Say what you want about "Windows and Linux are just as easy", but I have never gotten a support call about anything.
I never got a support call from my grandpa about Ubuntu on his desktop either, and it's been there for years. He's the kind of user that scratches his head when you tell him to open a web browser. He stares at you blankly when you ask him to type something in the address bar. His eyes glaze over noticeably when you tell him to Google for something. If he can use Linux comfortably for years without issue, your parents most likely can too.
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Here in Northern Virginia, I sometimes see Boeing ads in newspapers and magazines, especially magazines geared towards the military. I think they want politician / bureaucrat / general XYZ to see the ad and think of Boeing next time they go on a spending spree (which is almost always).
We already have bioweapons and nukes; what difference does it make when the warheads are a few megatons more powerful than before? We're all dead anyways. It sounds to me like this is more national penis comparison than deadly threat.
IE9 wasn't even first with hardware acceleration; IIRC Firefox started work on it before IE9, and there are builds of it (and Chrome 7) that are hardware accelerated. IE9 is just the first thing that's slapped Beta on a release with it. From what I've seen, it seems to do it better than the competition for the time being, but it could also be my laptop's hardware.
There might be services that can be useful both on the local machine and on the network. For example, X is used on the machine to display stuff, but can also connect to remote machines for various reasons. If your firewall blocks X, and there is some vulnerability in X that can be exploited locally and remotely, it would be possible that you could have a USB drive virus take down only one machine, but have the firewall prevent its spread.
I'm sure someone can come up with some other protocol or service that could be handy to have locally but which also can be used over the network
I lock my car in the garage. It's not impossible to break into the garage, and leaving my car unlocked would only make it easier for them to steal it or the things in it. While I don't do it myself, my girlfriend sleeps with her bedroom door locked, even with the front door to her house locked down.
There's also the fact that each one of those dollars is worth less due to inflation. According to the BLS, just from 2004 to 2010 there was about 15% inflation. And these are the official numbers; various unofficial numbers make it even worse.
Perhaps in the US. Not all countries have the same laws. The Japanese drive on the left, after all, and who can trust those pesky left-side-drivers? Yes, Commonwealth nations, I'm looking at you too.
Japan might have different rules. Last time I was there (pre-9/11), I seem to recall them having somewhat different security checks. I distinctly remember having to turn on my Gameboy (the original) to prove that it wasn't a bomb. I don't remember having to do the same here in the States, even with the post-9/11 hysteria. Whether that has something to do with not having flown internationally since then, I don't know.
He didn't say there were no rules; he said there were some rules that applied only for buses and other public forms of transportation that don't apply in your own vehicle. Maybe the bus won't let you bring an animal aboard, but you can bring it in your own personal vehicle. The bus company / city / etc. might have to worry about the animal attacking passengers, flaring up allergies, etc. that the private citizen has no need to worry about in his own vehicle. The same applies in this case: an airline has to worry about hijackers, bombers, etc., while the owner of a private jet doesn't need to be worried about whether he's going to bomb it, hijack it, etc. by virtue of the fact that it's his own plane.
I can't speak for AoE, but I can speak for StarCraft vs StarCraft 2. SC2 does have some welcome improvements, such as an enhanced ability to command your units (no 12 units only limit) and better pathfinding/targetting/etc. AI, but with those upgrades comes the flaws. Balance is one of them; the game hasn't had the many years of refinement that SC1 has had. There are a few balance issues to be ironed out (mostly around Terran and Zerg, IIRC). Also, the storyline for StarCraft and SC:BW was far, far better than for SC2. The voice acting was better, too, from what I remember, especially for the Protoss.
Haven't there already been wars between states with non-stone age Internet connectivity? I thought that whole Georgia vs. Russia clusterfuck might be a counterpoint. I'm not sure about connectivity in Georgia thought.
Now I haven't followed the whole tea party protests very closely, but I believe they haven't resorted to killing politicians. Unless you mean that one group from the 18th century....
You missed the other rule: Don't run Windows on your critical infrastructure computers! That's why we had the cascade failure at Black Mesa; all that sorrow would have been avoided had Gordon simply shown them how to install a hardened *NIX derivative.
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Say what you want about "Windows and Linux are just as easy", but I have never gotten a support call about anything.
I never got a support call from my grandpa about Ubuntu on his desktop either, and it's been there for years. He's the kind of user that scratches his head when you tell him to open a web browser. He stares at you blankly when you ask him to type something in the address bar. His eyes glaze over noticeably when you tell him to Google for something. If he can use Linux comfortably for years without issue, your parents most likely can too.
