I ditched Microsoft software and solutions over a decade ago when an update they sent me wouldn't apply because the installer detected a OS/2 and Linux partition on my hard drive (which at the time I was a consultant needing to program solutions for all three platforms). Wait, what? I paid for your product and you won't update it because I make a living supporting alternate products? Go fuck yourself.
This is Sea Change moment for Linux. In the early 90's I watched IBM going from 80 percent market share down to 20/30 share. People stopped buying IBM and Microsoft was the winner of IBM's loss. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/20/business/ibm-posts-5.46-billion-loss-for-4th-quarter-1992-s-deficit-biggest-us-business.html This was due to IBM pushing MCA/PS2 etc. on a open market to reel in more profits. Yes, I was in a meeting for a fortune 500 company where the comptroller said, fuck IBM, were going Microsoft.
The Linux foundation along with RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu need to get together (pool resources) and fix the minor issues still inhibiting total Linux adoption. Grandmothers want to easily show slideshows of the grand kids on their screen savers. Accountants want to use Quickbooks. Graphic designers want to use PhotoShop etc.
We haven't had hardware issues for years (in my experience). It's the little things that will prevent Linux adoption.
In this case, careful review by a number of hardware makers has led them to pay Microsoft to license the patents. We may not know exactly what they are using but you can bet the companies paying Microsoft had to have pretty good proof before they simply handed over per-device fees to another company.
I doubt that. All the companies that have licensed the patents for their Android devices also ship Windows devices. More than likely Microsoft threatened them over Windows pricing if they didn't agree to the patents. See the monopoly trial transcripts on Microsoft's use of predatory pricing tactics.
The one Android using company that didn't license the patents also doesn't ship any Windows versions. According to Barnes and Noble the patents are weak. See
Network Neutrality was lost the day they/we allowed E911 calls over the internet. The network neutrality folks would argue that P2P traffic has the same priority over 911 VOIP packets. They don't.
I'm using Verizon as a sample because thats what I currently have (Replace Verizon with whatever ISP you have). Should Verizon discriminate packets between a streaming video NetFlix user and an FiOS on-demand video user on their network? No. If I was the NetFlix customer I would file a consumer complaint. Should Verizon discriminate between me watching on-demand and the NetFlix user watching a streaming video while the P2P Verizon user downloads Debbie Does Dallas from Russia at the same time? Yes, if it interferes with the paid for transmissions. Both I and the NetFlix user paid extra (State/local Taxes, Fees, etc.) for the priveledge of watching an un-interrupted streaming video.
In the USA, this isn't a Federal issue its a local issue. Its a grass roots effort that requires you to go down to the local zoning/franchise board in your community. Get the Franchise ISP's to sign a some sort of customer Bill of Rights. If they violate it, then they loose the franchise. The community gets to vote for a new ISP.
We, the USA internet users, need to craft this Bill of Rights for our ISP's. Not, congress, not the president, and especially not the courts. Make the internet Bill of Rights a GPL/ANSI/ISO/FSF etc. standard. How do we do this? I don't know. Maybe usenet, IRC, etc. Maybe each local ISP block needs to send two users to a internet forum to discuss, debate, and ratify. Then those users take it back to the ISP users for a vote. That's how the US constitution was formed. Its how democracy works.
The 5 primary Desktop computers in my home run Linux. I purchase services (annual subscriptions in Microsoft speak) from the NFL/MLB/HBO and several others. They all work with Linux. They all work with my Windows Netbook, Wii, MacBook, and Linux Laptop. The producers know the product they produce is viewable with Linux and several other OS's. They get my subscription fees while Microsoft doesn't. Check it out, I'm not tied to any platform.
Cross platform does not mean Windows XP/Vista/CE/7 only. Cloud services does not mean Windows XP with IE 99 or Windows 7 with IE 8.5. Cross platform and cloud services mean Droid, Windows, Linux, Mac, Blackberry, iPhone, HP, Wii, PS3 or any other platform that is standards compliant.
Come out with a.Net runtime with Silverlight that runs native on Multiple non-Microsoft platforms. And no, Mono sucks and is full of traps.
Motorola makes other devices besides phones that use Windows. Why is Microsoft suing one of their own partners? Do they want Motorola to drop Windows all together? Dell, Acer, Symbol, Samsung etc. will all pay attention to this. Microsoft to partners: "In the future, as a Microsoft partner, we will dictate to you the OS your product uses or else we will sue you! We don't care if your hardware requirements cost more using our software."
