TCP hogs up precious BW? Since when? Only in environments where packet loss is substantial is there any real issue, but then again, UDP would likely be much worse. Throw in some of the better optional parts like selective ACK, and TCP is pretty efficient.
Well it was moving, not sure most would call it dancing. It was with a girl, or what appeared to be mostly (90%?) a girl, and by club he means his mother's basement.
You do realize that windows 2000 was released in 2000, and windows XP was released in 2001, right? I find it hilarious that you condemn Microsoft for not wanting to support a 12 year old operating system with enhancements, but everyone else gets a pass for not supporting a 13 year old OS.
No one supports old platforms forever, and they have done an exemplary job of supporting older stuff and maintaining compatibility over the years. They even extended support TWICE beyond what they were contractually obligated to do. How many companies do that?
Your arguments are like those of a child. Switching reasons and logic at varying points to try and suit your own personal desires. Is it about money (only when it suits you), market share, monopolistic practices, closed source vs open source, or something else?
Insults aren't going to get you very far, they aren't nice, and often manifest themselves when someone is confronted with truth they don't want to accept and all other logistical reasoning fails them.
Microsoft doesn't owe a new version of Internet explorer to users of windows XP. Considering that the upgrade to the latest version of windows was available for $40 for a long time, I don't feel sorry for those users (mainly corporations) that don't want to "splurge" on keeping their machine's OS up to date. Really, $40 every 12 years isn't much to ask. $3.33 per year. I'm sorry if you are struggling and can't afford it, but that really is a different issue.
That's nice, but none of those site address any of the issues. kernel.org doesn't have all the latest security patches with backports to linux 1.0. Firefox and Chrome don't install on Windows 2000. And Windows XP doesn't represent 20% of the computers.
Oh? Where can I find the repository for security patches for linux 1.0? Or how do you install safari 6.0 on OS/X 10.6 or Windows anything? I'd like to install iOS 6.1 on my iPhone 3. How about the latest firefox on Windows 2000?
The "subsidy" isn't paying the interest on the loan, it is guaranteeing the loan. It's a bit like your dad cosigning your first car, your dad isn't paying the loan, nor is he paying the interest.
Well except last I heard, nuclear wasn't being subsidized in the way most people think. They are subsidized loans, defraying the initial upstart cost so that the reactors can be built, but the government isn't really paying for them (nor are the tax payers). It is unlike say corn subsidies or oil/gas subsidies that ultimately the tax payer is paying for.
Pull requests work great for many team projects where developers are not familiar with the entire codebase. The codebase can be split into separate repos with different permissions. When a developer makes a change to part of the code they're not an expert at, they create a pull request and a member of a team who does know that piece of code reviews and merges. This is much easier than passing around patch files like you have to do with an SVN repo with strict permissions. It's also much easier for interns and contractors to work on code, since they can clone the repo and create a pull request to merge their changes without having write access to the repo.
How is that different from creating a branch for the developer/contractor/intern and only giving them write access to their branch, and when complete having someone else merge their branch back into master after doing any code review?
Perhaps you need to read the 1st amendment, because it has absolutely nothing to do with private citizens and non-governmental entities, nor is the 1st amendment a blanket that trumps all other rights.
I don't know, I think this is sexism and a problem we need to address. How do we even things out, so we have half dressed women dancing around in their underwear when their sports teams are on?
Magic. Chrome frame doesn't need admin privs to install, yet Chrome does. It also doesn't go through the same process, Chrome Frame is just a browser plug-in, while Chrome has to go through the standard application install which many corporations don't allow.
It's not hard for a company of any size to make a small change to the domain controllers to have IE 7+ force itself into IE 7 mode for any machine on their domain when accessing any internal system. I think you can even force it into IE 5 quirks mode if needed as well.
Yup. No multiple backgrounds, no calc(), no gradients (although you have to wait for IE 10 for that), no 3D transforms (with only partial support in IE 10), no animations (again, not until IE 10), no border-radius, no box-shadow, limited selector support, no text-shadow support (again, not until IE 10), no transforms, no flex-box, limited lengths (no rem, vw,vh, etc).
Well, he does have a point. You can't exactly swap the motherboard out for a new one in the Mac Pro, nor is most of the components upgradable very much if at all. I haven't seen the internals close enough to say exactly, but I suspect that most everything inside that case is pretty custom and either not upgradable, or only upgradable with a very select few options all from Apple.
A good question is if you swap out a different computer part every x months, at what point is it no longer the original computer? I don't have an answer, just seems that line is pretty blurry and open to interpretation.
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I lie? Google is your friend. http://m.cnet.com/news/windows-8-$40-upgrade-deal-ends-today/57566855?ds=1
I bought 3 directly from Microsoft, and upgraded one to pro.
TCP hogs up precious BW? Since when? Only in environments where packet loss is substantial is there any real issue, but then again, UDP would likely be much worse. Throw in some of the better optional parts like selective ACK, and TCP is pretty efficient.
Searching for "cat urine birth defects" leads to 559,000+ of web pages, obviously this is a more important problem and needs to be solved first.
