Fellow vegan here;) - this article made me think how much animal protein I eat because of bugs that are in every piece of food we eat... (especially fruits and veggies - doubly true for organic food [think about what makes it organic]).
Anyhow no need to be smug - humans are omnivores and its our own personal choice what we choose to eat.
On Nokia when I used to use there Symbian phones I was the only one who ever had one... I see android and apple phones every single day everywhere and I have a decent sample size since I work at a university.
I really wonder who is buying and using Nokia smart phones in those quantities?
One big difference too is that people who live in Switzerland (that I've met) aren't all political ideologues - a lot of people here in the US are.
Just as an example - see how upset or defense even the most apathetic citizen gets when you challenge something they believe in (could be anything too - like drinking milk is murder, the iPhone isn't nearly as capable as another phone, or that you believe in a certain way in a political issue).
Oh, I'm sure somebody with an iPhone could give all his private information to Google like you did, instead of storing it on one of these evil PC things.
I guess its all about who you trust more - Apple or Google;).
Why are so many Linux/Mac people so incredibly ignorant when it comes to Windows?
It doesn't work all that well on low-end hardware or virtual machines
Really? I deployed Windows 7 to over 300 Dell Optiplex 520's with 2 gigs of ram - thats a 5-6 year old machine and it runs just fine. Even supports Aero with the integrated video display. On virtualization - you may have me there, but I doubt it. Typically I wouldn't recommend booting Windows 7 on a VM with less than 1 gig of ram at a bare minimum.
Every time you deploy an image you have to manually re-register the thing with Microsoft so it doesn't disable itself
Wow - ever hear of waik (the windows imaging toolkit?) or volume licensing?
Still no decent backup system
Like the built in Windows Backup? Last time I used it - it did actually allow me to restore an entire machine from an image it made and it worked. For enterprises there are tons of of options to backup Windows - like SCCM.
XP Mode is buggy and compatibility in general is bad (especially in the 64-bit versions)
Really? I've only had to use it once, but I got it to run an old Windows 3.1 app just fine and the customer (staff at a community college) was happy with the results.
Still no EXT3/EXT4 (or any Unix-type), Large FAT or GPT support
Full Disk Encryption requires TPM chips which are missing in just about any system these days so you still have to go into a 3rd party solution.
Again - not quite. You can use full disk encryption with regular user authentication. But seriously - the only machines that don't support TPM are pretty ancient - like Pre-Celeron 1 GHz cpu...
You still have to download a virus scanner, there is none built-in nor is the OS self-contained enough to be used without one.
The only accurate statement in your entire post, but then - does OSX or Linux come with a virus scanner? And please don't say they don't need one because there aren't any OSX or Linux viruses/rootkits.
A lot of the features that come out of the box with 7 you can bolt on with XP. Good example of one of these an enterprise would use is GPO preferences. XP doesn't support it, but can with a client installed.
Desktop search is another one - click the start button (or hit the windows key) start typing - XP doesn't have that, but you can get MSN/Google desktop search as an addon.
DWM/Aero - not really necessary but things like Aero-peek are pretty cool for productivity sometimes.
64 bit support - yes there is XP-64, but Vista/Windows 7 really cemented Windows x64 as a supported platform you can actually use at home or business. XP-64 suffered from massive compatibility and driver availability issues. If you have over 3 gigs of ram you really do need to run a 64 bit OS.
Windows 7 window management in general AKA Aero Snap - Windows key left right up and down on a window - moves it all over the desktop. Its very... Mac like (Mac doesn't have this feature actually). XP doesn't have this and I'm not sure there is a way to hack it on. Another thing Aero snap does is automatically maximize windows or snap them into the left or right of the screen when you drag the window to the edge.
So a lot of this stuff is a case of deploy and test time for a business. You can build an image for XP that has a lot of the features Windows 7 does, but it will take more time to test since many are 3rd party.
I'd agree it might be harder to test because of vendor specific modifications, but definately not to api version differences. The totally Android IDE lets you test on anything between 1.5 and 2.3 with ease. You could develop an Android app without even having a real Android phone and sell it.
So, with my iPhone, at least it's not loaded with advertisements. Of course it brings in the Internet ads for me, but it blocks the invasive ones and I bless the iPhone for the lack of flash. But at least for the most part I'm getting fair value for the service I pay for: I make and receive phone calls and text messages, and neither are subsidized by advertisement.
