If the people desgining the hardware and software for the phone had half a brain, they'd check the battery status before attempting to switch it to 5x power usage and not do it if the battery were too low to support it..
I think you meant to say ISS stupidly makes the vulnerability known before notifying Apache, Apache scrambles to put in a fix. Apple puts out a fix since everyone else is and they'd look like a tool to be the only ones without patched Apache and OpenSSH.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Apple in any way, but they don't exactly deserve kudos for this. Its their job to fix known issues, so they do it, as does Microsoft, as do many Open Source contributors (who do get a bit more kudos since usually they have no commercial obligation to do so).
I wish more people would speak out about the scary reaction Congress has had to this event!
Not only do they NOT want to seperate church and state, they also seem to want to remove the checks & balances in place in our government. Let the Supreme Court handle it, Congressional fuckwits. Either way it ends up going its their job, NOT yours!
Actually I wish the entire idea of a forced Pledge of Allegiance would be done away with.
The separation of church and state is one thing (which I agree with)...But the whole concept of the pledge of allegiance smacks of propaganda and indoctrination.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no commie-hippe-whatever. Hell, I don't even use Linux... But forcing kids to pledge their allegiance to flag/country/god/whatever every day just smacks of so much wrongness. Let these ideas stand on their own merits, not be points of indoctrination.
And lastly, I think if anything a forced pledge of allegiance is self-harming in that, due to having to say it each day kids view it as some form of rote punishment. The words behind the pledge are lost because they learn to recite them like robots long before they can really understand the implications of the words. Why do this?
The jarring settings were done completely on purpose. P>
Let me ask you a question...Didn't the Georgetown (where the first murder DIDN'T occur) of then look like the Georgetown of now, except for the flying vehicles and cars? Now let me ask you a second question, doesn't the Georgetown of now look like the Georgetown of 50 years ago, except for the cars? Drive though Sunnyvale sometime.. Architecturely its like driving through the 1970s....
Not everything changes at the same rate... You can have a modern neighborhood next to an older more classical neighborhood. Minority Report is completely faithful to reality in reflecting this. I thought the disparity in the settings was *genius*.
FWIW, I thought the pseduo-3D holographs (from John's family etc) were also genius. Someone obviously did at least some amount of research on image-based rendering and the limitations of displaying 3D that's captured from one angle.
The answer depends upon way too many variables that aren't supplied within the question.
The answer to this question in any form is way too specific for certain circumstances to be answered in the general case.
Did the last company file a patent on the method? Does the last company view the solution as a trade secret? How 'obvious' is the solution to someone skilled in the field? Etc, etc, etc.
They are talking about what amounts to ERROR CODES here. Not SOURCE CODE. Mechanics want to know what certain error messages mean, they don't want the fucking source code. How many mechanics are going to fix bugs in a RTOS car? And if they had access would you even want to drive your car knowing that "Big Joe" from down at Jiffy Lube reworked some of the brake logic?
Everyone saying this is some sort of victory for Open Source is an illiterate moron, or didn't read the article.
There's a number of great lines in there, like the one where CmdrTaco says that Slashdot 'breaks stories' that MSNBC will later pick up!! Hah hah. What stories has Slashdot ever "broken"? Note: Linking to a page where a story has "broken" doesn't make you the "braker".
But wait, this is the kicker:
"Malda, who goes by the alias "CmdrTaco," today oversees a must-read Web site for anyone trying to read the collective pulse of the tech industry."
Hahah hahahah!! Yeah Slashdot is the collective pulse of the tech industry... I repeat, hahah hahahah!
Though your game example is true, that's hardly a "ton" of usage. Its peanuts compared to widespread mp3 usage, and only like that to avoid the $3k/title license required to use mp3.
This video format may be used in games for the same reason, but its not going to be used for the majority of video on line, nowhere close.
The good programmers (which admittedly aren't ALL programmers) didn't so much get sloppy as they stopped sweating the small details.
Sure, someone could rewrite Microsoft Excel in x86 assembly and maybe make it run twice as fast in 1/3 the memory space, but it would take years of dedicated effort just to port what they have now, nevermind ongoing maintenance, which would then be a nightmare.
