"non-final" code? When has Microsoft (or any software vendor, for that matter) ever released "final" code. Sounds like some meaningless measurement dreamed up by an auditor who wouln't know C++ from Chaucer. Those poor MS programmers are probably forced to click some web link that ties into their source code control system that marks code as "final", and they probably all do it and it's pretty useless except to waste everyone's time. Why don't they just issue a patch like they do for everything else?
Good point. The false pin first method would help with situations like the one described in another reply where they simply put an entire false machine that actually despenses money. That's another pretty hard to believe story though.
If we could get them to join us, they would be powerful allies. So, I'm not sure how to kill them, but every time you install Linux, a Microsoft programmer gets fired.
Well, I'd never though of always typing in the wrong pin first to verify that the ATM is actually connected to the ATM network. But I'm also not sure I believe the keylogger keypad connected to wifi thing either. I imagined ATMs were tamper resistant such that the bank would be notified if anything was disconnected.
Is it just me, or is "it used to be liquid" the absolute first guess that everyone though of about.3 seconds after learning the mood had a bulge. It seems the article is simply saying that some very bored astronomer finally got around to doing the math behind the assumption.
> Another thing that will have to change is that RAM should not be as random.
I agree. All these years we've been suffering with RANDOM access memory, an crutch of an antiquated technology that's time is over. Considering that computers do a whole bunch of searching, and a binary search is so much faster than a sequential search, and that you can only do a binary search on sorted data, if we could just get SORTED access memory instead of the end-of-its-usefull-life RANDOM crap, computers would be much faster.
Your honor, my site, godschosensluts.com, clearly indicated the adult nature of its content with the meta-tag 'zune'. I have no idea why Microsoft chose that name for their music player, but the Hebrew languages pre-dates Microsoft by at lease 5000 years.
I agree completely. And what's worse is when I'm innocently looking for porn and I get to Mattel or Toys-R-Us. Do you know how embarresing that is for my co-workers to think I'm shopping for little girl's toys? They know I don't have a daughter. I have to lie and say I'm shopping for my niece.
Dvorak seems to be missing the point: "CSS's real benefit was that the layout not only could be changed easily but also could become dynamic: The content is stored in a database and presented as necessary, with instant updates. With dynamic content, it's possible for 100 people to go to the same Web site and get 100 different versions."
Wasn't it CGI, not CSS, that made dynamic content possible? CSS:
1) SEPERATES presentation from information, making all those cgi scrips a lot cleaner and easier to program
2) Pushes the processing of formatting client-side Any CGI script can display 100 different non-css html pages to 100 different users.
Just because Dvorak can't figure out how float positioning works doesn't mean its a bad standard. CSS isn't perfect, but I don't see you coming up with anything better and getting all the browsers to support it (if imperfectly). I think the CSS that is consistently supported across browsers is far more impressive than the CSS that isn't is frustrating. In fact, I think we should have the W3C try to negotiate peace in the middle east as well.
And if you're still not happy with CSS, why don't you just output all of your web pages as XML and use XSLT for formatting. Then come back and tell me how complicated you think CSS is.
Oh, god! Metered Bandwidth! What happens when I download a file just to find out it's corrupt and have to download it again? Why did it get corrupted? Was it my ISP or the server on the other end? If it's my ISP, am I entitled to a refund? If so, how do I prove it was my ISP?
More importantly, we'd all have to think about how much bandwidth we're using. To provide a financial disincentive for people to use file sharing software for illegal reasons, they'd have to charge for upstream bandwidth too (otherwise I'm only charged for the songs I actually download, which just means the wrong people get paid for them). This would also provide a financial disincentive for people to use file sharing software for legal purposes. (Didn't one of the network just start distributing some TV show via bittorrent?)
That also means I can't run my own web server because if I got slashdotted, I could go bankrupt. How much of the web's great content started as some guy making a web site in his spare time and publishing it simply because it was no additional cost to do so?
Truly such a thing would kill the Internet. I'd just call Quest, cancel my service, and go back to school to get a degree in something not computer related.
Wait a minute. What about the OS itself. While ODF speed may be a concern for those of us who still run Linux on a PII (quite happily), If you've got the hardware to run XP or Vista comfortablly, won't it probablly plow through either format?
Despite my best efforts to avoid the troll, I cannot. I'll not go into a similar rant about why I love slashdot and think it's both easy to use and beautiful, but just let me say Good Work, Taco! Keep it up and don't change a thing!
And, of course, the fact that MacOS is their only selling point. Why would you pay so much more for hardware unless you were a fan of the software? If I had to run Windows, I'd just buy a cheap PC from Wal-Mart. Someone please mod the first post up and kick in the tookus the moderator who let this ridiculous story waste my bandwidth.
> allow the United States Government to shut down all Chinese Government PCs running Windows.
