Are you kidding? With all his singing, he's the most appropriate character in all the books to end up in a musical. As for the rest of the story in musical format? ugh.
The problem is, along with being dumb about running things they shouldn't, most folks don't back things up. Reinstalling windows off their recovery CD from the manufacturer will take them 30 minutes or so. Ditto for a *nix reinstall. Getting back those tons of family photos, documents, etc that they didn't back up? That's a much much bigger loss than having to reinstall the OS.
All of this is about running a machine badly, which most/.'ers aren't going to do, regardless of platform. But it is the reality for how most people use their machines.
If they wanted to rewrite the exploit, it could just as easily be used to overwrite Firefix files with the 'bad' exploit files.
The problem is users running programs they shouldn't. Not any defect in IE or Firefox.
Users who do this are just as likely to type in "rm -r.*" at a terminal prompt if an email or popup instructs them to.
And before you say that wouldn't matter in Linux because they shouldn't be running as root, and it would only destroy user files,... Most computers are single user computers. User files are the only useful thing on the machine!
That's why I was always so impressed with QNX. They fit an OS, network stack, modem driver, GUI, and web browser, and a few other utils,... on a floppy disk. That's impressive.
Now I look at my regular computer. Just my email client alone, Thunderbird, takes up 20 MB on my hard drive. Fat. Fat. Fat.
I'm afraid no ones going to bother optimizing code until Moore's law runs up against some physical engineering walls.
What I said is that he's not a journalist, and that as such he does not get journalistic protections.
So I guess you are going to tell me HL Mencken, Walter Cronkite, etc, etc, aren't journalists? Right. I think just about everyone is going to disagree with 'your' definition on that one.
Before you go yelling once again that Cronkite has a school named after him. Yes, he does. That doesn't mean he want to school. Now you are going to yell about all his degrees. They are all honorary degrees. He NEVER went to school for them.
Link: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cronkite wal/cronkitewal.htm
"WALTER CRONKITE. Born in St. Joseph's, Missouri, U.S.A., 4 November 1916. Attended University of Texas, 1933-35. Married: Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, 1940; three children. Newswriter and editor, Scripps-Howard, also for United Press, Houston, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; Dallas, Austin, and El Paso, Texas; and New York City; United Press war correspondent, 1942-45, foreign correspondent, reopening bureaus in Amsterdam, Brussels; chief correspondent, Nuremberg war crimes trials, bureau manager, Moscow, 1946-48, manager and contributor, 1948-49, CBS-News correspondent, 1950-81, special correspondent, since 1981; managing editor, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, 1962-81. Honorary degrees: American International College; Harvard University; LL.D., Rollins College, Bucknell University, Syracuse University; L.H.D., Ohio State University. Member: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (president, national academy, New York chapter, 1959, Governor's Award, 1979); Association Radio News Analysts. Recipient: several Emmy Awards; Peabody Awards, 1962 and 1981; William A. White Award for journalistic merit, 1969; George Polk Journalism Award, 1971; Gold Medal, International Radio and Television Society, 1974; Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism, 1978 and 1981; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981."
He started college, but never finished it. He dropped out of college in his junior year, to take a job as a full-time reporter for The Houston Press.
"High School: San Jacinto High School, Houston, TX (1933)"
"University: University of Texas at Austin (no degree)"
Got proof he did? Let's see your sources.
Carpentry also doesn't compare to being a doctor, yet you can't get insurance on a new house unless your carpenters are bonded and licensed. If you don't believe me, call a contractor and ask.
My uncle built his own home. He has insurance. You can get insurance if you had the house well inspected during the building process and look around for insurance companies. Many insurance companies don't want to assume the risk of insuring a house with unknown quality of workmanship. The insurance company is the one who decides what risks they want to take or not. The government is not involved, and you don't have to be a bonded/licensed carpenter to build a house in most jurisdictions (some local zoning regulations may insist, but those are strange local regs, not national laws or regulations). You just need to get everything inspected. Don't believe it? http://apps.irs.gov/businesses/page/0,,id=7006,00. html "The license/registration requirements for carpenters and their business entities (that is, sole proprietorship, joint venture, partnership, or corporation) vary from state to state. Most states, however, do require those in the carpentry/framing business to register or obtain a license." Most states require a license if you are going to do it for a business. Others don't. There is no national law for it.
