Well who knows what the security will be like? As it is, end users hardly ever update their system, so it's best to make the operating system as minimal as possible. The cloud will likely be far better maintained for that purpose.
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Then again, I certainly wouldn't store everything on it. Unimportant files and data sure, but not things with sensitive information. People will be idiots anyways, their identities are stolen all the time, so what difference does it make?
If you're a tech king or politician, would you want to be known as "the guy that sued the richest-man-turned-philantropist over a bug sting"?
Nobody in that could would ever talk to you again. Let alone invite you to dinner, because they could just happen to offer you something you might be allergic to and sue again.
It's not that big of a deal, you just have to find someone that's dispensable..../raises finger to nose and looks around
Agreed. For school, lugging around my 7-pound laptop was far too much (like 2 extra textbooks). Investing $300 in a netbook was one of the best purchases I've ever made. Set up an ssh server at home and you're good to go. Now I don't even need to buy another non-portable laptop; from here on out, it's all desktop server machines and netbooks for me.
Thanks again to all the KDE 4 developers and bug testers who kept working even when it wasn't easy or popular! Your perseverance has paid off.
I wish I had some modpoints for this comment cause it's so true. The devs took a damn big risk when they changed it all up and regardless of whether it pays off or not, it was a noble, worthy endeavor. Here's to the KDE team...
I say the same thing when I switch from Gnome to XFCE.
Then I say the same thing when I switch from XFCE to LXDE.
Then I say the same thing when I switch get rid of my entire DE and switch to RatPoison.
Then I just say screw it and switch to the shell, kill all daemons and um, well by that point there's not much left, so oh well.
Where is the electrical energy supposed to come from? Our power plants still aren't close to being non-polluting let alone carbon neutral. This will be an improvement over current gasoline engines, but it only solves part of the problem.
In the mean time, it's good (though hardly believable) that the Shelby has such a quick charge time. In order to be viable for long-range trips (say a full day), you need to be able to get a quick charge while on the road. Hell, even if you can only get ~100 miles/charge, it's still a pretty good thing. Think about it[comma splice] you already spend about 3 minutes at the gas station, so this isn't that bad.
Maybe in Egypt, sure. Ever seen those 'Official Petition to Facebook to blankety blankety blank' groups? Yeah, they get a lot done. We're still stuck with the new and still much-hated format.
And how long has it been since a true virus was attacking windows? It's always trojans, worms or adware and has been for several years.
Well, let's just say that we're reaching a point where it's easier to take advantage of users than it is to take advantage of code. Well, really, it has nothing to do with code, it's more just really really easy to make users look stupid. Example: Antivirus2009.exe
If you're using tmpfs on a 32-bit machine, you're limited to 4GB or whatever the limit is on installable RAM. RAM disk eliminates this limit using SATA ports, but limits it to the speed of SATA transfer too.
India cannot support hundreds of millions of elderly pensioners. Long-term this will probably be a competitive advantage over China.
I don't know where you come from, but usually people in modern civilizations make an effort to help people live. Why don't we just kill everyone over 70? Or at least refuse them medical treatment? Or how about eliminating all forms of pension? That's a good competitive advantage.
Honestly, I don't see this as a legitimate harm to Microsoft. Do they even get any revenue from IE? And regardless of its market share (hell, it could drop below 1%), it'll still come default on all windows machines. It's a BROWSER for Christ's sake, it's not that critical of a component to the OS!
Now there is one way I can see this hurting them: the cloud. If people don't need IE, they don't need windows, they don't need MS. But honestly, I don't think this will happen for either or both of the following two reasons: 1. The cloud is too far off to be a significant factor in OS choice, so there will be time for IE to improve/adapt. 2. I think this whole cloud thing is a little overhyped. The browser (in my opinion) is not going to be the end-all,be-all for computing choices. So I don't think this is the worst thing that could happen to MS.
That's not true, if this is the case then you're doing the integration improperly. Random numbers must be generated over a rectangular space, anything else will give erroneous results.
Not true at all, MC is the best method for doing integration in a multi-dimensional space. My research team used it a lot and it's nearly impossible without a good RNG.
I only have a vague idea of how to do MC, and I thought that the real bottleneck with any computational algorithm is the function evaluation. The purpose of the RNG is to just set some initial parameters, but actually doing something with them is what's the real expense.
If there's one thing I'm thankful for, most of the shortcuts (Ctrl+p) are the same. Even the alt- shortcuts are preserved, but the menus don't appear. In the case that you can't remember it, then you have are burdened with the process of
Lift your right hand
Move right hand a foot to the right
Put hand down on mouse
Ask someone where the undescriptive button is for what you want to do
Repeatedly move towards and click on the menu/icon that performs desired function
Lift right hand
Move right hand one foot to the left
Lower hand back to keyboard and resume work
Yes, as a vi-type user, I had the ribbon. I would like to cut it up and bring back the menu interface.
I almost never use OO.o, though, because I do almost everything in Google Docs or Latex.
Agreed, my last install was in July of this year and I have yet needed to install OOo. However, if I absolutely had to use a word processor, I usually ended up using Word on the computers at my office. It's unfortunate that collaborating with peers on documents still requires using MS, but for my own purposes, I really don't need an office suite at all.
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Then again, I certainly wouldn't store everything on it. Unimportant files and data sure, but not things with sensitive information. People will be idiots anyways, their identities are stolen all the time, so what difference does it make?
