There will be no change to how Internet Explorer 6 is supported. The following operating systems have Internet Explorer 6 installed and will follow the lifecycle of the operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack That article mentions that support for IE6 on XP SP2 will follow the lifecycle for that product but says nothing (positive or negative) about support for IE6 on XP SP3. From the tone of the article I would guess it was written around the time of the IE7 release (which was before the SP3 release) and hasn't been updated since (though it has apparently been "checked").
"Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy at http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport."
It's very unlikely that XP will see another service pack so support for IE6 on XP will most likely end at the EOL for XP which is in 2014.
I personally think that we probablly can get to mars but if we get too gung-ho we will probablly lose one or more crews before we get one there. The question then is will there be the political will to continue in the face of such losses.
Look at the ISS, IIRC several times they have had to change cargo manifests because the oxygen recycling system has failed and they are running on backup oxygen (from tanks or oxygen candles). Once you start a trip to mars the stuff you take with you is ALL YOU ARE GOING TO GET.
Realistically though we aren't going to be growing anything or grazing any animals outdoors on mars. The choice is between indoor production (where space is at a premium) and importing food from earth so techniques for extracting a little value from otherwise useless land need not apply.
If there are dairy farmers who will stoop as low as adding melamine I'd think there would be ones who would stoop to adding soya if the price was right.
I'd think for a medium term base the most sensible thing to do would probablly be to grow some food locally but and to bring those pesky vitamins and minerals from earth in concentrated form.
Consider an architecture where bots act on any command they receive with an appropriate signature (assume decent quality public/private key crypto such that a crypto crack is not an option) and retransmit any command they see to all their peers.
How would you go about finding the original injection point of a command packet bearing in mind that most of the links won't be logging packet contents?
I disagree, the number of individual crimes that proof can be found for IMO has little bearing on the appropriate sentance. Does it really matter whether the cops happen to find ten of a burglers burgulries or just a couple?
Plus there is the issue of where someone commits one act but that act happens to fit the definition of multiple crimes.
Plus it saves the system a lot of resources because the criminal is unlikely to appeal and will often ask for further crimes the police didn't know about to be taken into consideration.
The browser is no longer supported - it's dead - there will be no more security patches. Do you have a source for that claim? All the information i've seen says that IE6 will be supported as long as XP is and the most recent IE security bullitin I could find included IE6 patches.
Just got to be carefull how you define age. E.G. is it when the release series was started? is it when the latest update to that series was released? is it when the most recent standalone installable version of a series was released?
And does it include browsers that are simply a shell arround whatever version of IE happens to be installed?
What I suspect it means is that the end users (particularlly if those are techies) are using something else but the buyers (the people authorised to turn requisitions into orders) are using a corporate standard setup that includes IE6.
Anyone who did NOT see this coming must have been deaf, dumb and blind. IE6 broke EVERY standard and added lots of proprietary crap. Oh yeah we knew that, what we didn't know was that they would go and break compatability with thier own stuff.
They kept win32 pretty consistant for many years (yes the occasional app has problems on more modern versions of windows but usually they work fine once you get the permissions right). They created win95 providing a stepping stone for those with DOS and badly behaved win16 stuff to go 32-bit gradually and they kept it alive much longer than they had originally planned and even added a common driver model for 98 and 2K making it easier for vendors to provide drivers for both systems. They introduced DPMI to let people write 32-bit DOS extenders in a windows compatible way!
That was the MS of the 90s and early 2000s, one where if you followed the rules during your app development sure you would be locked into MS but once stuff worked it tended to stay working.
there needs to be a printer that can run forever on a $10 ink cartridge in order to get me to print again. Dot matrix printers came pretty close to offering that, dirt cheap cartridges that seemed to last practically forever. The downside of course was the low speed, high noise and often a requirement for tractor feed paper.
Personally my current recommendation is if you can live without colour get a laser. If you require color then it's a harder descision because color laser printers are both more expensive and have a lot more to go wrong than monochrome ones.
Here in the UK it seems you used to get a USB modem (designed for windows, can be used from linux but not particulally reliably) and now you get a router. Occasionally these routers can be configured to bridge the public IP onto ethernet but usually they can't.
Jetway do some mini-itx boards (they have both single and dual core atom boards in this style and some via based ones as well) with optional expansion modules. Fitting the appropriate expansion module gets you four independent ethernet ports (one on the board, three on the module) which is probablly enough for most setups. There is also a PCI slot as well which could be used for wireless.
I dunno how well they perform though (my guess is good enough to max out 100 megabit when pushing large packets though)
A standard ethernet frame 18 bytes of headers etc plus a bit of preamble (according to one website I just looked at this is 8 bytes but I think it varies with the type of ethernet being considered). TCP/IP is another 40 bytes (or a little more if there are special options) so the overhead is going to be arround 68 bytes per packet.
For a full sized packet (1500 bytes including the IP headers but excluding the ethernet headers) that's arround 5% overhead. For small packets it's much higher.
