A custom C library doesn't matter, if its 'native code' the C library is irrelevant as you're producing x86 machine code in the final NCI file.
To be safe, they essentially need to run it in a virtual machine without access outside the VM.
x86 code verifiers are about as useful as enabling heuristics detection in a virus scanners, the only thing they catch is something thats already more or less been seen in the exact same sort of form.
Explain, in detail the differences between ActiveX and any Mozilla extension with a compiled binary XPCOM component or any nsplugin api based plugin.
Not the implementation specific but the flow of how they work.
I'm afraid you'll find that ActiveX is really no different than any other plugin system.
The problem is that ActiveX is more or less a GLOBAL, system wide plugin system versus a web browser specific api like nsplugin.
IE previously had serious problems because it would allow ActiveX controls to be downloaded and installed in a multitude of ways sometimes with the user being prompted, but due to bugs it also happened without the user ever being prompted. It defaulted to allow in early version as well, which of course is the exact wrong thing to do.
Add too that the high number of ActiveX controls that incorrectly had themselves flagged as safe to be used by websites and you have a horrible implementation... several years ago.
Badly written ActiveX controls much be registered globally, requiring admin to install it, however properly written ActiveX controls are happy to install themselves on a per user basis. As long as you are warned and given the option to say no, there is no issue, it gives the user a way to make it work without having to go to command line to register the component or finding a gui tool to do it.
The overall features provided by ActiveX surpass pretty much every other plugin system currently implemented, they are essentially self describing DLLs that contain everything needed for any random developer to use, no source code required (which of course OSS fans don't appreciate but thats another story entirely).
Unfortunately, even with the extra things built into ActiveX (like the ability to flag it as unsafe for use in untrusted environments like a web browser, Microsoft fucked up the original implementation and didn't fix it for years, and then it took them several years to make it actually fix all of the major problems.
ActiveX controls no longer install without multiple clicks of user interaction. Its easier to get owned with a gecko based application such as Firefox or Thunderbird than it is with IE, it takes fewer clicks.
Yes, there are a lot of shitty, broken ActiveX controls, no argument there, but to say 'ActiveX is bad' is like saying 'plugins are bad' because thats all they are.
Microsoft has COM, which ActiveX is built on (And the entire.NET framework as well), Mozilla uses XPCOM, and you can generate code for both from the same IDL file if its fairly simple.
Article says the theory is that metorites brought it required ingredients to Earth.
Summary says might.
Title says did.
In reality, everything on Earth came from space according to current scientific theory, the planet coleased into existence from matter orbiting Sol a few billion years ago.
So, I'm not really sure why you would consider this news, the 'ingredients for life' were more than likely ALREADY HERE by the time the Earth qualified as a planet, and most certainly by the time it cooled enough to not destroy any molecular combinations that would eventually turn to life.
My problem is when people say 'this is what happened 4 billion years ago!' or even 'this is what happened 20 thousand years ago'.
If you want to make absolutely sure I don't believe a word you're saying, tell me you KNOW what happened before recorded history without proving to me that you can travel through time in both directions as well.
We don't KNOW shit, but we have some pretty good theories. When you say 'We know what happened X thousands of years ago' you sound as idiotic as a bible thumper. We've learned time and time again that our methods for doing measurements are flawed. Too many people think we KNOW how things happened before human beings existed... unless you know every single variable in the equation, you can only assume and theorize. Calling it anything other than a theory means you don't understand how science works at all.
Apple could cease to exist tomorrow and you'd still find a reason to bash them.
You're just trying to show us how cool you are for hating apple, and I'm just trying to show you how cool I am for defending them.
The end result, we're both douche bags for talking about an amazingly retarded thing since no matter what happens, you'll still feel the need to rant and moan about the apple story posted on slashdot instead of doing the simple thing AND TURNING THEM OFF IN YOUR FUCKING PREFERENCE YOU WHINEY LITTLE PRICK.
Seriously, the Apple stories are out of hand, but theres an easy solution if your done with them.
Thats not what you want though, if the Apple stories ceased, you'd come up with something else to hate.
