Personally, my average cold is about 1-3 days. Wife gets cold, I don't care and I drink from same cups/etc. I get sniffles next day, followed by dry throat. By the evening of the next day, my nose is stuffed. Wake up the next day and I feel good as new.
Similar thing with the Flu. Entire family gets flu. About 2 days after everyone else gets it, I finally get it. I feel like crap for 1-2 days, then I start clearing up. Usually fewer than 5 days to get over the flu. rest of my family takes about 1-2 weeks.
When I get sick on my own, I stay away from everyone else because I assume I got something bad. When someone else gets sick, I don't care. I figure the extra anti-bodies is good for me.
I've only missed school twice in my life to being sick. Once was chicken pox, the other time I accidentally swallowed a bit of mouthwash. Man that stuff does a number on your stomach.
"So how much do you think it costs MS to sell a software license? The marginal cost of a software license is essentially 0."
Because we all know spending millions to develop an OS and claiming it's free to copy it is a great business strategy. [sarcasm]Hey, it only cost us 200mil to make this, but because it's digital means it should be free![/sarcasm]
OpenCL is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Making another programming language with a standard syntax that can be easily ported between different architectures is not even remotely the same as changing up the way cache has been working on nearly all CPUs for the past 3 decades.
Some of MS's R&D is not to just make their OS better, but to make the PC platform better for all OSes. The changes MS wants to have happen will give Linux/BSD/etc the same advantages. We're talking about a completely new way CPU cores will communicate. MS is the one that is dumping money into research on what's good/bad from an operating system standpoint and giving feed back to Intel/AMD, so they can refine their chips.
no, I can't build a laptop, but I can buy one for 1/2 the price from nearly anyone else and it would also be faster and have better battery life.
I'm not trying to defend everything MS does, but they do have a few good points about them.
Apple is more of a company that doesn't do anything revolutionary, other than making a great UI(which they do an excellent job on). Personally, I think Apple is more "evil" than MS, but Apple is smaller and has less influence.
You are several replies are all correct in many ways.
#1. Internet bandwidth increases ~50-60% year-over-year. Will 10% less bandwidth used for video stream matter? #2. Many *customers* rarely get a 50% speed boost every 3-4 years. reducing video load time by 10% can help dramatically #3. On a whole scale, video streaming is a large part of internet bandwidth. Even if bandwidth increases 50%, the average resolution of streamed videos will increases to consume that extra bandwidth. ie, 480p one year, 720p the next and 1080p the next. If the video quality was static, then bandwidth would make codec efficiency moot very easily, but people keep increasing the bit rate of the videos to instantly consume that extra bandwidth. #4. If video streaming is 10% of internet bandwidth, and we're talking about many many teratibts of backbone bandwidth, then reducing that by 10% would free up 1%, which is still a large amount.
I'm assuming Apple has a lot of user-interface R&D, but MS has R&D for nearly every facet of computing, not to mention that Apple makes most of it's profits from price gouging on hardware.
Last I heard, Microsoft was playing around with a 128core CPUs and also got an experimental computer that had fiber interconnects instead of copper traces for high IO. Using all this research to create new ways to scale into the future and also giving useful feedback to hardware vendors on what does and doesn't work. Think Apple does this kind of R&D, or do they just use BSD and just worry about the UI?
MS is also working with CPU manufactures on new ways to sync multi-core CPUs as the current cache-coherency protocols are not scaling well.
I doubt Apple contributes like this. I try not to think of MS as evil, but their sales/marketing department as evil. I assume their programmers/engineers are like any other out there, wanting to create something to be proud of; but hindered by red tape.
Typically, I can build a computer for 3/4-1/2 the cost and using all non-propitiatory, well supported, name-brand parts than buying Apple.
I don't know where you are in the US, but over in the midwest here, parents can get fined if their kids don't show up to school. The only way around this is to have proof of homeschooling.
"10mhz block on the fiber"? Upload and download on fiber is independent. You can't reconfigure upload for download. The only time fiber is asymetrical is when it's cheaper to provide cheaper optics for upload vs down. Like with some FioS Node connections. Some node connections use a cheaper up-link emitter/receiver than for download. Kind of akin to having ethernet where the upload wires run at 1gb but the download run at 10gb.