That's reassuring. All this time I figured the US government would be making plans on how to attack China or at least defend itself against an attack from China. Being able to do China such a favor sounds like a much more civilized strategy for ensuring positive US-China relations.:)
> the Greenland ice cap would probably move faster and possibly even disintegrate.
WOW! Has anyone checked out a world map lately. Look how big Greenland is. It's HUGE. We might even end up with MORE usable land if we melted all that darn ice on it. Assuming it's high enough not to be covered by the rising sea, of course:)
There are other doomsday scenarios too. I read a book (I forget the title) that argued that Noha's flood was actually a title wave caused by a large portion of the southern polar ice cap breaking free and sliding into the ocean. I won't comment on the soundness or evidence presented, as this particular book also talked about aliens, a 10th planet, and a slew of other stuff of unknown credibility, but it was a fascenating read considering the effects of the south asian Tsunami.
I second the comment that development on Windows is hard to get started in. What does Visual Studio cost again? All the linux development tools are free.
Linux succedes at all because you have many thousands of people writing code for it all the time. Most of it's crap, but the good stuff makes it into the distros. Most importantly, devs are motivated by real problems and by their own problems. At commercial development shops, including Microsoft, the programmers aren't network administrators, they simply can't be in touch with real world problems and they're writing code from somone else. That's why Linux is really succeeding.
It was a press release. This is one case where I can't blame people for not RTFA. Embarrassingly, I did and couldn't help laughing at his plea for the children.
> It is a first step to securing a better future for our children, who will comprise the next generation of IT managers.
Granted I'm not A+ certified, but where the heck did he get the rivit gun? Do A+ certified tech walk around with those things or was his day job something else?
I agree, money does matter. To truly understand such a study, I'd have to have a doctorate in some field I can't list here because I don't even know what it would be called. And I'd also have to have many years of real world experience, because if I was fresh out of school, I would just have learned what the professors taught me, which is based on their bias. But by that time, my current and future income would be dependent on being in the good favors of those who funded such studies, so, short of being independently wealthy, I might not be at liberty to fully state the conclusion I wanted to. So money wins in science just as it does in politics, and those of us who work for a living haven't a chance of forming valid opinions on anything scientific. Some days, I really do wonder how civilization made it this far.
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"non-final" code? When has Microsoft (or any software vendor, for that matter) ever released "final" code. Sounds like some meaningless measurement dreamed up by an auditor who wouln't know C++ from Chaucer. Those poor MS programmers are probably forced to click some web link that ties into their source code control system that marks code as "final", and they probably all do it and it's pretty useless except to waste everyone's time. Why don't they just issue a patch like they do for everything else?
Good point. The false pin first method would help with situations like the one described in another reply where they simply put an entire false machine that actually despenses money. That's another pretty hard to believe story though.
If we could get them to join us, they would be powerful allies. So, I'm not sure how to kill them, but every time you install Linux, a Microsoft programmer gets fired.
So what do you propose putting in it's place? Maybe the ever elusive "Any" key?
Well, I'd never though of always typing in the wrong pin first to verify that the ATM is actually connected to the ATM network. But I'm also not sure I believe the keylogger keypad connected to wifi thing either. I imagined ATMs were tamper resistant such that the bank would be notified if anything was disconnected.
Is it just me, or is "it used to be liquid" the absolute first guess that everyone though of about .3 seconds after learning the mood had a bulge. It seems the article is simply saying that some very bored astronomer finally got around to doing the math behind the assumption.
> Another thing that will have to change is that RAM should not be as random.
I agree. All these years we've been suffering with RANDOM access memory, an crutch of an antiquated technology that's time is over. Considering that computers do a whole bunch of searching, and a binary search is so much faster than a sequential search, and that you can only do a binary search on sorted data, if we could just get SORTED access memory instead of the end-of-its-usefull-life RANDOM crap, computers would be much faster.
Your honor, my site, godschosensluts.com, clearly indicated the adult nature of its content with the meta-tag 'zune'. I have no idea why Microsoft chose that name for their music player, but the Hebrew languages pre-dates Microsoft by at lease 5000 years.
I agree completely. And what's worse is when I'm innocently looking for porn and I get to Mattel or Toys-R-Us. Do you know how embarresing that is for my co-workers to think I'm shopping for little girl's toys? They know I don't have a daughter. I have to lie and say I'm shopping for my niece.
Dvorak seems to be missing the point:
"CSS's real benefit was that the layout not only could be changed easily but also could become dynamic: The content is stored in a database and presented as necessary, with instant updates. With dynamic content, it's possible for 100 people to go to the same Web site and get 100 different versions."
Wasn't it CGI, not CSS, that made dynamic content possible? CSS:
1) SEPERATES presentation from information, making all those cgi scrips a lot cleaner and easier to program
2) Pushes the processing of formatting client-side
Any CGI script can display 100 different non-css html pages to 100 different users.
