Let's see. It is rectangular in shape with a round thing on the face.
Could it resemble to a launderette?
Or could it look like a pendulum clock?
Well, it is to be pocket sized... so I would argue a buck note could fit the shape! Fair resemblance is a tough beast!
Sorry for being idiot.
Do you have an idea of what is the difference in EMI between a laptop with a CD drive and one without?
Do you have an idea of what is the difference in EMI between a MP3 player and the speakers they use for their announcement?
I do.
So someone should explain why I cannot operate any digital equipment during take off and landing while cabine crew can. I think that restrictions like "no laptop attached to CD reader or laser printer is allowed" are fake, to let people know that flying on an airplane is a serious thing, like going to the moon or doing heart surgery.
There is only one thing worse than subtle bugs and design flaws: deliberate stupidity!
They do for sure dayly/weekly backups and password changes. They use firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spywares and VPNs.
But you can bet there is none in that company that understand why.
(Please read my 17 years old signature!)
I can do the same with my digital camera or even with an analogue one or a tape video recorder: it is just a matter of making it easier and pocket size. Publishers should find a way to make information media "read once" like electronic paper. Or disallow people from reading a book with any electronic equipment at hand! Technology is a two-edges blade: it makes things easier to companies as well as to people.
It would be great if there were some details about the list of new features and big advances of this brand new office suite. If such a list is short when compared to the noise of the ringing bells of advertisement, then I would have called it Office 11 Plus reather than 12. Infact menu fading effects and arragement, colours, skins and the likes come as eye candy. We'd need some more brain candy instead!
Building bigger flash chips is not as exciting as building a flash chip as fast as volatile RAM.
That would be a real technology breakthrough! Can you imagine a PC that doesn't need a real switch off and that can turn back on in a second or two? Well, if you run that popular operating system you would still need complete reboots for a number of tasks. But that would be another story!
Right. But one would then compare these technologies with the real numbers. And Sun is doing more noise for machines based on Intel-like than for the beloved SPARC.
It seems that our world is dominated by only one CPU: the Intel-like ones. HP (formerly Compaq, formerly Digital) definitely buried the Alpha RISC CPU roadmap. As well as its own HP/PA (another RISC corpse). It is not clear whether IBM's PowerPC architecture will have a future other than the one in the gaming consoles with the Cell Architecture, now that even Apple is jumping onto the x86 cart. Sun is throwing its SPARC technology ot of the window as we can read in the above announcement. Lack of diversity will lead to a slow down in the overall computing technology evolution. But there is still some hope, as declared into the The Book of Mozilla, 7:15(Only availabe to selected believers).
You could mount the opticals under your wireless multimedia keyboard and get a full 105+ keys "mouse" with all the bells and whistles a normal user needs. This should make more sense than moving leds and keys to a mouse. And you would also be able to do the three-fingers-salute from your... mouse!
If a company is not responsible for the security flaws it put (or failed to fix/avoid) into products, why should someone be responsible for having disclosed them to the world?
If it's true, this company and all of its employees deserves the Nobel prize or whatever applies to this field.
If it's fake, this company, especially its marketing people, deserves the Nobel prize or whatever applies to this field.
Please, don't wake me up!
Unless you are really lucky like the searching and indexing companies, you can be easily killed by being a public company. Your publicly perceived value is the one of your stocks. While your real value is the one that yelds from your products and services when sold and used. Which one is more important? I hope that the tie-guys at TrollTech will take more care about technology than finance!
We should take care about an "open source virus" initiative. What could happen in the case someone started such a thing? You publish your virus code, someone else tests and fixes it, later other vira spawn from that code... and so on! Sounds really terrific!
It would be great now if the Superstring theory people could provide us with some interesting explaination. In any case thay have never thought about such an evidence... if the quoted info is really true.
Maybe I'm wrong, but modules are not there for development organisation issues.
The portability code (/usr/src/linux/arch) is about 45 MB, the whole sources are about 250MB. No big save to have Linux run only on x86, for example.
The kernel is big because, IMHO, it is complex!
Network activities should be considered malicious by semantics, not by syntax!
That is, anything coming from an IP address (syntax) cannot be considered malicious unless the activity itself or the content is (semantics). An intruder can gain control of a computer in another IP space and conduct malicious activities from there, thus hiding his/her originating IP address. Public email services host millions of email boxes and thousands of spammers: a thief hidden in a crowded market square! By using a syntax driven filter in the end there will be no communication at all! Semantics filtering, on the other hand, will keep malicious things aways, wherever they come from. Useless to say that syntax filtering is much easyer to implement than the semantics counterpart: this is why most people will try to implement it! There is no way to correct this behaviour: anyone is free to do whatever he/she want... until he/she will end with no communication at all!
