Apple QuickTime tries to hijack all sorts of video and audio formats already on Windows. It comes as no surprise to me that other pieces of Apple software react the same way. Not to say that they are the only ones doing it, but WMP worked great for videos and I don't need QuickTime to take over everything for me. I hate the brushed metal look, as well as the newer interfaces for WMP. WMP at least lets me put on the old school theme.
I always wondered why people did that with their if statements, thanks for the tip off. I find that a bigger problem exists, tho. What if the code that changed the uid was more obfuscated?
Like say UID is an int, and you declare a pointer to current, but offset it by a certain number of bytes so that it points at UID. Then you put a 0 in it. Now it's hard to tell what it's doing, because you don't get the direct assignment. This would go through a normal look over check most likely. It might raise some flags because of that tho.
Just thought I'd provide some ideas on the subject.
Lynx has been blocking ads for years! Most of the new browsers have a feature to turn images off, too. I know IE has had it since at least 3.x
I think I've clicked on a banner ad maybe 3 times my whole life. And those were all probably ads for games that caught my eye and then I went about browsing again, not purchasing the games then and there. Ads are a joke these days, expecially on TV. I wish people would find a new business model.
Now, where I disagree with Red Hat is that you should _not_ use Windows. Use Mac OS X. It's way better than windows in design, and just works.
If by "just works" you mean "just formats your drive", then I agree with you. Not really trying to flame, but Apple has its problems too. Some of them are pricey, like their upgrade scheme. Some of them are truly maddening, like the lack of alt+tab style switching. But to each their own. The real problem is that you cannot reccommend OSX to someone who has a PC, because it just doesn't work. If you buy a Mac, then you are probably better sticking with their OS as their hardware and software is highly proprietary.
All I know is that I went to my friend's apartment and found no fewer than 3 other access points. I tried to put my AP in with the lot, but I couldn't find a channel that gave me a good enough signal to be ~30 feet away. It works just fine if you are right close to the AP, but once you get farther away, all the signals start to cross each other. There are only 11 channels sanctioned for use in the USA. They are all very close together. They range from 2.412GHz to 2.462GHz.
If they are in tighter (aka smaller) areas, would this not restrict WiFi growth since there are so few bands that often interferrance is present? Typically you can only have about three 802.11b/g bands in use before you start to have trouble connecting to any of them.
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Xcode does seem nice, but this post is wrong in several ways, I can see why you got modded down.
To start:
This is fine and dandy in theory, as long as that is the only operation you perform. To refute, you can do two floating point multiplies on a P4 with HT in a single cpu. Thus that single CPU is doing two floating point operations that are much more complex than your FMADD. None of this is really how a flop should be determined anyways.
Secondly, Visual Studio has had edit and continue functionality for quite some time. At least version 6, which was back before 1998. The way it is implimented in XCode is possibly more complex, but it does the same thing.
Now let's talk about that cluster... It's a nice cluster, yes, but it was also very expensive. From the reports they had to pay full price. If we use the false logic for a flop from earlier, we can deduce that two $1200 PCs and a $2999 Mac can perform the same math calculations.
PCI-Xpress... With all those cards available.... Next year.
I personally have a DVD+R writer. It's 4x and I've had it since ~February. They go for about $180 now at the local stores. Anyone can have a fast DVD burner who wants one now.
In short, I agree that XCode is good, but the rest of what you say has little ground.
People can die because of the telephone companies. That is why 911 is required to work on phones even if you do not have service. If no one knows to help you, how do you get help?
You still need to keep the source closed in that case but you could potentially distribute it to your customers. However, once you let the source out, you risk them finding their own way to manage/update the code. If they can find someone who'll do the same work for cheaper, they will.
Anyone ever considered MP3.com? I mean sure, the music is free, but that's the same as giving it away. There's possibly even 100 million songs there, not to mention variety.
Either way, this doesn't seem such a big deal to me.
My two XP machines boot up and use 90MB of memory at start. This is with antivirus and a few other choice apps loaded. Win2K uses a bit more memory for most of this stuff. I run XP with the visual styles off, so that probably accounts for a large chunk of the memory you claim to be required for XP.
Eh, I'm sure MS would be happier if someone used an MS OS to run their programs. I don't really see Mono as a MS "dream come true." Step away from the wacky tobaccy.