You're just troll, and a use that term lightly as you fucking suck at it.
Second off, Apples market share says they aren't a monopoly at anything. You could argue 'music players' but it'd be a hard argument that you'd almost certainly loose.
There has never been anyone ruled against because they only allowed authorized products to work with their devices. There are laws saying you're more than allowed to defeat said restrictions if they exist, hence jailbreaking is illegal
Apple does not force you to do anything, they make it difficult for you to do non-standard things, and they'd probably sue you if they could, but they can't and don't.
As for buying all your supplies blah blah blah, it happens, even today. Take a look at printers for more than a split second.
Says the unemployed socially inept man living in mommies basement.
You don't go to the conference to 'learn' anything about technology, but there is plenty of learning that goes on there.
You go to these conferences so you can meet other people in your field in a relaxed environment. Its kind of like making business deals on the golf course. You go out with random people you meet there, have a drink, get relaxed, find out what you have in common, make a connection with someone that may one day say 'hey, I know this guy who would be GREAT for that position'.
This is REAL social networking, and THAT is why you go.
You'll learn rather quickly that you're far more likely to get a job that you want because you know a guy already on the team than you are to get a job when you just submit your resume to HR.
The irony of your post is that Apple has the single most user friendly and reliable way of doing backups for someone at home.
TimeMachine more or less works the instant you plug in power and gives years access to snapshots and long term backups automatically.
So good for you, you've shown us your nothing but an ignorant hater who has no clue what he's talking about.
You don't need to worry about backups with Apple, you just have to make sure you TimeMachine icon in the menubar isn't telling you somethings wrong.
Again, out of the box, not after installing some shitty backup package like Symantacs crap or without having to write custom shells scripts or whatever.
Go use a mac for a month, get a clue, then I challenge you to give it up.
with the downside of relying on connectivity (though gmail has offline mode...).
It also has IMAP4 and POP3 support.
With IMAP you've got pretty much everything exchange has too offer. You can even get a plugin for Outlook that will treat an exchange server as a MAPI datastore, allowing you to share your contacts/cals/whatever just like you were connected to an exchange server. It uses shared folders on the server to handle the information sharing, and sub folders under your INBOX for your contacts/notes/whatever.
IMAP I should point out, is the only mail protocol you should be using for retrieving your mail in a client, especially since 'offline mode' is kind of built in and not tacked on.
The fact that the people making the movies tend to use Macs so they just happen to be laying all over the place probably doesn't have anything to do with it... does it?
I'm sure they pay for placement, but when most of the crew has a mac to work on, its not surpassing to see them used in the work they produce.
If you were making a movie and you hand your Linux laptop handy, you wouldn't just use it rather than going through a bunch of effort to find something else? Would you put a Dell running Windows in the movie instead?
Did you ever consider that your experience doesn't make up for a lack of talent?
If you're looking for a job by general 'apply here' rather than knowing a friend who works there, you've already got something against.
Getting a job has never been an issue for me without a degree, someone somewhere from a previous job is pretty much always got something I can do for them.
The key is to bypass HR. HR is the only group who cares about degrees.
Right, because the amount that goes from the power plant into her body is about the same ratio of having a few grams in your own home.
You're argument is rather dumb. You're claiming that the plants are just as dangerous but you're completely ignoring concentration levels. You can successfully ingest most things at low enough levels, its concentration that causes problems. Breaking a CFL in your home is going to be several thousand times more concentrated than the increase from power used by an incandescent, but hey, don't let me or reality get in the way of missing the point.
Who pays for our power bill? China? Sweden? Wikileaks? WTF?
'you aren't paying for it' because you're too stupid to realize that just because you pay it elsewhere hidden in another cost doesn't mean you aren't paying it.
You don't see the 10khz, you see the harmonics and sideband fluctuations that when all combined resonate at frequencies we can perceive.
Over time (several times a second still) the fluctuations end up with peaks and troughs in the emission pattern that are visible.
You have seen what a ballast failure looks like before it completely fails right? Thats just an extreme condition of exactly what the post was referring too.