Of course, on embedded systems you often have to have the small & simple mindset that was around when 64K of memory was a huge amount on any system...But trying to extend that to saying people who program so-called "bloatware" for PC level systems are bad programmers is completely wrong.
Sort of how OGG took over the MP3 world? Not likely. Its nice to have an optional patent-unencumbered method for video & audio sharing, but anyone who thinks this will be anything more than a tiny niche product living in the shadow of MPEG4/WMV really needs to get out of his mom's basement more.
I dont think mod points really exist anymore. At any rate its been maybe a year since ive seen any under my various accounts, some of which are still above 50 karma
Nothing at E3 was givin an award entitled "Game of the Year".
This whole topic is so far off base. The whole point of E3 is for companies to show off games that aren't yet available. "Best game of E3" by definition means "Best game Shown at E3...at which none of the games shown are yet available, because its a trade show..focused on games..that aren't released yet"!
DDR is cheaper, but its not better. Don't believe the latency myth. RDRAM is better in virtually every real-world situation. SDRAM-DDR only ever comes out on top in pathological unrealistic kludgemark tests.
Actually the notion that the Internet routes around damage is largely a myth these days. I mean, technically the ability is there, but its not setup to really do so on a widescale.
Have you ever experienced a Windows crash... when it crashes, it crashes hard, and geez, what crashes.
Have you ever experienced a Linux kernel panic? When it crashes, it crashes hard, and geez what crashes.
Hello? Foolio? If your OS crashes, no matter what OS it is, you're fucked, period. You could make a case that Windows crashes more than Linux except you'd be making shit up...Its not 1999 anymore, Windows 2000/XP are just as, if not more, stable than any other OS available for x86 processors.
I hardly think Sun needs Microsoft's help when it comes to confusing the user and breaking Java apps. Have you ever tried using even Sun's own implementation of Java? Slow as fuck. Buggy as fuck. Java's OK on the server where workarounds for the shady concept of WORA can be implemented, but it sucks ass as a client-side language.
The most ironic part is even though Microsoft DID pull some shady tricks with their JVM implementation, it was by far the best JVM to run client-side apps on, bar none. Even when running pure Java (non-MS extended) apps you didn't have to sit there waiting 20 minutes looking at a blank gray box while the JVM initalized, unlike Sun's own VM..
I don't have a problem with Disney using Linux because its free, I was just pointing out that their adoption of Linux is not an indication that they are reversing any of their ideas on copyright issues.
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If the people desgining the hardware and software for the phone had half a brain, they'd check the battery status before attempting to switch it to 5x power usage and not do it if the battery were too low to support it..
Why should it?
Upgrading Apache and OpenSSH (and most other apps, even daemons/services) doesn't even require a reboot on Win2000/XP. Welcome to the future!
You must have been neutered, right? To make that comparison?
Wow man, you must have big balls to admit in a public forum that you've been neutered. Wait, strike that...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Apple in any way, but they don't exactly deserve kudos for this. Its their job to fix known issues, so they do it, as does Microsoft, as do many Open Source contributors (who do get a bit more kudos since usually they have no commercial obligation to do so).
Muahahahahahah!!!
Not only do they NOT want to seperate church and state, they also seem to want to remove the checks & balances in place in our government. Let the Supreme Court handle it, Congressional fuckwits. Either way it ends up going its their job, NOT yours!
The separation of church and state is one thing (which I agree with)...But the whole concept of the pledge of allegiance smacks of propaganda and indoctrination.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no commie-hippe-whatever. Hell, I don't even use Linux... But forcing kids to pledge their allegiance to flag/country/god/whatever every day just smacks of so much wrongness. Let these ideas stand on their own merits, not be points of indoctrination.
And lastly, I think if anything a forced pledge of allegiance is self-harming in that, due to having to say it each day kids view it as some form of rote punishment. The words behind the pledge are lost because they learn to recite them like robots long before they can really understand the implications of the words. Why do this?
