The YouTube preview looks just as smooth as my nVidia card, and is probably much smoother on window resizes (my nVidia cards are rather bad in that respect). I'd be happy to build a computer around the VIA video system once the 3D finalizes.
"Sure...while we are at it lets put a cop in jail every time someone in their city gets mugged, murdered, raped, etc."
What if the cop stood back and watched, but did nothing to stop it? Would you favor jail time for that? I certainly would.
I would also favor criminal penalties if, and only if, the company whose data was stolen disregarded all generally accepted security practices (yes, I know these aren't formalized), and that disregard is what lead to the theft. In other words, only for gross negligence.
I run my own email server off of my DSL, and do something similar to this. I have a private email address which never gets revealed, and a separate email address for everyone who needs to contact me. All of those email aliases get forwarded to my private address. If I start getting spam on one of the aliases, I know who it came from, and I can shut down the alias. My spam has dropped by 99.9999%, with the remaining.0001% being from an old public address which I don't want to change yet.
My email server registers many daily attempts to deliver mail to disabled aliases, but obviously they all get rejected.
When I interviewed for the developer job I've now held for the last seven years, the clincher was all of the Open Source projects I had written up to that point; particularly my Yahoo group chat client (RiffRaff, which has long since become obsolete). Good interview skills helped, but the long list of useful (at least to me) Open Source software I had created was what impressed the interviewers the most.
The general impression I made was that if I needed something, I didn't wait around for someone else to handle it; I took the initiative, and got it done myself.
"But now they're releasing a fix? That's not sabotage!"
Foxconn got caught and was called front-and-center over it. The evidence is overwhelmingly against them (the sabotage is plainly visible in their own code), so they realize the jig is up. The only rational response, after all the denials failed, is to provide a fix and hope the exposure fades away.
The sabotage doesn't necessarily have to be an explicit agreement between Foxconn and Microsoft, but it was certainly intentional on Foxconn's part. The code that said, essentially, "If Windows, do things right; if Linux, do things wrong" was not an accident. The question of who at Foxconn made the decision to perform the sabotage may never be known, but it was done consciously by someone at Foxconn (for whatever reason).
"I'll never need this info personally, but feel this is for a greater good."
Don't be too sure. Remember that the RIAA has sued people who have never even used a computer. In America, just because you're not guilty doesn't mean you won't have to defend yourself.
Didn't anyone ever watch Star Trek? This is such a simple problem. Just change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the object and making it easy to move. Oww! Where is that doctor?!
"Nine Inch Nails gave out their new album (The Slip) for free and used the geographic data from the torrent downloads to plan their tour schedule."
Many (most?) martial arts have a concept called "Conservation of Motion", which allows for the famous notion of using your opponent's strength to your advantage by applying a small direction force to guide his body which is already in motion. When applied correctly, it's a thing of beauty. While most in the music industry are trying to use brute force to stop illegal copying, some are apparently using the massive momentum behind that copying to their advantage. I'd say NiN moved up a belt color.
"Yeah, it takes a bit more space, but I find it a lot easier to match blocks up when the braces are indented the same amount."
I started out indenting according to the formatting sadists we call K&R. After a few months, reading my code became very difficult for me since there was no obvious geometry to the formatting. I also used spaces for indentation, which became extremely cumbersome. To make it even worse, I used only two spaces for indentation. It was the worst of all possible styles.
I read the Linux coding standards guide, where Linus dismissed two-character indentation as insane. He recommended 8-character indentation, which I thought was a total waste of space. I eventually tried it, though, I realized that it made reading code much easier. He still recommended K&R styling, but nobody's at the top of their game all the time.
After a couple years of trying various styles I encountered on the 'Net, the one you mentioned is the one that solved all of the styling problems that had given me such headaches over the years. The geometry of the layout is easy to find and follow, 8-character tabs are easy for my tired eyes to focus on after long programming sessions, and the extra whitespace around code makes differentiating the various logic structures much, much easier than any other form I've seen.
"OpenSolaris has basically been declared illegal. "
I suspect SUN and Novell will reach an amicable agreement. I think SUN may turn around and sue SCO to recoup the money SUN spent on licenses SCO wasn't entitled to sell. Fraud, barratry, and other charges may be possible.
A similar experience can be had on the Vomit Comet, probably for substantially less and for a longer total duration. Although with the cost of aircraft fuel quickly approaching the cost of rocket fuel, I may be mistaken.
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"I never notcied this before but he's right. There's not nearly enough hockey on this site."
That's strange, because I see lots of pointless fights on here.
The tech needs to grow a couple brain cells, and understand what "a figure of speech" means.
The YouTube preview looks just as smooth as my nVidia card, and is probably much smoother on window resizes (my nVidia cards are rather bad in that respect). I'd be happy to build a computer around the VIA video system once the 3D finalizes.
"Sure...while we are at it lets put a cop in jail every time someone in their city gets mugged, murdered, raped, etc."
What if the cop stood back and watched, but did nothing to stop it? Would you favor jail time for that? I certainly would.
I would also favor criminal penalties if, and only if, the company whose data was stolen disregarded all generally accepted security practices (yes, I know these aren't formalized), and that disregard is what lead to the theft. In other words, only for gross negligence.
"It was NOT someone who tried to get away with conning other kids and teachers, doing little work, and just coasting through life."