(The below probably doesn't apply towards a netbook since Linux can be stripped down a lot more and is probably much better. Except in the case of Win7 vs XP on a netbook)
it's easier to manage if you spend more than 5 minutes looking at the new GUI and going.. WTF? The interface change took about 1 week to get use to for me, but it was quite the shock to get use to.
From an IT standpoint, chopping ~10% off your computer electric bill is a nice upgrade.
Say you got 1000 computers, each using ~100watts while in use. That's 100KW. Chop off 10% and you're saving 10KW of power and reducing 10KW of heat.
Throw that into a server room where cooling is a limitation and battery-backups will last longer.
One of the biggest things for me is prioritized IO. At work, the default virus scanner would make my computer very slow during it's scheduled times. Now I don't even notice it.
Win7 at home is great since it has TRIM support, I can access ipv6.google.com with NO configuration what-so-ever, I can transfer 114MB/sec(my HD's limit) over SMB at 1.5% cpu usage. Homegroup works awesomely. I can install new graphics drivers without restarting my computer, Audio works better and sounds better. I don't need to use any drivers for audio or SATA controller because Win7 supports the new driver-less standards. Win7 loads my games faster on the same hardware as XP. Win7 has been more stable for me than XP and it has fewer security flaws than XP. I've only gotten 7 to bluescreen with a bad driver. Don't get me started on how nice the Firewall is now.
XP is horrible for SMP. It doesn't allow for multi-threaded interrupts(Kernel usage), heavily favors Core0(runs hotter), does more context switches which just means more cache-thrashing.
My experienced with 7 vs XP is that 7 handles high IO, low memory, and high CPU much better. I get this a lot at work. It's not perfect, but it's better.
I'm not going to compare against Linux though. Just saying Win7 is dramatically better than XP unless you don't care about any recent technologies. But then, some people can't appreciate the difference between BlueRay and DVD on a 60" TV. I guess as long as you're unaware of the differences, then it doesn't matter.
Or just go Linux. Fixes both XP and Win7 issues and is worth the "cost":P
Windows gets slow because Windows lets the user install all the malware/crapware they want.
Linux has almost no malware/crapware, so there's less to break your Linux distro.
Jokes aside, Windows does what the user says. If the user says, install these 10 toolbars to IE and download and run this exe from this website so I can watch some porn, what do you think is going to happen?
Put a user in a walled garden with enough built in options and/or completely remove certain options, and now your Joe Smith is less likely to break something. Now you're back to OS X/Linux.
If X/Linux became fully mainstream like Windows, suddenly you'll get a every no-name company, that's trying to make a buck on taking advantage of people, paying programmers to make programs that can integrate into the computer and report back data.
HP probably got both of those grandfathered into the current system back before people knew about the internet.
HP could give back those blocks, but they wouldn't get anything for them.
Who cares about IPv4 anyway. Most anything sucks during a transition, but we'll get there. Why keep holding back a new better system for an old familiar system?
It's like owning a P4 1.3ghz computer, and buying a brand new 3.6ghz 6 core i7 with an SSD, but you don't want to use your new computer because you'll have to spend a few days transferring your files over and reconfiguring your settings.
Just rip off the band-aid and get it over with.
I bet 2 years after IPv6 his main stream, the same people who held back IPv6 will be like.. Wow IPv4 sucked.
if was my understanding that a struct is a contiguous piece of memory.
eg. struct blah { i int}//An array of these would be stored in memory side by side blah [] = new blah[8];//8 ints created in memory
but
eg class blah {int i;}//An array of these would be an array of pointers. The issue with this is the pointers would effectively point to random locations in memory to where ever the object is stored. This will cause higher random access and less CPU pre-fetching blah[] = new blah[8]//8 pointers to 8 ints created in memory assuming you assign each element to a new blah()
So, the benefit of an array of structs would be cache line efficiency and also the CPU can pick up the memory read pattern since the pattern in a for loop would just be the next memory address.
Also, you can add padding to structs. This would make sense, since each struct in an array is stored in memory exactly after the other. Padding can be important for cache lines. Classes don't support this since an array of classes is just an array of pointers and no point padding an array of pointers.
