As we know since yesterday (*)
a life is only worth 100mio$. There is lots of potential here sentencing the laziest workers to death: $759billion a year (RTFA).
That means the laziest 7590 workers every year will be sentenced to death. And if that's all hacker one could even double the number!
And the economy will start to flourish from the next year on. Let's party.
A friend of mine with a relatively new Dell machine wanted to install Linux. Fedora Core 3 did not recognize their mass-produced Dell-standard soundcard. [...] That's at least one family that is going to stick with Windows XP because Linux is just simply "not there yet".
And a friend of mine with a slightly older Compaq laptop (PII 233, 96MB RAM) running W2K needed a new ethernet PCMCIA card. I had four(!) old cards to offer and neither of them worked out of the box. All were definitly older than W2K. And all can be plugged into any of the current linux distros and will work right out of the box.
For the brand new stuff you will be better off with windows. But why should one buy a new computer that is perfectly well suitable for occasionally writing a letter just because windows or vendors don't support it any more?
Your argument hits back on yourself unless all your friends throw away all their equipment every three years...
Incredible... I remember back when the net was young, before all the commercialism, and to think the amount of money these guys made simply collecting and selling domain names.
I remember these days too. In 1995 I paid a dollar per megabyte (no typo) download plus phone plus monthly fee. Download rates were often below 100 bytes/s. Netscape had a button in the main toolbar to switch image downloading on and off. Many people considered it bad behaviour to have the images in webpages switched on.
Today I pay 30$/month for 2Mbit ADSL flat. And that's even expensive. Yes, some good things have gone since then - but nevertheless I don't want to have the 1995 internet back. And I rather doubt that more than 0,01% of all users want to have it restored...;-)
No offense. But it sounds like people are searching for things to dismiss this study.
It is more than right to check the validity of the study. And some googling suggests that Robert Ford dilapidates his scientific reputation for money. Being a self proclaimed Linux enthusiast there is little evidence to be found for that. But he closly works together with Microsoft:
Gatekeeper II: new approaches to generic virus prevention
Richard Ford, Florida Institute of Technology
Matt Wagner, Microsoft Corporation
Jason Michalske, Florida Institute of Technology
Doing talks together with Microsoft employees is certainly not a sign for his independence and Linux attachment.
IMHO he should immediatley be expelled from the Florida Institue of Technology.
To make it x86, add $30 extra, add more voltage, but that gives us much more applications
I have an iPAQ handheld running Familiar-Linux and you can get most software from the Debian project to run on it. See http://www.handhelds.org/.
Thus having 128MB RAM and 128MB flash is very luxury on a system like that without the need to develop new software or digging out old software that ran on an old 386.
That's what TFA's headline says: Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms.
It would be interesting to know if they really only tried it with a male watcher / female picture combination. If so that would give an interesting insight into the researcher's minds...
Another question then would arise: were the researchers male or female...
That said, us 'xp dorks' don't *want* or *care* what's running inside of it.
What do you expect while reading "news for nerds"?
Hmmm - you sound like somebody reading the Wall Street Journal and then complaining the they only talk about economics...;-)
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As we know since yesterday (*) a life is only worth 100mio$. There is lots of potential here sentencing the laziest workers to death: $759billion a year (RTFA).
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That means the laziest 7590 workers every year will be sentenced to death. And if that's all hacker one could even double the number!
And the economy will start to flourish from the next year on. Let's party.
(*)http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/12
And a friend of mine with a slightly older Compaq laptop (PII 233, 96MB RAM) running W2K needed a new ethernet PCMCIA card. I had four(!) old cards to offer and neither of them worked out of the box. All were definitly older than W2K. And all can be plugged into any of the current linux distros and will work right out of the box.
For the brand new stuff you will be better off with windows. But why should one buy a new computer that is perfectly well suitable for occasionally writing a letter just because windows or vendors don't support it any more?
Your argument hits back on yourself unless all your friends throw away all their equipment every three years...
I remember these days too. In 1995 I paid a dollar per megabyte (no typo) download plus phone plus monthly fee. Download rates were often below 100 bytes/s. Netscape had a button in the main toolbar to switch image downloading on and off. Many people considered it bad behaviour to have the images in webpages switched on.
Today I pay 30$/month for 2Mbit ADSL flat. And that's even expensive. Yes, some good things have gone since then - but nevertheless I don't want to have the 1995 internet back. And I rather doubt that more than 0,01% of all users want to have it restored... ;-)
No offense. But it sounds like people are searching for things to dismiss this study.
It is more than right to check the validity of the study. And some googling suggests that Robert Ford dilapidates his scientific reputation for money. Being a self proclaimed Linux enthusiast there is little evidence to be found for that. But he closly works together with Microsoft:
From: http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/vb2004/programm e/
Gatekeeper II: new approaches to generic virus prevention Richard Ford, Florida Institute of Technology Matt Wagner, Microsoft Corporation Jason Michalske, Florida Institute of Technology
Doing talks together with Microsoft employees is certainly not a sign for his independence and Linux attachment.
IMHO he should immediatley be expelled from the Florida Institue of Technology.
I have an iPAQ handheld running Familiar-Linux and you can get most software from the Debian project to run on it. See http://www.handhelds.org/.
Thus having 128MB RAM and 128MB flash is very luxury on a system like that without the need to develop new software or digging out old software that ran on an old 386.
Seems just like a nice allegory to the evolution of man: Monkeys -> pr0n -> IQ Test
It would be interesting to know if they really only tried it with a male watcher / female picture combination. If so that would give an interesting insight into the researcher's minds...
Another question then would arise: were the researchers male or female...
That said, us 'xp dorks' don't *want* or *care* what's running inside of it. What do you expect while reading "news for nerds"? Hmmm - you sound like somebody reading the Wall Street Journal and then complaining the they only talk about economics... ;-)