I also hate it when Settings are moved around in the Control Panel and Administrative Tools. If you often have to access several specific settings, it might be worth to learn the filename of the MMC-SnapIn or Control Panel applet you want to use. For example: Device Manager is "devmgmt.msc", Computer Management is "compmgmt.msc", Network Connections is "ncpa.cpl" - which I find way more convenient if you have to configre network settings in a corporate Environment with different Windows versions.
I don't know about the US, but in Europe PayPal's User Agreement says that it is "licensed as a Luxembourg credit institution". Also I don't really get where all the hate for PayPal comes from. Yes I read a dozen times that they froze the account of SomethingAwful or some loud-mouthed bloggers under dubious circumstances, but for me it always worked just fine. Actually I really like PayPal because it allows me to send a seller money that is instantly credited to his account, without trust issues on either side or credit card processing for the seller. I also like the security of going to PayPal's site so I can verify the payment, which is why I am quite sceptical of this API change. But apart from that I really don't see how PayPal is bad in any way for me as an ordinary customer.
You need only check-out a few of their pages - most are pedestals from which to gloat about their Wikipedia penis, and yet these are the people IN CHARGE.
So those people take pride in their voluntary work for a good cause and as a result were elected by the community to have a few more responsibilities beyond just editing articles. I don't see how that is a bad thing at all.
This is diffs the dissembled version of the original against the update on the server, then does the opposite on the client. I couldn't help but think of this as similar to Gentoo's model... download a compressed diff of the source and then recompile. Both have the same problem: too much client-side CPU usage (though Gentoo's is an extreme of this). Isn't Google Chrome OS primarily targeting netbooks? Can such things handle that level of extra client-side computation without leaving users frustrated?
I don't think this is really a problem in this case. In the time even a slow computer, by today's standards, has downloaded a kilobyte over a WAN link it has easily performed millions of CPU operations on it. The same would be true for any kind of compression really. Since Bandwidth through your pipe is just orders of magnitudes slower than anything that happens within your machine, this added level of complexity is clearly more beneficial than a direct approach. That's why it makes sense to compress files on the server (or the client uploading it to the server), transfer them and decompress them on the client, even if the client is quite slow.
I'd rather improve the distribution model. Since packages are all signed, SSL and friends aren't needed for the transfer, nor does it need to come from a trusted authority. Bittorrent comes to mind. I'm quite disappointed that the apt-torrent project never went anywhere. It's clearly the solution.
With patches between minor versions at about 80kB (as stated in TFA), I don't think that a distribution using bittorrent would really be the way to go here. Add to this the fact that google has quite a lot of bandwidth at their disposal and I don't see this happening anytime soon. I aggree however that it may be a good idea to transfer large amounts of linux packeges that way. But with a lot of smaller packages the protocol overhead of bittorrent might become a limiting factor regarding its usefulness.
Given they control their own reproductions of the pictures, would it be acceptable for them to deny visitors the right to take their own photographs? I think not.
They think otherwise I think that, as a government funded institution, it should be their mission to spread the art that they exhibit and do everything they can to spark people's interest in it. Yet art and education may not be their main concern if they continue to restrict access to these paintings as they do right now. And that, regardless of the copyright issue, is morally wrong - at least in my opinion. What is happening here ist that government money is used against the people instead of for them, which I find quite outrageous.
No, the only vested interest a robot will have is what we have programmed into it.
That's a bit naive, isn't it? Have you ever used a recent piece of software? Did it always do what it was supposed to do and nothing else? I guess we can all stop patching our computers after all.
[...] Because we have seen how effective the EU is at stuff like that (like... regulating browser packaging?)
I could be mistaken, but I think that the US legal system failed to deliver more than a firm slap on the wrist for microsoft, while we have indeed not yet seen how effective the EU is at stuff like that.
Where in either of these documents did it say that the routine was written in assembly? I believe you were confused by the PDF's use of a disassembler.