Should mention I can set an option on Android "Enable Plug-ins > On Demand" so that Flash objects show up as little green down arrows. I tap on the green arrow and it loads the Flash plugin *only if I want to* - wow I get a choice what I what to run on my phone;).
Most of the time I don't need Flash - once in a blue moon someone sends me a link to a blog with and embedded Flash video - you know what? My phone loads it just like desktop PC does if I want to.
When I moved from a Nexus One to a Motorola Droid X (one phone on AT&T and the Droid X on Verizon) the Google cloud automatically copied all my contacts, apps and settings (even stuff like which puzzles in Angry Birds I had completed!) to the new phone.
This is from an HTC phone on AT&T to a Motorola phone on Verizon - and neither phone ever even touched the PC via any app.
From what I understand if a skype client cannot directly connect to another user and the client finds a path through another PC client - that client becomes a supernode. I would add without the owners knowledge as well, but then that is typically how P2P clients operate;).
I suspect there is more benefit for having information on the crime itself (for statistical purposes) - especially minor crimes than actually locking people up.
In the US it wasn't a question of Spectrum vs. C64 really - as the Spectrum really wasn't even available here. It was more Apple vs. Atari vs. Timex etc.
C64 price was under $500 or under $600 - which as I recall was pretty incredible especially for what you got. The Apple 2 was more than twice that as I recall.
C64 to me though was the first machine I used that had real capability. Before that I had a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (ZX-80 I think) that was a computer, but with 1 kilobyte of ram and a 20k expander that was super sensitive to any shock (even think about bumping it - all your work was lost).
Its a well known fact that North Korea is within artillery range of Seoul - they can hit one of their biggest population centers and centers of government with standard run of the mill conventional arms and turn that entire area into a sea of fire within minutes.
No your right its not nuclear weapons you need to worry about - its conventional arms - at least for that initial volley.
If you've studied the situation you'd know that North Korea and China have had a love/hate relationship for a long time - China is one of these last best friends in the region but for the last couple years there have been reports of angry meetings and requests from China for North Korea to behave.
Publically speaking - yes China supports North Korea to keep the hard liners happy, but it should be no surprise they secretly wish the Kim family would just go far far away.
Pay Cash. Most visits, even serious things like inserting a pacemaker or getting a hysterectomy, cost less than a new car (i.e. less than $20,000). Supplement that with: Catastrophic insurance. When you develop a serious illness like cancer that exceeds some minimum (say $50,000) then the company will cover your bills and "save" you from being bankrupted.
Funny to hear a "conservative" suggest throwing cash at the problem. Also what is this "the company" that will cover you? If I don't have insurance the company I work for doesn't give a rip what happens to me.
Tell me this... please - which is a bigger story - the one behind Obama not being born in the US or the story that its possible to fool the most extensive background check team (the secret service - who I assume checks this stuff) in the world?
Both stories kinda defy reality and suggest a huge conspiracy - one bigger than the government could easily cover up.
Any version of Android is still a pretty tightly controlled eco-system - Google's marketplace only allows apps from people who have passed credit background checks. I can only think of one major piece of malware that made any news - Google destroyed it, and remotely uninstalled it from installed devices. Rooted phones are probably more of a risk than out of date phones honestly.
How do you check for rooted IOS devices or rooted Android devices? Those are far more a threat than an out of date Android device.
Part of threat management is understanding and accepting risk - in our organization - which is a pretty open environment - the security team has software and people who keep an eye on network traffic and machines connected to the network and terminates connections based on mac address (yes I know - easily spoofed, but we can shut down ports too if needed) when suspicious connections are made (its based on networks people are connecting to, protocols and level of traffic). While we've had trouble with rogue/infected PC's (including people who wanted to become part of LOIC) - I've never seen a phone cause any problems.
People want to use real, locally-running applications that help get work done, where their data can be kept local and safe. They don't want to dick around with half-assed web "apps" that just make life miserable, and makes data retrieval damn near impossible.
You assume that people, never mind actual businesses know how to back up their data better than microsoft or google. They don't... Can you honestly say that your data is safer locally than it is in google's data center? I've built data centers at co-locations in nuclear proof buildings and I would never make that statement - they've invested more in their infrastructure than any company or even government I've ever seen.
Besides its not like I cannot get my data to my local machine from google's cloud. They have api's I can use to interact with that data directly, or I can simply replicate it locally - nothing is stuck there - not even email.
On my Android phone its really brilliant - I'm on my 3rd device, none of these devices have ever been connected to a PC physically and they all have the exact same contact databases/urls and even apps - thanks to cloud computing.
