Why do we need a new cleanliness standard? For centuries the standard has been "covered in flies, open sores and shit" and some people lived to the ripe old age of 41, why do we need to change now?
The primary use of the phrase now is to indicate where anyone (OP, Wanka or Wanker) is heading into long-winded way off-topicness that no one cares about, or because someone is indeed talking about yaoi.
I would suggest running as non Admin or leaving UAC enabled. But the fact is the most people who run as non Admin are probably able to work out that downloading an anti virus package from a non trusted site is a no no. I run XP as admin for ages. Every now and again I'd install a virus scanner and it wouldn't find anything. It slowed the machine down so I'd remove it. Now I run MSE and as non Admin just for an additional level of safety. Still the only time I've been affected by malware on Windows was Blaster - I had to turn on the firewall to stop the machine crashing before it got the update. This was back before I had a NAT router.
The thing is this - the problem is not technical and nothing to do with Windows. People that know what they are doing can secure Windows or any other OS. Most people don't know and don't want to know. Now at work they have a locked down machine which is secure. At home they have a completely unsecured machine which they chuck away every couple of years when it gets slow.
Now at the moment the vast majority of those machine are Windows. If Mac or Linux or Chrome becomes more popular the malware vendors will target them as well. People that disable UAC on Windows will likely run a Unix like OS as root and get their machines pwned just like they do on Windows.
Because the free software cultists can't read pirated coding books for religious reasons they don't grow up to be 3l33t coderz like the pirates, so they can't solve the problem.
I have a dream where Americans are judged by their abilities, not the number of individuals that make them up. Where a Corporate American can run for President and - thanks to the votes of other Corporate Americans - win.
When President Microsoft and Vice President Haliburton take office my dream will be fulfilled.
This reminds me of a funny quote from Undocumented Dos on getting access to the complete Dos source code. You couldn't but you could get a mix of source, binaries (.obj) and debugging information (symbol values) for the binaries if you paid a few thousand dollars for the OEM Adaptation Kit or something like that. The authors of Undocumented Dos opined "That's almost as good as source code - the only thing it is missing is the comments which are probably misleading anyway"
With that in mind here's how to get symbols for Microsoft binaries
It's worth pointing out that people don't debug non trivial things by staring at source code - they debug the binary using a debugger. If you have symbols, you can do that.
No, no. When left wingers were sceptical about Bush that was "Talking truth to power" and was very patriotic. When right wingers are sceptical about Obama it shows they are mentally ill and that we need The Fairness Doctrine to force them off the air.
What's interesting is that Intel are apparently going to make Atoms using the TSMC process. So they'll move things that don't require a really good process to the industry standard one and try to use their better proprietary process for things that do.
Apple have a huge mark-up so they could probably afford to spend a bit more than they would at TSMC to get access to Intel's process.
Incidentally 2 years ahead is only about one generation of Moore's law. So it seems like a TSMC based CPU will be two years behind. I can quite believe that this doesn't matter for netbooks but does for smartphones. I'm typing this on an 1.6Ghz N280 Atom which was built on a 45nm Intel process in 2008 and is plenty fast enough with a ten hour batter life. Right now in 2011 TSMC claim they have 28nm and 40nm in production. Smartphones always seem a bit sluggish to me - even 1Ghz ones. From what I've read TSMC have been making chipsets for Intel for some time including the 945GSE chipset used in Atom netbooks. If the future is to integrate the chipset and the CPU it makes sense to do that at TSMC because they are cheaper than Intel.
I.e. the plan was for Atom to debut on Intel's good but pricey process and then move to TSMC cheaper but one generation behind one. That lets them free up capacity at their in house fabs for customers like Apple who can pay for it.
I don't mind testing on synthetic animal skin for cheap cosmetics. But if I'm paying full price I want some suffering to have gone into perfecting the product. It's the suffering after all that makes foie gras pate and soft shell crap so delicious.
Now I'd rather they tested in those people in Gitmo but failing that a puppy or (better) a chimp will do.
So it turns out that not including Windows saves the consumer $50 from the regular list price. This amount is not too far off from what a large OEM like Dell would pay for a volume discount for Windows Vista Home Basic (the regular OEM price is about $95). Many value PC sellers try to make up for the cost of a Windows license by bundling demo and trial versions of software such as AOL (affectionately known as "crapware"), for which they receive money from software companies looking to increase their distribution levels. Dell is no exception to this practice, although on their web site it allows customers to select the option of not including various applications.
In Taiwan I pay between 375 TWD (US$13) to 1100 TWD ( US$38 ) depending on how much I use. Flat rate would be 750 TWD (US$26), but I don't use it enough to justify that. That's with Far Eastone and a subscription.
It's weird actually the UK used to be the land of cartels. But mobile data isn't that expensive there any more. Tesco Mobile and the like are MVNOs and their existence seems to have resulted in a competitive market.
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Why do we need a new cleanliness standard? For centuries the standard has been "covered in flies, open sores and shit" and some people lived to the ripe old age of 41, why do we need to change now?
A pox on your so called progress!
Opera Turbo uses WebP to compress images on low bandwidth connections
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/04/opera-turbo-uses-webp-to-compress.html
WebP looks better than JPEG at high compression ratios where JPEG has noticeable blocking artifacts.
http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/But_what_are_your_thoughts_on_yaoi%3F
The primary use of the phrase now is to indicate where anyone (OP, Wanka or Wanker) is heading into long-winded way off-topicness that no one cares about, or because someone is indeed talking about yaoi.
