There are still sites that IE renders properly that Opera/Firefox do not.
What is your definition of "properly"? Firefox is far more standards compliant than IE. It's true that some sites look better in IE, but that's because they are coded around IE's deficiencies.
The IE rendering engine is stupidly used all over the place, so the app still needs to be secured.
Soviet Union had its problems, but police brutality was never one of them.
You obviously never lived under Soviet totalitarianism. My Polish language teacher did. She told me a story about the police coming to her home one night and taking her father away. He ran a small print shop, and was accused of printing subversive material. They never found any evidence, but that didn't keep them from "detaining" him for 7 years. When he finally returned home, he was a broken man. They stole his freedom, his health, and his future.
He does propose a solution: Microsoft should a) grow a pair of balls, and b) tell the RIAA to fuck off. Building a "record player that can play anything" (his phrase) is the first step.
The problem is Microsoft sees DRM not just as a way to protect music and video; it's a way to protect Microsoft software. This is Microsoft's real motivation and, unfortunately, the reason this won't just go away soon.
FWIW, Neil Konzen (one of the original authors of Windows 1.0) retired from Microsoft several years ago. He was a big Ferrari fan. The last I heard, he was working for Ferrari writing control firmware for their F1 engines.
Plus those 'old' computers are a lot more durable than ones made today.
No shit. My development machine back in 1990 was a Compaq Deskpro (386/20, IIRC). The case must have been carved from a solid ingot of depleted uranium. What a tank.
Just because you have access to source code does not mean you can do source-level debugging. Under Windows at least, the target binary must be built correctly, the correct symbols must be available, the source used to actually build the target must be available, etc.
While I was at Microsoft, most of my debugging was done using the console-based debuggers: i386kd/alphakd/etc for kernel-mode, and cdb/ntsd for user-mode. For many years, these debuggers were incapable of any form of source-level debugging, so we did without.
Knowing how to read disassembled code in the debugger and match it up with source code is a vital skill, far more important than the ability to write assembly language from scratch.
Another reason: Sooner or later, you'll need to debug something without a source-level debugger. Knowing how to debug raw assembly language has saved my ass many times.
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FYI: The first release of Windows NT was version 3.1, then 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, and then 2000.
Sounds like everything's going according to plan.
It's too bad the plan sucks.
They just need a way to get the $500 million out of the country. They heard from a mutual friend that you are a trustworthy person...
Reminds me of an old joke about writing:
Thinking of the right words is not too difficult, but getting them in the right order is damn hard.
"s/ly used all over the place//"
Sorry if I'm being dense, but I don't understand that comment.
That's VI's substition command, changing your sentence:
The IE rendering engine is stupidly used all over the place, so the app still needs to be secured.
To the more accurate (in my opinion):
The IE rendering engine is stupid, so the app still needs to be secured.
Just a joke.
There are still sites that IE renders properly that Opera/Firefox do not.
What is your definition of "properly"? Firefox is far more standards compliant than IE. It's true that some sites look better in IE, but that's because they are coded around IE's deficiencies.
The IE rendering engine is stupidly used all over the place, so the app still needs to be secured.
s/ly used all over the place//
Just because it's a potato gun, doesn't mean it it can't be lethal...
Soviet Union had its problems, but police brutality was never one of them.
You obviously never lived under Soviet totalitarianism. My Polish language teacher did. She told me a story about the police coming to her home one night and taking her father away. He ran a small print shop, and was accused of printing subversive material. They never found any evidence, but that didn't keep them from "detaining" him for 7 years. When he finally returned home, he was a broken man. They stole his freedom, his health, and his future.
...under "Products Least Likely To Be Sold By Think Geek...
Slashdot should stop promoting projects that have nothing more than a Web page.
Does this mean Slashdot should stop promoting itself?
You don't perhaps think that FL 600 means 600,000 feet (or meters, or whatever), do you? It is 60,000 feet.
Yes, I know. (Private pilot, ASEL, instrument airplane, Cessna 182 owner)
It would be even better to hear a "Learjet" request permission to descend to FL600...
He does propose a solution: Microsoft should a) grow a pair of balls, and b) tell the RIAA to fuck off. Building a "record player that can play anything" (his phrase) is the first step.
The problem is Microsoft sees DRM not just as a way to protect music and video; it's a way to protect Microsoft software. This is Microsoft's real motivation and, unfortunately, the reason this won't just go away soon.
Word? Ack! Pfft!! Gimme Scripsit on a TRS-80.
FWIW, Neil Konzen (one of the original authors of Windows 1.0) retired from Microsoft several years ago. He was a big Ferrari fan. The last I heard, he was working for Ferrari writing control firmware for their F1 engines.
Thanks! That is exactly the level of detail I've been looking for.
...what are SSA trees? A little googling reveals they are:
I'm not a compiler writer (duh), I'm just curious.
Plus those 'old' computers are a lot more durable than ones made today.
No shit. My development machine back in 1990 was a Compaq Deskpro (386/20, IIRC). The case must have been carved from a solid ingot of depleted uranium. What a tank.
Jim Gray (Microsoft researcher, grand Poo Bah of transactions, etc) cowrote an interesting paper 2 years ago entitled TeraScale SneakerNet: Using Inexpensive Disks for Backup, Archiving, and Data Exchange. (Word .DOC file) which analyzes the economics of transferring huge amounts of data by shipping hardware.
(Insert obligatory "never understimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 9-track tapes" reference here.)
Just because you have access to source code does not mean you can do source-level debugging. Under Windows at least, the target binary must be built correctly, the correct symbols must be available, the source used to actually build the target must be available, etc.
While I was at Microsoft, most of my debugging was done using the console-based debuggers: i386kd/alphakd/etc for kernel-mode, and cdb/ntsd for user-mode. For many years, these debuggers were incapable of any form of source-level debugging, so we did without.
Knowing how to read disassembled code in the debugger and match it up with source code is a vital skill, far more important than the ability to write assembly language from scratch.
Another reason: Sooner or later, you'll need to debug something without a source-level debugger. Knowing how to debug raw assembly language has saved my ass many times.
Beyond Linux From Scratch has step-by-step instructions for installing many packages from source, including the latest Xorg.
No.
"Hybrid Source" is a pejorative term coined by the Tacoville weenies in order to taint Open Source's image.
The BSD license, on the other hand, explicitly enables incorporation of source code into proprietary products.
Better yet -- just lock Brown in a room. Done.
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