Noticing from his behavior I'd say he's a sociopath and should be dishonerably discharged from duty, sent of to Den Haag for war crimes and put in prison for life with forced psychiatric treatment.
Same goes for the tank driver who overrun a body (was that person even dead?)
Can't. The US refuses to sign the treaty subjecting itself to the authority of the ICC. They claim it's "unconstitutional".
Obviously, you don't know what it's like to be poor. Actual poor people don't have cable tv, cellphones, internet, computers, and in some cases even a landline phone at all. My family used to live like that (boy was I naive back then). Scraping together $100 was... well, impossible.
You mentioned you had cellphones and hubcaps. Well, guess what. That means you weren't poor at all. You just plain sucked at budgeting.
It's not semantics fuckwit. It changes the fundamental meaning of the post. Original statement said "querying the Chinese root is the default configuration" when in fact that behaviour is only the default if you are in China. Otherwise, querying i.root-servers.net in Los Angeles or Sydney or Auckland or London is the default.
Trust me, it wouldn't bring the iTunes servers to a standstill - iTunes songs are served by the same machines that serve Windows Update - the Akamai CDN. More bandwidth than Slashdot, SourceForge, and Youtube combined.
How is this insightful? It's wrong! Noone misconfigured their DNS resolvers, the problem is that for some reason a couple of major routing nodes latched on to the incorrect node for i.root-servers.net (each DNS root is not a single server, it's a bunch of geographically separate servers with the same IP doing Anycast announcements) and connected downstream servers began using the node in China to perform resolution.
i.root-servers.net is not "the root in China". A single Anycast node of i.root-servers.net is in China. It would probably be a good idea to research such statements before making them.
If they allowed free re-download, people would abuse it -- by installing iTunes on multiple of their computers, and using iTunes to download to additional computers at Apple's expense instead of syncing themselves.
Um, try open iTunes on multiple computers, sign them all into the iTunes store, then buy a track or video. Note that all of the computers start downloading it. I used to get pissed off at this behaviour when my laptop and desktop would both start downloading 1.7GB of TV program when I don't want it on the laptop.
Except that the service is run on the same basis as broadcast television. I.e, it is actually not legal to watch it a second time. The whole point of the service is to timeshift.
Perhaps I do contribute to the BBC. What makes you think otherwise?
Do you live in the UK and pay your TV License? No? Then you don't get the content. I don't either. I don't think this is some sort of heinous disaster. Perhaps you also think it's disgusting that I cannot browse Hulu, and neither yourself nor a UK citizen cannot browse TVNZ On Demand?
To play devils advocate here, iPlayer is considered an extension of television over there last I saw, and there is no additional fee charged for it. The right to play back and transfer among different media does not actually exist, as it is essentially broadcast television - in fact you're explicitly denied the right to play back (more than once) and transfer.
This would be a whole different kettle of fish, of course, if the content itself was charged for and sold on a transfer of rights basis (like iTunes purchases).
If you're using Reflection, no. But then that's because if you're using reflection you are deliberately circumventing all kinds of stuff - did you know a class created via Reflection doesn't even run the constructor?
Well, explain then how I could assign a string to a List or a Dictionary to a string in C#? Yes, it's true - there's no runtime checking in the CLR. Those "real generics" are not what you think they are.
Provide code example, please. I've never seen the compiler allow such idiocy, except when using Reflection.
Applications are developed for Windows and tested exclusively on Windows because Windows has market power. If Windows did not have market power, more developers would find it profitable to use Wine, Qt, or wxWidgets.
If they didn't all suck, and didn't have licensing that makes it impossible to affordably develop commercial apps for (Qt's GPL license for example)
I was going to say "correction - the ballot screen still uses Trident" but it appears that it still uses an IE window, albeit a dialog so your only clue is the title bar and app icon.
And if that's the case, you'd realise you aren't licensed to run Windows. MSDN licenses (without the BizSpark, Empower or WebsiteSpark exemptions) are for Development use only. Not production.
A lot of people make that claim. The number of people who have NEVER had ANY security issue with Windows is simply amazing, if we are to believe all those claims.
Yes, and that's because for that lot of people it's probably true. I've never had this sort of problem with Windows either. The one time in my youth I first encountered "CoolWebSearch" it took me some time to discover it and how to fix it, and since then nothing.
The TFA is also an incredibly unreliable source too. They claim that there is an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Virtual PC hypervisor (as at 16 March 2010), when Microsoft released a patch on the 9th of March. Yup, can totally trust them.
Hmm? Active Movie, Active Movie 2 and DirectShow are not formats. They're codec pipelines (for lack of a better term) allowing codecs to load to support different formats (including AVI or Quicktime).
Office Live dumbass, they benefit just as much as Google. And let's be honest, no matter how much you don't like it, given a choice between a "cloud" based version of MS Office and a "cloud" based version of Google Docs, the average business will pick Microsoft's offering every time.
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Noticing from his behavior I'd say he's a sociopath and should be dishonerably discharged from duty, sent of to Den Haag for war crimes and put in prison for life with forced psychiatric treatment.
Same goes for the tank driver who overrun a body (was that person even dead?)
