Right. I'd imagine using some other technique of targetting HIV would be what they'd use IRL. Maybe a genetically-engineered virus designed to attack various HIV strains?
why not just bribe the OEMs who sell there to preinstall Windows?
...like they do here in the U.S., I presume you mean. Because unlike in the U.S., Microsoft can't bribe the politicians as easily in other countries. Why do you think the E.U. is giving Microsoft such a hard time? The U.S. government doesn't give Microsoft such a hard time because Microsoft bought and paid for a whole lot of politicians.
And nearly all of it will never replace Exchange because most of the packages are too difficult to install and configure, are based on technologies that don't scale very well (like PHP), or don't synchronize well or at all with Outlook.
The embargoes do nothing to prevent U.S. citizens from visiting Cuba. They only prevent people from exporting items to Cuba or importing them from Cuba. Tourism is entirely unaffected.
I've said from the first day I learned what a 'cookie' was that using cookies alone for authentication is a very bad idea. Here is the real fix: don't use cookies alone for authentication. Your idea of using a session token passed on the URL is one such idea. Can anyone think of others?
Related to this is the annoying habit of the most zealous ideologues who post their opinions on web forums to end their unsupported, often ludicrous, assertions with
FACT: Nobody on Slashdot ever done that! FACT: You are just plain wrong! It's a FACT!
The FSF is not about pleasing everyone. It is about solely furthering the goals of Free Software (not Open Source, not Linux). They will succeed in that.
Okay, I'm tired of this distinction between Free Software and Open Source.
We suggest that everywhere we as a culture have previously talked about "free software", the label should be changed to "open source". Open-source software. The open-source model. The open source culture. The Debian Open Source Guidelines. (In pitching this to the corporate world I'm also going to be invoking the idea of "peer review" a lot.)
And also:
This re-labeling has since attracted a lot of support (and some opposition) in the hacker culture. Supporters include Linus himself, John "maddog" Hall, Larry Augustin, Bruce Perens of Debian, Phil Hughes of Linux Journal. Opposers include Richard Stallman, who initially flirted with the idea but now thinks the term "open source" isn't pure enough
Yes, I realize that RMS differs on the topic, but really we're all about doing the same thing: making great software available for everyone to share, copy and modify to their heart's content. Can't we all just get along?
Sun has always been good at crafting products for that top 2% of customers who really, really need that high-availability or high-performance component that isn't going to make a difference for the other 98%. And Sun can charge for them.
Except that, in the long run, the platform of choice for the HPC/high-availability/high-high-peformance market is turning out to be Linux, thanks to IBM and it's HPC business. Ever wonder exactly why IBM contributed NUMA, SMP, numerous networking improvements and JFS? You shouldn't, because IBM did it to ensure that it would remain king of 'big iron' -- even with mainframes fading into the background now that HPC/grid computing and the like are taking over the big, heavy processing work that used to be the exclusive realm of mainframes.
It's potentially more dangerous than an alumnium wing, 150+% of design load has to be a substantial amount of energy stored in the wing, and while aluminum will deform in failure (converting most of the energy to heat) carbon fiber seems more likely to shatter
What difference does it make if your wings shatter or merely deform? Either way, you're dead!
Yeah, it's also buggy in older versions of Seamonkey (Mozilla Application Suite). The grey bar at the top apears, but looks shorter than normal and doesn't have any text.
Also, the AJAX stuff sometimes doesn't work right, even on Firefox. For instance, 'hidden comments' that are below the moderation threshhold don't always display when viewing a particular message. This behavior persists on all browsers I have tried.
(interesting you you also imply slashdot may be lying about how karma works, but only because it helps your point). Hey, Dave. I normally like at least some of your posts, and find you to be insightful at times, despite the fact that you're obviously an Apple fanboi. However, I'm just going to point out to you that he's right: Slashdot uses a fairly heavily-modified slashcode, especially in the moderation department. I have no comment on the rest of this thread, just wanted to point out that moderation isn't so transparent on Slashdot as they would like you to think.;)
Mod parent up! MSFT operating systems are simply not secure enough for mission critical applications. That's why you see most mission critical apps running on either big iron, Unix, or a realtime embedded system from companies like WindRiver.
lets see poor transmitter power output, integrated 1/8th wave PCB antennas, microwave frequencies, $3 of electronics gee i wonder why its crap ? 1) To keep the cost down. Even 'commercial-grade' access points use inexpensive components to help keep the costs down to the point that people can afford them. Compare the cost of ham radio -- and then consider if you would buy a WAP that had that amount tacked on the sale price.
2) Government regulation. Governments around the world regulate these 2.4 GHz-range frequencies and given the number of devices in the range, transmitter power is kept necessarily low by regulation.
