I don't care if I'm modded troll or otherwise, but I'm not a US citizen and I don't care about US-specific politics. More to the point, this is just day-to-day campaign news, not a world-changing announcement. Yes I'm aware/. has and always will be a US based site, but there's a considerable amount of non-US traffic hitting this site.
WHY has this become so entrenched with the upper echelons of the US Government? WHAT has this got to do with Congress, and indeed the Government in general? It's a legal issue, but not something that needs further governing by bogus departments created by the corrupt hands of the Bush era. It's sickening.
The reason these films are so bad is because people hype them up in their minds for years. Granted, The Phantom Menace was pretty poor, but it's largely to do with the excessive expectations of people and their over-hyped ideals.
What's worse: human bias towards a particular resource (i.e. like cooking site X, but not site Y) or limitations in contextual based results from computer algorithms?
You can only use a Live-CD if the PC is turned off or at least not logged-on. Kinda pisses on your fireworks if it's locked and in-use, just not attended to at that moment in time. The hack referenced in the article can be used when it's locked.
From the article:
"unlock locked Windows machines or login without a password... merely by plugging in your Firewire cable and running a command"
A little contradictory I think. How can you run a command if the PC's locked?
7 years is a long time. Wouldn't it make more sense to work towards a new ethernet technology that has larger capacity? Think of the amount of data we currently send over the web etc. That's only going to increase. Those using ethernet on their networks I'm sure would prefer something that could deal with their daughter watching You Tube while their son is playing his friends on Duke Nukem Forever (haha!) on the LAN. Petabit Ethernet sounds more useful.
Meh, it's a shitload of data either way...
Is this retaliation to the impending doom of the OOXML format requesting ISO standard status? Is MS's thinking: "Right, ISO has failed us, so we'll release the binaries so everyone keeps using the office formats anyway"?
I don't get it. We can argue the merits of data exchange formats 'till we're blue in the face; yet I cannot see why XML is so popular. For the majority of applications that use it, it's overboard. Yes, it's easier on the eye, but ultimately how often do you have to play with the XML your CAD software uses?
I'm a programmer, just like the rest of you here, so I'm quite used to having to write a parser here or there, or fixing an issue or two in an ant script. The thing that puzzles me, is why it's used so much on the web. XML is bulky, and when designed badly it can be far too complex; this all adds to bandwidth and processing on the client (think AJAX), so I'm not seeing why anyone would want to use it. Formats like JSON are just as usable, and not to mention more lightweight. Where's the gain?
I've always thought that phrase was just something lame and idiotic bloggers who want traffic and respect, would say. I mean afterall, it's been said for the last decade or whatever, so I've never taken it seriously.
Now, though, I'm starting to think it might actually have some weight. You've got Dell, Asus and other vendors shipping hardware with Linux on it. Hell, even Tesco here in the UK sell Ubuntu PCs.
Anything that wipes that smug look off Ballmer's face is good enough for me:)
Well, I think there's something to worry about here. Bearing in mind Virtualization is the Next Big Thing ® right now, and businesses being quick on the up-take (I know my employer is a big fan, and we have ~5k employees and several large in-house development departments), I think it's going to be a bonus for a company to take a Virtualization offering from their primary OS supplier. Especially when you've got it in live deployments.
Is there room in the market for MS? Or will they squeeze VMWare out? We'll soon find out...
Indeed. The visual improvements in DVD compared to VHS were just a bonus. I upgraded because VHS was slow, hard to use, and had a short life. DVDs were fast, easy to use and 'the next big thing'.
I don't really think people see (or even understand properly) the aspects of these new formats: bigger capacity and 'better quality' (really, is there much of a difference?).
Quite surprising that Sony won for once, though. *cough*minidisc*cough*
It seems to me that the media made a mountain out of a molehill with this 'war'. I quite frankly couldn't care less, as I don't intend to upgrade to either format for a long time.
No doubt this would ADD to my frustration, because I'm sure it'd be so badly written that it'd memory leak and cause any other application to halt operation while it works out what it's doing. ARGH!
With over 60 million unique users visiting Microsoft.com a month, Microsoft's last-ditch effort might be what it takes to breathe some life back into Silverlight
WTF? Silverlight's not dead already is it? Not that I actually care.
