Commercial software typically has 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code, according to Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Sustainable Computing Consortium.
I'm gonna call bullshit on this figure. This sounds like a number someone pulled out of their ass. A rate of 20-30 bugs per 1000 lines would render most programs unusable.
Do you think there's a connection between dominant hand and direction of writing? Specifically, Middle-Eastern languages are written right to left I think -- know of any studies on left-handedness there?
Win2k Pro DOES NOT have integrated DRM, and no "activation".
How are these even an issue, unless you are a pirate?
This is just a stupid comment. Activation can be a real PITA.
Another difference is support for dual monitors. Other posters will note that they have gotten dual monitors to work with W2K. Well, you can do it with certain video cards (mostly dual-head cards), but it is up to the video card driver writer to add support for it. However, in Windows XP, you can simply use any arbitrary combination of video cards; the work of creating the virtual desktop is done in the OS itself.
I run a dual-monitor setup at work with an ATI Radeon and an Nvidia TNT2 under Win2kPro. Works as a virtual desktop, no problem.
WinXP does have more features, and eventually I will switch to it. But Win2k is simply more responsive, and I haven't had the need for XP's extra features. I do like the built-in firewall (even though it's simple), and I like regedit's built-in permissions options (Win2k has to use regedt32). I think I mainly object to XP's style and philosophy of hiding details from you. It was obviously targeted toward a home market. "Simple file-sharing" is an example of this.
Worked for me with an ATI dual-head card. I still switched to using two video cards though (ATI Radeon + Nvidia TNT hehe), because windows often popped up spanning both windows, and maximizing maximized the window over the width of both monitors. Weird thing is, I don't get ANY video until the Windows desktop comes up, not even during POST.
I don't think anyone can work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. You need some time to refresh,recycle,renew.
I have a friend in med school now. He's been working 16-20 hours per day, 7 days a week, for weeks, and has 4 more weeks to go. He's also on call most of the time, so he even has to get up during his "off" time. I don't think it's a good idea (fatigue leads to mistakes), but it's pretty standard for med students, so yeah it can be and is done.
Just feed them a steady diet of Taco Bell... Would an infinite number of monkeys eating infinite supplies of Taco Bell burritos eventually rid us of nuclear waste?
ssume we go with a strict popular vote. The primary function of a politician is to be reelected. There are more people in Los Angeles than in the entire state of Colorado. So, the politician can so something like make Los Angeles tax-free, then double up the taxes on Colorado to make up for it. He will be assured the majority of votes between Los Angeles and Colorado. Actually, he'll get even more because people will flock into Los Angeles and out of Colorado in that case.
This isn't a very good argument. Remember that this is an election for the president, not the supreme ruler of the US. The House and the Senate are around to ensure something like that doesn't happen. The presidency is more about national-level decisions, not micromanaging state policies.
And with a popular vote, how many people in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, North/South Dakota, Montana, etc. would bother to vote? A Popular vote does not solve this problem...it merely shifts it to a different demographic.
A lot, because with a popular vote, your vote has the same worth as the vote of others. The demographic does not shift. It eliminates state boundaries, which I think is good, because it's a national election. It won't turn into Alaska vs Texas, it will be Candidate1 vs Candidate2, the way it should be.
I totally agree with your post, and would like to add that the GP poster seems to be forgetting that he's considering the ideal case that 100% of a state's voters vote one way, which is obviously not true. Kerry won California 55% to 44%, a far cry from 100%. You still need to convince a lot of people.
Your last point is another good point that isn't mentioned often. To elaborate, the reason why people in states with a lower population have more powerful votes is because electoral college votes are proportioned out evenly based on population, plus 2 extra votes (I think these correspond to the senators). Suppose you have a 1 electoral vote to 1000 voters ratio. If you have 1000 people, you would get 1+2=3 votes. If you have 50,000 people, you would get 50+2=52 votes. So the small population gets a ratio of 1000:3 or 333:1, while the large population ends up with 50000:52 or roughly 962:1. A lot of the northen states in the midwest fit this description (ND, SD, WY, MT) with 3 electoral votes.