If the line is half duplex there is further overheads from the access control stuff and from sending the acks.
What this means is companies are spending tens of millions of dollars that buys them just a few weeks of unpirated sales. The question is how many people are there who want the game ASAP and will pirate if they can but buy it if they can't? And is that number more or less than the number who will be driven away by draconian DRM.
And I don't think anyone can really answer that question.
when the only way to get an IPv4 address is to shut something else off. As well as turning something off there is the option of moving stuff behind NAT.
This is what I would expect the large ISPs to do, rather than users getting a public IP by default they will probably get NAT by default and have to pay extra for a public IP. This will free up public IPs for more important/lucrative uses.
be? Loss-less would be ideal but would run even modern data cards down to nothing in meantime. According to TFA
"Each image is approx 50MB in its RAW form from the card - or transferred, which equates to a 117 TIFF file (8-bit) when unpacked and saved. So the supplied 2GB CF cards could hold just over 30 images when in the field. "
And much bigger CF cards are available if you want them. Newegg sell ones up to 128GB!
Really the only reasons to shoot lossy on any DSLR now is either because you are shooting thousands of photos per trip, because you are too cheap to buy a decent sized card, because of write speed issues or because you can't be bothered doing the post-processing. I doubt any of these will apply to the type of photographers who use medium format cameras.
Good cameras can store the raw CCD data for later postprocessing.
Even with JPEG though the important thing is you only take the loss hit ONCE. After that you can keep copying it as many times as needed without taking any further loss.
With analog formats like film every time you copy the photo you lose more quality.
Maybe it will if marketing wants it to but if it does they will be shit 50 megapixel shots.
The trouble is putting lots of megapixels on a small sensor doesn't work very well for a couple of reasons.
Firstly the coverage factor is poor on small high resolution sensors, most sensor types need some space between the active cells for various reasons, so more pixels means LESS active area.
Secondly as I understand it (i've done a little bit on optics but i'm not an expert) depth of field is related to the ratio between aperture and sensor size. So if you want lots of light (and you DO want lots of light because of "shot noise") AND a reasonable depth of field you need a big sensor.
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There will be no change to how Internet Explorer 6 is supported. The following operating systems have Internet Explorer 6 installed and will follow the lifecycle of the operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack
That article mentions that support for IE6 on XP SP2 will follow the lifecycle for that product but says nothing (positive or negative) about support for IE6 on XP SP3. From the tone of the article I would guess it was written around the time of the IE7 release (which was before the SP3 release) and hasn't been updated since (though it has apparently been "checked").
According to http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps/ for IE6 on SP3.
"Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy at http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport ."
It's very unlikely that XP will see another service pack so support for IE6 on XP will most likely end at the EOL for XP which is in 2014.
I personally think that we probablly can get to mars but if we get too gung-ho we will probablly lose one or more crews before we get one there. The question then is will there be the political will to continue in the face of such losses.
Look at the ISS, IIRC several times they have had to change cargo manifests because the oxygen recycling system has failed and they are running on backup oxygen (from tanks or oxygen candles). Once you start a trip to mars the stuff you take with you is ALL YOU ARE GOING TO GET.
Realistically though we aren't going to be growing anything or grazing any animals outdoors on mars. The choice is between indoor production (where space is at a premium) and importing food from earth so techniques for extracting a little value from otherwise useless land need not apply.
I'd think it depends which dairy industry.
If there are dairy farmers who will stoop as low as adding melamine I'd think there would be ones who would stoop to adding soya if the price was right.
I'd think for a medium term base the most sensible thing to do would probablly be to grow some food locally but and to bring those pesky vitamins and minerals from earth in concentrated form.
Consider an architecture where bots act on any command they receive with an appropriate signature (assume decent quality public/private key crypto such that a crypto crack is not an option) and retransmit any command they see to all their peers.
How would you go about finding the original injection point of a command packet bearing in mind that most of the links won't be logging packet contents?
I disagree, the number of individual crimes that proof can be found for IMO has little bearing on the appropriate sentance. Does it really matter whether the cops happen to find ten of a burglers burgulries or just a couple?
Plus there is the issue of where someone commits one act but that act happens to fit the definition of multiple crimes.
Plus it saves the system a lot of resources because the criminal is unlikely to appeal and will often ask for further crimes the police didn't know about to be taken into consideration.
The browser is no longer supported - it's dead - there will be no more security patches.
Do you have a source for that claim? All the information i've seen says that IE6 will be supported as long as XP is and the most recent IE security bullitin I could find included IE6 patches.
Just got to be carefull how you define age. E.G. is it when the release series was started? is it when the latest update to that series was released? is it when the most recent standalone installable version of a series was released?
And does it include browsers that are simply a shell arround whatever version of IE happens to be installed?
What I suspect it means is that the end users (particularlly if those are techies) are using something else but the buyers (the people authorised to turn requisitions into orders) are using a corporate standard setup that includes IE6.
Do you have a source for that claim? because it contradicts everything i've seen from MS.
