We've been building bridges for the whole of recorded history, and some of them have stood for much of that time. and i'm sure many of them haven't
sure if you build a stone arch accross a narrow vally in an area with no sismic problems then it will stay up for a very long time, especially if the area is too dry for much plant life. However it will be very expensive for the ammount of utility it gives.
but of course we want more, we want our longest bridges longer, we want all our bridges able to stand being packed with heavy lorries we want to bridge accross fault lines and so on and of course like with everything we want it as cheaply as possible. The result is much narrower safety margins and use of new materials and construction styles which may suffer unanticipated problems. There is also the human nature to ignore problems until they become critical.
they wouldn't have dinged each other if they were working w/ each other to try to extract more money. Unless they left the negative feedback because they thought it would help cover up the shill status
sure shill bidding may be against policy but if you are carefull about it (e.g. don't use the same account for it too many times and don't bid insanely high) how would anyone know? Ebay has no way of knowing if buyer and seller ever completed the transaction or not unless one of them complains.
Since nothing was copied illegally, and a valid serial number was purchased from Microsoft in exchange for actual money, you still feel it could be copyright infringement? I'm glad you don't make laws. Your speculation is ridiculous. Instead of using the software you purchased you made a copy of a different product, how is that not copyright infringement?
Who's gonna know he's not using a legit copy of Windows? well there is wga, at the moment it seems they are being nice and just using failures to try and sell legit copies. However some must be wondering if and when MS will decide to go after someone who gets a wga failure and doesn't pay up. IIRC they are already giving rewards for snitching on the person who supplied the pirate software. The BSA has meant that corporate IT departments are paranoid about avoiding piracy and some of thier campaigns must rub off on the end users they deal with.
afaict in countries like china pirate software is tolerated by the authorites to an extent it never would be in the west with pirate software being sold openly in many places (I have seen dodgy software for sale in the UK at computer markets but never in more general settings). Sure even for westerners there is friends and internet filesharing but the former requires you to have the right group of friends (especially now there is activation to be bypassed for retail copies and vlk holders are living in fear of thier keys being blacklisted by wga creating a huge ammount of work) and the latter anrequires you to have a lot of patiance with the dodgier parts of the internet and also brings the risk of trouble from your ISP.
yes thats the paragraph I saw and the way I read that is that if you use retail or whitebox OEM media to do the downgrade you have to use an existing key then ring up and explain yourself to activate. Then I would assume that if you later need to reactivate the box you borrowed the key from you will probablly have to ring up and explain yourself again.
as you say if you have access to a vlk and the media to go with it or you have access to big brand OEM media of the right brand then there is no problem but if not it sounds like you could end up spending quite a lot of time on the phone to MS.
and If you don't already have appropriate media (say because all your existing media is big brand OEM media for the wrong brand) then it seems you have little choice but to buy a copy of XP retail (or bend the rules and buy a whitebox OEM pack).
btw 95 is 4.0 and i think 98 and ME are 4.1 and 4.2
but the real version numbers are not exposed much to users, the only thing that is in any obvious place with modern windows versions is the year or name (and worse ms uses names for thier desktop editions and years for thier server versions)
it's just not practical to keep stuffing more features into a monolithic kernel if you're not constantly getting more and more memory to run it on be carefull with your definition of monolithic.
linux is monolithic in the sense that everything that is part of the kernel runs in the same address space and has access to everything else in the kernel. However it has a module system allowing kernel code to be loaded and unloaded (though unloading is unusual) at the request of users, applications or hardware detection systems.
debian:/home/plugwash# ls -l/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1570231 2007-07-10 23:18/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 debian:/home/plugwash# du -sh/lib/modules/ 67M/lib/modules/ debian:/home/plugwash#
as you can see from the above with a debian kernel (and I doubt debians kernels are much different from those of other major general purpose distros) the vast majority of kernel code is in the form of modules. From a ram usage perspective I don't see how this is much different from a microkernel based architecture.
the problem I see with that is that once the 90 days are up then unless they have already acknolaged your complaint then it becomes your word against thiers as to whether you did indeed bring it to thier attention within 90 days.
that PDF doesn't say anything about them providing a new key, it appears they have to use thier existing XP key and then call the activation line and tell them they are downgrading. Presumablly this means whenever either box needs reactivation in future more phone calls will be required.
all in all it seems fairly painfull for those who want to downgrade and don't have access to XP vlk media.
iirc with the vlk system if your vlk got leaked you could end up with every machine in your company failing wga at once. Is the system of a license server really any worse than that for large enterprises?
Most major games are written using pre-made engines like Unreal, which typically are cross-platform. iirc epic at least charge a large ammount of money for each extra platform you want.
I, on the other hand would never, ever ask this question of a sales associate when purchasing a cell phone. I would likewise promptly return it should I be surprised surely if you really thought you were going to need extra batteries you would be looking into the cost of them at which point the non user replacability of the battery would become apparent pretty quickly.
apple laptops still have user replacable batteries. Probablly because if you are a heavy user of a laptop then you will drain multiple batteries in one trip.
