You are way off here. Europe is not just a 'Big Market' for Microsoft.
If MS was to make 2 mill a day in EU, but fined 2.5 mill a day, it would be best to just move out, right?
Or do you think that the loss of support for all of Europe might have a mass effect on the world market? These days most corporations have large divisions in Europe, or interact with counterparts in europe. If EU was forced to switch to anything but MS, large parts of the outside world would also.
Not to mention, that if an entire continent showed it was capable of being productive without the juggernaught that MS is, the rest of the world would soon follow the example. And dont think that MS leaving EU would cause them to just callapse in onto themselves or something, just a big setback to start.
Of course, Microsoft knows thats not even an option, and it'll never happen.
Wikipedia has anounced that they will call the public version 'unstable' the intermediary version 'testing' and the final edited version 'stable'
seriously though, that is not a bad idea. I would be very happy to see some sort of 'weighted confidence level' associated with whats contributed to wikipedia, with a lower rating for contribution from most people, which would be the default viewing threshold. Then in your preferences, or at the top of all articles, have a link to allow you to filter to higher level contributions.
Of course this may have problems with lower level contributors trying to update higher level content and such, but 2-3 levels of depth could prove useful.. if slashdot comments have proven anything over the years its that not all contibutions are created equal..
"You'll [often] see 50 processes running on a PC today. So what we're finding is, all those background tasks can really be bothersome to someone when they're trying to game, because it interrupts them. So they'll turn all that off. The busiest gamers will get everything out of the Start Menu, every single thing off of their control bar, so they don't get interrupted. Well, dual-core helps that a lot. "
LOL noob. I find that deleting stuff from my start menu gives me +10 fps. I cant wait till Core 2 so that I can put stuff in my start menu again.
Seriously though, the benchmarks I saw run wil these CPUs to date have been outstanding. I cant wait for the final versions to show up. Go Intel!
I bet he is the type of person who thinks linux is 'superfluous, as you're forced to reboot each time you switch between operating systems'.
Or perhaps that linux doesnt 'really offer any applications that would entice me to [install linux] and put up with the tedium [lolz] of [a boot loader]'
No concept of what he is talking about what-so-ever.
Here is my favorite part of the article:
"Ultimately, with Boot Camp, Apple is only helping Microsoft sell more copies of Windows XP. How sweet of them."
Sure, thats probably true, minus the _only_ part. Last I checked OSX is only available for Mac hardware. Last I checked the hardware was sold at bloated prices because it was exclusive to OSX. Creating Boot Camp wont send current apple users running to buy a non-mac, so I'm sure the author merely meant that current users will now buy XP. Sure, some will. At least of the ones who bought an intel mac only very recently, which is a small portion of its user base. A large portion of those bought into Mac because they knew this day would come (I can speak of two I know from experience. Both of which would have bought something along the lines of dell if Mac's where still on PowerPC).
So I argue that now many long time fans of mac will dish out for new hardware on that new intel laptop or mac mini because now they can have windows on it. Or that many people will choose Apple over Dell when shopping for a new machine.
And lets just speak hypothetically here for a sec.. What happens when Apple offeres a mac laptop with Boot Camp, OS X, and WinXP all preloaded for a mere fee of 50$.. Will people not choose the slick laptop that they heard people rave over for the last few years?
I'm sure more will now then they did before anyway - And I wouldn't consider that "Apple gets it wrong" any day.
While I agree that nethack was an awsome game, I do not think that anyone has played any mario brothers game every day, for hours on end, and missed out on plans they made in order to play mario. For years at a time.
Welcome to world of warcraft, everquest, and so many other entertaining games of today.
While the GUI may not be the main reason for this, content and world wide interaction is.
Mario is a GREAT game which little else can compare for a few hours of immediate pleasure. that is something that MMO's cant really give you.
But in the end, I beleive todays games have really evolved.
Diablo was awsome at the time. Diablo 2 was awsome at the time. But play a MMO for a year and then try to go back. Its impossible.
There is really only one safety precaution one can take to make sure something like this does not happen again.
I, like many of you, would not have a swell time trying to remove a rootkit from my computer and an not willing to take the risk.
