Ironically, if these were features in the new release of Linux Distro Foo, the crowd would probably be jumping for joy and declaring what a great job the release team had done.
Ok, the problem is, the ability to embed trident in applications is a service provided by windows. If trident has to be on the system in order to support 3rd party applications, is there any reason to not have IE present as well, particularly when it makes life easier for users.
Unfortunately the American army failed at hiding behind trees and rocks, and as a result suffered a disproportionately large number of casualties during the American Revolution.
The problem isn't so much with the concept of socialism, but rather the inevitable way its going to work out. Governments are among the slowest moving, most ineffectual organizations in existence. For me personally, having the government in charge of contributing to the public good is a necessary evil and as little of it should be done as possible. Mostly because all the resources for the public good tend to disappear into a black hole of inefficiency.
I know that open source is verifiable and one of the tenants of security is that is should function now matter what kind of knowledge an attacker has of its inner workings, but when I hear that open source is verified by many people, it always makes me wonder. How many people actually bother to go look through the code and make sure that the code does as advertised. I'm sure the general principles are well discussed and sound, but I've always wondered how many people actually have the expertise to do a full audit. I guess the most widely known case in point was the Debian ssh basket of fun. All the eyes in the world didn't seem to help that.
Namely, I'm interested in statistics. I.e. how many people are actually working on doing security auditing, validity checking on an open source projects vs. the size of the QA department of a comparable close source product.
You forgot to mention the fact that if they want to release the client on its own, they have to maintain packages for all the big distributions, because stuff compiled for one is hit or miss on another.
Sorry, your analogy falls down. When you install an operating system ON YOUR COMPUTER, your friends are still allowed to borrow it and check their e-mail. You can even make user accounts for them if you so desire. You can share your OS all you want, just not by installing it on other computers. I don't think I've ever had Windows pop up a "That is not allowed" dialog when someone else sat down infront of my computer to check their gmail.
Maybe I've been desensitized because of the garbage that is Dell tech support, with whom I have spoken with frequently, and require a number that is as long or longer (I've not counted) as the serial number. Still, once or twice a year I'm not going to complain. I still can't bring myself to complain when they have to do something like this to keep people who don't know any better from trying to install on multiple computers. Yeah, it doesn't stop pirates, but it does foil those people who think that their one disk gives them license to install on every computer in their house etc.
Ahhh, but the wobbly windows decrease functionality. Its annoying to have to wait for the 1/2 second while the window stops wobbling before accepting mouse input.
Ah, because Gtk# is clearly useless. Oh wait, I must be imagining this awesome music player named banshee, the awesome notepad called tomboy, and the awesome photo manager commonly referred to as f-spot.
Yeah, the WinForms stuff is patented, but the core spec is still a standard, and as such, Microsoft isn't allowed to assert claims against it.
And here I would have given you an insightful mod for that. Some people can't get past the blind seething hatred of MS to give any of their technologies a chance. Its an ISO standard for crying out loud. There is no club for them to swing with.NET.
Its ok, the article's first half is a bunch of benchmarks that are utterly meaningless on Windows anyway. Who cares if Window's takes twice as long to install as Linux? I mean seriously, I'm waiting. Are operating installs a frequent event? I can count on my hands and feet the number of times I've performed them. Its all well and good that Ubuntu can install itself faster, but it doesn't matter, because it is by definition an infrequent workload. This is theoretically true for Ubuntu to. After all, wasn't the infinite in place upgradability something that has long been touted as a strength of Debian and co. Thats even more important with Ubuntu, because I sure as hell don't want to reinstall and OS every 6 months.
Same goes for startup and shutdown. Windows Vista was explicitly designed with the idea that in general, the OS is going to be suspended/hibernated, not rebooted. I'd be much more interested in seeing benchmarks of a comparison between the speed with which Windows and Ubuntu are able to hibernate/unhibernate. I've always been curious about this, as subjectively, an older Ubuntu installation hibernation seemed faster than in Windows. Alas, I guess in order to give us that benchmark, the reviewers would have to actually find hardware Linux could suspend on. How does one plot a hard lock on resume anyway, time for the system to reboot and come back up?
The other thing they failed to mention on the I/O benchmarking side is whether or not the drives were set to write cache mode or not in Windows. AFAIK the default for removable media to disable write caching in Windows, but to enable in Linux.
