
Re: YAY
With prices for GTX590 or 2xGTX680 exceeding $1200, this 100 quid more on WinSomething isn't really relevant IMO.
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I don't need connections to be alive, I use screen.
"when clients roam"? There's MobileIP for that.
"UDP-based protocol"? Another fail, because I cannot channel it through ssh port forwarding/socks.
And usually I can get the job done via crappy GPRS link using ssh and screen, so thankyouverymuch, thanks for trying anyway.
Also, they did XENIX for PDP-11 (well, they bought source code for PDP-11, so it was The First Architecture for XENIX), for Zilog Z800x and Motorola 68000 (some Apple Lisa publishing system, does anyone remember?).
Oh, and they had BASIC for almost every home computer in 80s, and this counted as OS BTW.
I prefer to use C preprocessor without forcing OO paradigm on code, but there are some who worship OO. Here's what Igor Soumenkov from Kaspersky Labs says:
"The Duqu Framework shares many principles of libevent, but it is completely object-oriented, even all events and callbacks are wrapped in objects ... Now, there are several open-source “OO C” frameworks available, and some of them produce code constructions that are very similar to those in the Duqu code. The best match we found is SOO (Simple Object Orientation for C), however it could not have been used in Duqu, because it was only published when the Trojan was already in the wild"
Why do I need any other kind of shell? There's POSIX shell and environment, and the MS bastards even used to do their half-arsed SFU in the past. There is Cygwin, and lighter options (mingw IIRC). But even with that, where's bloody package manager? I mean "apt-get search foo" and "debfoster bar"? For core packages, not "Cygwin stuff only"? Let me guess - not possible, with PowerShell or BlahBlahShell either. Because you can't really use both Windows and Server in the same statement, this doesn't compute.
So, if they think they can sell more and at higher profit through Apple, let them do so. I just propose to eliminate publishers altogether, and leave only authors and Amazon/Apple in the equation. This would be the most honest and most appropriate decision here...
Let me guess, AMD is going to become 2nd source for PowerPC/Cell chips? (yes I know about Motorola and AMCC-sourced PPCs, but they don't produce high-performance PPCs anymore). But probably Sony doesn't plan to retain backward compatibility with PS3 games...
1. not going to happen anytime soon (not until all GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA and mind you WiFi patents too expire, in any case)
2. while you wait for this, everyone else buys generations after generations of brave new LTE/gaga/googoo/blahblah iPhones and stuff and your point of reference moves ahead of you, again.
3. Return to p.1
Sheeple, wake up! (http://xkcd.com/1013/) How could you do hard realtime OS on any x86 since 386SL when SMM (http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Jan97/Jan97.html) kicks in completely invisibly to OS (and it can't be disabled by OS) and steals CPU cycles? GSM (and later) have strict requirements about timing by the way, and while they are an order of magnitude longer than max allowed execution time of SMM handler, there are other problems like lost clock ticks.
And what's more SMS is not free for operator even when SMS never leaves operator's PLMN. Barry Shitpeas doesn't know a fsck about purchase, support and O&M costs of telco equipment, costs of electricity, rental of land for BSS/masts, spectrum annual license etc. If Barry's SMS service is tied to IN platform, then most probably operator is charged monthly per each Barry's ass active on the platform.
Jack Tramiel was known for squeezing his suppliers (and later, competitors) out of business by driving prices as low as possible. So if Foxconn's manufacturing expenses rose and it couldn't remain profitable anymore, Jack wouldn't pay a cent more. He'd just find another supplier or tell this one to continue as is (until it goes bankrupt).
OK, IBM PC's architecture was open and maybe free of both h/w and s/w patents (I cannot say it for sure but IBM didn't take anybody in court for IBM PC patent issues AFAIK). The story was different for IBM PS/2 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture):
"IBM had patents on MCA system features and required MCA system manufacturers to pay a license fee - and actively pursued patents to block third parties from selling unlicensed implementations of it. The PC clone market did not want to pay royalties to IBM in order to use this new technology, and for desktop machines vendors of PC-compatibles stayed largely with the 16-bit AT bus"
IMHO it's clear that IBM could pull the same stunt earlier with ISA bus to prevent "unlicensed" cloning of original IBM PC. So it's not really about s/w vs h/w patents, but about corporate strategy. If IBM wanted to screw us, they could do it without ever resorting to s/w patents. Why they didn't put any locks on PC architecture, remains a question. I think they just wanted to create a market for add-on cards ASAP but didn't think about possibility of cloning PC itself at all.
In Moscow or Kiev you guys most probably would be just driven off the city and buried alive for that or strangled to death and then buried, as Kuchma did with Gongadze, so you can count yourselves lucky. I hate to say it but most probably SJ didn't behave much better than Kuchma when he was _personally_ abused by your mocking of his pronunciation of "Jaguar".
Of course it wasn't, at least from drone's point of view. Obviously, it was flying over American military base in Pakistan spotting beercan garbage and helping base's janitors to keep it clean and landed there without any doubts, and GPS data confirmed that.
No it will. Delaying encrypted GPS signals will work:
"Attacks on military (authenticated) GPS: The attacker is not able to generate valid military GPS signals. All he can do is to capture and relay existing signals, e. g. by separating signals from different satellites using high-gain directional antennas and broadband transceivers (called Selective-Delay in [11]). This means that the attacker can delay existing GPS signals and amplify or attenuate them."