MS went to a 'regular' monthly schedule to pacify the sysadmins out there who were tired of wondering when they were going to have to push a new update out. It's easier to schedule your work when you know there will be a monthly patch.
If a/. user ever starts dating a girl, maybe they can better explain the appreciation of foreknowledge of the monthly cycle.
The simple solution is not to announce the 'gold' date. No mad dash to sneak in a last bias under the deadline.
The more devious (and therefore preferable) solution is to announce that the gold date has already passed and let the WikiPedia continue to ooze forward as it does. Then take the master version whenever they bloody well want to.
Can't we just fuse it all into glass with a few thousands well placed nukes? Or maybe giant laser beams mounted on intergalatic sharks. Not only would the moon dust be safer, the moon could be much shinier for nocturnal activities here on Eart. The only drawback is Microsoft would probably be the corporate sponsor and Bill would be leering down on us for the next billion years.
Great googly-moogly. Stop with cheap low-res sat photos and try adding a scale to your maps. You know, one of the basic features of a map? The little hashed bar that gives me some idea how far it is from one point on the map to another. I realize it is not innovative or amazingly cool, but it kinda renders your maps useless otherwise.
Increased storage density means faster transfer rates (if the disks spin at the same speeds). Average seek times would not be better as you'll still wait just as long for the drive head to find your data. Although if the storage density is a lot higher, you could use a smaller disk and get faster seek times too.
Don't be too impressed by bigger transfer rates. Seek times are much more significant for most users. We're still measuring seek times in milliseconds, compared to nanoseconds for most other computing processes.
No it's exactly what he's saying. Most people toss junk snail-mail. But enough buy the products to make the mailings worthwhile for the seller. Tragically with spam, it takes a much smaller response to cover the advertising costs.
NAT is a band aid at best, and the end of the InterNet at worst.
Utter rubbish. When a $20 piece of hardware (a trivial cost compared to the computer and broadband connection) stops the vast majority of infections, that's a vaccine, not a bandaid.
You're not understanding the statement (RTFAAgain). It says 25% of all bots are in the UK (according to Symantec). That may mean 100%, 10% or 1% of all UK PCs are compromised. The article doesn't say what percentage of PCs are compromised, just that a bunch of 'em are in the UK.
Given how big the lawyer lobby is, I wouldn't hold my breath for any real reform to our cluttered legal system. Legislators are very well paid (via campaign contributions if nothing else) to adopt a lawyer-friendly stance.
IOW, it's a lot cheaper to just pipe sunlight in rather than use a solar panel to make electricity to keep a bulb lit. With the (large) losses of converting sunlight to electricity and then the (almost as large) losses of using that electricity to make light, photovoltaic-powered lights are a bit daft.
Why do we pine for a format war? Mostly we just want to laugh at your pain (& everyone else in the losing camp, not just you. You're not special. Your mom lied about that.).
Comedy is tragedy happening to someone else. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be humiliated.
Players are always trying to peek behind the DM's screen so they can see what's coming up next. Cheating on the dice rolls, making up munchkin characters, sneaking a look at the monster manual, etc. Untrustworthy, the whole lot of em.
A general purpose CPU has no chance against a dedicated GPU in graphics processing. Using a second core isn't going to be 'interesting' except as an exercise in futility.
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If a /. user ever starts dating a girl, maybe they can better explain the appreciation of foreknowledge of the monthly cycle.
NASA is going to be extinct because it is run by dinosaurs.
1. Establish world class museum.
2. ?????
3. Profit!
And so at long last, we know what secret lies behind the mysterious step 2: Secretly sell off all the good stuff!
...that the Indian Prime Minister replies that India will be much better served in partnering with a real hardware leader: Taiwan.
The more devious (and therefore preferable) solution is to announce that the gold date has already passed and let the WikiPedia continue to ooze forward as it does. Then take the master version whenever they bloody well want to.
Can't we just fuse it all into glass with a few thousands well placed nukes? Or maybe giant laser beams mounted on intergalatic sharks. Not only would the moon dust be safer, the moon could be much shinier for nocturnal activities here on Eart. The only drawback is Microsoft would probably be the corporate sponsor and Bill would be leering down on us for the next billion years.
Great googly-moogly. Stop with cheap low-res sat photos and try adding a scale to your maps. You know, one of the basic features of a map? The little hashed bar that gives me some idea how far it is from one point on the map to another. I realize it is not innovative or amazingly cool, but it kinda renders your maps useless otherwise.
I'm sure your parents would let you use the basement if you'd collect 3 bucks a head.
We can't pass up an oppotunity like this!
Don't be too impressed by bigger transfer rates. Seek times are much more significant for most users. We're still measuring seek times in milliseconds, compared to nanoseconds for most other computing processes.
No it's exactly what he's saying. Most people toss junk snail-mail. But enough buy the products to make the mailings worthwhile for the seller. Tragically with spam, it takes a much smaller response to cover the advertising costs.
Maybe the editors would prefer readers that don't take the site so seriously.
Utter rubbish. When a $20 piece of hardware (a trivial cost compared to the computer and broadband connection) stops the vast majority of infections, that's a vaccine, not a bandaid.
You're not understanding the statement (RTFAAgain). It says 25% of all bots are in the UK (according to Symantec). That may mean 100%, 10% or 1% of all UK PCs are compromised. The article doesn't say what percentage of PCs are compromised, just that a bunch of 'em are in the UK.
Well at least we can get in another 73 slashdottings before our time's up.
Given how big the lawyer lobby is, I wouldn't hold my breath for any real reform to our cluttered legal system. Legislators are very well paid (via campaign contributions if nothing else) to adopt a lawyer-friendly stance.
Ay matey, piracy is what you do and a pirate is what you ARRRRRRRRR.
IOW, it's a lot cheaper to just pipe sunlight in rather than use a solar panel to make electricity to keep a bulb lit. With the (large) losses of converting sunlight to electricity and then the (almost as large) losses of using that electricity to make light, photovoltaic-powered lights are a bit daft.
Comedy is tragedy happening to someone else. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be humiliated.
Unless it's A Tale in the Desert. I'd link it, but I wouldn't want to be an enabler for anyone's addiction.
Players are always trying to peek behind the DM's screen so they can see what's coming up next. Cheating on the dice rolls, making up munchkin characters, sneaking a look at the monster manual, etc. Untrustworthy, the whole lot of em.
A general purpose CPU has no chance against a dedicated GPU in graphics processing. Using a second core isn't going to be 'interesting' except as an exercise in futility.
I was going to post that very thing, but I was feeling extra wise today.
Erg, that was a bad pun.
Maybe that's why we haven't seen anyone post "I'm in Panera right now!"