Errm... how about trying it out before judging it? As has been covered god knows how many times before, Java is capable of runtime optimisations not possible with statically compiled languages like C++.
In a third-world scenario, you're comparing using Linux legally for free - no antivirus/anti-malware s/w required - with some knock-off copy of Windows, right?
And how do you pay for your a/v subscriptions on top of having to download all those signature file updates??
It's a no-brainer!
Where Linux fails is in the tasks that aren't as common, but are essential in order to keep customers (driver installation, software updates, installation, maintenance, plug-ins, basic troubleshooting, human-readable help files).
Having used Windows since version 3.0, my experiences since switching to Linux a couple of years ago have been 90% positive, particularly the quality of the free software is astonishing. With a bit of research I can get it to do anything I need so far. My only gripe accounting for the 10% is with the installs from source when its not in any repository or I can't find an RPM / lib dependency conflicts between apps / proprietary drivers etc. Only last week, something had changed the driver param in xorg.conf from radeon to fglrx after installing a couple of applications (through Yast as it happens). After the next boot I couldn't get to the logon screen because the refresh rate wasn't supported by my flat panel monitor. Only due to experience I knew where to look, someone coming from Windows or OSX would be totally lost. If I wasn't technically inclined I would likely have given up on Linux at an early stage, i.e. the first time it got broken like this or I couldn't figure out how to install something I really needed (e.g. the ATI OpenGL drivers).
Lets hope CNR can achieve its objectives then perhaps people trying Linux for the first time in future will have a positive experience, keep using it long enough to understand the benefit in terms of FOSS and realise what they've been missing, then recommend it to others.
Compared with, for the sake of argument, Linux. I have no experience with OSX so can't comment.
Most OEM installations of Windows will have administrator as the default user, not requiring any logon at startup. In most Linux distros, you are disuaded or even cannot do this (e.g. Ubuntu), instead you work as a non-root user and sudo to do admin tasks.
Even with SP2 Windows XP enabled the infamous NetBIOS file and print services, just for one example. Nice summary of this and other "features" here
A Windows user can readily execute an EXE or VB script etc, e.g. a dodgy email attachment or download from a shady website, simply by double-clicking it from Explorer. Depending on the level of access to resources (see 1) the system may be totally compromised. In Linux by contrast, executing anything beyond what can safely be installed through the software repository requires knowledge of setting file permissions (and often how to build and install from source).
Similarly for ActiveX, given the user confirms they want to run it, the system is left totally open to abuse.
Small wonder all the spambots, key loggers, spyware and viruses out there in the real world live in Windows, right? Its not simply because of Windows' popularity, doesn't the Mac have 5-10% market share?
It's DLL Hell [wikipedia.org] all over again. Every time you use a third-party library, the user has to make sure it's installed. And in the classpath, unless they installed it as root/admin and placed it in the JRE's extensions directory.
If your program is going to be in a shared JVM with many other programs (which is common in some government systems), all of whom are contributing their own "favorite" third-party jars, it's very easy to end up with multiple versions of the same third-party library. Now, ideally, third-party vendors would gracefully evolve their own libraries so there are no runtime conflicts across versions, but... well, even my mentioning that probably has a lot of readers snickering derisively.
Actually, shared JVM environments, i.e. J2EE application servers, have multiple class loaders so that component processes (EJBs or Webapps) can satisfy their own dependencies at runtime, via the manifest. Its a non-argument to say that "few software authors want to bother with those", the fact is the facility is there and its not difficult to use. Having multiple versions of the same library installed is no more significant than the amount of additional disk space required. This does not correspond in any way with "DLL hell", the situation in Windows where multiple native-code applications have differing version requirements of specific shared libraries (DLLs) but are forced to use the same version by the operating environment.
The Honda CR-V, along with the Toyota RAV4 and a few others, is not truly a SUV IMO. They run on standard 2 litre engines but carry a bit more weight than an equivalent sedan owing to the larger (taller) cabin. The fuel economy with the latest diesels isn't madly off what you'd get from e.g. a Honda Civic, around 45mpg. Many of the true SUVs, e.g. 6 litre grand cherokee, run at around 15mpg!
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In these large corporations they have millions of existing spreadsheets, documents and presentations. I recently installed Open Office 2 on SUSE and found (a) word documents don't always look quite right, even with all the truetype fonts available (b) powerpoint presentations often just won't load at all, OO complains of "wrong version". This was just a small selection of my own documents all created with MS Office 97 which I bought for a small sum at a computer fair years ago. I've kept Office 97 and bought a license for Crossover, mainly to avoid having to help my wife with any compatibility issues.
it does offer better sound than MP3 at a given bitrate
Unless you're like me and have double blind tests that show that LAME sounds better. Of course, this is to my ears, but your milage may vary. Just because something has a more complex format doesn't necessarily mean that it's "better quality" at a lower bitrate.
