Does SCO have any developers left capable of writing this? And how many Windows developers did they have to begin with? I find it strange that hotmail doesn't seem to be affected at all by this virus... could it be that their parent company had some advance knowledge?
The real question is: in which vehicle have more people died from embarrassment while driving? Whether you die in flames, or simply never get a second date because you pick women up in a Yugo, either way, you're pretty much taking your genes out of the gene pool, aren't you?
Anyone know if something like this has already been done? Gee, I don't know... photoplankton has been dying for hundreds of millions of year now. If it wasn't sinking, I'd expect to see some floating islands of dead photoplankton by now. On the other hand, if had been sinking to the bottom of the sea, I'd expect to see limestone deposits by now. Why don't you take a quick survey, and tell me which you see more of. (hint: what are the white cliffs of Dover made out of?)
Actually, there is slightly more carbon on Earth than a billion years ago due to meteorite strikes, but the important thing is how much carbon is loose in the atmosphere (C02) versus how much is tied up in the crust of the Earth itself or in other forms. Lately we have been decreasing the biomass tied up in trees (thus releasing carbon into the atmosphere), and extracting and burning hydrocarbons like they are going our of style (which in fact they are). The burning of fossil fuel has a secondary affect noone talks about -- sulpher emissions forms sulphuric acid, which then rain down on limestone and erode it at a much faster rate, thus releasing even more carbon dioxide into the air. If all the photoplankton falls to the bottom of the ocean, it'll eventually form new limestone deposits, no? Perhaps it would be more effective to prevent the limestone we have now from eroding. Ok, who's going to help me spray the Himalayas with a protective sealant?
I love the Hondas, but my experience is you need to ditch them after about 100,000 miles, 'cause that's when they start requiring maintenance. It's also the point where they have very little resale value.
The Vega was the closest Detroit ever came to building a disposable car. At around $3000, they were designed to appeal to kids who didn't know any better, and generally broke down after about 3 years. However, apparently a lot of them were sold, so there were a lot of them in junkyards to get parts from.
Ah, yes, the Chevette... massively underpowered, but still managed to get lousy gas mileage! I drove my girlfriends automatic Chevette out highway 17 to Santa Cruz -- my foot hurt from pressing the pedal to the floor the whole trip, deperately trying (and not succeeding) to keep from obstructing traffic!
I'm sure Britney's "talent" has absolutely nothing to do with her ability to do vocals, and absolutely everything to do with her abilility to take off her clothes...
This is digital information. Eventually the media is going to fail -- guaranteed. Best approach is to make 100 copies of it at 100 different locations, then make new copies of the copies every year. With massive redundancy so cheap, who cares who unreliably a single copy is? This is one of the as yet untapped possibilities offered by the internet -- to be a perpetual archive for the information people consider important enough to provide the resources to make massively redundant copies.
Isn't this the same guy that said "Nobody should need more than 640K", "nothing will come of the Internet", and "what we need is a breakthrough in factoring large primes"? The same guy that though Microsoft Bob and Clippy were neat ideas? The same guy that hired Steve "Developers! Developers!" Ballmer? Just 'cause the guy has $50 billion doesn't make him an expert on predicting the future!
How come Homer and Krusty look like clones? Haven't you ever heard Matt Groening's explanation of this? The original joke in the first "Krusty" episode was that Bart had no respect at all for his father Homer, and yet he worshipped this television personality that looked exactly like his father... guess the irony was too subtle for most people.
Better yet, can an AIDS Long Term Non-Progressor patent their own DNA, then sue anybody who tries to develop a gene therapy for AIDS? (Long Term Non-progressors are people that can test positive for HIV for 10 or 20 years, yet never take any medicine and never develop any symptoms.)
If I make a copy of a 1,000,000 entry database, then change one of the entries, is it still infringing? How does one distinguish a list of facts from another list of facts compiled independently? Should I be rushing out to apply for a copyright on my list of the capitals of the 50 states? If I create a database with all the elements in it, can I sue anybody who publishes a periodic table?
Can't the player key be passed in as a command-line argument, thus making the code fully distributable? As long as they don't automatically configure the key, I don't see the problem.
Quicker examples: Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. Granted, these guys have some business accumen, but they are nowhere near superior enough to justify the $50 billion premiums they have received... methinks it has more to do with "luck" than "talent".
1) That depends on how many pointers you are iterating over. 2) If the 32-bit register is also the low 32-bits of the 64-bit register, than it's just 2 loads, not 4 instructions... granted, that's twice as many loads as using 64-bit pointers, but you have a greater chance of all data fitting into cache, so it might actually be faster.
What if IBM simply says: "We cannot tell a lie... yes we did copy that code from Linux to Unix! Er, I guess you can't use that code for Unix then, because it's GPLed!"
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Does SCO have any developers left capable of writing this? And how many Windows developers did they have to begin with? I find it strange that hotmail doesn't seem to be affected at all by this virus... could it be that their parent company had some advance knowledge?
The real question is: in which vehicle have more people died from embarrassment while driving? Whether you die in flames, or simply never get a second date because you pick women up in a Yugo, either way, you're pretty much taking your genes out of the gene pool, aren't you?
