Alexandre Julliard: We try to implement the bugs, or at least the ones that applications depend on. The only reason for implementing the Win32 API is to run all the applications written to it, there is no point in trying to improve on it if it breaks compatibility. If you want to design a good API, Win32 is the last thing you want to start from (actually Win32 is probably a good example of how *not* to design an API;-)
A kernel with:
-A file manager
-A web browser
-Multiple filesystem support
-Most extensive driver library in existence
-Office tools like Mail, WordPad, Calendar, Calculator, Contacts, Paint?
-Full command line environment (DOS)
-Complete media architecture in DirectX.. that's DirectSound DirectInput DirectDraw.. a LOT of big packages if it was Linux. Also Windows Media Player/Photo Gallery
-Graphics APIs and rendering engines
-Remote desktop
-Labyrinthe configuration utilities and applets
-Monster domain features.. detailed ACLs on every resource, complex user permissions, domain controls enforced on clients (integrated securely right into the interface)..
Especially on the last one you have to admit that Windows has done some things right, and anyway it's certainly not just a kernel image and a window server. People expect a complete environment for Getting Work Done.
I don't have any problem bashing Windows, but being modular is exactly the change from XP to Vista and what Server 08 does even better. Which is it going to be, that Vista should go monolithic for performance or that Vista should go modular for ease of design?
Sounds like you could use a little GEB for some perspective. They're not bits that you can flip on and off, DNA is highly recursive and chock full of self-reference and "strange loops". Not to mention the phenotype that develops is wildly complex.. can you imagine zapping a neuron to eliminate someone's love for strawberry ice cream? How much more ridiculous is the idea of changing embryonic DNA so that the brain that arises doesn't like strawberry? The love for strawberry is a combination of factors including not only the physics of tongues and nerves but also the person's experiences. And a person who hates strawberry ice cream wouldn't go to the ice cream parlor and meet her lifelong companion.. if you had never been ADHD/dyslexic/etc you would not be you! And you bet that means it would affect your intelligence.
A good reason? This is a fantastic reason. There's obviously nothing wrong with it if we know what we're doing, but due to the self-referential and recursive nature of DNA we could be screwing things up 5000 generations down the road. At least wait for more development in the field.
See the tag "gattaca"? That's exactly why anybody's talking about government regulation at all. If some babies are born perfect, they're the obvious candidates for high-paying jobs that require a lot of training.. why pay to send an engineer through grad school that's going to drop dead from a heart attack? Then the naturally-born children will be stuck with nothing. You might say that you could make it illegal to discriminate based on genetics, but the space program (now THAT's extensive, expensive training) already discriminates based on height/weight and if you're not healthy and strong you don't stand a chance- common sense. Ugly people won't get jobs as models- common sense. So it's not so far-fetched.
Also, you may not be able to imagine life without your sister but if you never had your sister you certainly could imagine life.
If your mother could have chosen a different embryo other than yours, or repaired yours, would you of wanted that for her?
Obviously not, since "you" wouldn't be wanting anything. The counterfactual always hopelessly muddles questions of identity.
Oh I don't dispute that out of the box, vista is absolutely terrible. In order for it to be remotely usable after a reinstall, I have to:
-Disable the indexing service
-Disable all the other crap services I don't need like the diagnostic service
-Turn off slow Aero transparency and just use opaque Aero
-Run the registry tweaks to get sane folder type identification (make EVERYTHING "all items" by default)
-Disable all MRU features and make my start menu all pins
-Disable IE and WMP.
-Disable sidebar.
Well cert signing is important in most cases. Yes it's good for only encryption (though some crazies say otherwise) but the encryption is only as good as the private key that signed the SSL cert. So if the cert is signed by VeriSign or Thawte, you know the private key is like 80 megabytes long and is kept locked in a dedicated vault. Of course the encryption is also only as good as the cert itself, so you also have to trust the site not to lose it, but that's a much easier call than trying to research the CA.
Exactly. Why on earth would you not trust the pirate bay to keep their private key secret? Presumably they keep it at least as secret as their logs and since those are the only thing you have to lose, if law enforcement gets their hands on the key, they've gotten their hands on the logs too anyway.
First of all, Windows Server 08 is rock solid and fast. So you're already wrong. Hardy is a sloppy release but includes upgrades for LOTS of packages trying to get into LTS so that's to be expected. Leopard and Vista were both kind of crappy, but so were their predecessors. Vista's better than the playskool stressfest that was XP.
..well if you have the internet, then swapping public keys before encrypting and transferring is hardly out-of-band. And this is talking about SSL encryption to the tracker!! not between peers, which is already done by utorrent encryption support.
I'm sure to classify it as FUD. They're just bawww bawing because someone forgot to add their country to some (noncomprehensive) list. If Madagascar or something were missing, nobody would bat an eye.. but just because it's Israel it's a huge issue. Come on, by shrieking foul over non-issues like this they muddy the waters of real problems with racism.
I pointed out that this isn't just any omission and addition. When you omit Israel and add Palestine (which is not even recognized as a country by the United Nations) to a country drop-down menu, you seem to be making a very loaded political statement. Ugh, this is not a story.
