Ok I'll bite, what is 'Linux' doing to protect you from attacks that 'Windows' isn't?
For starters, not trying to execute stuff that comes in from questionable routes like USB drives, CD and DVD ROMs, embedded in various files like jpegs, PDFs and so on.
But you knew that because you're clearly not stupid.
I also consider how many times I get to the store and find the item not in stock. If I wind up going store to store looking for something, my time and gasoline costs quickly burn through what I could have paid for shipping.
If it's anything much more than impulse buy, I know the price before I even enter the store. And often I find the price is less at Internet based retailers so I might not even make the trip. I suspect that has more impact than price shopping between various brick and mortar retailers. I have a smart phone but have not used it to price shop because I have no need.
My roots as an MS hater go back to DOS long before Windows. And I disagree with your claim.
Given access from by the former head of IT, it would be feasible to engineer a compromise for any OS. If they had physical access, anything is possible. Perhaps they even had access to the dev environment which was used to program the machines.
$1/GB per month would mean $12,000 per year to store that. His employer is spending $360,000 to store that same amount of information.
How much information is the IT department storing? I did't see anyone say 1TB. Maybe it's only a few GB. The administration and staffing costs for 1GB are probably not much less tan 1TB. Perhaps they're on the small end of "economies of scale."
1) climate is warming to a point of unnatural irreversible damage
I agree. It would be much better to state that the climate is changing and will have effects that we cannot yet predict.
... If it goes too far in either direction, we have two choices... Adapt or die!
First of all, adaptation by natural means requires lack of breeding success which often involves death. Your two choices are really two facets of the same choice.
Second, there is another choice. If we determine that the change is a result of our behavior, we can change our behavior in the hope of stemming the change. This has been done many times in the past when we determined, for example, that pollutants we released into the environment were causing health problems. We stemmed the pollution rather than wait to see if we could adapt to survive the pollutants.
If processors had enough cache, we would not need DRAM. If systems had enough DRAM, we would not need drives, whether they be SSD or spinning rust (see, I can be trendy too!) If systems had enough hard drive capacity, tape storage would no longer be necessary. (If I were to put my money somewhere, I'd probably bet that tape could become obsolete as HD capacities increase, but I would probably be wrong * )
There has always been hierarchy of storage that trades off the parameters of speed vs. capacity (and factors in convenience, physical size and cost.) Anything that falls in line or fills a need (e.g. portability of CD/DVD/BD, size of micro-SD) will remain in use if it doesn't cost too much. If something becomes slower and yet holds less or remains expensive, it will fall out of use.
New technologies that stake out an advantageous point somewhere in this trade off will grow and prosper. That's the situatoin for SSD which provides increased speed but at higher cost. Some new technologies will likely make older technology obsolete. It will be fun to see what comes along and what falls by the wayside. However I don't see the price/performance/capacity proposition for SSDs making spinning drives obsolete any time soon, so I guess I agree with the author.
(*) Years ago I visited the computer center at Fermi National Accelerator Lab. They had petabytes of tape on which they stored data collected during experiments. I wonder if they're still using tape. I would be surprised if not.
Projects I've worked on include specifying requirements as a first step. That usually involves a huge investment on the part of the employer. They're going to have to spend even more time bringing three developers along. By the time the system is fully specified, it is likely that the weakest developer will have benefited greatly from the work of the strongest developer. That is likely to provide an overall improvement in the spec, but it won't make the decision making process any easier. At worst, the employer may get tired of answering similar questions and the last developer will suffer as a result.
Of course if there is a fully defined spec to work with, then the designer or programmer can start w/out a lot of employer involvement. I've never actually worked on a project like that but I suppose they do exist.
Here is how flash trading works. Basically a super computer sits below the trading floor watching incoming and outgoing transactions. Lets say you have $300,000 in savings and want to put $100,000 in company A as its stock price looks reasonable. It lists for $16 a share and you put down your $100,000 in shares. The super computer sees this HUGE grab and your transaction. It quickly buys all your shares before your transaction is complete and raises the price to $18 a share before your transaction is complete. Goldman Sachs or the other firm takes $2 from you in the process as you end up with less shares due to it becoming $18 a share within a few hundred milliseconds. Here is an illustration.