Why not sue Google directly. Apple didn't, Oracle did. It doesn't matter if Android is open source or not, if Google violated your patents then sue Google. I'm not suing the DOT if my automobile has a flaw. I'm suing the source.
This reeks of extortion. Why isn't Microsoft targeting other Android phones? Oh, the manufacturer also supplies Windows based phones. I think the DOJ needs to re-open the Monopoly case again, specifically the section that details how Microsoft once used office/windows pricing to abuse the hardware manufacturers. Hey IBM, you owe Microsoft $500 million for Windows licenses because you also provide OS/2. Dell only owes us a $100 million for the same amount of licenses.
Those patents listed are weak at best except for the FAT one. Hey Microsoft, users have been synchronizing network data since before 300 baud modems. Rsync pre-dates ActiveSync, and I have scheduled a meeting using a (Yes a) Motorola beeper back in 1995
Motorola owns a shit-load of patents too. Is Microsoft doing the right thing? My inner Yoda says: The patent wars they have begun.
Microsoft isn't interested in cloud computing. Instead of offering services to Android users (Office, Silverlight,.net etc), they are more interested in protecting the Windows hegemony. This means they have no plan for providing internet services to non-Microsoft clients wanting to use/subscribe to Microsoft cloud applications
Same thing is with Microsoft, with the only difference being that there is no assumed connection between Windows and Firefox (Microsoft doesn't package Firefox)
It is not the same difference. All those updated packages came with the distribution.
This is more like installing Opera on your Ubuntu system and Canonical adding plugins and changing the default behavior without your permission? (Hint, Opera isn't in the default repositories).
I for one appreciate the great binary only drivers you provide me on my Linux systems.
I don't care that you keep your math algorithms private in your quest to be better than ATI and Intel. Just remember, I choose your product over the others because of your support of Linux.
Everyday I teach my young sons about life, liberty, and property rights. The pursuit of happiness comes when the government is not meddling with your life and making it worse.
The trouble is, I have no ammo for my guns since Obama has taken office. No 9mm, No 30.06 shells. Black powder to make your own is scarce. I guess I can throw my beer cans at the government when its time to overthrow it.
To all South Carolinians, the invasion from Florida will commence as soon as I can load my beer cans into my truck and overthrow your government from the south. In the mean time you can overthrow the government of Florida from the North. Charlie Christ will surrender to your whims when you stimulate him.
PS: How in the hell does the LA/NY/CHI/MIA gangs get their ammunition when I can't get any?
Vice President Joe Biden will be leading the summit to discuss organized cooperation between the federal government and the entertainment industry on all matters of piracy.
Microsoft isn't opening up the whole stack: the TCP/IP parts are missing because another company wrote that code, and the cryptography libraries are missing because "they are used outside of the scope of the.NET Micro Framework"
Does anyone know how hard it is to write your own.Net classes/wrappers for the missing pieces? Are there any good.Net references for CLR internals? I know how Java was designed and written, did Anders or Microsoft provide any references for.Net internals outside of the PR fluff pieces on MSDN? How about a decent book.
From a embedded Linux perspective, I find this way more interesting than Mono.
Cuomo's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Wednesday, alleges that Intel extracted exclusive agreements from large computer makers and threatened to punish those perceived to be working too closely with Intel competitors.
Why is the New York AG filing lawsuits in Delaware?
The new version of my NullProgNix comes out next month too.
Features:
No WGA Everyone is a thief because its free and they cant be caught. We don't care. No Secure Audio Path We hold the electron path between the users CPU and soundcard as sacred. No Secure Video Path We don't care what you watch. The license Manager (CACL) checker doesn't do anything when you hook a printer up without a CACL We don't care how many connections your computer has. To make Windows users at home Cron will launch a desktop/menu scrambler once a day. Bonus, it launches a Fibonacci sequence four hours a day to make your computer sluggish.
For $0 USD, the additional Family pack includes nothing you cant download from the repositories. On Sale today, you can have the nullProgNix distribution for $0 USD. For an additional $0 USD you can choose the KDE/XFCE experience.
Doesn't exist in Visual Studio anymore without some tweaks. If your program targets multiple platforms beyond Microsoft your in for a few headaches.
I wonder if Martin Heller used the VS10 compiler for cross platform Wx/Gtk/Qt development (Check Audacity out). I (or someone) should do this in a future slasdot review.
The OpenWatcom, g++, and Intel compilers are a much better solution if your targeting multiple platforms (ARM, Mac, Power5, Mainframes, cellphones etc.) I use VS6 and GCC, but your mileage may vary.