Maybe that the time has come for Linus to take in some consideration the need for a change in the kernel code model. As of today it is released as a monolythic piece of software wheighing 27+ MB of compressed code (almost 240 MB when uncompressed).
If you add this to the complexity of an OS anyone can easily understand why a "partitioned" schema would greatly help the development. Of course I'm also thinking about an oldish querelle between Linus and Andy Tanenbaum about monolythic kernel and microkernel approaches. I'm not talking just about this, but at least about partitioning of the code into (almost) independed units. And maybe a microkernel approach could help to move in this direction: none can deny that both of them have a lot to teach about OSes. Please, send flames to/dev/null.
As long as there will be one-way DRM system, there will always be a by-pass to it.
With "one-way" I mean that all I need to enjoy contents is in my hands with no extarnal third party involved. As it happens with DVDs on a PC!
A two-ways DRM system involves real time data exchange with a third party for authorisation. And this would make (just) more difficult the by-pass. As it happens with cellular telephony.
In my humble opinion.
If I buy I PPC machine is because I'm sick with x86 based ones (or I have a different religion). If I buy such an upgrade it'd be because I'm sick with PPCs. Buying that upgrade instead of a full x86 machine means I'm still sticked to the PPC world. I don't think those upgrades would sell a lot.
My opinion is that Star Wars is like Monna Lisa.
First of all is should have a place in one big museum of arts. No questions it deserves this.
Second everyone (like Mr. D. Brown) is asking a lot of questions about strange things in the painting. Nonetheless it is a fashinating grat piece of arts challenging the ages. And so (IMHO) will SW.
Finally, if you study any movie (prequels and sequels especially), you'll find a lot of "strange things" in there. None can perfect! Maybe none would like to be.
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Let's see. It is rectangular in shape with a round thing on the face. ... so I would argue a buck note could fit the shape!
Could it resemble to a launderette?
Or could it look like a pendulum clock?
Well, it is to be pocket sized
Fair resemblance is a tough beast!
Sorry for being idiot.
Do you have an idea of what is the difference in EMI between a laptop with a CD drive and one without?
Do you have an idea of what is the difference in EMI between a MP3 player and the speakers they use for their announcement?
I do.
So someone should explain why I cannot operate any digital equipment during take off and landing while cabine crew can.
I think that restrictions like "no laptop attached to CD reader or laser printer is allowed" are fake, to let people know that flying on an airplane is a serious thing, like going to the moon or doing heart surgery.
There is only one thing worse than subtle bugs and design flaws: deliberate stupidity!
They do for sure dayly/weekly backups and password changes.
They use firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spywares and VPNs.
But you can bet there is none in that company that understand why. (Please read my 17 years old signature!)
I can do the same with my digital camera or even with an analogue one or a tape video recorder: it is just a matter of making it easier and pocket size.
Publishers should find a way to make information media "read once" like electronic paper.
Or disallow people from reading a book with any electronic equipment at hand!
Technology is a two-edges blade: it makes things easier to companies as well as to people.
It would be great if there were some details about the list of new features and big advances of this brand new office suite.
If such a list is short when compared to the noise of the ringing bells of advertisement, then I would have called it Office 11 Plus reather than 12.
Infact menu fading effects and arragement, colours, skins and the likes come as eye candy.
We'd need some more brain candy instead!
Building bigger flash chips is not as exciting as building a flash chip as fast as volatile RAM.
That would be a real technology breakthrough!
Can you imagine a PC that doesn't need a real switch off and that can turn back on in a second or two?
Well, if you run that popular operating system you would still need complete reboots for a number of tasks. But that would be another story!
Right. But one would then compare these technologies with the real numbers.
And Sun is doing more noise for machines based on Intel-like than for the beloved SPARC.
It seems that our world is dominated by only one CPU: the Intel-like ones.
HP (formerly Compaq, formerly Digital) definitely buried the Alpha RISC CPU roadmap. As well as its own HP/PA (another RISC corpse).
It is not clear whether IBM's PowerPC architecture will have a future other than the one in the gaming consoles with the Cell Architecture, now that even Apple is jumping onto the x86 cart.
