We can also start wrapping processor instructions in XML and transmit them via SOAP, in order to create more interoperability between different machine architectures! Remember, we already have IP over XML:-) That's what the whole thing sounds like to me...
Remember that Apache has a higher market share than IIS, according to NetCraft, but less security problems. See the list of unpatched IE vulnerabilities. See Microsoft developers confess that Outlook Express is so broken that its flaws are unfixable. See this interview (old, but still interesting) with Bill Gates to get an idea about the level of contempt M$ has for its customers.
Being a Unix admin just requires a higher level of understanding what's going on in your computer, so, Unix admins are usually smarter than their Windows colleagues. Exceptions may occur.
I think it might me interesting to apply AI methods in fighting spam,
especially machine learning. For example, you could have a spam filter that
is able to learn. You just show 100 spam mails to the filter program, then
100 non-spam mails, and the system "learns" how spam looks like (maybe
reinforcement learning?)
I think it might me interesting to apply AI methods in fighting spam, especially machine learning. For example, you could have a spam filter that is able to learn. You just show 100 spam mails to the filter program, then 100 non-spam mails, and the system "learns" how spam looks like.
A P2P network that visits websites for any purpose!
For example, if a popular web site does not get enough money with its banner ads and gets in danger of being shut down, just let this network simulate some clicks. Every user can decide which "site viewing" tasks he wants to support, and then, his client will make some page views for him...
Mobilix.de: A german website about Unix operating systems on laptops, PDAs, smartphones etc...
Obelix: A french comic character (ironically, one of the brave Gauls defending themselves against the mighty Romans:-)
But -zilla is less common as a name suffix than -ix...
Is this a Windows security problem? Any application on any OS that runs as a privileged user and displays an interactive window on the desktop of an unprivileged user would be vulnerable to this class of attack.
No. The OS must have a message passing system that makes it possible for an unprivileged application to send a message to a privileged application, together with a pointer to a function that will be executed with the privileges of the privileged application.
RedHat's abuse of its near-monopoly of the Linux market is what led to the formation of the United Linux group.
Quite the same things are said about SuSE in Germany (it's the main Linux distribution there). Their distribution is blamed to be more and more like WinXP, and the company is accused of violating the "spirit of free software".
There might be some legal issues, and that is the big question. If MS sees mono as a threat, they could pull out the lawyers, I admit. But I believe that mono will ultimately prevail.
I think that these legal issues should not be underestimated. Microsoft will use the DMCA, patents, trade secrets etc. as a weapon against real competition, no matter how the current anti-trust lawsuit ends. Just look at the Halloween documents. In these documents, patents are described as a method to fight competing operating systems. And I believe that MS will enter the legal arena if the OS war becomes really close.
11. Common keyboard shortcuts for applications. This sucks really. For example, Ctrl+S is a common command for saving a file. But when you're typing this in the joe editor, the program will freeze. It happened quite often to me because I pressed the Emacs Ctrl+X, Ctrl+S accidentally. It took me years to find out that this is not a bug of joe, but the "suspend" command for the console, and to learn that Ctrl+Q will unfreeze everything. joe should at least "overwrite" this keyboard shortcut by default. This is the worst user interface design I've ever seen. It's like if one specific Windows application would fake a bluescreen every time you press something common like Ctrl+Insert.
What it sounds like you're trying to say is "The US should stop using its own resources so it can give them to other people instead."
No. You can do whatever you want with your resources, as long as it won't have effects on other countries. You don't need to give away anything to other countries. But many environmental damages won't stop at borders, e.g. climate changes and water pollution. For example, I don't care about the effects of oil drilling to Alaska's environment. It's your business. I only care about the greenhouse gases emitted by fossile fuel consumption. Unfortunately, the effects won't hit the U.S. first, but the countries who did the smallest contribution (3rd world).
Hate to tell you this but communism went out with the 80's.
*LOL* Especially the Soviet Union polluted its environment with arguments similar to yours ("we're big, we're powerful, nobody will dictate us what to do").
"The United States may use a lot of resources, but we also happen to own a lot of resources (ie. within our own borders)"
This is no argument. Imagine how much the Russians would be able to consume if they were allowed to consume resources proportional to the area of their country. The simple fact is that if all countries exploit their resources like the U.S., this planet will die very quickly. George W. Bush's environment policy is a danger for mankind as a whole.
Well, that's exactly the important thing. The power to define programming interfaces is crucial for Microsoft's success. The further away applications operate from the hardware the more layers are there for MS to control. Palladium will add several new layers, and adding Palladium-compatible hardware layers fits perfectly into this strategy. Abstraction is not a bad thing, but Microsoft had a perfect skill to control the abstraction of software in the last 25 years.
Maybe it's not true in general - but won't you agree that you had more possibilities to access the hardware directly in MS-DOS than in Windows XP? Microsoft is defining more and more APIs that replace the possilbility to go to the hardware level, they have the power to set standards there, and Palladium is only the logical continuation of this. That's what I mean.
This is called abstraction, and is a good thing (although I don't think win9x did this).
A program that controls the hardware directly is a program that can crash your computer. You don't want a buggy program to crash your computer, do you?
