What prevents MS from producing a blu-ray add-on for those customers who want it?
That negates the blu-ray advantage of Sony, while simultaneously allowing people to make a choice about the blu-ray player they want.
Why compete against other companies, while having to pay for floorspace? Why not start an ad campaign and send out more units to review to technology websites.
I realize that serialized mystery/thriller/drama shows are all the rage (Lost, Prison Break, Life, Heroes). But its getting outrageous.
How many malevolent companies/groups/governments/cabals can we be expected to tolerate.
All the false hyperbole on here, "PARTY BOSSES ARE STEALING RIGHTS!!!!1!!!", is just that, hyperbole. No one has the right to run as a democrat. Don't be ridiculous.
Go ask poor Ted Stevens about why it's 1337 to refer to Internet connections as "pipes" but you're a retard if you say "tubes"... Fuck him, he should LURK MOAR.
Apple's willingness to break backwards compatibility for the sake of cleaner APIs and a saner OS MS is crucified on/. for not making DX10 backward compatible to XP, why isn't this brave?
and their utilization of third-party components wherever possible - BSD tools/Mach/KHTML/DTrace/ZFS(soon)/etc. Microsoft has full-blown NIH syndrome Obviously there are issues with MS being able to use FLOSS. So this strikes me as disingenuous.
with the end result that they go out and build everything from scratch, with 90% of it being worse than open source solutions. That's just exaggeration. ETW which does what DTrace does has been around since Win2K.
They're getting crushed by their own proprietary codebase and enormous level of legacy support True about the crushing codebase. But the legacy support is why people use Windows. The pride of Linux is running on ancient and obscure hardware, why is this no good for MS?
What happens when Vista is running in the Bank of America and it accidentally trips the entire network in to "Black Screen of Darkness" mode? If BoA has a policy to buy from shady resellers that preinstall pirated copies, then that is a bad policy on their corporate side.
What happens when a virus triggers this? We can probably assume privilege elevation is involved. No one worries about virus catching, CTRL+ALT+DEL. Why worry about this?
I can't honestly see a good reason to mess with the stability of your OS when you're making billions of dollars of profit a year. So MS is only allowed to make some invisible ceiling of money, then what, its just unseemly for them to continue doing business? They should give away all copies of the operating system?
Windows is the same, it is good enough for the vast majority of people even though it is technically deficient to Mac OSX and Linux. What people here seem to forget is that the vast majority of people don't even know how to use the computers they have. The debatable appeal of one OS vs the next is not even in their minds. Windows whether liked or not has earned the reputation of just working. I guess most people haven't found out yet that software wants to be free.
Thirdly, they've got sucked in to yet more anti-user copy protection. Is this unique to Windows? Is there some magic Linux HD-DVDs out there that have no AACS encryption? How is it MS fault for enabling users to play protected content? Are they supposed to be stubborn zealots and not support any DRM because Stallman doesn't like it?
There has been much talk of the year of Linux and when that would be. The problem with the year of Linux is that you can only see it in retrospect. However, the signs are present that 2007 is in fact that year. This is like Bush talking about "making progress". It's been like 5 years in a row that it was supposed to be the year of Linux. That false Nostradamus crap has just gotten old.
And assuming that a floating-point number is represented by 128 bits, that still means there are only 2^128 (that is, 17,179,869,184) discrete values it can represent. Sadly that's wrong. 17,179,869,184 = 2^34. I mean, is it that difficult for people writing articles to check their math.
I have an Axim, and its great for a lot of things. Calendar, tasks, note taking, note recording, some light web surfing. But document creation. No. Even using Powerpoint on it is just horrendous. I have no faith that these apps with be nearly as enjoyable across devices that are not desktops.
Programming languages don't do the work. They help the programmer express his/her idea of what task needs to be done. Any Turing-complete language will allow you express any task. But can you see the internal structure of the task and are you able to use the most efficient and appropriate language for that task.
Most often I see people learning a litany of languages only to use all of them like C. For example writing a Java app with nothing but static data and methods, in one gigantic class. Clearly these people, while they may be using Java, do not know Java.
The browser itself, depending on which one is being used, may be running on top of.NET 2.0 What browser would that be? IE, or FF, or Opera?
.NET is then running on top of the userland Windows subsystems Everything runs on top of that. But thats only via calls to the Windows API. If you were calling the Windows API then you would have to do that anyway.
The userland subsystems are running on top of the NT kernel. The NT kernel is then running on hardware. We should all code in assembly. That's most efficient.
I find we're also losing reliability as we go higher in the stack. That's why I always implement my own quicksort. To stay away from the layers.
This is so wrong in so many ways.
The supply of "good" pundits is rising at a far lower rate than the supply of pundits in total. I'll give you that.
Probably at a rate of O(n*log(n)) as opposed to O(n^4), or similar. But not this one, besides abusing Big O notation, you also managed to pull functions out of your ass. What does n represent? Time? The number of current pundits? Blogs that exist? Some other useless input?
This is a huge problem, as the noise is going to overwhelm the signal. How could the noise overwhelm the signal? The Internet is mostly crap (notice I didn't say 99%). However, there will always be places like Google to rank valuable content, or/. to aggregate valuable content. Gems will be found. Why would you suppose the opposite is the case in punditry?
it's not so much a matter of whether a comment is insightful or interesting so much as it adheres to the consensus view of the moderators
You seem to be arguing against yourself. Moderators are chosen from a large pool according to rules described in moderation guidelines. It stands to reason that if these moderators come to consensus about a post, then that consensus would be descriptive of the post.
Let's say you run a business, and people start making what you believe to be baseless accusations about the environmental impact of your business.
