LOL! They used to package a "hardware compatibility" tool, which amongst other things gathered your MAC address, your IP address and a variety of other things and allowed everyone on the Internet to read it.
That's funny, because 8 USC 1226a says nothing of the sort.
8 USC 1226a allows for indefinite detention in cases where the Attorney General reasonably believes that the immigrant is engaging in espionage or sabotage; trying to overthrow the government; is engaging in terrorist activities; or is a threat to national security.
Try reading the part of the code that quote next time. It might be helpful.
No, he's not. He's advocating yet another programming language to resolve all the possible ills of programmers. Soon enough someone will point out it is too complicated.
What I like is not the fact that it's "dead". I like the fact that the twitter feed for that article is picking up anyone who snorts on Twitter. Yay computer security, bringing the unwashed masses together!
You fail to realise that most corporate environments (you know, the one's running IE6) have standard desktop builds they load onto their desktops after they get the computer from the manufacturer.
HIPPA laws say differently. And fair enough too - they should definitely be retaining your medical records for up to 7 years!
It's funny that the last sentence in this slashdot piece asks why didn't people do this before. They did, and indeed they still do! People have secondary and even tertiary backup - in fact I happen to know that even stodgy old EMC have made a mint out of their Centerra storage devices for this sort of thing. It's called Content Addressable Storage, and despite a particularly brain-dead mechanism for addressing stored data (the content becomes the address - it gets hashed!), it's been pretty popular in the marketplace.
If you think that they are good books, then I strongly recommend the book Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals. Should be easy to find on Google Books.
You see, that's what I find frankly amazing (not saying that your reasons are bad)... everybody is saying they need to upgrade so they can support the latest hardware. Yet most of what Windows 7 can do could be implemented in Windows XP. Nowhere have I seen anyone talk about the UI, speed, efficiency, security, productivity reasons or any other innovative feature that would actually make you want to go out and buy it. Seriously - pretty much the only reason folks are upgrading is because they are well and truly forced to upgrade, if only to allow for hardware upgrades!
There seems to be something very wrong with this. At least when upgrading to Windows XP from the Win9x or Win2k there were compelling reasons. Nowadays I just don't see them...
What a fantastic reason for upgrading to Windows 7. I congratulate you on your good sense sir - you have convinced me of the financial and technical reasons for the upgrade, and I will go out and buy a copy at once!
It might be a professional organization, but it's still an organization made up of nerds.
Funnily enough, this isn't the first time this happened. The first nerd war was when the X3 committee was trying to standardize on 7-bit ASCII. They chose a number of characters over a tortuous process involving about a dozen countries, managed to get agreement, and promptly found that the IBM Computer Group (also known as SHARE) were going to boycott the standard. This forced the X.3.2 working group to do a humiliating backdown and make changes which included, amongst other things, putting a break in the "|" character.
Sadly, I know this because I was trying to understand Unicode, got a little bit too interested and wrote a blog article on the precursors of that standard. Which I guess makes me a bigger nerd than anyone. But I swear I haven't fought anyone yet!
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LOL! They used to package a "hardware compatibility" tool, which amongst other things gathered your MAC address, your IP address and a variety of other things and allowed everyone on the Internet to read it.
Yeah, I did. They all refer to terrorism!
That's funny, because 8 USC 1226a says nothing of the sort.
8 USC 1226a allows for indefinite detention in cases where the Attorney General reasonably believes that the immigrant is engaging in espionage or sabotage; trying to overthrow the government; is engaging in terrorist activities; or is a threat to national security.
Try reading the part of the code that quote next time. It might be helpful.
I read this article without my glasses on. I was a bit disturbed that a conjugal mass erection hit the earth.
Sure have, in fact I wrote the Wikipedia article on it. Where does it state that you can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen?
So? He's a U.S. citizen!
No, he's not. He's advocating yet another programming language to resolve all the possible ills of programmers. Soon enough someone will point out it is too complicated.
What, Tridgwell isn't accepting patches? Someone call UNSW!
What I like is not the fact that it's "dead". I like the fact that the twitter feed for that article is picking up anyone who snorts on Twitter. Yay computer security, bringing the unwashed masses together!
Everyone say "yay" for eugenics!
You fail to realise that most corporate environments (you know, the one's running IE6) have standard desktop builds they load onto their desktops after they get the computer from the manufacturer.
HIPPA laws say differently. And fair enough too - they should definitely be retaining your medical records for up to 7 years!
It's funny that the last sentence in this slashdot piece asks why didn't people do this before. They did, and indeed they still do! People have secondary and even tertiary backup - in fact I happen to know that even stodgy old EMC have made a mint out of their Centerra storage devices for this sort of thing. It's called Content Addressable Storage, and despite a particularly brain-dead mechanism for addressing stored data (the content becomes the address - it gets hashed!), it's been pretty popular in the marketplace.
If you think that they are good books, then I strongly recommend the book Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals. Should be easy to find on Google Books.
Paris Hilton is smarter than you.
That's an "investiment bank" to you, sonny.
My political opinions are state secrets that I communicate over twitter, you insensitive clod!
Perhaps after you construct a right-angled triangle you might want to form a hypothesis.
I trust slashdot posters even less than I trust market research companies.
Sorry dude, she's already married! You will never be king.
Alternatively, if Firefox has bugs, has he filed a bug report?
When they mentioned that the firm who did the study was into SaaS, I didn't realise it was Sex as a Service!
You see, that's what I find frankly amazing (not saying that your reasons are bad)... everybody is saying they need to upgrade so they can support the latest hardware. Yet most of what Windows 7 can do could be implemented in Windows XP. Nowhere have I seen anyone talk about the UI, speed, efficiency, security, productivity reasons or any other innovative feature that would actually make you want to go out and buy it. Seriously - pretty much the only reason folks are upgrading is because they are well and truly forced to upgrade, if only to allow for hardware upgrades!
There seems to be something very wrong with this. At least when upgrading to Windows XP from the Win9x or Win2k there were compelling reasons. Nowadays I just don't see them...
Well, that is a good reason then. But how many people will have such specialized applications and needs?
What a fantastic reason for upgrading to Windows 7. I congratulate you on your good sense sir - you have convinced me of the financial and technical reasons for the upgrade, and I will go out and buy a copy at once!
It might be a professional organization, but it's still an organization made up of nerds.
Funnily enough, this isn't the first time this happened. The first nerd war was when the X3 committee was trying to standardize on 7-bit ASCII. They chose a number of characters over a tortuous process involving about a dozen countries, managed to get agreement, and promptly found that the IBM Computer Group (also known as SHARE) were going to boycott the standard. This forced the X.3.2 working group to do a humiliating backdown and make changes which included, amongst other things, putting a break in the "|" character.
Sadly, I know this because I was trying to understand Unicode, got a little bit too interested and wrote a blog article on the precursors of that standard. Which I guess makes me a bigger nerd than anyone. But I swear I haven't fought anyone yet!