OSX doesn't have a perfect record either. The mix of brushed metal and platinum is pretty annoying to me. I wouldn't say no to alternate theming options either...
To listen to the men's rights groups, the former scenario happens far more often than it does in reality and they're far too quick to disbelieve the woman in the latter, especially if she was drinking or dressed provocatively. Also to hear them talk, men are powerless to resist seduction--some of them argue that it's a form of rape.
For the record I was born with XY chromosomes and I can't even take many of their arguments seriously.
The real problem with the court system is all the men who are *still* getting away with rape because "boys will be boys" and juries won't convict after the defense does an effective smear campaign on the woman. It's this justified lack of faith in the effectiveness of our system that makes us (and some judges too, who've seen this BS countless times) naturally skeptical of many not guilty verdicts.
Lots of free alternatives for home users...AVG, Avast, Antivir to name the most popular three.
Overall, and on the commercial end, Kaspersky and Nod32 set the standard in effectiveness. KAV's pretty much got the most comprehensive and fastest updating signature sets of any AV software, while Nod32 has an edge in heuristic identification of unknown viruses (and its signatures and response times are quite good as well). Nod32's also noteworthy for it's speed and minimal impact on system resources.
Well 200 years from now I might be interested in what I was doing today, on a slow day when I'm just sitting around waiting for a Slashdot update with nothing better to do in my post-singularity transhuman state than to reminisce about the good ol' days.
According to Alexa.com, Digg will be overtaking Slashdot's traffic within the month.
Traffic, maybe someday, if only because of Digg fanboys continually refreshing to read the latest dupes that have been posted and post complaints about them.
Reach? As in how many different people actually visit daily? Digg has a long way to go yet.
I'd also wager a much higher % of veteran Slashdot readers don't even allow Alexa to track their browsing habits.
Then again, with the current U.S. national debt at over 8 trillion (with which we could pay for the launch costs of 20,000 of these things) maybe the launch costs aren't unreasonable.
Sooo...once we divert 20,000 of those suckers we can call it even stevens??
It is a lighthearted way of looking at a popularity of any given distribution. Since each distribution has its own page, I decided to track the number of visitors viewing individual web pages. The HPD figure represents hits per day by unique visitors, the emphasis being on the word unique; the uniqueness is determined by the visitor's IP address. This prevents those visitors, not disciplined enough, from rigging the results by reloading the pages multiple times. The idea is to identify which distributions attract most attention and to rank them accordingly. This also introduces an element of competition and competitions are fun, aren't they? Admittedly, the page clicks by themselves may not always reflect the popularity correctly. They are also "seasonal", meaning that distribution currently in beta testing will often receive much more clicks than the one past the stable release. All in all, these numbers should, over time, provide an indication about the popularity of Linux distributions.
These rules have been implemented to prevent various counter reloading schemes:
Repeated page and counter reloads in short or regular intervals are not allowed. If you are inclined to set up cronjobs to repeatedly wget your favourite distro's page counter, then please do yourself a favour and go to see a psychologist. You need help.
All suspicious page hit counts will be investigated and any regularly reloaded counts will be deducted from the total count.
The repeat offender's IP address will be banned from accessing all areas of DistroWatch, including mirrors, for a period of 30 days.
Well it could, you know, if the hijackers happened to have a convenient, nigh-impenetrable cockpit door to protect them from being rushed by the passengers once they manage to get on the other side of it...
Well, I dont know about you, but I believe most people are able to download drivers from the vendor, run setup.
In my experience, the average user doesn't even know what a driver is or why they'd want to download one. They don't even know what the control panel is or how to find it. If there's not a desktop shortcut for it, it's hidden.
If you're looking at the average user in a slightly younger demographic, they probably do--if only because they had to learn when they found a new game they just bought didn't work right with their old video driver.
I use Opera's built-in RSS aggregator. I subscribe to a little over 100 feeds and get maybe 800 items a day which are all neatly filtered into virtual folders and presented in a way not unlike e-mail.
300+ are from deal-watching sites like fatwallet, techbargains, slickdeals. It takes maybe 2 minutes to scan through them for anything that might interest me (or I can use Opera's built in search) and delete the rest. Others are from news and tech sites, a few blogs (mostly library and academic related), Fark, Alterslash, BoingBoing, OSNews, Metafilter, Monkeyfilter and a few Delicious feeds.
