yes yes yes, the lack of a thermal diode on early Athlons was indeed a fatal flaw...
Since that problem has been fixed, and no recent stories about Athlon 64's and Athlon 3200+'s going up in heat-smoke seem to be filling the airwaves, I can only conclude that you are trolling, and with a 3 year old troll at that.
Because it was a flight test article never designed for the rigors of space. It was heavier (airframe) than all subsequent shuttles, and never had the TPS installed. AFAIK a number of important bits, such as engine hookups and plumbing, where also left off the craft.
In short, it would take just as much effort to make Enterprise space-rated, as it would to finish the X33.
IANAL either, but I had thought that applied onto to illegal searches and seizures by police officials. If I steal your gun, that you used to kill your neighbor and give it to the police, they can use that as evidence against you. In fact, that's the whole point behind much of this nation's (U.S.A.) whistleblower laws.
Open source - starts off with lots of exploits, remains with lots of exploits because more 'community' resourses are being spent on breaking it than fixing it. Over time, software becomes irrelevant.
And that sir, is exactly why this sort of thing will not become prevalent in the OSS world. Because anything that is not patched is rendered irrelevant, people won't use it. It will BECOME irrelavent (your words).
Anything built on an open license, like BSD, Apache, or [*]GPL will be forked and fixed by interested parties if it's something truly important to the community.
Take sendmail for example. Pretend for a moment that the developers of sendmail are avoiding patching exploits in the codebase. At some point, the community who depends on said software will get pissed enough to fork sendmail, and take it upon themselves to build sendmail2.
Open source and open license is the BEST protection against insecure software. I challenge you to convince me otherwise.
No, it confers some sort of legitimacy to said technology. Just as you'd not use gasoline in your car that you brewed from beets, chicken entrails and heads of small children, I shouldn't have to code to web-browsers that only work with lowercase tags, or have every 3rd letter of the HTML language replaced with a !:
That's bullshit. NASA spent money on the X33. NASA spent money on DCX, and nearly half a dozen other space launcher projects over the past ten years. Guess what? They were all eventually cancelled by Congress. Cost overruns, sure. Shit like that happens when you push the envelope (building composite fuel tanks capable of holding liquid hydrogen without self-destructing).
It has more to do with the time lag between the two. With Lunokhod, there was only a 4.someodd second roundtrip time to get feedback on the effects of your maneuvers. With Mars, there's anywhere from an 20-60minute round trip to get feedback. Enter the wrong commands, and your rover could end up on it's side, forever unusable. By moving slower, they increase their odds that their programmed mission will be completed, but at a reduction in distance covered/science performed.
Plus there were a lot more cavalier about losing hardware in those days. Good luck getting a venus lander built today (simply because it's money down the drain).
Throwing good money after bad isn't always the smartest option. If you're vendor is truly responsive to your needs, by all means, stick it out. If they're not however, don't be afraid to make the threat of dumping them. Because they're obviously not looking out for you, their customer.
I do understand what you're going through. I'm having similar problems as well with a particular vendor who seems to think MS SQL Server, IE 6 and Windows 2000 are all that exist in the world.
Oh God... I'm currently stuck in a situation like this. He's a smart guy, he really is. It's just that when his problems to solve happen to be in areas where he has less experience than I, he can't seem to accept the fact that a guy 10-12 years his junior might just have a better solution than him. And he's not willing to take risks to solve problems when risks are demanded. So someone with a solution comes along, and it's written off as undoable.:-/
Sometimes I just want to dig ditches. It's an easier, safer line of work...
The auditor bit: Who cares? As long as the numbers match at the end, they're not going to care what software you use. And in the end, it might actually be a plus, since the internals of said software can actually BE audited, as opposed to some bloatware from say, Epicor...
Fact: Microsoft offers support for longer periods than Linux companies.
That's debatable. Microsoft and every Linux company still in business will offer you support as long as you pay for it. Both Microsoft and most Linux companies offer 30-90 days installation support.
Fact: Portability of code doesn't mean it's not going to cost you money to port.
