Don't forget netbooks and nettops. My current desktop is a nettop (a 1.6 GHz Atom processor - 64-bit - 1 GB RAM, in a maybe 9x10x2 package) which was better than my previous desktop. Though I bought it long after 7 was out, it came with XP SP3. Hey, I appreciate cheap systems.
Could I "upgrade" to 7 starter? Probably. Would that really be an upgrade though?
I recall an article where they proved an image had been altered by recompressing it and then comparing that to the previous version. (The example used was some Taliban-provided image, which had indeed been altered)...
This ties in with your comment about watermarks or some such. If you use real steganography on a file that was originally compressed (as in, JPEG from your digital camera) the changes are easy enough to detect - so what you really need to do is make it look like something innocent - a real watermark.
Some cameras can provide original raw image data (maybe not in BMP format, but still uncompressed), you could make slight changes to that and get away with it. But modifying data from an originally compressed (using some lossy compression) file is not going to pass muster if they actually look for it.
They did say their stats don't include people who installed Linux themselves... which would be me. I dual-boot XP SP3 and Mandriva 2010 (KDE desktop).
I do have to agree with one of the later posters though. Why would anyone want Ubuntu Netbook Remix or Moblin on one of the 1024x600 or similar netbooks available today? The original Asus with 800x480 (or some other model with similar resolution)... maybe, but 1024x600 (in the case of my Acer here) is plenty of space for a standard desktop. Either KDE or XFCE is very good on a system like this, probably Enlightenment as well.
Just installed it here myself. When it indicated what the default settings were, it clearly stated that setting IE as default was one of them (about third or fourth, of five). Hence I selected "Custom", and then (eventually) told it to leave Opera as my default browser.
It later asked whether to import my bookmarks and RSS subscriptions from Opera, and claimed that it had though I didn't check. I only use IE for Windows Update, I don't really care if it has my Opera bookmarks or not.
Volunteer firemen still have pagers, and a friend whose wife was extremely ill was issued a pager by the medical service which was taking care of her - so pagers do still exist. But they may all be privately-run and not by telephone companies...
When you throw in all that stuff, you're asking the wrong question. Applications should be the best possible - regardless of source - if you want to compete in the real world. The OS including drivers should be pure (though I admit to using the nVidia drivers), the applications (office suite, graphics, browser, telephony, etc.) whatever suits you.
I mean, when Microsoft insists on Windows users using MS Office, Windows Media Player, IE, etc., we rightly get upset - why shouldn't we get upset if all Linux apps have to be "pure"?
Let me see now, I have 4 real email addresses (and a redirector), 3 are various webmail services the other is my ISP (which of course has a webmail interface but is normally read through my mail client. All of them can be set to block external images. Not certain about javascript, but of course I can disable that in my browser so it may be redundant.
Two errors in the original post here.
1. We received the message at 7:53 EDT, not EST.
2. The misson sight says it actually takes 15 minutes for signals from Phoenix to reach earth, therefore the craft actually landed at 7:38 EDT.
Congratulations all of course/
As a forum moderator myself, of course it's going to happen. Not that it'll keep the bad pennies from coming back, mind - they'll just steal someone else's credentials, whatever we're using - but we have to try. Any of these online communities really have no choice, they have to try and stop the spammers and harassers however they can.
Some math is discovered. Like pi for example. You can say pi is the ration of circumference to diameter in a circle, or also a number that comes up in probability theory, or several other ways you could define it - but they are all the same actual value. Would anyone claim that Euclid invented the value of pi? No, he discoverd it (to the degree he was capable of anyway).
But some other aspects of math are invented - say, number systems. Base ten or base two (or for that matter Roman numerals) were invented. Some people have invented number systems based on factorials, or negative or even complex bases - or my favorite, numbers based on the Fibonacci sequence.
I suppose that goes back to the second answer above then. Number systems are part of the "language" of math - how we express mathematical statements. Terms like triangle and isometry and the symbol pi are invented, formulas and geometry proofs and finite simple groups are discovered
You can do most of that in Opera today (or 5 years ago for that matter).
Opera has never had ActiveX. While Opera does support plugins, you can turn them all off with a simple menu choice. Same for referrer info - it was originally disabled by default; it's now enabled by default due to sites that try to block external linking but can be disabled with a menu choice. Cookies? Of course you can blobk them all, you can turn them all into session cookies and various other options.
Ad-blocking? Yes, though it doesn't come with a list. Cancellable javascript? Checkbox in every alert box. Javascript to raise, lower, resize widows or hide toolbars? Also optional.
And Opera doesn't allow websites to access the file:// protocol
... applies only to the government, not to business, indutry, or private indivuals. That is to say, if the government tracks this information they are violating the Bill of Rights. If I (or Google) track this information, you can't sue me for violating your rights. (Maybe for stalking, but not for violating your rights.)
Some jurisdictions do have privacy laws of various sorts, like the medical privacy laws in the US (aka HIPPA), if someone is charged with releasing your private medical information they violated the HIPPA law not the Bill of Rights.
