Intel has their lawyers on standby, waiting to file a trademark infringement suit.
There is still room for progress
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Google v. Microsoft
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Actaully, Ive pretty recently been starting to see limits to google. Now, dont get me wrong, its still a big improvement over the old crap like yahoo or webcrawler (for a really old-school example), but as more and more content appears, it gets harder and harder to get relevant results.
searches could do better at exclusions, as well as sticking to one language (even telling it English-only on advanced searches doesnt always help). Also, it seems like simple, yet specific, things which should yield many results dont produce results.
There is much room for improvement, but both Google and Microsoft have pretty smart people working for them. Competition is the best way to get those guys to work even harder, by trying to outdo each other.
One of the nice things about MS is that any improvements they come up with will eventually find their way into other products, like SQL (or even a future version of Windows). Anything Google learns only benefits Google.
Somebody brought up the idea of linux servers up at our last meeting. The only embarrassing thing, for him, was that there had been two highly public r00t exploits within that two or three week period.
Needless to say, nobody really took his suggestion seriously.
I could care less what online comic artists make. It obviously must make some kind of money, because they are still doing it after what, four or five years?
However, I just found the comic itself both funny and relevant. Because we both know the only things which really have any value are ideas, right? Im going to buy a pizza right now with some ideas.
or maybe you are more like the gay guy who everybody beat up in high school, and posting to things that t0ny writes is the only thing a passive-agressive loser like yourself is capable of.
Sounds like all the more reason for corporations to adopt it.
Aside from the massive cost of desktop conversions, network migration, and the hugely massive time and expense of user retraining?
The only people I could see recommending something as foolish as this are consultants, who get paid to recommend expensive (and not particularly well thought-out) things.
LOL, watch me piss off the anonymous pussy. He has so much penis envy that he needs to post comments on all my posts.
What this little linux faggot doesnt realize is that my goal is to piss him off, and every post me makes as an AC just makes me laugh, because I see that Im in his brain, making him angry.
Keep it up, d00d, because Im only here to piss you sissies off. Just make sure those linus r00t exploits dont get you: those mofo's are all over the place!
The Macintosh Business Unit is a semi-autonomous division of Microsoft, comprising some incredibly competent Mac programmers.
Its a shame Apple doesnt try and emulate MS by hiring some competent Windows programmers. If I have to fix another friend's PC which died because of the poor owner installing Quicktime, Im gonna go luddite, or unibomber, or something.
Leave it to Slashdot to show blatent bias and complete disregard for fact.
But I guess thats why I work in computer security, and you guys are Slashdot reading hobbyists. So, carry on with your illusion of security. One day, probably soon, it will bite you in the ass.
Apples and oranges, as far as the legality is concerned. This is a pretty clear-cut case of trademark infringement: hell, they may as well have named their product w1nd0z3
Well, at least the legal system occasionally works the way it should. BTW, is MS just pursuing a cease and desist, or are they actaully suing for damages?
"Unlimited" is always going to be pushed by people who have greater needs than others. Just like when Homer couldnt get "all he could eat" at the Seafood restaurant (and successfully sued), one person's definition of unlimited may be greater than anothers.
In the case of vaguely specified contracts, however, I didnt take into account of your comment regarding "reasonableness", especially if satisfying one person's request will technically interfere with other customers.
Ok, now its obvious this guy doesnt know his ass from a hole in the ground, security-wise. Some may not see it as quite so secure. At least, not out of the box...
IANAL, but I believe common law would state that "Unlimited" is exactly that unless an alternate, clearly defined definition of what they mean by "Unlimited" is given. The law does not (excepting many judges) like to be based on whims; common law is that vaguarities in a contract always benefit the person who did NOT draft the document.
My favorite quote is that for small to medium businesses with 400 or less employees, the estimate is between $48,000 and $58,000 cost to 'secure themselves' from the particular virus. Does anyone know where that number comes from?
Its a bullshit figure, basically.
Seems to me that the money spent to 'secure yourself' is money which should have been spent anyway, so paying it out is just having a defered expense come due; any damages are the interest on defering those costs.
The key combination also is used when software, such as Microsoft's Windows operating system, fails
Seems to me that you use it when Windows succeeds. Many other operating systems just go into an unrecoverable state, leaving you a one-key option (the hardware reset button).
Since Windows keeps parts of memory protected, and uses VMs, you can have an application crash without effecting the OS itself or any other applications running. I just remember all that time spent fixing Netware servers which would crash because one little thing changed...
How? People are freely sharing their code, and have no issues relating to ownership of certain methods. Has anyone patented a method of infection? I dont think so, nor would it be enforcable; writing malicious programs/scripts is already illegal, so who is going to care about a patent violation
Do they even know anything?
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I dont see how anybody feels having it created in Russia somehow vindicates OSS. Viruses, trojans, worms, etc, are all one huge OSS project.
NWN is really 'easy', technically, to design for. You can, at the most basic, just throw together a map and drop some monsters in there.
Since the layout is tile based, where I run into problems is getting something to look 'just right', because you need to cycle thru the tiles it places randomly; perhaps this is just being anal on my part, because 99% of players probably wont care, or even notice. Whatever; sometimes its nice to have the quality come across on a sub-consious level (or at least thats what I tell myself, haha).
Now there have also recently been a lot of changes since I started working with it, like they added a plot wizard, more script commands, etc. Also, when I was working with it, secret doors werent supported (you had to work it out with a script, which I thought was lame; how is the door 'hidden' if you have a dialogue box spoiling the fact that something is there to be found?
