Hotmail was also BSD based, and one of the first things done was to try to migrate it to win2k, and then win2k3 servers. The stories at the time were painting a very ugly transition as they needed something like 1.5 win2k boxes per freebsd server.
actually MSFT can't afford to buy yahoo at the current price. they will have to take out some loans, or they will wipe out all of their cash on hand.
MSFT has less than $20 billion in cash available. With a dropping stock price MSFT will have to borrow money to buy yahoo.
On top of that MSFT has a history of screwing up acquisitions, and ruining whatever potentional they might of had. Remember yahoo is freeBSD based, MSFT will first attempt to replace all the servers with windows ones. Buy the time a new search engine is ready no one will remember yahoo brand.
you are right but MSFT just lost any hope of another big hit for their gaming platform. halo was made by bungie inside MSFT. they have now split. While MSFT still owns halo outright, and bungie will make games that runs on windows MSFT doesn't have a team of game developers who can innovate an FPS like halo.
MSFT will lose only because they try to be everything to everyone.
>>As a small conclusion I would like to ask you, how many laws have you broken today?
I had sex in three non legal positions with my wife. yep in some states you can only have sex in certain ways.
there are literally thousand of laws on the books because no one ever cleaned them up(New yorkers have a telephone tax that goes back to the late 1800's) As well as many laws that were passed just because it made a politician feel good. You could gut out half the laws on the books and things wouldn't change as those laws no longer apply.
If they have a 75 year long copyright there should be a 50 year long limit on all laws. After which they must be renewed, or they expire.
Term limits, and pay increases for politicians only as referendum vote by the people and you might see more people interested in the voting.
several reports about the file copy problem have surfaced. one guy had screen shots showing over a 100 days to copy files.
while it is possible to fake things like that, it should never have to happen. Windows from win95 on through have never had an accurate time to copy dialog. my OS X, and linux boxes have never had such a problem. One has to wonder if MSFT engineers just didn't over engineer the file copy system. KISS is the most effective system when dealing with computers and MSFT doesn't KISS anything, it bytes.
odd I was thinking there was a goto joke in there.
Or a Vista counting problem. It couldn't figure out what comes after 0 so it couldn't move forward. After all if it takes 14 days to copy a gig of files one has to wonder about basic math inside of Vista.
Actually another poster to the grandparent pointed out all you need is it to explode in present of high heat source. As it reenters the atmosphere the outshell heats up setting off the explosive and destroying the target. no complicated computers or signals needed.
That is my thought but if they wait until just it just about enters the atmosphere, or slightly after, the upwards debris is minimized while making sure that most of the debris burns up on reentry.
Of course this being the USA Military I expect military intelligence to kick in and they send up 5 missiles more than they need to.
actually It makes sense to use inverted Mice for FPS. Push the mouse forward and you look down, jut like you push your head forward to look down. To look up you pull your head(mouse) back.
what really annoys me with FPS games is WASD. ESDF give you access to 6 additional buttons easily. That and it is the home row for typing. So your hand can found easily. changing every FPS to those settings gets really annoying.
That's just a bad implementation. I have it as well and love it. the trick is that to unlock the doors you have to press a button which triggers the RFID tag. to start the car once inside it looks for the tag and then allows you to start it up.
The button is on the door handle and works both ways. press once to unlock twice to unlock them all, if unlocked one press will lock them alll.
For all RFID systems it shouldn't be all automatic there should still be a physical aspect to work with to unlock the item, even as simple as a button press increases security.
Oh and my car is nothing fancy just a Nissan Sentra.
Do you know the difference between a 15 watt bulb and a 60 watt bulb at lighting an area? how about a 400w watt one?
Lighting a parking lot or a dangerous stretch of the road is for saftey. The problem is if an old man with cataracts can't see then it isn't bright enough and we simply double the wattage until all is well.
When you can simply place the lights in better locations with shiny reflectors and you can solve the same problem with lower costs. The answer isn't more light but better light. In many regions towns are noticing that too much light is ugly and wasteful and are placing restrictions on how much light you push onto the neighbors or roads.
You want a good reason why? drive down a suburban neighborhood at least one house will have 200 watt flood lights directed at the road were they can blind drivers.
I can light up your home in simple elegant ways so that the house is visible, the drive way and paths are visible, people would be visible, but your not lighting up the superdome. you will save money on electricity. Not much but a little here and a little there is better than just wasting everything.
um your lying. I ran BeOS 5 a few years after they closed down while looking for a better OS to use every day. I wasn't happy with windows, KDE, or Gnome.
BeOS would find the right document providing it was in the right format. Sort of like Apple's spotlight has plugins that allow it to search things like ODF.
