If you actually want a correct coin analogy, its that every time they called heads (heads = bug will be exploited), it showed up heads 40% of the time. Every time they called tails (tails = bug won't be exploited), it showed up tails 100% of the time. Now, since there were 18 coin flips (bugs), they were right 13 times (4/9 were correctly called as heads, 9/9 were correctly called as tails). Thats 13/19. They had about a 68% success rate.
I don't understand how the article got the math completely wrong or how people aren't seeing the extremely obvious flaw in the math.
Your argument is kinda useless. First, there's no point in comparing this to Linux as its designed to improve Windows' boot time. Second, they didn't design it for laptops. Third, the original poster said "most people," not all. There's no point in arguing with that statement by giving anecdotal evidence, which, in his case, didn't even argue against it, but supported it. He said "most people" and the guy responded with how he's not one of them. That was already understood.
If you watched the video, the whole point was that people didn't like turning their computers off because of the time it took to turn on. This wasn't to save time due to *having* to shutdown.
My guess? Probably because its a entirely different OS.
Comparing only boot up times to decide which system is better is ridiculous. A guy made an electric scooter that had better acceleration than my car. Doesn't mean I'd rather have the scooter.
If you use sleep or hibernate, you can't lose power to the PC or you will lose data, however you will have an improved bootup time (for some people at least). With instant boot, you get the advantage of the improved boot up time (presumably even faster since its a clean image) and even if you lose power, there's no worry about losing data. I attribute their odd phrasing to just bad english.
Thats odd. I don't have any ad-blockers (only popup blockers) but I haven't gotten any popup notifications saying any popups have been blocked at all yesterday or today.
I currently run the Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe on my main computer and it dual boots XP and Ubuntu. I have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz dual-core processor. So, its definitely not a lower end processor and I've never had any problems with it. Granted, this is just anecdotal evidence. I've only built about 4 computers for myself and only two motherboards were ASUS. The other one (which was a low-end ASUS board) had an issue, but it was an annoyance, not a critical error (gave an error message at startup that required a keyboard press) that was already a resolved issue and I just needed to update the BIOS. It only occurred on their AMD boards iirc, so I dunno. I've never had the computer refuse to POST or anything on either computers.
As this is only personal experience and not from the work place, I'm not really sure if my experiences are indicative of the norm either. I'm not sure what brand of mobos are more popular, but its possible that ASUS is one of the more popular brands and therefore you'll just end up seeing them more often. Again, this is just a guess really.
You don't have control over whether someone sends you a text or calls your cell phone instead. You can only page a pager. If someone knew they had a greater chance to get in touch with you immediately by calling or they could be polite and only text you, how often do you think the latter will happen in a business environment?
Microsoft has bad business tactics, but so does Apple. Its just people put up with it more from them. There are plenty of things Apple does that Microsoft would never get away with. Open source OSes seem to be the only ones that really care about consumers because consumers have the most say in it (as they end up writing some of the code themselves).
Yea, it is extremely easy to do. However, some people don't take those precautions. Just because its easy to change MD5s, I'd still call negligence if police didn't search for unmodified MD5s. Its like a parent refusing to search the sock drawer for weed because they assume their kid must hide it somewhere else. Even if you did assume that, you still check. (Disclaimer: I'm not advocating parents searching through their kid's stuff nor am I saying that weed is good or bad... I'm just trying to think of an example.)
But then they'll also point out its difficult to prove the pedophile had put the pictures there. If there was an extended amount of time outside of his control, who knows what someone could have done. Its easy to make the argument that someone is trying to set him up. May or may not be true, but it does cast doubt unless there isn't other evidence backing it up.
In either case, I at least like the idea that they say calculating MD5s is considered protected by the 4th.
As there is a completely open source handset (openmoko) that lets you run whatever you want (not just digitally signed ones) and network operators have not blocked openmoko phones at all, I highly doubt the scenario you put forward. i'm guessing its the same excuse... i mean reason... that apple only lets its OS run on its own hardware; they'll say its for quality control.
how fast the plane's attitude changes. All you'd have to do is go negative enough to lift people in the air, then back to positive and they'll fall down.
Well, maybe someone should get that plane some therapy and stop all those attitude changes. We can't have planes flying around with violent mood swings. Negative attitude, positive attitude, I can't be dealing with these kinds of planes. I want a plane that has a stable attitude and won't throw a fit and hurl passengers about just 'cause someone clicked a mouse.
