Well, I read about new Windows XP security vulnerabilities here on Slashdot earlier today and came home from work to find that XP had automatically downloaded four security updates/fixes that were awaiting a single left-click to install. I suppose the only way this can be made easier is if I went to \Control Panel\System\Automatic Updates and changed my settings to automatically apply the automatically downloaded updates, but I don't do this simply because I like to first bring up the list of updates to see what each fix is out of abject curiosity.
The Slashdot community will no doubt issue a chorus of blather about how horrible MS security is while hipocrytically complaining that Longhorn will automatically push updates to users. Pick an argument and stick with it.
I have flown many times in the last year. The only differences I have noticed are slightly longer lines at security (as far as I can tell, I have not been too mentally damaged by these) and a lack of plastic knives with my substandard airline food. Oh yes, and the cockpit door is closed. Big deal.
As for your other complaints... how exactly is it the fault of the US that loans are hard to obtain in Brazil or jobs in Nicaragua. Sure there are US banking interestes in Brazil and US employers in Nicaragua but why can't those contries support their own banking and employment? If anything the US is doing a favor by supplementing the local job market with additional employment. Sure those jobs don't make what similiar jobs in the US would make but isn't it better than nothing?
What challenge? I hope you aren't referring to putting a man sub-orbital, orbital, building a space station or going to the moon because I think they have all been done. Regardless, good luck to China, I hope they succeed.
Thanks for the reply,... I am surprised anyone read it considering I was modded down twice: once as offtopic (probably right) and once as troll (fscking anti-MS zealots!). I wasn't aware of a seperate windows icon. Thanks!
When was the Icon for MS stories changed from the Gates-borg to this four-colored tile thing? (is there a name for it). As funny as it was, I was wondering when it was gonna be changed... could this have anything to do with the recent poll on zealots?
You are of course assuming that MS applications account for half the computation cycles on a given machine. I would suggest that the average MS XP user spends about 90% of his/her time running MS appications. This would imply that MS applications are 9 times more crash-proof than applications not written by MS.
The MS crash reporting system includes both OS and program crashes. I could not even tell you if XP crashes to a "blue screen" because I have yet to crash Windows XP in over 1.5 years. I suspect that John Dvorak (or the poster)does not know the difference between a "blue-screen" crash and a program crash. I tend to think that the statistics mentioned reflect application crashes and not OS crashes. I typically reboot about once per week, usually due to an update or software install. However, I see the "crash report" about twice a day. For me, this has always been a result of a application crashing. Interestingly, killing a process via the task manager oftentimes also give a crash report prompt, which may be an overreport. Moreover, if the program is hanging badly, I may hit end process many times resulting in several crash report prompts. Is MS overcounting these crash reports (that may not even be crashes since I was just killing the process at the OS level instead of exiting "properly")?
I find it interesting that the Russian Space Agency objected to this because they thought he was showboating and it would be an unappropriate, yet seem to have no problem launching boy-band members into space if they have the coin.
Easy, its called a typo. My bust. Was going for 7.1 which was released about 6 months prior to XP. In hind sight, a better comparison would be with 7.2 as both were released within about a month of each other.
I don't have feelings either way for Dan Quayle, but since no one will stick up for him, I will at least point out an important fact that is usually left out when this story is told... that the word "potato" was incorrectly spelled on the question cards that he had been given by the school for the spelling bee. He had also been assured that they had been checked and were all correct. Granted, he still did not recognize that the word was mispelled but at least you are a little more informed.
Mod me down for -not- posting an anti-MS post but my main computer has been running Windows XP for almost a year and a half and it still has not crashed once. Sure, apps crash every once in a while, but they never bring down the OS (at least in my case). However, nearly every time I kill a process via the task manager, an error is reported back to MS. I wonder if these are counted and artificially raising the count?
Here is the link to a "Star Wars Kid" Parody site. I didn't want to post it till I watched the videos for fear of slashdoting depriving me of nearly wetting myself it was so funny.
I am a Navy S-3B NFO and there are many stories about EMI and its effects on aircraft systems. For my aircraft the most scarry I have heard involved the aircraft's control logic array (a large, non-solid-state avionics box that controls actuations of systems with constraints, e.g. the gear warning tone is generated when, throttles are up, gear is up and flaps are down). In this case, one of the radars on the carrier was somehow causing the wing-fold system to actuate as the aircraft taxied on the flight deck. Note: this would be particularly bad should it occur in flight...
At any rate, cell phones and other low-power electronic devices may not be as powerful as radars so the risk may be lower, but it is stillimpossible to test all the failure modes that could lead to a mishap. Why risk it?
