I want Capt Keene and Leasure Suit Larry on my iPhone. They were written for iPhone resolution (CGA = Crap Grapic Adaptor) in the days of 12MHz i386 with 640k and no HD, so there should be no problem with performance!
I expect an OS to be a robust, secure, program loader and a robust, cohesive collection of resources that applications use. Yes, I know I used "robust" twice. It's important.
If you want those features, you have gone to the wrong place! You should be using FreeBSD and not buying MS products! Dont you ever read the label?
I had a similar conversation with my mum (who used to write Fortran II on IBM709's). She is still complaining her quilting machine interface is not supported on UltraSparc hardware though.
"inciting religious hatred" and "obscenity" - neither term is defined.
No need for a definition - we all know "insulting the Labour party" is an offence on both counts,
and pretty much anything that might potentially be politically incorrect can be classed as one or the other by someone.
The present UK government thinks George Orwell was describing how it ought to be.
but the incubator they have developed can be built for less than $1,000
Until you include the insurance against being sued. In America anything medical has to be insured against enormous law suits. It s unrelated to the risk of causing damage to pateints. It is very closely related to the potential profit from lawyers.
And the FA approval orocess could reasonably be expted to add $1,000,000 to the cost of each unit if you are not careful.
when you pay for a license you have more weight to throw around
Have you tried reporting problems to MS? Half a day on hold, and then you get cut off. You get a hell of a lot more support for OpenSource (ie e-mail the maintainer, get bug fix back - yeah, I know it may take months, but when did you ever get a Windows bug fixed?).
I admit to haveing a poor grasp of cyber crime., However, I am sure that my problem is criminals using cyber techniques. That includes spam, and use of spam for selling fake/illegal/nonexistent goods, and for stock hyping.
Why is the spam distributed by botnets? to make money! Yeah, really... they are not doing it to worhip the god of Bot!
How does threatening te credit card companies work? Well, I for one have a good knowledget of how the credit card companies are responsible for who they do business with in my country. If they suspect you might be thinking of planning to perform an illegal transaction, no merchant account for you! However, The same companies appear not to take the same attitude in other countries. They could, and would, if it was in their best interests. Not being shut down by the US authorities is definitely in their best interests.
Ergo, threat of being shut down leads to more rigorous performance of validation of client's business model.
Anyway, Id bet a huge amount of ASCII that the Credit card companies know perfectly well which of their clients use spam to advertise. They don't feel the need to do anything about it, because if they did spam would stop If the spam stopped, then the cyber criminals might suspect that the US authorities were not the bunch of nancy-boys they currently appear to be. (Prosecuting one spammer a year buys you no street cred around here. You have to shoot at least one rival gang member a year for real street cred.)
Why do you do nothing about the credit card companies handling the proceeds of crime? Most cybercrime relies on credit/debit card companies
For example, almost all spam promotes products paid for by credit card: if the credit card companies were threatened with puncishment for handling transactions for goods spromoted by spam, there would be no more spam.(Even spam originating in other contries promotes goods sold to Americans, and paid for through American Credit cards).
PlatSec makes it possible to limit third party application capabilities,
For Limit read block - for all intents and purposes, its not possible to get
useful apps on Symbian any more - you can pay for cr*p, but that is not the same thing.
People are saying "if its going to be locked, then I might as well buy Apple". If Symbian is going to sell phones it will only be because they dump this stupidity.
Disclaimer: my last 4 phones have been Symbian, and I wont buy another till "Symbian SIgned" is history. If they have not killed it when my contract runs out, I will get an iPhone too. (like all my freinds, family and colleagues)
You mean MS Office is Never going to run on OpenBSD/Sparc64 kit? I'm deeply shocked. I put my whole organisations future on hold because of MS's promise.
Should I really go back to OpenOffice, and being able to edit tables reliably? Or should I move to Visagra/MS Office 2007, and a life of viruses and screen candy? Help me! I just can't decide for myself!
Nope. Stonehenge was built approx 5000 years ago. At the time, farming was more or less established in England, and hunter-gatherers pretty much gone. The Druids, if there were any, lived about 2,000 years ago, by which time Stonehenge had been abandoned for over 500 years.
I say "If there were any" because the only evidence for Druids is Julius Caesar's writings, which were there to justify his invasion of England, and are probably no more accurate than reports of "Weapons of Mass Destruction". We know perfectly well that the religion of the time involved people having personal shrines in their homes, and collective worship was not practiced until the Romans (ie Julius Caesar) imported the idea.
However, a bunch of wierdos resurrected the Druid concept in Victorian times, shortly after the popular press made a connection between Druids and Stonehenge. There were no documented cases of Druids between approx 70AD and approx 1850AD.
The people who built stonehenge are genetically the same as the people who live in the area now.
it's even worser fro OpenSolaris. Yes, I said worser.
Worser is an understatement. Its even worserer than that! Sun dont even support their own framebuffer cards properly. I use OpenBSD on my Sun servers, (I have 10 to manage) It doesnt supoport the fb's either. fortunately they are servers, and I ssh into them from Intel kit:-{ (or use the serial line for initial installation).
Sun hardware rocks, (We plan two years uptime, and I have not seen that fail in 15 years of Sun use) but their drivers suck.
If the (US Based) credit card companies were threatened with being shutdown if they handled money from the goods/services promoted by spam, the whole lot would stop overnight. If MS was threatened with shutdown unless it was made vaguely safe against botnetism, it would grind to a halt.
Its not the morons that own PCs that are the problem, it is Bill Gates and the US Government
The hours wasted dealing with viruses add up to far more lifetimes than are lost as a result of Al Quaida actions. Yes folks its true, Bill Gates and Visa/Mastercard are the new Axis of Evil!
