There's no searching required./Applications and anything in it is group-writable by the admin group. The default user (the one practically every mac user runs as) is a member of the admin group.
And I'm not saying mass deleting.. I'm talking about modifying the apps inside.. so you won't even know you're infected.
The problem is that you don't need a password to overwrite everything in/Applications.
I can totally see a program that contains a virus that infects iTunes, Safari, whatever. It'll be like the oldschool DOS viruses that infected every.exe on your drive.
Actually, it costs money to power them, and it costs money to have someone monitoring them. In fact, there was an article not too long ago talking about how thousands of cameras aren't even turned on because they can't afford it.
Exchange support is huge in business. I know of several companies that won't even consider using macs/allowing someone's personal system on a network because they can't support their mail system.
What? Why wouldn't those companies just buy Entourage?
Strange companies that need exchange but won't pony up for Office.
apple OS releases generally Improve performance on the same given hardware.
That hasn't been true since Spotlight was released. Ever since, each version of OSX added more and more crap that I can't turn off, like the 100% useless Dashboard.
During the whole of the 1990s there were only two "main" OSes - System 7.x and then 8.x.
You're wrong on both sides. System 7 came out in 91, so obviously in 90, people used System 6. Mac OS 9 came out in October 1999, so for at least a few months in the 90s, people used 9.
Don't forget that Apple was basically stagnant in the 90s. They spent most of it working on Copland.
1. Google Voice allows you to make calls directly from your computer over Voice Over IP. I know this, because a friend of mine used this feature when his cell phone service got shut off because he was delinquent on his bill.
I have google voice, and this is not a feature provided. You can set up skype to work with your google number, but only if you pay for the skype number first.
That and he's assuming that the harddrive actually writes out ones and zeroes. That's not how it works.
The harddrive stores information on the disk as a constant magnetic field, the only "information" on the disk is the polarity of the magnetic field. So a "bit" on disk is positive, or it is negative.
The harddrive stores information using flux reversal. A 1 is a flux reversal, a 0 is no change. So 1001110 is stored as +---+-++. Switching polarity is considered a 1, not switching is a 0. 1001110 could also be represented as -+++-+--, it all depends on the current polarity when the data is written. The harddrive uses RLL encoding, so 1001110 is actually written out as 01000010000100.
Also, you have to read the entire sector, since the data is xored together before it is RLL encoded. A single byte in a sector is garbage unless you xor it with all the bytes after it in the sector.
American English has been changing as well (albeit slowly). Punctuation is starting to move outside of quotations. It also makes more sense for us programmers.
Unfortunately, the Chicago Manual and AP Stylebooks both still recommend putting commas and periods inside quotation marks. However, they only recommend this for commas and periods. Question marks, exclamation points, colons, and semicolons all go outside of quotation marks unless they belong to the quote.
I wondered at the time where 3PO relates the description of victims, "...where you will be slowly digested over a thousand years." I was like, "Cool! It extends your life by way over ten times!"
I'm not sure why the Star Wars Universe, would use the time it takes for the Earth to orbit our Sun as a standard measurement of time. We have no idea how long a year is for them. Could be 2 hours.
This necessitated a starship as big as a moon to provide the landscape, a trench to fly down to be like the first movie and some suitable target at the end that could blow the whole thing up.
That's another thing that always annoyed me. It's space. There's no need to fly across the surface of the death star to get to a vent on the other side. Just attack the vent from the other side.
The patent is a system that covers taking a plain text file, and saying "from character 3 to character 42 is bold, from character 67 to 90 is in sans-serif. characters 3 to 90 are the first paragraph" etc.
I can tell you this is exactly how the Quark file format works. Quark 6 and above even use XML to do the styles.
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Yeah! So stop using base 10 to report sizes!
It's not 512 MiB, it's 100000000000000000000000000000b bytes.
After all, computers use base 2... why are you using base 10 to report sizes?
Your network table is wrong. A kilobit is bit * 1000, etc.
So you're saying that because computer uses base 2, everything should be reported in base 2? That'll get difficult.
Now the new 10000000000000000000000000000b ram stick!
