Ouch! Yeah, I deserved that one, I wrote it without thinking in the last second before I left the office. Its not as if I've read the book less than a dozen times too;-)
You know the world has changed when librarians start getting miltant...
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Maybe you have a point about bash extentions versus POSIX sh, but in no sense of the word is bash "proprietary". It is free software! It runs on every unix-like operating system under the sun!
I know that technical discussions on Slashdot are becoming pretty rare nowdays, but does anyone have any details as to exactly why MS are having so many problems with Win64 ?
For example, does their really weird size conventions (with 64-bit pointers but 32-bit long) cause more porting problems than it solves?
Same in Australia too, and I think most of Europe. The number of people you need simply scales with the size of the population. It shouldn't be any harder to do this in the USA. I think they are just obsessed with technology. Even early on, they didn't use pen & paper but had fancy machines for punching holes in paper.
The number of state ex- returning offices that are currently in prison shows how long and glorious the tradition of rigging elections is in the USA. I don't think there is any pressure from the governement itself to get a transparently reliable election system.
Ok, so Longhorn, currently scheduled for 2007, but will probably still be vaporware by then, will include HD DVD support.
Linux, on the other hand, will support HD DVD as soon as a kernel hacker gets enough of the spec to implement the driver. Any bets on when exactly that will be?
But, if it was allowed to take drugs then there is a problem because a lot of drugs that are short-term performance-enhancing are very bad for you. But, some people are determined enough to win that they don't care if the drugs will kill them.
But, the result would be that athletes have very short life spans (including many that would die while competing), and people who care about their long term health would not be able to compete effectively.
It certainly does help. In the past, they used to use alcohol instead. But the dehydrating effects of alcohol (and ignorance of same) caused a rider to die. This was a few years ago now. Like it or not, drugs of one sort or another have always been used on the Tour, and probably still are today.
Sure, I said it was a comparison that is grossly out of proportion.
But "integrating the browser into the OS" was a marketing move not a technical one, and violates every rule of software engineering ever conceived. If someone dies (really, this is when, not if) in a car accident due to them being distracted by their onboard navigation system crashing, the question will be raised as to the quality of the software. In the Mozilla case, I think it could be convincingly argued that it was a genuine oversight. In the case of Microsoft, their method of producing software simply isn't designed with security in mind at all. Those weird 'zone' things in IE is a prime example - it isn't an operating system concept at all, it isn't as if browsing in a different zone is like running a program as a different user or something like that, its just a ad-hoc and fundamentally unrobust hack.
My point is, designing secure software is hard enough, doing it with a company that is driven by the marketing department is literally impossible. And ultimately it is the individual employees at Microsoft that are responsible for the way the company works. If they don't want to be found guilty, they shouldn't work there.
But this is the whole point, it won't be possible to archive anything because that implies it is stored on a medium that is readily accessible and possible to copy.
For movie releases: physically copying the movie onto film for every cinema in every country takes a loooong time. This will ultimately change once some form of digital projector becomes commonplace.
For DVD releases: these are (obviously) timed to be released after the cinematic release, so that is one cause for delays. Also, adding subtitles, language menus, possibly dubbing, etc etc all take time. Of course, all of this could be parallelized (and probably is), so the real reason is probably simply money & convenience.
It is exactly this attitude that got a lot of low-ranking German army and SS officers the death sentence or long prison sentences at the Nurenburg trials.
Of course this is a completely different circumstance and grossly out of proportion to compare WWII war crimes with Microsoft.... but the philosophy is the same, you can't dodge responsibility forever.
WEP was designed to be insecure. The whole process (and even the acronym!) was dictated by nervous governments who fear subversives and don't give a s**t about criminals making life hell for their citizens.
802.11i appears to be a genuine attempt to create an open and secure system that is (mostly) free from the interference that crippled WEP.
So you mean it was (and, still is?) possible to crash the cash register by a buffer overflow in bar codes? What happens if you scan a really long bar code? Can you execute arbitrary code on the cash register?