I appreciate the fact that Microsoft is pushing for VS studio C#/.Net acceptance. As of today, that solution is just as slow and portable as Java is/was ten years ago. For some strange reason I refuse to write a program that takes twenty to thirty megabytes of RAM to run when it should only take two. Why? Because that RAM belongs to the user and the other programs they may be running, not me. Waste not, want not. If you can do it faster and for less RAM in a different language then you owe your users to do so.
And no, I've never written a C/C++ program that was un-secure (yet), thanks for asking. And yes, I like C#/Java programming, I just have deployment issues that I've never recovered from.
1. People don't buy operating systems, they buy applications. Yet another OS is not interesting.
2. Handhelds and netbooks are getting more powerful with every new product. At some point, they can run Windows without sacrificing the "user experience." Small fast OS' have a fleeting advantage.
1) By your logic the Mac/Amiga/Atari platforms won in the 80/90s because they all had more applications. IBM/MSDOS had dick at the time but consumers still bought them. More recently, the PS3/XBox should have beat the Wii because there were more titles. Neither beat the Wii in sales.
2) Microsoft Windows is all about dis-enabling the "user" experience. Why do you think there is a secure DRM pathway for sound and video in Vista/Windows 7 ? It wasn't because they wanted you to have the "full" user experience.
The fact is, neither you or I can predict consumer choices when a product is presented. Linux is now cheaper and "good enough", just like Microsoft was in the early 90s. Both Dell and HP are releasing new Linux netbook lines for some reason other than you dissing them. Maybe the marketing/Sales department knows something you don't.
As to the article in question, I can't think of any good reason why memcpy(3C) would be considered unsafe, since it specifies the amount of memory to copy. Sure, you could use it to copy outside the bounds of dst, but that's just calling it incorrectly. It's not like sprintf(3C) where you could easily accidentally write outside the bounds of the string.
Agreed. I'll bet real money the Microsoft kernel developers will not be held to this standard either. Why would they want to waste cycles moving local fixed length structures/data blocks around.
Nothing built into XP, Vista, or Group Policy supports time-of-day power management. Many cases the user never wants their PC to sleep/hibernate from 9-5, but after 7 it's fair game. Microsoft doesn't address such a situation. It's either all-or-nothing.
In any case, the market standardized on its own in response to consumer demand for interchangeable parts. No it didn't. the market standardized on PC clones around 1994/95 to 1998 because Apple (Mac) was too expensive and everyone wanted on the internet. Apple dropped the Apple ][ line in 1990 and both Atari(ST) and Commodore(C128/Amiga) went Tango Uniform because of management mis-management. Compaq, Dell, NEC, Packard Bell, Gateway etc. killed off Tandy with their PC price points being lower. Consumers only had two choices to get on the internet in 1994, Apple and PC clones. Guess which one was cheaper.
Regular consumer users don't care about standardized hardware, ask any laptop/netbook owner. Out of necessity, I just bought my wife a eMachines desktop computer that doesn't accept any hardware from her old computer other than the keyboard, mouse, and speakers. I guess that would be zero demand for interchangeable parts on my part.
The government had nothing to do with it. Your right. Thats the way it should be.
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I ditched Microsoft software and solutions over a decade ago when an update they sent me wouldn't apply because the installer detected a OS/2 and Linux partition on my hard drive (which at the time I was a consultant needing to program solutions for all three platforms). Wait, what? I paid for your product and you won't update it because I make a living supporting alternate products? Go fuck yourself.
This is Sea Change moment for Linux. In the early 90's I watched IBM going from 80 percent market share down to 20/30 share. People stopped buying IBM and Microsoft was the winner of IBM's loss. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/20/business/ibm-posts-5.46-billion-loss-for-4th-quarter-1992-s-deficit-biggest-us-business.html This was due to IBM pushing MCA/PS2 etc. on a open market to reel in more profits. Yes, I was in a meeting for a fortune 500 company where the comptroller said, fuck IBM, were going Microsoft.
The Linux foundation along with RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu need to get together (pool resources) and fix the minor issues still inhibiting total Linux adoption. Grandmothers want to easily show slideshows of the grand kids on their screen savers. Accountants want to use Quickbooks. Graphic designers want to use PhotoShop etc.
We haven't had hardware issues for years (in my experience). It's the little things that will prevent Linux adoption.
So anything that relies on the device layer is not going to be supported (Sound, Frame-Buffer, etc). Any respectable nerd would already know this.
