to go to linux. however, sun is making a big mistake. if they are not marketing solaris, they are losing their main product. why would you use a sun chip if you can get a 4 chip 64-bit x86 system running at speeds greater than 3.0 ghz? for much less. if linux takes off, it will not only destroy microsoft, but there will also be some friendly fire deaths involved as well.
In reality, even without this system, people are still taking bets on issues such as this. For someone to invest in Israeli tourist stocks, e.g. hotels or airlines, they must have a reasonable expectation that Isreal will remain relatively safe. For people to buy oil futures, they must either think that an event such as the ousting of Saddaam will lower prices, or an event similar to an embargo on oil will raise prices. This is the same basic idea, except that instead of betting on the effects of the events, you are betting on the events themselves.
I did the same in one of my classes last semester, except all of the students are using iBooks equipped with iChat, and the room was wirelessly networked.
Of course we did not use the technology that the school so graciously provided us with for the purposes they would have wanted. We spent 80% of the class making fun of the teacher over the net.
I think she must have thought we were paying attention, because she actually encouraged our computer use.
This article really does not say anything that any decent programmer does not know. Why we need an article to tell us the basic rules of C is beyond me.
1. Indent properly. 2. Make your code readable. 3. Use good variable names. 4. Avoid buffer overflows. 5. Avoid using statements like goto.
They missed the most basic rule of them all though, convert to C++.
Mind you, Microsoft engages in equal opportunity bribery. They donate enough money to both political parties that to them, it does not matter who wins.
Neither party can afford to lose Microsoft's support. As such, until Linus Torvalds becomes supreme king of the universe, Microsoft will always get away with little more than a slap on the wrist.
Since the Bell breakup, prices on phone calls have dropped dramatically. Interstate calls used to cost $0.25 a minute (not adjusted for inflation). Now you can easily make them for less than $0.05 a minute.
More phone companies have also been able to form, allowing users more choice than ever.
Imagine where the celluar phone industry would be with only one company. Calls would cost upwards of a dollar a minute. The networks would not be so big. Cell phones would be as rare as car phones were.
The government has an interest in controlling monopolies. Microsoft has used it's monopoly on operating systems to stifle competition. Just look back to this. Microsoft commits actions like this all of the time, but the DOJ has just turned the other way.
If the government had really wanted to do something about Microsoft's monopoly, they would have broken it up like they did to the Bell's. Once they decided not to, it only became a question of "How much are we going to pretend to care about this?"
Their answer as seen from the settlement, and the lack of compliance is "Not very much."
All we have to do now is make a craft that can go 90 light years within a reasonable amount of time. minor detail.
And one other detail, we have been mostly unsuccessful at finding intelligent life on earth, what makes us think we can find it somewhere else?
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You have to coat your apartment in ceiling tiles. Never mind that you won't be able to see out your windows, and that it will probably get pretty hot in there. But hey, there are tradeoffs in life.
That would be a cheaper way to silence the car next to you. Just build walls of ceiling tiles around him.
Hey, its not that much of a stupider idea than wrapping your computer in them.
Even as a consumer desktop, Mandrake leaves much to be desired. I have been wrestling with it for a month, and it still won't behave like I want it to. Programs don't always open, one program crash can bring down the whole OS. I even once could not boot in without running fsck manually. Try telling a windows user to run fsck from the shell. Mandrake is just not ready for prime time.
Due to the fact that we have not managed to get a human past the moon, or a spacecraft even somewhat close to the nearest star in our galaxy, it would seem that there will be very few people taking out a map to navigate their way between the stars anytime in the relatively near future.
While Amazon's case might fit into the letter of the law, they will certainly lose this case. What they did goes against the spirit of the law, namely restricting people's right to view content. They have commited an unforgivable offense.
Bill Gates did not become the world's most successful business by being dumb. He is doing a very good job using the whole SCO issue to take away people's confidence in Linux. He has done a nice job putting pressure on the CD copying company. He is hoping to make the name "Linux" synonymous with phrases like "infringing copyrights" and "illegal". He is not stupid, and if Linux does not watch its back, the penguin might get slain, leaving the world without a reliable and secure OS.
Wireless is inherently insecure. Even 128 bit wep is crackable by script kiddies with the correct w4r3z . MAC filtering is not that secure, If you are able to steal the MAC that it is broadcasting to, you are able to change the software portion of your MAC address to reflect that.
I have found that the best security is not to keep any real valuable info on computers hooked to a wireless network, and use a personal firewall on each machine as well.
So far this law has been used to prosecute sewing pattern pirates. Now it is being used to go after videogame websites. If Orrin Hatch has his way, the RIAA will be able to destroy your computer. More and more it looks like Richard Stallman might not have been that far off.
good point. The U.S. has been the only country in the past century that has been consistently been able to feed its population AND be on the forefront of both the military and technology curves.
Ah, the wonders of capitalism.
But the two percent of the market they are targeting is the cream of the crop of consumers.
1.I know this sounds like flaimbait, but Mac users will buy anything Steve Jobs tells them is good. (I admit it, I really want to get a 17 inch powerbook)
2.They are used to paying full price for things having to do with technology, because Apple products and peripherals don't go on sale.
3.They have proven that they like the product, with the iPod being as successful as it was. (Even before the windows versions)
That is why the iTunes music store was such an unprecidented success. It was not just sheer luck.
