I wouldn't say that's quite a fair estimate in this case. Silverlight apps are still cross platform (mine run identically on Win 2k, 2k3, 2k8, XP, Vista, 7, and even a few Mac clients running IE6, 7, 8, and FF3.5) and will continue to be so in v4.
Generally when downloading a torrent from certain trackers and large amounts of peers, the whole internet pretty much goes down for every other person in the house. Or goes to dial-up rates. Drives my Dad nuts.
that's YOU not managing your bandwidth correctly... I use Vuze and always set my uplink to only 20-30kbps max.. and downlink to 250-500 kbps... never any congestion for the other computers sharing the router...
The lawyers were by far the biggest delay. I wanted to reference the Open Source Definition (published by the Open Source Initiative), but lawyers wouldn't let me, on the grounds that doing so could be considered an endorsement of a non-federal entity, which would violate the Joint Ethics Regulation. I argued that this was a ludicrous interpretation of the JER, and eviscerates the authority granted to the CIO by the Clinger-Cohen Act. But after months of no-progress, I compromised and the final memo does not reference the OSI./blockquote>
that explains why Microsoft has been so keen to set up it's own "open source" definition... and also why so keen to promote their own "open" standards...
idiot... the lifehammer has a safe knife built in so seatbelts and restraint straps can be cut easily without worrying about cutting the person. A knife's no good for breaking out a window...
And as I said, most applications seem to have this built in concept of "latency == bad", which is just bogus in most cases (media players etc.). If power consumption is the main factor (and with handhelds, laptops, netbooks and the like, it frequently *is*), then latency == good. Fewer CPU wakeups, longer battery life. Intel and others have been experimenting with large latencies of about 10-20 seconds with good results on power savings.
latency sucks... If I play a note on my guitar or keyboard, then I do not want to hear the sound more than a couple of milliseconds late... this is precisely why I still do my music recording on a windows box... I still can't get rid of it much as I really want to... I did have a perfectly good Ubuntu Studio setup going back on the LTS (Dapper Drake) before the current one, but certain issues pushed me into upgrading to the next LTS (Hardy Heron) and boom... pulseaudio screwed it all up... I was completely dumbfounded when I discovered it was an experimental sound system just dumped into the LTS without any attempt to get the default settings correct. I expect the LTS version of Ubuntu to actually work out of the box. So as a result, I got my XP box out of mothballs and went back to using XP for recording.
Revealing correspondence between the UK commodities giant Trafigura and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation over Minton report: Trafigura toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast broke EU regulations, 14 Sep 2006.
Other than the toxic dumping issue and a surrounding criminal case, the correspondence mentions details of a gag order obtained against the UK press, specifically the Guardian:
Your questions of today do also reveal the fact that you are in possession of a draft, preliminary expert opinion produced by Minton Treharne & Davies Ltd, and that you appear to be ready to disclose information from this report. Trafigura looks very serious upon this, as disclosing any information from this report would be a clear breach of confidentiality and privilege. The report is clearly privileged and confidential and was obtained unlawfully by whoever is responsible for it coming into your possession. Please be aware that on Friday of last week, our clients sought and obtained an injunction in relation to this document and information contained in it against the Guardian newspaper and Persons Unknown, pending a further hearing.
Some would say that this approach would be lacking in the photo-ops necessary to maintain interest in the space program (no footprints on Martian soil)
send a mission to Phobos and actually land there. Establish a small sub-surface base (inflate a habitat module and bury it) and do the robot launching and control from it. You get your footprint photo-op as well... plus there'll be minerals to mine and maybe even water to extract.
So where does Microsoft think they will find a market for this stuff?
by having OEMs pre-load it in exchange for discounts off the OEM price of windows
Basically, they'll abuse their monopoly position and it will take several years for the US DOJ and EU to bring them to heel... other markets are stuffed because they don't have "effective" anti-monopoly commissions to protect customers and OEMS from abusive multi-nationals (I say "effective" because the US market isn't working properly either...)
47. Another problem identified by a number of witnesses was what might be termed the "something must be done" syndrome. Lord Baker reflected upon the passage of the Aggravated Vehicle Taking Act in 1991 when he was Home Secretary:
"What happened was that gangs of youths would steal a car, usually a high performance car, and do the most amazing tricks with it at night to such an extent that people came and watched it as a spectator sport and the television cameras came and filmed them night after night after night... The Chief Constables of both [the affected] authorities came to the Home Office to see me and said that something must be done. That was the birth of the aggravated vehicle taking offence" (Q 61).