Code that violates a patent, or the DMCA is not ok to distribute as shown by the DeCSS case. All people hosting the code to the DeCSS algorithm were ordered to take it down. You seem to have the part about binaries right, tho.
However, none of this means that distributing code written in Mono would be wrong. So carry on, and code stuff up.
I did a search for a few games I like to play. Nothing came up... My guess is they don't work.
Halo, Jedi Academy, etc
The Worms series is not working. I avoided Win2K for this reason.
It wouldn't be all that difficult for manufacturers to port their games to LInux.
I'd say it's a good deal harder than you think it is. Input code alone for *nix is a lot different than what exists in the Windows world. Let's not forget the driver issues, either. Or that there are a large handfull of distros in use and they all like to put things in different places.
It'd be easy for a big company, but not for the majority of software developers.
About the Gimp..... It's got a lot of features, but it's very hard to do what I want. I find myself looking around a lot in the menus. It's just not intuitive. I prefer MS Paint to the Gimp in useability. Adobe is on top for a reason, their software helps you do what you need and isn't a PITA to use. In my opinion, the multi-floating window interface is not good. Something more MDI like would be appreciated.
What about all those _Windows_ games that people want to play? Or all that _Windows_ software that gets sold in stores? *nix software tends to go for free on the internet, but people often don't look there for it. They look in stores and that's where they're comfortable.
Yeah, I'm sure you they'd be all over having to test all their configs and training their staff for *nix. Not to mention the months they'd have to stop shipping to do this. And then they need some drivers for all rhe items they ship. This includes laptops with wireless nic's that haven't had drivers for *nix as of yet...
It was a link on/. about a month ago. A company developed a piece of software that look for potential exploits in software. The point is that an OS is only as secure as the software you run on it. If you don't run anything on *nix, then of course it will be secure. Once you start up Apache/sendmail/etc, then you are vulnerable.
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Apple QuickTime tries to hijack all sorts of video and audio formats already on Windows. It comes as no surprise to me that other pieces of Apple software react the same way. Not to say that they are the only ones doing it, but WMP worked great for videos and I don't need QuickTime to take over everything for me. I hate the brushed metal look, as well as the newer interfaces for WMP. WMP at least lets me put on the old school theme.
I always wondered why people did that with their if statements, thanks for the tip off. I find that a bigger problem exists, tho. What if the code that changed the uid was more obfuscated?
Like say UID is an int, and you declare a pointer to current, but offset it by a certain number of bytes so that it points at UID. Then you put a 0 in it. Now it's hard to tell what it's doing, because you don't get the direct assignment. This would go through a normal look over check most likely. It might raise some flags because of that tho.
Just thought I'd provide some ideas on the subject.
Lynx has been blocking ads for years! Most of the new browsers have a feature to turn images off, too. I know IE has had it since at least 3.x
I think I've clicked on a banner ad maybe 3 times my whole life. And those were all probably ads for games that caught my eye and then I went about browsing again, not purchasing the games then and there. Ads are a joke these days, expecially on TV. I wish people would find a new business model.
I just bought OSX and I'm having a lil trouble getting it to run on my new P4 system. Perhaps you can help me out?
Didn't think so..... Oh well, back to Windows I guess.
If by "just works" you mean "just formats your drive", then I agree with you. Not really trying to flame, but Apple has its problems too. Some of them are pricey, like their upgrade scheme. Some of them are truly maddening, like the lack of alt+tab style switching. But to each their own. The real problem is that you cannot reccommend OSX to someone who has a PC, because it just doesn't work. If you buy a Mac, then you are probably better sticking with their OS as their hardware and software is highly proprietary.
All I know is that I went to my friend's apartment and found no fewer than 3 other access points. I tried to put my AP in with the lot, but I couldn't find a channel that gave me a good enough signal to be ~30 feet away. It works just fine if you are right close to the AP, but once you get farther away, all the signals start to cross each other. There are only 11 channels sanctioned for use in the USA. They are all very close together. They range from 2.412GHz to 2.462GHz.
If they are in tighter (aka smaller) areas, would this not restrict WiFi growth since there are so few bands that often interferrance is present? Typically you can only have about three 802.11b/g bands in use before you start to have trouble connecting to any of them.