Can't. The US refuses to sign the treaty subjecting itself to the authority of the ICC. They claim it's "unconstitutional".
Obviously, you don't know what it's like to be poor. Actual poor people don't have cable tv, cellphones, internet, computers, and in some cases even a landline phone at all. My family used to live like that (boy was I naive back then). Scraping together $100 was ... well, impossible.
You mentioned you had cellphones and hubcaps. Well, guess what. That means you weren't poor at all. You just plain sucked at budgeting.
Why the hell shouldn't we be able to watch Hulu when we're outside the US? People in glass houses and all that.
It's not semantics fuckwit. It changes the fundamental meaning of the post. Original statement said "querying the Chinese root is the default configuration" when in fact that behaviour is only the default if you are in China. Otherwise, querying i.root-servers.net in Los Angeles or Sydney or Auckland or London is the default.
So fuck off yourself.
Trust me, it wouldn't bring the iTunes servers to a standstill - iTunes songs are served by the same machines that serve Windows Update - the Akamai CDN. More bandwidth than Slashdot, SourceForge, and Youtube combined.
How is this insightful? It's wrong! Noone misconfigured their DNS resolvers, the problem is that for some reason a couple of major routing nodes latched on to the incorrect node for i.root-servers.net (each DNS root is not a single server, it's a bunch of geographically separate servers with the same IP doing Anycast announcements) and connected downstream servers began using the node in China to perform resolution.
i.root-servers.net is not "the root in China". A single Anycast node of i.root-servers.net is in China. It would probably be a good idea to research such statements before making them.
If they allowed free re-download, people would abuse it -- by installing iTunes on multiple of their computers, and using iTunes to download to additional computers at Apple's expense instead of syncing themselves.
Um, try open iTunes on multiple computers, sign them all into the iTunes store, then buy a track or video. Note that all of the computers start downloading it. I used to get pissed off at this behaviour when my laptop and desktop would both start downloading 1.7GB of TV program when I don't want it on the laptop.
Except that the service is run on the same basis as broadcast television. I.e, it is actually not legal to watch it a second time. The whole point of the service is to timeshift.
Perhaps I do contribute to the BBC. What makes you think otherwise?
Do you live in the UK and pay your TV License? No? Then you don't get the content. I don't either. I don't think this is some sort of heinous disaster. Perhaps you also think it's disgusting that I cannot browse Hulu, and neither yourself nor a UK citizen cannot browse TVNZ On Demand?
To play devils advocate here, iPlayer is considered an extension of television over there last I saw, and there is no additional fee charged for it. The right to play back and transfer among different media does not actually exist, as it is essentially broadcast television - in fact you're explicitly denied the right to play back (more than once) and transfer.
This would be a whole different kettle of fish, of course, if the content itself was charged for and sold on a transfer of rights basis (like iTunes purchases).
If you're using Reflection, no. But then that's because if you're using reflection you are deliberately circumventing all kinds of stuff - did you know a class created via Reflection doesn't even run the constructor?
I may not understand all the legal details, but this article: Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C# was clear enough.
Ah yes. Because the FSF would never be biased, right?
And even that has a free edition. http://msdn.microsoft.com/express
Well, explain then how I could assign a string to a List or a Dictionary to a string in C#? Yes, it's true - there's no runtime checking in the CLR. Those "real generics" are not what you think they are.
Provide code example, please. I've never seen the compiler allow such idiocy, except when using Reflection.
Ok, I'll concede that - but the toolkits still don't look all that good (not as bad as Swing for Java, but still).
Applications are developed for Windows and tested exclusively on Windows because Windows has market power. If Windows did not have market power, more developers would find it profitable to use Wine, Qt, or wxWidgets.
If they didn't all suck, and didn't have licensing that makes it impossible to affordably develop commercial apps for (Qt's GPL license for example)
I wouldn't be surprised if the % of downloads is directly proportional to the frequency of Opera being in place #1.
I was going to say "correction - the ballot screen still uses Trident" but it appears that it still uses an IE window, albeit a dialog so your only clue is the title bar and app icon.
Also, they have a funny definition of unpatched
And if that's the case, you'd realise you aren't licensed to run Windows. MSDN licenses (without the BizSpark, Empower or WebsiteSpark exemptions) are for Development use only. Not production.
A lot of people make that claim. The number of people who have NEVER had ANY security issue with Windows is simply amazing, if we are to believe all those claims.
Yes, and that's because for that lot of people it's probably true. I've never had this sort of problem with Windows either. The one time in my youth I first encountered "CoolWebSearch" it took me some time to discover it and how to fix it, and since then nothing.
The TFA is also an incredibly unreliable source too. They claim that there is an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Virtual PC hypervisor (as at 16 March 2010), when Microsoft released a patch on the 9th of March. Yup, can totally trust them.
Hmm? Active Movie, Active Movie 2 and DirectShow are not formats. They're codec pipelines (for lack of a better term) allowing codecs to load to support different formats (including AVI or Quicktime).
Office Live dumbass, they benefit just as much as Google. And let's be honest, no matter how much you don't like it, given a choice between a "cloud" based version of MS Office and a "cloud" based version of Google Docs, the average business will pick Microsoft's offering every time.