Hard to disagree with you there. That applies to Windows and all it's "custom solutions as well". I have an app that runs only on windows, and is supposed to be 'out of the box' that we've been upgrading for 2 months now. $10K in my T&E wasted. Works both ways.
Fact: Linux has an upgrade cycle. Linux has versioning issues.
No worse than.DLL hell or registry corruption. Or patches that break OS's or service packs that regress.
Fact: Vendor lock in doesn't mean shit if you don't think Microsoft is the big evil.
Actually, both are separate. I both love and hate microsoft, but I don't consider them the "big evil". I do however, hate vendor lock-in.
Next you'll be telling me that Linux is as good as Windows on the desktop. It's not. Fact.
Oh but it is. The device driver support and the app support is where Linux is lacking, not for any desktop usability (printing, maybe).
A linux only workplace is doable. I just wouldn't bust my ass trying to make it happen if the best accounting package available to me runs only on windows. $5000 gets you a nice Citrix server with 10-25 users. Waste your time on growing your business, not building packages. Just make sure you buy a package that helps you out of vendor lock-in by using a real SQL database, or has decent import/export tools.
At the commany I currently work for, and some in the past, we have had our own mandatory browser war. One CRM app used IE. One marketing app forced netscape. Having two browsers to get work done is worse than having a dozen apps. I want web-apps that don't use javascript, that don't fuck around, and give me straight crossplatform HTML. Thank you sql-ledger.
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it's too hard to do
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if ( 0 < buffer_location > max_buff_size ) {
}
this is SOP in any code I write when I'm not automagically using UINTs (interfacing with libc code)...
That video is over two years old. You think AMD hasn't gotten around to putting on a simple thermal diode?
yes yes yes, the lack of a thermal diode on early Athlons was indeed a fatal flaw...
Since that problem has been fixed, and no recent stories about Athlon 64's and Athlon 3200+'s going up in heat-smoke seem to be filling the airwaves, I can only conclude that you are trolling, and with a 3 year old troll at that.
Because it was a flight test article never designed for the rigors of space. It was heavier (airframe) than all subsequent shuttles, and never had the TPS installed. AFAIK a number of important bits, such as engine hookups and plumbing, where also left off the craft.
In short, it would take just as much effort to make Enterprise space-rated, as it would to finish the X33.
They said the same thing after Challenger.
Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me twice, shame on me...
Everyone who uses windows needs ERD.
IANAL either, but I had thought that applied onto to illegal searches and seizures by police officials. If I steal your gun, that you used to kill your neighbor and give it to the police, they can use that as evidence against you. In fact, that's the whole point behind much of this nation's (U.S.A.) whistleblower laws.
No, but it might be enough get a DA to get a subpoena for Microsoft's source and backups to prove compliance.
Maybe.
It's taken at face-value that you truly aren't trying to troll, and that you fully expect to get modded down, so don't care.
Then again, it *IS* called karma-whoring for a reason...
And that sir, is exactly why this sort of thing will not become prevalent in the OSS world. Because anything that is not patched is rendered irrelevant, people won't use it. It will BECOME irrelavent (your words).
Anything built on an open license, like BSD, Apache, or [*]GPL will be forked and fixed by interested parties if it's something truly important to the community.
Take sendmail for example. Pretend for a moment that the developers of sendmail are avoiding patching exploits in the codebase. At some point, the community who depends on said software will get pissed enough to fork sendmail, and take it upon themselves to build sendmail2.
Open source and open license is the BEST protection against insecure software. I challenge you to convince me otherwise.
I'm serious. :-)
Peace,
-Chris
np. I post only to help - I don't even use my karma bonus. As long as I have enough karma to keep me from earning a -1, I'm happy.
Good luck!
And they get this from pay-as-you-go vendors? Really? I must have been deluding myself all these years...
NoPOPIE. Perfect IE popup blocker.
google for MyIE2. Has tabbed browsing.
:-)
Nice hack too.
When will those morons get MSDN to work on non-IE browsers? That has to be the most annoying thing I've come across in forever...
