Contrast that to Android where two taps can turn one's phone into a spam machine, not to mention slurp up every single byte and hand it to an overseas organization.
I know this is a flamebait, I just wish to point out that the actual truth is far from what the AC here tries to portray; the most common method for Android phones to misbehave and people getting large bills is through the 'free' applications and games available on Android Market that send SMS-messages to premium numbers behind the user's back or similar stuff. That is no inherent fault of the Android OS itself, it's about how shoddy job Google does in regards with keeping the Android Market safe and clean. The remedy is simple though: don't install everything that is 'free', read a few reviews first, and check if there is something weird about the permissions that the application/game requests; there was for example a live wallpaper there just a while ago that requested the permission to open data connections, send SMS messages, read/write browser history and contacts list.. Obviously when a god damn wallpaper asks for such permissions there is something screwy going on.
That said, Google *really* must step up the game and do something. This kind of stuff is ridiculous.
I kind of have to agree with the Anonymous Commenter here; MeeGo is extremely fast, stable and easy to use, and so far everyone I know who has tried it has praised it. It also seems to have quite extensive security features. The issues are obviously that there's not as many applications available for it, none of the popular mobile games and so on, but that also is yet another layer of security too; it's simply too obscure an OS for it to be a lucrative target for hackers. You *CAN* install Android ICS on it, too, and dual-boot between Meego and ICS if you need something that Android has and Meego doesn't.
The thing is that you have to find somewhere to buy a Nokia N9, and they're not terribly easy to come by these days. But if you're looking for secure yet easy-to-use OS I'd say it's worth it.
Disclaimer: I do not own an N9 nor do I own any other device that runs Meego, so I cannot help with any specifics.
After all, if you can sell a cure for cancer, you just landed in a bucket of money.
I think you've misunderstood how it works for Big Pharma; curing something does not generate them bucketloads of money. Helping someone with the symptoms for several years without curing them, however, does generate bucketloads of money. As such it's defnitely in Big Pharma's best interests to not find cure for something and instead find something that relieves the symptoms.
Even corporate greed will often take a backseat because this issue affects us all.
Oh, there's plenty of history on that to go around!
Yes, but there are imaging technologies out there that can image things like facial structure and sub-surface capillary maps. Those things are not easily disguised (as far as I am aware) because they are penetrative imaging and they map sub-surface features.
It sounds like you've read about something you haven't actually understood. There is no such a thing as "penetrative imaging" unless you mean X-ray or gamma ray imaging. There does exist software that tries to discard features like hair, glasses and whatever extra assortments and guesses one's facial structure, it however does not somehow magically penetrate your skin or such, it is all just mathematics based on visual data.
Furthermore, such a system could likely tell that you had on fake hair, etc. (potentially)
XBMC uses two different multimedia video player 'cores' for video-playback. The first video-player 'core' for video-playback is an in-house developed cross-platform media player, "DVDPlayer", originally designed to play back DVD-Video movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav). This FFmpeg based video-player 'core' today supports all widespread mainstream formats. One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly pause and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images or DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) images (even directly from uncompressed RAR and ZIP archives), from either local harddrive storage or network-share storage.[2][13][16]
The second video-player 'core' for video-playback in XBMC is another in-house developed open source player, "DSPlayer", which today is only used as an experimental video player in a Git development branch of XBMC for Windows and not in any other versions of XBMC. This "DSPlayer" is a Direct Show based media player which with the help of FFmpeg can play practically all common media formats and in addition also make XBMC for Windows handle all formats and containers normally supported in Windows with the help of third-party proprietary Direct Show filters installed on the system.[58]
It was/is (see xbmc4xbox) great on the Xbox, but I really don't see the appeal of installing it on a computer.
I do not really know what you mean with "a computer" here; I suppose you're trying to say "a device with a smaller screen."
If that is what you meant then yes, XBMC's UI is quite clunky. But it still does serve a purpose because it's not just a media player, it is a media collection manager; the larger the collection of various movies, TV and anime series and whatnot you have the more you'll start to appreciate how easy it makes it to browse it all. It even handles downloading of subtitles for the current title from the Internet, something I haven't seen any media player do.
If on the other hand you really meant computer as in a PC, a non-console - device: words "HTPC" and "multi-screen setup" should provide more than enough counter-argument. For example my desktop PC has a 24" screen as the main display and I can game, browse the web and all that on it, while I have XBMC running on my 42" 3D-TV over HDMI at the same time. Coupled with the XBMC Remote for Android it really is quite a damn nice setup.