I say, until we can be sure that music CD's provided to us by corporations are safe, we must continue to use the tried and proven safe method of audio in the form of mp3's.
There are many places to get such music, and sure, it doesn't come with a nice case or any cover, you have to burn it yourself, and is often of lesser quality, but DO NOT take the risk of having your computer intruded.
Please, take precautionative measures, boycott music cds provided by corporations!!
If there is one thing we can learn from history, its that anything flawless in its day has been prooven flawed eventually.
In the computer world its only that much more of a smack in the face.
Linux exploits are found all the time, and yes, maybe they are found less often, or fixed faster than on other operating systems (..maybe..) but they exist, and always will.
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What does this mean? No new C++ features like threads, proper enum classes, or hash tables.
As far as I understand, concepts have been "decoupled" from this standard, but not threads, proper enum classes, or hash tables.
> ls -l /retirement_home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 1979-01-01 01:01 /retirement_home -> tmp/
Sounds like a good episode of 'Does it shred?'
haha.
You are way off here. Europe is not just a 'Big Market' for Microsoft.
If MS was to make 2 mill a day in EU, but fined 2.5 mill a day, it would be best to just move out, right?
Or do you think that the loss of support for all of Europe might have a mass effect on the world market? These days most corporations have large divisions in Europe, or interact with counterparts in europe. If EU was forced to switch to anything but MS, large parts of the outside world would also.
Not to mention, that if an entire continent showed it was capable of being productive without the juggernaught that MS is, the rest of the world would soon follow the example.
And dont think that MS leaving EU would cause them to just callapse in onto themselves or something, just a big setback to start.
Of course, Microsoft knows thats not even an option, and it'll never happen.
CTRL+TAB actually.
Wikipedia has anounced that they will call the public version 'unstable' the intermediary version 'testing' and the final edited version 'stable'
seriously though, that is not a bad idea. I would be very happy to see some sort of 'weighted confidence level' associated with whats contributed to wikipedia, with a lower rating for contribution from most people, which would be the default viewing threshold. Then in your preferences, or at the top of all articles, have a link to allow you to filter to higher level contributions.
Of course this may have problems with lower level contributors trying to update higher level content and such, but 2-3 levels of depth could prove useful.. if slashdot comments have proven anything over the years its that not all contibutions are created equal..
From the article:
"You'll [often] see 50 processes running on a PC today. So what we're finding is, all those background tasks can really be bothersome to someone when they're trying to game, because it interrupts them. So they'll turn all that off. The busiest gamers will get everything out of the Start Menu, every single thing off of their control bar, so they don't get interrupted. Well, dual-core helps that a lot. "
LOL noob.
I find that deleting stuff from my start menu gives me +10 fps.
I cant wait till Core 2 so that I can put stuff in my start menu again.
Seriously though, the benchmarks I saw run wil these CPUs to date have been outstanding. I cant wait for the final versions to show up. Go Intel!
I only have a P4 with hyperthreading and 1 gig of ram.
I play WoW with quite high settings and lots of mods, and it uses a fair amount of RAM.
Still, alt tabing takes no more than 1-2 seconds, unless at a loading screen (WoW bug?)
I can only imagine with a dual core system with higher memory bandwith it only gets easier.
There really is no other way to say this.
How fucking retarded is the author of TFA?!
I bet he is the type of person who thinks linux is 'superfluous, as you're forced to reboot each time you switch between operating systems'.
Or perhaps that linux doesnt 'really offer any applications that would entice me to [install linux] and put up with the tedium [lolz] of [a boot loader]'
No concept of what he is talking about what-so-ever.
Here is my favorite part of the article:
"Ultimately, with Boot Camp, Apple is only helping Microsoft sell more copies of Windows XP. How sweet of them."
Sure, thats probably true, minus the _only_ part. Last I checked OSX is only available for Mac hardware. Last I checked the hardware was sold at bloated prices because it was exclusive to OSX. Creating Boot Camp wont send current apple users running to buy a non-mac, so I'm sure the author merely meant that current users will now buy XP. Sure, some will. At least of the ones who bought an intel mac only very recently, which is a small portion of its user base. A large portion of those bought into Mac because they knew this day would come (I can speak of two I know from experience. Both of which would have bought something along the lines of dell if Mac's where still on PowerPC).
