They were open source, and they sold up to MS. Now their code is being slowly neutered. In another year or two their really useful utilities (FileMon, RegMon, et al) will either be history or blind to accesses to 'sensitive' information.
But MS said themselves that the device was faulty, and that the fault "accounted for the entire difference". They would not have said that if the device was operating correctly.
While I think Google (and Nissan et al as mentioned elsewhere) are doing a Bad Thing... recall that in the early days of personal computers there were a number of clones with names like Orange, and after the IBM PC came out a clone [er, excuse me, 'compatible'] with the brand Apricot appeared. These were clearly using the Apple brand as a foothold in the market without actually using the same trademark. It's all in the perception of the beholder...
I've done UNIX kernel programming. Have you? Don't comment until you have.
I'm a very competant 'C dude' who earns his living writing embedded code. Operating systems are my particular interest, but I know my limits. Don't you dare fuck my kernel up for me. His kernel *is* my kernel. He clearly does not have the knowledge to create his own, whereas I have in the past. For UNIX, LINUX and XENIX. Here's where you get to present some credentials instead of just sprouting bullshit. You move...
If you need a book then I don't really want you messing with my kernel. I'm a C programmer with 20+ years experience, but while I am good at what I do I am not as knowledgeable as those guys so I don't get in their way. I'd like to, very much, but the Linux kernel is beyond the level at which I can contribute in a meaningful way. If you think you can do so without knowing exactly what you are doing, then I admire your will to help but please, wait until you *know* your contributions will cause less work than you put into them.
Where you may be able to provide real assistance is in the documentation. All coders hate documentation, but it still needs to be done.
Your comment was rated 'funny'. I'll answer seriously for the sake of the argument...
This assumes that the high priced and low priced versions are not impacted by the same versions of malware. Anyone with a modicum of Windows experience will tell you that the high and low priced versions are identical at the kernel level, with some variation in the additional applications included. It was even possible to make NT4 workstation become server by changing two registry keys (not legal according to the EULA, but I tried it and it did work).
So, the same malware will likely affect the 'cheap' and expensive versions.
Disclaimer: I ran the Vista beta for several months. I liked it. I also ran Office 2007 beta. I had mixed feelings about it. Then I found I could not migrate my recent email history back to Office 200x. Not happy. Goodbye Vista. Back to Linux and there I'll stay unless MS stops trying to lock Windows users into Windows.
And don't forget MS was arrogant enough to believe they could kill the Internet (MSN was originally their ploy for world domination, but only they believed the hype). If they had been successful you would not be reading this site now.
I'm a professional embedded software developer who has been using MS products from MSDOS 1.25 to Vista Beta 1/2/RC1/RC2. IMHO the only decent ones were MSDOS 2.11, 3.10 and Windows 2000. Six months of running Vista on decent hardware (dual core 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM, SATA disk, nVidia 6600GT) convinced me that Linux (FC6) would satisfy my needs. I now have four PCs running Linux and one running Vista. Guess what - I haven't turned the Vista box on for over a month now. I do like Vista when it is running on current hardware, but I find Linux suits my day to day needs just as well, and it is FREE. And it runs well on older systems...
What drove me to change? The Office 2007 file formats have changed such that exporting to earlier versions of Outlook does not work. I value my email history, so an OS (or OS vendor) that causes me to loose email data (yes, I back up regularly, but backups are of no value if not [backward] compatible with the system to which they will be restored) is one I will quickly divorce myself from. I switched from Outlook to Thunderbird, and at that point Windoze became irrelevant.
I've found I can do pretty much everything I need on Linux. I can't run MSVC natively, but so what. GCC works. Anything else? I'm having real trouble thinking of anything I care about. Game over.
With Google for Mobiles and similar sites you don't know what the URL you are selecting will do - it might be well implemented for small screens and limited bandwidth, or then again it might not be.
The improvement is in the rules for the.mobi domain that seek to make the sites more mobile friendly.
As others have said, it's a pity they didn't go with a shorter tld.
If you use SVN with DAV via Apache then the files in the repository are directly visible as a URL, so viewing a file is as simple as pointing your browser at the repository and traversing the tree of links. No checkout required and you guarantee you are viewing the latest version by avoiding stale local data.
Go to the Google home page, select 'Images", then enter "Tiananmen" as suggested by the OP.
Hey, there's lotsa tanks in those photos. The OP is wrong.
Mod me down if you like. I don't give a shit. Try posting stuff that is moderately accurate, not just plain bullshit.
the design of biology is too complex to have evolved into that state...
One of the key ideas in ID is that of "irreducible complexity" where some specific example such as the eye (any complex eye) is too complex to have evolved in a single evolutionary step. That being the case, an intelligent designer must have been at work.
Yeah, it's a tough one, but much easier than explaining where the designer came from (and why he/she/it took so long to get around to creating us).
