Comment Re:Can we (Score 1) 444
And he once had an awkward moment;
just to see what it feels like.
And he once had an awkward moment;
just to see what it feels like.
I observed that as the ratings went down, so did the amount of clothing she wore. There was a preview near the end where she strolled through the shot in a bra and panties.
(Do terminators even wear undies? Seems kinda pointless.)
Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova) made unreasonable demands for cash, so the character had to go away.
Debatable. I saw Claudia Christian on stage at a con the weekend of the announcement, and she told her side of the story. She said that she had just asked for some time off (three or four episodes) to work on other projects, and Strazynski refused. That was the deal-breaker in her new contract, so she refused to sign. Then JMS spread the story that she was greedy. She said in public that she did not ask for more money.
As I said, this is her side of the story, but I found her very personable and believable.
Lots of hand-waving marketing bullshit. I'm sure they're going to keep using it internally, and the exploits will still happen with Microsoft code. Just like Microsoft applications will be ignored by UAC in Windows 7.
If they wanted to do something useful, they should have removed createRemoteThread instead.
Damn! I remember buying one of the very first flash drives, back in about 2000 or so. $50 for an IBM-branded 8 MB. 8 Megs, no typo.
He never ran the EFF (what a terrible thought!). He was Director of European Affairs for a while.
No, I think you're missing the main reason Apple dumped IBM. Apple saw the market moving towards laptops, and IBM couldn't bring the operating temperature of the G5 down. Apple never built a G5 laptop, and it was killing them. Meanwhile, Intel was building fast, low power CPUs and chipsets, and in the quantities Apple wanted. Apple could build more powerful portables, and smaller, lighter, more compact desktops like the iMac and Mac Mini, as a side effect.
The virtualization was just a nice bonus. It's actually easier to emulate an x86 on a RISC chip than the other way around. The Rosetta guys did some amazing things to get PowerPC code running on Intel, and even then it was just a stopgap measure.
But doesn't Mac OS X warn you the first time you're running a program? (or am I thinking of that case when you're opening a document that uses said program?)
It actually does both. And it does it by placing the name of the downloader program and the source URL as key/value pairs in the file's extended attributes. Pretty clever, really.
I've been researching Mac anti-virus software out of morbid curiosity lately, and I've discovered one thing: it's impossible to find the contents of the signature files they use. If you (or anyone else) can point me to a list of the known Mac viruses they scan for, I'd appreciate it. The closest I've found is one vendor who bundles their Mac and Windows sigs together in one big file, and then claims they protect the Mac from "30,000 viruses".
Until I can see some concrete evidence, I remain convinced that these applications are just digital snake oil, they consume memory and CPU cycles while doing nothing.
Exactly. I can't see anything in there that would stop porn, or the baby-shaking app, or anything else that could be controversial or offensive. The first time someone tries to submit an app like that, Microsoft is going to have to accept it, and deal with the PR firestorm, or reject it, and deal with the PR firestorm.
Oh, shit. That looks really bad. Typical Microsoft; GUIDs everywhere, if you're not using Microsoft products across the entire platform we can't help you, fucked-up naming conventions (they have a field called 'when' ), and I suspect a massive amount of vendor lock-in by insanely complex XML documents that can only be parsed by proprietary Microsoft products. i.e. business as usual.
A Mac is not "the most unfree of unfree". The source to the Darwin kernel, the userland programs, Safari (Webkit), and a number of other programs are freely (gratis and libre) available here and here.
Now, it's not the source to all the apps, and it's not the source to the Quartz/Aqua window manager, but it's still a hell of a lot more than you'll ever get from Microsoft.
So irradiate the doorknobs!
Geez, it's a simple solution!
The real crime here is that they're still using line numbers.
Wow, what an idiot. I bet his first column started with, "Last week I couldn't even spell 'pundit' and now I are one."
He says that Microsoft is only about a 6 on the monopoly scale, without defining the scale. Does he not realize that Microsoft has roughly 90% of the desktop OS market? And that Google, who he claims is worse, has only 60 - 70% of the web search market?
And these issues are beside the point. US law says there is nothing wrong with being a monopoly. The problem is abusing that monopoly. I don't think Google has ever been accused of trying to sign exclusive contracts with advertisers to screw over Yahoo. I don't think Apple has ever told Best Buy that if they want to sell iPods, they can't sell Zunes or Zens or Sanzas.
On the other hand, Microsoft has be found guilty of threatening OEMs with withholding Windows if they install DR DOS or Netscape Navigator.
Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They've just learned to hide in the trees.