This isn't the case on the agency's own site, but it was the case on the pages for Causes, which puts widgets... Facepalm.
..also I'm sure server admins would be pretty wary of running their hardware at the fail point of heat instead of "grossly overcooling" them and being able to sleep at night.
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Are you crazy? Context switches are the slowdown in multitasking OSes.
Sigh, just because win32 API call behavior is reproduced doesn't mean that the Windows environment is there.
Yeah it's kind of crazy. You have to takeown the resource before you can give yourself permission to it.
A kernel with:
-A file manager
-A web browser
-Multiple filesystem support
-Most extensive driver library in existence
-Office tools like Mail, WordPad, Calendar, Calculator, Contacts, Paint?
-Full command line environment (DOS)
-Complete media architecture in DirectX.. that's DirectSound DirectInput DirectDraw.. a LOT of big packages if it was Linux. Also Windows Media Player/Photo Gallery
-Graphics APIs and rendering engines
-Remote desktop
-Labyrinthe configuration utilities and applets
-Monster domain features.. detailed ACLs on every resource, complex user permissions, domain controls enforced on clients (integrated securely right into the interface)..
Especially on the last one you have to admit that Windows has done some things right, and anyway it's certainly not just a kernel image and a window server. People expect a complete environment for Getting Work Done.
That's ridiculous- WINE aims to emulate win32 perfectly, including reproducing bugs, so all windows programs run as expected.
WINE just provides a reverse-engineered implementation of the Win32 API. Microsoft has the real original code.
I don't have any problem bashing Windows, but being modular is exactly the change from XP to Vista and what Server 08 does even better. Which is it going to be, that Vista should go monolithic for performance or that Vista should go modular for ease of design?
Stephen King is dead.. because his immune system failed.
I got the impression that it was sort of artificially forced into that grid..
Blizzard has nothing of mine. Bnetd, their crappy anticheat scanning...
Sounds like you could use a little GEB for some perspective. They're not bits that you can flip on and off, DNA is highly recursive and chock full of self-reference and "strange loops". Not to mention the phenotype that develops is wildly complex.. can you imagine zapping a neuron to eliminate someone's love for strawberry ice cream? How much more ridiculous is the idea of changing embryonic DNA so that the brain that arises doesn't like strawberry? The love for strawberry is a combination of factors including not only the physics of tongues and nerves but also the person's experiences. And a person who hates strawberry ice cream wouldn't go to the ice cream parlor and meet her lifelong companion.. if you had never been ADHD/dyslexic/etc you would not be you! And you bet that means it would affect your intelligence.
A good reason? This is a fantastic reason. There's obviously nothing wrong with it if we know what we're doing, but due to the self-referential and recursive nature of DNA we could be screwing things up 5000 generations down the road. At least wait for more development in the field.
Obviously not, since "you" wouldn't be wanting anything. The counterfactual always hopelessly muddles questions of identity.
Try this
I don't know about how it performs as a server, but without any server roles and configured as a workstation it's an excellent environment.
Oh I don't dispute that out of the box, vista is absolutely terrible. In order for it to be remotely usable after a reinstall, I have to:
-Disable the indexing service
-Disable all the other crap services I don't need like the diagnostic service
-Turn off slow Aero transparency and just use opaque Aero
-Run the registry tweaks to get sane folder type identification (make EVERYTHING "all items" by default)
-Disable all MRU features and make my start menu all pins
-Disable IE and WMP.
-Disable sidebar.
You misspelled my name anyway :)
Well cert signing is important in most cases. Yes it's good for only encryption (though some crazies say otherwise) but the encryption is only as good as the private key that signed the SSL cert. So if the cert is signed by VeriSign or Thawte, you know the private key is like 80 megabytes long and is kept locked in a dedicated vault. Of course the encryption is also only as good as the cert itself, so you also have to trust the site not to lose it, but that's a much easier call than trying to research the CA.
Exactly. Why on earth would you not trust the pirate bay to keep their private key secret? Presumably they keep it at least as secret as their logs and since those are the only thing you have to lose, if law enforcement gets their hands on the key, they've gotten their hands on the logs too anyway.
First of all, Windows Server 08 is rock solid and fast. So you're already wrong. Hardy is a sloppy release but includes upgrades for LOTS of packages trying to get into LTS so that's to be expected. Leopard and Vista were both kind of crappy, but so were their predecessors. Vista's better than the playskool stressfest that was XP.
..well if you have the internet, then swapping public keys before encrypting and transferring is hardly out-of-band. And this is talking about SSL encryption to the tracker!! not between peers, which is already done by utorrent encryption support.
I pointed out that this isn't just any omission and addition. When you omit Israel and add Palestine (which is not even recognized as a country by the United Nations) to a country drop-down menu, you seem to be making a very loaded political statement. Ugh, this is not a story. This isn't the case on the agency's own site, but it was the case on the pages for Causes, which puts widgets... Facepalm.
..also I'm sure server admins would be pretty wary of running their hardware at the fail point of heat instead of "grossly overcooling" them and being able to sleep at night.
You absolutely don't need to upgrade an old laptop. Install fluxbox, done.