1) Its Weird Al. I don't think people need a lossless recording of it. If a band thinks there music is worth it, they'll find a way. Trent Reznor always releases his stuff in a variety of formats, including FLAC. Like someone said earlier, this is more akin to 'disposable' music. Yea, some people are still listening to his early stuff today, but no one really listens to it that long. Its like that with a lot of bands. I'm not saying it makes it bad, but his music is just geared that way.
2) God forbid people don't upload something to PirateBay immediately when its released. Uh-oh... could it make more sense to just zip up a bunch of songs every so often and upload those? The BitTorrent problem is easily solved. You just don't upload them immediately. Or you can, but when you have 5 or 10 songs (ie, an album length set of songs or at least an LP), you share those instead. It's not rocket science.
I see a lot of people jumping to conclusions about how this is the fault of programmers for using the dialog box too much, etc, etc, etc. I call BS. If you write software for people who are computer illiterate (which happens a lot in my field. i write software for veterinarians), they'll click on anything and do everything, no matter the consequences. A simple "undo" isn't enough. They need to understand what they just did. If a popup don't pop up and say "you're about to delete something" they won't even know they deleted it until its too late (closing program, etc). You can't keep an infinite list of "undos" either. So, you're left to assume one of two things. 1) The person has read instructions, understands what they're doing, and understands they're responsible for breaking it OR 2) They haven't read any instructions, will click on what they think makes sense and when they break it, they call support, bitch and moan, taking up valuable time. Maybe in a bigger company, thats acceptable, however, *I* do both the programming AND support as we're a company of about 5 people. I can't be dealing with people who are idiots. I challenge anyone to make something thats completely foolproof without popups AND thats still aesthetically pleasing to look at AND easy to use.
Maybe people should just realize they're using delicate instruments and should treat them as such. These aren't toys, but systems that cost hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to build. Its not the programmers' fault. Its the user's. If the user refuses to educate himself to not be a fool, there's really no way to try and make something foolproof.
You just gave justification for deviating from standards. That same principles can be applied to Microsoft and Internet Explorer YET I bet people will all complain. The purpose of language is to be clear and concise. If you start giving multiple meanings to phrases, you will eventually muddy the water, so to speak. Yes, one understood what he was saying, but where would you like to arbitrarily draw the line of what is allowable and what is not. Internet Explorer's deviation from web standards are used by a majority of people AND those deviations aren't magical... people know what they mean. So, its usage is widespread and everyone understands it. Whether or not its part of the original standard is irrelevant. The bastardization of the standard has lead to a new one on the internet and nothing is wrong with how IE uses it.
To be clear, I find standards to be important. Yes, one can steer away from the standard and still make sense, but that doesn't make it acceptable. As if you allow that, what stops them from steering a tad away from there, so on and so forth?
Whether you think its libel or not, lewd or not, wrong or not, it does NOT give the school extra privileges. This happened off school grounds. Its completely outside the school's jurisdiction. It's simple. If you want the kids to "pay the price," then take the correct legal avenues as this one is blatantly illegal, but the judge is a moron. I hope this is appealed and I'm certain it'll get overturned if taken by a competent judge.
You're making an incorrect generalization about ads.
Ads don't have to sell a product. But they do have to sell something. Brand is a perfectly reasonable thing to sell.
In these ads, they are selling their brand. look at the icon next to the summary here. Bill Gates as a borg. This is *not* the image MS wants to be associated with. So they're just making silly commercials. There are THOUSANDS of commercials that do just this and are successful. Remember Quiznos first commercials, "We're like the guy who invented pants."
People attacking these ads are mainly attacking these ads because they attack ANYTHING microsoft does. The ads are completely fine. Their products are fine. You don't like them, thats ok. There are millions of products that don't appeal to everyone. That does *not* mean they're bad. It just means they don't appeal to you, but if a product is as successful as MS's products, they obviously appeal to someone. Some people ACTUALLY like them and weren't somehow roped in by monopolistic practices or something which I'm sure someone will throw out there to explain the only reason Microsoft is 'successful.'
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If you actually want a correct coin analogy, its that every time they called heads (heads = bug will be exploited), it showed up heads 40% of the time. Every time they called tails (tails = bug won't be exploited), it showed up tails 100% of the time. Now, since there were 18 coin flips (bugs), they were right 13 times (4/9 were correctly called as heads, 9/9 were correctly called as tails). Thats 13/19. They had about a 68% success rate.
