Considering a conventional train has now got with 4mph of that record its not so impressive given that maglevs only have air resistance to worry about, not rolling resistance.
I was working in a bank at that time. If we hadn't fixed our systems then come 1/1/2000 every customer in our business area would have found all their transactions failed as the system would have thought they'd expired 100 years ago!
At the company I worked in at the time there were double digit year records used all over the place. If we hadn't fixed the code the whole system would have falled over come the millenium.
All these arsehats who go on about the Y2K being a load of scare mongering paranoia are the ones who don't have a clue about just how much work went on in 1999 trying to sort the issues out!
Viruses require more complicated biological systems to reproduce themselves. This is hardly going to be how the earliest RNA life reproduced if it was the most complex life around at the time.
This gives a bit of extra credence to the RNA world theory - ie that RNA was the precursor to DNA and very early life forms relied on it exclusively (yeah ok , some viruses still do but they're not technically alive) - if RNA can be used to do this as well as protein creation etc.
"Maybe one of these days Gnome will push me over the edge and make me write my own WM."
I did just that because I got sick of bloatware desktops. Problem is that even with the Xlib programming manuals at hand and example code from another WM I still couldn't create something that appeared to work properly. It was 95% there but had enough issues to make it a pain to use so in the end I went back to KDE. There are so many tricks and gotchas and undocumented things you have to know when doing low level Xlib that its really more hassle than its worth. And thats if you just stick to core Xlib - if you start using extensions then you can kiss your sanity goodby.
"X11 provided pretty much pure user mode graphics."
User mode graphics running as root - which meant if X went down it could still take your box with it. Or more likely just lock up the video display which for most people is the same thing.
Just like on Windows , your non techie user is just going to end up learning a pavlovian response to any such permissions dialog and just click OK no matter what. Yes , you can blame the user but ultimately these are supposed to be simple to use gadgets for people who have more important (to them) things in their life to worry about than application access permissions they probably don't even understand. So you can't really blame users for treating a gadget thats marketed as simple to use in a simple way.
... the browser might just as well support GWBasic. However fancy javascript may be , it doesn't take the worlds most advanced scripting language to to do pop up windows,mouseover events and selective loading.
Instead of trying to makd the browser a cut down OS as both MS and Firefox coders seem to be headed for, they should go back to basics and make the browser a simple reliable graphics display program with some user I/O thrown in. Not some bloated monstrosity that has all the reliability of a 20 year old unserviced Trabant. Having to support an ever more complex OO interpreted language doesn't help this reliability.
"I also think that revenge has gotten a bad rap from the politically correct pussification brigade,"
Wish i had mod points as that pretty much sums it up. Too many women and ball free feminised men seem to be making judgements about justice these days and we can see where its leading.
.... is somewhere pictures are displayed last time I looked. Are we trying to co-opt this word now to try and make a code repository sound sexy? Sorry , doesn't work pal.
Just leave the friggin language alone and use words appropriately, don't invent your own meanings to try and sound clever. Its bad enough with all the idiotic management speak around without geeks adding to the mess.
... who simply wants a desktop GUI to launch applications and provide a convenient view into the computer? I'm pretty sure we reached this state of affairs 15 years ago so someone tell me what , other than eye candy , is the point of all these endless new desktops?
There are many coders who work in a country where the language is not their first language. Does this mean the code they write is rubbish if they make some spelling mistakes in the comments? And I've met at least 2 genius level coders who had serious dyslexia and you could hardly make head nor tail of their comments, but the code they wrote was superb.
This whole premise is just a joke. Next they'll be saying people who can't program very well wouldn't be good at writing any form of document.
A mini black hole will only "exert a near-zero gravitational pull on matter" if the matter is somewhat further away that the schwartzchild radius. If it gets anywhere near that then it'll be anything but non zero. After all , if the black hole had almost no gravity it couldn't hold light in and therefore by definition wouldn't be a black hole. I suspect the physicists and banking on the black hole travelling through atoms in the same way that for example neutrinos do - in that the atom to them is effectively empty space with a tiny compact nucleus which is so small that the chances of a direct hit are minimum. We have no absolute guarantee however that a black hole will behave the same way as an uncharged elementary particle.
... is to an old slashdot story which even says the initial write up is wrong and it has a link to a yahoo story which no longer exists. Come on guys , I know this is slashdot but try a little feckin harder for gods sake.
Anti Virus programs are effectively rootkits - at least for Windows - as they bury themselves deep in the OS and redirect various kernel hooks to themselves. I can see potential problems if this type of solution ever becomes common though I suppose you could argue that you shouldn't need anti virus protection if you have this hypervisor. And with both Linux and Windows how would it take into account someone attempting to load a driver/module from userland?
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Considering a conventional train has now got with 4mph of that record its not so impressive given that maglevs only have air resistance to worry about, not rolling resistance.
The french managed 357mph (yes three hundred) with a lightly modified TGV in 2007 (google it).
You complete dick.
I was working in a bank at that time. If we hadn't fixed our systems then come 1/1/2000 every customer in our business area would have found all their transactions failed as the system would have thought they'd expired 100 years ago!
At the company I worked in at the time there were double digit year records used all over the place. If we hadn't fixed the code the whole system would have falled over come the millenium.
