Don't be silly. If avionics were in any way sensitive to mobile phone signals, it would prevent the use of radar, radio communications and "Airphones". Working in the industry, I can assure you that the highest standards of Electromagnetic Compatibility are maintained. I can also tell you that the fault was a software crash. We've been warning about this problem with Boeing software for three years, but nobody's listening.
It is just another Linux distro - cut down to make it start fast. It uses Enlightenment and appears to be based on E17. This is just another way that Linux will go mainstream. The average punter won't need anything more than this basic functionality. I can see a lot of Asus EEE boxen being shifted....
You "wouldn't trust it to run a Windows mail client"? Good. There are no good Windows mail clients!
Speaking as someone who has migrated numerous, large, corporate clients away from Windows crapware, the costs of migration are trivial compared to the costs of trying to keep a Windows business network "running". In every instance, I've been able to demonstrate that the migration and training costs are less than 6 months of Windows "support". I have never had any corporate client refuse to migrate.
Windows is no longer suitable for business.
I'm currently migrating a BIG bank away from MS - they like the security, reliability, and reduced costs of FOSS. Their servers were already using FOSS - it's now desktop migration time. There have been no training or support problems.
As a ham radio operator I have to point out that RF radiation exposure limits are a function of frequency and time,
Wrong!
Much of the "data" presented in those two papers are entirely wrong. The only parameter that matters is field strength. Frequency has little or nothing to do with it.
You get more irradiated if you go outside on a sunny day wearing dark clothes!
MS will certainly lose market share, and will suffer greatly because of the findings against them in courts around the world. MS have a major problem. All they have is the NT kernel - they keep polishing it, but it's still the old crappy NT kernel. Windows 7 will still use that same old NT kernel...
Ubuntu will help Linux gain market share - Windows is already losing out to it in many areas. Dell will e fine - particularly since they now ship Ubuntu pre-loads!
Nope - O2 have good coverage throughout Britain. The iPhone has poor receive sensitivity and low transmit power compared to other models. It's an overpriced piece of junk.
Most worthwhile optimisation is done by rethinking the design, and to a lesser degree hand-coding parts where you know the realities better than the compiler can guess, and just how to exploit that.
Microsoft are completely screwed - they have nobody left who understands the "legacy code" - that huge, monolithic binary blob at the middle of the kernel that is totally undocumented and untouchable. The NT kernel is all they have, and it's unmaintainable.
It is difficult to get Vista hosed by malware compared to XP.
Bzzzt! Wrong! It's as trivially easy to take down Vista as any other version of Windows. It's still the same old NT kernel after all. Watch out - here comes the malware on every file-sharing site!
Windows: a poor proprietary client for a Unix world.
You speak of Vista as if that were the only product we had.
Vista is the only MS product that anyone's interested in at the moment. It has been a total disaster. Most of the drivers won't work, so much of the available hardware is crippled. The incompatability with earlier software loses it friends too. The latest iteration of Office has incompatable file types, and has so many broken "features" that it's unsaleable. MS have missed the point entirely, and are now scared by Ubuntu and Google. It's only a matter of time before the edifice crumbles...
I did my bit by removing a few significant bricks from the Windows edifice when I left in 2001 - about the time that "marketing" really took over the show.
I would be willing to bet that over the counter sales of Vista, that is, upgrades and personal new system builders, exceeded that for those of any Linux by a fairly wide margin.
You've lost that bet - certainly in terms of units sold, rather than monies received! The uptake of just one paid-for Linux distribution in the last quarter far outstripped Vista and XP sales put together. You're overlooking the massive uptake of Linux in China (where they do pay for their distros) and in India as well. Microsoft is now a minority player in those gigantic markets. Microsoft is also losing out in Europe - many local government authorities refuse to allow MS products to be used at all.
Speaking as a traffic engineer: there are several types of detection used. Loop detection is the most accurate, but the most expensive - it requires cutting into the road surface, so installation costs are high.
The predominant method is MVD - Microwave Vehicle Detection. It's cheap, and can be quite accurate, but never accurate enough for prosecution! If you're prosecuted and the only "evidence" is radar-based, contest it. Demand to see a demonstration of the calibration accuracy of the equipment. The county won't be able to provide this detail, so you'll be exonerated.
Also, a police officer can't hold a "speed gun" steady enough to eliminate inaccuracies - again, also contest the "evidence". If the gun is handheld, you cannot be successfully prosecuted. The Police will invariably refuse to produce the "speed gun" in court - they won't have valid calibration certificates anyway - so you'll just waste the Court's time with another failed Police prosecution.