I mainly use C#, so sorry if I miss-understood the difference between classes and structs.
C# itself isn't bad, but how many people use/abuse certain features of the language.
It's like me saying that C is a horrible language and ASM is better.
Each language has it's strong points. C#, like Java, allows for quick development and also very complex code that is strict yet flexible all the while being clean and easy to read.
C is great when you got time to develop and test and lots of documentation, but the abstract nature of Object oriented languages allows code to read more like pseudo-code which makes it easier for others to jump in.
I'm not saying that everyone codes well in OO languages, but I know the code I write is very easy to debug, very complex, easy to add features, and other programmers find it easy to follow.
The problem is Video Streaming and Downloading are non-real time. A real time Voice chat is sensitive to jitter and packet-loss. Unfortunately, the internet doesn't support QoS, aka Prioritization of data.
just say'n
What would be even better is if there were no bottlenecks on the internet, the QoS would be useless, but until the internet backbone and supports 6 billion people with gigabit connections(just thinking ahead 10 years),we're going to have crappy VoIP and Video chat without QoS, unless someone lays dedicated lines, but that kind of defeats the idea of the internet.
well, I've been using Windows since Win95 and I've only have one infection and that was when I was a kid playing around. So, 1 infection in 15 years. I skipped Win3.0 because I liked DOS better.
Actually, I recently got malware installed on my computer at work. Seems one of my regular sites Slashdot/Arstechnica/Tomshardware/etc had an ad that made use of a Java exploit to elevate and execute. Stupid Java. I'm not sure which site because I typically have ~25 tabs in Chrome opened at once. Chrome had an update, so I installed, and when Chrome reloaded all of the pages, a JVM icon popped up in my tray and about 2 seconds later some malware was claiming to have found virii on my machine.
Man, if only I had disabled Java. AT the time, it was patched up-to-date. Quick google and I found there was a know exploit for several weeks. Which is also funny because around that time, there was a known elevation+execution exploit that was known in Linux for over a year. Luckily, no one cares about exploiting Linux....and your code would've had to found a way to be ran as a user on a Linux machine. but it was still there.. for over a year!..omg.
Actually, being half-way awake, I figured it out. It's not that Linux is more secure, but that the GNU community as a whole creates free software for almost anything you can think of. If you need a feature, you can get it from a well known open-source group. You don't need to find some unknown 3rd party with a closed binary that does who-knows-what on your machine. Also, with the lack of accountability of a closed binary, whomever makes the software doesn't give a crap how they implement their features.
When you go Linux/*nix, you don't get a great OS, you get a great OS and a great community. This as a whole is what makes GNU software awesome.
Anyway, you Linux freaks, help get Wine DX11 support so I can switch over!
Most 3rd party crapware, that every farmville freak(stereotype) will install, will say.. "Hey I need Admin privs to install!" Then the program goes along, changing system settings.. lalalalalala. Next thing you know, the computer is infected.
Now, lets pretend we're using Linux.
I'm some stupid end user.. lalalalalala... Ohh look!! some useless program! Lets install!.. I need to enter my root password to install?.. OK!!.. yay!! now I have one more annoying thing.
How long do you think Linux will survive and onslaught of morons?
Show me an exploit in Win7 and I'll show you one in Linux. From a security standpoint, both are secure, the problem is the users. I'm not saying Win7 is any better than Linux. I would love to use Linux if it transparently supported my games, but Win7 is actually quite a good OS and MS has made huge improvements.
Maybe you guys should stop signing up for contracts you don't agree with?
if given the choice between not eating or eating stale food that tastes like crap, which would you choose? Based on your post, your DNA wouldn't last very long.
If we didn't sign a contract we didn't like with our ISPs, then we wouldn't be able to post on/. how much we hate our ISPs.
more reason for IPv6. give a user a/64 and only block the IPs that are bad vs blocking someone's who network because of a single bad device.. bwaaa-hahaa!
yes, lets instead use Linux, so all these shitty Windows programmers can flock to Linux and start requiring root permissions to install all of their shitty addons and then we can be right back where we started, except Linux will be the new target.
