*best*.. well, that depends on what you're measuring. It's going to give you a smaller file size. A PNG will still more accurately recreate the original. You can convert a BMP into a PNG back and fourth a million times and you won't loose quality unless there is some form of error. Except for the lossless version of the JPEG2000 standard, you loose information every time you compress a JPEG. compressing back and fourth between jpeg and bmp quickly makes something that is unusuable. If space isn't an issue, you would want a lossless format. I would think you generally wouldn't want to convert it into a lossy format until the very last step- distribution, wherein effeciency of communication is more important than perfection of information.
Actually, it's good, in the darwinian sense. nondestructive viruses aren't instructive.. People won't change their behaviors if the virus does nothing more than slow them down.
Where do they mount the blast cannon, in the hump? I bet the poison needle is the only reason they bothered giving it the head. Needs a Cylon roving lead display on the head, too. It also looks like the legs are too stubby to properly leap and grab people's face with the metal blades that you would just have to add to the leg units. And, somewhere or another, there should be at LEAST one taser. All in all, needs work, but sign me up once you add the accessory package. Although, if you add th lethal enhancements, please for the love of the gods don't let it be running a Microsoft OS.
that would be fun. I like this quote from their founder..
"What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose and stick it in his mouth." - McDonald's founder Ray Kroc (Fortune 8/96)
maybe rejections should work the way they always did, but acceptance should require a second examiner.. it would cost more, but but even MS should back it. It's got, what, a thousand patent cases going against it?
Well, human mistakes on the incoming data filter down to noise, with enough emails, a few mistakes in the data going in won't matter much. Since the initial data for both of these programs comes from the user, and not the programmer, individual differences on what spam is wouldn't matter. Sure, it classifies what you would classify as spam. It just never hits the wrong button. It solidly follows your rules. Perhaps you only consider e-mails from your cousin berney spam. If that's all that annoys you, and that's all it filters because of what you taught spam was, individual definition of spam is meaningless. It would filter out what you think spam is, unless you make a random and arbitrary descision on each email you get "This is spam, and this is not." But if you are doing that anyway, you could use rand() for a spamfilter.
obviously, because humans can recheck the ones that they thought were spam but the computer thought wasn't, or visa versa. Humans aren't 100% accurate in a single pass. but won't generally get the same thing wrong, pass after pass.
of course, if you accepted the license, even if they told you what their IP was, you wouldn't be allowed to remove it.
Since you would be in violation of the GPL at the point you accept this license, you couldn't distribute or potentially use Linux.
Also, it basically says "If we're lying to you, or for some other reason don't own the IP in question, you still don't get your money back."
It's like saying you aren't allowed to use your car, because your distributor cap violates our IP. If you take this license, you'll be allowed to use the distributor cap, but then, you'd loose the ability to use the rest of the car.
a friend of mine had to reinstall windows XP and one of the RPC viruses actually got his computer faster than he could download the update.. mostly because his broadband was fscked because of other people who had the virus and didn't know they were supposed to update. I've dealt with quite a few people who don't trust automatic updates because after the update some of their apps that never had problems start crashing.. There are at least two months old bad unpatched windows flaws, what's MS waiting for, some hacker to release a new tool to exploit it?
or GenToo.. emerge sync && emerge -U world you don't usually have to hit enter more than the once, although I usually go more like emerge sync emerge -U -p -v world emerge -U world just because I like to see what it's doing. though you might have to edit your config files.
We're not arguing there weren't a sizeable number of breakins on linux, only that this study falls into the area of "Lies, damn lies, and stastics."
It relied on people reporting intrusions, and on attacks that required actual human intervention. That RPC flaw could have easly done something evil, like after 12 hours, format. If the current group of virus writers weren't out to either send spam or engage in a large johnson contest, the next discovered windows exploit could basically kill anyone's machine who doesn't have a backup. Perhaps they shouldn't have been grouped with the hacker break ins, but they should be in the report.
The answer to this problem, with any OS is in the admin. Closing and firewalling unneeded ports, and using strong passwords goes a long way towards protecting one's systems.