3) To keep the equipment from interfering with other devices such as cellphones, 2.4Ghz-range walkie talkies, and countless other devices that use this frequency range. See #2.
And I don't see many people bitching about it. Really? Because I happen to be one of the people bitching about that the loudest. However, as I said before, the rules do change when you're a monopolist.
To be fair, the major missing item is Coreimage. Yeah, but that's different. In this case, the same set of binaries will run on XP or Vista. In Apple's case, a port would actually be required as Mac OS X binaries do not and cannot run on Mac OS 9 for lots of good technical reasons. IOW, whether iLife could be ported to Mac OS 9 or not is a separate question from whether or not it could run on Mac OS 9.
To be fair though, those people are few and far between. I think that the big lack is information; most of them think that Linux won't do what they need when in fact it will. Well, this is a gaming-related article. For most gamers, Linux won't do as it simply won't run a lot of games, even if you take in to account Cedega. Furthermore, many people are forced to use Windows by corporate fiat -- granted, the sometimes that corporate fiat is often for good reason.
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Right. I'd imagine using some other technique of targetting HIV would be what they'd use IRL. Maybe a genetically-engineered virus designed to attack various HIV strains?
ssshhhh! You don't want to go around making sense. You should've seen what they did to the last guy that said something like that that made sense.
And nearly all of it will never replace Exchange because most of the packages are too difficult to install and configure, are based on technologies that don't scale very well (like PHP), or don't synchronize well or at all with Outlook.
The embargoes do nothing to prevent U.S. citizens from visiting Cuba. They only prevent people from exporting items to Cuba or importing them from Cuba. Tourism is entirely unaffected.
I've said from the first day I learned what a 'cookie' was that using cookies alone for authentication is a very bad idea. Here is the real fix: don't use cookies alone for authentication. Your idea of using a session token passed on the URL is one such idea. Can anyone think of others?
FACT: Nobody on Slashdot ever done that! FACT: You are just plain wrong! It's a FACT!
From what I hear, the ability to stream his smell would be considered a bug, not a feature.
And will be doing it for real shortly with Gdrive, which is apparently no longer a rumor.
Okay, I'm tired of this distinction between Free Software and Open Source.
Would everybody please read ESR's essay on "Goodbye, 'free software,' 'hello open source'"? Excerpt:
And also:
Yes, I realize that RMS differs on the topic, but really we're all about doing the same thing: making great software available for everyone to share, copy and modify to their heart's content. Can't we all just get along?
Except that, in the long run, the platform of choice for the HPC/high-availability/high-high-peformance market is turning out to be Linux, thanks to IBM and it's HPC business. Ever wonder exactly why IBM contributed NUMA, SMP, numerous networking improvements and JFS? You shouldn't, because IBM did it to ensure that it would remain king of 'big iron' -- even with mainframes fading into the background now that HPC/grid computing and the like are taking over the big, heavy processing work that used to be the exclusive realm of mainframes.
I'd respond to this, but it's time for Wopnar.
Ah, okay. Guess I missed the context there. Perhaps a test in the Nevada or Utah deserts is in order then?
What difference does it make if your wings shatter or merely deform? Either way, you're dead!
Yeah, it's also buggy in older versions of Seamonkey (Mozilla Application Suite). The grey bar at the top apears, but looks shorter than normal and doesn't have any text.
Also, the AJAX stuff sometimes doesn't work right, even on Firefox. For instance, 'hidden comments' that are below the moderation threshhold don't always display when viewing a particular message. This behavior persists on all browsers I have tried.
That's weird. I engraved 'niceone (992278)' on mine.
'R' is for Reiser!
Mod parent up, Informative! The report doesn't account for vulnerabilities in IE 7, Windows Mail, and is ignoring several other vulnerabilities, such as one in Vista that could allow information disclosure.
Mod parent up! MSFT operating systems are simply not secure enough for mission critical applications. That's why you see most mission critical apps running on either big iron, Unix, or a realtime embedded system from companies like WindRiver.
gee i wonder why its crap ? 1) To keep the cost down. Even 'commercial-grade' access points use inexpensive components to help keep the costs down to the point that people can afford them. Compare the cost of ham radio -- and then consider if you would buy a WAP that had that amount tacked on the sale price.
2) Government regulation. Governments around the world regulate these 2.4 GHz-range frequencies and given the number of devices in the range, transmitter power is kept necessarily low by regulation.
3) To keep the equipment from interfering with other devices such as cellphones, 2.4Ghz-range walkie talkies, and countless other devices that use this frequency range. See #2.
How many Volkswagen Beetles is that? And can you give me that in human hair-widths?