Yes, it was bombed quite heavily in WWII. Aparantly the rebuilt city is really nice, I hope to visit there one day (I am at least living in the same country at the moment, albeit at the opposite end!).
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They won't be able to pull out of software patent agreements once said countries have 'negotiated' 'free trade' agreements with the USA.
Ouch! Yeah, I deserved that one, I wrote it without thinking in the last second before I left the office. Its not as if I've read the book less than a dozen times too ;-)
So Galadriel never appeared in the books???
You know the world has changed when librarians start getting miltant...
Maybe you have a point about bash extentions versus POSIX sh, but in no sense of the word is bash "proprietary". It is free software! It runs on every unix-like operating system under the sun!
wget http://porn.com/image{1..300}.jpg ?
Neat! (assuming I got the syntax right;)
For example, does their really weird size conventions (with 64-bit pointers but 32-bit long) cause more porting problems than it solves?
Has anyone here tried porting a program to Win64?
The number of state ex- returning offices that are currently in prison shows how long and glorious the tradition of rigging elections is in the USA. I don't think there is any pressure from the governement itself to get a transparently reliable election system.
Camera phones were banned from the last election in Italy because the mafia were demanding a photo of your 'correct' vote.
Which position is best for zero-G sex, for one thing. ;)
Linux, on the other hand, will support HD DVD as soon as a kernel hacker gets enough of the spec to implement the driver. Any bets on when exactly that will be?
What is the big news here?
And, of course, no famous works of art/music were ever created or inspired under the influence of drugs!
But, the result would be that athletes have very short life spans (including many that would die while competing), and people who care about their long term health would not be able to compete effectively.
It certainly does help. In the past, they used to use alcohol instead. But the dehydrating effects of alcohol (and ignorance of same) caused a rider to die. This was a few years ago now. Like it or not, drugs of one sort or another have always been used on the Tour, and probably still are today.
But "integrating the browser into the OS" was a marketing move not a technical one, and violates every rule of software engineering ever conceived. If someone dies (really, this is when, not if) in a car accident due to them being distracted by their onboard navigation system crashing, the question will be raised as to the quality of the software. In the Mozilla case, I think it could be convincingly argued that it was a genuine oversight. In the case of Microsoft, their method of producing software simply isn't designed with security in mind at all. Those weird 'zone' things in IE is a prime example - it isn't an operating system concept at all, it isn't as if browsing in a different zone is like running a program as a different user or something like that, its just a ad-hoc and fundamentally unrobust hack.
My point is, designing secure software is hard enough, doing it with a company that is driven by the marketing department is literally impossible. And ultimately it is the individual employees at Microsoft that are responsible for the way the company works. If they don't want to be found guilty, they shouldn't work there.
But this is the whole point, it won't be possible to archive anything because that implies it is stored on a medium that is readily accessible and possible to copy.
For DVD releases: these are (obviously) timed to be released after the cinematic release, so that is one cause for delays. Also, adding subtitles, language menus, possibly dubbing, etc etc all take time. Of course, all of this could be parallelized (and probably is), so the real reason is probably simply money & convenience.
No, YOU try again. Where did I mention Nazis? Most German army officers were not Nazis. The SS were (I think?), but that is really beside the point.
Of course this is a completely different circumstance and grossly out of proportion to compare WWII war crimes with Microsoft.... but the philosophy is the same, you can't dodge responsibility forever.
802.11i appears to be a genuine attempt to create an open and secure system that is (mostly) free from the interference that crippled WEP.
Makes it a pain in the ass for glider pilots who want to calculate glide ratios!
So you mean it was (and, still is?) possible to crash the cash register by a buffer overflow in bar codes? What happens if you scan a really long bar code? Can you execute arbitrary code on the cash register?
On the other hand, that may well be true.
Yes, it was bombed quite heavily in WWII. Aparantly the rebuilt city is really nice, I hope to visit there one day (I am at least living in the same country at the moment, albeit at the opposite end!).
Ack, the typo Nazi is here!