This may have been a bad move, but Microsoft knows that in actuality there's nothing the users (corporate and private alike) are really going to do about this. They may complain a bit; write some unpleasant articles in some online sites/blogs, but at the end of the day you're still going to be using their stuff. Effectively saying "just suck it down and shut up". And in reality, this is what 99.999999% of Windows users are going to do.
If you have an effective monopoly, trust really doesn't matter.
My name was on the list for years until I finally decided to try get off it. Every time I tried to checkin and print my boarding pass online I was told I'd have to go to the ticket counter. I found the form online and surprisingly it took less than 6 weeks. YMMV.
I have my machines synced via ntp. ntpq reports than I'm no more than 3ms out of sync with a stratum 1 time server (9ms out of sync with UNSO) and that server is synced with GPS and USNO which as you said is never more than.0001ms out of sync with UTC.
Eye-balling like you described I can verify that I am within 2000ms of http://time.gov/. I think perhaps that that website may have had issue on the date you saw it being 3 minutes different than what NTP provided.
I'd show you the ntpq output but the lameness filters prevent it.
I've never seen Sydney in person, but now I know that just about every building in the city is tagged with "Scott Howard" graffiti. The guy is just out of control.
Back in 1990 someone wrote a BASIC interpreter that won (or was at least recognized by) the IOCCC. A revised entry was recognized in 1991 (in just 17 lines of code).
I tried to post the code but the lameness filter rejected it.:(
"Porting" applications between Linux/AIX/HPUX/Solaris is trivial; at least with C/C++. I've been a developer of a very successfull product that supports all these platforms (has since 1998) and I can say that there is less than.01% of code that is unique to any platform; primarily the inclusion of different header files. In fact just as much "porting" is done to work with various releases of Windows.
Perhaps there are projects that require substantial porting between UNIX platforms, but most likely this is a manifestation of flaws in their code/architecture and not something that should be expected when working with multiple flavors of UNIX.
I thought that that would work too. I set my mom up as a restricted user under Windows 2000. After about 6 months the machine was clogged with spyware and would no longer dial.
I wrote a program to detect what directories were still writeable as the restricted user, turned out to be quite a few (even including C:\).
They've already got one. They make a slim-line keyboard and also a compact model (the 1800 I believe). I have a Cherry keyboard (Compact model) that I bought 10 years ago and now use it at work -- it's a rugged piece of equipment.
Perhaps the Library of Congress should have hired some acoustic engineers to do this job. The Berkeley Lab seems to have replaced one type of noise with another (random static with a pulsating hiss.) I'm not sure which is more distracting.
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This may have been a bad move, but Microsoft knows that in actuality there's nothing the users (corporate and private alike) are really going to do about this. They may complain a bit; write some unpleasant articles in some online sites/blogs, but at the end of the day you're still going to be using their stuff. Effectively saying "just suck it down and shut up". And in reality, this is what 99.999999% of Windows users are going to do.
If you have an effective monopoly, trust really doesn't matter.
My name was on the list for years until I finally decided to try get off it. Every time I tried to checkin and print my boarding pass online I was told I'd have to go to the ticket counter. I found the form online and surprisingly it took less than 6 weeks. YMMV.
Anything is solvable with another layer of abstraction.
I believe there is a clause in the EULA that prohibits nuking Redmond from orbit.
3 Minutes?!?
.0001ms out of sync with UTC.
I have my machines synced via ntp. ntpq reports than I'm no more than 3ms out of sync with a stratum 1 time server (9ms out of sync with UNSO) and that server is synced with GPS and USNO which as you said is never more than
Eye-balling like you described I can verify that I am within 2000ms of http://time.gov/. I think perhaps that that website may have had issue on the date you saw it being 3 minutes different than what NTP provided.
I'd show you the ntpq output but the lameness filters prevent it.
Who else read the headline and wondered why almost 5 out of every 6 Mac Laptops are stolen from the store or otherwise unable to be sold?
Their ISP is gonna be pissed.
You'd think, but I've actually been to a Star Trek themed wedding. One of the coolest weddings I've ever seen!
I've never seen Sydney in person, but now I know that just about every building in the city is tagged with "Scott Howard" graffiti. The guy is just out of control.
Back in 1990 someone wrote a BASIC interpreter that won (or was at least recognized by) the IOCCC. A revised entry was recognized in 1991 (in just 17 lines of code).
:(
I tried to post the code but the lameness filter rejected it.
I'm currently running Windows 2003:
"Detecting OS...
PC Users with Windows 95 or 98: you need to run Windows 2000 or Windows XP to use MTV Overdrive."
geniuses...
Exactly.
.01% of code that is unique to any platform; primarily the inclusion of different header files. In fact just as much "porting" is done to work with various releases of Windows.
"Porting" applications between Linux/AIX/HPUX/Solaris is trivial; at least with C/C++. I've been a developer of a very successfull product that supports all these platforms (has since 1998) and I can say that there is less than
Perhaps there are projects that require substantial porting between UNIX platforms, but most likely this is a manifestation of flaws in their code/architecture and not something that should be expected when working with multiple flavors of UNIX.
I thought that that would work too. I set my mom up as a restricted user under Windows 2000. After about 6 months the machine was clogged with spyware and would no longer dial.
I wrote a program to detect what directories were still writeable as the restricted user, turned out to be quite a few (even including C:\).
They've already got one. They make a slim-line keyboard and also a compact model (the 1800 I believe). I have a Cherry keyboard (Compact model) that I bought 10 years ago and now use it at work -- it's a rugged piece of equipment.
"Species Filters"?
Sure hope someone posts the video stream from the Amateur TV telemetry. I don't have a 2.4GHz receiver handy.
One of the best on-board color camera videos I've ever seen was that of the MER-A "Spirit" launch. This site has the video.
Perhaps the Library of Congress should have hired some acoustic engineers to do this job. The Berkeley Lab seems to have replaced one type of noise with another (random static with a pulsating hiss.) I'm not sure which is more distracting.