Oh, and why the !@#$ are they benchmarking compute intensive tasks in Python? Is it to exacerbate differences, because the chosen runtime is so absurdly slow? But, in reality, there is no reason for compute intensive tasks to vary on the same hardware. This test is highly dependent on the system services running and the python version. I would consider this more of a benchmark of python instead of Windows/Ubuntu.
Realistically, running in a non-admin account is a pain in the ass....in Windows....on a computer...turned on... over the rainbow.... in the conservatory
I love the, change for change's sake is the party line when talking about software. There is no reason for them not to change the software. It is a new version, it has been changed (and hopefully improved) under the hood. Is there any compelling reason why attempts at improving the UI should be avoided as well?
Ok, so why do we need the other 90 distros? Or all the Metoobuntus. Off the top of my head there is Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Goobuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Satanic Edition (my personal favorite) and I swear I remember there being talk of a Fluxbuntu in an IRC channel somewhere. And people complain about Vista having too many flavors, thats a total of 7 derivatives of Ubuntu alone (assuming aI haven't missed any). The problem isn't that there aren't the right distro at hand for the job that needs doing, the problem is that once someone comes up with the right distro for the job at hand 15 other guys have to come along and make minor tweaks and repackage it six ways from sunday.
The fact that said ICBMs couldn't hit their targets is one of the original drivers for warhead yield. The larger the blast radius, the less accurate you have to be.
I think some of that may come from the perception that when China's says jump, NK's feet lift off the ground, whether they want to or not. Whether or not this is true is a different matter, but I think there is a perception that China can somehow reign in NK. There is no such "Parent State" for Iran.
Iran does more than spout off. Where do you think all those missiles that have been hitting Israel for the last few years have been coming from. For all intents and purposes, they are already fighting a proxy war with the nation they've promised to obliterate.
The U.S. has never made a defeated country a state (with the exception of the technicality that was the Civil War). The closest we've ever come is protectorates, such as the Philippines and that isn't a US holding anymore either.
But I periodically come across oddities in FoxIt. My favorite was the one time I went to print, and all of the pictures came out inverted. Its really hard to read a table that's upside down...
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Ironically, if these were features in the new release of Linux Distro Foo, the crowd would probably be jumping for joy and declaring what a great job the release team had done.
Ok, the problem is, the ability to embed trident in applications is a service provided by windows. If trident has to be on the system in order to support 3rd party applications, is there any reason to not have IE present as well, particularly when it makes life easier for users.
Unfortunately the American army failed at hiding behind trees and rocks, and as a result suffered a disproportionately large number of casualties during the American Revolution.
The relative motion of a celestial body is easily determined by the red/blue shift of its emission spectrum.
The problem isn't so much with the concept of socialism, but rather the inevitable way its going to work out. Governments are among the slowest moving, most ineffectual organizations in existence. For me personally, having the government in charge of contributing to the public good is a necessary evil and as little of it should be done as possible. Mostly because all the resources for the public good tend to disappear into a black hole of inefficiency.
I know that open source is verifiable and one of the tenants of security is that is should function now matter what kind of knowledge an attacker has of its inner workings, but when I hear that open source is verified by many people, it always makes me wonder. How many people actually bother to go look through the code and make sure that the code does as advertised. I'm sure the general principles are well discussed and sound, but I've always wondered how many people actually have the expertise to do a full audit. I guess the most widely known case in point was the Debian ssh basket of fun. All the eyes in the world didn't seem to help that.
Namely, I'm interested in statistics. I.e. how many people are actually working on doing security auditing, validity checking on an open source projects vs. the size of the QA department of a comparable close source product.
You forgot to mention the fact that if they want to release the client on its own, they have to maintain packages for all the big distributions, because stuff compiled for one is hit or miss on another.
Sorry, your analogy falls down. When you install an operating system ON YOUR COMPUTER, your friends are still allowed to borrow it and check their e-mail. You can even make user accounts for them if you so desire. You can share your OS all you want, just not by installing it on other computers. I don't think I've ever had Windows pop up a "That is not allowed" dialog when someone else sat down infront of my computer to check their gmail.
Maybe I've been desensitized because of the garbage that is Dell tech support, with whom I have spoken with frequently, and require a number that is as long or longer (I've not counted) as the serial number. Still, once or twice a year I'm not going to complain. I still can't bring myself to complain when they have to do something like this to keep people who don't know any better from trying to install on multiple computers. Yeah, it doesn't stop pirates, but it does foil those people who think that their one disk gives them license to install on every computer in their house etc.
