So, have extrasolar sunspots been observed before?
I assume sunspots are far better understood than planetary formation
Not necessarily so. The cause of sunspots is mostly understood, but this discovery is significant because it shows that starspots occur on stars with no known planets, thus providing the start of a refutation of the "Jupiter effect" in solar activity.
Linux will gain market share over Windows by being better than Windows.
Of course it will. That's how it worked for Betamax, right?
BetaMax only looked better by introducing a ring at high frequencies to increase the apparent resolution - ie. sharpen edges. This had the overall effect of lowering the signal quality.
Betacam, on the other hand, is a much superior format.
How do you figure they are cooperating? This quote:
We had a meeting a few weeks ago with the Internet Industry Association (about the new guidelines) but we're yet to hear back. says to me that the RIAA want to do something, but the ISP's really don't care.
I can't see how this could ever get off the ground,though. The number of different ways to connect to the 'net here in Sydney is getting bigger and bigger.
Those with dial-up internet could face having their phone disconnected I'd like to see how this one could be enforced.
Someone important to you will buy a Vista-loaded machine, things will crash constantly, and you will be called in to fix it.
So, do you actually use Vista?
I do. It is my daily workhorse - and I'm running as a Standard User, not as an Administrator, and things are not crashing constantly. In fact, things are working just fine. There's software that isn't working, of course - what OS upgrade doesn't cause problems - but by and large, this is a super-smooth OS.
We upgraded my wife's laptop to Vista at the same time (about 7 days ago), and she isn't seeing crashing or anything, either. Now, her world revolves around Office, so she's unlikely to encounter many problems anyway, but your comment come across as unnecessary flamebait.
If you're seeing lots of instances of Vista crashing, then what are you doing about it? As a Slashdot reader, I'm guessing that you have better-than-average computer skills; heck, you might even be writing software. So, are you contacting software authors, or getting onto support forums, and carmly detailing your problems and a step-by-step to reproduce them, or are you just ranting?
Does Microsoft give free PR to "security researchers" every time it patches a bug?
Actually, yes they do. You have to go to the actual release notes for each patch, but it's there.
it is the Win32 subsystem that takes a beating and MS could very easily replace it at any point. If that is true, and it is as easy as you make it seem, then why DON'T THEY JUST DO IT?
Backwards compatibility.
Remove the Win32 subsystem and no applications run. Period.
As you pile together more and more code, and perhaps more importantly, as you aggregate disparate systems together into uber-systems that aren't tasked with a single specific purpose, they become harder to test and verify. Even if you could get the source code, going line-by-line through Windows (or any other major closed-source OS) wouldn't be practical.
I'm not trying to troll here, I just want to ask why you appear to consider Linux (being open source) as superior to Windows in this context.
Sure, you have the source code to Linux... but how many people out there truly inderstand it? Once you start wrapping layers upon layers of custom software ontop of each other, what is the likelyhood of an OS bug nabbing you?
As a point of interest, how many OS bugs have you seen in recent times? From a Windows API point of view, I haven't seen a Windows bug (distinct from a security flaw) for a long time. I can't speak for Linux from first hand knowledge, but I'd imagine the situation was pretty much the same right now.
I've been drifting off the point a bit here, so back to it: Suppose you build "aggregate disparate systems into uber systems" out of completly open-source software: with the hundreds of millions of lines of code, how are you any better off than by going to closed-source vendors and buying "off the shelf"?
I think this option is better than Linux or F/OSS operating systems that would possibly require MORE training for their programmers and users to learn. You must not be a resident of the United Kingdom. I find it interesting that any country's government or military would rely on a foreign proprietary piece of software to reach mission critical goals. You mean like how Australia is strongly considering it's involvement in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project because we can't get access to the source code?
http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/2005-06/06 rn32.htm is a current overview of our involvement and committment, and the very first issue (under Current Issues) is access to the source.
From the report:
While earlier problems such as aircraft weight and range have apparently been solved, questions about the release of the computer source code that makes the aircraft so unique have emerged as a potential showstopper for international clients. The source code in question refers to the millions of lines of computer code that allow this 21st-century aircraft to fly and to fight. Without complete access to this source code, Australia will be unable to modify or even maintain the aircraft independently--as it has done so successfully for many years with the F-111.
The question about the release of the source code to Australia has not been confirmed publicly. It is understood that maintenance of the JSF will be undertaken in a regional logistics and maintenance centre run by Lockheed Martin. Without access to the source code, Australia may in coming decades be put in the invidious position of having no option but to pay whatever Lockheed Martin asks during future contract negotiations for the ongoing maintenance of Australia's strike fighters. It seems that the UK is also considering pulling out of the F-35 for the same reason - and if the UK pulls out, so might Australia.
I was going to mod this down, because much of what you say is not true. But simply modding you down doesn't correct the misinformation present.
There is no medical evidence that vaccinations cause autism. In particular, the MMR vaccination is given at around 3 years old, which is when autism starts to show, because expected neurological functioning does not develop. But the autism has been there all along! Correlation is not causation!