I'm sure there are those who would argue, but I've installed Debian several times, and it's not a good choice for beginners. Better first Linux OS would be Mandrake or Suse. I haven't worked with Suse in a few years but Mandrake has a nice graphical utility that shows you what daemons are running. It's easy to get things wrong with you start with pretty much nothing. Personally I use gentoo.. also not for beginners. If a service is on, it's because I wanted it on, though
Bah, I don't believe in giving either OS a connection to the internet without a firewall that protects ports I don't intend to be opened, and anyone who uses 12345 or an english word as their password is just asking to be hacked. Windows wasn't really designed with connecting to the internet in mind. Throw an unfirewalled fresh install XP box on the internet with a broadband connection and you'll have a worm faster than you can download the security patch from microsoft. Remotely accessable services on by default are not your friend. When windows has it's firewall turned on by default we'll talk again.
In closing, you can have a secure windows box, it takes some work, but you can do it. You generally have to try a bit harder to get linux security wrong. I think the biggest advantage we have over Windows users though, is that No flavor of outlook or Internet Explorer will run under linux, at least, not without a lot of work. That alone makes desktop linux more secure than desktop winodws (everyone gets root, wee!)
Just because something doesn't seem slow or bloated, doesn't mean that it can't be done faster or lighter. In the case of X, faster & lighter you could be assured of. It is grounded in assumptions that are no longer the case. Just because a B&W TV with monocromatic sound was good enough for grandpa during the war, doesn't mean I should be happy with that level of technology, and that is true in code as well. I want my screen to be controled by software that can make my video card sit up and beg. Extention on top of extention on top of extention will never do that. I believe in learning from the past, not living with it's mistakes. Can run on top of windows, it won't be a problem to get it to run on Y, but for the most part it won't be needed. Once GTK and QT are ported, almost everything written these days lives on top of one or the other of those two, anyway.
If you're happy with how things are, you should be orgasmic over how things COULD be. will be, like it or not, X's not going to be running your screen 10 years from now.
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*best* .. well, that depends on what you're measuring. It's going to give you a smaller file size. A PNG will still more accurately recreate the original. You can convert a BMP into a PNG back and fourth a million times and you won't loose quality unless there is some form of error. Except for the lossless version of the JPEG2000 standard, you loose information every time you compress a JPEG. compressing back and fourth between jpeg and bmp quickly makes something that is unusuable. If space isn't an issue, you would want a lossless format. I would think you generally wouldn't want to convert it into a lossy format until the very last step- distribution, wherein effeciency of communication is more important than perfection of information.
Actually, it's good, in the darwinian sense. nondestructive viruses aren't instructive.. People won't change their behaviors if the virus does nothing more than slow them down.
I remember it as well, but I forgot the title.. remembering runaway though, maybe the thing should have six legs.
what exactly does that have to do with the dragon-robot thing?
Where do they mount the blast cannon, in the hump? I bet the poison needle is the only reason they bothered giving it the head. Needs a Cylon roving lead display on the head, too. It also looks like the legs are too stubby to properly leap and grab people's face with the metal blades that you would just have to add to the leg units. And, somewhere or another, there should be at LEAST one taser. All in all, needs work, but sign me up once you add the accessory package. Although, if you add th lethal enhancements, please for the love of the gods don't let it be running a Microsoft OS.
What's really said is that it's such an often quoted comparison. OJ gets mentioned about once a SCOX related slashdotting.
that would be fun. I like this quote from their founder.. "What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose and stick it in his mouth." - McDonald's founder Ray Kroc (Fortune 8/96)
maybe rejections should work the way they always did, but acceptance should require a second examiner.. it would cost more, but but even MS should back it. It's got, what, a thousand patent cases going against it?
Heck, Microsoft plays by more than one set of rules in a single market.
most artists would get paid more if you sent them a buck-fifty through pay pal than if you bought their $20 CD.
Well, human mistakes on the incoming data filter down to noise, with enough emails, a few mistakes in the data going in won't matter much. Since the initial data for both of these programs comes from the user, and not the programmer, individual differences on what spam is wouldn't matter. Sure, it classifies what you would classify as spam. It just never hits the wrong button. It solidly follows your rules. Perhaps you only consider e-mails from your cousin berney spam. If that's all that annoys you, and that's all it filters because of what you taught spam was, individual definition of spam is meaningless. It would filter out what you think spam is, unless you make a random and arbitrary descision on each email you get "This is spam, and this is not." But if you are doing that anyway, you could use rand() for a spamfilter.
obviously, because humans can recheck the ones that they thought were spam but the computer thought wasn't, or visa versa. Humans aren't 100% accurate in a single pass. but won't generally get the same thing wrong, pass after pass.
of course, if you accepted the license, even if they told you what their IP was, you wouldn't be allowed to remove it. Since you would be in violation of the GPL at the point you accept this license, you couldn't distribute or potentially use Linux. Also, it basically says "If we're lying to you, or for some other reason don't own the IP in question, you still don't get your money back." It's like saying you aren't allowed to use your car, because your distributor cap violates our IP. If you take this license, you'll be allowed to use the distributor cap, but then, you'd loose the ability to use the rest of the car.