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I don't care if I'm modded troll or otherwise, but I'm not a US citizen and I don't care about US-specific politics. More to the point, this is just day-to-day campaign news, not a world-changing announcement. Yes I'm aware /. has and always will be a US based site, but there's a considerable amount of non-US traffic hitting this site.
Can we stop the non-news postings?
It wasn't blame at GWB for this particular issue, but to the new low that congress seems to have dropped to since his inception.
It was rhetoric, i.e. meant to provoke thought, a.k.a. Insightful.
*sigh*
WHY has this become so entrenched with the upper echelons of the US Government? WHAT has this got to do with Congress, and indeed the Government in general? It's a legal issue, but not something that needs further governing by bogus departments created by the corrupt hands of the Bush era. It's sickening.
Pruning the obvious money-wasters.
I'm both a cynic and an optomist ;p
The reason these films are so bad is because people hype them up in their minds for years. Granted, The Phantom Menace was pretty poor, but it's largely to do with the excessive expectations of people and their over-hyped ideals.
Who listens to critics, anyway?
What's worse: human bias towards a particular resource (i.e. like cooking site X, but not site Y) or limitations in contextual based results from computer algorithms?
Assuming you have a gun :D
7 years is a long time. Wouldn't it make more sense to work towards a new ethernet technology that has larger capacity? Think of the amount of data we currently send over the web etc. That's only going to increase. Those using ethernet on their networks I'm sure would prefer something that could deal with their daughter watching You Tube while their son is playing his friends on Duke Nukem Forever (haha!) on the LAN. Petabit Ethernet sounds more useful.
Meh, it's a shitload of data either way...
Is this retaliation to the impending doom of the OOXML format requesting ISO standard status? Is MS's thinking: "Right, ISO has failed us, so we'll release the binaries so everyone keeps using the office formats anyway"?
I don't get it. We can argue the merits of data exchange formats 'till we're blue in the face; yet I cannot see why XML is so popular. For the majority of applications that use it, it's overboard. Yes, it's easier on the eye, but ultimately how often do you have to play with the XML your CAD software uses?
I'm a programmer, just like the rest of you here, so I'm quite used to having to write a parser here or there, or fixing an issue or two in an ant script. The thing that puzzles me, is why it's used so much on the web. XML is bulky, and when designed badly it can be far too complex; this all adds to bandwidth and processing on the client (think AJAX), so I'm not seeing why anyone would want to use it. Formats like JSON are just as usable, and not to mention more lightweight. Where's the gain?
Is anyone else beginning to think there's something fishy going on? (OK, sorry, excuse the pun).
If I'm honest, I was suspicious from the start, but I'm a tad too paranoid I guess.
I've always thought that phrase was just something lame and idiotic bloggers who want traffic and respect, would say. I mean afterall, it's been said for the last decade or whatever, so I've never taken it seriously.
:)
Now, though, I'm starting to think it might actually have some weight. You've got Dell, Asus and other vendors shipping hardware with Linux on it. Hell, even Tesco here in the UK sell Ubuntu PCs.
Anything that wipes that smug look off Ballmer's face is good enough for me
Amen!
Well, I think there's something to worry about here. Bearing in mind Virtualization is the Next Big Thing ® right now, and businesses being quick on the up-take (I know my employer is a big fan, and we have ~5k employees and several large in-house development departments), I think it's going to be a bonus for a company to take a Virtualization offering from their primary OS supplier. Especially when you've got it in live deployments.
Is there room in the market for MS? Or will they squeeze VMWare out? We'll soon find out...
Interesting surprise! I wonder if Sun will streamline the licensing madness that MySQL has become...
I'm getting bored of reading about the EU's investigations into Microsoft. It's quite clearly not working.
JUST USE BATTERIES!
Indeed. The visual improvements in DVD compared to VHS were just a bonus. I upgraded because VHS was slow, hard to use, and had a short life. DVDs were fast, easy to use and 'the next big thing'.
I don't really think people see (or even understand properly) the aspects of these new formats: bigger capacity and 'better quality' (really, is there much of a difference?).
Quite surprising that Sony won for once, though. *cough*minidisc*cough*
It seems to me that the media made a mountain out of a molehill with this 'war'. I quite frankly couldn't care less, as I don't intend to upgrade to either format for a long time.
No doubt this would ADD to my frustration, because I'm sure it'd be so badly written that it'd memory leak and cause any other application to halt operation while it works out what it's doing. ARGH!
Wait, that sounds like something else I know...