Indeed. However, there are still ways of fooling them with makeup and a few bits of silicone, and both are easy to apply and take off. For example adding a wee bit of skin-coloured silicone on your cheekbones and forehead totally changes how you look. Then apply some slightly darker blush on your cheeks and eyesockets and you'll look like an entirely different person. Then just wipe the makeup on your sleeve, pick the silicone off with your fingers and you'll be your old self in less than 30 seconds.
Real mature, a classic example of exactly the thing people have been pointing out all along: some Linux fanboys just are so insecure that they must constantly attack anyone who doesn't share their enthusiasm. Where does the insecurity come from then? You feel Linux cannot succeed unless there are people like you about attacking anyone who dares to disagree? You feel Linux IS indeed such a rough platform that you must insult people into using it?
As for the Xbox - thing: no, I hate console gaming. And just buying a console wouldn't have solved the issued I had anyways, and it wouldn't be able to do the things I want. As for Linux: I think it is an absolutely great server OS, and on the desktop it works for people who have simple needs and all their H/W works out-of-the-box, and that it doesn't need arrogant fanboys like you defending it.
Use all of my hardware, allow me to enable 3D over HDMI 1.4 or allow me to run my games. Some games could be made to work using Wine, yes, but not all of them , and when trying to play some games Wine would always place the game on my 2nd display if it was running in fullscreen-mode. I have no idea why it kept doing that and why it did that only on some games.
Humble Bundle - games are fine for casual gamers who like short burst of gaming, but often are way too little for not-so-casual gamers. I for example have only liked Osmos and World of Goo, and they're only fun in short burst on a mobile device, they simply aren't fun on a PC. The point is, if you don't like Humble Bundle - games there's very little worth touching even with a barge pole when it comes to Linux - games.
But that said, I game on PC a lot less than I used to, the Windows only policy of a lot of PC game developers drove me to console gaming.
For the fear of being locked to one platform you jumped to another locked-in platform?
Yes, if you keep comparing to XP, which is a 10 years old OS.
2. Firewall is not an "all the security you need" miracle.
I never claimed that. You however claimed that one can get infected simply by connecting to Internet, which obviously isn't true if the user has a firewall enabled and hasn't allowed some weird connections through it.
3. I expect the same problems in Vista/7/8 because the thing keeps running in admin mode by default. I also suspect that there are multiple loopholes when running in non-admin mode as well.
>> I chose to twist parent's words because I feel so insecure that I must project all shortcomings and problems on the people using it, not on Linux itself. FTFY
There are as many or more Linux desktops than Mac ones
I really doubt that.
then Apache would be the most virus laden product in the world, as opposed to Windows with that "honour".
You're comparing apples and oranges; Apache is a web server, Windows is an OS. Compare Linux to Windows and Apache to IIS.
But you can STILL get a drive-by virus even with the latest, most secure, most up-to-date Windows OS. You don't have to do anything other than connect to the internet.
Don't try to spread lies, that hasn't been true for a good while now. That was true with XP, yes, not now. And heck, even with XP that was no longer true after SP2 which enabled firewall by default.
Most people do not have such needs and as such that is not a problem for them. And generally "ready for desktop" is quantified by what most people need.
General populace is not interested in ideas. That's the whole crux of the thing; they want something concrete, they do not care about the ideas behind the product as long as they can feel they got what they wanted.
One of the biggest issues is that many people have software and/or hardware that do not work under Linux. Like e.g. it totally sucks for gaming, MTP-support is still hit-and-miss, and with smartphones getting ever more popular there's plenty of software to run, none of which works under Linux --atleast I am not aware of any vendor shipping Linux-software--, and as I said, hardware may not work at all, works slowly, or is missing features.
I am wondering what the downsides to such large density are: how fast can the laser be turned on and off? The longer it takes for it to fire the bigger the random write latency. Secondly, how long does such a laser last, can we expect 10 years from it? Thirdly, what does this mean for power consumption? More? Less? Fourth, on machines with write-heavy tasks would the drive heat up even more than they now do?
Sure, 60TB storage sounds a lot, but I have trouble believing this thing is as wonderful as Seagate makes it sound like.
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Besides that, Google only says that they won't do evil.
Not even that: they say don't *be* evil, you can still do it every now and then.
Contrast that to Android where two taps can turn one's phone into a spam machine, not to mention slurp up every single byte and hand it to an overseas organization.