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As a UK citizen, I am currently considering moving to one of several insane countries!
Yep, its true, their code is so bad MS cant even get the Y2K bug in the right year!
I strongly advise you not to ... you could face a long and painful time in jail!
I want Capt Keene and Leasure Suit Larry on my iPhone. They were written for iPhone resolution (CGA = Crap Grapic Adaptor) in the days of 12MHz i386 with 640k and no HD, so there should be no problem with performance!
If you want those features, you have gone to the wrong place! You should be using FreeBSD and not buying MS products! Dont you ever read the label?
I had a similar conversation with my mum (who used to write Fortran II on IBM709's). She is still complaining her quilting machine interface is not supported on UltraSparc hardware though.
Whioch does nothing to improve useability! Eye candy not only makes perform like wading through treacle, it look like wading through treacle as well!
shortly after hell freezes over would be my guess!
No need for a definition - we all know "insulting the Labour party" is an offence on both counts, and pretty much anything that might potentially be politically incorrect can be classed as one or the other by someone.
The present UK government thinks George Orwell was describing how it ought to be.
Yes
You are obviously a Windows user.
Until you include the insurance against being sued. In America anything medical has to be insured against enormous law suits. It s unrelated to the risk of causing damage to pateints. It is very closely related to the potential profit from lawyers.
And the FA approval orocess could reasonably be expted to add $1,000,000 to the cost of each unit if you are not careful.
Have you tried reporting problems to MS? Half a day on hold, and then you get cut off. You get a hell of a lot more support for OpenSource (ie e-mail the maintainer, get bug fix back - yeah, I know it may take months, but when did you ever get a Windows bug fixed?).
Nonsense - barbequed goats entrails are quite tasty, while barbequed software - nyaagh!
Why is the spam distributed by botnets? to make money! Yeah, really ... they are not doing it to worhip the god of Bot!
How does threatening te credit card companies work? Well, I for one have a good knowledget of how the credit card companies are responsible for who they do business with in my country. If they suspect you might be thinking of planning to perform an illegal transaction, no merchant account for you! However, The same companies appear not to take the same attitude in other countries. They could, and would, if it was in their best interests. Not being shut down by the US authorities is definitely in their best interests.
Ergo, threat of being shut down leads to more rigorous performance of validation of client's business model.
Anyway, Id bet a huge amount of ASCII that the Credit card companies know perfectly well which of their clients use spam to advertise. They don't feel the need to do anything about it, because if they did spam would stop If the spam stopped, then the cyber criminals might suspect that the US authorities were not the bunch of nancy-boys they currently appear to be. (Prosecuting one spammer a year buys you no street cred around here. You have to shoot at least one rival gang member a year for real street cred.)
For example, almost all spam promotes products paid for by credit card: if the credit card companies were threatened with puncishment for handling transactions for goods spromoted by spam, there would be no more spam.(Even spam originating in other contries promotes goods sold to Americans, and paid for through American Credit cards).
For Limit read block - for all intents and purposes, its not possible to get useful apps on Symbian any more - you can pay for cr*p, but that is not the same thing.
People are saying "if its going to be locked, then I might as well buy Apple". If Symbian is going to sell phones it will only be because they dump this stupidity.
Disclaimer: my last 4 phones have been Symbian, and I wont buy another till "Symbian SIgned" is history. If they have not killed it when my contract runs out, I will get an iPhone too. (like all my freinds, family and colleagues)
Shopping is about the application of maths, Without Maths you can be stiffed by the averate illiterate market stall holder in seconds ...
oh, wait...
Well given that it can't boot headless, it is sure as hell not ready for the server market!
If that works, debugging someone else's Perl programs should make your brane last forever!
Never under estimate the power of a backhander.
Should I really go back to OpenOffice, and being able to edit tables reliably? Or should I move to Visagra/MS Office 2007, and a life of viruses and screen candy? Help me! I just can't decide for myself!
Nope. Stonehenge was built approx 5000 years ago. At the time, farming was more or less established in England, and hunter-gatherers pretty much gone. The Druids, if there were any, lived about 2,000 years ago, by which time Stonehenge had been abandoned for over 500 years.
I say "If there were any" because the only evidence for Druids is Julius Caesar's writings, which were there to justify his invasion of England, and are probably no more accurate than reports of "Weapons of Mass Destruction". We know perfectly well that the religion of the time involved people having personal shrines in their homes, and collective worship was not practiced until the Romans (ie Julius Caesar) imported the idea. However, a bunch of wierdos resurrected the Druid concept in Victorian times, shortly after the popular press made a connection between Druids and Stonehenge. There were no documented cases of Druids between approx 70AD and approx 1850AD.
The people who built stonehenge are genetically the same as the people who live in the area now.
Since the Glenrothes by election, i'd say days, probably.
Worser is an understatement. Its even worserer than that! Sun dont even support their own framebuffer cards properly. I use OpenBSD on my Sun servers, (I have 10 to manage) It doesnt supoport the fb's either. fortunately they are servers, and I ssh into them from Intel kit :-{ (or use the serial line for initial installation).
Sun hardware rocks, (We plan two years uptime, and I have not seen that fail in 15 years of Sun use) but their drivers suck.
Its not the morons that own PCs that are the problem, it is Bill Gates and the US Government
The hours wasted dealing with viruses add up to far more lifetimes than are lost as a result of Al Quaida actions. Yes folks its true, Bill Gates and Visa/Mastercard are the new Axis of Evil!