I don't understand how the article got the math completely wrong or how people aren't seeing the extremely obvious flaw in the math.
Your argument is kinda useless. First, there's no point in comparing this to Linux as its designed to improve Windows' boot time. Second, they didn't design it for laptops. Third, the original poster said "most people," not all. There's no point in arguing with that statement by giving anecdotal evidence, which, in his case, didn't even argue against it, but supported it. He said "most people" and the guy responded with how he's not one of them. That was already understood.
If you watched the video, the whole point was that people didn't like turning their computers off because of the time it took to turn on. This wasn't to save time due to *having* to shutdown.
No way?! You mean this feature might not be useful to every single person who wants to use a computer?
My guess? Probably because its a entirely different OS.
Comparing only boot up times to decide which system is better is ridiculous. A guy made an electric scooter that had better acceleration than my car. Doesn't mean I'd rather have the scooter.
If you use sleep or hibernate, you can't lose power to the PC or you will lose data, however you will have an improved bootup time (for some people at least). With instant boot, you get the advantage of the improved boot up time (presumably even faster since its a clean image) and even if you lose power, there's no worry about losing data. I attribute their odd phrasing to just bad english.
Thats silly. If you flame Windows, you're either posted as funny or insightful... rarely do you get modded down.
Thats odd. I don't have any ad-blockers (only popup blockers) but I haven't gotten any popup notifications saying any popups have been blocked at all yesterday or today.
I currently run the Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe on my main computer and it dual boots XP and Ubuntu. I have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz dual-core processor. So, its definitely not a lower end processor and I've never had any problems with it. Granted, this is just anecdotal evidence. I've only built about 4 computers for myself and only two motherboards were ASUS. The other one (which was a low-end ASUS board) had an issue, but it was an annoyance, not a critical error (gave an error message at startup that required a keyboard press) that was already a resolved issue and I just needed to update the BIOS. It only occurred on their AMD boards iirc, so I dunno. I've never had the computer refuse to POST or anything on either computers.
As this is only personal experience and not from the work place, I'm not really sure if my experiences are indicative of the norm either. I'm not sure what brand of mobos are more popular, but its possible that ASUS is one of the more popular brands and therefore you'll just end up seeing them more often. Again, this is just a guess really.
i second this motion. Make Magazine is a great idea. Also take a look at Maker's Shed (it's their store) for some neat purchases as well.
You don't have control over whether someone sends you a text or calls your cell phone instead. You can only page a pager. If someone knew they had a greater chance to get in touch with you immediately by calling or they could be polite and only text you, how often do you think the latter will happen in a business environment?
Microsoft has bad business tactics, but so does Apple. Its just people put up with it more from them. There are plenty of things Apple does that Microsoft would never get away with. Open source OSes seem to be the only ones that really care about consumers because consumers have the most say in it (as they end up writing some of the code themselves).
Yea, it is extremely easy to do. However, some people don't take those precautions. Just because its easy to change MD5s, I'd still call negligence if police didn't search for unmodified MD5s. Its like a parent refusing to search the sock drawer for weed because they assume their kid must hide it somewhere else. Even if you did assume that, you still check. (Disclaimer: I'm not advocating parents searching through their kid's stuff nor am I saying that weed is good or bad... I'm just trying to think of an example.)
But then they'll also point out its difficult to prove the pedophile had put the pictures there. If there was an extended amount of time outside of his control, who knows what someone could have done. Its easy to make the argument that someone is trying to set him up. May or may not be true, but it does cast doubt unless there isn't other evidence backing it up.
In either case, I at least like the idea that they say calculating MD5s is considered protected by the 4th.
As there is a completely open source handset (openmoko) that lets you run whatever you want (not just digitally signed ones) and network operators have not blocked openmoko phones at all, I highly doubt the scenario you put forward. i'm guessing its the same excuse... i mean reason... that apple only lets its OS run on its own hardware; they'll say its for quality control.
how fast the plane's attitude changes. All you'd have to do is go negative enough to lift people in the air, then back to positive and they'll fall down.
Well, maybe someone should get that plane some therapy and stop all those attitude changes. We can't have planes flying around with violent mood swings. Negative attitude, positive attitude, I can't be dealing with these kinds of planes. I want a plane that has a stable attitude and won't throw a fit and hurl passengers about just 'cause someone clicked a mouse.