YAY. Sounds like a great plan.
You do realize that most malware is installed on a Windows box because someone get an email that says "INSTALL THIS" and when Windows says "Are you sure? You need to use Admin privs for this", the user clicks "OK". Moving to Linux would be "same crap different pile". Almost no malware these days is from Windows exploits.
18 hours down is only 99.6% uptime averaged over the year assuming no other failures. A well maintained server can have 99.99%-99.999% uptime. They should have a virtual server that can failover to other hardware without an end user noticing. Each server should have multiple network connections in case a NIC or switch fails. Not to mention a major server should have one admin on hand 24/7 and a recovery plan that can get the server back-up-and-running in MUCH less than 18 houirs. We're not talking about some huge disc image to restore, just a large list of DNS records and a stripped down hardened OS with a DNS daemon. A worst case scenario failure should take under an hour.
I would assume something as this important is housed in a datacenter and not a closet.
The fastest SSDs that you can buy can do 1400MB(bytes)/sec write and 1500MB/sec reads.
Many new SDDs, even cheap ones, will be doing ~220-280MB/sec reads and ~180-200MB/sec writes. And I do mean cheap ones. The new 22nm drives will come out before the end of the year.
My ISP, which is notorious for horrible customer service, already has native internal IPv6. They do go through an IPv6 broker though. If I do a trace route, I get a few hops from within my ISP, then the ping sky-rockets and hits some broker.
My definition of "sky rockets" is going from 8ms to 50ms. ipv6.google.com is about 120ms away from me, but the ipv4 version is only about 30ms.
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Personally, my average cold is about 1-3 days. Wife gets cold, I don't care and I drink from same cups/etc. I get sniffles next day, followed by dry throat. By the evening of the next day, my nose is stuffed. Wake up the next day and I feel good as new.
Similar thing with the Flu. Entire family gets flu. About 2 days after everyone else gets it, I finally get it. I feel like crap for 1-2 days, then I start clearing up. Usually fewer than 5 days to get over the flu. rest of my family takes about 1-2 weeks.
When I get sick on my own, I stay away from everyone else because I assume I got something bad. When someone else gets sick, I don't care. I figure the extra anti-bodies is good for me.
I've only missed school twice in my life to being sick. Once was chicken pox, the other time I accidentally swallowed a bit of mouthwash. Man that stuff does a number on your stomach.
"So how much do you think it costs MS to sell a software license? The marginal cost of a software license is essentially 0."
Because we all know spending millions to develop an OS and claiming it's free to copy it is a great business strategy. [sarcasm]Hey, it only cost us 200mil to make this, but because it's digital means it should be free![/sarcasm]
OpenCL is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Making another programming language with a standard syntax that can be easily ported between different architectures is not even remotely the same as changing up the way cache has been working on nearly all CPUs for the past 3 decades.
Some of MS's R&D is not to just make their OS better, but to make the PC platform better for all OSes. The changes MS wants to have happen will give Linux/BSD/etc the same advantages. We're talking about a completely new way CPU cores will communicate. MS is the one that is dumping money into research on what's good/bad from an operating system standpoint and giving feed back to Intel/AMD, so they can refine their chips.
no, I can't build a laptop, but I can buy one for 1/2 the price from nearly anyone else and it would also be faster and have better battery life.
I'm not trying to defend everything MS does, but they do have a few good points about them.
Apple is more of a company that doesn't do anything revolutionary, other than making a great UI(which they do an excellent job on). Personally, I think Apple is more "evil" than MS, but Apple is smaller and has less influence.
You are several replies are all correct in many ways.
#1. Internet bandwidth increases ~50-60% year-over-year. Will 10% less bandwidth used for video stream matter?
#2. Many *customers* rarely get a 50% speed boost every 3-4 years. reducing video load time by 10% can help dramatically
#3. On a whole scale, video streaming is a large part of internet bandwidth. Even if bandwidth increases 50%, the average resolution of streamed videos will increases to consume that extra bandwidth. ie, 480p one year, 720p the next and 1080p the next. If the video quality was static, then bandwidth would make codec efficiency moot very easily, but people keep increasing the bit rate of the videos to instantly consume that extra bandwidth.
