Please. "Illegal collusion"? Have you ever actually worked for the New York State Government, in an IT role or otherwise? I had an internship for a while (in a department that will remain nameless, since I don't know if I'm supposed to be talking about this). It isn't collusion, so stop the conspiracy theory bullshit. It's pure laziness. The desktop stuff has been running on Windows since before Linux was a viable platform. They pretty much rely on Lotus Notes because it would be too much work to shift anything over to a better system, and there's a whole bunch of little windows-specific custom programs that nobody wants to re-code.
"Illegal collusion". Right. Pull your head out of your ass and stop assuming malice when incompetence combined with apathy is the obvious answer.
Microsoft doesn't want to put the Windows source code in escrow because if they do, it will hit everyone's favorite Swedish website the very same day. They aren't stupid. They know that some near-minimum-wage state employee would jump at the chance to leak something like that, damn the concequences.
That said, sucks to be them. We need to see all the code that's in any computerized voting machine. If they can't afford to put their source code in escrow, sucks to be them. They can either write something from scratch for voting machines or just leave the whole field.
Yes, but John Romero was, prior to Daikatana, a "well reputed and even legendary developer". He was famous for his hand in Doom, Doom II, and Quake, and everyone thought (at first) that Daikatana would be great.
Now, emacs and vi are both ridiculously lightweight, since I've got more than eight megs of RAM in my goddamn pocket on any given day, let alone in my PC, and Eclipse has taken the "pig" position.
Goddamn, that thing takes up almost as much RAM as Photoshop. Who had the idea to cram that big an app into the Java Virtual Machine, anyway?
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is it "rotting your brain on the Internet" if you're reading the same exact article, with the same words and everything, that's in the print edition?
It's not like Magic Stupid Rays get emitted straight from the Internet and into your brain, despite what the BBC may say.
Do you really think that Microsoft can gain a monopoly in the game console market? Hell, if history has shown us anything, it's that nobody can hold onto a monopoly there for more than ten years at a stretch. Atari, Nintendo, and now Sony all rose and fell, and if Microsoft ever reaches the top, the same will happen to them.
If this were enacted by everyone, the electoral college would be a unanimous vote that always matched the national popular vote, and would thus not even matter.
Given the level of graphics in the trailer, how many PCs on the market do you think could handle GTA4? I'm going to guess a whole hell of a lot less than ten million. Remember, the current market leader in PC graphics chips is not AMD or nVidia, it's intel. Think about that for a minute. Intel doesn't have anything faster than the GMA 900. You think that's going to handle GTA4? It can't even handle GTA3.
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Please. "Illegal collusion"? Have you ever actually worked for the New York State Government, in an IT role or otherwise? I had an internship for a while (in a department that will remain nameless, since I don't know if I'm supposed to be talking about this). It isn't collusion, so stop the conspiracy theory bullshit. It's pure laziness. The desktop stuff has been running on Windows since before Linux was a viable platform. They pretty much rely on Lotus Notes because it would be too much work to shift anything over to a better system, and there's a whole bunch of little windows-specific custom programs that nobody wants to re-code.
"Illegal collusion". Right. Pull your head out of your ass and stop assuming malice when incompetence combined with apathy is the obvious answer.
Microsoft doesn't want to put the Windows source code in escrow because if they do, it will hit everyone's favorite Swedish website the very same day. They aren't stupid. They know that some near-minimum-wage state employee would jump at the chance to leak something like that, damn the concequences.
That said, sucks to be them. We need to see all the code that's in any computerized voting machine. If they can't afford to put their source code in escrow, sucks to be them. They can either write something from scratch for voting machines or just leave the whole field.
Yes, but John Romero was, prior to Daikatana, a "well reputed and even legendary developer". He was famous for his hand in Doom, Doom II, and Quake, and everyone thought (at first) that Daikatana would be great.
Riiiight. The iPhone is going to dominate the market at its $600 price point, just like the way the PS3 is selling like fucking hotcakes.
Now, emacs and vi are both ridiculously lightweight, since I've got more than eight megs of RAM in my goddamn pocket on any given day, let alone in my PC, and Eclipse has taken the "pig" position.
Goddamn, that thing takes up almost as much RAM as Photoshop. Who had the idea to cram that big an app into the Java Virtual Machine, anyway?
I do believe that Pirates (XXX) is an HD-DVD exclusive.
When number 2 is that distant, it's a big deal. It's like saying that the number 3 desktop operating system is open source, so what's the big deal?
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is it "rotting your brain on the Internet" if you're reading the same exact article, with the same words and everything, that's in the print edition?
It's not like Magic Stupid Rays get emitted straight from the Internet and into your brain, despite what the BBC may say.
I dunno, I'd keep my somewhat slower service to avoid a max transfer limit.
That's just the default. You can trick it into looking kinda-sorta like Win32, OSX, or GTK+.
Tell me, how do you get ethanol from a solar cell again?
Or are you just talking out of your ass?
Do you really think that Microsoft can gain a monopoly in the game console market? Hell, if history has shown us anything, it's that nobody can hold onto a monopoly there for more than ten years at a stretch. Atari, Nintendo, and now Sony all rose and fell, and if Microsoft ever reaches the top, the same will happen to them.
"Free health care"? You must be thinking of that country to the north of us.
Anyway.
By your logic, we should support a bill to make all the illegal immigrants legal, taxpaying citizens, and then enforce tax laws with deportation.
Actually, that doesn't sound like too bad an idea.
How low can you go if you completely forgo proper spelling?
So, unnamed, so-called "Experts" are here to stoke conspiracy theory bullshit and maybe sell a book. What else is new?
I don't see what the problem is. They're never going to make a Linux player for hi-def discs that use those protections anyway.
Exactly. Go ahead and run gdb on a process that you own. Notice that you don't need to be root. I fail to see what the security hole is here.
Usually those Emergency Power Off buttons are required by fire code. Youre boss's building probably won't pass inspection without it.
Don't many EPOs reside behind the old "In case of fire, break glass"? That sounds relatively foolproof.
Even if you have the source, there's no way to certify that it is the same code that will be running on the machine on election day.
Yes there is. You compile the source yourself and then check the hash of the resulting binary against that in the machine.
Geez, I thought that slashdot was the home of computer-literate people.
If this were enacted by everyone, the electoral college would be a unanimous vote that always matched the national popular vote, and would thus not even matter.
If he rules fairly and well, it's good for him to have power.
No, not it's not, because even a perfectly benevolent absolute dictator will eventually die and be replaced by someone less benign.
Not that the king of Thailand is perfectly benevolent, mind you. I mean, hell, he supports censorship.
If he's universally adored, then why are people making fun of him on the Internet?
Or is he universally adored in Thailand because it's illegal not to?
(Damn, I wish I could have people thrown in prison for making fun of me on the Internet. Wow.)
Bigger userbase? Really?
Given the level of graphics in the trailer, how many PCs on the market do you think could handle GTA4? I'm going to guess a whole hell of a lot less than ten million. Remember, the current market leader in PC graphics chips is not AMD or nVidia, it's intel. Think about that for a minute. Intel doesn't have anything faster than the GMA 900. You think that's going to handle GTA4? It can't even handle GTA3.
The X360's DVD drive is a good deal faster than the PS2's, so it shouldn't be as big a problem this time around, though.