Not everything changes at the same rate... You can have a modern neighborhood next to an older more classical neighborhood. Minority Report is completely faithful to reality in reflecting this. I thought the disparity in the settings was *genius*.
FWIW, I thought the pseduo-3D holographs (from John's family etc) were also genius. Someone obviously did at least some amount of research on image-based rendering and the limitations of displaying 3D that's captured from one angle.
DONT EVER REPLY TO MY MESSAGES AGAIN COCKSMOKER! or else I will kill you and kill everyone you know!
In short...Linux SUCKS. And so do you, COCKSMOKER!
The answer depends upon way too many variables that aren't supplied within the question.
The answer to this question in any form is way too specific for certain circumstances to be answered in the general case.
Did the last company file a patent on the method? Does the last company view the solution as a trade secret? How 'obvious' is the solution to someone skilled in the field? Etc, etc, etc.
And by THAT I don't mean to say programmers are better/smarter, they just have a different skillset.
How about if they stick to fixing cars, and I stick to programming? Everyone's happy...
Everyone saying this is some sort of victory for Open Source is an illiterate moron, or didn't read the article.
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There's a number of great lines in there, like the one where CmdrTaco says that Slashdot 'breaks stories' that MSNBC will later pick up!! Hah hah. What stories has Slashdot ever "broken"? Note: Linking to a page where a story has "broken" doesn't make you the "braker".
But wait, this is the kicker:
"Malda, who goes by the alias "CmdrTaco," today oversees a must-read Web site for anyone trying to read the collective pulse of the tech industry."
Hahah hahahah!! Yeah Slashdot is the collective pulse of the tech industry... I repeat, hahah hahahah!
This video format may be used in games for the same reason, but its not going to be used for the majority of video on line, nowhere close.
Hardly 'taking over the world'.
Sure, someone could rewrite Microsoft Excel in x86 assembly and maybe make it run twice as fast in 1/3 the memory space, but it would take years of dedicated effort just to port what they have now, nevermind ongoing maintenance, which would then be a nightmare.
Of course, on embedded systems you often have to have the small & simple mindset that was around when 64K of memory was a huge amount on any system...But trying to extend that to saying people who program so-called "bloatware" for PC level systems are bad programmers is completely wrong.
Sort of how OGG took over the MP3 world? Not likely. Its nice to have an optional patent-unencumbered method for video & audio sharing, but anyone who thinks this will be anything more than a tiny niche product living in the shadow of MPEG4/WMV really needs to get out of his mom's basement more.
I dont think mod points really exist anymore. At any rate its been maybe a year since ive seen any under my various accounts, some of which are still above 50 karma
No.
This whole topic is so far off base. The whole point of E3 is for companies to show off games that aren't yet available. "Best game of E3" by definition means "Best game Shown at E3...at which none of the games shown are yet available, because its a trade show..focused on games..that aren't released yet"!
Every day Slashdot sinks to new lows...
DDR is cheaper, but its not better. Don't believe the latency myth. RDRAM is better in virtually every real-world situation. SDRAM-DDR only ever comes out on top in pathological unrealistic kludgemark tests.
Actually the notion that the Internet routes around damage is largely a myth these days. I mean, technically the ability is there, but its not setup to really do so on a widescale.
Have you ever experienced a Linux kernel panic? When it crashes, it crashes hard, and geez what crashes.
Hello? Foolio? If your OS crashes, no matter what OS it is, you're fucked, period. You could make a case that Windows crashes more than Linux except you'd be making shit up...Its not 1999 anymore, Windows 2000/XP are just as, if not more, stable than any other OS available for x86 processors.
Wake up, you're living in the past!
The most ironic part is even though Microsoft DID pull some shady tricks with their JVM implementation, it was by far the best JVM to run client-side apps on, bar none. Even when running pure Java (non-MS extended) apps you didn't have to sit there waiting 20 minutes looking at a blank gray box while the JVM initalized, unlike Sun's own VM..
I don't have a problem with Disney using Linux because its free, I was just pointing out that their adoption of Linux is not an indication that they are reversing any of their ideas on copyright issues.