-Chris
No, it confers some sort of legitimacy to said technology. Just as you'd not use gasoline in your car that you brewed from beets, chicken entrails and heads of small children, I shouldn't have to code to web-browsers that only work with lowercase tags, or have every 3rd letter of the HTML language replaced with a !:
<HT!L>
<BO!Y>
</BO!DY>
</HT!ML>
Get it?
My god, the funniest most insightful shit I've seen from an AC in a long time... bravo.
So, Ms. Astronaut... just what *IS* it like servicing the Hubble? Your jaw must hurt bad...
That's bullshit. NASA spent money on the X33. NASA spent money on DCX, and nearly half a dozen other space launcher projects over the past ten years. Guess what? They were all eventually cancelled by Congress. Cost overruns, sure. Shit like that happens when you push the envelope (building composite fuel tanks capable of holding liquid hydrogen without self-destructing).
Congress has killed NASA.
It has more to do with the time lag between the two. With Lunokhod, there was only a 4.someodd second roundtrip time to get feedback on the effects of your maneuvers. With Mars, there's anywhere from an 20-60minute round trip to get feedback. Enter the wrong commands, and your rover could end up on it's side, forever unusable. By moving slower, they increase their odds that their programmed mission will be completed, but at a reduction in distance covered/science performed.
Plus there were a lot more cavalier about losing hardware in those days. Good luck getting a venus lander built today (simply because it's money down the drain).
Throwing good money after bad isn't always the smartest option. If you're vendor is truly responsive to your needs, by all means, stick it out. If they're not however, don't be afraid to make the threat of dumping them. Because they're obviously not looking out for you, their customer.
I do understand what you're going through. I'm having similar problems as well with a particular vendor who seems to think MS SQL Server, IE 6 and Windows 2000 are all that exist in the world.
Oh God... I'm currently stuck in a situation like this. He's a smart guy, he really is. It's just that when his problems to solve happen to be in areas where he has less experience than I, he can't seem to accept the fact that a guy 10-12 years his junior might just have a better solution than him. :-/
And he's not willing to take risks to solve problems when risks are demanded. So someone with a solution comes along, and it's written off as undoable.
Sometimes I just want to dig ditches. It's an easier, safer line of work...
The auditor bit: Who cares? As long as the numbers match at the end, they're not going to care what software you use. And in the end, it might actually be a plus, since the internals of said software can actually BE audited, as opposed to some bloatware from say, Epicor...
That's debatable. Microsoft and every Linux company still in business will offer you support as long as you pay for it. Both Microsoft and most Linux companies offer 30-90 days installation support. Fact: Portability of code doesn't mean it's not going to cost you money to port.
Hard to disagree with you there. That applies to Windows and all it's "custom solutions as well". I have an app that runs only on windows, and is supposed to be 'out of the box' that we've been upgrading for 2 months now. $10K in my T&E wasted. Works both ways. Fact: Linux has an upgrade cycle. Linux has versioning issues.
No worse than .DLL hell or registry corruption. Or patches that break OS's or service packs that regress.
Fact: Vendor lock in doesn't mean shit if you don't think Microsoft is the big evil.
Actually, both are separate. I both love and hate microsoft, but I don't consider them the "big evil". I do however, hate vendor lock-in. Next you'll be telling me that Linux is as good as Windows on the desktop. It's not. Fact.
Oh but it is. The device driver support and the app support is where Linux is lacking, not for any desktop usability (printing, maybe). A linux only workplace is doable. I just wouldn't bust my ass trying to make it happen if the best accounting package available to me runs only on windows. $5000 gets you a nice Citrix server with 10-25 users. Waste your time on growing your business, not building packages. Just make sure you buy a package that helps you out of vendor lock-in by using a real SQL database, or has decent import/export tools.
At the commany I currently work for, and some in the past, we have had our own mandatory browser war. One CRM app used IE. One marketing app forced netscape. Having two browsers to get work done is worse than having a dozen apps. I want web-apps that don't use javascript, that don't fuck around, and give me straight crossplatform HTML. Thank you sql-ledger.