Page 11, under the diagrams:
The code seems to be written directly in assembly, since it has no C/C++ style stack frame or register usage. Also, the usage of some rare assembly instructions also points to it being hand coded assembly. This was likely done for performance - converting floating-point values to text needs to be high performance for Excel.
I think AutoCAD is fairly straightforward for a CAD application from Autodesk. And I also think "Nero burning ROM" might be one of the nicest software names/puns out there that doesn't feature a recursive acronym.
In Canada, i never sign my CC's, that way if I lose one or it gets stolen, then they can't forge my signature on any bills they may try to rack up on me. I don't know if that really is the brightest of ideas since the guy who steals your card might sign it and the go ahead and purchase things without anyone questioning his identity. He doesn't even have to forge your signature anymore.
Come to the place there are no software patents, where open source software is being used and encouraged by governments, where you still have the freedom not to be spied upon constantly because of the "war on [whatever scares people currently]", where convicted monopolists do indeed get punished, where capital punishment is history, where copyright infringement isn't a more serious crime than rape or child abuse, where wages are high and paid vacations are long. Come on you open source fellas, leave the USA and let it choke on it's frivolous patent system and corporate ass-kissing. Come to the land of the free and the home of the brave. Come to (continental) Europe!
Example: A system fails to come back up after update and gives me my favorite hal.dll error. Since the hardware abstraction layer is different for nearly every machine, simply grabbing the hal.dll from another machine is not possible. Bullshit. As you can see in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283 there are only 6 HALs and their choice depends on the state of ACPI, APIC and whether the computer has one or more processors. Most modern computers have Hyperthreading or dual core and will use the ACPI Multiprocessor HAL.
What I would love to see is when this (incredibly useful) extension made moderation on slashdot less of a hassle. It just sucks when there are a lot of comments, especially when browsing comments at a threshold of 1 or 2, you want to moderate one of them and have to scroll all the way down to that "moderate"-button. Additionally the information given on the following page isn't that useful at all. It would be nicer if there was a "moderate"-button besides the ratings under each comment that would do the moderation in the background in an AJAXy fashion and maybe gray out the "rating"- dropdown field for that comment afterwards.
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#1 is also available for Windows file shares since Windows 2003 SP1. Microsoft calls this feature "Access based enumeration".
More info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784710(WS.10).aspx
I also hate it when Settings are moved around in the Control Panel and Administrative Tools. If you often have to access several specific settings, it might be worth to learn the filename of the MMC-SnapIn or Control Panel applet you want to use. For example: Device Manager is "devmgmt.msc", Computer Management is "compmgmt.msc", Network Connections is "ncpa.cpl" - which I find way more convenient if you have to configre network settings in a corporate Environment with different Windows versions.
I don't know about the US, but in Europe PayPal's User Agreement says that it is "licensed as a Luxembourg credit institution". Also I don't really get where all the hate for PayPal comes from.
Yes I read a dozen times that they froze the account of SomethingAwful or some loud-mouthed bloggers under dubious circumstances, but for me it always worked just fine. Actually I really like PayPal because it allows me to send a seller money that is instantly credited to his account, without trust issues on either side or credit card processing for the seller.
I also like the security of going to PayPal's site so I can verify the payment, which is why I am quite sceptical of this API change. But apart from that I really don't see how PayPal is bad in any way for me as an ordinary customer.
Flaws in the Hypervisor might be exploited by the VMs: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1244
It could have been worse...
You need only check-out a few of their pages - most are pedestals from which to gloat about their Wikipedia penis, and yet these are the people IN CHARGE.
So those people take pride in their voluntary work for a good cause and as a result were elected by the community to have a few more responsibilities beyond just editing articles. I don't see how that is a bad thing at all.
This is diffs the dissembled version of the original against the update on the server, then does the opposite on the client. I couldn't help but think of this as similar to Gentoo's model ... download a compressed diff of the source and then recompile. Both have the same problem: too much client-side CPU usage (though Gentoo's is an extreme of this). Isn't Google Chrome OS primarily targeting netbooks? Can such things handle that level of extra client-side computation without leaving users frustrated?