That's the key point for me. All those who claim life on earth arose from non-evolutionary causes merely put it off to some other time and place. We came from Mars - ok, where did the Martians come from? Etcetera.
You mention nukes - they are one way this could be achieved. Dropping a few megatons down one side of the eye might just put the storm out due to the sudden change in temperature profile, but it's not too attractive - the fallout would be widely dispersed as the winds would not simply stop.
There is an article in the current New Scientist which suggests using reflectors in space to reflect the sun and apply heat strategically, but realistically I don't see ths producing nearly enough energy. Their intention is to divert the hurricane, but as they speculate in the article, diverting a hurricane elsewhere might upset the locals at the new landfall...
So, we need heaps of heat (or cold?) applied in the right way to achieve this. But at what cost in the long run? This much enery is equivalent to quite a few butterflies:-)
On a normal drive the bits are arranged radially, so a byte is eight bits long. The 3D drive would position the bits in each byte vertically into the platter, so each byte would be one bit wide and eight bits high.
So you have your fault tolerant drive, and one stack fails. How do you know? And will Joe Average go out and buy a new drive when the old one still "works".
Next problem, two stacks, one spindle = one motor. Oh, the motor died and now I can't get my data back. That wasn't the plan.
If you need fault tolerance, do it properly. If you don't, back up your important data. No, you don't need to back up those movies. Just the stuff that matters.
That is quite true in a commercial setting - I use [overly] high priced embedded compilers ($5000+) at work on a daily basis.
It's a different story at home though. If I want to write some code for my own use, be it on Windows, some UNIX variant or an embedded device, I don't have that sort of money to throw around. So I end up with GCC on my BSD box and VC++.net 2002 Standard on my Win2k box. For embedded work I use the appropriate flavour of GCC or IAR, both free.
So, in the end my experience reflects what I can afford, not what my employer can afford. Employers come and go, but my PCs survive them all (especially simce I'm a contractor).
Microsoft provide service packs for VS from time to time. They are of course a bunch of compiler, RTL and IDE bugfixes rolled into a bundle.
I don't deny the quality of the Intel compilers; after all, they know the processor pretty well and providing good developer support is important in maintaining a customer base, especially in the embedded arena.
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/. Borg icon is right on the money...
They were open source, and they sold up to MS. Now their code is being slowly neutered. In another year or two their really useful utilities (FileMon, RegMon, et al) will either be history or blind to accesses to 'sensitive' information.
The
But MS said themselves that the device was faulty, and that the fault "accounted for the entire difference". They would not have said that if the device was operating correctly.
...where the only fish you can catch are crappies.
While I think Google (and Nissan et al as mentioned elsewhere) are doing a Bad Thing... recall that in the early days of personal computers there were a number of clones with names like Orange, and after the IBM PC came out a clone [er, excuse me, 'compatible'] with the brand Apricot appeared. These were clearly using the Apple brand as a foothold in the market without actually using the same trademark. It's all in the perception of the beholder...
I've done UNIX kernel programming. Have you? Don't comment until you have. I'm a very competant 'C dude' who earns his living writing embedded code. Operating systems are my particular interest, but I know my limits. Don't you dare fuck my kernel up for me. His kernel *is* my kernel. He clearly does not have the knowledge to create his own, whereas I have in the past. For UNIX, LINUX and XENIX. Here's where you get to present some credentials instead of just sprouting bullshit. You move...
If you need a book then I don't really want you messing with my kernel. I'm a C programmer with 20+ years experience, but while I am good at what I do I am not as knowledgeable as those guys so I don't get in their way. I'd like to, very much, but the Linux kernel is beyond the level at which I can contribute in a meaningful way. If you think you can do so without knowing exactly what you are doing, then I admire your will to help but please, wait until you *know* your contributions will cause less work than you put into them.
Where you may be able to provide real assistance is in the documentation. All coders hate documentation, but it still needs to be done.
Your comment was rated 'funny'. I'll answer seriously for the sake of the argument...
This assumes that the high priced and low priced versions are not impacted by the same versions of malware. Anyone with a modicum of Windows experience will tell you that the high and low priced versions are identical at the kernel level, with some variation in the additional applications included. It was even possible to make NT4 workstation become server by changing two registry keys (not legal according to the EULA, but I tried it and it did work).
So, the same malware will likely affect the 'cheap' and expensive versions.
Disclaimer: I ran the Vista beta for several months. I liked it. I also ran Office 2007 beta. I had mixed feelings about it. Then I found I could not migrate my recent email history back to Office 200x. Not happy. Goodbye Vista. Back to Linux and there I'll stay unless MS stops trying to lock Windows users into Windows.
And don't forget MS was arrogant enough to believe they could kill the Internet (MSN was originally their ploy for world domination, but only they believed the hype). If they had been successful you would not be reading this site now.
