It's not monkeys that you send to the space and risk their lifes. It's humans and moreover highly trained *scientists*. Unfortunately number of 6 billions doesn't count for this. Risking life of an astronaut is much more costly than some elderly dying. You can build shuttles in a factory but it's not possible to build scientists in a known automated way, otherwise we would have thousands of Einsteins, frankly we only had one till now.
That's the problem already. They don't have the rights you have now, (and you don't have the rights that some minority have). But what's your or their importance in the eternity which makes us different than each other? Can you name any single thing?
Do you mean whole 266 (even you cut that into half) different country to build their own networking hardware? If not, why any under-developed country should trust a developed country, then? Especially if some of those countries have a bad record of bullying weaker ones for any imaginary reason.
Sooner or later developed countries will realize this arrogance will backfire. If anyone is looking for a solution for a real security, it's hidden under understanding every human being living on this planet have the same rights as you have. Once you realize this fact, whoever produces these products will lose its meaning, and you won't waste your time to build machines that kill others.
You think. Privacy of human life has more diverse things than affinity to porn. You might have a disease that you wouldn't prefer everyone to know about it. That could be a bad thing you might like to hide, but you might also prefer to hide positive things about yourselves in order to normalize your relationship with other people. Only when social interaction is at zero level (as we slightly start to have with facebook generation) your notion about privacy can be considered okay.
Do you know what you're talking about? What prevents a keylogger to log a user password on windows that do not prevent it in Linux? On the other hand, you need a couple of clicks to infect a Windows box even with UAC, but with a regular Linux desktop it's much more hassle for an intruder to convince user to install and run the application. Not only this, but it's technically much more hard for user-space applications to store keypress events on terminal than any other Windows version ever existed.
This is not a bailout for Microsoft, it's a bailout for German economy in order to decrease unemployment. Because exhausted call center employees will force government to hire more staff. If they aim to keep lines open for calls that would surely bring the unemployment in Germany to pre-recession levels.
You don't need to trust your ISP, they are legally binded to protect your privacy on most of the countries. Since you have a contract that means that's a card in your hand which you can use in case of violation. However with Google, you have nothing. All the contracts you have with google is the legal aggreements to use their services in return of losing your privacy at all.
To summarize, your option to trust google is just useless since it doesn't matter if you trust them or not.
Nobody makes decimal point a comma. Decimal point is always a point. It's just that there's not term like decimal point in places where comma is used as "decimal separator".
I really don't get this Google protectionism of users. If same thing were done by Microsoft *a user action couldn't be acceptable since it must be flawed by design*. But with Google, what they do is always the right way, only because users are moron Google needs to *fix* it afterwards.
Why you can't make yourself believe that Google is as bas as any other company sometimes?
Who wants this service from Google? Any company starting to act like an internet police is a huge risk in future if not now, and it should be preemtively rejected by users. If people rely on this kind of services in future Google will list its do-s and don't-s. I didn't ask about their service, nor I would like to be informed by their *unknown* ways of analyzing my pages. And no I don't want to host a useless piece of text called robots.txt to get rid of google crawlers. Why in the hell I should say get away, while if I don't it means I welcome them.
I actually don't care about IE anymore. Because it's an old story. Now only if we can get rid of ill-formed OpenXML documents and office format dominance of Microsoft, than we can declare year of Linux on desktop.
How is it related with open source at all? A good software need a dedicated coder(s) and in order to motivate them for a long time money is a good tool. What you say is a generic thing, and nobody said since code will be open, people will work for free software like slaves to make applications good enough. Free software concept is much more than good software.
Your argument is valid for everything, if you need to build something good you need dedication. And this dedication is only possible with a motivation that is what money is used these days. But believe me there are better motivators than money still today.
Intel describes a netbook as a platform for playing media and a notebook as a platfrom for creating media. So what Windows 7 is aimed for? Play or create media? If you put both for a netbook, you just waste lots of cpu power for bloat you add in order to create new media.
One of the biggest strenghts of Open Source is to give opportunity to tailor systems for a specific needs. That's why Moblin or Plasma mid and couple of other products aimed to play media only and not bother creating any will succeed in netbook market sooner or later.
Microsoft has a platform gifted with applications aimed for creating media, and that's why it's still dominant and biggest player in desktop/notebook market. But netbooks need none of these applications so their OS.