I love open source as much as the next guy but I don't think there is a font point size big enough for your "IF". Personal computers will contiune to more and more be "internet machines", further driving the integration between the browser and the OS. As long as MS dominates the home market (which is by no means certain) IE will dominate the browser market.
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The Slashdot community will no doubt issue a chorus of blather about how horrible MS security is while hipocrytically complaining that Longhorn will automatically push updates to users. Pick an argument and stick with it.
Then they shouldn't have taken on the loans if they can't meet the terms.
As for your other complaints... how exactly is it the fault of the US that loans are hard to obtain in Brazil or jobs in Nicaragua. Sure there are US banking interestes in Brazil and US employers in Nicaragua but why can't those contries support their own banking and employment? If anything the US is doing a favor by supplementing the local job market with additional employment. Sure those jobs don't make what similiar jobs in the US would make but isn't it better than nothing?
What challenge? I hope you aren't referring to putting a man sub-orbital, orbital, building a space station or going to the moon because I think they have all been done. Regardless, good luck to China, I hope they succeed.
I found a great place where you can find nerd news like this! Here is an article on this very same lawsuit on a website called "Slashdot"
you mean "them Duke boys" right?
First they want to get around privacy laws, now they want to break Moore's law...these guys have no bounds!
Agreed, either a /. editor:
a.) doesn't know the difference
or
b.) is one of those IT guys who wants to lump himself with CS/CE.
From your link is sounds like Russia sent the first Indian into space. Which is a little different than India sending an astronaut into space.
Thanks for the reply,... I am surprised anyone read it considering I was modded down twice: once as offtopic (probably right) and once as troll (fscking anti-MS zealots!). I wasn't aware of a seperate windows icon. Thanks!
When was the Icon for MS stories changed from the Gates-borg to this four-colored tile thing? (is there a name for it). As funny as it was, I was wondering when it was gonna be changed... could this have anything to do with the recent poll on zealots?
Yes but how do we blame Microsoft?
You are of course assuming that MS applications account for half the computation cycles on a given machine. I would suggest that the average MS XP user spends about 90% of his/her time running MS appications. This would imply that MS applications are 9 times more crash-proof than applications not written by MS.
The MS crash reporting system includes both OS and program crashes. I could not even tell you if XP crashes to a "blue screen" because I have yet to crash Windows XP in over 1.5 years. I suspect that John Dvorak (or the poster)does not know the difference between a "blue-screen" crash and a program crash. I tend to think that the statistics mentioned reflect application crashes and not OS crashes. I typically reboot about once per week, usually due to an update or software install. However, I see the "crash report" about twice a day. For me, this has always been a result of a application crashing. Interestingly, killing a process via the task manager oftentimes also give a crash report prompt, which may be an overreport. Moreover, if the program is hanging badly, I may hit end process many times resulting in several crash report prompts. Is MS overcounting these crash reports (that may not even be crashes since I was just killing the process at the OS level instead of exiting "properly")?
I find it interesting that the Russian Space Agency objected to this because they thought he was showboating and it would be an unappropriate, yet seem to have no problem launching boy-band members into space if they have the coin.
Of course I did! (know a better way to find images fast?)
you mean this penguin?
....so how long before we start seeing Tux cameos in Disney toons?
Easy, its called a typo. My bust. Was going for 7.1 which was released about 6 months prior to XP. In hind sight, a better comparison would be with 7.2 as both were released within about a month of each other.
Are you seriously implying that the default install of Windows XP is less secure than say Redhat 6.1? I seriously doubt it.
I don't have feelings either way for Dan Quayle, but since no one will stick up for him, I will at least point out an important fact that is usually left out when this story is told... that the word "potato" was incorrectly spelled on the question cards that he had been given by the school for the spelling bee. He had also been assured that they had been checked and were all correct. Granted, he still did not recognize that the word was mispelled but at least you are a little more informed.
Mod me down for -not- posting an anti-MS post but my main computer has been running Windows XP for almost a year and a half and it still has not crashed once. Sure, apps crash every once in a while, but they never bring down the OS (at least in my case). However, nearly every time I kill a process via the task manager, an error is reported back to MS. I wonder if these are counted and artificially raising the count?
Here is the link to a "Star Wars Kid" Parody site. I didn't want to post it till I watched the videos for fear of slashdoting depriving me of nearly wetting myself it was so funny.
At any rate, cell phones and other low-power electronic devices may not be as powerful as radars so the risk may be lower, but it is stillimpossible to test all the failure modes that could lead to a mishap. Why risk it?
I love open source as much as the next guy but I don't think there is a font point size big enough for your "IF". Personal computers will contiune to more and more be "internet machines", further driving the integration between the browser and the OS. As long as MS dominates the home market (which is by no means certain) IE will dominate the browser market.