I recently purchased the third expansion, Hordes of the Underdark; Ive played it a bit, and its very impressive. There is a lot of support for in-game, non-interactive 'movies' (so you can make your own cutscenes), as well as more monsters and tilesets.
Im sure there is more, but I really need to get back into using the tileset and creating modules. Just check nwvault.ign.com, they have a lot of very good user-created modules.
I know the promise of Java was write once, run anywhere, but is this really the case in practice? From what I hear, so much depends not only on your platform, but also what version of Java you are using on the client computer.
Im sure plenty of people here know Java; any insights (especially from people who know more than one programming language)?
To get an early glimpse at some of the thinking going into the next kernel, key vendors that aid in shaping the Linux kernel helped eWEEK last week put together a long-range wish list for 2.7
And #1 on that list is... Paul, can we get a drum roll?
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Intel has their lawyers on standby, waiting to file a trademark infringement suit.
searches could do better at exclusions, as well as sticking to one language (even telling it English-only on advanced searches doesnt always help). Also, it seems like simple, yet specific, things which should yield many results dont produce results.
There is much room for improvement, but both Google and Microsoft have pretty smart people working for them. Competition is the best way to get those guys to work even harder, by trying to outdo each other.
One of the nice things about MS is that any improvements they come up with will eventually find their way into other products, like SQL (or even a future version of Windows). Anything Google learns only benefits Google.
Needless to say, nobody really took his suggestion seriously.
However, I just found the comic itself both funny and relevant. Because we both know the only things which really have any value are ideas, right? Im going to buy a pizza right now with some ideas.
or maybe you are more like the gay guy who everybody beat up in high school, and posting to things that t0ny writes is the only thing a passive-agressive loser like yourself is capable of.
Aside from the massive cost of desktop conversions, network migration, and the hugely massive time and expense of user retraining?
The only people I could see recommending something as foolish as this are consultants, who get paid to recommend expensive (and not particularly well thought-out) things.
I think you need to have a computer to play ET.
I also heard you can get r00t about 30% faster, as well. And there are so many ways to do it!
What this little linux faggot doesnt realize is that my goal is to piss him off, and every post me makes as an AC just makes me laugh, because I see that Im in his brain, making him angry.
Keep it up, d00d, because Im only here to piss you sissies off. Just make sure those linus r00t exploits dont get you: those mofo's are all over the place!
Who doesnt? =)
Its a shame Apple doesnt try and emulate MS by hiring some competent Windows programmers. If I have to fix another friend's PC which died because of the poor owner installing Quicktime, Im gonna go luddite, or unibomber, or something.
I think Lindows would then get prosecuted for false advertising.
Leave it to Slashdot to show blatent bias and complete disregard for fact.
But I guess thats why I work in computer security, and you guys are Slashdot reading hobbyists. So, carry on with your illusion of security. One day, probably soon, it will bite you in the ass.
Well, at least the legal system occasionally works the way it should. BTW, is MS just pursuing a cease and desist, or are they actaully suing for damages?
In the case of vaguely specified contracts, however, I didnt take into account of your comment regarding "reasonableness", especially if satisfying one person's request will technically interfere with other customers.
Ok, now its obvious this guy doesnt know his ass from a hole in the ground, security-wise. Some may not see it as quite so secure. At least, not out of the box...
IANAL, but I believe common law would state that "Unlimited" is exactly that unless an alternate, clearly defined definition of what they mean by "Unlimited" is given. The law does not (excepting many judges) like to be based on whims; common law is that vaguarities in a contract always benefit the person who did NOT draft the document.
Its a bullshit figure, basically.
Seems to me that the money spent to 'secure yourself' is money which should have been spent anyway, so paying it out is just having a defered expense come due; any damages are the interest on defering those costs.
Seems to me that you use it when Windows succeeds. Many other operating systems just go into an unrecoverable state, leaving you a one-key option (the hardware reset button).
Since Windows keeps parts of memory protected, and uses VMs, you can have an application crash without effecting the OS itself or any other applications running. I just remember all that time spent fixing Netware servers which would crash because one little thing changed...
Sure, if you want it to keep rebooting in an unrecoverable loop.
How? People are freely sharing their code, and have no issues relating to ownership of certain methods. Has anyone patented a method of infection? I dont think so, nor would it be enforcable; writing malicious programs/scripts is already illegal, so who is going to care about a patent violation
I dont see how anybody feels having it created in Russia somehow vindicates OSS. Viruses, trojans, worms, etc, are all one huge OSS project.
Since the layout is tile based, where I run into problems is getting something to look 'just right', because you need to cycle thru the tiles it places randomly; perhaps this is just being anal on my part, because 99% of players probably wont care, or even notice. Whatever; sometimes its nice to have the quality come across on a sub-consious level (or at least thats what I tell myself, haha).
Now there have also recently been a lot of changes since I started working with it, like they added a plot wizard, more script commands, etc. Also, when I was working with it, secret doors werent supported (you had to work it out with a script, which I thought was lame; how is the door 'hidden' if you have a dialogue box spoiling the fact that something is there to be found?
I recently purchased the third expansion, Hordes of the Underdark; Ive played it a bit, and its very impressive. There is a lot of support for in-game, non-interactive 'movies' (so you can make your own cutscenes), as well as more monsters and tilesets.
Im sure there is more, but I really need to get back into using the tileset and creating modules. Just check nwvault.ign.com, they have a lot of very good user-created modules.
Im sure plenty of people here know Java; any insights (especially from people who know more than one programming language)?
And #1 on that list is... Paul, can we get a drum roll?
#1- get rid of those damn, damn, r00t exploits!