Re:How are these numbers calculated?
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Storm Worm Rising
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· Score: 4, Informative
Article says how they are calculated:
"Joe Stewart, senior security researcher at managed security company SecureWorks, at the Black Hat conference......
From the number of infected machines he's found, Stewart estimates that the Storm botnet could comprise anywhere from 250,000 to 1 million infected computers. And that raises questions, along with eyebrows. "
I like to make notes all over my books as I go through them. I find it very helpful both for referencing sectoins, making hints, etc. Also, I use sticky tabs like crazy, which as far as I know, cannot be done in E-Books. I wouldnt want to have to make a notepad file to hold all my notes and sticky page numbers.
In addition, I always buy the used textbooks that come with somebody else's notes in the margin, which hopefully will prove to be useful. This, also, cannot happen when purchasing an e-book.
It seems to me that the best way to have a featureset such as the one they are boasting, is to have a distributed system. What I mean by this is that each customer would automatically download and hold several television shows at a time.
Using a buffer, shows could be streamed to customers from other customers as they select it from the menu. Granted this wouldnt work for areas where there is a limited amount of bandwith per month, but I cant think of anything better right now. It is too early in the morning:|
You buy and dl nes and snes games of course! Now, if only I liked the newer games they are putting out, I may buy the Revolution. The best games from Gamecube are the rehashes of the classics mmmm.
I know I, my family, and many of my friends, do not need these super tricked out phones. We do not need games, dozens of ringtones, video playback, cameras, or mp3 players in our phones.
All we need is a very basic phone, that has a phone book, maybe voice activated dialing, and voicemail.
It is getting pretty difficult to find basic cell phones as it is. All the vendors try to press all these phones with extra features that I will never use. Damnit, I dont need my phone to be able to play mp3s./me grumbles
Seriously, there are so many slashdot stories referencing his articles that he may as well have an icon. It could be anything from a mentally challenged kid to a crazy old man. Those would probably be fitting.
They are marketing their IDEA, not the actual software at this point. Sure, what they have done is research and simulations, which is obviously just one part of their software development cycle.
Microsoft has a huge amount of resources that they can and probably will pour into the p2p projects they are working on. It is foolish to mouth off and bash their development procedure, treating it as something other than it is. Microsoft has a strong track record of eliminating its competition by integrating products into its OS. Dont be too suprised if you see Avalanche as part of Longhorn.
Be open and perhaps a larger company will buy you. This could open up all sorts of opportunities now that you'll have a larger resource pool (assuming you are still included in the project of course).
However, you do have to have a quality deliverable. While being open is very nice, being available for public scrutiny while your product or service is still in its formative stages may be a bit much. You have to draw the line somewhere and balance is important. While getting constructive criticism is great, opening up your project too early could lead to ridicule and hurt your future growth.
Apple could license OS X to other PC manufacturers under strict quality conditions for hardware, software, appearance of the machine, manufacturer additions, etc. They could maintain a high degree of control by doing so, while expanding their marketshare.
Why won't Apple simply put out a version of OS X that can run on any basic intel box. It seems to me that many people would purchase the OS and then Apple could make plenty of money off of not only the OS sales, but also on the other OS X applications they will sell.
I can't see their hardware sales offsetting the profit that could be had by a large boost in marketshare that would be generated by not hardware locking in the OS.
One-Handed Keyboard: Best for Slashdotters
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Advocating Dvorak
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· Score: 1
I think that the best keyboard for many slashdotters is probably a one-handed keyboard. It just so happens that ThinkGeek has one here.
...For all those special one-handed moments.
By the way, if anybody can figure out why it is called the FrogPad please enlighten us.
Linux for most people is not easy to set up. A lot of people dont even know how to install programs properly, let alone an operating system. Most linux installers are not easy to use, especially for the free distros. Linspire or Xandros are what most people would probably be most comfortable with.
Now, I will grant you that if somebody knowledgeable sets up linux, they can make it so that the interface is very simple and easy to use. That said, many people are still simply comfortable with windows. They don't like to use something different at home from what they use at work. Even though the word processor may just say 'Writer' instead of 'Word,' it can confuse people who don't like to work with things that are not familiar.
With regards to security, I agree. My mom had neglected to install the antivirus software I sent her as well as the anti-spyware programs I told her to download (adaware, spybot, webroot spy sweeper, spyware doctor, ms-antispyware, tweaknow regcleaner). She simply wasnt comfortable installing things because she was too afraid she would mess up her computer. Three months later when I was visiting, I took a look at her computer and it was running extremely slow. Just from normal everyday web browsing she had 6 viruses and just shy of 700 spyware infections. Windows, now that it has the basic protections set up, is safe enough for her to use and maintain. Default security settings and programs on Windows machines need to be improved.
Using a computer can be quite daunting, but using something different than what one is comfortable with can be terrifying for the average user.
One Upmanship helps us all. It drives companies to try to create better services and products. Although sometimes it may seem that the services or products have no practical purpose, many great things have been developed out of situations like this.
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Article says how they are calculated:
.....
"Joe Stewart, senior security researcher at managed security company SecureWorks, at the Black Hat conference.
From the number of infected machines he's found, Stewart estimates that the Storm botnet could comprise anywhere from 250,000 to 1 million infected computers. And that raises questions, along with eyebrows. "
No. The extent of the universe is already known.
It ends right after Dogdoo 7.