All these arsehats who go on about the Y2K being a load of scare mongering paranoia are the ones who don't have a clue about just how much work went on in 1999 trying to sort the issues out!
Viruses require more complicated biological systems to reproduce themselves. This is hardly going to be how the earliest RNA life reproduced if it was the most complex life around at the time.
I doubt they required a more complicated biological system to reproduce like viruses do otherwise life would be stuck in a catch 22 dead end.
This gives a bit of extra credence to the RNA world theory - ie that RNA was the precursor to DNA and very early life forms relied on it exclusively (yeah ok , some viruses still do but they're not technically alive) - if RNA can be used to do this as well as protein creation etc.
"Maybe one of these days Gnome will push me over the edge and make me write my own WM."
I did just that because I got sick of bloatware desktops. Problem is that even with the Xlib programming manuals at hand and example code from another WM I still couldn't create something that appeared to work properly. It was 95% there but had enough issues to make it a pain to use so in the end I went back to KDE. There are so many tricks and gotchas and undocumented things you have to know when doing low level Xlib that its really more hassle than its worth. And thats if you just stick to core Xlib - if you start using extensions then you can kiss your sanity goodby.
"X11 provided pretty much pure user mode graphics."
User mode graphics running as root - which meant if X went down it could still take your box with it. Or more likely just lock up the video display which for most people is the same thing.
Just like on Windows , your non techie user is just going to end up learning a pavlovian response to any such permissions dialog and just click OK no matter what. Yes , you can blame the user but ultimately these are supposed to be simple to use gadgets for people who have more important (to them) things in their life to worry about than application access permissions they probably don't even understand. So you can't really blame users for treating a gadget thats marketed as simple to use in a simple way.
... and yet he's probably still on 0 RL hugs and 0 RL girlfriends.
... the browser might just as well support GWBasic. However fancy javascript may be , it doesn't take the worlds most advanced scripting language to to do pop up windows ,mouseover events and selective loading.
Instead of trying to makd the browser a cut down OS as both MS and Firefox coders seem to be headed for, they should go back to basics and make the browser a simple reliable graphics display program with some user I/O thrown in. Not some bloated monstrosity that has all the reliability of a 20 year old unserviced Trabant. Having to support an ever more complex OO interpreted language doesn't help this reliability.
... and put it in a case.
And it worked.
Umm yeah , and?
Must be a REALLY slow news day today.
... that be used by any tom , dick or harry and screw up or silently alter the functioning of the kernel?
Oh , shame. I guess they'd better stick to using Windows if that's the sort of enviroment these antivirus writers are happy working in.
"I also think that revenge has gotten a bad rap from the politically correct pussification brigade,"
Wish i had mod points as that pretty much sums it up. Too many women and ball free feminised men seem to be making judgements about justice these
days and we can see where its leading.
.... is somewhere pictures are displayed last time I looked. Are we trying to co-opt this word now to try and make a code repository sound sexy? Sorry , doesn't work pal.
Just leave the friggin language alone and use words appropriately, don't invent your own meanings to try and sound clever. Its bad enough with all the idiotic management speak around without geeks adding to the mess.
... who simply wants a desktop GUI to launch applications and provide a convenient view into the computer? I'm pretty sure we reached this state of affairs 15 years ago so someone tell me what , other than eye candy , is the point of all these endless new desktops?
... learn COBOL. Nice and long winded and "englishy". And an utter PITA.
There are many coders who work in a country where the language is not their first language. Does this mean the code they write is rubbish if they make some spelling mistakes in the comments? And I've met at least 2 genius level coders who had serious dyslexia and you could hardly make head nor tail of their comments, but the code they wrote was superb.
This whole premise is just a joke. Next they'll be saying people who can't program very well wouldn't be good at writing any form of document.
Yeah , whatever. Like I said , I'm sure you're right and the worlds top physicists and cosmologists can't do simple maths.
A mini black hole will only "exert a near-zero gravitational pull on matter" if the matter is somewhat further away that the schwartzchild radius. If it gets anywhere near that then it'll be anything but non zero. After all , if the black hole had almost no gravity it couldn't hold light in and therefore by definition wouldn't be a black hole. I suspect the physicists and banking on the black hole travelling through atoms in the same way that for example neutrinos do - in that the atom to them is effectively empty space with a tiny compact nucleus which is so small that the chances of a direct hit are minimum. We have no absolute guarantee however that a black hole will behave the same way as an uncharged elementary particle.
Why not go argue it out with stephen hawking. I'm sure you're right and hundreds of cosmologists have got their maths all wrong.
... is to an old slashdot story which even says the initial write up is wrong and it has a link to a yahoo story which no longer exists. Come on guys , I know this is slashdot but try a little feckin harder for gods sake.
Most normal people would consider that sort of money a fairly large purchase.
Anti Virus programs are effectively rootkits - at least for Windows - as they bury themselves deep in the OS and redirect various kernel hooks to themselves. I can see potential problems if this type of solution ever becomes common though I suppose you could argue that you shouldn't need anti virus protection if you have this hypervisor. And with both Linux and Windows how would it take into account someone attempting to load a driver/module from userland?