#4. If video streaming is 10% of internet bandwidth, and we're talking about many many teratibts of backbone bandwidth, then reducing that by 10% would free up 1%, which is still a large amount.
Coming Up Later: Finger Print scanners make children fat.
I'm assuming Apple has a lot of user-interface R&D, but MS has R&D for nearly every facet of computing, not to mention that Apple makes most of it's profits from price gouging on hardware.
Last I heard, Microsoft was playing around with a 128core CPUs and also got an experimental computer that had fiber interconnects instead of copper traces for high IO. Using all this research to create new ways to scale into the future and also giving useful feedback to hardware vendors on what does and doesn't work. Think Apple does this kind of R&D, or do they just use BSD and just worry about the UI?
MS is also working with CPU manufactures on new ways to sync multi-core CPUs as the current cache-coherency protocols are not scaling well.
I doubt Apple contributes like this. I try not to think of MS as evil, but their sales/marketing department as evil. I assume their programmers/engineers are like any other out there, wanting to create something to be proud of; but hindered by red tape.
Typically, I can build a computer for 3/4-1/2 the cost and using all non-propitiatory, well supported, name-brand parts than buying Apple.
I don't know where you are in the US, but over in the midwest here, parents can get fined if their kids don't show up to school. The only way around this is to have proof of homeschooling.
"10mhz block on the fiber"? Upload and download on fiber is independent. You can't reconfigure upload for download. The only time fiber is asymetrical is when it's cheaper to provide cheaper optics for upload vs down. Like with some FioS Node connections. Some node connections use a cheaper up-link emitter/receiver than for download. Kind of akin to having ethernet where the upload wires run at 1gb but the download run at 10gb.
(The below probably doesn't apply towards a netbook since Linux can be stripped down a lot more and is probably much better. Except in the case of Win7 vs XP on a netbook)
it's easier to manage if you spend more than 5 minutes looking at the new GUI and going.. WTF? The interface change took about 1 week to get use to for me, but it was quite the shock to get use to.
From an IT standpoint, chopping ~10% off your computer electric bill is a nice upgrade.
Say you got 1000 computers, each using ~100watts while in use. That's 100KW. Chop off 10% and you're saving 10KW of power and reducing 10KW of heat.
Throw that into a server room where cooling is a limitation and battery-backups will last longer.
One of the biggest things for me is prioritized IO. At work, the default virus scanner would make my computer very slow during it's scheduled times. Now I don't even notice it.
Win7 at home is great since it has TRIM support, I can access ipv6.google.com with NO configuration what-so-ever, I can transfer 114MB/sec(my HD's limit) over SMB at 1.5% cpu usage. Homegroup works awesomely. I can install new graphics drivers without restarting my computer, Audio works better and sounds better. I don't need to use any drivers for audio or SATA controller because Win7 supports the new driver-less standards. Win7 loads my games faster on the same hardware as XP. Win7 has been more stable for me than XP and it has fewer security flaws than XP. I've only gotten 7 to bluescreen with a bad driver. Don't get me started on how nice the Firewall is now.
XP is horrible for SMP. It doesn't allow for multi-threaded interrupts(Kernel usage), heavily favors Core0(runs hotter), does more context switches which just means more cache-thrashing.
My experienced with 7 vs XP is that 7 handles high IO, low memory, and high CPU much better. I get this a lot at work. It's not perfect, but it's better.
I'm not going to compare against Linux though. Just saying Win7 is dramatically better than XP unless you don't care about any recent technologies. But then, some people can't appreciate the difference between BlueRay and DVD on a 60" TV. I guess as long as you're unaware of the differences, then it doesn't matter.
Or just go Linux. Fixes both XP and Win7 issues and is worth the "cost" :P
I'm 27 and I still top the charts for FPS games. Fun times. Head shots from across the map with bullet drop and travel time is fun.
Sniper Rifle: 633 kills 421 headshots 48% accuracy
Or go running in with a shotty and C4. One shot kills at close range, put some C4 on the ceiling and wait for someone to come by.
