>Let's say that you have incompatibility problems with some of your >common office applications and the Microsoft solution to this >situation is to upgrade your applications.
Let's say that you are an idiot. RTFA. The service pack enables no-execute regions on certain CPUs. As a compatibility issue, it affects a few, typically ancient, programs which were written by assembly-lanugage uberfreaks squeezing out an extra 1% by writing self-modifying code. On the plus side, it gets rid of buffer-overrun attacks on those CPUs.
>Let's face it, you can't remain compatible with old software forever.
>Especially spyware.
What spyware has to do with self modifying code is a mystery to me. (The XP compatibility issue is that self-modifying code will no longer run on certain processors.)
> OS X did this brilliantly with the Classic compatibility layer.
It's not an OS transition. The "compatibility" problems will come from the enabling of no-execute memory regions on the few processors that support that feature. This will cause problems for the rare old program which contains self-modifying code. I imagine it will also require Sun and others to modify their JIT compilers to declare runtime-compiled code as executable.
In any case, there isn't really an analogy to OS9/OSX differences.
>Apart from it choking macs with not much memory, to the point where neither
>OS9 or OSX ran properly when used together. Genius. Sticking two operating systems
>on one install and calling it "cross compatibility" is not clever.
Well, maybe you could explain, in technical terms, how they could better integrate the two completely unrelated OSes. You know, at the very least this would include a quick summary of how to integrate an OS which doesn't do preemptive multitasking nor have task-level protected memory spaces with one that does.
As for people not having enough memory, well... I think there's a solution for that.
said first type microprocessor that loads and executes emulation software, and parses and interprets a binary image capable of being executed on said handheld video game platform, said first type microprocessor converting, with said emulator software, instructions within said stored binary image for said second type microprocessor into instructions for execution by said first type microprocessor and then executing said converted instructions, said second type microprocessor implementing, under control of said emulation software, a state machine that emulates plural states exhibited by said display circuitry associated with said handheld video game platform liquid crystal display, said first type microprocessor analyzing, with said emulator software, said binary image to determine whether said binary image constitutes a predetermined video game title...
I don't know what it means. But it looks a bit like html metatags trying to lure in people searching the web for the word "said".
> I'd say the furious over-regulation by governments > world-wide is unbelievable. For instance, I now > have to recycle the few micro-grams of mercury > contained in fluorescent lamps and batteries.
I see you have adopted the popular motto of: "Think locally. Act like nobody else exists."
When you throw trash out, where it goes is a bit more complicated than "away". Because 6 billion other people are out there doing the same.
A $300 PC might not come with Windows, but a $179 one might. Probably Windows ME. Upgrade to XP Home from ME costs $100. So there's your $279 PC with Windows XP installed.
Regarding the first patent ever granted anywhere, "In return for his monopoly, John of Utynam was required to teach his process to native Englishmen."
Later, when the U.S. came up with its patent laws, it went like this: "The Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writing and discoveries."
Nothing really about protecting small businesses. It has always been about sharing knowledge with the public in exchange for a limited-term monopoly. In practice, this rarely has the effect of protecting small businesses, most of which make their money off of actually doing stuff, not litigating.
Personally, I think patents are a bad idea in the general sense. Ideas are worthless in real business, it's always the implementation that counts.
However, in the present reality, patents aren't going away any time soon. It seems to me that if one must extend the patent concept to software, the only real way to get the public benefit demanded by the patent system is to require working source code to be published with the patent.
> And how fucking lazy can you be that you don't > want to get off your ass to change a DVD once > every two to three hours?
At first I thought the same thing, but then, where do you put 1000 DVD's if you live in a small apartment? I just finished ripping my collection of 500 CD's so I can get rid of them.
This was previously reported on Slashdot, but be sure to check out this site.
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, our friend and colleague Maher (Mike) Hawash was arrested ("detained") as a "material witness" by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the parking lot of Intel Corp's Hawthorne Farms offices. Simultaneously, FBI agents in bulletproof vests and carrying assault rifles awoke Mike's wife Lisa and their three children in the home, which they proceeded to search. Since then, Mike has been held in the Federal Prison at Sheridan, OR.
And for the tech geek in you...
As a lead engineer on the Intel's MMX technology software team, he developed the MMX technology emulator and optimized MPEG video decoders. As part of the Intel Architecture Labs (IAL), Mike developed several new video technologies, including Intel Indeo Video and ProShare products, the Intel Smart Video Recorder, and Intel's contribution to Microsoft's VfW (Video For Windows) and ActiveMovie. Later he worked on building one of the first WiFi enabled wireless devices used in healthcare industry for writing electronic prescriptions. The project produced one of the first wireless devices with speech recognition and built-in WiFi. Mike continues to work at Intel Corp as a contract employee.
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>Let's say that you have incompatibility problems with some of your
>common office applications and the Microsoft solution to this
>situation is to upgrade your applications.
Let's say that you are an idiot. RTFA. The service pack enables no-execute regions on certain CPUs. As a compatibility issue, it affects a few, typically ancient, programs which were written by assembly-lanugage uberfreaks squeezing out an extra 1% by writing self-modifying code. On the plus side, it gets rid of buffer-overrun attacks on those CPUs.
> Had they started with a secure product, then being backwards
> compatible would not be that much of a problem.
If the processor doesn't support no-execute regions, you can't blame MS.
