I'm not sure if all of you just want to post ASAP or can't read but this does not mean they will bundle azureus with adware of any sorts. AFAIK, a content layer will just provide a way of getting free content (they said in TFA that they have not yet analyzed any serious payment methods so this could mean it will be free, or not). Too bad they won't let the big distributors come into play:
"Large movie studios and record labels will not be targeted for the project, as the Azureus team do not believe that they are ready yet. "You're not going to see Star Wars or Batman quite yet," joked Rohter."
So basically everybody will be allowed to make a movie, then post it on this platform, and if I will like the "genre" I will just download it... Kindof:).
Anyway, I think it's premature to judge anything until we see what they've got.
I'm not sure why this is news, I mean, seeing that a simillar robot was planned and partly developed in 2001.
What I also don't understand is, why the heck the satellites use only ultrasound waves for navigation and positioning. Does anybody know, how they know if something is in front of them? Another robot, a wall, a person? It doesn't say anything about any additional sensors does it? Hopefully it has some:-).
I would also include wireless technology on board to allow the robot to talk to the ship and other robots / sattelites. This way it would be easier to get their position and allow the astronouts to monitor it remotely...
I think the problem with why there has been less interest lies not within the kids but in the environment they are in. I remember back when I was in primary school (when I was 9 to be precise) computing was something fairly new, especially here and at that age. As was programming. I also remember most of my friends wanting to play games and do nothing. I was different, I wanted to make the computer do something. The key to me, gradualy evolving into a programmer and a student of CS, was our teacher. She thought me the fun parts of programming first as opposed to what a lot of people are doing now. For example, in high school our CS teacher actually starts to explain bits and bytes and how to calculate the length of a file from the number of characters inside one. Well, really, beautifull.
I don't know about you, but if I never programmed before, thinking of all those bytes and stuff, would have made me feel uneasy to start. I mean, I don't know, will I be smart enough to understand? She doesn't say that, there are languages like LOGO that you can actually learn stuff. She says that computing is a complex task, with 1 and 0... Given this, most of my friends thought I was the über geek at that time. I mean, considering they had no knowledge of the computer, when I showed them a fairly simple program, something that I wrote, they would just go like, wow. So I think that the problem is, as I've said in the environment.
If we want more people to program we have to start teaching them in a different way, in a way that promotes self learning and which does not imply that knowing how to program means that you are a geek. We'd have to change the world... But the other question is, do we want more people to program? These days anyone who has seen a C++ code file can contribute to an open source project, which is great, if he has some knowledge to contribute, or very bad if he just bodges up something that works but is impossible to maintain. This same is true for companies who employ non qualifyed students to do their work. It happens that the end program looks great, and does exactly what they asked it to do, but when they want to maintain it, they see stupidities like:
Sring s = new String("");
This is, btw, a real example from a code review at our company. So, maybe we should just leave it like it is, make people think that programming is an elite skill that only a few know. Those who really want to learn will learn. As many of the posters before me stated, they learned themselves. I did too; granted with a few pushes from my teacher but still, after primary school I was more or less on my own. And I think this was OK.
In conclusion, no, I don't think people are losing interest in programming, I just think it's the same percentage of people who are interested, but it's a higher demand. So we either force people (kids) to program and make them into bitter programmers who write spam zombies, spyware and adware, or we let them learn and write cool software that actually helps us do something better. I for one, opt for the second options as I have way to much spam in my inbox anyway:-).
And as more and more people contribute it will become a nightmare to maintain and will be relayered to a better environment. Typicall OS project if I may add.
As a software developer I can tell you that customers are a pain in the arse. I don't know if you know that yet, but most of them expect software to be written within 5 minutes of their first phone call that something is not like they want it. And I Microsoft releases patches, it's just not as easy as you say to simply demand a patch from the developers. I mean, come on, do you think that, especially for large scale enterprise applications, when a patch rolls in, they can deploy everything in one day, fix, test, release? It's a long process!
