OK, maybe not. But they sure are struggling to get something new and better to market.
Vista is a flop not in a commercial sense of pounds, shillings and pence but in that it has damaged the brand.
And listen to this one... I travel to work on the tube in London. Quite often you see people reading tech books on the way in or out. Yesterday, for the first time ever there was someone (other than me, of course) reading a Linux tech book.
Yes, I had a 14.4k modem back in 1994/95 which was considered ok, but still not fast enough to seriously considering using a browser. I borrowed a 28k one from my work and downloaded "chello" by ftp in later May 1995 and that was that...
Where do you get this garbage from? See here for just one site I wrote that uses AJAX just fine. The main difference I can see with IE is the way it treats (or what it regards as) idempotent requests. But there is no fundamental difference in user experience.
I love free software, but less of the tripe, please.
The free software moevement has done this - not Microsoft. three years ago they were still flogging browser code with four year old bugs in it - because nobody was challenging them (or rather nobody who relied on cash from software sales was allowed to challenge them). Then along came Firefox and the rules of the games were totally subverted.
The lesson ought to be clear. If you want better Windows software, start switching to Linux and other free software offerings now - because it is only when MS are under threat from competition that they bother with customer needs.
Well, because in the quantum scenario the electrons would be in all the states at once (well, there would be a probablistic spread) while in the silcon one they would only ever be in the final state regardless of whether you'd actually measured them or not.
Granted, I didn't really grasp the point about how you collapse the probablistic distribution to the correct state unless you have a lot of these 1,000 electron computers. maybe somebody else could explain that? It's more than 20 years since I did the undergrad QM stuff.
Err, no. I was right. I didn't say it was "the same everywhere", I said "looks the same everywhere" - meaning it looks like clumps of matter in galaxies.
What I hadn't done, because the link was broken, was RTFA and so therefore I thought this was about the Milky Way. Having read the New Scientist piece I now realise we are not being set up as privileged observers, but at the cosmological level this still wrankles because, as you say, the galaxy looks otherwise normal.
OK, it's now more than twenty years since my astrophysics degree, but the fundamental principle of cosmology was that, at a large scale, the universe looks the same everywhere. Now we are being told it does not and, in fact, we live in a special corner?
I switched to GIT for tracking my Linux kernel work a few months ago and once I'd gotten used to it I wondered why I'd spent all that time using CVS and then SVN (yes, I know git wasn't available before). GIT is generally being credited with the accelerating pace of Linux kernel development. As a serious question, other than the hassle of a switch, are there good reasons for sticking with CVS or SVN or is GIT now The One True Way?
What the parent said. Worth also repeating that the British were as beaten as the French except they had the channel to protect them, a government that said it was prepared to die choking on its own blood than to surrender and the RAF and Royal Navy to seal the deal. The French could have retreated to Algeria, then part of metropolitan France, but their homeland would still have been occupied.
The contrast with France and Italy is interesting: there were a lot of anti-Republicans in France in 1940 and they backed the armistice. They were then left utterly discredited (though obviously haven't gone away - see Le Pen), but the battle that was started on 14 July 1789 was settled forever on 20 August 1944. For Italy, though, because so many fascists got away with it (especially as some of them could say they were behind the capitualtion), the country has been described as being engaged in a low intensity civil war ever since.
I'm sure I read recently that most of the machines infected by the worm were in the US. So trying to cut off Russia isn't just stupid, it's not going to fix the problem.
But malware is not like drugs - no user of an infected machine is hooked or needs malware. So they have a direct incentive to fix the problem. Especially if their ISP started to get heavy with them. We can kill this off at source.
For sure, zero day exploits are another matter. But one thing at a time.
The battle is just to get to the point where the public authorities accept they can no longer post up websites that only work with MS's proprietary stuff - I think we'll start getting there this year. Not quite The Year Of Linux On The Desktop, but possibly the year where the rebel alliance win a few tactical victories on the long march to power.
I am sorry, but I left with the feeling, having read the above that it is a troll. It certainly repeats the most widely used piece of anti-GPL nonsense: namely that if you use a kernel system call (the way that userland interacts with the kernel) somehow you will be "infected" by the GPL. It's a lie. And nothing but a lie. But advocates of proprietary software (or rather certain types of advocates) love to promote it because it sounds like something that might happen to the suits who don't know the difference between a system call and a derivative work.
Despite all the recent hoopla about Russian criminal gangs the article makes it clear that the US leads the world in zombied boxes.
My point is not that Americans are evil, but rather than we need to look a lot closer to home in tackling these problems rather than looking for some grand criminal conspiracy to crack.
The conspiracy may exist but if local ISPs simply refused to route packets from zombied boxes then their owners would soon work out they had to do something.
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OK, maybe not. But they sure are struggling to get something new and better to market.
Vista is a flop not in a commercial sense of pounds, shillings and pence but in that it has damaged the brand.
And listen to this one... I travel to work on the tube in London. Quite often you see people reading tech books on the way in or out. Yesterday, for the first time ever there was someone (other than me, of course) reading a Linux tech book.
The revolution was, it is and it will be!
Yes, I had a 14.4k modem back in 1994/95 which was considered ok, but still not fast enough to seriously considering using a browser. I borrowed a 28k one from my work and downloaded "chello" by ftp in later May 1995 and that was that...