I'm a professional embedded software developer who has been using MS products from MSDOS 1.25 to Vista Beta 1/2/RC1/RC2. IMHO the only decent ones were MSDOS 2.11, 3.10 and Windows 2000. Six months of running Vista on decent hardware (dual core 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM, SATA disk, nVidia 6600GT) convinced me that Linux (FC6) would satisfy my needs. I now have four PCs running Linux and one running Vista. Guess what - I haven't turned the Vista box on for over a month now. I do like Vista when it is running on current hardware, but I find Linux suits my day to day needs just as well, and it is FREE. And it runs well on older systems...
What drove me to change? The Office 2007 file formats have changed such that exporting to earlier versions of Outlook does not work. I value my email history, so an OS (or OS vendor) that causes me to loose email data (yes, I back up regularly, but backups are of no value if not [backward] compatible with the system to which they will be restored) is one I will quickly divorce myself from. I switched from Outlook to Thunderbird, and at that point Windoze became irrelevant.
I've found I can do pretty much everything I need on Linux. I can't run MSVC natively, but so what. GCC works. Anything else? I'm having real trouble thinking of anything I care about. Game over.
Damn straight. If I don't trust Microsoft Wallet how can I possibly trust them with my wallet?
...coz I already have both. I don't want Yahoo in there too. I guess that won't happen.
With Google for Mobiles and similar sites you don't know what the URL you are selecting will do - it might be well implemented for small screens and limited bandwidth, or then again it might not be.
.mobi domain that seek to make the sites more mobile friendly.
The improvement is in the rules for the
As others have said, it's a pity they didn't go with a shorter tld.
Yes, then you could have a easily entered mobile site for the slash.mob :-)
If you use SVN with DAV via Apache then the files in the repository are directly visible as a URL, so viewing a file is as simple as pointing your browser at the repository and traversing the tree of links. No checkout required and you guarantee you are viewing the latest version by avoiding stale local data.
Go to the Google home page, select 'Images", then enter "Tiananmen" as suggested by the OP. Hey, there's lotsa tanks in those photos. The OP is wrong. Mod me down if you like. I don't give a shit. Try posting stuff that is moderately accurate, not just plain bullshit.
the design of biology is too complex to have evolved into that state...
One of the key ideas in ID is that of "irreducible complexity" where some specific example such as the eye (any complex eye) is too complex to have evolved in a single evolutionary step. That being the case, an intelligent designer must have been at work.
Yeah, it's a tough one, but much easier than explaining where the designer came from (and why he/she/it took so long to get around to creating us).
That's the key point for me. All those who claim life on earth arose from non-evolutionary causes merely put it off to some other time and place. We came from Mars - ok, where did the Martians come from? Etcetera.
You mention nukes - they are one way this could be achieved. Dropping a few megatons down one side of the eye might just put the storm out due to the sudden change in temperature profile, but it's not too attractive - the fallout would be widely dispersed as the winds would not simply stop. :-)
There is an article in the current New Scientist which suggests using reflectors in space to reflect the sun and apply heat strategically, but realistically I don't see ths producing nearly enough energy. Their intention is to divert the hurricane, but as they speculate in the article, diverting a hurricane elsewhere might upset the locals at the new landfall...
So, we need heaps of heat (or cold?) applied in the right way to achieve this. But at what cost in the long run? This much enery is equivalent to quite a few butterflies
So log on and post the story so everyone on /. can see it.
Yes, that's what I said. Strange use of the word 'wrong' there, buddy.
On a normal drive the bits are arranged radially, so a byte is eight bits long. The 3D drive would position the bits in each byte vertically into the platter, so each byte would be one bit wide and eight bits high.
The data transfer rate would be around eight times faster...
So you have your fault tolerant drive, and one stack fails. How do you know? And will Joe Average go out and buy a new drive when the old one still "works".
Next problem, two stacks, one spindle = one motor. Oh, the motor died and now I can't get my data back. That wasn't the plan.
If you need fault tolerance, do it properly. If you don't, back up your important data. No, you don't need to back up those movies. Just the stuff that matters.
The crab is a supernova remnant, not a planetary nebula.
Perhaps the other 20% are just bipolars we happen to be seeing end on...
It's a different story at home though. If I want to write some code for my own use, be it on Windows, some UNIX variant or an embedded device, I don't have that sort of money to throw around. So I end up with GCC on my BSD box and VC++.net 2002 Standard on my Win2k box. For embedded work I use the appropriate flavour of GCC or IAR, both free.
So, in the end my experience reflects what I can afford, not what my employer can afford. Employers come and go, but my PCs survive them all (especially simce I'm a contractor).
Microsoft provide service packs for VS from time to time. They are of course a bunch of compiler, RTL and IDE bugfixes rolled into a bundle. I don't deny the quality of the Intel compilers; after all, they know the processor pretty well and providing good developer support is important in maintaining a customer base, especially in the embedded arena.