Now, because I do not want to have tens of comments bashing digg, I just have to say that I still prefer slashdot because of the summaries (digg articles never have decent summaries) and the comments (digg comments are never insightful).
haha How does a bunch for fanboist comments can be actual data? read again: I just got a 20 inch Dual Core iMac yesterday. Screen is a monster. The mac, for everything except games (cal of duty, battlefield, etc) is DEAD QUIET. I can't hear ANYTHING. I love it.
\ Dual Core 2 ghz iMac is do damn fast it's not funny. Editing home movies while 10 apps run in background is nothing short of a delight. I'll exit fanboy mode now, but if you are thinking of Dual Core, go for it.
OMG iMac RULEZ!!!! its teh leet!!1!1
I just got a 20 inch Dual Core iMac yesterday. Screen looks very small. The mac, for everything is FUCKING NOISY. I can't hear ANYTHING besides the computer. I hate it.
\ Dual Core 2 ghz iMac is do damn slow it's not funny. Editing something while 2 apps run in background is nothing short of a dream. I'll exit troll mode now, but if you are thinking of Dual Core, do not go for it.
I know, I will be model troll or whatever, I have karma to burn but, really, really, think again in the point I am rising here... how is that considered "actual Data".
I agree, why not just use small tin foil card bag covers like those used for Magic The Gathering or Yoo Gee Ohh (spell?) cards?. That way, you only protect the cards you really dont want to broadcast (those with personal info) and you keep your other cards unprotected!
So in other words you think that just because something has more bits it is better?.... AMD's chips that are faster are faster because of better overall design, not because of the number of bits they have. The Alpha and MIPS chips were 64 bit for years and still performed much worse in many benchmarks then a lot of 32bit chips.
Well, I have to apoligize for my English, as it seems you did not understood what I said, I hope you can excuse me as English is not my native tongue.
What I wrote (and what I was trying to mean) is how I made 3 different persons to move from the overpriced Intel processors to AMD ones.
Personally I do not care about chips... I am not in the computer part selling buisness, I gave these persons my advice as a computer "expert".
Now, of course I KNOW that the number of bits of the processor makes a lot (or any) difference with today's software. Of course I know you would need a 64bit OS AND 64bit optimized applications (same thing with the multiple core processors).
But what I stated was that I used the same merchandizing line of thought that people generally use (if it has more Ghz then it MUST be better...) in order to at least make them consider the choise (generally, people think there is only ONE kind of processor, because you know, AMD does not have a processor running at 3.5Ghz!).
Again, maybe I do not make my point totally clear but, well, I am sorry, I could explain it to you in Spanish if you like... but I think you will not understand at all =-P
I have just "converted" some clients (3 specifically) from Intel to AMD, they where die hard "ignorant brand-name buying" users which believed that Intel is better than AMD (and VIA and any other CPU manufacturers) just because they saw more commercials on TV.
What I told them is the tale of the NN processing bits, I told them "do you remember a long time ago, when machines used Windows 3.1, well, when you changed from that to Windows 95, you used a machine that was 32 bits, instead of 16 bits. Well, that was in 1995! now AMD has new processors which are 64 bits, thus can use Windows XP 64 instead of the normal Windows XP which is still 32 bits!" .
I know my tale is not 100% accurate or complete but, I did those people a favor, they spent quite less using AMD and that also showed them that GHZ is not everything (that along with "the mother of all charts" of tom's hardware".
Of course, the computers I am talking about are setup by me, the problem with brand computers (dell, hp, gateway, etc) is that they do not offer alternatives, or the AMD alternatives always seem pretty bad
Google is giving me a free service. More like, many free services that are useful to me. That makes them inherently less evil
Take it easy cowboy.
What I was saying is that Google isn't any kin dof Jesus Christ or whatever, they are as good as any of your local T.V. or Radio shows. They are not evil with you because they DO NOT have to.
In contrast, they have they clients (read well, you are NOT Google's client) the ADWord buyers. And, from what I have read, they are not 100% right over there. They have their problems and Google has abused them sometimes.
