I am not a Mac OS X user so I don't know how bad people get crippled by funky default settings but I do know that big Microsoft bugs crippled the entire network infastructure in the United States and abroad due to worms that exploited deep problems in the Windows Operating System. These worms took down Fortune 500 Companies, Government computers, and thousands of small businesses.
If you read the first article you would agree that there are no mentions of the underlying UNIX architecture that has withstood 30 years of limited security breaches and the Windows platform that is 10 years old and has a mrket niche of software engineers working on blocking viruses that any 15 year old kid can make and practically deisable a Windows machine. I can't say the same for Mac OS X. It seems appropriate to me that the author of the rebuttal put the author of the first article in his place and mention that he does not have much knowledge of the bigger issues that make Macs superior
It is odd that a writer would make comparisons between OS X and Windows. I seem to remember the worlds computer systems grinding to a halt a few months ago due to Windows only worms, including Fortune 500 Companies, Government networks, and thousands of small businesses. In total I bet these worms cost the United States alone $10 billion in lost productivity and computer repair costs. Now I seem to forget the last time Macintosh had any sever problems that affected anyone seriously. I know this is flamebait for you Windows fans that disregard the Windows worms like it was all a haulocause type conspiracy to make light of your beloved Windows. To all those conspiracy theorists out there, I love you man.
The threading model will far surpass the threading model that Linux uses. Solaris uses a hybrid user/kernel level multithreading that allows user level threads to receive kernel interrupt messages to interact with a user level thread scheduler. In Linux kernel level threads a blocked thread will block for its CPU time and give up when its time is done. In Solaris, if a thread blocks on I/O or something of that nature, it can give up its time to the next thread for the app currently running. This sounds like whatever and of course with all the smart programmers this should be easy to accomplish, but it is not in Linux yet and it will take a lot of years to fully reprogram the threading system for Linux to allow for Solaris's method or a better method if one comes along
I think that the space shuttle would be aptly suited for the mission to the space station before moving to the moon on a seperate craft. I mean the space shuttle is well suited for going to the space station and the move from orbit to the moon cannot be as reliant on power outside of the earth's atmosphere as Saturn V encountered in the 60's. You also have the tremendous payload of the shuttle to move fuel and building materials to the space station. Sounds great to me.
There is a simple reason for the lack of investment in trains in the US. THE US AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. The automibile industry spends millions of dollars lobbying politicians not to build or subsidize the train system any more than they have to. Between this and marketing the great features of cars and the freedom that cars can provide, there is not the public interest necessary to make politicians invest in passenger rail travel. They have been talking about railways in Southern California for years, including one from LA to Las Vegas that would take 1 hour (a bullet train) and one from Orange County to Los Angeles that would take 30 minutes that would help the immense polution and insane traffic that polutes the lifestyle of the residents here. I don't see the downside to creating better public transportation in a place that is a nightmare because of cars. Do you?
For Half as much storage as the article is listing, Dell has a NAS that is bulletproof. These Dell NAS systems are much better because they are RAID 5 and will not break down. And the price is $1200 less. Of course you do not get the same amount of space, but it is rare to see a company use a terabyte every 3 months or 6 months as the article states. I think this is a great option for most companies.
The second that any person in there right mind goes out and looks for Rush Limbaugh MP3s or Dr. Laura on MP3 so they can listen to the words of a radio personailty is a sad day. That is the same day that we see pigs fly and communism in America.
I have a degree in Computer Science and that makes me the computer repair man for everyone I know. The biggest problem is unsolicited adware programs.
Gator - Slows the computer and uses insane amounts of hard disk space downloading ads.
Weatherbug - SLows the computer down and is difficult to install.
Bonzai Buddy - Similar to Gator.
New.Net - Does nothing useful but slows the internet connection to unusable levels of slowness.