Gasp! It's so hard to find the key that is STAMPED ON every OEM computer preloaded with windows.
Ahhh, but the wobbly windows decrease functionality. Its annoying to have to wait for the 1/2 second while the window stops wobbling before accepting mouse input.
Ah, because Gtk# is clearly useless. Oh wait, I must be imagining this awesome music player named banshee, the awesome notepad called tomboy, and the awesome photo manager commonly referred to as f-spot. Yeah, the WinForms stuff is patented, but the core spec is still a standard, and as such, Microsoft isn't allowed to assert claims against it.
And here I would have given you an insightful mod for that. Some people can't get past the blind seething hatred of MS to give any of their technologies a chance. Its an ISO standard for crying out loud. There is no club for them to swing with .NET.
Its ok, the article's first half is a bunch of benchmarks that are utterly meaningless on Windows anyway. Who cares if Window's takes twice as long to install as Linux? I mean seriously, I'm waiting. Are operating installs a frequent event? I can count on my hands and feet the number of times I've performed them.
Its all well and good that Ubuntu can install itself faster, but it doesn't matter, because it is by definition an infrequent workload. This is theoretically true for Ubuntu to. After all, wasn't the infinite in place upgradability something that has long been touted as a strength of Debian and co. Thats even more important with Ubuntu, because I sure as hell don't want to reinstall and OS every 6 months.
Same goes for startup and shutdown. Windows Vista was explicitly designed with the idea that in general, the OS is going to be suspended/hibernated, not rebooted. I'd be much more interested in seeing benchmarks of a comparison between the speed with which Windows and Ubuntu are able to hibernate/unhibernate. I've always been curious about this, as subjectively, an older Ubuntu installation hibernation seemed faster than in Windows. Alas, I guess in order to give us that benchmark, the reviewers would have to actually find hardware Linux could suspend on. How does one plot a hard lock on resume anyway, time for the system to reboot and come back up?
The other thing they failed to mention on the I/O benchmarking side is whether or not the drives were set to write cache mode or not in Windows. AFAIK the default for removable media to disable write caching in Windows, but to enable in Linux.
Oh, and why the !@#$ are they benchmarking compute intensive tasks in Python? Is it to exacerbate differences, because the chosen runtime is so absurdly slow? But, in reality, there is no reason for compute intensive tasks to vary on the same hardware. This test is highly dependent on the system services running and the python version. I would consider this more of a benchmark of python instead of Windows/Ubuntu.
Realistically, running in a non-admin account is a pain in the ass. ...in Windows. ...on a computer ...turned on ... over the rainbow. ... in the conservatory
I love the, change for change's sake is the party line when talking about software. There is no reason for them not to change the software. It is a new version, it has been changed (and hopefully improved) under the hood. Is there any compelling reason why attempts at improving the UI should be avoided as well?
I would assume it's an application if it has one or more Window handles.
Ok, so why do we need the other 90 distros? Or all the Metoobuntus. Off the top of my head there is Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Goobuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Satanic Edition (my personal favorite) and I swear I remember there being talk of a Fluxbuntu in an IRC channel somewhere. And people complain about Vista having too many flavors, thats a total of 7 derivatives of Ubuntu alone (assuming aI haven't missed any). The problem isn't that there aren't the right distro at hand for the job that needs doing, the problem is that once someone comes up with the right distro for the job at hand 15 other guys have to come along and make minor tweaks and repackage it six ways from sunday.
The fact that said ICBMs couldn't hit their targets is one of the original drivers for warhead yield. The larger the blast radius, the less accurate you have to be.
I think some of that may come from the perception that when China's says jump, NK's feet lift off the ground, whether they want to or not. Whether or not this is true is a different matter, but I think there is a perception that China can somehow reign in NK. There is no such "Parent State" for Iran.
Iran does more than spout off. Where do you think all those missiles that have been hitting Israel for the last few years have been coming from. For all intents and purposes, they are already fighting a proxy war with the nation they've promised to obliterate.
The U.S. has never made a defeated country a state (with the exception of the technicality that was the Civil War). The closest we've ever come is protectorates, such as the Philippines and that isn't a US holding anymore either.
But I periodically come across oddities in FoxIt. My favorite was the one time I went to print, and all of the pictures came out inverted. Its really hard to read a table that's upside down...
The disable button still works. Or do you not trust the open source firefox code to be able to properly disable plugins?
Because Bonjour is a dependency for the correct functioning of an iTunes feature?