America already has those - why would anyone need another engineer? because there are big problems to be sorted out over the next few decades (that is over the working life of people who are graduating now).
where are we going to get our energy from? conventional oil is on its way out, coal and unconventional oil are heavilly pollouting. Natual gas is not as critical as oil but has some similar problems. Add to that the fact that the developing world is demanding ever more energy and people in much of the west are scared shitless of nuclear and things do not look good.
related to the above how are we going to deal with global warming? are we going to try and stop it (all attempts to do this so far have been pretty futile) or are we going to have to deal with the problems it brings? either way engineers will be needed!
how are we going to power the cars, planes and trains (yes i know trains can be electric but afaict the maintinance costs make that only feasible on heavilly used lines and there is also the problem of trains that must run between areas using incompatible systems) that are so vital to our modern economy when all our energy comes from sources that are unsuitable for portable use? the hydrogen economy is one possible soloution but it won't be an easy one.
Where are people in areas where the deep aquifers are being pumped dry going to get thier water from when those run out?
and we need all the engineers who work to design variants on a theme. Sure two big buildings are similar but each one will need a lot of new design work either because people want it to look different or because of different local conditions.
and of course besides all that there is also inventing the next big things which is something the west must keep doing if we want to keep on top of the economic pile.
last time i tried this I ended up failing because the only version of ntfs-3g for the mac I could find wanted an older macfuse than I had installed and i couldn't find any way to remove or downgrade macfuse.
I then tried using fink and I got ntfs-3g to install that way but I could not get it to behave properly in finder (from the console i could access it fine)
do you have any known good combinations of versions (that work together allowing me to do things like copy files to the windows partion using finder/save stuff to the partion from mac apps) with download links availible other than the very old ones mentioned in that article?
with windows I buy a peice of hardware (I include things like scanners, printers, external storage etc) and it comes clearly marked on the box what versions of windows it will work with and if drivers are required they are included in the box and easy to install.
with linux if you are lucky the driver is just included, If not you are in for a world of hurt trying to get a driver that isn't part of the standard kernel and may be outdated installed.
Of course, if it's doing something really vital like managing the root FS (possible in a proper microkernel but not in Linux Why do you claim its not possible? Afaict an initrd can be used to mount a fuse filesystem to be used as the root filesystem.
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We've been building bridges for the whole of recorded history, and some of them have stood for much of that time.
and i'm sure many of them haven't
sure if you build a stone arch accross a narrow vally in an area with no sismic problems then it will stay up for a very long time, especially if the area is too dry for much plant life. However it will be very expensive for the ammount of utility it gives.
but of course we want more, we want our longest bridges longer, we want all our bridges able to stand being packed with heavy lorries we want to bridge accross fault lines and so on and of course like with everything we want it as cheaply as possible. The result is much narrower safety margins and use of new materials and construction styles which may suffer unanticipated problems. There is also the human nature to ignore problems until they become critical.
sorry /. stripped out my <conspiracy> and </conspiracy>
they wouldn't have dinged each other if they were working w/ each other to try to extract more money.
Unless they left the negative feedback because they thought it would help cover up the shill status
sure shill bidding may be against policy but if you are carefull about it (e.g. don't use the same account for it too many times and don't bid insanely high) how would anyone know? Ebay has no way of knowing if buyer and seller ever completed the transaction or not unless one of them complains.
Since nothing was copied illegally, and a valid serial number was purchased from Microsoft in exchange for actual money, you still feel it could be copyright infringement? I'm glad you don't make laws. Your speculation is ridiculous.
Instead of using the software you purchased you made a copy of a different product, how is that not copyright infringement?
Who's gonna know he's not using a legit copy of Windows?
well there is wga, at the moment it seems they are being nice and just using failures to try and sell legit copies. However some must be wondering if and when MS will decide to go after someone who gets a wga failure and doesn't pay up. IIRC they are already giving rewards for snitching on the person who supplied the pirate software. The BSA has meant that corporate IT departments are paranoid about avoiding piracy and some of thier campaigns must rub off on the end users they deal with.
afaict in countries like china pirate software is tolerated by the authorites to an extent it never would be in the west with pirate software being sold openly in many places (I have seen dodgy software for sale in the UK at computer markets but never in more general settings). Sure even for westerners there is friends and internet filesharing but the former requires you to have the right group of friends (especially now there is activation to be bypassed for retail copies and vlk holders are living in fear of thier keys being blacklisted by wga creating a huge ammount of work) and the latter anrequires you to have a lot of patiance with the dodgier parts of the internet and also brings the risk of trouble from your ISP.
yes thats the paragraph I saw and the way I read that is that if you use retail or whitebox OEM media to do the downgrade you have to use an existing key then ring up and explain yourself to activate. Then I would assume that if you later need to reactivate the box you borrowed the key from you will probablly have to ring up and explain yourself again.
as you say if you have access to a vlk and the media to go with it or you have access to big brand OEM media of the right brand then there is no problem but if not it sounds like you could end up spending quite a lot of time on the phone to MS.
and If you don't already have appropriate media (say because all your existing media is big brand OEM media for the wrong brand) then it seems you have little choice but to buy a copy of XP retail (or bend the rules and buy a whitebox OEM pack).