There is more autism around now because the diagnostic criteria has been refined and expanded into groups. Aspergers, for example, are counted as austistic because it falls within the autism spectrum, although a high-functioning autistic person (ie. aspergers) is quite capable of living a full, productive life.
The growing numbers of autistic and ADD and ADHD children can be attributed bad parenting and unreal expectations. Every child is special and above average - that's what we want to believe. Unfortunately, not every child is above average. There are equally numbers of above average children as there are below average children - it's called the Bell curve. If you put a below average child into a high average class, they may not be able to comprehend the work, and thus exhibit bad behaviour, which leads to a diagnosis of ADHD and then a course of Ritilin. Now, that is overly simplistic and is not meant to deny that there are ADHD suffers out there. But the vast bulk are not.
Given ADHD, above, it's not too big a step to see that a child who keeps to themselves and is quite; well they can't possibly be normal, therefore autism.
Now that I've had my rant. I'll be off...... and just as I've previewed, I see that you've been modded as a troll. I don'k know that's totally fair, but there you go.
How did the other company remove machines from their customers? With great reluctance and a forklift.
It wasn't as brutal as it may have sounded. The end-user, being a innocent party in all of this, was allowed to keep the machines until they were ready to install the new ones. The supplier (whom we sued) refunded the money that their customer had paid. From what I recall, it was all mostly amicable between us and the end user. It's not as if the supplier didn't know it was coming; our MD/Owner pretty much told them on the display stand that he was going to sue them.
What I don't get is how software patents affect *USERS* at all? If you patent a mechanical device and someone infringes on your patent to sell me a knockoff, you can sue them and make them stop selling it, but you can't sue me and make me stop using the one that I bought. How is it different with software patents? Assuming their patents are completely legit, they could sue the linux distro and developers, but why do companies using the software need licenses?
The company I work for makes a "mechanical device" (actually, a vertical bagmaker), and a compeditor copied the basic design. We sued, won, and as part of the settlement the company was forced to remove the infringing machines from their customers.
The contract was then up for grabs again, and the company who copied our stuff was forced to compete with their older, much more inferior machine.
I assume you mean the rendering bug when looking at Norton AntiSpam's control panel.
A LiveUpdate fixed that little problem maybe a month or two ago. Symantec's position was that they would not fix their product to work with a beta, but when the problem remain wih the first RC, they acted.
Not only that, but AnyDVD makes DVD's bearable by skipping all the forced junk that a stand-alone player must show.
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So if I'm airbrushing a busy background out of a photo, which has enough colour variation to make it a bit confusing where the background ends and main thing begins (I edit photos for the technical manuals I write for industrial equipment), you can do this in GIM with scripting?! Cool!
http://www.smh.com.au/ had a writeup about this which said that Norton Internet Security guarded against this flaw in Norton AntiVirus. Go figure on the implications of that.
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So, have extrasolar sunspots been observed before?
I assume sunspots are far better understood than planetary formation
Not necessarily so. The cause of sunspots is mostly understood, but this discovery is significant because it shows that starspots occur on stars with no known planets, thus providing the start of a refutation of the "Jupiter effect" in solar activity.
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
I, for one, welcome our new MENSA bot overloards!
Not all that surprising, since O2K was the first product to require activation.
Of course it will. That's how it worked for Betamax, right?
BetaMax only looked better by introducing a ring at high frequencies to increase the apparent resolution - ie. sharpen edges. This had the overall effect of lowering the signal quality.
Betacam, on the other hand, is a much superior format.
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It doesn't necessarily mean that there are more security holes. Remember the Win2K patch that killed Compaq desktops with a particular network card?
I can't see how this could ever get off the ground,though. The number of different ways to connect to the 'net here in Sydney is getting bigger and bigger.
Those with dial-up internet could face having their phone disconnected I'd like to see how this one could be enforced.
So, do you actually use Vista?
I do. It is my daily workhorse - and I'm running as a Standard User, not as an Administrator, and things are not crashing constantly. In fact, things are working just fine. There's software that isn't working, of course - what OS upgrade doesn't cause problems - but by and large, this is a super-smooth OS.
We upgraded my wife's laptop to Vista at the same time (about 7 days ago), and she isn't seeing crashing or anything, either. Now, her world revolves around Office, so she's unlikely to encounter many problems anyway, but your comment come across as unnecessary flamebait.
If you're seeing lots of instances of Vista crashing, then what are you doing about it? As a Slashdot reader, I'm guessing that you have better-than-average computer skills; heck, you might even be writing software. So, are you contacting software authors, or getting onto support forums, and carmly detailing your problems and a step-by-step to reproduce them, or are you just ranting?
Actually, yes they do. You have to go to the actual release notes for each patch, but it's there.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulleti
Why is it wrong for a company to protect it's assets and cash flow?
If that is true, and it is as easy as you make it seem, then why DON'T THEY JUST DO IT?
Backwards compatibility.
Remove the Win32 subsystem and no applications run. Period.
