CD with iTunes? You obviously don't understand at all. When I turn on the iPhone/iPod touch, there is a button marked "Safari". You push it and the browser opens up. I didn't get a choice if I wanted opera or firefox.
Nor can I change it if I wanted to. There is no way to download an alternative browser and have it replace safari, unlike in windows where it's simple to download and completely replace it.
Actually, in PIO mode, you do have to poll until it's done. That's the whole reason that the DMA transfer methods were invented.
There are probably much better ways of transferring data, but they aren't backwards compatible, so we keep sticking with it. Unless AHCI has changed things, I haven't kept up with the technology.
Using Adobe Flash isn't open access. I'm running OS/X on my iPhone, and I can't use it. Therefore it is excluding me based on my failure to {something}.
Get over it. Linux on the desktop accounts for less than the number of iPhones sold. There isn't a single standard that includes streaming to every imaginable stream-capable device out there. Silverlight accounts for the large majority of PC's, and even millions of non-PC devices. Adobe Flash does as well, but it doesn't scale as well, nor is it as flexible. If flash was truly open souce yada yada, it'd be on the iPhone, but it isn't. It proprietary, even more proprietary than silverlight is.
Yes, the NavyStar system has all 3 types of clients (Windows XP, Windows XPe/CE, and DOS). The article says that whole ships were completely without email and internet services. Unless you know of a worm that is capable of attacking all three Windows XP, Windows XPe/CE, and DOS clients, then a short term "fix" would have been as easy as turning off the clients that could be affected.
Besides that, other articles on the subject specifically said it was the server components (That run UNIX) that were affected. And if you didn't know, many/most flavors of UNIX (Including HP NonStop G06 which is what NavyStar runs on) are capable of running on "commoditized PC hardware". For reference, using the link you gave, please see "Omega Server Components" in the diagram on Page 10. You will clearly see the outward email/internet servers are labeled as being "HP S76 NonStop platform with HP NonStop G06 OS", which is exactly what I said it was.
No it isn't. Silver light runs on Windows (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/), Windows CE (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/), Mac OS/X (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/), and if you want to run it on linux or use, go use moonlight (http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight).
If you read the article, you'd notice that the systems that were affected were the NavyStar email/internet servers. NavyStar servers are UNIX (HP NonStop G06) based, not Windows based. Also you should note that the mission critical systems (Like the Windows on Warships networks) were NOT affected.
Please troll somewhere else. Or at least condemn the security of *nix based systems.
Actually, I've felt that way ever since the 486. When the first 486's came out, they ran at 25MHz. You could keep your entire system for years, and then upgrade it to the 100MHz 486DX4. That's a 4 fold speed increase without needing to change motherboards. Today, we are lucky if we see a 20% speed increase (above the inital released speeds) before the next bump requires a different chipset and motherboard.
We just aren't seeing the large speed bumps like we used to. Instead of going from say 25Mhz to 33 (a 32% increase), we see 2.66 to 2.93 (a 10% increase).
BTW, you can move your drives from one motherboard to the next so long as the raid is/was done via an intel raid controller. I've moved my complete OS from other motherboard to another with a different chipset with no problems, and that was on a 4-drive raid-0.
It was from a ICH6R to ICH8R I believe. Of course if you went from an nvidia/amd chipset to an intel one, then you can't. Unless the raid was done via an add-in card, of course.
You are mistaken, windows does not support RAID-5 on the boot partition or where the OS is either. If it truly did have RAID-5 and the boot or OS partition was on it, then it was via hardware.
I would completely disagree. For an introduction of programming, using visual basic is an excellent choice.
The parent is getting caught up in syntax issues which is weird. Does it really matter what is used to denote a comment?
Visual basic is nice (well the development environment) because it allows people with little or no experience to actually get things working without getting tied/tripped up by things unrelated to programming concepts (Like syntax). The visual studio environment with it's auto-complete, and real-time syntax checking will help keep the student frustration level low. Later, you can move them to a different platform that is more complex to setup and use if you so choose.
You could say the same thing about giving guys with more spare free time an advantage too. Really 50% extra XP is an extremely minimal difference.
Take WoW for example. We get a new expansion what once a year? And for 4 days you need to grind XP. Then you sit for 361 days at max waiting for the next expansion. For a few extra dollars you can get it done in 3 days, and now you wait for 362 days for the next expansion. lol.
Very true. I would likely want to teach visual basic as a very first language. The language is easy enough to pick up, and isn't all that picky. Also using an editor like visual studio express for your first editor will really help with it's real-time syntax checking. This would keep new students from getting frustrated when they get bogged down with trying to learn both programming concepts and memorizing syntax at the same time.