>Let's face it, you can't remain compatible with old software forever. >Especially spyware. What spyware has to do with self modifying code is a mystery to me. (The XP compatibility issue is that self-modifying code will no longer run on certain processors.)
> OS X did this brilliantly with the Classic compatibility layer.
It's not an OS transition. The "compatibility" problems will come from the enabling of no-execute memory regions on the few processors that support that feature. This will cause problems for the rare old program which contains self-modifying code. I imagine it will also require Sun and others to modify their JIT compilers to declare runtime-compiled code as executable.
In any case, there isn't really an analogy to OS9/OSX differences.
>Apart from it choking macs with not much memory, to the point where neither >OS9 or OSX ran properly when used together. Genius. Sticking two operating systems >on one install and calling it "cross compatibility" is not clever. Well, maybe you could explain, in technical terms, how they could better integrate the two completely unrelated OSes. You know, at the very least this would include a quick summary of how to integrate an OS which doesn't do preemptive multitasking nor have task-level protected memory spaces with one that does. As for people not having enough memory, well... I think there's a solution for that.
> Sure, there are plenty who buy iPods and Bimmers as status symbols,
> but don't discount those of us who have actually have taste.
People who buy certain things because they believe they have better "taste" than other people are, by definition, purchasing status symbols.
Everybody thinks they have better "taste" than other people. Everybody is right, of course.
In the UCK language, you can have filenames like d.uck
Well, you could if there were such a language.
Just imagine a Bay-o-watch cluster of these...
I'm here all week, folks.
said first type microprocessor that loads and executes emulation software, and parses and interprets a binary image capable of being executed on said handheld video game platform, said first type microprocessor converting, with said emulator software, instructions within said stored binary image for said second type microprocessor into instructions for execution by said first type microprocessor and then executing said converted instructions, said second type microprocessor implementing, under control of said emulation software, a state machine that emulates plural states exhibited by said display circuitry associated with said handheld video game platform liquid crystal display, said first type microprocessor analyzing, with said emulator software, said binary image to determine whether said binary image constitutes a predetermined video game title...
I don't know what it means. But it looks a bit like html metatags trying to lure in people searching the web for the word "said".
> I'd say the furious over-regulation by governments
> world-wide is unbelievable. For instance, I now
> have to recycle the few micro-grams of mercury
> contained in fluorescent lamps and batteries.
I see you have adopted the popular motto of: "Think locally. Act like nobody else exists."
When you throw trash out, where it goes is a bit more complicated than "away". Because 6 billion other people are out there doing the same.
Not sure what happened to the link in that last posting...
A $300 PC might not come with Windows, but a $179 one might. Probably Windows ME. Upgrade to XP Home from ME costs $100. So there's your $279 PC with Windows XP installed.
Regarding the first patent ever granted anywhere, "In return for his monopoly, John of Utynam was required to teach his process to native Englishmen."
Later, when the U.S. came up with its patent laws, it went like this: "The Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writing and discoveries."
Nothing really about protecting small businesses. It has always been about sharing knowledge with the public in exchange for a limited-term monopoly. In practice, this rarely has the effect of protecting small businesses, most of which make their money off of actually doing stuff, not litigating.
Personally, I think patents are a bad idea in the general sense. Ideas are worthless in real business, it's always the implementation that counts.
However, in the present reality, patents aren't going away any time soon. It seems to me that if one must extend the patent concept to software, the only real way to get the public benefit demanded by the patent system is to require working source code to be published with the patent.
> And how fucking lazy can you be that you don't
> want to get off your ass to change a DVD once
> every two to three hours?
At first I thought the same thing, but then, where do you put 1000 DVD's if you live in a small apartment? I just finished ripping my collection of 500 CD's so I can get rid of them.
If you look at how inaccurate they are, it makes sense... Humans: 0.16% Computers: 0.016%
The wording of the bill isn't to say they "can" consider open source. It says they "shall".
I sure wish I could donate bits and call it money...
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, our friend and colleague Maher (Mike) Hawash was arrested ("detained") as a "material witness" by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the parking lot of Intel Corp's Hawthorne Farms offices. Simultaneously, FBI agents in bulletproof vests and carrying assault rifles awoke Mike's wife Lisa and their three children in the home, which they proceeded to search. Since then, Mike has been held in the Federal Prison at Sheridan, OR.
And for the tech geek in you...
As a lead engineer on the Intel's MMX technology software team, he developed the MMX technology emulator and optimized MPEG video decoders. As part of the Intel Architecture Labs (IAL), Mike developed several new video technologies, including Intel Indeo Video and ProShare products, the Intel Smart Video Recorder, and Intel's contribution to Microsoft's VfW (Video For Windows) and ActiveMovie. Later he worked on building one of the first WiFi enabled wireless devices used in healthcare industry for writing electronic prescriptions. The project produced one of the first wireless devices with speech recognition and built-in WiFi. Mike continues to work at Intel Corp as a contract employee.
Help this guy out.
This pretty much describes "crunch time" at my job.
I'll go read the article now.
Do we really want to see this? Well, I guess on Slashdot, a Microsoft flop is something people do want to see...
CSE stands for Crappy Sheets of Expensive. They didn't even put the effort into ending the phrase properly with a noun.
OK, that didn't work. But inkjet printers do just suck.
This thing would probably amplify the power of the Lightning Bolt!