It's still going to be illegal for them to call you if you are on the DNC list and you don't have a 'existing business relationship' with them (unless they are calling from political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors).
That's why in the U.S. it's been illegal for the telemarketers to call you on a cell if you also had a landline. They had to call the landline number. Now that we have a national 'Do Not Call' list for telemerketers, it's easier to give up your land line, knowing you won't get a bazillion telemarketing calls if you list your cell on the DNC list.
No. You want to send traffic thourgh their server. They tell you flat out if you do use that service (FOR FREE) that they can do whatever they like with that traffic.
If you dont like it, don't use it. What's the problem here? Set up a Jabber server if you want. You don't *need* their IM service. If you choose to use it, you go by their terms. If you don't like the terms, don't use it. It's not like there are no other choices for IM in the world.
You can run Linux on both. You can run NetBSD on both. No one was talking about how OSX was soooo much better than yadda yadda yadda. It was a discussion of speed of the machine. Please get a clue.
Dear Anonymous troll:
Maybe you should go back and looks at the counts of Intel(318) and AMD(31) machines in that top 500 compared to those using Power(54) and Power PC (8) chips. And basically either way, those clusters have nothing about nothing to do with the fastest personal computer. 14 of them were built by Dell. What does that tell you? Absolutely nothing about what is the worlds fastest PC.
I love it when people can't follow a thread. Try reading the grandparent I was responding to again. It was about the "wicked fast" machine, and "The World's Fastest Personal Computer". Not about software.
It's all about reading comprehension, man. Having a clue trumps everything.
Right now I can go out and buy a machine with a quad AMD-Opteron board from Tyan. They cost a lot, but are here today, and well under your limit for price. AMD will go dual core sooner than Apple too.
Sorry, the PCs have the MAC crushers right now, and will for some time to come.
Somehow I doubt that. I think for 99.9% of folks, the don't move to macs because of the price and probable change from software they are already using. NOT because they don't know what new shiny toy Apple might be coming out with in 6 months.
Frankly, it's doubtful. I think the split is a bad idea.
If anything, I wish someone would start fresh, because although it is 'lighter' than Netscape, it's still a friggin pig on my system when I look at the amount of memory it uses. I dont' know if it is the gecko engine or what, but something is a RAM hog and I'd like to see a fresh start from a clean slate rather than just a fork from the current codebase.
Unfortunately, you and I don't get to vote on it. Only the people donating their time to program it get to vote and do whatever they want. Most likely a split will end up as a waste of effort, like most forks, but maybe not.
If both forks end up dying, there's always Opera, IE, or Safari.
Since when has that stopped the open source community from forking code? It happens all the time. Most of the time it IS foolish and useless. Occasionally some good comes from the split. Like evolution, it's all a crapshoot.
I read his post. The fact is I don't know how much slower this will make the file system. The fact is you and the original poster don't know either. Why not wait till it comes out to bash it? Just because you are as anti-MS as they come, it doesn't mean we all have to be. Sorry to spoil it for you.
Yes, you do. Consider the ten undergraduate programs at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, including journalism, media management or mass communications.
Just because there is a school for something, it doesn't mean you can't do that job without going to that school. (With exceptions like medical school. Journalism does NOT compare to med school, sorry) If you teach yourself to program, you can get a job working for a company doing programming. And you can call yourself a programmer. And you ARE a programmer. Journalism works the same way.
And once again, there is no license needed to be a Journalist. Period. Those "press credentials" are not a license! You can be a journalist just fine without them. They are just access passes in case you are somewhere and need to get somewhere the general public shouldn't all be going. They only verify that yes, you do work as journalist somewhere and are not some yutz wanting to cross a police line, etc, and just saying "I'm a member of the press" to get across. If you don't need to cross a police line, etc, to do the type of writing you do, you don't need press credentials. You are still a Journalist.