Sun is throwing its SPARC technology ot of the window as we can read in the above announcement.
Lack of diversity will lead to a slow down in the overall computing technology evolution.
But there is still some hope, as declared into the The Book of Mozilla, 7:15(Only availabe to selected believers).
You could mount the opticals under your wireless multimedia keyboard and get a full 105+ keys "mouse" with all the bells and whistles a normal user needs. ... mouse!
This should make more sense than moving leds and keys to a mouse.
And you would also be able to do the three-fingers-salute from your
... when S3 will adopt the Quantum-Optical technology!
If a company is not responsible for the security flaws it put (or failed to fix/avoid) into products, why should someone be responsible for having disclosed them to the world?
If it's true, this company and all of its employees deserves the Nobel prize or whatever applies to this field.
If it's fake, this company, especially its marketing people, deserves the Nobel prize or whatever applies to this field.
Please, don't wake me up!
Unless you are really lucky like the searching and indexing companies, you can be easily killed by being a public company.
Your publicly perceived value is the one of your stocks.
While your real value is the one that yelds from your products and services when sold and used.
Which one is more important?
I hope that the tie-guys at TrollTech will take more care about technology than finance!
We should take care about an "open source virus" initiative. ... and so on!
What could happen in the case someone started such a thing?
You publish your virus code, someone else tests and fixes it, later other vira spawn from that code
Sounds really terrific!
It would be great now if the Superstring theory people could provide us with some interesting explaination. ... if the quoted info is really true.
In any case thay have never thought about such an evidence
Maybe I'm wrong, but modules are not there for development organisation issues.
The portability code (/usr/src/linux/arch) is about 45 MB, the whole sources are about 250MB. No big save to have Linux run only on x86, for example.
The kernel is big because, IMHO, it is complex!
Network activities should be considered malicious by semantics, not by syntax! ... until he/she will end with no communication at all!
That is, anything coming from an IP address (syntax) cannot be considered malicious unless the activity itself or the content is (semantics).
An intruder can gain control of a computer in another IP space and conduct malicious activities from there, thus hiding his/her originating IP address.
Public email services host millions of email boxes and thousands of spammers: a thief hidden in a crowded market square!
By using a syntax driven filter in the end there will be no communication at all!
Semantics filtering, on the other hand, will keep malicious things aways, wherever they come from.
Useless to say that syntax filtering is much easyer to implement than the semantics counterpart: this is why most people will try to implement it!
There is no way to correct this behaviour: anyone is free to do whatever he/she want
The document TIA-842 has been issued on April 1, 2005!
I'd not take in too serious consideration this doc!
Maybe that the time has come for Linus to take in some consideration the need for a change in the kernel code model. As of today it is released as a monolythic piece of software wheighing 27+ MB of compressed code (almost 240 MB when uncompressed). /dev/null.
If you add this to the complexity of an OS anyone can easily understand why a "partitioned" schema would greatly help the development.
Of course I'm also thinking about an oldish querelle between Linus and Andy Tanenbaum about monolythic kernel and microkernel approaches. I'm not talking just about this, but at least about partitioning of the code into (almost) independed units.
And maybe a microkernel approach could help to move in this direction: none can deny that both of them have a lot to teach about OSes.
Please, send flames to
It depends on how hard you can throw a USB device agaist a window!
As long as there will be one-way DRM system, there will always be a by-pass to it.
With "one-way" I mean that all I need to enjoy contents is in my hands with no extarnal third party involved. As it happens with DVDs on a PC!
A two-ways DRM system involves real time data exchange with a third party for authorisation. And this would make (just) more difficult the by-pass. As it happens with cellular telephony.
In my humble opinion.
Simply because you never stop learning!
If I buy I PPC machine is because I'm sick with x86 based ones (or I have a different religion).
If I buy such an upgrade it'd be because I'm sick with PPCs.
Buying that upgrade instead of a full x86 machine means I'm still sticked to the PPC world.
I don't think those upgrades would sell a lot.
My opinion is that Star Wars is like Monna Lisa.
First of all is should have a place in one big museum of arts. No questions it deserves this.
Second everyone (like Mr. D. Brown) is asking a lot of questions about strange things in the painting. Nonetheless it is a fashinating grat piece of arts challenging the ages. And so (IMHO) will SW.
Finally, if you study any movie (prequels and sequels especially), you'll find a lot of "strange things" in there. None can perfect! Maybe none would like to be.