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to go to linux. however, sun is making a big mistake. if they are not marketing solaris, they are losing their main product. why would you use a sun chip if you can get a 4 chip 64-bit x86 system running at speeds greater than 3.0 ghz? for much less. if linux takes off, it will not only destroy microsoft, but there will also be some friendly fire deaths involved as well.
In reality, even without this system, people are still taking bets on issues such as this. For someone to invest in Israeli tourist stocks, e.g. hotels or airlines, they must have a reasonable expectation that Isreal will remain relatively safe. For people to buy oil futures, they must either think that an event such as the ousting of Saddaam will lower prices, or an event similar to an embargo on oil will raise prices. This is the same basic idea, except that instead of betting on the effects of the events, you are betting on the events themselves.
Why did they bother to support windows?
Of course we did not use the technology that the school so graciously provided us with for the purposes they would have wanted. We spent 80% of the class making fun of the teacher over the net.
I think she must have thought we were paying attention, because she actually encouraged our computer use.
This article really does not say anything that any decent programmer does not know. Why we need an article to tell us the basic rules of C is beyond me.
1. Indent properly.
2. Make your code readable.
3. Use good variable names.
4. Avoid buffer overflows.
5. Avoid using statements like goto.
They missed the most basic rule of them all though, convert to C++.
use fget, and then ato[i | f ] #excuse the perl syntax
Every one knows that no decent game runs on a mac.
Does this mean I can get a lightsaber?
Mind you, Microsoft engages in equal opportunity bribery. They donate enough money to both political parties that to them, it does not matter who wins.
Neither party can afford to lose Microsoft's support. As such, until Linus Torvalds becomes supreme king of the universe, Microsoft will always get away with little more than a slap on the wrist.
Since the Bell breakup, prices on phone calls have dropped dramatically. Interstate calls used to cost $0.25 a minute (not adjusted for inflation). Now you can easily make them for less than $0.05 a minute.
More phone companies have also been able to form, allowing users more choice than ever.
Imagine where the celluar phone industry would be with only one company. Calls would cost upwards of a dollar a minute. The networks would not be so big. Cell phones would be as rare as car phones were.
The government has an interest in controlling monopolies. Microsoft has used it's monopoly on operating systems to stifle competition. Just look back to this. Microsoft commits actions like this all of the time, but the DOJ has just turned the other way.
Their answer as seen from the settlement, and the lack of compliance is "Not very much."
And one other detail, we have been mostly unsuccessful at finding intelligent life on earth, what makes us think we can find it somewhere else?
You have to coat your apartment in ceiling tiles. Never mind that you won't be able to see out your windows, and that it will probably get pretty hot in there. But hey, there are tradeoffs in life.
That would be a cheaper way to silence the car next to you. Just build walls of ceiling tiles around him.
Hey, its not that much of a stupider idea than wrapping your computer in them.
Even as a consumer desktop, Mandrake leaves much to be desired. I have been wrestling with it for a month, and it still won't behave like I want it to. Programs don't always open, one program crash can bring down the whole OS. I even once could not boot in without running fsck manually. Try telling a windows user to run fsck from the shell. Mandrake is just not ready for prime time.
32 megs? I am still using 640K as per BIll Gates suggestion.
Due to the fact that we have not managed to get a human past the moon, or a spacecraft even somewhat close to the nearest star in our galaxy, it would seem that there will be very few people taking out a map to navigate their way between the stars anytime in the relatively near future.
While Amazon's case might fit into the letter of the law, they will certainly lose this case. What they did goes against the spirit of the law, namely restricting people's right to view content. They have commited an unforgivable offense.
The name Yesterday Technology certainly describes the company perfectly, choosing Windows over Linux, that is so 1995.
Bill Gates did not become the world's most successful business by being dumb. He is doing a very good job using the whole SCO issue to take away people's confidence in Linux. He has done a nice job putting pressure on the CD copying company. He is hoping to make the name "Linux" synonymous with phrases like "infringing copyrights" and "illegal".
He is not stupid, and if Linux does not watch its back, the penguin might get slain, leaving the world without a reliable and secure OS.
Wireless is inherently insecure. Even 128 bit wep is crackable by script kiddies with the correct w4r3z . MAC filtering is not that secure, If you are able to steal the MAC that it is broadcasting to, you are able to change the software portion of your MAC address to reflect that.
I have found that the best security is not to keep any real valuable info on computers hooked to a wireless network, and use a personal firewall on each machine as well.
So far this law has been used to prosecute sewing pattern pirates. Now it is being used to go after videogame websites. If Orrin Hatch has his way, the RIAA will be able to destroy your computer. More and more it looks like Richard Stallman might not have been that far off.
good point. The U.S. has been the only country in the past century that has been consistently been able to feed its population AND be on the forefront of both the military and technology curves.
Ah, the wonders of capitalism.
1.I know this sounds like flaimbait, but Mac users will buy anything Steve Jobs tells them is good. (I admit it, I really want to get a 17 inch powerbook) 2.They are used to paying full price for things having to do with technology, because Apple products and peripherals don't go on sale. 3.They have proven that they like the product, with the iPod being as successful as it was. (Even before the windows versions)
That is why the iTunes music store was such an unprecidented success. It was not just sheer luck.
Ease of use would be good too. And if it is not asking too much, I don't want to look like a nerd holding a PDA agaionst my head like an ice pack.