I read the subjects and decide what to read and delete what I don't want to. Some have enough full text that I can just read in the mail view, others I have to middle-click a link to open the site in a new tab, but weeding out the ones I don't want to read is far faster when presented in a uniform e-mail-like display.
The ones I read and mark read (but don't delete) are kept in my Opera's local mail database, which is also fully searchable (including both subject and body).
Unlike an e-mail mailing list, I can remove a feed at will with a couple of clicks instead of having to dash off an unsubscribe request. Some feeds are set to update every hour, others just once or twice a day.
RSS/Atom has radically changed the way I use the Internet.
Ubuntu and the Shuttleworth foundation are doing great work in creating a version for classrooms ("Edubuntu"). LTSP/thin client stuff isn't the exclusive focus, but it's being incorporated too, I believe.
I don't think they're really going after the US market though--Europe and Africa are more the focus IIRC.
Definitely. Generic hardware support is a nightmare, and proprietary hardware would require a lot of infrastructure built up.
If anything, they'd be a lot better off teaming up with a company making cheap but powerful hardware that'll be fairly ubiquitous without their help, and not reliant on Microsoft or Apple. That might possibly run a form of Linux. Like...Sony's forthcoming Playstation?
Making sure it has a browser that'll fully support Gmail and porting Google Earth to it would be a good start...
Running Google Earth on a future PS portable that could connect from anywhere would be pretty awesome too.
Actually, if you read a lot of the security forums out there like Wilders (among others), the commercial avs by Kaspersky and NOD32 tend to be favored by many.
There are also free dedicated trojan scanners that work well combined with anti-virus software (Ewido, A-squared) or commercial ones like Trojan Hunter and TDS-3 (perrenial favorite).
"But if we consider modern humans to have emerged around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago, estimates about the number of dead in human history vary widely anywhere from 12 billion to up to 110 billion. However, most demographers peg the number of dead at approximately 60 billion"
Granted, the Snopes article points out that your statement is accurate over the last 5000 years or so, but you yourself emphasized "ever"
Slashdot Mirror
Plagiarism by Adult Learners Online: A case study in detection and remediation
Or look here.
OSX doesn't have a perfect record either. The mix of brushed metal and platinum is pretty annoying to me. I wouldn't say no to alternate theming options either...
For the record I was born with XY chromosomes and I can't even take many of their arguments seriously.
The real problem with the court system is all the men who are *still* getting away with rape because "boys will be boys" and juries won't convict after the defense does an effective smear campaign on the woman. It's this justified lack of faith in the effectiveness of our system that makes us (and some judges too, who've seen this BS countless times) naturally skeptical of many not guilty verdicts.
Lots of free alternatives for home users...AVG, Avast, Antivir to name the most popular three. Overall, and on the commercial end, Kaspersky and Nod32 set the standard in effectiveness. KAV's pretty much got the most comprehensive and fastest updating signature sets of any AV software, while Nod32 has an edge in heuristic identification of unknown viruses (and its signatures and response times are quite good as well). Nod32's also noteworthy for it's speed and minimal impact on system resources.
Well 200 years from now I might be interested in what I was doing today, on a slow day when I'm just sitting around waiting for a Slashdot update with nothing better to do in my post-singularity transhuman state than to reminisce about the good ol' days.
So this will not only power the newest Intel processors, it'll cool them too? Awesome!
Sorry, can't resist:
Begging the question
Traffic, maybe someday, if only because of Digg fanboys continually refreshing to read the latest dupes that have been posted and post complaints about them.
Reach? As in how many different people actually visit daily? Digg has a long way to go yet.
I'd also wager a much higher % of veteran Slashdot readers don't even allow Alexa to track their browsing habits.
Sooo...once we divert 20,000 of those suckers we can call it even stevens??
"Don't Discredit My Online Degree"t ml
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6269436.h
What is this "Page Hit Ranking"?
It is a lighthearted way of looking at a popularity of any given distribution. Since each distribution has its own page, I decided to track the number of visitors viewing individual web pages. The HPD figure represents hits per day by unique visitors, the emphasis being on the word unique; the uniqueness is determined by the visitor's IP address. This prevents those visitors, not disciplined enough, from rigging the results by reloading the pages multiple times. The idea is to identify which distributions attract most attention and to rank them accordingly. This also introduces an element of competition and competitions are fun, aren't they? Admittedly, the page clicks by themselves may not always reflect the popularity correctly. They are also "seasonal", meaning that distribution currently in beta testing will often receive much more clicks than the one past the stable release. All in all, these numbers should, over time, provide an indication about the popularity of Linux distributions.