Although I fail to see why patches in securty would affect any such application, provided it were sufficiently designed and planned. Of course, if you planned ahead, you probably also told the customer not to install patches until the patch has been ensured to work seamlessly with your application. I also fail to see why standard support would include this issue -- this is special, extended support.
I've already seen applications gone through a firm I work, that were specifically designed for Windows 2000 running a special version of SP (don't know which,but not the latest) and a particular version of the XML parser etc. All support would stop if updates were installed. Granted, this is not good practice, but...
I also fail to agree that it isn't MS responsibility to provide backwards compatibility. It is, to some extent. If they changed the main API for example, for Forms I think most developers would be pissed about it. Can you imagine what would happen? NO APPLICATION (except those running in DOS mode) would work! Talk about angry support calls. However, I think that first and foremost it should be Microsoft's concern to make their products secure. Even if it means a small subset of backwards compatibility.
He says that he gets mail that's on his approve list. Which means that everything else (like mails from pissed Slashdotters (read above)) gets sent to his "staff" of Junk filters. If they find anything they cannot handle or interesting, they forward it to him with low priority I guess. Great system, but essentially a whitelist.
I'm sorry, I thought I heard you say that Vista does not provide any new applications. Well that's just plain wrong. How about the sidebar, sync center, photo gallery or even the calendar. Based on this link there will also be some new games.
And besides I don't think the problem with Microsoft not porting their software to.NET is the lack of trust into this platform. I think it is in lack of integration with Vista itself. I do not know who.NET is progressing with Vista style controls, buttons, lists, new interfaces and shell styles that are fairly new to the OS market..NET is not yet equipped to handle them correctly, or its not tested. And besides, we know that Microsoft wants things to look nice. And the controls they developed for Office (p.s.: it's been changed!) or Vista are not developed in.NET and it takes considerable effort to replicate them convicingly (own experience).
IMHO, Microsoft believes firmly in.NET and among other things they have their corporate website to prove it. I also bet that they will develop more and more applications in it, but I also believe that they do not require to do any more convincing. They have a large user base, that's all they need -- the development will be pushed on by this user base.
Actually, I think I'm running on Windows, cause I can't really set my mind on anything for longer than 43 days, and after that I just see the world as a blue bubble. I wonder...
And that is exactly why this is a monopoly. You see, Microsoft does allow others to play their file types, the specifications for the file formats are fairly open. You see, WMA is a subtype of ASF, documentation for which you can download here. And this is obviously a logical move as Microsoft does not develop hardware. And it sure as hell wouldn't fend off iPods playing their file format as long as Apple would pay to use it. But Apple does not allow (as far as I've managed to read in the posts) implementing and playing of their formats by their competitors. What I'm trying to say is, that AFAIK, Apple will not allow Creative to develop a direct iPod comptetitor (because it won't allow them to play the music they purchse on ITunes) -- which is a monopoly.
Even though I might not have anything wise to add to this discussion I'd just like to thank you for speaking out and being honest. And most of all, for not posting as an AC. It really shows you've come to terms with what you've done -- no matter how bad or good it was, and I refuse to judge! But I admire you for this.
Perhaps you would like to see a law passed that imposes mandatory death penalty on all sex offenders where children are involved
Speaking of such laws is stupid. Even considering them is stupid, I have to agree. Some people do deal with stuff with anger and rage which I belive is simply wrong. If everyone would stop, count to 10 (or 10^10^100), and take a deep breath and a rational argument, this world would be a better place - e.g. no war on Iraq, no terror. After all, the same thing fuels it, hate and anger towards difference.
If someone is different, most people say: "Hey, let's burn him!". However bad and digsusting to my personal taste pedophilia may be, I think that it does not excuse the broadnes of the laws passed by this verdict. Ok, so children are involved, but, it's really a matter of personal taste -- some people like mature women/men. Yes, I know, they have the ability to discern between good and bad, wrong or right, etc. and children don't. Personally I think possesion and viewing (or burning for that matter) should not be illegal, but making pedophile material should be.