I know this is a flamebait, I just wish to point out that the actual truth is far from what the AC here tries to portray; the most common method for Android phones to misbehave and people getting large bills is through the 'free' applications and games available on Android Market that send SMS-messages to premium numbers behind the user's back or similar stuff. That is no inherent fault of the Android OS itself, it's about how shoddy job Google does in regards with keeping the Android Market safe and clean. The remedy is simple though: don't install everything that is 'free', read a few reviews first, and check if there is something weird about the permissions that the application/game requests; there was for example a live wallpaper there just a while ago that requested the permission to open data connections, send SMS messages, read/write browser history and contacts list.. Obviously when a god damn wallpaper asks for such permissions there is something screwy going on.
That said, Google *really* must step up the game and do something. This kind of stuff is ridiculous.
I kind of have to agree with the Anonymous Commenter here; MeeGo is extremely fast, stable and easy to use, and so far everyone I know who has tried it has praised it. It also seems to have quite extensive security features. The issues are obviously that there's not as many applications available for it, none of the popular mobile games and so on, but that also is yet another layer of security too; it's simply too obscure an OS for it to be a lucrative target for hackers. You *CAN* install Android ICS on it, too, and dual-boot between Meego and ICS if you need something that Android has and Meego doesn't.
The thing is that you have to find somewhere to buy a Nokia N9, and they're not terribly easy to come by these days. But if you're looking for secure yet easy-to-use OS I'd say it's worth it.
Disclaimer: I do not own an N9 nor do I own any other device that runs Meego, so I cannot help with any specifics.
After all, if you can sell a cure for cancer, you just landed in a bucket of money.
I think you've misunderstood how it works for Big Pharma; curing something does not generate them bucketloads of money. Helping someone with the symptoms for several years without curing them, however, does generate bucketloads of money. As such it's defnitely in Big Pharma's best interests to not find cure for something and instead find something that relieves the symptoms.
Even corporate greed will often take a backseat because this issue affects us all.
Oh, there's plenty of history on that to go around!
And skirts are really just stylized and shortened robes.
I wonder if one could rule the patents invalid because of abundant previous art?
Yes, but there are imaging technologies out there that can image things like facial structure and sub-surface capillary maps. Those things are not easily disguised (as far as I am aware) because they are penetrative imaging and they map sub-surface features.
It sounds like you've read about something you haven't actually understood. There is no such a thing as "penetrative imaging" unless you mean X-ray or gamma ray imaging. There does exist software that tries to discard features like hair, glasses and whatever extra assortments and guesses one's facial structure, it however does not somehow magically penetrate your skin or such, it is all just mathematics based on visual data.
Furthermore, such a system could likely tell that you had on fake hair, etc. (potentially)
No, they do not.
And your point is? XBMC is not aiming itself at the average citizen, so everything you said is irrelevant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC#Video_player_cores
Video player cores
XBMC uses two different multimedia video player 'cores' for video-playback. The first video-player 'core' for video-playback is an in-house developed cross-platform media player, "DVDPlayer", originally designed to play back DVD-Video movies, and this includes support native for DVD-menus, (based on the free open source libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav). This FFmpeg based video-player 'core' today supports all widespread mainstream formats. One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly pause and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images or DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) images (even directly from uncompressed RAR and ZIP archives), from either local harddrive storage or network-share storage.[2][13][16]
The second video-player 'core' for video-playback in XBMC is another in-house developed open source player, "DSPlayer", which today is only used as an experimental video player in a Git development branch of XBMC for Windows and not in any other versions of XBMC. This "DSPlayer" is a Direct Show based media player which with the help of FFmpeg can play practically all common media formats and in addition also make XBMC for Windows handle all formats and containers normally supported in Windows with the help of third-party proprietary Direct Show filters installed on the system.[58]
So, no, it does not use Mplayer.
It was/is (see xbmc4xbox) great on the Xbox, but I really don't see the appeal of installing it on a computer.
I do not really know what you mean with "a computer" here; I suppose you're trying to say "a device with a smaller screen."
If that is what you meant then yes, XBMC's UI is quite clunky. But it still does serve a purpose because it's not just a media player, it is a media collection manager; the larger the collection of various movies, TV and anime series and whatnot you have the more you'll start to appreciate how easy it makes it to browse it all. It even handles downloading of subtitles for the current title from the Internet, something I haven't seen any media player do.
If on the other hand you really meant computer as in a PC, a non-console - device: words "HTPC" and "multi-screen setup" should provide more than enough counter-argument. For example my desktop PC has a 24" screen as the main display and I can game, browse the web and all that on it, while I have XBMC running on my 42" 3D-TV over HDMI at the same time. Coupled with the XBMC Remote for Android it really is quite a damn nice setup.