This isn't really debatable, and you don't need particularly impressive vision to see it, you could be half blind and still detect it.
Yea, instead we're basing our arguments on wild speculation with absolutely no indication that its true... most of it coming from the media whore himself.
I'm sorry, while they argument that 'The US is gonna get him!' might have had some wait if he didn't go from SWEDEN to ENGLAND in order to 'hide' from the long arm of the US. Since England and the US are supposed to be torture buddies... and Sweden doesn't even like the US at this point... I can totally understand why he left Sweden for England... England is obviously a much safer place to hide from the US.
Seriously, get some perspective and take the blinders off, if he was scared of the US doing something, he wouldn't have went to fucking England moron.
It may seem weird, but some people want to be musicians. Others want to be writers. Very few can make a living at it. Musicians have even more problems than writers with making a living. And it doesn't matter whether we're talking about performers or composers.
Yes, because there are a lot of potential people who WANT to do a job thats FAR better than what they are forced to do to make ends meet on a daily basis.
I want to be a billionaire investment banker who doesn't have to ever work again in my life, but I SUCK at investment, so I'm stuck making a living the old fasioned way, doing something I am capable of. Just like every 'writer' working as a waiter/waitress.
There is a lot of competition and only a limited number of 'millionaire' slots for them. Not everyone can win, sorry.
With that in mind, taking into account the number of 'artists' who are extremely rich even though 'none of the money makes it back to the artist', I'd have to say that while the middle men may take the majority of it, some of the money most certainly makes it to the millionaires 'artists' we regularly see plastered on TMZ or what ever gossip rag you want to refer to.
If Britney and MC Hammer handle lost approximately 100 times the amount of money I'll make in my entire life in a couple of years, AND WERE STILL FREAKING RICH you'll have to pardon my if I don't give a flying fuck about how much money 'makes it back to the artist'.
All you've done is showed me that paying more than a couple cents per track is paying too much. Albums should cost a couple dimes, maybe a quarter if its 4 hours or more worth of audio (not crappy commentary or bullshit 'making of' videos).
We don't all get to be what we want to be, that means that we aren't good at it, not that we are underpaid.
And this is something that most people in the OSS world (has nothing to do with OSS in general, just OSS allows it to happen easier) utterly fail to grasp.
The bad thing with multiple APIs, that all do essentially the same thing is that they give 'choice'. I realize that most OSS users and indeed most techies LOVE choice, the rest of the world doesn't. Or rather, its not so much that they don't like choice, its that they are not educated about the choice enough to answer them effectively.
GTK vs Qt/Gnome vs KDE is a great example, here its not the users choice thats a problem its the developers. Some devs use KDE, some use GNOME, some use their own toolkit, some use X primitives directly. And combine that all together on a desktop and you get one big ugly fucking mess where everything works slightly different and the user just ends up frustrated because they don't spend their entire lives having a circle jerk to discuss which GUI toolkit should rule them all.
Multiple choices are NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING, especially when you don't have the domain specific knowledge to make the choice, or someone else that knows nothing about you or your needs is making the choice for you.
The Linux desktop is example of why choice is not always a good thing.
I know, what I just said was complete blasphemy here, but its true.
Wow, that must suck. Your GUI allow eats so much CPU power that you can't maintain a good frame rate? I can't imagine trying to get anything done on a machine with GUI lag anymore, let alone a GUI which maxes out a CPU which I'd prefer to be using myself.
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A custom C library doesn't matter, if its 'native code' the C library is irrelevant as you're producing x86 machine code in the final NCI file.
To be safe, they essentially need to run it in a virtual machine without access outside the VM.
x86 code verifiers are about as useful as enabling heuristics detection in a virus scanners, the only thing they catch is something thats already more or less been seen in the exact same sort of form.
Explain, in detail the differences between ActiveX and any Mozilla extension with a compiled binary XPCOM component or any nsplugin api based plugin.
Not the implementation specific but the flow of how they work.
I'm afraid you'll find that ActiveX is really no different than any other plugin system.
