Hmm... more real world tests for the new G4 duals (all disabled processor, integer spec benchmarks aside)? For the 'silver standard' DNA sequencing application BLAST, Apple claims that a dual 1 GHz G4 sequences up to 5 times as fast as a 2 GHz Pentium 4. (Sounds like we may have at least a fair RISC:CISC speed advantage there). Can't complain about the digital video rendering speed either. Mathematica seems to kick @ss. And then there's Maya... yas.... Remind me again why these G4 boxes are too expensive for the professional working scientist or media producer. Say, can anyone spec me a cheaper dual P4 box with builtin 1000-base-T for cluster or render farm building? Warning: Failure to religiously upgrade your PC's Red Hat installation may be an early sign of OS X intoxication.
Microsoft ~ALTRUISTIC!?!? For this, we justify an environment in which sociopaths can readily craft world network-disrupting code with Visual Basic?
Since we run NT servers (and Linux, BSD, and MacOs) in a multiplatform major.edu network, that cr@p about the Slashdot world view of the inherently evil other side(s) don't sell that well! We KNOW the value of a multiple OS world!
But face it: ILOVEYOU was just another in a string of worms/viruses (W9x-&c) made possible by Microsoft's tight coupling of OS, office apps, email, browser, Visual programming environments, etc. That Gates Viewpoint article is a blatant attempt in the trial context to divert any questioning of the peculiar VULNERABILITIES of Win&C to malicious trashing while keeping public focus on MS's 'creativity argument' defense for tightly linking proprietary apps and OS.
His claim of breakup 'effects' promoting more viruses, sounds like typical MS disinformation/scare tactics what would be familiar to readers of the Linux-bashing Halloween 'papers'.
Let's try to scope some data on the subject:
What's the current count of Win viruses and worms?
How many Mac and Linux and BSD systems were DIRECTLY infected by ILOVEYOU etc?
What's the current count of Linux (open source) viruses and worms?
(Multiply these numbers by some acceptable fractions for the proportions of Win installations vs. Linux installations...)
Oh, and what's the number of Mac-based viruses and worms that have been as widely distributed and network-disruptive as MELISSA?? (weighted for Mac % of total OS installations)
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Hmm... more real world tests for the new G4 duals (all disabled processor, integer spec benchmarks aside)?
For the 'silver standard' DNA sequencing application BLAST, Apple claims that a dual 1 GHz G4 sequences up to 5 times as fast as a 2 GHz Pentium 4. (Sounds like we may have at least a fair RISC:CISC speed advantage there). Can't complain about the digital video rendering speed either. Mathematica seems to kick @ss. And then there's Maya... yas....
Remind me again why these G4 boxes are too expensive for the professional working scientist or media producer. Say, can anyone spec me a cheaper dual P4 box with builtin 1000-base-T for cluster or render farm building?
Warning: Failure to religiously upgrade your PC's Red Hat installation may be an early sign of OS X intoxication.
Turbogenomics has produced a commercial parallelized version of BLAST for OS X. http://www.turbogenomics.com/press/press07182001.h tml
Microsoft ~ALTRUISTIC!?!? For this, we justify an environment in which sociopaths can readily craft world network-disrupting code with Visual Basic?
.edu network, that cr@p about the Slashdot world view of the inherently evil other side(s) don't sell that well! We KNOW the value of a multiple OS world!
Since we run NT servers (and Linux, BSD, and MacOs) in a multiplatform major
But face it: ILOVEYOU was just another in a string of worms/viruses (W9x-&c) made possible by Microsoft's tight coupling of OS, office apps, email, browser, Visual programming environments, etc. That Gates Viewpoint article is a blatant attempt in the trial context to divert any questioning of the peculiar VULNERABILITIES of Win&C to malicious trashing while keeping public focus on MS's 'creativity argument' defense for tightly linking proprietary apps and OS.
His claim of breakup 'effects' promoting more viruses, sounds like typical MS disinformation/scare tactics what would be familiar to readers of the Linux-bashing Halloween 'papers'.
Let's try to scope some data on the subject:
What's the current count of Win viruses and worms?
How many Mac and Linux and BSD systems were DIRECTLY infected by ILOVEYOU etc?
What's the current count of Linux (open source) viruses and worms?
(Multiply these numbers by some acceptable fractions for the proportions of Win installations vs. Linux installations...)
Oh, and what's the number of Mac-based viruses and worms that have been as widely distributed and network-disruptive as MELISSA?? (weighted for Mac % of total OS installations)
WELL?
Microsoft: Where do you want to infect today?