So I argue that now many long time fans of mac will dish out for new hardware on that new intel laptop or mac mini because now they can have windows on it. Or that many people will choose Apple over Dell when shopping for a new machine.
And lets just speak hypothetically here for a sec.. What happens when Apple offeres a mac laptop with Boot Camp, OS X, and WinXP all preloaded for a mere fee of 50$.. Will people not choose the slick laptop that they heard people rave over for the last few years?
I'm sure more will now then they did before anyway - And I wouldn't consider that "Apple gets it wrong" any day.
You retard.
I disagree.
While I agree that nethack was an awsome game, I do not think that anyone has played any mario brothers game every day, for hours on end, and missed out on plans they made in order to play mario. For years at a time.
Welcome to world of warcraft, everquest, and so many other entertaining games of today.
While the GUI may not be the main reason for this, content and world wide interaction is.
Mario is a GREAT game which little else can compare for a few hours of immediate pleasure. that is something that MMO's cant really give you.
But in the end, I beleive todays games have really evolved.
Diablo was awsome at the time. Diablo 2 was awsome at the time. But play a MMO for a year and then try to go back. Its impossible.
Thats it.
Its final.
The reason for the PS3 delay is so linux could properly support the Cell processor.
Now its only a matter of time.
You forgot linux killer.
The real question is, are those options default in an apache setup?
If so, it is definetally flawed, apache, not linux per-se, unless the worm itself uses other linux bugs after it has been downloaded.
If the setting are not default, then it is still apache's fault but is not as severe a problem (as per >50% all installs left default/near default).
Should i worry about my webserver?
Yes, but what happens when, inevitably, the gorilla and the snake mate? ... ... ...
The snake explodes, of course. Gorsh.
There is really only one safety precaution one can take to make sure something like this does not happen again.
I, like many of you, would not have a swell time trying to remove a rootkit from my computer and an not willing to take the risk.
I say, until we can be sure that music CD's provided to us by corporations are safe, we must continue to use the tried and proven safe method of audio in the form of mp3's.
There are many places to get such music, and sure, it doesn't come with a nice case or any cover, you have to burn it yourself, and is often of lesser quality, but DO NOT take the risk of having your computer intruded.
Please, take precautionative measures, boycott music cds provided by corporations!!
And remember kids, they gave us no alternative!
DONT DO IT!!!
They OBVIOUSLY plan to feed you to Count Dracula and keep the beers.
Who in there right mind gives up that much beer?!
if google ever sells 51% of its shares.
I dont knwo the details, but I know that there are two co-owners of google, so i assume that they have at least a 26% split of the company.
If MS bought out 26% and bought all the shares from one of them, you know, at like 1000000$ a share, or via death threats, then its feasable.
Other then that, I dont see how it would ever happen.
Anyone wanna google "google"?
O god, lol..
I wish i had mod points to mod that funny.
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Nor does he follow history very well.
If there is one thing we can learn from history, its that anything flawless in its day has been prooven flawed eventually.
In the computer world its only that much more of a smack in the face.
Linux exploits are found all the time, and yes, maybe they are found less often, or fixed faster than on other operating systems (..maybe..) but they exist, and always will.
...we will see what you have to say about hidden costs and core dumps.
I dont use OS X and never have.
Does command shift N create a new folder?
Because if it does, then that is single handedly the simplest reason why a OS X is better then Windows.
15 years of developement and they cant come up with a decent shortcut. Alt , F , W , F.. I mean, WHAT?
how about they make WindowsKey + N.
this is offtopic to the article.
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ati 9600 is a pretty bad card.
You can probably get a 9700 pro for the same price off of ebay or something (I know as I have just been looking recently) and it is a lot better.
take a look at these results from toms hardware guide:
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050705
the 9700 pro scores a lot higher than the 9600 XT in (almost?) every benchmark.
surprisingly it is probably better than even an nvidia 6600 (non GT) card as well, making it a lot cheaper and still better.
Satan decided that Windows just wasnt the right infrastructure to use if he planned on having Hell up and running for centuries without crashing.
its been slashdotted.
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Here is a link coral cache link:
http://www.linux-watch.com.nyud.net:8090/news/NS8