meh, though it would probably easier for China to invade Canada through Alaska and convince the US to just sit by. It doesn't matter either way. The Canadians have done an excellent job at disarming themselves so that they have no meaningful self-defense capability and are basically at the mercy of which ever country decides to move in on them first.
simple and very effective solution is to get rid of all tabs and replace them with 4 spaces. suddenly, the editer or whatever doesn't make a difference. Tabs are evil anyway. They are too inconsistent across platforms to be useful and should be removed quickly.
4 not five. A presidential term only lasts for 4 years. A pres usually takes up an issue and runs it for votes for a term and then the issue fails miserably and screws everybody over. If we are lucky, the president is planning for re-election and then focuses on 8 years. better but nothing compared to the centuries that a country is supposed to last through.
no, 10 years is too slow for even gentoo. It only took me 1 year to perfect my setup (approaching ~1000 lines of custom configing now, mostly in emacs but also in other things).
If I had to guess, I'd say that that was a custom initrd running through and testing the very basic commands (echo, ldd, etc.) to make sure that those worked. This is probably an embedded, super cut down system, since this would not make any sense to do in a normal desktop.
uh, its not energy hilding us in place but force. There wouldbe extra energy (and thus work) which could be extracted but if there is no acceleration, there is no net work done and nothing to extract as any other form of energy. Read up on basic physics please.
AACS was not cracked, what has happened is that people are taking the title keys out of the memory of software players and using it along with an implementation of the published AACS standard.
It doesn't matter what they do. Bottom line is that people are capable of bypassing the encryption scheme and use the content in ways contrary to the intent of AACS. Therefore, AACS has been cracked. When will the idiotic recording companies figure out that DRM is a lost cause and find another business model. Thats the biggest problem with IP and Copyright and DRM just makes it worse. With the advent of computers, it became trivial to copy distribute music etc. The response was to try and block technology. Instead what they should have done was change the business model. Business strategies are supposed to be modified to conform to the world and yield a profit, not the other way around of passing arbitrary DMCA and IP laws in a futile attempt to alter reality to fit your outdated business model.
not really. Emacs and to a lesser extent, bash use the meta and ctrl keys very heavily. So heavily infact that I found that I did not have any shortcut keys left because of these 2 apps. Solution: use the windows key as a shortcut modifier.
prisoners dilemma but quite a bit larger. ATI and Nvidia are not the only GPU makers in the market. Intel for one still plays a large part in integrated GPUs. So does VIA. It would not be surprising if most corporations are using these. Also note that corporations, the primary customers for MS, usually don't care about 3d acceleration. The other major customers would be the OEMs who only care about 3d acceleration for their gaming platforms. Thus, quite a few more people need to tell MS to get off its high horse before anything happens.
its called a monopoly. It puts companies in a position where they can't say "Fuck off" because doing would result in a massive loss of customers. Thats why the US gov. is supposed to get rid of monopolies when they become abusive. Wish the gov. did its job right.
I don't remember XP's rollout being this much trouble. I remember being elated at how it just seemed to have drivers for everything I was running and and there was a significant improvement over Win98 and NT (which most of the music software didn't like). Thats because XP was nothing more than a repackaged version of windows 2000 with a different GUI. The kernel was essentially the same so a few very minor changes in the code (or sometimes none at all) were enough to port the drivers. Vista on the other hand, is a completely rewritten kernel. I don't know specifics, but there are probably massive changes in the driver structure in the kernel especially since the drivers must now support DRM, driver signing, etc... Not like I care, I am quite happy running Gentoo on my box.
try testing something when you have the source and when you don't. HINT: Its much easier with the source, at least for those who care. It makes it possible to spot fishy code paths, invalid typecasts, etc. and insert code to try test those things specifically.
The thing to consider however is that they are not accomplishing the same task. At a high level, sure they are talking HTTP. But at a low level IIS in it's default state does a lot more that Apache does in it's basic state. Another thing to consider is the different architectures of the two web servers. They're completely different. Unnecessary complexity is a bad thing you know. Does IIS re-init everything for every page? If so, it should be redesigned. If not, your argument falls apart. The fact that their architectures are different is one of the basic facts that is being relied upon. If the core architecture was the same, security characteristics would be a lot similar. Besides, the defect pointed out is primarily a design defect, namely that IIS has a much more complicated design. Such a statement assumes different architectures.
so... what you are looking for is a way to store a reasonably small amount of data with few constraints instead of relying on XML/OO/navigational structs. Interesting idea but wouldn't the querying result in too high an overhead. When I heard that, the first thing in my mind were python lists and dictionaries as being idea for the job...
RDBMS for a GUI??? WTF? RDBMS are for storing large sets of data which need to accessed quickly by numerous different applications. If any of those two requirements is not present, an RDBMS would probably be like using a nuke to take out an ant. No wonder you are having problems.
dynamic as in no limit on size and type of data? It would be simple to do but would also make the db very close to worthless. The entire point of the DB is to constraint data as much as possible. Its a verification mechanism. why do you think DBs go to so much trouble to implement things like foreign keys and constraints? Its far from easy. It is vey hard to do this effectively but it is necessary to fulfill the purpose of a DB; to store information and act as a last line verification method for that information.
yes it does. It shouldn't... but it does. (I'm talking about the US here). Just look at the farming subsidies. If that isn't workforce management, what is?