The problem is that ActiveX is more or less a GLOBAL, system wide plugin system versus a web browser specific api like nsplugin.
IE previously had serious problems because it would allow ActiveX controls to be downloaded and installed in a multitude of ways sometimes with the user being prompted, but due to bugs it also happened without the user ever being prompted. It defaulted to allow in early version as well, which of course is the exact wrong thing to do.
Add too that the high number of ActiveX controls that incorrectly had themselves flagged as safe to be used by websites and you have a horrible implementation ... several years ago.
Badly written ActiveX controls much be registered globally, requiring admin to install it, however properly written ActiveX controls are happy to install themselves on a per user basis. As long as you are warned and given the option to say no, there is no issue, it gives the user a way to make it work without having to go to command line to register the component or finding a gui tool to do it.
The overall features provided by ActiveX surpass pretty much every other plugin system currently implemented, they are essentially self describing DLLs that contain everything needed for any random developer to use, no source code required (which of course OSS fans don't appreciate but thats another story entirely).
Unfortunately, even with the extra things built into ActiveX (like the ability to flag it as unsafe for use in untrusted environments like a web browser, Microsoft fucked up the original implementation and didn't fix it for years, and then it took them several years to make it actually fix all of the major problems.
ActiveX controls no longer install without multiple clicks of user interaction. Its easier to get owned with a gecko based application such as Firefox or Thunderbird than it is with IE, it takes fewer clicks.
Yes, there are a lot of shitty, broken ActiveX controls, no argument there, but to say 'ActiveX is bad' is like saying 'plugins are bad' because thats all they are.
Microsoft has COM, which ActiveX is built on (And the entire .NET framework as well), Mozilla uses XPCOM, and you can generate code for both from the same IDL file if its fairly simple.
Article says the theory is that metorites brought it required ingredients to Earth.
Summary says might.
Title says did.
In reality, everything on Earth came from space according to current scientific theory, the planet coleased into existence from matter orbiting Sol a few billion years ago.
So, I'm not really sure why you would consider this news, the 'ingredients for life' were more than likely ALREADY HERE by the time the Earth qualified as a planet, and most certainly by the time it cooled enough to not destroy any molecular combinations that would eventually turn to life.
My problem is when people say 'this is what happened 4 billion years ago!' or even 'this is what happened 20 thousand years ago'.
If you want to make absolutely sure I don't believe a word you're saying, tell me you KNOW what happened before recorded history without proving to me that you can travel through time in both directions as well.
We don't KNOW shit, but we have some pretty good theories. When you say 'We know what happened X thousands of years ago' you sound as idiotic as a bible thumper. We've learned time and time again that our methods for doing measurements are flawed. Too many people think we KNOW how things happened before human beings existed ... unless you know every single variable in the equation, you can only assume and theorize. Calling it anything other than a theory means you don't understand how science works at all.
Powerbooks eh? And exactly how old are they? Hmm? I'm guessing your iMacs are old too.
Apple could cease to exist tomorrow and you'd still find a reason to bash them.
You're just trying to show us how cool you are for hating apple, and I'm just trying to show you how cool I am for defending them.
The end result, we're both douche bags for talking about an amazingly retarded thing since no matter what happens, you'll still feel the need to rant and moan about the apple story posted on slashdot instead of doing the simple thing AND TURNING THEM OFF IN YOUR FUCKING PREFERENCE YOU WHINEY LITTLE PRICK.
Seriously, the Apple stories are out of hand, but theres an easy solution if your done with them.
Thats not what you want though, if the Apple stories ceased, you'd come up with something else to hate.
You're just troll, and a use that term lightly as you fucking suck at it.
First off, Monopolies are not illegal.
Second off, Apples market share says they aren't a monopoly at anything. You could argue 'music players' but it'd be a hard argument that you'd almost certainly loose.
There has never been anyone ruled against because they only allowed authorized products to work with their devices. There are laws saying you're more than allowed to defeat said restrictions if they exist, hence jailbreaking is illegal
Apple does not force you to do anything, they make it difficult for you to do non-standard things, and they'd probably sue you if they could, but they can't and don't.