If rational arguments were chosen and thought put into this matter it would easly be observable that by stoping the production, one can stop the possesion, but not the other way around. Because If he or she is already making it, there's a good chance they won't stop just because nobody wants to look at them anymore. What matters is that they are having fun.
Anyway, back to my point on difference. We judge the muslim world because they have certain habits and laws. Some people (read Bush) want to attack them because he doesn't understand that not everybody is a "west texan girl". And so on...
Well, my point in this post would be, that everybody should think really hard before doing anything that migth end up hurting somebody (or blowing up a whole nation). This includes the judges! They are not above the law, even though they might impose it.
You really shoud have mentioned more clearly it's from SG-1. I thought you meant Samantha from Sex in the City:-). Granted she's not Carter, but granted, I don't watch that show too much:-). However I'd imagine she's not the best role model for teenage girls.
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What bothers me is what he'll do with it. I mean will he send you an e-mail saying: "I know you have a pulmonary disease! Stop smoking or pay me 5000 USD" ?
It really says a lot, doesn't it?:-) Well, it doesn't!
FOX must have the greatest talent scouts in the world, but the worst executives. "Firefly" is the best example. It was simultaneously the best new show, the best western series in decades, and the best sci-fi show on TV (and coming from a die-hard Trekkie, placing them above "Enterprise" is saying something). They didn't have a single bad episode, and some were spectacular. The premise, the characters, the plots and the dialogue were all top-notch. And FOX cancelled it without even really giving it a chance.
Judging by the 96% of people who found that comment usefull, the author probably is not alone. Having a poll done to see if there's an audience is a great marketing move. It'll attract die hard fans to the TV if they'll air it, and it will attract free promototion for the station on various news sites/papers (e.g. slashdot). Brilliant! Even if the show is a complete disaster the move is really a good one (from a business/marketing perspective).
Microsoft is to open up the source code behind its server communication protocols, in an attempt to get the European Commission off its back.
I'm pretty sure this isn't Windows... actually, being a developer myself I KNOW this is not the Windows source code. It's just source code to the protocols. It's a great step forward no less, but anyway.
There will be no additional charge for access to the code.
Er... and the article summary states that developers will have to pay an unspecified amount of money... Ok...
RTFA! That's all I have to say. It's a really short article you know.
Actually, according to the patent we don't owe anybody anything.
If you were to RTFA, you would see that it says:
A system for displaying the status of a plurality of threaded tasks operating in the background includes a status bar; a progress control bar in the status bar for a primary task operating in the background and including a progress bar and first and second action buttons; the progress bar visually representing progress of a primary background operation; the first action button being selectable by a user for initiating an action with respect to the primary background operation and the second action button being selectable by a user for alternately displaying and canceling a drop list of secondary progress control bars for secondary tasks also operating in the background.
WHICH IS NOT A PROGRESS BAR but rather a special status pane. I don't care if they patent that. I'll implement it with two or three different buttons. I won't use a button, whatever...
Please, don't mislead the readers. And don't consider going into patent law, actually don't consider going into law at all - you have to read the whole document.
On a side note, this is however, what Eclipse uses -- or the whole article. But since development of that falls under IBM, I think we have no problem using that also.
I think it's people like you that help "common users" lose faith in salesmen. You tell them a complete lie to get them to follow your own personal decision. It sucks. Anybody who does that should not work in this industry, but should live in a basement downloading pr0n. Either you present them with hard facts ("Office will work the same which ever one you buy, but you will pay this much less for this one, but in turn, get this...") and not hard lies.
Ok, i've been reading about this for much too long. It seems that there are two main issues here, how the flaw went unnoticed and why Microsoft didn't reimplement the whole legacy thing.
