I would imagine that would take brute force, yes. I can't imagine my mom agreeing to it.

At least embedding in a word document can decease the file size a little...! When you have clients sending 30Mb emails containing high resolution scans of their utility bill anything is welcome. Why on earth do they insist on scanning an electricity bill at 1200dpi or sometimes more??!

Spain?

Nah, that's just the English expats.. don't talk to them and they generally won't bother you...

I'll add to this... yes operationally an aircraft is easier. but navigating and, more importantly, awareness in three dimensions is a LOT harder (as I discovered in my first flying lesson). some drivers can't even reverse into a parking space properly - can you imagine that with a third dimension coming into play!!

They're even inventing cars which automatically stop if you're about to hit an obstacle right in front of you - that really doesn't bode well for flying cars any time soon!

Absolutely right.

Two thirds down the page of fanboy rantings from each side of the yard before someone points out that Dvorak wrote pretty much NOTHING about the OS in the original article for discussion.

Nice to see all those people pay attention before donning their cliche hats :)

that depends on your...perspectival...? ... oh so close...

Yeah I get that - like the blood stains all over the front of my car *suggest* I was the one who ran over my neighbours dog... Hey it could have been anybody's dog!

Have you played L4D on the low violence setting?

While I agree with you that removing blood splatters doesn't affect it much but seeing the bodies disappear on death does impact on the game quite a lot. It removes a lot of the urgency and hecticness (is that a word?!) from the game and it just wasn't the same.

It's ok, by the sound of the review the book is unfunny enough for you to read safely..

The only thing with the service tag is the possibility of error when being told it over the phone (or most likely shouted across the office). I prefer just simple numbering PC001, PC002 etc... it applies also to printers (PRN001, PRN002) the description denotes where it is but the asset doesn't change.

You can remotely gather the Service Tag with any audit tool or even a shell script anyway (although it's already registered in the asset management system).

My thoughts entirely. This seems an entirely meaningless boast to make, I'm almost angered by the title 'Safer Software' as this is almost implying that a fully functional OS is totally flawless. Not only that but they state it's "free of a large class of errors". What does that mean? What type of errors were not tested for (i.e. useability, functionality?).

Out of interest: 7,500 lines of C++ code? Is that really all that a kernel contains? If so they really are testing on far too small a scale. That's like saying 'the "ECU in this car is flawless therefore you'll never have an engine failure". Of course, that doesn't take into account that an oxygen sensor may fail, or a sensor reports incorrect data causing another piece of hardware to react wrongly.

In fact the more I think about this the more angry I become. Essentially this 'test' is completely meaningless. If they could mathematically prove that the millions of lines of code required to provide a fully functional system are flawless (i.e. would cause no undesired conditions during normal production use) then I'll be genuinely impressed.

I think it was meant to be whoosh (spelt wrongly?!) with a doppler effect... so in actual fact it should have been

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Likening some fifteen year old spotty kid who wants the latest Linkin' Park album to people who faught and died protecting their freedom is, to be honest, a bit insulting. There is no deep meaningful argument supporting illegal free downloading. Basically it comes down to a rather primal 'I want it free and I can get it free so I will'. Services cost, and if people don't want to pay anything at all then they don't need the service.

Please note - this is not in support of the music publishers, which I totally disagree with. The idea of them making so much money off the backs of others is wrong, but that needs a resolution in isolation to the problem of free downloaders.

Oh man - and I've just been given mod points... Ok, how should the last post be modded? We don't have a 'disgruntled' category...

Have some coffee and read some Cyanide and Happiness. It's too early to be going crazy over slashdot...

(running internal book on what this will be modded as)

Swapping the position of the YES|NO boxes helps in these situations, it stops the crazy clicker from doing dumb things...