As for buying all your supplies blah blah blah, it happens, even today. Take a look at printers for more than a split second.
Says the unemployed socially inept man living in mommies basement.
You don't go to the conference to 'learn' anything about technology, but there is plenty of learning that goes on there.
You go to these conferences so you can meet other people in your field in a relaxed environment. Its kind of like making business deals on the golf course. You go out with random people you meet there, have a drink, get relaxed, find out what you have in common, make a connection with someone that may one day say 'hey, I know this guy who would be GREAT for that position'.
This is REAL social networking, and THAT is why you go.
You'll learn rather quickly that you're far more likely to get a job that you want because you know a guy already on the team than you are to get a job when you just submit your resume to HR.
The irony of your post is that Apple has the single most user friendly and reliable way of doing backups for someone at home.
TimeMachine more or less works the instant you plug in power and gives years access to snapshots and long term backups automatically.
So good for you, you've shown us your nothing but an ignorant hater who has no clue what he's talking about.
You don't need to worry about backups with Apple, you just have to make sure you TimeMachine icon in the menubar isn't telling you somethings wrong.
Again, out of the box, not after installing some shitty backup package like Symantacs crap or without having to write custom shells scripts or whatever.
Go use a mac for a month, get a clue, then I challenge you to give it up.
tar zcf `date`-mailbackup.tgz your_mail_directory_here
scp `data`-mailbackup.tgz remotehost:backups/
Drop a script to call that in the Linux equiv of /etc/periodic and call it a night
Okay, sounds great, whos gonna pay for it and ensure it doesn't get corrupted like Google? You?
with the downside of relying on connectivity (though gmail has offline mode...).
It also has IMAP4 and POP3 support.
With IMAP you've got pretty much everything exchange has too offer. You can even get a plugin for Outlook that will treat an exchange server as a MAPI datastore, allowing you to share your contacts/cals/whatever just like you were connected to an exchange server. It uses shared folders on the server to handle the information sharing, and sub folders under your INBOX for your contacts/notes/whatever.
IMAP I should point out, is the only mail protocol you should be using for retrieving your mail in a client, especially since 'offline mode' is kind of built in and not tacked on.
The fact that the people making the movies tend to use Macs so they just happen to be laying all over the place probably doesn't have anything to do with it ... does it?
I'm sure they pay for placement, but when most of the crew has a mac to work on, its not surpassing to see them used in the work they produce.
If you were making a movie and you hand your Linux laptop handy, you wouldn't just use it rather than going through a bunch of effort to find something else? Would you put a Dell running Windows in the movie instead?
Really? Running a store with people who know how to use the products and can help their customers is a reason for the DOJ to get involved?
Seriously? A fucking store where people are actually useful is something we bring up a lawsuit over?
Ballmer? Is that you?
You can teach experience. 10 hours of "examples" is much better than 5 years of making massive mistakes on the job.
Please tell me where you work so I can make sure I never buy any product you could possibly be involved with, or any company that thinks the same way.
You completely fail to understand what experience provides.
Did you ever consider that your experience doesn't make up for a lack of talent?
If you're looking for a job by general 'apply here' rather than knowing a friend who works there, you've already got something against.
Getting a job has never been an issue for me without a degree, someone somewhere from a previous job is pretty much always got something I can do for them.
The key is to bypass HR. HR is the only group who cares about degrees.
Right, because the amount that goes from the power plant into her body is about the same ratio of having a few grams in your own home.
You're argument is rather dumb. You're claiming that the plants are just as dangerous but you're completely ignoring concentration levels. You can successfully ingest most things at low enough levels, its concentration that causes problems. Breaking a CFL in your home is going to be several thousand times more concentrated than the increase from power used by an incandescent, but hey, don't let me or reality get in the way of missing the point.
Thats a ridiculously fucking stupid statement.
Who pays for our power bill? China? Sweden? Wikileaks? WTF?
'you aren't paying for it' because you're too stupid to realize that just because you pay it elsewhere hidden in another cost doesn't mean you aren't paying it.