Did anybody even RTFA? I've seen a lot of people already writing that Microsoft should have re-implemented the Legacy code, yadayadayada, write a new OS from scratch, introduce a new virtual machine just for OS compatibility. However, you all missed something very important. WMF is a well-defined standard (not saying a good one, but a well-defined one!) which means that Microsoft (or Wine for that matter) HAS TO IMPLEMENT IT WITH CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS. One of them, is the SetAbortProc procedure that's been causing so much trouble. If Microsoft would failed to implement one part of this standard we would be getting comments like "M$ is 3vil, they don't respect standards...". I bet they're sorry that the security flaw got missed. I think it shows on their stock also! But non the less, it's fixed now.
Come to think of it, I think that, in a world where there were no exploits (PC-wise) the whole callback function scenario was pretty cool. You'd just say that if something fails, notify the user with this procedure in my code, and since you already no it failed (no return false statement:-) ), you can also do some other tasks.
One more sidenote, Microsoft HAS REIMPLEMENTED the code. This is proven by the following statement in the article:
With WMF we want to be very clear: the Windows 9x platform is not vulnerable to any "Critical" attack vector. The reason Windows 9x is not vulnerable to a "Critical" attack vector is because an additional step exists in the Win9x platform: When not printing to a printer, applications will simply never process the SetAbortProc record. Although the vulnerable code does exist in the Win9x platform, all "Critical" attack vectors are blocked by this additional step.
I have no idea why they've let this slip though in the XP.
So, I live in Slovenia (I doubt any of you know where that is). But we have a nuclear plant. And it's been running for quite a while now. Because I've also studied physics I've found out, during some lectures, that the measurments taken around the nuclear plant show, that the grass around it recieves the exact same amount of the yearly dosage of radiation as something located far far away. Therefore, this energy is very clean, much cleaner than cole.
Right, so, then a disaster happens. Well, chances are very slim for a disaster. Today, we have a higher safety regulation for operating of nuclear power plants, and we are not competing on who gets to restart the turbines faster (check this) without using safety measures.
Besides disaster possibility, the problem is also waste dispossal as a poster pointed out before me. Where to put it. You simply cannot dissolve the waste, or this is to expensive. And I don't think the problem with space dumping is the image of Columbia blowing up. Waste baskets can be made that whitstand such blasts. It's more of the awarness that we can't already pollute the space, since we fuc*** up mother Earth. And it's becoming an increasing security concern too with all the terrorists roaming around. Imagine a break-in into the waste storage facility. It's easy to make a dirty bomb. Breaking into the plant itself is much harder, although it's still a possibility.
In conclusion, I think we have to accept the risks of possible danger (we fly with airlens, but those also crash don't they?) if in turn, we get back a possibility for a cleaner environment. And until we develop things than can use all the free enegry just lying around and as long as we use things that rely on our supply of power (computers among other things:-) ), we'll have to face it that we live in a world we created. Maybe we should build reactors underground, or in a separate nation somewhere in the middle of nowhere... It's all a possibility. Anything is better than coal.
If you know who Yngwie is, than this is hillarious. I'm just sorry almost nobody knows who he is:-). And I think it's 20 notes...:-) IF he tried really hard. And If we stay on this topic, somewhere Tommy Iommi laments... "Give it to me! I'll drop my E string 10 times as low as Robert plays it"
Er, rtfa? They did not honour him because he invented the iPOD, they honoured him because he designed how it looks. And admitedly, it's iconic! And everybody knows the click-wheel based square that plays music. Personally, I think he deserved it.
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I'm not sure if all of you just want to post ASAP or can't read but this does not mean they will bundle azureus with adware of any sorts. AFAIK, a content layer will just provide a way of getting free content (they said in TFA that they have not yet analyzed any serious payment methods so this could mean it will be free, or not). Too bad they won't let the big distributors come into play:
:).