There are plenty of people who have suggested this is how Al-Quaeda works - its talked about in depth in the documentary "The Power of Nightmares" (which anyone can watch for free on archive.org). There is a fanatical core, but the vast majority of actions carried out in their name were done so by individuals acting on their own behalf.
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Fellow vegan here ;) - this article made me think how much animal protein I eat because of bugs that are in every piece of food we eat... (especially fruits and veggies - doubly true for organic food [think about what makes it organic]).
Anyhow no need to be smug - humans are omnivores and its our own personal choice what we choose to eat.
On Nokia when I used to use there Symbian phones I was the only one who ever had one... I see android and apple phones every single day everywhere and I have a decent sample size since I work at a university.
I really wonder who is buying and using Nokia smart phones in those quantities?
For me - AT&T coverage blows chunks. Verizon - fwiw really does have a solid network with solid coverage.
One big difference too is that people who live in Switzerland (that I've met) aren't all political ideologues - a lot of people here in the US are.
Just as an example - see how upset or defense even the most apathetic citizen gets when you challenge something they believe in (could be anything too - like drinking milk is murder, the iPhone isn't nearly as capable as another phone, or that you believe in a certain way in a political issue).
You are not prepared...
I guess its all about who you trust more - Apple or Google ;).
Why are so many Linux/Mac people so incredibly ignorant when it comes to Windows?
Really? I deployed Windows 7 to over 300 Dell Optiplex 520's with 2 gigs of ram - thats a 5-6 year old machine and it runs just fine. Even supports Aero with the integrated video display. On virtualization - you may have me there, but I doubt it. Typically I wouldn't recommend booting Windows 7 on a VM with less than 1 gig of ram at a bare minimum.
Wow - ever hear of waik (the windows imaging toolkit?) or volume licensing?
Like the built in Windows Backup? Last time I used it - it did actually allow me to restore an entire machine from an image it made and it worked. For enterprises there are tons of of options to backup Windows - like SCCM.
Really? I've only had to use it once, but I got it to run an old Windows 3.1 app just fine and the customer (staff at a community college) was happy with the results.
Uh... yeah there is > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/gpt_faq.mspx
Really? http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee52/skuldchan42/hwmonitor.png - screenshot from my old skulltrail machine - thats 8 PHYSICAL cpu's running Windows 7.
Again - not quite. You can use full disk encryption with regular user authentication. But seriously - the only machines that don't support TPM are pretty ancient - like Pre-Celeron 1 GHz cpu...
The only accurate statement in your entire post, but then - does OSX or Linux come with a virus scanner? And please don't say they don't need one because there aren't any OSX or Linux viruses/rootkits.
Should also add that SP1 added support for SATA drives bigger than 130 gigs (or something) and USB-2.0.
Yes the original XP doesn't support a good chunk of those USB 2 controllers installed in most modern machines.
A lot of the features that come out of the box with 7 you can bolt on with XP. Good example of one of these an enterprise would use is GPO preferences. XP doesn't support it, but can with a client installed.
Desktop search is another one - click the start button (or hit the windows key) start typing - XP doesn't have that, but you can get MSN/Google desktop search as an addon.
DWM/Aero - not really necessary but things like Aero-peek are pretty cool for productivity sometimes.
64 bit support - yes there is XP-64, but Vista/Windows 7 really cemented Windows x64 as a supported platform you can actually use at home or business. XP-64 suffered from massive compatibility and driver availability issues. If you have over 3 gigs of ram you really do need to run a 64 bit OS.
Windows 7 window management in general AKA Aero Snap - Windows key left right up and down on a window - moves it all over the desktop. Its very ... Mac like (Mac doesn't have this feature actually). XP doesn't have this and I'm not sure there is a way to hack it on. Another thing Aero snap does is automatically maximize windows or snap them into the left or right of the screen when you drag the window to the edge.
So a lot of this stuff is a case of deploy and test time for a business. You can build an image for XP that has a lot of the features Windows 7 does, but it will take more time to test since many are 3rd party.
Isn't it great that the iPhone gets all the features Android gets a year later? Its amazing how innovative Apple has become!
I'd agree it might be harder to test because of vendor specific modifications, but definately not to api version differences. The totally Android IDE lets you test on anything between 1.5 and 2.3 with ease. You could develop an Android app without even having a real Android phone and sell it.