A rights question for everyone here though - the recent Wikileaks case, the bank claimed that they were revealing customers private data. We all agree that the delisting was wrong, but then shouldn't Wikileaks have hidden account numbers and such information? That is really what we're talking about, how much information about you should websites be able to track and share.
So in other words, all web browsers shouldn't exist because they're free?
When the product you're competing with is free-as-in-beer (whether or not it's OSS) then obviously FOSS is a viable model.
And no real argument that the "infrastructure" - the operating system - should be open source, otherwise you wind up with all sorts of unverifiable claims regarding security and reliability, like in electronic voting machines...
I have no qualms with application software being proprietary, if you as programmer come up with some truly novel game then you should be able to make money off of your own Tetris. But to say that FOSS shouldn't exist is to argue that MS should be the only operating system, browser, and office suite company since without OSS they would be.
Must not be any Opera users posting.
Opera has this nice feature, if you type "roadrunner" it'll automatically add the "www." and ".com", or if you provide several suffixes "com org net edu" it'll run through the list in order to see which works - and of course accept whichever comes back first. Any of these "search" things break that feature by causing the first combination to always work.
Needless to say, I told woh.rr.com to turn it off...
I have to disagree with CNET... they are not talking about the OS, they are talking about the UI, and in that sense they actually prove Torvalds' point. They're not talking about what happens when you copy a file, say, but about how it looks and feels - which has nothing to do with how well the OS actually performed the desired operation.
Won't do any good for them to try to sue Cuyahoga County anyway, it was the state which decertified current touchscreen voting machines and is forcing all counties back to the paper ballot. All of Ohio's counties (88, if I recall my history) have to go back to the old paper ballot system before the primary next month, after the federal government forced the touchscreen system on us a few years ago.
(No, I don't live in Cuyahoga County, but I am in Ohio.)
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Don't forget netbooks and nettops. My current desktop is a nettop (a 1.6 GHz Atom processor - 64-bit - 1 GB RAM, in a maybe 9x10x2 package) which was better than my previous desktop. Though I bought it long after 7 was out, it came with XP SP3. Hey, I appreciate cheap systems.
Could I "upgrade" to 7 starter? Probably. Would that really be an upgrade though?
I recall an article where they proved an image had been altered by recompressing it and then comparing that to the previous version. (The example used was some Taliban-provided image, which had indeed been altered) ...
This ties in with your comment about watermarks or some such. If you use real steganography on a file that was originally compressed (as in, JPEG from your digital camera) the changes are easy enough to detect - so what you really need to do is make it look like something innocent - a real watermark.
Some cameras can provide original raw image data (maybe not in BMP format, but still uncompressed), you could make slight changes to that and get away with it. But modifying data from an originally compressed (using some lossy compression) file is not going to pass muster if they actually look for it.
kWh is not kJ, Joules is Watt-seconds, not Watt-hours.
3600 second/hr * 8 hr * 3 kW = 86.4 MJ
I see no mention of why anyone would want to run Windows remotely on their HDTV ... then again I'm not sure why they'd want to run it on a PC either.
They did say their stats don't include people who installed Linux themselves ... which would be me. I dual-boot XP SP3 and Mandriva 2010 (KDE desktop).
I do have to agree with one of the later posters though. Why would anyone want Ubuntu Netbook Remix or Moblin on one of the 1024x600 or similar netbooks available today? The original Asus with 800x480 (or some other model with similar resolution) ... maybe, but 1024x600 (in the case of my Acer here) is plenty of space for a standard desktop. Either KDE or XFCE is very good on a system like this, probably Enlightenment as well.
Sorry guys, but it would actually be surprising if they didn't follow Benford's law. This is a non-issue as far as mathematics goes.
Just installed it here myself. When it indicated what the default settings were, it clearly stated that setting IE as default was one of them (about third or fourth, of five). Hence I selected "Custom", and then (eventually) told it to leave Opera as my default browser.
It later asked whether to import my bookmarks and RSS subscriptions from Opera, and claimed that it had though I didn't check. I only use IE for Windows Update, I don't really care if it has my Opera bookmarks or not.
Volunteer firemen still have pagers, and a friend whose wife was extremely ill was issued a pager by the medical service which was taking care of her - so pagers do still exist. But they may all be privately-run and not by telephone companies ...
When it's ready. 9.52 is only a bugfix update, they shouldn't add stuff like this to a release until a minor or major update (as in, 9.60 or 10).
Firefox 3.1 is an alpha, it'll be a while before they have a release with video support too ...
Opera has been working on video tag support for some time, their test build (a version of Opera 9.52) was released two weeks ago.
Article: http://labs.opera.com/news/2008/07/18/
Download links: http://labs.opera.com/downloads/
When you throw in all that stuff, you're asking the wrong question. Applications should be the best possible - regardless of source - if you want to compete in the real world. The OS including drivers should be pure (though I admit to using the nVidia drivers), the applications (office suite, graphics, browser, telephony, etc.) whatever suits you.