"Large movie studios and record labels will not be targeted for the project, as the Azureus team do not believe that they are ready yet. "You're not going to see Star Wars or Batman quite yet," joked Rohter."
So basically everybody will be allowed to make a movie, then post it on this platform, and if I will like the "genre" I will just download it... Kindof
Anyway, I think it's premature to judge anything until we see what they've got.
I'm not sure why this is news, I mean, seeing that a simillar robot was planned and partly developed in 2001.
:-).
What I also don't understand is, why the heck the satellites use only ultrasound waves for navigation and positioning. Does anybody know, how they know if something is in front of them? Another robot, a wall, a person? It doesn't say anything about any additional sensors does it? Hopefully it has some
I would also include wireless technology on board to allow the robot to talk to the ship and other robots / sattelites. This way it would be easier to get their position and allow the astronouts to monitor it remotely...
I think the problem with why there has been less interest lies not within the kids but in the environment they are in. I remember back when I was in primary school (when I was 9 to be precise) computing was something fairly new, especially here and at that age. As was programming. I also remember most of my friends wanting to play games and do nothing. I was different, I wanted to make the computer do something. The key to me, gradualy evolving into a programmer and a student of CS, was our teacher. She thought me the fun parts of programming first as opposed to what a lot of people are doing now. For example, in high school our CS teacher actually starts to explain bits and bytes and how to calculate the length of a file from the number of characters inside one. Well, really, beautifull.
... Given this, most of my friends thought I was the über geek at that time. I mean, considering they had no knowledge of the computer, when I showed them a fairly simple program, something that I wrote, they would just go like, wow. So I think that the problem is, as I've said in the environment.
:-).
I don't know about you, but if I never programmed before, thinking of all those bytes and stuff, would have made me feel uneasy to start. I mean, I don't know, will I be smart enough to understand? She doesn't say that, there are languages like LOGO that you can actually learn stuff. She says that computing is a complex task, with 1 and 0
If we want more people to program we have to start teaching them in a different way, in a way that promotes self learning and which does not imply that knowing how to program means that you are a geek. We'd have to change the world... But the other question is, do we want more people to program? These days anyone who has seen a C++ code file can contribute to an open source project, which is great, if he has some knowledge to contribute, or very bad if he just bodges up something that works but is impossible to maintain. This same is true for companies who employ non qualifyed students to do their work. It happens that the end program looks great, and does exactly what they asked it to do, but when they want to maintain it, they see stupidities like:
Sring s = new String("");
This is, btw, a real example from a code review at our company. So, maybe we should just leave it like it is, make people think that programming is an elite skill that only a few know. Those who really want to learn will learn. As many of the posters before me stated, they learned themselves. I did too; granted with a few pushes from my teacher but still, after primary school I was more or less on my own. And I think this was OK.
In conclusion, no, I don't think people are losing interest in programming, I just think it's the same percentage of people who are interested, but it's a higher demand. So we either force people (kids) to program and make them into bitter programmers who write spam zombies, spyware and adware, or we let them learn and write cool software that actually helps us do something better. I for one, opt for the second options as I have way to much spam in my inbox anyway
And as more and more people contribute it will become a nightmare to maintain and will be relayered to a better environment. Typicall OS project if I may add.
Well, yes, but not really.
As a software developer I can tell you that customers are a pain in the arse. I don't know if you know that yet, but most of them expect software to be written within 5 minutes of their first phone call that something is not like they want it. And I Microsoft releases patches, it's just not as easy as you say to simply demand a patch from the developers. I mean, come on, do you think that, especially for large scale enterprise applications, when a patch rolls in, they can deploy everything in one day, fix, test, release? It's a long process!
Although I fail to see why patches in securty would affect any such application, provided it were sufficiently designed and planned. Of course, if you planned ahead, you probably also told the customer not to install patches until the patch has been ensured to work seamlessly with your application. I also fail to see why standard support would include this issue -- this is special, extended support.