If Medvenev offended with IT industry in Russia, he should stop corruption in his country which led money earned from oil and gas to be spent for luxury cars and buildings. If you visit Moscow all you could see expensive cars flooding around but technology in government is years old and not used efficiently. If they have money to buy those cars, they can buy or even produce those CPUs as well.
He should know that all talents of Russia and brains are going to EU countries and US once they find an option to be employed there for last decase. Still they have enough manpower and knowledge to build those but not enough politicians to drive this move.
If there's something more annoying than serious looking serviceman, it should be a serviceman with a fake smile. Whoever behind this clever idea should pay more attention to what people expect from services, it is for sure not smiling puppies.
You don't need that much hassle to realize it's Microsoft marketting. Only one that will get benefit from pre-installed windows-xp is Microsoft, not Asus. It's less likely that market for Asus EEE PC is capped because of OS.
I think the story of big is a lie, and I see it all the time in "big" corporations. Employing thousands, and having revenues of billions of dollars make you look "big" but in reality they are incapable of doing very basic things, maybe their "big" body paralizes themselves, but that does not change the truth.
While most of the companies dream to be one of these "big" ones, they miss that they are much more helpful to their customers when they are "small", because I never got ignored by a small company I worked with about a bug in their service, and moreover they quickly fixed or showed me a work around it quickly.
And what we see with "big" ones? Posted company Microsoft, knows the problem, they have money, and manpower to fix it. Or that's what we believe in. At the end, what we see is, their 'capability' is such a big lie and only hidden behind the images we're supposed to believe.
This economic crisis made me think more about the concept of "big". I see lots of "big" companies these days, laying of people as if their employees are member of flocks that they wanted to butcher. It's not their bussinesses that drives them but the numbers and 'analysists'. I mean, think about Lehman Brothers, and how in the earth you think of something to be "big", if it collapsed in just a single year. Who can't claim same thing won't happen for "big" companies in IT industry. Now I belive that "big corporations" are just projections of small companies together which does hell lot of better job than the leeches they serve for.
I believe researchers doing this kind of researches have nothing better to do. Since this kind of information have no value at all.
Assuming outcome of this research is true, for an insightful employer it does not mean anything. You can hire younger employees to have a sharper human resource. But you need to keep in mind that, younger employee have more distraction than older employees. They are sexually more active so they would like to have passionate relations and that means more time spent on msn or phone with their partners. Moreover they would likely to be not married, or at honeymoon phase of their marriage so they would likely to be more tired during work hours for due to hangover or obvious reasons.
Last but not the least, due to lack of experience and hot blood nature, they are more likely to be deceived. If a job needs some more than average of responsibility putting someone younger than 30 on that job is nothing different than running on slippery surface.
If you don't have F-Spot installed, then use "Pictures folder" theme. That would show slideshow of your xdg standard Pictures folder. And if you're power user enough, you can easily change the/usr/share/application/screensavers/personal-slideshow.desktop file and add --location=/your/picture/folder to 'Exec' line. You can even set background-color or sort-images options. If you're not poweruser, then your Pictures folder would be more than fine.
You might install them once, but you need to run them zillion times. At least migrating to another OS would save you from total time spent using an inferior one.
Source of problem that make people use admin accounts without apparent reason is design fault of MS. So first thing they should is to change this design make it similar to how things done in unix way or if they can make it better. Second, they *should* broke backward compatibility. Whoever says that MS doesn't do that, they lie. They are breaking backward compatibility on lots of their applications feature-wise. They could do that for Vista. They could broke the backward compatibility and add helper tools to their development platform so that new binaries using Vista-specific apis could be released by vendors easily. Sky would not fall if they did that. Neither their market share would shrink. They knew it.
One reason they don't do that they don't care. They want Windows to be broken that way. That's another exploitation of their market power. They want people to get infected with viruses, malware etc. in order to increase market around prevention of these tools. They basically try to extend economy around their product. As a result of that they don't spend engineer time to re-design their OS.
Or maybe their engineers are incompetent. That's all.
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It's not monkeys that you send to the space and risk their lifes. It's humans and moreover highly trained *scientists*. Unfortunately number of 6 billions doesn't count for this. Risking life of an astronaut is much more costly than some elderly dying. You can build shuttles in a factory but it's not possible to build scientists in a known automated way, otherwise we would have thousands of Einsteins, frankly we only had one till now.
