Does this really have anything to do with the quality of Bing search results and people choosing it or, as I suspect, is this just a side effect of Bing being the default search engine in Internet Explorer? I've also noticed that it's harder than it used to be to change IE over to Google as the default search engine.
You need to consider the user (dis?)satisfaction when just upgrading between versions of Windows or even Office. My guess is that many, if not most, users were "dissatisfied" because user are notoriously change-averse. If you let users have their way, they would still be on Windows 95.
There's nothing wrong with FreeBSD, it just that for most of the companies I've worked for, Linux strikes a better balance between ease-of-use, features and stability. You might know how to install, configure, update, etc FreeBSD, but the guy that replaces you might not.
Of course, it also has better vendor support the the *BSD's.
How man people Opt-In to Bing versus it being the default search engine for IE9? My guess is not many. Last time I installed Chrome, it presented an easy interface to choose the default search engine. The last I installed Windows 7, Bing is the default and it's been made increasingly difficult to change the default search engine.
I used to work for a company that used official Redhat for the production end (web server, mail server, samba servers) and CentOS for for DNS servers, testing, network monitoring, etc.
It was a nice compromise. Support on the production side and only having to know one distribution on the other servers.
This reminds me of how MSDN works. You pay for production servers but can use the OS for testing/development/learning.
I was researching this recently and the problem is that there's no consensus on which products work best. For every product out there, It's easy to find a couple of people who had success, and a few who hated it.
For OP's original requirements, I'd probably go for a Intel atom or AMD E-350 based server with pfSense and either a b/g/n NIC or a HP AP.
If (and it's a big if) they try to search for infringing tracks, they will probably either look for exact matches or do some kind of hashing (MD5/SHA, etc.) to create a database of infringing tracks. If you just flip a couple of bits at the end of each track, it will foil the above two methods.
They may try to create a database of legit (Itunes, amazon, etc) tracks, but that would yield false positives for tracks you legally ripped at home.
There's also the huge problem with the situation where you ripped a CD at home with the same ripper (exact same settings) that someone used to upload tracks as they would be likely be identical.
This ignores sticky situations like when I had a CD with two tracks that skipped and downloaded the two offending tracks.
Sooner or later, your customers will wise up to technical people being used as sales and will start to "calm up" to your technical people. You'll make some initial sales so it will look like a success, but your trading log-term trust for a short-term dollar.
The thing about working in stone is that if forces you to think through your code before you commit it to stone. No more throwing junk code at the complier. It results in much high quality code, at some expense to productivity.
When XP first came out, it was slower on existing hardware (like most Windows releases) and was for many worse than Win2k Pro in terms of stability. When Windows 7 came out we didn't want it to be like the initial XP release, we wanted it to be better than XP SP3 plus two more years of patches.
The next release of Unity will likely fix the major problems. Which is reminiscent of MSFT, as a previous poster pointed out.
Personally, If I were to put an anti-virus product on Linux servers, I'd choose a different vendor that what was running on the Windows desktops. The idea being that if the desktop AV fails to catch a virus, there's at least some that a different vendor's product might catch it.
Did they subtract all of the driving miles saved by telecommuters? Did they subtract the airline miles saved by teleconferencing? Did they subtract the miles I didn't drive by using Netflix instead of driving to the video store? Did they subtract the trees saved by buying fewer newspapers and books? Did they subtract the miles saved by on-line shopping versus driver to three store to compare prices?
My guess is that after you subtract all of these significant factors, the Internet is closer to a wash for the environment.
A web site has no "right" to a ranking. A previous ranking confers no "right" to a future ranking. Using the "free advertising" that comes with search engine rankings carries a risk that is different from paid advertising. I hope the effected commercial site's prospectus notifies investors that they are at the mercy of web site rankings.
Agree. Would the Doctors let me operate because I have mad first-aid skills? No, they'd insist that I get the credentials and jump through a lot of hoops.
All this proves is that students that opt to take and complete algebra II do better. In my high school, everyone who elected to be in algebra II was planning on going to college. Of course such student do better in college! This in no way proves that forcing students that aren't good at math to take algebra II is some how magically going to make them more successful.