I've already seen applications gone through a firm I work, that were specifically designed for Windows 2000 running a special version of SP (don't know which,but not the latest) and a particular version of the XML parser etc. All support would stop if updates were installed. Granted, this is not good practice, but...
I also fail to agree that it isn't MS responsibility to provide backwards compatibility. It is, to some extent. If they changed the main API for example, for Forms I think most developers would be pissed about it. Can you imagine what would happen? NO APPLICATION (except those running in DOS mode) would work! Talk about angry support calls. However, I think that first and foremost it should be Microsoft's concern to make their products secure. Even if it means a small subset of backwards compatibility.
He says that he gets mail that's on his approve list. Which means that everything else (like mails from pissed Slashdotters (read above)) gets sent to his "staff" of Junk filters. If they find anything they cannot handle or interesting, they forward it to him with low priority I guess. Great system, but essentially a whitelist.
One of the more appropriate ones for this occassion:
Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.
I suspect he tried to sneak himself out there to beat the crap out of it and the rocket exploded.
And yet, in your busy schedule you managed to find a way to post this much bs to Slashdot. Brilliant! Who's your time manager and can I rent her/him?
I'm sorry, I thought I heard you say that Vista does not provide any new applications. Well that's just plain wrong. How about the sidebar, sync center, photo gallery or even the calendar. Based on this link there will also be some new games.
.NET is the lack of trust into this platform. I think it is in lack of integration with Vista itself. I do not know who .NET is progressing with Vista style controls, buttons, lists, new interfaces and shell styles that are fairly new to the OS market. .NET is not yet equipped to handle them correctly, or its not tested. And besides, we know that Microsoft wants things to look nice. And the controls they developed for Office (p.s.: it's been changed!) or Vista are not developed in .NET and it takes considerable effort to replicate them convicingly (own experience).
.NET and among other things they have their corporate website to prove it. I also bet that they will develop more and more applications in it, but I also believe that they do not require to do any more convincing. They have a large user base, that's all they need -- the development will be pushed on by this user base.
And besides I don't think the problem with Microsoft not porting their software to
IMHO, Microsoft believes firmly in
But most of all you're a 26 year old who doesn't speak english and provides meaningless comments. GREAT WORK!
I for one am I surprised Microsoft posted the documents in PDF rather than in their Word format ... I wonder why... Did anyone even noticed that?
Actually, I think I'm running on Windows, cause I can't really set my mind on anything for longer than 43 days, and after that I just see the world as a blue bubble. I wonder...
And that is exactly why this is a monopoly. You see, Microsoft does allow others to play their file types, the specifications for the file formats are fairly open. You see, WMA is a subtype of ASF, documentation for which you can download here. And this is obviously a logical move as Microsoft does not develop hardware. And it sure as hell wouldn't fend off iPods playing their file format as long as Apple would pay to use it. But Apple does not allow (as far as I've managed to read in the posts) implementing and playing of their formats by their competitors. What I'm trying to say is, that AFAIK, Apple will not allow Creative to develop a direct iPod comptetitor (because it won't allow them to play the music they purchse on ITunes) -- which is a monopoly.
Even though I might not have anything wise to add to this discussion I'd just like to thank you for speaking out and being honest. And most of all, for not posting as an AC. It really shows you've come to terms with what you've done -- no matter how bad or good it was, and I refuse to judge! But I admire you for this.
Perhaps you would like to see a law passed that imposes mandatory death penalty on all sex offenders where children are involved
Speaking of such laws is stupid. Even considering them is stupid, I have to agree. Some people do deal with stuff with anger and rage which I belive is simply wrong. If everyone would stop, count to 10 (or 10^10^100), and take a deep breath and a rational argument, this world would be a better place - e.g. no war on Iraq, no terror. After all, the same thing fuels it, hate and anger towards difference.