And I got a hand tremor. Makes FPS games a bit harder with my hand randomly spazzing.
Playing against a computer is boring compared to playing against humans. Would you rather go fishing at a lake or do you like to fish from a barrel?
Win7 is easier to manage and more secure.
Also, on newer hardware, Win7 uses ~10% less system power than Vista/XP, when not under full load.
Windows gets slow because Windows lets the user install all the malware/crapware they want.
Linux has almost no malware/crapware, so there's less to break your Linux distro.
Jokes aside, Windows does what the user says. If the user says, install these 10 toolbars to IE and download and run this exe from this website so I can watch some porn, what do you think is going to happen?
Put a user in a walled garden with enough built in options and/or completely remove certain options, and now your Joe Smith is less likely to break something. Now you're back to OS X/Linux.
If X/Linux became fully mainstream like Windows, suddenly you'll get a every no-name company, that's trying to make a buck on taking advantage of people, paying programmers to make programs that can integrate into the computer and report back data.
be careful what you wish for.
ignoring the real issue of Blizz messing stuff up, IPv6 would've fixed this problem. Public IPs for everyone! :p
HP probably got both of those grandfathered into the current system back before people knew about the internet.
HP could give back those blocks, but they wouldn't get anything for them.
Who cares about IPv4 anyway. Most anything sucks during a transition, but we'll get there. Why keep holding back a new better system for an old familiar system?
It's like owning a P4 1.3ghz computer, and buying a brand new 3.6ghz 6 core i7 with an SSD, but you don't want to use your new computer because you'll have to spend a few days transferring your files over and reconfiguring your settings.
Just rip off the band-aid and get it over with.
I bet 2 years after IPv6 his main stream, the same people who held back IPv6 will be like.. Wow IPv4 sucked.
if was my understanding that a struct is a contiguous piece of memory.
eg. struct blah { i int} //An array of these would be stored in memory side by side //8 ints created in memory
blah [] = new blah[8];
but
eg class blah {int i;} //An array of these would be an array of pointers. The issue with this is the pointers would effectively point to random locations in memory to where ever the object is stored. This will cause higher random access and less CPU pre-fetching //8 pointers to 8 ints created in memory assuming you assign each element to a new blah()
blah[] = new blah[8]
So, the benefit of an array of structs would be cache line efficiency and also the CPU can pick up the memory read pattern since the pattern in a for loop would just be the next memory address.
Also, you can add padding to structs. This would make sense, since each struct in an array is stored in memory exactly after the other. Padding can be important for cache lines. Classes don't support this since an array of classes is just an array of pointers and no point padding an array of pointers.
I mainly use C#, so sorry if I miss-understood the difference between classes and structs.
C# itself isn't bad, but how many people use/abuse certain features of the language.
It's like me saying that C is a horrible language and ASM is better.
Each language has it's strong points. C#, like Java, allows for quick development and also very complex code that is strict yet flexible all the while being clean and easy to read.
C is great when you got time to develop and test and lots of documentation, but the abstract nature of Object oriented languages allows code to read more like pseudo-code which makes it easier for others to jump in.
I'm not saying that everyone codes well in OO languages, but I know the code I write is very easy to debug, very complex, easy to add features, and other programmers find it easy to follow.
I do miss programming in C/C++ though.
The problem is Video Streaming and Downloading are non-real time. A real time Voice chat is sensitive to jitter and packet-loss. Unfortunately, the internet doesn't support QoS, aka Prioritization of data.
just say'n
What would be even better is if there were no bottlenecks on the internet, the QoS would be useless, but until the internet backbone and supports 6 billion people with gigabit connections(just thinking ahead 10 years) ,we're going to have crappy VoIP and Video chat without QoS, unless someone lays dedicated lines, but that kind of defeats the idea of the internet.
well, I've been using Windows since Win95 and I've only have one infection and that was when I was a kid playing around. So, 1 infection in 15 years. I skipped Win3.0 because I liked DOS better.
Actually, I recently got malware installed on my computer at work. Seems one of my regular sites Slashdot/Arstechnica/Tomshardware/etc had an ad that made use of a Java exploit to elevate and execute. Stupid Java. I'm not sure which site because I typically have ~25 tabs in Chrome opened at once. Chrome had an update, so I installed, and when Chrome reloaded all of the pages, a JVM icon popped up in my tray and about 2 seconds later some malware was claiming to have found virii on my machine.