Foxpro was more along the lines of Access, and it was specifically bought for one of the query features it had. The next Access release had incorporated that technology, and quite honestly was a much better GUI system than foxpro ever was.
Foxpro was never a scalable solution, and suffered the same problems access did.
You must have forgotten Word Perfect 6.0. Terrible printer support, couldn't support high resolution monitors without specific WP drivers that noone wrote. It was super slow, a memory pig, and didn't support Truetype fonts (Or any kind of fonts). Everyone hated it. That's what called WP.
And that was WP's solution to Microsoft Word, where you could drag and drop pictures, screenshots, etc and move them around the document with ease. Sorry, but for anyone trying to do layout at the time WP was a DOG. Word worked. That's when my office switched, it had nothing to do with what came on the computer, or literature from Microsoft. Word was just 200% better than WP.
Except that WMP was included in windows many years before Real was ever founded. So it's not like Microsoft just came and wiped them out, Real's offerings just SUCKED, and Microsoft's free WMP was good enough.
Netscape was the first to give away their browser. Microsoft followed, not the other way around.
I'd rather see it continue. I don't go to Ars. I don't want to. I also do go to reuters. Or cnews. Or many other news sites. I expect slashdot to bring the most important news here, and that's why I come here. It's not like slashdot has original articles I can't find elsewhere. Every article on slashdot comes from somewhere else.
Three separate groups have already implemented it. Novell, a sourceforge group doing doc to OOXML, and there is even a plug in for OoO. Those real doubts are just FUD.
Ah yes, I'm glad you agree. Now please write my company a check for $250,000 so we can take our web-based AR package out of maintenance and upgrade it to the next version that will support the latest browsers. Oh, and of course the check to cover retraining the 30 or so users, so just tack on another $60,000. And we'll need a check for the IT guys that have to actually roll this out.
Soon as I get that check, we're all good to go. Otherwise, I'll thank Microsoft for saving our company nearly $500k on that one application alone.
When TBC was released, it took me under 8 days to get to level 70. "immediately obsolete" = 8 days after the expansion hits, all my gear is obsolete. Most of it well before that.
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CD with iTunes? You obviously don't understand at all. When I turn on the iPhone/iPod touch, there is a button marked "Safari". You push it and the browser opens up. I didn't get a choice if I wanted opera or firefox.
Nor can I change it if I wanted to. There is no way to download an alternative browser and have it replace safari, unlike in windows where it's simple to download and completely replace it.
Actually, in PIO mode, you do have to poll until it's done. That's the whole reason that the DMA transfer methods were invented.
There are probably much better ways of transferring data, but they aren't backwards compatible, so we keep sticking with it. Unless AHCI has changed things, I haven't kept up with the technology.
I would say that Apple wields "monopoly power" in the MP3 market. The ipod touch is BUNDLED with safari last I checked.
Using Adobe Flash isn't open access. I'm running OS/X on my iPhone, and I can't use it. Therefore it is excluding me based on my failure to {something}.
Get over it. Linux on the desktop accounts for less than the number of iPhones sold. There isn't a single standard that includes streaming to every imaginable stream-capable device out there. Silverlight accounts for the large majority of PC's, and even millions of non-PC devices. Adobe Flash does as well, but it doesn't scale as well, nor is it as flexible. If flash was truly open souce yada yada, it'd be on the iPhone, but it isn't. It proprietary, even more proprietary than silverlight is.
Yes, the NavyStar system has all 3 types of clients (Windows XP, Windows XPe/CE, and DOS). The article says that whole ships were completely without email and internet services. Unless you know of a worm that is capable of attacking all three Windows XP, Windows XPe/CE, and DOS clients, then a short term "fix" would have been as easy as turning off the clients that could be affected.
Besides that, other articles on the subject specifically said it was the server components (That run UNIX) that were affected. And if you didn't know, many/most flavors of UNIX (Including HP NonStop G06 which is what NavyStar runs on) are capable of running on "commoditized PC hardware". For reference, using the link you gave, please see "Omega Server Components" in the diagram on Page 10. You will clearly see the outward email/internet servers are labeled as being "HP S76 NonStop platform with HP NonStop G06 OS", which is exactly what I said it was.
No it isn't. Silver light runs on Windows (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/), Windows CE (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/), Mac OS/X (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/), and if you want to run it on linux or use, go use moonlight (http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight).
If you read the article, you'd notice that the systems that were affected were the NavyStar email/internet servers. NavyStar servers are UNIX (HP NonStop G06) based, not Windows based. Also you should note that the mission critical systems (Like the Windows on Warships networks) were NOT affected.
Please troll somewhere else. Or at least condemn the security of *nix based systems.