I don't want to say that abstraction from the hardware is bad - but it makes the manufacturer of the operating system more powerful.
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We can also start wrapping processor instructions in XML and transmit them via SOAP, in order to create more interoperability between different machine architectures! Remember, we already have IP over XML :-)
That's what the whole thing sounds like to me...
Or GPS II!
Being a Unix admin just requires a higher level of understanding what's going on in your computer, so, Unix admins are usually smarter than their Windows colleagues. Exceptions may occur.
I think it might me interesting to apply AI methods in fighting spam, especially machine learning. For example, you could have a spam filter that is able to learn. You just show 100 spam mails to the filter program, then 100 non-spam mails, and the system "learns" how spam looks like (maybe reinforcement learning?)
I think it might me interesting to apply AI methods in fighting spam, especially machine learning. For example, you could have a spam filter that is able to learn. You just show 100 spam mails to the filter program, then 100 non-spam mails, and the system "learns" how spam looks like.
Povray can't do any real animation. There is a function to generate sequences of images, but it takes ages and there isn't any preview either.
A P2P network that visits websites for any purpose! For example, if a popular web site does not get enough money with its banner ads and gets in danger of being shut down, just let this network simulate some clicks. Every user can decide which "site viewing" tasks he wants to support, and then, his client will make some page views for him...
Moreover, it's forbidden to leave nuclear waste in Antarctica, according to the Antarctic Treaty
It's freedesktop.org
Mobilix.de: A german website about Unix operating systems on laptops, PDAs, smartphones etc... :-)
Obelix: A french comic character (ironically, one of the brave Gauls defending themselves against the mighty Romans
But -zilla is less common as a name suffix than -ix...
No. The OS must have a message passing system that makes it possible for an unprivileged application to send a message to a privileged application, together with a pointer to a function that will be executed with the privileges of the privileged application.
Quite the same things are said about SuSE in Germany (it's the main Linux distribution there). Their distribution is blamed to be more and more like WinXP, and the company is accused of violating the "spirit of free software".
I think that these legal issues should not be underestimated. Microsoft will use the DMCA, patents, trade secrets etc. as a weapon against real competition, no matter how the current anti-trust lawsuit ends. Just look at the Halloween documents. In these documents, patents are described as a method to fight competing operating systems. And I believe that MS will enter the legal arena if the OS war becomes really close.
Yeah, if you are living in a region where Malaria occurs, you may have the first computer virus that infects you with a real disease!.
M.E.N. := M.E.N. Endander Networking
11. Common keyboard shortcuts for applications.
This sucks really. For example, Ctrl+S is a common command for saving a file. But when you're typing this in the joe editor, the program will freeze. It happened quite often to me because I pressed the Emacs Ctrl+X, Ctrl+S accidentally. It took me years to find out that this is not a bug of joe, but the "suspend" command for the console, and to learn that Ctrl+Q will unfreeze everything. joe should at least "overwrite" this keyboard shortcut by default. This is the worst user interface design I've ever seen. It's like if one specific Windows application would fake a bluescreen every time you press something common like Ctrl+Insert.
It's the dynamic linking of C++ applications on Linux that makes KDE so slow. Here is a discussion and some links about it.
- PVMPOV
- PvMegaPov
- MPIPOV
- MPI-Povray
I hope that there will be something like this for version 3.5 soon.Hmmm... I got only two in the last 4 months. BadTrans came more often.
No. You can do whatever you want with your resources, as long as it won't have effects on other countries. You don't need to give away anything to other countries. But many environmental damages won't stop at borders, e.g. climate changes and water pollution.
For example, I don't care about the effects of oil drilling to Alaska's environment. It's your business. I only care about the greenhouse gases emitted by fossile fuel consumption.
Unfortunately, the effects won't hit the U.S. first, but the countries who did the smallest contribution (3rd world).
Hate to tell you this but communism went out with the 80's.
*LOL* Especially the Soviet Union polluted its environment with arguments similar to yours ("we're big, we're powerful, nobody will dictate us what to do").
This is no argument. Imagine how much the Russians would be able to consume if they were allowed to consume resources proportional to the area of their country. The simple fact is that if all countries exploit their resources like the U.S., this planet will die very quickly.
George W. Bush's environment policy is a danger for mankind as a whole.
Well, that's exactly the important thing.
The power to define programming interfaces is crucial for Microsoft's success. The further away applications operate from the hardware the more layers are there for MS to control. Palladium will add several new layers, and adding Palladium-compatible hardware layers fits perfectly into this strategy.
Abstraction is not a bad thing, but Microsoft had a perfect skill to control the abstraction of software in the last 25 years.
Maybe it's not true in general - but won't you agree that you had more possibilities to access the hardware directly in MS-DOS than in Windows XP? Microsoft is defining more and more APIs that replace the possilbility to go to the hardware level, they have the power to set standards there, and Palladium is only the logical continuation of this.
That's what I mean.
I don't want to say that abstraction from the hardware is bad - but it makes the manufacturer of the operating system more powerful.
I don't think so. There was already Linux on a christmas tree last year :-)