Yeah, but shifts are "floor". No OS in the world reports a 4.8 MB file as 4 MB. You have to divide, no matter what prefix-system you're using.
Except Adobe isn't going to move over to Cocoa, and they probably never will. Apple doesn't either. iTunes is still a carbon app.
oh good, so since only one user on the box is now part of a botnet, it must be ok.
There's no searching required. /Applications and anything in it is group-writable by the admin group. The default user (the one practically every mac user runs as) is a member of the admin group.
And I'm not saying mass deleting.. I'm talking about modifying the apps inside.. so you won't even know you're infected.
The problem is that you don't need a password to overwrite everything in /Applications.
I can totally see a program that contains a virus that infects iTunes, Safari, whatever. It'll be like the oldschool DOS viruses that infected every .exe on your drive.
Actually, it costs money to power them, and it costs money to have someone monitoring them. In fact, there was an article not too long ago talking about how thousands of cameras aren't even turned on because they can't afford it.
For very narrow measures of "recently". Xcode came out in 2003. Visual Studio Express came out in 2005.
What? Why wouldn't those companies just buy Entourage?
Strange companies that need exchange but won't pony up for Office.
That hasn't been true since Spotlight was released. Ever since, each version of OSX added more and more crap that I can't turn off, like the 100% useless Dashboard.
You're wrong on both sides. System 7 came out in 91, so obviously in 90, people used System 6. Mac OS 9 came out in October 1999, so for at least a few months in the 90s, people used 9.
Don't forget that Apple was basically stagnant in the 90s. They spent most of it working on Copland.
You forget that Apple users measure performance in cubic centimeters. I'm sure your inspiron slim is huge compared to the mini. :)
I have google voice, and this is not a feature provided. You can set up skype to work with your google number, but only if you pay for the skype number first.
I thought that it was because it's basically a "get rid of PPC legacy" upgrade.
That and he's assuming that the harddrive actually writes out ones and zeroes. That's not how it works.
The harddrive stores information on the disk as a constant magnetic field, the only "information" on the disk is the polarity of the magnetic field. So a "bit" on disk is positive, or it is negative.
The harddrive stores information using flux reversal. A 1 is a flux reversal, a 0 is no change. So 1001110 is stored as +---+-++. Switching polarity is considered a 1, not switching is a 0. 1001110 could also be represented as -+++-+--, it all depends on the current polarity when the data is written. The harddrive uses RLL encoding, so 1001110 is actually written out as 01000010000100.
Also, you have to read the entire sector, since the data is xored together before it is RLL encoded. A single byte in a sector is garbage unless you xor it with all the bytes after it in the sector.
An agreement not to do that would be redundant, since that's already illegal.
American English has been changing as well (albeit slowly). Punctuation is starting to move outside of quotations. It also makes more sense for us programmers.
Unfortunately, the Chicago Manual and AP Stylebooks both still recommend putting commas and periods inside quotation marks. However, they only recommend this for commas and periods. Question marks, exclamation points, colons, and semicolons all go outside of quotation marks unless they belong to the quote.
I'm not sure why the Star Wars Universe, would use the time it takes for the Earth to orbit our Sun as a standard measurement of time. We have no idea how long a year is for them. Could be 2 hours.
But it does speak in plain english.
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I would be upset if instead it said "beep boop beep beep".
That's another thing that always annoyed me. It's space. There's no need to fly across the surface of the death star to get to a vent on the other side. Just attack the vent from the other side.
Statistically speaking, the survey would have to be random sampling for that confidence interval.
I personally know some Sony fanboys who would fill out the survey and say their 360 RRODed even though they never owned a 360.
I think even kids today read Roald Dahl.
Of course id software has completely ruined the title of that book for me. "The BFG" means something else to me now.
Except this patent is nonsense.
The patent is a system that covers taking a plain text file, and saying "from character 3 to character 42 is bold, from character 67 to 90 is in sans-serif. characters 3 to 90 are the first paragraph" etc.
I can tell you this is exactly how the Quark file format works. Quark 6 and above even use XML to do the styles.