Forgot to mention that some cards (I think SBLive) can switch between digital and analog output, which could help explain why it works under Windows and not Linux. Maybe the Linux driver defaults to digital output. But this is all speculation anyway.
Don't know if you've checked into this, but does your mobo's sound happen to output digital sound (as opposed to regular analong sound)? Some newer onboard sound cards may default to digital output (requiring digital speakers). I just changed computers at work, and the new mobo (transplanted out of a Gateway) including onboard sound which didn't seem to work after installing the drivers, which I think is due to digital output, so I just stuck another sound card in and used it. I'd like to mention that I know nothing about sound cards under Linux (I use Linux on servers only), but this might be something to check into.
XSS is not the real problem here. The real problem is that the cookie can be used to authenticate an account. If you get a copy of the cookie and take it to another machine, you could log on using that cookie, even after the cookie has expired. This is a poor design, and XSS is just one way to exploit this. Another would be to simply copy Mozilla's cookies.txt file, or whatever browser you use. Or to sniff out the cookie over the network and use it from then on.
If you'd actually looked at the page, you'd see that it wasn't in the metatags, it was in the page:
FAVORITE BOOKS: Screw books! Video games: Ninja Gaiden, Halo, Zelda, Final Fantasy I-VI, Dead or Alive, Mortal Kombat, Castlevania, Silent Hill, Earthworm Jim, Mega Man, Unreal, Metroid, Doom, Soul Caliber, Guilty Gear, F-Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, KOTOR, WarCraft
Also, if you'd read Nintendo's letter carefully, you'd see that they said "Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links", meaning it could have been any of the things they listed. It's obviously a standard letter, so rather than tailoring it to the particular case, they just listed everything to cover all their bases.
Consider this for a moment. Jane Boxwine buys a brand-new horse and buggy in 1909. She spends $2000 on it.
Jane Boxwine uses this horse to go to the store, maybe to visit her family, ride around the countryside, and simple things like that. Her horse has not outlived its usefulness, but it is woefully underpowered by today's standards.
So now you're telling her that she has to spend $100 on a car *and* drive congested highways? You're telling her that civilization has advanced and now Jane has to pay for it?
So what's the solution for Jane Boxwine?
Although I don't like the idea of a joystick in a car, I think the ratio problem could be solved. Some expensive European cars have ways of adjusting the sensitivity of the wheel at higher speeds to prevent you from oversteering. The joystick could be made to steer less and less the faster you went. I wonder if this is similar to using a stick in a plane -- at higher speeds, would the effects of the stick be less and less effective at altering your attitude?
I've been reading through the spymac forum thread, and people are talking about how they are "victims" of this spam, and that he should go to jail. WTF!?!? He sent one email to 10K people to illustrate a point. Yeah, he shouldn't have done that, but jail time? Give me a break. Of course not everyone in the thread was like that, but there sure were a lot of pansies.
[Insert flaming comment about Mac users here;-) ]
No one is obliged, it's just not a nice thing to do. It's threadjacking via language. Remember that not all Portugese readers can read English -- I think they would be irritated if a thread that started out Portugese switched to English mid-stream, and they were left out.
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Do you think there's a connection between dominant hand and direction of writing? Specifically, Middle-Eastern languages are written right to left I think -- know of any studies on left-handedness there?
WinXP does have more features, and eventually I will switch to it. But Win2k is simply more responsive, and I haven't had the need for XP's extra features. I do like the built-in firewall (even though it's simple), and I like regedit's built-in permissions options (Win2k has to use regedt32). I think I mainly object to XP's style and philosophy of hiding details from you. It was obviously targeted toward a home market. "Simple file-sharing" is an example of this.