Now that Google has started to provide a REVENUED service for the GENERAL PUBLIC, we still have to see how do they manage. To begin with, they added DRM (some people thing it is ok per se, others disagree) to their media.
I am not against Google, it would be masochist to read/be in slashdot while hating google. In fact, if you see my email, it is a gmail, also daily used email (not this/. nick) is gmail, and all my other (university, work, etc) mails are forwared there (cause I can find/label them easly).
But what I dislike is the way everybody sees google as their Savior WTF, it is JUST A COMPANY with shareholders, it WILL continue to get money however it can. It is not Larry Page or Sergey Brin fault, it is just the way Enterprises work in our current capitalist model.
That reminds me of an idea I discussed with a friend sometime during University, it was something similar.
The main idea was a cube like the Apple computer (dont remember the model) and the idea was that, on that cube you only had the basic components (mobo+cpu) and then, this cube has at its sides USB (or firewire or even some kind of PCI-Express) connectors.
When the user buys a new device, she has to attach it to one side of the cube, say for example a CD-RW, you attach it on the top or on one side of the cube. Also, you could attach a "memory expander" where you could add more RAM. Or an Audio module (something like an audio card) or a Video module.
It sounded cool, but after thinking a bit more, it would end being an incredible beholder beast =o)
Unfortunately, Symantec keep buying nice software (Paragorn Partition Magic was the last one I remember) and making it suck... I always remember the gold times of Norton Utilities in MS-DOS where they had a enhanced command shell, and the encrypted disk [diskreet IIRC] and a surface test, NDD that did worked... those where the day, but after Peter Norton sold all those cool progs to Symantec, everything changed and now they suck (and I think even MORE than Microsoft).
(Just for the record: This was posted from my darling PowerBook! I am a Mac user and an Apple fanatic! So this is _not_ Apple-bashing, just a statement of facts!)
I love those kind of comments, whenever somebody posts a Linux/Apple/BSD flamebait post they always attach this kind of comments "in fact I am writting from my XXXX distro or o YYYY Mac or with my ZZZZ BSD firewall...
Like if, those where some *magical* words that changed what their flamebait... why dont you show us some real "proof" that you are on a powerbook, people writting this kind of comments should add a h ref= showing some proof of their Linux/Mac/BSD or whatever.
Man, it is the Association for Computing Machinery magazine, I mean, it is not any PC-Weekly WalMart mag.
If you don't know about ACM publications, here are other interesting ones:
Ubiquity: IT opinion magazine and forum TechNews: News Gathering Service for IT Professionals eLearn: Distance learning magazine MemberNet: Your Key to the World of ACM...and Beyond Computers in Entertainment: New ACM online magazine
Just as a "recall" attachment... I recall opening my account some looong time ago (when hotmail wasnt bought by microsoft), I was like 13 then, a friend of the family told us that it was a great service etc, and when I told my mother that I wanted to open an account in Hotmail she looked me with dubious eyes and asked me "what kind of site is that?" she infered in some way that the "hot" in hotmail had something to do with pr0n hehe.
Why do you think that those sneaky DRM programs never did it to OSX or Linux?, it is because Windows gives its users ADMINISTRATOR rights by default.
If, lets pretend, the program was written in Java, and when you inserted the Get right with the man cd on your linux and OSX machine, the "YOU MUST INSTALL SONY PLAYER TO PLAY THIS CD ON YOUR COMPUTER... OR DIE" screen appeared, then, you may have chose to do it, or you may have NOT, in that case, the program would attempt to install the nasty rootkit, and baaaazooom, after you clicked "CANCEL" a root password prompt would have appeared in your window... capish?
Come on, the Sony "rootkit" didn't just happened to any Joe Six... Dr. Mark FreakingRussinovich found it hidden IN HIS COMPUTER. Do not come to tell me it was because the user was incompetent... lol
You can't, David Bowie is correct in his assumption about music flowing freely like electricity or water.