I know it is too much to ask that people read the article, but not even reading the summary is silly:
Approval, once granted, is good for 2 years.
Actually, I've felt that way ever since the 486. When the first 486's came out, they ran at 25MHz. You could keep your entire system for years, and then upgrade it to the 100MHz 486DX4. That's a 4 fold speed increase without needing to change motherboards. Today, we are lucky if we see a 20% speed increase (above the inital released speeds) before the next bump requires a different chipset and motherboard.
We just aren't seeing the large speed bumps like we used to. Instead of going from say 25Mhz to 33 (a 32% increase), we see 2.66 to 2.93 (a 10% increase).
BTW, you can move your drives from one motherboard to the next so long as the raid is/was done via an intel raid controller. I've moved my complete OS from other motherboard to another with a different chipset with no problems, and that was on a 4-drive raid-0.
It was from a ICH6R to ICH8R I believe. Of course if you went from an nvidia/amd chipset to an intel one, then you can't. Unless the raid was done via an add-in card, of course.
You are mistaken, windows does not support RAID-5 on the boot partition or where the OS is either. If it truly did have RAID-5 and the boot or OS partition was on it, then it was via hardware.
I would completely disagree. For an introduction of programming, using visual basic is an excellent choice.
The parent is getting caught up in syntax issues which is weird. Does it really matter what is used to denote a comment?
Visual basic is nice (well the development environment) because it allows people with little or no experience to actually get things working without getting tied/tripped up by things unrelated to programming concepts (Like syntax). The visual studio environment with it's auto-complete, and real-time syntax checking will help keep the student frustration level low. Later, you can move them to a different platform that is more complex to setup and use if you so choose.
You could say the same thing about giving guys with more spare free time an advantage too. Really 50% extra XP is an extremely minimal difference.
Take WoW for example. We get a new expansion what once a year? And for 4 days you need to grind XP. Then you sit for 361 days at max waiting for the next expansion. For a few extra dollars you can get it done in 3 days, and now you wait for 362 days for the next expansion. lol.
Very true. I would likely want to teach visual basic as a very first language. The language is easy enough to pick up, and isn't all that picky. Also using an editor like visual studio express for your first editor will really help with it's real-time syntax checking. This would keep new students from getting frustrated when they get bogged down with trying to learn both programming concepts and memorizing syntax at the same time.
Foxpro was more along the lines of Access, and it was specifically bought for one of the query features it had. The next Access release had incorporated that technology, and quite honestly was a much better GUI system than foxpro ever was. Foxpro was never a scalable solution, and suffered the same problems access did.
You must have forgotten Word Perfect 6.0. Terrible printer support, couldn't support high resolution monitors without specific WP drivers that noone wrote. It was super slow, a memory pig, and didn't support Truetype fonts (Or any kind of fonts). Everyone hated it. That's what called WP.
And that was WP's solution to Microsoft Word, where you could drag and drop pictures, screenshots, etc and move them around the document with ease. Sorry, but for anyone trying to do layout at the time WP was a DOG. Word worked. That's when my office switched, it had nothing to do with what came on the computer, or literature from Microsoft. Word was just 200% better than WP.
Except that WMP was included in windows many years before Real was ever founded. So it's not like Microsoft just came and wiped them out, Real's offerings just SUCKED, and Microsoft's free WMP was good enough. Netscape was the first to give away their browser. Microsoft followed, not the other way around.
Actually, since HD-DVD and Blu-ray both use the same codecs, there is very little processing that needs to be done.
I'd rather see it continue. I don't go to Ars. I don't want to. I also do go to reuters. Or cnews. Or many other news sites. I expect slashdot to bring the most important news here, and that's why I come here. It's not like slashdot has original articles I can't find elsewhere. Every article on slashdot comes from somewhere else.
Three separate groups have already implemented it. Novell, a sourceforge group doing doc to OOXML, and there is even a plug in for OoO. Those real doubts are just FUD.
Ah yes, I'm glad you agree. Now please write my company a check for $250,000 so we can take our web-based AR package out of maintenance and upgrade it to the next version that will support the latest browsers. Oh, and of course the check to cover retraining the 30 or so users, so just tack on another $60,000. And we'll need a check for the IT guys that have to actually roll this out. Soon as I get that check, we're all good to go. Otherwise, I'll thank Microsoft for saving our company nearly $500k on that one application alone.
When TBC was released, it took me under 8 days to get to level 70. "immediately obsolete" = 8 days after the expansion hits, all my gear is obsolete. Most of it well before that.
They should make a USB-SATA so that we can have a univerally slow connection!
It's only unencrypted if you are doing it over HTTP. Switch to HTTPS and it's encrypted. Or use digest, or NTLM security.
COULD SHOULD