Well, it seems that you do not understand Java as well as you should.
Secondly, I was not so convinced that going under the VM has serious performance implications. It is not as if applications are developed with performance in mind anymore. Otherwise, all the software that I am using would be flying rather than crawling like 20 years ago.
As a person who uses firefox regularly, I don't find it unstable. Sure, the latest release is a bit unstable, and had crashes like 3-4 times on me, but I find it completely usable. Frankly, it is difficult to have software that never crashes. In fact, in this fast pace of software development world, it is already acceptable by most that general software do have bugs and will crash.
While a lot of people are inclined to bring back the debate of IE vs FF, from a user point of view, it is as simple as we will change when something better came along. Say if something better than FF comes along, has relatively small memory footprint, lesser security problems, and other benefits, I am sure that a lot of people will be using it.
I attribute it partly to those MSCE who does not know about windows enough to protect the OS. The rest of the blame should be at MS who obscure the operation of the windows OS and the other components.
The fact is anti-virus software only protects you against older virus and not new ones. If you could just stick to some guidelines strictly, you will be safe against any virus, not just old and new ones. And yes, for free (as in beer) too.
I remember reading this somewhere. Steve Job once said that profit is a difference between two very large numbers (that is revenue and cost). it is that simple.
It could just be that China happens to be one of the biggest (in terms of surface area) countries in the world? I think that they could have been more if more western scientists would spend their time looking in more areas in China
I have to repeat the question. what background in economics do you have?
If there is no scarcity, then unlimited demand can be met, and therefore there is no need to put a price to anything. But because there is scarcity (of total wants), the demand (of the total wants) does not meet the supply (of the total want), that's why there is a price tagged to it. Otherwise, if there is no scarcity in the world, ideally, everyone will get all things that they want, and they will not bother to squabble with anyone about abstract thing like IP except for maybe an intellectual discussion.
It's a game console, there's no excuse for it to cost six hundred bucks.
Tell that to those gamers who spent a few grands on PC just to play PC games. Personally, there was a time when I spent a few grands on TWO relatively high end PCs so that that I can multi-play in my MMORPG. If there are people who are willing to pay 600 hundred bucks on a single graphics card, I would think that there would be more people willing to spend 600 bucks on a *PS3* (emphasis for the wow! factor) potentially with blu-ray, and potentially cost less than a blu-ray player.
I guess 20% marketshare is pathetic.... at the rate that they are "giving" out the xboxes, I would have thought that they would have at least grab 50% of the market share... here where I was, most of the people I know got their xbox for free from some promotions or the others (it seems that you get an xbox for free for anything you buy.. including buying xboxes games)... I only know 2 people who paid for their xboxes. Incidentally, I got mine for free and ended up wasting $$$ to get two games. I regretted it. It is a total waste of money imho. Unless they are giving me free xbox360 + 5 games of my choices, I will not accept at xbox360 the next time.
Could it be the websites that you went? I never experience such problems as you said. At most, it crashes when adobe acrobat gives to get an update and the update window is hidden behind all my other windows.
It might not be a bad idea... as long as the modified and write access is restricted to accomplish mathematicians... during those days I was doing research (in engineering), I could not find anyone to discuss about my work... I could not find any new work on the area which might give me new ideas because any new work would come up 1-2 years later...
Of course, a (un)desrible side effort would be that there will be more competitions between research teams, and there will be more pressure on research teams to produce results faster...
Does the employee has rights to delete any files from the computer? If he does, there is ZERO reason to sue him. If you ask a non technical lay person who has no prior knowledge of how computers delete files, I think it is likely that he will think the act of deleting a file would remove a file completely from the computer and there will be no trace of it. However, it is the imperfection of use current technology that result in residue of files still residing in the computer after you delete them. There is ZERO requirement from anyone using a computer that the computer should contains copy of data in the computer after the data is deleted (if so, why should there be a delete in the first place?) So why should the act of "deleting" deleted data a crime, especially a serious crime? It is like you can throw away a piece of paper document but you can't shred a piece of paper document and throw it away.
Call me a troll.. but strangely, one of the "favourite" software of an average user seems to be viruses. It always amazed me, it always amaze me and it will always amazed me that I can use a windows machine behind an NAT router and I did not have any problems. Compare with some of my friends, they can have a new computer and get some computer virues the next day. I guess user education is an really important thing and having an OS that reinforce "best practises" will help a lot. In this regards, the non-root user in Unix-like system using helps a lot while in Windows, I can try to tighten the system as much as possible, but there are times that I have to loosen some settings just to get certain applications running.
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Well, it seems that you do not understand Java as well as you should.
Secondly, I was not so convinced that going under the VM has serious performance implications. It is not as if applications are developed with performance in mind anymore. Otherwise, all the software that I am using would be flying rather than crawling like 20 years ago.
As a person who uses firefox regularly, I don't find it unstable. Sure, the latest release is a bit unstable, and had crashes like 3-4 times on me, but I find it completely usable. Frankly, it is difficult to have software that never crashes. In fact, in this fast pace of software development world, it is already acceptable by most that general software do have bugs and will crash.