The truth is... music, like any other kind of (so called) *intellectual property* IS electricity.
Before you listen to the sound in those speakers, the sound was provoked by some electric impulses coming from your PCI sound board.
Before that, your PCI sound board got some electricity impulses from your CPU, before that the CPU got them from the Hard Disk, and before that, the HD created those impulses when the HD head traversed some of its magnetic plates.
Now, the most interesting thing is that music (like all the [so called] *intellectual property*, that is all the *information*) has an additional property that water or electricity have. It can be reproduced with [b]_very_[/b] (and consider my emphasis please) little effort.
Having said that, it is inevitable; music creators MUST find another way of proffiting other than distributing their creations. Concerts is one good idea, but I always have said, they should exploit the market that they open when they become a "recognized" brand and sell things that CAN NOT be reproduced.
One thing I have always said is that some time ago in the 1980s when you bouht a Nintendo NES cartdrige the first thing you (well... at least I) would do, before even having arrived to your home is look at the booklet. And the booklets have some science, and they where cool.
It also happened with CD's (and with tapes) you could have a copy of the tape copied from a friends original tape but you wont have all the cool art work and lyrics, you could even have a photocopy but it was still not "the thing".
I buy very little music nowadays, mostly because I live in UK (I am from Mexico) and find the UK Cd prices screwingly outrageous, I totally refuse to pay £15 for a freaking 9 songs CD when in Mexico I would pay US$9.99 (average, in MX pesos).
Last december I went to Mexico for vacations and I got 3 CD's there they were something like $14 USD but I bought them because 2 of them are from a nice Mexican blues/jazz band (Real de Catorce, if you like blues you can try some of their songs here just click on a Cd and then on the name of the song). The third CD I bought was Stratovarius last album. [sorry for the "attached advertisment"]
The thing is the first thing I did after buying them was to look at the booklet, I like when CD's have good booklets. That is something you will NEVER get from a downloaded file.
Another example I always give is a Tool CD, my brother listen to those kind of music, once he bought a Tool CD whose CD-case was special (it allowed you to see some nice animation in the booklet), after having it for a while the CD case broken and my brother did not hesitated to buy another, he gave away the other CD with a normal case to a friend. Now, just so you know... we are Mexicans and we are not as "rich" as some of the people from USA (my point is that it was more difficult for us [as teens] to get the US$10 to buy a CD again), but in that case, the CD cover was part of the product (it had some added value).
Lastly, if some is wondering what could artists put on their CD cases, I have another example, a Mexican rock group called La Lupita released a CD that contained those red-blue 3D glasses, and their booklet contained some 3D cool art. So, it is up to the artists, but they must give hard (non digita) media some added value.
I'm just saying that the OS is not (entirely) to blame when someone catches a new virus every five minutes; clearly, the user is doing something very wrong.
The truth is, Microsoft Windows XP is responsible. First, Microsoft WinXP lets their users run with Administrator privileges, meaning that they, or any program they run (remember this) can corrupt the operating system.
Now, some people MAY run windows with non- administrator privileges but from my experience, you can not do too much without it.
Besides for that, because (I told you to remember) the user is running Internet Explorer as ADMINISTRATOR, it means any exploit makes the whole computer vurnerable (in contrast with say... FreeBSD where only the current user home gets compromised).
Now, you can tell me you do not "click" on untrusted links but if you know the WMF vulneravility or about the Jpeg buffer overrun, you just have to SEE the images (like... an add one of your so trusted pages) or open an email (or the preview in gmail) to be vulnerable.
And there is where the difference between a "secure by design" operating system against a "not secure by design" one strives, in FreeBSD the attacker could at most take control of the users ~/ data while on Microsoft Windows the attacker has control over all your computer.
So, that is why Antivirus, anti-malware, etc etc are there on Microsoft Windows.