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suffering? emacs is an awesome piece of software and LISP is a great language to program in. Where is the suffering?
meh, though it would probably easier for China to invade Canada through Alaska and convince the US to just sit by. It doesn't matter either way. The Canadians have done an excellent job at disarming themselves so that they have no meaningful self-defense capability and are basically at the mercy of which ever country decides to move in on them first.
what about the several thousands of lines of lisp code on my PC and on the PC of everybody who uses emacs?
simple and very effective solution is to get rid of all tabs and replace them with 4 spaces. suddenly, the editer or whatever doesn't make a difference. Tabs are evil anyway. They are too inconsistent across platforms to be useful and should be removed quickly.
4 not five. A presidential term only lasts for 4 years. A pres usually takes up an issue and runs it for votes for a term and then the issue fails miserably and screws everybody over. If we are lucky, the president is planning for re-election and then focuses on 8 years. better but nothing compared to the centuries that a country is supposed to last through.
no, 10 years is too slow for even gentoo. It only took me 1 year to perfect my setup (approaching ~1000 lines of custom configing now, mostly in emacs but also in other things).
If I had to guess, I'd say that that was a custom initrd running through and testing the very basic commands (echo, ldd, etc.) to make sure that those worked. This is probably an embedded, super cut down system, since this would not make any sense to do in a normal desktop.
aero and Windows genuine advantage... written from a laptop with 1 gig of ram and a 1 gig swap (which like yours is unuset) running gentoo amd64.
uh, its not energy hilding us in place but force. There wouldbe extra energy (and thus work) which could be extracted but if there is no acceleration, there is no net work done and nothing to extract as any other form of energy. Read up on basic physics please.
may I refer you to the Street performer protocol (http://www.schneier.com/paper-street-performer.ht ml)
It doesn't matter what they do. Bottom line is that people are capable of bypassing the encryption scheme and use the content in ways contrary to the intent of AACS. Therefore, AACS has been cracked. When will the idiotic recording companies figure out that DRM is a lost cause and find another business model. Thats the biggest problem with IP and Copyright and DRM just makes it worse. With the advent of computers, it became trivial to copy distribute music etc. The response was to try and block technology. Instead what they should have done was change the business model. Business strategies are supposed to be modified to conform to the world and yield a profit, not the other way around of passing arbitrary DMCA and IP laws in a futile attempt to alter reality to fit your outdated business model.
not really. Emacs and to a lesser extent, bash use the meta and ctrl keys very heavily. So heavily infact that I found that I did not have any shortcut keys left because of these 2 apps. Solution: use the windows key as a shortcut modifier.
mod parent and gp up for funny AND insightful posts.
prisoners dilemma but quite a bit larger. ATI and Nvidia are not the only GPU makers in the market. Intel for one still plays a large part in integrated GPUs. So does VIA. It would not be surprising if most corporations are using these. Also note that corporations, the primary customers for MS, usually don't care about 3d acceleration. The other major customers would be the OEMs who only care about 3d acceleration for their gaming platforms. Thus, quite a few more people need to tell MS to get off its high horse before anything happens.
its called a monopoly. It puts companies in a position where they can't say "Fuck off" because doing would result in a massive loss of customers. Thats why the US gov. is supposed to get rid of monopolies when they become abusive. Wish the gov. did its job right.
Its called tying and it is very illegal (anti-trust kind of illegal) for everybody except for MS. why not for MS? I wish I knew.
try testing something when you have the source and when you don't. HINT: Its much easier with the source, at least for those who care. It makes it possible to spot fishy code paths, invalid typecasts, etc. and insert code to try test those things specifically.
in linux, it possible to use dmcrypt or something similar to do that. I am planing on trying it out sometime.
so... what you are looking for is a way to store a reasonably small amount of data with few constraints instead of relying on XML/OO/navigational structs. Interesting idea but wouldn't the querying result in too high an overhead. When I heard that, the first thing in my mind were python lists and dictionaries as being idea for the job...
RDBMS for a GUI??? WTF? RDBMS are for storing large sets of data which need to accessed quickly by numerous different applications. If any of those two requirements is not present, an RDBMS would probably be like using a nuke to take out an ant. No wonder you are having problems.
dynamic as in no limit on size and type of data? It would be simple to do but would also make the db very close to worthless. The entire point of the DB is to constraint data as much as possible. Its a verification mechanism. why do you think DBs go to so much trouble to implement things like foreign keys and constraints? Its far from easy. It is vey hard to do this effectively but it is necessary to fulfill the purpose of a DB; to store information and act as a last line verification method for that information.
finally somebody realizes the value of survival over happiness. mod parent up a lot please.
yes it does. It shouldn't... but it does. (I'm talking about the US here). Just look at the farming subsidies. If that isn't workforce management, what is?