I don't think this is really a problem in this case. In the time even a slow computer, by today's standards, has downloaded a kilobyte over a WAN link it has easily performed millions of CPU operations on it. The same would be true for any kind of compression really. Since Bandwidth through your pipe is just orders of magnitudes slower than anything that happens within your machine, this added level of complexity is clearly more beneficial than a direct approach. That's why it makes sense to compress files on the server (or the client uploading it to the server), transfer them and decompress them on the client, even if the client is quite slow.
I'd rather improve the distribution model. Since packages are all signed, SSL and friends aren't needed for the transfer, nor does it need to come from a trusted authority. Bittorrent comes to mind. I'm quite disappointed that the apt-torrent project never went anywhere. It's clearly the solution.
With patches between minor versions at about 80kB (as stated in TFA), I don't think that a distribution using bittorrent would really be the way to go here. Add to this the fact that google has quite a lot of bandwidth at their disposal and I don't see this happening anytime soon.
I aggree however that it may be a good idea to transfer large amounts of linux packeges that way. But with a lot of smaller packages the protocol overhead of bittorrent might become a limiting factor regarding its usefulness.
Given they control their own reproductions of the pictures, would it be acceptable for them to deny visitors the right to take their own photographs? I think not.
They think otherwise
I think that, as a government funded institution, it should be their mission to spread the art that they exhibit and do everything they can to spark people's interest in it. Yet art and education may not be their main concern if they continue to restrict access to these paintings as they do right now. And that, regardless of the copyright issue, is morally wrong - at least in my opinion. What is happening here ist that government money is used against the people instead of for them, which I find quite outrageous.
Welcome to 1999!
That's a bit naive, isn't it? Have you ever used a recent piece of software? Did it always do what it was supposed to do and nothing else? I guess we can all stop patching our computers after all.
Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard.
[...] Because we have seen how effective the EU is at stuff like that (like... regulating browser packaging?)
I could be mistaken, but I think that the US legal system failed to deliver more than a firm slap on the wrist for microsoft, while we have indeed not yet seen how effective the EU is at stuff like that.
It's also free without a Windows Server 2008 license. Link
Where in either of these documents did it say that the routine was written in assembly? I believe you were confused by the PDF's use of a disassembler.
Page 11, under the diagrams:
What's a CAD? If I didn't know what it was, nor never heard of Autodesk, I would've assumed it was something for my car, just not sure what.
If you don't know what CAD is you probably don't need AutoCAD anyway.What's an AutoCAD?
I think AutoCAD is fairly straightforward for a CAD application from Autodesk. And I also think "Nero burning ROM" might be one of the nicest software names/puns out there that doesn't feature a recursive acronym.Greetings from Europe
Or you might just enter about:cache in your address bar.
Come to the place there are no software patents, where open source software is being used and encouraged by governments, where you still have the freedom not to be spied upon constantly because of the "war on [whatever scares people currently]", where convicted monopolists do indeed get punished, where capital punishment is history, where copyright infringement isn't a more serious crime than rape or child abuse, where wages are high and paid vacations are long.
Come on you open source fellas, leave the USA and let it choke on it's frivolous patent system and corporate ass-kissing.
Come to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Come to (continental) Europe!
You better export your Word .doc-files to ODF then, I suppose.
What I would love to see is when this (incredibly useful) extension made moderation on slashdot less of a hassle. It just sucks when there are a lot of comments, especially when browsing comments at a threshold of 1 or 2, you want to moderate one of them and have to scroll all the way down to that "moderate"-button. Additionally the information given on the following page isn't that useful at all.
It would be nicer if there was a "moderate"-button besides the ratings under each comment that would do the moderation in the background in an AJAXy fashion and maybe gray out the "rating"- dropdown field for that comment afterwards.
There already is such an option, as an add-in though. Here's the MSKB article.