Given that both have been around since at least 2004, would either of these be described as a success on the Desktop, if described a failure then why would that be also? It's also inexplicable that in that whole piece, there's no mention of the litigation issues promulgated by a convicted monopolist against Open Source. Given it took me about two hour to install and fine-tune Linux on this cobbled-together-desktop, it puzzles me how you could describe the "transaction costs" as too high. Just how high can two man-hour every half-year be? I would of course test the configuration internally before shipping my tens of thousands of machines..:)
"Saudi Aramco says damage was limited to office computers.. running Microsoft Windows"...
'However, one of Saudi Aramco's Web sites taken offline after the attack - www.aramco.com . remained down on Sunday. E-mails sent by Reuters to people within the company continued to bounce back` link
"The PDF file attached to the email exploits the Adobe Reader 'CoolType.dll' TTF Font Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BID 43057). It uses a technique known as return-oriented programming (ROP) to bypass Data Execution Prevention (DEP), using code in the icucnv36.dll module."
"According to British daily The Telegraph, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that plans to monitor individuals' use of the internet would result in Britain losing its reputation as an upholder of web freedom.. The draft bill extends the type of data that internet service providers must store for at least 12 months
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Q: How's your driving record?
"Clean. Real clean. (pause, thin smile) As clean as my conscience", Travis Bickle
Lubuntu provides all the usability I need... two years totally Windows free and going.. and I've got a version running on a USB device for system backup/restore...
"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun rolling out its new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. In essence, NGI is a nationwide database of mugshots, iris scans, DNA records, voice samples, and other biometrics that will help the FBI identify and catch criminals"
Actually, it's just a more efficient method for the police state to spy on its own citizens . Such methods the Stazi could only dream of. Without the threat of Islamic "terrorism" such methods would never have been acceptable by the population. A relevant question to ask is, who is going to protect us from you?
"Norton released its annual cybercrime report on Wednesday, and the company put the 'direct costs associated with global consumer cybercrime at US $110 billion over the past twelve months.
"According to British daily The Telegraph, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that plans to monitor individuals' use of the internet would result in Britain losing its reputation as an upholder of web freedom."
I assumed there was someone monitoring my use of the Internet, which is why I've always been cautious, at least with my home usage...
"On hearing the "news" that Bruce Willis (you know, the film star) was going to hurtle into Apple's lift shafts (even if it doesn't have any - does it have any? Anyhow) and intended to sue the company so that he could leave his iTunes collection to his children, what did the world's news organisations do? Ask Bruce Willis? Ask his agent?"
"Nah. Why bother with that when you can just repeat the story? Much easier just to rewrite, rephrase and repeat. (This may remind you of something) Pretty much everyone seems to have done this. (Yes, yes. The Guardian too.)" link
I regret to inform you that the why of "creation" doesn't involve humans and when we've exausted this planets resources, there'll be no-one left to wonder why...
'Linus, despite being a low-level kernel guy, set the tone for our community years ago when he dismissed binary compatibility for device drivers'.
Even if that were even true, how can you have binary compatible device drivers when the devices are - ipso facto - on different hardware. Besides seeing as it's Open Source, won't the source code be available.
"A novel class of orally active antimalarial 3,5-diaryl-2-aminopyridines has been identified from phenotypic whole cell high-throughput screening of a commercially available SoftFocus kinase library."
"One of these frontrunner compounds, 15, was equipotent across the two strains.. and superior to chloroquine in the K1 strain.. Compound 15 completely cured Plasmodium berghei-infected mice with a single oral dose of 30 mg/kg." link
He's confusing marketshare with technological progress. The main reason Linux hasn't progressed on the desktop has been the restrictive licenses Microsoft forced on the OEMs, as in they pay for the number of boxes shifted, even if sold without Windows. They're currently transferring that revenue model to the mobile market with the Android tax.
`Microsoft's licenses impose a penalty or "tax" paid to Microsoft upon OEMs' use of competing PC operating systems. "Per processor" licenses require OEMs to pay a royalty for each computer the OEM sells containing a particular processor (e.g., an Intel 386 microprocessor) whether or not the OEM has included a Microsoft operating system with that computer', DOJ v. Microsoft
'de Icaza.. thinks the real reason Linux lost.. because the developers behind.. graphical Linux applications didn't do a good enough job..
"Hewlett-Packard Co. used to be known as a place where innovative thinkers flocked to work on great ideas that opened new frontiers in technology"
Was I in some parallel universe when this was happening?
"Like HP, Dell missed the trends that have turned selling PCs into one of technology's least profitable and slowest growing niches."
The only trend Dell, like HP were following was the directive from MS to not enter other markets, as MS perceived such as stealing their own market share. As far as MS is concerned the OEMs are just the delivery people. That's why companies with no contractual relationship with MS were able to expand into the mobile market.
"An August 20th, 2012 announcement from Iran places restrictions on female university students. Iran will be cutting 77 fields of study from the female curriculum, making them male-only fields. Science and engineering are among those affected by the decree"..
It's well known that Women can't understand such stuff:)
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Given that both have been around since at least 2004, would either of these be described as a success on the Desktop, if described a failure then why would that be also? It's also inexplicable that in that whole piece, there's no mention of the litigation issues promulgated by a convicted monopolist against Open Source. Given it took me about two hour to install and fine-tune Linux on this cobbled-together-desktop, it puzzles me how you could describe the "transaction costs" as too high. Just how high can two man-hour every half-year be? I would of course test the configuration internally before shipping my tens of thousands of machines .. :)
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"Saudi Aramco says damage was limited to office computers .. running Microsoft Windows" ...