How much iron is there in one of the new SUVs? Aren't they all made out of used beer cans (i.e. aluminum) and plastic (i.e. hydrocarbons) now?
Anyone know if something like this has already been done? Gee, I don't know... photoplankton has been dying for hundreds of millions of year now. If it wasn't sinking, I'd expect to see some floating islands of dead photoplankton by now. On the other hand, if had been sinking to the bottom of the sea, I'd expect to see limestone deposits by now. Why don't you take a quick survey, and tell me which you see more of. (hint: what are the white cliffs of Dover made out of?)
And if they don't float... well, then you haven't really lost anything, have you?
Actually, there is slightly more carbon on Earth than a billion years ago due to meteorite strikes, but the important thing is how much carbon is loose in the atmosphere (C02) versus how much is tied up in the crust of the Earth itself or in other forms. Lately we have been decreasing the biomass tied up in trees (thus releasing carbon into the atmosphere), and extracting and burning hydrocarbons like they are going our of style (which in fact they are). The burning of fossil fuel has a secondary affect noone talks about -- sulpher emissions forms sulphuric acid, which then rain down on limestone and erode it at a much faster rate, thus releasing even more carbon dioxide into the air. If all the photoplankton falls to the bottom of the ocean, it'll eventually form new limestone deposits, no? Perhaps it would be more effective to prevent the limestone we have now from eroding. Ok, who's going to help me spray the Himalayas with a protective sealant?
I love the Hondas, but my experience is you need to ditch them after about 100,000 miles, 'cause that's when they start requiring maintenance. It's also the point where they have very little resale value.
The Vega was the closest Detroit ever came to building a disposable car. At around $3000, they were designed to appeal to kids who didn't know any better, and generally broke down after about 3 years. However, apparently a lot of them were sold, so there were a lot of them in junkyards to get parts from.
Ah, yes, the Chevette... massively underpowered, but still managed to get lousy gas mileage! I drove my girlfriends automatic Chevette out highway 17 to Santa Cruz -- my foot hurt from pressing the pedal to the floor the whole trip, deperately trying (and not succeeding) to keep from obstructing traffic!
That would appear to be more of a cliche joke car in Canada, where Red Green is filmed.
I'm sure Britney's "talent" has absolutely nothing to do with her ability to do vocals, and absolutely everything to do with her abilility to take off her clothes...
This is digital information. Eventually the media is going to fail -- guaranteed. Best approach is to make 100 copies of it at 100 different locations, then make new copies of the copies every year. With massive redundancy so cheap, who cares who unreliably a single copy is? This is one of the as yet untapped possibilities offered by the internet -- to be a perpetual archive for the information people consider important enough to provide the resources to make massively redundant copies.
Isn't this the same guy that said "Nobody should need more than 640K", "nothing will come of the Internet", and "what we need is a breakthrough in factoring large primes"? The same guy that though Microsoft Bob and Clippy were neat ideas? The same guy that hired Steve "Developers! Developers!" Ballmer? Just 'cause the guy has $50 billion doesn't make him an expert on predicting the future!
If the 32-bit app fits nicely in cache, but the 64-bit app doesn't, then the 32-bit app could be faster -- for certain problem sets.
I just tell my wife to stay the hell out of my computer room!
How come Homer and Krusty look like clones? Haven't you ever heard Matt Groening's explanation of this? The original joke in the first "Krusty" episode was that Bart had no respect at all for his father Homer, and yet he worshipped this television personality that looked exactly like his father... guess the irony was too subtle for most people.
Better yet, can an AIDS Long Term Non-Progressor patent their own DNA, then sue anybody who tries to develop a gene therapy for AIDS? (Long Term Non-progressors are people that can test positive for HIV for 10 or 20 years, yet never take any medicine and never develop any symptoms.)
If I make a copy of a 1,000,000 entry database, then change one of the entries, is it still infringing? How does one distinguish a list of facts from another list of facts compiled independently? Should I be rushing out to apply for a copyright on my list of the capitals of the 50 states? If I create a database with all the elements in it, can I sue anybody who publishes a periodic table?
Can't the player key be passed in as a command-line argument, thus making the code fully distributable? As long as they don't automatically configure the key, I don't see the problem.
Perhaps you'd prefer "Immoral lives in a librarian society"? If you are not suggesting a preferred alternative, it's not constructive criticism.
Quicker examples: Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. Granted, these guys have some business accumen, but they are nowhere near superior enough to justify the $50 billion premiums they have received... methinks it has more to do with "luck" than "talent".
1) That depends on how many pointers you are iterating over.
2) If the 32-bit register is also the low 32-bits of the 64-bit register, than it's just 2 loads, not 4 instructions... granted, that's twice as many loads as using 64-bit pointers, but you have a greater chance of all data fitting into cache, so it might actually be faster.
Good thing he doesn't live in Wanker's Corner, Oregon... here
Sorry, but SCO has always been reviled by the industry as being a bunch of arrogant assholes.
What if IBM simply says: "We cannot tell a lie... yes we did copy that code from Linux to Unix! Er, I guess you can't use that code for Unix then, because it's GPLed!"