"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" -- Homer Simpson
Seriously, what are you talking about? Do you think an airplane violates the law of gravity? It certainly does not, although it appears that way to the ignorant/anonymous observer.
Except that if he [billg] doesn't offer the prize money, less people try and break it, which means it's less likely to get broken soon, which means Microsoft is more likely to "win".
Yep, I agree. Your theory of their strategy is more in line with their preference for "security by obscurity".
He must be talking about Types I and II, because "Beginner Level" and "Expert Level" are new distinctions (at least, as far as I'm concerned, I haven't played in years).
Yes, I also thought, "shouldn't they have said 'many' there?".
Also, it might be unclear what exactly they mean with "Microsoft programs". Technically, it means things like Microsoft Notepad and Microsoft Internet Explorer and such. End-users might think it says that most Windows programs will run, and might feel cheated when they discover this is not the case.
Just because it is possible for a frog to survive on a patch of grass dividing a 6 lane highway, does not mean that this is the best place to look for frogs.
It is if the highway and the patch of grass are all you can see of the world.
It doesn't have to do as much with C programming as it has to do with memory management implementation:
Since we all have "virtual memory" nowadays, it is entirely possible that a malloc() call reserves pages of memory that are only physically allocated once you use them. Whether or not this happens depends on your kernel's memory manager.
I never tried Netscape 6 (I've been using Mozilla since 0.6), but I do know that Netscape 4, especially on Linux and Solaris, is anything but a stable application.
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"In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" -- Homer Simpson
Seriously, what are you talking about? Do you think an airplane violates the law of gravity? It certainly does not, although it appears that way to the ignorant/anonymous observer.
And that's exactly why the calendar-keiretsu will never permit this to fly! ;-)
This method severely underestimates Perl programmers' efforts! :-P
I played with Lego gears since I was five years old, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Yep, I agree. Your theory of their strategy is more in line with their preference for "security by obscurity".
Oh, the fact that Microsoft pays part of the bill (by selling cheap XBoxes) easily makes up for that ;-)
In The Netherlands, we call all kinds of sticky tape -- even Sellotape -- "plakband", which means, unsurprisingly, "sticky tape".
Maybe your sysadmin hasn't blocked sites listed under "MP3", because he likes MP3s himself, or something like that?
Yes, I remember that. Before that, the standard set was the "beginner set", with those boxes called "Starter Deck"s.
He must be talking about Types I and II, because "Beginner Level" and "Expert Level" are new distinctions (at least, as far as I'm concerned, I haven't played in years).
That doesn't require a brain either :-P
Have you never heard of the phenomenon called "double blind test"?
To be more precise, the Roothat distribution :-P
Yes, I also thought, "shouldn't they have said 'many' there?".
Also, it might be unclear what exactly they mean with "Microsoft programs". Technically, it means things like Microsoft Notepad and Microsoft Internet Explorer and such. End-users might think it says that most Windows programs will run, and might feel cheated when they discover this is not the case.
Remote root exploits and worms were common in the Unix world way before people at Microsoft even coupled two PCs together.
Rootnecks?
It is if the highway and the patch of grass are all you can see of the world.
It doesn't have to do as much with C programming as it has to do with memory management implementation:
Since we all have "virtual memory" nowadays, it is entirely possible that a malloc() call reserves pages of memory that are only physically allocated once you use them. Whether or not this happens depends on your kernel's memory manager.
CGI isn't a language.
I never tried Netscape 6 (I've been using Mozilla since 0.6), but I do know that Netscape 4, especially on Linux and Solaris, is anything but a stable application.
Netscape 6.2 is based on an old version of Mozilla, so it stands to reason that Mozilla 1.1a is better than Netscape 6.2.
And you survived her being scared? Lucky you :-)
Exactly. That's why e.g. some Zip drives come with IDE interfaces.
You wash your cats in a bath? Hey, if you're feeling suicidal, you can try bathing our cat ;-)