I can tell you right now that if Microsoft Outlook had a bug that sent emails to random contacts, we would not be seeing comments that say "Never happened to me, so not an issue" or "Don't blame Microsoft, there are other clients available."
Oh, and the "fix it yourself" people need to shut the fuck up too. That's fine when it's an open-source project with fifty users hosted on sourceforge, not when it's in-production software that runs on millions and millions of phones.
The invasion of Grenada wasn't unilateral; it was requested by, and involved forces from, a number of Caribbean states. Panama, on the other hand, was - and was, to the best of my knowledge, the last occurrence of a unilateral invasion by the US.
Not *quite* dead, just comatose. If I recall, they said they'd bring it back if economic growth gets to a certain point, and until then would only use foreign currency to minimize inflation.
Get a grip. I think that the post-9/11 security measures are bad and unconstitutional, and having had to travel a few days ago the irritation is fresh in my head, but comparing the TSA to the Sturmabteilung in an apparently serious post is just ridiculous.
It worked pretty well with Itanium. Applications generally ran transparently, at roughly the same speed as a Xeon at the same clock speed as the Itanium (1.4-1.7GHz). Some stuff (later versions of Office) specifically checked for IA64 and refused to install, but even these had workarounds.
Theoretically, it should be like any other Qt-based Linux system. I used to play with its predecessor, Maemo, and found it to be amazing; it really was like a full, open, Linux, running a cut-down GNOME-based desktop environment.
I used to develop for Windows Mobile. It was a lot like developing desktop software - choice of language and IDE, proper filesystem access, no "app store." I liked it.
I have to work with Android development every day. It is so spectacularly bad that I start to feel a little nauseous every time I hear someone raving about how its the future. For one thing, calling it "open" is a fucking joke - maybe some parts of some OS components are open, but go use one of those cheap Chinese knockoff devices based on the open source tree to see how well that code actually works to assemble a full OS. I'm also still mystified as to what makes people think Android is more of a "smartphone" OS than the J2ME based featurephones everyone has had for a decade - same Java lockin, similar strange low-memory-consumption JVM's, just without reasonably standardized API's. And don't even get me started on fragmentation - let's just say you have not known frustration until you build an application, submit it to the QA team, and find that it crashes randomly on Galaxy S devices due to weird inconsistencies in the Galaxy S's Android implementation. And, even worse, that the Galaxy S handles logging differently than any other Android device on the market.
I despise Objective-C, but I'd take iPhone as a target platform over Android any day.
It seems to be a genuine improvement. I'll definitely be watching for any performance/stability issues before my company deploys it, but it seems like MSE2 is a step in the right direction for Windows security.
I think a lot of people realize it, and realize the fact that it still doesn't entirely explain the fact that the DPRK appears to be heading on a course more warlike than they've been on in a long time.
That's funny, given a 1942 Supreme Court ruling which states:
"Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals.(Emphasis added) "
The comment about "purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property [without uniform]" is relevant.
Before you go off on a tangent about Guantanamo, please remember that international law allows personnel captured in combat without uniforms or other means of identifying them as combatants can be dealt with under the law of the capturing country.
So far I really haven't seen any indications that the OS is doing badly. My AT&T store said that the demand for them was high, especially for the Focus, and I've seen similar responses from the T-Mo reps. I don't think you can write off the system until it's been released on the CDMA networks and has had a few updates.
My personal experience with it has been somewhat mixed. The UI is superb, lightyears beyond Android, but it has its share of weaknesses - a big one I can think of is lack of socket support in the public API. I think this will probably be added in the January update, but in the mean time, it means there are a lot of application types that just aren't available, like an IRC client. The dev tools are generally excellent, just limited in terms of exposed functionality.
You are totally correct. If the Russians actually get any technical access to this missile-defense system, its value drops tremendously.
The President needs to ask himself, what actually changed in 1991? The Russians lost a little territory on the western frontier and some allies in the same area. They were temporarily weakened a bit. As far as I can tell, nothing else actually changed, except the intelligence services replaced the CPSU as the governing instrument.
Tilera is still niche in a lot of ways. Limited memory and I/O bandwidth, as well as lack of an FPU until the TileGX, holds them back.