To start:
This is fine and dandy in theory, as long as that is the only operation you perform. To refute, you can do two floating point multiplies on a P4 with HT in a single cpu. Thus that single CPU is doing two floating point operations that are much more complex than your FMADD. None of this is really how a flop should be determined anyways.
Secondly, Visual Studio has had edit and continue functionality for quite some time. At least version 6, which was back before 1998. The way it is implimented in XCode is possibly more complex, but it does the same thing.
Now let's talk about that cluster... It's a nice cluster, yes, but it was also very expensive. From the reports they had to pay full price. If we use the false logic for a flop from earlier, we can deduce that two $1200 PCs and a $2999 Mac can perform the same math calculations.
PCI-Xpress... With all those cards available.... Next year.
I personally have a DVD+R writer. It's 4x and I've had it since ~February. They go for about $180 now at the local stores. Anyone can have a fast DVD burner who wants one now.
In short, I agree that XCode is good, but the rest of what you say has little ground.
It's a reference to the Red Vs Blue switch paradoy. You can go watch it at www.redvsblue.com
He said games... But yeah, the Mac does have that game with the Apple logo....
The IT admin that puts hospital computers on the same network that has internet access is an idiot, regardless of what OS they run.
People can die because of the telephone companies. That is why 911 is required to work on phones even if you do not have service. If no one knows to help you, how do you get help?
You still need to keep the source closed in that case but you could potentially distribute it to your customers. However, once you let the source out, you risk them finding their own way to manage/update the code. If they can find someone who'll do the same work for cheaper, they will.
Anyone ever considered MP3.com? I mean sure, the music is free, but that's the same as giving it away. There's possibly even 100 million songs there, not to mention variety.
Either way, this doesn't seem such a big deal to me.
My two XP machines boot up and use 90MB of memory at start. This is with antivirus and a few other choice apps loaded. Win2K uses a bit more memory for most of this stuff. I run XP with the visual styles off, so that probably accounts for a large chunk of the memory you claim to be required for XP.
The Creative Jukebox Zen is about the same size and about $200 less depending on where you buy it.
Eh, I'm sure MS would be happier if someone used an MS OS to run their programs. I don't really see Mono as a MS "dream come true." Step away from the wacky tobaccy.
Code that violates a patent, or the DMCA is not ok to distribute as shown by the DeCSS case. All people hosting the code to the DeCSS algorithm were ordered to take it down. You seem to have the part about binaries right, tho.
However, none of this means that distributing code written in Mono would be wrong. So carry on, and code stuff up.
I can hear the IBM Deathstar march now...... CRUNCH CRUNCH, BZZZZZZZZT, CRUNCH CRUNCH, BZZZZZZZZT.
I thought IBM was getting out of the storeage market.... Ah well, we'll just see how their track record holds up after this.
I did a search for a few games I like to play. Nothing came up... My guess is they don't work.
Halo, Jedi Academy, etc
The Worms series is not working. I avoided Win2K for this reason.
I'd say it's a good deal harder than you think it is. Input code alone for *nix is a lot different than what exists in the Windows world. Let's not forget the driver issues, either. Or that there are a large handfull of distros in use and they all like to put things in different places.
It'd be easy for a big company, but not for the majority of software developers.
About the Gimp..... It's got a lot of features, but it's very hard to do what I want. I find myself looking around a lot in the menus. It's just not intuitive. I prefer MS Paint to the Gimp in useability. Adobe is on top for a reason, their software helps you do what you need and isn't a PITA to use. In my opinion, the multi-floating window interface is not good. Something more MDI like would be appreciated.
What about all those _Windows_ games that people want to play? Or all that _Windows_ software that gets sold in stores? *nix software tends to go for free on the internet, but people often don't look there for it. They look in stores and that's where they're comfortable.
Yeah, I'm sure you they'd be all over having to test all their configs and training their staff for *nix. Not to mention the months they'd have to stop shipping to do this. And then they need some drivers for all rhe items they ship. This includes laptops with wireless nic's that haven't had drivers for *nix as of yet...
Yeah, great idea....not.
It was a link on /. about a month ago. A company developed a piece of software that look for potential exploits in software. The point is that an OS is only as secure as the software you run on it. If you don't run anything on *nix, then of course it will be secure. Once you start up Apache/sendmail/etc, then you are vulnerable.
What about when an OSS developer simply refuses to fix it for whatever reason they see fit? Or what if the OSS project is given up on altogether?