Should mention I can set an option on Android "Enable Plug-ins > On Demand" so that Flash objects show up as little green down arrows. I tap on the green arrow and it loads the Flash plugin *only if I want to* - wow I get a choice what I what to run on my phone ;).
Most of the time I don't need Flash - once in a blue moon someone sends me a link to a blog with and embedded Flash video - you know what? My phone loads it just like desktop PC does if I want to.
When I moved from a Nexus One to a Motorola Droid X (one phone on AT&T and the Droid X on Verizon) the Google cloud automatically copied all my contacts, apps and settings (even stuff like which puzzles in Angry Birds I had completed!) to the new phone.
This is from an HTC phone on AT&T to a Motorola phone on Verizon - and neither phone ever even touched the PC via any app.
Try that on an iOS device ;).
From what I understand if a skype client cannot directly connect to another user and the client finds a path through another PC client - that client becomes a supernode. I would add without the owners knowledge as well, but then that is typically how P2P clients operate ;).
I suspect there is more benefit for having information on the crime itself (for statistical purposes) - especially minor crimes than actually locking people up.
In the US it wasn't a question of Spectrum vs. C64 really - as the Spectrum really wasn't even available here. It was more Apple vs. Atari vs. Timex etc.
C64 price was under $500 or under $600 - which as I recall was pretty incredible especially for what you got. The Apple 2 was more than twice that as I recall.
C64 to me though was the first machine I used that had real capability. Before that I had a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (ZX-80 I think) that was a computer, but with 1 kilobyte of ram and a 20k expander that was super sensitive to any shock (even think about bumping it - all your work was lost).
Not quite ;) http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/hello-world.html
Its a well known fact that North Korea is within artillery range of Seoul - they can hit one of their biggest population centers and centers of government with standard run of the mill conventional arms and turn that entire area into a sea of fire within minutes.
No your right its not nuclear weapons you need to worry about - its conventional arms - at least for that initial volley.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02200&num=5696
Is a good example of what I said above ;).
If you've studied the situation you'd know that North Korea and China have had a love/hate relationship for a long time - China is one of these last best friends in the region but for the last couple years there have been reports of angry meetings and requests from China for North Korea to behave.
Publically speaking - yes China supports North Korea to keep the hard liners happy, but it should be no surprise they secretly wish the Kim family would just go far far away.
Funny to hear a "conservative" suggest throwing cash at the problem. Also what is this "the company" that will cover you? If I don't have insurance the company I work for doesn't give a rip what happens to me.
Funny how reality still has a left wing bias.
Tell me this... please - which is a bigger story - the one behind Obama not being born in the US or the story that its possible to fool the most extensive background check team (the secret service - who I assume checks this stuff) in the world?
Both stories kinda defy reality and suggest a huge conspiracy - one bigger than the government could easily cover up.
Any version of Android is still a pretty tightly controlled eco-system - Google's marketplace only allows apps from people who have passed credit background checks. I can only think of one major piece of malware that made any news - Google destroyed it, and remotely uninstalled it from installed devices. Rooted phones are probably more of a risk than out of date phones honestly.
How do you check for rooted IOS devices or rooted Android devices? Those are far more a threat than an out of date Android device.
Part of threat management is understanding and accepting risk - in our organization - which is a pretty open environment - the security team has software and people who keep an eye on network traffic and machines connected to the network and terminates connections based on mac address (yes I know - easily spoofed, but we can shut down ports too if needed) when suspicious connections are made (its based on networks people are connecting to, protocols and level of traffic). While we've had trouble with rogue/infected PC's (including people who wanted to become part of LOIC) - I've never seen a phone cause any problems.
You assume that people, never mind actual businesses know how to back up their data better than microsoft or google. They don't... Can you honestly say that your data is safer locally than it is in google's data center? I've built data centers at co-locations in nuclear proof buildings and I would never make that statement - they've invested more in their infrastructure than any company or even government I've ever seen.
Besides its not like I cannot get my data to my local machine from google's cloud. They have api's I can use to interact with that data directly, or I can simply replicate it locally - nothing is stuck there - not even email.
On my Android phone its really brilliant - I'm on my 3rd device, none of these devices have ever been connected to a PC physically and they all have the exact same contact databases/urls and even apps - thanks to cloud computing.
There are plenty of people who have suggested this is how Al-Quaeda works - its talked about in depth in the documentary "The Power of Nightmares" (which anyone can watch for free on archive.org). There is a fanatical core, but the vast majority of actions carried out in their name were done so by individuals acting on their own behalf.