It seems kind of strange. Back in my D&D days, most of the game in our groups was about combat. Lots of work on strategy, using the resources at hand, layout of the battlefield, etc, to keep your character alive and obtain your objective. Plenty of practice thinking like that is something I'd think would be desirable in a military recruit.
Apparently I must be mentally unbalanced though, so don't trust my judgment on that one. I'm all detached from reality and stuff.
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Are you kidding? With all his singing, he's the most appropriate character in all the books to end up in a musical. As for the rest of the story in musical format? ugh.
All of this is about running a machine badly, which most /.'ers aren't going to do, regardless of platform. But it is the reality for how most people use their machines.
The problem is users running programs they shouldn't. Not any defect in IE or Firefox.
Users who do this are just as likely to type in "rm -r .*" at a terminal prompt if an email or popup instructs them to.
And before you say that wouldn't matter in Linux because they shouldn't be running as root, and it would only destroy user files,... Most computers are single user computers. User files are the only useful thing on the machine!
Had to be said.
Now I look at my regular computer. Just my email client alone, Thunderbird, takes up 20 MB on my hard drive. Fat. Fat. Fat.
I'm afraid no ones going to bother optimizing code until Moore's law runs up against some physical engineering walls.
So I guess you are going to tell me HL Mencken, Walter Cronkite, etc, etc, aren't journalists? Right. I think just about everyone is going to disagree with 'your' definition on that one.
Before you go yelling once again that Cronkite has a school named after him. Yes, he does. That doesn't mean he want to school. Now you are going to yell about all his degrees. They are all honorary degrees. He NEVER went to school for them. Link: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cronkite wal/cronkitewal.htm
"WALTER CRONKITE. Born in St. Joseph's, Missouri, U.S.A., 4 November 1916. Attended University of Texas, 1933-35. Married: Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, 1940; three children. Newswriter and editor, Scripps-Howard, also for United Press, Houston, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; Dallas, Austin, and El Paso, Texas; and New York City; United Press war correspondent, 1942-45, foreign correspondent, reopening bureaus in Amsterdam, Brussels; chief correspondent, Nuremberg war crimes trials, bureau manager, Moscow, 1946-48, manager and contributor, 1948-49, CBS-News correspondent, 1950-81, special correspondent, since 1981; managing editor, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, 1962-81. Honorary degrees: American International College; Harvard University; LL.D., Rollins College, Bucknell University, Syracuse University; L.H.D., Ohio State University. Member: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (president, national academy, New York chapter, 1959, Governor's Award, 1979); Association Radio News Analysts. Recipient: several Emmy Awards; Peabody Awards, 1962 and 1981; William A. White Award for journalistic merit, 1969; George Polk Journalism Award, 1971; Gold Medal, International Radio and Television Society, 1974; Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism, 1978 and 1981; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1981."
He started college, but never finished it. He dropped out of college in his junior year, to take a job as a full-time reporter for The Houston Press.
Link:http://www.nndb.com/people/313/000022247/
"High School: San Jacinto High School, Houston, TX (1933)"
"University: University of Texas at Austin (no degree)"
Got proof he did? Let's see your sources.
Carpentry also doesn't compare to being a doctor, yet you can't get insurance on a new house unless your carpenters are bonded and licensed. If you don't believe me, call a contractor and ask.
My uncle built his own home. He has insurance. You can get insurance if you had the house well inspected during the building process and look around for insurance companies. Many insurance companies don't want to assume the risk of insuring a house with unknown quality of workmanship. The insurance company is the one who decides what risks they want to take or not. The government is not involved, and you don't have to be a bonded/licensed carpenter to build a house in most jurisdictions (some local zoning regulations may insist, but those are strange local regs, not national laws or regulations). You just need to get everything inspected. Don't believe it? http://apps.irs.gov/businesses/page/0,,id=7006,00. html "The license/registration requirements for carpenters and their business entities (that is, sole proprietorship, joint venture, partnership, or corporation) vary from state to state. Most states, however, do require those in the carpentry/framing business to register or obtain a license." Most states require a license if you are going to do it for a business. Others don't. There is no national law for it.
