I've never, in my 15 years of computing, had a virus.
I was handed infected floppies on a weekly basis in the early '90s. "Common sense" didn't protect a bit *
Unless your 'average consumer' owned a Macintosh in the year 2BI (before Internet), protection meant
autoscan floppy disks 364 days of the year and turning off your machine on
March 6th.
--
* Practice write-protection with a 5.25" floppy disk
If using it in a public place always cover with tape
Black is fine though metallic shows you're protected
You can hire an outside security firm that keeps $60K; splits the rest on hardware appliances
(with 50% markup) and their off-site monitoring. One followup around renewal time.
Or get a new security manager who keeps $60K; hires $36K assistant, spends rest on junkets.
Or a non-managerial IT person who assigns $50K for salary and the rest to hardware/software.
Next year loses entire software/hardware budget. Quits. Outside security firm called in.
with the power, size, and focus on security... why didn't they get it right the first time?
Because they've just opened a public beta for their "OneCare Live" antivirus which makes this moot?
I can't find mention here yet of their newest security offering, so I'll just add that their latest requires:
Javascript-enabled browser and 550 MB on your system partition to install.
I paid a ton of money - even with the developer discount - for my PowerBook 170, but it was one of those leaps in technology
Except for the allowable dead pixels, there was no doubt you were looking at (and holding) an elegant device.
But compare it to a luggable 5MB SE/30 for $3000 in 1992 and I'd disagree with "great piece of hardware".
From 1984 it took eight years to get a 68030 (386-class machine) and gain just 16 pixels (from 384 vertically).
PowerBook was smaller than the competing portables. It set the standard for what a good notebook is
It was the exact same size as the red box from OHIO ART
Come to think of it, both revolutionary graphics units consisted of only white screens with black lines in 1992!
Not to mention that these predictions have little to no value. They are just predictions.
I have a prediction! In about 2 years from now, we will all be Monday morning quarterbacks.
One company will offer a free hardware upgrade (installed by authorized dealers for $29.95)
for customers who promptly registered their product in the first thirty days. These dealers
and Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo will make additional sales of titles when the customers come in.
The hardware upgrade should be something that would currently add $100, but much less later.
And, of course, the free hardware upgrade will not work on machines that have been modified
With all due respect to the marketing folks who are just doing their jobs,
and the CPU roadmap architects who are just doing their jobs... Intel
and AMD should consider having 3 or 4 chips at "just" 3 or 4 speeds.
That would mean a dozen choices to satisfy just about anyone, and you
could double that number when including upcoming and phased-out CPUs.
They can't fight the obvious commoditization of a pretty simple function,
and fighting any head-to-head comparisons means it's just a used car lot.
Maybe virtual degree programs will also offer virtual on-the-job training (off-the-job training?)
Online degrees do not HAVE to be different than traditional degrees... ivywall places that accept
unqualified applicants, pass failing students and grant unwarranted degrees are every bit as bogus,
and their alumni will quickly bear that burden along with recent graduates.
--
A good school emphasizes learning.
The bogus schools push life skills.
Real schools actually realize both.
Operate like Dairy Queen ice cream shops -- move a whole data center North in the summer.
And open windows like overclockers do during snowy months to avoid high air conditioning bills.
In the past I would look at the fastest CPU on the market, and then buy one that runs at about half the speed
I always look back and see what Intel was selling 2 years ago for $250-300. If it's still even available,
and they want $125-$150... it's time to either run fast in the other direction (or just wait 3 more months).
Want to know which Dell to buy ? Same thing -- if they sold it 2 years ago, it's still no bargain at $699 !
This kind of study needs to be updated weekly, or pulled after a month.
It also protects against the testing facility "saving" a study until before Intel announces price drops,
or running the numbers right after AMD lowers pricing across the board.
And with only one factor in the price:performance ratio ever changing, it's all about TODAY's price.
the spread of a flawed business model with nearly no ad budget
Going from 95% market share to 80% market share is a great thing if anti-trust laws exist.
Microsoft laughs all the way to the bank while still maintaining ninety percent of dollar-share.
The only thing better is if your competition gains no money stealing part of the pie. Oh wait...
a grammar check is a bloat feature that doesn't add worth to a word processor. This is especially true for technical documents.
At least build in capabilities to ignore quoted text and everything after a DoubleDash_Space_Linefeed SIG delimiter.
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Transitive Property For Unnecessary Software:
IF version 7 is barely better than version 6
AND version 6 is barely better than version 5
THEN version 5 is vastly better than version 7
How would things be different today if Apple initially offered the Lisa at a substantially lower price
Substitute "Mac II and 1987" for "Lisa and 1983"
And if people were using Apple machines at work, then they would have bought an Apple for home
Pull up Apple's stock price for 15 years starting in mid-1983. And watch AAPL go nowhere.