Although you are an anonymous troll I think you are somewhat right:
The actual real (for the end user) problem I see for Windows, that other OSS do not have is that you require to install certain "security" software after installing the O.S. The software is among others: - Antivirus (Like McAffee or Norton or AVG or Sophos) - System security programs: Kind of like Norton System works or SANDRA or Diskkeeper - Another browser (like firefox or opera)
The bad thing about that is not the number of software programs you have installed but the number of programs that must stay RESIDENT on RAM from the beginning.
That slows PC a lot, and it is something that (at least in my experience) you do not need to do when using Linux.
As an example, my current machine has the Sweepsrv.sys (Sophos AV) with 25,796 private Bytes. Then I have Firefox with 141,188 Bytes and on my laptop I have AVG free version and perfectdisk monitor.
Sure, I know how to disable all those things but that is one of me most common problems why people have to reinstall windows after several months.
On Linux you dont need a running antivirus so that memory (and processing time) can be used for something better. Oh, and it is also annoying that if you are Moving large files, you have to wait after selecting and pressing CTRL+X to cut it and CTRL+V to paste it on another side because the antivirus is checking the file.
Slashdot Mirror
And the most pathetic thing is that, I knew I have seen this story before, but it was not on slashdot...
it was on Digg: Two days ago.
Now, because I do not want to have tens of comments bashing digg, I just have to say that I still prefer slashdot because of the summaries (digg articles never have decent summaries) and the comments (digg comments are never insightful).
Man, for a mintue I thought your comment had that goatse ascii art that is usually posted by the GNAA trolls in /.
Then I saw it was worst... it was clippy!!
world with limited resources ruled by violent warlords
Oil & Bush & Co. anyone?
haha
How does a bunch for fanboist comments can be actual data?
read again:
I just got a 20 inch Dual Core iMac yesterday. Screen is a monster. The mac, for everything except games (cal of duty, battlefield, etc) is DEAD QUIET. I can't hear ANYTHING. I love it.
\ Dual Core 2 ghz iMac is do damn fast it's not funny. Editing home movies while 10 apps run in background is nothing short of a delight. I'll exit fanboy mode now, but if you are thinking of Dual Core, go for it.
OMG iMac RULEZ!!!! its teh leet!!1!1
I just got a 20 inch Dual Core iMac yesterday. Screen looks very small. The mac, for everything is FUCKING NOISY. I can't hear ANYTHING besides the computer. I hate it.
\ Dual Core 2 ghz iMac is do damn slow it's not funny. Editing something while 2 apps run in background is nothing short of a dream. I'll exit troll mode now, but if you are thinking of Dual Core, do not go for it.
I know, I will be model troll or whatever, I have karma to burn but, really, really, think again in the point I am rising here... how is that considered "actual Data".
I agree, why not just use small tin foil card bag covers like those used for Magic The Gathering or Yoo Gee Ohh (spell?) cards?. That way, you only protect the cards you really dont want to broadcast (those with personal info) and you keep your other cards unprotected!
So in other words you think that just because something has more bits it is better?....
AMD's chips that are faster are faster because of better overall design, not because of the number of bits they have. The Alpha and MIPS chips were 64 bit for years and still performed much worse in many benchmarks then a lot of 32bit chips.
Well, I have to apoligize for my English, as it seems you did not understood what I said, I hope you can excuse me as English is not my native tongue.
What I wrote (and what I was trying to mean) is how I made 3 different persons to move from the overpriced Intel processors to AMD ones.
Personally I do not care about chips... I am not in the computer part selling buisness, I gave these persons my advice as a computer "expert".
Now, of course I KNOW that the number of bits of the processor makes a lot (or any) difference with today's software. Of course I know you would need a 64bit OS AND 64bit optimized applications (same thing with the multiple core processors).
But what I stated was that I used the same merchandizing line of thought that people generally use (if it has more Ghz then it MUST be better...) in order to at least make them consider the choise (generally, people think there is only ONE kind of processor, because you know, AMD does not have a processor running at 3.5Ghz!).