Man, if only I had disabled Java. AT the time, it was patched up-to-date. Quick google and I found there was a know exploit for several weeks. Which is also funny because around that time, there was a known elevation+execution exploit that was known in Linux for over a year. Luckily, no one cares about exploiting Linux....and your code would've had to found a way to be ran as a user on a Linux machine. but it was still there.. for over a year!..omg.
Actually, being half-way awake, I figured it out. It's not that Linux is more secure, but that the GNU community as a whole creates free software for almost anything you can think of. If you need a feature, you can get it from a well known open-source group. You don't need to find some unknown 3rd party with a closed binary that does who-knows-what on your machine. Also, with the lack of accountability of a closed binary, whomever makes the software doesn't give a crap how they implement their features.
When you go Linux/*nix, you don't get a great OS, you get a great OS and a great community. This as a whole is what makes GNU software awesome.
Anyway, you Linux freaks, help get Wine DX11 support so I can switch over!
The issue is not the OS, but the end user.
Most 3rd party crapware, that every farmville freak(stereotype) will install, will say.. "Hey I need Admin privs to install!" Then the program goes along, changing system settings.. lalalalalala. Next thing you know, the computer is infected.
Now, lets pretend we're using Linux.
I'm some stupid end user.. lalalalalala... Ohh look!! some useless program! Lets install!.. I need to enter my root password to install?.. OK!!.. yay!! now I have one more annoying thing.
How long do you think Linux will survive and onslaught of morons?
Show me an exploit in Win7 and I'll show you one in Linux. From a security standpoint, both are secure, the problem is the users.
I'm not saying Win7 is any better than Linux. I would love to use Linux if it transparently supported my games, but Win7 is actually quite a good OS and MS has made huge improvements.
Maybe you guys should stop signing up for contracts you don't agree with?
if given the choice between not eating or eating stale food that tastes like crap, which would you choose? Based on your post, your DNA wouldn't last very long.
If we didn't sign a contract we didn't like with our ISPs, then we wouldn't be able to post on /. how much we hate our ISPs.
more reason for IPv6. give a user a /64 and only block the IPs that are bad vs blocking someone's who network because of a single bad device.. bwaaa-hahaa!
yes, lets instead use Linux, so all these shitty Windows programmers can flock to Linux and start requiring root permissions to install all of their shitty addons and then we can be right back where we started, except Linux will be the new target.
YAY. Sounds like a great plan.
You do realize that most malware is installed on a Windows box because someone get an email that says "INSTALL THIS" and when Windows says "Are you sure? You need to use Admin privs for this", the user clicks "OK". Moving to Linux would be "same crap different pile". Almost no malware these days is from Windows exploits.
18 hours down is only 99.6% uptime averaged over the year assuming no other failures. A well maintained server can have 99.99%-99.999% uptime. They should have a virtual server that can failover to other hardware without an end user noticing. Each server should have multiple network connections in case a NIC or switch fails. Not to mention a major server should have one admin on hand 24/7 and a recovery plan that can get the server back-up-and-running in MUCH less than 18 houirs. We're not talking about some huge disc image to restore, just a large list of DNS records and a stripped down hardened OS with a DNS daemon. A worst case scenario failure should take under an hour.
I would assume something as this important is housed in a datacenter and not a closet.
The fastest SSDs that you can buy can do 1400MB(bytes)/sec write and 1500MB/sec reads.
Many new SDDs, even cheap ones, will be doing ~220-280MB/sec reads and ~180-200MB/sec writes. And I do mean cheap ones. The new 22nm drives will come out before the end of the year.
My ISP, which is notorious for horrible customer service, already has native internal IPv6. They do go through an IPv6 broker though. If I do a trace route, I get a few hops from within my ISP, then the ping sky-rockets and hits some broker.
My definition of "sky rockets" is going from 8ms to 50ms. ipv6.google.com is about 120ms away from me, but the ipv4 version is only about 30ms.