MSFT has so badly screwed up ISO, I can see many parties who were going to vote yes to change it into No.
directly because of MSFT the ISO has done nothing but stumble around they can't get the majorities that they need in oder to pass standards. Everything is stagnate. Here's to hope that MSFT gamed the system so hard that it blows up in MSFT's face.
in 1997 Beos could run multiple videos in real time and remain responsive to the user. This was back when playing one video on windows or quicktime introduced dramatic slow downs on the same hardware.
Beos originally had a database file system that MSFT has been trying to duplicate since. BeOS had a local file search in 1997 that would rival OS X 10.4 or Windows Vista.
they were a decade ahead of their time, and got killed by MSFT because of it. Unfortunately parts of the GUI and system now are behind the others. It is a bit dated, but there are many things that can still be learned by the other OS/GUI makers.
exactly. Apple is always pushing the edge so there are problems that need to get worked out. I want an iPhone but I am going to wait until after the SDK and possibly the next version of the phone to ship. The bulk of the bugs and annoyances will be gone.
The big difference between MSFT and Apple. Apple fixes the holes(most of the time) and MSFT adds another layer of paint to cover over the holes.
actually MSFT will never achieve a ROI on yahoo. MSFT is a directionless company with a handful of good products looking for anything to help them compete. yahoo is a directionless company with a handful of good products trying to figure out how to compete.
The two merged would be worse than AOL time warner. It just won't work. the neither side has anything of major value that the other side can't have now.
Sure you can name a few yahoo offerings but in the end there is really nothing new for either side.
yep after it is installed create a DMG of the expansion disc. I can mount that and load the game on my laptop. what I haven't tried is to install it on an intel mac but it works great under 10.3 10.4 on PPC.
Gaming on OSX (enjoy the laugh for the moment) has one advantage very few of the CD checkers check the actual hardware only the mount point for required data. I can create a disk image of the cd in question and mount that before playing. It does take up some storage space but generally you only need one disc in particular in a multi disc set.
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Hotmail was also BSD based, and one of the first things done was to try to migrate it to win2k, and then win2k3 servers. The stories at the time were painting a very ugly transition as they needed something like 1.5 win2k boxes per freebsd server.
actually MSFT can't afford to buy yahoo at the current price. they will have to take out some loans, or they will wipe out all of their cash on hand.
MSFT has less than $20 billion in cash available. With a dropping stock price MSFT will have to borrow money to buy yahoo.
On top of that MSFT has a history of screwing up acquisitions, and ruining whatever potentional they might of had. Remember yahoo is freeBSD based, MSFT will first attempt to replace all the servers with windows ones. Buy the time a new search engine is ready no one will remember yahoo brand.
you are right but MSFT just lost any hope of another big hit for their gaming platform. halo was made by bungie inside MSFT. they have now split. While MSFT still owns halo outright, and bungie will make games that runs on windows MSFT doesn't have a team of game developers who can innovate an FPS like halo.
MSFT will lose only because they try to be everything to everyone.
>>As a small conclusion I would like to ask you, how many laws have you broken today?
I had sex in three non legal positions with my wife. yep in some states you can only have sex in certain ways.
there are literally thousand of laws on the books because no one ever cleaned them up(New yorkers have a telephone tax that goes back to the late 1800's)
As well as many laws that were passed just because it made a politician feel good. You could gut out half the laws on the books and things wouldn't change as those laws no longer apply.
If they have a 75 year long copyright there should be a 50 year long limit on all laws. After which they must be renewed, or they expire.
Term limits, and pay increases for politicians only as referendum vote by the people and you might see more people interested in the voting.
several reports about the file copy problem have surfaced. one guy had screen shots showing over a 100 days to copy files.
while it is possible to fake things like that, it should never have to happen. Windows from win95 on through have never had an accurate time to copy dialog. my OS X, and linux boxes have never had such a problem. One has to wonder if MSFT engineers just didn't over engineer the file copy system. KISS is the most effective system when dealing with computers and MSFT doesn't KISS anything, it bytes.
odd I was thinking there was a goto joke in there.
Or a Vista counting problem. It couldn't figure out what comes after 0 so it couldn't move forward. After all if it takes 14 days to copy a gig of files one has to wonder about basic math inside of Vista.
Actually another poster to the grandparent pointed out all you need is it to explode in present of high heat source. As it reenters the atmosphere the outshell heats up setting off the explosive and destroying the target. no complicated computers or signals needed.
That is my thought but if they wait until just it just about enters the atmosphere, or slightly after, the upwards debris is minimized while making sure that most of the debris burns up on reentry.
