Ahhh, it's just as well to put off the inevitable for a few more years. I'm already at the point where I have trouble reading the darned things while driving.
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
- Lily Tomlin
Once the shuttle program is shut down, the distinction will blur between those with the right stuff and all the wannabe's who joined the program but never really had any hope of being selected for space missions.
It'll be far easier for the latter to call themselves "astronauts" if there's no longer any danger of anyone actually being sent into space.
Strongly agree! Who better than Microsoft to understand how to secure a Windows computer with minimumal impact?
I've been using MS Security Essentials for almost a year now on every Windows machine I support (it was avaiable as Beta and then Release Candidate since Spring 2009) and I am quite ahppy with it. I use it in combination with the updated Windows Firewall, and find it to be an effective, low-impact replacement for my previous Zone Alarm + Avast!: it uses about 20% of the memory and maybe 5% of the CPU as did those two. I can barely tell an antivirus is installed, by comparison.
The one time I witnessed it caught something --some kind of drive-by that my teenaged son encountered-- it was so effective, no one really knew anything happened. My son complained to me about not being able to follow some link so I tried the same thing on a second machine running ZA + Avast. The reason he couldn't follow the link is that the destination site was trying to install malware and MSSE had completely blocked it.
The second machine (ZA + Avast) basically froze solid for five or more minutes as the security software combination dealt with whatever it was. Eventually, Avast popped up a question about whether to remove/quarantine the thing, but by this point the MSSE machine had merrily moved on and was long past the incident.
You can't possibly be serious. You can rent one for a day at a time if you can find an available one. But, the best I've ever heard of is a 1-week timeshare, but you'll never get the week you want.
So you can see that as the actual retail cost approaches zero, the positive effects of capitalism approach infinity! Unfortunately when the actual cost is zero, it's undefined and your interpretation may vary.
The actual cost is never REALLY zero, even when the software is open source and apparently free to obtain without purchase.
There will always be some form of cost, whether or not its monetary, say, in terms of missing or different features or different ways to accomplish similar functions and the learning curve associated with those (I'm thinking MS Office vs. OpenOffice more than Windows vs. Linux). Or the extra time necessary to resave document in MS Office-compatible formats before sending them. etc.
Who said anything about producing a 128bit OS? The article referred to "Microsoft Research employee Robert Morgan"; just because someone in research is working on it, doesn't mean it's anywhere near production.
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Be honest now, would you really want to read a cogently argued article that garnered nothing but "Yup" and "Seems right" responses?
Seems right
Ahhh, it's just as well to put off the inevitable for a few more years. I'm already at the point where I have trouble reading the darned things while driving.
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin
Go to London and look in almost any museum. They took anything they wanted, for any reason.
Of course not, they all carry Blackberries.
Once the shuttle program is shut down, the distinction will blur between those with the right stuff and all the wannabe's who joined the program but never really had any hope of being selected for space missions.
It'll be far easier for the latter to call themselves "astronauts" if there's no longer any danger of anyone actually being sent into space.
I vote for this one as the story "Most Likely To Evince Inappropriate Comments".
At least for today.
Even better than fdisk: Microsoft Virtual PC.
Create a VM and stash away clones of the files it creates.
Browse the web in the VM with no protection. If it ever gets hosed by malware, just overwrite the VM files with the clones you made, and start over.
What could be simpler? Of course, it's not for my 73 year old mom...
I've been using MS Security Essentials for almost a year now on every Windows machine I support (it was avaiable as Beta and then Release Candidate since Spring 2009) and I am quite ahppy with it. I use it in combination with the updated Windows Firewall, and find it to be an effective, low-impact replacement for my previous Zone Alarm + Avast!: it uses about 20% of the memory and maybe 5% of the CPU as did those two. I can barely tell an antivirus is installed, by comparison.
The one time I witnessed it caught something --some kind of drive-by that my teenaged son encountered-- it was so effective, no one really knew anything happened. My son complained to me about not being able to follow some link so I tried the same thing on a second machine running ZA + Avast. The reason he couldn't follow the link is that the destination site was trying to install malware and MSSE had completely blocked it.
The second machine (ZA + Avast) basically froze solid for five or more minutes as the security software combination dealt with whatever it was. Eventually, Avast popped up a question about whether to remove/quarantine the thing, but by this point the MSSE machine had merrily moved on and was long past the incident.
Make sure you turn it upside down first.
No "bada", as in "Bada Bing": It's in honor of the HBO Show: SopranOS
Presumes those that have a mobile twitter solution would respond to it during a riot, too.
Did they really expect a mob to respond to a tweet during a riot?
Not one of the other 246 comments (at this moment) has made reference to the movie, "Eagle Eye"?
What kind of techno-dweebs are we in here, anyway?
Are we not men? We are Devo!
You can't possibly be serious. You can rent one for a day at a time if you can find an available one. But, the best I've ever heard of is a 1-week timeshare, but you'll never get the week you want.
Just what NYC needs: Smarter Rats
The actual cost is never REALLY zero, even when the software is open source and apparently free to obtain without purchase.
There will always be some form of cost, whether or not its monetary, say, in terms of missing or different features or different ways to accomplish similar functions and the learning curve associated with those (I'm thinking MS Office vs. OpenOffice more than Windows vs. Linux). Or the extra time necessary to resave document in MS Office-compatible formats before sending them. etc.
So apparently it was nothing like the South Park episode where South Park lost its internet.
wlong long
Who said anything about producing a 128bit OS? The article referred to " Microsoft Research employee Robert Morgan"; just because someone in research is working on it, doesn't mean it's anywhere near production.
Good question. I don't reboot much anymore, but during college? Whew! That was a whole 'nother story.
Now, I figure I probably go an entire month or more straight without rebooting.
Which is way more than I can say for any of our computers.
Given the trace amounts of water still left, whoever colonized the moon is long gone by now. And so are the space Buffalo.
Not Iran.
Parker, you scoundrel!
Hmmm. Try $10-15, tops.
Perhaps he hasn't washed his hair in, like, ever.