Really? Surely water can't come back from your blood stream and into your lungs. We're all made of 70% water, what stops that from leaking out through my lungs everynight and possibly drowning me?
I don't doubt that there could still be water trapped in the lungs that somehow suffocates you as it settles but I can't imagine it's coming out your blood. Perhaps someone with more medical knowledge could explain.
Probably half the time here at slashdot.org I'm seeing Microsoft ads. "Join the Gatekeeper Test" is showing right now. So no, I don't think Microsoft adverts necessarily represent the opinion of a site.
Unless it's just me and Bill's trying to get me to convert...
If you've already bought Doom 3 and you've been playing it on your Windows machine, why would you want to run it months and months later on your Mac with its *probably* far slower video card.
This is targeting the Mac people who don't have a Windows machine and would never have bought it anyway.
All that a free client would do is let Windows people lend their Doom 3 games to their Mac friends who would download the patch, which sure wouldn't be good for sales.
Engineers quite often do release software that they're "happy with" which shortly thereafter turns out to be a buggy POS.
Sometimes they just don't have the skill to test it properly, or are bored with the project and don't mind just handing the problem on to QA/Support because it "kind of works".
While a lot can be lain at the feet of the PHBs of this world, not everything is managements fault.
Windows 95 and above have safe mode which runs with a default VGA driver and let you "fix" fancy pants video driver problems (can reinstall the driver, run the registry editor, etc).
Granted it is a giant pain to fix any kind of driver problems in Windows, most of the time resulting in a complete OS reinstall anyway, but the theory was there.
Why is Iraq still on that list despite being controlled by US forces, while non-Taliban Afghanistan (which I would consider to be in a fairly similar boat to Iraq) is not?
yada, yada, standard disclaimer... using Firefox for many months now as my main browser really enjoy it, etc...
But I just can't believe this completely different reaction between a bug in FF vs a bug in IE! If MS came along and fixed some critical bug in IE there would be no calling for buying shirts, donating money, etc. Nay, there would be the standard baying for blood and demands for a boycott (again)!
I completely agree that the Firefox guys do absolutely fantasic work and that you should spare them some (much) coinage to support that, but not over the anti-event of them fixing a bug. Do it when they release version 1.0 if you feel you can only donate over an event.
If you're going to get tricked by this kind of trojan, you're probably aren't going to be the type that's bothered setting up to the optional password system, so for it to be effective it would have to be setup by default on ALL new modems. They would have to bar you from having it automatically "save" the password as well otherwise the trojan would be able to use it rendering it pointless.
Would boycott this product real fast, I do like my linux box being able to connect to the internet by itself without my having to hold its hand...
On the otherhand, what might be useful is to have the modem store a list of password-changeable "authorized numbers". I know I generally only use my modem to dial one ISP number, and occasionally a separate one if I'm overseas, so this could prevent some nasty surprises.
Cellphone number portability works fine in an environment where there is a big central routing database, and the short delay while performing a number->network look up at the beginning of a call is not a problem.
However, in a decentralized network like the Internet where every router must be able to store in its own memory sufficient data to route an incoming packet to any other IP address in the world, and where the actual components of the IP address now gives you no clue as to where it must go, you're going to have a big problem. (Bye bye subnets!)
Not looking forward to the day when my packet (which has to make 12 hops to get to slashdot) has to wait at each router while the router checks its 3GB+ list of all live IP addresses on the Internet to work out where to send it to next.
If that was the case, by the same logic anyone accused of murder would be allowed to freely roam the streets right up until he had exhausted his last appeal.
However, as far as I'm aware it doesn't work like that, and you can be locked up (with the option of bail, sure) when the charge is brought against you and not even once the first court case is complete.
The goverment does have a duty to (and tries to) protect it's citizens even from suspected "criminals", and maybe those standards should be applied to companies too.
If the big advantage of non-volatile RAM is the reduction in how many times you have to wait for your PC to perform a full startup and shutdown the last thing you want to have is your software being so crap that you have to reboot it all the time anyway.
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Really? Surely water can't come back from your blood stream and into your lungs. We're all made of 70% water, what stops that from leaking out through my lungs everynight and possibly drowning me?