Of course this being the USA Military I expect military intelligence to kick in and they send up 5 missiles more than they need to.
dude his padawan is a tw'liek slave girl, and he is a horny teenager.
this can only end with him showing her his lightsaber.
actually It makes sense to use inverted Mice for FPS. Push the mouse forward and you look down, jut like you push your head forward to look down. To look up you pull your head(mouse) back.
what really annoys me with FPS games is WASD. ESDF give you access to 6 additional buttons easily. That and it is the home row for typing. So your hand can found easily. changing every FPS to those settings gets really annoying.
That's just a bad implementation. I have it as well and love it. the trick is that to unlock the doors you have to press a button which triggers the RFID tag. to start the car once inside it looks for the tag and then allows you to start it up.
The button is on the door handle and works both ways. press once to unlock twice to unlock them all, if unlocked one press will lock them alll.
For all RFID systems it shouldn't be all automatic there should still be a physical aspect to work with to unlock the item, even as simple as a button press increases security.
Oh and my car is nothing fancy just a Nissan Sentra.
Do you know the difference between a 15 watt bulb and a 60 watt bulb at lighting an area? how about a 400w watt one?
Lighting a parking lot or a dangerous stretch of the road is for saftey. The problem is if an old man with cataracts can't see then it isn't bright enough and we simply double the wattage until all is well.
When you can simply place the lights in better locations with shiny reflectors and you can solve the same problem with lower costs. The answer isn't more light but better light. In many regions towns are noticing that too much light is ugly and wasteful and are placing restrictions on how much light you push onto the neighbors or roads.
You want a good reason why? drive down a suburban neighborhood at least one house will have 200 watt flood lights directed at the road were they can blind drivers.
I can light up your home in simple elegant ways so that the house is visible, the drive way and paths are visible, people would be visible, but your not lighting up the superdome. you will save money on electricity. Not much but a little here and a little there is better than just wasting everything.
um your lying. I ran BeOS 5 a few years after they closed down while looking for a better OS to use every day. I wasn't happy with windows, KDE, or Gnome.
BeOS would find the right document providing it was in the right format. Sort of like Apple's spotlight has plugins that allow it to search things like ODF.
MSFT has so badly screwed up ISO, I can see many parties who were going to vote yes to change it into No.
directly because of MSFT the ISO has done nothing but stumble around they can't get the majorities that they need in oder to pass standards. Everything is stagnate. Here's to hope that MSFT gamed the system so hard that it blows up in MSFT's face.
The court yard in the center to take out the underground bunker.
not until 2018. that's when they said it would be out for service.
in 1997 Beos could run multiple videos in real time and remain responsive to the user. This was back when playing one video on windows or quicktime introduced dramatic slow downs on the same hardware.
Beos originally had a database file system that MSFT has been trying to duplicate since. BeOS had a local file search in 1997 that would rival OS X 10.4 or Windows Vista.
they were a decade ahead of their time, and got killed by MSFT because of it. Unfortunately parts of the GUI and system now are behind the others. It is a bit dated, but there are many things that can still be learned by the other OS/GUI makers.
If your backup volume is filled your fscked anyway.
never ever cut your backup storage space short.
exactly. Apple is always pushing the edge so there are problems that need to get worked out. I want an iPhone but I am going to wait until after the SDK and possibly the next version of the phone to ship. The bulk of the bugs and annoyances will be gone.
The big difference between MSFT and Apple. Apple fixes the holes(most of the time) and MSFT adds another layer of paint to cover over the holes.
read it again Crysis left a watermark.
don't ask why the water smells funny and is yellow in color.
actually MSFT will never achieve a ROI on yahoo. MSFT is a directionless company with a handful of good products looking for anything to help them compete. yahoo is a directionless company with a handful of good products trying to figure out how to compete.
The two merged would be worse than AOL time warner. It just won't work. the neither side has anything of major value that the other side can't have now.
Sure you can name a few yahoo offerings but in the end there is really nothing new for either side.
unfortunately what you really get is
lawsuits, taxes, and then death.
well Exxon mobile cleared enough profit last year alone to buy yahoo in cash, where as MSFT will have to resort to 50% cash and 50% stock.
you do the math.
yep after it is installed create a DMG of the expansion disc. I can mount that and load the game on my laptop. what I haven't tried is to install it on an intel mac but it works great under 10.3 10.4 on PPC.
Gaming on OSX (enjoy the laugh for the moment) has one advantage very few of the CD checkers check the actual hardware only the mount point for required data. I can create a disk image of the cd in question and mount that before playing. It does take up some storage space but generally you only need one disc in particular in a multi disc set.