If the authorities are corrupt it could get bad: they steal it, sell it, brick it on purpose after receiving $ and then ransom the un-brick code to the victim/customer.
Like when a bunch of rebels steal all the laptops and start using them for crime? Wouldn't you want to leave the machines running so you could track what they were doing? What situation(s) exactly would warrant shutting off the machines?
No, not inside that radius, outside that radius. Anything inside that radius could still be evolving and not be advanced enough to talk back/forth to us. Beyond that, and it's anyone's guess why they haven't reached us... unless they're just not looking "this far"... or maybe they see us and intentionally stay away (that's what i'd do!)
Volunteers would probably patch IE too, except they can't, because it's closed source... hence the main issue with closed source. Even if you wanted to fix it, and you knew how, and you had the time, you still can't fix it.
The vast, vast majority of internet-goers are already running a lot of stuff on the internet, like email, various activex controls, etc. which aren't technically traditionally installed apps, even if they're not entirely internet-based either. The transition phase is over, and now that more and more internet-based apps are coming out, it will just be a more diverse environment -- not just a "pc only" or "internet only" world.
With a really high-res video game, especially a game like basketball, I think you'd notice the lack of realism after a certain point. For example, you'd see clearly that the edges are being rendered by a computer, versus if they're a bit fuzzy, and that fuzzy effect is used to its advantage, then it might look a bit more like a regular tv broadcast of a basketball game.
If you can't prove it is secure by showing me how it works, then it's not secure. How do I know that there isn't some bolt in the back of the bank vault, or some skeleton key, unless you allow me to inspect it myself?
Security by faith or by fact, which would you prefer?
If they put a partial military payload on each flight, maybe the DOD could get the budget problems solved. The pres seems to have no problem giving the military carte blanche spending priveleges.
There are already so many customers going to wal-mart, that even if the service is only used by a small fraction of their customers, it would still be a massive amount of people. That's the magic of wal-mart... super high volume!
I've always thought there should be a borg-like game project to roll all the unfinished games into one big ball and work out the common elements into a single game engine, then just farm out the artwork,etc. back to the individual project holders. It could be way easier to generate a lot of interesting games that way.
I think the lawsuit is more about whether Cisco has a material interest in the iPhone name or not, rather than whether anyone can register the i(whatever) names.
Well, that sounds good, but if you pay me enough I could find "inaccuracies" in anything and spin them to sound credible. See, that's what's called buying someone's integrity. Granted, for me the price would be insanely high, but ExxonMobil has an insane amount of money.
"...as some people might become convinced they need a particular medication and insist on getting it..."
Of course that's why they're advertising the medication! We can't honestly believe that those ads are only for doctors when they air to a national audience. I really disagree with the viagra/etc ads because they glamorize being on a prescription drug for pleasure and not to cure some disease (i.e. ED).
I can just see it now:... (somewhere in the vista source)
# upgrade check module
if 1=1 then #only for testing! remove in production! -boss
#heh heh, can you imagine if this made it into the gold master? -dilbert
#we don't have to imagine...*merged to gold master* - catbert... (do upgrade)
The summary makes it sound like you HAVE to upgrade to Vista. If no one upgrades, then Microsoft will have to continue to support XP, etc. There's nothing that says you HAVE to upgrade to Vista if it's all that bad.
"with one core that rules the others, lord of the rings style."
In this case, you'd have the command O/S run on the "lead" core, and the apps on the other cores, right? I mean, am I a rocket scientist here, or shouldn't this stuff all be obvious?
I would be waiting at least until we know that the major apps don't have some compatibility issues at large... Mac OS 6-7, for those who don't remember, introduced a slew of incompatibilities, so many that I generally booted back and forth to run various apps.
Forgive my ignorance, but can't the OS just make each new app run on it's own core? That would probably give us some overall apparent-speed-of-computer increases, without having to completely modify all existing stuff.
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If the authorities are corrupt it could get bad: they steal it, sell it, brick it on purpose after receiving $ and then ransom the un-brick code to the victim/customer.
Like when a bunch of rebels steal all the laptops and start using them for crime? Wouldn't you want to leave the machines running so you could track what they were doing? What situation(s) exactly would warrant shutting off the machines?