Just because Dvorak can't figure out how float positioning works doesn't mean its a bad standard. CSS isn't perfect, but I don't see you coming up with anything better and getting all the browsers to support it (if imperfectly). I think the CSS that is consistently supported across browsers is far more impressive than the CSS that isn't is frustrating. In fact, I think we should have the W3C try to negotiate peace in the middle east as well.
And if you're still not happy with CSS, why don't you just output all of your web pages as XML and use XSLT for formatting. Then come back and tell me how complicated you think CSS is.
Oh, god! Metered Bandwidth! What happens when I download a file just to find out it's corrupt and have to download it again? Why did it get corrupted? Was it my ISP or the server on the other end? If it's my ISP, am I entitled to a refund? If so, how do I prove it was my ISP?
More importantly, we'd all have to think about how much bandwidth we're using. To provide a financial disincentive for people to use file sharing software for illegal reasons, they'd have to charge for upstream bandwidth too (otherwise I'm only charged for the songs I actually download, which just means the wrong people get paid for them). This would also provide a financial disincentive for people to use file sharing software for legal purposes. (Didn't one of the network just start distributing some TV show via bittorrent?)
That also means I can't run my own web server because if I got slashdotted, I could go bankrupt. How much of the web's great content started as some guy making a web site in his spare time and publishing it simply because it was no additional cost to do so?
Truly such a thing would kill the Internet. I'd just call Quest, cancel my service, and go back to school to get a degree in something not computer related.
Wait a minute. What about the OS itself. While ODF speed may be a concern for those of us who still run Linux on a PII (quite happily), If you've got the hardware to run XP or Vista comfortablly, won't it probablly plow through either format?
Despite my best efforts to avoid the troll, I cannot. I'll not go into a similar rant about why I love slashdot and think it's both easy to use and beautiful, but just let me say Good Work, Taco! Keep it up and don't change a thing!
And, of course, the fact that MacOS is their only selling point. Why would you pay so much more for hardware unless you were a fan of the software? If I had to run Windows, I'd just buy a cheap PC from Wal-Mart. Someone please mod the first post up and kick in the tookus the moderator who let this ridiculous story waste my bandwidth.
> allow the United States Government to shut down all Chinese Government PCs running Windows.
:)
That's reassuring. All this time I figured the US government would be making plans on how to attack China or at least defend itself against an attack from China. Being able to do China such a favor sounds like a much more civilized strategy for ensuring positive US-China relations.
Scratch that. Tidal wave, not title wave. I swear I hit the preview button, but it submitted my comment anyway.
Hey, that was a joke, folks. How come cybpunks3 got the karma bonus? (*&#$ mods.
WOW! Has anyone checked out a world map lately. Look how big Greenland is. It's HUGE. We might even end up with MORE usable land if we melted all that darn ice on it. Assuming it's high enough not to be covered by the rising sea, of course :)
No, you misunderstood. It's not considered news until it gets picked up by slashdot and we all have intelligent discussion about... nevermind.
There are other doomsday scenarios too. I read a book (I forget the title) that argued that Noha's flood was actually a title wave caused by a large portion of the southern polar ice cap breaking free and sliding into the ocean. I won't comment on the soundness or evidence presented, as this particular book also talked about aliens, a 10th planet, and a slew of other stuff of unknown credibility, but it was a fascenating read considering the effects of the south asian Tsunami.
I second the comment that development on Windows is hard to get started in. What does Visual Studio cost again? All the linux development tools are free.
Linux succedes at all because you have many thousands of people writing code for it all the time. Most of it's crap, but the good stuff makes it into the distros. Most importantly, devs are motivated by real problems and by their own problems. At commercial development shops, including Microsoft, the programmers aren't network administrators, they simply can't be in touch with real world problems and they're writing code from somone else. That's why Linux is really succeeding.
It was a press release. This is one case where I can't blame people for not RTFA. Embarrassingly, I did and couldn't help laughing at his plea for the children.
> It is a first step to securing a better future for our children, who will comprise the next generation of IT managers.
No, it would work the other way.
"Hey, give me my ID back. I know it doesn't look like me, but that's because I had my face transplanted. I swear it's not a fake."
Granted I'm not A+ certified, but where the heck did he get the rivit gun? Do A+ certified tech walk around with those things or was his day job something else?
I agree, money does matter. To truly understand such a study, I'd have to have a doctorate in some field I can't list here because I don't even know what it would be called. And I'd also have to have many years of real world experience, because if I was fresh out of school, I would just have learned what the professors taught me, which is based on their bias. But by that time, my current and future income would be dependent on being in the good favors of those who funded such studies, so, short of being independently wealthy, I might not be at liberty to fully state the conclusion I wanted to. So money wins in science just as it does in politics, and those of us who work for a living haven't a chance of forming valid opinions on anything scientific. Some days, I really do wonder how civilization made it this far.