Your illustration does not match at all the illustration you link to.
I have a degree in Electronics Engineering and had to go through three courses on feedback systems and servomechanisms....
You do realize that the feedback in the stock market is mostly positive. As prices go down, more want to sell and tend to drive prices in a direction that make more want to sell.
Second, how would you filter prices? Each transaction is an agreement between two parties to buy/sell at a given price. Do you plan to not let traders buy/sell at an agreed upon price? Won't that have the same effect as a delay in a positive feedback loop?
If lack of RAM is the problem, then install more RAM. I upgraded my Eee 901 to 2GB of RAM and that brought total cost up to $300. It allows me to use RAM for/tmp which makes it not nearly so sluggish. Firefox is still problematic. I think it does a lot of disk writes and that causes unacceptably long freezes on the Eee so I use Chromium (on Ubuntu.)
I don't do compiles and I certainly would not recommend it for a desktop or laptop replacement, but when I travel it meets my needs for browsing, email, loading podasts on my Sansa and occasional word processing and presentations.
(Spent some years of my life working on IBMs C++ compiler for OS/2.)
Working on? I worked with it.
I migrated to OS/2 when I found that I could buy OS/2 plus their C++ compiler for less than just the C++ compiler for SCO Unix (And I already had the SCO C compiler!) So I moved on and never looked back. My recollection was that the IBM compiler was pretty decent at the time. Eventually I used it on AIX as well. After that point, knowing OS/2 and C++ got me quite a bit of work. However, when IBM abandoned OS/2 there was this new thing on the block called Linux...
I was searching for something the other day and the first several hits went to a page that put the virus warning popups up ("You need to scan your computer Right Now!!!") I couldn't even close the page. The only way to get away from it was to close the browser. It was really annoying. I looked for but saw no way to report that the site was hosting malware. (IIRC it was a search for the cabinet appointment for the US National Labor Relations Board that was being held up by some Republican senator.)
Most people who say they don't believe in GW mean to say they don't believe in anthropogenic GW. It's generally a short-hand.
Based on the comments I read regarding weather in Chicago (In the Chicago Trubune web site), there are still many that deny GW. Every cold day, they post something along the lines of "see, SEE I knew it was a hoax." This is regardless of the weather around the rest of the country or the rest of the world. Today it is pretty warm - 77 F. That's about 25 above normal so the deniers are uncharacteristically quiet.... Nope, I take that back. There is cold weather somewhere in the US so once again, global warming is a hoax: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-ap-us-weatherpage-weather,0,6317155.story
Well, sir, the first jolt your car experiences in an accident scenario could bounce you right out of the driver's seat. At that point you are no longer in control of the car but the car may still be drivable. I much prefer that you be belted in so you have some chance of retaining control of the vehicle for which you have accepted responsibility.
The second thing - speaking as an emergency responder - it really sucks when an unbelted occupant comes partially or fully out of the vehicle and gets mashed up. That makes extra work for EMS or coroner and that's a cost that we all share.
The minerals will sit there waiting until we are ready. In the mean time, separation technology will improve and (unless other sources are discovered) proce/value will increase. Once shortages occur, prices will skyrocket and producers will argue that we need to fast-track and sidestep environmental concerns in the name of security.
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- An alien witch temporarily transformed them from Blackbirds into Lemmings. When they hit the ground they changed back
An alien witch? Why does it have to be an alien witch? You seem to know more about this then you're letting on!
Ok I'll bite, what is 'Linux' doing to protect you from attacks that 'Windows' isn't?
For starters, not trying to execute stuff that comes in from questionable routes like USB drives, CD and DVD ROMs, embedded in various files like jpegs, PDFs and so on.
But you knew that because you're clearly not stupid.