I'm not using Chrome, and I'm not planning to use it either. So I don't worry or care anyways.
That's the problem already. They don't have the rights you have now, (and you don't have the rights that some minority have). But what's your or their importance in the eternity which makes us different than each other? Can you name any single thing?
Do you mean whole 266 (even you cut that into half) different country to build their own networking hardware? If not, why any under-developed country should trust a developed country, then? Especially if some of those countries have a bad record of bullying weaker ones for any imaginary reason.
Sooner or later developed countries will realize this arrogance will backfire. If anyone is looking for a solution for a real security, it's hidden under understanding every human being living on this planet have the same rights as you have. Once you realize this fact, whoever produces these products will lose its meaning, and you won't waste your time to build machines that kill others.
You think. Privacy of human life has more diverse things than affinity to porn. You might have a disease that you wouldn't prefer everyone to know about it. That could be a bad thing you might like to hide, but you might also prefer to hide positive things about yourselves in order to normalize your relationship with other people. Only when social interaction is at zero level (as we slightly start to have with facebook generation) your notion about privacy can be considered okay.
Do you know what you're talking about? What prevents a keylogger to log a user password on windows that do not prevent it in Linux? On the other hand, you need a couple of clicks to infect a Windows box even with UAC, but with a regular Linux desktop it's much more hassle for an intruder to convince user to install and run the application. Not only this, but it's technically much more hard for user-space applications to store keypress events on terminal than any other Windows version ever existed.
This is not a bailout for Microsoft, it's a bailout for German economy in order to decrease unemployment. Because exhausted call center employees will force government to hire more staff. If they aim to keep lines open for calls that would surely bring the unemployment in Germany to pre-recession levels.
You don't need to trust your ISP, they are legally binded to protect your privacy on most of the countries. Since you have a contract that means that's a card in your hand which you can use in case of violation. However with Google, you have nothing. All the contracts you have with google is the legal aggreements to use their services in return of losing your privacy at all.
To summarize, your option to trust google is just useless since it doesn't matter if you trust them or not.
Nobody makes decimal point a comma. Decimal point is always a point. It's just that there's not term like decimal point in places where comma is used as "decimal separator".
I really don't get this Google protectionism of users. If same thing were done by Microsoft *a user action couldn't be acceptable since it must be flawed by design*. But with Google, what they do is always the right way, only because users are moron Google needs to *fix* it afterwards.
Why you can't make yourself believe that Google is as bas as any other company sometimes?
Who wants this service from Google? Any company starting to act like an internet police is a huge risk in future if not now, and it should be preemtively rejected by users. If people rely on this kind of services in future Google will list its do-s and don't-s. I didn't ask about their service, nor I would like to be informed by their *unknown* ways of analyzing my pages. And no I don't want to host a useless piece of text called robots.txt to get rid of google crawlers. Why in the hell I should say get away, while if I don't it means I welcome them.
I actually don't care about IE anymore. Because it's an old story. Now only if we can get rid of ill-formed OpenXML documents and office format dominance of Microsoft, than we can declare year of Linux on desktop.
And anyone can call AT&T a hypocrite not knowing when money involved companies lose comprehension of ethics and become evil somehow.
How is it related with open source at all? A good software need a dedicated coder(s) and in order to motivate them for a long time money is a good tool. What you say is a generic thing, and nobody said since code will be open, people will work for free software like slaves to make applications good enough. Free software concept is much more than good software.
Your argument is valid for everything, if you need to build something good you need dedication. And this dedication is only possible with a motivation that is what money is used these days. But believe me there are better motivators than money still today.
Intel describes a netbook as a platform for playing media and a notebook as a platfrom for creating media. So what Windows 7 is aimed for? Play or create media? If you put both for a netbook, you just waste lots of cpu power for bloat you add in order to create new media.
One of the biggest strenghts of Open Source is to give opportunity to tailor systems for a specific needs. That's why Moblin or Plasma mid and couple of other products aimed to play media only and not bother creating any will succeed in netbook market sooner or later.
Microsoft has a platform gifted with applications aimed for creating media, and that's why it's still dominant and biggest player in desktop/notebook market. But netbooks need none of these applications so their OS.