That sounds a lot like the college I want to (err...to which I went).
I run my own email server off of my DSL, and do something similar to this. I have a private email address which never gets revealed, and a separate email address for everyone who needs to contact me. All of those email aliases get forwarded to my private address. If I start getting spam on one of the aliases, I know who it came from, and I can shut down the alias. My spam has dropped by 99.9999%, with the remaining .0001% being from an old public address which I don't want to change yet.
My email server registers many daily attempts to deliver mail to disabled aliases, but obviously they all get rejected.
"What comes next? Hyperspeed? FTL-speed?"
Improbable Speed.
"I could not RTFA (/.ed), but is there any indication of how this "compromise" occurred?"
The article does not indicate how the compromise occurred.
"Someone tells these humorless Americans that humor can take many faces."
When the crackpots (such as the creationists) invade your school systems, you'll lose your sense of humor, too.
When I interviewed for the developer job I've now held for the last seven years, the clincher was all of the Open Source projects I had written up to that point; particularly my Yahoo group chat client (RiffRaff, which has long since become obsolete). Good interview skills helped, but the long list of useful (at least to me) Open Source software I had created was what impressed the interviewers the most.
The general impression I made was that if I needed something, I didn't wait around for someone else to handle it; I took the initiative, and got it done myself.
"Any suggestions for good stories about MS interoperability so far?"
Windows has interoperated with my trash can just fine. Does that count?
"But now they're releasing a fix? That's not sabotage!"
Foxconn got caught and was called front-and-center over it. The evidence is overwhelmingly against them (the sabotage is plainly visible in their own code), so they realize the jig is up. The only rational response, after all the denials failed, is to provide a fix and hope the exposure fades away.
The sabotage doesn't necessarily have to be an explicit agreement between Foxconn and Microsoft, but it was certainly intentional on Foxconn's part. The code that said, essentially, "If Windows, do things right; if Linux, do things wrong" was not an accident. The question of who at Foxconn made the decision to perform the sabotage may never be known, but it was done consciously by someone at Foxconn (for whatever reason).
"For christ's sake. At least link to the fucking Oracle page. "
In Soviet America, Oracle fucks you.
"I'll never need this info personally, but feel this is for a greater good."
Don't be too sure. Remember that the RIAA has sued people who have never even used a computer. In America, just because you're not guilty doesn't mean you won't have to defend yourself.
Didn't anyone ever watch Star Trek? This is such a simple problem. Just change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the object and making it easy to move. Oww! Where is that doctor?!
"1981 called - it wants its meme back."
1985 called - it wants its jokes back.
"Nine Inch Nails gave out their new album (The Slip) for free and used the geographic data from the torrent downloads to plan their tour schedule."
Many (most?) martial arts have a concept called "Conservation of Motion", which allows for the famous notion of using your opponent's strength to your advantage by applying a small direction force to guide his body which is already in motion. When applied correctly, it's a thing of beauty. While most in the music industry are trying to use brute force to stop illegal copying, some are apparently using the massive momentum behind that copying to their advantage. I'd say NiN moved up a belt color.
"I would love to give up XP, but linux can't run the video editing software that I need and games that I want."
There's a huge different between "can't run" and "isn't available for".
"Yeah, it takes a bit more space, but I find it a lot easier to match blocks up when the braces are indented the same amount."
I started out indenting according to the formatting sadists we call K&R. After a few months, reading my code became very difficult for me since there was no obvious geometry to the formatting. I also used spaces for indentation, which became extremely cumbersome. To make it even worse, I used only two spaces for indentation. It was the worst of all possible styles.
I read the Linux coding standards guide, where Linus dismissed two-character indentation as insane. He recommended 8-character indentation, which I thought was a total waste of space. I eventually tried it, though, I realized that it made reading code much easier. He still recommended K&R styling, but nobody's at the top of their game all the time.
After a couple years of trying various styles I encountered on the 'Net, the one you mentioned is the one that solved all of the styling problems that had given me such headaches over the years. The geometry of the layout is easy to find and follow, 8-character tabs are easy for my tired eyes to focus on after long programming sessions, and the extra whitespace around code makes differentiating the various logic structures much, much easier than any other form I've seen.
"OpenSolaris has basically been declared illegal. "
I suspect SUN and Novell will reach an amicable agreement. I think SUN may turn around and sue SCO to recoup the money SUN spent on licenses SCO wasn't entitled to sell. Fraud, barratry, and other charges may be possible.
"Does it involve all of us getting laid?"
Hell's thermometers are reading several thousand degrees Fahrenheit, so no.
"By StarReviewer from Moronville, KY Read all my reviews"
Not exactly the height of credibility here, regardless of what you think of Kentucky.
"...20 minutes 'flight' and 3-4 mins floating..."
A similar experience can be had on the Vomit Comet, probably for substantially less and for a longer total duration. Although with the cost of aircraft fuel quickly approaching the cost of rocket fuel, I may be mistaken.
"Hah! I knew the gamers that complain about 500Ms lag were full of it!"
If I had 500 megasecond lag, I'd be complaining too.
"Simply put, when I'm in a position to hire myself - in the next few years..."
Be careful about that. Later, when you're in a position to fire yourself, there might be fightin' words exchanged.