Plot product line versus Wall Street valuation, and it was never a business computer company.
Apple does well with consumers. Up 310% in twelve months with iPod as half their business.
(Feb 2004 through Mar 2005)
In Texas, I did not see any outward indications of SBC spending money on this issue. The cable cabal reached me 20+ times this month on this issue during the three hours of commercial television I watched during May.
--
Time Warner basically said that
SBC must start in all areas and
not build from better densities.
does anyone read dead tree computer magazines anymore
It's the perfect article for that format -- they have ten months to write the article and
it does not matter that it has to go to press two months before reaching its audience
--
Next year's 3 worst products (repeats):
"High tech" electronics from Fisher
Bottom of the line HP gear
Really cheap non-core Dell product
that.1ghz also equates to about double the performance of the "1ghz" VIA C3 chip
Hardly an exaggeration... a year ago, for $55, NewEgg sold a Celeron MB populated with a VIA 'GigaPro' C3 that would have taken 17 years with Prime95 to complete a single test.
--
Sandra identified the C3 chip as Samuel or Ezekiel.
It certainly would require a miracle of Biblical proportions
for a VIA 1GHz to beat a Pentium 166MMX...
I'm ok with developers' machines being booted, since they stay up 27/7 anyway
Is that 27 minutes when coldbooted and 7 minutes if warmbooted?
The article is about poor countries and Balmer is actually saying
they want $200 computers (with software) in areas getting all the
outsourced American jobs that are paying only $200 a month.
Microsoft wants a two-hundred dollar computer with $100 of hardware at 10 point markup, and $100 of software with a 90 point markup.
--
Bill Gates loves the "Microsoft tax" on bundled systems.
Businesses get to pay more for Windows than consumers.
But he wants flat tax on personal income and zero for business.
Trademark law is there to protect the consumer, not the business.
(Jerry Falwell most definitely qualifies as a business)
This ruling has everything to do with content and perceived intent.
There wasn't confusion to consumers due to disclaimer and the content.
It was certainly not a parody page trying to fool people with the original.
And if the site were up saying nothing but nice things, it'd be there now.
It's based on who the guy was (openly gay) and what he said (public criticism).
Slashdot Mirror
I was handed infected floppies on a weekly basis in the early '90s. "Common sense" didn't protect a bit *
Unless your 'average consumer' owned a Macintosh in the year 2BI (before Internet), protection meant
autoscan floppy disks 364 days of the year and turning off your machine on March 6th.
--
* Practice write-protection with a 5.25" floppy disk
If using it in a public place always cover with tape
Black is fine though metallic shows you're protected
You can hire an outside security firm that keeps $60K; splits the rest on hardware appliances
(with 50% markup) and their off-site monitoring. One followup around renewal time.
Or get a new security manager who keeps $60K; hires $36K assistant, spends rest on junkets.
Or a non-managerial IT person who assigns $50K for salary and the rest to hardware/software.
Next year loses entire software/hardware budget. Quits. Outside security firm called in.
Because they've just opened a public beta for their "OneCare Live" antivirus which makes this moot?
I can't find mention here yet of their newest security offering, so I'll just add that their latest requires:
Javascript-enabled browser and 550 MB on your system partition to install.
Except for the allowable dead pixels, there was no doubt you were looking at (and holding) an elegant device.
But compare it to a luggable 5MB SE/30 for $3000 in 1992 and I'd disagree with "great piece of hardware".
From 1984 it took eight years to get a 68030 (386-class machine) and gain just 16 pixels (from 384 vertically).
It was the exact same size as the red box from OHIO ART
Come to think of it, both revolutionary graphics units consisted of only white screens with black lines in 1992!
Maybe just playing around like a guy named Edison with the first cylinder recording in 1877 on tinfoil?
Oh wait, that was Yesterday's news.
I have a prediction! In about 2 years from now, we will all be Monday morning quarterbacks.
One company will offer a free hardware upgrade (installed by authorized dealers for $29.95)
for customers who promptly registered their product in the first thirty days. These dealers
and Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo will make additional sales of titles when the customers come in.
The hardware upgrade should be something that would currently add $100, but much less later.
And, of course, the free hardware upgrade will not work on machines that have been modified
I, for one, am never going to shell out another $89 for even one more spyware/malware program!
With all due respect to the marketing folks who are just doing their jobs, ... Intel
and the CPU roadmap architects who are just doing their jobs
and AMD should consider having 3 or 4 chips at "just" 3 or 4 speeds.
That would mean a dozen choices to satisfy just about anyone, and you
could double that number when including upcoming and phased-out CPUs.
They can't fight the obvious commoditization of a pretty simple function,
and fighting any head-to-head comparisons means it's just a used car lot.