Off topic but you're right. Microsoft, masters of spin/hype that they are, invited people to compare MP3 with WMA9 when they first released it. They didn't mention the version of lame used to encode the MP3s was almost 3 years old. Everyone agreed of course, that the WMA clips sounded better. This "fact" seems to have stuck in everyone's mind ever since.
Take a look here for some objective information explaining how Java can (sometimes) be faster than statically compiled code. A fair criticism compared with fully compiled code is the JRE load time & basic memory requirement, as the bootstrap and the classes referenced in the classpath are loaded. For shared application "container" environments like a J2EE or Web server this cost is absorbed at startup.
Back on topic, I suppose this might be useful for companies with peak loads in various applications occurring at different times but it looks rather expensive. They must have done their market research though, so good luck to them.
Soybeans just are not competitive with gasoline. In fact, the entire idea of using crop land to meet our energy issues is a horrible idea in general.
There's more to this than meets the eye - a vast quantity of cooking oil is disposed of every day when its "spent" for cooking, so why not turn it into fuel?
The wording does seem to suggest that when submitting your tax return using the software there is some sort of dependency on IE. Even so, you can keep it free since IE6 runs ok on the latest Wine according to wine-hq.
Bush reduce petrolium consumption? Are you kidding? Most of the Bush family's money is from oil.
Yes but as other/.tters are pointing out, the main viable source of hydrogen at the moment is... fossil fuels. The same companies that control oil refining can control this market too. As the oil runs out they can come up with alternative sources and still control the market. What about the emissions? Time to fire another of those silver bullets: bury CO2 emissions from power stations and hydrogen production facilities underground in exhausted oil fields. Sounds like another business opportunity for the same people.
At the G8 summit, Bush seemed to be looking for technological silver bullets rather than do as the rest of the developed world and actively reduce petrolium consumption via e.g. higher taxes on fuel. He claims the US economy would be wrecked by similar measures however it doesn't seem to have harmed the UK's (mind you we travel shorter distances). In an earlier statement he said that the US economy was overdependent on middle east fuel and this was a problem for national security and economic stability (so why not try to reduce consumption? Oh never mind). I'll be fascinated to see whether he puts his money where his mouth is and starts pumping funds into this type of technology (i.e. subsidises it) to give Americans an appealing alternative to 10mpg SUVs.
+1! Apple will never make OSX a cheap commodity software running on nondescript boxes, you'll always have to buy Apple kit (or maybe an expensive licenced alternative from a big brand). The OS will check, Intel or not. As for Xandros, its just about weaned me off Windows. I'm sick of the upgrade treadmill (only Windows 2000 ever seemed worth the upgrade money) and worried that my wife/kid is going to innocently install a keylogger/spyware from an email one of these days. Xandros seems like a great distro to me (if you want all the debian packages you only have to edit sources.list), it's free and regularly upgraded. For a mere £89 you get lots of value added (like VPN support and the ability to run lots of Windows applications). I'm hooked, anyway, and cannot see why I would want OSX even if it did run on my home made kit. I'm impressed with the general quality of the FOSS and only find it lacking for video editing so far.
You can legitimately control the content of a window A, or a frame inside it, from another window B that was opened by window A via e.g. target="_new". In this situation, window B can use target="_parent" on a link, or target="", to affect window A's content.
This vulnerability however describes a situation where a frame's content can be substituted from *any* other browser window that happens to be open. So a malicious site that happens to be open in one window can inject e.g. a spoof logon form, using a bit of javascript, into the content pane of a banking website that uses frames for layout and happens to be open in another window.
It talks about extracting dissolved air, ie. with all the gases in the usual mix, rather than pure 02. I'm not saying I think this idea is any more than a quest for VC though.
Won't you just need a longer pipe if there's a continental shelf (it doesn't need to go straight down to work as a siphon)? Secondly, the surface temperature of water around the UK is around 8-10C in the winter (due to the gulf stream), up to a max of about 17C in the mid summer. That's still going to achieve the desired effect, isn't it? And, since when has the UK needed any (extra) irrigation?:-)
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Errm... how about trying it out before judging it? As has been covered god knows how many times before, Java is capable of runtime optimisations not possible with statically compiled languages like C++.
In a third-world scenario, you're comparing using Linux legally for free - no antivirus/anti-malware s/w required - with some knock-off copy of Windows, right? And how do you pay for your a/v subscriptions on top of having to download all those signature file updates?? It's a no-brainer!