These programs are almost always installed by kids using the family computer. Kazaa is the biggest problem because it automatically installs adware. I can't count the number of houses I have gone to where the computer is unusable. I remove the programs I have listed and the computer is usable again. Sometimes the kids have tried uninstalling the programs incorrectly and I have to reinstall windows, all 'cause the kids wanted to check out porn on kazaa. Little bastards.
Science channel huh? Do you remeber how fun it was in Physiccs class or Biology class in college. It was great for me because it wasn't writing term papers the size of novelas but there was certainly moments in my classes when I wanted to shoot the professor or myself because the details are so mundane in real science.
Beyond the type of stuff on the Discovery channel, which is really Science/History rolled into one and is pretty interesting to watch when you have nothing better to do. What more in detail do we want?
That said, I think as a society we are way behind the rest of the world in respects to math and science as a whole (Some of the greatest social acheivements in science and engineering have come from the US). Look at the crazy math geeks out of the Eastern Europe and pit them against a math geek and they will be quoting the proof to Fermat's Last Theorem while our geek is talking about Magic the Gathering Cards. Maybe if we focused television away from sitcoms and over to intelligent programming we may see things change. I know if I could watch my college lectures at home with some cheesy poofs, a beer, in my underwear while my girlfriend is giving me a hummer I would be more apt to go to class and pay attention. I could do that with a real science channel.
They fired me. I got drunk on the job and put one to many pointer dereferences in my code. I gotta start working in a safer environment away from the booze.
The tree that everyone has that links Linux and Minix is a hot topic. There is an argument for the connection and against the connection on the UNIX distribution tree.
For the connection: Linus did not like Minix, which is the Unix he was using when he wrote Linux with his friends. Linus no doubt studied Minix when he was in college and Minix is one of the few Unix (not true Unix) variations that is taught with published code (as of 1991). Minix was no doubt the inspiration for Linux 1.0.
Against the Connection: Due to the licensing restrictions of Minix (you cannot redistribute any derived work) Linus had to do a clean room implementation with no Minix derived code. Linux is a Monolithic Kernel and Minix is a Micro Kernel. This was no doubt done do to ease of code writing, but Linus and the Minix guy have volumes of arguments about what is better. This split is the key reason that Linux is not derived or a child on the tree of Unix from Minix.
If you have some to add or correct, feel free. It has been 5 years since I was in OS classes and I knew every detail about the arguments between Linus and the Minix guy.
Easy, Sun would support Linux because they have a license with SCO that makes them able to distribute Unix products. I think that if SCO were successful in their efforts to squeeze money out of Redhat customers, they would not hurt Sun customers. This takes a lot of liability away from an organization that runs Sun Linux (assuming that SCO has a chance in hell)
Card counting is perfectly legal. Kicking a blackjack player out for any reason is perfectly legal.
Card counting is legal and you can walk into any casino and count cards. You cannot be arrested if you walk into a casino and tell them that you are a card counter and made millions from their casino. Card counting is a skill and that is it.
Casinos would not make money if they let card counters play blackjack because counters are the only gamblers that are not cheating and can make money no matter what you do to the cards (except a continuous shuffler is used). Casinos have every right to kick you out, never let you back and let all of their friends know who you are.
This is happening to the machines at my office, where I have been in charge of IT:
1. Excel crashes upon opening any file 2. IE cannot open a new window 3. Cut/Copy/Paste don't work 4. Windows Update is disabled 5. Act is unusable 6. Norton Antivirus dosn't install
Please resond if you find any cure other than complete format / reinstall.
I agree that the 68k was a better processor and at the time my Mac was a dream to use in lieu of the damned 80286. I did some programming on the PowerPC 601 and the systems that ran the 601 were so slow that I nearly threw them out of the computer lab every day. We ran Codewarrior on some 601 PowerPCs and it took minutes to compile a simple program that just showed a single dialog panel. The reason the PEntium beat the PowerPC had nothing to do with the PowerPC and everything to do with Windows 95 being lightyears ahead of MacOs 6.x/7.x being unusable or mind numbingly slow to work with.