This reminds me of the study (from Canada) that said that drivers who voluntarily turned on their headlights during the day were in much fewer accidents, so the government made headlight use during the day mandatory. The seem to have failed to consider that the voluntary headlight users were more safety conscious and it had little to do with increased visibility.
There are many things that people need know to get along in modern life. It's a shame that so few are taught in high school.
The record companies aren't willing to admit it, but they make a lot of money selling replacement CD's when a CD becomes lost, stolen or otherwise unplayable. I suspect that they have made a lot of money selling replacement MP3's when the device holding it gets damaged or otherwise unusable, or when DRM prevents playback on a new device.
If this cloud service keeps people from having to repurchase content, the record companies stand to lose a lot of money.
I've often wondered why it's usually impossible to get replacement media when a CD is damaged. After all, what you really did was license the music, at least according to the RIAA. Damaged media doesn't negate your license to the "intellectual property" that you purchased.
Look at how different software is. If I buy a Windows server license, there's a media kit for a nominal fee. If the media becomes unusable, I just get another media kit and reuse the license.
It seems that the record companies want the good (for them) stuff that comes with licensing but not the rest of the bargain.
You make two fundamental flaws; equating web content to physical goods and assuming that a system designed for academic information sharing (that originally banned all commercial activity) is well suited as a business/retail platform.
Physical news papers have a significant cost to print and distribute, per user. One more viewer on a web site has a near-zero cost.
Many print magazines are virtually free as subscriptions often just cover the cost of distribution. Advertising pays for the production and printing.
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Does this really have anything to do with the quality of Bing search results and people choosing it or, as I suspect, is this just a side effect of Bing being the default search engine in Internet Explorer?
I've also noticed that it's harder than it used to be to change IE over to Google as the default search engine.
You need to consider the user (dis?)satisfaction when just upgrading between versions of Windows or even Office. My guess is that many, if not most, users were "dissatisfied" because user are notoriously change-averse. If you let users have their way, they would still be on Windows 95.
> VC++ produces code that is VASTLY superior to gcc
I thought developers produced code and compilers produced binaries?
At my house:
1 PC with Windows 7
1 PC with Windows XP
1 PC with Fedora 15
1 Laptop that dual boots Win XP and Ubuntu
1 WD Live TV set-top box runs Linux
1 Linksys Router runs Linux
1 Samsung TV Runs Linux
2 Android phone that run a version of Linux
(Some Sun and Itanium boxes that I'll not count)
Windows = 3
Linux = 7
Linux for the win!
There's nothing wrong with FreeBSD, it just that for most of the companies I've worked for, Linux strikes a better balance between ease-of-use, features and stability. You might know how to install, configure, update, etc FreeBSD, but the guy that replaces you might not.
Of course, it also has better vendor support the the *BSD's.
Maybe there's a reason that over 80% of the Top 500 Supercomputers run Linux. I couldn't find FreeBSD on the list....
How man people Opt-In to Bing versus it being the default search engine for IE9? My guess is not many. Last time I installed Chrome, it presented an easy interface to choose the default search engine. The last I installed Windows 7, Bing is the default and it's been made increasingly difficult to change the default search engine.
I used to work for a company that used official Redhat for the production end (web server, mail server, samba servers) and CentOS for for DNS servers, testing, network monitoring, etc.
It was a nice compromise. Support on the production side and only having to know one distribution on the other servers.
This reminds me of how MSDN works. You pay for production servers but can use the OS for testing/development/learning.
If you can find an old (pre-Symantec) copy of Norton Utilities, it's Disk Doctor (NDD) program was very good at recovering floppies.
I was researching this recently and the problem is that there's no consensus on which products work best. For every product out there, It's easy to find a couple of people who had success, and a few who hated it.
For OP's original requirements, I'd probably go for a Intel atom or AMD E-350 based server with pfSense and either a b/g/n NIC or a HP AP.
Both of these have pretty colors that management will like.
If (and it's a big if) they try to search for infringing tracks, they will probably either look for exact matches or do some kind of hashing (MD5/SHA, etc.) to create a database of infringing tracks. If you just flip a couple of bits at the end of each track, it will foil the above two methods.
They may try to create a database of legit (Itunes, amazon, etc) tracks, but that would yield false positives for tracks you legally ripped at home.