These rules have been implemented to prevent various counter reloading schemes:
Repeated page and counter reloads in short or regular intervals are not allowed. If you are inclined to set up cronjobs to repeatedly wget your favourite distro's page counter, then please do yourself a favour and go to see a psychologist. You need help.
All suspicious page hit counts will be investigated and any regularly reloaded counts will be deducted from the total count.
The repeat offender's IP address will be banned from accessing all areas of DistroWatch, including mirrors, for a period of 30 days.
Well it could, you know, if the hijackers happened to have a convenient, nigh-impenetrable cockpit door to protect them from being rushed by the passengers once they manage to get on the other side of it...
In my experience, the average user doesn't even know what a driver is or why they'd want to download one. They don't even know what the control panel is or how to find it. If there's not a desktop shortcut for it, it's hidden.
If you're looking at the average user in a slightly younger demographic, they probably do--if only because they had to learn when they found a new game they just bought didn't work right with their old video driver.
300+ are from deal-watching sites like fatwallet, techbargains, slickdeals. It takes maybe 2 minutes to scan through them for anything that might interest me (or I can use Opera's built in search) and delete the rest. Others are from news and tech sites, a few blogs (mostly library and academic related), Fark, Alterslash, BoingBoing, OSNews, Metafilter, Monkeyfilter and a few Delicious feeds.
I read the subjects and decide what to read and delete what I don't want to. Some have enough full text that I can just read in the mail view, others I have to middle-click a link to open the site in a new tab, but weeding out the ones I don't want to read is far faster when presented in a uniform e-mail-like display.
The ones I read and mark read (but don't delete) are kept in my Opera's local mail database, which is also fully searchable (including both subject and body).
Unlike an e-mail mailing list, I can remove a feed at will with a couple of clicks instead of having to dash off an unsubscribe request. Some feeds are set to update every hour, others just once or twice a day.
RSS/Atom has radically changed the way I use the Internet.
Ubuntu and the Shuttleworth foundation are doing great work in creating a version for classrooms ("Edubuntu"). LTSP/thin client stuff isn't the exclusive focus, but it's being incorporated too, I believe. I don't think they're really going after the US market though--Europe and Africa are more the focus IIRC.
But the Pentium M is being overclocked, so that's hardly a fair comparison--AMD chips can be EASILY overclocked.
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/curiosityki lledwhat/k6report.html
AMD K6-3 400Mhz, 64MB of RAM. Check out the impressive benchmarks at the end!
Definitely. Generic hardware support is a nightmare, and proprietary hardware would require a lot of infrastructure built up. If anything, they'd be a lot better off teaming up with a company making cheap but powerful hardware that'll be fairly ubiquitous without their help, and not reliant on Microsoft or Apple. That might possibly run a form of Linux. Like...Sony's forthcoming Playstation? Making sure it has a browser that'll fully support Gmail and porting Google Earth to it would be a good start... Running Google Earth on a future PS portable that could connect from anywhere would be pretty awesome too.
This is a well cooled case.
Not true! I left my Linux desktop for five minutes and when I came back I had an honest to goodness BSOD! I saw a blue screen saying:
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer.
System halted
But the reboot was amazingly fast...as soon as I touched the mouse I was back at my desktop as though nothing had happened. Linux is amazing!
Erm, doing your taxes on a public terminal isn't that bright...
I've found that NoMachine/FreeNX is pretty impressive remotely.
Actually, if you read a lot of the security forums out there like Wilders (among others), the commercial avs by Kaspersky and NOD32 tend to be favored by many. There are also free dedicated trojan scanners that work well combined with anti-virus software (Ewido, A-squared) or commercial ones like Trojan Hunter and TDS-3 (perrenial favorite).
Not quite:
"But if we consider modern humans to have emerged around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago, estimates about the number of dead in human history vary widely anywhere from 12 billion to up to 110 billion. However, most demographers peg the number of dead at approximately 60 billion"
Granted, the Snopes article points out that your statement is accurate over the last 5000 years or so, but you yourself emphasized "ever"