However, thre is a replacement API:
It works quite nicely.
If only I had mod points today...
Did you make this up? Because it's very, very good!
I'm not trying to troll here, I just want to ask why you appear to consider Linux (being open source) as superior to Windows in this context.
Sure, you have the source code to Linux... but how many people out there truly inderstand it? Once you start wrapping layers upon layers of custom software ontop of each other, what is the likelyhood of an OS bug nabbing you?
As a point of interest, how many OS bugs have you seen in recent times? From a Windows API point of view, I haven't seen a Windows bug (distinct from a security flaw) for a long time. I can't speak for Linux from first hand knowledge, but I'd imagine the situation was pretty much the same right now.
I've been drifting off the point a bit here, so back to it: Suppose you build "aggregate disparate systems into uber systems" out of completly open-source software: with the hundreds of millions of lines of code, how are you any better off than by going to closed-source vendors and buying "off the shelf"?
You must not be a resident of the United Kingdom. I find it interesting that any country's government or military would rely on a foreign proprietary piece of software to reach mission critical goals.
You mean like how Australia is strongly considering it's involvement in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project because we can't get access to the source code?
http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/2005-06/0
From the report:
While earlier problems such as aircraft weight and range have apparently been solved, questions about the release of the computer source code that makes the aircraft so unique have emerged as a potential showstopper for international clients. The source code in question refers to the millions of lines of computer code that allow this 21st-century aircraft to fly and to fight. Without complete access to this source code, Australia will be unable to modify or even maintain the aircraft independently--as it has done so successfully for many years with the F-111.
The question about the release of the source code to Australia has not been confirmed publicly. It is understood that maintenance of the JSF will be undertaken in a regional logistics and maintenance centre run by Lockheed Martin. Without access to the source code, Australia may in coming decades be put in the invidious position of having no option but to pay whatever Lockheed Martin asks during future contract negotiations for the ongoing maintenance of Australia's strike fighters.
It seems that the UK is also considering pulling out of the F-35 for the same reason - and if the UK pulls out, so might Australia.
You could have marked that as potentially NSFW!
Plus, you owe me a keyboard. And a hot cup of tea.
I was going to mod this down, because much of what you say is not true. But simply modding you down doesn't correct the misinformation present.
... and just as I've previewed, I see that you've been modded as a troll. I don'k know that's totally fair, but there you go.
There is no medical evidence that vaccinations cause autism. In particular, the MMR vaccination is given at around 3 years old, which is when autism starts to show, because expected neurological functioning does not develop. But the autism has been there all along! Correlation is not causation!
There is more autism around now because the diagnostic criteria has been refined and expanded into groups. Aspergers, for example, are counted as austistic because it falls within the autism spectrum, although a high-functioning autistic person (ie. aspergers) is quite capable of living a full, productive life.
The growing numbers of autistic and ADD and ADHD children can be attributed bad parenting and unreal expectations. Every child is special and above average - that's what we want to believe. Unfortunately, not every child is above average. There are equally numbers of above average children as there are below average children - it's called the Bell curve. If you put a below average child into a high average class, they may not be able to comprehend the work, and thus exhibit bad behaviour, which leads to a diagnosis of ADHD and then a course of Ritilin. Now, that is overly simplistic and is not meant to deny that there are ADHD suffers out there. But the vast bulk are not.
Given ADHD, above, it's not too big a step to see that a child who keeps to themselves and is quite; well they can't possibly be normal, therefore autism.
Now that I've had my rant. I'll be off...
It wasn't as brutal as it may have sounded. The end-user, being a innocent party in all of this, was allowed to keep the machines until they were ready to install the new ones. The supplier (whom we sued) refunded the money that their customer had paid. From what I recall, it was all mostly amicable between us and the end user. It's not as if the supplier didn't know it was coming; our MD/Owner pretty much told them on the display stand that he was going to sue them.
The company I work for makes a "mechanical device" (actually, a vertical bagmaker), and a compeditor copied the basic design. We sued, won, and as part of the settlement the company was forced to remove the infringing machines from their customers.
The contract was then up for grabs again, and the company who copied our stuff was forced to compete with their older, much more inferior machine.
That's how a patent dispute can effect end users.
I assume you mean the rendering bug when looking at Norton AntiSpam's control panel.
A LiveUpdate fixed that little problem maybe a month or two ago. Symantec's position was that they would not fix their product to work with a beta, but when the problem remain wih the first RC, they acted.
Not only that, but AnyDVD makes DVD's bearable by skipping all the forced junk that a stand-alone player must show.
So if I'm airbrushing a busy background out of a photo, which has enough colour variation to make it a bit confusing where the background ends and main thing begins (I edit photos for the technical manuals I write for industrial equipment), you can do this in GIM with scripting?! Cool!
http://www.smh.com.au/ had a writeup about this which said that Norton Internet Security guarded against this flaw in Norton AntiVirus. Go figure on the implications of that.
Fair call.
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It was meant as a joke, but I can certainly see why you'd take it otherwise. No offence intended
Yet.