Lets hope CNR can achieve its objectives then perhaps people trying Linux for the first time in future will have a positive experience, keep using it long enough to understand the benefit in terms of FOSS and realise what they've been missing, then recommend it to others.
- Most OEM installations of Windows will have administrator as the default user, not requiring any logon at startup. In most Linux distros, you are disuaded or even cannot do this (e.g. Ubuntu), instead you work as a non-root user and sudo to do admin tasks.
- Even with SP2 Windows XP enabled the infamous NetBIOS file and print services, just for one example. Nice summary of this and other "features" here
- A Windows user can readily execute an EXE or VB script etc, e.g. a dodgy email attachment or download from a shady website, simply by double-clicking it from Explorer. Depending on the level of access to resources (see 1) the system may be totally compromised. In Linux by contrast, executing anything beyond what can safely be installed through the software repository requires knowledge of setting file permissions (and often how to build and install from source).
- Similarly for ActiveX, given the user confirms they want to run it, the system is left totally open to abuse.
Small wonder all the spambots, key loggers, spyware and viruses out there in the real world live in Windows, right? Its not simply because of Windows' popularity, doesn't the Mac have 5-10% market share?That goes far beyond free speech
In these large corporations they have millions of existing spreadsheets, documents and presentations. I recently installed Open Office 2 on SUSE and found (a) word documents don't always look quite right, even with all the truetype fonts available (b) powerpoint presentations often just won't load at all, OO complains of "wrong version". This was just a small selection of my own documents all created with MS Office 97 which I bought for a small sum at a computer fair years ago. I've kept Office 97 and bought a license for Crossover, mainly to avoid having to help my wife with any compatibility issues.
Take a look here for some objective information explaining how Java can (sometimes) be faster than statically compiled code. A fair criticism compared with fully compiled code is the JRE load time & basic memory requirement, as the bootstrap and the classes referenced in the classpath are loaded. For shared application "container" environments like a J2EE or Web server this cost is absorbed at startup.
Back on topic, I suppose this might be useful for companies with peak loads in various applications occurring at different times but it looks rather expensive. They must have done their market research though, so good luck to them.
As it says in the article, that depends on the number of entrances & exits
The wording does seem to suggest that when submitting your tax return using the software there is some sort of dependency on IE. Even so, you can keep it free since IE6 runs ok on the latest Wine according to wine-hq.
At the G8 summit, Bush seemed to be looking for technological silver bullets rather than do as the rest of the developed world and actively reduce petrolium consumption via e.g. higher taxes on fuel. He claims the US economy would be wrecked by similar measures however it doesn't seem to have harmed the UK's (mind you we travel shorter distances). In an earlier statement he said that the US economy was overdependent on middle east fuel and this was a problem for national security and economic stability (so why not try to reduce consumption? Oh never mind). I'll be fascinated to see whether he puts his money where his mouth is and starts pumping funds into this type of technology (i.e. subsidises it) to give Americans an appealing alternative to 10mpg SUVs.
+1! Apple will never make OSX a cheap commodity software running on nondescript boxes, you'll always have to buy Apple kit (or maybe an expensive licenced alternative from a big brand). The OS will check, Intel or not. As for Xandros, its just about weaned me off Windows. I'm sick of the upgrade treadmill (only Windows 2000 ever seemed worth the upgrade money) and worried that my wife/kid is going to innocently install a keylogger/spyware from an email one of these days. Xandros seems like a great distro to me (if you want all the debian packages you only have to edit sources.list), it's free and regularly upgraded. For a mere £89 you get lots of value added (like VPN support and the ability to run lots of Windows applications). I'm hooked, anyway, and cannot see why I would want OSX even if it did run on my home made kit. I'm impressed with the general quality of the FOSS and only find it lacking for video editing so far.
You can legitimately control the content of a window A, or a frame inside it, from another window B that was opened by window A via e.g. target="_new". In this situation, window B can use target="_parent" on a link, or target="", to affect window A's content. This vulnerability however describes a situation where a frame's content can be substituted from *any* other browser window that happens to be open. So a malicious site that happens to be open in one window can inject e.g. a spoof logon form, using a bit of javascript, into the content pane of a banking website that uses frames for layout and happens to be open in another window.
It talks about extracting dissolved air, ie. with all the gases in the usual mix, rather than pure 02. I'm not saying I think this idea is any more than a quest for VC though.
The Computer or This Computer might've been a tad less patronising
Won't you just need a longer pipe if there's a continental shelf (it doesn't need to go straight down to work as a siphon)? Secondly, the surface temperature of water around the UK is around 8-10C in the winter (due to the gulf stream), up to a max of about 17C in the mid summer. That's still going to achieve the desired effect, isn't it? And, since when has the UK needed any (extra) irrigation? :-)