Again, maybe I do not make my point totally clear but, well, I am sorry, I could explain it to you in Spanish if you like... but I think you will not understand at all =-P
Cheers,
xtracto
Windows is the only real option
What the heck else are they going to use? Linux? Ha!
Hey Steve, stop wasting your time in these forums and go back to work!
--- Bill
Yes mods, feel free to mod down this Troll.
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As you can see Here:
Thermal Design Power (Max):
AMD Athlon XP: 76.8W vs Intel Pentium 4: 82.0W
AMD Athlon 64 FX-51: 89W vs Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 93.9W
Capish?
I pronounce you, the Troll of the day
Troll
Not 100% true,
I have just "converted" some clients (3 specifically) from Intel to AMD, they where die hard "ignorant brand-name buying" users which believed that Intel is better than AMD (and VIA and any other CPU manufacturers) just because they saw more commercials on TV.
What I told them is the tale of the NN processing bits, I told them "do you remember a long time ago, when machines used Windows 3.1, well, when you changed from that to Windows 95, you used a machine that was 32 bits, instead of 16 bits. Well, that was in 1995! now AMD has new processors which are 64 bits, thus can use Windows XP 64 instead of the normal Windows XP which is still 32 bits!" .
I know my tale is not 100% accurate or complete but, I did those people a favor, they spent quite less using AMD and that also showed them that GHZ is not everything (that along with "the mother of all charts" of tom's hardware".
Of course, the computers I am talking about are setup by me, the problem with brand computers (dell, hp, gateway, etc) is that they do not offer alternatives, or the AMD alternatives always seem pretty bad
Google is giving me a free service. More like, many free services that are useful to me. That makes them inherently less evil
/. nick) is gmail, and all my other (university, work, etc) mails are forwared there (cause I can find/label them easly).
Take it easy cowboy.
What I was saying is that Google isn't any kin dof Jesus Christ or whatever, they are as good as any of your local T.V. or Radio shows. They are not evil with you because they DO NOT have to.
In contrast, they have they clients (read well, you are NOT Google's client) the ADWord buyers. And, from what I have read, they are not 100% right over there. They have their problems and Google has abused them sometimes.
Now that Google has started to provide a REVENUED service for the GENERAL PUBLIC, we still have to see how do they manage. To begin with, they added DRM (some people thing it is ok per se, others disagree) to their media.
I am not against Google, it would be masochist to read/be in slashdot while hating google. In fact, if you see my email, it is a gmail, also daily used email (not this
But what I dislike is the way everybody sees google as their Savior WTF, it is JUST A COMPANY with shareholders, it WILL continue to get money however it can. It is not Larry Page or Sergey Brin fault, it is just the way Enterprises work in our current capitalist model.
lol
so the folder "lalala" on your desktop is the porn folder, isn't it?
I agree
Funny. His ID is lower than yours =-)
WTF
714956-33885
Yea, just like -681071 units lower!
man that was sooo fucking funny. No, really you draw a smile on my face hahha and "in your face"
... off =O) hahahaha
/. at least)
lol thank you, you really shut my
darn... consider me your fan (on
hahaha
thanks that was hilarious
That reminds me of an idea I discussed with a friend sometime during University, it was something similar.
The main idea was a cube like the Apple computer (dont remember the model) and the idea was that, on that cube you only had the basic components (mobo+cpu) and then, this cube has at its sides USB (or firewire or even some kind of PCI-Express) connectors.
When the user buys a new device, she has to attach it to one side of the cube, say for example a CD-RW, you attach it on the top or on one side of the cube. Also, you could attach a "memory expander" where you could add more RAM. Or an Audio module (something like an audio card) or a Video module.
It sounded cool, but after thinking a bit more, it would end being an incredible beholder beast =o)
Unfortunately, Symantec keep buying nice software (Paragorn Partition Magic was the last one I remember) and making it suck... I always remember the gold times of Norton Utilities in MS-DOS where they had a enhanced command shell, and the encrypted disk [diskreet IIRC] and a surface test, NDD that did worked... those where the day, but after Peter Norton sold all those cool progs to Symantec, everything changed and now they suck (and I think even MORE than Microsoft).
p.s. where would you put the
in my post? =oP
(Just for the record: This was posted from my darling PowerBook! I am a Mac user and an Apple fanatic! So this is _not_ Apple-bashing, just a statement of facts!)