The old slashdot would have posted a detailed story on why some Android Apps will not work on the Blackberry/iPhone/Win7 phone etc.
Enjoy.
Every time I see these Windows 8 stories I keep thinking ESPN 8, the Ocho.
We need a new slashdot meme around here anyway.
Enjoy,
In this case, careful review by a number of hardware makers has led them to pay Microsoft to license the patents. We may not know exactly what they are using but you can bet the companies paying Microsoft had to have pretty good proof before they simply handed over per-device fees to another company.
I doubt that. All the companies that have licensed the patents for their Android devices also ship Windows devices. More than likely Microsoft threatened them over Windows pricing if they didn't agree to the patents. See the monopoly trial transcripts on Microsoft's use of predatory pricing tactics.
The one Android using company that didn't license the patents also doesn't ship any Windows versions. According to Barnes and Noble the patents are weak. See
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/28/039255/BampN-Responds-To-Microsofts-Android-Suit
Food for thought,
Enjoy.
I hear he will live on as a kernel module.
insmod linus
insmod: can't read 'linus':
Trouble is Redmond didn't innovate. Powershell is a weak copy of IBM OS/2 Workplace Shell / System Object Model (SOM).
See here: http://www.warpspeed.com.au/cgi-bin/inf2html.cmd?..%5Chtml%5Cbook%5CToolkt40%5CWPSGUIDE.INFl
Enjoy,
Blasphemy. My limited edition "Woz" IIgs has a 65816 in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDC_65816/65802
Enjoy,
* BTW what is broadband?
An upgrade from 300 baud to 14400 without any government assistance.
Enjoy,
Network Neutrality was lost the day they/we allowed E911 calls over the internet. The network neutrality folks would argue that P2P traffic has the same priority over 911 VOIP packets. They don't.
I'm using Verizon as a sample because thats what I currently have (Replace Verizon with whatever ISP you have). Should Verizon discriminate packets between a streaming video NetFlix user and an FiOS on-demand video user on their network? No. If I was the NetFlix customer I would file a consumer complaint. Should Verizon discriminate between me watching on-demand and the NetFlix user watching a streaming video while the P2P Verizon user downloads Debbie Does Dallas from Russia at the same time? Yes, if it interferes with the paid for transmissions. Both I and the NetFlix user paid extra (State/local Taxes, Fees, etc.) for the priveledge of watching an un-interrupted streaming video.
In the USA, this isn't a Federal issue its a local issue. Its a grass roots effort that requires you to go down to the local zoning/franchise board in your community. Get the Franchise ISP's to sign a some sort of customer Bill of Rights. If they violate it, then they loose the franchise. The community gets to vote for a new ISP.
We, the USA internet users, need to craft this Bill of Rights for our ISP's. Not, congress, not the president, and especially not the courts. Make the internet Bill of Rights a GPL/ANSI/ISO/FSF etc. standard. How do we do this? I don't know. Maybe usenet, IRC, etc. Maybe each local ISP block needs to send two users to a internet forum to discuss, debate, and ratify. Then those users take it back to the ISP users for a vote. That's how the US constitution was formed. Its how democracy works.
Food for thought,
Enjoy,
The 5 primary Desktop computers in my home run Linux. I purchase services (annual subscriptions in Microsoft speak) from the NFL/MLB/HBO and several others. They all work with Linux. They all work with my Windows Netbook, Wii, MacBook, and Linux Laptop. The producers know the product they produce is viewable with Linux and several other OS's. They get my subscription fees while Microsoft doesn't. Check it out, I'm not tied to any platform.
Cross platform does not mean Windows XP/Vista/CE/7 only. Cloud services does not mean Windows XP with IE 99 or Windows 7 with IE 8.5. Cross platform and cloud services mean Droid, Windows, Linux, Mac, Blackberry, iPhone, HP, Wii, PS3 or any other platform that is standards compliant.
Come out with a .Net runtime with Silverlight that runs native on Multiple non-Microsoft platforms. And no, Mono sucks and is full of traps.
My rant.
Enjoy
Motorola makes other devices besides phones that use Windows. Why is Microsoft suing one of their own partners? Do they want Motorola to drop Windows all together? Dell, Acer, Symbol, Samsung etc. will all pay attention to this. Microsoft to partners: "In the future, as a Microsoft partner, we will dictate to you the OS your product uses or else we will sue you! We don't care if your hardware requirements cost more using our software."
Why not sue Google directly. Apple didn't, Oracle did. It doesn't matter if Android is open source or not, if Google violated your patents then sue Google. I'm not suing the DOT if my automobile has a flaw. I'm suing the source.