Maybe virtual degree programs will also offer virtual on-the-job training (off-the-job training?)
Online degrees do not HAVE to be different than traditional degrees ... ivywall places that accept
unqualified applicants, pass failing students and grant unwarranted degrees are every bit as bogus,
and their alumni will quickly bear that burden along with recent graduates.
--
A good school emphasizes learning.
The bogus schools push life skills.
Real schools actually realize both.
Operate like Dairy Queen ice cream shops -- move a whole data center North in the summer.
And open windows like overclockers do during snowy months to avoid high air conditioning bills.
I always look back and see what Intel was selling 2 years ago for $250-300. If it's still even available, ... it's time to either run fast in the other direction (or just wait 3 more months).
and they want $125-$150
Want to know which Dell to buy ? Same thing -- if they sold it 2 years ago, it's still no bargain at $699 !
It also protects against the testing facility "saving" a study until before Intel announces price drops,
or running the numbers right after AMD lowers pricing across the board.
And with only one factor in the price:performance ratio ever changing, it's all about TODAY's price.
Going from 95% market share to 80% market share is a great thing if anti-trust laws exist.
Microsoft laughs all the way to the bank while still maintaining ninety percent of dollar-share.
The only thing better is if your competition gains no money stealing part of the pie. Oh wait...
At least build in capabilities to ignore quoted text and everything after a DoubleDash_Space_Linefeed SIG delimiter.
--
Transitive Property For Unnecessary Software:
IF version 7 is barely better than version 6
AND version 6 is barely better than version 5
THEN version 5 is vastly better than version 7
Substitute "Mac II and 1987" for "Lisa and 1983"
And if people were using Apple machines at work, then they would have bought an Apple for home
Pull up Apple's stock price for 15 years starting in mid-1983. And watch AAPL go nowhere.
Plot product line versus Wall Street valuation, and it was never a business computer company.
Apple does well with consumers. Up 310% in twelve months with iPod as half their business.
(Feb 2004 through Mar 2005)
How about wait 4.5 years ? Maybe if the Slashdot article referred to the
"1979 Lisa Project" it might provide a bit of a better timeline persective.
A computer that was in most shops for 7 months does not have a 7 year history!
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Not a troller flame.
See subject header.
Note ID of poster.
MS always blathers on and on about TCO
It appears Microsoft in 2005 seems to have copied Lindows of 2003
where software upgrades became heavily tied-in to the Lindows store.
Gates & Company haven't had such a good idea since copying the AOL
browser by putting 'go' at the end of the address bar !
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How many millions of dollars were
spent on marketing geniuses to come
up with these great software ideas?
In Texas, I did not see any outward indications of SBC spending money on this issue.
The cable cabal reached me 20+ times this month on this issue during the three hours of commercial television I watched during May.
--
Time Warner basically said that
SBC must start in all areas and
not build from better densities.
does anyone read dead tree computer magazines anymore
It's the perfect article for that format -- they have ten months to write the article and
it does not matter that it has to go to press two months before reaching its audience
--
Next year's 3 worst products (repeats):
"High tech" electronics from Fisher
Bottom of the line HP gear
Really cheap non-core Dell product
Hardly an exaggeration ... a year ago, for $55, NewEgg sold a Celeron MB populated with a
VIA 'GigaPro' C3 that would have taken 17 years with Prime95 to complete a single test.
-- ...
Sandra identified the C3 chip as Samuel or Ezekiel.
It certainly would require a miracle of Biblical proportions
for a VIA 1GHz to beat a Pentium 166MMX
rename the Firefox link to "Firefox Internet Browser", and remove all IE links
And when it cannot get through Microsoft's latest proxy you can call it ... at least Opera authenticates "out-of-the-box" like IE6
FireFox 404
I'm ok with developers' machines being booted, since they stay up 27/7 anyway
Is that 27 minutes when coldbooted and 7 minutes if warmbooted?
The article is about poor countries and Balmer is actually saying
they want $200 computers (with software) in areas getting all the
outsourced American jobs that are paying only $200 a month.
Microsoft wants a two-hundred dollar computer with $100 of hardware at 10 point markup, and $100 of software with a 90 point markup.
--
Bill Gates loves the "Microsoft tax" on bundled systems.
Businesses get to pay more for Windows than consumers.
But he wants flat tax on personal income and zero for business.
Trademark law is there to protect the consumer, not the business.
(Jerry Falwell most definitely qualifies as a business)
This ruling has everything to do with content and perceived intent.
There wasn't confusion to consumers due to disclaimer and the content.
It was certainly not a parody page trying to fool people with the original.
And if the site were up saying nothing but nice things, it'd be there now.
It's based on who the guy was (openly gay) and what he said (public criticism).