If Medvenev offended with IT industry in Russia, he should stop corruption in his country which led money earned from oil and gas to be spent for luxury cars and buildings. If you visit Moscow all you could see expensive cars flooding around but technology in government is years old and not used efficiently. If they have money to buy those cars, they can buy or even produce those CPUs as well.
He should know that all talents of Russia and brains are going to EU countries and US once they find an option to be employed there for last decase. Still they have enough manpower and knowledge to build those but not enough politicians to drive this move.
Considering they moved from Cobol just yet, that means they plan to use this system for at least 20 or 25 years time.
If there's something more annoying than serious looking serviceman, it should be a serviceman with a fake smile. Whoever behind this clever idea should pay more attention to what people expect from services, it is for sure not smiling puppies.
You don't need that much hassle to realize it's Microsoft marketting. Only one that will get benefit from pre-installed windows-xp is Microsoft, not Asus. It's less likely that market for Asus EEE PC is capped because of OS.
I think the story of big is a lie, and I see it all the time in "big" corporations. Employing thousands, and having revenues of billions of dollars make you look "big" but in reality they are incapable of doing very basic things, maybe their "big" body paralizes themselves, but that does not change the truth.
While most of the companies dream to be one of these "big" ones, they miss that they are much more helpful to their customers when they are "small", because I never got ignored by a small company I worked with about a bug in their service, and moreover they quickly fixed or showed me a work around it quickly.
And what we see with "big" ones? Posted company Microsoft, knows the problem, they have money, and manpower to fix it. Or that's what we believe in. At the end, what we see is, their 'capability' is such a big lie and only hidden behind the images we're supposed to believe.
This economic crisis made me think more about the concept of "big". I see lots of "big" companies these days, laying of people as if their employees are member of flocks that they wanted to butcher. It's not their bussinesses that drives them but the numbers and 'analysists'. I mean, think about Lehman Brothers, and how in the earth you think of something to be "big", if it collapsed in just a single year. Who can't claim same thing won't happen for "big" companies in IT industry. Now I belive that "big corporations" are just projections of small companies together which does hell lot of better job than the leeches they serve for.
I believe researchers doing this kind of researches have nothing better to do. Since this kind of information have no value at all.
Assuming outcome of this research is true, for an insightful employer it does not mean anything. You can hire younger employees to have a sharper human resource. But you need to keep in mind that, younger employee have more distraction than older employees. They are sexually more active so they would like to have passionate relations and that means more time spent on msn or phone with their partners. Moreover they would likely to be not married, or at honeymoon phase of their marriage so they would likely to be more tired during work hours for due to hangover or obvious reasons.
Last but not the least, due to lack of experience and hot blood nature, they are more likely to be deceived. If a job needs some more than average of responsibility putting someone younger than 30 on that job is nothing different than running on slippery surface.
If you don't have F-Spot installed, then use "Pictures folder" theme. That would show slideshow of your xdg standard Pictures folder. And if you're power user enough, you can easily change the /usr/share/application/screensavers/personal-slideshow.desktop file and add --location=/your/picture/folder to 'Exec' line. You can even set background-color or sort-images options. If you're not poweruser, then your Pictures folder would be more than fine.
Users of Google services, which abuse JavaScript usage beyond initial intention of this scripting language design.
You might install them once, but you need to run them zillion times. At least migrating to another OS would save you from total time spent using an inferior one.
Source of problem that make people use admin accounts without apparent reason is design fault of MS. So first thing they should is to change this design make it similar to how things done in unix way or if they can make it better. Second, they *should* broke backward compatibility. Whoever says that MS doesn't do that, they lie. They are breaking backward compatibility on lots of their applications feature-wise. They could do that for Vista. They could broke the backward compatibility and add helper tools to their development platform so that new binaries using Vista-specific apis could be released by vendors easily. Sky would not fall if they did that. Neither their market share would shrink. They knew it.
One reason they don't do that they don't care. They want Windows to be broken that way. That's another exploitation of their market power. They want people to get infected with viruses, malware etc. in order to increase market around prevention of these tools. They basically try to extend economy around their product. As a result of that they don't spend engineer time to re-design their OS.
Or maybe their engineers are incompetent. That's all.