I also consider how many times I get to the store and find the item not in stock. If I wind up going store to store looking for something, my time and gasoline costs quickly burn through what I could have paid for shipping.
If it's anything much more than impulse buy, I know the price before I even enter the store. And often I find the price is less at Internet based retailers so I might not even make the trip. I suspect that has more impact than price shopping between various brick and mortar retailers. I have a smart phone but have not used it to price shop because I have no need.
My roots as an MS hater go back to DOS long before Windows. And I disagree with your claim.
Given access from by the former head of IT, it would be feasible to engineer a compromise for any OS. If they had physical access, anything is possible. Perhaps they even had access to the dev environment which was used to program the machines.
[...] You should expect to get fired in any industry when you say that to your boss or the media.
Who else here thinks that is exactly what he wanted. He's a Ph.D., stuck in the reserves in a sinecure job in Afghanistan. He just wants to go home.
What does Windows Genuine Advantage do in this regard? Doesn't it periodically contact Microsoft?
And AFAIK you are not able to opt out. If you do not comply, it is my understanding that your computer will cease to operate.
$1/GB per month would mean $12,000 per year to store that. His employer is spending $360,000 to store that same amount of information.
How much information is the IT department storing? I did't see anyone say 1TB. Maybe it's only a few GB. The administration and staffing costs for 1GB are probably not much less tan 1TB. Perhaps they're on the small end of "economies of scale."
And this comment:
1) climate is warming to a point of unnatural irreversible damage
I agree. It would be much better to state that the climate is changing and will have effects that we cannot yet predict.
First of all, adaptation by natural means requires lack of breeding success which often involves death. Your two choices are really two facets of the same choice.
Second, there is another choice. If we determine that the change is a result of our behavior, we can change our behavior in the hope of stemming the change. This has been done many times in the past when we determined, for example, that pollutants we released into the environment were causing health problems. We stemmed the pollution rather than wait to see if we could adapt to survive the pollutants.
If processors had enough cache, we would not need DRAM.
If systems had enough DRAM, we would not need drives, whether they be SSD or spinning rust (see, I can be trendy too!)
If systems had enough hard drive capacity, tape storage would no longer be necessary. (If I were to put my money somewhere, I'd probably bet that tape could become obsolete as HD capacities increase, but I would probably be wrong * )
There has always been hierarchy of storage that trades off the parameters of speed vs. capacity (and factors in convenience, physical size and cost.) Anything that falls in line or fills a need (e.g. portability of CD/DVD/BD, size of micro-SD) will remain in use if it doesn't cost too much. If something becomes slower and yet holds less or remains expensive, it will fall out of use.
New technologies that stake out an advantageous point somewhere in this trade off will grow and prosper. That's the situatoin for SSD which provides increased speed but at higher cost. Some new technologies will likely make older technology obsolete. It will be fun to see what comes along and what falls by the wayside. However I don't see the price/performance/capacity proposition for SSDs making spinning drives obsolete any time soon, so I guess I agree with the author.
(*) Years ago I visited the computer center at Fermi National Accelerator Lab. They had petabytes of tape on which they stored data collected during experiments. I wonder if they're still using tape. I would be surprised if not.
Projects I've worked on include specifying requirements as a first step. That usually involves a huge investment on the part of the employer. They're going to have to spend even more time bringing three developers along. By the time the system is fully specified, it is likely that the weakest developer will have benefited greatly from the work of the strongest developer. That is likely to provide an overall improvement in the spec, but it won't make the decision making process any easier. At worst, the employer may get tired of answering similar questions and the last developer will suffer as a result.
Of course if there is a fully defined spec to work with, then the designer or programmer can start w/out a lot of employer involvement. I've never actually worked on a project like that but I suppose they do exist.
In for three!
probably refurbs. :(
Turnabout?
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They just redefine darkness as a standard.
Q: How bad is software piracy in China.
A: The Chinese do not pirate. That is a normal operation.
What could possibly go wrong?