This reeks of extortion. Why isn't Microsoft targeting other Android phones? Oh, the manufacturer also supplies Windows based phones. I think the DOJ needs to re-open the Monopoly case again, specifically the section that details how Microsoft once used office/windows pricing to abuse the hardware manufacturers. Hey IBM, you owe Microsoft $500 million for Windows licenses because you also provide OS/2. Dell only owes us a $100 million for the same amount of licenses.
Those patents listed are weak at best except for the FAT one. Hey Microsoft, users have been synchronizing network data since before 300 baud modems. Rsync pre-dates ActiveSync, and I have scheduled a meeting using a (Yes a) Motorola beeper back in 1995
Motorola owns a shit-load of patents too. Is Microsoft doing the right thing? My inner Yoda says: The patent wars they have begun.
The technology group at Microsoft and the legal/marketing group at Microsoft are not on the same corporate page: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/strange-bedfellows-eff-apache-back-microsoft-in-patent-dispute.ars
Microsoft isn't interested in cloud computing. Instead of offering services to Android users (Office, Silverlight, .net etc), they are more interested in protecting the Windows hegemony. This means they have no plan for providing internet services to non-Microsoft clients wanting to use/subscribe to Microsoft cloud applications
Lets discuss..
Enjoy,
Don't know why you got modded to 1. I'd mod you +5 for getting the patent numbers together.
5,579,517 "Common Name Space for Long and Short File Names"
5,758,352 "Common Name Space for Long and Short File Names"
So, these two are the the infamous FAT patents.
These are the only two that will stand in court. All the others have prior art. Does the droid phone support fat out of the box?
Enjoy,
Same thing is with Microsoft, with the only difference being that there is no assumed connection between Windows and Firefox (Microsoft doesn't package Firefox)
It is not the same difference. All those updated packages came with the distribution.
This is more like installing Opera on your Ubuntu system and Canonical adding plugins and changing the default behavior without your permission? (Hint, Opera isn't in the default repositories).
Enjoy,
I for one appreciate the great binary only drivers you provide me on my Linux systems.
I don't care that you keep your math algorithms private in your quest to be better than ATI and Intel.
Just remember, I choose your product over the others because of your support of Linux.
Keep up the good work
Enjoy,
Everyday I teach my young sons about life, liberty, and property rights. The pursuit of happiness comes when the government is not meddling with your life and making it worse.
The trouble is, I have no ammo for my guns since Obama has taken office. No 9mm, No 30.06 shells. Black powder to make your own is scarce. I guess I can throw my beer cans at the government when its time to overthrow it.
To all South Carolinians, the invasion from Florida will commence as soon as I can load my beer cans into my truck and overthrow your government from the south. In the mean time you can overthrow the government of Florida from the North. Charlie Christ will surrender to your whims when you stimulate him.
PS: How in the hell does the LA/NY/CHI/MIA gangs get their ammunition when I can't get any?
Enjoy,
Vice President Joe Biden will be leading the summit to discuss organized cooperation between the federal government and the entertainment industry on all matters of piracy.
You mean this Joe Biden: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=joe+biden+plagiarism&aq=0&oq=joe+biden+pl&aqi=g10
Maybe someone will ask Joe the difference between bits in a track and the letters in a book.
Enjoy,
From the article:
Microsoft isn't opening up the whole stack: the TCP/IP parts are missing because another company wrote that code, and the cryptography libraries are missing because "they are used outside of the scope of the .NET Micro Framework"
Does anyone know how hard it is to write your own .Net classes/wrappers for the missing pieces? .Net references for CLR internals? I know how Java was designed and written, did Anders or Microsoft provide any references for .Net internals outside of the PR fluff pieces on MSDN? How about a decent book.
Are there any good
From a embedded Linux perspective, I find this way more interesting than Mono.
Thanks,
Cuomo's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Wednesday, alleges that Intel extracted exclusive agreements from large computer makers and threatened to punish those perceived to be working too closely with Intel competitors.
Why is the New York AG filing lawsuits in Delaware?
Enjoy,
What does physical human presence on a spacecraft do that can't be done by remotely controlled or autonomous robotics?
Clean solar panels. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/12/science/sci-rover12
Enjoy,
The new version of my NullProgNix comes out next month too.
Features:
No WGA Everyone is a thief because its free and they cant be caught. We don't care.
No Secure Audio Path We hold the electron path between the users CPU and soundcard as sacred.
No Secure Video Path We don't care what you watch.