Big Oil is throwing so much money at "investigating" the environmental impact that it shows that they believe it to be more than baseless accusations. In my opinion it is just an attempt to muddy the waters and confuse people who are scientifically illiterate, for example politicians.
When you can't make a thousand copies of the earth[....]
But you can get all the ice cores one wants and correlate CO2 with temperature. These arguments are the same ones used against global warming and evolution and they are intellectually dishonest at best. Sniping at perceived weaknesses in a theory to confuse, instead of proposing a real alternative theory to be tested.
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His reason for centering the class around the 2.4 kernel is that there is no textbook, as excellent as the book that we are using for the 2.4 kernel, for the 2.6 kernel.
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For my CSE432 class, Operating System Internals, we delve into the Linux 2.4 kernel code to show examples of how operating systems are implemented. So I, being a lifelong Windows user, decided to setup a VMware virtual Linux box. Started with Ubuntu, but couldn't get the VMTools installed properly. Format. Install Fedora, update the kernel packages, VMTools up and running. Easy. I like Fedora and this book look like it could make anyone a more knowledgeable Fedora user.
Well that 142 was found out of his search of 12000, if his methodology was sound you could expect the proportion plagiarized within the 1.5 million to be about 17750.
About 1.18%.
But not for the obvious reasons. I'm tired of these articles because then the woodwork of MS bashers comes out and says the same tired comments over and over again.
"MS is just doing this so everyone has to buy Vista!"
"There is no reason why DX10 can't be backported to XP!"
It's like these people never saw these articles posted before, and they really feel like they are making some new contribution. They are not.
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No, they won't looked aligned.
You're forgetting that light travels at a finite speed.
Galaxy 1 emitted light 11 bya which interacted with galaxy 2, 3 and now shines on Earth.
There is no "reverse path" for light from the Milky to take.
What prevents MS from producing a blu-ray add-on for those customers who want it? That negates the blu-ray advantage of Sony, while simultaneously allowing people to make a choice about the blu-ray player they want.
Why compete against other companies, while having to pay for floorspace? Why not start an ad campaign and send out more units to review to technology websites.
I realize that serialized mystery/thriller/drama shows are all the rage (Lost, Prison Break, Life, Heroes). But its getting outrageous. How many malevolent companies/groups/governments/cabals can we be expected to tolerate.
If I had mod points, you'd have them. He definitely failed hard.
He can.
All the false hyperbole on here, "PARTY BOSSES ARE STEALING RIGHTS!!!!1!!!", is just that, hyperbole. No one has the right to run as a democrat. Don't be ridiculous.
Those towns should do something worthwhile then maybe they'd be like Broadway.
in 2009 I'll be holding out for SSE8 anyway.
I have an Axim, and its great for a lot of things. Calendar, tasks, note taking, note recording, some light web surfing. But document creation. No. Even using Powerpoint on it is just horrendous. I have no faith that these apps with be nearly as enjoyable across devices that are not desktops.
Amen to this! Parent has it all correct!
Programming languages don't do the work. They help the programmer express his/her idea of what task needs to be done. Any Turing-complete language will allow you express any task. But can you see the internal structure of the task and are you able to use the most efficient and appropriate language for that task.
Most often I see people learning a litany of languages only to use all of them like C. For example writing a Java app with nothing but static data and methods, in one gigantic class. Clearly these people, while they may be using Java, do not know Java.
.NET is then running on top of the userland Windows subsystems Everything runs on top of that. But thats only via calls to the Windows API. If you were calling the Windows API then you would have to do that anyway. The userland subsystems are running on top of the NT kernel. The NT kernel is then running on hardware. We should all code in assembly. That's most efficient. I find we're also losing reliability as we go higher in the stack. That's why I always implement my own quicksort. To stay away from the layers.This is supposed to be the plan for Intel. Why would they use an existing standard?
You seem to be arguing against yourself. Moderators are chosen from a large pool according to rules described in moderation guidelines. It stands to reason that if these moderators come to consensus about a post, then that consensus would be descriptive of the post.
Big Oil is throwing so much money at "investigating" the environmental impact that it shows that they believe it to be more than baseless accusations. In my opinion it is just an attempt to muddy the waters and confuse people who are scientifically illiterate, for example politicians.
When you can't make a thousand copies of the earth[....]But you can get all the ice cores one wants and correlate CO2 with temperature. These arguments are the same ones used against global warming and evolution and they are intellectually dishonest at best. Sniping at perceived weaknesses in a theory to confuse, instead of proposing a real alternative theory to be tested.
His reason for centering the class around the 2.4 kernel is that there is no textbook, as excellent as the book that we are using for the 2.4 kernel, for the 2.6 kernel.
For my CSE432 class, Operating System Internals, we delve into the Linux 2.4 kernel code to show examples of how operating systems are implemented. So I, being a lifelong Windows user, decided to setup a VMware virtual Linux box. Started with Ubuntu, but couldn't get the VMTools installed properly.
Format.
Install Fedora, update the kernel packages, VMTools up and running.
Easy.
I like Fedora and this book look like it could make anyone a more knowledgeable Fedora user.
Well that 142 was found out of his search of 12000, if his methodology was sound you could expect the proportion plagiarized within the 1.5 million to be about 17750. About 1.18%.
For my soon to be outdated OLED Optimus Keyboard.
But not for the obvious reasons. I'm tired of these articles because then the woodwork of MS bashers comes out and says the same tired comments over and over again. "MS is just doing this so everyone has to buy Vista!" "There is no reason why DX10 can't be backported to XP!" It's like these people never saw these articles posted before, and they really feel like they are making some new contribution. They are not.
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