One option is to set up a web proxy that severely limits what IE6 can do (and don't allow web access without using your proxy).
In this way you can keep IE arround in a vm while significantly reducing it's exposure surface.
Anyone who did NOT see this coming must have been deaf, dumb and blind. IE6 broke EVERY standard and added lots of proprietary crap.
Oh yeah we knew that, what we didn't know was that they would go and break compatability with thier own stuff.
They kept win32 pretty consistant for many years (yes the occasional app has problems on more modern versions of windows but usually they work fine once you get the permissions right). They created win95 providing a stepping stone for those with DOS and badly behaved win16 stuff to go 32-bit gradually and they kept it alive much longer than they had originally planned and even added a common driver model for 98 and 2K making it easier for vendors to provide drivers for both systems. They introduced DPMI to let people write 32-bit DOS extenders in a windows compatible way!
That was the MS of the 90s and early 2000s, one where if you followed the rules during your app development sure you would be locked into MS but once stuff worked it tended to stay working.
there needs to be a printer that can run forever on a $10 ink cartridge in order to get me to print again.
Dot matrix printers came pretty close to offering that, dirt cheap cartridges that seemed to last practically forever. The downside of course was the low speed, high noise and often a requirement for tractor feed paper.
Personally my current recommendation is if you can live without colour get a laser. If you require color then it's a harder descision because color laser printers are both more expensive and have a lot more to go wrong than monochrome ones.
Here in the UK it seems you used to get a USB modem (designed for windows, can be used from linux but not particulally reliably) and now you get a router. Occasionally these routers can be configured to bridge the public IP onto ethernet but usually they can't.
Jetway do some mini-itx boards (they have both single and dual core atom boards in this style and some via based ones as well) with optional expansion modules. Fitting the appropriate expansion module gets you four independent ethernet ports (one on the board, three on the module) which is probablly enough for most setups. There is also a PCI slot as well which could be used for wireless.
I dunno how well they perform though (my guess is good enough to max out 100 megabit when pushing large packets though)
A standard ethernet frame 18 bytes of headers etc plus a bit of preamble (according to one website I just looked at this is 8 bytes but I think it varies with the type of ethernet being considered). TCP/IP is another 40 bytes (or a little more if there are special options) so the overhead is going to be arround 68 bytes per packet.
For a full sized packet (1500 bytes including the IP headers but excluding the ethernet headers) that's arround 5% overhead. For small packets it's much higher.
If the line is half duplex there is further overheads from the access control stuff and from sending the acks.
What this means is companies are spending tens of millions of dollars that buys them just a few weeks of unpirated sales.
The question is how many people are there who want the game ASAP and will pirate if they can but buy it if they can't? And is that number more or less than the number who will be driven away by draconian DRM.
And I don't think anyone can really answer that question.
when the only way to get an IPv4 address is to shut something else off.
As well as turning something off there is the option of moving stuff behind NAT.
This is what I would expect the large ISPs to do, rather than users getting a public IP by default they will probably get NAT by default and have to pay extra for a public IP. This will free up public IPs for more important/lucrative uses.
Note that procedural generation doesn't nessacerally mean you have to give everyone a different game.
Elite used a huge ammount of procedural generation but the seeds were always the same so everyone got the same game.
You can also show the user the seed and let them specify it to get a level again, see windows freecell for example.
be? Loss-less would be ideal but would run even modern data cards down to nothing in meantime.
According to TFA
"Each image is approx 50MB in its RAW form from the card - or transferred, which equates to a 117 TIFF file (8-bit) when unpacked and saved. So the supplied 2GB CF cards could hold just over 30 images when in the field. "
And much bigger CF cards are available if you want them. Newegg sell ones up to 128GB!
Really the only reasons to shoot lossy on any DSLR now is either because you are shooting thousands of photos per trip, because you are too cheap to buy a decent sized card, because of write speed issues or because you can't be bothered doing the post-processing. I doubt any of these will apply to the type of photographers who use medium format cameras.
Good cameras can store the raw CCD data for later postprocessing.
Even with JPEG though the important thing is you only take the loss hit ONCE. After that you can keep copying it as many times as needed without taking any further loss.
With analog formats like film every time you copy the photo you lose more quality.
Maybe it will if marketing wants it to but if it does they will be shit 50 megapixel shots.
The trouble is putting lots of megapixels on a small sensor doesn't work very well for a couple of reasons.
Firstly the coverage factor is poor on small high resolution sensors, most sensor types need some space between the active cells for various reasons, so more pixels means LESS active area.
Secondly as I understand it (i've done a little bit on optics but i'm not an expert) depth of field is related to the ratio between aperture and sensor size. So if you want lots of light (and you DO want lots of light because of "shot noise") AND a reasonable depth of field you need a big sensor.
Afaict mobile providers are already putting their users behind ISP level NAT.
I used to get many virus mails per day, since setting up clamav I get hardly any (probablly less than one a week)
I wouldn't use it as my only protection but it does a good job of clearing the flood of virus mails.