NetLogic and Cavium are both higher-performance for general server applications - I'd be interested in the potential for a server based on the new NetLogic XLP chip.
That's incorrect. National Command Authority, composed of the President and the Secretary of Defense, can order a nuclear strike anywhere, at any time, for any purpose. The military "never believing him" would be blatant insubordination.
I understand the wish of some to reduce or eliminate the US nuclear arsenal, but while we have it, whoever is in command really needs to take care of it better. We had the loss of launch codes in 2000, completely removing the ability to launch for several months. We had the notorious "let's load live warheads on to low-security cruise missiles slated for destruction" incident a few years back. And now this. At this rate, is the nuclear arsenal even serving as an effective deterrent?
No Eclipse, which is used in a vast number of development tools (including non-Java ones), especially for embedded systems. No NeoOffice, which (at least last time I used OSX, which was admittedly a LONG time ago) is the only way to make OpenOffice on the Mac usable. And plenty of business applications are in Java, either as applets or standalone applications - they'll break too.
You're right, but I question whether it's worth it at this stage. I think a better solution right now would be to just cut off some of the trade benefits that make it so beneficial for Mainland China to continue their rapid-growth export-driven economic policies, which was a possible end state of this increased Congressional irritation about their currency manipulation.
Right now, it's not worth causing heavy damage to our economy just to hurt them more.The US is perfectly capable of pissing the CPC off just by switching recognition to the ROC government, which wouldn't break our economy and would send a nice, strong political message.
Because the US particularly cares whether Assange lives in Sweden? If the Swedish government is in the US's pocket like plenty of people seem to believe, you'd think that they would strongly favor Assange living there (all the better to trump up fake rape charges, of course.) Alternatively, you could go with the more mundane but rational-seeming explanation, which is that Sweden doesn't want Assange because he draws a lot of attention to himself and gets complaints from the local women.
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I can tell you right now that if Microsoft Outlook had a bug that sent emails to random contacts, we would not be seeing comments that say "Never happened to me, so not an issue" or "Don't blame Microsoft, there are other clients available."
Oh, and the "fix it yourself" people need to shut the fuck up too. That's fine when it's an open-source project with fifty users hosted on sourceforge, not when it's in-production software that runs on millions and millions of phones.
The invasion of Grenada wasn't unilateral; it was requested by, and involved forces from, a number of Caribbean states. Panama, on the other hand, was - and was, to the best of my knowledge, the last occurrence of a unilateral invasion by the US.
Not *quite* dead, just comatose. If I recall, they said they'd bring it back if economic growth gets to a certain point, and until then would only use foreign currency to minimize inflation.
Get a grip. I think that the post-9/11 security measures are bad and unconstitutional, and having had to travel a few days ago the irritation is fresh in my head, but comparing the TSA to the Sturmabteilung in an apparently serious post is just ridiculous.
It worked pretty well with Itanium. Applications generally ran transparently, at roughly the same speed as a Xeon at the same clock speed as the Itanium (1.4-1.7GHz). Some stuff (later versions of Office) specifically checked for IA64 and refused to install, but even these had workarounds.
It has another first-party office suite (iWork). Stop confusing the issue.
Theoretically, it should be like any other Qt-based Linux system. I used to play with its predecessor, Maemo, and found it to be amazing; it really was like a full, open, Linux, running a cut-down GNOME-based desktop environment.
I used to develop for Windows Mobile. It was a lot like developing desktop software - choice of language and IDE, proper filesystem access, no "app store." I liked it.
The thing is, the Galaxy S line (including the Nexus S) are more or less the Android flagship devices at this point. Google is 100% complicit.
I have to work with Android development every day. It is so spectacularly bad that I start to feel a little nauseous every time I hear someone raving about how its the future. For one thing, calling it "open" is a fucking joke - maybe some parts of some OS components are open, but go use one of those cheap Chinese knockoff devices based on the open source tree to see how well that code actually works to assemble a full OS. I'm also still mystified as to what makes people think Android is more of a "smartphone" OS than the J2ME based featurephones everyone has had for a decade - same Java lockin, similar strange low-memory-consumption JVM's, just without reasonably standardized API's. And don't even get me started on fragmentation - let's just say you have not known frustration until you build an application, submit it to the QA team, and find that it crashes randomly on Galaxy S devices due to weird inconsistencies in the Galaxy S's Android implementation. And, even worse, that the Galaxy S handles logging differently than any other Android device on the market.
