You seem to be making fun of it. However, it is exactly where the science is going. Only compatible (that is grown from the patient's own cells) implants are good enough to allow one to live with them for years. The progress in this direction will take a good while, but it is extremely likely that scientists will be able to grow a replacement organs. Skin for the burnt is grown quite widely at the moment (it takes weeks to grow a good patch) and more sophysticated parts of body are to follow.
It is definitely a greate advance in the biological science. But it will take at least 5-10 years to make it practically useful. And all the claims about prospectives sound like a story about a PhD student who wanted to prove the applicability of his puerly theoretical thesis on descrete maths:
-The present thesis is on descrete maths. Descrete maths is applied in synthesis of conatat element schemes. The latter are a model of relay circuits. And relays are used in various agricaltural machines, which are of a great use.
As far as I know there is no finalized court judgment on the Microsoft case yet. The suing is continuing... And the company is supposed to be innocent until the judgement is final and there is no higher court in the hierachy to apeal to.
What Linux is valued for is the stability of the core. And what it lacks usability at is inteface. I guess by the time when it becomes as usable as Windows only inteface (like Windous Desktop) may get to the ugly stage, while the core functions can remain pretty much as good as now.
I haven't seen the code of the Windows kernel. However, do you need really good comments (or even any) to figure out how a few lines of the virus code work?
By the way, there are commercial programs with GPL'ed code like Metadot or MySQL. And they appear to heve pretty well commented code. This might become the case for Microsoft as well.
Besides the language of laws, the members of the government understand one more language-the language of money. Cosidering possible alternatives to Microsoft products, they may well find out that additional personell training, convertion of existing documents and databases (convertors rearly save visual representation of documents, so manual alterations may be needed) and other linked expenses may cost more than 5-year upgrade of all Microsoft software they use.
Sproqit softaware is essnetially intended to run on a PDA a few network-based applications like Outlook, web-browser and helper applications like various viewers.
Motion Experience Interface is claimed to be able to run any unaltered desktop applicatio.
I doubt that at the present technological level this system can be of any use except owning a high-tech gadget. Simple applications like primitive text editors (wordpad etc) will work fine. But a palm-based (or Win CE -based) editor is anyway more convenient on a small screen. More demanding applications like editing embedded objects in MS Word (that is pictures, math formulae etc.) can be slow even on a desktop. And running such an application effectively on a handheld (otherwise how will you edit a document offline? It is claimed to be possible in the article.) should be at least terribly slow if possible at all.
The code of the Visual Studio is a separate peice of software under a different license. The only thing that would be GPL'd is the help files produced during localization.
Even in the States you hardly can sue if you can't prove any resulting financial losses. In this case you need to make a real effort to lose any money because of the virus.
Normally reside3nt antivirus software checks only files you try to run. Just some file with a virus lying somewere in the deep directory structure would be fiound only during a massive check up. And even in this cas people almost never check any file whose extention doesn't correspon do ususal virus bearers like.exe or.doc
Two people per keyboard shairing one chair... Good combination for a bugless code.
I have a bit of experience like this. There always came out something aukward as a result. But one can always try to enjoy the eXtreme!
Is your Office 2k with Codeweavers stable enough to be sure that you don't need to save you text in say Word every 5 minutes? (I don't mean that I don't save changes, but sometimes it is covenient not to save changes that often.)
VB is good if you need to produce something quickly to use it just one time. In such cases you dont care how long it runs, you care how long it takes to write the code.
May be, it is spelled the same way intentionally in order for people to confuse the names and through this keep a new product in mind. Windows XP is more known at the moment and you can recall the abbreviation for Extreme Programming every time someone talks about Windows (even not only XP...)
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"Useless bug announcements" are a special topic. May be, some bugs appear intentionally to make a lot of noise of it?
You seem to be making fun of it. However, it is exactly where the science is going. Only compatible (that is grown from the patient's own cells) implants are good enough to allow one to live with them for years. The progress in this direction will take a good while, but it is extremely likely that scientists will be able to grow a replacement organs. Skin for the burnt is grown quite widely at the moment (it takes weeks to grow a good patch) and more sophysticated parts of body are to follow.
