I used to develop commercial apps that ran on Windows, Linux, Mac/OS9 and OSX. It *does* require a bit more work, but in practice, it's actually not much more work than supporting one OS.
You must mean from an application perspective. Mac OS and Windows have a number of important differences in their UI standards. Sure, you might use a toolkit that lets you just recompile for the Mac, but then you're going to get a Mac application that feels a Windows application. Actually doing a good UI that conforms to the UI standards for each platform takes time.
They don't realize that if your computer catches a virus, it's almost certainly because you fucked up at some point. (Only exception seems to be stuff like overflow attacks.)
No, someone (i.e. the programmer) still screwed up.
Because google could conceivably 'do it better'. It could be a blow to the Mozilla project as a whole.
It's odd that you think a good Gecko based browser could be a blow to the whole Mozilla project. I think it would be great. Mozilla could then concentrate on what they are good at: writing a browser core.
Firefox might be more secure than IE, faster, etc., but it certainly doesn't have as nice of an interface as a whole. Not that it doesn't have useful features that IE doesn't, like tabbed browsing, but overall the skinned interface is sub-par to a native interface. The day a Gecko or KHTML browser comes out for Windows that uses native widgets, I'll switch from IE.
Do you trust your credit card to be stored on Valve servers? The same ones comprimised by a simple e-mail exploiting an Outlook vunerability sent to Gabe?
Do you trust handing your credit card to someone at a restaurant, store, etc. who is making minimum wage? At any rate, who cares? If your credit card gets stolen, you are liable for at most $50 and usually $0. It is the merchant who takes the stolen credit card who loses big time.
With sufficient system memory, you could do what some ISO distributions do, and load everthing to memory, and you would even have the cd/dvd drive available for use.
That's not a great idea. If the power goes out or the machine gets reset for some reason, the machine won't restart properly and might miss recordings.
But the idea of running entirely off the CD (with hard drives for data only) is very cool.
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The source country can be manipulated if one has access to computers in different geographics.
No, the source country can be manipulated simply by picking a country from the drop-down list.
Yes, but it's easier to get away with self defense (or whatever the circumstances) when the other guy can't talk. Not that I advocate killing anyone, of course, but the sad state of our legal system makes you better off (from a civil standpoint) if you do kill the guy. A death is worth a lot less than a permanent injury.
Blockbuster is in the market. Same 3 movies at a time, same postage paid, ~$3 less a month plus coupons for two free movie rentals a month.
Hollywood Video is also getting into the market. They now have a VIP service starting at $9.99 per month for the first three months, then going up to $14.99 per month. Three (3) movies out at once, but for only five days (i.e. there are still late fees). Brand new releases don't qualify. I think movies have to be available for rental for about a month before they qualify.
Still, it's a great deal if you rent more than two movies per month. I love not feeling like I'm going to waste $5 renting a bad movie that isn't worth watching all the way through. It makes it much quicker to pick out movies when the rental is essentially free.
I know it's not a popular opinion around here, but honestly, what do you want them to do? They can't even secure a Windows box. They have to learn, or they're hopeless (likely even worse off) on a *NIX platform.
Mac OS X. It's (arguably) easier to use, more secure AND it's a UNIX platform. Whenever anyone asks me for advice on what "brand" of computer to purchase, I always recommend Apple.
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just try getting a laptop without Windows
That's odd, my laptop didn't even have the option of coming with Windows.
Anyone with an archive of, say, video files on around 24 DVDs ... 100Gig
The site in my sig currently has 832 GB in 237 DVDs.
I used to develop commercial apps that ran on Windows, Linux, Mac/OS9 and OSX. It *does* require a bit more work, but in practice, it's actually not much more work than supporting one OS.
You must mean from an application perspective. Mac OS and Windows have a number of important differences in their UI standards. Sure, you might use a toolkit that lets you just recompile for the Mac, but then you're going to get a Mac application that feels a Windows application. Actually doing a good UI that conforms to the UI standards for each platform takes time.
They don't realize that if your computer catches a virus, it's almost certainly because you fucked up at some point. (Only exception seems to be stuff like overflow attacks.)
No, someone (i.e. the programmer) still screwed up.
Too bad, I'd love to have a drivers license that never expires
Arizona driver licenses don't expire until the driver turns 65.
(as well as car tags)
Haha.