If enough people actually stand up against the speed Nazis, they'll realise that they can't afford to bring all these spurious prosecutions...
If you installed XP on it, you'd have little drive capacity left. After you've installed the anti-malware, anti-virus, anti-this and anti-that which are essential with Windows, you might be left with a few kb for applications and data! Leave the poor thing alone, and let it run its small, efficient, reliable and secure operating system. It works very well straight out of the box!
The Neo is a wordprocessing appliance. The Eee is a fully fledged Linux based laptop computer. No comparison.
The Eee works wonderfully well here on my network as a wireless client - it's just the right size to carry with you, and is very robust. I just need to find supply of a larger capacity SDD - 4 Gb is filling up very quickly!
There's a worse problem: no "anti-virus" products actually work properly! It's trivial to build a virus or other malware that is missed by the standard Windows "security" products. There is a "new" virus or virus variant released into the wild every few minutes. With the best will in the world, no anti-virus product can hope to keep up with this!
The only actual "cure" is to either disconnect your Windows machine from the internet, and use it standalone, or change to a truly secure and robust operating system that cannot be infected by this nonsense.
Until Microsoft adopt a proper security model, there is no point in trying to use Windows for anything other than playing games - and serious gamers use dedicated games consoles for that purpose!
The entire problem is "the operating system itself". It simply doesn't work properly. It's just XP with added eye candy and DRM. It's fundamentally broken and can't be fixed because of the spaghetti nature of the kernel codebase.
Hopefully it will destroy MS - it's high time they got the kicking they deserve!
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Yes! Three render modes - broken, faulty and abysmal!
Were/are D Notices legally binding? Yes, they are. I've been prosecuted for infringing a D-Notice in my radio programme.
It would be really scary to be a Tourist in Texas right now!
Don't be silly. If avionics were in any way sensitive to mobile phone signals, it would prevent the use of radar, radio communications and "Airphones". Working in the industry, I can assure you that the highest standards of Electromagnetic Compatibility are maintained. I can also tell you that the fault was a software crash. We've been warning about this problem with Boeing software for three years, but nobody's listening.
"Abort, Retry, Fail" now has a new meaning!
It is just another Linux distro - cut down to make it start fast. It uses Enlightenment and appears to be based on E17. This is just another way that Linux will go mainstream. The average punter won't need anything more than this basic functionality. I can see a lot of Asus EEE boxen being shifted....
You'd think Nigeria would have a host of auction scammers.
No - of course not! Nigerians have nothing to auction!
How insane is it that MS still ships an OS without antivirus? Especially when their Control Center will nag you to install some third-party antivirus?
How insane is it that MS still ship an OS that is susceptible to viruses and other malware?
Game Over, Microsoft!
You "wouldn't trust it to run a Windows mail client"? Good. There are no good Windows mail clients!
Speaking as someone who has migrated numerous, large, corporate clients away from Windows crapware, the costs of migration are trivial compared to the costs of trying to keep a Windows business network "running". In every instance, I've been able to demonstrate that the migration and training costs are less than 6 months of Windows "support". I have never had any corporate client refuse to migrate.
Windows is no longer suitable for business.
I'm currently migrating a BIG bank away from MS - they like the security, reliability, and reduced costs of FOSS. Their servers were already using FOSS - it's now desktop migration time. There have been no training or support problems.
Game Over, Microsoft!
As a ham radio operator I have to point out that RF radiation exposure limits are a function of frequency and time,
Wrong!
Much of the "data" presented in those two papers are entirely wrong. The only parameter that matters is field strength. Frequency has little or nothing to do with it.
You get more irradiated if you go outside on a sunny day wearing dark clothes!
MS will certainly lose market share, and will suffer greatly because of the findings against them in courts around the world. MS have a major problem. All they have is the NT kernel - they keep polishing it, but it's still the old crappy NT kernel. Windows 7 will still use that same old NT kernel...
Ubuntu will help Linux gain market share - Windows is already losing out to it in many areas. Dell will e fine - particularly since they now ship Ubuntu pre-loads!
Nope - O2 have good coverage throughout Britain. The iPhone has poor receive sensitivity and low transmit power compared to other models. It's an overpriced piece of junk.