It is definitely a greate advance in the biological science. But it will take at least 5-10 years to make it practically useful. And all the claims about prospectives sound like a story about a PhD student who wanted to prove the applicability of his puerly theoretical thesis on descrete maths: -The present thesis is on descrete maths. Descrete maths is applied in synthesis of conatat element schemes. The latter are a model of relay circuits. And relays are used in various agricaltural machines, which are of a great use.
As far as I know there is no finalized court judgment on the Microsoft case yet. The suing is continuing... And the company is supposed to be innocent until the judgement is final and there is no higher court in the hierachy to apeal to.
What Linux is valued for is the stability of the core. And what it lacks usability at is inteface. I guess by the time when it becomes as usable as Windows only inteface (like Windous Desktop) may get to the ugly stage, while the core functions can remain pretty much as good as now.
I haven't seen the code of the Windows kernel. However, do you need really good comments (or even any) to figure out how a few lines of the virus code work? By the way, there are commercial programs with GPL'ed code like Metadot or MySQL. And they appear to heve pretty well commented code. This might become the case for Microsoft as well.
Besides the language of laws, the members of the government understand one more language-the language of money. Cosidering possible alternatives to Microsoft products, they may well find out that additional personell training, convertion of existing documents and databases (convertors rearly save visual representation of documents, so manual alterations may be needed) and other linked expenses may cost more than 5-year upgrade of all Microsoft software they use.
Sproqit softaware is essnetially intended to run on a PDA a few network-based applications like Outlook, web-browser and helper applications like various viewers. Motion Experience Interface is claimed to be able to run any unaltered desktop applicatio.
I doubt that at the present technological level this system can be of any use except owning a high-tech gadget. Simple applications like primitive text editors (wordpad etc) will work fine. But a palm-based (or Win CE -based) editor is anyway more convenient on a small screen. More demanding applications like editing embedded objects in MS Word (that is pictures, math formulae etc.) can be slow even on a desktop. And running such an application effectively on a handheld (otherwise how will you edit a document offline? It is claimed to be possible in the article.) should be at least terribly slow if possible at all.
If you kill one person, you are a criminal. If you kill 1,000,000 people, you are a hero.
And adds extra value to the software. This experience is very different from ejoying all those bugs.
The code of the Visual Studio is a separate peice of software under a different license. The only thing that would be GPL'd is the help files produced during localization.
Open Source IS a bigger threaat. Imagine Microsoft distributing the virus with a well-commented source code!
If he sued them he could get quite a bit of money taking into account the scale of the distribution. The virus was evenm poste4d on the MS website!
Even in the States you hardly can sue if you can't prove any resulting financial losses. In this case you need to make a real effort to lose any money because of the virus.
Normally reside3nt antivirus software checks only files you try to run. Just some file with a virus lying somewere in the deep directory structure would be fiound only during a massive check up. And even in this cas people almost never check any file whose extention doesn't correspon do ususal virus bearers like .exe or .doc
In fact, the virus was found by a Microsoft employee manualy without any special software.
It is high time to recal an idea to prove that the program is correct instead of testing it. For short peices of code it used to help a lot.
Two people per keyboard shairing one chair... Good combination for a bugless code. I have a bit of experience like this. There always came out something aukward as a result. But one can always try to enjoy the eXtreme!
"x" was popular a long time ago. (remember PC XT) And now this beast is coming back. The history repeats.
Is your Office 2k with Codeweavers stable enough to be sure that you don't need to save you text in say Word every 5 minutes? (I don't mean that I don't save changes, but sometimes it is covenient not to save changes that often.)
I don't think you can write applets in Perl. And unless you have a compiler (like mod_perl as an extreme case) perl programs will run terribly slow...
But what do you think when one says "XP". I'm sure, you think about Windows. And the apbbreviation is a good advirtizing trick! Well done!
VB is good if you need to produce something quickly to use it just one time. In such cases you dont care how long it runs, you care how long it takes to write the code.
May be, it is spelled the same way intentionally in order for people to confuse the names and through this keep a new product in mind. Windows XP is more known at the moment and you can recall the abbreviation for Extreme Programming every time someone talks about Windows (even not only XP...)