You think you'd get off with mearly enternity?
don't give them money to prolong this, they'll go broke long before Rico comes into effect, so you wouldn't even get your money back.
for completeness I now accuse you of being a Mac Head. Thank you, good night.
a friend of mine had to reinstall windows XP and one of the RPC viruses actually got his computer faster than he could download the update.. mostly because his broadband was fscked because of other people who had the virus and didn't know they were supposed to update. I've dealt with quite a few people who don't trust automatic updates because after the update some of their apps that never had problems start crashing.. There are at least two months old bad unpatched windows flaws, what's MS waiting for, some hacker to release a new tool to exploit it?
or GenToo..
emerge sync && emerge -U world
you don't usually have to hit enter more than the once, although I usually go more like
emerge sync
emerge -U -p -v world
emerge -U world
just because I like to see what it's doing. though you might have to edit your config files.
We're not arguing there weren't a sizeable number of breakins on linux, only that this study falls into the area of "Lies, damn lies, and stastics." It relied on people reporting intrusions, and on attacks that required actual human intervention. That RPC flaw could have easly done something evil, like after 12 hours, format. If the current group of virus writers weren't out to either send spam or engage in a large johnson contest, the next discovered windows exploit could basically kill anyone's machine who doesn't have a backup. Perhaps they shouldn't have been grouped with the hacker break ins, but they should be in the report. The answer to this problem, with any OS is in the admin. Closing and firewalling unneeded ports, and using strong passwords goes a long way towards protecting one's systems.
I'm sure there are those who would argue, but I've installed Debian several times, and it's not a good choice for beginners. Better first Linux OS would be Mandrake or Suse. I haven't worked with Suse in a few years but Mandrake has a nice graphical utility that shows you what daemons are running. It's easy to get things wrong with you start with pretty much nothing. Personally I use gentoo.. also not for beginners. If a service is on, it's because I wanted it on, though
Bah, I don't believe in giving either OS a connection to the internet without a firewall that protects ports I don't intend to be opened, and anyone who uses 12345 or an english word as their password is just asking to be hacked. Windows wasn't really designed with connecting to the internet in mind. Throw an unfirewalled fresh install XP box on the internet with a broadband connection and you'll have a worm faster than you can download the security patch from microsoft. Remotely accessable services on by default are not your friend. When windows has it's firewall turned on by default we'll talk again.
In closing, you can have a secure windows box, it takes some work, but you can do it. You generally have to try a bit harder to get linux security wrong. I think the biggest advantage we have over Windows users though, is that No flavor of outlook or Internet Explorer will run under linux, at least, not without a lot of work. That alone makes desktop linux more secure than desktop winodws (everyone gets root, wee!)
GTK and QT would need to be ported. Other than that outside applications wouldn't necessarily have to notice.
a rewrite of X isn't the answer, and thus calling it X12 would be intelectually dishonest.
Just because something doesn't seem slow or bloated, doesn't mean that it can't be done faster or lighter. In the case of X, faster & lighter you could be assured of. It is grounded in assumptions that are no longer the case. Just because a B&W TV with monocromatic sound was good enough for grandpa during the war, doesn't mean I should be happy with that level of technology, and that is true in code as well. I want my screen to be controled by software that can make my video card sit up and beg. Extention on top of extention on top of extention will never do that. I believe in learning from the past, not living with it's mistakes. Can run on top of windows, it won't be a problem to get it to run on Y, but for the most part it won't be needed. Once GTK and QT are ported, almost everything written these days lives on top of one or the other of those two, anyway. If you're happy with how things are, you should be orgasmic over how things COULD be. will be, like it or not, X's not going to be running your screen 10 years from now.
ah, but when the earth is dead and gone, so will viruses be, probably. So the sun is at the top of the food chain.