This is why I don't get tech news from the Times. It's like asking for sushi from McDonald's.
The majority of CNN's demographic doesn't even know what a EULA is anyway. You could say the same thing if you replace CNN with Microsoft too.
If you're a tech king or politician, would you want to be known as "the guy that sued the richest-man-turned-philantropist over a bug sting"?
Nobody in that could would ever talk to you again. Let alone invite you to dinner, because they could just happen to offer you something you might be allergic to and sue again.
It's not that big of a deal, you just have to find someone that's dispensable.... /raises finger to nose and looks around
Even if they don't bite, he threatened and deliberately generated fear. That is the essence of assault. People get convicted using toy guns.
He did it to Linux all the time too. That crazy bastard, lock him the hell up!
You forgot to mention: the economy runs on nothing but pure clean air.
Talk about renewable!
Agreed. For school, lugging around my 7-pound laptop was far too much (like 2 extra textbooks). Investing $300 in a netbook was one of the best purchases I've ever made. Set up an ssh server at home and you're good to go. Now I don't even need to buy another non-portable laptop; from here on out, it's all desktop server machines and netbooks for me.
Thanks again to all the KDE 4 developers and bug testers who kept working even when it wasn't easy or popular! Your perseverance has paid off.
I wish I had some modpoints for this comment cause it's so true. The devs took a damn big risk when they changed it all up and regardless of whether it pays off or not, it was a noble, worthy endeavor. Here's to the KDE team...
I say the same thing when I switch from Gnome to XFCE.
Then I say the same thing when I switch from XFCE to LXDE.
Then I say the same thing when I switch get rid of my entire DE and switch to RatPoison.
Then I just say screw it and switch to the shell, kill all daemons and um, well by that point there's not much left, so oh well.
Great, I only hope it makes Linux more attractive.
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Where is the electrical energy supposed to come from? Our power plants still aren't close to being non-polluting let alone carbon neutral. This will be an improvement over current gasoline engines, but it only solves part of the problem.
In the mean time, it's good (though hardly believable) that the Shelby has such a quick charge time. In order to be viable for long-range trips (say a full day), you need to be able to get a quick charge while on the road. Hell, even if you can only get ~100 miles/charge, it's still a pretty good thing. Think about it[comma splice] you already spend about 3 minutes at the gas station, so this isn't that bad.
IE shipping with a feature before FF has it ( private browsing mode).
Well that's something you don't see every day.
Maybe in Egypt, sure. Ever seen those 'Official Petition to Facebook to blankety blankety blank' groups? Yeah, they get a lot done. We're still stuck with the new and still much-hated format.
For sure you can SLED with your new machines, but you might face heat from those purist advocates of Linux.
And how long has it been since a true virus was attacking windows? It's always trojans, worms or adware and has been for several years.
Well, let's just say that we're reaching a point where it's easier to take advantage of users than it is to take advantage of code. Well, really, it has nothing to do with code, it's more just really really easy to make users look stupid. Example: Antivirus2009.exe
Rules for bailout:
1. Crappy product
2. Unnecessary industry
3. Heartless executives
I can dig it.
If you're using tmpfs on a 32-bit machine, you're limited to 4GB or whatever the limit is on installable RAM. RAM disk eliminates this limit using SATA ports, but limits it to the speed of SATA transfer too.
India cannot support hundreds of millions of elderly pensioners. Long-term this will probably be a competitive advantage over China.
I don't know where you come from, but usually people in modern civilizations make an effort to help people live. Why don't we just kill everyone over 70? Or at least refuse them medical treatment? Or how about eliminating all forms of pension? That's a good competitive advantage.
It must suck if/when you fail it though....
Honestly, I don't see this as a legitimate harm to Microsoft. Do they even get any revenue from IE? And regardless of its market share (hell, it could drop below 1%), it'll still come default on all windows machines. It's a BROWSER for Christ's sake, it's not that critical of a component to the OS!
Now there is one way I can see this hurting them: the cloud. If people don't need IE, they don't need windows, they don't need MS. But honestly, I don't think this will happen for either or both of the following two reasons: 1. The cloud is too far off to be a significant factor in OS choice, so there will be time for IE to improve/adapt. 2. I think this whole cloud thing is a little overhyped. The browser (in my opinion) is not going to be the end-all,be-all for computing choices. So I don't think this is the worst thing that could happen to MS.
That's not true, if this is the case then you're doing the integration improperly. Random numbers must be generated over a rectangular space, anything else will give erroneous results.
Not true at all, MC is the best method for doing integration in a multi-dimensional space. My research team used it a lot and it's nearly impossible without a good RNG.
I only have a vague idea of how to do MC, and I thought that the real bottleneck with any computational algorithm is the function evaluation. The purpose of the RNG is to just set some initial parameters, but actually doing something with them is what's the real expense.
Yes, as a vi-type user, I had the ribbon. I would like to cut it up and bring back the menu interface.
I almost never use OO.o, though, because I do almost everything in Google Docs or Latex.
Agreed, my last install was in July of this year and I have yet needed to install OOo. However, if I absolutely had to use a word processor, I usually ended up using Word on the computers at my office. It's unfortunate that collaborating with peers on documents still requires using MS, but for my own purposes, I really don't need an office suite at all.