If someone is different, most people say: "Hey, let's burn him!". However bad and digsusting to my personal taste pedophilia may be, I think that it does not excuse the broadnes of the laws passed by this verdict. Ok, so children are involved, but, it's really a matter of personal taste -- some people like mature women/men. Yes, I know, they have the ability to discern between good and bad, wrong or right, etc. and children don't. Personally I think possesion and viewing (or burning for that matter) should not be illegal, but making pedophile material should be.
If rational arguments were chosen and thought put into this matter it would easly be observable that by stoping the production, one can stop the possesion, but not the other way around. Because If he or she is already making it, there's a good chance they won't stop just because nobody wants to look at them anymore. What matters is that they are having fun.
Anyway, back to my point on difference. We judge the muslim world because they have certain habits and laws. Some people (read Bush) want to attack them because he doesn't understand that not everybody is a "west texan girl". And so on...
Well, my point in this post would be, that everybody should think really hard before doing anything that migth end up hurting somebody (or blowing up a whole nation). This includes the judges! They are not above the law, even though they might impose it.
You really shoud have mentioned more clearly it's from SG-1. I thought you meant Samantha from Sex in the City :-). Granted she's not Carter, but granted, I don't watch that show too much :-). However I'd imagine she's not the best role model for teenage girls.
We wish! Then we could:
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What bothers me is what he'll do with it. I mean will he send you an e-mail saying: "I know you have a pulmonary disease! Stop smoking or pay me 5000 USD" ?
I just love the user comment on the IMDB site:
:-) Well, it doesn't!
What was FOX thinking?!, 10 October 2003
It really says a lot, doesn't it?
FOX must have the greatest talent scouts in the world, but the worst executives. "Firefly" is the best example. It was simultaneously the best new show, the best western series in decades, and the best sci-fi show on TV (and coming from a die-hard Trekkie, placing them above "Enterprise" is saying something). They didn't have a single bad episode, and some were spectacular. The premise, the characters, the plots and the dialogue were all top-notch. And FOX cancelled it without even really giving it a chance.
Judging by the 96% of people who found that comment usefull, the author probably is not alone. Having a poll done to see if there's an audience is a great marketing move. It'll attract die hard fans to the TV if they'll air it, and it will attract free promototion for the station on various news sites/papers (e.g. slashdot). Brilliant! Even if the show is a complete disaster the move is really a good one (from a business/marketing perspective).
Well, the artcile cleary states:
Microsoft is to open up the source code behind its server communication protocols, in an attempt to get the European Commission off its back.
I'm pretty sure this isn't Windows... actually, being a developer myself I KNOW this is not the Windows source code. It's just source code to the protocols. It's a great step forward no less, but anyway.
There will be no additional charge for access to the code.
Er... and the article summary states that developers will have to pay an unspecified amount of money... Ok...
RTFA! That's all I have to say. It's a really short article you know.
Actually, according to the patent we don't owe anybody anything.
If you were to RTFA, you would see that it says: A system for displaying the status of a plurality of threaded tasks operating in the background includes a status bar; a progress control bar in the status bar for a primary task operating in the background and including a progress bar and first and second action buttons; the progress bar visually representing progress of a primary background operation; the first action button being selectable by a user for initiating an action with respect to the primary background operation and the second action button being selectable by a user for alternately displaying and canceling a drop list of secondary progress control bars for secondary tasks also operating in the background.
WHICH IS NOT A PROGRESS BAR but rather a special status pane. I don't care if they patent that. I'll implement it with two or three different buttons. I won't use a button, whatever...
Please, don't mislead the readers. And don't consider going into patent law, actually don't consider going into law at all - you have to read the whole document.
On a side note, this is however, what Eclipse uses -- or the whole article. But since development of that falls under IBM, I think we have no problem using that also.
I think it's people like you that help "common users" lose faith in salesmen. You tell them a complete lie to get them to follow your own personal decision. It sucks. Anybody who does that should not work in this industry, but should live in a basement downloading pr0n. Either you present them with hard facts ("Office will work the same which ever one you buy, but you will pay this much less for this one, but in turn, get this ...") and not hard lies.