I love those kind of comments, whenever somebody posts a Linux/Apple/BSD flamebait post they always attach this kind of comments "in fact I am writting from my XXXX distro or o YYYY Mac or with my ZZZZ BSD firewall...
Like if, those where some *magical* words that changed what their flamebait... why dont you show us some real "proof" that you are on a powerbook, people writting this kind of comments should add a h ref= showing some proof of their Linux/Mac/BSD or whatever.
Cool, I am too a member of the ACM and my preferred publication is the AAMAS proceedings.
Aren't that suppose to be the tenesu rules?
Man, it is the Association for Computing Machinery magazine, I mean, it is not any PC-Weekly WalMart mag.
If you don't know about ACM publications, here are other interesting ones:
Ubiquity: IT opinion magazine and forum
TechNews: News Gathering Service for IT Professionals
eLearn: Distance learning magazine
MemberNet: Your Key to the World of ACM...and Beyond
Computers in Entertainment: New ACM online magazine
P.s. Sorry for the K.B.
Just as a "recall" attachment... I recall opening my account some looong time ago (when hotmail wasnt bought by microsoft), I was like 13 then, a friend of the family told us that it was a great service etc, and when I told my mother that I wanted to open an account in Hotmail she looked me with dubious eyes and asked me "what kind of site is that?" she infered in some way that the "hot" in hotmail had something to do with pr0n hehe.
I have posted a reply that will do to you here
Why do you think that those sneaky DRM programs never did it to OSX or Linux?, it is because Windows gives its users ADMINISTRATOR rights by default.
If, lets pretend, the program was written in Java, and when you inserted the Get right with the man cd on your linux and OSX machine, the "YOU MUST INSTALL SONY PLAYER TO PLAY THIS CD ON YOUR COMPUTER... OR DIE" screen appeared, then, you may have chose to do it, or you may have NOT, in that case, the program would attempt to install the nasty rootkit, and baaaazooom, after you clicked "CANCEL" a root password prompt would have appeared in your window... capish?
Come on, the Sony "rootkit" didn't just happened to any Joe Six... Dr. Mark Freaking Russinovich found it hidden IN HIS COMPUTER. Do not come to tell me it was because the user was incompetent... lol
You can't, David Bowie is correct in his assumption about music flowing freely like electricity or water.
The truth is... music, like any other kind of (so called) *intellectual property* IS electricity.
Before you listen to the sound in those speakers, the sound was provoked by some electric impulses coming from your PCI sound board.
Before that, your PCI sound board got some electricity impulses from your CPU, before that the CPU got them from the Hard Disk, and before that, the HD created those impulses when the HD head traversed some of its magnetic plates.
Now, the most interesting thing is that music (like all the [so called] *intellectual property*, that is all the *information*) has an additional property that water or electricity have. It can be reproduced with [b]_very_[/b] (and consider my emphasis please) little effort.
Having said that, it is inevitable; music creators MUST find another way of proffiting other than distributing their creations. Concerts is one good idea, but I always have said, they should exploit the market that they open when they become a "recognized" brand and sell things that CAN NOT be reproduced.
One thing I have always said is that some time ago in the 1980s when you bouht a Nintendo NES cartdrige the first thing you (well... at least I) would do, before even having arrived to your home is look at the booklet. And the booklets have some science, and they where cool.
It also happened with CD's (and with tapes) you could have a copy of the tape copied from a friends original tape but you wont have all the cool art work and lyrics, you could even have a photocopy but it was still not "the thing".
I buy very little music nowadays, mostly because I live in UK (I am from Mexico) and find the UK Cd prices screwingly outrageous, I totally refuse to pay £15 for a freaking 9 songs CD when in Mexico I would pay US$9.99 (average, in MX pesos).