I despise Objective-C, but I'd take iPhone as a target platform over Android any day.
It seems to be a genuine improvement. I'll definitely be watching for any performance/stability issues before my company deploys it, but it seems like MSE2 is a step in the right direction for Windows security.
I think a lot of people realize it, and realize the fact that it still doesn't entirely explain the fact that the DPRK appears to be heading on a course more warlike than they've been on in a long time.
Nobody gives a fuck.
It will, however, make quite a difference in symmetrical conflicts.
That's funny, given a 1942 Supreme Court ruling which states:
"Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals.(Emphasis added) "
The comment about "purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property [without uniform]" is relevant.
Which war crimes are you referring to?
Before you go off on a tangent about Guantanamo, please remember that international law allows personnel captured in combat without uniforms or other means of identifying them as combatants can be dealt with under the law of the capturing country.
So far I really haven't seen any indications that the OS is doing badly. My AT&T store said that the demand for them was high, especially for the Focus, and I've seen similar responses from the T-Mo reps. I don't think you can write off the system until it's been released on the CDMA networks and has had a few updates.
My personal experience with it has been somewhat mixed. The UI is superb, lightyears beyond Android, but it has its share of weaknesses - a big one I can think of is lack of socket support in the public API. I think this will probably be added in the January update, but in the mean time, it means there are a lot of application types that just aren't available, like an IRC client. The dev tools are generally excellent, just limited in terms of exposed functionality.
You are totally correct. If the Russians actually get any technical access to this missile-defense system, its value drops tremendously.
The President needs to ask himself, what actually changed in 1991? The Russians lost a little territory on the western frontier and some allies in the same area. They were temporarily weakened a bit. As far as I can tell, nothing else actually changed, except the intelligence services replaced the CPSU as the governing instrument.
Tilera is still niche in a lot of ways. Limited memory and I/O bandwidth, as well as lack of an FPU until the TileGX, holds them back.
NetLogic and Cavium are both higher-performance for general server applications - I'd be interested in the potential for a server based on the new NetLogic XLP chip.
That's incorrect. National Command Authority, composed of the President and the Secretary of Defense, can order a nuclear strike anywhere, at any time, for any purpose. The military "never believing him" would be blatant insubordination.
I understand the wish of some to reduce or eliminate the US nuclear arsenal, but while we have it, whoever is in command really needs to take care of it better. We had the loss of launch codes in 2000, completely removing the ability to launch for several months. We had the notorious "let's load live warheads on to low-security cruise missiles slated for destruction" incident a few years back. And now this. At this rate, is the nuclear arsenal even serving as an effective deterrent?
Open-source JVM's on OSX are highly incomplete and typically use X11. This is not ideal behavior, at all.
No Eclipse, which is used in a vast number of development tools (including non-Java ones), especially for embedded systems. No NeoOffice, which (at least last time I used OSX, which was admittedly a LONG time ago) is the only way to make OpenOffice on the Mac usable. And plenty of business applications are in Java, either as applets or standalone applications - they'll break too.
You're right, but I question whether it's worth it at this stage. I think a better solution right now would be to just cut off some of the trade benefits that make it so beneficial for Mainland China to continue their rapid-growth export-driven economic policies, which was a possible end state of this increased Congressional irritation about their currency manipulation.
Right now, it's not worth causing heavy damage to our economy just to hurt them more.The US is perfectly capable of pissing the CPC off just by switching recognition to the ROC government, which wouldn't break our economy and would send a nice, strong political message.
Because the US particularly cares whether Assange lives in Sweden? If the Swedish government is in the US's pocket like plenty of people seem to believe, you'd think that they would strongly favor Assange living there (all the better to trump up fake rape charges, of course.) Alternatively, you could go with the more mundane but rational-seeming explanation, which is that Sweden doesn't want Assange because he draws a lot of attention to himself and gets complaints from the local women.