There's also the huge problem with the situation where you ripped a CD at home with the same ripper (exact same settings) that someone used to upload tracks as they would be likely be identical.
This ignores sticky situations like when I had a CD with two tracks that skipped and downloaded the two offending tracks.
Sooner or later, your customers will wise up to technical people being used as sales and will start to "calm up" to your technical people. You'll make some initial sales so it will look like a success, but your trading log-term trust for a short-term dollar.
The thing about working in stone is that if forces you to think through your code before you commit it to stone. No more throwing junk code at the complier. It results in much high quality code, at some expense to productivity.
When XP first came out, it was slower on existing hardware (like most Windows releases) and was for many worse than Win2k Pro in terms of stability.
When Windows 7 came out we didn't want it to be like the initial XP release, we wanted it to be better than XP SP3 plus two more years of patches.
The next release of Unity will likely fix the major problems. Which is reminiscent of MSFT, as a previous poster pointed out.
Personally, If I were to put an anti-virus product on Linux servers, I'd choose a different vendor that what was running on the Windows desktops. The idea being that if the desktop AV fails to catch a virus, there's at least some that a different vendor's product might catch it.
Perhaps the cops should gather more evidence than an IP address before they bust in, guns drawn?
Did they subtract all of the driving miles saved by telecommuters?
Did they subtract the airline miles saved by teleconferencing?
Did they subtract the miles I didn't drive by using Netflix instead of driving to the video store?
Did they subtract the trees saved by buying fewer newspapers and books?
Did they subtract the miles saved by on-line shopping versus driver to three store to compare prices?
My guess is that after you subtract all of these significant factors, the Internet is closer to a wash for the environment.
E-waste might be another story.
A web site has no "right" to a ranking. A previous ranking confers no "right" to a future ranking. Using the "free advertising" that comes with search engine rankings carries a risk that is different from paid advertising. I hope the effected commercial site's prospectus notifies investors that they are at the mercy of web site rankings.
Agree. Would the Doctors let me operate because I have mad first-aid skills? No, they'd insist that I get the credentials and jump through a lot of hoops.
All this proves is that students that opt to take and complete algebra II do better. In my high school, everyone who elected to be in algebra II was planning on going to college. Of course such student do better in college! This in no way proves that forcing students that aren't good at math to take algebra II is some how magically going to make them more successful.
This reminds me of the study (from Canada) that said that drivers who voluntarily turned on their headlights during the day were in much fewer accidents, so the government made headlight use during the day mandatory. The seem to have failed to consider that the voluntary headlight users were more safety conscious and it had little to do with increased visibility.
There are many things that people need know to get along in modern life. It's a shame that so few are taught in high school.
In the Bayliner case, it was ruled that you could even use the hull of a competitor's boat as the mold for yours.
The record companies aren't willing to admit it, but they make a lot of money selling replacement CD's when a CD becomes lost, stolen or otherwise unplayable. I suspect that they have made a lot of money selling replacement MP3's when the device holding it gets damaged or otherwise unusable, or when DRM prevents playback on a new device.
If this cloud service keeps people from having to repurchase content, the record companies stand to lose a lot of money.
I've often wondered why it's usually impossible to get replacement media when a CD is damaged. After all, what you really did was license the music, at least according to the RIAA. Damaged media doesn't negate your license to the "intellectual property" that you purchased.
Look at how different software is. If I buy a Windows server license, there's a media kit for a nominal fee. If the media becomes unusable, I just get another media kit and reuse the license.
It seems that the record companies want the good (for them) stuff that comes with licensing but not the rest of the bargain.
FYI: Apple is soundly beating Microsoft as "Worst Company in America" in The Consumerist's poll:
http://consumerist.com/2011/03/worst-company-in-america-round-one-apple-vs-microsoft.html
You make two fundamental flaws; equating web content to physical goods and assuming that a system designed for academic information sharing (that originally banned all commercial activity) is well suited as a business/retail platform.
Physical news papers have a significant cost to print and distribute, per user. One more viewer on a web site has a near-zero cost.
Many print magazines are virtually free as subscriptions often just cover the cost of distribution. Advertising pays for the production and printing.