Well it was moving, not sure most would call it dancing. It was with a girl, or what appeared to be mostly (90%?) a girl, and by club he means his mother's basement.
You do realize that windows 2000 was released in 2000, and windows XP was released in 2001, right? I find it hilarious that you condemn Microsoft for not wanting to support a 12 year old operating system with enhancements, but everyone else gets a pass for not supporting a 13 year old OS.
No one supports old platforms forever, and they have done an exemplary job of supporting older stuff and maintaining compatibility over the years. They even extended support TWICE beyond what they were contractually obligated to do. How many companies do that?
Your arguments are like those of a child. Switching reasons and logic at varying points to try and suit your own personal desires. Is it about money (only when it suits you), market share, monopolistic practices, closed source vs open source, or something else?
Insults aren't going to get you very far, they aren't nice, and often manifest themselves when someone is confronted with truth they don't want to accept and all other logistical reasoning fails them.
Microsoft doesn't owe a new version of Internet explorer to users of windows XP. Considering that the upgrade to the latest version of windows was available for $40 for a long time, I don't feel sorry for those users (mainly corporations) that don't want to "splurge" on keeping their machine's OS up to date. Really, $40 every 12 years isn't much to ask. $3.33 per year. I'm sorry if you are struggling and can't afford it, but that really is a different issue.
That's nice, but none of those site address any of the issues. kernel.org doesn't have all the latest security patches with backports to linux 1.0. Firefox and Chrome don't install on Windows 2000. And Windows XP doesn't represent 20% of the computers.
Except Microsoft's competitors haven't
Oh? Where can I find the repository for security patches for linux 1.0? Or how do you install safari 6.0 on OS/X 10.6 or Windows anything? I'd like to install iOS 6.1 on my iPhone 3. How about the latest firefox on Windows 2000?
Which competitor were you talking about?
Thirded. COBOL is probably the worst language ever.
There is no way I would ...
No way? Not even for a billion dollars? Not even if someone held a gun to your head? To your wive's and/or children's heads?
Oh, I think there is more than one way.
The "subsidy" isn't paying the interest on the loan, it is guaranteeing the loan. It's a bit like your dad cosigning your first car, your dad isn't paying the loan, nor is he paying the interest.
Well except last I heard, nuclear wasn't being subsidized in the way most people think. They are subsidized loans, defraying the initial upstart cost so that the reactors can be built, but the government isn't really paying for them (nor are the tax payers). It is unlike say corn subsidies or oil/gas subsidies that ultimately the tax payer is paying for.
You can get faster than 2Mbps. Move.
You can add lambda expressions as well, although, that's coming in JRE 7, no, 8 maybe.
Yes, although we call it NUL: or \Device\Null
Pull requests work great for many team projects where developers are not familiar with the entire codebase. The codebase can be split into separate repos with different permissions. When a developer makes a change to part of the code they're not an expert at, they create a pull request and a member of a team who does know that piece of code reviews and merges. This is much easier than passing around patch files like you have to do with an SVN repo with strict permissions. It's also much easier for interns and contractors to work on code, since they can clone the repo and create a pull request to merge their changes without having write access to the repo.
How is that different from creating a branch for the developer/contractor/intern and only giving them write access to their branch, and when complete having someone else merge their branch back into master after doing any code review?
Perhaps you need to read the 1st amendment, because it has absolutely nothing to do with private citizens and non-governmental entities, nor is the 1st amendment a blanket that trumps all other rights.
I don't know, I think this is sexism and a problem we need to address. How do we even things out, so we have half dressed women dancing around in their underwear when their sports teams are on?
A large percentage that is true. Corporations lock down systems so users can not install applications, but they can still install Chrome Frame.
Magic. Chrome frame doesn't need admin privs to install, yet Chrome does. It also doesn't go through the same process, Chrome Frame is just a browser plug-in, while Chrome has to go through the standard application install which many corporations don't allow.
Order it on DVD?
It's not hard for a company of any size to make a small change to the domain controllers to have IE 7+ force itself into IE 7 mode for any machine on their domain when accessing any internal system. I think you can even force it into IE 5 quirks mode if needed as well.
Yup. No multiple backgrounds, no calc(), no gradients (although you have to wait for IE 10 for that), no 3D transforms (with only partial support in IE 10), no animations (again, not until IE 10), no border-radius, no box-shadow, limited selector support, no text-shadow support (again, not until IE 10), no transforms, no flex-box, limited lengths (no rem, vw,vh, etc).
Sure, send me a copy so I can replace LAMP with COBOL and JCL.
Well, he does have a point. You can't exactly swap the motherboard out for a new one in the Mac Pro, nor is most of the components upgradable very much if at all. I haven't seen the internals close enough to say exactly, but I suspect that most everything inside that case is pretty custom and either not upgradable, or only upgradable with a very select few options all from Apple.
A good question is if you swap out a different computer part every x months, at what point is it no longer the original computer? I don't have an answer, just seems that line is pretty blurry and open to interpretation.
OCZ Revo 3 x2 is a PCIe Flash drive that has been around for a couple years.