Last december I went to Mexico for vacations and I got 3 CD's there they were something like $14 USD but I bought them because 2 of them are from a nice Mexican blues/jazz band (Real de Catorce, if you like blues you can try some of their songs here just click on a Cd and then on the name of the song). The third CD I bought was Stratovarius last album. [sorry for the "attached advertisment"]
The thing is the first thing I did after buying them was to look at the booklet, I like when CD's have good booklets. That is something you will NEVER get from a downloaded file.
Another example I always give is a Tool CD, my brother listen to those kind of music, once he bought a Tool CD whose CD-case was special (it allowed you to see some nice animation in the booklet), after having it for a while the CD case broken and my brother did not hesitated to buy another, he gave away the other CD with a normal case to a friend. Now, just so you know... we are Mexicans and we are not as "rich" as some of the people from USA (my point is that it was more difficult for us [as teens] to get the US$10 to buy a CD again), but in that case, the CD cover was part of the product (it had some added value).
Lastly, if some is wondering what could artists put on their CD cases, I have another example, a Mexican rock group called La Lupita released a CD that contained those red-blue 3D glasses, and their booklet contained some 3D cool art. So, it is up to the artists, but they must give hard (non digita) media some added value.
I'm just saying that the OS is not (entirely) to blame when someone catches a new virus every five minutes; clearly, the user is doing something very wrong.
The truth is, Microsoft Windows XP is responsible. First, Microsoft WinXP lets their users run with Administrator privileges, meaning that they, or any program they run (remember this) can corrupt the operating system.
Now, some people MAY run windows with non- administrator privileges but from my experience, you can not do too much without it.
Besides for that, because (I told you to remember) the user is running Internet Explorer as ADMINISTRATOR, it means any exploit makes the whole computer vurnerable (in contrast with say... FreeBSD where only the current user home gets compromised).
Now, you can tell me you do not "click" on untrusted links but if you know the WMF vulneravility or about the Jpeg buffer overrun, you just have to SEE the images (like... an add one of your so trusted pages) or open an email (or the preview in gmail) to be vulnerable.
And there is where the difference between a "secure by design" operating system against a "not secure by design" one strives, in FreeBSD the attacker could at most take control of the users ~/ data while on Microsoft Windows the attacker has control over all your computer.
So, that is why Antivirus, anti-malware, etc etc are there on Microsoft Windows.
They actually are probably a huge contributor to the rate of research since they have enable researchers to more quickly find information.
No.
Looking for research information on Google is like looking using Wikipedia to quote information for a paper.
We researchers use the following (between other) places to do serious research:
Scirus
Citeseer
ACM digital library
JStor
PubMed
There are some other specialized catalogues for Economics (Jstor is quite good) or other non computer science related even directly Elsevier.
Of course your University library may be useful and proceedings tend to help too.
Although you are an anonymous troll I think you are somewhat right:
The actual real (for the end user) problem I see for Windows, that other OSS do not have is that you require to install certain "security" software after installing the O.S. The software is among others:
- Antivirus (Like McAffee or Norton or AVG or Sophos)
- System security programs: Kind of like Norton System works or SANDRA or Diskkeeper
- Another browser (like firefox or opera)
The bad thing about that is not the number of software programs you have installed but the number of programs that must stay RESIDENT on RAM from the beginning.
That slows PC a lot, and it is something that (at least in my experience) you do not need to do when using Linux.
As an example, my current machine has the Sweepsrv.sys (Sophos AV) with 25,796 private Bytes. Then I have Firefox with 141,188 Bytes and on my laptop I have AVG free version and perfectdisk monitor.
Sure, I know how to disable all those things but that is one of me most common problems why people have to reinstall windows after several months.
On Linux you dont need a running antivirus so that memory (and processing time) can be used for something better. Oh, and it is also annoying that if you are Moving large files, you have to wait after selecting and pressing CTRL+X to cut it and CTRL+V to paste it on another side because the antivirus is checking the file.