I have no problems if someone is willing to die for their religious beliefs. I have a real problem if they try to kill someone else because of it.
It's still going to be illegal for them to call you if you are on the DNC list and you don't have a 'existing business relationship' with them (unless they are calling from political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors).
That's why in the U.S. it's been illegal for the telemarketers to call you on a cell if you also had a landline. They had to call the landline number. Now that we have a national 'Do Not Call' list for telemerketers, it's easier to give up your land line, knowing you won't get a bazillion telemarketing calls if you list your cell on the DNC list.
If you dont like it, don't use it. What's the problem here? Set up a Jabber server if you want. You don't *need* their IM service. If you choose to use it, you go by their terms. If you don't like the terms, don't use it. It's not like there are no other choices for IM in the world.
You can run Linux on both. You can run NetBSD on both. No one was talking about how OSX was soooo much better than yadda yadda yadda. It was a discussion of speed of the machine. Please get a clue.
Dear Anonymous troll: Maybe you should go back and looks at the counts of Intel(318) and AMD(31) machines in that top 500 compared to those using Power(54) and Power PC (8) chips. And basically either way, those clusters have nothing about nothing to do with the fastest personal computer. 14 of them were built by Dell. What does that tell you? Absolutely nothing about what is the worlds fastest PC.
How many words was it? The site is now dead. I guess he didn't have enough cooling in his machine to take a slashdoting ;)
It's all about reading comprehension, man. Having a clue trumps everything.
Right now I can go out and buy a machine with a quad AMD-Opteron board from Tyan. They cost a lot, but are here today, and well under your limit for price. AMD will go dual core sooner than Apple too.
Sorry, the PCs have the MAC crushers right now, and will for some time to come.
Somehow I doubt that. I think for 99.9% of folks, the don't move to macs because of the price and probable change from software they are already using. NOT because they don't know what new shiny toy Apple might be coming out with in 6 months.
You mean they don't just re-spawn? Uh oh...
Forget that, give me GOD MODE.
After reading the book, your boss will now understand after you screw up royally at work, why you keep muttering about needing to reload the level.
Yep. But it happens. Sometimes species die. The fossil record is full of examples. So is Sourceforge.
If anything, I wish someone would start fresh, because although it is 'lighter' than Netscape, it's still a friggin pig on my system when I look at the amount of memory it uses. I dont' know if it is the gecko engine or what, but something is a RAM hog and I'd like to see a fresh start from a clean slate rather than just a fork from the current codebase.
Unfortunately, you and I don't get to vote on it. Only the people donating their time to program it get to vote and do whatever they want. Most likely a split will end up as a waste of effort, like most forks, but maybe not.
If both forks end up dying, there's always Opera, IE, or Safari.
Since when has that stopped the open source community from forking code? It happens all the time. Most of the time it IS foolish and useless. Occasionally some good comes from the split. Like evolution, it's all a crapshoot.
I read his post. The fact is I don't know how much slower this will make the file system. The fact is you and the original poster don't know either. Why not wait till it comes out to bash it? Just because you are as anti-MS as they come, it doesn't mean we all have to be. Sorry to spoil it for you.
BeOS had a database-like file system. It was anything but a dog slow OS. If done properly, it could have decent performance.
Just because there is a school for something, it doesn't mean you can't do that job without going to that school. (With exceptions like medical school. Journalism does NOT compare to med school, sorry) If you teach yourself to program, you can get a job working for a company doing programming. And you can call yourself a programmer. And you ARE a programmer. Journalism works the same way.
And once again, there is no license needed to be a Journalist. Period. Those "press credentials" are not a license! You can be a journalist just fine without them. They are just access passes in case you are somewhere and need to get somewhere the general public shouldn't all be going. They only verify that yes, you do work as journalist somewhere and are not some yutz wanting to cross a police line, etc, and just saying "I'm a member of the press" to get across. If you don't need to cross a police line, etc, to do the type of writing you do, you don't need press credentials. You are still a Journalist.
Doesn't it bother you to be so presumptuous?
Not when I'm right.
Apparently I must be mentally unbalanced though, so don't trust my judgment on that one. I'm all detached from reality and stuff.