No, not inside that radius, outside that radius. Anything inside that radius could still be evolving and not be advanced enough to talk back/forth to us. Beyond that, and it's anyone's guess why they haven't reached us... unless they're just not looking "this far"... or maybe they see us and intentionally stay away (that's what i'd do!)
Volunteers would probably patch IE too, except they can't, because it's closed source... hence the main issue with closed source. Even if you wanted to fix it, and you knew how, and you had the time, you still can't fix it.
The vast, vast majority of internet-goers are already running a lot of stuff on the internet, like email, various activex controls, etc. which aren't technically traditionally installed apps, even if they're not entirely internet-based either. The transition phase is over, and now that more and more internet-based apps are coming out, it will just be a more diverse environment -- not just a "pc only" or "internet only" world.
With a really high-res video game, especially a game like basketball, I think you'd notice the lack of realism after a certain point. For example, you'd see clearly that the edges are being rendered by a computer, versus if they're a bit fuzzy, and that fuzzy effect is used to its advantage, then it might look a bit more like a regular tv broadcast of a basketball game.
That is either the greatest or worst pickup line in the history of the world: "Hey baby, I got a penetration tester in my pocket..."
If you can't prove it is secure by showing me how it works, then it's not secure. How do I know that there isn't some bolt in the back of the bank vault, or some skeleton key, unless you allow me to inspect it myself?
Security by faith or by fact, which would you prefer?
If they put a partial military payload on each flight, maybe the DOD could get the budget problems solved. The pres seems to have no problem giving the military carte blanche spending priveleges.
There are already so many customers going to wal-mart, that even if the service is only used by a small fraction of their customers, it would still be a massive amount of people. That's the magic of wal-mart... super high volume!
I've always thought there should be a borg-like game project to roll all the unfinished games into one big ball and work out the common elements into a single game engine, then just farm out the artwork,etc. back to the individual project holders. It could be way easier to generate a lot of interesting games that way.
I'd put cantaloupes as the processors on my computers for a quarter billion dollars per quarter!
I think the lawsuit is more about whether Cisco has a material interest in the iPhone name or not, rather than whether anyone can register the i(whatever) names.
Well, that sounds good, but if you pay me enough I could find "inaccuracies" in anything and spin them to sound credible. See, that's what's called buying someone's integrity. Granted, for me the price would be insanely high, but ExxonMobil has an insane amount of money.
1=1 works for comparison in QBasic... isn't that what Vista was written in?
"...as some people might become convinced they need a particular medication and insist on getting it..."
Of course that's why they're advertising the medication! We can't honestly believe that those ads are only for doctors when they air to a national audience. I really disagree with the viagra/etc ads because they glamorize being on a prescription drug for pleasure and not to cure some disease (i.e. ED).
I can just see it now: ... (somewhere in the vista source)
... (do upgrade)
# upgrade check module
if 1=1 then #only for testing! remove in production! -boss
#heh heh, can you imagine if this made it into the gold master? -dilbert
#we don't have to imagine...*merged to gold master* - catbert
Sailing, sailing over the format sea: /yes!
"the piece of software that sits between the block device drivers (managing your hard drives, cdroms, etc) and the file systems.'"
That sounds REALLY hard. I'd be more interested if there's a development strategy he could recommend re: complex development projects.
Longest.... summary... ever!
The summary makes it sound like you HAVE to upgrade to Vista. If no one upgrades, then Microsoft will have to continue to support XP, etc. There's nothing that says you HAVE to upgrade to Vista if it's all that bad.
It's a comparison of XP->Vista versus OS6->OS7, so I am not comparing the systems themselves to each other, just the awkward upgrade/transition.
"with one core that rules the others, lord of the rings style."
In this case, you'd have the command O/S run on the "lead" core, and the apps on the other cores, right? I mean, am I a rocket scientist here, or shouldn't this stuff all be obvious?
I would be waiting at least until we know that the major apps don't have some compatibility issues at large... Mac OS 6-7, for those who don't remember, introduced a slew of incompatibilities, so many that I generally booted back and forth to run various apps.
Forgive my ignorance, but can't the OS just make each new app run on it's own core? That would probably give us some overall apparent-speed-of-computer increases, without having to completely modify all existing stuff.