Worked for me with an ATI dual-head card. I still switched to using two video cards though (ATI Radeon + Nvidia TNT hehe), because windows often popped up spanning both windows, and maximizing maximized the window over the width of both monitors. Weird thing is, I don't get ANY video until the Windows desktop comes up, not even during POST.
err.. euphemism
That's a nice euphism for crash and burn.
Just feed them a steady diet of Taco Bell... Would an infinite number of monkeys eating infinite supplies of Taco Bell burritos eventually rid us of nuclear waste?
How about "William Henry Gates 3rd" :-)
I totally agree with your post, and would like to add that the GP poster seems to be forgetting that he's considering the ideal case that 100% of a state's voters vote one way, which is obviously not true. Kerry won California 55% to 44%, a far cry from 100%. You still need to convince a lot of people. Your last point is another good point that isn't mentioned often. To elaborate, the reason why people in states with a lower population have more powerful votes is because electoral college votes are proportioned out evenly based on population, plus 2 extra votes (I think these correspond to the senators). Suppose you have a 1 electoral vote to 1000 voters ratio. If you have 1000 people, you would get 1+2=3 votes. If you have 50,000 people, you would get 50+2=52 votes. So the small population gets a ratio of 1000:3 or 333:1, while the large population ends up with 50000:52 or roughly 962:1. A lot of the northen states in the midwest fit this description (ND, SD, WY, MT) with 3 electoral votes.
Forgot to mention that some cards (I think SBLive) can switch between digital and analog output, which could help explain why it works under Windows and not Linux. Maybe the Linux driver defaults to digital output. But this is all speculation anyway.
Don't know if you've checked into this, but does your mobo's sound happen to output digital sound (as opposed to regular analong sound)? Some newer onboard sound cards may default to digital output (requiring digital speakers). I just changed computers at work, and the new mobo (transplanted out of a Gateway) including onboard sound which didn't seem to work after installing the drivers, which I think is due to digital output, so I just stuck another sound card in and used it. I'd like to mention that I know nothing about sound cards under Linux (I use Linux on servers only), but this might be something to check into.
XSS is not the real problem here. The real problem is that the cookie can be used to authenticate an account. If you get a copy of the cookie and take it to another machine, you could log on using that cookie, even after the cookie has expired. This is a poor design, and XSS is just one way to exploit this. Another would be to simply copy Mozilla's cookies.txt file, or whatever browser you use. Or to sniff out the cookie over the network and use it from then on.
It would be if it was actually valid. The grandparent poster obviously didn't bother to actually look at the links. Mod grandparent down.
FYI, what he said is actually a rather famous troll. YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Consider this for a moment. Jane Boxwine buys a brand-new horse and buggy in 1909. She spends $2000 on it. Jane Boxwine uses this horse to go to the store, maybe to visit her family, ride around the countryside, and simple things like that. Her horse has not outlived its usefulness, but it is woefully underpowered by today's standards. So now you're telling her that she has to spend $100 on a car *and* drive congested highways? You're telling her that civilization has advanced and now Jane has to pay for it? So what's the solution for Jane Boxwine?
How about "iptables -F" ?
Although I don't like the idea of a joystick in a car, I think the ratio problem could be solved. Some expensive European cars have ways of adjusting the sensitivity of the wheel at higher speeds to prevent you from oversteering. The joystick could be made to steer less and less the faster you went. I wonder if this is similar to using a stick in a plane -- at higher speeds, would the effects of the stick be less and less effective at altering your attitude?
I've been reading through the spymac forum thread, and people are talking about how they are "victims" of this spam, and that he should go to jail. WTF!?!? He sent one email to 10K people to illustrate a point. Yeah, he shouldn't have done that, but jail time? Give me a break. Of course not everyone in the thread was like that, but there sure were a lot of pansies. [Insert flaming comment about Mac users here ;-) ]
No one is obliged, it's just not a nice thing to do. It's threadjacking via language. Remember that not all Portugese readers can read English -- I think they would be irritated if a thread that started out Portugese switched to English mid-stream, and they were left out.