48. Professor Bradley told us that "the desire to legislate rapidly may be a response to an event of current prominence in the media. It may be difficult to separate the need for rapid legislation from the government's interest in being seen to respond decisively to current issues. Critics of such legislation may argue that the government could and should have asked Parliament to legislate at a much earlier date" (p 91). Professor Dickson warned that "members of the public may feel that the government is engaging in a knee-jerk reaction so as to be seen to be 'doing something' about the incident that has just occurred, even though existing laws may be adequate to deal with that incident" (p 84). Liberty were also fearful that "the policy behind such legislation will at best be ill-thought out and at worst may be motivated by political objectives to be 'seen' to be responding to an event or judgment" (p 51). Dr Fox questioned whether "public opinion and media pressure--and public opinion is a fickle thing--would meet grounds for immediacy" (QQ 7, 9).
we use sourcesafe... our current project's database of requirements documents and source code clocks out at over 12 gigabites...
I keep warning the ones with the budgets that sourcesafe is a nightmare when it falls over... but so far, they only care that it's still running... and that backups are taken nightly...
right, memorise that number and throw it back in their faces every time they start pulling ridiculous billion dollar figures for damages out of the air again...
Besides, how much typing skill do those dropouts need to carry a gun around?
the last thing you want in the front line is to be on the receiving end of a "typo" when someone has keyed the wrong coordinates in for an artillery mission or airstrike...
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that isn't cross-platform, that's bi-platform...
that's YOU not managing your bandwidth correctly... I use Vuze and always set my uplink to only 20-30kbps max.. and downlink to 250-500 kbps... never any congestion for the other computers sharing the router...
no, they work it out with logs...
and that's a very old joke that an awful lot of the young ones won't get...
can't you add randome nagscreens to their notifications instead? prompting them to legalise their copy
bzzzt wrong.. Youtube give you a choice of three thumbnails from the video...
If you know who the pirates are, then why don't you cripple their "experience"?
idiot... the lifehammer has a safe knife built in so seatbelts and restraint straps can be cut easily without worrying about cutting the person. A knife's no good for breaking out a window...
thanks for the heads-up... I'll wait and see for the next LTS release... Ubuntu might have got it right by then...
latency sucks... If I play a note on my guitar or keyboard, then I do not want to hear the sound more than a couple of milliseconds late... this is precisely why I still do my music recording on a windows box... I still can't get rid of it much as I really want to... I did have a perfectly good Ubuntu Studio setup going back on the LTS (Dapper Drake) before the current one, but certain issues pushed me into upgrading to the next LTS (Hardy Heron) and boom... pulseaudio screwed it all up... I was completely dumbfounded when I discovered it was an experimental sound system just dumped into the LTS without any attempt to get the default settings correct. I expect the LTS version of Ubuntu to actually work out of the box. So as a result, I got my XP box out of mothballs and went back to using XP for recording.
dust off, nuke it from orbit and install Linux...
send a mission to Phobos and actually land there. Establish a small sub-surface base (inflate a habitat module and bury it) and do the robot launching and control from it. You get your footprint photo-op as well... plus there'll be minerals to mine and maybe even water to extract.
by having OEMs pre-load it in exchange for discounts off the OEM price of windows
Basically, they'll abuse their monopoly position and it will take several years for the US DOJ and EU to bring them to heel... other markets are stuffed because they don't have "effective" anti-monopoly commissions to protect customers and OEMS from abusive multi-nationals (I say "effective" because the US market isn't working properly either...)
MS Works all over again with file formats that nothing else can read... and adverts!!!
was actually believing that the reviews were posted by real customers...
He should have recused himself... it should NEVER have gone to him for the appeal... this desperately needs to be appealed higher
example applications
are you guys subjected to the "something MUST be done" syndrome by your politicians as well
I keep warning the ones with the budgets that sourcesafe is a nightmare when it falls over... but so far, they only care that it's still running... and that backups are taken nightly...
My God, it's full of stars........
right, memorise that number and throw it back in their faces every time they start pulling ridiculous billion dollar figures for damages out of the air again...
redundant array of redundant arrays of inexpensive discs...
RARAID
will be porn... will bring a whole new meaning to "in your face"...
sounds more like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle...
the last thing you want in the front line is to be on the receiving end of a "typo" when someone has keyed the wrong coordinates in for an artillery mission or airstrike...