I use Symantec Act for the office. Though it does not have a mail server, it allows you to do all of the group stuff with Calendars and the like. I couldn't install Exchange on my server as it kept breaking during installation and I was not about to shell out thousands for Exchange. Exchange is just not that important to me. Group contacts and calendars are essential, it is great without the MS tax. I would work on a free exchange port that ran on Linux, but how long are we going to wait until it actually comes to fruition and we have a usable system. 2 years is my estimate.
JBuilder is the bomb and it is FREE. The problem I have with Visual Studio is the code it generates is ugly as hell. Try going through GUI applications in VS and read the auto generated code and figure out what it does. You get variables like TR_09q34098_984 and functions that are a pain in the ass to cross reference. JBuilder makes clean code and it is so much easier to read Java code that sift through C++ object definitions and polymmorphism relationships with multiple inheiritance many levels deep. Java is easier to understand, especially for non-Senior developers.
I recently learned that filling my lungs with air is refreshing and good for relaxation. I should patent this idea of breathing so I can make truck loads of cash off of all the people that breath air.
Microsoft uses the followinf tactics to rule the searching world.
1. Businesses can pay a premium to be ranked higher. 2. Preference is given to MS friendly/exclusive web pages. 3. Passport required searches for Adult Material or Copyright Enfringing materials including DIVx, MP3s and pirated software. 4. Microsoft gives $10 for every MSN search for an entire hour or even day. 5. Total Microsoft World Domination.
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I am not a Mac OS X user so I don't know how bad people get crippled by funky default settings but I do know that big Microsoft bugs crippled the entire network infastructure in the United States and abroad due to worms that exploited deep problems in the Windows Operating System. These worms took down Fortune 500 Companies, Government computers, and thousands of small businesses.
If you read the first article you would agree that there are no mentions of the underlying UNIX architecture that has withstood 30 years of limited security breaches and the Windows platform that is 10 years old and has a mrket niche of software engineers working on blocking viruses that any 15 year old kid can make and practically deisable a Windows machine. I can't say the same for Mac OS X. It seems appropriate to me that the author of the rebuttal put the author of the first article in his place and mention that he does not have much knowledge of the bigger issues that make Macs superior
It is odd that a writer would make comparisons between OS X and Windows. I seem to remember the worlds computer systems grinding to a halt a few months ago due to Windows only worms, including Fortune 500 Companies, Government networks, and thousands of small businesses. In total I bet these worms cost the United States alone $10 billion in lost productivity and computer repair costs. Now I seem to forget the last time Macintosh had any sever problems that affected anyone seriously. I know this is flamebait for you Windows fans that disregard the Windows worms like it was all a haulocause type conspiracy to make light of your beloved Windows. To all those conspiracy theorists out there, I love you man.
The threading model will far surpass the threading model that Linux uses. Solaris uses a hybrid user/kernel level multithreading that allows user level threads to receive kernel interrupt messages to interact with a user level thread scheduler. In Linux kernel level threads a blocked thread will block for its CPU time and give up when its time is done. In Solaris, if a thread blocks on I/O or something of that nature, it can give up its time to the next thread for the app currently running. This sounds like whatever and of course with all the smart programmers this should be easy to accomplish, but it is not in Linux yet and it will take a lot of years to fully reprogram the threading system for Linux to allow for Solaris's method or a better method if one comes along
I think that the space shuttle would be aptly suited for the mission to the space station before moving to the moon on a seperate craft. I mean the space shuttle is well suited for going to the space station and the move from orbit to the moon cannot be as reliant on power outside of the earth's atmosphere as Saturn V encountered in the 60's. You also have the tremendous payload of the shuttle to move fuel and building materials to the space station. Sounds great to me.