I like to make notes all over my books as I go through them. I find it very helpful both for referencing sectoins, making hints, etc. Also, I use sticky tabs like crazy, which as far as I know, cannot be done in E-Books. I wouldnt want to have to make a notepad file to hold all my notes and sticky page numbers.
In addition, I always buy the used textbooks that come with somebody else's notes in the margin, which hopefully will prove to be useful. This, also, cannot happen when purchasing an e-book.
They cater to their audience, just like any other business.
It seems to me that the best way to have a featureset such as the one they are boasting, is to have a distributed system. What I mean by this is that each customer would automatically download and hold several television shows at a time.
:|
Using a buffer, shows could be streamed to customers from other customers as they select it from the menu. Granted this wouldnt work for areas where there is a limited amount of bandwith per month, but I cant think of anything better right now. It is too early in the morning
You mean XP = experimental :D
That is how you explain all the damn blue screens!
Neck and neck, but one guy is a midget :|
You buy and dl nes and snes games of course! Now, if only I liked the newer games they are putting out, I may buy the Revolution. The best games from Gamecube are the rehashes of the classics mmmm.
See Plus Plus Ox
...or you could just shorten it by taking out the plus plus and having C0x which is obviously pronounced cocks
I know I, my family, and many of my friends, do not need these super tricked out phones. We do not need games, dozens of ringtones, video playback, cameras, or mp3 players in our phones.
/me grumbles
All we need is a very basic phone, that has a phone book, maybe voice activated dialing, and voicemail.
It is getting pretty difficult to find basic cell phones as it is. All the vendors try to press all these phones with extra features that I will never use. Damnit, I dont need my phone to be able to play mp3s.
I believe that the vikings will triumph over Bill Gates. RAR
Other posters have pointed out that you forgot to add the price of Game X in your Windows numbers.
However, you also forgot to add in the price of Linspire which is ~$80-90 I think.
So 80+40+45=165 for Linspire and $140 for Windows Home or $170 for Windows XP.
Seriously, there are so many slashdot stories referencing his articles that he may as well have an icon. It could be anything from a mentally challenged kid to a crazy old man. Those would probably be fitting.
Enough with the Dvorak stories. They're terrible.
They are marketing their IDEA, not the actual software at this point. Sure, what they have done is research and simulations, which is obviously just one part of their software development cycle.
Microsoft has a huge amount of resources that they can and probably will pour into the p2p projects they are working on. It is foolish to mouth off and bash their development procedure, treating it as something other than it is. Microsoft has a strong track record of eliminating its competition by integrating products into its OS. Dont be too suprised if you see Avalanche as part of Longhorn.
Be open and perhaps a larger company will buy you. This could open up all sorts of opportunities now that you'll have a larger resource pool (assuming you are still included in the project of course). However, you do have to have a quality deliverable. While being open is very nice, being available for public scrutiny while your product or service is still in its formative stages may be a bit much. You have to draw the line somewhere and balance is important. While getting constructive criticism is great, opening up your project too early could lead to ridicule and hurt your future growth.
It is the ranking based upon unique hits, so yes, it can be used to some degree as a measure of popularity.
It isnt one of the top20 distributions. It typically hangs at around 50th on the distrowatch rankings. Here is the distrowatch page for lycoris.
*four months ^^just to eliminate confusion not meant to nitpick
Apple could license OS X to other PC manufacturers under strict quality conditions for hardware, software, appearance of the machine, manufacturer additions, etc. They could maintain a high degree of control by doing so, while expanding their marketshare.
Why won't Apple simply put out a version of OS X that can run on any basic intel box. It seems to me that many people would purchase the OS and then Apple could make plenty of money off of not only the OS sales, but also on the other OS X applications they will sell.
I can't see their hardware sales offsetting the profit that could be had by a large boost in marketshare that would be generated by not hardware locking in the OS.
I think that the best keyboard for many slashdotters is probably a one-handed keyboard. It just so happens that ThinkGeek has one here.
...For all those special one-handed moments.
By the way, if anybody can figure out why it is called the FrogPad please enlighten us.
Linux for most people is not easy to set up. A lot of people dont even know how to install programs properly, let alone an operating system. Most linux installers are not easy to use, especially for the free distros. Linspire or Xandros are what most people would probably be most comfortable with.
Now, I will grant you that if somebody knowledgeable sets up linux, they can make it so that the interface is very simple and easy to use. That said, many people are still simply comfortable with windows. They don't like to use something different at home from what they use at work. Even though the word processor may just say 'Writer' instead of 'Word,' it can confuse people who don't like to work with things that are not familiar.
With regards to security, I agree. My mom had neglected to install the antivirus software I sent her as well as the anti-spyware programs I told her to download (adaware, spybot, webroot spy sweeper, spyware doctor, ms-antispyware, tweaknow regcleaner). She simply wasnt comfortable installing things because she was too afraid she would mess up her computer. Three months later when I was visiting, I took a look at her computer and it was running extremely slow. Just from normal everyday web browsing she had 6 viruses and just shy of 700 spyware infections. Windows, now that it has the basic protections set up, is safe enough for her to use and maintain. Default security settings and programs on Windows machines need to be improved.
Using a computer can be quite daunting, but using something different than what one is comfortable with can be terrifying for the average user.
Just wait until Microsoft releases its mPod. Then they'll integrate it with Xbox 360...then your tv, microwave, toaster, and vibrating bed.
One Upmanship helps us all. It drives companies to try to create better services and products. Although sometimes it may seem that the services or products have no practical purpose, many great things have been developed out of situations like this.