Most worthwhile optimisation is done by rethinking the design, and to a lesser degree hand-coding parts where you know the realities better than the compiler can guess, and just how to exploit that.
Microsoft are completely screwed - they have nobody left who understands the "legacy code" - that huge, monolithic binary blob at the middle of the kernel that is totally undocumented and untouchable. The NT kernel is all they have, and it's unmaintainable.
Game Over, Microsoft!
"What I Like About You" should be by the Ramones - it's their style!
With the different OSs around here, we'd score about 1100%.
It is difficult to get Vista hosed by malware compared to XP.
Bzzzt! Wrong! It's as trivially easy to take down Vista as any other version of Windows. It's still the same old NT kernel after all. Watch out - here comes the malware on every file-sharing site!
Windows: a poor proprietary client for a Unix world.
You speak of Vista as if that were the only product we had.
Vista is the only MS product that anyone's interested in at the moment. It has been a total disaster. Most of the drivers won't work, so much of the available hardware is crippled. The incompatability with earlier software loses it friends too. The latest iteration of Office has incompatable file types, and has so many broken "features" that it's unsaleable. MS have missed the point entirely, and are now scared by Ubuntu and Google. It's only a matter of time before the edifice crumbles...
I did my bit by removing a few significant bricks from the Windows edifice when I left in 2001 - about the time that "marketing" really took over the show.
Game Over, Microsoft!
I would be willing to bet that over the counter sales of Vista, that is, upgrades and personal new system builders, exceeded that for those of any Linux by a fairly wide margin.
You've lost that bet - certainly in terms of units sold, rather than monies received! The uptake of just one paid-for Linux distribution in the last quarter far outstripped Vista and XP sales put together. You're overlooking the massive uptake of Linux in China (where they do pay for their distros) and in India as well. Microsoft is now a minority player in those gigantic markets. Microsoft is also losing out in Europe - many local government authorities refuse to allow MS products to be used at all.
Game Over, Microsoft!
Speaking as a traffic engineer: there are several types of detection used. Loop detection is the most accurate, but the most expensive - it requires cutting into the road surface, so installation costs are high.
The predominant method is MVD - Microwave Vehicle Detection. It's cheap, and can be quite accurate, but never accurate enough for prosecution! If you're prosecuted and the only "evidence" is radar-based, contest it. Demand to see a demonstration of the calibration accuracy of the equipment. The county won't be able to provide this detail, so you'll be exonerated.
Also, a police officer can't hold a "speed gun" steady enough to eliminate inaccuracies - again, also contest the "evidence". If the gun is handheld, you cannot be successfully prosecuted. The Police will invariably refuse to produce the "speed gun" in court - they won't have valid calibration certificates anyway - so you'll just waste the Court's time with another failed Police prosecution.
If enough people actually stand up against the speed Nazis, they'll realise that they can't afford to bring all these spurious prosecutions...
If you installed XP on it, you'd have little drive capacity left. After you've installed the anti-malware, anti-virus, anti-this and anti-that which are essential with Windows, you might be left with a few kb for applications and data! Leave the poor thing alone, and let it run its small, efficient, reliable and secure operating system. It works very well straight out of the box!
The Neo is a wordprocessing appliance. The Eee is a fully fledged Linux based laptop computer. No comparison.
The Eee works wonderfully well here on my network as a wireless client - it's just the right size to carry with you, and is very robust. I just need to find supply of a larger capacity SDD - 4 Gb is filling up very quickly!
If it's a Nokia or a Motorola, it's trivially easy to unlock it yourself, and there are LOTS of websites that will show you how (and it's free!).
There's a worse problem: no "anti-virus" products actually work properly! It's trivial to build a virus or other malware that is missed by the standard Windows "security" products. There is a "new" virus or virus variant released into the wild every few minutes. With the best will in the world, no anti-virus product can hope to keep up with this!
The only actual "cure" is to either disconnect your Windows machine from the internet, and use it standalone, or change to a truly secure and robust operating system that cannot be infected by this nonsense.
Until Microsoft adopt a proper security model, there is no point in trying to use Windows for anything other than playing games - and serious gamers use dedicated games consoles for that purpose!
El Lobo - is that short for "lobotomised"?
The entire problem is "the operating system itself". It simply doesn't work properly. It's just XP with added eye candy and DRM. It's fundamentally broken and can't be fixed because of the spaghetti nature of the kernel codebase.
Hopefully it will destroy MS - it's high time they got the kicking they deserve!
Game Over, Microsoft
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