Modifying your own driver for compatibility reasons is perfectly legal in most jurisdictions, though distributing the modified driver may not be.
And surely a diff is not a derived work in itself - is it?
I wonder if Fermat really did have a proof. Thoughts?
Of course, as a scientist I do. But won't it also slaughter internet based commerce?
Surely there is a greater risk of a high energy flare on the nearest star getting us first?
Where do you get this garbage from? See here for just one site I wrote that uses AJAX just fine. The main difference I can see with IE is the way it treats (or what it regards as) idempotent requests. But there is no fundamental difference in user experience.
I love free software, but less of the tripe, please.
The free software moevement has done this - not Microsoft. three years ago they were still flogging browser code with four year old bugs in it - because nobody was challenging them (or rather nobody who relied on cash from software sales was allowed to challenge them). Then along came Firefox and the rules of the games were totally subverted.
The lesson ought to be clear. If you want better Windows software, start switching to Linux and other free software offerings now - because it is only when MS are under threat from competition that they bother with customer needs.
Just added this to the wiki. Has anybody used it recently? I was very surprised to find that it is still there, in fact.
well spotted Batperson.
Have to say I'd never have sussed it for that, but now you say so it is obviously correct.
Probabalistic, even.
Well, because in the quantum scenario the electrons would be in all the states at once (well, there would be a probablistic spread) while in the silcon one they would only ever be in the final state regardless of whether you'd actually measured them or not.
Granted, I didn't really grasp the point about how you collapse the probablistic distribution to the correct state unless you have a lot of these 1,000 electron computers. maybe somebody else could explain that? It's more than 20 years since I did the undergrad QM stuff.
...but could someone else who has explain the final par to me? Does he mean God will reveal the solution? Or have i just missed something obvious?
Err, no. I was right. I didn't say it was "the same everywhere", I said "looks the same everywhere" - meaning it looks like clumps of matter in galaxies.
What I hadn't done, because the link was broken, was RTFA and so therefore I thought this was about the Milky Way. Having read the New Scientist piece I now realise we are not being set up as privileged observers, but at the cosmological level this still wrankles because, as you say, the galaxy looks otherwise normal.
OK, it's now more than twenty years since my astrophysics degree, but the fundamental principle of cosmology was that, at a large scale, the universe looks the same everywhere. Now we are being told it does not and, in fact, we live in a special corner?
Yes, but does he use emacs or vi? That's what we want to know!
I switched to GIT for tracking my Linux kernel work a few months ago and once I'd gotten used to it I wondered why I'd spent all that time using CVS and then SVN (yes, I know git wasn't available before). GIT is generally being credited with the accelerating pace of Linux kernel development. As a serious question, other than the hassle of a switch, are there good reasons for sticking with CVS or SVN or is GIT now The One True Way?
What the parent said. Worth also repeating that the British were as beaten as the French except they had the channel to protect them, a government that said it was prepared to die choking on its own blood than to surrender and the RAF and Royal Navy to seal the deal. The French could have retreated to Algeria, then part of metropolitan France, but their homeland would still have been occupied.
The contrast with France and Italy is interesting: there were a lot of anti-Republicans in France in 1940 and they backed the armistice. They were then left utterly discredited (though obviously haven't gone away - see Le Pen), but the battle that was started on 14 July 1789 was settled forever on 20 August 1944. For Italy, though, because so many fascists got away with it (especially as some of them could say they were behind the capitualtion), the country has been described as being engaged in a low intensity civil war ever since.
I'm sure I read recently that most of the machines infected by the worm were in the US. So trying to cut off Russia isn't just stupid, it's not going to fix the problem.
But malware is not like drugs - no user of an infected machine is hooked or needs malware. So they have a direct incentive to fix the problem. Especially if their ISP started to get heavy with them. We can kill this off at source.
For sure, zero day exploits are another matter. But one thing at a time.
The battle is just to get to the point where the public authorities accept they can no longer post up websites that only work with MS's proprietary stuff - I think we'll start getting there this year. Not quite The Year Of Linux On The Desktop, but possibly the year where the rebel alliance win a few tactical victories on the long march to power.
I am sorry, but I left with the feeling, having read the above that it is a troll. It certainly repeats the most widely used piece of anti-GPL nonsense: namely that if you use a kernel system call (the way that userland interacts with the kernel) somehow you will be "infected" by the GPL. It's a lie. And nothing but a lie. But advocates of proprietary software (or rather certain types of advocates) love to promote it because it sounds like something that might happen to the suits who don't know the difference between a system call and a derivative work.
The mods chopped it from the posted article, but you are a Dreamcast owner I'd really like your help
Despite all the recent hoopla about Russian criminal gangs the article makes it clear that the US leads the world in zombied boxes.
My point is not that Americans are evil, but rather than we need to look a lot closer to home in tackling these problems rather than looking for some grand criminal conspiracy to crack.
The conspiracy may exist but if local ISPs simply refused to route packets from zombied boxes then their owners would soon work out they had to do something.
"welcome"? Welcome to whom? Certainly not the users of hard drives?
America's retreat into merchantilism is a sad sight.
Short of making your own, no. Though obviously you could get a coders' cable - they're about $10 and boot to a ramdisk