There is a simple reason for the lack of investment in trains in the US. THE US AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. The automibile industry spends millions of dollars lobbying politicians not to build or subsidize the train system any more than they have to. Between this and marketing the great features of cars and the freedom that cars can provide, there is not the public interest necessary to make politicians invest in passenger rail travel. They have been talking about railways in Southern California for years, including one from LA to Las Vegas that would take 1 hour (a bullet train) and one from Orange County to Los Angeles that would take 30 minutes that would help the immense polution and insane traffic that polutes the lifestyle of the residents here. I don't see the downside to creating better public transportation in a place that is a nightmare because of cars. Do you?
For Half as much storage as the article is listing, Dell has a NAS that is bulletproof. These Dell NAS systems are much better because they are RAID 5 and will not break down. And the price is $1200 less. Of course you do not get the same amount of space, but it is rare to see a company use a terabyte every 3 months or 6 months as the article states. I think this is a great option for most companies.
SYSTEM SPECIFICATION
PowerVault 725N (System Identifier EEBHWT0W)
Dell PowerVault 725N: 2.0GHz Pentium 4 Processor, 1U
System Price $2,508.00
Dell recommends Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional
Memory: 1 GB DDR SDRAM
Hard Disk Drive: 120 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
120 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
120 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
120 GB EIDE Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Misc: Bracket
Documentation
C1, Cable
Shipping Material
Documentation
I think you missed the point.
The second that any person in there right mind goes out and looks for Rush Limbaugh MP3s or Dr. Laura on MP3 so they can listen to the words of a radio personailty is a sad day. That is the same day that we see pigs fly and communism in America.
I have a degree in Computer Science and that makes me the computer repair man for everyone I know. The biggest problem is unsolicited adware programs.
Gator - Slows the computer and uses insane amounts of hard disk space downloading ads.
Weatherbug - SLows the computer down and is difficult to install.
Bonzai Buddy - Similar to Gator.
New.Net - Does nothing useful but slows the internet connection to unusable levels of slowness.
These programs are almost always installed by kids using the family computer. Kazaa is the biggest problem because it automatically installs adware. I can't count the number of houses I have gone to where the computer is unusable. I remove the programs I have listed and the computer is usable again. Sometimes the kids have tried uninstalling the programs incorrectly and I have to reinstall windows, all 'cause the kids wanted to check out porn on kazaa. Little bastards.
Perhaps you are retarded? Did you ride the small bus as a child?
Science channel huh? Do you remeber how fun it was in Physiccs class or Biology class in college. It was great for me because it wasn't writing term papers the size of novelas but there was certainly moments in my classes when I wanted to shoot the professor or myself because the details are so mundane in real science.
Beyond the type of stuff on the Discovery channel, which is really Science/History rolled into one and is pretty interesting to watch when you have nothing better to do. What more in detail do we want?
That said, I think as a society we are way behind the rest of the world in respects to math and science as a whole (Some of the greatest social acheivements in science and engineering have come from the US). Look at the crazy math geeks out of the Eastern Europe and pit them against a math geek and they will be quoting the proof to Fermat's Last Theorem while our geek is talking about Magic the Gathering Cards. Maybe if we focused television away from sitcoms and over to intelligent programming we may see things change. I know if I could watch my college lectures at home with some cheesy poofs, a beer, in my underwear while my girlfriend is giving me a hummer I would be more apt to go to class and pay attention. I could do that with a real science channel.
Sounds like all the booze in the state goes through the developers first. Then the clients get the rest.
They fired me. I got drunk on the job and put one to many pointer dereferences in my code. I gotta start working in a safer environment away from the booze.
The tree that everyone has that links Linux and Minix is a hot topic. There is an argument for the connection and against the connection on the UNIX distribution tree.
For the connection:
Linus did not like Minix, which is the Unix he was using when he wrote Linux with his friends. Linus no doubt studied Minix when he was in college and Minix is one of the few Unix (not true Unix) variations that is taught with published code (as of 1991). Minix was no doubt the inspiration for Linux 1.0.