While a lot of people are inclined to bring back the debate of IE vs FF, from a user point of view, it is as simple as we will change when something better came along. Say if something better than FF comes along, has relatively small memory footprint, lesser security problems, and other benefits, I am sure that a lot of people will be using it.
I attribute it partly to those MSCE who does not know about windows enough to protect the OS. The rest of the blame should be at MS who obscure the operation of the windows OS and the other components.
You should patent it and sue all those virus writers out of business... erm... wait a minute......
Trying to protect your computers with patches like rather fruitless. The next vulnerability might be just discovered... erm.. at this moment?
The fact is anti-virus software only protects you against older virus and not new ones. If you could just stick to some guidelines strictly, you will be safe against any virus, not just old and new ones. And yes, for free (as in beer) too.
I remember reading this somewhere. Steve Job once said that profit is a difference between two very large numbers (that is revenue and cost). it is that simple.
Better is a subjective word. I would think that my all time favourite Word processor is Wordperfect 6.
obviously you have not played games under MSDOS. That was a bigger nightmare. Make worse by the fact that there was no internet.
My bet is that no sys admin is stupid enough to do that... then again...
It could just be that China happens to be one of the biggest (in terms of surface area) countries in the world? I think that they could have been more if more western scientists would spend their time looking in more areas in China
I have to repeat the question. what background in economics do you have?
If there is no scarcity, then unlimited demand can be met, and therefore there is no need to put a price to anything. But because there is scarcity (of total wants), the demand (of the total wants) does not meet the supply (of the total want), that's why there is a price tagged to it. Otherwise, if there is no scarcity in the world, ideally, everyone will get all things that they want, and they will not bother to squabble with anyone about abstract thing like IP except for maybe an intellectual discussion.
It's a game console, there's no excuse for it to cost six hundred bucks.
Tell that to those gamers who spent a few grands on PC just to play PC games. Personally, there was a time when I spent a few grands on TWO relatively high end PCs so that that I can multi-play in my MMORPG. If there are people who are willing to pay 600 hundred bucks on a single graphics card, I would think that there would be more people willing to spend 600 bucks on a *PS3* (emphasis for the wow! factor) potentially with blu-ray, and potentially cost less than a blu-ray player.
I only saw boxes and boxes and boxes of xbox360 in shopping malls. I did not see any queues. Not even at those xbox360 demo sets.
I always thought that the main market for PPC is the embedded market. That's where most of the PPC are sold. Not in Mac.
I guess 20% marketshare is pathetic.... at the rate that they are "giving" out the xboxes, I would have thought that they would have at least grab 50% of the market share... here where I was, most of the people I know got their xbox for free from some promotions or the others (it seems that you get an xbox for free for anything you buy.. including buying xboxes games)... I only know 2 people who paid for their xboxes. Incidentally, I got mine for free and ended up wasting $$$ to get two games. I regretted it. It is a total waste of money imho. Unless they are giving me free xbox360 + 5 games of my choices, I will not accept at xbox360 the next time.
Could it be the websites that you went? I never experience such problems as you said. At most, it crashes when adobe acrobat gives to get an update and the update window is hidden behind all my other windows.
It might not be a bad idea... as long as the modified and write access is restricted to accomplish mathematicians... during those days I was doing research (in engineering), I could not find anyone to discuss about my work... I could not find any new work on the area which might give me new ideas because any new work would come up 1-2 years later...
Of course, a (un)desrible side effort would be that there will be more competitions between research teams, and there will be more pressure on research teams to produce results faster...
You miss out of the criteria of they having infinite time...
You will make a very bad business. Most likely, they should 50000 people 1 mbit connection for a 400 mbit pipe
No.... copying is like cloning which is pretty much illegal in USA AFAIK
Does the employee has rights to delete any files from the computer? If he does, there is ZERO reason to sue him. If you ask a non technical lay person who has no prior knowledge of how computers delete files, I think it is likely that he will think the act of deleting a file would remove a file completely from the computer and there will be no trace of it. However, it is the imperfection of use current technology that result in residue of files still residing in the computer after you delete them. There is ZERO requirement from anyone using a computer that the computer should contains copy of data in the computer after the data is deleted (if so, why should there be a delete in the first place?) So why should the act of "deleting" deleted data a crime, especially a serious crime? It is like you can throw away a piece of paper document but you can't shred a piece of paper document and throw it away.
Call me a troll.. but strangely, one of the "favourite" software of an average user seems to be viruses. It always amazed me, it always amaze me and it will always amazed me that I can use a windows machine behind an NAT router and I did not have any problems. Compare with some of my friends, they can have a new computer and get some computer virues the next day. I guess user education is an really important thing and having an OS that reinforce "best practises" will help a lot. In this regards, the non-root user in Unix-like system using helps a lot while in Windows, I can try to tighten the system as much as possible, but there are times that I have to loosen some settings just to get certain applications running.
PS: sorry for the bad grammar.