Windows 7 is still going to be based off of the Vista kernel. It's still going to be a standard desktop OS.
1) Its Weird Al. I don't think people need a lossless recording of it. If a band thinks there music is worth it, they'll find a way. Trent Reznor always releases his stuff in a variety of formats, including FLAC. Like someone said earlier, this is more akin to 'disposable' music. Yea, some people are still listening to his early stuff today, but no one really listens to it that long. Its like that with a lot of bands. I'm not saying it makes it bad, but his music is just geared that way.
2) God forbid people don't upload something to PirateBay immediately when its released. Uh-oh... could it make more sense to just zip up a bunch of songs every so often and upload those? The BitTorrent problem is easily solved. You just don't upload them immediately. Or you can, but when you have 5 or 10 songs (ie, an album length set of songs or at least an LP), you share those instead. It's not rocket science.
I see a lot of people jumping to conclusions about how this is the fault of programmers for using the dialog box too much, etc, etc, etc. I call BS. If you write software for people who are computer illiterate (which happens a lot in my field. i write software for veterinarians), they'll click on anything and do everything, no matter the consequences. A simple "undo" isn't enough. They need to understand what they just did. If a popup don't pop up and say "you're about to delete something" they won't even know they deleted it until its too late (closing program, etc). You can't keep an infinite list of "undos" either. So, you're left to assume one of two things. 1) The person has read instructions, understands what they're doing, and understands they're responsible for breaking it OR 2) They haven't read any instructions, will click on what they think makes sense and when they break it, they call support, bitch and moan, taking up valuable time. Maybe in a bigger company, thats acceptable, however, *I* do both the programming AND support as we're a company of about 5 people. I can't be dealing with people who are idiots. I challenge anyone to make something thats completely foolproof without popups AND thats still aesthetically pleasing to look at AND easy to use.
Maybe people should just realize they're using delicate instruments and should treat them as such. These aren't toys, but systems that cost hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to build. Its not the programmers' fault. Its the user's. If the user refuses to educate himself to not be a fool, there's really no way to try and make something foolproof.
You just gave justification for deviating from standards. That same principles can be applied to Microsoft and Internet Explorer YET I bet people will all complain. The purpose of language is to be clear and concise. If you start giving multiple meanings to phrases, you will eventually muddy the water, so to speak. Yes, one understood what he was saying, but where would you like to arbitrarily draw the line of what is allowable and what is not. Internet Explorer's deviation from web standards are used by a majority of people AND those deviations aren't magical... people know what they mean. So, its usage is widespread and everyone understands it. Whether or not its part of the original standard is irrelevant. The bastardization of the standard has lead to a new one on the internet and nothing is wrong with how IE uses it.
To be clear, I find standards to be important. Yes, one can steer away from the standard and still make sense, but that doesn't make it acceptable. As if you allow that, what stops them from steering a tad away from there, so on and so forth?
A million people can be wrong.
begs the question
I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
Whether you think its libel or not, lewd or not, wrong or not, it does NOT give the school extra privileges. This happened off school grounds. Its completely outside the school's jurisdiction. It's simple. If you want the kids to "pay the price," then take the correct legal avenues as this one is blatantly illegal, but the judge is a moron. I hope this is appealed and I'm certain it'll get overturned if taken by a competent judge.
As far as I know, free speech is for everyone, not just non-minors.
I highly doubt people won't know what the commercial is trying to promote.
"Guys, what company would use Bill Gates to promote its products?? Anyone have any ideas? I can't seem to remember from the commercial."
People will know its a Microsoft commercial.
You're making an incorrect generalization about ads.
Ads don't have to sell a product. But they do have to sell something. Brand is a perfectly reasonable thing to sell.
In these ads, they are selling their brand. look at the icon next to the summary here. Bill Gates as a borg. This is *not* the image MS wants to be associated with. So they're just making silly commercials. There are THOUSANDS of commercials that do just this and are successful. Remember Quiznos first commercials, "We're like the guy who invented pants."
People attacking these ads are mainly attacking these ads because they attack ANYTHING microsoft does. The ads are completely fine. Their products are fine. You don't like them, thats ok. There are millions of products that don't appeal to everyone. That does *not* mean they're bad. It just means they don't appeal to you, but if a product is as successful as MS's products, they obviously appeal to someone. Some people ACTUALLY like them and weren't somehow roped in by monopolistic practices or something which I'm sure someone will throw out there to explain the only reason Microsoft is 'successful.'