I would suggest running as non Admin or leaving UAC enabled. But the fact is the most people who run as non Admin are probably able to work out that downloading an anti virus package from a non trusted site is a no no. I run XP as admin for ages. Every now and again I'd install a virus scanner and it wouldn't find anything. It slowed the machine down so I'd remove it. Now I run MSE and as non Admin just for an additional level of safety. Still the only time I've been affected by malware on Windows was Blaster - I had to turn on the firewall to stop the machine crashing before it got the update. This was back before I had a NAT router.
The thing is this - the problem is not technical and nothing to do with Windows. People that know what they are doing can secure Windows or any other OS. Most people don't know and don't want to know. Now at work they have a locked down machine which is secure. At home they have a completely unsecured machine which they chuck away every couple of years when it gets slow.
Now at the moment the vast majority of those machine are Windows. If Mac or Linux or Chrome becomes more popular the malware vendors will target them as well. People that disable UAC on Windows will likely run a Unix like OS as root and get their machines pwned just like they do on Windows.
Because the free software cultists can't read pirated coding books for religious reasons they don't grow up to be 3l33t coderz like the pirates, so they can't solve the problem.
What is this Googol of which you speak?
http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/daily.html
Ah, but CO2 emissions fall during a recession.
http://www.euractiv.com/en/climate-environment/recession-cut-eu-co2-emissions-record-72-news-504252
Corporations are people too!
I have a dream where Americans are judged by their abilities, not the number of individuals that make them up. Where a Corporate American can run for President and - thanks to the votes of other Corporate Americans - win.
When President Microsoft and Vice President Haliburton take office my dream will be fulfilled.
This reminds me of a funny quote from Undocumented Dos on getting access to the complete Dos source code. You couldn't but you could get a mix of source, binaries (.obj) and debugging information (symbol values) for the binaries if you paid a few thousand dollars for the OEM Adaptation Kit or something like that. The authors of Undocumented Dos opined "That's almost as good as source code - the only thing it is missing is the comments which are probably misleading anyway"
With that in mind here's how to get symbols for Microsoft binaries
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311503
It's worth pointing out that people don't debug non trivial things by staring at source code - they debug the binary using a debugger. If you have symbols, you can do that.
Who you callin' a cracker?
Yeah it doesn't have all the particulates and oxides and hydro carbons necessary for life as we know it.
No, no. When left wingers were sceptical about Bush that was "Talking truth to power" and was very patriotic. When right wingers are sceptical about Obama it shows they are mentally ill and that we need The Fairness Doctrine to force them off the air.
What's interesting is that Intel are apparently going to make Atoms using the TSMC process. So they'll move things that don't require a really good process to the industry standard one and try to use their better proprietary process for things that do.
Apple have a huge mark-up so they could probably afford to spend a bit more than they would at TSMC to get access to Intel's process.
Incidentally 2 years ahead is only about one generation of Moore's law. So it seems like a TSMC based CPU will be two years behind. I can quite believe that this doesn't matter for netbooks but does for smartphones. I'm typing this on an 1.6Ghz N280 Atom which was built on a 45nm Intel process in 2008 and is plenty fast enough with a ten hour batter life. Right now in 2011 TSMC claim they have 28nm and 40nm in production. Smartphones always seem a bit sluggish to me - even 1Ghz ones. From what I've read TSMC have been making chipsets for Intel for some time including the 945GSE chipset used in Atom netbooks. If the future is to integrate the chipset and the CPU it makes sense to do that at TSMC because they are cheaper than Intel.
I.e. the plan was for Atom to debut on Intel's good but pricey process and then move to TSMC cheaper but one generation behind one. That lets them free up capacity at their in house fabs for customers like Apple who can pay for it.
Don't tell him this. It's funnier to let him keep PH3AR1NG TEH 3L33T HAXORZ.
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Nice try, Intel.
Obama has said that ground troops are "out of the question", so I'd expect a full on land invasion in a few days.
He big boss. Big genius. He design your mind!
I use Windows and I'm virtually a Nazi. Mind you Microsoft gives more to the Democrats than the Republicans.
Just because I want to burn down Congress and blame it on the Mac users to justify a coup doesn't mean that Microsoft would agree with me.
I don't mind testing on synthetic animal skin for cheap cosmetics. But if I'm paying full price I want some suffering to have gone into perfecting the product. It's the suffering after all that makes foie gras pate and soft shell crap so delicious.
Now I'd rather they tested in those people in Gitmo but failing that a puppy or (better) a chimp will do.
Don't be ridiculous. The outside hasn't been able to support human life for generations.
Too late. They've long since been girls.
Actually most people didn't pay 150 GBP for XP. They got an OEM copy installed on the machine for free (well free to them) when they bought it.
It is rumoured that big OEMs like Dell pay US$ 50 or so for a license
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/05/windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.ars
So it turns out that not including Windows saves the consumer $50 from the regular list price. This amount is not too far off from what a large OEM like Dell would pay for a volume discount for Windows Vista Home Basic (the regular OEM price is about $95). Many value PC sellers try to make up for the cost of a Windows license by bundling demo and trial versions of software such as AOL (affectionately known as "crapware"), for which they receive money from software companies looking to increase their distribution levels. Dell is no exception to this practice, although on their web site it allows customers to select the option of not including various applications.
That's because you live in the US and telcos have formed a cartel.
In the UK I can get unlimited data for 2 GBP per week (i.e. US$14) per month with a pay as you go SIM
http://phone-shop.tesco.com/tesco-mobile/help-and-support/bundles.aspx#
Thoroughly recommended.
In Taiwan I pay between 375 TWD (US$13) to 1100 TWD ( US$38 ) depending on how much I use. Flat rate would be 750 TWD (US$26), but I don't use it enough to justify that. That's with Far Eastone and a subscription.
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It's weird actually the UK used to be the land of cartels. But mobile data isn't that expensive there any more. Tesco Mobile and the like are MVNOs and their existence seems to have resulted in a competitive market.