Against the Connection:
Due to the licensing restrictions of Minix (you cannot redistribute any derived work) Linus had to do a clean room implementation with no Minix derived code. Linux is a Monolithic Kernel and Minix is a Micro Kernel. This was no doubt done do to ease of code writing, but Linus and the Minix guy have volumes of arguments about what is better. This split is the key reason that Linux is not derived or a child on the tree of Unix from Minix.
If you have some to add or correct, feel free. It has been 5 years since I was in OS classes and I knew every detail about the arguments between Linus and the Minix guy.
Easy, Sun would support Linux because they have a license with SCO that makes them able to distribute Unix products. I think that if SCO were successful in their efforts to squeeze money out of Redhat customers, they would not hurt Sun customers. This takes a lot of liability away from an organization that runs Sun Linux (assuming that SCO has a chance in hell)
Card counting is perfectly legal.
Kicking a blackjack player out for any reason is perfectly legal.
Card counting is legal and you can walk into any casino and count cards. You cannot be arrested if you walk into a casino and tell them that you are a card counter and made millions from their casino. Card counting is a skill and that is it.
Casinos would not make money if they let card counters play blackjack because counters are the only gamblers that are not cheating and can make money no matter what you do to the cards (except a continuous shuffler is used). Casinos have every right to kick you out, never let you back and let all of their friends know who you are.
This is happening to the machines at my office, where I have been in charge of IT:
1. Excel crashes upon opening any file
2. IE cannot open a new window
3. Cut/Copy/Paste don't work
4. Windows Update is disabled
5. Act is unusable
6. Norton Antivirus dosn't install
Please resond if you find any cure other than complete format / reinstall.
Yeah, I got first post, yeah
I agree that the 68k was a better processor and at the time my Mac was a dream to use in lieu of the damned 80286. I did some programming on the PowerPC 601 and the systems that ran the 601 were so slow that I nearly threw them out of the computer lab every day. We ran Codewarrior on some 601 PowerPCs and it took minutes to compile a simple program that just showed a single dialog panel. The reason the PEntium beat the PowerPC had nothing to do with the PowerPC and everything to do with Windows 95 being lightyears ahead of MacOs 6.x/7.x being unusable or mind numbingly slow to work with.
I use Symantec Act for the office. Though it does not have a mail server, it allows you to do all of the group stuff with Calendars and the like. I couldn't install Exchange on my server as it kept breaking during installation and I was not about to shell out thousands for Exchange. Exchange is just not that important to me. Group contacts and calendars are essential, it is great without the MS tax. I would work on a free exchange port that ran on Linux, but how long are we going to wait until it actually comes to fruition and we have a usable system. 2 years is my estimate.
JBuilder is the bomb and it is FREE. The problem I have with Visual Studio is the code it generates is ugly as hell. Try going through GUI applications in VS and read the auto generated code and figure out what it does. You get variables like TR_09q34098_984 and functions that are a pain in the ass to cross reference. JBuilder makes clean code and it is so much easier to read Java code that sift through C++ object definitions and polymmorphism relationships with multiple inheiritance many levels deep. Java is easier to understand, especially for non-Senior developers.
I have new patent.
I recently learned that filling my lungs with air is refreshing and good for relaxation. I should patent this idea of breathing so I can make truck loads of cash off of all the people that breath air.
Microsoft uses the followinf tactics to rule the searching world.
1. Businesses can pay a premium to be ranked higher.
2. Preference is given to MS friendly/exclusive web pages.
3. Passport required searches for Adult Material or Copyright Enfringing materials including DIVx, MP3s and pirated software.
4. Microsoft gives $10 for every MSN search for an entire hour or even day.
5. Total Microsoft World Domination.
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This is not a mirror image of an American car. You can see the 7 in the tachometer is not reflected. Must be one crazy European bastart.