Comment Re:Can't say I'm surprised.... (Score 1) 279
Take a look at the screenshot: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode
Comment Re:Automation... (Score 2, Interesting) 146
See idiocracy. Go out and watch it. I'll wait
The main tenets in Idiocracy were that IQ is hereditary and those with less IQ spend more time procreating. Automation was merely allowing their society to function, barely. IOW, I don't see your point. Can you elaborate, please?
Comment Re:Not a book review (Score 1) 206
Free is just another price. Therefore, I am not going to read Anderson's book until he pays me $10.
Comment Re:Hack vs. the Void (Score 1) 206
Ummm, I read the post but it didn't seem to say anything beyond "Gladwell sucks". Did I miss something?
Comment Re:"M$" (Score 1) 1008
Look at your post and then answer your question.
Hint: there's no mention of either RMS or Mono in your post.
Hint: there's no mention of either RMS or Mono in your post.
Comment Re:Mod story flamebait (Score 1) 228
Better question, do we want to win, if the winning entry ends up to be the inpenetrable mess that is html+css+javascript?
Comment Re:Apt (Score 1) 183
I think you'll find that if you let that Windows application of yours run as it was intended (ie. with enough space on c:, with full administrator privileges, etc.), it will just work. You don't need to rely on some Microsoft repository administrator to make that choice for you.
Regarding compatibility, why is it "you are only allowed to install our version of program X" instead of "I see you have installed program X, I'll make myself compatible with it"? Why is it "you are only allowed to run our software X and software Y" instead of "I see you have both software X and Y, I'll make them interoperate better"?
Regarding compatibility, why is it "you are only allowed to install our version of program X" instead of "I see you have installed program X, I'll make myself compatible with it"? Why is it "you are only allowed to run our software X and software Y" instead of "I see you have both software X and Y, I'll make them interoperate better"?
Comment Re:Apt (Score 1) 183
And my point is that the people making the software are not always familiar with every distribution
And neither should they be. They should be able to write their software and have it run as intended on every distribution that is able to run it.
Comment Re:Replying to self (Score 0, Redundant) 183
go to the search box, look for Gweled
Does this search box show screenshots and reviews of the most popular apps?
Comment Re:Parallel is here to stay but not for every app (Score 1) 321
I have 2GHz dual-core AMD, several years old. My OS may be doing hundreds of task all the time, but those tasks amount to 2-4% of CPU time. I could have all those tasks running on one core and use only 4-8% of that core's time, and literally have the other core waiting for me to press a button. How is adding 14 idle cores to this equation going to improve the responsiveness to my key press? Answer: it's not.
Comment Re:Parallel is here to stay but not for every app (Score 1) 321
And are those 16 cores going to help with responsiveness? No. If I type the letter 'B' into my IDE, how is that to be broken into 16 or more subtasks that can be run in parallel? There's nothing but raw serial computing power that can help with that.
New Denial-of-Service Attacks Threaten Wireless Data Networks 31
alphadogg writes "Forget spam, viruses, worms, malware, and phishing. These threats are apparently old-school when compared to a new class of denial-of-service attacks that threaten wireless data networks. The threats were outlined in a talk in NYC Thursday by Krishan Sabnani, vice president of networking research at Bell Labs, at the Cyber Infrastructure Protection Conference at City College of New York. Sabnani said they are the result of inherent weaknesses in Mobile IP, a protocol that uses tunneling and complex network triangulation to allow mobile devices to move freely from one network to another. 'We need to especially monitor the mobile networks — with limited bandwidth and terminal battery — for DOS attacks,' Sabnani said, adding that the newest DOS attacks on wireless networks involve repeatedly establishing and releasing connections. These attacks are easy to launch and hard to detect, he said."
Comment Re:But it could be! (Score 1) 171
Exactly, and it's because that neat little abstraction called close() includes "tell them my regards and then bid them adieu" and "oh, you're still here?" and everything in between. How could one automatic clean-up abstraction deal with all that nuance without butchering something or other.
Comment Re:So use real-time Java (Score 1) 171
Ever heard of the terms undefined and unspecified behaviour? Well, I guess one could argue about the predictability of unpretictability...
Comment Re:Of course it is faster (Score 1) 248
So every time WoW wants to draw triangles on the screen some nefarious DRM code is asked if drawing triangles is allowed? Do you have anything concrete?