'However, one of Saudi Aramco's Web sites taken offline after the attack - www.aramco.com . remained down on Sunday. E-mails sent by Reuters to people within the company continued to bounce back` link
"I work in the research department of a computer security company"
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If you want to be taken seriously in computer security, don't ever go on slashdot to defend MICROS~1
"The PDF file attached to the email exploits the Adobe Reader 'CoolType.dll' TTF Font Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BID 43057). It uses a technique known as return-oriented programming (ROP) to bypass Data Execution Prevention (DEP), using code in the icucnv36.dll module."
"According to British daily The Telegraph, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that plans to monitor individuals' use of the internet would result in Britain losing its reputation as an upholder of web freedom .. The draft bill extends the type of data that internet service providers must store for at least 12 months
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Q: How's your driving record?
"Clean. Real clean. (pause, thin smile) As clean as my conscience", Travis Bickle
Lubuntu provides all the usability I need ... two years totally Windows free and going .. and I've got a version running on a USB device for system backup/restore ...
Put some flash ram on the HD with its own on-board battery backup ...
"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun rolling out its new $1 billion biometric Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. In essence, NGI is a nationwide database of mugshots, iris scans, DNA records, voice samples, and other biometrics that will help the FBI identify and catch criminals"
Actually, it's just a more efficient method for the police state to spy on its own citizens . Such methods the Stazi could only dream of. Without the threat of Islamic "terrorism" such methods would never have been acceptable by the population. A relevant question to ask is, who is going to protect us from you?
"Norton released its annual cybercrime report on Wednesday, and the company put the 'direct costs associated with global consumer cybercrime at US $110 billion over the past twelve months.
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And the solution is to move to Linux
I've found Lubuntu to be more than sufficient to my needs - less is more !
"According to British daily The Telegraph, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that plans to monitor individuals' use of the internet would result in Britain losing its reputation as an upholder of web freedom."
...
I assumed there was someone monitoring my use of the Internet, which is why I've always been cautious, at least with my home usage
Why don't they run these SCADA units over a VPN circuit run on embedded hardware?
How do these malicious URIs get access to the underlying Operating System?
"On hearing the "news" that Bruce Willis (you know, the film star) was going to hurtle into Apple's lift shafts (even if it doesn't have any - does it have any? Anyhow) and intended to sue the company so that he could leave his iTunes collection to his children, what did the world's news organisations do? Ask Bruce Willis? Ask his agent?"
"Nah. Why bother with that when you can just repeat the story? Much easier just to rewrite, rephrase and repeat. (This may remind you of something) Pretty much everyone seems to have done this. (Yes, yes. The Guardian too.)" link
I regret to inform you that the why of "creation" doesn't involve humans and when we've exausted this planets resources, there'll be no-one left to wonder why ...
> The violin did not evolve, neither did we human beings evolve. The only one who can answer the âoewhyâ question is our maker.
'Linus, despite being a low-level kernel guy, set the tone for our community years ago when he dismissed binary compatibility for device drivers'.
Even if that were even true, how can you have binary compatible device drivers when the devices are - ipso facto - on different hardware. Besides seeing as it's Open Source, won't the source code be available.
It's a artefact of the detector, as in some unknown effect radiating from the sun is affecting the reading.
"A novel class of orally active antimalarial 3,5-diaryl-2-aminopyridines has been identified from phenotypic whole cell high-throughput screening of a commercially available SoftFocus kinase library."
.. and superior to chloroquine in the K1 strain .. Compound 15 completely cured Plasmodium berghei-infected mice with a single oral dose of 30 mg/kg." link
"One of these frontrunner compounds, 15, was equipotent across the two strains
I tried running it and got this error msg: Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by "C:\\Program Files\\Software Informer\\softinfo.exe") not found ..
He's confusing marketshare with technological progress. The main reason Linux hasn't progressed on the desktop has been the restrictive licenses Microsoft forced on the OEMs, as in they pay for the number of boxes shifted, even if sold without Windows. They're currently transferring that revenue model to the mobile market with the Android tax.
.. thinks the real reason Linux lost .. because the developers behind .. graphical Linux applications didn't do a good enough job ..
`Microsoft's licenses impose a penalty or "tax" paid to Microsoft upon OEMs' use of competing PC operating systems. "Per processor" licenses require OEMs to pay a royalty for each computer the OEM sells containing a particular processor (e.g., an Intel 386 microprocessor) whether or not the OEM has included a Microsoft operating system with that computer', DOJ v. Microsoft
'de Icaza
Ubuntu 3D Desktop | Linux Gaming: Duke Nukem3D
"Hewlett-Packard Co. used to be known as a place where innovative thinkers flocked to work on great ideas that opened new frontiers in technology"
Was I in some parallel universe when this was happening?
"Like HP, Dell missed the trends that have turned selling PCs into one of technology's least profitable and slowest growing niches."
The only trend Dell, like HP were following was the directive from MS to not enter other markets, as MS perceived such as stealing their own market share. As far as MS is concerned the OEMs are just the delivery people. That's why companies with no contractual relationship with MS were able to expand into the mobile market.
"An August 20th, 2012 announcement from Iran places restrictions on female university students. Iran will be cutting 77 fields of study from the female curriculum, making them male-only fields. Science and engineering are among those affected by the decree" ..
:)
It's well known that Women can't understand such stuff
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