Here is how flash trading works. Basically a super computer sits below the trading floor watching incoming and outgoing transactions. Lets say you have $300,000 in savings and want to put $100,000 in company A as its stock price looks reasonable. It lists for $16 a share and you put down your $100,000 in shares. The super computer sees this HUGE grab and your transaction. It quickly buys all your shares before your transaction is complete and raises the price to $18 a share before your transaction is complete. Goldman Sachs or the other firm takes $2 from you in the process as you end up with less shares due to it becoming $18 a share within a few hundred milliseconds. Here is an illustration.
Your illustration does not match at all the illustration you link to.
I have a degree in Electronics Engineering and had to go through three courses on feedback systems and servomechanisms. ...
You do realize that the feedback in the stock market is mostly positive. As prices go down, more want to sell and tend to drive prices in a direction that make more want to sell.
Second, how would you filter prices? Each transaction is an agreement between two parties to buy/sell at a given price. Do you plan to not let traders buy/sell at an agreed upon price? Won't that have the same effect as a delay in a positive feedback loop?
If lack of RAM is the problem, then install more RAM. I upgraded my Eee 901 to 2GB of RAM and that brought total cost up to $300. It allows me to use RAM for /tmp which makes it not nearly so sluggish. Firefox is still problematic. I think it does a lot of disk writes and that causes unacceptably long freezes on the Eee so I use Chromium (on Ubuntu.)
I don't do compiles and I certainly would not recommend it for a desktop or laptop replacement, but when I travel it meets my needs for browsing, email, loading podasts on my Sansa and occasional word processing and presentations.
(Spent some years of my life working on IBMs C++ compiler for OS/2.)
Working on? I worked with it.
I migrated to OS/2 when I found that I could buy OS/2 plus their C++ compiler for less than just the C++ compiler for SCO Unix (And I already had the SCO C compiler!) So I moved on and never looked back. My recollection was that the IBM compiler was pretty decent at the time. Eventually I used it on AIX as well. After that point, knowing OS/2 and C++ got me quite a bit of work. However, when IBM abandoned OS/2 there was this new thing on the block called Linux...
I was searching for something the other day and the first several hits went to a page that put the virus warning popups up ("You need to scan your computer Right Now!!!") I couldn't even close the page. The only way to get away from it was to close the browser. It was really annoying. I looked for but saw no way to report that the site was hosting malware. (IIRC it was a search for the cabinet appointment for the US National Labor Relations Board that was being held up by some Republican senator.)
Most people who say they don't believe in GW mean to say they don't believe in anthropogenic GW. It's generally a short-hand.
Based on the comments I read regarding weather in Chicago (In the Chicago Trubune web site), there are still many that deny GW. Every cold day, they post something along the lines of "see, SEE I knew it was a hoax." This is regardless of the weather around the rest of the country or the rest of the world. Today it is pretty warm - 77 F. That's about 25 above normal so the deniers are uncharacteristically quiet. ... Nope, I take that back. There is cold weather somewhere in the US so once again, global warming is a hoax: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-ap-us-weatherpage-weather,0,6317155.story
It makes me feel so professional when an animated puppy helps me find files.
Who does there branding? Mr. Rogers?
Well, sir, the first jolt your car experiences in an accident scenario could bounce you right out of the driver's seat. At that point you are no longer in control of the car but the car may still be drivable. I much prefer that you be belted in so you have some chance of retaining control of the vehicle for which you have accepted responsibility.
The second thing - speaking as an emergency responder - it really sucks when an unbelted occupant comes partially or fully out of the vehicle and gets mashed up. That makes extra work for EMS or coroner and that's a cost that we all share.
I just watched Transformers last night so I know where this idea came from!
And BTW, Jane Fonda is not longer hot.
Maybe you didn't see her on the Colbert Show last year. She looked pretty hot too me!
The minerals will sit there waiting until we are ready. In the mean time, separation technology will improve and (unless other sources are discovered) proce/value will increase. Once shortages occur, prices will skyrocket and producers will argue that we need to fast-track and sidestep environmental concerns in the name of security.
- Profit!