This threadjacking is now over. We will now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Here in Northern Virginia, I sometimes see Boeing ads in newspapers and magazines, especially magazines geared towards the military. I think they want politician / bureaucrat / general XYZ to see the ad and think of Boeing next time they go on a spending spree (which is almost always).
Remember the missile gap cries before then? "We can only kill them ten times over; they can kill us 11 times over! We need to close the missile gap!"
Ah, but they may get some coveted welfare, I mean, defense spending out of this, so that's a possible reason for it.
We already have bioweapons and nukes; what difference does it make when the warheads are a few megatons more powerful than before? We're all dead anyways. It sounds to me like this is more national penis comparison than deadly threat.
I think it also requires certain hardware features to run, unless they've changed it.
IE9 wasn't even first with hardware acceleration; IIRC Firefox started work on it before IE9, and there are builds of it (and Chrome 7) that are hardware accelerated. IE9 is just the first thing that's slapped Beta on a release with it. From what I've seen, it seems to do it better than the competition for the time being, but it could also be my laptop's hardware.
There might be services that can be useful both on the local machine and on the network. For example, X is used on the machine to display stuff, but can also connect to remote machines for various reasons. If your firewall blocks X, and there is some vulnerability in X that can be exploited locally and remotely, it would be possible that you could have a USB drive virus take down only one machine, but have the firewall prevent its spread.
I'm sure someone can come up with some other protocol or service that could be handy to have locally but which also can be used over the network
I lock my car in the garage. It's not impossible to break into the garage, and leaving my car unlocked would only make it easier for them to steal it or the things in it. While I don't do it myself, my girlfriend sleeps with her bedroom door locked, even with the front door to her house locked down.
Chrome also gets advertisement for Google, considering it is Google branded and has Google search by default.
There's also the fact that each one of those dollars is worth less due to inflation. According to the BLS, just from 2004 to 2010 there was about 15% inflation. And these are the official numbers; various unofficial numbers make it even worse.
Perhaps in the US. Not all countries have the same laws. The Japanese drive on the left, after all, and who can trust those pesky left-side-drivers? Yes, Commonwealth nations, I'm looking at you too.
Japan might have different rules. Last time I was there (pre-9/11), I seem to recall them having somewhat different security checks. I distinctly remember having to turn on my Gameboy (the original) to prove that it wasn't a bomb. I don't remember having to do the same here in the States, even with the post-9/11 hysteria. Whether that has something to do with not having flown internationally since then, I don't know.
He didn't say there were no rules; he said there were some rules that applied only for buses and other public forms of transportation that don't apply in your own vehicle. Maybe the bus won't let you bring an animal aboard, but you can bring it in your own personal vehicle. The bus company / city / etc. might have to worry about the animal attacking passengers, flaring up allergies, etc. that the private citizen has no need to worry about in his own vehicle. The same applies in this case: an airline has to worry about hijackers, bombers, etc., while the owner of a private jet doesn't need to be worried about whether he's going to bomb it, hijack it, etc. by virtue of the fact that it's his own plane.
GPUs might also be useful in decoding of video and drawing 2d images, or at least making that process a little smoother.
I guess someone has never read that article from the Onion:
Fuck everything: we're doing five blades
$>sudo fsck me
That will be all
And think of all the viruses you could get from her! Hmm....I think I'll get a model where all the hardware is Linux or *BSD compatible.
It's true it's nothing major, but it's still a tiny bit off.
I can't speak for AoE, but I can speak for StarCraft vs StarCraft 2. SC2 does have some welcome improvements, such as an enhanced ability to command your units (no 12 units only limit) and better pathfinding/targetting/etc. AI, but with those upgrades comes the flaws. Balance is one of them; the game hasn't had the many years of refinement that SC1 has had. There are a few balance issues to be ironed out (mostly around Terran and Zerg, IIRC). Also, the storyline for StarCraft and SC:BW was far, far better than for SC2. The voice acting was better, too, from what I remember, especially for the Protoss.
Wikileaks actually gives us original information, while the mainstream news gives us barely edited stories from the wire?
Haven't there already been wars between states with non-stone age Internet connectivity? I thought that whole Georgia vs. Russia clusterfuck might be a counterpoint. I'm not sure about connectivity in Georgia thought.
Now I haven't followed the whole tea party protests very closely, but I believe they haven't resorted to killing politicians. Unless you mean that one group from the 18th century....
Don't you see, in order to prevent the Internet from dying, we have to kill it!
You missed the other rule: Don't run Windows on your critical infrastructure computers! That's why we had the cascade failure at Black Mesa; all that sorrow would have been avoided had Gordon simply shown them how to install a hardened *NIX derivative.