You don't see the 10khz, you see the harmonics and sideband fluctuations that when all combined resonate at frequencies we can perceive.
Over time (several times a second still) the fluctuations end up with peaks and troughs in the emission pattern that are visible.
You have seen what a ballast failure looks like before it completely fails right? Thats just an extreme condition of exactly what the post was referring too.
This isn't really debatable, and you don't need particularly impressive vision to see it, you could be half blind and still detect it.
and not waste any energy in unused photons...
Not that you shouldn't use the right tool for the job ... but do you understand what radiant heat is? Infraredsayzwhat?
Yea, instead we're basing our arguments on wild speculation with absolutely no indication that its true ... most of it coming from the media whore himself.
I'm sorry, while they argument that 'The US is gonna get him!' might have had some wait if he didn't go from SWEDEN to ENGLAND in order to 'hide' from the long arm of the US. Since England and the US are supposed to be torture buddies ... and Sweden doesn't even like the US at this point ... I can totally understand why he left Sweden for England ... England is obviously a much safer place to hide from the US.
Seriously, get some perspective and take the blinders off, if he was scared of the US doing something, he wouldn't have went to fucking England moron.
Seals are in the Navy, not the Marines.
The business isn't hard, its saturated.
Everybody wants to be a rockstar, too many people try, meaning a lot of people get rejected since they simply aren't as good as their competition.
It may seem weird, but some people want to be musicians. Others want to be writers. Very few can make a living at it. Musicians have even more problems than writers with making a living. And it doesn't matter whether we're talking about performers or composers.
Yes, because there are a lot of potential people who WANT to do a job thats FAR better than what they are forced to do to make ends meet on a daily basis.
I want to be a billionaire investment banker who doesn't have to ever work again in my life, but I SUCK at investment, so I'm stuck making a living the old fasioned way, doing something I am capable of. Just like every 'writer' working as a waiter/waitress.
There is a lot of competition and only a limited number of 'millionaire' slots for them. Not everyone can win, sorry.
With that in mind, taking into account the number of 'artists' who are extremely rich even though 'none of the money makes it back to the artist', I'd have to say that while the middle men may take the majority of it, some of the money most certainly makes it to the millionaires 'artists' we regularly see plastered on TMZ or what ever gossip rag you want to refer to.
If Britney and MC Hammer handle lost approximately 100 times the amount of money I'll make in my entire life in a couple of years, AND WERE STILL FREAKING RICH you'll have to pardon my if I don't give a flying fuck about how much money 'makes it back to the artist'.
All you've done is showed me that paying more than a couple cents per track is paying too much. Albums should cost a couple dimes, maybe a quarter if its 4 hours or more worth of audio (not crappy commentary or bullshit 'making of' videos).
We don't all get to be what we want to be, that means that we aren't good at it, not that we are underpaid.
And this is something that most people in the OSS world (has nothing to do with OSS in general, just OSS allows it to happen easier) utterly fail to grasp.
The bad thing with multiple APIs, that all do essentially the same thing is that they give 'choice'. I realize that most OSS users and indeed most techies LOVE choice, the rest of the world doesn't. Or rather, its not so much that they don't like choice, its that they are not educated about the choice enough to answer them effectively.
GTK vs Qt/Gnome vs KDE is a great example, here its not the users choice thats a problem its the developers. Some devs use KDE, some use GNOME, some use their own toolkit, some use X primitives directly. And combine that all together on a desktop and you get one big ugly fucking mess where everything works slightly different and the user just ends up frustrated because they don't spend their entire lives having a circle jerk to discuss which GUI toolkit should rule them all.
Multiple choices are NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING, especially when you don't have the domain specific knowledge to make the choice, or someone else that knows nothing about you or your needs is making the choice for you.
The Linux desktop is example of why choice is not always a good thing.
I know, what I just said was complete blasphemy here, but its true.
Wow, that must suck. Your GUI allow eats so much CPU power that you can't maintain a good frame rate? I can't imagine trying to get anything done on a machine with GUI lag anymore, let alone a GUI which maxes out a CPU which I'd prefer to be using myself.