The license Manager (CACL) checker doesn't do anything when you hook a printer up without a CACL We don't care how many connections your computer has.
To make Windows users at home Cron will launch a desktop/menu scrambler once a day. Bonus, it launches a Fibonacci sequence four hours a day to make your computer sluggish.
For $0 USD, the additional Family pack includes nothing you cant download from the repositories.
On Sale today, you can have the nullProgNix distribution for $0 USD. For an additional $0 USD you can choose the KDE/XFCE experience.
Enjoy.
Doesn't exist in Visual Studio anymore without some tweaks. If your program targets multiple platforms beyond Microsoft your in for a few headaches.
I wonder if Martin Heller used the VS10 compiler for cross platform Wx/Gtk/Qt development (Check Audacity out). I (or someone) should do this in a future slasdot review.
The OpenWatcom, g++, and Intel compilers are a much better solution if your targeting multiple platforms (ARM, Mac, Power5, Mainframes, cellphones etc.) I use VS6 and GCC, but your mileage may vary.
I appreciate the fact that Microsoft is pushing for VS studio C#/.Net acceptance. As of today, that solution is just as slow and portable as Java is/was ten years ago. For some strange reason I refuse to write a program that takes twenty to thirty megabytes of RAM to run when it should only take two. Why? Because that RAM belongs to the user and the other programs they may be running, not me. Waste not, want not. If you can do it faster and for less RAM in a different language then you owe your users to do so.
And no, I've never written a C/C++ program that was un-secure (yet), thanks for asking. And yes, I like C#/Java programming, I just have deployment issues that I've never recovered from.
My opinion or experiences may not be yours.
Enjoy,
Two things:
1. People don't buy operating systems, they buy applications. Yet another OS is not interesting.
2. Handhelds and netbooks are getting more powerful with every new product. At some point, they can run Windows without sacrificing the "user experience." Small fast OS' have a fleeting advantage.
1) By your logic the Mac/Amiga/Atari platforms won in the 80/90s because they all had more applications. IBM/MSDOS had dick at the time but consumers still bought them. More recently, the PS3/XBox should have beat the Wii because there were more titles. Neither beat the Wii in sales.
2) Microsoft Windows is all about dis-enabling the "user" experience. Why do you think there is a secure DRM pathway for sound and video in Vista/Windows 7 ? It wasn't because they wanted you to have the "full" user experience.
The fact is, neither you or I can predict consumer choices when a product is presented. Linux is now cheaper and "good enough", just like Microsoft was in the early 90s. Both Dell and HP are releasing new Linux netbook lines for some reason other than you dissing them. Maybe the marketing/Sales department knows something you don't.
Enjoy,
As to the article in question, I can't think of any good reason why memcpy(3C) would be considered unsafe, since it specifies the amount of memory to copy. Sure, you could use it to copy outside the bounds of dst, but that's just calling it incorrectly. It's not like sprintf(3C) where you could easily accidentally write outside the bounds of the string.
Agreed. I'll bet real money the Microsoft kernel developers will not be held to this standard either. Why would they want to waste cycles moving local fixed length structures/data blocks around.
Enjoy,
Nothing built into XP, Vista, or Group Policy supports time-of-day power management. Many cases the user never wants their PC to sleep/hibernate from 9-5, but after 7 it's fair game. Microsoft doesn't address such a situation. It's either all-or-nothing.
I blame you, the user.
Let me introduce you to the AT http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490866.aspx and SHUTDOWN http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491003.aspx COMMANDS, they have been around since Windows 2000.
This PRO Microsoft post sent to you from a computer running Linux.
Enjoy,
In any case, the market standardized on its own in response to consumer demand for interchangeable parts.
No it didn't. the market standardized on PC clones around 1994/95 to 1998 because Apple (Mac) was too expensive and everyone wanted on the internet. Apple dropped the Apple ][ line in 1990 and both Atari(ST) and Commodore(C128/Amiga) went Tango Uniform because of management mis-management. Compaq, Dell, NEC, Packard Bell, Gateway etc. killed off Tandy with their PC price points being lower. Consumers only had two choices to get on the internet in 1994, Apple and PC clones. Guess which one was cheaper.
Regular consumer users don't care about standardized hardware, ask any laptop/netbook owner. Out of necessity, I just bought my wife a eMachines desktop computer that doesn't accept any hardware from her old computer other than the keyboard, mouse, and speakers. I guess that would be zero demand for interchangeable parts on my part.
The government had nothing to do with it.
Your right. Thats the way it should be.
Enjoy,