I don't doubt that there could still be water trapped in the lungs that somehow suffocates you as it settles but I can't imagine it's coming out your blood. Perhaps someone with more medical knowledge could explain.
Probably half the time here at slashdot.org I'm seeing Microsoft ads. "Join the Gatekeeper Test" is showing right now. So no, I don't think Microsoft adverts necessarily represent the opinion of a site.
Unless it's just me and Bill's trying to get me to convert...
If you've already bought Doom 3 and you've been playing it on your Windows machine, why would you want to run it months and months later on your Mac with its *probably* far slower video card.
This is targeting the Mac people who don't have a Windows machine and would never have bought it anyway.
All that a free client would do is let Windows people lend their Doom 3 games to their Mac friends who would download the patch, which sure wouldn't be good for sales.
Engineers quite often do release software that they're "happy with" which shortly thereafter turns out to be a buggy POS.
Sometimes they just don't have the skill to test it properly, or are bored with the project and don't mind just handing the problem on to QA/Support because it "kind of works".
While a lot can be lain at the feet of the PHBs of this world, not everything is managements fault.
Windows 95 and above have safe mode which runs with a default VGA driver and let you "fix" fancy pants video driver problems (can reinstall the driver, run the registry editor, etc).
Granted it is a giant pain to fix any kind of driver problems in Windows, most of the time resulting in a complete OS reinstall anyway, but the theory was there.
Why is Iraq still on that list despite being controlled by US forces, while non-Taliban Afghanistan (which I would consider to be in a fairly similar boat to Iraq) is not?
yada, yada, standard disclaimer... using Firefox for many months now as my main browser really enjoy it, etc...
But I just can't believe this completely different reaction between a bug in FF vs a bug in IE! If MS came along and fixed some critical bug in IE there would be no calling for buying shirts, donating money, etc. Nay, there would be the standard baying for blood and demands for a boycott (again)!
I completely agree that the Firefox guys do absolutely fantasic work and that you should spare them some (much) coinage to support that, but not over the anti-event of them fixing a bug. Do it when they release version 1.0 if you feel you can only donate over an event.
What I thought was a bit odd was that (as a poster on another thread mentioned) the WHOIS entry for google.com is strange:
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Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.CO
That doesn't seem just like MyDoom.
If you're going to get tricked by this kind of trojan, you're probably aren't going to be the type that's bothered setting up to the optional password system, so for it to be effective it would have to be setup by default on ALL new modems. They would have to bar you from having it automatically "save" the password as well otherwise the trojan would be able to use it rendering it pointless.
Would boycott this product real fast, I do like my linux box being able to connect to the internet by itself without my having to hold its hand...
On the otherhand, what might be useful is to have the modem store a list of password-changeable "authorized numbers". I know I generally only use my modem to dial one ISP number, and occasionally a separate one if I'm overseas, so this could prevent some nasty surprises.
Cellphone number portability works fine in an environment where there is a big central routing database, and the short delay while performing a number->network look up at the beginning of a call is not a problem.
However, in a decentralized network like the Internet where every router must be able to store in its own memory sufficient data to route an incoming packet to any other IP address in the world, and where the actual components of the IP address now gives you no clue as to where it must go, you're going to have a big problem. (Bye bye subnets!)
Not looking forward to the day when my packet (which has to make 12 hops to get to slashdot) has to wait at each router while the router checks its 3GB+ list of all live IP addresses on the Internet to work out where to send it to next.
If that was the case, by the same logic anyone accused of murder would be allowed to freely roam the streets right up until he had exhausted his last appeal.
However, as far as I'm aware it doesn't work like that, and you can be locked up (with the option of bail, sure) when the charge is brought against you and not even once the first court case is complete.
The goverment does have a duty to (and tries to) protect it's citizens even from suspected "criminals", and maybe those standards should be applied to companies too.
If the big advantage of non-volatile RAM is the reduction in how many times you have to wait for your PC to perform a full startup and shutdown the last thing you want to have is your software being so crap that you have to reboot it all the time anyway.