Ok, i've been reading about this for much too long. It seems that there are two main issues here, how the flaw went unnoticed and why Microsoft didn't reimplement the whole legacy thing.
:-) ), you can also do some other tasks.
Did anybody even RTFA? I've seen a lot of people already writing that Microsoft should have re-implemented the Legacy code, yadayadayada, write a new OS from scratch, introduce a new virtual machine just for OS compatibility. However, you all missed something very important. WMF is a well-defined standard (not saying a good one, but a well-defined one!) which means that Microsoft (or Wine for that matter) HAS TO IMPLEMENT IT WITH CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS. One of them, is the SetAbortProc procedure that's been causing so much trouble. If Microsoft would failed to implement one part of this standard we would be getting comments like "M$ is 3vil, they don't respect standards...". I bet they're sorry that the security flaw got missed. I think it shows on their stock also! But non the less, it's fixed now.
Come to think of it, I think that, in a world where there were no exploits (PC-wise) the whole callback function scenario was pretty cool. You'd just say that if something fails, notify the user with this procedure in my code, and since you already no it failed (no return false statement
One more sidenote, Microsoft HAS REIMPLEMENTED the code. This is proven by the following statement in the article:
With WMF we want to be very clear: the Windows 9x platform is not vulnerable to any "Critical" attack vector. The reason Windows 9x is not vulnerable to a "Critical" attack vector is because an additional step exists in the Win9x platform: When not printing to a printer, applications will simply never process the SetAbortProc record. Although the vulnerable code does exist in the Win9x platform, all "Critical" attack vectors are blocked by this additional step.
I have no idea why they've let this slip though in the XP.
So, I live in Slovenia (I doubt any of you know where that is). But we have a nuclear plant. And it's been running for quite a while now. Because I've also studied physics I've found out, during some lectures, that the measurments taken around the nuclear plant show, that the grass around it recieves the exact same amount of the yearly dosage of radiation as something located far far away. Therefore, this energy is very clean, much cleaner than cole.
:-) ), we'll have to face it that we live in a world we created. Maybe we should build reactors underground, or in a separate nation somewhere in the middle of nowhere... It's all a possibility. Anything is better than coal.
Right, so, then a disaster happens. Well, chances are very slim for a disaster. Today, we have a higher safety regulation for operating of nuclear power plants, and we are not competing on who gets to restart the turbines faster (check this) without using safety measures.
Besides disaster possibility, the problem is also waste dispossal as a poster pointed out before me. Where to put it. You simply cannot dissolve the waste, or this is to expensive. And I don't think the problem with space dumping is the image of Columbia blowing up. Waste baskets can be made that whitstand such blasts. It's more of the awarness that we can't already pollute the space, since we fuc*** up mother Earth. And it's becoming an increasing security concern too with all the terrorists roaming around. Imagine a break-in into the waste storage facility. It's easy to make a dirty bomb. Breaking into the plant itself is much harder, although it's still a possibility.
In conclusion, I think we have to accept the risks of possible danger (we fly with airlens, but those also crash don't they?) if in turn, we get back a possibility for a cleaner environment. And until we develop things than can use all the free enegry just lying around and as long as we use things that rely on our supply of power (computers among other things
If you know who Yngwie is, than this is hillarious. I'm just sorry almost nobody knows who he is :-). And I think it's 20 notes ... :-) IF he tried really hard. And If we stay on this topic, somewhere Tommy Iommi laments... "Give it to me! I'll drop my E string 10 times as low as Robert plays it"
Er, rtfa? They did not honour him because he invented the iPOD, they honoured him because he designed how it looks. And admitedly, it's iconic! And everybody knows the click-wheel based square that plays music. Personally, I think he deserved it.
Happy new year everybody!
What's sorry is that my parent post is severly underrated. Where are the mods when you need them.