btw 95 is 4.0 and i think 98 and ME are 4.1 and 4.2
but the real version numbers are not exposed much to users, the only thing that is in any obvious place with modern windows versions is the year or name (and worse ms uses names for thier desktop editions and years for thier server versions)
it's just not practical to keep stuffing more features into a monolithic kernel if you're not constantly getting more and more memory to run it on
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64 /lib/modules/ /lib/modules/
be carefull with your definition of monolithic.
linux is monolithic in the sense that everything that is part of the kernel runs in the same address space and has access to everything else in the kernel. However it has a module system allowing kernel code to be loaded and unloaded (though unloading is unusual) at the request of users, applications or hardware detection systems.
debian:/home/plugwash# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1570231 2007-07-10 23:18
debian:/home/plugwash# du -sh
67M
debian:/home/plugwash#
as you can see from the above with a debian kernel (and I doubt debians kernels are much different from those of other major general purpose distros) the vast majority of kernel code is in the form of modules. From a ram usage perspective I don't see how this is much different from a microkernel based architecture.
just because you use . as a thousand seperator in your native language doesn't mean you should be doing it when writing english.
the problem I see with that is that once the 90 days are up then unless they have already acknolaged your complaint then it becomes your word against thiers as to whether you did indeed bring it to thier attention within 90 days.
1 - MOLP will require it after a grace period
last i checked MS volume licenses were still offering downgrade rights all the way to windows 95!
that PDF doesn't say anything about them providing a new key, it appears they have to use thier existing XP key and then call the activation line and tell them they are downgrading. Presumablly this means whenever either box needs reactivation in future more phone calls will be required.
all in all it seems fairly painfull for those who want to downgrade and don't have access to XP vlk media.
iirc with the vlk system if your vlk got leaked you could end up with every machine in your company failing wga at once. Is the system of a license server really any worse than that for large enterprises?
Most major games are written using pre-made engines like Unreal, which typically are cross-platform.
iirc epic at least charge a large ammount of money for each extra platform you want.
I, on the other hand would never, ever ask this question of a sales associate when purchasing a cell phone. I would likewise promptly return it should I be surprised
surely if you really thought you were going to need extra batteries you would be looking into the cost of them at which point the non user replacability of the battery would become apparent pretty quickly.
apple laptops still have user replacable batteries. Probablly because if you are a heavy user of a laptop then you will drain multiple batteries in one trip.
America already has those - why would anyone need another engineer?
because there are big problems to be sorted out over the next few decades (that is over the working life of people who are graduating now).
where are we going to get our energy from? conventional oil is on its way out, coal and unconventional oil are heavilly pollouting. Natual gas is not as critical as oil but has some similar problems. Add to that the fact that the developing world is demanding ever more energy and people in much of the west are scared shitless of nuclear and things do not look good.
related to the above how are we going to deal with global warming? are we going to try and stop it (all attempts to do this so far have been pretty futile) or are we going to have to deal with the problems it brings? either way engineers will be needed!
how are we going to power the cars, planes and trains (yes i know trains can be electric but afaict the maintinance costs make that only feasible on heavilly used lines and there is also the problem of trains that must run between areas using incompatible systems) that are so vital to our modern economy when all our energy comes from sources that are unsuitable for portable use? the hydrogen economy is one possible soloution but it won't be an easy one.
Where are people in areas where the deep aquifers are being pumped dry going to get thier water from when those run out?
and we need all the engineers who work to design variants on a theme. Sure two big buildings are similar but each one will need a lot of new design work either because people want it to look different or because of different local conditions.
and of course besides all that there is also inventing the next big things which is something the west must keep doing if we want to keep on top of the economic pile.
surely they could make the bits that benifit you time limited while making the bits that benifit them time unlimited
last time i tried this I ended up failing because the only version of ntfs-3g for the mac I could find wanted an older macfuse than I had installed and i couldn't find any way to remove or downgrade macfuse.
I then tried using fink and I got ntfs-3g to install that way but I could not get it to behave properly in finder (from the console i could access it fine)
do you have any known good combinations of versions (that work together allowing me to do things like copy files to the windows partion using finder/save stuff to the partion from mac apps) with download links availible other than the very old ones mentioned in that article?
I think the real problem is that in most crashes by the time it is realised there will be a crash it is too late to use parachutes.
i'm sure on test flights for some jet airliners they added exit tubes that allowed a parachute jump to be made.
root already has the power to load custom code into the kernel which in turn can do whatever it likes to hardware.
with windows I buy a peice of hardware (I include things like scanners, printers, external storage etc) and it comes clearly marked on the box what versions of windows it will work with and if drivers are required they are included in the box and easy to install.
with linux if you are lucky the driver is just included, If not you are in for a world of hurt trying to get a driver that isn't part of the standard kernel and may be outdated installed.
Of course, if it's doing something really vital like managing the root FS (possible in a proper microkernel but not in Linux
Why do you claim its not possible? Afaict an initrd can be used to mount a fuse filesystem to be used as the root filesystem.