You are a bit off on your sizes:
TI-73/82/83/84: 96x64
TI-85/86: 128x64
TI-89: 160x100
TI-92: 240x128
New LCD's like this one are the reason why icons should be implemented as a vector graphic (e.g. SVG), not as a bitmap.
You mean like on Mac OS X?
Because google could conceivably 'do it better'. It could be a blow to the Mozilla project as a whole.
It's odd that you think a good Gecko based browser could be a blow to the whole Mozilla project. I think it would be great. Mozilla could then concentrate on what they are good at: writing a browser core.
Firefox might be more secure than IE, faster, etc., but it certainly doesn't have as nice of an interface as a whole. Not that it doesn't have useful features that IE doesn't, like tabbed browsing, but overall the skinned interface is sub-par to a native interface. The day a Gecko or KHTML browser comes out for Windows that uses native widgets, I'll switch from IE.
If you want to rate links you need the google toolbar.
Or view a URLs PageRank.
You should read up a bit more. Outlook was their initial GUESS as to the source of the exploit.
I think you meant to reply to the parent. In case you were replying to me, you missed my point:
People worry about an online server getting compromised, but they rarely worry about the people to whom they hand their card and ID to every day.
Do you trust your credit card to be stored on Valve servers? The same ones comprimised by a simple e-mail exploiting an Outlook vunerability sent to Gabe?
Do you trust handing your credit card to someone at a restaurant, store, etc. who is making minimum wage? At any rate, who cares? If your credit card gets stolen, you are liable for at most $50 and usually $0. It is the merchant who takes the stolen credit card who loses big time.
With sufficient system memory, you could do what some ISO distributions do, and load everthing to memory, and you would even have the cd/dvd drive available for use.
That's not a great idea. If the power goes out or the machine gets reset for some reason, the machine won't restart properly and might miss recordings.
But the idea of running entirely off the CD (with hard drives for data only) is very cool.
The source country can be manipulated if one has access to computers in different geographics.
No, the source country can be manipulated simply by picking a country from the drop-down list.
Not a connoseur of *heterosexual* pornography? What other kind is there? Fag stuff?
Single girl, lesbian, etc.
Perhaps one can have a bad system with lots of ... USB ports
The computer itself only needs one USB port. USB is chainable. All you need is one or more USB hubs.
Their families can, and will.
Yes, but it's easier to get away with self defense (or whatever the circumstances) when the other guy can't talk. Not that I advocate killing anyone, of course, but the sad state of our legal system makes you better off (from a civil standpoint) if you do kill the guy. A death is worth a lot less than a permanent injury.
Damn you autopr0n, why, why did you have to die!!!
Try The Hun's Yellow Pages.
Beacuse the victim usually turns around and sues anyone they can find that might have had any impact on the crime/accident/whatever.
Dead people can't sue.
Blockbuster is in the market. Same 3 movies at a time, same postage paid, ~$3 less a month plus coupons for two free movie rentals a month.
Hollywood Video is also getting into the market. They now have a VIP service starting at $9.99 per month for the first three months, then going up to $14.99 per month. Three (3) movies out at once, but for only five days (i.e. there are still late fees). Brand new releases don't qualify. I think movies have to be available for rental for about a month before they qualify.
Still, it's a great deal if you rent more than two movies per month. I love not feeling like I'm going to waste $5 renting a bad movie that isn't worth watching all the way through. It makes it much quicker to pick out movies when the rental is essentially free.
SSH, BIND and even PNG are three off the top of my head that have had security problems in the past.
The big three for remote root exploits are BIND, Sendmail and WU-FTPD.
I know it's not a popular opinion around here, but honestly, what do you want them to do? They can't even secure a Windows box. They have to learn, or they're hopeless (likely even worse off) on a *NIX platform.
Mac OS X. It's (arguably) easier to use, more secure AND it's a UNIX platform. Whenever anyone asks me for advice on what "brand" of computer to purchase, I always recommend Apple.
Wolf 3D ... Well, it is of course possible that the game was an illegal copy anyway.
Or the shareware version.
Any comparisons out there between APR and things like SDL?
APR is for servers, SDL is for games.
Then either the Merchant loses or the Bank loses.
No, the merchant loses. The bank never loses.
What is that supposed to teach the children? Take as much money from the masses as long as they let you?
That's the American way.