There are ports of mplayer for android use one of those its practically the same thing.
Mplayer is just a simple player, XBMC is a lot more than that. The two are definitely not "the same thing."
Indeed. However, there are still ways of fooling them with makeup and a few bits of silicone, and both are easy to apply and take off. For example adding a wee bit of skin-coloured silicone on your cheekbones and forehead totally changes how you look. Then apply some slightly darker blush on your cheeks and eyesockets and you'll look like an entirely different person. Then just wipe the makeup on your sleeve, pick the silicone off with your fingers and you'll be your old self in less than 30 seconds.
Real mature, a classic example of exactly the thing people have been pointing out all along: some Linux fanboys just are so insecure that they must constantly attack anyone who doesn't share their enthusiasm. Where does the insecurity come from then? You feel Linux cannot succeed unless there are people like you about attacking anyone who dares to disagree? You feel Linux IS indeed such a rough platform that you must insult people into using it?
As for the Xbox - thing: no, I hate console gaming. And just buying a console wouldn't have solved the issued I had anyways, and it wouldn't be able to do the things I want. As for Linux: I think it is an absolutely great server OS, and on the desktop it works for people who have simple needs and all their H/W works out-of-the-box, and that it doesn't need arrogant fanboys like you defending it.
Use all of my hardware, allow me to enable 3D over HDMI 1.4 or allow me to run my games. Some games could be made to work using Wine, yes, but not all of them , and when trying to play some games Wine would always place the game on my 2nd display if it was running in fullscreen-mode. I have no idea why it kept doing that and why it did that only on some games.
2) Humble Bundle.
Humble Bundle - games are fine for casual gamers who like short burst of gaming, but often are way too little for not-so-casual gamers. I for example have only liked Osmos and World of Goo, and they're only fun in short burst on a mobile device, they simply aren't fun on a PC. The point is, if you don't like Humble Bundle - games there's very little worth touching even with a barge pole when it comes to Linux - games.
But that said, I game on PC a lot less than I used to, the Windows only policy of a lot of PC game developers drove me to console gaming.
For the fear of being locked to one platform you jumped to another locked-in platform?
Morale: 1. What you are saying is not true.
Yes, if you keep comparing to XP, which is a 10 years old OS.
2. Firewall is not an "all the security you need" miracle.
I never claimed that. You however claimed that one can get infected simply by connecting to Internet, which obviously isn't true if the user has a firewall enabled and hasn't allowed some weird connections through it.
3. I expect the same problems in Vista/7/8 because the thing keeps running in admin mode by default. I also suspect that there are multiple loopholes when running in non-admin mode as well.
No, they do not run in "admin mode" by default.
>> I chose to twist parent's words because I feel so insecure that I must project all shortcomings and problems on the people using it, not on Linux itself.
FTFY
unpatched Windows XP
I quoted the relevant part.
I chose Windows because Linux couldn't do what I wanted.
There are as many or more Linux desktops than Mac ones
I really doubt that.
then Apache would be the most virus laden product in the world, as opposed to Windows with that "honour".
You're comparing apples and oranges; Apache is a web server, Windows is an OS. Compare Linux to Windows and Apache to IIS.
But you can STILL get a drive-by virus even with the latest, most secure, most up-to-date Windows OS. You don't have to do anything other than connect to the internet.
Don't try to spread lies, that hasn't been true for a good while now. That was true with XP, yes, not now. And heck, even with XP that was no longer true after SP2 which enabled firewall by default.
Most people do not have such needs and as such that is not a problem for them. And generally "ready for desktop" is quantified by what most people need.
General populace is not interested in ideas. That's the whole crux of the thing; they want something concrete, they do not care about the ideas behind the product as long as they can feel they got what they wanted.
One of the biggest issues is that many people have software and/or hardware that do not work under Linux. Like e.g. it totally sucks for gaming, MTP-support is still hit-and-miss, and with smartphones getting ever more popular there's plenty of software to run, none of which works under Linux --atleast I am not aware of any vendor shipping Linux-software--, and as I said, hardware may not work at all, works slowly, or is missing features.
I am wondering what the downsides to such large density are: how fast can the laser be turned on and off? The longer it takes for it to fire the bigger the random write latency. Secondly, how long does such a laser last, can we expect 10 years from it? Thirdly, what does this mean for power consumption? More? Less? Fourth, on machines with write-heavy tasks would the drive heat up even more than they now do?
Sure, 60TB storage sounds a lot, but I have trouble believing this thing is as wonderful as Seagate makes it sound like.
Oh, you're just getting on his nerves now.