I mean, when Microsoft insists on Windows users using MS Office, Windows Media Player, IE, etc., we rightly get upset - why shouldn't we get upset if all Linux apps have to be "pure"?
A Short History of Time
The Emperor's New Mind
(I was going to say anything by Asimov, but that's more than 25 years ago.)
Ah, I liked "Chaos" also - but I'm a mathematician, so maybe not.
Let me see now, I have 4 real email addresses (and a redirector), 3 are various webmail services the other is my ISP (which of course has a webmail interface but is normally read through my mail client. All of them can be set to block external images. Not certain about javascript, but of course I can disable that in my browser so it may be redundant.
... nobody knows I'm there, ever.
So
Since I know what my IQ is, I know the test I got is meaningless. Want a real test, try Mensa.
Two errors in the original post here. 1. We received the message at 7:53 EDT, not EST. 2. The misson sight says it actually takes 15 minutes for signals from Phoenix to reach earth, therefore the craft actually landed at 7:38 EDT. Congratulations all of course/
As a forum moderator myself, of course it's going to happen. Not that it'll keep the bad pennies from coming back, mind - they'll just steal someone else's credentials, whatever we're using - but we have to try. Any of these online communities really have no choice, they have to try and stop the spammers and harassers however they can.
Some math is discovered. Like pi for example. You can say pi is the ration of circumference to diameter in a circle, or also a number that comes up in probability theory, or several other ways you could define it - but they are all the same actual value. Would anyone claim that Euclid invented the value of pi? No, he discoverd it (to the degree he was capable of anyway). But some other aspects of math are invented - say, number systems. Base ten or base two (or for that matter Roman numerals) were invented. Some people have invented number systems based on factorials, or negative or even complex bases - or my favorite, numbers based on the Fibonacci sequence. I suppose that goes back to the second answer above then. Number systems are part of the "language" of math - how we express mathematical statements. Terms like triangle and isometry and the symbol pi are invented, formulas and geometry proofs and finite simple groups are discovered
You can do most of that in Opera today (or 5 years ago for that matter).
Opera has never had ActiveX. While Opera does support plugins, you can turn them all off with a simple menu choice. Same for referrer info - it was originally disabled by default; it's now enabled by default due to sites that try to block external linking but can be disabled with a menu choice. Cookies? Of course you can blobk them all, you can turn them all into session cookies and various other options.
Ad-blocking? Yes, though it doesn't come with a list.
Cancellable javascript? Checkbox in every alert box.
Javascript to raise, lower, resize widows or hide toolbars? Also optional.
And Opera doesn't allow websites to access the file:// protocol
... applies only to the government, not to business, indutry, or private indivuals. That is to say, if the government tracks this information they are violating the Bill of Rights. If I (or Google) track this information, you can't sue me for violating your rights. (Maybe for stalking, but not for violating your rights.)
Some jurisdictions do have privacy laws of various sorts, like the medical privacy laws in the US (aka HIPPA), if someone is charged with releasing your private medical information they violated the HIPPA law not the Bill of Rights.
A rights question for everyone here though - the recent Wikileaks case, the bank claimed that they were revealing customers private data. We all agree that the delisting was wrong, but then shouldn't Wikileaks have hidden account numbers and such information? That is really what we're talking about, how much information about you should websites be able to track and share.
So in other words, all web browsers shouldn't exist because they're free? When the product you're competing with is free-as-in-beer (whether or not it's OSS) then obviously FOSS is a viable model. And no real argument that the "infrastructure" - the operating system - should be open source, otherwise you wind up with all sorts of unverifiable claims regarding security and reliability, like in electronic voting machines ...
I have no qualms with application software being proprietary, if you as programmer come up with some truly novel game then you should be able to make money off of your own Tetris. But to say that FOSS shouldn't exist is to argue that MS should be the only operating system, browser, and office suite company since without OSS they would be.
Must not be any Opera users posting. Opera has this nice feature, if you type "roadrunner" it'll automatically add the "www." and ".com", or if you provide several suffixes "com org net edu" it'll run through the list in order to see which works - and of course accept whichever comes back first. Any of these "search" things break that feature by causing the first combination to always work. Needless to say, I told woh.rr.com to turn it off ...
Not exactly what was asked, but http://www.wikimapia.com/ seems like a place to start.
I have to disagree with CNET ... they are not talking about the OS, they are talking about the UI, and in that sense they actually prove Torvalds' point. They're not talking about what happens when you copy a file, say, but about how it looks and feels - which has nothing to do with how well the OS actually performed the desired operation.
Won't do any good for them to try to sue Cuyahoga County anyway, it was the state which decertified current touchscreen voting machines and is forcing all counties back to the paper ballot. All of Ohio's counties (88, if I recall my history) have to go back to the old paper ballot system before the primary next month, after the federal government forced the touchscreen system on us a few years ago. (No, I don't live in Cuyahoga County, but I am in Ohio.)
And I suppose they'll refer to it as Skynet for short? Someone from Fox suggest the name, perhaps?